Book Beat 149
Social sciences
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A detailed study of contemporary Chinese history from the Chinese Revolution and the founding of the Maoist state to the establishment of the Deng regime and the social consequences of Deng’s reforms. Read More
$50.00
Following a war localized to Manchuria that started in 1931, the Second Sino-Japanese War began on July 7, 1937, when Japan launched a full-scale invasion of China, leading to widespread conflict that lasted until 1945. Read More
$18.00
China and the Soviet Union had hoped to form a monolithic communist bloc. The Sino-Soviet split (roughly 1956-1966) was the dramatic breakdown of political ideological and diplomatic relations between them. Read More
$30.00
Explores how the CCP began as a group of study societies that evolved into a mass Marxist-Leninist party by 1927. Details difficulties of building a cohesive organization in Chinese society. Read More
$50.00
In celebration of the thirtieth anniversary of the Summer of Love, a glossy coffee-table book published in 1997 to accompany an exhibition on the psychedelic era at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Read More
$40.00
Lapidus’s signature forms – chevrons, “beanpoles,” “woggles,” or amoeba shapes, and curving walls and ceilings with “cheese holes,” or cutouts – are now treasured icons of American postwar vernacular architecture. Read More
$35.00
The book on one of the most notorious murders in Jazz Age New York history, that of Vivian Gordon, the high-end escort, con artist, and blackmailer connected to gangsters like “Legs” Diamond and Arnold Rothstein. Read More
$25.00
Retelling of a true crime story set in the hauntingly beautiful Savannah, Georgia. The question? Was the lover “shot in cold blood” or in “self-defense”. Told with all the ingredients and witty dialogue of a fictional story. Read More
$50.00
Macdonald introduced the tough but humane private eye Lew Archer in the 1946 short story “Find the Woman”. Archer novels are recognized as some of the most significant American mystery books of the mid 20th century. Read More
$30.00
Gavin Lambert investigates the works and individual psyches of nine ‘crime-artists,’ eight authors and a film-maker. His title is taken from a Robert Browning poem. Read More
$18.00
A personal history disguised as a novel of self-dissatisfaction. Brenner, scion of an old and famous cigar dynasty, decides to kill himself. And the author did just that, sadly before publication. Read More
$18.00
Phenomenal overview of the peerless career of Randy Newman starting with Newman’s famous family of film composers. Follows Newman’s life up to early 2024. Each major album or film score has its own chapter. Read More
$22.00
Widely regarded as one of the most popular and commercially successful superheroes, Spider-man has been featured in comic books, television shows, films, video games, novels, and plays. Read More
$140.00
Welcome to the World of Marvel Comics; introduced by the master story teller, Stan Lee who championed the comeback of Comic book superheroes starting in 1961 and still going strong. Read More
$180.00
The Fantastic Four went on sale August 8, 1961 and were an unexpected success for Marvel Comics. Marvel’s Fantastic Four proved that superheroes could be flawed. Read More
$40.00
Brooding images and dramatic 3-D scenes rise from the page of this rendition of Mary Shelley’s classic gothic tale, Frankenstein. It’s a literary and visual feast, rich in detail and atmosphere. Read More
$40.00
The story of how Disney’s Alice came to be. Explores the many setbacks, the evolving artistic direction, and how the concept shifted over time before reaching its final form. Read More
$50.00
Examines the scholars of deoband and their contribution in preserving Islam under alien rule. The Deoband school, an Islamic seminary and one of the largest Islamic institutions of India. Read More
$70.00
82 American activists conducted raids at the Canadian border, 1838. They wound up serving a life of penal and most likely illegal servitude in Tasmania. Read More
$28.00
The Tang Empire was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 618 to 907. Historians generally regard the Tang as a high point of Chinese civilization, and a golden age of cosmopolitan culture. Read More
$40.00
Includes full page illustrations of Beuys’ most important posters, essays about Beuys’ influence, an extensive biography of the artist and a complete catalogue of all posters created under his guidance. Read More
$50.00
Kublin started at House of Balenciaga hired to film designs for copyright protection purposes. He stayed to capture the golden age of Balenciaga couture in the 1950s and 1960s. Read More
$60.00
A complete collection of Frazetta’s comic book art and covers, along with essays and information about his work in the field. Features several full-page covers of Frazetta’s amazing brush work. Read More
$80.00
An American cartoonist and a landscape painter, Swinnerton experimented with narrative continuity, and played a key role in developing the comic strip at the end of the 19th century. Read More
$170.00
Beside the artists themselves, features include talk about the colors of the strip, the coloring process itself, whether Doré inspired Foster?, and how the script was turned into finished art. Read More
$150.00
Constable was an English landscape painter in the Romantic tradition, known principally for revolutionizing the genre of landscape painting with his pictures of Dedham Vale, Suffolk, England. Read More
$300.00
Except for winter painting in Vermont, Hibbard spent much of his life in Rockport, Massachusetts and helped evolve a style of painting known as The Rockport School of Painting. Read More
$80.00
Through documentary photography, photojournalism, portraiture, still life, self-portraiture, and constructed tableaux, women photographers define the world. Read More
$25.00
A seemingly simple memoir by the pilot Antoine de Saint-Exupery turns into something greater – a philosophy of life, with all its complexities and anxieties revealed. Read More
$30.00
Billy, instrument repairman, takes you to sound stages, studios and shows for emergency repairs. It’s the story of another day with the music technician. Read More
$20.00
McCloskey both wrote and illustrated eight picture books, and won two Caldecott Medals from the American Library Association for the year’s best-illustrated picture book. Read More
$25.00
A good parody of The Very Hungry Caterpillar. A zombie awakes with a terrible appetite and eats his way through several groups of people until his appetite is fully satiated by a pile of brains. Read More
$25.00
The serendipitous use of Sloan’s horse liniment on a human back lead the Sloan brothers to begin selling even more of the liniment advertising it as “good for man and beast”. Read More
$40.00
History of four principal towns past the Revolutionary era. Beyond those four principal towns, this book chronicles the history of smaller surrounding towns on the bay, such as Jamestown. Read More
$80.00
Dieter Kafitz was Professor of Modern German Literary History. This book presents theories about structuralism, poststructuralism and feminist literature in current culture. German Text. Read More
$70.00
Through Lord Minto’s personal letters and official correspondence, the book sheds light on the challenges and complexities of British governance in India during a pivotal period in colonial history. Read More
$80.00
Jakobson (translator) was a Russian thinker who became one of the most influential linguists of the twentieth century by pioneering the development of structural analysis of language. Read More
$30.00
The Story of Atlantis is a fantasy novel by English author C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne. It is considered one of the classic fictional retellings of the story of the drowning of Atlantis Read More
$40.00
LAID IN: Bird’s Eye View Of The White Mountains 1890’s ORIGINAL MAP. This multi-colored view depicts the high peaks of the White Mountains and the surrounding region. Read More
$700.00
This is an interesting look at Billy Wilder’s Hollywood output, weaving in his background in Europe. Wilder was one of the most accomplished filmmakers ever to work in Hollywood. Read More
$28.00
Critic and writer Edgar Allan Poe acknowledged the popularity of Morris’s songs, “which have taken fast hold upon the popular taste, and which are deservedly celebrated”. Read More
$60.00
An intensely researched portrait of the man and the athlete, Illingworth writes a compelling story of secrecy, misconceptions, stereotypes, hype, greed, even racism. Read More
$25.00