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Canon EOS 7D Mark II For Dummies
Doug Sahlin - For Dummies; 1 edition
Format: Book
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Get great digital shots with your Canon EOS 7D Mark II This full-color guide to the features and functions of the Canon EOS 7D Mark II makes it easy for first-time users to get the most out of the camera and capture cool, professional-level photos. Packed with examples on how to create... |
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Veranda A Passion for Living: Houses of Style and Inspiration
Carolyn Englefield - Hearst; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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What makes a home exceptionalwith an unforgettable sense of personality and passion The answer shines through in this breathtaking collection of 30 uniquely stunning European houses, from France and Italy to Switzerland and Sweden. Following on the success of The Houses of Veranda and Veranda... |
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The Words and Music of Melissa Etheridge
James E Perone - Praeger,
Format: Print book
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For a quarter century, Melissa Etheridge has been one of the most iconic and prolific female rock musicians. This book critically examines this songwriter's portrayal of universal human emotions and experiences against the context of her life.* Provides critical analysis of the songs... |
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Design in the Hamptons
Anthony Iannacci - The Monacelli Press; First Edition, Stated edition
Format: Hardcover
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A luxurious look at nineteen private houses in the Hamptons, Long Island’s exclusive summer retreat—with architecture, interiors, and gardens from celebrity designers including Jonathan Adler and Simon Doonan, John Barman, Fox-Nahem, Thad Hayes, Tony Ingrao, Todd Merrill, Roman... |
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Old Fields: Photography, Glamour, and Fantasy Landscape
John R Stilgoe - University of Virginia Press
Format: Print book
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Glamour subverts convention. Models, images, and even landscapes can skew ordinary ways of seeing when viewed through the lens of photography, suggesting new worlds imbued with fantasy, mystery, sexuality, and tension.In Old Fields, John Stilgoe -- one of the most original observers of his time... |
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The Camera Does the Rest: How Polaroid Changed Photography
Peter Buse - The University of Chicago Press
Format: Print book
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In a world where nearly everyone has a cellphone camera capable of zapping countless instant photos, it can be a challenge to remember just how special and transformative Polaroid photography was in its day. And yet, there's still something magical for those of us who recall waiting... |
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The Vanished: The "Evaporated People" of Japan in Stories and Photographs
Lena Mauger - W W Norton
Format: Print book
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Every year, nearly one hundred thousand Japanese vanish without a trace. Known as the johatsu, or the "evaporated," they are often driven by shame and hopelessness, leaving behind lost jobs, disappointed families, and mounting debts. In The Vanished, journalist Lna Mauger and photographer... |
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How to Listen to Jazz
Ted Gioia - Basic Books
Format: Paperback
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A "radiantly accomplished" music scholar presents an accessible introduction to the art of listening to jazz (Wall Street Journal) . In How to Listen to Jazz, award-winning music scholar Ted Gioia presents a lively introduction to one of Americas premier art forms. He tells us what... |
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Just Us Girls: 48 Creative Art Projects for Mothers and Daughters to Do Together
Cindy Ann Ganaden - Quarry
Format: Paperback
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Explore and nurture your mother-daughter bond and create a keepsake that you'll cherish forever with Just Us Girls. This highly-illustrated craft and activity book includes 48 heartfelt, earth-friendly projects to make together. These projects include making: dolls, press books, wreaths,... |
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Illustration that Works: Professional Techniques for Artistic and Commercial Success
Greg Houston - Monacelli Studio
Format: Print book
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A straight-to-the-point "everything-you-need-to-know" guide to the world of professional illustration for aspiring artists and recent art-school graduates - not only the technical essentials (the difference between narrative versus conceptual illustration, diagramming a composition,... |
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Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen: Interviews and Encounters
Leonard Cohen - Independent Pub Group
Format: Print book
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Leonard Cohen, one of the most admired performers of the last half century, has had a stranger-than-fiction, roller-coaster ride of a life. Now, for the first time, he tells his story in his own words, via more than 50 interviews conducted worldwide between 1966 and 2012. In Leonard Cohen... |
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House and Philosophy: Everybody Lies
Henry Jacoby - John Wiley & Sons
Format: Paperback
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An unauthorized look at the philosophical issues raised by one of today's most popular television shows: House House is one of the top three television dramas on the air, pulling in more than 19 million viewers for each episode. This latest book in the popular Blackwell Philosophy... |
