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Universe: Exploring the Astronomical World

Phaidon Phaidon Editors - Phaidon Press
Format: Hardcover

Explore the stars and planets and beyond through 300 fascinating images - an international panel of experts take you on a journey through man's record of the universe - from ancient cave paintings to animation.Universe is a groundbreaking survey that celebrates the popular subject of astronomy...
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Songs of the 1980s: The New Decade Series with Online Play-Along Backing Tracks

Hal Leonard Corp. - Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
Format: Hardcover

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook) . This songbook doubles as a time capsule, preserving over 80 of the '80s best arranged for P/V/G with great orchestrated backing tracks so you can play and sound like a pro. You access the tracks online for streaming or download. Songs include: Addicted...
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American Musicals: the Complete Books and Lyrics of Eight Broadway Classics, 1927-1949

Laurence Maslon - Library of America
Format: Hardcover

The Broadway musical is one of Americas great indigenous popular forms, a glorious hybrid that emerged out of our speech, our tempo, our moral attitudes, our way of moving as Leonard Bernstein put it. Now, in this first volume of a landmark two-volume collection, The Library of America...
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Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood

William J. Mann - Harper; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

New York Times BestsellerEdgar Award winner for Best Fact CrimeThe Day of the Locust meets The Devil in the White City and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil in this juicy, untold Hollywood story an addictive true tale of ambition, scandal, intrigue, murder, and the creation of the modern...
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I'll Drink to That: A Life in Style, with a Twist

Betty Halbreich - Penguin Press; Complete Numbers Starting with 1, 1st Ed edition
Format: Hardcover

Eighty-six-year-old Betty Halbreich is a true original. A tough broad who could have stepped straight out of Stephen Sondheim's repertoire, she has spent nearly forty years as the legendary personal shopper at Bergdorf Goodman, where she works with socialites, stars, and ordinary women...
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The Encyclopedia of World Ballet

Mary Ellen Snodgrass - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Throughout the centuries, ballet has had a rich and ever-evolving role in the humanities. Renowned choreographers, composers, and performers have contributed to this unique art form, staging enduring works of beauty. Significant productions by major companies embrace innovations and adaptations,...
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Art, Inc.: The Essential Guide for Building Your Career as an Artist

Lisa Congdon - Chronicle Books
Format: Print book

You don't have to starve to be an artist. Build a career doing what you love. In this practical guide, professional artist Lisa Congdon reveals the many ways you can earn a living by making art - through illustration, licensing, fine art sales, print sales, teaching, and beyond. Including...
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The Book of Broadway: The Definitive Plays and Musicals

ERIC GRODE - Voyageur Press
Format: Hardcover

The Book of Broadway is a celebratory, gorgeous tome dedicated to what is arguably the quintessential American art form: the Broadway show.Lose yourself in 150 profiles of the best, most influential, and most important Broadway musicals and plays ever produced.Shows profiled include everything...
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The Mammoth Book of New Tattoo Art

Lal Hardy - Running Press
Format: Paperback

This beautiful collection brings together over 700 full-color photographs of work by leading tattoo artists from all over the world. Plus, it includes art and sketches by the artists, illuminating their creative process.
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Draw Faces in 15 Minutes

Jake Spicer - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Paperback

Yes, you can draw! And Draw Faces in 15 Minutes will show you how to draw people's faces. By the time you finish this book, you'll have all the skills you need to achieve a striking likeness in a drawn portrait, using a proven method from a professional life-drawing teacher.Artist...
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The Lost Art of Dress: The Women Who Once Made America Stylish

Linda Przybyszewski - Perseus Books Group
Format: Hardcover

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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Van Gogh Complete Paintings

Ingo F Walther - Taschen
Format: Hardcover

A chronological collection of reprinted works by Vincent Van Gogh in black-and-white and color accompanied by detailed history of the artist's life.
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Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina

Misty Copeland - Touchstone Books, published by Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book

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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Introduction to Drawing the Human Body

Giovanni Civardi - Pgw
Format: Paperback

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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We Dont Need Roads: The Making of the Back to the Future Trilogy

Caseen Gaines - Plume
Format: Paperback

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of the iconic Back to the Future trilogy - the perfect movie gift for fans of the franchise, actors, writers, and filmmakers who contributed to this beloved pop culture phenomenon. . Long before Marty McFly and Doc Brown traveled through time in a flying...
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Draw Fashion Now: Techniques, Inspiration, and Ideas for Illustrating and Imagining Your Designs - With Fashion Paper Dolls and a Customizable, Designer-Inspired Wardrobe

Danielle Meder - Rockport
Format: Print book

Find your unique fashion illustration style with Draw Fashion Now!Draw Fashion Now is a combination how-to guide and workbook that teaches the best techniques for illustrating and envisioning 21st-century fashion. Professional fashion illustrator Danielle Meder shares lessons she's...
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iMovie: The Missing Manual: 2014 release, covers iMovie 10.0 for Mac and 2.0 for iOS

David Pogue - O'Reilly Media; 1 edition
Format: Book

This edition covers iMovie 10.0 for Mac and iMovie 2.0 for iOS.iMovie's sophisticated tools make it easier than ever to turn raw footage into sleek, entertaining movies - once you understand how to harness its features. Experts David Pogue and Aaron Miller give you hands-on advice and step-by-step...
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Warner Bros.: Hollywood's Ultimate Backlot

Steven Bingen - Taylor Trade Publishing
Format: Hardcover

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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The Complete Book of 2000s Broadway Musicals

Dan Dietz - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

In the first decade of the twenty-first century, Broadway was notable for old-fashioned, feel-good shows (Hairspray, Jersey Boys) , a number of family-friendly musicals (Little Women, Mary Poppins) , plenty of revivals (Follies, Oklahoma!, Wonderful Town) , a couple of off-the-wall hits...
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Living Like a Runaway: A Memoir

