Beautiful Ugly: African and Diaspora Aesthetics
While the issue of beauty has recently resurfaced after a long silence in Europe and North America, this is the first book of its kind to tackle the subject of beauty in Africa. The essays suggest that the concept of beauty cannot be understood without a simultaneous understanding of the idea of ugliness. Writtten by continental and diasporic scholars, essays focus on sculpture, photography, art, music, fiction, food, clothing and urban design. Contributors include William Kentridge, Achille Mbembe, Simon Gikandi and Mia Couto.
Trees & Foliage
"Trees & Foliage offers an invaluable combination of painting demonstration and idea swipe file guaranteed to bring success. Contributors to this collection include current and previous North Light decorative painting and fine art authors, along with well-known landscape artists.
Trees & Foliage 
North carolina bedroom furniture > Trees & Foliage
Montgomery and Alamein by Barrie Pitt, ISBN 0304359521
The third volume explains how the Allies fared in their early efforts to defend Egypt from the wiles of Field Marshal Rommel and the German Afrika Korps. The series of Allied victories in the North African desert that routed the Italian defenders came to an abrupt end with Rommel's arrival on the scene. In the early clashes with the Afrika Korps, Britain's Field Marshal Richard O'Connor was captured, and Field Marshal Archibald Wavell was replaced as commander-in-chief by Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck. Auchinleck had been an excellent soldier, but his choice of commanders turned out to be a disaster, as they were out-thought and out-fought by Rommel. Ultimately, Auckinleck himself took command and ended Rommel's immediate threat.
Montgomery and Alamein by Barrie Pitt, ISBN 0304359521
North carolina bedroom furniture > Montgomery and Alamein by Barrie Pitt, ISBN 0304359521