Greek fire, poison arrows and scorpion bombs: biological and chemical warfare in the Ancient World

History

MAYOR, Adrienne

Military

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The Garden of Reading: An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Short Fiction about Gardens and Gardeners

Slung, Michele (editor)

Winged Pharaoh: A Far Memory Book [WINGED PHARAOH] [Paperback]

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Joan Grant

Fantasy

The lavishly illustrated, sparkling portrait of the pioneering arbiter of style, the creator of the New Look, with an introduction by John Galliano  Christian Dior, the legendary French fashion designer, caused a worldwide sensation in 1947, in a Paris still groping to recover from the devastations of wartime occupation. Reintroducing the flowing, ankle-length skirt, Dior gave women back their long-lost sense of freedom, femininity, and joie de vivre. Dior's collection with its pinched waste and generous folds of fabric, was dubbed the New Look by the press, especially the American fashion journalists. Dior was crowned The King of Fashion, and he immediately reestablished Paris as the center of the fashion world.  With elegance, precision, and impeccable research, Marie- France Pochna recreates this one-of-a-kind world of glamour and luxury and situates Dior's fairy-tale career in the rich tapestry of Paris cultural life.

Christian Dior: The Biography

Arts & Photography

Pochna, Marie-France

Savill, Joanna (trans.)

Graphic Design

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Film Noir: The Encyclopedia

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

Judge Joe Crater's disappearance in 1930 spawned countless conspiracy theories and captured the imagination of a nation caught in the grip of The Depression. Fifteen years later, Fintan Dunne, the detective encountered in Quinn's novel Hour of the Cat, recently retired and bored, answers a summons to New York where he is asked to solve the old case for a newspaper magnate interested in making a profit. Dunne confronts haphazard investigating, aggrieved participants and a grieving spouse as he travels from New York to Los Angeles and Havana, untangling decades-old clues in an attempt to solve the mystery still baffling America. Peter Quinn once again has written a compelling blend of history and fiction that is simply unputdownable.

The Man Who Never Returned

Quinn, Peter

Brock Brower's National Book Award-nominated novel traces the making of a horror movie in Hollywood. Simon Moro, a 68-year-old star, is making his last picture, a low-budget remake of Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven. Moro, infuriated by the bland horror movies of his day, sees his own career - even as it ends - as an ongoing effort to wallop the public with an overwhelming moral shock. And he succeeds when an elaborate publicity stunt turns into a gruesome and grand personal statement. As Moro's life reels toward its macabre end, it also reels backward through lies and evasions to show its surprising beginning. Underneath his Frankensteinian exaggeration, Moro has a vivid and humane story to tell, even as the coffins break open and dark, erotic secrets are revealed. Brock Brower has taken the horror film in all its gory glory to create a book that recycles pop material into literature, creating a Dickensian tale of America.

The Late Great Creature

Brock Brower

Literature & Fiction

Although the exact origins of the dog are disputed, it seems certain that its wild progenitor was the grey wolf, the two being closer genetically than are the races of humans. Mark Derr's study traces the domestic dogs evolution from the first 'dogwolves', which, some time around the end of the last Ice Age, developed mutually beneficial relationships with groups of hunter-gathering humans, through centuries of natural and artificial selection to the multifarious breeds of today.

How the Dog Became the Dog

Mark Derr

This is a biography of arguably the most provocative and mysterious artist of the 20th century. Henry Darger was utterly unknown during his lifetime, keeping a quiet, secluded existence as a janitor on Chicago's North Side. When he died his landlord discovered a treasure trove of more than three hundred canvases.

Henry Darger, Throw Away Boy: The Tragic Life of an Outsider Artist

Elledge, Jim

In 1856 Dr William Palmer was convicted of poisoning his best friend with strychnine and was suspected of committing at least a dozen other murders. One of the last people to be publicly hanged in Britain, he was described by Charles Dickens as the greatest villain who ever stood trial at the Old Bailey. But in this fresh examination of the evidence, journalist Stephen Bates considers Palmers motivation and asks whether he really was a prolific and ruthless serial killer.

The Poisoner: The Life and Crimes of Victorian England's Most Notorious Doctor

Bates, Stephen

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