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Fire in the Hole: The Spirit Work of Fi Yi Yi & Mandingo Warriors
Rachel Breunlin - University of New Orleans Press
Format: Hardcover
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During Mardi Gras, spectators wait for the approach of the Mardi Gras Indians, a sublime spectacle of dancing, chanting, and gorgeous hand-sewn costumes. But rarely are they shown the human stories behind this unique New Orleans tradition. Told through a collective oral history, Fire In The Hole... |
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Judge This
Chip Kidd - Simon & Schuster/ TED
Format: Hardcover
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A fun, playful look at the importance of first impressions - in design and in life - from acclaimed book designer Chip Kidd.First impressions are everything. They dictate whether something stands out, how we engage with it, whether we buy it, and how we feel. In Judge This, renowned designer... |
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The Katrina Decade: Images of an Altered City
David G. Spielman - Historic New Orleans
Format: Hardcover
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Published on the occasion of the 10-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina'The great photographer David Spielman captured the essence of hope and despair in his powerful pictures of Katrina s devastation. But he never put his Leica down, because he knows that after ten years the recovery... |
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Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina
Misty Copeland - Touchstone Books, published by Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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Determination meets dance in this memoir by the history-making ballerina.In this instant New York Times bestseller, Misty Copeland makes history, telling the story of her journey to become the first African-American principal ballerina at the prestigious American Ballet Theatre. But when... |
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Mom in the Movies: The Iconic Screen Mothers You Love
Turner Classic Movies Inc. - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Turner Classic Movies and film historian Richard Corliss present Mom in the Movies: The Iconic Screen Mothers You Love (and a Few You Love to Hate) , the definitive, fully illustrated book that shares the many ways Hollywood has celebrated, vilified and otherwise memorialized dear old Mom.With... |
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Warner Bros.: Hollywood's Ultimate Backlot
Steven Bingen - Taylor Trade Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Movie studios are the wondrous, almost magical locales where not just films, but legends, are created. Unfortunately, these celebrity playgrounds are, and always have been, largely hidden from public view. Although some movie studios offer tours, few guests from outside the Hollywood community... |
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LIFE D-Day: Remembering the Battle that Won the War - 70 Years Later
The Editors of LIFE - Life; Reprint edition
Format: Book
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Probably the most famous combat photographs ever made were those taken on the beach in Normandy during the D-Day invasions by Robert Capa, shooting for LIFE and going in with the first wave. The saga of those images has been told before and will be again in this commemorative book: How Capa... |
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Sunlight & Shadows in Watercolour
Lucy Willis - Batsford
Format: Hardcover
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Lucy Willis is renowned for her atmospheric watercolors - and in this, her third book, she shares her professional secrets for creating inspirational landscapes, interiors, still lifes, and portraits full of light and shadow. Step-by-step demonstrations reveal how to attain different effects,... |
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