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An original book of photography which presents a unique, minimal take on the beaches of the Hamptons in black-and-whiteThe author, Christophe von Hohenberg, is known for his photographs of the mourners at Andy Warhol's memorial in 1987 - a Who's Who of fashionable New YorkThe beaches of the Hamptons are the summertime refuge of fashionable New YorkersThe Hamptons has served as an inspiration and muse for generations of artists from William Merritt Chase to Eric FischPhotographer Christophe von Hohenberg's photographs give the impression of squinting against the glaring summer sun-bleached out details blur and feint gestures carve out the presence of figures against the vast oceanic expanse. ...
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Coffee is an unquestionable part of our daily life and culture. This beautiful book gives a detailed illustration of the history of coffee in Guatemala; it is an in-depth analysis of coffe's agricultural, economic, social, commercial, and cultural aspects. El cafe es por excelencia un producto que hace parte indiscutible de nuestra vida cotidiana. Este bello libro ilustra en detalle la historia del cafe en Guatemala; es un profundo analisis de los aspectos-agricolas, economicos, sociales, comerciales y culturales-del cafe.
"Resurrecting Tenochtitlan considers the ways in which artists, city planners, architects, and intellectuals in Mexico shaped the evolution of Mexico City's civic identity in the first half of the twentieth century. Long forgotten and assumed to have been completely destroyed during the Spanish conquest, layers of the remnants of Tenochtitlan were discovered in the middle of a drainage project augmented under the longtime president Porfirio Díaz. As the cityscape changed in the wake of the ends of the Porfiriato and the Mexican Revolution, the city's layers of history were uncovered to find the remnants of the Aztec capitol of Tenochtitlan, which stirred imaginings of a new and modern Mexic...
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Spain’s infamous “false chronicles” were alleged to have been unearthed in 1595 in a monastic library deep in the heart of the German-speaking territories of the Holy Roman Empire by the Jesuit priest Jerónimo Román de la Higuera. Though rife with anachronisms and chronological inaccuracies, these four volumes of invented “truths” about Spanish sacred history radically transformed the religious landscape in Counter-Reformation Spain and were not definitively exposed as forgeries until centuries later, after nearly two hundred years of scholarly debate. In this fascinating study, Katrina B. Olds explores the history, author, and legacy of one of the world’s most compelling and c...
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.