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The Four Chord Songbook: 60 Favorites
Hal Leonard Corp. - Hal Leonard
Format: Hardcover
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(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook) . 60 favorite songs that span several genres and feature only four chords, making them easy to learn to play, are featured in this collection for piano, voice and guitar. Songs include: Brown Eyed Girl * Cruise * Despacito * Every Rose Has Its Thorn * Good... |
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Trouble In Mind: Bob Dylan's Gospel Years - What Really Happened
Clinton Heylin - Lesser Gods
Format: Hardcover
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Between 1979 and 1981, Dylan produced and released three of his most controversial albums -- Slow Train Coming, Saved, and Shot of Love -- toured the world, and played the most contentious shows of his career. Remarkably, this entire period was perhaps the most fastidiously well-documented... |
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Slowhand: The Life and Music of Eric Clapton
PHILIP NORMAN - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of Shout!, comes the definitive biography of Eric Clapton, a Rock legend whose life story is as remarkable as his music, which transformed the sound of a generation.For half a century Eric Clapton has been acknowledged to be one of music's greatest virtuosos,... |
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Ringo: With a Little Help
Michael Seth Starr - Backbeat Books
Format: Hardcover
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(Book) . Ringo: With a Little Help is the first in-depth biography of Beatles drummer Ringo Starr, who kept the beat for an entire generation and who remains a rock icon over fifty years since the Beatles took the world by storm. With a Little Help traces the entire arc of Ringo's... |
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Galapagos: A Traveler's Introduction
WAYNE LYNCH - Firefly Books
Format: Paperback
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In 1979, the Galapagos Islands was one of the earliest World Heritage Sites to be selected by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) , a designation intended to protect and preserve sites of cultural and natural heritage around the world. Today, there... |
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Houses of the National Trust
Lydia Greeves - National Trust
Format: Hardcover
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The houses covered here include spectacular mansions such as Petworth House and Waddesdon Manor, and more lowly dwellings such as the Birmingham Back to Backs and estate villages like Blaise Hamlet, near Bristol. The book also covers buildings as diverse as churches, windmills, dovecotes,... |
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It's Saturday Morning!: Celebrating the Golden Era of Cartoons 1960s - 1990s
Joe Garner - becker&mayer! Books
Format: Hardcover
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With concept art, archival images, and all-new interviews, It's Saturday Morning! celebrates the shows, characters, songs, and commercials that made Saturday mornings a pop culture event. Broadcasting into family living rooms from the 1960s to the 1990s, this wildly creative art form... |
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Diane Arbus: Portrait of a Photographer
Arthur Lubow - Ecco Press
Format: Print book
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The definitive biography of the beguiling Diane Arbus, one of the most influential and important photographers of the twentieth century, a brilliant and absorbing exposition that links the extraordinary arc of her life to her iconic photographsDiane Arbus: Portrait of a Photographer brings... |
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The Planets: Photographs from the Archives of NASA
Anthony Casillo - Chronicle Books
Format: Hardcover
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This magnificent volume offers a rich visual tour of the planets in our solar system. More than 200 breathtaking photographs from the archives of NASA are paired with extended captions detailing the science behind some of our cosmic neighborhood's most extraordinary phenomena. Images of newly... |
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Star, Branch, Spiral, Fan: Learn to Draw from Nature's Perfect Design Structures
Yellena James - Rockport Publishers
Format: Flexibound
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True beauty is found in nature, making this the perfect sketch book for your art inspiration!As if being responsible for dazzling sunsets and the aurora borealis were not enough, nature is also guardian to the universal principals of design. With mathematical perfection, its recurring structures... |
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Digital Photography Essentials
Tom Ang - DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Format: Print book
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Digital Photography Essentials is the authoritative guide to digital photography from bestselling author and photographer Tom Ang. Using beautiful images and jargon-free yet highly practical text, Digital Photography Essentials covers the basics of digital photography and explains different... |
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Victoria and Albert: A Royal Love Affair
DAISY GOODWIN - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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More than 16 million viewers watched the first season of the Masterpiece presentation of Victoria, created and written by Daisy Goodwin -- the highest-rated PBS drama in twenty years, second only to Downton Abbey. But what happened after the Queen married her handsome prince?... |
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Homeplace: A Southern Town, a Country Legend, and the Last Days of a Mountaintop Honky-Tonk
John Lingan - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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An intimate account of country music, social change, and a vanishing way of life as a Shenandoah town collides with the twenty-first century Winchester, Virginia is an emblematic American town. When John Lingan first traveled there, it was to seek out Jim McCoy: local honky-tonk owner and the DJ who first... |
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Drawing
Christine Allison - GMC Publications
Format: Paperback
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Drawing is not only a relaxing and enjoyable pastime, but also one of the original mindfulness techniques, being a great way to be in the moment and observe your surroundings. Despite the common assumption that the ability to draw is a skill you either possess or you don't, it can be readily... |
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Women Who Rock: Bessie to Beyonce. Girl Groups to Riot Grrrl.
