Marvels of Maiolica by Jacqueline Marie Musacchio

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Marvels of Maiolica explores the rich history and ornate styles of these beautiful wares as well as the key role they played in Renaissance society. Maiolica, or tin-glazed earthenware, flourished in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries throughout the Italian peninsula as apothecary jars, serving plates, bowls, intricately shaped flasks, graceful vases, decorative salts, and figurative inkstands, often painted with provocative narrative images based on subjects from classical mythology, history, or religion.

They were testament to their owners erudition and helped encourage lively conversation at the shop or dining table. Maiolica was also used for floor tiles, devotional objects, and splendid gifts to celebrate family events, such as betrothals, weddings, or childbirth.

By recognizing the prominent place these valued ceramics held in everyday life, Jacqueline Marie Musacchio illuminates the complex nature of Italian Renaissance society. With full-color illustrations of the most impressive works from the Corcoran’s William A. Clark Collection, this authoritative book is a rare treat for collectors and admirers of maiolica.

PRODUCT DETAILS

Hardcover: 64 pages
ISBN-10: 1593730365
ISBN-13: 978-1593730369
Language: English
Dimensions: 6.3 x 6.2 x 0.5 inches
Weight: 8.2 ounces

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jacqueline Marie Musacchio is Associate Professor of Art at Wellesley College. She earned a Ph.D from Princeton University and has lectured and published widely on Italian Renaissance domestic art and life. Her most recent book is Art, Marriage, and Family in the Florentine Renaissance Palace (Yale University Press, 2008).

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Eyes of the Nation

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Eyes of the Nation is a magnificent one-volume pictorial and narrative history of the United States with more than five hundred exceptional illustrations, many reproduced here for the first time. Never before has Americas past been made so intriguingly accessible, both to the eyes and to the mind. Eyes of the Nation features seven chapters of lucid historical commentary by the distinguished historian Alan Brinkley.

A bountiful narrative-in-pictures is drawn from the millions of maps, prints, photographs, posters, manuscripts, motion pictures, and other treasures in the special collections of the Library of Congress. The book proceeds from the first encounter of Europeans and Indians, through colonial days and the founding of the nation, industrialization and westward expansion, and the transformations of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, through to the present day.

The brilliant art selections of Vincent Virga and the Library’s curators provide every stage of the nation’s development, every swerve of its fortunes, assuming arresting visual form. Each chapter is introduced by an essay by the National Book Award winning historian, Alan Brinkley.

REVIEWS

via Amazon.com (c) 1999 – “As the Library of Congress marks our country’s history as the U.S.’s continual time capsule; this tome offers a glance into her walls. Beautifully assembled, this keepsake will instill pride in its citizenry. Making selections from myriad possibilities must have been a dire undertaking, but those represented indicate a fair cross-section of time and geography. An excellent tribute to a worthy source!”

via Amazon.com (c) 2004 – “This is a fascinating and valuable look at the United States presented with a number of rarely seemed photographs. You will learn something here even if you think you know the whole story of our nation’s 200+ years. The only caveats are a few photos which, while presenting some of the true (and unfortunate) incidents of our history, may be too graphic for children (and some adults!) Overall a fine volume worthy of any library.”

via Amazon.com (c) 2005 – “Visiting the Library of Congress is like entering the vaults of the Smithsonian-fascinating, intelligent, and unavoidably eclectic. Such is the case with Eyes of the Nation, which calls upon the Library of Congress’ print collection to reveal America from Columbus to the near present. Among the scores of important papers, maps, and photos, you’ll find pictures of an unfinished Capitol Rotunda during Lincoln’s inauguration, Oppenheimer’s notes on nuclear reactions, and the real faces of Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, not to mention his actual manuscript pages. Historian Alan Brinkley binds the collection with poignant direction, making it as much a reference text as a work of art.”

