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Digital Engineering with Minecraft
James F Kelly · Que,
Pages: 351
Format: Print book
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Digital Engineering with Minecraft Create amazing objects for Minecraft - and learn valuable real-world 3D design skills! Transform yourself into a Minecraft "engineer!" Discover how to create great Minecraft objects and structures fast, and push your creative skills... |
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Language of the Spirit: An Introduction to Classical Music
Jan Swafford · Basic Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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For many of us, classical music is something serious-something we study in school, something played by cultivated musicians at fancy gatherings. In Language of the Spirit, renowned music scholar Jan Swafford argues that we have it all wrong: classical music has something for everyone and is accessible... |
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I'll Drink to That: A Life in Style, with a Twist
Betty Halbreich · Penguin Press; Complete Numbers Starting with 1, 1st Ed edition
Format: Hardcover
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Eighty-six-year-old Betty Halbreich is a true original. A tough broad who could have stepped straight out of Stephen Sondheim's repertoire, she has spent nearly forty years as the legendary personal shopper at Bergdorf Goodman, where she works with socialites, stars, and ordinary women... |
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Life on Mar's: Creating Casual Luxury
Mar Jennings · Midpoint Trade Books Inc
Pages: 151
Format: Print book
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"Casual Luxury is the cure for all design dilemmas. My six principles will work in your home regardless of its size, your personal style, and in any room. Casual Luxury has no boundaries." Emmy-nominated TV Host, Lifestyle Expert and best-selling author Mar Jennings is known... |
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Cosby: His Life and Times
Mark Whitaker · Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The first major biography of an American icon, comedian Bill Cosby. Based on extensive research and in-depth interviews with Cosby and more than sixty of his closest friends and associates, it is a frank, fun and fascinating account of his life and historic legacy. Far from the gentle worlds... |
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Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music
ANN POWERS · Dey Street Books
Pages: 418
Format: Hardcover
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In this sweeping history of popular music in the United States, NPR's acclaimed music critic examines how popular music shapes fundamental American ideas and beliefs, allowing us to communicate difficult emotions and truths about our most fraught social issues, most notably sex and race.In... |
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The Archaeology of Hollywood: Traces of the Golden Age
Paul G Bahn · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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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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Electronics for Artists: Adding Light, Motion, and Sound to Your Artwork
Simon Quellen Field · Chicago Review Press
Format: Book
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With today's modern technology - LEDs, servomotors, motion sensors, speakers, and more - artwork can incorporate elements of light, sound, and motion for dramatic effects. Author and educator Simon Quellen Field has developed a primer for creative individuals looking for new ways to express... |
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Picturing Dogs, Seeing Ourselves: Vintage American Photographs
Ann-Janine Morey · Penn State University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Dogs are as ubiquitous in American culture as white picket fences and apple pie, embracing all the meanings of wholesome domestic life—family, fidelity, comfort, protection, nurturance, and love—as well as symbolizing some of the less palatable connotations of home and family,... |
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The Ultimate Woody Allen Film Companion
Jason Bailey · Voyageur Press
Format: Hardcover
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A complete look at the extensive, ageless, unparalleled filmography of Woody Allen. Writer, actor, director, comedian, author, and musician, Woody Allen is one of the most culturally and cinematically influential filmmakers of all time. His films - he has over 45 writing and directing credits... |
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John Wayne: The Life and Legend
Scott Eyman · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 658
Format: Book
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Drawing on interviews that author Scott Eyman conducted with John Wayne before his death and more than 100 interviews with the actor's family, co-stars, and close associates, this revelatory biography shows how both the facts and fictions about Wayne illuminate his singular life.John Wayne... |
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Edgar Degas: Drawings and Pastels
Christopher Lloyd · J. Paul Getty Museum, 2014.
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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Edgar Degas (1834 -1917) was one of the outstanding draftsmen of the nineteenth century, and drawing was not only a central tenet of his art but also essential to his existence. Through an examination of his drawings and pastels, this book reveals the development of Degas's style as well... |
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On the Road with Janis Joplin
John Byrne Cooke · Berkley
Format: Hardcover
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One of Parade's Top Ten Rock n' Roll ReadsAs a road manager and filmmaker, he helped run the Janis Joplin show - and record it for posterity. Now he reveals the never-before-told story of his years with the young woman from Port Arthur who would become the first female rock and roll... |
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