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The Colored Pencil Artist's Handbook: An essential reference for drawing and sketching with colored pencils

Jane Strother - Chartwell Books
Format: Print book

The Colored Pencil Artist's Handbook is a step-by-step guide through a range of blending, mark-making, and mixed media techniques. Whether you're looking to improve your drawing skills or be introduced to a range of new effects. All the tools, materials, and techniques you need...
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Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad

Austin Kleon - Workman Publishing Company
Format: Paperback

The world is crazy. Creative work is hard. And nothing is getting any easier! In his previous books - Steal Like an Artistand Show Your Work!, New York Times bestsellers with over a million copies in print combined - Austin Kleon gave readers the key to unlock...
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The Best American Short Plays 2015-2016

William W. Demastes - Applause Theatre & Cinema Books
Format: Paperback

(Best American Short Plays) . For more than 70 years, The Best American Short Plays has been the standard of excellence for one-act plays in America. From its inception, it has identified cutting-edge playwrights Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, and others who have gone on to establish...
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Portrait Manual

The Editors of Popular Photography - Weldon Owen
Format: Print book

For beginners looking to master the portrait or lifelong photographers looking to try a new twist on the classic genre, this is your photo book. The Complete Portrait Manual provides over 300 tips techniques to help you successfully capture the portrait you want.The editors of Popular Photography...
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Walk This Way: Run-DMC, Aerosmith, and the Song that Changed American Music Forever

Geoff Edgers - Blue Rider Press
Format: Hardcover

Washington Post staff writer Geoff Edgers takes a deep dive into the story behind "Walk This Way," Aerosmith and Run-DMC's legendary, groundbreaking mashup that forever changed music. The early 1980s were an exciting time for music. Hair metal bands were selling out stadiums,...
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Fifty Years of 60 Minutes: The Inside Story of Television's Most Influential News Broadcast

JEFF FAGER - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A history of 60 Minutes - the iconic American TV news broadcast - going behind the scenes of the most famous breakthrough stories of its remarkable fifty-year run to reveal the secrets of the program's success.Fifty Years of 60 Minutes tells the inside story of the legendary...
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Under the Big Black Sun: A Personal History of L.A. Punk

John Doe - Da Capo Press
Format: Print book

Under the Big Black Sun explores the nascent Los Angeles punk rock movement and its evolution to hardcore punk as it's never been told before. Authors John Doe and Tom DeSavia have woven together an enthralling story of the legendary west coast scene from 1977-1982 by enlisting the voices...
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Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power

Mark Godfrey - D.A.P./Tate
Format: Hardcover

African American art in the era of Malcolm X and the Black PanthersIn the period of radical change that was 1963-83, young black artists at the beginning of their careers confronted difficult questions about art, politics and racial identity. How to make art that would stand as innovative,...
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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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Berlin Calling: A Story of Anarchy, Music, The Wall, and the Birth of the New Berlin

Paul Hockenos - The New Press
Format: Print book

An exhilarating journey through the subcultures, occupied squats, and late-night scenes in the anarchic first few years of Berlin after the fall of the wallBerlin Calling is a gripping account of the 1989 "peaceful revolution" in East Germany that upended communism and the tumultuous...
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