Inyo County Free Library - New Acquisitions

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The art & architecture of the Aztec & Maya: an illustrated encyclopedia of the buildings, sculptures and art of the peoples of Mesoamerica

By Phillips, Charles

Publishing Date: c2007

Classification: 700

Call Number: 704.0397 PHI

The book goes on to discuss and illustrate the beauty of the colossal stone sculptures of the Toltec, and the magnificent jade carvings of the Olmec, and the turquoise mosaics of the Aztec. The book has a highly visual approach, with over 230 supe - (NBN)

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American home landscapes: a design guide to creating period garden styles

By Adams, Denise W.

Publishing Date: c2013

Classification: 700

Call Number: 712 ADA

A comprehensive, fully illustrated guide to recreating nearly 400 years of historical landscape design and adapting them to modern needs.

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Founding gardeners: the revolutionary generation, nature, and the shaping of the American nation

By Wulf, Andrea

Publishing Date: 2011

Classification: 700

Call Number: 712.0973 WUL

"From the author of the acclaimed The Brother Gardeners, a fascinating look at the founding fathers from the unique and intimate perspective of their lives as gardeners, plantsmen, and farmers. For the founding fathers, gardening, agriculture, and botany were elemental passions, as deeply ingrained in their characters as their belief in liberty for the nation they were creating. Andrea Wulf reveals for the first time this aspect of the revolutionary generation. She describes how, even as British ships gathered off Staten Island, George Washington wrote his estate manager about the garden at Mount Vernon; how a tour of English gardens renewed Thomas Jefferson's and John Adams's faith in their fledgling nation; how a trip to the great botanist John Bartram's garden helped the delegates of the Constitutional Congress break their deadlock; and why James Madison is the forgotten father of American environmentalism. These and other stories reveal a guiding but previously overlooked ideology of the American Revolution. Founding Gardeners adds depth and nuance to our understanding of the American experiment, and provides us with a portrait of the founding fathers as they've never before been seen"--

Great gardens of Britain

By Coats, Peter

Publishing Date: [1967]

Classification: 700

Call Number: 712.6 COA

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Gardening with stone and sand

By Kramer, Jack

Publishing Date: [1972]

Classification: 700

Call Number: 712.6 KRA

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The Parthenon enigma

By Connelly, Joan Breton

Publishing Date: 2014

Classification: 700

Call Number: 726.1208 CON

"A revolutionary new understanding of the most famous and influential building in the world, a thesis that calls into question our basic understanding of the ancient civilization that we most identify with. For more than two millennia, the Parthenon has been revered as the symbol of Western culture, the epitome of the ancient society from which we derive our highest ideals. It was understood to honor the city-state's patron deity Athena, and its intricately sculpted surface believed to depict a celebration of civic continuity in the birthplace of democracy. But through a close reading of a lost play by Euripides, accidentally discovered on a papyrus wrapping an Egyptian mummy, Joan Connelly began to develop a new theory that has sparked one of the fiercest controversies ever to rock the world of classics. Now, she recounts how our most basic sense of the Parthenon and of the culture that built it may have been crucially mistaken. Re-creating the ancient structure from its natural environment to its pediment, and using a breathtaking range of textual and visual evidence, she uncovers a monument glorifying human sacrifice set in a world of cult rituals quite unlike anything conventionally conjured by the word "Athenian."--

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Japanese style

By Slesin, Suzanne

Publishing Date: c1987

Classification: 700

Call Number: 728.0952 SLE

The enormously successful team of Suzanne Slesin and Stafford Cliff again join their coauthor and photographer from Caribbean Style in a stylish, sophisticated, and often unexpected look at how the Japanese live today, as expressed through interior design. 770 full-color photographs. (Do-It-Yourself/Home Improvement) GBC

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Hearst Castle: an interpretive history of W.R. Hearst's San Simeon estate

By Loe, Nancy E.

Publishing Date: c1994

Classification: 700

Call Number: 728.8 LOE

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The fine art of wood: the Bohlen collection

By Fike, Bonita

Publishing Date: c2000

Classification: 700

Call Number: 736 FIK

Published in conjunction with "The Fine Art of Wood: the Bohlen Collection," exhibited at the Detroit Institute of Arts, July 7-December 31, 2000.

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Drawing with children: a creative method for adult beginners, too

By Brookes, Mona

Publishing Date: c1996

Classification: 700

Call Number: 741.2 BRO

Explains how to encourage children to draw and includes five lessons that feature three different levels of complexity.

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Bart Simpson's guide to life

By Groening, Matt

Publishing Date: c1993

Classification: 700

Call Number: 741.5973 GRO

A collection of humorous musings on conditions in our life.

