Sentences with phrase «rare books from»

If one hopes to wall off rare books from the twentieth century and modern art from the present, why even bother singling out Broad?

With earlier series, Xie has painted manuscripts and rare books from university and museum collections, such as the Museum of Modern Art and the Frick Art Reference Library.

At the APG Art Atelier & Book Bazaar you can wander from table to table shopping for vintage and rare books from the collection of Owen Jones.

Bart Layton) In December of 2004, four young men attempted to steal a number of exceptionally rare books from the library at Transylvania University in Kentucky.

Release date: June 1 Cast: Evan Peters, Barry Keoghan, Blake Jenner, Jared Abrahamson Directed by: Bart Layton (The Imposter) Why we're excited: This ripped - from - the - headlines heist film mixes narrative storytelling with documentary - style interviews of the actual young men who plotted to steal valuable rare books from the special collection of a Kentucky university's library.

The film chronicles the real - life heist of precious rare books from Transylvania University in 2004 Kentucky, pulled off by a quartet of mostly well - off college students.

Exploring the archive in unusual ways and making connections across categories of knowledge and fields of meaning, Gatten's movies construct new compositions and generate unexpected conclusions from 19th - century scientific treatises, «out - dated» 20th - century instructional texts, and rare books from 18th - century personal libraries.

Authorities tracked down the seller, a university student in Bologna, who had in turn purchased the rare book from one of Turin's major book dealers.

It all started when he pulled a random, rare book from his shelf — a book written by a 19th - century horticulturist whose work had fallen into obscurity.

A rare book from Gutman's special collections called The Freedman's Spelling - Book, published in 1866, will be showcased at the Smithsonian's new National Museum of African American History and Culture.

I took an illustrated epub I had made of a rare book from my childhood, sent to my Kindle by changing the.

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Rare praise for the readability of a book about math from computer scientist Roger Antonsen: «I recently picked up Foolproof at a local bookstore in San Francisco, and I simply couldn't put it down!

Whether you purchase one of her publicity books, participate in her media training seminars, or are fortunate enough to become one of her media coaching clients, count yourself lucky to learn from this rare and wonderful gem.

Searching For and Finding Value» 9:00 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. Charlie Tian, Founder & Director of Research, Guru Focus Topic: «What Worked in the Market from 1998 - 2008: Undervalued Predictable Companies» 9:45 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Robert Miles, Author & Conference Organizer & Host [USA] Topic: «Portrait of a Disciplined Investor: Beating the S&P 500 by 6.8 % Annually For 25 Years» 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Optional Tour depart from Ayres Hotel LAX to Huntington Library 12:00 p.m. - 12:30 p.m. Briefing by the Chief Curator of Rare Books on the history of the Huntington Library and the Munger Research Center 12:30 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Continue to Pasadena 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Charlie Munger's Wesco Financial Annual Meeting [The Pasadena Center, 300 East Green Street, Pasadena, CA.]

12:00 p.m. - 12:30 p.m. Briefing by the Chief Curator of Rare Books on the history of the Huntington Library and the Munger Research Center 12:30 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Continue to Pasadena 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Charlie Munger's Wesco Financial Annual Meeting [The Pasadena Center, 300 E Green Street, Pasadena, CA. 5:15 p.m. - 6:15 p.m. Optional Tour depart from The Pasadena Center (15 minutes after annual meeting ends) and return to Ayres Hotel LAX.

Katie and Justin bring highlights from the July mag, including Glenn Paauw's article on how to get Christians reading their Bibles again, a rare interview with Eugen Peterson, Katie's piece on church response to prostitution, Justin's book and also talking about the Grenfell Tower fire.

In fact, a pastor named George Herbert from the 16th century writes in his book, The Country Parson, that since doctors are so rare, it is a good idea for pastors to know as much medicine as possible and administer it when they can.

(CNN)-- Law enforcement agents have recovered a rare first - edition copy of the Book of Mormon that was reported stolen from a Mesa, Arizona, bookstore in late May.

In his book The Hills Beyond, Thomas Wolfe declared: «The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.»

Ella suffered from a rare illness that left her mostly bed - bound but discovered a vegan lifestyle and has cured herself - and now she's sharing her story in the glossy pages of her new recipe book

The actor is set to star in a film directed by veteran stunt coordinator Nick Powell (The Bourne Identity, X-Men: The Last Stand, Cinderella Man), which centers on Frank Walsh (Cage), a big game hunter for zoos who has booked passage on a Greek shipping freighter with a fresh haul of exotic and deadly animals from the Amazon, including a rare white jaguar.

As a result of reading the latest from Kingsolver, whom I've worshipped ever since I read The Poisonwood Bible, I've had one of those gifts that seem rare in adulthood - a transformative change of perspective in response to reading a book.

He really became a rare authority on childcare in Germany which went through forty reprints of his books from 1858 till 1950's.

LAKE FOREST ACADEMY»S ANTIQUES SHOW: Top domestic and international dealers will exhibit museum - quality furniture and decorative arts from the 17th - 19th Centuries, including English and American furniture, Impressionist paintings, rare books, Chinese porcelain, jewelry, rugs, prints, maps and decorative accessories; 11 a.m. - 9 p.m. June 4 - 6; $ 10, includes admission to all three show days; Lake Forest Academy, 1500 W. Kennedy Rd., Lake Forest.

Rockland County Times Publisher Emeritus Armand Miele made a rare public appearance this evening at the Grolier Club in New York City, to accept an honorable mention in autobiography for «Born Minus: From Shoeshine Boy to News Publisher, An Italian - American Journey» at the Beach Book Festival.

