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Trashures: The Beauty of Useless Stuff

Tineke Meirink · Bis Publishers
Pages: 64
Format: Print book

Have you seen the Waste Land documentary? It's about the largest landfill in the world in Brazil where people make a living out of garbage in the dump. Until artist Vik Muniz comes and Art is born out of rubbish materials and ends up in Phillips, an auction house in London, one of the most...
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Songs of the 1980s: The New Decade Series with Online Play-Along Backing Tracks

Hal Leonard Corp. · Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook) . This songbook doubles as a time capsule, preserving over 80 of the '80s best arranged for P/V/G with great orchestrated backing tracks so you can play and sound like a pro. You access the tracks online for streaming or download. Songs include: Addicted...
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Elvis: My Best Man: Radio Days, Rock 'n' Roll Nights, and My Lifelong Friendship with Elvis Presley

George Klein · Crown Archetype; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

When George Klein was an eighth grader at Humes High, he couldn’t have known how important the new kid with the guitar—the boy named Elvis—would later become in his life. But from the first time GK (as he was nicknamed by Elvis) heard this kid sing, he knew that Elvis...
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TV

Alan Sepinwall · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

Is The Wire better than Breaking Bad? Is Cheers better than Seinfeld? What's the best high school show ever made? Why did Moonlighting really fall apart? Was the Arrested Development Netflix season brilliant or terrible?For twenty years-since they shared a TV column at Tony Soprano's hometown...
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Why You Love Music: From Mozart to Metallica--The Emotional Power of Beautiful Sounds

John Powell · Little
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

A delightful journey through the psychology and science of music, WHY YOU LOVE MUSIC is the perfect book for anyone who loves a tune.Music plays a hugely important role in our emotional, intellectual, and even physical lives. It impacts the ways we work, relax, behave, and feel. It can make...
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The Making of Gone With The Wind

Steve Wilson · University of Texas Press
Format: Hardcover

Gone With The Wind is one of the most popular movies of all time. To commemorate its seventy-fifth anniversary in 2014, The Making of Gone With The Wind presents more than 600 items from the archives of David O. Selznick, the films producer, and his business partner John Hay Jock Whitney,...
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Watercolor Techniques : Painting Light & Color in Landscapes & Cityscapes

Michael Reardon · North Light Books
Pages: 144
Format:  Print book : English

"No other medium is as magical and enjoyable as watercolor." So says artist and author Michael Reardon. In Watercolor Techniques: Painting Light and Color in Landscapes and Cityscapes, Reardon covers it all, from answers to beginners' most vexing problems (What is the proper ratio...
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Culture Typography: How Culture Affects Typography

Nikki Villagomez · HOW Books
Pages: 203
Format: Print book

Inspire your type designs with the side-by-side travel photo comparisons in Culture Typograhpy by Nikki Villagomez. Each image features examples of typography in culture and is accompanied by cultural and historical commentary. Explore how design choices can be informed by the language...
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Songs of the 1990s: The New Decade Series with Online Play-Along Backing Tracks

Hal Leonard Corp. · Hal Leonard
Pages: 455
Format: Musical score

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook) . 81 of the decade's best arranged for piano and voice with guitar chord frames and including great orchestrated backing tracks so you can play and sound like a pro. You access the tracks online for streaming or download. Songs include: Angel * Barely...
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100 Photographs: The Most Influential Images of All Time

The Editors of TIME Magazine · Time Home Entertainment
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Since its inception, TIME magazine has been synonymous not just with outstanding journalism, but also with outstanding photography. Now, to mark the 175th anniversary of photography and the birth of photojournalism, the Editors of TIME magazine are publishing this companion book to the groundbreaking...
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Jean-Michel Basquiat: Words Are All We Have

Dieter Buchhart · Hatje Cantz Publishers
Pages: 208
Format: Print book

Language in the art of Jean-Michel Basquiat, from graffiti to word as motifIn the wild New York of the 1980s, Jean-Michel Basquiat was the first African-American artist to receive art-world attention. The complexity and trailblazing innovative power of his paintings has been widely discussed,...
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Aircraft: The Definitive Visual History

Dorling Kindersley Inc. · DK
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

From the first prototypes of flying machines to today's supersonic jets, the history and roles of aircraft are explored in this beautifully illustrated guide. Aviation enthusiasts of all stripes and ages will welcome learning more about key brands and big players from yesterday and today...
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Songs of the 1960s: The New Decade Series with Online Play-Along Backing Tracks

Hal Leonard Corp. · Hal Leonard
Pages: 416
Format: Musical score

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook) . 101 songs that defined the 1960s with all its revolutions in music and pop culture. The book includes optional orchestrated backing tracks for each song so you can sound like a pro. You access the tracks online for streaming or download. Songs include: All You Need...
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Leningrad: Siege and Symphony: The Story of the Great City Terrorized by Stalin, Starved by Hitler, Immortalized by Shostakovich

Brian Moynahan · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 542
Format: Hardcover

Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony was first played in the city of its birth on 9 August, 1942. There has never been a first performance to match it. Pray God, there never will be again. Almost a year earlier, the Germans had begun their blockade of the city. Already many thousands had died...
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Painting Party: Acrylic Painting for Beginners

Anna Bartlett · North Light Books
Pages: 127
Format: Print book

Shiny happy paintings you can complete in an evening! Simply follow the steps to fun, beautiful paintings! Anna Bartlett has led hundreds of enthusiastic new painters through paint-alongs in her studio. It's a fun, stress-free way to experience the joy of painting while completing an original...
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