by Site Owner | Sep 8, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Children's
By Hans-Christian Schmidt & Cynthia Vance, Illustrated by Andreas Nemet Abbeville Press, 18 pages, $6.95 Usual and Unusual Animal Parents and Babies Are you looking for a new book to calm your little one into a deep night’s sleep? Children will drift...
by Site Owner | Sep 4, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Art, Design & Photography
By Fredric M. Roberts Abbeville Press, $50.00, 120 pages To most Americans, Burma is a land of mystery and intrigue. Until recently, it was a land closed to outsiders, stuck in the past with no hope for the future. When most Americans think of Burma, they think of the...
by Site Owner | Apr 3, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Art, Design & Photography
By Eliane Strosberg Abbeville Press, $26.95, 212 pages During the twentieth century, when many artists turned from figuration to abstraction, Jewish artists continued to paint the human figure. Author Eliane Strosberg’s book The Human Figure and Jewish Culture focuses...
by Site Owner | Jan 25, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs
Jeffrey Lyons Abbeville Press, $35.00, 352 pages It is fascinating to hear stories about Old Hollywood. Things back then were different and it is always very interesting to hear how one’s favorite old actors and musicians lived. In the book Stories My Father Told Me...
by Site Owner | Dec 1, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Art, Design & Photography, History
by Maria Teresa Caracciolo & Roselyne de Ayala Abbeville Press, $185.00, 496 pages Without a doubt, The History of Rome in Painting, edited by Caracciolo and de Ayala, is the most beautiful, best produced book I’ve ever seen. The book features hundreds of very...