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The Big Bang Theory and Philosophy: Rock, Paper, Scissors, Aristotle, Locke
Dean Kowalski - Wiley; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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A lighthearted meditation on the philosophical quandaries of the hit television show The Big Bang TheoryEver wonder what Aristotle might say about the life Sheldon Cooper leads? Why Thomas Hobbes would applaud the roommate agreement? Who Immanuel Kant would treat with "haughty derision"... |
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The Book
Julius Friedman - Old Stone Press
Format: Print book
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Destroying books has traditionally been seen as a brutal, almost inhumane, act. Is it possible that instead, book destruction can be turned into beautiful and inspiring works of art? That's the premise behind a new book from distinguished designer and photographer, Julius Friedman.... |
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Decorating the Way I See It
Markham Roberts - Vendome Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Known for his ability to work in any design vernacular, Markham Roberts brings a fresh approach to traditional and contemporary styles alike. His work is not defined by signature looks or design trends. Rather, using an inventive combination of layered patterns and color as well as bold... |
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The Lost Art of Dress: The Women Who Once Made America Stylish
Linda Przybyszewski - Perseus Books Group
Format: Hardcover
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As a glance down any street in America quickly reveals, American women have forgotten how to dress. We chase fads, choose inappropriate materials and unattractive cuts, and waste energy tottering in heels when we could be moving gracefully. Quite simply, we lack the fashion know-how we need... |
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Jack Be Nimble: The Accidental Education of an Unintentional Director
Jack O'Brien - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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A warm, witty tell-all and history of American regional theater, from one of our best-loved directorsFor Jack O’Brien, there’s nothing like a first encounter with a great performer, nothing like the sound of an audience bursting into applause. In short, there’s nothing... |
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Vintage Knit: 25 Knitting and Crochet Patterns Refashioned for Today
Marine Malak - Laurence King Pub
Format: Print book
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Vintage Knit offers lovers of retro style 25 beautiful knitting patterns from the 1940s and 1950s, regraded to fit modern sizes (small, medium, and large) and to knit with yarns easily available today. A short introduction describes each garment and suggests how to style it, followed... |
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Whistler: A Life for Art's Sake
Daniel E Sutherland - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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The first biography in more than twenty years of James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) is also the first to make extensive use of the artist's private correspondence to tell the story of his life and work. This engaging personal history dispels the popular notion of Whistler as merely... |
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Not to be Missed: Fifty-four Favorites from a Lifetime of Film
Kenneth Turan - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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The images and memories that matter most are those that are unshakeable, unforgettable. Kenneth Turan's fifty-four favorite films embrace a century of the world's most satisfying romances and funniest comedies, the most heart-stopping dramas and chilling thrillers.Turan discovered... |
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The Art of Zootopia
Jessica Julius - Chronicle Books LLC
Format: Print book
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Disney's newest animated feature, Zootopia, is a comedy-adventure starring Officer Judy Hopps, a rookie bunny cop who has to team up with fast-talking scam-artist fox Nick Wilde to crack her first case in the all-animal city of Zootopia. This lushly illustrated book offers a behind-the-scenes... |
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Drawing Trees
Denis John-Naylor - Search Press
Format: Paperback
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Denis John-Naylor creates wonderful drawings of trees and their leaves and seeds. Here he describes the techniques he uses, such as shaping the pencil end to make the right mark, building up a pattern of lights and darks, sketching in pencil or ballpoint pen, measuring angles and proportions,... |
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Easy Street
Ron Perlman - Da Capo Press
Format: Hardcover
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The engaging, passionate, always-honest, and often-hilarious memoir of actor Ron Perlman - his triumphant story of perseverance and determination navigating the slippery slopes of Hollywood, with a foreword by Guillermo del ToroRon Perlman was a kid who had a myriad of self-image issues,... |
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J Dilla's Donuts
Jordan Ferguson - Bloomsbury Academic
Format: Paperback
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From a Los Angeles hospital bed, equipped with little more than a laptop and a stack of records, James “J Dilla” Yancey crafted a set of tracks that would forever change the way beatmakers viewed their artform. The songs on Donuts are not hip hop music as “hip hop music”... |
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Warren Zevon: Desperado of Los Angeles
