Thomas Moran: Watercolors of the American West

Arts & Photography

Clark, Carol

History & Criticism

Univ of Texas Pr

In the world of Tarot, all is not what it seems; signs are hidden in the landscapes, visions are buried just below the conscious mind, and the magic permeates in the everywhere. Begin the journey with The Magician in a swamp filled with music and mystery. Meet the High Priestess on the small plantation where blood must be sacrificed. Escape to The Empress’s flower garden. Wind your way to the medieval faire to find the Hermit and see how the Lovers meet. Let the Chariot guide you to a new destination. Find comfort in Temperance, and catch a plane with Death. Discover that immortality is not wonderful at the Tower. Join the Emperor’s fight against world domination and find out just what in The World is in that bucket of chicken.   Meet the fey and the different. Time travel from past to future. Feel the mystical power of Tarot.

Tarot at Midnight: 21 Short Tales

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Girtman, Carla

Neiswender, Linda

Worthington, Genevieve

Bingham, Seth Nelsen

Garrison, Aaron L

Michaels, Gwendolyn

Stafford, Megan Elezabeth

Fantasy

Carla Girtman | Wordsmith Services

In the middle of the Mexican-American War, the secretary of the Navy authorized Lt. William Francis Lynch to command an unusual expedition, not south to the war zone, but east to Ottoman Palestine, now Israel and Jordan, to map the Dead Sea. Traversing this backwater of a dying empire, Lynch forged life-saving alliances with a Bedouin sheik and a Hashemite Sharif. Horses weren’t strong enough, so he improvised with foul-tempered camels to haul metal boats overland from the Mediterranean to the Sea of Galilee. He navigated the treacherous, uncharted rapids of the Jordan and braved near starvation before reaching Jerusalem. But why? The expedition followed a long tradition of quasi-scientific expeditions as it attempted to establish that the Dead Sea lay below sea level—but it didn’t generate enough knowledge to justify the expense or the suffering of the fifteen Americans who joined Lynch’s obsessive quest. Was it a publicity stunt? Or the first step in returning Muslim Palestine to its former glory as a Judeo-Christian land of milk and honey? In vivid, absorbing detail, CLASH OF EAGLES masterfully recounts this seemingly foolhardy mission that the Civil War soon derailed. Another hundred years would pass before America again involved itself in the Middle East.

Clash of Eagles: America's Forgotten Expedition To Ottoman Palestine

History

Middle East

LYONS PRESS+

Poetry/Three Dimensions 2 Se (Many Voices Literature)

Literature & Fiction

Draper, Alison

Poetry

Perfection Learning

This handy field guide introduces the full range of superb gemstones commonly found in Asia. Each gemstone is clearly presented and described, with notes on its country of origin and history, as well as its role in the arts, religion and culture. Including a colour map of Asia showing where different gemstones are mined, this guide provides a wealth of expert gemological information.

Handy Pocket Guide to Asian Gemstones (Periplus Nature Guides)

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

Periplus Editions

Learn the essentials of Asian gemstones with this useful and portable reference book. Gemstones, both mythical and real, are deeply embedded in the arts, religions and cultures of Asia. This handy pocket guide provides an excellent introduction to the full range of superb gemstones mined and processed in the region, their physical characteristics, historical importance and countries of origin. Stunning color photographs and informative text by noted writer on gemstones Carol Clark, will delight both gem collectors and lovers of fine jewelry alike. Periplus Handy Pocket Guides are practical field guides, useful for identifying various natural objects ranging from plants and animals to gemstones and seashells. Each page of each title throughout the series is filled with clear, precise photographs and informative text. Scientific and local language names are given.

Handy Pocket Guide to Asian Gemstones: Clear identification photos & explanatory text for the 85 most common gemstones found in Asia (Handy Pocket Guides)

Antiques & Collectibles

Charles Deas (1818–67), an enigmatic figure on the edge of mainstream artistic circles in mid-nineteenth-century New York, went west to explore new opportunities and subjects in 1840. From his adopted hometown of St. Louis, Deas sent his iconic paintings of fur trappers and Indians back east for exhibition and sale, briefly winning the recognition that had earlier eluded him.
This handsome volume—featuring more than 150 illustrations, 70 in color—is the first book exclusively devoted to Deas. In two major essays, Carol Clark presents Deas’s haunting biography and complex art—works that embodied Americans’ uncertainty about the future of their rapidly expanding nation, especially in the contested spaces of the West. Ranging from Indian genre scenes to more violent and bizarre themes drawn from literature and his own imagination, Deas’s images reverberate with the racial tensions and cut-throat economic competition of the period. Three additional essayists examine the historical, political, and social context of Deas’s art and discuss in detail two of his major paintings, Walking the Chalk and Long Jakes, “the Rocky Mountain Man.”
The volume also includes Clark’s catalogue of Deas’s paintings, watercolors, and drawings—the most extensive recovery and documentation to date of the work of this important but little-known artist. Charles Deas and 1840s America will constitute the definitive reference on the painter for years to come.

Charles Deas and 1840s America (Volume 4) (The Charles M. Russell Center Series on Art and Photography of the American West)

University of Oklahoma Press

Poetry in Three Dimensions: Reading Writing and Critical Thinking Through Poetry

Teen & Young Adult

Educators Pub Svc Inc

Poetry in Three Dimensions: Reading Writing and Critical Thinking Through Poetry (Book Two)

A collection of two hundred poems by such contemporary authors as Gwendolyn Brooks, Li-Young Lee, and Gary Soto explore universal themes from diverse perspectives.

Poetry in Six Dimensions: 20th Century Voices

Children's Books

Fifer, Norma

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