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The Rough Guide to Canada
Rough Guides. · Rough Guides
Pages: 936
Format: Print book |
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The Rough Guide to Canada is the ultimate guide to this vast and varied land. With plenty of recommendations for things to see and do, from Toronto and Montreal to Vancouver, and from the east coast to the far north, you'll discover all the best this country has to offer. This... |
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Think Big Paint Small: Oil Painting Easier, Faster and Better
Joyce Washor · North Light
Pages: 144
Format: Print book |
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Discover the pleasures of creating big art on a small canvas! There are plenty of reasons to paint small. Smaller canvases allow you to enjoy everything you love about oil painting with less expense, less mess, less space and less time. What could be better?Think Big Paint Small (previously... |
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I'll Be Back Right After This: My Memoir
Pat O'Brien · St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover |
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A New York Times Best seller!Pat O'Brien was a skinny South Dakota kid with long hair, a rock and roll band, divorced parents and an alcoholic father. In all the familiar ways, he was on the road to nowhere until a professor, who envisioned his future as the household name he would... |
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Watercolor Nature - Learn to Paint in 20 Simple Tutorials
Amandine Labarre · Peter Pauper Press Inc.
Pages: 80
Format: Hardcover |
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Learn to paint animals, plants, and the world around you in 20 simple tutorials!Watercolor is a vivid and versatile medium accessible to anyone who can pick up a paintbrush.Master watercolorist Amandine Labarre guides artists of all levels through watercolor fundamentals, breaking down... |
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The Art of Movement
Deborah Ory · Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Pages: 304
Format: Print book |
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A stunning celebration of movement and dance in hundreds of breathtaking photographs of more than 70 dancers from American Ballet Theater, New York City Ballet, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Martha Graham Dance Company, Boston Ballet, Royal Danish Ballet, the Royal Ballet, and many... |
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The Marx Brothers at the Movies
Paul D Zimmerman · Berkley
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback |
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Written in 1968, this is a film-by-film squint at the Marxian masterworks, with plot synopses, sample dialogue, critical reaction and commentary. Entertainingly written and useful for remembering the highlights (and lowlights) of each film. |
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American Quilts: The Democratic Art
Robert Shaw · Sterling
Format: Book |
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Sumptuous, informative, and engaging, this is the ultimate book on American quilts as art—and this edition contains several new quilts, created since the book's original publication. Written by one of the leading scholars in the field, it's a fascinating chronicle of the growth... |
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Psychedelic Bubble Gum: Boyce & Hart, The Monkees, and Turning Mayhem into Miracles
Bobby Hart · Select Books (NY)
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover |
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From the man who wrote the songs that outsold the Beatles and the Rolling Stones in 1967-1968, comes the story of the first decades of his life in Hollywood and New York. Immerse yourself in Grammy, Golden Globe, and Academy Award nominated songwriter Bobby Hart's world as he shares... |
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The Art of Crayon: Draw, Color, Resist, Sculpt, Carve!
Lorraine Bell · Quarry Books
Pages: 160
Format: Print book |
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Create astonishing artwork with crayons!Crayons aren't just for kids anymore!Sculptors use them whole, bundling thousands of crayons to create environmental and installation-size sculptures. Carvers pierce and reshape crayons with scalpels, turning them into mini totems, helixes, and portrait... |
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Mark Rothko: Toward the Light in the Chapel
Annie Cohen-Solal · Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover |
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Mark Rothko, one of the greatest painters of the twentieth century, was born in the Jewish Pale of Settlement in 1903. He immigrated to the United States at age ten, taking with him his Talmudic education and his memories of pogroms and persecutions in Russia. His integration into American... |
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Designing Our Way to a Better World
Thomas Fisher · University of Minnesota Press
Pages: 256
Format: Print book |
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Envisioning what we need, when it doesn't yet exist: this, Thomas Fisher tells us, is what design does. And if what we need now is a better world - functioning schools, working infrastructure, thriving cities - why not design one? Fisher shows how the principles of design apply to services... |
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Watercolor Masters and Legends: Secrets, Stories and Techniques from 34 Visionary Artists
Betsy Dillard Stroud · North Light Books
Pages: 160
Format: Print book |
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Discover the secrets of watercolor mastery! Late 20th and 21st century watercolor artists have transformed the art of watermedia into a golden phenomenon and one of the most significant movements in the history of art. The lives and works of the 34 artists represented here display a multitude... |
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Free to Make: How the Maker Movement is Changing Our Schools, Our Jobs, and Our Minds
Dale Dougherty · North Atlantic Books
Pages: 250
Format: Print book |
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Dale Dougherty, creator of MAKE: magazine and the Maker Faire, provides a guided tour of the international phenomenon known as the Maker Movement, a social revolution that is changing what gets made, how it's made, where it's made, and who makes it. Free to Make is a call to join... |
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