George Plasketes - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Warren Zevon was one of the most original songwriters to emerge from the prolific 1970s Los Angeles music scene. Beyond his most familiar song - the rollicking 1978 hit "Werewolves of London" - Zevon's smart, often satirical songbook is rich with cinematic, literary, and comic... |
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A Painter's Progress: A Portrait of Lucian Freud
David Dawson - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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For nearly twenty years David Dawson was Lucian Freud’s assistant, companion, and model. Freud moved in rarefied, powerful circles and was tenacious about protecting his privacy. He also carefully avoided distraction. With few exceptions, he wanted only those he knew well, like the late... |
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The History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs
Greil Marcus - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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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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The Anatomical Venus: Wax, God, Death & the Ecstatic
Joanna Ebenstein - Distributed Art Publishers (DAP)
Format: Print book
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Of all the artifacts from the history of medicine, the Anatomical Venus -- with its heady mixture of beauty, eroticism and death -- is the most seductive. These life-sized dissectible wax women reclining on moth-eaten velvet cushions -- with glass eyes, strings of pearls, and golden tiaras... |
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Fairy Tale Fashion
Colleen Hill - Yale University Press ; New York
Format: Print book
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Dress plays a crucial role in fairy tales, signaling the status, wealth, or vanity of particular characters, and symbolizing their transformation. Fairy tales often provide little information beyond what is necessary to a plot, but clothing and accessories are frequently vividly described,... |
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It Doesn't Suck: Showgirls
Adam Nayman - ECW Press,
Format: Paperback
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Enough time has passed since Showgirls flopped spectacularly that it's time for a good, hard look back at the sequined spectacle. A salvage operation on a very public, very expensive train wreck, It Doesn't Suck argues that Showgirls is much smarter and deeper than it is given credit... |
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Jenni Rivera: La Diva de la Banda
Michael Puente - Triumph Books
Format: Book
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When a tragic plane crash took the life of singer and actress Jenni Rivera on December 9, 2012, the world lost an artist whose talents transcended borders and even languages. One of this generation’s most beloved singers, Rivera achieved 15 platinum and 5 double platinum records while... |
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Bob Dylan: American Troubadour
Donald Brown - Scarecrow Press
Format: Print book
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Tempo: A Scarecrow Press Music Series of Rock, Pop, and Culture offers titles that explore rock and popular music through the lens of social and cultural history, revealing the dynamic relationship between musicians, music, and their milieu. Like other major art forms, rock and pop music... |
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The World of PostSecret
Frank Warren - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times BestsellerAn addictive collection of new full-color postcard secrets and app secrets from the author of the smash the #1 New York Times bestselling PostSecret books - with more secrets than any previous PostSecret book!A decade ago, Frank Warren began a community art project... |
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Brian Jones: The Making of the Rolling Stones
Paul Trynka - Viking Adult
Format: Hardcover
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For the first time, the complete story of the enigmatic founder of the Rolling Stones and the early years of the bandBrian Jones was the golden boy of the Rolling Stones - the visionary who gave the band its name and its sound. Yet he was a haunted man, and much of his brieftime with the band,... |
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Magnum Photobook: The Catalogue Raisonne
Carole Naggar - Phaidon Press
Format: Print book
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The first complete illustrated bibliography of 1,000 iconic photobooks created by members of the renowned photo agencyPublished on the occasion of Magnum Photos' seventieth anniversary, this fascinating in-depth survey brings Magnum's history alive through the genre of the photobook... |
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Introduction to Drawing the Human Body
Giovanni Civardi - Pgw
Format: Paperback
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In this technical guide, Civardi imparts a thorough and intelligent understanding of how to draw the human body. Written with clarity and enthusiasm, and using numerous examples of his own work as teaching aids, Civardi provides the reader with a firm grounding in observation, anatomy,... |
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Ralph Peer and the Making of Popular Roots Music
Barry Mazor - Chicago Review Press
Format: Hardcover
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This is the first biography of Ralph Peer, the adventurous even revolutionary A&R man and music publisher who saw the universal power locked in regional roots music and tapped it, changing the breadth and flavor of popular music around the world. It is the story of the life and fifty-year... |
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Rustic Chic Wedding: 55 Projects for Crafting Your Own Wedding Style
Morgann Hill - Running Press
Format: Paperback
