The Carlos Museum Bookshop: Great books for adults

We’re sharing some of our favorite NEW THIS WEEK man rights, the artist in Source of Self Re- society, and the Af- books and gifts that are available for mail gard: Selected Es- ro-American presence order while the Carlos Museum is closed says, Speeches, and in American literature. to the public. Meditations $16.95, paperback. NEW THIS WEEK Please email your request and/or gener- The Maze: A Labyrin- al questions with your phone number to thine Compendium Bookshop Manager Mark Burell at [email protected], and you will receive a call to process your order.

Most orders for books in stock will be shipped within 5 business days. If a book is temporarily sold out, it may take longer to fulfill orders due to current shipping Here is Toni Morrison delays, but orders will be processed as in her own words—a quickly as possible. rich gathering of her most important essays Mazes have been a Remember, all purchases support the and speeches spanning part of civilization for at Carlos Museum, so stock up today! four decades. These least 4,000 years. The pages give us her sear- idea of the maze taps ing prayer for the dead into so many subcon- Support the museum with the of 9/11, her Nobel scious notions: the lecture on the power of game, the quest, the purchase of a Bookshop gift card language, her search- spiritual journey. This ing meditation on beautifully illustrated Let your friends know you’re thinking Martin Luther King Jr., book will delight lov- of them with a gift card to one of At- and her heart-wrench- ers of mazes, acting lanta’s most inventively curated book- ing eulogy for James as a guide, directo- Baldwin. She looks ry, and puzzle book stores, or purchase one for yourself in deeply into the fault combined. Specially support of the Carlos Museum and in lines of culture and commissioned illustra- freedom: the foreigner, tions represent 60 real anticipation of leisurely browsing. female empowerment, and imagined mazes the press, money, from around the world Available in denominations of $25 “black matter(s),” hu- with a bird’s eye view and $50. of each maze so that readers can make their NEW THIS WEEK NEW THIS WEEK NEW THIS WEEK own journey. Each Ancient Egyptian Gustav Klimt: Draw- Legendary Ladies: 50 maze is also accompa- Magic: A Hands-On ings and Paintings Goddesses to Em- nied by a fascinating Guide power and Inspire and witty short history. You $29.99, hardback.

