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De Kooning: an American master
By Mark Stevens, Annalyn Swan, Willem De Kooning. 2004
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Award winning fictionAward winning non-fiction, Biography, Fine arts biography
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Biography of Dutch-born artist Willem de Kooning (1904-1997), who became a major figure in the mid-twentieth-century New York abstract expressionism…
scene. Explores de Kooning's bohemian habits, friendship with Gorky, financial backing from Hirshhorn and Fourcade, only marriage, and passion for painting. Some descriptions of sex. Pulitzer Prize. 2004.The mummy congress: science, obsession, and the everlasting dead
By Heather Anne Pringle. 2001
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Award winning fictionAward winning non-fiction, Canadian non-fiction, General non-fiction, Science and technology, Archaeology
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After covering a conference of mummy experts, science reporter Heather Pringle became so intrigued with mummies that she spent a…
year circling the globe, visiting leading scientists in the field. She also investigated preserved Italian saints, Scandinavian mummies in bogs, and frozen Inca princesses. Pringle researched Egyptian embalmers, the past public craze for mummy unwrappings, and the Russians' attempts to preserve Stalin, and along the way learned what mummies have to tell us about ourselves. Winner of the 2002 CNIB Torgi Award. 2001.The shining mountain: two men on Changabang's west wall
By Peter Boardman, Joe Tasker. 1984
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Recounts the endurance and determination of two British mountain climbers in making a forty-day ascent up the treacherous west wall…
of Changabang Mountain in the Indian Himalayas. Winner of the John Llewelyn Rhys Memorial Prize. 1984.