"Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife" there is a landscape of simple pleasures: a place of tranquil refreshment, unexpected delight and fulfilment. It is this, our true heartland, that is celebrated in these pages. Sunday strolls - and afternoon naps. Friendship - and the bliss of solitude. Music - and reading. The seasons. Sun, sea and sand. Pets and picnics. Poets and writers from Homer to Wordsworth, from Jane Austen to Katherine Mansfield, have expressed these delicious experiences, in passages that are here seamlessly interwoven with great works from the Metropolitan Museum of Art - Renoir's "Two Young Girls at the Piano", Bruegel's "The Harvesters", Fragonard's "The Love Letter" - to create a melody of contentment and repose.

Quintessential Pleasures: Reflections on the Simple Joys of Life

Vaughan, Carolyn

Thames and Hudson Ltd.

FANDEX brings the world of Western Art to your fingertips with a field guide to painters, their legacies and the often extreme lives they led. A chronology from Giotto, the first modern painter, to Frank Stella, whose black paintings proclaimed "what you see is what you see." Here is Michelangelo, who resented having to paint the Sistine Chapel because it took him away from sculpture. Botticelli and Vermeer, whose work languished in obscurity until the nineteenth century. And Mary Cassatt, the only American to be included with the Impressionists. Illustrating each entry is a portrait of a self-portrait of the artist plus significant paintings and details. 
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Painters: Masters of Western Art (Fandex Family Field Guides)

Children's Books

Arts, Music & Photography

Workman Publishing Company

It's O.K. to Be Math Smart! Ordinal numbers. Quotients, products and pattern puzzlers. It's the fundamentals of math and the pleasure of being a problem solver. Challenge yourself, challenge your friends - challenge your parents! Because learning plus practice adds up to knowledge. HOW TO PLAY Pick your favorite subject category or play the whole card. Pencil and paper are allowed, but give your brain a chance to do it all! Play with a partner, in teams or by yourself. Keep score or not - the choice is yours.

Brain Quest 3rd Grade Math

Meyer, Janet A.

Education & Reference

The family field guide to America's first ladies, now updated for 2017 and including Melania Trump. Fandex Family Field Guides: First Ladies is a chronological field guide to all 45 of America's first ladies. A hands-on reference, it includes more than 50 grommeted, die-cut cards featuring a full-color image of each first lady along with facts about her personal and political life. As much fun as it is to learn about the American Presidents, wait until you meet the First Ladies. From the regal (Julia Tyler wore crownlike headdresses and received visitors while sitting on a platform) to the retiring (Jane Pierce's epithet: "a shadow in the White House"), this field guide brings the world of Michelle, Laura, Jackie, Dolley, Eleanor, Mamie, Barbara, Hillary, and Melania to your fingertips.<ul>
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Fandex Family Field Guides is a bestselling reference series, with over 5 million copies in print.

Fandex Family Field Guides: First Ladies

Fandex Family Field Guides

Biographies

FANDEX celebrates the exuberant city of New York, from Battery Park to Rockefeller Center to Yankee Stadium, the house that Ruth built. Meander through Greenwich Village's tangle of streets, some of which follow Algonquin Indian paths. Visit the Statue of Liberty, whose nose is as big as the average nine-year-old. Have a nosh at the coffeeshop featured in Seinfeld. Covering monuments, buildings, museums, zoos, parks, neighborhoods, plus subways, cabs, delis and more, NEW YORK FANDEX brings alive the Big Apple and all its must see destinations. 
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Fandex Family Field Guides: New York City

Travel

Specialty Travel

William and his friends

Metropolitan Museum of Art

In this invitation to ballet, young readers learn all about what happens in ballet class. Works of art by French impressionist Edgar Degas bring the ballet vividly to life, while illustrations by Rachel Isadora picture modern-day girls and boys practicing ballet positions and steps. Complete with a brief history of ballet and a biography of Edgar Degas, Invitation to Ballet is sure to delight every child who dreams of one day becoming a world-class dancer. Praise for Invitation to Ballet "The real treat is seeing Isadora’s picture-book portraits of students juxtaposed with the ethereal works of Edgar Degas, the 19th-century master of ballet painting." —New York Times "This beautifully illustrated volume offers young dancers an introduction to ballet. Isadora’s pencil-and-watercolor illustrations give the book enormous child appeal while visually defining the terms for positions and movements students will learn in class. A captivating invitation to the beauty of ballet." —Booklist "This beautifully illustrated book is an introduction to ballet enhanced by the accompanying paintings of Edgar Degas." —Reading Today Online

Invitation to Ballet: A Celebration of Dance and Degas

Harry N. Abrams

Michelangelo's Notebooks is an intimate celebration of the artist's sketches, architectural drawings, letters, and love poems. Michelangelo Buonarroti is considered to be one of the greatest artists of the sixteenth century, not only in painting but in writing and poetry as well. He filled hundreds of sheets of paper with exquisite drawings, many of which would eventually become some of the most celebrated masterpieces of all time, and he wrote over 300 poems and sonnets on admiration and spirituality. Organized chronologically, Michelangelo's Notebooks is an illustrated record of the artist's life and work, and combines the artists's own words with his sketches and finished compositions. His letters about the Sistine Chapel and Pope Julius, for example, are illustrated with sketches that he produced while he was writing. Edited and curated by Carolyn Vaughan, former editor at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, she provides fascinating commentary and insights into the material presented throughout the book.

Michelangelo's Notebooks: The Poetry, Letters, and Art of the Great Master (Notebook Series)

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Black Dog Leventhal

Drawn from the collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, Global Asias examines the cosmopolitan and the mundane, the exuberant and the somber, and the subtly subversive and enigmatic characteristics of contemporary Asian and Asian American art. Though the artists featured in the exhibition share a common Asian heritage, their backgrounds and styles differ vastly, and each artist draws on an array of motifs, techniques, and cultural motivations to construct diverse "Asias" in a modern global context. The fifteen artists represented here were born in Japan, China, Korea, Vietnam, Argentina, or the United States; all are adept at crossing borders-not only physical ones but also those in media, styles, genre, and materiality. The full recognition of works by Asian and Asian American artists, this exhibition suggests, rewrites the history of modern art as well as the history of American art, both of which turn out to be more vibrant and colorful than we knew, once we embrace such inclusivity.

Global Asias: Contemporary Asian and Asian American Art from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation

Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation

Showing how artists in the 20th and 21st centuries have considered this universal subject, The Art of Food provides a lens with which to examine food beyond its purpose as body fuel. Food is integral to our relationships, cultures and languages. We transform it by cutting, cooking and dressing it with spices, marinades and garnishes. We use food as an intermediary to connect with others through holiday meals, business lunches, dates and more. We deny food to others as a tool of suppression and cultural erasure. Through the works of artists such as Enrique Chagoya, Damien Hirst, Hung Liu, Analia Saban, Lorna Simpson and Andy Warhol, highlighted from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, it becomes clear why food is a recurring subject in art.

The Art of Food: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

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