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Perfect for Valentine's Day and a heartwarming read for the cold winter months

and it shows how slang gives a vocabulary and a voice to our most guarded thoughts

this comprehensive and sweeping account gives the reader a magnificently human picture of Europe in the age when it dominated the rest of the globe

the first black officer in the British Army

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Art Is... D1A Perfect for Valentine's Day andWhat is art? This engaging book from The Metropolitan Museum of Art offers nearly 200 illustrated answers to that question, all presented in simple, concise observations about selected works in the Museum's collection. For example, a Nigerian mask is symmetry, a Van Gogh still life is composition, a Babylonian lion is fierce, a Duccio portrait is tender. Some of the statements speak to technique, while others are descriptive or evocative. All are