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5-Minute Sketching -- Architecture: Super-quick Techniques for Amazing Drawings
Liz Steel · Firefly Books
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
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Sketching has become very popular. In more than 60 cities around the world, from New Jersey, San Diego, and Montreal to as far as Moscow and Australia, "sketch crawls" find artists drawing what they see. A new social network has emerged where these sketch artists meet for group... |
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Play It Loud: An Epic History of the Style, Sound, and Revolution of the Electric Guitar
Brad Tolinski · Doubleday Canada
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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By a pair of veteran music writers, an unprecedented history of the electric guitar, its explosive impact on music and culture, and the people who brought it to life For generations the electric guitar has been an international symbol of freedom, danger, rebellion, and hedonism. In Play... |
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Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story
Rick Bragg · Harper; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times BestsellerThe greatest Southern storyteller of our time, New York Times bestselling author Rick Bragg, tracks down the greatest rock and roller of all time, Jerry Lee Lewis - and gets his own story, from the source, for the very first time.A monumental figure on the American... |
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Frank Sinatra - Centennial Songbook
Frank Sinatra · Hal Leonard
Format: Musical score
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(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). 2015 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Frank Sinatra and celebrations and concerts are planned for the whole year. This songbook gathers 100 of Ol' Blue Eyes' finest in a fitting tribute to one of the greatest entertainers of all time!... |
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National Geographic Rarely Seen: Photographs of the Extraordinary
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC. · National Geographic
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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National Geographic's dazzling photography book of visual wonders, shot by some of the world's finest photographers, reveals a world very few will have the chance to see for themselves. This New York Times bestseller features striking images of places, events, natural phenomena, and manmade... |
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Greenback Dollar: The Incredible Rise of The Kingston Trio
William J. Bush · Scarecrow Press
Format: Paperback
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How big an act was the Kingston Trio? Big enough that the their first 19 albums not only reached Billboard's Top 100, but 14 of them entered the top 10, with five albums alone hitting the no. 1 spot! At the height of their popularity, the Kingston Trio was arguably the most popular... |
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Every Trick in the Book
Charlie Dancey · The Overlook Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Can you make a coin disappear? Or move a matchbook with your mind? As Charlie Dancey shows in this amazing book, the secret is simpler than one would ever guess. From unicycles to levitation to linking rings and other sleights-of-hand, Every Trick in the Book is the quirky, quintessential... |
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William Cameron Menzies: The Shape of Films to Come
James Curtis · Pantheon Books, 2015.
Pages: 432
Format: Print book
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He was the consummate designer of film architecture on a grand scale, influenced by German expressionism and the work of the great European directors. He was known for his visual flair and timeless innovation, a man who meticulously preplanned the color and design of each film through a series... |
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The History of Music in Fifty Instruments
Philip Wilkinson · Firefly Books
Format: Hardcover
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The 400-year story of music told by the instruments that make an orchestra. The History of Music in 50 Instruments outlines musical history in well-written nuggets of information. Profiling one instrument at a time, it describes the history of music since the 1700s, when orchestras... |
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The Art of Star Wars: The Last Jedi
PHIL SZOSTAK · Abrams
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens shattered box-office records as one of the highest-grossing films of all time, and its eagerly awaited sequel, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, is sure to do the same. Written and directed by Rian Johnson (Looper, The Brothers Bloom, Brick) and production designed... |
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American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell
Deborah Solomon · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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Welcome to Rockwell Land, writes Deborah Solomon in the introduction to this spirited and authoritative biography of the painter who provided twentieth-century America with a defining image of itself. As the star illustrator of The Saturday Evening Post for nearly half a century, Norman... |
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