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Rustic Chic Wedding is a bride and groom's peek into the vintage-inspired, timeless wedding of their dreams. A little DIY with a whiff of romance and whimsy goes a long way toward wedding-day magic.Choose from any of the three beautiful wedding "themes." Maybe your wedding... |
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Novel Interiors: Living in Enchanted Rooms Inspired by Literature
Lisa Borgnes Giramonti - Potter Style
Format: Hardcover
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For those who have ever lost themselves in the stylish worlds of novels like Sense and Sensibility, The Age of Innocence, Wuthering Heights, The Picture of Dorian Gray and countless others,this design book embraces the fantasy of time and place, showing you how to bring some of those elements... |
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History of International Fashion
Didier Grumbach - Interlink Pub Group
Format: Hardcover
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First English translation of critically-acclaimed book opens the door to the fascinating universe of fashion. This book is not just a history of fashion from the early days of the creation of dressmaking fashion to the development of ready-to-wear manufacturing and the global enterprise... |
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Wounds to Bind: A Memoir of the Folk-Rock Revolution
Jerry Burgan - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Book
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"The birth of folk rock comes to life in Wounds to Bind: A Memoir of the Folk Rock Revolution, Jerry Burgan's unforgettable memoir of the pre-psychedelic 1960s"--back cover. |
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You Might Remember Me: The Life and Times of Phil Hartman
Mike Thomas - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Beloved TV comedic actor Phil Hartman is best known for his eight brilliant seasons on Saturday Night Live, where his versatility and comedic timing resulted in some of the funniest and most famous sketches in the television show's history. Besides his hilarious impersonations of Phil... |
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The Art of Noise: Conversations with Great Songwriters
Daniel Rachel - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Print book
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A collection of brand-new, in-depth, and revealing conversations about songwriting with some of the world's most-noted hitmakersTHE ART OF NOISE offers an unprecedented collection of insightful, of-the-moment conversations with twenty-seven of the great songwriters. They discuss everything... |
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Green: The History of a Color
Michel Pastoureau - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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In this beautiful and richly illustrated book, the acclaimed author of Blue and Black presents a fascinating and revealing history of the color green in European societies from prehistoric times to today. Examining the evolving place of green in art, clothes, literature, religion, science,... |
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The Tropic of Serpents: A Memoir by Lady Trent
Marie Brennan - Tor Books; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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Three years after her fateful journeys through Vystrana, the widowed Mrs. Camherst defies convention to embark on an expedition to the savage, war-torn continent of Eriga, home of the legendary swamp-wyrms of the tropics. Accompanied by an old associate and a runaway heiress, Isabella must... |
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Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph
Jan Swafford - Mariner Books
Format: Hardcover
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Jan Swaffords biographies of Charles Ives and Johannes Brahms have established him as a revered music historian, capable of bringing his subjects vibrantly to life. His magnificent new biography of Ludwig van Beethoven peels away layers of legend to get to the living, breathing human being... |
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Brando's Smile: His Life, Thought, and Work
Susan L. Mizruchi - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking work that reveals how Marlon Brando shaped his legacy in art and life. When people think about Marlon Brando, they think of the movie star, the hunk, the scandals. In Brando's Smile, Susan L. Mizruchi reveals the Brando others have missed: the man who collected four... |
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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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Bobbie Gentry's Ode to Billie Joe
Tara Murtha - Bloomsbury Academic
Format: Book
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July, 1967: It seems the entire country stopped to listen to a husky voice steeped in the simmering secrets of the South tell a tragic tale of teenage suicide. So much for the Summer of Love. "Ode to Billie Joe" knocked the Beatles' "All You Need is Love" off the top of the charts,... |
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Experiencing Leonard Bernstein: A Listener's Companion
Kenneth LaFave - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Leonard Bernstein is a household name. Most know him for his classic musical reworking of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet as Broadway’s West Side Story. But Bernstein accomplished so much more as a composer, and his body of work is both broad and varied. He composed ballets (Fancy... |
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Let's Go Crazy: Prince and the Making of Purple Rain
Alan Light - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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From the former senior editor of Rolling Stone and author of The Holy or the Broken, called "thoughtful and illuminating" by The New York Times, a new book on the unlikely coming-to-be of Prince's now legendary album.Purple Rain is a song, an album, and a film - each one a commercial... |
