National Network for Equitable Library Service

Through a collection of intimate reflections (on art, punctuation, eyeglasses, color, dreams, celebrity, corpses, porn, and translation) and assignments that encourage pleasure, attentiveness, and acts of playful making, poet, artist, critic, novelist, and performer Wayne Koestenbaum enacts twenty-six ecstatic collisions between his mind and the world. A subway passenger's leather bracelet prompts musings on the German word for "stranger." Montaigne leads to the memory of a fourth-grade friend's stinky feet.

Have you ever wondered how bridges don't fall down or how really old buildings stay standing up? Basic principles of architecture and engineering, including an introduction to bridges, locks, arches, columns, and skyscrapers, are explored in this newest engaging addition to the How Do series.The How Do series is a great introduction to various STEM topics, each written in a format that encourages audiences to ask questions and guess the answers before exploring the science behind them.

"The 16th century German artist Lucas Cranach the Elder was as brilliant as he was prolific. A close friend of Martin Luther, Cranach the Elder gave artistic substance to aspects of Luther's rebelllion against the Catholic Church. This book is an attempt to delineate some of the connections between Cranach, Luther and the Reformation."--

Personne ne comprend plus rien à l'Europe, ses traitésindigestes, ses crises à répétition. Pour pallier cetteincompréhension, Ludovic Lamant a pris l'expression « construction européenne » au pied de la lettre et s'est intéressé à ce que l'UE a de plus visible: les bâtiments qui abritent ses institutions.

Livre enrichi. Des musées il y en a de toutes les formes mais le Musée invisible est de loin le plus original. Et pour sa première exposition, le Musée invisible pose un regard neuf sur l'œuvre de la Nuit en tant qu'artiste.

Livre d'art en format « chapbook » (court). 62 oeuvres originales Ces œuvres créent des paysages fantastiques et des moments extraordinaires à partir de fleurs récupérées dans les poubelles de fleuristes. Les photos et les scans qui composent le livre ont été créés entièrement en mode recyclage avec du matériel récupéré ici et là. Le livre compte une soixantaine d'oeuvres originales et une brève présentation de l'artiste.

Transformer son lieu de vie à deux est un moyen de transformer sa relation de couple ! Vous souhaitez construire ou aménager votre lieu de vie afin qu'il reflète l'harmonie de votre couple ? La clé se trouve entre vos mains ! L'important est de vous impliquer tous les deux dans l'agencement de votre demeure, en y exprimant ce qui vous rapproche, mais aussi ce qui vous différencie. Ce livre s'appuie sur une vision occidentale du Feng Shui.

Civilians play crucial roles in building empires. Constructing Empire shows how Japanese urban planners, architects, and other civilians contributed to constructing a modern colonial enclave in northeast China, their visions shifting over time. Japanese imperialism in Manchuria before 1932 resembled that of other imperialists elsewhere in China, but the Japanese thereafter sought to surpass their rivals by transforming the city of Changchun into a grand capital for the puppet state of Manchukuo.

Despite the common belief that art galleries will naturally become more gender equitable over time, the fact is that many art institutions in Canada have become even less so over the last decade, with female artists making up less than 25 per cent of the contemporary exhibitions of several major galleries. In the first large-scale overview of gender diversity in Canadian art exhibitions, Anne Dymond makes a persuasive plea for more consciously equitable curating.