Lita Ford - William Morrow & Co
Format: Print book

In this long-awaited, emotionally powerful memoir, "HEAVY METAL'S LEADING FEMALE ROCKER" (Rolling Stone) opens up about the '70s and '80s music scene and her trailblazing life as the lead guitarist of the "pioneering band" (New York Times) the Runaways and her platinum-selling,...
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Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local - and Helped Save an American Town

Beth Macy - Little Brown & Co
Format: Hardcover

The instant New York Times bestseller about one man's battle to save hundreds of jobs by demonstrating the greatness of American business.The Bassett Furniture Company was once the world's biggest wood furniture manufacturer. Run by the same powerful Virginia family for generations,...
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The Kitchen Bible: Designing the Perfect Culinary Space

Barbara Ballinger - Images Publishing Dist Ac
Format: Hardcover

A step-by-step guide to creating your ideal kitchenRichly-illustrated with over 50 inspiring kitchen layoutsNearly 250 photos of gorgeous kitchens done by more than 80 designers and architects Featuring 13 types of kitchens to inspire - kitchens of the future, sustainable kitchens, universal...
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Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest

Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib - University of Texas Press
Format: Paperback

How does one pay homage to A Tribe Called Quest? The seminal rap group brought jazz into the genre, resurrecting timeless rhythms to create masterpieces such as The Low End Theory and Midnight Marauders. Seventeen years after their last album, they resurrected themselves with...
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Playing The Blues

Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation. - Hal Leonard Corporation
Format: Paperback

33 of blues' best, including: Baby, Won't You Please Come Home * Chicago Blues * Everyday (I Have The Blues) * Fine And Mellow * A Good Man Is Hard To Find * I'm A Man * Memphis Blues * Pinetop's Blues * Saint James Infirmary * St. Louis Blues * The Thrill Is Gone * and more.
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Broadcast Hysteria: Orson Welles's War of the Worlds and the Art of Fake News

A Brad Schwartz - Hill and Wang, A division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015. ©2015
Format: Print book

On the evening of October 30, 1938, radio listeners across the United States heard a startling report of a meteor strike in the New Jersey countryside. With sirens blaring in the background, announcers in the field described mysterious creatures, terrifying war machines, and thick clouds...
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Play On: Now, Then, and Fleetwood Mac: The Autobiography

Mick Fleetwood - Little Brown & Co
Format: Hardcover

"After forty-six years of being on the road, this is the right time to look back in a way I've never done before: now and then. This is the story of my life in rock and roll -- and how the band that has meant everything to me came to define me. I'm looking forward to sharing...
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The Sound of Music Story: How A Beguiling Young Novice, A Handsome Austrian Captain, and Ten Singing von Trapp Children Inspired the Most Beloved Film of All Time

Tom Santopietro - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

On March 2, 1965, "The Sound of Music" was released in the United States and the love affair between moviegoers and the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical was on. Rarely has a film captured the love and imagination of the moviegoing public in the way that "The Sound...
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Ticket to Ride: Inside the Beatles 1964 Tour That Changed the World

Larry Kane - Backbeat
Format: Print book

In 19641965, Larry Kane was the only American reporter, broadcast or newspaper, to travel with the Fab Four on every stop of their North American tour. In Ticket to Ride, Kane tells the story of what it was like to literally live with the four young men who would leave an indelible mark...
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Paint Mojo - A Mixed-Media Workshop: Creative Layering Techniques for Personal Expression

Tracy Verdugo - North Light Books; Spi edition
Format: Book

Claim the beauty of your unique, authentic expression.Break free of your comfort zone, sharpen your senses to perceive the world around you and find happiness in play. On this painterly journey, Tracy Verdugo leads you from self-doubt to self-appreciation by helping you find your voice...
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A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power

Paul Fischer - Flatiron Books
Format: Print book

"The 1978 abductions of the South Korean actress Choi-Eun-hee and her ex-husband, the director Shin Sang-ok, in Hong Kong is the true crime at the center of Paul Fischer's gripping and surprisingly timely new book." -The New York TimesBefore becoming the world's most notorious...
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Hamilton: The Revolution

Lin-Manuel Miranda - Grand Central Pub.
Format: Print book

Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for DramaLin-Manuel Miranda's groundbreaking musical Hamilton is as revolutionary as its subject, the poor kid from the Caribbean who fought the British, defended the Constitution, and helped to found the United States. Fusing hip-hop, pop, R&B,...
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Woman-Powered Farm: Manual for a Self-Sufficient Lifestyle from Homestead to Field

Audrey Levatino - Countryman Press; 1 edition
Format: Print book

To go-to guide for women who want to be part of the farming revolution.Women are leading the new farming revolution in America. Much of the impetus to move back to the land, raise our own food, and connect with our agricultural past is being driven by women. They raise sheep for wool, harvest...
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The Realism Challenge: Drawing and Painting Secrets from a Modern Master of Hyperrealism

Mark Crilley - Watson-Guptill
Format: Print book

A captivating, step-by-step guide that teaches artists to draw and paint exact duplicates of common objects, rendered in the trompe l'oeil, hyperrealistic style of artist Mark Crilley's popular YouTube video series. Are You Up to the Challenge? With just watercolors, colored pencils,...
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The Star Trek Book

Paul Ruditis - DK
Format: Hardcover

Celebrate 50 years of one of the longest running and beloved sci-fi franchises with The Star Trek Book. This comprehensive guide to the series delves into the myriad worlds and different dimensions visited by the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise.Discover the amazing science of Star...
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Castles: Their History and Evolution in Medieval Britain

