Reproduces examples of Impressionist paintings that convey the mood and spirit of the changing seasons, and includes topical poems and quotations

Impressionists' Seasons

ASH,Russell

Collins Pub San Francisco

They say you can't judge a book by its cover—but its title can tell you more than you ever needed to know! Amazing, illuminating, and gut-bustingly funny, Bizarre Books is the wonderfully twisted product of more than two decades of determined searching in forgotten corners of out-of-the-way libraries and through the literary detritus of eclectic private collections. It is certain to delight every true fan of trivia and the patently absurd.

Bizarre Books: A Compendium of Classic Oddities

Lake, Brian

Reference

Harper-perennial

Whitakers World of Facts

Penguin India

There’s a baby born every minute and each one has to be named. In this book, you’ll find an insanity of nomenclature that beggars belief. Russell Ash has trawled birth, marriage, and death certificates, phone books, and censuses going back centuries to compile a compendium of breathtakingly unlikely-but-true names.
Why on earth would Mr. and Mrs. O’Shea name their son Rick? What were the Fants thinking when they named their child Elle? Or Mr. and Mrs. Royd, for that matter, when naming their daughter Emma? Or how about Everard Cock, Page Turner, or Sally Forth? 
In this painstakingly researched, utterly true, riotously entertaining collection, readers will discover real-life examples of some of the most unusual, crude, and shocking names ever, presenting a laugh-out-loud overview of eccentricity through the ages.

Morecock, Fartwell, & Hoare: A Collection of Unfortunate but True Names

Humor & Entertainment

Puzzles & Games

St.Martin's Press

This beautifully produced book surveys the full magnificence of Impressionist art, with 135 paintings reproduced in full colour. These include many of the great masterpieces of Impressionism - the brilliant colours of Rouen Cathedral as captured by Monet, Manet's once-shocking nude in THE PICNIC, many beautiful women depicted by Renoir in Paris cafes, and Degas' snapshot visions of ballet dancers on and off stage. But the book presents not only the works of the original Impressionists but also paintings by less familiar artists such as Henri Fantin-Latour, Mary Cassatt and Armand Guillaumin. The full scope of Impressionism, however, was not limited to its immediate adherents, and THE IMPRESSIONISTS AND THEIR ART also traces its later flowering in the work of the Post-Impressionists and Neo-Impressionists, through reproductions of paintings by Seurat, Van Gogh, Gauguin and Toulouse-Lautrec.

Impressionists and Their Art Handbook

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Little,Brown & Co

THE FROG BOOK.

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Queen Anne P

Big Pants, Burpy and Bumface: ...And Other Totally True Names!

Children's Books

Humor

Doubleday, UK

Briefly traces the history of the movement, shows selected paintings, and discusses the background of each work

The Impressionists and Their Art

Individual Artists

Crescent Books

With annual sales of 200,000 copies, The Top 10 of Everything is clearly the place people go to get the lowdown on what or who was the best, worst, richest, fiercest, deadliest, or simply biggest of practically anything. It features 600 lists on a diverse range of subjects, from blockbuster movies and music to stellar universities, from crime and punishment to popular drinks. Find out which stars of stage and screen shone the brightest and which terrestrial animals weigh the most. See which habitable buildings are the tallest and which bodies are the largest in the solar system. Check out stats on airlines, crops, natural disasters, and sports. Some of the lists are entirely new; some are updated with the latest news, and all appear on attractively illustrated spreads with excellent background information. “First” and “Fast” fact boxes pinpoint the pioneers and the most recent achievers in various endeavors. It’s entertaining and educational!

The Top 10 of Everything 2007

Hamlyn

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