title: The Secret Lives of Color
author:  Kassia St Clair 
description: &ldquo;Beautifully written and thoughtfully produced . . . Full of anecdotes and fascinating research, this elegant compendium has all the answers.&rdquo;<br><b>&mdash;Nina Martyris, NPR<b>&rsquo;s Best Books of 2017</b></b><br><br>&ldquo;If you adore color, you&rsquo;ll love <i>The Secret Lives of Color</i>. This passionate and majestic compedium . . . will leave you bathed in the gorgeous optics of light.&rdquo;<br><b>&mdash;<i>Elle</i></b><br><br>&ldquo;A&#160;kaleidoscope of charming, discursive essays . . . A light and lively guide [that] offers plenty of fresh clues for the brain&rsquo;s colorful calculations.&rdquo;<br> <b>&mdash;<i>The Economist</i></b><br><br> &ldquo;Fascinating.&rdquo;<br><b>&mdash;BuzzFeed</b><br><br>&ldquo;Gorgeous.&rdquo;<br> <b>&mdash;<i>The Guardian</i></b><br><br>&ldquo;The history of colors, it turns out, is the story of science as well as art. Kassia St. Clair&rsquo;s entertaining book brings them both into vivid relief.&rdquo;<br><b>&mdash;<i>The Wall Street Journal</i><br></b><br>&ldquo;<i>The Secret Lives of Color</i>&#160;by Kassia St. Clair presents readers with [an] opportunity to relish in otherwise mundane aspects of reality. . . . An engaging mix of aesthetic analysis and optical science, it could make anyone a keen observer of our kaleidoscopic world.&rdquo;<br><b>&mdash;<i>Popular Science</i></b><br><br>&ldquo;Riveting . . . diligently researched . . . Whatever your opinion of a shade,&#160;<i>The Secret Lives of Color</i>&#160;provides some illuminating perspectives on it.&rdquo;<br><b>&mdash;<i>Hyperallergic</i></b><br><br>&ldquo;A mind-expanding tour of the world without leaving your paintbox. Every color has a story, and here are some of the most alluring, alarming, and thought-provoking.&rdquo;<br><b>&mdash;Simon Garfield</b>,&#160;<i>New York Times</i>&#160;bestselling author of&#160;<i>Just My Type: A Book About Fonts</i><br><br> &ldquo;St. Clair delivers a mix of science, humor, and art history in this collection of bite-sized essays on the cultural and social lore of colors. . . . Her sentences guarantee sustained reading. . . . [Her] rhetoric beautifies the form of the brief essay.&rdquo;<br> &mdash;<b><i>Publishers Weekly</i></b><br><br> &ldquo;<i>The Secret Lives of Color</i>&#160;holds surprise and satisfaction at every striation of the rainbow.&rdquo;&#160;<br> <b>&mdash;<i>Booklist</i></b><br><br> &ldquo;Brimming with facts, historical insights and curious tales.&rdquo;<br> <b>&mdash;<i>Elle Decoration</i></b><br><br> &ldquo;Weirdly fascinating.&rdquo;<br> <b>&mdash;<i>Wired</i></b><br><br> &ldquo;Charming.&rdquo;<br> <b>&mdash;The&#160;<i>Financial Times</i></b><br><br> &ldquo;Fascinating insights . . . a lexicon of colors, simultaneously revealing the cultural attitudes that determine our responses to them.&rdquo;<br> <b>&mdash;<i>Country Living</i></b><br><br> &ldquo;What&#160;<i>The Secret Lives of Color&#160;</i>offers really is, in some sense, a flash portrait of human civilization, a zigzagging and unpredictable exploration of how significantly color has shaped histories and disciplines, fueled empires, changed the nature of war and caused species to flourish or face extinction.&rdquo;<br> <b>&mdash;<i>Chemistry World</i>&#160;</b><br><br> &ldquo;A must for anyone interested in color [or] decorating, but also language, culture and art.&rdquo;<br> <b>&mdash;The Chromologist</b><br><br> &ldquo;A work of art in its own right,&#160;<i>The Secret Lives Of Color</i>&#160;is a beautiful tactile book.&rdquo;<br> <b>&mdash;The Pool</b><br><br> &ldquo;St. Clair serves up a chromatic buffet.&rdquo;<br> <b>&mdash;<i>Nature</i></b>
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  # Red Handed
  
  
  ## A Mystery Short Story
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  _Katerina Carter Color of Money Mysteries, Red Handed, Blue Moon, Greenwash_
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