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Peacock & Vine: On William Morris and Mariano Fortuny
A S Byatt · Knopf
Pages: 192
Format: Print book |
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This ravishing book opens a window into the lives, designs, and passions of Mariano Fortuny and William Morris, two remarkable artists who themselves are passions of the writer A. S. Byatt. Born a generation apart in the mid-1800s, Fortuny and Morris were seeming opposites: Fortuny a Spanish... |
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Pink Floyd - Acoustic Guitar Collection
Pink Floyd · Hal Leonard
Format: Book |
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Guitar Recorded Versions. Note-for-note transcriptions for 16 songs from the legendary rockers Comfortably Numb Cymbaline Dogs Fearless Goodbye Blue Sky Green Is the Colour Hey You Is There Anybody Out There? Mother On the Turning Away Pigs on the Wing Parts 1 2 A Pillow of Winds... |
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Star Wars: Complete Locations
Curtis Saxton · Dk Publishing
Pages: 192
Format: Print book |
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Packed with more than 50 full-color, intricate cross-section artwork and 3-D maps, Star Wars™: Complete Locations is an amazing visual guide into the incredible worlds and locations of a galaxy far, far away....From the towering skyscrapers of Coruscant to the terrifying technology of the Death... |
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99 Problems: Superstars Have Bad Days, Too
Ali Graham · Workman Publishing Company
Format: Hardcover |
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Poor Superstar. All the money and fame in the world won’t prevent him from having a bad hair day. Or stepping in gum. Or not being able to fit into skinny jeans, or watching helplessly as a scoop of ice cream falls from its cone. Or so an unnamed Superstar’s life is ingeniously... |
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Young Frankenstein: A Mel Brooks Book: The Story of the Making of the Film
Mel Brooks · Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Pages: 200
Format: Print book |
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Mel Brooks' own words telling all about the players, the filming, and studio antics during the production of this great comedy classic. The book is alive and teeming with hundreds of photos, original interviews, and hilarious commentary. """Young Frankenstein" was made... |
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Picture This: How Pictures Work
Molly Bang · Chronicle
Pages: 152
Format: Print book |
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Molly Bang's brilliant, insightful, and accessible treatise is now revised and expanded for its 25th anniversary. Bang's powerful ideas - about how the visual composition of images works to engage the emotions, and how the elements of an artwork can give it the power to tell a story... |
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The Most Requested Children's Songs
Hal Leonard Corp. · Cherry Lane Music Company, Milwaukee, WI
Pages: 270
Format: Musical score |
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(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook) . A great collection of 75 songs perfect for children of all ages. Songs include: Addams Family Theme * Anchors Aweigh * Be Our Guest * Chitty Chitty Bang Bang * Edelweiss * Ghostbusters * God Bless America * Happy Birthday to You * Heart and Soul * I Won't... |
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Mid-Michigan Modern: From Frank Lloyd Wright to Googie
Susan J Bandes · Michigan State University Press
Pages: 320
Format: Print book |
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From 1940 to 1970 mid-Michigan had an extensive and varied legacy of modernist architecture. While this book explores buildings by renowned architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Alden B. Dow, and the Keck brothers, the text - based on archival research and oral histories - focuses more... |
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Houses of Civil War America: The Homes of Robert E. Lee, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Clara Barton, and Others Who Shaped the Era
Hugh Howard · Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover |
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A revealing historical and photographic tour of the homes of influential Civil War figures, including Robert E. Lee, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Clara Barton, Stonewall Jackson, and others.Timed to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the Civil War and a fitting sequel to Houses... |
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Anger Is an Energy: My Life Uncensored
John Lydon · Dey Street Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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From the legendary frontman of the Sex Pistols, comes the complete, unvarnished story of his life in his own words.John Lydon is an icon - one of the most recognizable and influential cultural figures of the last forty years. As Johnny Rotten, he was the lead singer of the Sex Pistols-the... |
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The Bass Book: A Complete Illustrated History of Bass Guitars Updated Edition
Tony Bacon · Backbeat
Pages: 160
Format: Print book |
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(Book) . In California in the early '50s, the Fender company introduced the world's first electric bass guitar. They couldn't have known known it then, but the Precision Bass would start a revolution in the sound of popular music. This book explains how that revolution happened... |
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I Didn't Come Here to Make Friends: Confessions of a Reality Show Villain
Courtney Robertson · It Books
Format: Hardcover |
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In I Didnt Come Here to Make Friends former Bachelor villain and season 16 winner Courtney Robertson shares her story of love and heartbreak, and the reality of appearing on reality TV. For the first time ever, a former Bachelor contestant takes us along on her journey to find love... |
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The art of rivalry : four friendships, betrayals, and breakthroughs in modern art
Sebastian Smee · Random House
Pages: 416
Format: Print book |
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Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic Sebastian Smee tells the fascinating story of four pairs of artists - Manet and Degas, Picasso and Matisse, Pollock and de Kooning, Freud and Bacon - whose fraught, competitive friendships spurred them to new creative heights. Rivalry is at the heart... |
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