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Private Guitar Studio Handbook - Strategies & Policies For a Profitable Music Business

Mike McAdam · Berklee Press
Format: Book

Teach guitar for profit! This book will show you how to set up and develop a profitable guitar studio. Besides the ability to teach guitar running a profitable studio needs effective systems for attracting and retaining students ensuring that they pay on time and smoothly handling operations...
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Creative Beaded Jewelry: 33 Exquisite Designs Inspired by the Arts of China, Japan, India and Tibet

Carolyn Schulz · Tuttle Publishing; Paperback with Flaps edition
Format: Paperback

Creative Beaded Jewelry celebrates the art of the East with stunning beaded jewelry in many shapes, sizes and materials. Drawing from her years in the Hawaiian islands, longtime jewelry veteran Carolyn Schulz shares great ideas sparked by all things Asian, such as the springy patterns of kimono...
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Vietnam: The Real War: A Photographic History by the Associated Press

Pete Hamill · Harry N. Abrams
Format: Book

To cover the Vietnam War, the Associated Press gathered an extraordinary group of superb photojournalists in its Saigon bureau, creating one of the great photographic legacies of the 20th century. Collected here are images that tell the story of the war that left a deep and lasting impression...
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Waging Heavy Peace: Limited and Signed Edition

Neil Young · Blue Rider Press; Ltd Sgd edition
Format: Print book

This beautiful limited edition will be signed by Neil Young and repackaged in a slip case and linen cover. Only 1,500 copies will be printed, making it an essential addition to every music lover’s collection. For the first time, legendary singer, songwriter, and guitarist Neil...
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Pioneer Photographers of the Far West: A Biographical Dictionary, 1840-1865

Peter E Palmquist · Stanford Univ. Press
Pages: 704
Format: Print book

This extraordinarily comprehensive, well-documented, biographical dictionary of some 1,500 photographers (and workers engaged in photographically related pursuits) active in western North America before 1865 is enriched by some 250 illustrations, many of them previously unpublished.The...
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Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood

William J. Mann · Harper; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

New York Times BestsellerEdgar Award winner for Best Fact CrimeThe Day of the Locust meets The Devil in the White City and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil in this juicy, untold Hollywood story an addictive true tale of ambition, scandal, intrigue, murder, and the creation of the modern...
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Beyond Tattoo: Art, Graphics and Illustration by the World's Leading Tattoo Artists

Allan Graves · Graffito Books
Pages: 210
Format: Hardcover

A look at the crossover between fine art and tattooing Fine artists are increasingly practicing the art of tattoo while tattoo artists are exercising their skills beyond skin; both are taking the visceral aesthetic of the tattoo underworld with them to create some astounding...
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I Am Charlie Wilson

Charlie Wilson · Atria / 37 Ink
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

The long-awaited memoir of seven-time Grammy-nominated artist Charlie Wilson, the iconic R&B and Funk singer-songwriter-producer - interwoven with his recollections of collaborating with fellow artists such as Stevie Wonder, the Rolling Stones, and Snoop Dogg.Recognized the world over...
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Creative Lettering: Techniques & Tips from Top Artists

Jenny Doh · Lark Crafts
Format: Paperback

Hand-lettering techniques are a popular and visually dynamic way to add textual elements to crafts, from journals to mixed-media art. Sixteen accomplished contributors - including calligraphers, painters, collagists, card makers, fiber artists, and graphic designers - give their personal...
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Down in the Garden

Anne Geddes · Cedco Pub
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover

Presents a collection of photographs featuring babies costumed to resemble creatures and plants found in the garden
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Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks

Keith Houston · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

From ancient Greece to the Internet—via the Renaissance, Gutenberg, and Madison Avenue—Shady Characters exposes the secret history of punctuation. A charming and indispensable tour of two thousand years of the written word, Shady Characters weaves a fascinating trail across...
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The Book of Luke: My Fight for Truth, Justice, and Liberty City

Luther Campbell · Amistad Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The raw and powerful true story of how one man invented Southern Hip-Hop, saved the First Amendment, and became a role model for his disenfranchised Miami neighborhood - living proof that one person can make a difference in the world.A rap artist, wealthy musical entrepreneur, high school...
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Led Zeppelin on Led Zeppelin: Interviews and Encounters

Hank Bordowitz · Chicago Review Press
Format: Hardcover

There are lots of wild stories about Led Zeppelin—some true, some false. Led Zeppelin on Led Zeppelin dishes up the facts, in the bands own words, as they saw them. It shoots down the folklore and assumptions about Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, and John Bonham and presents...
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