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Dream Cars: Innovative Design, Visionary Ideas
Sarah Schleuning · Skira Rizzoli
Format: Hardcover
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A sensuously designed showcase of covetable concept or limited-edition cars by the best American and European manufacturers. Dream Cars presents some of the world's most breathtaking concept cars built between 1934 and 2001, a series of visionary designs that influenced the automotive... |
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De Niro: A Life
Shawn Levy · Crown Archetype
Format: Kindle Edition
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REMARKABLE BIOGRAPHY OF AN ICONThere's little debate that Robert De Niro is one of the greatest screen actors of his generation, perhaps of all time--if not, in fact, the greatest. His work, particularly in the first 20 years of his career, is unparalleled. Mean Streets, the Godfather... |
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Black Broadway: African Americans on the Great White Way
Stewart F Lane · Square One Publishers
Pages: 275
Format: Print book
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The African-American actors and actresses whose names have shone brightly on Broadway marquees earned their place in history not only through hard work, perseverance, and talent, but also because of the legacy left by those who came before them. Like the doors of many professions, those... |
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This Is the Day: The March on Washington
Leonard Freed · J. Paul Getty Museum; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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This Is the Day: The March on Washington is a stirring photo-essay by photographer Leonard Freed documenting the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom of August 28, 1963, the historic day on which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech at the base... |
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Every Song Ever: Twenty Ways to Listen in an Age of Musical Plenty
Ben Ratliff · Farrar
Pages: 272
Format: Print book
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What does it mean to listen in the digital era? Today, new technologies make it possible to roam instantly and experimentally across musical languages and generations, from Detroit techno to jam bands to baroque opera -- or to dive deeper into the set of tastes that we already have. Either... |
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The Life and Times of Mickey Rooney
William J Birnes · Gallery Books
Pages: 601
Format: Print book
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A definitive biography of the iconic actor and Hollywood legend Mickey Rooney (1920-2014) and his extravagant, sometimes tawdry life, drawing on exclusive interviews, and with those who knew him best, including his heretofore unknown mistress of sixty years."I lived like a rock... |
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Lee Miller: A Woman's War
Hilary Roberts · Thames & Hudson Ltd. 2015.
Pages: 224
Format: Print book
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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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Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina
Misty Copeland · Touchstone Books, published by Simon & Schuster
Pages: 278
Format: Print book
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Determination meets dance in this memoir by the history-making ballerina.In this instant New York Times bestseller, Misty Copeland makes history, telling the story of her journey to become the first African-American principal ballerina at the prestigious American Ballet Theatre. But when... |
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Ciao, Carpaccio!: An Infatuation
Jan Morris · Liveright; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Jan Morris returns to Venice in this loving tribute to one of the great Renaissance masters.In the course of writing Venice, her 1961 classic, Jan Morris became fascinated by the historical presence of a sometimes-overlooked Venetian painter. Nowadays the name of Vittore Carpaccio (1460-1520)... |
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Magnum Photobook: The Catalogue Raisonne
Carole Naggar · Phaidon Press
Pages: 272
Format: Print book
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The first complete illustrated bibliography of 1,000 iconic photobooks created by members of the renowned photo agencyPublished on the occasion of Magnum Photos' seventieth anniversary, this fascinating in-depth survey brings Magnum's history alive through the genre of the photobook... |
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Master Thieves: The Boston Gangsters Who Pulled Off the World’s Greatest Art Heist
Stephen Kurkjian · PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive story of the greatest art theft in history.In a secret meeting in 1981, a low-level Boston thief gave career gangster Ralph Rossetti the tip of a lifetime: the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum was a big score waiting to happen. Though its collections included priceless artworks... |
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Homeward Bound: The Life of Paul Simon
Peter Ames Carlin · Thorndike Press Large Print
Pages: 617
Format: Hardcover
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A revelatory account of the life of beloved American music icon, Paul Simon, by the bestselling rock biographer Peter Ames CarlinTo have been alive during the last sixty years is to have lived with the music of Paul Simon. The boy from Queens scored his first hit record in 1957, just months... |
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Capturing Music: The Story of Notation
Thomas Forrest Kelly · W. W. Norton & Company; Har/Com edition
Format: Hardcover
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An entertaining history of how musicians learned to record music for all time, filled with art that sings. In today's digital landscape, we have the luxury of experiencing music anytime, anywhere. But before this instant accessibility and dizzying array of formats -- before CDs, the eight-track... |
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Here We Are Now: The Lasting Impact of Kurt Cobain
Charles R. Cross · It Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In Here We Are Now: The Lasting Impact of Kurt Cobain, Charles R. Cross, author of the New York Times bestselling Cobain biography Heavier Than Heaven, examines the legacy of the Nirvana front man and takes on the question: why does Kurt Cobain still matter so much, 20 years after his death?Kurt... |
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