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"From a beloved comedy critic, a wisecracking, heartfelt, and overdue chronicle of comedy's boom-and its magic"--

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From a beloved comedy critic, a wisecracking, heartfelt, and overdue chronicle of comedys boom - and its magic.

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Learn to Draw Comics is a new title in the successful Learn to Draw series of instructional step-by-step books for beginners. It covers the basic techniques of drawing comic strips and graphic stories in a lively and accessible way.

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Over 200 tips, techniques and expert advice make this a comprehensive guide to watercolour painting.

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Lovers of nostalgia will delight in this facsimile of a 1913 book featuring more than 50 hand shadows. Quaint illustrations depict shadows of animals, historic figures, and characters from fiction.

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Concrete is an all-around talent, already in use in ancient Rome and since the second half of the 20th century one of the most important building materials. After a period of excess and architectural faux pas a renaissance of ex - posed concrete began in the 1990s. This volume provides an overview of contemporary real - ized projects.

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Focusing on readily available translations of the Shakespearean play-texts to film, the authors have mounted coherent challenges to the old argument that Shakespeare must be read to be appreciated.

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Presents the first, authoritative survey of the Australian War Memorial's collection of the history of Australian war photography. Features over 200 photographs, drawn from the work of the many official, commercial, and amateur photographers who have recorded the Australian experience of war.

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This is the first definitive book on contemporary Chinese furniture, introducing the work of leading designers and design studios, including Chen Darui, Jerry Chen, Frank Chou, Hou Zheng-Guang, Hong Wei, Ma Yansong, Neri & Hu, Shao Fan, Shang Xia, Song Tao, Studio MVW, Xiao Tianyu and Zhang Zhoujie

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Ever since Osaka World Expo '70 brought contemporary forms center stage, Japan has been a key player in global architecture. Presenting the Japanese art of building, this book reveals how the likes of Tadao Ando, SANAA, Shigeru Ban, Kengo Kuma, and Junya Ishigami are relinking past, present, and future-building greener and smarter than ever before.

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Over 40 projects showcase the immense variety among Japanese detached houses constructed over the past three years. A revered professor imparts his thoughts on Japanese house style.

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Exciting designs for new types of market architecture, looking at the latest developments in market design across the globe.

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A stunning visual celebration of the art of painting, bring together contemporary works from all over the world

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The first publication dedicated to artists' zines in North America, a revelatory exploration of an unexamined but thriving aesthetic practice

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The memoir of a rock drummer who has lived his life in music, first picking up the drumsticks at the age of 14 and who, fifty years later, is still passionate about drumming.

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Examines the 20th-century transformation of the kitchen through the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, featuring a wide variety of design objects, architectural plans, posters, archival photographs and artworks ranging from the iconic Frankfurt Kitchen, massproduced for German public housing estates in the aftermath ofWorldWar I.

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A complete overview of the Italian Renaissance courts covering all areas influenced by them: art, music, literature etc.

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Ever heard of the Air Sex Championships in Austin, Texas How about bog snorkeling in Llanwrtyd, Wales No Then brace yourself for Nigel Holmes's bewilderingly funny ride through the wildest, oddest, and most wonderful cultural events. From snail racing and baby crying to throwing just about anything, hilarious infographics reveal the lengths we'll go to uphold our eccentric customs.

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From 1904 until 1914, the painter Hans Hofmann (1880-1966), who was a friend of Picasso, Braque, Matisse, the Fauves and Robert and Sonia Delaunay, witnessed and absorbed the new art in Paris, the centre of European art. In 1932 he emigrated to the US and opened the Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts in New York. This book tells his story.