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Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World By Mark Pendergrast Cover Image
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History of Africa By Kevin Shillington Cover Image
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The Golden Rhinoceros: Histories of the African Middle Ages By François-Xavier Fauvelle, Troy Tice (Translator) Cover Image
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When the World Was Black Part Two: The Untold History of the World's First Civilizations - Ancient Civilizations By Supreme Understanding Cover Image
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The Sea in the Middle: The Mediterranean World, 650–1650 By Thomas E. Burman, Brian A. Catlos, Mark D. Meyerson Cover Image
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Can't Break the African Spirit By Sam P. Jalloh Cover Image
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From Superman to Man By J. a. Rogers Cover Image
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Kebra Nagast (the Glory of Kings) By Miguel F. Brooks (Translator) Cover Image
By Miguel F. Brooks (Translator)
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Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism By Derrick Bell, Michelle Alexander (Foreword by) Cover Image
By Derrick Bell, Michelle Alexander (Foreword by)
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The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World (New Press People's History) By Vijay Prashad Cover Image
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Unspoken: Giving Voice to the Forgotten Truth About Christianity By Yana Conner, Brandon Cleaver, George Moore Cover Image
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Documents from the African Past By Robert O. Collins (Other) Cover Image
By Robert O. Collins (Other)
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New Hope for American Art

                                               New Hope for American Art is the most comprehensive book ever published on artists from, and surrounding, the New Hope Art Colony (also known as the Pennsylvania Impressionists). This book, with its 612 pages and over 1,000 color plates of artwork include biographies of 165 individual Pennsylvania Impressionists and New Hope Modernists as well as artists from the Philadelphia Ten, a pioneering group of women all educated at Philadelphia art schools. 

In this book, you'll find biographies and artwork from such artists as:

  • Daniel Garber
  • Edward Redfield
  • George Sotter
  • Arthur Meltzer
  • Robert Spencer
  • William Langson Lathrop
  • Kenneth Nunamaker
  • John Folinsbee
  • Henry Snell
  • William F. Taylor
  • Fern Coppedge
  • M. Elizabeth Price
  • Clarence Johnson
  • S. George Phillips
  • Rae Sloan Bredin
  • Walter Baum
  • Walter Schofield
  • Morgan Colt
  • Charles Rosen
  • Joseph Meierhans
  • Charles F. Ramsey
  • Louis Stone
  • Charles Evans
  • Josef Zenk

New Hope for American Art was authored, designed and published by James M. Alterman, an expert in the field of Pennsylvania Impressionist and Modernist painting. A longtime collector and owner of two fine art galleries, Alterman wanted to create a user-friendly book intended not only to educate collectors and enthusiasts about this art but to help train one's eye. The book offers valuable tips on how to avoid common mistakes often experienced by new collectors drawn from the author's personal experiences as a collector and fine art dealer.