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Discover Oil Painting: Easy Landscape Painting Techniques

Julie Gilbert Pollard · North Light Books
Pages: 128
Format: Print book

You Can Paint With Oils! An easy and fun introduction to landscape painting.Discover Oil Painting is a complete course on painting landscapes in oils. This fun and easy guide is loaded with time-honored methods, techniques and tutorials along with ways to tweak those ideas to suit your...
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Popular Songs from Movie Soundtracks

Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation · Hal Leonard Corporation
Pages: 383
Format: Musical score

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook) . This collection offers over 70 hits from the silver screen, including: All I Want Is You * As Time Goes By * Baby, It's Cold Outside * Blaze of Glory * Born to Be Wild * Danger Zone * Don't You (Forget About Me) * (Everything I Do) I Do It for You * Holiday...
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Spaceships: An Illustrated History of the Real and the Imagined

Ron Miller · Smithsonian Books
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

How have actual spaceships influenced the design of fictional ones like the Millenium Falcon and the Starship Enterprise? Did a fiction series in Collier's magazine really inspire us to create real-life space stations like Mir and the ISS? How have our depictions of space travel developed...
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Chinese Landscape Painting Techniques for Watercolor

Lian Quan Zhen · North Light Books
Format: Print book

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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The Advertising Concept Book: Think Now, Design Later

Pete Barry · Thames & Hudson
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

The classic guide to creative ideas, strategies, and campaigns in advertising, now in a revised and updated third edition In creative advertising, no amount of glossy presentation will improve a bad idea. That's why this book is dedicated to the first and most important lesson: concept....
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The Good Bohemian: The Letters of Ida John

Ida Nettleship · Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Captivatingly fresh and intimate letters from Augustus John's first wife, Ida, reveal the untold story of married life with one of the great artists of the last century.Twelve days before her twenty-fourth birthday, on the foggy morning of Saturday 12 January 1901, Ida Nettleship married...
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Why You Love Music: From Mozart to Metallica--The Emotional Power of Beautiful Sounds

John Powell · Little
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

A delightful journey through the psychology and science of music, WHY YOU LOVE MUSIC is the perfect book for anyone who loves a tune.

Music plays a hugely important role in our emotional, intellectual, and even physical lives. It impacts the ways we work, relax, behave, and feel....
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Native American Warriors: 1500 CE - 1890 CE

Chris McNab · Chartwell Books
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

Working from entirely different traditions of combat and honor, the Native Americans' typical ambush and raiding tactics, based on indigenous hunting techniques, have often been misunderstood by European observers who used to a more direct style if warfare. Native American Warriors...
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Stationery Fever: From Paper Clips to Pencils and Everything In Between

John Z Komurki · Prestel
Pages: 205
Format: Print book

This original, eye catching volume celebrates the hottest new collectibles: office and personal stationery supplies. This beautifully designed book shows how the seemingly mundane objects that populate desks and cubicles everywhere are now being re-imagined as collector's items. And as today's...
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When the Uncertainty Principle Goes to 11: Or How to Explain Quantum Physics with Heavy Metal

Philip Moriarty · BenBella Books
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

There are deep and fascinating links between heavy metal and quantum physics. No, there are. Really.While teaching at the University of Nottingham, physicist Philip Moriarty noticed something odd, a surprising number of his students were heavily into metal music. Colleagues, too: a Venn...
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Writers and Their Cats

Alison Nastasi · Chronicle Books
Pages: 112
Format: Hardcover

Mark Twain, Alice Walker, Haruki Murakami, Ursula K. Le Guin - this volume celebrates 45 famous authors who have shared their homes and hearts with furry feline friends. The photographs and stories in Writers and Their Cats capture the special bond between wordsmith and mouser. From the six-toed...
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The Photography Exercise Book: Training Your Eye to Shoot Like a Pro

Bert Krages · Allworth
Pages: 216
Format: Print book

Since the beginning of the twentieth century, photographic composition has been taught mostly by applying principles from the field of graphic design. But the factor that distinguishes the work of master photographers is their ability to see and describe scenes visually. This book follows...
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