Marc Morris - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

From the author of The Norman Conquest and A Great and Terrible King comes a sweeping and stunning history of the most magnificent castles in Britain. Beginning with their introduction in the eleventh century, and ending with their widespread abandonment in the seventeenth, Marc Morris...
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The Art of Ballpoint: Experimentation, Exploration, and Techniques in Ink

Matt Rota - Rockport Publishers, 2015.
Format: Print book

The Art of Ballpoint offers a historical perspective of the pen as an art medium and how it has evolved and grown in popularity. The book features several leading contemporary ballpoint artists who are creating complex and provocative masterpieces. They discuss their methods, the messages...
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Playing to the Gallery: Helping Contemporary Art in Its Struggle to Be Understood

Grayson Perry - Penguin Books
Format: Hardcover

Grayson Perry's book will overturn everything you thought you knew about "art"Now Grayson Perry is a fully paid-up member of the art establishment, he wants to show that any of us can appreciate art (after all, there is a reason he's called this book Playing to the Gallery...
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Oh Gussie!: Cooking and Visiting in Kimberly's Southern Kitchen

Kimberly Schlapman - William Morrow & Company
Format: Hardcover

A down-home Southern cookbook by one of the founding members of the platinum-selling country music band Little Big Town and star of the popular cable show Kimberly's Simply Southern.Kimberly Schlapman is the girl next door. She's also an award-winning Nashville superstar and the popular...
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The Way She Wears It: The Ultimate Insider's Guide to Finding Your Personal Style

Dallas Shaw - William Morrow
Format: Print book

The most highly sought-after fashion illustrator/luxury project designer working today uses her sketches, styling skills and visual expertise to help you develop your eye, define your aesthetic, banish the predictable, stock your wardrobe, and make heads turn in this highly visual and lavishly...
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Photographer's Market 2018

Noel Rivera (Editor) - North Light Books
Format: Paperback

Discover Powerful Secrets of Successful Photographers Thousands of successful photographers have trusted Photographer's Market as a resource for growing their businesses. This edition contains the most comprehensive and up-to-date market contacts for working professional photographers...
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Mark Dion: Misadventures of a 21st-Century Naturalist

Ruth Erickson - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover

A comprehensive survey of American artist Mark Dion, examining three decades of his critically engaged practice interrogating our relationship with nature The first book in two decades to consider the entire oeuvre of Mark Dion (b. 1961) , this volume examines thirty years of the American...
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Everyone Can Draw

Barrington Barber - Arcturus Publishing Limited
Format: Print book

Best-selling author Barrington Barber presents a range of projects for the reader to draw, from simple still lifes and full-blown landscape compositions to individual portraits. Beginning with the basics of mark-making, learn how to create sensational artworks in easy steps. Chapter topics...
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Historic Sites and Landmarks That Shaped America [2 volumes]: From Acoma Pueblo to Ground Zero

Mitchell Newton-Matza - ABC-CLIO
Format: Print book

Historic Sites and Landmarks That Shaped America: From Acoma Pueblo to Ground Zero encompasses more than 200 sites from the earliest settlements to the present, covering a wide variety of locations. It includes concise yet detailed entries on each landmark that explain its importance to the nation....
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iPhoto: The Missing Manual: 2014 release, covers iPhoto 9.5 for Mac and 2.0 for iOS 7

David Pogue - O'Reilly Media; 1 edition
Format: Book

This new edition covers iPhoto 9.5 for Mac and iPhoto 2.0 for iOS 7. iPhoto is not available in iOS 8.Whether youre on a Mac or iOS 7 device, iPhoto now makes it easier than ever to organize, edit, publish, print, and share your photosbut neither version of the program offers a manual to help...
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The Art of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

Josh Kushins - ABRAMS
Format: Print book

This book is a visual chronicle of the Lucasfilm art department's creation of new worlds, unforgettable characters, and newly imagined droids, vehicles, and weapons for the first movie in the Star Wars Story series - Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. In the same format and style as Abrams'...
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The Hippest Trip in America: Soul Train and the Evolution of Culture & Style

Nelson George - HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Hardcover

An authoritative history of the groundbreaking syndicated television show that has become an icon of American pop culture, from acclaimed author and filmmaker Nelson George, "the most accomplished black music critic of his generation" (Washington Post Book World).When it debuted...
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1000 Tattoos

Burkhard Riemschneider - TASCHEN
Format: Print book

Wearable art: An exploration of tattoos past and present Whether you're thinking of getting a tattoo or just want to see to what lengths others have gone in decorating their bodies, this is the book to check out. This edition of 1000 Tattoos explores the history of the art worldwide...
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Teach Yourself VISUALLY Photoshop Elements 12

Mike Wooldridge - Visual
Format: Paperback

Covers the most important features of Photoshop Elements 12 including: importing photos from digital cameras and scanners, retouching and repairing damaged photos, compositing great group shots, enhancing digital images, changing print size, canvas size, and resolution, editing images for posting...
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Southern Spaces: For Beautiful Living

Kathleen J. Whaley - Hoffman Media
Format: Print book

Southern Spaces decorating book brings you great ideas for every room in your home. From kitchens to living areas to master suites, you'll find a range of looks that embrace the region's signature stylings, as well as savvy ideas from experts and homeowners, to make the most of every...
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The New Colored Pencil: Create Luminous Works with Innovative Materials and Techniques

Kristy Ann Kutch - Watson-Guptill Publications
Format: Paperback

Start coloring, relieve stress, and learn to create radiant, original works of art using colored pencils, wax pastels, and watercolor pencils.Add vibrancy to your coloring creations with instruction from best-selling author and teacher Kristy Kutch as she guides you through recommendations...
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Salado

