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Features essays, interviews, and visual material by more than 30 teachers and professionals from the field. This book provides a view of the various approaches of art direction from editorial to advertising, as well as analysis about the business and history of the profession. It also includes essays on the nexus between art and commerce.

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This revolutionary business guide explains how the power of entrepreneurship can be harnessed by individuals, organizations, and entire countries to compete and thrive in the 21st...

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This title provides source material on how to find a career relating to your art skills. It covers an artist's professional life cycle, from the first thought about studying art to finding new opportunities when your art career is reaching maturity.

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This thorough guide offers the pricing, estimating, and budgeting advice that is a necessity for every designer and firm pushing to bolster the bottom...

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Ruskin offers criticism, appreciation and instruction for artists. The text covers principles of drawing and painting from the Tuscan masters. A biographical note and introduction by Bill Beckley is included.

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This work relates field theory to altered states of consciousness and compares the close similarities in the world views of mediums, mystics and physicists. It seeks to understand the full human potential in a world where everyday reality merely offers a starting place from which to journey.

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A comprehensive and practical guide to marketing & self-promotion for photographers. Condensing theory into practical, easy-to-follow instruction, it explains how to build a marketing plan that incorporates self-promotion, advertising, direct marketing, public relations, and the Internet.

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Copyright was once an obscure topic that interested only a few. This title rewards readers with a more concrete understanding of our whole copyright system. It helps creators to preserve their copyrights, and helps users of copyrights do what they want on the right side of the law, and help both to profit from copyrights.

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Shows you how to use trademarks to stay out of trouble and, just as important, how to thrive in the marketplace. This title informs you when you should call a lawyer and how to avoid needing one. It teaches you how to manage your trademark to maximize profits and avoid problems.

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A comprehensive, step-by-step guide that covers information an aspiring small business owner needs to know before getting started. It provides answers to such questions as: Have you thought about your market Do you know how contracts work How about the difference between an employee and an independent contractor And, more.

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Suitable for any small business owner who wants to hone his or her negotiating skills, this title is full of helpful tips and strategies for getting what you want-without alienating your clients and suppliers. It also includes topics such as position bargaining, contracts, purchases, conflict resolution, and more.

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While all art is unique, the challenges artist's faces are shared regardless of background, experience, and artistic medium. This guide is suitable for artists in all disciplines of the literary, media, performing, and visual arts seeking more from their careers and at any stage of their career.

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A discussion of the anatomy of a problem that the greatest thinkers have failed to solve. Our wars have become more lethal, yet our affinity for war hasn't changed. In this text, Lawrence LeShan talks about the roots of human war lust and the practical implications for society and politics.

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Answers all of your questions about credit and also explains the best ways to work towards improving a bad credit score.

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Voices are increasingly in demand for commercials, cartoon characters, announcements, and other spots. This handbook explains how to launch a career and find work. Along with sample commercials and script copy, it gives advice on vocal exercises, self-promotion, and business matters.

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Helps camera consumers get into the head of America's master baby, child, and portrait photographer - and author guidance will helps to take better photographs. In this title, a professional photographer and proud father of a young son, shows how to shoot the top baby and child photos with any compact point-and-shoot or DSLR camera.

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More families are taking vacations and trips than ever before - over 81 percent of Americans plan to travel for two or more weeks in the coming year. This book interviews ten prominent and diverse professional travel photographers to get their top tips, techniques, and trade secrets.

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An anthology of essays about beauty in art. It encompasses Meyer Schapiro's sceptical argument on perfection, contributions from artists such as Louise Bourgeois and Agnes Martin, and reflections of critics, curators and philosophers on the problems of beauty and relativism.

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The nine chapters explain such concepts as essential being and motivation of the individual.

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A guide to the business, techniques, and creative skills needed for success. Coverage includes: how to write for videos, speeches, Web sites, and more; how to think strategically; how to find clients, market skills, and develop a portfolio; and how to negotiate and set fees.

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Gives aspiring and practicing animators the tips they need for starting and maintaining a successful career in the field. This guide discusses topics, such as beginning a career, creating a portfolio or reel, meeting local communities of animators, keeping job skills marketable, networking effectively, starting a business, and more.

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Plan your estate and save yourself and your family...