Tracing the development and evolution of graphic design in the United States and its inextricable ties to American culture and visual identity
Venturing across five decades of American culture, this landmark book explores how modern graphic design emerged in the United States and how it became an...
Read More about Modern Americanness: The New Graphic Design in the United States 1890-1940Leading Loos expert Christopher Long ponders the myths and misconceptions surrounding the architect's work and his critical legacy
In this new collection of meticulously crafted essays, acclaimed architectural historian Christopher Long confronts some of the enduring myths and misconceptions...
Read More about Adolf Loos: Ruminations and Revisions: EssaysDedicated to P? hoda's early works of the 1980s, in which his classical drawing knowledge expanded to a monumental land art practice
Czech sculptor Ji? P? hoda's (born 1966) early large-scale installations and land art are heavily influenced by the time he spent in the Vyso?ina region. Its landscape...
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A graphic novel biography of actor, humanitarian, and style icon Audrey Hepburn—best known for Breakfast at Tiffany’s and one of the most enduring and beloved celebrities of the 20th century
Author Eileen Hofer and illustrator Christopher Longé peel back the myth of Audrey Hepburn in this graphic...
How the architects of the Vienna Secession turned their principles inward, creating a new trend in interior design
In The New Interior, architectural historian Christopher Long examines how, over the course of the seven years preceding World War I, three leading Viennese modernists--Josef Hoffmann...
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One of the most exciting music trends in recent years has been the roaring resurgence of the vinyl record format. Enthusiasts worldwide now are rediscovering the magic of music - on cozy and (sometimes) crackly LPs.
Join author Christopher Long as he rummages through garage sales, thrift stores, and...
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This book reconsiders the traditional correspondence theory of truth, which takes truth to be a matter of correctly representing objects. Drawing Heideggerian phenomenology into dialogue with American pragmatic naturalism, Christopher P. Long undertakes a rigorous reading of Aristotle that...
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This book reconsiders the traditional correspondence theory of truth, which takes truth to be a matter of correctly representing objects. Drawing Heideggerian phenomenology into dialogue with American pragmatic naturalism, Christopher P. Long undertakes a rigorous reading of Aristotle that...
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This book investigates the way that the molecular sciences are shaping contemporary security practices in relation to the governance of biological threats.
In response to biological threats, such as pandemics and bioterrorism, governments around the world have developed a range of new security...
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Plato's Animals examines the crucial role played by animal images, metaphors, allusions, and analogies in Plato's Dialogues. These fourteen lively essays demonstrate that the gadflies, snakes, stingrays, swans, dogs, horses, and other animals that populate Plato's work are not just rhetorical...
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