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One Way Out: The Inside History of the Allman Brothers Band

Alan Paul · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 438
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times Best seller!One Way Out is the powerful biography of The Allman Brothers Band, an oral history written with the band's participation and filled with original, never-before-published interviews as well as personal letters and correspondence. This is the most in-depth...
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Landmark: The Fields of Landscape Photography

William A. Ewing · Thames & Hudson; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

An eloquent global survey of contemporary landscape photography as seen through the eyes of the leading photographers of today Landscape photography has traveled far from its origins in the picturesque or pastoral. It is at the cutting edge of contemporary image-making with leading photographers...
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The History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs

Greil Marcus · Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover

Selects ten songs recorded between 1956 and 2008 that embody rock and roll as a thing in itself--in the story each song tells, inhabits, and creates in its legacy.
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Art in Time: A World History of Styles and Movements

The Editors of Phaidon Press · Phaidon Press
Format: Hardcover

Art in Time is the first book to embed art movements within the larger context of politics and history. Global in scope and featuring an innovative present?to?past arrangement, the book's accessible text looks back on the most significant art styles and movements, from the present day to antiquity.Pages...
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In the Name of Gucci: A Memoir

Patricia Gucci · Crown Pub
Pages: 304
Format: Book

The gripping family drama and never-before-told love story surrounding the rise and fall of the late Aldo Gucci, the man responsible for making the legendary fashion label the powerhouse it is today, as told by his daughter. Patricia Gucci was born a secret: the lovechild whose birth could...
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Masked: The Life of Anna Leonowens, Schoolmistress at the Court of Siam

Alfred Habegger · University of Wisconsin Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

A brave British widow goes to Siam andby dint of her principled and indomitable characterinspires that despotic nation to abolish slavery and absolute rule this appealing legend first took shape after the Civil War when Anna Leonowens came to America from Bangkok and succeeded in becoming...
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Abandoned Asylums

Matt Van der Velde · Jonglez Publishing
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

Abandoned Asylums takes readers on an unrestricted visual journey inside America's abandoned state hospitals, asylums, and psychiatric facilities, the institutions where countless stories and personal dramas played out behind locked doors and out of public sight. The images captured...
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The Archaeology of Hollywood: Traces of the Golden Age

Paul G Bahn · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

The Golden Age of Hollywood, dating to the hazy depths of the early 20th Century, was an era of movie stars worshipped by the masses and despotic studio moguls issuing decrees from poolside divans ... but despite the world-wide reach of the movie industry, little more than memories of that...
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The New Colored Pencil: Create Luminous Works with Innovative Materials and Techniques

Kristy Ann Kutch · Watson-Guptill Publications
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback

Start coloring, relieve stress, and learn to create radiant, original works of art using colored pencils, wax pastels, and watercolor pencils.Add vibrancy to your coloring creations with instruction from best-selling author and teacher Kristy Kutch as she guides you through recommendations...
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Star Wars Galaxy: The Original Topps Trading Card Series

Gary Gerani · Abrams ComicArts
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

Ten years after the release of "Return of the Jedi, " the Topps Company reintroduced the "Star Wars "universe to collectors with a series of trading cards. Illustrated by the biggest names in science fiction, fantasy, and comics including Kyle Baker, Moebius, Jon J Muth,...
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David Bellamy's Winter Landscapes: in Watercolour

David Bellamy · Search Press
Format: Print book

Watercolour landscape expert and renowned author, David Bellamy, has a particular liking for winter subjects, since the landscape at this time is not overwhelmed with green. Here he shares his expertise in capturing winter scenes, from how to wrap up and do rapid outdoor sketches to capturing...
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The Beatles Fake Book: C Edition (Fake Books)

The Beatles · Hal Leonard Corporation
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback

For the first time ever! 200 of the Beatles' hits arranged in fake book format, featuring guitar chord frames and lyrics. All My Loving * All You Need Is Love * And I Love Her * Baby, You're a Rich Man * Back in the U.S.S.R. * The Ballad of John and Yoko * Blackbird * Can't...
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Just Paint It!: The World's Most Enjoyable Painting Course. Ever!

Sam Piyasena · Barron's Educational Series
Format: Hardcover

For anyone who has ever gazed longingly at a set of artists paints and brushes in a store and wished that they knew where to begin, this is the book for them. This companion to Barrons Just Draw It! relies on the belief that anyone can paint, and encourages readers to not only learn, but to experiment...
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