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Sticks and Stones: The Designs of Lew French

Lew French - Gibbs Smith
Format: Hardcover

Lew French is a master stonemason who finds and gathers hundreds of individual stones to create a single fireplace or an outdoor stone wall that looks like it had been there for hundreds of years. Rather than use a chisel, his stones have to fit together naturally; he remembers and fits...
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Visualizing The Beatles: A Complete Graphic History of the World's Favorite Band

JOHN PRING - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover

Foreword by Rob SheffieldFilled with stunning full-color infographics, a unique, album-by-album visual history of the evolution of the Beatles that examines how their style, their sound, their instruments, their songs, their tours, and the world they inhabited transformed over the course...
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250 Essential Chinese Characters Volume 1: Revised Edition

Philip Yungkin Lee - Tuttle Publishing
Format: Paperback

This is an invaluable study guide for learning basic Chinese characters.250 Essential Chinese Characters Volume 1 is a second edition, completely revised and with 50 percent new material. Featuring a new design; tips for mastery throughout; exercises in AP-exam format; progressive review...
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Creating A Role

Constantin Stanislavski - Routledge
Format: Paperback

Creating a Roleis the culmination of Stanislavski's masterful trilogy on the art of acting. An Actor Prepares focused on the inner training of an actor's imagination. Building a Characterdetailed how the actor's body and voice could be tuned for the great roles he might fill....
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Help!: The Beatles, Duke Ellington, and the Magic of Collaboration

Thomas David Brothers - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

The fascinating story of how creative cooperation inspired two of the world's most celebrated musical acts.The Beatles and Duke Ellington's Orchestra stand as the two greatest examples of collaboration in music history. Duke University musicologist Thomas Brothers delivers a portrait...
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A Sentimental Christmas Book

Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation - Hal Leonard
Format: Paperback

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook) . An outstanding collection of nearly 30 beloved Christmas favorites, including: All I Want for Christmas Is You * Blue Christmas * Christmas Lights * The Christmas Shoes * The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire) * Christmas Time Is Here...
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Cinematic Places (Volume 7) (Inspired Traveller's Guides, 7)

Sarah Baxter - White Lion Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Go beyond the big screen and explore the real places that inspired some of the greatest films of all time - brought to life through comprehensively researched text and stunning hand-drawn artwork.. Travel journalist Sarah Baxter reveals 25 essential cinematic destinations around the globe,...
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Portrait drawing techniques

Dianne Flynn - Larousse
Format:  Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats

Reproductions of great works of art combine with step-by-step instructions to deomonstrate the techniques for drawing portraits using chalk, charcoal, pencil, pen and ink, pen and wash, oils, and acrylics
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The Gospel According to Luke

Steve Lukather - Post Hill Press
Format: Hardcover

The outrageous and often hilarious autobiography of legendary session musician and lead guitarist and singer of Toto.No one explodes one of the longest-held misconceptions of music history better than Steve Lukather and his band Toto. The dominant sound of the late '70s and '80s was not punk,...
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It's a Wonderful Life: The Original Screenplay

Frances Goodrich - Cluny Media, LLC
Format: Paperback

They say familiarity breeds contempt. By that rule, we should all loathe It's a Wonderful Life. And yet nothing could be further from the truth. Capra's masterpiece - the triumph of the common man, the salvation of George Bailey - stands as one of the most beloved films of all time....
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