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  Power Cycle

  Antonio Smith

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  This collection of fitness music is perfectly mixed, set at just the right pace to help you perform a high-energy, body-moving workout.

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  American Homestead Quilts -...

  Ellen Murphy

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  Pair timeless quilt designs and classic American homes with this book featuring “lyrical commentary [and] clear how-tos” (Publishers Weekly). 
   
  Designer Ellen Murphy has created unique quilts inspired by the colors and shapes of American houses. From colonial farmhouses to brownstones, these quilts will beautify any décor.  
   
  This book includes patterns and complete instructions for nine traditional pieced quilts in a variety of sizes and color palettes, plus inspirational photos featuring iconic American homes. Classic-styled quilts are perfect for building your sewing skills: Begin with simple squares and work your way up to more challenging diamond patterns.

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  Art Matters - Because Your...

  Neil Gaiman

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  A stunning and timely creative call-to-arms combining four extraordinary written pieces by Neil Gaiman. 
   
  “The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before.”—Neil Gaiman 
  Drawn from Gaiman’s trove of published speeches, poems, and creative manifestos, Art Matters is an embodiment of this remarkable multi-media artist’s vision—an exploration of how reading, imagining, and creating can transform the world and our lives. 
  Art Matters bring together four of Gaiman’s most beloved writings on creativity and artistry: “Credo,” his remarkably concise and relevant manifesto on free expression, first delivered in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo shootings“Make Good Art,” his famous 2012 commencement address delivered at the Philadelphia University of the Arts“Making a Chair,” a poem about the joys of creating something, even when words won’t come“On Libraries,” an impassioned argument for libraries that illuminates their importance to our future and celebrates how they foster readers and daydreamers. 
  Art Matters is a stirring testament to the freedom of ideas that inspires us to make art in the face of adversity, and dares us to choose to be bold.

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  Beethoven Symphony No 5 and...

  Ludwig van Beethoven

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  Rain and thunder envelop Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in C minor of Ludwig van Beethoven, Op. 67  
   
  Escape the stress and pace of the daily grind and transport your mind to an alternative reality. 
   
  1) Allegro con brio (C minor) 
  2) Andante con moto (A♭ major) 
  3) cherzo: Allegro (C minor) 
  4) Allegro – Presto (C major)

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  Art and Devotion at a Buddhist...

  Melissa R. Kerin

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  A study of a set of sixteenth-century wall paintings at the Gyapagpa Temple in Nako, a village in India’s Himachal Pradesh state. 
   
  Sixteenth-century wall paintings in a Buddhist temple in the Tibetan cultural zone of northwest India are the focus of this innovative and richly illustrated study. Initially shaped by one set of religious beliefs, the paintings have since been reinterpreted and retraced by a later Buddhist community, subsumed within its religious framework and communal memory. Melissa Kerin traces the devotional, political, and artistic histories that have influenced the paintings’ production and reception over the centuries of their use. Her interdisciplinary approach combines art historical methods with inscriptional translation, ethnographic documentation, and theoretical inquiry to understand religious images in context. 
   
  “A meticulous and discerning piece of scholarship, one that is skillful in employing multiple methods—visual, linguistic and ethnographic—to create a fuller picture of a region we knew little about. . . . [A] pleasure to read.” —Pika Ghosh, author of Making Kantha, Making Home: Women at Work in Colonial Bengal 
   
  “Emphasizing the visual as primary evidence in the study of history, especially religious history, Kerin moves Buddhist art from the arena of museum displays, art markets, and aesthetics to the arena of dynamic interdisciplinary discourse, thus reaffirming the significance of in situ study. . . . Recommended.” —Choice 
   
  “A forceful study on the specificity of Gyapagpa’s painting.” —South Asia Research/DESC> 
   
  Indian art;south asian art;religious art;buddhist art;Indian history;south asian history;tibetan buddhism;buddhism;religion;indian buddhists;temple art;nako;gyapagpa;social history;political history;painting style;painting tradition 
   
  ART019020 ART / Asian / Indian & South Asian 
   
  ART035000   ART / Subjects & Themes / Religious 
   
  HIS062000 HISTORY / Asia / South / India * 
   
  REL007050 RELIGION / Buddhism / Tibetan 
   
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  Patterns of War—World War II 
   
  Larry H. Addington

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  A Dialogue Concerning Oratory or...

  Publius Cornelius Tacitus

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  The scene of the Dialogus de Oratoribus, as this work is commonly known, is laid in the sixth year of Vespasian, 75 a.D. The commentators are much divided in their opinions about the real author; his work they all agree is a masterpiece in the kind; written with taste and judgement; entertaining, profound, and elegant. It is normally considered to have been written by Tacitus, even though some ascribe it to Quintilian. The main subject is the decadence of oratory, for which the cause is said to be the decline of the education, both in the family and in the school, of the future orator. In a certain way, it can be considered a miniature art of rhetoric. (Summary by Leni)

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