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Subscribe to the lovethebook.com book feed mix using any reader! 6/20/2011
Juan Gonzalez on America's role in Latin America
5/13/2011
Adam Hochschild on how World War I began
4/29/2011
Manning Marable, 1950 - 2011, dies days before publication of his biography of Malcolm X
2/2/2011
Edward Herman and David Peterson on Julian Assange and Luis Posada Carriles
1/28/2011
Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune
12/1/2010
American scholar Chalmers Johnson, 1931 - 2010
11/8/2010
Susan Reverby has won the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award for Examining Tuskegee
10/25/2010
Fractal Mathmematician Benoit B. Mandelbrot, 1924 – 2010
10/21/2010
Mohammed Arkoun, Islamic scholar who explored Enlightenment ideals, 1928-2010
10/10/2010
Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa wins Nobel Prize
9/20/2010
Tariq Ali on "The Obama Syndrome"
9/10/2010
Historian and public intellectual Tony Judt, 1948 - 2010
8/31/2010
Former U.S. Senator James Abourezk on Leaders in Hiding
8/23/2010
David Kirby on something else we feed chickens
8/5/2010
Andrew J. Bacevich on How to Dismantle the American Empire
8/1/2010
Stacy Malkan on Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry
7/10/2010
Joy Gordon on the Invisble War, the United States and Iraq Sanctions
6/26/2010
Tom Engelhardt on the American Way of War
6/25/2010
Writer, critic and activist Carlos Monsiváis, 1938 - 2010
6/8/2010
He is totally unreproducible — he was sui generis — Martin Gardner, 1914 - 2010
6/7/2010
Joe Meadors: I seem to have all the bad luck in the world when it comes to the Israelis.
5/30/2010
Historian Bruce Cumings on the rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula
5/12/2010
How the hell did it happen? - Daniel Okrent on how Prohibition democratized drinking and made the income tax possible
5/6/2010
"We have more than an oil slick out of control, we also have these big corporations out of control." - Marine toxicologist Rikki Ott on the BP and Exxon Valdez oil spills.
4/24/2010
"This is too important. We cannot leave this to governments": Cormac Cullinan on the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights
4/6/2010
Anarchist, poet, publisher and chess-player, John Rety, 1930 - 2010
4/4/2010
"Literature was another victim of the war": Miguel Delibes, 1920 - 2010
3/24/2010
The beautiful brain of Sherman Alexie: War Dances wins 2010 Pen/Faulkner Award
3/13/2010
It's terrible to be possessed by brittle things: Elena Fanailova's The Russian Version wins the Best Translated Book Award for Poetry
3/7/2010
Translator, critic and BBC script editor, Barbara Bray, 1924 - 2010
2/28/2010
Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award to D. A. Powell
2/24/2010
The banks have had nine months to creatively increase the real cost of borrowing: Robert Manning on Credit Card Nation
2/9/2010
Robert McChesney and John Nichols the history and necessity of government subsides for US journalism
2/5/2010
Of course, I’d forgotten she’d died: An extract from A Scattering by Christopher Reid, the 2009 Costa Book of the Year
1/30/2010
Tributes to People's Historian Howard Zinn, 1922 - 2010
1/24/2010
Johann Hari on P. W. Singer's Wired For War
1/23/2010
Jamin Raskin on the Supreme Court campaign finance ruling which removes limits on corporate campaign spending
1/16/2010
"Haitians have been punished ever since for claiming their freedom", Tracy Kidder and Peter Hallward on Haiti
1/2/2010
At 42, she was one of the best poets of her generation, Rachel Wetzsteon, 1967 - 2009
12/27/2009
You have to decide which side you are on: there is always a side. Commitment does not exist in an abstraction; it exists in action: Dennis Brutus, 1924 - 2009
12/19/2009
The wedding guests look upon the cracked, pink lips of Rosie's bridegroom - an extract from Petina Gappah's An Elegy for Easterly, the 2009 Guardian First Book Award winning book
12/12/2009
David Cortright on Obama's shallow understanding of the priciples of Just War Theory
11/26/2009
Obama's rejection of Landmine Treaty lacks vision, compassion, and basic common sense
11/22/2009
Those who saw him hushed: Let the Great World Spin, the National Book Award winner by Colum McCann
11/15/2009
Robert Jensen: Of Turkeys and Holocausts
11/8/2009
Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1908 - 2009, his works as a practical anti-racist manifesto
11/7/2009
Power exercised by man over his fellow man is always a usurpation, Francisco Ayala, 1906 - 2009
11/1/2009
If you think you'll to be rich someday, why resent million-dollar bonuses: Barbara Ehrenreich on Positive Thinking
10/21/2009
Four Canadians tortured in the name of fighting Terror, Kerry Pither wins Ottawa Book Award for Dark Days
10/14/2009
The Potato that Became a Tomato, Playgiarist Raymond Federman, 1928 - 2009
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Tom Ford
Tom Ford, Bridget Foley Rizzoli

Tom Ford has become one of fashion's great icons. In the past decade, he transformed Gucci from a moribund accessories label into one of the sexiest fashion brands in the world. His designs have increased sales at Gucci tenfold and have helped build the Gucci brand into the luxury goods conglomerate that it is today. Ford brought a hard-edged style synonymous with 21st century glamour to his clothes, and Hollywood sat up and took note. This book is a complete catalogue of Ford's design work for both Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent from 1994 to 2004. It chronicles not only Ford's clothing and accessories ...
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Chanel: Collections and Creations
Danièle Bott Thames & Hudson

A lush visual selection from the Chanel archive―essential reading for fashionistas and design aficionados everywhere.

