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Paint Like The Masters: An excellent way to learn from those who have much to teach
Parramón Editorial Team · Barron's Educational Series
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
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Copying the works of the great painting masters is not a simple exercise in mimicry. It is a formative practice for artists of all levels who desire to make progress in the medium. It is also a valuable tool for art history lovers and students who wish to increase their knowledge of the techniques... |
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Stand Up Straight and Sing!
Jessye Norman · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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One of America's most admired and decorated artists tells her amazing story, from her childhood in the South to the world's greatest stages.Jessye Norman is not only one of the world's most admired and beloved singers, she is an American icon whose life story is as moving and dramatic... |
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Daily show - the book : an oral history
Chris Smith · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 459
Format: Print book
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The complete, uncensored history of the award-winning The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, as told by its correspondents, writers, and host. For almost seventeen years, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart brilliantly redefined the borders between television comedy, political satire, and opinionated... |
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Becoming Richard Pryor
Scott Saul · Harper
Format: Hardcover
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A major biography—intimate, gripping, revelatory—of an artist who revolutionized American comedy.Richard Pryor may have been the most unlikely star in Hollywood history. Raised in his familys brothels, he grew up an outsider to privilege. He took to the stage, originally, to escape... |
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Garden Design: A Book of Ideas
Heidi Howcroft · Firefly Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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Author Marianne Majerus was one of three photographers for the seminal book by Prince Charles, HRH The Prince of Wales, Highgrove: A Garden Celebrated, published in 2014, which Camilla Swift of Gardens Illustrated praised for its photographs, "images so breathtaking I want to jump... |
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The Language of Houses
Alison Lurie · Delphinium
Format: Hardcover
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In 1981 Alison Lurie published The Language of Clothes, a meditation on costume and fashion as an expression of history, social status and individual psychology. Amusing, enlightening and full of literary allusion, the book was highly praised and widely anthologized.Now Lurie has returned... |
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The Atlas of Beauty: Women of the World in 500 Portraits
MIHAELA NOROC · Ten Speed Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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Based on the author's online photography project, this stunning collection features portraits of 500 women from more than 50 countries, accompanied by revelatory captions that capture their personal stories. Since 2013 photographer Mihaela Noroc has traveled the world with her backpack... |
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Ansel Adams: The National Parks Service Photographs
ANSEL ADAMS · Abbeville Press
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover
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In 1941, Ansel Adams photographed America's national parks for a series of murals that would celebrate the country's natural heritage. Because of the escalation of World War II, the project was suspended after less than a year, but not before Adams had produced these images, which illustrate... |
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Love for Sale: Pop Music in America
David Hajdu · Farrar
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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A personal, idiosyncratic history of popular music that also may well be definitive, from the revered music criticDavid Hajdu begins Love for Sale, his personal history of recorded pop music, in an unexpected place--not with nostalgic reminiscences of the 45s of his youth but with the sheet-music... |
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I Didn't Come Here to Make Friends: Confessions of a Reality Show Villain
Courtney Robertson · It Books
Format: Hardcover
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In I Didnt Come Here to Make Friends former Bachelor villain and season 16 winner Courtney Robertson shares her story of love and heartbreak, and the reality of appearing on reality TV. For the first time ever, a former Bachelor contestant takes us along on her journey to find love... |
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Plain Simple Useful: The Essence of Conran Style
Terence Conran · Conran Octopus
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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Terence Conran has always believed that objects - and surroundings - that are plain, simple and useful are the key to easy living. By being practical and performing well over time, they are as much the antidote to superficial styling as they are to the shoddy and second-rate. Applied to the home... |
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