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An illustrated celebration of the Best Beatles songs, ranked from 1 to 100. Each selected song is explained with an expert commentary, historical context, interview material and fascinating facts and trivia. Like all "best of" lists, the book's opinionated stance generates animated discussion.

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From La Traviata to Aida, from Carmen to Don Giovanni, here are the plots of the world's best-loved operas, recounted in an engaging, picturesque, and readable manner. In addition to highlighting the most important aspects of each opera, the author discusses main characters, famous plot twists, and the most significant arias.

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Let's be honest. True shoppers don't need more excuses to go spend money, any more than we need those killer black snakeskin platform pumps for this fall. Filled with illustrations, this book inspires shoppers everywhere - and who knows The subsequent spending spree just might help end the recession.

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Artist and teacher White delivers and develops art school lessons, striking an instructive balance between technical advice and sage concepts. These 101 maxims, meditations, and demonstrations offer both a toolkit of ideas for the art student and a set of guiding principles for the artist.

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Offers a collection of apartments from all over the world, devised by distinguished international architects and designers who have worked to achieve practical, innovative, and stunning solutions adapted to the specific needs and particular tastes of their clients. This book also expresses the diversity of trends in apartment design.

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Fresh ideas on how to design, build, and decorate a home are always of essential value to architects, designers, and homeowners alike. This book offers a collection of apartments from all over the world, providing ideas for those active in the field of design or interested in catching up on the advances in contemporary residential architecture.

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Offers a review of house designs created by various architects and designers who have achieved practical and innovative solutions adapted to the particular needs of their clients. This book covers the diversity of trends in home design and provides a source of ideas for the homeowner, designer, interior decorator, and architect.

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"The newest volume in the highly successful 150 Best series, 150 New Best of the Best House Ideas is a comprehensive handbook showcasing the latest in house design"--

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50 Ways to Bleed Your Lover is an art piece for the broken-hearted, the betrayed, the disillusioned and the otherwise poorly treated. Though it's message is aimed mostly toward women, anyone can relate to the trauma and feelings of retaliation that can arise when we feel injustice. Her poems and raw illustrations are dark and deeply personal but the overall tone is one of strength and hope.

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Presents photographic portraits and transcribed responses of 500 men and women who were interviewed on video. This book looks at ways of life both familiar and strange creates an instructive, affecting biography of modern humanity.

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In this lushly illustrated gift book author and artist Danielle Krysa inspires readers to unlock their own creativity through 15 imagination-sparking activities inspired by the work and stories of more than 45 internationally-acclaimed, contemporary female artists.

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Based on the beautifully packaged and accessibly feminist A Big Important Art Book (Now with Women), this guided sketchbook pairs a personality-filled title with hands-on projects, clever prompts and engaging profiles to inspire creative women.

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"A groundbreaking, radical new study of the transformative cultural, aesthetic, & political shifts initiated by black contemporary artists inc. Arthur Jafa, Deanna Lawson, Dawoud Bey, etc. who are dismantling the white gaze and demanding that we see-and see blackness in particular-anew"--

(Hardback)

"A groundbreaking, radical new study of the transformative cultural, aesthetic, & political shifts initiated by black contemporary artists inc. Arthur Jafa, Deanna Lawson, Dawoud Bey, etc. who are dismantling the white gaze and demanding that we see-and see blackness in particular-anew"--

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"This is a book about Ray Johnson, "New York's most famous unknown artist." Johnson was a collagist, performance artist, and practitioner of "correspondence art," a form he is said to have founded, which involves the circulation of variously altered missives among a web of mailers--a kind of proto-internet"--

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A new photo essay from acclaimed photographer and art critic Max Kozloff.

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An extensive investigation of the working relationship between two revered artists which bridges the gap between academic analysis and investigative journalism.

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This revised edition includes a section on neighborhoods; expanded and completely new categories of house styles with photos and descriptions of each; an appendix on "Approaches to Construction in the 20th and 21st Centuries"; an expanded bibliography; and 600 new photographs and line drawings.