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A New History of Animation

Maureen Furniss · Thames & Hudson
Pages: 464
Format: Paperback

A brand-new, comprehensive history of world animationA New History of Animation guides readers through the history animation from around the world. Topics covered include: optical toys and magic lanterns; early cinema, magic, and the foundations of the animation industry; the relationship...
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Artist's Market 2018

Noel Rivera · North Light Books
Pages: 672
Format: Paperback(Forty-third Edition)

A successful art career at your fingertips Do you want to establish or expand a career for yourself in fine art, illustration, or design? Artist's Market 2018 is the must-have reference guide you need. Thousands of successful artists have relied on us to help develop their careers and navigate...
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Men in this Town: Alone in a Crowd

Giuseppe Santamaria · Hardie Grant
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Men In This Town: Alone in a Crowd is an extension of Giuseppe Santamaria's successful first books Men in this Town and Women in this Town. The title refers to both Giuseppe, as the photographer, and the candid street shots of individuals captured in his pictures.Alone in a crowd, Giuseppe's...
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The Great American Banjo Songbook: 70 Songs

Alan Munde · Hal Leonard
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback

(Banjo) . Explore the repertoire of the "Great American Songbook" with this 70-song collection, masterfully arranged by Alan Munde and Beth Mead-Sullivan for 3-finger, Scruggs-style 5-string banjo. Rhythm tab, right hand fingerings and chord diagrams are included for each of these...
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Music and Capitalism: A History of the Present

Timothy Dean Taylor · The University of Chicago Press
Pages: 217
Format: Print book

iTunes. Spotify. Pandora. With these brief words one can map the landscape of music today, but these aren't musicians, songs, or anything else actually musical - they are products and brands. In this book, Timothy D. Taylor explores just how pervasively capitalism has shaped music over...
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Let's Go Crazy: Prince and the Making of Purple Rain

Alan Light · Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

From the former senior editor of Rolling Stone and author of The Holy or the Broken, called "thoughtful and illuminating" by The New York Times, a new book on the unlikely coming-to-be of Prince's now legendary album.Purple Rain is a song, an album, and a film - each one a commercial...
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Chicago Blues Rhythm Guitar: The Complete Definitive Guide

Bob Margolin · Hal Leonard; Pap/DVD edition
Format: Musical score

(Guitar Educational). As rhythm guitarist for blues legend Muddy Waters, Steady Rollin' Bob Margolin has gained invaluable experience in the art of Chicago blues rhythm guitar. And now in this exclusive and comprehensive book/DVD package, Bob Margolin and blues author/historian Dave...
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Cy Twombly

Jonas Storsve · Sieveking
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

* Accompanies a vast, non-traveling retrospective at the Centre Pompidou (11/30/16-4/26/17) with works from public and private collections worldwide* Includes texts by notable scholars and art historians, writers, artists, and collectors.* Features archival material and personal photographs...
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An Actor Succeeds: Tips, Secrets & Advice on Auditioning, Connection, Coping & Thriving In & Out of Hollywood

Boze Hadleigh · Applause Theatre & Cinema
Format: Book

An Actor Succeeds is a very special collection containing all the best trade secrets of the biggest and most successful film and theater professionals. Presented in an informative format, An Actor Succeeds is a useful yet entertaining how-to, tips-and-advice book comprising nearly 900 quotes...
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The Future of Making

Tom Wujec · Melcher Media Inc
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Prepare yourself: How things are made is changing. The digital and physical are uniting, from innovative methods to sense and understand our world to machines that learn and design in ways no human ever could; from 3D printing to materials with properties that literally stretch possibility;...
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Adjaye: Africa: Architecture: Compact Edition

David Adjaye · Thames & Hudson
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

A complete overview of architecture in fifty-three African cities, seen through the eyes and images of one of the world's leading young architectsEducated in England, David Adjaye's lifelong dream was to return to Africa as an architect to document the continent's built environment....
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Top Country Hits of 2015-2016

Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation · Hal Leonard Corporation
Pages: 87
Format: Musical score

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook) . 14 of the year's most popular country songs in arrangements for piano, voice and guitar. Includes: Burning House (Cam) * Biscuits (Kacey Musgraves) * Girl Crush (Little Big Town) * I'm Comin' Over (Chris Young) * Let Me See You Girl...
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Virgil Thomson: Music Chronicles, 1940-1954

Virgil Thomson · Library of America
Format: Hardcover

Revisit the Golden Age of classical music in America through the witty and adventurous reviews of our greatest critic-composer: For fourteen memorable years Virgil Thomson surveyed the worlds of opera and classical music as the chief music critic for the New York Herald Tribune. An accomplished...
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