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Alan Sepinwall - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Print book
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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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Softly, With Feeling: Joe Wilder and the Breaking of Barriers in American Music
Edward Berger - Temple University Press
Format: Hardcover
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"Joe Wilder set the table. His struggles made it easier for me and many others."--From the Foreword by Wynton Marsalis Trumpeter Joe Wilder is distinguished for his achievements in both the jazz and classical worlds. He was a founding member of the Symphony of the New World,... |
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The Monster Book of Manga Steampunk
Jorge Balaguer - Harper Design
Format: Book
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" Enter an alternative world ruled by steam-powered machinery, Victorian elegance, and futuristic technology by creating your own elaborate manga characters in Steampunk, the latest volume in the bestselling Monster Book of Manga series. This easy-to-follow guidebook brings to life... |
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Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh
John Lahr - W. W. Norton & Company; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography and Finalist for the National Book Award. The definitive biography of Americas greatest playwright from the celebrated drama critic of The New Yorker.John Lahr has produced a theater biography like no other. Tennessee Williams... |
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American Titan: Searching for John Wayne
Marc Eliot - Dey Street Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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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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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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Charles James: Beyond Fashion
Jan Reeder - Metropolitan Museum of Art
Format: Print book
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Charles James, often considered to be America’s first couturier, was renowned in the 1940s and 1950s as a master at sculpting fabric for the female form and creating fashions that defined mid-century glamour. Although James had no formal training as a dressmaker, he created strikingly... |
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Sons of Anarchy: Live to Ride
Running Press - Running Press
Format: Hardcover
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Includes 8 temporary tattoos!Revisit some of the most memorable character quotes and images from this adrenalized drama in Sons of Anarchy: Live to Ride. With full-color and black-and-white photographs and iconic quotes from Jax, Clay, Gemma, Opie, Bobby, Tig, Chibs, Tara, and the rest... |
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Madeline Kahn: Being the Music, A Life
William V. Madison - University Press of Mississippi
Format: Hardcover
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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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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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Mademoiselle: Coco Chanel and the Pulse of History
Rhonda K. Garelick - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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NATIONAL BESTSELLERCertain lives are at once so exceptional, and yet so in step with their historical moments, that they illuminate cultural forces far beyond the scope of a single person. Such is the case with Coco Chanel, whose life offers one of the most fascinating tales of the twentieth... |
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A View from A Broad
Bette Midler - Simon & Schuster; Updated edition
Format: Hardcover
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With her brassy voice and bold performances making the world finally pay attention, she needs no introduction. Grammy award–winning singer, Academy Award–nominee, Broadway star of her critically acclaimed one-woman show and beloved actress in The Rose, Beaches and Down and Out in Beverly... |
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Serving the Servant: Remembering Kurt Cobain
Danny Goldberg - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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On the twenty-fifth anniversary of Kurt Cobain's death comes a new perspective on one of the most compelling icons of our time - and the only book written by someone who knew himIn early 1991, top music manager Danny Goldberg agreed to take on Nirvana, a critically acclaimed new band from... |
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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
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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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People Habitat: 25 Ways to Think About Greener, Healthier Cities
F Kaid Benfield - People Habitat Communications
Format: eBook
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With over 80 percent of Americans now living in cities and suburbs, getting our communities right has never been more important, more complicated, or more fascinating. Longtime sustainability leader Kaid Benfield shares 25 enlightening and entertaining essays about the wondrous ecology... |
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The Story of Music: From Babylon to the Beatles: How Music Has Shaped Civilization
Howard Goodall - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book
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A dynamic and expansive tour through 40,000 years of music, from prehistoric instruments to modern-day pop songs.Music is an intrinsic part of everyday life, and yet the history of its development from single notes to multi-layered orchestration can seem bewilderingly complex.In his dynamic... |
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Blind Spot
Teju Cole - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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In this innovative synthesis of words and images, the award-winning author of Open City and photography critic for The New York Times Magazine combines two of his great passions. "To look is to see only a fraction of what one is looking at. Even in the most vigilant... |
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Bicycle Design: An Illustrated History
Hans-Erhard Lessing - The MIT Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The bicycle ranks as one of the most enduring, most widely used vehicles in the world, with more than a billion produced during almost two hundred years of cycling history. This book offers an authoritative and comprehensive account of the bicycle's technical and historical evolution,... |
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Being John Lennon: A Restless Life
