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More than 160 lovely designs, adapted from authentic images used in the ancient art of henna body painting, incorporate scores of lovely patterns (largely Indian). Used to cover hands, forearms, and feet during the celebration of weddings, births, and other... [ More...]
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The canals of England and Wales are some two hundred years old. They revolutionised the transport of goods before being largely superseded by the faster railways and have become a monument to a way of life harder and more frugal than those who now use the... [ More...]
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Beginning in the 1920s anthropologists, traders, and other admirers of traditional Native American cultures—appalled by the degradation of fine crafts into tourist trinkets—began cultivating a fine-arts market for indigenous textiles, jewelry,... [ More...]
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The fabulous St. Nicholas figurines featured in this book all began as a 14-inch unpainted wooden figure. Each was meticulously hand carved in Russia by skilled artisans working in traditional Russian folk style. C. DeBrekht of Russia commissioned these... [ More...]
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A brief illustrated history of the U.S. presidency told by the presidents themselves in the style favored by modern social networking web sites, Forty Four Presidents imagines 220 years of presidential succession pancaked into a single moment —... [ More...]
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