PRODUCT DETAILS

Softcover: 416 pages
ISBN-10: 1593730357
ISBN-13: 978-1593730352
Language: English
Dimensions: 11.7 x 9.3 x 1.2 inches
Weight: 5 pounds

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Alan Brinkley

Alan Brinkley is the Allan Nevins Professor of History at Columbia University, where he has taught since 1991. He served as University Provost from 2003 to 2009 and as chair of the Department of History from 2000 to 2003. In 1998-99, he was the Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University.

His published works include Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression (1982), which won the 1983 National Book Award; The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War (1995); Liberalism and Its Discontents (1998); Franklin Delano Roosevelt (2009); The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century (2010); and two American history textbooks:  American History: A Survey (1982 and subsequent editions), and The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People (1992 and subsequent editions).

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Vincent Virga

Vincent Virga is a native New Yorker born September 28, 1942.

That day, my orphaned mother was mistakenly told by her surrogate mother, Mamie O’Neill, that two tablespoons of bicarbonate of soda (instead of two teaspoons) would ease her discomforts. Soon, an ambulance rushed Frances to St. Vincent’s Hospital with me being propelled into the world. In shock, my mother asked a passing nun, “Where am I?” When another nun followed hard upon to ask for my name my mother announced, “Vincent!” Turns out, St. Vincent de Paul is the patron saint of orphans….

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Cousin John by Walter Paine

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Walter Paine’s Cousin John: the Story of a Boy and a Small Smart Pigtakes young readers to a time when dogs roamed unleashed and ice was delivered in blocks by beefy men with iron tongs. Bert Dodson’s charming illustrations bring the bygone era to life and highlight key points in the story. A simple, elegant tale set in Brookline, Massachusetts a generation or two ago, Cousin John is about awakening and discovery, animals and humans, as experienced by a lonely, curious boy and his pet pig who become the talk of the town. A true story, Cousin John, exemplifies that magic moment in childhood Graham Greene noted, “when the door opens and lets the future in”.

REVIEW

via The Reading Tub (c) – “This is, first and foremost, the story of a young boy’s strained and painful relationship with his father. I wish there were more authors like this one.”

via Amazon.com (c) 2007 – “But as he tells his story it seems that his father too, is having difficulty trying to figure out how to approach his own son — be a father. In an early section of the book, Mr. Paine suggests that his father’s father, too, was a remote and stern presence. At least his dad tries, and one of the most successful tries was when he showed up one day with a small pig in his arms. Boy and pig take to each other immediately and soon young Walter has a friend to accompany him in his rambles through the woods and neighborhood.We get to go along on some of these rambles, thanks not only to Mr. Paine’s very accessible prose but to some truly wonderful illustrations by Bert Dodson. The illustrations, book design — even the font and paper selection make this just the sort of book one would like to have in ones personal library. It is also touching to note how Walter’s dad becomes increasingly involved with his son’s life after the arrival of Cousin John.”

PRODUCT DETAILS

Hardcover: 96 pages
ISBN-10: 1593730578
ISBN-13: 978-1593730574
Language: English
Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.6 x 0.3 inches
Weight: 12 ounces

ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR

Bert Dodson

Bert Dodson is a painter, teacher, author and illustrator. He has illustrated over 80 books for children . He is the author of Keys To Drawing ( North Light Books, 1985), Keys to Drawing with Imagination, (2006) and NUKE A Book of Cartoons, vols. I and II.( McFarland and Co., 1986 and 1988). He co-authored, with noted biologist, Mahlon Hoagland, The Way Life Works ( Times Books, 1995), and Intimate Strangers; The Story of Unseen Life on Earth (ASM Press, 1999, Needam, et all). He was animation designer for the four part PBS television series, Intimate Strangers (1998). He illustrated over 30 opera stories for children, a series commissioned by The New York Metropolitan Opera.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Walter Paine is a career journalist. He spent 24 years as editor-in-chief and publisher of the Valley News, a regional daily based in West Lebanon, New Hampshire. He founded the innovative Montshire Museum of Science in Norwich, Vermont. He and his wife now live on an 1803 farmstead in Enfield, New Hampshire.