Ray Connolly - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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An intimate yet unsparing biography of one of the greatest and most mythologized musicians of the twentieth century.What was it like to be John Lennon? What was it like to be the castoff child, the clown at school, and the middle-class suburban boy who pretended to be a working-class hero?... |
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Printing Things: Visions and Essentials for 3D Printing
C Warnier - Die Gestalten Verlag
Format: Print book
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An inspirational and understandable exploration of the creative potential of 3D printing that introduces outstanding projects, key experts, and the newest technologies. Designers, trendscouts, scientists, and companies all agree --the golden age of 3D prin |
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Music in the Shadows: Noir Musical Films
Sheri Chinen Biesen - Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Smoke. Shadows. Moody strains of jazz. Welcome to the world of "noir musical" films, where tormented antiheroes and hard-boiled musicians battle obsession and struggle with their music and ill-fated love triangles. Sultry divas dance and sing the blues in shrouded nightclubs.... |
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Of Arms and Artists: The American Revolution Through Painters' Eyes
Paul J Staiti - Bloomsbury
Format: Print book
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The images accompanying the founding of the United States--of honored Founders, dramatic battle scenes, and seminal moments--gave visual shape to Revolutionary events and symbolized an entirely new concept of leadership and government. Since then they have endured as indispensable icons,... |
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Silver Screen Fiend: Learning About Life from an Addiction to Film
Patton Oswalt - Scribner
Format: Print book
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New York Times bestselling author, comedian, and actor Patton Oswalt shares his entertaining memoir about coming of age as a performer and writer in the late '90s while obsessively watching classic films at the legendary New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles.Between 1995 and 1999, Patton... |
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3D Character Development Workshop: Rigging Fundamentals for Artists and Animators
Erik Van Horn - Mercury Learning & Information
Format: Paperback
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3D Character Development Workshop is designed to fast-track comprehension of the concepts, tools, and methods of character rigging so that you can get past the technical hurdles and on to animating. This comprehensive guide is simple enough for non-technical artists to follow, yet presented... |
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The Clash: The Only Band That Mattered
Sean Egan - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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When considered in a broader social context, The Clash stand as one of the most important musical acts in rock history. Original punks who transcended the music’s minimalist origins, The Clash lived and breathed the idea that they could change the world with their art. In The Clash:... |
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My Grandfather's Gallery: A Family Memoir of Art and War
Anne Sinclair - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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A singular man in the history of modern art, betrayed by Vichy, is the subject of this riveting family memoirOn September 20, 1940, one of the most famous European art dealers disembarked in New York, one of hundreds of Jewish refugees fleeing Vichy France. Leaving behind his beloved Paris... |
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Garden of Dreams: The Life of Simone Signoret
Patricia A. DeMaio - University Press of Mississippi
Format: Hardcover
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The incomparable Simone Signoret (1921-1985), one of the grand actresses of the twentieth century and one of France's most notable stars, considered herself the "oldest discovery" in Hollywood. After years of blacklisting during the McCarthy era, she was thirty-eight years... |
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Handel in London: A Genius and His Craft
Jane Glover - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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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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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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Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music
ANN POWERS - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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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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Retronaut: The Photographic Time Machine
Chris Wild - National Geographic
Format: Hardcover
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"An emporium of retro treasure...from shocking sculptures of the 1700s, to Kodachrome snaps of 1950s Piccadilly Circus, to biblical scenes captured by Google Earth. Rather than nostalgia or folly, the aim is enlightenment, wonder and the pleasure of weirdness." --The Guardian... |
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Hitchcock's Partner in Suspense: The Life of Screenwriter Charles Bennett
John Charles Bennett - University Press of Kentucky; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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With a career that spanned from the silent era to the 1990s, British screenwriter Charles Bennett (1899--1995) lived an extraordinary life. His experiences as an actor, director, playwright, film and television writer, and novelist in both England and Hollywood left him with many amusing... |
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Artist's Market 2018
Noel Rivera - North Light Books
Format: Paperback(Forty-third Edition)
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A successful art career at your fingertips Do you want to establish or expand a career for yourself in fine art, illustration, or design? Artist's Market 2018 is the must-have reference guide you need. Thousands of successful artists have relied on us to help develop their careers and navigate... |
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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 Youngs: The Brothers Who Built AC/DC
Jesse Fink - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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"Fink's look at the band addresses the question that he believes most mainstream rock critics have never been able to answer about AC/DC: 'Why have they endured and resonated with hundreds of millions of people and inculcated such fierce loyalty and outright fanaticism?'... |
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Anger Is an Energy: My Life Uncensored
