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Art Studio: Dogs: More than 50 projects and techniques for drawing, painting, and creating 25 breeds in oil, acrylic, pencil, and more!

Walter Foster · Walter Foster Publishing
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback

Love art and dogs? Now you can get the best of both of worlds with Art Studio: Dogs. Created especially with beginning artists and art enthusiasts in mind, this engaging book includes a variety of fun and unique drawing, painting, and mixed media projects designed to help you transform...
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Tangle Journey: Exploring the Far Reaches of Tangle Drawing, from simple strokes to color and mixed media

Beckah Krahula · Quarry Books
Format: Print book

Find the next step in your zentangle journey, with even more step-by-step techniques and beautiful inspirational drawings! An exciting and in-depth follow up to One Zentangle A Day, Beckah Krahula guides you along with her sure-footed instruction and beautiful examples as she shows you how to take...
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Daily show - the book : an oral history

Chris Smith · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 459
Format: Print book

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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Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local - and Helped Save an American Town

Beth Macy · Little Brown & Co
Format: Hardcover

The instant New York Times bestseller about one man's battle to save hundreds of jobs by demonstrating the greatness of American business.The Bassett Furniture Company was once the world's biggest wood furniture manufacturer. Run by the same powerful Virginia family for generations,...
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Hollywood: Photos and Stories from Foreverland

Keegan Allen · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A photographic tour of the different sides of Hollywood by the the bestselling author of life.love.beauty.The actor, photographer, and bestselling author reveals the Hollywood we see--and the one we don't--with a photography narrative featuring more than 250 emotionally charged color...
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Broadway to Main Street: How Show Tunes Enchanted America

Laurence Maslon · Oxford University Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

The music of Broadway is one of America's most unique and popular calling cards. In Broadway to Main Street: How Show Tunes Enchanted America, author Laurence Maslon tells the story of how the most beloved songs of the American Musical Theater made their way from the Theater District...
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Landmark: A History of Britain in 50 Buildings - 50 Years of the LANDMARK TRUST

Anna Keay · Frances Lincoln
Format: Hardcover

This engaging and sumptuously illustrated book celebrates the Landmark Trust's achievement in the protection of British heritage since the Trust was established 50 years ago. From a medieval hall house to the winner of the 2013 Stirling Prize for Architecture, 50 buildings rescued by Landmark...
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William Ivey Long: Costume Designs, 2007-2016

Annie Carlano · Mint Museum of Art Inc.
Pages: 128
Format: Print book

William Ivey Long (b. 1947) is a leading costume designer for the stage, film, and television, whose creativity, artistry, and craftsmanship have earned him ovations throughout the theater community and beyond. A defining presence on Broadway, he has won six Tony Awards for costume...
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149 Paintings You Really Need to See in North America:

Julian Porter · Dundurn
Pages: 480
Format: Paperback

Tour North America's greatest museums and galleries in the company of two incomparable guides. This lively companion highlights the essential paintings, by some of the world's greatest painters, from Giotto to Picasso, on display in North American museums and galleries. Julian Porter...
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Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall

TIM MOHR · Algonquin Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

"In case you weren't sure just how political music, fashion, and a certain attitude can be: read this book. Burning Down the Haus is wonderful." - Norman Ohler, author of Blitzed "The true story of how teenage kicks turned into political opposition. With meticulous research...
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150 Best Mini Interior Ideas

Francesc Zamora · Harper Design
Format: Hardcover

The most recent volume in the highly successful 150 Best series, this comprehensive handbook showcases the latest in efficient and successful small space design.Filled with 500 pages of beautiful full-color photographs, 150 Best Mini Interior Ideas profiles dozens of exciting interiors...
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101 Textures in Graphite & Charcoal: Practical drawing techniques for rendering a variety of surfaces & textures

Steven Pearce · Walter Foster Pub
Pages: 128
Format: Print book

A must-have resource for graphite and charcoal artists of all skill levels. Accurately rendering surfaces and textures is one of the most challenging aspects of working with graphite pencil and charcoal. 101 Textures in Graphite & Charcoal provides artists with step-by-step instructions...
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Fifty Years of 60 Minutes: The Inside Story of Television's Most Influential News Broadcast

JEFF FAGER · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A history of 60 Minutes - the iconic American TV news broadcast - going behind the scenes of the most famous breakthrough stories of its remarkable fifty-year run to reveal the secrets of the program's success.Fifty Years of 60 Minutes tells the inside story of the legendary program, from...
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How Star Wars Conquered the Universe: The Past, Present, and Future of a Multibillion Dollar Franchise

Chris Taylor · Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

In 1973, a young filmmaker named George Lucas scribbled some notes for a far-fetched space-fantasy epic. Some forty years and 37 billion later, Star Warsrelated products outnumber human beings, a growing stormtrooper army spans the globe, and Jediism has become a religion in its own right....
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