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For the passionate photographer eager to learn the best ways to achieve tack-sharp focus, these 50 focus-based principles are exactly what is needed to take photos to the next level.

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Combining how-to with why-to, 9 Ways to Make Housing for People lays out the core principles that David Baker Architects uses to help communities develop great urban housing.

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Ben Davis draws the curtain back on the contemporary art world to assail its commodified roots.

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How North Korea can survive as a 21st-century socialist country By suggesting new planning strategies, this book visions a new future of sustainable North Korea.

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"A collection of rare, archival photographs of the 1933-34 Chicago world's fair"--

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A Crack in the World explores empathy for all sentient beings and the planet in the face of global warming.

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A groundbreaking exploration of German expressionist cinema and technology.

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In this unique collection of notebooks, letters, treatises, and contracts dealing with the art of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, the reader is given an extraordinary insight into the personalities and conditions of the times.

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Walter Sickert, the prominent English post-Impressionist painter, was also a unique and highly perceptive writer about a variety of matters connected to the world of art. This book has all the honesty and lucid observation that mark only the essential artists' documents.

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An ABC book of removable postcards by acclaimed graffiti artist Nasimo. Each letter features a different cat, from wily to wicked, clever to curious, skittish to shy, to purrfectly content. These are postcards up to scratch for all personalities.

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An essential collection of reportage for those following the conflict in Syria and its impact on the rest of the world.

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Serves as a guide to vital features of the architectural and social inheritance of the West. This work describes twenty types of buildings; and includes national monuments, libraries, theaters, hospitals, prisons, factories, hotels, and many other public buildings. It contains more than seven hundred illustrations.

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Investigates the history of film in New Zealand. This volume looks at the very beginning of the NZ film industry, in the early years of the twentieth century, rather than concentrating on the renaissance in the 1970s. It covers various major directors, who have had international success, including Geoff Murphy, Roger Donaldson, and Lee Tamahori.

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In the land that time forgot, 1960s and 1970s America (Amerika to some), there once were some bold, forthright, thoroughly unashamed social commentators who said things that "couldn't be said" and showed things that "couldn't be shown." They were cartoonists - underground cartoonists. This book tells their story.

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Originally published: London: J.M. Dent, 1928.

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Unique for its architectural and urbanistic focus, A Home to the World: The United Nations and New York City celebrates this important global organisation's many accomplishments past, present, and future.

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An in-depth look at the urban history of British Bombay.

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A Journey Through Documentary Film offers an overview of documentary history, taking readers from the early 'actualities' of pioneering non-fiction filmmakers such as Robert J. Flaherty and John Grierson, to the documentaries of Michael Moore, Errol Morris, Werner Herzog, and the directors dominating the field (and box office) today.

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A revealing look at the Japanese through the window of their contemporary culture.

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"A Life in Acting" is a practical guide for aspiring and established theater actors looking to make a consistent living doing meaningful, creative work on the stage. Author Lisa Mulcahy communicates her advice through a series of interviews and "war stories" that will have you taking notes and laughing until your sides hurt.

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This book explores the evolution of Ireland's national television service during its first tumultuous decade addressing how the medium helped undermine the conservative political, cultural and social consensus that dominated Ireland into the 1960s. -- .