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Fitting and Pattern Alteration: A Multi-Method Approach to the Art of Style Selection, Fitting, and Alteration

Elizabeth G Liechty · Fairchild Books
Pages: 480
Format: Print book

Fitting and Pattern Alteration: A Multi-Method Approach to the Art of Style Selection, Fitting, and Alteration, Third Edition, shows readers how to recognize, evaluate, and correct fit for 88 figure variations. This comprehensive guide presents proven methods of style selection, fitting,...
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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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1967: A Complete Rock Music History of the Summer of Love

Harvey Kubernik · Sterling
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover

Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the "Summer of Love" and the revolutionary music of 1967. During late spring 1967, tens of thousands of young people began streaming into San Francisco, kicking off a counterculture revolution and cultural explosion that was the Summer of Love....
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Anywhere, Anytime Art: Crayon: An artist's colorful guide to drawing on the go!

Monika Forsberg · Walter Foster Publishing
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback

Anyone can draw and paint, anywhere and at any time! Anywhere, Anytime Art: Crayon allows artists of all skill levels to create beautiful, spontaneous artwork inspired by their surroundings, no matter where they are! Discover how to work with crayon, master basic strokes and drawing techniques,...
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If Venice Dies

Salvatore Settis · New Vessel Pr
Pages: 180
Format: Print book

"A chilling account of the slow agony of Venice as illustrative of a global consumerist epidemic. Richly documented and imbued with deep angst about this supreme urban creation." - Philippe de Montebello, former director of the Metropolitan Museum of ArtWhat is Venice worth? To whom...
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Come as You Are: Art of the 1990s

Alexandra Schwartz · University of California Press
Format: Hardcover

Come as You Are: Art of the 1990s is the first major museum survey to historicize art made in the United States during this pivotal decade. Showcasing approximately sixty-five works by forty-five artists, the book includes installations, paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, video, sound,...
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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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First 50 Songs You Should Play on Acoustic Guitar

Hal Leonard Corp. · Hal Leonard
Format: Print book

(Guitar Collection) . If you're new to the guitar, you are probably eager to learn some songs. This book provides a combo of tab, chords, and lyrics for the most popular songs beginning guitarists want to play on the acoustic guitar. Includes: Against the Wind * Barely Breathing * Boulevard...
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Porcelain: A Memoir

Moby. · Penguin Press
Pages: 406
Format: Print book

From one of the most interesting and iconic musicians of our time, a piercingly tender, funny, and harrowing account of the path from suburban poverty and alienation to a life of beauty, squalor and unlikely success out of the NYC club scene of the late '80s and '90s.There were many reasons...
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Black Girls Rock!: Owning Our Magic. Rocking Our Truth.

BEVERLY BOND · Atria / 37 INK
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

From the founder of the mentoring organization and awards show Black Girls Rock! comes an inspiring and beautifully-designed tribute to the achievements and contributions of black women around the world, featuring moving entries from icons like Kerry Washington, Angela Davis, Misty Copeland,...
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Wave-Swept Lighthouses of New England

Jeremy D'Entremont · Arcadia Publishing
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback

The lighthouse is a pervasive icon in our culture, often used to symbolize positive qualities like faith, guidance, strength, and steadfastness. No structures embody these qualities more than wave-swept lighthouses, which were built to withstand the most extreme forces of wind and ocean...
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Strong Is the New Pretty: A Celebration of Girls Being Themselves

Kate T. Parker · Workman Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Girls being fearless. Girls being silly. Girls being wild, stubborn, and proud. Girls whose faces are smeared with dirt and lit up with joy. So simple and yet so powerful, Strong Is the New Pretty celebrates, through more than 175 memorable photographs, the strength and spirit of girls...
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The Andy Cohen Diaries: A Deep Look at a Shallow Year

Andy Cohen · Henry Holt
Format: Hardcover

A year in the whirlwind life of the beloved pop icon Andy Cohen, in his own cheeky, candid, and irreverent wordsAs a TV Producer and host of the smash late night show Watch What Happens Live, Andy Cohen has a front row seat to an exciting world not many get to see. In this dishy, detailed...
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Italian Rustic: How to Bring Tuscan Charm into Your Home

Elizabeth Helman Minchilli · Artisan
Format: Hardcover

A celebration of Tuscan farmhouse style, with practical advice on how to bring the look home.For anyone who has ever dreamed of living under the Tuscan sun, Italian Rustic is the next best thinga step-by-step guide to recreating the romance and appeal of the weathered Italian farmhouse....
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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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