Kimberly Williams
One of the most influential American interior designers of the twentieth century, Naomi Leff is best known as the creator of the flagship Ralph Lauren store in Manhattan. There she established the brand image, combining a distinctive ... [... more]
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Classic Cars 2008 Deluxe Wall Calendar
 Few things evoke the lavish style of the first half of the twentieth century like the opulent automobiles of that period, finely crafted cars by such manufacturers as Cadillac, Packard, Mercedes-Benz, and Chrysler. Replete with exquisite photographs, [... more]
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Balanchine 2009 Wall Calendar
Balanchine Wall Calendar: Celebrate the art and work of George Balanchine, widely considered the greatest choreographer of the twentieth century. Born in Russia, then exiled to Paris in 1924, Balanchine moved to the United States in 1933 and, with Li [... more]
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Balanchine 2008 Wall Calendar
Celebrate the art and work of George Balanchine, widely considered the greatest choreographer of the twentieth century. Born in Russia, then exiled to Paris in 1924, Balanchine moved to the United States in 1933 and, with Lincoln Kirstein, eventually [... more]
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Rebecca Carroll
W.E.B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk is one of the most influential books ever published in this country. In it, Du Bois wrote that "the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line," a prophecy that is as fresh and ... [... more]
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Jim Craig / AUTHOR CATALOG
Once upon a time, they taught us to believe. They were the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team, a blue-collar bunch led by an unconventional coach, and they engineered perhaps the greatest sports moment of the twentieth century. Their "Miracle on Ice" [... more]
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Michael Stern
Perfection Salad presents an entertaining and erudite social history of women and cooking at the turn of the twentieth century. With sly humor and lucid insight, Laura Shapiro uncovers our ancestors widespread obsession with food, and in doing ... [... more]
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James Doolittle
General Doolittle is a giant of the twentieth century. He did it all. As a stunt pilot, he thrilled the world with his aerial acrobatics. As a scientist, he pioneered the development of modern aviation technology. James Doolittle and Carroll V. ... [... more]
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Jonathan Tucker
In this important and revelatory book, Jonathan Tucker, a leading expert on chemical and biological weapons, chronicles the lethal history of chemical warfare from World War I to the present. At the turn of the twentieth century, the rise of ... [... more]
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Harry Zohn
One of the finest American poets of the second half of the twentieth century, James Schuyler was at the same time a remarkable novelist. Alfred and Guinevere are two children who have been sent by their parents to spend the summer at their ... [... more]
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Richard Pare
The Lost Vanguard documents the work of modernist architects in the Soviet Union during the years following the 1917 revolution and civil war. In little more than a decade, some of the most radical buildings of the twentieth century were ... [... more]
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Robert Dole
Bob Dole is recognized as one of the nation's most prominent political figures of the twentieth century. Known for his effectiveness as a consensus builder in his thirty-five years in Congress, Senator Dole was the longest-serving Republican ... [... more]
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