Mary Harrison Hodge - Arcadia Publishing
Format: Paperback

Salado, a small village in Central Texas, enjoys a classic history. One of the first colleges in the state of Texas was founded at Salado. One of the village's first homes was a 22-room Classic Revival plantation house, which still sits today in the midst of a ranch covering several...
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The Art of Reading: An Illustrated History of Books in Paint

Jamie Camplin - Getty Publications
Format: Hardcover

"Why do artists love books?" This volume takes this tantalizingly simple question as a starting point to reveal centuries of symbiosis between the visual and literary arts. First looking at the development of printed books and the simultaneous emergence of the modern figure of the artist,...
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Painting Successful Watercolours from Photographs

Geoff Kersey - Search Press
Format: Print book

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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The House is Full of Yogis

Will Hodgkinson - The Borough Press
Format: Print book

A witty memoir about the trials of adolescence, the tribulations of family life and the embarrassment that ensues from having larger-than-life parentsNeville and Liz Hodgkinson bought into the Thatcherite dream of home ownership, aspiration and advancement. The first children of their working...
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Hand Lettering Step by Step: Techniques & Projects to Express Yourself Creatively

Kathy Glynn - Get Creative 6
Format: Paperback

A successful calligrapher and artist teaches you the skills of lettering beautifully - and gives projects to show them off! In today's digital age, people crave something personal and handmade - so hand lettering and calligraphy are becoming more popular than ever. If you're eager...
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A Better Approach to Pencil Drawing

Frank M Rines - Dover Publications
Format: Paperback

This guide offers an outstanding overview of the finer points of pencil work, both for sketching and detailed finished drawings. Author Frank M. Rines discusses approaches to graphite work and techniques for still life and landscape drawing. He emphasizes the importance of good design and composition...
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Photoshop Elements 13 All-in-One For Dummies

Barbara Obermeier - For Dummies; 1 edition
Format: Print book

Make ordinary photos extraordinary with Photoshop Elements 13 Whether you prefer to snap shots on your smartphone or never leave home without your DSLR, chances are you have way more photos than you ever dreamed possible. With the help of Photoshop Elements 13 All-in-One For Dummies, you can edit...
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More Songwriters on Songwriting

Paul Zollo - Da Capo Press
Format: Print book

Twenty-five years after publishing his original groundbreaking collection of insight and advice from the greatest songwriters to ever grace the airwaves, Paul Zollo releases the much-anticipated follow-up volume. The sequel to the bestselling Songwriters on Songwriting features new, revealing...
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Madeline Kahn: Being the Music, A Life

William V. Madison - University Press of Mississippi
Format: Hardcover

Best known for her Oscar-nominated roles in the smash hits Paper Moon and Blazing Saddles, Madeline Kahn (1942-1999) was one of the most popular comedians of her time--and one of the least understood. In private, she was as reserved and refined as her characters were bold and bawdy. Almost...
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Pounce

Seth Casteel - Little
Format: Print book

Photographer Seth Casteel's underwater photographs of dogs and babies have captivated an international audience. Now, Seth has found the perfect way to capture our other best friends: cats!A beautiful, funny gift book with more than 70 previously unpublished photographs, Pounce reveals...
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Fallen Glory: The Lives and Deaths of Historys Greatest Buildings

James Crawford - Picador
Format: Hardcover

An inviting, fascinating compendium of twenty-one of historys most famous lost places, from the Tower of Babel to the Twin TowersBuildings are more like us than we realize. They can be born into wealth or poverty, enjoying every privilege or struggling to make ends meet. They have parents...
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Here We Are Now: The Lasting Impact of Kurt Cobain

Charles R. Cross - It Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

In Here We Are Now: The Lasting Impact of Kurt Cobain, Charles R. Cross, author of the New York Times bestselling Cobain biography Heavier Than Heaven, examines the legacy of the Nirvana front man and takes on the question: why does Kurt Cobain still matter so much, 20 years after his death?Kurt...
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Garden Design: A Book of Ideas

Heidi Howcroft - Firefly Books
Format: Print book

Author Marianne Majerus was one of three photographers for the seminal book by Prince Charles, HRH The Prince of Wales, Highgrove: A Garden Celebrated, published in 2014, which Camilla Swift of Gardens Illustrated praised for its photographs, "images so breathtaking I want...
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Sitcom: A History in 24 Episodes from I Love Lucy to Community

Saul Austerlitz - Chicago Review Press
Format: Paperback

The form is so elemental, so basic, that we have difficulty imagining a time before it existed: a single set, fixed cameras, canned laughter, zany sidekicks, quirky family antics. Obsessively watched and critically ignored, sitcoms were a distraction, a gentle lullaby of a kinder, gentler...
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This Is Country: A Backstage Pass to the Academy of Country Music Awards

Lisa Lee - Insight Editions; Pck Har/Ps edition
Format: Hardcover

From the first informal awards ceremony at the Hollywood Palladium in 1966 to today’s star-studded show on CBS, generations of country’s biggest superstars have graced the Academy of Country Music Awards stage. Now, for the first time ever, the ACM is opening its archive to reveal...
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The Encyclopedia of Drawing Techniques

Hazel Harrison - Search Press(UK)
Format: Print book

Detailed photographic sequences explore pencil, charcoal, pen and technical pen techniques, including shading, building up, blending, hatching, highlighting, stippling and more. Colored pencils, chalks, pastels, and pen and ink are also covered with inspirational pictures across a full...
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Alfred's Top 50 Songs from the Warner Bros. Film Collection: Piano/Vocal/Guitar

Alfred Music - Alfred Music
Format: Print book

Featuring 50 of the most memorable songs from the unparalleled Warner Bros. film library. Titles Adelieland from Happy Feet All Is Love from Where the Wild Things Are Americas Aviation Hero from The Aviator Arthurs Theme Best That You Can Do from Arthur August Rush Piano Suite from...
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Master Thieves: The Boston Gangsters Who Pulled Off the World’s Greatest Art Heist

