The American Political Economy

The American Political Economy
Author: Jacob S. Hacker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 487
Release: 2021-11-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1316516369

Drawing together leading scholars, the book provides a revealing new map of the US political economy in cross-national perspective.

Style Deficit Disorder

Style Deficit Disorder
Author: Tiffany Godoy
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2007-12-13
Genre: Design
ISBN: 9780811857963

The Harajuku neighbourhood of Tokyo has become an international style mecca, a street-level fashion scene prowled by major designers looking for inspiration, and whose local, cutting-edge labels enjoy global cachet. Style Deficit Disorder is the first book to explore this remixed, fast-forward fashion hotbed, profiling its most daring and influential designers, labels, stylists, and shops. Featuring nearly 200 photos, essays by key Japanese fashion editors, and commentary by many western designers, this is a must-have, insider's look at an international fashion and pop culture epicentre, past, present, and future.

The Martian Chronicles

The Martian Chronicles
Author: Ray Bradbury
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2012-04-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1451678193

The tranquility of Mars is disrupted by humans who want to conquer space, colonize the planet, and escape a doomed Earth.

Louis Vuitton

Louis Vuitton
Author: Simon Castets
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 406
Release: 2009-09-22
Genre: Art
ISBN:

This monograph documents Louis Vuitton's highly visible collaborations with an elite group of artists, architects and photographers, including Takashi Murakami, Julie Verhoven and Anne Leibovitz.

Summer in Baden-Baden

Summer in Baden-Baden
Author: Leonid Tsypkin
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2003
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780811215480

The narrator recounts his journey to Leningrad as the story of the 1867 travels of Fyodor Dostoyevsky and his new wife, Anna Grigoryevna, also unfolds.

Engaged Fatherhood for Men, Families and Gender Equality

Engaged Fatherhood for Men, Families and Gender Equality
Author: Marc Grau Grau
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2022
Genre: Culture
ISBN: 3030756459

This aim of this open access book is to launch an international, cross-disciplinary conversation on fatherhood engagement. By integrating perspective from three sectors -- Health, Social Policy, and Work in Organizations -- the book offers a novel perspective on the benefits of engaged fatherhood for men, for families, and for gender equality. The chapters are crafted to engaged broad audiences, including policy makers and organizational leaders, healthcare practitioners and fellow scholars, as well as families and their loved ones.

The Time Garden

The Time Garden
Author: Edward Eager
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2001
Genre: Children's stories
ISBN: 9780192751010

While spending the summer in a house by the sea, four cousins, Roger, Ann, Eliza, and Jack, discover a bank of wild thyme whose magic propels them on a series of adventures back and forth through time.

United Arrows

United Arrows
Author: United Arrows
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024-09-10
Genre: Design
ISBN: 0789345684

Founded in 1989 and based in Tokyo, United Arrows is one of the leading fashion and retail companies to ever come out of Japan. Their first book offers a fresh and comprehensive look at the brand and its evolution into one of the most influential figures for style, while their iconic shops quickly became must-visit places for all visitors to Japan. Since the opening of their first shop in Shibuya, United Arrows has redefined the concept of the select, multi-brand store and gained a loyal following thanks to their high-standard customer service. Celebrating their 30th anniversary, this book will document United Arrows' distinctive identity and unique collaborations: from sportwear brands like Converse and Vans, to streetwear pioneers like A Bathing Ape and Stussy; from legendary craftsmen like Charvet and Chrome Hearts; to high fashion names like Comme des Garçons and Maison Martin Margiela. A must-have for fashion lovers all over the world, this book will also feature exclusive interviews with fashion designer NIGO®, SHOWstudio founder Nick Knight, internationally acclaimed architect Ricard Bofill as well as a new essay from founding member Hirofumi Kurino. It will showcase signature archival editorial photography. United Arrows is set to join the list of Rizzoli's highly successful fashion and streetwear books, including Undercover, BEAMS Beyond Tokyo, Sacai, and Hiroshi Fujiwara, and shine a light on Japanese fashion.

All the Way to the Top

All the Way to the Top
Author: Annette Bay Pimentel
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages: 35
Release: 2020-03-10
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1492688983

2021 Schneider Family Book Award Young Children's Honor Book (American Library Association) Experience the true story of lifelong activist Jennifer Keelan-Chaffins and her participation in the Capitol Crawl in this inspiring autobiographical picture book. This beautifully illustrated story includes a foreword from Jennifer and backmatter detailing her life and the history of the disability rights movement. This is the story of a little girl who just wanted to go, even when others tried to stop her. Jennifer Keelan was determined to make a change—even if she was just a kid. She never thought her wheelchair could slow her down, but the way the world around her was built made it hard to do even simple things. Like going to school, or eating lunch in the cafeteria. Jennifer knew that everyone deserves a voice! Then the Americans with Disabilities Act, a law that would make public spaces much more accessible to people with disabilities, was proposed to Congress. And to make sure it passed, Jennifer went to the steps of the Capitol building in Washington DC to convince them. And, without her wheelchair, she climbed. ALL THE WAY TO THE TOP! A Rise: A Feminist Book Project Nominee A Junior Library Guild Selection All the Way to the Top is perfect for: Elementary school teachers looking for books to supplement disability rights curriculum and the history of the ADA (find a free Common-Core Aligned Educator Guide at www.sourcebooks.com) Parents looking for social justice picture books, books on activism and for young activists, and inspiring books for girls Parents, teachers, librarians, and guardians looking for beautifully illustrated, inspirational and educational books for young readers in their life

Louis Vuitton City Bags: A Natural History

Louis Vuitton City Bags: A Natural History
Author: Jean-Claude Kaufmann
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
Total Pages: 397
Release: 2013-10-15
Genre: Design
ISBN: 0847840875

This volume is an unprecedented history of Louis Vuitton’s women’s bags, the most coveted line of accessories in women’s fashion. At the heart of Louis Vuitton are its City Bags, a range of women’s bags that dates back to the turn of the twentieth century. Featuring the trademark monograms of the house, the City Bag story began with the Steamer, a resort bag designed in 1901 to be packed inside a much larger steamer trunk. These bags have in a hundred years formally diversified into a dizzying array of handbags for every conceivable function demanded by the modern woman. Profoundly influential, City Bags are now known to millions by their descriptive names (Keepall, Bucket, Papillon, Alma, Locket, Noe, Speedy) and are still evolving into more fantastical forms. Lavishly illustrated with new and archival photography, historical graphics, landmark editorials, and ad campaigns, the volume traces the history of these specific bag families, and examines the earliest specimens and today’s most sought-after collectibles, including Vuitton’s collaborations with Takashi Murakami, Stephen Sprouse, Richard Prince, Yayoi Kusama, and Rei Kawakubo and one-off projects by Zaha Hadid, Shigeru Ban, Vivienne Westwood, Helmut Lang, Andrée Putman, and of course, Marc Jacobs. Louis Vuitton: City Bags is an ambitious volume on the creation and cultivation of a cultural phenomenon.