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The Secret World of Renaldo Kuhler

Brett Ingram

• Hardcover | Engels
• A sumptuous monograph presenting for the first time the extraordinarily imaginative and delightful work of visionary artist Renaldo Kuhler (American, ... Lees meer

Around the Bay

• Hardcover | Engels | Center for Land Use Interpretation American Regional Landsca
• The San Francisco Bay can be viewed as a geographic paradox: a place and a void. The collective Bay (composed of San Francisco Bay, San Pablo Bay, and... Lees meer

Another Science Fiction

Megan Prelinger

• Paperback | Engels
• The late 1950s and early '60s were the golden age of science fiction, an era when the farthest reaches of imagination were fed by the technological br... Lees meer

Dissection

John Harley Warner, James M Edmonson

• Hardcover | Engels
• "Cadavers, camera, action!" ( The New York Times Book Review ). From the advent of photography in the 19th and into the 20th century, medical students... Lees meer

Los Alamos Rolodex

Center for Land Use Interpretation

• Hardcover | Engels
• In 2012 the Center for Land Use Interpretation acquired a set of seven rolodexes from the dispersed collection of former Los Alamos National Laborator... Lees meer

Mental Hygiene

Ken Smith

• Paperback | Engels
• Between 1945 and 1970, millions of public school students were subjected to hundreds of films designed to keep them on the straight and narrow. These ... Lees meer

Everything's Coming Up Profits

Steve Young, Sport Murphy

• Hardcover | Engels
• From the 1950s to the 1980s, American corporations commissioned a vast array of lavish, Broadway-style musical shows that were only for the eyes and e... Lees meer

Junk English 2

Ken Smith

• Paperback | Engels
• Junk English 2 combines basic advice -- peppered with contemporary examples of alarmingly common verbal atrocities -- with entertaining invective. Bas... Lees meer

Alone with the President

John Strausbaugh

• Paperback | Engels
• The author discusses what he sees as "the mutual attraction between presidents and celebrities from Kennedy to Reagan. . . . Kennedy, he argues, took ... Lees meer

Specimens of Hair

Robert McCracken Peck

• Hardcover | Engels
• Strangely beautiful, utterly unique, "Specimens of Hair" presents the obsessive work of a 19th-century amateur naturalist who collected hundreds upon ... Lees meer

Humanoid

Max Aguilera-Hellweg

• Hardcover | Engels
• This is the first and only book of portraits of android and humanoid robots. The robots in these photographs by Max Aguilera-Hellweg, a photojournalis... Lees meer

The Mütter Museum

Gretchen Worden

• Hardcover | Engels
• Home to over 20,000 mind-boggling anatomic specimens, plaster casts, wax models, and paintings, the Mutter Museum, founded in 1858, is part of the Col... Lees meer

Up River

Center for Land Use Interpretation

• Hardcover | Engels | Center for Land Use Interpretation American Regional Landsca
• Millions of people in New York and New Jersey consider the Hudson River as familiar as their own backyard yet only have a superficial knowledge of the... Lees meer

Thomas Bernhard: 3 Days

Thomas Bernhard

• Hardcover | Engels
• Over the course of three days in 1970, June 5, 6, and 7, simply sitting on a white bench in a Hamburg park, Thomas Bernhard delivered a powerful monol... Lees meer

Venus in Furs and Selected Stories

Von Sacher-Masoch

• Paperback | Engels
• At the time this tale of the man and his quest for physical abuse by fair ones was written, it was considered literary, not perverted or pornographic. Lees meer

Fragonard Museum: The Écorchés

Christophe Degueurce

• Hardcover | Engels
• Eighteenth-century anatomist Honoré Fragonard's écorchés--preserved dissected real animal and human cadavers--are extraordinary works of virtuosic ski... Lees meer

Walker Evans: Last Photographs & Life Stories

Michael Lesy

• Hardcover | Engels
• In 1973, Michael Lesy was a young scholar whose first book had just been published. In the soon-legendary Wisconsin Death Trip he combined 1890s photo... Lees meer

Drew Friedman's Sideshow Freaks

Drew Friedman

• Hardcover | Engels
• Melvin Burkhart the Anatomical Wonder; Zip the Pinhead; Chang and Eng, the original Siamese twins; Johnny Eck, the King of the Freaks; Koo Koo the Bir... Lees meer

Prisoners

Arne Svenson

• Paperback | Engels
• Prisoners is a collection of seventy extraordinary portraits of turn-of-the-century prisoners and the fascinating newspaper and prison accounts from t... Lees meer

Hidden Treasure

• Hardcover | Engels
• Founded 175 years ago, the National Library of Medicine is the world's largest medical library, with more than 17 million items dating from the 11th c... Lees meer

Mütter Museum Historic Medical Photographs

College of Physicians of Philadelphia

• Hardcover | Engels
• The first book on the Mütter Museum contain artful images of the museum's fascinating exhibits shot by contemporary fine art photographers. Here, the ... Lees meer

Ken's Guide to the Bible

Ken Smith

• Paperback | Engels
• An insider's guide to the Bible with a focus on sex, gore and lunacy. Lees meer

Junk English

Ken Smith

• Paperback | Engels
• In Junk English, Ken Smith takes on the misuse, abuse, and downright decay of the English language. His weapons? A sharp wit and an almost frightening... Lees meer