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“A wall cannot be built to stop immigration. We have to learn to make the best of it.”

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“Color and Light highlights the life and key artistic periods of a painter who participated heavily in moving color to a dramatic new level.”

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“The images and accompanying words in Eye on the West challenge us to see, think, and feel differently about the Western landscape . . .”

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“This is really a book about healthy ageing from the authors’ highly particular perspective—and it turns out that the fountain of youth is full of germs.”

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“One-Dimensional Queer raises provocative and important questions about the intersectionality of race, gender, and sexuality, and about the extent to which capital

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“Laux is not afraid of grotesque details. She writes truthfully to engage readers with images we know. She commiserates.” 

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“Art of Feminism isn’t a book for art students, and it’s not a book for engaged feminists.

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This is not the first book to be published on this subject (see for instance  Physics and the Art of Dance by Kenneth Laws and Arlene Sugano, or Laws’ earlier volume, The Physics of Da

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“a book that reads like a fictional thriller while remaining solidly grounded in fact.”

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“Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Imaginary Travels traces the life and works of this fascinating German artist during an exceptionally trying historical time period.”

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“For Kamala Harris, the ‘truths we hold’ are more than mere words; they are a creed she lives by and an ideal she strives for.

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“Perhaps the Congo is at its darkest just before sunrise. Let us hope so, even if its history suggests otherwise.”

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“Spy Pilot is a compelling read of the forgotten heroism of a father and the determination of a son to bring that heroism to light.”

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“Without institutionalized American racism, Withers would never have become involved with racial espionage. But he still would have been a great photographer.”

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“To say that this book is a small gem of understanding China’s history would be a major understatement.”

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“Marty’s Handbook for a Post-Roe America is all the more important.”

 

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“This is a book that is read once, and then once again, and again—each time gaining new insight into a true maestro.”

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“My daughter learned to walk in a homeless shelter.”

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“perhaps Dawson is a gardener, gently lifting away weeds and leaving the reader ready for the seeds she will sow.”

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“there really is nothing that is not captivating about Bruegel and Bruegel: The Master has done all it can to present an extraordinary, comprehensive, savvy and scholarly survey of

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“One fascinating aspect of Ronald’s text is that it is written from the British perspective, rarely the case in literature about the American Revolutionary War.”

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“The appeal of Jelley’s elegant book is the product of her literary style and the abundant reproductions of Vermeer’s work and that of his contemporaries.

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“There are detailed descriptions of performances of the opera and adaptations it inspired and the book is richly illustrated.

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“I (Heart) Art gives youngsters their own elegant and timeless pocket museum that they can visit time and time again, independently, at their own pace, and, above

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