The Artists' Prison, Paperback - Alexandra Grant

Reducere. The Artists' Prison looks askance at the workings of personality and privilege, sexuality, authority, and artifice in the art world. Imagined throu...

Description"Bascomb has unearthed a remarkable piece of hidden history, and told it perfectly. The story brims with adventure, suspense, daring, an...

July 1918. A band of Allied Royal Flying Corps airmen are determined to escape Germany's harshest POW camp. Their plan will become the most ambitio...

From the celebrated author of The Journalist and the Murderer and Reading Chekhov comes a brilliant, compelling collection of essays on art, artist...

DescriptionAn illustrated exploration of fandom that combines academic essays with artist pages and experimental texts.Fandom as Methodology examin...

Reducere. During the winter of 1863-1864, 1, 200 Union officers lived in squalor and semi-starvation in Richmond's Libby Prison, known as "The Bastille of th...

Reducere. Discover here the works of bestseller author, Lynette Noni . The Prison Healer is the 1st book in The Prison Healer Series. A marvelous and inventi...

Reducere. Prison Life Writing is the first full-length study of one of the most controversial genres in American literature. By exploring the complicated rel...

The Secret Prison Governor has spent decades surrounded by every type of prisoner known to man, from petty thieves and common drug dealers to crime...

Reducere. Giorgio Vasari's biographical collection "The Lives of the Artists" is one of the most frequently cited art history books since the 16th century. I...

Reducere. This book written by James Madison Page, a Northern soldier, represents an important narrative of Andersonville prison in Georgia. Madison brings h...

Reducere. The career of Donald "D.J." Vodicka encompassed the rapid expansion of the prison system. For sixteen years, he was a prison guard in California's ...

Reducere. I grew up Grant because Ulysses was too dangerous a name to call a kid in the 1950s, when conformity ruled, and Ulysses S. Grant's reputation was i...

DescriptionNew York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2018 One of President Barack Obama's favorite books of 2018 Winner of the Helen Bernstein Bo...

Reducere. Many of us wonder what goes on inside a prison. What are the inmates like? What do they do all day? What do they talk about? Are prison inmates lik...

A memoir of time spent at the bohemian heart of Paris life as a plucky young art critic, crossing paths with such memorable figures as Sartre, Beck...

Reducere. Raped in Prison: A Horror StoryBy: Russell Dan SmithIn this powerful memoir, Russell Dan Smith chronicles his life as a child prisoner among adults...

The definitive account of the modern art made in St Ives between the 1930s and the 1960s, telling the story of this extraordinary artistic communit...

This groundbreaking book provides the first detailed account of the materials and techniques of perhaps the most radical-and, until now, least stud...

Reducere. While going through local 19th century newspapers online, I came across this two-installment article written in 1893 by Rev. Dr. A. W. Mangum about...

Reducere. In 2017, Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi was purchased at auction for a staggering $450 million. The exchange rippled beyond the art world into ...

Welcome to Otisville, America's only Jewish prison...where a new celebrity inmate is about to shatter the peace. Jonathan Stone brings the sensibil...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Claudette Spencer-NurseThis book is more than a successful love story of an attorney who fell in love, married and had a ch...

Reducere. The mind is our greatest tool but can turn into our worst enemy. When this happens, it can hold you back from achieving almost anything in your lif...

Publisher: iUniverseAuthor(s): D J VodickaNumber of pages: 152Publication date: 2009Dimensions: 160 x 237 x 23Cover type: HardbackRedescopera farme...

This book is the first national history of the building of some of Ireland's most important historic public buildings. Focusing on the former assiz...

An easy-to-read prison survival guide of do's and don'ts. Perfect for anyone facing trial for an offence that may lead to imprisonment, their famil...

Contributor(s): Author: Giorgio VasariTranslator: George BullIntroduction by: George BullIn his Lives of the Artists of the Italian Renaissance, Va...

Reducere. We are constantly bombarded by signals telling us to eat. Some were wired into our bodies thousand of years ago. Some jump out at us from the TV sc...

Everyone who goes to Zallindov dies. Everyone, that is, except Kiva. Lynette Noni weaves a masterful and action-packed narrative that will take rea...

Reducere. Point Lookout Prison and Hospital tells the story of the North's largest Civil War prison camp. Author Richard H. Triebe has gathered over fifty Co...

Publisher: Granta MagazineAuthor(s): Sigrid RausingNumber of pages: 232Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 145 x 210 x 30Cover type: Paperback / soft...

Publisher: TwoMorrows PublishingAuthor(s): Steven FearsNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 261 x 281 x 14Cover type: Paperback / ...

Reducere. The decades of the 1960's and 1970's were turbulent years in the history of the California Department of Corrections. During these years prisons al...

DescriptionThe Maze Prison shows how an establishment built to hold those involved in terrorism, atrocities, murder and allied crimes became a pawn...

Reducere. Derrick Brooks grew up in urban poverty with adult drugs, prostitution and hustling as the frame of his life. He knew love, there was always love, ...

DescriptionIssue 149, 'New New Europe', marks the UK's departure from the EU, and features a range of commissioned pieces from respected writers on...

Reducere. Knowledge is power.They live to protect. They live to fight for honor and justice. They live to love the women who have captured their souls. These...

Reducere. Finalist for the 2020 Philip Levine Prize for PoetryThings We Lost In The Swamp is a lush and vibrant collection of poems that examines the many fa...

From world-renowned curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, Lives of the Artists, Lives of the Architects offers a unique opportunity to learn about the lives ...

The natural world as seen through the eyes of British artists including Eric Ravilious, Clare Leighton, and John PiperPublisher: Pallant House Gall...

Publisher: Granta MagazineAuthor(s): John (Editor, Granta magazine) FreemanNumber of pages: 256Collection: Granta: The Magazine of New WritingPubli...

Reducere. DescriptionTheir love knows no borders.A loner who exudes danger, Lev Ivanski has spent his life in service to one man, someone he loves and respec...

DescriptionHER NEED For centuries, Innes MacKay's family has been tasked with protecting a sleeping warrior prophesied to be the savior of their cl...

An anthology of American short fiction written in the last half of the twentieth century with stories by writers such as Eudora Welty, John Cheever...

Reducere. There are two types of barriers that can hinder an excon's successful re-entry into society. There are those created by public policy and public at...

Gripping and inspirational stories from one of Britain's most renowned prisons

Reducere. A traveler's guide for Christians to a foreign land where the fields are ripe for harvest.For most Christians, prison culture is like visiting a fo...

Contributor(s): Author: Giorgio VasariTranslator: George BullIntroduction by: George BullIn his Lives of the Artists of the Italian Renaissance, Va...

Alexandra T. Vazquez listens to the music and history of Miami to explore the city's sonic cultures and its material and social realities.Publisher...