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Benson: The Autobiography
Alan Goldsher - Da Capo Press
Format: Hardcover
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Over the span of his illustrious five-decade career George Benson has sold millions of records performed for hundreds of millions of fans and cut some of the most beloved jazz and soul tunes in music history But the guitaristvocalist is much more than This Masquerade On Broadway Turn Your... |
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Calder and Abstraction: From Avant-Garde to Iconic
Stephanie Barron
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Alexander Calder's most beloved creations -- from his mobiles to his public sculpture -- are examined from every angle in this stunning book. Widely considered one of the most important artists of the 20th century, Alexander Calder revolutionized modern sculpture -- most significa |
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Artists, Writers, Thinkers, Dreamers: Portraits of Fifty Famous Folks & All Their Weird Stuff
James Gulliver Hancock - Chronicle Books; annotated edition edition
Format: Paperback
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This cultural who's-who illuminates 50 famous figures, from Leonardo da Vinci to Coco Chanel, through the fascinating trivia of their lives. Artist James Gulliver Hancock depicts historical icons in quirky annotated portraits surrounded by their associated possessions, baggage, and foibles.... |
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The Greatest Shows on Earth: A History of the Circus
Linda Simon - Reaktion Books
Format: Hardcover
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Step right up! and buy a ticket to the Greatest Show on Earththe Big Top, containing death-defying stunts, dancing bears, roaring tigers, and trumpeting elephants. The circus has always been home to the dazzling and the exotic, the improbable and the impossiblea place of myth and romance,... |
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no hero: the evolution of a navy seal
Mark Owen - Dutton
Format: Print book
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The companion volume to the multimillion-copy classic no easy day by former navy seal mark owen reveals the evolution of a seal team six operator mark owen's instant #1 new york times bestseller, no easy day: the firsthand account of the mission that killed osama bin laden, focused... |
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Goin' Crazy with Sam Peckinpah and All Our Friends
Max Evans - University of New Mexico Press
Format: Hardcover
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Almost as famous for the legendary excesses of his personal life as for his films, Sam Peckinpah (1925-1984) cemented his reputation as one of the great American directors with movies such as The Wild Bunch and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. Max Evans, one of Peckinpah's best friends,... |
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The Ugly Renaissance: Sex, Greed, Violence and Depravity in an Age of Beauty
Alexander Lee - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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A fascinating and counterintuitive portrait of the sordid, hidden world behind the dazzling artwork of Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli, and more Renowned as a period of cultural rebirth and artistic innovation, the Renaissance is cloaked in a unique aura of beauty and brilliance.... |
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Foundations in Comic Book Art: SCAD Creative Essentials
John Paul Lowe - Watson-Guptill
Format: Book
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A comprehensive guide to creating and developing comic book and graphic novel art, from the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) , one of the world's leaders in sequential arts instruction.Artists seeking a way to break into the exciting world of sequential art first need to master... |
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The Suit: Form, Function and Style
Christopher Breward - Reaktion Books
Format: Print book
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Be as in love with your jeans, sweatpants, or flannels as you want, it's hard to refute the sumptuous feel of a finely tailored suit - as well as the statement of power that comes with it. For over a century the suit has dominated wardrobes, its simple form making it the go-to attire... |
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Austin City Limits: A History
Tracey E. W. Laird - Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Austin City Limits is the longest running musical showcase in the history of television and it still captivates audiences forty years after its debut on the air From Willie Nelsons legendary pilot show and his fourteen magical episodes running through the years to Season to mythical performances... |
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My Favorite Things
Maira Kalman - Harper Design; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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From Maira Kalman, the author of the bestsellers The Principles of Uncertainty and The Elements of Style, comes this beautiful pictorial and narrative exploration of the significance of objects in our lives, drawn from her personal artifacts, recollections, and selections from the collection... |
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Impressionism: Reimagining Art
Norbert Wolf - Prestel
Format: Print book
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Reflecting the most recent research on this groundbreaking artistic movement, this lavishly illustrated and comprehensive book examines Impressionism on a global scale, from its iconic French masterpieces to less familiar works by Scandinavian, German, British, and North American artists.... |
