"A captivating new history of art told through the storied biographies of colors and pigments. In this refreshing approach to the history of color, Kelly Grovier takes readers on an exciting search for the intriguing and unusual. In Grovier's telling, a color's connotations are never fixed but are endlessly evolving. Knowledge of a pigment and its history can unlock meaning in the works that feature it. Grovier employs the term "artymology" to suggest...

"From beloved New Yorker TV critic Emily Nussbaum comes a groundbreaking narrative detailing the fights, egos, drama, and future presidents of reality television. Cue the Sun is a rollicking, deeply reported story about how the early reality TV business metastasized into an industry that now dominates entertainment in the United States. Starting in 1948, Nussbaum pulls back the curtain on the cultural meat grinder that created a generation-defining...

"A comprehensive fifty-year history of the hip-hop genre, from renowned artist and author of MUSIC IS HISTORY, Questlove"--

In an obscure, two-hundred-year-old museum in a little village in western Massachusetts, there lies what once was the most revered but now totally forgotten relic from the history of early New England, the massive, tomahawk-scarred door that came to symbolize the notorious Deerfield Massacre. This impregnable barricade, known to early Americans as "The Old Indian Door," constructed from double-thick planks of Massachusetts oak and studded with hand-wrought...

Welcome to Newfoundland and Labrador! Come with me, Izzy, as I show you around the province where I live. Learn about the provincial flag, bird, and flower. Find out my favorite activities too! Also includes a page for caregivers and teachers that suggests guiding questions to help aid in reading comprehension.

Welcome to Northwest Territories! Come with me, Aiden, as I show you around the territory where I live. Learn about the official flag, bird, and flower. Find out my favorite activities too! Also includes a page for caregivers and teachers that suggests guiding questions to help aid in reading comprehension.

Welcome to Alberta! Come with me, Kade, as I show you around the province where I live. Learn about the provincial flag, animal, and flower. Find out my favorite activities too! Also includes a page for caregivers and teachers that suggests guiding questions to help aid in reading comprehension.

Welcome to Saskatchewan! Come with me, Grayson, as I show you around the province where I live. Learn about the provincial flag, animal, and flower. Find out my favorite activities too! Also includes a page for caregivers and teachers that suggests guiding questions to help aid in reading comprehension.

The relatively new judicial philosophy of textualism dominates the Supreme Court. Textualists claim that the right way to interpret the Constitution and statutes is to read the text carefully and examine the language as it was understood at the time the documents were written. This, however, is not Justice Breyer's philosophy nor has it been the traditional way to interpret the Constitution since the time of Chief Justice John Marshall. Justice Breyer...

"... kicks off with the Paleolithic Era and transports the reader to ancient civilizations-from Africa and beyond; the middle ages across the world; the Renaissance; the age of exploration and colonialism, revolutions, and the modern world and the wars and movements that shaped it"--Amazon.