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Movie Stunts & Special Effects: A Comprehensive Guide to Planning and Execution
Andrew Lane · Bloomsbury Academic
Format: Hardcover
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Throughout film history, one of the fundamental fantasies portrayed on screen has been the kind of physical action few of us could ever experience in real life. The image of an 'every man' engaged in hand-to-hand, mortal combat, defending his family or even the world population... |
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Violin For Dummies, Book + Online Video & Audio Instruction
Katharine Rapoport · For Dummies; 3 edition
Format: Print book
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The beginners guide to learning the violin for any musical style Violin For Dummies helps you teach yourself to play the violin, even if youve never read a note of music. From choosing the right violin for you to playing a variety of musical styles, this book has you covered. Youll start... |
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Porcelain: A Memoir
Moby. · Penguin Press
Pages: 406
Format: Print book
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From one of the most interesting and iconic musicians of our time, a piercingly tender, funny, and harrowing account of the path from suburban poverty and alienation to a life of beauty, squalor and unlikely success out of the NYC club scene of the late '80s and '90s.There were many reasons... |
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Sci-Fi Chronicles: A Visual History of the Galaxy's Greatest Science Fiction
Guy Haley · Firefly Books
Format: Paperback
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The definitive encyclopedia for the science fiction fanatic. From Barbarella to Blade Runner, from Solaris to Star Wars, and from 1984 to 2001, Sci-Fi Chronicles seeks out 200 of the greatest galactic creations. Presented in an arresting blend of incisive text, infographic timelines,... |
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Draw Horses in 15 Minutes: Capture the beauty of the equine form
Diana Hand · Ilex
Pages: 112
Format: Print book
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Continuing the success of the Draw in 15 Minutes series, horse artist Diana Hand shows you how to express your love of horses through drawing. In a series of tutorials, she describes every stage from finding your model and learning the basic skills of drawing to portraying the movement... |
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Doctor Who: The Doctor's Lives and Times
James Goss · Harper Design
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
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"I'm the Doctor. I'm a Time Lord. I'm from the planet Gallifrey in the constellation of Kasterborous. And I'm the man who's going to save your life."This is the story of an impossible life - of a man who borrowed a spaceship, travelled through time and continually... |
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John Wayne: The Life and Legend
Scott Eyman · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 658
Format: Book
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Drawing on interviews that author Scott Eyman conducted with John Wayne before his death and more than 100 interviews with the actor's family, co-stars, and close associates, this revelatory biography shows how both the facts and fictions about Wayne illuminate his singular life.John Wayne... |
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How to Fake Real Beauty: Tricks of the Trade to Master Your Makeup
Ramy Gafni · Running Press
Format: eBook
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Celebrity makeup artist and TV makeover specialist Ramy Gafni knows no one is born perfect, not even his famous clients. In How to Fake Real Beauty, the makeup guru shares his secrets to enhancing a woman's natural beauty while "faking" what she doesn't have.Some people are thought... |
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No Simple Highway: A Cultural History of the Grateful Dead
Peter Richardson · St. Martin's Press; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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For almost three decades, the Grateful Dead was America's most popular touring band. No Simple Highway is the first book to ask the simple question of why--and attempt to answer it. Drawing on new research, interviews, and a fresh supply of material from the Grateful Dead archives,... |
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Popular Sheet Music - 30 Hits from 2010-2013
Hal Leonard Corp. · Hal Leonard Corporation
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback
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A concise collection of 30 big hits, including: Call Me Maybe * Girl on Fire * Home * If I Die Young * Just Give Me a Reason * Little Talks * Next to Me * Radioactive * Royals * Some Nights * Stay * Titanium * and more. |
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Women of Will: Following the Feminine in Shakespeare's Plays
Tina Packer · Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From one of the country's foremost experts on Shakespeare and theatre arts, actor, director, and master teacher Tina Packer offers an exploration - fierce, funny, fearless - of the women of Shakespeare's plays. A profound, and profoundly illuminating, book that gives us the playwright's... |
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Sitcom: A History in 24 Episodes from I Love Lucy to Community
Saul Austerlitz · Chicago Review Press
Pages: 406
Format: Paperback
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The form is so elemental, so basic, that we have difficulty imagining a time before it existed: a single set, fixed cameras, canned laughter, zany sidekicks, quirky family antics. Obsessively watched and critically ignored, sitcoms were a distraction, a gentle lullaby of a kinder, gentler... |
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Diary of a Madman: The Geto Boys, Life, Death, and the Roots of Southern Rap
Scarface · It Books
Pages: 223
Format: Print book
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From Geto Boys legend and renowned storyteller Scarface, comes a passionate memoir about how hip-hop changed the life of a kid from the south side of Houston, and how he rose to the top-and ushered in a new generation of rap dominance. ?Scarface is the celebrated rapper whose hits include... |
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Dancing With Myself
Billy Idol · Touchstone
Format: Hardcover
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In this original memoir following Billy Idol from his childhood in England to his fame at the height of the punk-pop revolution, the iconic superstar tells the real story behind the sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll that he is famous for. A member of the punk rock revolution whose music... |
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How to Draw Cats and Kittens: A Complete Guide for Beginners
J C Amberlyn · Monacelli Studio
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
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In this step-by-step guide, J. C. Amberlyn combines her love of cats with her beautiful, detailed drawing style in order to teach beginning artists to draw many different breeds of cats and kittens in pencil and pen-and-ink. Cats are creatures of beauty and mystery. They live among us but have... |
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