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Art and Appetite: American Painting, Culture, and Cuisine
Judith A. Barter - Art Institute of Chicago
Format: Book
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Food has always been an important source of knowledge about culture and society. Art and Appetite takes a fascinating new look at depictions of food in American art, demonstrating that artistic representations of edibles offer thoughtful reflection on the cultural, political, economic,... |
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Watercolor Painting For Dummies
Colette Pitcher
Format: Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Have you ever been amazed by watercolor paintings that seem to spring to life before your eyes? Would you love to be able to paint with watercolors? Now, you can. Watercolor Painting For Dummies shows you the fun and easy way to create breathtaking paintings so beautiful you won't... |
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Peacock & Vine: On William Morris and Mariano Fortuny
A S Byatt - Knopf
Format: Print book
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This ravishing book opens a window into the lives, designs, and passions of Mariano Fortuny and William Morris, two remarkable artists who themselves are passions of the writer A. S. Byatt. Born a generation apart in the mid-1800s, Fortuny and Morris were seeming opposites: Fortuny a Spanish... |
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The Sonic Boom: How Sound Transforms the Way We Think, Feel, and Buy
Joel Beckerman - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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A surprising look at the hidden power of sound, revealing how people and brands can use it to inspire and persuade — or annoy From horror movie scores to national anthems to the crunchy sound of potato chips, sound and music greatly impact how we feel about our lives and the messages... |
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Last Chain On Billie: How One Extraordinary Elephant Escaped the Big Top
Carol Bradley - St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Against the backdrop of a glittering but brutal circus world, Carol Bradleys Last Chain on Billie charts the history of elephants in America, the inspiring story of the Elephant Sanctuary and the spellbinding tale of a resilient elephant who defied the system even as she struggled to conquer... |
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The Wizard of Oz: The Official 75th Anniversary Companion
William Stillman - Harper Design; Nov edition
Format: Hardcover
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An over-the-top, beautifully designed book that commemorates the seventy-fifth anniversary of The Wizard of Oz. Officially licensed with Warner Bros., this collectible edition features accessible text, a host of never-before-seen ephemera, and nine removable features.Written by the foremost... |
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Manet Paints Monet: A Summer in Argenteuil
Willibald Sauerländer - Getty Research Institute; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Manet Paints Monet focuses on an auspicious moment in the history of art. In the summer of 1874, douard Manet 18321883 and Claude Monet 18401926, two outstanding painters of the nascent Impressionist movement, spent their holidays together in Argenteuil on the Seine River. Their growing... |
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The Parthenon Enigma
Joan Breton Connelly - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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Built in the fifth century b.c., the Parthenon has been venerated for more than two millennia as the West's ultimate paragon of beauty and proportion. Since the Enlightenment, it has also come to represent our political ideals, the lavish temple to the goddess Athena serving as the model... |
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Untouchable: The Strange Life and Tragic Death of Michael Jackson
Randall Sullivan - Grove Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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"A dishy Michael Jackson biography that makes the exhaustively covered King of Pop fascinating all over again."—People“The first deep-dive narrative by a veteran journalist covering the King of Pop’s convoluted final years on earth . . . [Untouchable] helps cast... |
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Minor White: Manifestations of the Spirit
Paul Martineau - J. Paul Getty Museum; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Controversial, misunderstood, and sometimes overlooked, Minor White (1908–1976) is one of the great photographers of the twentieth century, whose ideas exerted a powerful influence on a generation of photographers and still resonate today. His photographic career began in 1938 in Portland,... |
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Poking a Dead Frog: Conversations with Today’s Top Comedy Writers
Mike Sacks - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR Amy Poehler, Mel Brooks, Adam McKay, George Saunders, Bill Hader, Patton Oswalt, and many more take us deep inside the mysterious world of comedy in this fascinating, laugh-out-loud-funny book. Packed with behind-the-scenes... |
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Beethoven for a Later Age: Living with the String Quartets
Edward Dusinberre - University of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover
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Beethoven's sixteen string quartets are some of the most extraordinary and challenging pieces of music ever written. Originally composed and performed between 1798 and 1826, they have inspired artists of all kinds - not only musicians - and have been subject to endless reinterpretation.... |
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Find It in Everything: Photographs by Drew Barrymore
Drew Barrymore - Little Brown & Co.
