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LIFE Paradise Found: 100 Places - Beautiful Beyond Belief
Editors of Life · Life
Format: Hardcover |
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LIFE takes you on a beautiful tour of some of the worlds most exquisite and exotic natural settings. We travel to the canyons of Kauai and the white-sand beaches of Australias Gold Coast. LIFE Paradise Found includes the work of some of the worlds most accomplished travel photographers,... |
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John Wayne: The Life and Legend
Scott Eyman · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 658
Format: Book |
Drawing on interviews that author Scott Eyman conducted with John Wayne before his death and more than 100 interviews with the actor's family, co-stars, and close associates, this revelatory biography shows how both the facts and fictions about Wayne illuminate his singular life.
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In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art
Sue Roe · Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover |
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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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LIFE D-Day: Remembering the Battle that Won the War - 70 Years Later
The Editors of LIFE · Life; Reprint edition
Format: Book |
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Probably the most famous combat photographs ever made were those taken on the beach in Normandy during the D-Day invasions by Robert Capa, shooting for LIFE and going in with the first wave. The saga of those images has been told before and will be again in this commemorative book: How Capa... |
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Spaceships: An Illustrated History of the Real and the Imagined
Ron Miller · Smithsonian Books
Pages: 256
Format: Print book |
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How have actual spaceships influenced the design of fictional ones like the Millenium Falcon and the Starship Enterprise? Did a fiction series in Collier's magazine really inspire us to create real-life space stations like Mir and the ISS? How have our depictions of space travel developed... |
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Fashion 101: A Crash Course in Clothing
Erika Stalder · Zest Books
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback |
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Each year, we spend hours upon hours shopping and getting dressed, but do we ever actually think about what we’re wearing? For example, what’s the name of the style of your shirt? Who invented your favorite jeans cut? Or who made your baby-doll nightie famous? There is a story... |
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The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend
Glenn Frankel · Bloomsbury USA; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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In 1836 in East Texas, nine-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker was kidnapped by Comanches. She was raised by the tribe and eventually became the wife of a warrior. Twenty-four years after her capture, she was reclaimed by the U.S. cavalry and Texas Rangers and restored to her white family, to die in misery... |
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Nothing Like a Dame: Conversations with the Great Women of Musical Theater
Eddie Shapiro · Oxford University Press, 2014.
Pages: 364
Format: Print book |
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In Nothing Like a Dame, theater journalist Eddie Shapiro opens a jewelry box full of glittering surprises, through in-depth conversations with twenty leading women of Broadway. He carefully selected Tony Award-winning stars who have spent the majority of their careers in theater, leaving... |
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Impressionist Painting for the Landscape: Secrets for Successful Oil Painting
Cindy Salaski · North Light Books
Format: Hardcover |
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Learn to see, think and paint like an Impressionist master!Monet. Renoir. Van Gogh. Redfield. Garber. These beloved Impressionist masters continue to inspire with their rich and vivid artistry. Their styles and methods are alive and thriving today in the work of contemporary master George... |
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Capturing Music: The Story of Notation
Thomas Forrest Kelly · W. W. Norton & Company; Har/Com edition
Format: Hardcover |
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An entertaining history of how musicians learned to record music for all time, filled with art that sings. In today's digital landscape, we have the luxury of experiencing music anytime, anywhere. But before this instant accessibility and dizzying array of formats -- before CDs, the eight-track... |
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Television: A Biography
David Thomson · Thames & Hudson
Pages: 304
Format: Print book |
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In just a few years, what used to be an immobile piece of living room furniture, which one had to sit in front of at appointed times in order to watch sponsored programming on a finite number of channels, morphed into a glowing cloud of screens with access to a near-endless supply of content... |
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Saving Italy: The Race to Rescue a Nation's Treasures from the Nazis
Robert M. Edsel · W. W. Norton & Company; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover |
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New York Times Bestseller A poignant, fascinating story, bringing to life the soldier-scholars who saved Italys treasures.Evan Thomas, best-selling author of Ikes Bluff and Sea of Thunder When Hitlers armies occupied Italy in 1943, they also seized control of mankinds greatest cultural... |
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Tartan: Romancing the Plaid
Jeffrey Banks · Rizzoli
Pages: 279
Format: Print book |
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William "Braveheart" Wallace did battle in it. Queen Victoria decked Balmoral in it. Madonna donned it to strut around the stage. Tartan, the beloved symbol of kin, clan and nation to the Scots, has evolved into the one of the world's favorite fabrics. Serving as inspiration... |
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