NEW THIS WEEK Beneath My Feet: Writers on Walking

One of our best-sell- From the beloved au- ing books of all time! thor and artist behind In this beautiful and Newly published! In Bad Girls Throughout inexpensively priced History comes this the ancient world, if monograph from the you needed a love lushly illustrated book German publisher of goddesses from charm, wanted to con- Taschen, all of Klimt’s tact your dead wife, or around the world: Aph- major works are gath- rodite, the Greek god- needed the ability to ered alongside author- Walking and writing dess whose love over- fly like a bird, the magi- itative art historical have always gone came mortality; Mazu, cians of Egypt were the commentary to trace together, and the best the Chinese deity who ones who could make the evolution of his insights, the deepest safely guides travelers it happen. Historian astonishing oeuvre. and most joyous exam- home; and Lakshmi, Christina Riggs ex- With top quality illus- inations of this simple the Hindu provider of plores how the Egyp- tration, we follow Klimt activity are to be found fortune and prosperity. tians thought about through his prominent in nonfiction—in es- These powerful deities magic, who performed role in the Secessionist says, travelogues, and and many more are it and why, and helps movement of 1897, memoirs. This beautiful celebrated in gorgeous readers understand his candid rendering little book rounds up artwork and enlighten- why we’ve come to of the female body, the most memorable ing essays that explore think of ancient Egypt and his lustrous golden walker-writers from the the feminine divine and in such a mystical way. phase when gold leaf 1700s to the modern encourage readers to Here you can learn brought a shimmering day from country hikers empower themselves. how to cure scorpion tone and texture to to urban strollers, from $19.95, hardcover. bites, ensure that an such beloved works as the rationalists to the annoying neighbor The Kiss and Portrait truly outlandish. Fol- gets his comeuppance, of Adele Bloch Bauer I. low in the footsteps of and how to save a $19.98, hardcover. William Hazlitt, George fortune on pregnancy Sand, Rebecca Solnit, tests—urinating on bar- Will Self, and dozens of ley grains will answer others. $18.95, hard- that question. $24.95, cover. hardcover. NEW THIS WEEK by Euclid, Ptolemy, The Mushroom at the explore the unexpect- The Map of Know- and Galen eventually End of the World: On ed corners of capital- ledge: A Thou- reached Venice, the the Possibility of Life ism. Here, we witness sand-Year History of major center of scienti- in Capitalist Ruins the varied and peculiar How Classical Ideas fic printing, where their worlds of matsutake Were Lost and Found legacy was assured. commerce: the worlds $17.95, paperback. of Japanese gour- mets, capitalist traders, NEW THIS WEEK Hmong jungle fighters, The Night Sky: Fifty industrial forests, Yi Postcards Chinese goat herders, Finnish nature guides, and more. By investigating one of the world’s most sought-after fungi, The Mushroom at the End of the World presents an original examina- Matsutake is the most tion into the relation valuable mushroom in This thrilling history between capitalist Whether through the world, and a weed tracks three crucial destruction and col- sketches, scientific ex- that grows in hu- books as they were laborative survival periments, photogra- man-disturbed forests passed hand to hand within multispecies phy, or painting, we are across the northern through seven cities landscapes, the pre- fascinated by the study hemisphere. Through during a perilous thou- requisite for continuing of what lies beyond. its ability to nurture sand-year journey of life on earth. $19.95, This handsome gold trees, matsutake helps survival. After the great paperback. foil-stamped box holds forests to grow in library at Alexandria fifty postcards, each daunting places. It is was destroyed, Bagh- The Sarpedon Krater: with a single sublime also an edible delica- dad, Cordoba, Toledo, The Life and Afterlife image: pages from cy in Japan, where it Salerno, and Palermo of a Greek Vase Galileo’s sketchbooks, sometimes commands were rare outposts of Chinese star maps, astronomical prices. In knowledge in a dark artist interpretations of all its contradictions, world, where dedicat- the universe, and rarely matsutake offers in- ed scholars collected, seen images from the sights into areas far be- translated, and shared NASA archives. This yond just mushrooms texts. This book takes sparkly box is perfect and addresses a crucial us into the sparkling for your favorite star- question: what manag- intellectual life that gazer or celestial-in- es to live in the ruins flourished there, high- spired friend. $16.95, we have made? A tale lighting the crucial boxed postcards. of diversity within our role played by Arab damaged landscapes, scholars in improving The Mushroom at the cornerstone ideas the End of the World of Western thought, follows one of the and how foundational strangest commodity Perhaps the most works on math, astron- chains of our times to spectacular of all Greek omy, and medicine vases, the Sarpedon resenting the dead and ever since the Lives of Four Words for krater depicts the body dying in Western art, the Eminent Philoso- Friend: Why Using of Sarpedon, a hero of especially during the phers, first compiled in More Than One Lan- the Trojan War, being Renaissance. the third century AD, guage Matters Now carried away to his Fascinating and infor- came to prominence More Than Ever homeland for burial. It mative, The Sarpedon in Renaissance Italy. To was decorated some Krater is a multifacet- this day, it remains a 2,500 years ago by ed introduction to the crucial source for much Athenian artist Eu- enduring influence of of what we know about phronios, and its sub- Greek art on the world. the origins and practice sequent history in- $25, hardcover. of philosophy in an- volves tomb raiding, cient Greece, covering intrigue, duplicity, Lives of the Eminent a longer period of time litigation, international Philosophers and a larger number of outrage, and possibly figures—from Pythago- even homicide. ras and Socrates to Ar- How this came about istotle and Epicurus— is told by Nigel Spi- than any other ancient vey in a concise, sty- source. This new In a world that has lish book that braids edition of the Lives English as its global together the creation is the first rendering language and rapidly and adventures of this of the complete text advancing translation extraordinary object into English in near- technology, it’s easy to with an exploration of ly a century. Lavishly assume that the need its abiding influence. illustrated with a vast to use more than one Spivey takes the reader array of artwork that language will dimin- on a dramatic journey, attests to the profound ish—but Marek Kohn beginning with the Long before our own impact of Diogenes on argues that plural krater’s looting from an day of self-help books the Western imagina- language use is more Etruscan tomb in 1971 offering twelve-step tion, this edition also important than ever. and its acquisition by programs and other includes detailed notes In a divided world, it the Metropolitan Mu- guides to attain happi- and a variety of newly helps us to understand seum of Art, New York, ness, the philosophers commissioned essays ourselves and others followed by a high-pro- of ancient Greece by leading scholars better, to live together file lawsuit over its explored the riddle that shed light on the better, and to make status and its eventu- of what makes a life work’s historical and the most of our various al return to Italy. He worth living, produc- intellectual contexts as cultures. explains where, how, ing a wide variety of well as its rich legacy. and why the vase was ideas and examples $45, hardcover. Kohn, whom the produced, retrieving to follow. This rich Guardian has called what we know about tradition was recast “one of the best the life and legend by Diogenes Laertius science writers we of Sarpedon. Spivey into an anthology, a have,” brings togeth- also pursues the fig- miscellany of maxims er perspectives from ural motif of the slain and anecdotes, that psychology, evolution- Sarpedon portrayed generations of Western ary thought, politics, on the vase and traces readers have consult- literature, and every- how this motif became ed for edification as day experience. He a standard way of rep- well as entertainment explores how people acquire languages; essence of Zen Bud- the bedrooms of the Bookworm: A Memoir how they lose them; dhism as a religion and pharaohs and their how they can regain a way of life. He ex- subjects. them; how different plains fundamental Zen Sex was a promInent languages may affect concepts, introduces part of ancient Egyp- people’s perceptions, revered Zen thinkers, tian society. It featured their senses of self, and places Zen within the heavily in religion, their relationships with broader context of mythology and art- each other; and how Eastern religion, and work, and was not to resolve the funda- traces the influence of considered the taboo it mental contradiction Zen in the arts. Illustrat- is sometimes treated as of languages, that they ed with calligraphy and in modern cultures. exist as much to pre- drawings by the author, vent communication this reprint of an old This book examines as to make it happen. classic will delight fans all aspects of ancient $27.50, hardcover. of Alan Watts, while i