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Ballerina Body: Dancing and Eating Your Way to a Leaner, Stronger, and More Graceful You

Misty Copeland · Grand Central Life & Style
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

The celebrated ballerina and role model, Misty Copeland, shares the secrets of how to reshape your body and achieve a lean, strong physique and glowing health.Misty Copeland believes "There has been a shift in recent years in which women no longer desire the bare bones of a runway...
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Fashion Drawing Course: From Human Figure to Fashion Illustration

Juan Baeza · Promopress
Format: Print book

It is essential for designers to be able to draw the human body in movement, a highly challenging skill that requires taking into account the relationship between the human body, the properties of fabrics, the shape of the clothing, and its response to different movements, the first part...
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Revolution: Russian Art 1917–1932

John Milner · Royal Academy Publications
Pages: 326
Format: Hardcover

One hundred years after the Russian Revolution, this comprehensive survey explores all aspects of its groundbreaking artOne hundred years after the Russian Revolution, Revolution: Russian Art, 1917-1932 explores one of the most momentous periods in modern world history through its groundbreaking...
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To Defend the Revolution Is to Defend Culture: The Cultural Policy of the Cuban Revolution

Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt · Pm Pr, 2015.
Pages: 448
Format: Print book

Based on a four-year research project, which included five months in Havana, this book documents the approaches to culture that evolved out of the 1959 Cuban Revolution. Deploying micro and macro perspectives, it introduces all the main protagonists to the debate and follows the polemical...
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Love for Sale: Pop Music in America

David Hajdu · Farrar
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

A personal, idiosyncratic history of popular music that also may well be definitive, from the revered music criticDavid Hajdu begins Love for Sale, his personal history of recorded pop music, in an unexpected place--not with nostalgic reminiscences of the 45s of his youth but with the sheet-music...
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Migrations : wildlife in motion

Art Wolfe · Earth Aware Editions
Pages: 168
Format: Print book

Inspired by the imaginative spatial designs of Dutch artist M. C. Escher, photographer Art Wolfe traveled the globe in search of similar patterns in nature. The result is a book of remarkable wildlife images that captures both the beauty and the poignancy of animals on the move. Revised...
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Whole Lotta Led Zeppelin: The Illustrated History of the Heaviest Band of All Time

Jon Bream · Voyageur Press; 1st edition
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

They were the heaviest band ever, creating the blueprint for an entire musical genre and becoming a touchstone for an entire generation and their children. Now, to celebrate their fortieth anniversary and December 2007 reunion, here’s the first-ever complete illustrated history of Led Zeppelin....
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Experiencing Led Zeppelin: A Listener's Companion

Gregg Akkerman · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

In 1980, Led Zeppelin formally disbanded following the death of drummer John Bonham. Yet over three decade, the music, the mystique, and the legacy of this legendary rock act lives on. Reissues of their music sell in the millions, while rumors of reunion tours continue to electrify fans...
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Dear Data

Giorgia Lupi · Princeton Architectural
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Equal parts mail art, data visualization, and affectionate correspondence, Dear Data celebrates "the infinitesimal, incomplete, imperfect, yet exquisitely human details of life," in the words of Maria Popova (Brain Pickings) , who introduces this charming and graphically powerful...
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AutoCAD 2013 and AutoCAD LT 2013: No Experience Required

Donnie Gladfelter · Sybex; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

The ideal introductory resource for Autodesk's powerful architectural design softwareWith this hands-on guide, you'll learn how to plan, develop, document, and present a complete AutoCAD project by working on summer cabin--a fun practice project that runs throughout the book. You can follow...
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