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Ammonite by Nicola Griffith
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S.F. Masterworks
The James Tiptree Jr Award-winning novel. Change or die. These are the only options available on the planet Jeep. Centuries earlier, a deadly virus shattered the original colony, killing the men and forever altering the few surviving women. Now, generations after the colony has lost touch with the rest ...Show more
Arslan by M.J. Engh
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S.F. Masterworks
Arslan is a young Asian general who has conquered the USA and then the world, with a small town in Illinois as the capital of his new empire. Praised by the likes of Orson Scott Card and Samuel R. Delany, ARSLAN is a thoughtful but uncompromising work, one which still retains the power to shock.
Art Nouveau - Masterworks by KERR Gordon
Category: Art and Design | Series: Masterworks
The whiplash curves of art nouveau have enchanted generations of art lovers for over a century. This is a collection of 80 masterworks which will ignite the reader's passion for elegant line and classic design.
Art Nouveau Masterworks: Posters, Illustration and Fine Art from the Glamorous Fin de Siècle by Michael Robinson; Rosalind Ormiston
Category: Art | Series: Masterworks Ser.
Art Nouveau is still popular today, notable for the sinewy, organic stylings which adorn the new edition of this long term bestseller.The rise of the Art Nouveau style across Continental Europe and the US in all forms of art was remarkable and is explored in this beautifully illustrated book. Discussing ...Show more
Art Nouveau: Posters, Illustration & Fine Art from the Glamorous Fin de Siecle by ROSALIND ORMISTON
Category: Art and Design | Series: Masterworks Ser.
This beautifully illustrated book is a celebration of Art Deco's expression through the graphic arts and illustration. Divided into three sections - the movement, its fashion and advertising - the reader gains great insight into the artists and innovators that helped popularize the Art Deco movement, su ...Show more
BRENDA NIALL ON ARTHUR BOYD by NIALL BRENDA
Category: Art | Series: Melbourne University Press Masterworks S.
The brilliant painter, Arthur Boyd (1920-99) was a member of Australia's most famous artistic dynasty. This excerpt from Brenda Niall's prize-winning study, "The Boyds", reveals Arthur Boyd as a man who lived in a private world of painting, family, friends and familiar surroundings, yet developed into a ...Show more
Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S.F. Masterworks
In the far future, after human civilization has spread through the galaxy, communications begin to arrive in an apparently alien language. They appear to threaten invasion, but in order to counter the threat, the messages must first be understood.
Bauhaus Masterworks: New World View by Flame Tree
Category: Home and Garden | Series: Masterworks
Bauhaus inherited the mantle of beauty and craftsmanship from the Arts and Crafts movement of the late 19th Century but was founded on geometric principles, associated with Art Deco and firmly rooted in the challenge of modern production methods. Kandinsky, Klee, Franz Marc and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy taught ...Show more
Beauty by Sheri S. Tepper
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: Fantasy Masterworks Ser.
With the critically acclaimed novels The Gate To Women's Country, Raising The Stones, and the Hugo-nominated Grass, Sheri Tepper has established herself as one of the major science fiction writers of out Time. In Beauty, she broadens her territory even further, with a novel that evokes all the richness ...Show more
Behold the Man by Michael Moorcock
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S.F. Masterworks
Meet Karl Glogauer, time traveller and unlikely Messiah. When he finds himself in Palestine in the year 29AD he is shocked to meet the man known as Jesus Christ -- a drooling idiot, hiding in the shadows of the carpenter's shop in Nazareth. But if he is not capable of fulfilling his historical role, the ...Show more
Blood Music by Greg Bear
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S.F. Masterworks
Vergil Ulam's breakthrough in genetic engineering is considered too dangerous for further research. Rather than destroy his work, he injects himself with his creation and walks out of his lab, unaware of just quite how his actions will change the world. Bear's treatment of the traditional tale of scient ...Show more