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CNBC, 10/16/09, Art Cashin, More declines than advances, lower volume signals market top

James Castle: Dream House, His Art & Life $19.43 Using the artist’s books and art–plus never-before-seen family photographs, as well as rare interviews with family, childhood friends, artists and art professors, gallery directors and curators–this Public Television documentary helps us understand this mysterious and brilliant Idaho artist. Included in an Epilogue is news of recent remarkable discoveries relating to Outsider artist Castle’s edu…

Handbags: The Power of the Purse $8.48 The Bolide. The Plume. The Birkin–object of lust in Sex in the City. Celebrating the must-have accessory for the fashion conscious woman, Handbags is an obsessive, irresistible visual extravaganza, featuring over 900 full-color photographs of the most luxurious, witty, covetable, talismanic examples of the bagmaker’s art and history.The iconic Hermés Kelly bag, made from first stitch to last by …

The Humanities: Culture, Continuity, and Change, Volume 1 $55.00 The Humanities by Henry M. Sayre helps the reader see context and make connections across the humanities by tying together the entire cultural experience through a narrative storytelling approach….

Cash In!: Funding and Promoting the Arts $21.74 A lively, one-of-its-kind compendium of the most imaginative new concepts, tested ideas and case hstories of programs and promotions that make money and win audiences for cultural organzations and projects of every kind….