Books from Harry N. Abrams
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Paintings of Charles Burchfield: North by Midwest
By Nannette V. MaciejunesThe art of renowned American watercolorist Charles Burchfield (1893-1967) has been described as "one of the most original phenomena in American art".
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The Art of Rocksteady s Batman: Arkham Asylum, Arkham City & Arkham Knight
By Daniel Wallace, Rocksteady StudiosKey creative and development talent offer insights into the creative process through exclusive, candid interviews, making the book the definitive look back at six years of gaming innovation that have helped re-imagine the Batman mythos in ...
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Mary Frank
By Hayden HerreraPraised by critics for her technical mastery and emotional range, Mary Frank creates are of great power and beauty, continually exploring and developing within a series of broad themes new composition, new mediums, new sensations.
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William Faulkner: Overlook Illustrated Lives
By M. Thomas IngeHis oldest son and Faulkner's father was Murry Cuthbert Falkner ( 1870-1932 ) , who brought the family tradition of public success to an end but maintained the private dissipation . John Wesley Thompson Falkner and wife , Sallie Murry ...
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Samuel Beckett
By Gerry DukesDuring his final undergraduate year Rudmose - Brown put Beckett's name forward for appointment as Trinity College's exchange lecturer at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris . He did so in the expectation that Beckett would perform ...
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Walker Evans the Hungry Eye
By Gilles MoraWith more than 300 superbly reproduced pictures, including some little known color images, this is the first complete retrospective of the photographer's work to appear in print.
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Golf Course Designs By Tom Fazio
By Cal Brown, Tom FazioIn this illustrated book, Tom Fazio shows golfers the inner workings of a master golf designer's mind.
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New York Cooks: The 100 Best Recipes from New York Magazine
By Gillian DuffyVEGETABLES AND SIDES GNOCCHI GRATIN FROM THOMAS KELLER OF RAKEL Before he turned Napa Valley into the country's premier foodie destination , French Laundry chef Thomas Keller was toiling at Rakel in lower Manhattan .
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The Baseball Anthology: 125 Years of Stories, Poems, Articles, Photographs, Drawings, Interviews, Cartoons, and Other Memorabilia
By Joseph WallaceExcerpt from pages 224-25 of I Had a Hammer by Hank Aaron and Lonnie Wheeler . Copyright © 1991 by Henry Aaron and Lonnie Wheeler . Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers , Inc .: 229-31 ; Copyright © 1982 by Roger Angell .
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The Art of George Rodrigue
By Michael Lewis, Ginger DantoTraces works of the artist best known for his Blue Dog paintings, reproducing 256 paintings created during his forty-year career, and details his development with an analysis of the distinct phases of his work.
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Golf's Best New Destinations
By Brian McCallenLaid out by Palmer Course Design , it attracted immediate notice as one of Europe's finest new venues . ... and one of Portugal's very best layouts , San Lorenzo , designed by Joe Lee in 1988 , was treated to a makeover in the 1990s .
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Seeing Emily
By Joyce Lee WongRelates in free verse the experiences of sixteen-year-old Emily, a gifted artist and the daughter of immigrants to the United States, as she tries to reconcile her American self with her Chinese heritage.
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Chariot: From Chariot to Tank, the Astounding Rise of the World's First War Machine
By Arthur CotterellTraces the rise and fall of chariot use in civilizations throughout the ancient world, recounting key military confrontations in which the chariot played a significant role in the outcome of battles and directly impacted the fates of ...
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The Collector's Wodehouse: The Complete Set
By P.G. WodehouseRaise a glass as this is a time for celebration. The Collector's Wodehouse--all 99 titles--is complete!
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Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family s Fight for Desegregation
By Duncan TonatiuhA decade before the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling "Brown v.
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The Turner Book: Tate Essential Artists Series
By Sam SmilesJ.M.W. Turner was a fascinating and enigmatic figure. Both astonishingly prolific and extraordinarily innovative, he is widely seen as the greatest British landscape painter of them all, anticipating and surpassing...
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Spies Beneath Berlin
By David StaffordAn account of the covert cold-war activities surrounding Operation Stopwatch/Gold traces the year-long high-risk surveillance of German Red Army intelligence from a secret tunnel and the activities of a British secret services mole who ...
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Aunt's Aren't Gentlemen
By P.G. WodehouseWithdrawing to the village of Maiden Eggesford on doctor's order, Wooster finds it impossible to get any rest due to the presence of Aunt Dahlia.
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We've Come This Far: Abyssinian Baptist Church
By Robert Gore"From its founding almost 200 years ago, Abyssinian has flourished as the most influential center of black spirituality in the United States. In We've come this far, parishioner and photographer...
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Follies and Pleasure Pavilions: England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales
By Sally Sample AallShows banqueting houses, music pavilions, conservatories, fishing lodges, towers, grottos, bridges, orangeries, bath houses, and mausoleums