Chanel's combination of tradition, originality, and style has always made it the most seductive of fashion labels. Here the House of Chanel opens its private archives, revealing a galaxy of brilliant designs created by Coco Chanel from 1920 onwards. Dazzling clothes, intricate accessories, beautiful models, and timeless design leave no doubt as to the lasting fame of her name and embody everything that has come to symbolize the magic of Chanel.

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Vanity Fair 100 Years: From the Jazz Age to Our Age
Graydon Carter Harry N. Abrams

Vanity Fair 100 Years showcases a century of personality and power, art and commerce, crisis and culture―both highbrow and low. From its inception in 1913, through the Jazz Age and the Depression, to its reincarnation in the boom-boom Reagan years, to the image-saturated Information Age, Vanity Fair has presented the modern era as it has unfolded, using wit, imagination, peerless literary narrative, and bold, groundbreaking imagery from the greatest photographers, artists, and illustrators of the day. This sumptuous book takes a decade-by-decade look at the world as seen by the ...
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Number Tracing Book For Preschoolers: Number Tracing Book, Practice For Kids, Ages 3-5, Number Writing Practice
Childrens Notebooks CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Great number tracing practice for kids

This fun book is a great way for children ages 3 and up to learn their numbers (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9) while practicing fine motor skills.

  DETAILS: 70 Writing Pages, Dimensions: 8" x 10"
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A Man and His Watch: Iconic Watches and Stories from the Men Who Wore Them
Matt Hranek Artisan

“I’ve paged through stacks of books on the history of watches. . . . But I hadn’t come across a book that actually moved me until I picked up A Man and His Watch. The volume is filled with heartfelt stories.”
—T: The New York Times Style Magazine

Paul Newman wore his Rolex Daytona every single day for 35 years until his death in 2008. The iconic timepiece, probably the single most sought-after watch in the world, is now in the possession of his daughter Clea, who wears it every day in his memory. Franklin Roosevelt wore an elegant gold Tiffany watch, gifted ...
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Loulou & Yves: The Untold Story of Loulou de La Falaise and the House of Saint Laurent
Christopher Petkanas St. Martin's Press

No one interested in fashion, style, or the high-flying intrigues of café society will want to miss the exuberantly entertaining oral biography Loulou & Yves: The Untold Story of Loulou de La Falaise and the House of Saint Laurent, by Christopher Petkanas.

Dauntless,“in the bone” style made Loulou de La Falaise one of the great fashion firebrands of the twentieth century. Descending in a direct line from Coco Chanel and Elsa Schiaparelli, she was celebrated at her death in 2011, aged just sixty-four, as the “highest of haute bohemia,” a feckless adventuress in the art of ...

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Louis Vuitton: The Birth of Modern Luxury Updated Edition
Louis Vuitton Abrams

When Louis Vuitton: The Birth of Modern Luxury was published in 2004, the book was the first to describe the dramatic rise of the world’s finest luxury company. Written with full access to the company’s archives, it demonstrates Louis Vuitton’s passion for fine design with a stunning array of archival art, product designs, and cutting-edge advertising. The company is examined through the lives of its first three leaders—founder Louis (who invented the modern trunk), his son Georges, and his grandson Gaston.
Now with fresh information on subjects such as designs for ready-to-wear ...
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Chanel: Fashion/ Fine Jewellery/ Perfume
Francois Baudot Assouline

Self-inventor extraordinaire, Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel revolutionized the lifestyle of her time by inventing a modern concept of luxury. She set her stamp on the 20th century, promoting a new feminine silhouette both sophisticated and discreet. This modern attitude of understated luxe thrives today thanks to the creative talents of Karl Lagerfeld, artistic director since 1983, who has reinvigorated the house by reinventing its famous signatures season after season.

Assouline’s completely updated trilogy unfolds the spirit and heritage of the house of Chanel, from Coco’s revolutionary ...
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Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty
Andrew Bolton Metropolitan Museum of Art

Arguably the most influential, imaginative, and provocative designer of his generation, Alexander McQueen both challenged and expanded fashion conventions to express ideas about race, class, sexuality, religion, and the environment.


Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty examines the full breadth of the designer’s career, from the start of his fledgling label to the triumphs of his own world-renowned London ...

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GUCCI: The Making Of
Rizzoli

An unprecedented publication showcasing Gucci as never before, including thought-provoking essays, commentaries, and authoritative anecdotes along with previously unpublished contemporary and archival photographs. Published in conjunction with the opening of the new Gucci Museum in Florence, Gucci is the ultimate celebration of the world-renowned fashion house. Told through a loose grouping of words, concepts, shapes, and moods, the book tells its story through new conceptual forms and the free links between images, symbols, and objects. Edited by Gucci Creative Director Frida Giannini, with essays ...
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