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Paul Simon: An American Tune

Cornel Bonca · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Paul Simon: An American Tune is the first full-scale survey of the career of one of the most honored musicians and songwriters in American history. Starting out as a teeny-bopper rocker in the late 1950s, Paul Simon went on to form the most influential pop duo of the 1960s—Simon &...
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Brick Flicks: 60 Iconic Movie Scenes and Posters to Make From LEGO

Warren Elsmore · Barron's Educational Series

It's official...there is absolutely no limit to what master modeler Warren Elsmore can create with LEGO bricks! He's wowed us with architectural icons from around the globe in Brick City. He amazed us with the wonders of the ancient, natural, and modern world in Brick Wonders. And now,...
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Evolution: A Visual Record

Robert Clark · Phaidon
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

Stunning images to reawaken us to the scientific process that drives the amazing diversity of life on earthEvidence of evolution is everywhere. Through 200 revelatory images, award-winning photographer Robert Clark makes one of the most important foundations of science clear and exciting...
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Fashion Is...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Harry N. Abrams
Format: Paperback

Fashion Is . . . encourages readers to think about the myriad definitions of fashion. A Dior day suit. An Yves Saint Laurent minidress. A Japanese kimono. A Ferragamo shoe. A British court ensemble. A Schiaparelli hat. Fashion is glamour and attitude, texture and pattern, sexy and prim,...
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Sci-Fi & Fantasy Oil Painting Techniques

Patrick J Jones · Korero Books Llp
Pages: 192
Format: Book

The secrets of painting Conan, mermaids, and otherworldly creatures, from pencil sketches to finished artAn award winningsci-fi and fantasy illustrator offersa masterclass in creating fantastic art in the spirit of Frank Frazetta and Boris Vallejo. No serious student of sci-fi and fantasy...
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Grateful Dead - The Definitive Collection

Grateful Dead. · Hal Leonard,
Pages: 304
Format: Musical score

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook) . Dead heads will love this newly-engraved collection of 54 songs from the iconic jam band. Songs include: Althea * Bertha * Box of Rain * Brokedown Palace * Brown-Eyed Women * Casey Jones * Cumberland Blues * Dark Star * Easy Wind * Fire on the Mountain...
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The Encyclopedia of Mosaic Techniques: A Step-by-Step Visual Dictionary with an Inspirational Gallery of Finished works

Emma Biggs · Search Press, 2014.
Pages: 160
Format: Print book

The Encyclopedia of Mosaic Techniques shares the ancient methods for creating decorative artwork with mosaic tiles. This visual directory helps you transform your pottery, furniture, walls, and floors with fabulous creative mosaics. Learn foolproof techniques for getting colours to work...
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The Phone Book

Robert Herman · Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Pages: 142
Format: Print book

Believing that it is the photographer, not the camera that makes the photograph, this is a collection of iPhone photographs made while traveling across the world. The Phone Book places two photographs on opposing pages, creating spreads that invite the viewer to discover their own connections...
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Mary Ann Carroll: First Lady of the Highwaymen

Gary Monroe · University Press of Florida
Format: Hardcover

 “Here, Monroe tells perhaps his most compelling tale of all—about the only Highwaywoman, Mary Ann Carroll.”—Jeff Klinkenberg, author of Alligators in B-Flat “A tale of triumph, of personal survival, of discipline, and finally, of faith.”—Linda...
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Craftsman Farms

Heather E. Stivison · Arcadia Publishing
Format: Print book

Craftsman Farms was the country estate of the father of the American Arts and Crafts movement, Gustav Stickley. Though Stickley is credited with creating hundreds of home designs, this property contains the only home he designed and built for his own use. His rustic log house was built...
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Painting Nature in Watercolor with Cathy Johnson: 37 Step-by-Step Demonstrations Using Watercolor Pencil and Paint

Cathy Johnson · North Light Books
Format: Book

Breathe fresh air into your watercolors! Capture the wonders of nature!From crashing waves to sculptured deserts, from grand sunsets to humble wildflowers, from backyard discoveries to exotic getaways, the natural world offers inspiration enough for a lifetime! In this book, one of today's...
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Cave Temples of Dunhuang: Buddhist Art on China's Silk Road

Neville Agnew · The Getty Conservation Institute
Pages: 292
Format: Print book

The Mogao grottoes in northwestern China, located near the town of Dunhuang on the fabled Silk Road, constitute one of the world's most significant sites of Buddhist art. Preserved in some five hundred caves carved into rock cliffs at the edge of the Gobi Desert are one thousand years...
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Fierabras, d 796 : heroisch-romantische oper in drei akten

Franz Schubert · Baerenreiter Language: German, English ISBN-13: 979-0006544479 ASIN: B00SYNSM00 Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 7.5 x 1.3 inches Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds Average Customer Review: Be the first to review this item  Would you like to update product info, gi
Format: Musical score

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A Place for Us: "West Side Story" and New York

Julia L Foulkes · The University of Chicago Press
Pages: 246
Format: Print book

From its Broadway debut to the Oscar-winning film to countless amateur productions, West Side Story is nothing less than an American touchstone - an updating of Shakespeare vividly realized in a rapidly changing postwar New York. That vision of postwar New York is at the heart of Julia...
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Thomas Cole: The Artist as Architect

Annette Blaugrund · The Monacelli Press
Pages: 120
Format: Print book

At the height of his career as the leader of the Hudson River School of American landscape painting, Thomas Cole listed himself in the New York City Directory as an architect. Why would this renowned painter, who had never before designed a building, advertise himself as such? The importance...
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