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Black Girls Rock!: Owning Our Magic. Rocking Our Truth.

BEVERLY BOND · Atria / 37 INK
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

From the founder of the mentoring organization and awards show Black Girls Rock! comes an inspiring and beautifully-designed tribute to the achievements and contributions of black women around the world, featuring moving entries from icons like Kerry Washington, Angela Davis, Misty Copeland,...
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Mademoiselle: Coco Chanel and the Pulse of History

Rhonda K. Garelick · Random House
Format: Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLERCertain lives are at once so exceptional, and yet so in step with their historical moments, that they illuminate cultural forces far beyond the scope of a single person. Such is the case with Coco Chanel, whose life offers one of the most fascinating tales of the twentieth...
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David Bellamy's Winter Landscapes: in Watercolour

David Bellamy · Search Press
Format: Print book

Watercolour landscape expert and renowned author, David Bellamy, has a particular liking for winter subjects, since the landscape at this time is not overwhelmed with green. Here he shares his expertise in capturing winter scenes, from how to wrap up and do rapid outdoor sketches to capturing...
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Why You Love Music: From Mozart to Metallica--The Emotional Power of Beautiful Sounds

John Powell · Little
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

A delightful journey through the psychology and science of music, WHY YOU LOVE MUSIC is the perfect book for anyone who loves a tune.Music plays a hugely important role in our emotional, intellectual, and even physical lives. It impacts the ways we work, relax, behave, and feel. It can make...
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Taxidermy Art: A Rogue's Guide to the Work, the Culture, and How to Do It Yourself

Robert Marbury · Artisan
Format: Hardcover

In this collection of taxidermy art, you’ll find a winged monkey with a fez and a martini glass, a jewel-encrusted piglet, a bionic fawn, and a polar bear balancing on a floating refrigerator. Author Robert Marbury makes for a friendly (and often funny) guide, addressing the three...
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Drawing Type: An Introduction to Illustrating Letterforms

Alex Fowkes · Rockport Publishers
Pages: 208
Format: Print book

Part inspiration and part workbook, these hand-drawn type of images will inspire and excite any designer to draw and explore type. Drawing Type features real-world projects and sketchbooks of well-known type designers, including interviews about their processes. Playful, hand-drawn type...
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5-Minute Sketching -- People: Super-quick Techniques for Amazing Drawings

Pete Scully · Firefly Books
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback

Sketching has become an extremely popular pastime. For example, on YouTube, "Tips to Draw Better in 6 Minutes" has 1.7 million views, and "How to Draw Better in 2 Minutes", has 2 million views. Every day, the website @SketchDailies tweets an "inspiration" to 45,000...
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The Making of Gone With The Wind

Steve Wilson · University of Texas Press
Format: Hardcover

Gone With The Wind is one of the most popular movies of all time. To commemorate its seventy-fifth anniversary in 2014, The Making of Gone With The Wind presents more than 600 items from the archives of David O. Selznick, the films producer, and his business partner John Hay Jock Whitney,...
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Art, Inc.: The Essential Guide for Building Your Career as an Artist

Lisa Congdon · Chronicle Books
Format: Print book

You don't have to starve to be an artist. Build a career doing what you love. In this practical guide, professional artist Lisa Congdon reveals the many ways you can earn a living by making art - through illustration, licensing, fine art sales, print sales, teaching, and beyond. Including...
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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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Roadshow!: The Fall of Film Musicals in the 1960s

Matthew Kennedy · Oxford University Press US
Pages: 307
Format: Hardcover

Full-page newspaper ads announced the date. Reserved seats went on sale at premium prices. Audience members dressed up and arrived early to peruse the program during the overture that preceded the curtain's rise. And when the show began, it was--a rather disappointing film musical.In...
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The Show That Never Ends: The Rise and Fall of Prog Rock

David Weigel · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

The wildly entertaining story of progressive rock, the music that ruled the 1970s charts -- and has divided listeners ever since.The Show That Never Ends is the definitive story of the extraordinary rise and fall of progressive ("prog") rock. Epitomized by such classic, chart-topping...
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Newcomb Pottery: A Visual Treasury

Pelican Publishing Company · Pelican Publishing; 2 edition
Format: Print book

A stunning pictorial history of an enduring New Orleans legacy. Decorated with Louisiana irises and Southern pines, the crafts created by the ladies of Newcomb College during the early 20th century represent some of New Orleans' most iconic and distinctive art. Exhibited in more than...
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Avedon's France: Old World, New Look

Robert M. Rubin · ABRAMS
Pages: 792
Format: Print book

Exploring Richard Avedon's fascination with France, Avedon's France brings together a collection of spectacular photographs; selected interviews, letters, publications, and writings (including new material from the Avedon Foundation archives) ; and substantive essays by the authors. In addition...
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Elsa Schiaparelli: A Biography

Meryle Secrest · Knopf; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Her name was Elsa Schiaparelli. She was known as the Queen of Fashion; a headline attraction in the international glitter-glamour show of the late twenties and thirties, feted in Rome (where she was born), Paris, New York, London, Moscow, Hollywood . . . Her style was a social revolution...
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