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Creating Mandalas: How to Draw and Design Zendala Art
Creating Mandalas: How to Draw and Design Zendala Art

Deborah A. Pacé CZT · North Light Books
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback

MASTER THE ART OF MAKING MANDALAS!The art of making mandalas and zendalas is less about drawing and more about slowing down and opening up to your inner creative flow. You do not have to be an artist. There is no need to know how to draw. All you need are some simple everyday tools and a little...
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Florence: The Paintings & Frescoes, 1250-1743
Florence: The Paintings & Frescoes, 1250-1743

Ross King · Black Dog & Leventhal
Pages: 708
Format: Hardcover

This is the most comprehensive book on the paintings and frescoes of Florence ever undertaken, with nearly 2,000 beautifully reproduced artworks from the city's great museums and churches-produced in the same manner as BD&L's The Louvre and The Vatican.
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How To Use The GoPro HERO: For the HERO, HERO  and HERO  LCD
How To Use The GoPro HERO: For the HERO, HERO and HERO LCD

Jordan Hetrick · Kaisanti Press
Pages: 95
Format: Print book

FROM THE #1 AMAZON BEST SELLING AUTHOR ON GoPro CAMERAS. The HERO cameras are GoPro's entry level cameras, designed with simplicity for people who are new to using a GoPro camera. This book is written specifically for the GoPro HERO, HERO and HERO LCD, explaining the unique features...
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Small Town Talk: Bob Dylan, The Band, Van Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Friends in the Wild Years of Woodstock
Small Town Talk: Bob Dylan, The Band, Van Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Friends in the Wild Years of Woodstock

Barney Hoskyns · Da Capo, 2016.
Pages: 424
Format: Print book

When musicians in the New York City folk scene of the 1960s tired of city life, they decided to "get it together in the country." They headed for Woodstock - not to the site of the legendary music festival of 1969, but to Woodstock itself and to nearby Bearsville, where manager...
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Schubert's Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession
Schubert's Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession

Ian Bostridge · Knopf; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

An exploration of the worlds most famous and challenging song cycle, Schuberts Winter Journey Winterreise, by a leading interpreter of the work, who teases out the themes—literary, historical, psychological—that weave through the twenty-four songs that make up this legendary masterpiece.Completed...
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Dogs in Cars
Dogs in Cars

Lara Jo Regan · Countryman Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

The pure joy of a dog with his nose to the horizon in a moving car--captured on the page First we had dogs underwater then dogs shaking off water so why not dogs soaking up the exhilarating no-holds-barred pleasure of a car ride Photographer Lara Jo Regan began her pet project as a calendar...
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Take Three Colours: Watercolour Landscapes: Start to paint with 3 colours, 3 brushes and 9 easy projects
Take Three Colours: Watercolour Landscapes: Start to paint with 3 colours, 3 brushes and 9 easy projects

Geoff Kersey · Search Pr Ltd
Pages: 64
Format: Print book

Geoff Kersey shows people who have never picked up a paintbrush how to paint convincing watercolor landscapes using just 3 brushes, 3 colors, a plastic palette and a watercolor pad. Only students' range watercolor paints are used in light red, cadmium yellow pale and ultramarine blue,...
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Adele - 25
Adele - 25

Adele · Hal Leonard Corporation
Pages: 70
Format: Musical score

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook) . Our matching songbook to Adele's much-anticipated and record-smashing 2015 album features piano/vocal/guitar arrangements of all its tracks including the first instant hit single "Hello" and nine others.
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Hip Hop Raised Me
Hip Hop Raised Me

Dj Semtex · W W Norton
Pages: 448
Format: Print book

The definitive volume capturing the essence, experience and energy that is hip hop and its massive and enduring impact over the last forty yearsHip Hop Raised Me is the definitive volume on the essence, experience, and energy that is hip hop, and its massive and enduring impact over the last...
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The Clothing of Books
The Clothing of Books

Jhumpa Lahiri · Vintage
Pages: 80
Format: Print book

How do you clothe a book? In this deeply personal reflection, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri explores the art of the book jacket from the perspectives of both reader and writer. Probing the complex relationships between text and image, author and designer, and art and commerce,...
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The Vanishing Velázquez: A 19th Century Bookseller's Obsession with a Lost Masterpiece
The Vanishing Velázquez: A 19th Century Bookseller's Obsession with a Lost Masterpiece

Laura Cumming · Scribner Book Company
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

From one of the world's most expert art critics, the incredible true story - part art history and part mystery - of a Velazquez portrait that went missing and the obsessed nineteenth-century bookseller determined to prove he had found it.When John Snare, a nineteenth-century provincial...
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