The Porsche is the quintessential sports car—sleek, shiny, sexy, and very fast. The striking looks of the car are matched by the machine’s superb engineering and performance, making it one of the world’s great automobiles. In merging the highest standards of design with advanced technology, the Porsche has become a four-wheeled work of art. Now, in a book whose design is as refined and as smart as the car itself, the story of the Porsche unfolds from the beginning as a creation of Dr. Ferdinand Porsche and his son in 1948, through forty-eight models to today’s magnificent examples. Interwoven with the history of the Porsche’s development are factors and events that influenced the development of the company, such as the imprisonment of Dr. Ferdinand Porsche by the French during World War II, the development of the Volkswagen, the ever-changing rules of national and international racing associations, and the marketing genius of people as far away as Chicago. Porsche: The Fine Art of the Sports Car features over 380 pages of text and more than 250 stunning color and 120 historical black-and-white photographs, enabling the history of the world’s beloved sports car to be cherished and enjoyed at home in a stylishly handsome volume.

Porsche: The Fine Art of the Sports Car

Engineering & Transportation

Scheller, Bill

LEWIS, Lucinda

Automotive

Hugh Lauter Levin Assc

Opens to 12 feet, the expanding universe walchart is part decorative poster, part insightful history, part reference work and interactive fun. It draw un the collective contributions of some of the finest comic book artist of the 20th and 21st centuries to create a pictorial tapestry of more than 300 Marvel Comics characters.The chart also demonstrates of the character sets and their stories interconnect and relate to one antoher. Flip the chart over and it reads like a book. There are pages of fun facts and trivia, listings of different characters who have shared the same name, characters who have changed names or identities over the years, characters who have wed each other and characters who have bee"killed" only to return. There is also a quiz.

Marvel: The Expanding Universe Wall Chart

Comics & Graphic Novels

Mallory, Michael

Comic Strips

Duck Stamps and Prints: The Complete Federal and State Editions.

Duck Stamps and Prints: The Complete Federal and State Editions

McCaddin, Joe, intro

Arts & Photography

Offers contemporary cooks a guide to preparing old-fashioned American dishes, including New England specialties and adaptations of continental dishes

The Original Boston Cooking-School Cook Book, 1896, 100th Anniversary Edition

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Farmer, Fannie Merritt

Regional & International

In an era when few American women thought seriously about pursuing careers outside of marriage and motherhood, Mary Cassatt's ambition and professional independence were noteworthy and unique. Cassatt: A Retrospective traces the life of this great American artist through the correspondence and accomplishments she maintained over a lifetime. Over 100 articles and documents - letters to and from friends and family members as well as reviews and commentaries on her work and associations - provide as intimate a perspective of this remarkable woman as one is likely to find anywhere. The daughter of a prominent Pennsylvania businessman, Cassatt began her early training at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia where she formed relationships and made acquaintances that would last her entire life. Carefully selected letters with fascinating descriptions of social events, professional meetings, meals, and homelife abroad span several decades to reveal Cassatt's thoughts and activities: her move to Paris to further her training; her thrill and uncertainty as her work is noticed by instructors and juries; her at once stormy and reverential friendship with Edgar Degas; and the self-sufficiency that emerges with her personal and professional maturity. Writings and reminiscences by many of her contemporaries including Ambroise Vollard, J. K. Huysmans, Camille Pissarro, Felix Feneon, American collector Louisine Havemeyer, and Edgar Degas provide additional insight into the world and work of Mary Cassatt. Cassatt was only thirty-three when she was invited to exhibit with the French Impressionists, and she remained the only American truly associated with this group. Unlike her fellow Impressionists, she was primarily a figure painter; however, she demonstrated the same qualities of color and light that made this radical new movement so recognizable. Though she never married, Cassatt's finest and most distinctive trait is the sensitivity and honesty with which she depicted mothers and children, her favorite subject matter. Presented here are more than 200 illustrations (118 in color) of Cassatt's greatest and lesser-known works - paintings, pastels, and etchings. Cassatt's choice of profession and marital status made her a modern woman by Victorian standards, but her paintings reveal a belief in the sacredness of a mother's love and an appreciation for women's traditional roles.

Cassatt: A Retrospective

Nancy Mowll Mathews

History & Criticism

Paintings, manuscript illuminations, prints, and other works of art reveal the history of medicine, the development of anatomical and scientific illustration, and the work of physicians and surgeons through the ages

Medicine: The Art of Healing

Nuland, Sherwin B.

Here is America's national pastime, celebrated and chronicled through the works of generations of artists and writers in this lavish and beautiful volume. Baseball: A Treasury of Art and Literature not only pays tribute to the game this country has loved for more than 150 years, but also affirms the unique relationship between America and baseball. Enthusiasts can experience, through words and pictures, all facets of the baseball diamond, from the first versions of the game played in Colonial days, through baseball's skyrocketing popularity in the 1800s, to its final form, firmly established by the start of the 20th century as the institution so highly recognized and beloved today. The book's 131 colorplates and nearly 100 black-and-white reproductions of magnificent paintings, drawings, sculpture, and photographs capture the images and depict the moments that have defined baseball as an indelible part of the American landscape. The exploits of great players such as Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Lou Gehrig, Satchel Paige, Bob Feller, Jackie Robinson, Henry Aaron, Nolan Ryan, and Reggie Jackson are brought to life. The book transports fans to ballparks all across America, from the Elysian Fields, the first professional baseball grounds; to Ebbets Field, the martyred home of the fabled Brooklyn Dodgers; to the Astrodome, the game's first domed stadium and the "Eighth Wonder of the World"; to Oriole Park at Camden Yards; to the small town parks in America that are baseball at its purest. Also included in the book are reproductions of the more than 200 plaques honoring the members of the Hall of Fame, the permanent home of baseball's legends. Baseball: A Treasury of Art and Literature features a selection of 90 essays, poems, letters, and documents on the game, many by notable authors such as Mark Twain, Ring Lardner, Red Smith, Roger Angell, Roger Kahn, Bernard Malamud, John Updike, William Kennedy, Gay Talese, and W.P. Kinsella. The collection contains such timeless classics as Ernest L. Thayer's "Casey at the Bat" and the complete lyrics to the national pastime's anthem, "Take Me Out to the Ball Game." The book's introduction, written by editor and baseball devotee Michael Ruscoe, traces the history of the game, and examines how it continues to reflect our national values and identity. A delight for both the casual enthusiast and the most ardent fanatic, Baseball: A Treasury of Art and Literature will both warm the coldest winter night with the undying glow of the game, and make every summer night feel like your team has just clinched its long-awaited pennant.

Baseball: A Treasury of Art and Literature

Sports & Outdoors

Irish Art Masterpieces

Marshall, Catherine

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Toulouse-Lautrec: A Retrospective

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