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New Titles - Arts & Photography
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Ballet: The Definitive Illustrated History
DK · DK
Pages: 360
Format: Hardcover
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This DK visual guide to ballet history goes beyond other ballet books, with beautiful photography that captures famous dancers and key stories.Discover more than 70 of the most famous ballet dances, from The Nutcracker and Swan Lake to The Rite of Spring. Learn the stories behind renowned... |
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Knitting Out of Africa
Marianne Isager · Interweave
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
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Beautiful and historic African carpets, baskets, and other textiles provide the design inspiration for these 16 sophisticated knitted cardigans, pullovers, and sweater vests. Intended for seasoned knitters, these projects use domino, double knitting, entrelac, intarsia, and stranded two-color... |
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Beyoncé in Formation: Remixing Black Feminism
Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley · University of Texas Press
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
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Making headlines when it was launched in 2015, Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley's undergraduate course "Beyoncé Feminism, Rihanna Womanism" has inspired students from all walks of life. In Beyoncé in Formation, Tinsley now takes her rich observations beyond the classroom, using... |
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Building Reuse: Sustainability, Preservation, and the Value of Design
Kathryn Rogers Merlino · University of Washington Press
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover
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In Building Reuse: Sustainability, Preservation, and the Value of Design, Kathryn Rogers Merlino makes an impassioned case that truly sustainable design requires reusing and reimagining existing buildings. The construction and operation of buildings is responsible for 41 percent of all primary... |
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Versailles
Colin Jones · Basic Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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The vivid story of the creation, renovation, and enduring legacy of the most famous building in France: the palace of VersaillesNothing represents the glorious and fraught history of France quite like the Palace of Versailles. Made famous by the absolutist king Louis XIV, Versailles became... |
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Innumerable Insects: The Story of the Most Diverse and Myriad Animals on Earth
Michael S. Engel · Sterling
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover
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A fascinating look at the world's most numerous inhabitants, illustrated with stunning images from the American Museum of Natural History's Rare Book Collection. To date, we have discovered and described or named around 1.1 million insect species, and thousands of new species... |
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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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The Honky Tonk on the Left: Progressive Thought in Country Music
Mark Allan Jackson · University of Massachusetts Press
Pages: 312
Format: Paperback
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Massively popular for the past century, country music has often been associated with political and social conservatism. While such figures as George Wallace, Richard Nixon, and Ted Cruz have embraced and even laid claim to this musical genre over the years, country performers have long... |
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Diving With Sharks
Nigel Marsh · New Holland Publishers
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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The prospect of amazing encounters with Great Whites, Tiger Sharks, Whale Sharks, Hammerheads and many other shark species mean that each year more and more divers are heading underwater to swim with these magnificent and misunderstood predators at hot-spots all over the world, from Australia,... |
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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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