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As the Fall Arts Season begins in the Bay Area, the staff at the Mechanics' Institute shares with its members their favorite books on Artists and Architects. If you can’t make it out to your favorite museum this fall or are looking to learn more about your favorite artists, check out the September Staff Picks display.

Kevin recommends The Guerrilla Girls’ Bedside Companion to the History of Western Ar...

BOOKS

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Maurice Blanchot Aminadab
Mia Couto Confession of the lioness
Louis de Bernières The dust that falls from dreams
Amitav Ghosh Flood of fire
Joanna Hershon...

Think documentaries are just talking heads?  Think again!  Documentary filmmaking can be highly creative, visually stimulating, and full of surprises. Whether you’re looking for the historical, political, or personal, our collection of documentaries on DVD covers it all.

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Women make up roughly 50% of the world, yet they are often underrepresented in the culture at large, as the title of one of this month’s selections (The rumors of our progress have been greatly exaggerated by Carolyn Maloney) points out. Women are our mothers, daughters, sisters, lovers, friends. They do amazing things, shameful things, interesting things, ridiculous things – both flawed and fantastic, they often change the world. This month, Mechanics’ Institute Library staff select...