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The Senses: Design Beyond Vision

Ellen Lupton · Princeton Architectural Press
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

A powerful reminder to anyone who thinks design is primarily a visual pursuit, The Senses accompanies a major exhibition at the Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum that explores how space, materials, sound, and light affect the mind and body. Learn how contemporary designers, including...
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Chaos and Culture: Renzo Piano Building Workshop and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in Athens

Victoria Newhouse · The Monacelli Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

In 2006 the Stavros Niarchos Foundation announced its gift of a new cultural center in Athens to house both Greek National Library and the Greek National Opera House within a forty-acre landscaped public park. Two years later, with designers and engineers in place and the project underway,...
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Contemporary Broadway Vocal Duets: 31 Songs from 19 Musicals

Hal Leonard Corp. · Hal Leonard
Pages: 239
Format: Musical score

(Vocal Collection) . Duets for various combinations of voices from The Addams Family * Aida * Avenue Q * Bring It On * Ghost the Musical * In the Heights * Legally Blonde * The Lion King * Little Women * Memphis * Monty Python's Spamalot * Newsies the Musical * Once * Shrek the Musical...
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Art of Everyday Photography: Move Toward Manual and Make Creative Photos

Susan Tuttle · North Light Books
Format: Book

In this easy-to-understand book, Susan Tuttle encourages the reader to get her camera out of "auto mode" and finally learn how to use its features to create beautiful photos capturing the everyday moments of life, including portraiture, landscape, still-life scenes, food, pet photography,...
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The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5 Book for Digital Photographers

Scott Kelby · New Riders; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

Since Lightroom 1.0 first launched, Scotts Kelbys The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book for Digital Photographers has been the worlds 1 best-selling Lightroom book it has been translated into a dozen different languages, and in this latest version for Lightroom 5, Scott uses his same award-winning,...
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Brian Mays Red Special: The Story of the Home-made Guitar That Rocked Queen and the World

Brian May · Hal Leonard Books
Format: Hardcover

My dad and I decided to make an electric guitar. I designed an instrument from scratch, with the intention that it would have a capability beyond anything that was out there, more tunable, with a greater range of pitches and sounds, with a better tremolo, and with a capability of feeding...
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The Digital Filmmaking Handbook, 5th Edition

Sonja Schenk · Cengage Learning PTR; 5 edition
Format: Book

THE DIGITAL FILMMAKING HANDBOOK, FIFTH EDITION is the one-stop resource to guide you in taking your digital film project from initial concept to finished project. Covering everything from writing and pre-production planning to shooting and post-production editing and effects, the book has been...
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Playing for their lives : the global El sistema movement for social change through music

Tricia Tunstall · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

An eye-opening view of the unprecedented global spread of El Sistema -- intensive music education that disrupts the cycles of poverty.In some of the bleakest corners of the world, an unprecedented movement is taking root. From the favelas of Brazil to the Maori villages in New Zealand,...
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Art, Politics, and Development

Philipp Lepenies · Temple University Press
Pages: 198
Format: Print book

In his groundbreaking study, Art, Politics and Development, Philipp Lepenies contributes to the ongoing controversy about why the track record of development aid is so dismal. He asserts that development aid policies are grounded in a specific way of literally looking at the world. This...
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The Four Continents: Kent Monkman

Kent Monkman · Black Dog Publishing
Pages: 71
Format: Paperback

Bringing together the large-scale works that comprise Kent Monkman's suite of paintings entitled The Four Continents, a reworking of Tiepolo's Apollo and the Four Continents, this book explores the creation of these contemporary studies that address the original Eurocentric fantasies...
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The 8th Army Air Force in color : as seen through the eyes of Kodak film

Nathan Howland · Schiffer Publishing
Pages: 278

This book showcases a comprehensive catalog of restored WWII color Kodachrome slides. Many were taken during the heat of battle by individuals trying their hand at capturing moments of wartime service with little or no previous photographic experience. These images age with time, and vast...
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Music as Biology: The Tones We Like and Why

Dale Purves · Harvard University Press
Pages: 165
Format: Print book

The universality of musical tones has long fascinated philosophers, scientists, musicians, and ordinary listeners. Why do human beings worldwide find some tone combinations consonant and others dissonant? Why do we make music using only a small number of scales out of the billions that...
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