John Lydon - Dey Street Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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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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Spirit Rising: My Life, My Music
AngeÌlique Kidjo - Harper Design
Format: Print book
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Grammy Award-winning singer Anglique Kidjo is known for her electrifying voice and fearless advocacy work. In this intimate memoir, she reveals how she escaped Communist Africa to make her dreams a reality, and how she's prompting others all around the world to reach for theirs as well.Born... |
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Becoming Richard Pryor
Scott Saul - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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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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Unstill Life: A Daughter's Memoir of Art and Love in the Age of Abstraction
Gabrielle Selz - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Awarded the 2015 Best Memoir from The American Society of Journalists and Authors Luminous and revealing, a daughter's memoir of the art world and a larger-than-life father. In 1958, soon after Gabrielle Selz was born, she, her parents and her sister moved to New York, where her father,... |
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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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Guilty Knowledge, Guilty Pleasure: The Dirty Art of Poetry
William Logan - Columbia University Press
Format: Hardcover
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William Logan has been a thorn in the side of American poetry for more than three decades. Though he has been called the "most hated man in American poetry," his witty and articulate reviews have reminded us how muscular good reviewing can be. These new essays and reviews take... |
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Roadshow!: The Fall of Film Musicals in the 1960s
Matthew Kennedy - Oxford University Press US
Format: Hardcover
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Full-page newspaper ads announced the date. Reserved seats went on sale at premium prices. Audience members dressed up and arrived early to peruse the program during the overture that preceded the curtain's rise. And when the show began, it was--a rather disappointing film musical.In... |
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Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art
Mary Gabriel - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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The rich, revealing, and thrilling story of five women whose lives and painting propelled a revolution in modern artSet amid the most turbulent social and political period of modern times, Ninth Street Women is the impassioned, wild, sometimes tragic, always exhilarating chronicle... |
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Hollywood Frame by Frame: The Unseen Silver Screen in Contact Sheets, 1951-1997
Karina Longworth - Princeton Architectural Press
Format: Hardcover
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There is a voyeuristic thrill in contact sheets, the direct prints used by photographers of the pre-digital age to edit their work. You look directly through the photographer's eyes as each photo gets closer to that perfect shot. And yet, it's often the photos not chosen that best... |
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On the Road with Janis Joplin
John Byrne Cooke - Berkley
Format: Hardcover
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One of Parade's Top Ten Rock n' Roll ReadsAs a road manager and filmmaker, he helped run the Janis Joplin show - and record it for posterity. Now he reveals the never-before-told story of his years with the young woman from Port Arthur who would become the first female rock and roll... |
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Drawing for Everyone: Classic and Creative Fundamentals
Bruce Waldman - Peter Pauper Press
Format: Book
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"With many 'how to draw' books published every year, Drawing for Everyone stands out as one of the very few that could earn a place on the bookshelves of artists and nonartists alike as 'essential.'" --Peter Dabbene, Foreword Reviews "This accessible and practical... |
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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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I Am the Beggar of the World: Landays from Contemporary Afghanistan
Seamus Murphy - Farrar Straus Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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An eye-opening collection of clandestine poems by Afghan womenBecause my love's American,blisters blossom on my heart.Afghans revere poetry, particularly the high literary forms that derive from Persian or Arabic. But the poem above is a folk couplet--a landay, an ancient oral and anonymous... |
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Surrealist Art (World of Art Series)
Sarane Alexandrian - Thames and Hudson
Format: Paperback
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Surrealism was a revolution. Unlike other modern movements such as cubism and geometrical abstraction, it was not based purely on artistic innovation; its aim was nothing less than the liberation, in art and in life, of the resources of the subconscious mind. Sarane Alexandrian traces the development... |
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George Harrison: Behind the Locked Door
Graeme Thomson - The Overlook Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive new biography of the most enigmatic Beatle As a Beatle, Harrison underwent a bewilderingly compressed early adulthood, buffeted by unprecedented levels of fame and success. The notoriously shy performer mostly ceded the spotlight to his more flamboyant bandmates John, Paul,... |
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George Frideric Handel: A Life with Friends
Ellen T. Harris - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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An intimate portrait of Handel’s life and inner circle, modeled after one of the composer’s favorite forms: the fugue. During his lifetime, the sounds of Handel’s music reached from court to theater, echoed in cathedrals, and filled crowded taverns, but the man himself―known... |
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Rocks: My Life in and out of Aerosmith
Joe Perry - Simon & Schuster; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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An insightful and harrowing roller coaster ride through the career of one of rock and rolls greatest guitarists. Strap yourself in. Slash Rocking Joe Perry rocks again! Jimmy Page Before the platinum records or the Super Bowl half-time show or the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Joe Perry was a boy growing... |
