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Leonardo's Brain: Understanding Da Vinci's Creative Genius

Leonard Shlain · Lyons Press; First edition
Format: Hardcover

Best-selling author Leonard Shlain explores the potential for humankind through the life, art, and mind of the first true Renaissance man, Leonardo da Vinci. The author hypothesizes that da Vinci's staggering range of achievements demonstrates a harbinger of the future of our species. Da Vinci's...
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Sons of Anarchy: Live to Ride

Running Press · Running Press
Format: Hardcover

Includes 8 temporary tattoos!Revisit some of the most memorable character quotes and images from this adrenalized drama in Sons of Anarchy: Live to Ride. With full-color and black-and-white photographs and iconic quotes from Jax, Clay, Gemma, Opie, Bobby, Tig, Chibs, Tara, and the rest...
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Chart Hits of 2015-2016

Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation. · Hal Leonard, 2015.
Pages: 104
Format: Print book

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook) . Learn to play the hits you've been hearing on the radio all year long!
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Marilyn Monroe Day by Day: A Timeline of People, Places, and Events

Carl Rollyson · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

From hefty biographies and fact-based novels to photograph collections and memoirs, more books have been written about Marilyn Monroe than any other female over the past century. However, no biography - regardless how authoritative - can contain all of the facts and events of an individual's...
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Measure of a Man: From Auschwitz Survivor to Presidents' Tailor

Martin Greenfield · Regnery Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Hes been called Americas greatest living tailor and the most interesting man in the world. Now, for the first time, Holocaust survivor Martin Greenfield tells his incredible life story. Taken from his Czechoslovakian home at age fifteen and transported to the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz...
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The Art of Ballpoint: Experimentation, Exploration, and Techniques in Ink

Matt Rota · Rockport Publishers, 2015.
Pages: 160
Format: Print book

The Art of Ballpoint offers a historical perspective of the pen as an art medium and how it has evolved and grown in popularity. The book features several leading contemporary ballpoint artists who are creating complex and provocative masterpieces. They discuss their methods, the messages...
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Fashion and the art of pochoir : the golden age of illustration in Paris

April Calahan · Thames & Hudson
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

The 1910s and 1920s witnessed an outpouring of luxury fashion publications that used a hand-stenciling technique known as pochoir (French for stencil) . This highly refined, painterly technique, which consists of applying layers of gouache paint or watercolor to achieve bold blocks of saturated...
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Violin For Dummies, 2nd Edition

Katharine Rapoport · For Dummies; 2 edition
Format: Paperback

The bestselling guide to teaching yourself the violin just got betterDespite being one of the most popular musical instruments for budding musicians, the violin has a reputation as being amongst the most difficult to learn. But no longer. Violin for Dummies is packed with the information...
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Steve Schapiro: Then and Now

Matthias Harder · Hatje Cantz
Format: Print book

Steve Schapiro (born 1934) is the photographer behind countless now-classic portraits of rock stars, film stars and politicians from the 1960s and 70s. He has worked as a film set photographer on more than 200 Hollywood movies; he has designed several iconic film posters, most notably for Midnight...
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Wear Your Dreams: My Life in Tattoos

Joel Selvin · Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Book

The memoir of iconic tattoo artist Ed Hardy from his beginnings in 1960s California, to leading the tattoo renaissance and building his name into a hugely lucrative international brand“Ed Hardy” is emblazoned on everything from t-shirts and hats to perfumes and energy...
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Pradasphere

Michael Rock · Progetto Prada Arte
Pages: 326
Format: Print book

Founded in 1913, Prada has evolved into a brand with a unique ability to embed thought-provoking, clever ideas in totally pleasurable objects - from shoes and bags to coats, dresses, and skirts, the clothing makes a statement. And Pradasphere - both in its package and content - does the same....
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A Graveyard Preservation Primer

Lynette Strangstad · AltaMira Press; Second Edition edition
Format: Paperback

A Graveyard Preservation Primer has proven itself to be a time-tested resource for those who are seeking information regarding the protection and preservation of historic graveyards. It was first written to help stewards of early burial grounds responsibly and effectively preserve their...
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The Encyclopedia of Drawing Techniques

Hazel Harrison · Search Press(UK)
Pages: 160
Format: Print book

Detailed photographic sequences explore pencil, charcoal, pen and technical pen techniques, including shading, building up, blending, hatching, highlighting, stippling and more. Colored pencils, chalks, pastels, and pen and ink are also covered with inspirational pictures across a full...
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