They Flew: A History of the Impossible

They Flew: A History of the ImpossibleAn award winning historian's examination of impossible events at the dawn of modernity and of their enduring significance. Accounts of seemingly impossible phenomena abounded in the early modern eratales of levitation, bilocation, and witchcrafteven as skepticism, atheism, and empirical science were starting to supplant religious belief in the paranormal. In this book, Carlos M. N. Eire explores how a culture increasingly devoted to scientific

An intimate story of loyalty and betrayal writ large across the epic canvas of mid-twentieth-century American history

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Personal storytelling is at the core of Blue Weekend

form and distinctive 'fold' design element have captivated fashion audiences around the world

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now she only has a single body and serves the emperor she swore to destroy

This third volume of the artist's catalogue raisonné collects sketches made in preparation for af Klint's masterwork The Paintings for the Temple

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