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Chair: 500 Designs That Matter

PHAIDON EDITORS. · Phaidon Press
Pages: 656
Format: Hardcover

The most compelling collection ever of the world's most innovative, stylish, and influential chairsThroughout history, the chair has presented designers the world over with infinite opportunities to experiment with new methods and materials within the set parameters of an object that...
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Star Wars Super Graphic: A Visual Guide to a Galaxy Far, Far Away

TIM LEONG · Chronicle Books
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback

Graphic design guru Tim Leong presents Star Wars trivia in an all-new way - through playful pie charts, bar graphs, and other data-driven infographics. From a Venn diagram of Yoda's idiosyncrasies to an organizational chart of the Empire to a line graph of Grand Moff Tarkin's management...
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Top Country Hits of 2017-2018

Hal Leonard Corp. · Hal Leonard
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook) . 18 of the year's top toe-tapping, twangy hits in arrangements for piano, voice and guitar: Body like a Back Road * Broken Halos * Craving You * Dear Hate * Dirt on My Boots * Dirty Laundry * Drinkin' Problem * Every Little Thing * Female * Fighter...
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Danny Lyon: Message to the Future

Danny Lyon · Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco ; New Haven
Pages: 287
Format: Print book

Coming of age in the 1960s, the photographer Danny Lyon (b. 1942) distinguished himself with work that emphasized intimate social engagement. In 1962 Lyon traveled to the segregated South to photograph the civil rights movement. Subsequent projects on biker culture, the demolition and redevelopment...
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Last Chain On Billie: How One Extraordinary Elephant Escaped the Big Top

Carol Bradley · St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Against the backdrop of a glittering but brutal circus world, Carol Bradleys Last Chain on Billie charts the history of elephants in America, the inspiring story of the Elephant Sanctuary and the spellbinding tale of a resilient elephant who defied the system even as she struggled to conquer...
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City Quitters: An Exploration of Post-Urban Life

Karen Rosenkranz
Format: Hardcover

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Rineke Dijkstra: The Louisiana Book,Reprint edition

Michael Juul Holm · Koenig Books
Pages: 328
Format: Hardcover

With elegance, vulnerability and candor, Dijkstra has created a portraiture style of profound encounterRineke Dijkstra is a master of capturing the individual in transition. Best known for her photographs of preadolescent bathers on the beach, she has also produced iconic images of mothers...
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The Almost Unknown Stephen Sondheim: 39 Previously Unpublished Songs from 17 Shows and Films

Stephen Sondheim · HAL LEONARD
Pages: 356
Format: Print book

(P/V/G Composer Collection) . The "Almost Unknown" in the title of this collection refers to the fact that some of the songs, though never before published, have been recorded, and might be known to the most knowledgeable of Sondheim connoisseurs. However, it is safe to say that...
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