Building Buffalo presents books from the Grosvenor Rare Book Collection of the Buffalo & Erie County Library that were generously given or carefully purchased to help Buffalo grow into a great metropolitan center.

October 19: A 1515 woodcut of a rhino and Robert Hooke's 1667 illustration of a flea star in «Natural Histories,» an exhibit of images from rare books in New York's American Museum of Natural History Library.

His team also uncovered unexpected measurements from World War II at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego and rare numbers from the icy seas around Russia and Norway in an obsure book tucked away in the New York Public Library.

The image of an intact gynandromorph at left — the more brilliant blue left side is the male half — is included in the magnificently strange book Rarest of the Rare, a sampling of curious artifacts from the Harvard Museum of Natural History.

The York Gospels also offer a rare record of the people of the book: Almost 20 % of the DNA Teasdale extracted from its eraser shavings came from humans or microbes shed by humans, he announced at the symposium.

The Grolier Codex, an ancient document that is among the rarest books in the world, has been regarded with skepticism since it was reportedly unearthed by looters from a cave in Chiapas, Mexico, in the 1960s, but a new study claims it is both genuine and likely the most ancient of all surviving manuscripts from ancient America.

Mary holds a master's degree in archival management from Columbia University and has extensive experience working with historic documents, architectural records, photographs, and rare books.

Clark in her book the cure for all diseases said that in all tests she knew of the rare salmanella issue with raw eggs was from the outside of the shell.

The runway photographs offer a rare glimpse of the original styling from head to toe, and make this book a valuable resource for Chanel connoisseurs.

/ / ⇒ It sometimes seems that there are so many things that go wrong in our world we live in, but through my discovery of one of our participants, Mary from Mary - meandering writes of an experience that shares a miracle a true story and post she wrote about Linda Kuhar, her battle of a rare cancer to beat all the odds, through countless battles a induced comma, she came back to raise from her bed, write and book, run a marathon and continue her journey.

The store is set up like an actual apartment with all items up for purchase where you'll find everything from designer shoes to brass trinkets to rare art books.

Site content includes interviews, articles, designers» libraries as well as examples of rare design annuals, type specimens, Ephemera, posters and vintage kids books from our bookshelves.

Explore manuscripts, artwork and rare printed books dating from the earliest contact with European

It's rare that the movie actually fixes problems from the book — but in this case, the simplicity and narrative drive of a Hollywood script was just what the series called for.

At its heart, Black Panther has a fairly standard comic book sort of story: baddie Ulysses Klaue (a rare live - action Andy Serkis: Star Wars: The Last Jedi, War for the Planet of the Apes), one of the few outsiders who knows the secrets of Wakanda, and who had stolen a small quantity of vibranium decades ago, is up to no good again, with a scary dude nicknamed Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan: Fantastic Four, and both of Coogler's previous films) at his side; they must be stopped by T'Challa, Nakia, and the absolute force of nature General Okoye (Danai Gurira), with an assist from CIA agent Everett K. Ross (Martin Freeman: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, Sherlock).

After that, we weigh in on a hilarious premise - the true story of Nicholas Cage's favorite rare Superman comic - book being stolen from him.

From what the history books and rare footage explares for us, it was a filthy war, fought in the mud and trenches across Europe with horses, guns, cannons and deadly mustard gas.

Though die - hard fans have clearly come to expect this kind of computer - generated gimmickry, with rare exceptions — the half - horse, half - eagle Hippogriffs are a great success — these kooky bits of business are both unconvincing and a distraction from the emotional core that makes the Potter books so special.

Oh, she also begins to fall in love (somewhat) with him (of course, only AFTER he saves her from vicious wolves and gives her a library featuring thousands of rare books).

Lords is appealing in a rare starring role, the writing by Skopov and Richey intelligent, and the showcasing of the lives of the tug - of - war between writer and editor for the direction of a book is somewhat enlightening, but it doesn't congeal into a form that distinguishes itself from the rest of the already crowded rom - com pack.

This film was never officially released but it's infamy as a rare superhero movie from that era has made it a staple of comic book convention hall bootleg VHS / DVD tables nationwide ever since it leaked under unknown circumstances.

Extras: Audio commentary with film producer and historian Bruce Block; new appreciation of the film and select scene commentary by film historian Philip Kemp; «The Flawed Couple,» a new video essay by filmmaker David Cairns on the collaborations between Billy Wilder and Jack Lemmon; «Billy Wilder ABC,» an overview by David Cairns on the life and career of the filmmaker, covering his films, collaborators and more; new interview with actress Hope Holiday; «Inside the Apartment,» a half - hour «making - of» featurette from 2007 including interviews with Shirley MacLaine, executive producer Walter Mirisch, and others; «Magic Time: The Art of Jack Lemmon,» an archive profile of the actor from 2007; original screenplay by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond (BD - ROM content); theatrical trailer; special collector's packaging featuring newly commissioned artwork by Ignatius Fitzpatrick; collector's 150 - page hardcover book featuring new writing by Neil Sinyard, Kat Ellinger, Travis Crawford and Heather Hyche, generously illustrated with rare stills and behind - the - scenes imagery.

Glynn tells weekends on All Things Considered guest host Mary Louise Kelly that his book takes the reader from Dublin to New York to the Congo in pursuit of a tangled story of murder, corruption and illegal mining of rare ores.

This was one of those rare times I'm glad I gave it a shot as this was a tremendously entertaining film that consistently pushes the limits of 3D creativity in a way to seem like the images are leaping straight from the comic book panels.

If you are a Hunter S. Thompson fan than you will enjoy that «Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die» comes from his book «Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas».