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Abomination by Robert Swindells; Ben Hughes (Designed by)
Category: Children's | Series: The\Originals Ser.
"Martha is twelve - and very different from other kids, because of her parents. Strict members of a religious group - the Brethren - their rules dominate Martha's life. And one rule is the most important of all- she must never ever invite anyone home. If she does, their shameful secret - Abomination - c ...Show more
American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America by Robert Hughes
Category: Art and Design
Writing with all the brilliance, authority, and pungent wit that have distinguished his art criticism for "Time" magazine and his greatly acclaimed study of modern art, The Shock of the New, Robert Hughes now addresses his largest subject: the history of art in America. The intense relationship between ...Show more
Barcelona by Hughes Robert
Category: Travel | Series: Panther Ser.
Focusing on the architectural foundations of this extraordinary city, Robert Hughes' account of Barcelona's growth in relation to the region of Catalunya also features political, economic and military drama.
Barcelona : The Great Enchantress (National Geographic Directions) by Robert Hughes
Category: Travel
Robert Hughes has been a regular visitor to Barcelona since the 1960s and published a book about the city in 1992 that was quickly hailed as a classic. In < i> Barcelona the Great Enchantress, < /i> Hughes crafts a more personal tale of his nearly forty-year love affair with the Spanish metr ...Show more
Culture of Complaint: The Fraying of America by Robert Hughes
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: Oxford American Lectures
In this radical account of the decline of twentieth-century American culture, Time art critic Robert Hughes insists that the politicization of almost every area of American culture has resulted in quarrelling, infighting, and a fall in the standards needed to hold such a diverse nation together. Based o ...Show more
Culture of Complaint - The Fraying of America by Robert Hughes
Category: Non-Fiction
Secondhand. The best-selling author of The Shock of the New, The Fatal Shore, and Barcelona here delivers a withering polemic aimed at the heart of recent American politics and culture.Culture of Complaint is a call for the re-knitting of a fragmented and over-tribalized America--a deeply passionate bo ...Show more
Ella Saw the Tree by Robert Vescio; Cheri Hughes
Category: Children's
One windy day, as Ella plays in her backyard, she is showered by leaves. When she looks up, Ella sees a tree in her backyard ... has it always been there? And why is it crying? It's not until Ella carefully and attentively takes the time to - smell, listen, feel and look - that she discovers the tree in ...Show more
Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes
Category: History
In 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British Government sent a fleet to colonize Australia; An epic description of the brutal transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian Britain into a horrific penal system which was to be the precursor to the Gulag and was ...Show more
GOYA by ROBERT HUGHES
Category: Biography
Robert Hughes, who has stunned us with comprehensive works on subjects as sweeping and complex as the history of Australia (The Fatal Shore), the modern art movement (The Shock of the New), the nature of American art (American Visions), and the nature of America itself as seen through its art (The Cultu ...Show more
Goya by Robert Hughes
Category: Art
The starting point of this journey through Goya's life in 18th-century Spain is Hughes' own first encounter with the artist's work when he was a student in Australia. The remainder of the book charts the artist's entire career, describing his painted and graphic oeuvre within its historial context. Part ...Show more
Goya by Robert Hughes
Category: Art and Design
A subtle, insightful and lively biography of one of Europe's greatest artists, by one of the world's foremost living commentators on cultural history and the visual arts who is also a passionate admirer of all things Spanish. The starting point of this journey through Goya's life in 18th-century Spain i ...Show more