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The Living Bird: 100 Years of Listening to Nature

Gerrit Vyn · Mountaineers Books
Pages: 201
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERForeword by Barbara KingsolverOver 250 images by acclaimed wildlife photographer Gerrit VynEssays by Jared Diamond, John W. Fitzpatrick, Lyanda Lynn Haupt, and Scott Weidensaul
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World War I: The Definitive Visual History

R.G. Grant · DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Pages: 360
Format: Hardcover

2014 marks the centennial of the start of World War I - DK will mark the occasion with the publication of World War I: The Definitive Visual Guide, a vividly illustrated, in-depth account of the Great War. Written by historian R. G. Grant, and created by DK's award-winning editorial...
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Fragile Grounds: Louisiana's Endangered Cemeteries

Jessica H Schexnayder · University Press of Mississippi
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover

Fragile Grounds compiles stories and photographs of endangered cemeteries throughout Louisiana's coastal zone and beyond. These burial places link the fragile land to the frailty of the state's threatened community structures. The book highlights the state's vibrant diversity...
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Learn Watercolour Quickly

Hazel Soan · Batsford
Format: Hardcover

Start painting—in just one afternoon! Bestselling author and artist Hazel Soan has distilled all the key elements of creating beautiful watercolors into this concise, accessible, step-by-step guide. Geared to total beginners, Learn Watercolour Quickly covers all the basic techniques from...
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Robert Winthrop Chanler: Discovering the Fantastic

Robert Winthrop Chanler · Vizcaya Museum and Gardens ; New York
Pages: 254
Format: Print book

In collaboration with Miami's Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, a rediscovery of a lost figure of American modernism - the early-twentieth-century American painter born into the Astor family, whose imagination and patrician clientele provide a fascinating artistic and biographical saga. American...
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Louise Bourgeois: Autobiographical Prints

Louise Bourgeois · Hayward Gallery Publishing
Pages: 73
Format: Paperback

Featuring two print series by one of the most influential artists of recent decades, Louise Bourgeois: Autobiographical Prints presents highly personal, dreamlike expressions of this formidable figure. A prolific printmaker, Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) created the Autobiographical series...
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Bob Dylan: American Troubadour

Donald Brown · Scarecrow Press
Pages: 267
Format: Print book

Tempo: A Scarecrow Press Music Series of Rock, Pop, and Culture offers titles that explore rock and popular music through the lens of social and cultural history, revealing the dynamic relationship between musicians, music, and their milieu. Like other major art forms, rock and pop music...
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Grant Wood: American Gothic and Other Fables

Barbara Haskell · Whitney Museum of American Art
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

A major reevaluation of an iconic 20th-century American artist This comprehensive study of Grant Wood (1891-1942) is packed with extensive new scholarship and provides fresh insight into the career of one of the key figures of 20th-century American art. Working primarily in the traditional...
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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

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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Area 51 - Black Jets: A History of the Aircraft Developed at Groom Lake, America's Secret Aviation Base

Bill Yenne · Motorbooks Intl
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

Area 51's most important military aviation developments are profiled in an illustrated format. When most of us think of Area 51, we think of aliens, UFOs, and controversial government cover-ups. It's easy to forget that, since the mid-1950s, the United States' famed extension...
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A Brush with the Real: Figurative Painting Today

Margherita Dessanay · Laurence King Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Why painting today? In the digital age, with its powers of instant recall and infinite reproduction, why are we witnessing an unprecedented revival of figurative painting? A Brush with the Real presents a survey of key contemporary artists who have each embraced painting and are working...
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Draw Manga Faces for Expressive Characters: Learn to Draw More Than 900 Faces

Aya Hosoi · Impact
Pages: 175
Format: Print book

Learn to draw the most expressive manga faces ever!Sure, drawing faces is one of the most challenging aspects of manga. But Draw Manga Faces for Expressive Characters is here to help! This fantastically comprehensive book includes more than 900 sample illustrations that teach key elements...
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Picture This: How Pictures Work

Molly Bang · Chronicle
Pages: 152
Format: Print book

Molly Bang's brilliant, insightful, and accessible treatise is now revised and expanded for its 25th anniversary. Bang's powerful ideas - about how the visual composition of images works to engage the emotions, and how the elements of an artwork can give it the power to tell a story...
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How to Draw and Paint Fantasy Combat: A Step-by-Step Guide to Epic Combat Scenes

Matt Stawicki · Barron's Educational Series
Format: Paperback

One of the hallmarks of fantasy art is incredible combat scenes. Epic battles beneath thundery skies, hand-to-hand combat between good and evil, the lone warrior facing a monstrous foe ... this is what fantasy is all about! For artists, the amount of detail and movement needed to make these...
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The Planets: Photographs from the Archives of NASA

Anthony Casillo · Chronicle Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

This magnificent volume offers a rich visual tour of the planets in our solar system. More than 200 breathtaking photographs from the archives of NASA are paired with extended captions detailing the science behind some of our cosmic neighborhood's most extraordinary phenomena. Images of newly...
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