Stephen Kurkjian - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover

The definitive story of the greatest art theft in history.In a secret meeting in 1981, a low-level Boston thief gave career gangster Ralph Rossetti the tip of a lifetime: the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum was a big score waiting to happen. Though its collections included priceless artworks...
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Rhinestones and Twanging Tones: The Look and Sound of Country Music

Jim Washburn - Hal Leonard
Format: Hardcover

(Book) . Country may be the plainspoken music of rural America, but it certainly got gussied up on its way to the hit parade. Rhinestones and Twanging Tones: The Look and Sound of Country Music shows in glittering detail how most classic country stars traded in their overalls for sequined...
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One Way Out: The Inside History of the Allman Brothers Band

Alan Paul - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times Best seller!One Way Out is the powerful biography of The Allman Brothers Band, an oral history written with the band's participation and filled with original, never-before-published interviews as well as personal letters and correspondence. This is the most in-depth...
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Rustic Chic Wedding: 55 Projects for Crafting Your Own Wedding Style

Morgann Hill - Running Press
Format: Paperback

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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Styles of the Emerging Nation

Lisa C Mullins - The National Historical Society
Format: Hardcover

Book by Mullins, Lisa C., Underhill, Roy
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Village Architecture of Early New England

Lisa C Mullins - The National Historical Society
Format: Hardcover

Part VII of the Architectural Treasures of Early America series. From Material Originally Published as the White Pine Series of Architectural Monographs, Edited by Russell F. Whitehead and Frank Chouteau Brown. A very good hardcover copy. Light wear. Sunned spine. Tight binding. Clean,...
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1000 Dog Portraits: From the People Who Love Them

Robynne Raye - Rockport Publishers
Format: Paperback

"Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place with curators in museums; others we take for walks." - Roger A. Caras, Animal Welfare Activist1000 Dog Portraits is a compilation of quirky, fun, fanatical illustrations, paintings, collages and drawings from designers...
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Elvis and Ginger: Elvis Presley's Fiancée and Last Love Finally Tells Her Story

Ginger Alden - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

ELVIS PRESLEY'S FIANCE AND LAST LOVE FINALLY TELLS HER STORY "Elvis, you and I know the truth and unfortunately you're not here to set the record straight. With this book, I will try to..." Elvis Presley and Graceland were fixtures in the life of Ginger Alden, having been...
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Handbag Workshop: Design and Sew the Perfect Bag

Anna M. Mazur - Taunton Press
Format: Paperback

Make great designer look-alike bags. In her amazing how-to book, Handbag Workshop, Anna Mazur lets the cat out of the bag and tells all. In her inimitable style, Anna divulges little-known details for sewing 18 gorgeous bags. You know, the kind you drool over in specialty shops. Darling...
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DARKNESS AND LIGHT

John Legend - COLUMBIA RECORDS GROUP
Format: Audio CD

DARKNESS AND LIGHT is the new album from acclaimed, multi-platinum selling, Oscar, Golden Globe and 10x Grammy Award winning singer/songwriter John Legend. This new 12 song collection is produced by Blake Mills (Alabama Shakes) , and features multiple guest collaborations including Chance...
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Drawing

Christine Allison - GMC Publications
Format: Paperback

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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Popular Sheet Music - 30 Hits from 2010-2013

Hal Leonard Corp. - Hal Leonard Corporation
Format: Paperback

A concise collection of 30 big hits, including: Call Me Maybe * Girl on Fire * Home * If I Die Young * Just Give Me a Reason * Little Talks * Next to Me * Radioactive * Royals * Some Nights * Stay * Titanium * and more.
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Beyonc in Formation: Remixing Black Feminism

Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley - University of Texas Press
Format: Paperback

Making headlines when it was launched in 2015, Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley's undergraduate course "Beyonc Feminism, Rihanna Womanism" has inspired students from all walks of life. In Beyonc in Formation, Tinsley now takes her rich observations beyond the classroom, using the blockbuster...
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The Organic Artist: Make Your Own Paint, Paper, Pigments, Prints and More from Nature

Nick Neddo - Quarry Books
Format: Paperback

It's time to go back to basics! If you're interested in art, but find that it's becoming an increasingly expensive hobby, The Organic Artist is just the book for you! It encourages us all to return to those days when art was made with all-natural materials, such as charcoal...
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Weapon: A Visual History of Arms and Armor

Richard Holmes - DK
Format: Hardcover

A spectacular visual guide to the epic 4,000-year history of weaponry, created in association with the Smithsonian Institution.Weapon: A Visual History of Arms and Armor tells this epic story of the entire spectrum of weaponry through stunning photography and authoritative coverage,...
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Imagine A Forest: Designs and Inspirations for Enchanting Folk Art

Dinara Mirtalipova - Rock Point
Format: Print book

Imagine A Forest explores the unique style of illustrator Dinara Mirtalipova, which is rooted in the rich traditions of Eastern European folklore. This design guide features instructions and tips on how to draw your own beautiful art in a modern folklore style. Create charming flowers,...
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Classical Architecture and Monuments of Washington, D.C.: A History & Guide

MICHAEL J CURTIS - The History Press
Format: Paperback

Classical design formed our nation's capital. The soaring Washington Monument, the columns of the Lincoln Memorial and the spectacular dome of the Capitol Building speak to the founders' comprehensive vision of our federal city. Learn about the L'Enfant and McMillan plans for Washington,...
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Draw Horses in 15 Minutes: Capture the beauty of the equine form

Diana Hand - Ilex
Format: Print book

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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Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms

