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English National Opera Guides are ideal companions to the opera. They provide stimulating introductory articles together with the complete text of each opera in English and the original.

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A colorfully illustrated guide to the best-preserved medieval artworks, and the world for which they were created.

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One of the most striking aspects of Tibetan Buddhism is its wealth of visual imagery. This illustrated work serves as a guide to the inner world of Tibetan Buddhist sacred art. It introduces the reader to the tradition of spiritual self-transformation embodied by the depictions of energy through iconographic representations and descriptions.

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For the author, regardless of what is going on in the world or her life, singing in an amateur choir never fails to take her to a place where hope reigns and everything good is possible. In this book, she unearths the history of group singing, and explores discoveries from the new science of singing, including all the unexpected health benefits.

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Introduces the vital role of printmaking through works by more than twenty artists in the Museums collection. This title features many more recent projects, demonstrating the contemporary relevance of the medium in South Africa today.

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Watercolour sketches of Oman and other locations in the Gulf made during the mid-19th century by maritime surveyor Charles Golding Constable, son of John Constable.

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The key to improving your piano playing is to practise, and to practise in the right way. This book shows you how to do that.

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"Actors, dancers, directors, physical theater educators, and creatives of all stripes will find inspiration, passion, and much wisdom in this collection of writings by the founder of the Action Theater improv method Ruth Zaporah on her life and work"--

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"Derek Bailey's Improvisation, originally published in 1980, and here updated and extended with new interviews and photographs, is the first book to deal with the nature of improvisation in all its for"

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Prints are a means of communication and cultural exchange, in the context of Africa and the African Diaspora; these qualities have a particular resonance. The book covers the period from 1960, interpreting a variety of visual images from the V&A collections in their political and social context, while also addressing their identity as art.

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A jet-black comedy debut from Martin McDonagh.

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Understand your camera's capabilities. Master the skills of exposure, composition and focus. Take amazing photos; no post-processing, no Photoshop, just your own vision.

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Ken-tsai Lee is asked to design a notebook for Fonso Enterprise in Taiwan. The concept is based on an old Chinese saying - "Time is the revealer of a man's sincerity."

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Don McCullin's view of England is rooted in his wartime childhood and growing up around Finsbury Park in the fifties. At a time when we might believe the world has changed beyond our imagination, McCullin shows us a view of England where the line between the wealthy and the deprived is as defined as ever.

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This magnificent collection of 280 photographs by many of the world's greatest photographers tells the tale of portrait photography over time in page after page of arresting images

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One womans unprecedented portrait, in her words and photographs, of Theyyam, a 2,000-year-old ritual of worship found only in the northern region of Kerala, India.

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The real revolution in the arts first took place not, as is commonly supposed, in the 1920s to the accompaniment of the Charleston, black jazz and mint juleps, but more quietly and intimately, in the shadow of the windmills. This book tells about life in the bohemian world of art in Paris between 1900-1910.

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My So-Called Life lasted only 19 episodes from 1994 to 1995, but in that time it earned many devoted viewers, including the showrunners who would usher in the teen TV boom of the late '90s and the new millennium.

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The page-turning memoir of Cocteau Twins' Simon Raymonde, charting his life and legacy in music.

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A definitive, in-depth exploration of mainstream singalong pop in 1970s Britain, from brickie glam to Eurovision, via novelty hits and suburban disco - the alternate history of a shapeshifting musical decade.