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Sibert Informational Book Award, Honor\u003cbr\u003eBoston Globe–Horn Book Award, Nonfiction Honor\u003cbr\u003eParent's Choice Award\u003cbr\u003eWall Street Journal's 10 Best Children's Books of the Year List\u003cbr\u003eBologna Ragazzi Nonfiction Honor 2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn exuberant verse and stirring pictures, Patricia Hruby Powell and Christian Robinson create an extraordinary portrait for young people of the passionate performer and civil rights advocate Josephine Baker, the woman who worked her way from the slums of St. Louis to the grandest stages in the world. Meticulously researched by both author and artist, Josephine's powerful story of struggle and triumph is an inspiration and a spectacle, just like the legend herself.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HACHETTE BOOK GROUP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32289537523796,"sku":"9781452103143","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0281\/3532\/5780\/files\/1_69.jpg?v=1784831289"},{"product_id":"108060","title":"Gold of the Akan from the Glassell Collection","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eby Rosemary H. 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The royal courts of the Akan peoples in Ghana are the most spectacular in Africa. Lavish processions and ceremonies relate the history, beliefs and power of the state. Court regalia - including gold jewellery, headdresses, swords and sword ornaments, as well as colourful textiles and umbrellas - are invested with special meaning. These objects all relate to a combination of visual and verbal traditions. The extensive collection of African gold assembled by Alfred C. Glassell, Jr., is considered the finest of its kind anywhere in the world, and was given to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, in 1997. 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Lavishly illustrated, this exhibition catalogue presents exceptional works in various media from diverse areas of the Islamic world, including North Africa, Turkey, Iran, and India, and dating from the ninth century to the present.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MFAH PUBLICATIONS DEPT.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32289676918868,"sku":"9780300164640","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0281\/3532\/5780\/files\/books_44.jpg?v=1775773254"},{"product_id":"1005724","title":"The Plains of Mars: European War Prints, 1500-1825","description":"\u003cp\u003eby Leslie Scattone (Author), James Clifton (Author), Ira Gruber (Contributor), Emine Fetvaci (Contributor), Larry Silver (Contributor)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFrom 1500 to 1825, Europe remained in an almost perpetual state of war. Religion, politics, economics, and dynastic ambition all played a role in the turmoil that spread across the continent. 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Her nudes, in particular, explore the body with frankness while celebrating the individuality of each of her subjects, and they exemplify the freedom and courage with which she approached her work and her life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MFAH PUBLICATIONS DEPT.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32289686093908,"sku":"9780300163322","price":175.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0281\/3532\/5780\/files\/Copyofcategoryimagesforwebsite_23_ee9a6e04-cacf-4946-9bb1-3b8bf59f5417.jpg?v=1772146584"},{"product_id":"1028382","title":"Texas Furniture, Volume Two","description":"\u003cp\u003eby Lonn Taylor (Author), David B. Warren (Author), Don Carleton (Introduction)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe art of furniture making flourished in Texas during the mid-nineteenth century. To document this rich heritage of locally made furniture, Miss Ima Hogg, the well-known philanthropist and collector of American decorative arts, enlisted Lonn Taylor and David B. Warren to research early Texas furniture and its makers. After more than a decade of investigation, they published \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTexas Furniture\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e in 1975, and it quickly became the authoritative reference on this subject. An updated edition, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTexas Furniture, Volume One\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, was issued in the spring of 2012.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTexas Furniture, Volume Two\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e presents over 150 additional pieces of furniture that were not included in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eVolume One\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, each superbly photographed in color and accompanied by detailed descriptions of the piece’s maker, date, materials, measurements, history, and owner, as well as an analysis by the authors. Taylor and Warren have also written a new introduction for this volume, in which they amplify the story of early Texas furniture. In particular, they compare and contrast the two important traditions of cabinetmaking in Texas, Anglo-American and German, and identify previously unknown artisans. The authors also discuss nineteenth-century Texans’ desire for refinement and gentility in furniture, non-commercial furniture making, and marquetry work. And they pay tribute to the twentieth-century collectors who first recognized the value of locally made Texas furniture and worked to preserve it. 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This beautiful book dramatically portrays the significance of the red, white, and blue standard with its single five-point star, the visual distillation of more than a hundred years of history.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MFAH PUBLICATIONS DEPT.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32289742880852,"sku":"9781585441662","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0281\/3532\/5780\/files\/books_39.jpg?v=1775772963"},{"product_id":"114680","title":"Gego: Between Transparency and the Invisible","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-width=\"185\" class=\"author notFaded\"\u003eBy Mari Carmen Ramirez\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"contribution\" spacing=\"none\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"a-color-secondary\"\u003e(Author),\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Josefina Manrique\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-width=\"166\" class=\"author notFaded\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"contribution\" spacing=\"none\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"a-color-secondary\"\u003e(Author),\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Catherine de Zegher\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-width=\"172\" class=\"author notFaded\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"contribution\" spacing=\"none\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"a-color-secondary\"\u003e(Author), Gego (Artist)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-width=\"172\" class=\"author notFaded\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"contribution\" spacing=\"none\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"a-color-secondary\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLatin American artist Gego (1912–1994) produced a range of line-based abstract work, including drawings, prints, and wire sculptures. Focusing on a rare series of monotypes from the early 1950s, drawings and prints, and “drawings without paper” and “tejeduras” (woven paper pieces) of the late 1970s and 1980s, this fascinating book traces Gego’s exploration of line and space.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Gego used lines as conceptual and visual tools to create in-between spaces within her works. Whether drawing lines on paper or projecting them into space, the artist sought to “make visible the invisible.” She believed that line could express what is not physically present in nature––including thought, intuition, and emotions. By manipulating the density of the lines or by interrupting them, she brought light, shadow, and feeling into her linear works.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MFAH PUBLICATIONS DEPT.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32289742946388,"sku":"9780300116342","price":150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0281\/3532\/5780\/files\/books_28.jpg?v=1775772084"},{"product_id":"103103","title":"More than a Constructive Hobby: The Paintings of Frank Freed","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eby William A. 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