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The Game Console: A Photographic History from Atari to Xbox

Evan Amos · No Starch Press
Pages: 300
Format: Hardcover

The Game Console is a tour through the evolution of video game hardware, with gorgeous full-color photos of 86 consoles. You'll start your journey with legendary consoles like the Magnavox Odyssey, Atari 2600, Nintendo Entertainment System, and the Commodore 64. The visual nostalgia...
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New York Splendor: The City's Most Memorable Rooms

Wendy Moonan · Rizzoli
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Design authority Wendy Moonan takes the reader on a tour of some of New York City's finest residential rooms--past and present.The selection of interiors is about the "wow" factor--New York residential spaces that elicit gasps of pleasure and surprise when first seen. Some...
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Smash!: Green Day, The Offspring, Bad Religion, NOFX, and the '90s Punk Explosion

Ian Winwood · Da Capo Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A group biography of '90s punk rock told through the prism of Green Day, The Offspring, NOFX, Rancid, Bad Religion, Social Distortion, and moreTwo decades after the Sex Pistols and the Ramones birthed punk music into the world, their artistic heirs burst onto the scene and changed the genre...
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Beyoncé in Formation: Remixing Black Feminism

Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley · University of Texas Press
Pages: 216
Format: eBook

Making headlines when it was launched in 2015, Omise'eke Tinsley's undergraduate course "Beyoncé Feminism, Rihanna Womanism" has inspired students from all walks of life. In Beyoncé in Formation, Tinsley now takes her rich observations beyond the classroom, using the blockbuster...
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It's Saturday Morning!: Celebrating the Golden Era of Cartoons 1960s - 1990s

Joe Garner · becker&mayer! Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

With concept art, archival images, and all-new interviews, It's Saturday Morning! celebrates the shows, characters, songs, and commercials that made Saturday mornings a pop culture event. Broadcasting into family living rooms from the 1960s to the 1990s, this wildly creative art form...
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I'll Be There for You: The One about Friends

Kelsey Miller · Hanover Square Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

This definitive retrospective of Friends incorporates interviews, history and behind-the-scenes anecdotes to offer a critical analysis of how a sitcom about six twentysomethings changed television foreverWhen Friends debuted in 1994, no one expected it to become a mainstay of NBC's "Must...
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Kathleen Turner on Acting: Conversations about Film, Television, and Theater

KATHLEEN MORROW DUSTIN TURNER · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Few actors have had a career as dynamic as that Kathleen Turner's; success has followed her from the television screen to major blockbusters, from indie films to the theater stage. Over her forty-year career, Turner has developed an instinctual knowledge of what it takes to be a successful...
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The Official SCRABBLE Players Dictionary, Sixth Edition

Merriam-Webster Inc. · Merriam-Webster, Inc.
Pages: 768
Format: Hardcover

NEW Edition! This jacketed hardcover SCRABBLE dictionary is the comprehensive book that millions of SCRABBLE players consider the only necessary resource for winning the game! Features more than 100,000 playable two- to eight- letter words including many newly added entries from a variety...
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The Disney Fake Book 4th Edition

HAL LEONARD CORP. · HAL LEONARD
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

(Fake Book) . Since its founding, the Walt Disney Company has made music a cornerstone of virtually every part of its business. From animated feature films to theme parks, music has always been there to help tell the story and make the magic. This fourth edition features even more Disney...
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Dolly on Dolly: Interviews and Encounters with Dolly Parton

RANDY L SCHMIDT · Chicago Review Press
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

"Nobody knows Dolly like Dolly," declares Dolly Parton. Dolly's is a rags-to-riches tale like no other. A dirt-poor Smoky Mountain childhood paved the way for the buxom blonde butterfly's metamorphosis from singer-songwriter to international music superstar....
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The LEGO BOOST Activity Book

Daniele Benedettelli · No Starch Press
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

At last, fans of the LEGO BOOST robot building kit have the learning resource they've been missing! Enter The LEGO BOOST Activity Book: a full-color guide that will help readers learn how to build and code LEGO creations that move, explore their environment, grab and lift objects, and more.The...
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