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Respect Yourself: Stax Records and the Soul Explosion
Robert Gordon · Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover |
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The story of Stax Records unfolds like a Greek tragedy. A white brother and sister build a record company that becomes a monument to racial harmony in 1960's segregated south Memphis. Their success is startling, and Stax soon defines an international sound. Then, after losses both business... |
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100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know about Math and the Arts
John D. Barrow · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover |
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A fascinating exploration of maths connection to the arts. At first glance, the worlds of math and the arts might not seem like comfortable neighbors. But as mathematician John D. Barrow points out, they have a strong and natural affinityafter all, math is the study of all patterns, and the world... |
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Army: An Illustrated History
Chester Hearn · Zenith Press
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback |
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Get the complete story on the largest, oldest, and longest-serving branch of the US military.From the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary to the "Coalition of the Willing" in today's Iraq War, the United States Army has fulfilled its solemn charge for the past... |
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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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Your Beauty Mark
Dita Von Teese · HarperCollins Publishers
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover |
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From burlesque show to fashion runway, magazine cover to Internet video, fashion icon and "burlesque superheroine" (Vanity Fair) Dita Von Teese has undergone more strokes of red lipstick, bursts of hair spray, boxes of blue-black hair dye and pats of powder in a month than a drag... |
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Diane von Furstenberg: A Life Unwrapped
Gioia Diliberto · Dey Street Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover |
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A sweeping biography of one of the most influential and controversial legends of late twentieth-century fashion, an iconic designer whose colorful creations, including the "wrap dress," captured the modern feminist spirit.The daughter of a Holocaust survivor and wife of an Austrian... |
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Freddie Mercury: The Great Pretender
Richard Gray (Compiler) · Insight Editions; Har/Com edition |
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Freddie Mercury was an iconic singer who was hugely popular throughout his brilliant music career, as the lead singer of Queen and as a solo artist. The world mourned his untimely death in 1991, but he was incredibly prolific and left behind a rich legacy of recordings, not all of which... |
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Rock Art!: Painting and Crafting with the Humble Pebble
Denise Scicluna · Barron's Educational Series |
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Great uses for rocks: throwing, skipping, kicking ... how about painting? Rock painting is one of the oldest forms of artistic expression known to man. The varied surfaces, shapes, and sizes of rocks also make them perfect for crafts. From brooches to bookends, paperweights to place cards,... |
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