Evelyn McDonnell - Black Dog & Leventhal
Format: Hardcover
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A stellar and unprecedented celebration of 104 musical artists, WOMEN WHO ROCK is the most complete, up-to-date history of the evolution, influence, and importance of women in music. A gorgeous gift book, it includes a stunning, specially commissioned, full-color illustrated portrait of every... |
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Poldark's Cornwall
Winston Graham - Pan Macmillan
Format: Print book
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Graham's saga of Cornish life in the 18th century has enthralled readers for 70 years and the wild landscapes that inspired the novels have - even today - remained relatively unchanged. Cornwall then was a perilous world of pirates and shipwrecks: of rugged coast and mysterious smugglers'... |
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The Complete Zaha Hadid
Zaha Hadid - Thames & Hudson
Format: Hardcover
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This expanded and up-to-date volume showcases Zaha Hadid's remarkable and inspiring work over the course of her careerZaha Hadid (1950- 2016) was one of the most innovative and celebrated architects of our time. This comprehensive survey of over two hundred projects -- from her earliest... |
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The Movie Book
DK - DK
Format: Hardcover
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The Movie Book, the latest in DK's award-winning Big Ideas Simply Explained series, profiles 100 of the best movies ever made throughout the world.From classic 1930s film noir and Hollywood romance to international art-house and 21st-century sci-fi, The Movie Book brings the world's... |
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Queen: Album by Album
Martin Popoff - Voyageur Press
Format: Hardcover
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A thoughtfully curated and gloriously illustrated retrospective of the band's studio releases, Queen, comes just in time for the 45th anniversary of their debut LP and biopic. Formed in 1970, Queen went on to become one of the most popular - and most successful - rock bands of all time.... |
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Draw Horses in 15 Minutes: Capture the beauty of the equine form
Diana Hand - Ilex
Format: Print book
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Continuing the success of the Draw in 15 Minutes series, horse artist Diana Hand shows you how to express your love of horses through drawing. In a series of tutorials, she describes every stage from finding your model and learning the basic skills of drawing to portraying the movement... |
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Never a Dull Moment: 1971--The Year That Rock Exploded
David Hepworth - Henry Holt and Company
Format: Print book
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A rollicking look at 1971 - the busiest, most innovative and resonant year of the 70s, defined by the musical arrival of such stars as David Bowie, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, and Joni MitchellOn New Year's Eve, 1970, Paul McCartney told his lawyers to issue the writ at the High Court... |
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A Small Town Love Story: Colonial Beach, Virginia
Sherryl Woods - MIRA
Format: Paperback
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Part memoir, part oral history, #1 New York Times bestselling author Sherryl Woods gives us a rare and intimate look at Colonial Beach, Virginia.Rich in narrative history and local color, A Small Town Love Story: Colonial Beach, Virginia is an homage to the town of Sherryl Woods's summers,... |
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Artist's painting techniques
Dk Publishing. - DK
Format: Hardcover
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Artist's Painting Techniques is your practical guide to learning how to bring out your inner artist with a wide range of painting styles, whether you want to learn how to use acrylics, watercolors, or oil paints.With progression in mind, this master class will teach you the basic... |
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The Past and Future City: How Historic Preservation is Reviving America's Communities
Ms. Stephanie Meeks - Island Press
Format: Paperback
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At its most basic, historic preservation is about keeping old places alive, in active use, and relevant to the needs of communities today. As cities across America experience a remarkable renaissance, and more and more young, diverse families choose to live, work, and play in historic neighborhoods,... |
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Obama: An Intimate Portrait
Pete Souza - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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This is the definitive visual biography of Barack Obama's historic presidency, captured in unprecedented detail by his White House photographer--and presented in an oversize, 12"x10" exquisitely produced format, and featuring a foreword from the President himself. |
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Love for Sale: Pop Music in America
David Hajdu - Farrar
Format: Print book
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A personal, idiosyncratic history of popular music that also may well be definitive, from the revered music criticDavid Hajdu begins Love for Sale, his personal history of recorded pop music, in an unexpected place--not with nostalgic reminiscences of the 45s of his youth but with the sheet-music... |
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Kenneth Clark: Life, Art and Civilisation
James Stourton - Alfred A Knopf
Format: Print book
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The first and definitive biography of this brilliant polymath--director of the National Gallery, author, patron of the arts, social lion, and singular pioneer of television--that also tells the story of the arts in the twentieth century through his astonishing life. Kenneth Clark's... |
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Victoria
Helen Rappaport - Harper Design
Format: Print book
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The official companion to the Masterpiece presentation on PBS, Victoria delves into the private writings of the young Queen Victoria, painting a vivid picture of the personal life of one of England's greatest monarchs. From the producers of Poldark and Endeavour, ITV's Victoria follows... |
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