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Optical Illusions: Amazing Deceptive Images - Where Seeing Is Believing
Inga Menkhoff · Parragon Inc
Pages: 96
Format: Hardcover
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The book presents optical illusions trick our sense of sight, showing phenomena that are not actually happening, and leading to faulty judgements. It brings pictures with moving wheels that won't stop rotating, simple lines that become two, cards that vanish, dots that appear out of nowhere... |
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Native North American Art
Janet Catherine Berlo
Format: Book
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This exciting new investigation explores the indigenous arts of the US and Canada from the early pre-Columbian period to the present day, stressing the conceptual and iconographic continuities over five centuries and across an immensely diverse range of regions. The richness of Na |
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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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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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Sci-Fi Chronicles: A Visual History of the Galaxy's Greatest Science Fiction
Guy Haley · Firefly Books
Format: Paperback
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The definitive encyclopedia for the science fiction fanatic. From Barbarella to Blade Runner, from Solaris to Star Wars, and from 1984 to 2001, Sci-Fi Chronicles seeks out 200 of the greatest galactic creations. Presented in an arresting blend of incisive text, infographic timelines,... |
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100 Greatest American Plays
THOMAS S HISCHAK · ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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Theatre in America has had a rich history - from the first performance on the Lewis Hallam Troupe in September of 1752 to the lively shows of modern Broadway. Over the last few centuries significant works have been produced, including Abie's Irish Rose, Long Day's Journey into Night,... |
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Haunted Pittsburgh
Tim Murray · History Press
Pages: 128
Format: Print book
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Founded amidst the bloodshed of the French and Indian War, Pittsburgh is haunted by the ghosts of its gritty and sometimes violent past. Many believe American industrialist Henry Clay Frick still inhabits Clayton, one of the last surviving homes on Millionaires' Row. The spirit of Kate... |
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Guitar All-In-One For Dummies, Book + Online Video & Audio Instruction
Jon Chappell · For Dummies; 2 edition
Format: Print book
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Make your music come alive with this indispensable guitar guide There's no denying that guitar players have cachet. The guitar is an ever-present part of our collective musical heritage, and the sound can be sensual, aggressive, or a million things in between. Whether you're hoping... |
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Stan Lee's How to Draw Superheroes: From the Legendary Co-creator of the Avengers, Spider-Man, the Incredible Hulk, the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, and Iron Man
Stan Lee · Watson-Guptill
Format: Paperback
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The third installment in comics icon Stan Lee's series showing readers how to draw some of the most exciting and dynamic superheroes of all time.Spider-Man, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, Iron Man, the Incredible Hulk, and the Avengers all share a common trait -- these hugely popular... |
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I'll Drink to That: A Life in Style, with a Twist
Betty Halbreich · Penguin Press; Complete Numbers Starting with 1, 1st Ed edition
Format: Hardcover
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Eighty-six-year-old Betty Halbreich is a true original. A tough broad who could have stepped straight out of Stephen Sondheim's repertoire, she has spent nearly forty years as the legendary personal shopper at Bergdorf Goodman, where she works with socialites, stars, and ordinary women... |
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Saints: Men and Women of Exceptional Faith
Jacques Duquesne · Flammarion
Format: Hardcover
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This engaging analysis of the evolving role of sainthood recounts the lives of the most influential figures from the Old Testament to the present day. Jacques Duquesne demystifies the notions of sainthood, martyrdom, beatification, and canonization, placing the role of saints into its wider... |
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Becoming Richard Pryor
Scott Saul · Harper
Format: Hardcover
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A major biography—intimate, gripping, revelatory—of an artist who revolutionized American comedy.Richard Pryor may have been the most unlikely star in Hollywood history. Raised in his familys brothels, he grew up an outsider to privilege. He took to the stage, originally, to escape... |
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Pope Francis: A Photographic Portrait of the People's Pope
Michael Collins · DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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With more than 250 previously unpublished photographs, Pope Francis: A Photographic Portrait of the People's Pope follows the pontiff through a year in his life, from daily prayers to international pastoral visits, offering a rare look at life behind the scenes with His Holiness Pope... |
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