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The 100 Best Celebrity Photos

The Editors of PEOPLE · People
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Since its first issue debuted with a Great Gatsby portrait of Mia Farrow, People magazine has delivered not only outstanding celebrity journalism, but also the best in personality photography. Now, the Editors of People present The 100 Most Influential Celebrity Photographs and the Surprising...
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Top Country Hits of 2015-2016

Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation · Hal Leonard Corporation
Pages: 87
Format: Musical score

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook) . 14 of the year's most popular country songs in arrangements for piano, voice and guitar. Includes: Burning House (Cam) * Biscuits (Kacey Musgraves) * Girl Crush (Little Big Town) * I'm Comin' Over (Chris Young) * Let Me See You Girl...
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Guts: The Anatomy of The Walking Dead

PAUL VIGNA · Dey Street Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

In this first and only guide to AMC's exceptional hit series The Walking Dead, the Wall Street Journal's Walking Dead columnist celebrates the show, its storylines, characters, and development, and examines its popularity and cultural resonance.From its first episode, The Walking...
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Hal Leonard The 1990s - The Ukulele Decade Series

Hal Leonard · Hal Leonard Corporation,
Pages: 316
Format: Paperback

80 essential '90s songs in ukulele arrangements, including: All I Wanna Do Black Hole Sun Blaze of Glory Come to My Window Cryin' Don't Look Back in Anger Fields of Gold Hero I Need to Know If I Had $1,000,000 Karma Police Livin' La Vida Loca More Than Words No Rain Only...
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In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art

Sue Roe · Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

A lively and deeply researched group biography of the figures who transformed the world of art in bohemian Paris in the first decade of the twentieth century In Montmartre is a colorful history of the birth of Modernist art as it arose from one of the most astonishing collections of artistic...
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Peacock & Vine: On William Morris and Mariano Fortuny

A S Byatt · Knopf
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

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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Dress

Christina Dean · Thames & Hudson
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

A stylish guide to environment-friendly ways of buying, wearing, caring for, and decluttering your wardrobe, illustrated with case studies and tips from eco-fashion pioneers across the worldAs part of a growing global awareness of the importance of eco-conscious living, both for the planet...
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Gordon Parks: I Am You: Selected Works 1934–1978

Jr Peter W Kinhardt · Steidl Verlag 2016.
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

Injustice, violence, the Civil Rights Movement, fashion and the arts--Gordon Parks captured half a century of the vast changes to the American cultural landscape in his multifaceted career. I Am You: Selected Works 1934-1978 reveals the breadth of his work as the first African American...
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Picture This: How Pictures Work

Molly Bang · Chronicle
Pages: 152
Format: Print book

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 Model's Bible

R C Lane · RC Lane
Pages: 111
Format: Print book

The Model's Bible is a straight forward insider's guide on how to break into and more importantly, succeed in creating a lucrative career as a model in the fashion industry today. The Model's Bible will help you develop a strategic plan to get you signed with an agency and begin...
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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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Star Trek: 50 Artists 50 Years

Titan Books · Titan Books (UK)
Pages: 112
Format: Hardcover

To coincide with the 50th anniversary of the original Star Trek TV series, CBS Consumer Products have commissioned a series of art pieces to celebrate moments, characters, storylines and episodes from the Franchise. Artists from around the world as well as famous fans have contributed lovingly...
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As Above, So Below: Art of the American Fraternal Society, 1850-1930

Lynne Adele · University of Texas Press, 2015.
Pages: 266
Format: Print book

"There's an inspiring and wacky solemnity in these organizations - high values reinforced through pageantry and performance in an ecumenical social setting - which deep down must also have been a whole lot of fun. Now it's as if that foundational Other America, that underpinning...
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Smithsonian Rock and Roll: Live and Unseen

Bill Bentley · Smithsonian Books
Pages: 216
Format: Hardcover

In December 2015, the Smithsonian called on rock and roll lovers around the world to collect photos and stories of their favorite moments in music. Fans dug through attics, basements, closets, shoeboxes, digital cameras, and photo albums to post great rock shots to rockandroll.si.edu....
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