HANNAH FRY - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

A look inside the algorithms that are shaping our lives and the dilemmas they bring with them.If you were accused of a crime, who would you rather decide your sentence -- a mathematically consistent algorithm incapable of empathy or a compassionate human judge prone to bias and error? What...
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Becoming Richard Pryor

Scott Saul - Harper
Format: Hardcover

A major biographyintimate, gripping, revelatoryof an artist who revolutionized American comedy.Richard Pryor may have been the most unlikely star in Hollywood history. Raised in his familys brothels, he grew up an outsider to privilege. He took to the stage, originally, to escape the hard-bitten...
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Girl in a Band: A Memoir

Kim Gordon - Dey Street Books
Format: Print book

Kim Gordon, founding member of Sonic Youth, fashion icon, and role model for a generation of women, now tells her storya memoir of life as an artist, of music, marriage, motherhood, independence, and as one of the first women of rock and roll, written with the lyricism and haunting beauty...
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The Splendor of Birds: Art and Photographs From National Geographic

National Geographic - National Geographic
Format: Hardcover

An elegant collection of the best artwork and photography from the National Geographic archives depicting the magnificence of birds.Bird, nature, and art lovers alike will treasure this sumptuous visual celebration of the colors, forms, and behaviors of the winged wonders who share our world...
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The Neutron's Long Shadow: Legacies of Nuclear Explosives Production in the Manhattan Project

Martin Miller - Schiffer Military History
Format: Hardcover

FOREWORD by Michele Gerber, Hanford Nuclear Site historian and author of On the Home Front: "The Neutron's Long Shadow, brought me back to the stark realization that the Hanford Site is a singular, astonishing place that could not even be imagined, were it not already real. The book,...
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5-Minute Sketching -- Architecture: Super-quick Techniques for Amazing Drawings

Liz Steel - Firefly Books
Format: Paperback

Sketching has become very popular. In more than 60 cities around the world, from New Jersey, San Diego, and Montreal to as far as Moscow and Australia, "sketch crawls" find artists drawing what they see. A new social network has emerged where these sketch artists meet for group...
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Foursome: Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe, Paul Strand, Rebecca Salsbury

Carolyn Burke - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

A captivating, spirited account of the intense relationship among four artists whose strong personalities, passionate feelings, and aesthetic ideals drew them together, pulled them apart, and profoundly influenced the very shape of twentieth-century art.New York, 1921: Alfred Stieglitz,...
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Colored Pencil Collage: Nature Drawing and Painting for Mixed Media

Kelly Hoernig - North Light Books
Format: Paperback

Easy colored pencil techniques for your nature-inspired mixed-media collages!Discover the beautiful bits of nature all around you and learn unique ways to incorporate them into your mixed-media collages with the help of Colored Pencil Collage. You will learn all the basics you need to use colored...
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Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck

Brett Morgen - Insight Editions
Format: Hardcover

Kurt Cobain, legendary lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter of Nirvana, the flagship band of Generation X, remains an object of reverence and fascination for music fans around the world. For the first time, his story will be told in Brett Morgens Kurt Cobain Montage of Heck, a fully authorized...
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If Venice Dies

Salvatore Settis - New Vessel Pr
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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American Titan: Searching for John Wayne

Marc Eliot - Dey Street Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

From the veteran New York Times bestselling biographer comes a major, in-depth look at one of the most enduring American icons of all time, "the Duke," John Wayne.As he did in his bestselling biographies of Jimmy Stewart and Clint Eastwood, acclaimed Hollywood biographer Marc...
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Broadway to Main Street: How Show Tunes Enchanted America

Laurence Maslon - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover

The music of Broadway is one of America's most unique and popular calling cards. In Broadway to Main Street: How Show Tunes Enchanted America, author Laurence Maslon tells the story of how the most beloved songs of the American Musical Theater made their way from the Theater District...
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Countryside

Bruce Robertson - Harpercollins Pub Ltd
Format: Paperback

Part of the "Learn to Draw" series, this book looks at drawing country scenes. All the basics are covered, to provide a sound foundation in drawing techniques, and numerous illustrations and step-by-step drawings show how these are put into practice. Each book includes information...
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Colored Pencil Painting Portraits: Master a Revolutionary Method for Rendering Depth and Imitating Life

Alyona Nickelsen - Watson-Guptill
Format: Print book

Colored pencil painter Alyona Nickelsen reveals how to use the medium to push the limits of realistic portraiture.Colored Pencil Painting Portraits provides straightforward solutions to the problems that artists face in creating lifelike images, and will prime readers on the intricacies...
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Handel in London: A Genius and His Craft

Jane Glover - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

A rich and evocative account of the life and work of one of the world's favorite composers -- from the acclaimed author of Mozart's Women.In 1712, a young German composer followed his princely master to London and would remain there for the rest of his life. That master would become King...
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Mondrian Cameo

Piet Mondrian - Harry N. Abrams
Format: Hardcover

Focusing on the Dutch abstract painter, Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) , this is one of a series of illustrated monographs which offer introductions to modern art and artists. Each book presents a profile of the artist and analysis of his distinctive style. After encountering Cubism in 1911,...
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Anni Albers

Ann Coxon - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover

A long-overdue reassessment of one of the most important and influential woman artists working at midcentury Anni Albers (1899-1994) was a German textile designer, weaver, and printmaker, and among the leading pioneers of 20th-century modernism. Although she has heavily influenced generations...
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Awards for Good Boys: Tales of Dating, Double Standards, and Doom

Shelby Lorman - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback

"Shelby and her art are extremely my shit. You need this book." - Samantha Irby, New York Times bestselling author of We Are Never Meeting in Real Life"The rare Instagram-turned-book that actually works." - JezebelA wickedly funny illustrated look at living and dating...
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Alfred's Basic Adult Theory Piano Book: Level One

