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Era of the Orca Cowboys - TheTyee.ca

Era of the Orca CowboysTheTyee.ca, Canada - 43 minutes agoOperation Orca, by historian Daniel Francis and whale researcher Gil Hewlett, is a Harbour Publishing book. Next Tuesday, in the third excerpt, ...

Art and the Market: Roger Fry on Commerce in Art, Selected Writings, Edited with an Interpretation

cover of Art and the Market: Roger Fry on Commerce in Art, Selected Writings, Edited with an Interpretationauthor: Craufurd D. Goodwin
asin: 0472109022
binding: Hardcover
list price: $60.00 USD
amazon price: $60.00 USD


Roger Fry, a core member of the Bloomsbury Group, was involved with all aspects of the art market as artist, critic, curator, historian, journalist, advisor to collectors, and gallery operator. He is especially remembered as the person who introduced postimpressionist art to Britain.  read more »

The Codebreakers: The Story of Secret Writing

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The magnificent, unrivaled history of codes and ciphers -- how they're made, how they're broken, and the many and fascinating roles they've played since the dawn of civilization in war, business, diplomacy, and espionage -- updated with a new chapter on computer cryptography and the Ultra secret.Man has created codes to keep secrets and has broken codes to learn those secrets since the time of the Pharaohs.  read more »