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The Record Players: DJ Revolutionaries
The Record Players: DJ Revolutionaries

Bill Brewster · Grove Press, Black Cat
Pages: 480
Format: Paperback

Acclaimed authors and music historians Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton have spent years traveling across the world to interview the revolutionary and outrageous DJs who shaped the last half-century of pop music. The Record Players is the fun and revealing result—a collection of firsthand...
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150 Best New Kitchen Ideas
150 Best New Kitchen Ideas

Manel Gutierrez · Harper Design, New York
Pages: 479
Format: Print book

A comprehensive, full-color handbook, packed with hundreds of photographs that showcase the latest in beautiful, welcoming, and efficient kitchen design.150 Best New Kitchen Ideas offers an in-depth look at exemplary new kitchen designs from today's most renowned architects and designers....
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How to Draw What You See
How to Draw What You See

Rudy De Reyna · Watson-Guptill; 35th Anniversary edition edition
Format: Paperback

When it was originally published in 1970, How to Draw What You See zoomed to the top of Watson-Guptill’s best-seller list—and it has remained there ever since. “I believe that you must be able to draw things as you see them—realistically,” wrote Rudy de Reyna...
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Home Recording for Musicians for Dummies: 5th Edition
Home Recording for Musicians for Dummies: 5th Edition

Jeff Strong · Wiley; 5 edition
Format: Print book

Save studio fees with pro-quality recording at home Home Recording For Musicians For Dummies offers simple explanations on how to record music in a home studio, no matter your style, method, or sound. With expert guidance every step of the way, you'll find the answers to your questions...
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Respect Yourself: Stax Records and the Soul Explosion
Respect Yourself: Stax Records and the Soul Explosion

Robert Gordon · Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover

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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Keith Richards on Keith Richards: Interviews and Encounters
Keith Richards on Keith Richards: Interviews and Encounters

Sean Egan · Chicago Review Press
Format: Paperback

The iconic life and career of the famed guitarist of the Rolling Stones is detailed in this compilation of interviews that spans the last 50 years. Featuring articles from GQ, Melody Maker, and Rolling Stone, as well as interviews that have never previously appeared in print, it charts...
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Man on the Run: Paul McCartney in the 1970s
Man on the Run: Paul McCartney in the 1970s

Tom Doyle · Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

An illuminating look at the most tumultuous decade in the life of a rock icon—the only McCartney biography in decades based on firsthand interviews with the ex-Beatle himself.   As the 1970s began, the Beatles ended, leaving Paul McCartney to face the new decade with only his wife Linda...
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The Beatles: Six Days that Changed the World. February 1964
The Beatles: Six Days that Changed the World. February 1964

Bill Eppridge · Rizzoli
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover

Astonishing, richly spontaneous, and almost entirely unpublished images of the Beatles' historic first trip to the United States, as chronicled by an award-winning photographer given unique access to their tour. Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Beatles'...
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Clapton: The Ultimate Illustrated History
Clapton: The Ultimate Illustrated History

Chris Welch · Voyageur Press; Ill edition
Format: Print book

One of Guitar World magazine's Top 15 rock books of 2011.He was born Eric Patrick Clapton, but you can just call him "Slowhand." Over the years, fans of Eric Clapton have debated the high points of an epic career in blues and rock 'n' roll spanning nearly fifty years....
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The Parthenon Enigma
The Parthenon Enigma

Joan Breton Connelly · Knopf
Format: Paperback

Built in the fifth century b.c., the Parthenon has been venerated for more than two millennia as the West’s ultimate paragon of beauty and proportion. Since the Enlightenment, it has also come to represent our political ideals, the lavish temple to the goddess Athena serving as the model...
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100 Acoustic Lessons - Guitar Lesson Goldmine Series
100 Acoustic Lessons - Guitar Lesson Goldmine Series

Michael Mueller · Hal Leonard Corporation; Pap/Com edition
Format: Paperback

Expand your guitar knowledge with the Guitar Lesson Goldmine series] Featuring 100 individual modules covering a giant array of topics each lesson in this Acoustic volume includes detailed instruction with playing examples presented in standard notation and tablature. You'll also get extremely...
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Turn Around Bright Eyes: The Rituals of Love and Karaoke
Turn Around Bright Eyes: The Rituals of Love and Karaoke

Rob Sheffield · It Books
Format: Hardcover

Once upon a time I was falling apart. Now I'm always falling in love.Pick up the microphone.When Rob Sheffield moved to New York City in the summer of 2001, he was a young widower trying to start a new life in a new town. Behind, in the past, was his life as a happily married rock critic,...
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Sketching Basics: One Point Perspective
Sketching Basics: One Point Perspective

Ruzaimi Mat Rani · Rockport Publishers
Pages: 206
Format: Paperback

Watch your sketches take on a life of their own with the help of Sketching Basics: One Point Perspective. Master the art of producing quality one point perspective sketches via detailed, easy-to-learn sketching methods and step-by-step illustrations. Artists at all levels will find this...
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Pearl Harbor: The Movie and the Moment (Newmarket Pictorial Moviebooks)
Pearl Harbor: The Movie and the Moment (Newmarket Pictorial Moviebooks)

Randall Wallace · Hyperion; 1St Edition edition
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover

Directed by Michael Bay and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, and starring Ben Affleck, Cuba Gooding, Jr., and Alec Baldwin, Pearl Harbor, the movie, explores the lives of two daring young pilots whose worlds are drastically altered by the events leading up to World War II. Offering a unique,...
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