Willard Palmer - Alfred
Format: Musical score

Every concept and principal introduced in the Lesson Books of Alfred's Basic Adult Piano Course is reinforced in each of the correlated Theory Books. Important tips are included that make learning chord progressions even easier!
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Silent Witness: The Civil War through Photography and its Photographers

RON FIELD - Osprey Publishing
Format: Hardcover

The Civil War changed America forever. It shaped its future and determined its place in history. For the first time in military history, the camera was there to record these seismic events, from innovations in military and naval warfare, to the battles themselves; from commanders at critical...
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Ballerina Body: Dancing and Eating Your Way to a Leaner, Stronger, and More Graceful You

Misty Copeland - Grand Central Life & Style
Format: Hardcover

The celebrated ballerina and role model, Misty Copeland, shares the secrets of how to reshape your body and achieve a lean, strong physique and glowing health.Misty Copeland believes "There has been a shift in recent years in which women no longer desire the bare bones of a runway...
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The Photographer's Black and White Handbook: Making and Processing Stunning Digital Black and White Photos

Harold Davis - Monacelli Studio
Format: Paperback

The Photographer's Black & White Handbook is your complete guide to making and processing stunning black and white photos in the digital era. You'll find inspiration, ideas, techniques, and tools to use in your black and white photography, along with a soup-to-nuts workflow...
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Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life

Eric Klinenberg - Crown
Format: Hardcover

An eminent sociologist and bestselling author offers an inspiring blueprint for rebuilding our fractured society. We are living in a time of deep divisions. Americans are sorting themselves along racial, religious, and cultural lines, leading to a level of polarization that the country...
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Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music

ANN POWERS - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover

In this sweeping history of popular music in the United States, NPR's acclaimed music critic examines how popular music shapes fundamental American ideas and beliefs, allowing us to communicate difficult emotions and truths about our most fraught social issues, most notably sex and race.In...
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Let's Go (So We Can Get Back) : A Memoir of Recording and Discording with Wilco, Etc.

JEFF TWEEDY - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

The singer, guitarist, and songwriter, best known for this work with Wilco, opens up about his past, his songs, the music, and the people that have inspired him.Few bands have inspired as much devotion as the Chicago rock band Wilco, and it's thanks, in large part, to the band's singer,...
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How to Rebuild and Restore Classic Japanese Motorcycles

Sid Young - Motorbooks
Format: Print book

Everything you need to know to restore or customize your classic Japanese motorcycle.Whether you want to correctly restore a classic Japanese motorcycle or create a modified, custom build, you need the right information about how to perform the mechanical and cosmetic tasks required to get an old,...
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Figure Drawing: Learn to capture dynamic figures and features in graphite pencil

Jennifer Gennari - Walter Foster Publishing
Format: Print book

With Figure Drawing, aspiring graphite and charcoal artists will learn everything they need to know about drawing the human figure and how to master gestures, proportions, and body movement. The book begins with an introduction to basic tools and materials, guiding the reader in how to select...
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The Calligrapher's Bible: 100 Complete Alphabets and How to Draw Them

David Harris - Barron's
Format: Print book

Both hobbyists and students of design will value this easy-to-use self-teaching book. Each of its 100 sections shows a complete A-to-Z calligraphy alphabet, with lessons on correct pen strokes and advice on avoiding errors. Beginners will find sound basic instruction, while experienced...
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The Public Library: A Photographic Essay

Robert Dawson - Chronicle Books Llc
Format: Hardcover

A gorgeous visual celebration of America's public libraries including 150 photos, plus essays by Bill Moyers, Ann Patchett, Anne Lamott, Amy Tan, Barbara Kingsolver, and many more.Many of us have vivid recollections of childhood visits to a public library: the unmistakable musty scent,...
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The Southern Tradition

Lisa C Mullins - The National Historical Society
Format: Hardcover

A single volume of the 16-volume series reprinting Russell Whitehead's "White Pine Series of Architectural Monographs" and "The Georgian Period." This one contains eight chapters from "The Georgian Period" series: Old Colonial Work in Virginia and Maryland...
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The Bluegrass Gospel Songbook

Wayne Erbsen - Native Ground Books & Music
Format: Paperback

This handsome 172 page book has over 100 of your favorite bluegrass gospel songs with lyrics, music (melody line) , guitar chords, 100 vintage photos, song histories, the roots of bluegrass gospel music, painless gospel music theory, how to choose the right key, how to operate a capo,...
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365 Style

Nicky Hilton - Harlequin
Format: Print book

From red carpets and runways to front row at Fashion Week, designer and muse Nicky Hilton has earned her reputation as a style icon. Exposed to the top tier of the fashion industry from childhood, in this style guide Hilton reveals tips and tricks of the trade she has learned along the way....
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Wedding Performer -- Complete Piano Collection: 44 Solos for Ceremonies and Receptions

Jan Sanborn - Alfred Music
Format: Musical score

For the wedding pianist, this comprehensive collection contains 44 piano solos of the most frequently requested wedding preludes, processionals, interludes, and recessionals plus, other beautiful music to play at receptions. Lush arrangements of popular and standard romantic ballads complement...
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Alfred's Basic Adult Piano Course All-Time Favorites, Bk 1: 52 Titles to Play and Sing

Willard A Palmer - Alfred Music
Format: Paperback

Designed to supplement Alfred's Basic Adult Piano Course, but may also be used to supplement any piano course. Rich collections of popular folk and country songs, sing-along favorites, holiday songs and arrangements of well-known classics.
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Complete Guide to Digital Photography