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One Way Out: The Inside History of the Allman Brothers Band
Alan Paul - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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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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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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Vietnam: A New History
Christopher E Goscha - Basic Books
Format: Print book
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In Vietnam, Christopher Goscha tells the full history of the events that created the modern state of Vietnam, from antiquity to the present day. Generations of emperors, rebels, priests, and colonizers left complicated legacies in this remarkable country. Periods of Chinese, French, and Japanese... |
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Who Did It First?: Great Pop Cover Songs and Their Original Artists
Bob Leszczak - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Print book
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"Everybody has to start somewhere. Businessmen start on the ground floor and try to work their way up the corporate ladder. Baseball players bide their time in the minor leagues wishing for an opportunity to move up and play in the majors. Musical compositions aren't very different... |
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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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Paint Along with Jerry Yarnell Volume One - Painting Basics
Jerry Yarnell - North Light Books
Format: Paperback
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You can transform a blank canvas into a spectacular landscape even if you've never painted before. Jerry Yarnell—the master of popular painting—will show you how with his successful step-by-step painting techniques. You'll learn to create beautiful art, building... |
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Free to Make: How the Maker Movement is Changing Our Schools, Our Jobs, and Our Minds
Dale Dougherty - North Atlantic Books
Format: Print book
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Dale Dougherty, creator of MAKE: magazine and the Maker Faire, provides a guided tour of the international phenomenon known as the Maker Movement, a social revolution that is changing what gets made, how it's made, where it's made, and who makes it. Free to Make is a call to join... |
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Daily show - the book : an oral history
Chris Smith - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Print book
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The complete, uncensored history of the award-winning The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, as told by its correspondents, writers, and host. For almost seventeen years, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart brilliantly redefined the borders between television comedy, political... |
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John Wayne: The Life and Legend
Scott Eyman - Simon & Schuster
Format: Book
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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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Watching Them Be: Star Presence on the Screen from Garbo to Balthazar
James Harvey - Faber & Faber
Format: Hardcover
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An intimate, thought-provoking exploration of the mysteries of “star presence” in cinema“One does not go to see them act,” James Baldwin wrote about the great iconic movie stars, “one goes to watch them be.” It seems obvious . . . Where else besides the movies... |
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A Letter to My Cat: Notes to Our Best Friends
Lisa Erspamer - Crown Archetype
Format: Hardcover
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The follow-up to A Letter to My Dog takes on cats with celebrities writing letters of love and gratitude to their beloved pet felinesAlluring elusive mysteriousmdashthe cats in our lives are not always easy to get to know But as with all pets they have unique personalities and stories to tell... |
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Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms
HANNAH FRY - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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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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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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So Many Roads: The Life and Times of the Grateful Dead
David Browne - Da Capo Press
Format: Hardcover
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Fifty years after they first came together and changed the sound of rock 'n' roll, the Grateful Dead remain one of rock's most beloved bands - a musical and cultural phenomenon that spans generations and paved the way for everything from the world of jam bands and the idea of independently... |
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Blue Urbanism: Exploring Connections Between Cities and Oceans
Timothy Beatley - Island Press
Format: eBook
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What would it mean to live in cities designed to foster feelings of connectedness to the ocean? As coastal cities begin planning for climate change and rising sea levels, author Timothy Beatley sees opportunities for rethinking the relationship between urban development and the ocean. Modern... |
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Young Orson: The Years of Luck and Genius on the Path to Citizen Kane
Patrick McGilligan - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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On the centennial of his birth, the defining wunderkind of modern entertainment gets his due in a groundbreaking new biography of his early years - from his first forays in theater and radio to the inspiration and making of Citizen Kane.In the history of American popular culture, there... |
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Elihu Yale: Merchant, Collector & Patron
Diana Scarisbrick - Thames & Hudson; 1 edition
Format: Book
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Original research sheds light on the fascinating biography of one of Yale University’s early supportersElihu Yale's name is famous for the great educational institution, Yale University, of which he was an early benefactor. He made his fortune in India, mostly through trading... |
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The Art of DreamWorks Mr. Peabody & Sherman
Jerry Beck - Insight Editions; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Make way for Mr. Peabody and Sherman, DreamWorks Animation’s new comedy about a dog and his boy. Yes, you heard right — Mr. Peabody’s IQ is so high, this dog is actually the world’s smartest person! So smart that he’s even invented the WABAC, a time-traveling... |
