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This magazine covers the history of design, offers creative ideas, and shows examples of culture, art, unique homes, and design styles from around the world.  Features include the AD100 list of the top architects and interior designers worldwide, as well as sections of celebrity style, landscaping, home improvement, technology, and travel. This collection includes magazine issues from 1922 to 2011.  The current issue plus back issues for 1 year are available in print. Check them out in our catalog.

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National and international geographical information including maps, statistics, history, infographics, and images. Explore the United States, Canada, and over 200 more countries around the world! View Tutorial.

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Use this service to reserve free or low-cost passes to museums, science centers, zoos, theaters, and other and cultural venues throughout the greater Bay Area. You must be at least 18 years of age and you must reside within the library's service area to use the Discover & Go service. Visit Museum Passes for full details, or read the Discover & Go FAQs.

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Easily search hundreds of publications from scholarly journals, magazines, newsletters, images and other authoritative sources covering various topics on religion and philosophy.

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The Oxford Handbook of Opera captures the highly charged dynamic between opera and its audience, bringing the complexities of scholarship and the excitement of performance into the mainstream conversation. Fifty essays address an extensive range of topics, ranging from What is opera? to Divas and Divos to The Operatic Canon.

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If you would like to read issues of Vanity Fair from 2016 to Current, you can use Overdrive Magazines! The first version of Vanity Fair was published from 1913 to 1936. The imprint was then revived in 1983. Published by Conde Nast Publications, Vanity Fair has been highlighting artists, illustrators and writers providing in-depth coverage and social commentary. Beginning with the Jazz Age, the magazine archive chronicles popular culture, fashion, celebrity portraiture and politics through the years.  The original version of Vanity Fair featured popular, avant-garde covers for its first run from September 1913 through February 1936. When the magazine was relaunched 47 years later in March 1983 the new cover focused on celebrity portraits and political figures. Vanity Fair is known for the contributions of famous photographers such as Bruce Weber, Annie Leibovitz, Mario Testino and Herb Ritts. They’ve provided the magazine with a series of lavish covers and full-page portraits of current celebrities. In addition, the magazine has been known for a string of exposés e.g. about the cigarette industry, and the unveiling of the identity of Deep Throat. The magazine has also featured candid interviews with celebrities, including a monthly Proust Questionnaire.

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This collection provides access to eBooks, audiobooks, eMagazines, and some streaming video in numerous languages. This collection is great for learning another language, reading in your native tongue, and exploring other cultures just out of curiosity. Lending Information. Help Guide. Watch tutorial video., opens a new window

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