Ian Farrell - METRO BOOKS
Format: Paperback

Whether a beginner or a keen amateur, the Complete Guide to Digital Photography is your definitive reference for taking, processing, and printing sharper, more colorful, better-looking pictures.
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The Fashion Encyclopedia: A Visual Resource for Terms, Techniques, and Styles

Emily Angus - Barron's Educational Series
Format: Hardcover

Students, designers, and anyone who has a love of clothes will find The Fashion Encyclopedia to be an essential reference for clothing terminology in both historical and contemporary contexts. From types of embroidery and lace to definitions for clothing styles and stitching, from panniers...
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Drawing: Faces & Expressions: Master the art of drawing a range of faces and expressions - step by step

Diane Cardaci - Walter Foster Publishing
Format: Print book

Perfect for beginning artists, Drawing: Faces & Expressions offers a comprehensive introduction on how to draw faces and expressions - the most important aspects of an individual. Aspiring artists will learn everything about the tools and materials they need to get started, including...
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Lessons from Madame Chic : 20 stylish secrets I learned while living in Paris

Jennifer L Scott - Simon & Schuster
Format: Book

Inspired by Paris, this lighthearted and deceptively wise contemporary memoir serves as a guidebook for women on the path to adulthood, sophistication, and style. Jennifer Scott's self-published success is now a beautifully packaged and fully illustrated gift book, perfect for any woman...
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Living in Bali

Anita Lococo - TASCHEN
Format: Hardcover

In a World Without WallsBalinese homes in harmony with natureLoved by travelers for its lush tropical scenery and charming people, Bali is one of the most magnificent places on Earth. Spirituality and nature are integral parts of everyday life for the Balinese, so one can easily see why the island's...
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TV

Alan Sepinwall - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Print book

Is The Wire better than Breaking Bad? Is Cheers better than Seinfeld? What's the best high school show ever made? Why did Moonlighting really fall apart? Was the Arrested Development Netflix season brilliant or terrible?For twenty years-since they...
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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

"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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Abstract Art Painting: Expressions in Mixed Media

Debora Stewart - North Light
Format:  Print book : English

Would you love to take your art in a new direction?In Abstract Art Painting, you will enter a realm of tactile, intuitive excitement, combining pastel and acrylic to achieve results as unique as you are. You'll learn how to explore the use of color theory in abstraction and to use underpainting...
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John Wayne: The Life and Legend

Scott Eyman - Simon & Schuster
Format: Book

Drawing on interviews that author Scott Eyman conducted with John Wayne before his death and more than 100 interviews with the actor's family, co-stars, and close associates, this revelatory biography shows how both the facts and fictions about Wayne illuminate his singular life.John Wayne...
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Portrait Revolution: Inspiration from Around the World For Creating Art in Multiple Mediums and Styles

Julia L. Kay - Watson-Guptill
Format: Paperback

Based on the popular international collaborative art project, this guide to creating portraiture in multiple mediums and styles teams hundreds of portraits with tips and insights on the artistic process. The human face is one of the most important subjects for artists, no matter their chosen...
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The Sound of Music Companion

Laurence Maslon - Universe
Format: Hardcover

The definitive book on the world's most beloved musical, The Sound of Music Companion charts the incredible and enduring story of Maria von Trapp and her story over the last hundred years - from Maria's birth in Vienna in 1905 to the 50th anniversary of the film's release in 2015....
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Anger Is an Energy: My Life Uncensored

John Lydon - Dey Street Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

From the legendary frontman of the Sex Pistols, comes the complete, unvarnished story of his life in his own words.John Lydon is an icon - one of the most recognizable and influential cultural figures of the last forty years. As Johnny Rotten, he was the lead singer of the Sex Pistols-the...
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Guitar Sessions -- Led Zeppelin Acoustic: Book & DVD

Led Zeppelin. - Alfred Music
Format: Paperback

The Guitar Sessions series features songbooks centered around detailed instructional video lessons that teach how to play rock 'n' roll's greatest songs, shown step-by-step by knowledgeable guitar-slinging hosts who then perform the music in its entirety. With Led Zeppelin:...
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Simply Piano

Robyn Payne - Hinkler Books
Format: Spiral-bound

Inreractive DVD & full color photograph book with an hour of practice exercises on piano fundamentals.
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Louis Armstrong, Master of Modernism

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

The definitive account of Louis Armstrong -- his life and legacy -- during the most creative period of his career. Nearly 100 years after bursting onto Chicago's music scene under the tutelage of Joe "King" Oliver, Louis Armstrong is recognized as one of the most influential artists...
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Film and Video Editing Theory: How Editing Creates Meaning

MICHAEL FRIERSON - Focal Press
Format: Paperback

Film and Video Editing Theory offers an accessible, introductory guide to the practices used to create meaning through editing. In this book, Michael Frierson synthesizes the theories of the most prominent film editors and scholars, from Herbert Zettl and Noel Burch to the work of landmark...
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Keepers: The Greatest Films--and Personal Favorites--of a Moviegoing Lifetime

Richard Schickel - Knopf Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover

From a legendary film critic and movie fan extraordinaire, the highlights reel of a life spent at the movies Richard Schickel has seen, by his own estimate, more than twenty thousand films. He has been a reviewer since 1965 (long for Time magazine), has written almost forty books on the subject,...
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Papiroflexia creativa

Kunihiko Kasahara - Edaf
Format: Book

En este segundo libro, Kunihiko Kasahara, una de las figuras mas destacadas de la papiroflexia en el mundo, nos brinda un grado mas avanzado en este arte-juego que nos amplia la capacidad de evocar las posibilidades ilimitadas patentes en una hoja de papel. pajaros, animales, flora y fauna,...
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Canon EOS 7D Mark II For Dummies

Doug Sahlin - For Dummies; 1 edition
Format: Book

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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