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Changing Keys: Keyboard Instruments for America 1700-1830
John R Watson · Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Pages: 150
Format: Hardcover
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Through the instruments that comprise the historical keyboard collection of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation including six harpsichords, six spinets, three organs, and twenty three pianos Changing Keys: Keyboard Instruments for America, 1700-1830;explores the keyboard culture of America... |
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How to Draw and Paint Fantasy Combat: A Step-by-Step Guide to Epic Combat Scenes
Matt Stawicki · Barron's Educational Series
Format: Paperback
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One of the hallmarks of fantasy art is incredible combat scenes. Epic battles beneath thundery skies, hand-to-hand combat between good and evil, the lone warrior facing a monstrous foe ... this is what fantasy is all about! For artists, the amount of detail and movement needed to make these... |
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Slowhand: The Life and Music of Eric Clapton
PHILIP NORMAN · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of Shout!, comes the definitive biography of Eric Clapton, a Rock legend whose life story is as remarkable as his music, which transformed the sound of a generation.For half a century Eric Clapton has been acknowledged to be one of music's greatest virtuosos,... |
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A Carnival of Losses: Notes Nearing Ninety
DONALD HALL · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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New essays from the vantage point of very old age, once again "alternately lyrical and laugh-out-loud funny,"* from the former poet laureate of the United States * New York TimesDonald Hall has lived a remarkable life of letters, one capped most recently by the New York Times... |
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Bitten by the Blues: The Alligator Records Story
Bruce Iglauer · University of Chicago Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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It started with the searing sound of a slide careening up the neck of an electric guitar. In 1970, twenty-three-year-old Bruce Iglauer walked into Florence's Lounge, in the heart of Chicago's South Side, and was overwhelmed by the joyous, raw Chicago blues of Hound Dog Taylor and the HouseRockers.... |
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A View from A Broad
Bette Midler · Simon & Schuster; Updated edition
Format: Hardcover
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With her brassy voice and bold performances making the world finally pay attention, she needs no introduction. Grammy award–winning singer, Academy Award–nominee, Broadway star of her critically acclaimed one-woman show and beloved actress in The Rose, Beaches and Down and Out in Beverly... |
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The Asylum: A collage of couture reminiscences...and hysteria
Simon Doonan · Blue Rider Press
Format: Hardcover
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After nearly a lifetime spent in the Industry, author and fashion insider Simon Doonan is ready to let you in on a little secret: his peers in this multibillion-dollar industry are just as nutty as the denizens of your local loony bin. In The Asylum, an unabashedly hilarious collection... |
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Hollywood of the Rockies: Colorado, the West and America's Film Pioneers
Michael J. Spencer · The History Press; First edition
Format: Paperback
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In the early days of the twentieth century, movies weren't made in California. As America's film pioneers traveled westward, Colorado became a beacon to them, contributing to the early motion picture business with all the relish and gusto of a western saga. The gorgeous natural... |
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Freedom Now!: Forgotten Photographs of the Civil Rights Struggle
Martin A. Berger · University of California Press
Format: Book
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Photographers shot millions of pictures of the black civil rights struggle between the close of World War II and the early 1970s, yet most Americans today can recall just a handful of images that look remarkably similar. In the popular imagination, the civil rights movement is remembered... |
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Vintage Knit: 25 Knitting and Crochet Patterns Refashioned for Today
Marine Malak · Laurence King Pub
Pages: 176
Format: Print book
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Vintage Knit offers lovers of retro style 25 beautiful knitting patterns from the 1940s and 1950s, regraded to fit modern sizes (small, medium, and large) and to knit with yarns easily available today. A short introduction describes each garment and suggests how to style it, followed... |
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Daily show - the book : an oral history
Chris Smith · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 459
Format: Print book
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The complete, uncensored history of the award-winning The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, as told by its correspondents, writers, and host. For almost seventeen years, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart brilliantly redefined the borders between television comedy, political satire, and opinionated... |
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How to Draw: Manga: in Simple Steps
YISHAN LI · Search Press
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
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Learn how to draw boys, girls and creatures (ordinary and extraordinary) in the manga style, using this fun and simple step-by-step book. Starting with basic shapes, professional comic artist Yishan Li shows how easy it is to turn circles, rectangles, squares and ovals into teens, kids,... |
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