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A World Without "Whom": The Essential Guide to Language in the BuzzFeed Age

EMMY J FAVILLA · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

A World Without "Whom" is Eats, Shoots & Leaves for the internet age, and BuzzFeed global copy chief Emmy Favilla is the witty go-to style guru of webspeak. As language evolves faster than ever before, what is the future of "correct" writing? When Favilla was tasked...
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A Bag Worth a Pony: The Art of the Ojibwe Bandolier Bag

Marcia G Anderson · Minnesota Historical Society Press
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

Bandolier bags, or gashkibidaaganag - the large, heavily beaded shoulder bags made and worn by several North American Indian tribes around the Great Lakes - are prized cultural icons here and around the world. From the 1870s to the present day, Ojibwe bead artists of Minnesota have been...
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Draw ANYTHING with Felt-tips and Markers

Holly Wales · Ilex Press
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback

There is more fun to be had with felt tips than colouring. With her trademark vibrant and energetic style, felt-tip illustrator Holly Wales shakes up your humble pack of pens and gives you the best tips on the tips. Learn how to draw, decorate, doodle and embellish using every color and permutation...
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149 Paintings You Really Need to See in North America:

Julian Porter · Dundurn
Pages: 480
Format: Paperback

Tour North America's greatest museums and galleries in the company of two incomparable guides. This lively companion highlights the essential paintings, by some of the world's greatest painters, from Giotto to Picasso, on display in North American museums and galleries. Julian Porter...
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The Museum of Broken Relationships

OLINKA VITICA · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

"This menagerie of heart-felt creations like the wedding dress in a jar or love-letter piñata will hit you with unexpected emotions and leave your heart feeling full and connected."-- Frank Warren, New York Times bestselling author of the PostSecret seriesA postcard from a childhood...
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The Sweat of Their Face: Portraying American Workers

David C Ward · Smithsonian Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Work always has been a central construct in the United States, influencing how Americans measure their lives and assess their contribution to the wider society. Work also has been valued as the key element in the philosophy of self-improvement and social mobility that undergird the American...
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The Great Jazz and Pop Vocal Albums

Will Friedwald · Pantheon
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

The author of the magisterial A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers now approaches the great singers and their greatest work in an innovative and revelatory way: through considering their finest albums, which is the format in which this music was most resonantly organized...
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Victoria and Albert: A Royal Love Affair

DAISY GOODWIN · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

More than 16 million viewers watched the first season of the Masterpiece presentation of Victoria, created and written by Daisy Goodwin -- the highest-rated PBS drama in twenty years, second only to Downton Abbey. But what happened after the Queen married her handsome prince? Did they live...
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Vintage Bicycles: How to Find and Restore Old Cycles

GIANLUCA ZAGHI · Mondadori
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

An elegantly designed guide on how to find, buy, and restore vintage bicycles. An engaging handbook on one of the biking world's most important trends, this is a step-by-step guide to the art of finding, restoring, and maintaining vintage bicycles. Cycling has become a very popular...
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Ink & Paint: The Women of Walt Disney's Animation

MINDY JOHNSON · Disney Editions
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

From the earliest origins of animated imagery, the colorful link between paper and screen was created by legions of female artists working on the slick surface of celluloid sheets. With calligraphic precision and Rembrandtesque mastery, these women painstakingly brought pencil drawings...
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