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  Every Person in New York

  Jason Polan

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  From the late artist’s unfinished project, a compendium of drawings capturing the characters, and character, of New York City. 
   
  Jason Polan was on a mission to draw every person in New York, from cab drivers to celebrities. He drew people eating at Taco Bell, admiring paintings at the Museum of Modern Art, and sleeping on the subway. With a foreword by Kristen Wiig, Every Person in New York, Volume 1 collects thousands of Polan’s energetic drawings in one chunky book. As full as a phone book and as invigorating as a walk down a bustling New York street, this is a love letter of sorts to a beloved city and the people who live there. 
   
  “In 2008, illustrator Jason Polan set out to capture the enormous human poetics compressed in Gotham’s geographic smallness by drawing every person in the city. The first seven years of this ongoing project, totaling drawings of 30,000 people, are now collected in Every Person in New York—a marvelous tome of Polan’s black-and-white line drawings, colored in with the intense aliveness of a city where, as E.B. White wrote more than half a century earlier, “wonderful events are taking place every minute.” What emerges is a kind of poetry—fragmentary glimpses of ideas and images, commanded by an internal rhythm to paint a complete whole of this human hive.” —Brain Pickings 
   
  “This digest of sketches brings to life the everyday moments of New Yorkers and finds a spark of excitement in the sometimes-banal shuffle of city living.” —Monocle magazine 
   
  “Polan’s drawings exude, in unbroken but flexible lines, the momentum of a Manhattan streetscape with only brief moments of stillness. Those pauses can last minutes or over an hour, enough time for fully textured, impressionistic portraits. But more often Mr. Polan’s drawings are of scenes that pass in seconds: a father ordering hot dogs for his stubborn children, or Diane Keaton trying to hail a cab.” —The New York Times

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  Dixie Clockmakers

  James Gibbs

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  The first in-depth study of Southern clockmakers and the magnificent artistry they brought to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century timepieces.   Entitled Dixie Clockmakers, this volume traces the development of clockmaking and horological history below the Mason-Dixon line and documents the works of those artisans who designed and constructed some of the world’s finest timepieces.   Author James W. Gibbs focuses primarily upon clockmaking in Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and the District of Columbia, but attention also is given to eight other states. Included are some sixty photographs illustrating outstanding examples and details of Southern clockmaking.  Dixie Clockmakers also lists every known clockmaker and watchmaker in the South during the two centuries, along with nomenclature common at the time, and advertisements used by individual craftsmen.

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  Fascinating Facts - You Will...

  SYED BOKHARI

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  ⚠ **SPECIAL PRICE** 
  If you're seeking amazing and fascinating facts to learn and share, look no further., you came to the right place! 
  All the AMAZING & FASCINATING FACTS ARE CATEGORIZED in 14 DISTINCT CHAPTERS! 
  Did you know?Alexa is always listening in on what you're saying. To improve the overall experience, Alexa saves all of your conversation history in the cloud. IT IS CREEPY.Black cats are considered auspicious in the United Kingdom and Japan.Every month, around 6,000 new computer viruses are generated and distributed. 90 percent of emails are infected with malware!Germans once used their money as wallpapers and playthings. (FIND OUT)If you were at NASA, you would have an internet speed of about 91 GB per second. A thousand times faster than what we all usually have.McDonald's used to sell bubblegum-flavored broccoli.Money isn’t paper. Even though it is called paper money, it actually isn’t. That thing is cotton and linen.Our eyelashes have a life cycle; they can last for about two to eight weeks.Samsung uses a butt-shaped robot to assess handset longevity.The CIA has its own Starbucks, but the baristas do not write names on the cups.The two body parts that grow till the end of your life are the nose and ears.The word “robot” has quite a dark meaning. If you look into the etymology of the word "robot," you'll find that it derives from the Czech word….(FIND OUT)Our Lungs aren’t the same size!Every kind of tea you have ever had comes from a single plant. Be it, black tea, green tea, yellow tea, oolong, or even white tea. 
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  Chic & Unique Wedding Cakes: Lace

  Zoe Clark

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  Be inspired by the theme of your wedding: the stationery, the flowers, the venue, and of course, the dress! Expert cake decorator Zoe Clark shows you how to create a beautiful unique wedding cake for your special day. The gaps between the tiers mimic the dress by allowing the jagged icing to hand down below the edge of the cake!A sampler chapter from Chic & Unique Wedding Cakes.

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  Hidden Treasures - Quilts from...

  Kay Triplett, Lori Lee Triplett

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  One hundred spectacular antique quilts from one of the largest, privately held quilt and textile collections in the world.  
   
  Turn back time with color photos and insightful essays about America’s quilting past! Admire one hundred antique quilts and textiles you’ve never seen before, curated from the remarkable Poos Collection. Flip through the pages to find a wide range of styles in pre-Civil War quilting—elaborate hand piecing and appliqué, signature quilts, wholecloth beauties, cutout chintz, and intarsia, plus the only known example of an American pictorial war quilt. An invaluable resource to America’s quilt history, the Poos Collection shares its classic, one-of-a-kind quilts.Admire one hundred colorful artifacts from the priceless Poos CollectionRead insights and information on the history behind the quiltsRelax and feast your eyes on these pre-1860 quilts, including album, wool, paper-pieced, white-on-white wholecloth, red and green, indigo, and chintz quilts

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  The I Love You Book - More Than...

  Cynthia MacGregor, Vic Bobb

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  More than five hundred thoughtful and inexpensive activities, gifts, and projects to help you show the special people in your life how much you care. 
   
  Filled with heartwarming suggestions for activities, gifts, and projects, The I Love You Book offers more than five hundred ways to show your loved ones how much you treasure them. Authors Cynthia MacGregor and Vic Bobb provide thoughtful inspiration and creative ideas for expressing your love to family, friends, and significant others.Wake up ten minutes early and start the coffee for your spouse.Every month, send your parents a postcard on which you’ve written one wonderful memory of your childhood years.Reserve a little section in your garden for your child to tend.Plant a tree when your baby is born and take his or her picture in front of it each year. 
   
  From simple gestures to crafty projects to practical ideas, this book is the perfect resource for anyone looking for new ways to say, “I love you!”

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