Format: Hardcover
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Photographs by Drew Barrymore reveal hearts found in everyday situations."I have always loved hearts," writes acclaimed actress Drew Barrymore in the foreword to this heartwarming gift book. "The way that continuous line accomplishes the most extraordinary thing--it conveys... |
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The Musical Theater of Stephen Schwartz: From Godspell to Wicked and Beyond
Paul R. Laird - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Book
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As the composer/lyricist for Godspell, Pippin, Wicked, and other musicals, Stephen Schwartz has enjoyed one of the most significant careers in American musical theater for more than four decades. Schwartz has also achieved success on the big screen, contributing to such films as Enchanted,... |
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Little Black Dress: From Mourning to Night
Shannon Meyer - Missouri History Museum Press
Format: Print book
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"Entertaining reading." - Wall Street Journal What's the most important garment in a woman's closet? More often than not, the answer is "the little black dress." For decades, fashion magazines have touted the LBD as the perfect solution to almost every fashion... |
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Star Wars Storyboards: The Original Trilogy
J.W. Rinzler - Harry N. Abrams; 1 edition
Format: Book
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For the first time, Lucasfilm has opened its Archives to present the complete storyboards for the original Star Wars trilogy—the world-changing A New Hope and its operatic sequels, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi—as well as never-before-published art from early... |
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Domestic Scenes: The Art of Ramiro Gomez
Lawrence Weschler - Harry N Abrams
Format: Print book
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Award-winning author Lawrence Weschler's book on the young Mexican American artist Ramiro Gomez explores questions of social equity and the chasms between cultures and classes in America. Gomez, born in 1986 in San Bernardino, California, to undocumented Mexican immigrant parents,... |
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Guitar All-In-One For Dummies, Book + Online Video & Audio Instruction
Jon Chappell - For Dummies; 2 edition
Format: Print book
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Make your music come alive with this indispensable guitar guide There's no denying that guitar players have cachet. The guitar is an ever-present part of our collective musical heritage, and the sound can be sensual, aggressive, or a million things in between. Whether you're hoping... |
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Twee: The Gentle Revolution in Music, Books, Television, Fashion, and Film
Marc Spitz - It Books
Format: Book
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New York Times, Spin, and Vanity Fair contributor Marc Spitz explores the first great cultural movement since Hip Hop: an old-fashioned and yet highly modern aesthetic that’s embraced internationally by teens, twenty and thirty-somethings and even some Baby Boomers; creating hybrid... |
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Edgar Degas: Drawings and Pastels
Christopher Lloyd - J. Paul Getty Museum, 2014.
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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The Partnership: Brecht, Weill, Three Women, and Germany on the Brink
Pamela Katz - Nan A. Talese
Format: Hardcover
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Among the most creative and outsized personalities of the Weimar Republic, that sizzling yet decadent epoch between the Great War and the Nazis' rise to power, were the renegade poet Bertolt Brecht and the rebellious avant-garde composer Kurt Weill. These two young geniuses and the three... |
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Women Photographers: From Julia Margaret Cameron to Cindy Sherman
Boris Friedewald - Prestel
Format: Hardcover
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This thorough and accessible introduction to the greatest women photographers from the 19th century to today features the most important works of 55 artists, along with in-depth biographical and critical assessments. Since the inception of photography as an art form nearly 200 years ago,... |
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Landskipping: Painters, Ploughmen and Places
Anna Pavord - Oxford
Format: Print book
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In Landskipping, Anna Pavord explores some of Britain's most iconic landscapes in the past, in the present, and in literature. With her passionate, personal, and lyrical style, Pavord considers how different artists and agriculturists have responded to these environments. Like the author's... |
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Mad World: An Oral History of New Wave Artists and Songs That Defined the 1980s
Lori Majewski - Harry N. Abrams
Format: Paperback
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Mad World is a highly entertaining oral history that celebrates the New Wave music phenomenon of the 1980s via new interviews with 35 of the most notable artists of the period. Each chapter begins with a discussion of their most popular song but leads to stories of their history and place... |
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Chucks!: The Phenomenon of Converse: Chuck Taylor All Stars
Hal Peterson - W W Norton
Format: Print book
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A sneaker's evolution from style dud to global icon.In this book, shoe enthusiast Hal Peterson takes an in-depth look at the history, significance, and magic of "Chucks." Originally a rubber shoe company, Converse rolled out the canvas All Star in 1917, nicknamed "Chucks"... |
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What We See When We Read
Peter Mendelsund - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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A San Francisco Chronicleand Kirkus Best Book of the YearA gorgeously unique, fully illustrated exploration into the phenomenology of readinghow we visualize images from reading works of literature, from one of our very best book jacket designers, himself a passionate reader. What do we see when... |
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Widow Basquiat: A Love Story
Jennifer Clement - Broadway Books
