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American cardiology : the history of a specialty and its college
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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The best-selling Beautiful Necessity: Decorating with Arts & Crafts details everything necessary for creating Arts & Crafts interiors, from wall coverings to furnishings, tiles, stenciling, accessories, moldings, and floor coverings. More than 140 stunning photographs showcase the Arts & Crafts movement from its humble beginnings to its recent and well-deserved surge in popularity. The furniture and architectural designs of the Arts & Crafts movement were created not to dominate nature, but to coexist with it. Earth-tone colors, natural motifs and building materials, and intricate and decorative fireplaces all hearkened back to simpler times. That same yearning for elegant simplicity continues to propel a modern revival of the Arts & Crafts movement, and appeals to modern needs for both quality and understated beauty. Beautiful Necessity: Decorating with Arts & Crafts will guide even an Arts & Crafts novice to a beautifully accented bungalow, cabin, or family home.
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The influence and popularity of Rilke's poetry in America have never been greater than they are today, more than fifty years after his death. Rilke is unquestionably the most significant and compelling poet of romantic transformation, of spiritual quest, that the twentieth century has known. His poems of ecstatic identification with the world exert a seemingly endless fascination for contemporary readers. In Stephen Mitchell's versions, many readers feel that they have discovered an English rendering that captures the lyric intensity, fluency, and reach of Rilke's poetry more accurately and convincingly than has ever been done before. Mr. Mitchell is impeccable in his adherence to Rilke's text, to his formal music, and to the complexity of his thought; at the same time, his work has authority and power as poetry in its own right. Few translators of any poet have arrived at the delicate balance of fidelity and originality that Mr. Mitchell has brought off with seeming effortlessness. The generous and unusual selection that the translator has made from Rilke's large body of work has been praised by scholars for the judicious picture it offers of the breadth and depth of Rilke's greatness. The German text is printed facing the translations, and the poems have been extensively annotated with relevant quotations from Rilke's correspondence and other essential information. Noted poet and critic Robert Hass's searching introduction, "Looking for Rilke," discusses the span of Rilke's career and his importance for the American poetic tradition.
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"Built in 1459-1465 on one of the finest sites in the world, the ḥarēm of the Sultans of Turkey in Constantinople gradually rose to be the most mysterious, dreaded and unapproachable place in existence. So jealously have its secrets been guarded during the whole period of its existence, that even after the Sultans ceased to reside there, in the middle of the 19th century, the ḥarēm still remained as unknown as before. Owing to a sequence of fortunate chances and unusual facilities, Mr. N. M. Penzer has been able to lift the veil of secrecy that has hung so long over this forbidden place and to lay bare for the first time what strange things lay hidden beneath. Not only has he inspected the whole Palace from end to end during numerous visits in two consecutive years, but he has obtained photographs of certain parts that have resulted in the making of the most complete plan ever attempted. The empty chambers are again repeopled and the strange throng of janissaries, court pages, kadins, odalisques, eunuchs, buffoons and ḥarēm slaves pass before us in a kaleidoscopic array as curious as it is interesting. The whole palace lives once more, and we see the daily life of this amazing institution--the food, the kitchens, the courts, the schools, the mosques, the Sultan's private quarters--and the ḥarēm, guarded by bands of black eunuchs--all for one man and one man alone"--dust jacket.
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