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Harold Evans

Harold Evans is the author of two critically acclaimed best-selling histories of America:  The American Century and They Made America: From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine: Two Centuries of Innovators. This book was the basis for a four-part documentary of the same title on PBS, which he wrote. It is also being adapted into a college curriculum. His latest book is My Paper Chase: True Stories of Vanished Times, a memoir covering his early life, his years in Britain’s newspaper business and his move to America. He is editor at large of The Week magazine, and moderates The Week’s panel discussions with political and economic leaders.

Evans graduated M.A. from Durham University and held a Harkness Fellowship at the Universities of Chicago and Stanford. In London, he was the editor of The Sunday Times from 1967 to 1981, and editor of The Times from 1981 to 1982. His account of these years was published in his best-selling book Good Times, Bad Times. He was regular presenter on the TV series What the Papers Say.

Evans moved to America in 1984. He was the founding editor of Conde Nast Traveler magazine and President and Publisher of Random House Trade Group (1990-1997) From 1997-1999 he was Editorial Director and Vice Chairman of U.S. News & World Report, the New York Daily News, The Atlantic Monthly and Fast Company, a position from which he resigned in January 2000 to write full time. (Evans remains a Contributing Editor at U.S. News & World Report.)

Among many recognitions, Evans was awarded the European Gold Medal by the Institute of Journalists. This followed his successful Sunday Times investigation and campaign on behalf of children injured by the pharmaceutical thalidomide. In 1999, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the UK Press Award Committee, its highest accolade. In 2000, Evans was honored as one of 50 World Press Heroes on the 50^th anniversary of the founding of the International Press Institute in defense of press freedom; for the IPI’s 60th anniversary, he will deliver the keynote address at their 2010 conference in Vienna. In 2001, British journalists voted him the greatest all time British newspaper editor, and in 2004 he was honored with a knighthood in the Queen’s 2004 New Year’s Honors list.

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War Stories

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The war correspondent trails clouds of glory. The names of the pioneers of the trade are stardust: Ernest Hemingway, Alexander Dumas, Henry Villard, Winston Churchill, Stephen Crane, John Reed, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, Richard Harding Davis, John Dos Passos, John Steinbeck, Jack London, George Orwell, Philip Gibbs, Luigi Barzini. The names from World War I, Korea, and Vietnam, the Gulf War, and Kosovo are likewise as redolent of adventure and derring-do, with photojournalists and radio and television commentators crowding the pantheon.Read More…

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Alan Brinkley

Alan Brinkley is the Allan Nevins Professor of History at Columbia University, where he has taught since 1991. He served as University Provost from 2003 to 2009 and as chair of the Department of History from 2000 to 2003. In 1998-99, he was the Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University.

His published works include Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression (1982), which won the 1983 National Book Award; The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War (1995); Liberalism and Its Discontents (1998); Franklin Delano Roosevelt (2009); The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century (2010); and two American history textbooks:  American History: A Survey (1982 and subsequent editions), and The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People (1992 and subsequent editions).

His essays, articles, and reviews have appeared in scholarly journals and in such periodicals as the New York Review of Books, the New Yorker, the New York Times Book Review, the New York Times Magazine, the New Republic, Time, Newsweek, the Atlantic, Harper’s, Vanity Fair, the Times Literary Supplement, and the London Review of Books.

He was the recipient of the Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize at Harvard in 1987 and the Great Teacher Award at Columbia in 2003.  He is chair of the board of trustees of the Century Foundation, chair of the board of trustees of the National Humanities Center, and a trustee of Oxford University Press.  He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

He received his A.B. from Princeton and his Ph.D. from Harvard.  He lives in New York City.

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Eyes of the Nation

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Eyes of the Nation is a magnificent one-volume pictorial and narrative history of the United States with more than five hundred exceptional illustrations, many reproduced here for the first time. Never before has Americas past been made so intriguingly accessible, both to the eyes and to the mind. Read More…

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