800円 American ingenuity reveals itself in the simplest and most forgotten places. From familiar brand names such as Wheaties (George Cormack) to the most mundane stop at the traffic light (Garrett Augustus Morgan Sr.), the everyday presents abundant opportunity to respect and recall the intellect of t...

785円 Esta obra, acima de tudo, tem por fito dar a conhecer o quanto Lima Barreto, meritoriamente reconhecido como grande romancista e notável cronista e articulista, foi um magnífico criador de contos, alguns dados como canônicos na historiografia literária brasileira. Pr...

496円 Nathaniel Hawthorne is considered one of the greatest American authors of all time; you know his work, but what about his life? Find out about the life and times of Nathaniel Hawthorne in this short work.

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3,582円 Best known for his contribution to the development of the motion picture, Eadweard Muybridge (1830–1904) was a pioneering photographer during his lifetime. Alongside his remarkable photographic achievements, his personal life was riddled with melodramaーincluding a near-fatal stagecoach accident ...

1,399円 Petroski reveals the science and engineering--not to mention the politics, egotism, and sheer magic--behind America's great bridges, particularly those constructed during the great bridge-building era starting in the 1870s and continuing through the 1930s. It is the story of the men and women who...

1,243円 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The definitive biography for decades to come.”ーLeo Jansen, curator, the Van Gogh Museum, and co-editor of Vincent van Gogh: The Complete Letters Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, who galvanized readers with their Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Jackson Pollo...

5,035円 "The definitive life of O'Keeffe." ーHilton Kramer, Los Angeles Times Georgia O'Keefe (1887?-1986) was one of the most successful American artists of the twentieth century: her arresting paintings of enormous, intimately rendered flowers, desert landscapes, and stark white cow skulls are seminal ...

1,399円 **“An intriguing amalgam of personal memoir, philosophical speculation, natural lore, cultural history, and art criticism.” ーLos Angeles Times From the award-winning author of Orwell's Roses, a stimulating exploration of wandering, being lost, and the uses of the unknown** Written as a series of...

2,652円 In The Art Prophets, Richard Polsky introduces us to influential late twentieth-century dealers and tastemakers in the art world. These risk takers opened doors for artists, identified new movements, and resurrected art forms that had fallen into obscurity. In this distinctive tour, Polsky offers...

322円 My name is Sir Duke. I am a pigeon. But certainly not a common pigeon by any means. Let me tell you how I got my name…I am the son of champion racer Boomerang and the grandson of Da Vinci. My mother was a fine racer named Cherished Secret. Both my parents were both fine champion racing pigeons b...

2,022円 In 1791, shortly after the United States won its independence, George Washington personally asked Pierre Charles L’Enfantーa young French artisan turned American revolutionary soldier who gained many friends among the Founding Fathersーto design the new nation's capital. L’Enfant approached this ...