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Red: The History of a Color
Michel Pastoureau · Princeton University Press
Pages: 216
Format: Print book
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The color red has represented many things, from the life force and the divine to love, lust, and anger. Up through the Middle Ages, red held a place of privilege in the Western world. For many cultures, red was not just one color of many but rather the only color worthy enough to be used... |
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Experiencing Jazz: A Listener's Companion
Michael Stephans · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 488
Format: Paperback
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Experiencing Jazz demonstrates how the act of listening to jazz takes place on a deeply personal level and takes readers on a whirlwind tour of the genre, instrument by instrument - offering not only brief portraits of key musicians like Joe Lovano and John Scofield, but also their own commentaries... |
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The Origins of Cool in Postwar America
Joel Dinerstein · University Of Chicago Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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Cool. It was a new word and a new way to be, and in a single generation, it became the supreme compliment of American culture. The Origins of Cool in Postwar America uncovers the hidden history of this concept and its new set of codes that came to define a global attitude and style. As Joel... |
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Digital Photographer's Handbook, 6th Edition
Tom Ang · DK
Pages: 408
Format: Paperback
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Tom Ang's Digital Photographer's Handbook, 6th Edition is your ultimate guide to learning how to capture, enhance, and transform your photographs. This best-selling manual outlines key core techniques that every photographer needs to learn, building toward a series of projects you can use to practice... |
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Today's Pop Hits: for Big-Note Piano
Hal Leonard Corp. · Hal Leonard Corporation
Pages: 80
Format: Musical score
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(Big Note Songbook) . A great collection of current pop hits that even developing piano players will be able to enjoy. 15 songs with lyrics, including: All of Me * Happy * Hello * Pompeii * Radioactive * Roar * Shake It Off * Stay with Me * Story of My Life * and more. |
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Guns N' Roses: The Life and Times of a Rock 'n' Roll Band
PAUL ELLIOTT · Sterling
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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Written by a band insider, this is the most comprehensive, fully illustrated, up-to-date unofficial exploration of Guns N' Roses. Fans of Guns N' Roses, one of the world's most beloved and hardest-rocking bands, had long dreamt of a reunion - and in 2016, after 23 years, it finally... |
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World War I: The Definitive Visual History
R.G. Grant · DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Pages: 360
Format: Hardcover
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2014 marks the centennial of the start of World War I - DK will mark the occasion with the publication of World War I: The Definitive Visual Guide, a vividly illustrated, in-depth account of the Great War. Written by historian R. G. Grant, and created by DK's award-winning editorial... |
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Chinese Landscape Painting Techniques for Watercolor
Lian Quan Zhen · North Light Books
Format: Print book
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Minimum stroke - maximum effectLearn how to make each brushstroke count when painting classically beautiful landscapes using a combination of traditional and modern watercolor techniques.Master artist and teacher Lian Quan Zhen shows how to blend Eastern and Western art theories, materials... |
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Modern Love Songs
Hal Leonard Corp. · Hal Leonard
Format: Book
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PianoVocalGuitar Songbook. 27 recent hits, including Just a Kiss Lady Antebellum Just the Way You Are Bruno Mars Love Somebody Maroon 5 Marry Me Train No One Alicia Keys Ours Taylor Swift Stay Rihanna A Thousand Years Christina Perri Unconditionally Katy Perry Wanted Hunter Hayes... |
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Altman
Kathryn R. Altman · Harry N. Abrams
Format: Hardcover
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For decades, Robert Altman fascinated audiences with pioneering films—among them MASH, Nashville, The Player, and Gosford Park—that combined technical innovation with subversive, satirical humor and impassioned political engagement. His ability to explore and engage so many different... |
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Joe Bonamassa - Blues Of Desperation
Joe Bonamassa · Hal Leonard
Pages: 144
Format: Print book
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(Guitar Recorded Versions) . All 11 songs from the 2016 album release by this popular modern blues guitarist in standard notation and tab. Includes: Blues of Desperation * Distant Lonesome Train * Drive * How Deep This River Runs * Livin' Easy * Mountain Climbing * No Good Place for the Lonely... |
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The Last Wild Men of Borneo: A True Story of Death and Treasure
Carl Hoffman · William Morrow
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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Two modern adventurers sought a treasure possessed by the legendary "Wild Men of Borneo." One found riches. The other vanished forever into an endless jungle. Had he shed civilization - or lost his mind? Global headlines suspected murder. Lured by these mysteries, New York Times... |
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