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Presents a story of the Golden Age of magic and of the world's legendary magicians: the personalities who patented the first ghost and competed fiendishly in the race to make things materialize, levitate and disappear. This book is the masterwork of a man who has dedicated his life to magic, who knows the tricks inside out, and still believes.

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THE FIRST BIOGRAPHY OF DE LA SOUL UNPACKING THE RISE, STRUGGLES, AND ENDURING INFLUENCE OF A HIP HOP LEGEND

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Features the work of and profiles of/interviews with a range of contemporary tattoo artists. This book includes lots of profiles of interviews with people who have interesting tattoos and the stories behind them. It is suitable for the younger demographic that actively gets tattoos.

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Through the eyes of two award-winning musicians who travelled along its rural routes, an engaging exploration of the 1970s hillbilly chitlin' circuit that ran from shaded pockets of Appalachia to Nashville's doorstep, unexpectedly sparking country music's big boom in the 1980s before morphing into modern Americana.

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In this beautifully illustrated volume, the fascinating story of Tibetan, Himalayan, and Inner Asian art is illuminated through objects from the Neolithic era to today.

An insightful new resource that looks at the rise of American hip hop as a series of distinct regional events, with essays covering the growth of hip hop culture in specific cities across the nation.

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Hip-hop legend, Grammy, Oscar and BAFTA award winner Questlove dives into half a century of the genre, from its birth, growing pains and maturity to its continuing reverberation around the world

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A comprehensive reference album of Hiroshige (1797-1858), the last great figure of the Ukiyo-e style of Japanese woodblock prints and paintings. Hiroshige was especially known for his landscape prints. He dominated the popular art of Japan in the first half of the nineteenth century.

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Geoffrey R. Sharpe brings more that forty years of experience of managing and caring for historic buildings to provide a unique guide to the design and construction of our historic churches and cathedrals.

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Nixon in China and The Death of Klinghoffer played a crucial role in bringing opera back to life as a contemporary art form. This is a story, at once heroic, comic, and unnerving, of men and women making history and of their different conceptions of what history is and what it means to makes it.

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This insightful, wide-ranging book surveys the applied arts and industrial design from the eighteenth century to the present day, exploring the dynamic relationship between design and manufacturing, and the technological, social and commercial contexts in which this relationship has developed

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The vibrant story of how the sound of British pop music was shaped by its industrial cities

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This book tells the story of Hoa Hakananaia: an imposing, intriguing figure of superb workmanship, it was the focal point of initiation rites, and is layered with late relief carvings that relate it to exotic birdman rites.

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Offers an overview on the development of British painting in the eighteenth century, which anticipated themes, and techniques that later became paradigms of modernity. This book focuses on the English context at a time when the growth of artistic standing was accompanied by the country's conquest of hegemony on a political and economic plane.

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"A collection of paintings, drawings, and sketches by Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai from the Smithsonian Freer Gallery of Art"--

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and editor of The New Yorker writes on some of the essential musicians of our time.

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and editor of The New Yorker writes on some of the essential musicians of our time.