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Songs of the 1950s - The New Decade Series: E-Z Play Today Volume 365

Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation. · Hal Leonard Corporation
Pages: 256
Format: Musical score

(E-Z Play Today) . Simplified E-Z Play Today versions of this collection of 100 of the biggest hits of the '50s. Songs include: Ain't That a Shame * All Shook Up * At the Hop * Be-Bop-A-Lula * Blue Suede Shoes * Blueberry Hill * Chantilly Lace * Come Go with Me * Don't Be Cruel...
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The Zoomable Universe: An Epic Tour Through Cosmic Scale, from Almost Everything to Nearly Nothing

Caleb Scharf · Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

An epic, full-color visual journey through all scales of the universeIn The Zoomable Universe, the award-winning astrobiologist Caleb Scharf and the acclaimed artist Ron Miller take us on an epic tour through all known scales of reality, from the largest possible magnitude to the smallest....
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Pretentiousness: Why It Matters

Dan Fox · Coffee House Press
Pages: 144
Format: Print book

Pretentiousness is for anyone who has braved being different, whether that's making a stand against artistic consensus or running the gauntlet of the last bus home dressed differently from everyone else. It's an essential ingredient in pop music and high art. Why do we choose accusations...
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Digital Photography Essentials

Tom Ang · DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Pages: 360
Format: Print book

Digital Photography Essentials is the authoritative guide to digital photography from bestselling author and photographer Tom Ang. Using beautiful images and jargon-free yet highly practical text, Digital Photography Essentials covers the basics of digital photography and explains different...
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The Complete Book of Poses for Artists: A comprehensive photographic and illustrated reference book for learning to draw more than 500 poses

Ken Goldman · Walter Foster Pub
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

Packed with helpful photographs, hundreds of techniques, and loads of expert instruction, The Complete Book of Poses for Artists is the perfect resource for artists of all skill levels.The human figure is one of the most difficult subjects to capture in drawing. The Complete Book of Poses...
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Heroic: Concrete Architecture and the New Boston

Mark Pasnik · Monacelli Press
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Often problematically labeled as "Brutalist" architecture, the concrete buildings that transformed Boston during 1960s and 1970s were conceived with progressive-minded intentions by some of the world's most influential designers, including Marcel Breuer, Le Corbusier, I. M. Pei,...
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Brilliant Beacons: A History of the American Lighthouse

Eric Jay Dolin · Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pages: 448
Format: Print book

In a work rich in maritime lore and brimming with original historical detail, Eric Jay Dolin, the best-selling author of Leviathan, presents an epic history of American lighthouses, telling the story of America through the prism of its beloved coastal sentinels.Set against the backdrop...
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Maxfield Parrish & the Illustrators of the Golden Age

Margaret E. Wagner · Pomegranate Communications; First Edition edition
Pages: 128
Format: Hardcover

The world knows Maxfield Parrish for his legacy of extraordinary paintings--technical tours-de-force whose subjects ranged from the inspiring to the farcical. But Parrish is best appreciated in the context of his own life and times. This book elegantly provides that context with an overview...
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Experiencing Berlioz: A Listener's Companion

Melinda O'Neal · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 292
Format: Hardcover

Experiencing Berlioz: A Listener's Companion is an in-depth entrée into the sound world of Hector Berlioz, recognized today as one of the most profoundly original and engaging composers in 19th-century Europe.Melinda O'Neal offers the non-specialist a pathway into the underlying...
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Trashures: The Beauty of Useless Stuff

Tineke Meirink · Bis Publishers
Pages: 64
Format: Print book

Have you seen the Waste Land documentary? It's about the largest landfill in the world in Brazil where people make a living out of garbage in the dump. Until artist Vik Muniz comes and Art is born out of rubbish materials and ends up in Phillips, an auction house in London, one of the most...
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The Artist's Garden: American Impressionism and the Garden Movement

Anna O. Marley · University of Pennsylvania Press
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover

Inspired by European impressionist paintings of open countryside, private gardens, and urban parks, American artists working in the years between 1887 and 1920 turned their attentions to the new landscapes being created in the fast-changing cities and rapidly emerging suburbs of their own country....
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Of Arms and Artists: The American Revolution Through Painters' Eyes

Paul J Staiti · Bloomsbury
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

The images accompanying the founding of the United States--of honored Founders, dramatic battle scenes, and seminal moments--gave visual shape to Revolutionary events and symbolized an entirely new concept of leadership and government. Since then they have endured as indispensable icons,...
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World War I in 40 Posters

Ann P Linder · Stackpole Books
Pages: 147
Format: Print book

Published during the war's centennial, this is the story of the First World War through forty propaganda posters. Essays explain each poster, unpacking the visual imagery and setting the poster within the military, political, social, and cultural history of the war.Informative, provocative,...
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Bohemian Rhapsody & Other Epic Songs: Creative Piano Solo

Hal Leonard Corp. · Hal Leonard
Pages: 103
Format: Paperback

(Piano Solo Songbook) . 20 hit songs in unique, distinctive, fresh arrangements for the intermediate to advanced player. Explore new styles and enjoy these classics with a bit of a twist! Includes "Bohemian Rhapsody" from Queen as well as: Band on the Run * A Day in the Life * Free...
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