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Hand Drawn Lettering: Draw Paint Print
Mark Bergin - Barron's Educational Series
Format: Paperback
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Unleash your creativity with this book that encourages readers to explore new ideas, nurture originality, and create unique forms of lettering. You'll find:32 pages of instructions, and another 96 pages of alphabet samples for practicePointers on techniques and the use of colorTips on materials... |
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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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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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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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Louis Armstrong, Master of Modernism
Thomas David Brothers - W.W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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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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Dirty Blvd.: The Life and Music of Lou Reed
Aidan Levy - Chicago Review Press
Format: Hardcover
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Lou Reed made it his mission to rub people the wrong way, whether it was with the noise rock he produced with the Velvet Underground in the late 1960s or his polarizing work with Metallica that would prove to be his swan song. On a personal level, too, he seemed to take pleasure in insulting... |
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The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age
Astra Taylor - Metropolitan Books
Format: Hardcover
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From a cutting-edge cultural commentator, a bold and brilliant challenge to cherished notions of the Internet as the great leveler of our ageThe Internet has been hailed as an unprecedented democratizing force, a place where everyone can be heard and all can participate equally. But how true... |
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Your Favorite Band is Killing Me
Steven Hyden - Back Bay Books
Format: Paperback
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Steven Hyden explores nineteen music rivalries and what they say about life in this "highly entertaining" book (Rolling Stone) perfect for every... |
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Sketching People: An Urban Sketchers Manual to Drawing Figures and Faces
Lynne Chapman - Sourcebooks
Format: Paperback
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The best resource to learn how to draw peopleDelve into the world of artistic expression with Sketching People: An Urban Sketchers Manual to Drawing Figures and Faces. This captivating guide provides insightful techniques to help budding and experienced artists capture the human figure... |
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I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual
Luvvie Ajayi - Henry Holt and Company
Format: Print book
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New York Times Bestseller#1 Washington Post Bestseller"A truth-riot of a book!" -- Shonda RhimesComedian, activist, and hugely popular culture blogger at AwesomelyLuvvie.com, Luvvie Ajayi, serves up necessary advice for the masses in this hilarious book of essaysWith... |
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The Art Teacher's Survival Guide for Secondary Schools: Grades 7-12
Helen D Hume - Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
Format: Paperback
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An invaluable compendium of 75 creative art projects for art educators and classroom teachers This authoritative, practical, and comprehensive guide offers everything teachers need to know to conduct an effective arts instruction and appreciation program. It meets secondary art teacher's... |
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Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents
Pete Souza - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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From Pete Souza, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Obama: An Intimate Portrait, comes a potent commentary on the Presidency--and our country. As Chief Official White House Photographer, Pete Souza spent more time alongside President Barack Obama than almost anyone... |
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Travelling to Work: Diaries 1988--1998
Michael Palin - Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press,
Format: Print book
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As in Halfway to Hollywood and The Python Years, Travelling to Work contains a decade's worth of unedited, unabridged diary entries from multi-talented funnyman Michael Palin. In this volume, the last Palin has agreed to publish, the former Python documents his experience hosting... |
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How to be an Illustrator
Darrel Rees - Laurence King
Format: Paperback
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This book offers practical help and guidance to aspiring illustrators. All areas of the job are covered - how to create a portfolio; the most effective ways to approach would-be clients; how to prepare for meetings and negotiate contracts; and how to handle, deliver, and bill a job. There... |
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De Niro: A Life
Shawn Levy - Crown Archetype
Format: Hardcover
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REMARKABLE BIOGRAPHY OF AN ICONThere's little debate that Robert De Niro is one of the greatest screen actors of his generation, perhaps of all time--if not, in fact, the greatest. His work, particularly in the first 20 years of his career, is unparalleled. Mean Streets, the Godfather... |
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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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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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Lady in the Dark: Iris Barry and the Art of Film
Robert Sitton - Columbia University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Iris Barry (1895-1969) was a pivotal modern figure and one of the first intellectuals to treat film as an art form, appreciating its far-reaching, transformative power. Although she had the bearing of an aristocrat, she was the self-educated daughter of a brass founder and a palm-reader... |
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God Laughed: Sources of Jewish Humor
Hershey H. Friedman - Transaction Publishers
Format: Book
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Humor has had a profound effect on the way the Jewish people see the world, and has sustained them through millennia of hardships and suffering. God Laughed reviews, organizes, and categorizes the humor of the ancient Jewish texts—the Hebrew Bible, the Talmud, and Midrash—in... |
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Tails from the Booth
Lynn Terry - Gallery Books, 2015.
