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Wabi-Sabi Art Workshop: Mixed Media Techniques for Embracing Imperfection and Celebrating Happy Accidents

Serena Barton · North Light Books
Format: Paperback

Are you inspired by the little things, the bits others might overlook? A crack in the sidewalk? The trunk of a fallen tree? Shards of broken pottery? Do you want your artwork to speak to the abstract nature of color, and shape and texture, composition and mood?With Wabi-Sabi Art Workshop,...
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Titanic Voices: Memories from the Fateful Voyage

Donald Hyslop · St Martins Pr
Pages: 296
Format: Hardcover

Including previously unpublished interviews with and letters written by survivors, along with forty-two color photographs, a book of memorabilia about the Titanic disaster presents the firsthand accounts of witnesses.
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Hairspray: Piano/Vocal Selections

Marc Shaimann · Hal Leonard
Pages: 120
Format: Paperback

(Vocal Selections) . Tony-winning musical Hairspray is the latest feel-good Broadway blockbuster, based on the 1988 John Waters movie of the same title. The music is by Marc Shaiman (who wrote the clever score to the musical film South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut ) , with lyrics...
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Who We Were: A Snapshot History of America

Michael Williams · CityFiles Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

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The Indie Band Survival Guide, 2nd Ed.: The Complete Manual for the Do-it-Yourself Musician

Randy Chertkow · St. Martin's Griffin; Second Edition edition
Format: Paperback

Chertkow and Feehan are the ideal mentors for aspiring indie musicians who want to navigate an ever-changing music industry. -Billboard MagazineNewly revised and expanded, the acclaimed handbook for musicians looking to write, record, and promote without a label More musicians are recording,...
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Piano White Pages Vol. 2

Hal Leonard Corp. · Hal Leonard Corporation
Pages: 1024
Format: Paperback

Here are 200 more songs with no duplication from Volume 1] This volume includes: All by Myself * Annie's Song * At Seventeen * Autumn Leaves * Beyond the Sea * Blowin' in the Wind * Blue Velvet * Bridge over Troubled Water * Candle in the Wind * Close to You * Constant Craving...
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Making Movies with Your iPhone

Ben Harvell · Pixiq
Format: Paperback

All iPhone owners know that this amazingly sophisticated piece of equipment can take wonderfully artistic photos--but not everyone realizes how great it is for making movies Now the secret is out In this first and only book exclusively dedicated to shooting video with an iPhone technology...
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The Scopes Trial: A Photographic History

Edward Caudill · University of Tennessee Press
Pages: 112
Format: Hardcover

It was a big story in a small place. During the summer of 1925, the tiny hamlet of Dayton, Tennessee, became the setting for one of the most controversial trials in American history. In a move designed partly as a publicity scheme and partly as a means to test a newly enacted anti-evolution...
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Jazz 101: A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Jazz

John Szwed · Hyperion
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback

Anyone interested in learning about a distinct musicjazzwill welcome this newest addition to the popular 101 reference series. Noted anthropologist, critic, and musical scholar John F. Szwed takes readers on a tour of the musics tangled history and explores how it developed from an ethnic...
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Retro Photo: An Obsession: A Personal Selection of Vintage Cameras and the Photographs They Take

David Ellwand · Candlewick Studio
Pages: 212
Format: Print book

With exquisite original photos and boundless enthusiasm, David Ellwand offers a love song to film photography and the vintage cameras that capture it.From the pinhole to the Pentax, Retro Photo: An Obsession is a visual journey through the history of photography, highlighting some of the iconic...
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