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Ultimate Star Wars

Ryder Windham · DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Become an expert on the Star Wars galaxy!Ultimate Star Wars® is an in-depth visual feast exploring the characters and storylines from the Star Wars galaxy. This is a beautifully illustrated guide that is structured chronologically and packed full of information about key characters and storylines...
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Making Masterpiece: 25 Years Behind the Scenes at Masterpiece Theatre and Mystery! on PBS

Rebecca Eaton · Viking; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The Emmy Award-winning producer of PBSs Masterpiece Theatre and Mystery! reveals the secrets to Downton Abbey, Sherlock, and its other hit programsFor more than twenty-five years and counting, Rebecca Eaton has presided over PBSs Masterpiece Theatre, the longest running weekly prime time...
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Keepers: The Greatest Films--and Personal Favorites--of a Moviegoing Lifetime

Richard Schickel · Knopf Publishing Group
Pages: 320
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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Abbey Road

The Beatles · Capitol
Format: Audio CD

The classic original Beatles studio albums have been re-mastered by a dedicated team of engineers at Abbey Road Studios in London over a four year period utilising state of the art recording technology alongside vintage studio equipment, carefully maintaining the authenticity and integrity...
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Fashion 101: A Crash Course in Clothing

Erika Stalder · Zest Books
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback

Each year, we spend hours upon hours shopping and getting dressed, but do we ever actually think about what we’re wearing? For example, what’s the name of the style of your shirt? Who invented your favorite jeans cut? Or who made your baby-doll nightie famous? There is a story...
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Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations

Peter Evans · Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

“I EITHER WRITE THE BOOK OR SELL THE JEWELS,” Ava Gardner told her coauthor, Peter Evans, “and I’m kinda sentimental about the jewels.” So began the collaboration that led to this remarkably candid, wickedly sardonic memoir. Ava Gardner was one of Hollywood’s...
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Draplin Design Co.: Pretty Much Everything

Aaron James Draplin · Harry N Abrams
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Esquire. Ford Motors. Burton Snowboards. The Obama Administration. While all of these brands are vastly different, they share at least one thing in com­mon: a teeny, little bit of Aaron James Draplin. Draplin is one of the new school of influential graphic designers who combine the power...
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Nothing Like a Dame: Conversations with the Great Women of Musical Theater

Eddie Shapiro · Oxford University Press, 2014.
Pages: 364
Format: Print book

In Nothing Like a Dame, theater journalist Eddie Shapiro opens a jewelry box full of glittering surprises, through in-depth conversations with twenty leading women of Broadway. He carefully selected Tony Award-winning stars who have spent the majority of their careers in theater, leaving...
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The Beatles: The Band That Changed the World

Terry Burrows · Carlton Books
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

Follow the Fab Four from the back streets of Liverpool to worldwide fame! Through beautiful photographs of the band, and of unique memorabilia from their most groundbreaking moments, this unofficial book tells the story of the Beatles as never before. Starting in their hometown of Liverpool,...
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If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?: Relating to and Communicating with Others

Alan Alda · Random House
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Award-winning actor Alan Alda tells the fascinating story of his quest to learn how to communicate better, and to teach others to do the same. With his trademark humor and candor, he explores how to develop empathy as the key factor."Invaluable." - Deborah...
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Champagne Supernovas: Kate Moss, Marc Jacobs, Alexander McQueen, and the '90s Renegades Who Remade Fashion

Maureen Callahan · Touchstone; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

A glittering history of fashion in the 1990s, told through the lives of Kate Moss, Marc Jacobs, and Alexander McQueen—the three iconic personalities who defined the time. The 1950s had rock n roll and the 60s had the Beats. In the 70s and 80s, it was punk rock and modern art. But for the 1990s,...
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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 Photographer's Mind: Creative Thinking for Better Digital Photos

Michael Freeman · Focal Press; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

The source of any photograph is not the camera or even the scene viewed through the viewfinder--it is the mind of the photographer this is where an image is created before it is committed to a memory card or film. In The Photographers Mind, the follow-up to the international bestseller,...
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Magnetic City: A Walking Companion to New York

Justin Davidson · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

From New York magazine's architecture critic, a walking and reading guide to New York City - a historical, cultural, architectural, and personal approach to seven neighborhoods throughout Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx, including six essays that help us understand the evolution of the city...
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