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Bon Jovi: The Story

Bryan Reesman · Sterling
Pages: 208
Format: Print book

With their catchy hooks, good looks, and irresistible pop-metal sound, Bon Jovi became one of the bestselling bands of all time. Bon Jovi: The Story is the first fully illustrated comprehensive book paying tribute to the mega-popular group from their beginning 30 years ago - when...
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Tune In: The Beatles: All These Years

Mark Lewisohn · Crown Archetype; First U. S. Edition First Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

Tune In is the first volume of All These Years—a highly-anticipated, groundbreaking biographical trilogy by the world's leading Beatles historian. Mark Lewisohn uses his unprecedented archival access and hundreds of new interviews to construct the full story of the lives and work...
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Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!: The Story of Pop Music from Bill Haley to Beyoncé

Bob Stanley · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

An addictively readable, encyclopedic history of pop music in chapters as short and adrenaline-fueled as the best pop songs themselves. As much fun to argue with as to quote, Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! is a monumental work of musical history, tracing the story of pop music through individual songs,...
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Young Frankenstein: A Mel Brooks Book: The Story of the Making of the Film

Mel Brooks · Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Pages: 200
Format: Print book

Mel Brooks' own words telling all about the players, the filming, and studio antics during the production of this great comedy classic. The book is alive and teeming with hundreds of photos, original interviews, and hilarious commentary. """Young Frankenstein" was made...
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More Creative Lettering: Techniques & Tips from Top Artists

Jenny Doh · Lark Books (NC)
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback

Creative Lettering was so popular that crafters wanted MORE. Welcome this fabulous follow-up to that bestselling book, featuring 15 entirely new contributors. Jenny Doh has gathered a variety of big names and talented up-and-coming artists, who all provide tips on their favorite forms on hand...
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Pet Photography: From Snapshots to Great Shots

Alan Hess · Peachpit Press; 1 edition
Format: Print book

This new entry in the From Snapshots to Great Shots series will teach readers everything they need to know about photographing their pets. Like all books in the series, the book will offer instruction on basic photographic technique, discussing exposure settings, lighting, equipment, etc....
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Sketching People: An Urban Sketcher's Manual to Drawing Figures and Faces

Lynne Chapman · Barron's Educational Series
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback

Drawing people in the outside world can be a real thrill; each sketch captures a particular person and place in time. But it can also be a challenge. How do you spot a likely subject? How do you choose the person most likely to stay still? How do you draw movement for the person that refuses...
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The Southern Journey of Alan Lomax: Words, Photographs, and Music

Tom Piazza · W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book

A Best Photo Book of 2012 by American Photo. A new look at the legendary folklorist and his work. More than fifty years ago, on a trip dubbed “the Southern Journey,” Alan Lomax visited Virginia, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky, and Tennessee, uncovering the little-known...
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CorelDRAW X7: The Official Guide

Gary David Bouton · Mcgraw-Hill
Pages: 674
Format: Print book

The Only Corel-Authorized Guide to CorelDRAW X7 CorelDRAW X7: The Official Guide shows you how to create photorealistic illustrations, lay out text and graphics, import and edit photos, add special effects to vector art and photos, and transform 2D objects into 3D artwork. You'll also...
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How to Kill a Vampire: Fangs in Folklore, Film and Fiction

Liisa Ladouceur · ECW Press
Format: Paperback

Vampires exist. And in every culture with a legend about bloodsuckers that rise from the grave to prey upon the living, there are rules and rituals for how to destroy them. How to Kill a Vampire is the first book to focus specifically on all known ways to prevent vampirism, protect oneself...
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Lee Miller: A Woman's War

Hilary Roberts · Thames & Hudson Ltd. 2015.
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

The first in-depth look at Lee Miller's perspective on women in the Second World War, as seen through her photography and commentary from experts in the field Lee Miller photographed innumerable women during her career, first as a fashion photographer and then as a journalist during...
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Mathew Brady: Portraits of a Nation

Robert Wilson · Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover

In the s and s Brady of Broadway was one of the most successful and acclaimed Manhattan portrait galleries Henry Clay Daniel Webster Dolley Madison Henry James as a boy with his father Horace Greeley Edgar Allan Poe the Prince of Wales and Jenny Lind were among the dignitaries photographed...
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Inside the Magic: The Making of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Ian Nathan · Harper Design
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover

Return to the wizarding world and discover how director David Yates and producer David Heyman brought J.K. Rowling's all new adventure, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them to the big screen.Inside the Magic: The Making of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them introduces filmmaking...
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Sharon Tate: Recollection

Debra Tate · Running Press
Pages: 271
Format: Hardcover

Considered by many to be the most beautiful woman of her generation, Sharon Tate remains a fascinating pop icon and a poster child for the 1960s. What struck most about Sharon was her gentle nature and the sheer perfection of her face, but she was far more than just a beauty. The few films...
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Local Glories: Opera Houses on Main Street, Where Art and Community Meet

Ann Satterthwaite · Oxford University Press, USA
Pages: 456
Format: Hardcover

To most people, the term "opera house" conjures up images of mink-coated dowagers accompanied by tuxedo-clad men in the gilded interiors of opulent buildings like the Met in New York or La Scala in Milan. However, the opera house in the United States has a far more varied-and...
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