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The First Signs: My Quest to Unlock the Mysteries of the World's Oldest Symbols
Genevieve Von Petzinger · Atria Books
Pages: 307
Format: Print book |
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"One of the most significant works on our evolutionary ancestry since Richard Leakey's paradigm-shattering Origins, The First Signs is the first-ever exploration of the little-known geometric images that accompany most cave art around the world-- the first indications of symbolic meaning,... |
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Imagine A Forest: Designs and Inspirations for Enchanting Folk Art
Dinara Mirtalipova · Rock Point
Pages: 144
Format: Print book |
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Imagine A Forest explores the unique style of illustrator Dinara Mirtalipova, which is rooted in the rich traditions of Eastern European folklore. This design guide features instructions and tips on how to draw your own beautiful art in a modern folklore style. Create charming flowers,... |
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Drawing Perspective: How to See It and How to Apply It
Matthew T Brehm · Barron's
Pages: 144
Format: Print book |
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Here's a hands-on guide to perspective that's for anyone who wants to draw or paint--in any genre or medium. It's partly about learning how to draw a set of straight lines that meet at a point, but it's not filled with lots of dull, dry theory (although it does explain how it all works)... |
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Dressing the Decades: Twentieth-Century Vintage Style
Emmanuelle Dirix · Yale University Press
Pages: 224
Format: Print book |
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An authoritative and visually stunning look at the fashion of the 20th century, Dressing the Decades examines in depth the origins of the most important luxury garments. Each sumptuously illustrated chapter features a detailed overview of a particular decade, including the historical events,... |
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The Grail Guitar: The Search for Jimi Hendrix's Purple Haze Telecaster
Chris Adams · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 238
Format: Hardcover |
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In The Grail Guitar: The Search for Jimi Hendrix's Purple Haze Telecaster, Chris Adams takes readers on a fascinating mystery tour to determine whether a Fender Telecaster bought secondhand in a London music store in 1973 was the one used by Jimi Hendrix to record "Purple Haze"... |
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Architecture at the End of the Earth: Photographing the Russian North
William Craft Brumfield · Duke University Press Books
Format: Hardcover |
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Carpeted in boreal forests, dotted with lakes, cut by rivers, and straddling the Arctic Circle, the region surrounding the White Sea, which is known as the Russian North, is sparsely populated and immensely isolated. It is also the home to architectural marvels, as many of the original... |
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The Best American Infographics 2016
Gareth Cook · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 180
Format: Print book |
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"When it comes to infographics ... the best work in this field grabs those eyes, keeps them glued, and the grip is sensual - and often immediate. A good graphic says 'See what I see!' and either you do or you don't. The best ones ... pull you right in, and won't let you go."... |
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Castles: Their History and Evolution in Medieval Britain
Marc Morris · Pegasus Books
Pages: 288
Format: Print book |
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From the author of The Norman Conquest and A Great and Terrible King comes a sweeping and stunning history of the most magnificent castles in Britain. Beginning with their introduction in the eleventh century, and ending with their widespread abandonment in the seventeenth, Marc Morris... |
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Hamilton: The Revolution
Lin-Manuel Miranda · Grand Central Pub.
Pages: 287
Format: Print book |
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Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for DramaLin-Manuel Miranda's groundbreaking musical Hamilton is as revolutionary as its subject, the poor kid from the Caribbean who fought the British, defended the Constitution, and helped to found the United States. Fusing hip-hop, pop, R&B, and the best... |
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Windows on the World: Fifty Writers, Fifty Views
Matteo Pericoli · Penguin Press HC, The
Format: Hardcover |
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Fifty of the world’s greatest writers share their views in collaboration with the artist Matteo Pericoli, expanding our own views on place, creativity, and the meaning of homeAll of us, at some point in our daily lives, have found ourselves looking out the window. We pause in... |
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Prefabulous Small Houses
Sheri Koones · The Taunton Press
Pages: 224
Format: Print book |
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Prefab home construction has arrived. The benefits of buildings a prefab home (they are better built, use resources more efficiently, and are healthier to live in) apply just as well to vacation homes as they do to primary residences. Prefabulous Small Houses explores the beauty, variety,... |
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The Black Panthers: Portraits from an Unfinished Revolution
Bryan Shih · Nation Books
Pages: 288
Format: Print book |
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October 2016 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party, an organization that remains one of the most misunderstood of the twentieth century. But beyond the labels of "extremist" and "violent" that have marked the party, and behind charismatic... |
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Palm Springs Paradise
Peter Moruzzi · Gibbs Smith
Format: Hardcover |
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This book collects more than two hundred fascinating and rarely seen historical photographs of Palm Springs, newly digitized from the Palm Springs Historical Societys expansive archive. Featured are many Hollywood celebrities, including Sinatra and the Rat Pack, who vacationed there, the early... |
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