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The Shaker legacy: perspectives on an enduring furniture style

By Becksvoort, Christian

Publishing Date: c1998

Classification: 700

Call Number: 749.213 BEC

Drawing on both research and personal experience with the last working Shaker community, the author explains how Shaker belief inspired Shaker design principles, and how to recognize Shaker furniture's distinctive style and craftsmanship. He also discusses the largely unknown Victorian period of Shaker design and explains how Shaker furniture has influenced other furniture styles. One hundred and forty pieces are presented in color photos, with explanatory captions. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Watercolor bold & free

By Goldsmith, Lawrence C.

Publishing Date: 1980

Classification: 700

Call Number: 751.422 GOL

Sixty-four bold, exploratory experiments, each accompanied by a full-page color painting by a leading contemporary artist, promote freshness, vibrancy, and originality in watercolor painting while concentrating on composition, concept, and technique - (Baker & Taylor)

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The autobiography of Donovan: the hurdy gurdy man

By Donovan

Publishing Date: 2007

Classification: 700

Call Number: 782.4216 DON

Donovan is acknowledged as one of the most significant cultural icons of the 1960's. The book provides a frank account of his early experiments with drugs and his search for self. He reveals the story of how he developed friendships with Baez, Dylan and the Beatles, with whom he a shared spiritual sojourn to meditate with the Maharishi in India. Donovan's autobiography offers first-hand insights into his music and poetry, recollects his rise to fame and the way in which destiny was to play a hand by re-uniting him with the lost love of his life through a chance meeting.--From publisher description.

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Wildflower

By Barrymore, Drew

Publishing Date: [2015]

Classification: 700

Call Number: 791.4302 BAR

"Award-winning actress Drew Barrymore shares funny, insightful, and profound stories from her past and present told from the place of happiness she's achieved today. Wildflower is a portrait of Drew's life in stories as she looks back on the adventures, challenges, and incredible experiences of her earlier years. It includes tales of living on her own at 14 (and how laundry may have saved her life), getting stuck in a gas station overhang on a cross country road trip, saying goodbye to her father in a way only he could have understood, and many more adventures and lessons that have led her to the successful, happy, and healthy place she is today. It is the first book Drew has written about her life since the age of 14. "--

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The reel Civil War: mythmaking in American film

By Chadwick, Bruce

Publishing Date: c2001

Classification: 700

Call Number: 791.4365 CHA

More movies have been produced about the Civil War than about any other aspect of American history. From 1903 (Uncle Tom's Cabin) to the present, film studios have released more than eight hundred silent and sound pictures about the nation's most cataclysmic event. In this study, Bruce Chadwick first shows us how historians, journalists, playwrights, poets and novelists of the late nineteenth century - partly as an effort to reconcile former antagonists - rewrote the war's history to create enduring legends, most of which had no basis in reality. Early silent films followed their example, presenting egregiously distorted - and anti-black - stories about the war, which viewers accepted as truth. - (Blackwell North Amer)

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More fool me

By Fry, Stephen

Publishing Date: 2015

Classification: 700

Call Number: 791.4502 FRY

"By his early thirties, Stephen Fry--writer, comedian, star of stage and screen--had, as they say, "made it." Much loved on British television, author of a critically acclaimed and bestselling first novel, with a glamorous and glittering cast of friends, he had more work than was perhaps good for him. As the '80s drew to a close, he began to burn the candle at both ends. Writing and recording by day, and haunting a neverending series of celebrity parties, drinking dens, and poker games by night, he was a high functioning addict. He was so busy, so distracted by the high life, that he could hardly see the inevitable, headlong tumble that must surely follow. Filled with raw, electric extracts from his diaries of the time, More Fool Me is a brilliant, eloquent account by a man driven to create and to entertain--revealing a side to him he has long kept hidden"--

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Master of ceremonies: a memoir

By Grey, Joel

Publishing Date: 2016

Classification: 700

Call Number: 792.02 GRE

"Joel Grey, the Academy Award-winning master of ceremonies in Cabaret, finally tells his remarkable life story. Born Joel David Katz to a wild and woolly Jewish-American family in 1930's Cleveland, Joel began his life in the theater at the age of nine, starring in local productions of touring Broadway hits. He was hooked, and the search for the spotlight took him from the Cleveland Playhouse to seedy, gangster-filled nightclubs in Chicago, and finally to the lights of Broadway and the dizzying glamour of Hollywood. Master of Ceremonies is a memoir of a life lived in and out of the limelight, but it is also the story of the man behind the makeup. Coming of age in a time when being yourself tended to be not only difficult but also dangerous, Joel was required to act both on and off stage. Deftly capturing the pain and secrets of an era we have only just started to leave behind, Joel's story is one of love, loss, hard-won honesty, redemption, and success"--

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American triumvirate: Sam Snead, Byron Nelson, Ben Hogan, and the modern age of golf

By Dodson, James

Publishing Date: 2012

Classification: 700

Call Number: 796.352 DOD

A celebration of three legendary golfers describes how the sport deteriorated into virtual non-existence before the trio revitalized its popularity by setting records while transforming how the game was played and regarded.

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