Format: Print book
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Furry friends meet photo booths in this quirky photography book that captures all the cute canine action when the leashes come off and the dogs are the star of the show.If dogs could take selfies, it might look something like Tails from the Booth. For this adorable collection of photographs,... |
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Grand Opera: The Story of the Met
Charles Affron - University of California Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The Metropolitan has stood among the grandest of opera companies since its birth in 1883. Tracing the offstage/onstage workings of this famed New York institution, Charles Affron and Mirella Jona Affron tell how the Met became and remains a powerful actor on the global cultural scene. In this... |
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Playground: Growing Up in the New York Underground
Paul Zone - Glitterati Incorporated
Format: Book
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Fans of punk rock and New Wave music will be impressed by this collection of never-before-seen imagesThe first-time release of this private photo collection, Zone's photo memoir will give new insight into what some might see as a saturated field, proving that underground rock royalty... |
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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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The Making of Gone With The Wind
Steve Wilson - University of Texas Press
Format: Hardcover
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Gone With The Wind is one of the most popular movies of all time. To commemorate its seventy-fifth anniversary in 2014, The Making of Gone With The Wind presents more than 600 items from the archives of David O. Selznick, the films producer, and his business partner John Hay Jock Whitney,... |
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Measure of a Man: From Auschwitz Survivor to Presidents' Tailor
Martin Greenfield - Regnery Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Hes been called Americas greatest living tailor and the most interesting man in the world. Now, for the first time, Holocaust survivor Martin Greenfield tells his incredible life story. Taken from his Czechoslovakian home at age fifteen and transported to the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz... |
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Gio_Graphy: Fun in the Wild World of Fashion
GIOVANNA BATTAGLIA - Rizzoli
Format: Hardcover
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A witty guide to living the glam the life from an international style star, featuring hilarious anecdotes, fashion advice, and much more. Dubbed a "cyber icon" and "fashion heroine" by the New York Times, Italian fashion editor and stylist Giovanna Battaglia is known... |
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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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Piano and Keyboard All-in-One For Dummies (For Dummies Series)
Holly Day - For Dummies
Format: Paperback
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The go-to reference for aspiring pianists and keyboard playersPiano & Keyboard All-in-One For Dummies makes it easier and more fun than ever to make music! If you dont know how to read music, this book explains in friendly, uncomplicated language all the basics of music theory, and applies... |
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Elsa Schiaparelli: A Biography
Meryle Secrest - Knopf; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Her name was Elsa Schiaparelli. She was known as the Queen of Fashion; a headline attraction in the international glitter-glamour show of the late twenties and thirties, feted in Rome (where she was born), Paris, New York, London, Moscow, Hollywood . . . Her style was a social revolution... |
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Sitcom: A History in 24 Episodes from I Love Lucy to Community
Saul Austerlitz - Chicago Review Press
Format: Paperback
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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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Visions of Music: Sheet Music in the Twentieth Century
Tony Walas - Hal Leonard Books
Format: Hardcover
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Music is meant to be heard, yet there is a whole subculture of the music industry that is solely devoted to the production of music on the printed pagesheet music. In the world of antiques, sheet music is classified under the category of ephemera, which are printed or paper items that were... |
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The Rough Guide to Morocco
Rough Guides - Rough Guides Ltd
Format: Print book
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The Rough Guide to Morocco is the ultimate travel guide to this beguiling country and includes all the details you need to explore Morocco at your own pace.The Rough Guide to Morocco gives you the lowdown on how to get where you're going, where to stay when you get there,... |
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The Tattoorialist: Tattoo street style
Nicolas Brulez - Mitchell Beazley, 2015.
Format: Print book
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Once the mark of an underground subculture, tattoos have well and truly stepped out of the shadows and into the streets. Join photographer Nicolas Brulez as he searches Paris, Berlin and beyond for the most innovative and stylish tattoos in the world. Showcasing over 300 photographs... |
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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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Stage Management Basics: A Primer for Performing Arts Stage Managers
Emily Roth - Focal Press
Format: Paperback
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Without assuming any intrinsic prior knowledge of the theatrical field and its associated, specialized terminology, Stage Management Basics covers every aspect of the stage management, from reading a script, meeting with a director and theatre staff, and auditioning, to constructing green... |
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