Format: Book
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The beautifully written, deeply affecting story of Jean-Michel Basquiat's partner, her past, and their life together New York City in the 1980s was a mesmerizing, wild place. A hotbed for hip hop, underground culture, and unmatched creative energy, it spawned some of the most significant... |
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Paul Simon: An American Tune
Cornel Bonca - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Paul Simon: An American Tune is the first full-scale survey of the career of one of the most honored musicians and songwriters in American history. Starting out as a teeny-bopper rocker in the late 1950s, Paul Simon went on to form the most influential pop duo of the 1960s—Simon &... |
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Joss Whedon: The Biography
Amy Pascale - Chicago Review Press
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From the cult favorite Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which netted four million viewers per episode, to the summer blockbuster The Avengers, which amassed a box office of $1.5 billion, Joss Whedon has made a name for himself in Hollywood for his penchant for telling meaningful, personal tales... |
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The First Signs: My Quest to Unlock the Mysteries of the World's Oldest Symbols
Genevieve Von Petzinger - Atria Books
Format: Print book
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"One of the most significant works on our evolutionary ancestry since Richard Leakey's paradigm-shattering Origins, The First Signs is the first-ever exploration of the little-known geometric images that accompany most cave art around the world-- the first indications of symbolic meaning,... |
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Piano Exercises For Dummies
Pearl, David - Wiley
Format: Paperback
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The ideal hands-on reference for piano students who want to strengthen their skills and refine their technique--and the perfect companion and next step to the bestselling Piano For Dummies. Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file. |
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Breaking Bad: I Am the Danger
Running Press - Running Press
Format: Book
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Releasing to coincide with the completion of the final season of AMC's critically-acclaimed drama series Breaking Bad, this officially-licensed book features the most volatile and exciting moments from all five seasons of this ground-breaking television show. Breaking Bad: I Am the Danger... |
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Painting Successful Watercolours from Photographs
Geoff Kersey - Search Press
Format: Print book
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Artists who work from photographic source material need to learn how to adapt and improve in order to create a successful painting. Geoff Kersey is a master of this way of working, and here he shows how it is done. Reference photographs, colour charts and preparatory sketches are shown... |
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I'll Be Back Right After This: My Memoir
Pat O'Brien - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times Best seller!Pat O'Brien was a skinny South Dakota kid with long hair, a rock and roll band, divorced parents and an alcoholic father. In all the familiar ways, he was on the road to nowhere until a professor, who envisioned his future as the household name he would... |
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The History of Music in Fifty Instruments
Philip Wilkinson - Firefly Books
Format: Hardcover
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The 400-year story of music told by the instruments that make an orchestra. The History of Music in 50 Instruments outlines musical history in well-written nuggets of information. Profiling one instrument at a time, it describes the history of music since the 1700s, when orchestras... |
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I Must Say: My Life As a Humble Comedy Legend
Martin Short - Harpercollins
Format: Print book
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In this engagingly witty, wise, and heartfelt memoir, Martin Short tells the tale of how a showbiz-obsessed kid from Canada transformed himself into one of Hollywood's favorite funnymen, known to his famous peers as the "comedian's comedian."Martin Short takes you on a rich, hilarious,... |
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Rebel Music: Race, Empire, and the New Muslim Youth Culture
Hisham Aidi - Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Format: Print book
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This fascinating, timely, and important book on the connection between music and political activism among Muslim youth around the world looks at how hip-hop, jazz, and reggae, along with Andalusian and Gnawa music, have become a means of building community and expressing protest in the face... |
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Man on the Run: Paul McCartney in the 1970s
Tom Doyle - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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An illuminating look at the most tumultuous decade in the life of a rock iconthe only McCartney biography in decades based on firsthand interviews with the ex-Beatle himself. As the 1970s began, the Beatles ended, leaving Paul McCartney to face the new decade with only his wife Linda by his side.... |
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They Might Be Giants' Flood (33 1/3)
S. Alexander Reed
Format: Paperback
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For a few decades now, They Might Be Giants' album Flood has been a beacon (or at least a nightlight) for people who might rather read than rock out, who care more about science fiction than Slayer, who are more often called clever than cool. Neither the band's hip origins... |
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Happy Clouds, Happy Trees: The Bob Ross Phenomenon
Kristin G. Congdon - University Press of Mississippi
Format: Hardcover
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Readers will know Bob Ross 1942-1995 as the gentle, afrod painter of happy trees on PBS. And while the Florida-born artist is reviled or ignored by the elite art world and scholarly art educators, he continues to be embraced around the globe as a healer and painter, even decades after his death.... |
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