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A collection of pieces exploring artistic figures from the renowned French author and critic Remy de Gourmont (1858-1915).

THE GHOST IN THE SHELL BOOKVOLUME 1: MANGAby Jeremy Mark RobinsonThis is a study of the Ghost In the Shell comic by Masamune Shirow (real name Masanori Ota, born in 1961, Kobe, Japan). Shirow is a Japanese artist best known for Ghost In the Shell, Appleseed and Dominion: Tank Police. Masamune Shirow is one of the great creators in the world of Japanese manga and animé - his works have been the basis of several important franchises, with Ghost In the Shell the most famous. Shirow's art is marked by futuristic, cyber-punk settings, fabulous, often eccentric designs, elaborate mecha (such as tanks and mobile suits), attractive warrior women and detailed storytelling (accompanied by his famous, sometimes arcane notes). The impact of the work of Masamune Shirow has been immense in animé and manga: Ghost In the Shell alone led to not one but two classic movies, two outstanding TV series (plus a third, the Arise series), and spin-off movies. Add to that the live-action Ghost of 2017, and more Ghosties on the way. Then there's the Appleseed digital animations and Appleseed cel animation, plus Black Magic, Real Drive, Ghost Hound (Unseen World) and Dominion: Tank Police. It all adds up to a remarkable presence in TV and movies. In cinema, Masamune Shirow's influence is easy to spot in the Star Wars prequels, in the Matrix movies, in Avatar, in Minority Report, in the Avengers series, and in many a superhero flick. The Ghost In the Shell Book: Volume 1: Manga includes a biography; a chapter on the Japanese manga industry; chapters on Shirow's signature work, Ghost In the Shell, including all three comics; and a chapter on cyberculture. Each of the three volumes of Ghost In the Shell are explored in detail, and every chapter of the manga is discussed. Fully illustrated, including many images from Masamune Shirow's manga, including related comics such as Orion and Dominion: Tank Police. The Ghost In the Shell Book is published in two volumes: Volume 1: MangaVolume 2: AniméHardcover - full colour laminate cover. Bibliography, resources, and notes. 236 pages.www.crmoon.com

Paul Verlaine is one of the great lyrical French poets. This selection of poems includes work from Paul Verlaine's important collections.

THE SYMBOLIST MOVEMENT IN LITERATUREBY ARTHUR SYMONSBritish author Arthur Symons (1865-1945) was an important poet, critic and translator: this book, The Symbolist Movement In Literature (1899), was an influential study early modernist poetry and literature, inspiring poets such as T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, W.B. Yeats among others. In this book, Symons explores the work and lives of Flaubert, Baudelaire, Laforgue, Verlaine, Mallarmé, Huysmans, Rimbaud and others. Arthur Symons was known as the 'blond angel', a vagabond poet in the Bohemian tradition of Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud and the Symbolists. Symons spent much of his life in France and Italy; he knew many of the artists and writers of the fin-de-siècle period, including Aubrey Beardsley, Algernon Swinburne, Walter Pater, Edmund Gosse, Joseph Conrad, W.B. Yeats, and Stéphane Mallarmé. This new edition of The Symbolist Movement In Literature includes a note on Arthur Symons; and two galleries of illustrations - of Symbolist writers and poets, and Symbolist art. Illustrated. Paperback, with a full colour cover.www.crmoon.com

This book by Arthur Symons is an important early study of Charles Baudelaire. Symons offers a biography of the poet, and considers his poetry (using many examples).

The history of erotic art in the Renaissance is explored in this detailed and fully illustrated survey.

A survey of women artists from the history of art, including chapters on Artemisia Gentileschi, Barbara Longhi, Mary Cassatt, Berthe Morisot, Marietta Robusti, Angelika Kauffmann and Sofonisba Anguissola.

The Peyote Cult by Weston La Barre (1915-1996) is the classic work on peyotism, originating in Weston La Barre's studies of the use of peyote in the rituals of fifteen Native American tribes in the 1930s. It has been revised many times. This is the latest edition (the fifth, enlarged edition), now back in print.