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  The Story of Your Home - A...

  Courtney Warren

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  A Practical Guide to Decorating Your Home with Purpose and Personality 
   
   
   
  Full of practical action items, The Story of Your Home is your room-by-room guide to creating a home that reflects the personality and purpose of the people who actually live there. So often the designs in magazines and on Pinterest just aren't quite . . . you. You want your home to tell your story, to function well for your family, to make your guests feel at home. 
   
   
   
  Our homes are where we create memories, build relationships, and find sanctuary. With the help of interior designer Courtney Warren and her DesignSense Quiz, you'll start by determining the heart behind your home and the story you want to tell through it. She'll guide you through your house, one room at a time, providing tools to stretch you beyond mere aesthetics to the true essence of how you live and what you want your home to say to the people who live in it and those you invite in. Each chapter ends with a section tackling the most asked about design topics.

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  Stealing Rembrandts - The Untold...

  Tom Mashberg, Anthony M. Amore

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  Today, art theft is one of the most profitable criminal enterprises in the world, exceeding $6 billion in losses to galleries and art collectors annually. And the masterpieces of Rembrandt van Rijn are some of the most frequently targeted. 
   
   
   
  In Stealing Rembrandts, art security expert Anthony M. Amore and award-winning investigative reporter Tom Mashberg reveal the actors behind the major Rembrandt heists in the last century. Through thefts around the world—from Stockholm to Boston, Worcester to Ohio—the authors track daring entries and escapes from the world's most renowned museums. There are robbers who coolly walk off with multimillion dollar paintings; self-styled art experts who fall in love with the Dutch master and desire to own his art at all costs; and international criminal masterminds who don't hesitate to resort to violence. They also show how museums are thwarted in their ability to pursue the thieves—even going so far as to conduct investigations on their own, far away from the maddening crowd of police intervention, sparing no expense to save the priceless masterpieces. 
   
   
   
  Stealing Rembrandts is an exhilarating, one-of-a-kind look at the black market of art theft, and how it compromises some of the greatest treasures the world has ever known.

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  Music and Technology - A Very...

  Mark Katz

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  This Very Short Introduction takes an expansive and inclusive approach meant to broaden and challenge traditional views of music and technology. In its most common use, "music technology" tends to evoke images of twentieth and twenty-first century electronic devices: synthesizers, recording equipment, music notation software, and the like. This volume, however, treats all tools used to create, store, reproduce, and transmit music—new or old, electronic or not—as technologies worthy of investigation. 
   
   
   
  In this broad view, technology in music encompasses instruments, whether acoustic, electric or electronic; engraving and printing; sound recording and playback; broadcasting; software; and much more. Mark Katz challenges the view that technology is unnatural, something external to music. It was sometimes said in the early twentieth century that so-called mechanical music (especially player pianos and phonographs) was a menace to "real" music; alternatively, technology can be freighted with utopian hopes and desires, as happens today with music streaming platforms like Spotify. Positive or negative, these views assume that technology is something that acts upon music; by contrast, this volume characterizes technology as an integral part of all musical activity and portrays traditional instruments and electronic machines as equally technological.

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  Women Holding Things & Still...

  Maira Kalman

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  From the critically acclaimed artist, designer, and author of the bestsellers The Principles of Uncertainty and My Favorite Things comes a collection of moving meditations on the beauty and complexity of women’s lives and roles, revealed in the things they hold, and on remorse, joy, ancestry, and memory. 
  Women Holding Things includes thoughtful and intimate anecdotes, recollections, and ruminations about portraits of women, both ordinary and famous. These women hold a range of objects, from the mundane—balloons, a cup, a whisk, a chicken, a hat—to the abstract—dreams and disappointments, sorrow and regret, joy and love. Kalman considers the many things that fit physically and metaphorically between women’s hands: We see a woman hold a book, hold shears, hold children, hold a grudge, hold up, hold her own. In telling their stories, Kalman lays bare the essence of women’s lives—their tenacity, courage, vulnerability, hope, and pain. Ultimately, she reveals that many of the things we hold dear—as well as those that burden or haunt us—remain constant and connect us from generation to generation.  
  Maira Kalman’s most autobiographical and intimate work to date, Still Life with Remorse is a beautiful collection of deeply personal stories. Tracing her family’s story from her grandfather’s birth in Belarus and emigration to Tel Aviv—where she was born—Maira considers her unique family history, illuminating the complex relationship between recollection, regret, happiness, and heritage. In addition to vignettes exploring her Israeli and Jewish roots, Kalman includes short stories about other great artists, writers, and composers. Through these narratives, Kalman uses her signature wit and tenderness to reveal how family history plays an influential role in all of our work, lives, and perspectives. A feat of storytelling and vulnerability, Still Life with Remorse explores the profound hidden in the quotidian, and illuminates the powerful universal truths in our most personal family stories.

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  Don't harm the Animals

  Joanna Pickering

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  Audio recording of the critically acclaimed play “Don’t Harm the Animals” written and performed by Joanna Pickering, following its Global Stage showcase and programming at Hay Festival 2026. 
   
  Written & Performed by Joanna Pickering 
  Engineered by Scott Hollingsworth 
   
  Critical Acclaim: 
  "Impossible to Look Away" — Emma Stoddard, TL27 Magazine 
  'The most striking live performance at Hay Festival” Emma Stoddard, TL27 Magazine 
  "Powerful and Scorching Writing" — Hay Festival, UK 
  "Raw, Emotional Honesty on Stage" — Günter Maria Bregulla, TL27 Magazine 
  "A Powerhouse of Performance" — Chain Theater, NYC 
  "Raw, Watchful and Impossible To Dismiss" — Theater Beyond Broadway 
  "A Sharp Emotional Gut Punch" — Big Fat Cult 
  “Strong, Tense, Unflinchingly Honest—Opens up Important Conversations” Theater Critic, Louise Penn 
  “In Pickering’s refusal to look away, something radical is happening—the demand to be heard, and the hope being heard may change something.” — Theater Beyond Broadway 
   
  Originally Directed by Multi-BAFTA winner Philip John (Downton Abbey, Outlander, Marvel) at Hay Festival 2026, UK, and Melody Brooks (2023, USA). Don’t Harm the Animals was programed at the world’s leading Hay literature festival, sponsored by the BBC, and included a showcase from the global stage to a 1,800 theater audience, 2M+ digital viewers, across 70 countries. It was programmed alongside global events including Gisèle Pelicot and Malala Yousafzai. The play addresses strong female agenda and carries a trigger warning for sexual violence. 
   
  Cover Artwork: "Leap" courtesy of Michael McConnell (@poopingrabbit) 
  Special Acknowledgments and thanks to: Sean Ono Lennon, Michael McConnell, Lisa Hershfield at Platinum Sound, Eric Krebs Theatrical Management. 
   
  Running Time: 16 mins 
  Content Advisory: Carries a trigger warnings for sexual assault.

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  Architecture - Gothic and...

  T. Roger Smith

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  Two lecture courses on architecture given to art students - the Gothic of northern Europe and the Renaissance that displaced it, with the structural reasoning behind each. Smith was professor of architecture at University College London. Its 86 original illustrations have been carefully restored and coloured for this edition.

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