Gardner's Art through the Ages: A Concise History of Western Art

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Featuring unique NEW study tools for students and dynamic NEW lecture resources for instructors, GARDNER'S ART THROUGH THE AGES: A CONCISE WESTERN HISTORY, Second Edition takes this brilliant bestseller to new heights in addressing the challenges of today's classroom. It is specifically designed for the one-semester survey. The second edition adds to this heritage with new images and new full-color reconstructions, as well as a unique "scale" feature that helps stud... More >>

Gardner's Art through the Ages: A Concise History of Western Art

Cartoon Animation

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This is the one sourcebook that cartooning and animation enthusiasts have been clamoring about for years! A time-tested classic, this tried-and-true reference is often used as a textbook in cartooning workshops, and beginning and professional cartoonists alike are known to have copies of Cartoon Animation in their libraries. In this comprehensive title, famed animator Preston Blair shares his expertise on how to develop a cartoon character, create dynamic movement, ... More >>

Cartoon Animation

Manufacturing Processes for Design Professionals

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An encyclopaedic guide to production techniques and materials for product and industrial designers, engineers, and architects. Today's product designers are presented with a myriad of choices when creating their work and preparing it for manufacture. They have to be knowledgeable about a vast repertoire of processes, ranging from what used to be known as traditional "crafts" to the latest technology, to enable their designs to be manufactured effec... More >>

Manufacturing Processes for Design Professionals

Writing Creative Nonfiction

• ISBN13: 9781884910500
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Writing Creative Nonfiction presents more than thirty essays on today's hottest literary form--creative nonfiction. The stellar line-up of contributors includes Philip Lopate, William Least-Heat Moon, Diane Ackerman, Ted Conover, Dinty Moore and many others. From researching ideas and structuring the story, to reportage and personal reflection, this book covers every key element of the craft. Each essay is followed by three exercises for hands-on learning. * An ... More >>

Writing Creative Nonfiction

Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache

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This remarkable book introduces us to four unforgettable Apache people, each of whom offers a different take on the significance of places in their culture. Apache conceptions of wisdom, manners and morals, and of their own history are inextricably intertwined with place, and by allowing us to overhear his conversations with Apaches on these subjects Basso expands our awareness of what place can mean to people.Most of us use the term sense of place often and rather ... More >>

Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache

World of Art, A

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Why A World of Art? Henry Sayre wrote the first edition of World of Art  because he wanted to use a text in his own art appreciation course that truly represented all artists, not just the Western canon found at that time in the other texts. He also wanted a text that fostered critical thinking through looking at, talking about, and questioning works of art for his students. We are proud to present the new sixth edition of World of Art, which further stren... More >>

World of Art, A

Calvin and Hobbes' Lazy Sunday Book

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Part of the Calvin and Hobbes collection.... More >>

Calvin and Hobbes' Lazy Sunday Book

Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan

• ISBN13: 9781885254009
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Since its original publication in 1978, Delirious New York has attained mythic status. Back in print in a newly designed edition, this influential cultural, architectural, and social history of New York is even more popular, selling out its first printing on publication. Rem Koolhaas's celebration and analysis of New York depicts the city as a metaphor for the incredible variety of human behavior. At the end of the nineteenth century, population, information, and te... More >>

Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan

Survival in the Killing Fields

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Nothing has shaped my life as much as surviving the Pol Pot regime. I am a survivor of the Cambodian holocaust. That's who I am," says Haing Ngor. And in his memoir, Survival in the Killing Fields, he tells the gripping and frequently terrifying story of his term in the hell created by the communist Khmer Rouge. Like Dith Pran, the Cambodian doctor and interpreter whom Ngor played in an Oscar-winning performance in The Killing Fields, Ngor lived through the atrociti... More >>

Survival in the Killing Fields

Lectures on Art

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Edited by Richard Henry Dana, Jr.... More >>

Lectures on Art

Basic Stained Glass Making: All the Skills and Tools You Need to Get Started

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This highly detailed guide contains everything the beginner needs to know to make beautiful basic stained glass projects -- presented with lavish colour illustrations and precise instructions that eliminate the guesswork from each step-by-step activity. Expert techniques and tips for cutting and polishing glass, tracing patterns, soldering, and more are explained with the beginner in mind. Included is an indispensable section on tools and materials used to make each... More >>

Basic Stained Glass Making: All the Skills and Tools You Need to Get Started

Art: Over 2,500 Works from Cave to Contemporary

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ART, the ultimate visual guide to 2,000 of the world's most revered paintings and sculptures, begins with a short section on how to look at paintings and sculpture, explaining the simple steps of formal analysis that swiftly become automatic and greatly increase and inform your enjoyment of art. The main part of the book is a 540-page chronological look at more than 700 artists. This section is subdivided into the main periods of art history with introductions to ea... More >>

Art: Over 2,500 Works from Cave to Contemporary

Working South: Paintings and Sketches by Mary Whyte

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In Working South, renowned watercolorist Mary Whyte captures in exquisite detail the essence of vanishing blue-collar professions from across ten states in the American South with sensitivity and reverence for her subjects. From the textile mill worker and tobacco farmer to the sponge diver and elevator operator, Whyte has sought out some of the last remnants of rural and industrial workforces declining or altogether lost through changes in our economy, environment,... More >>

Working South: Paintings and Sketches by Mary Whyte

Design Drawing

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Design Drawing Book and CD - ROM Francis D.K. Ching with Steven P. Juroszek Author and architecture educator Francis D.K. Ching shares his unique command of visual language in this new presentation of drawing principles and techniques. Design Drawing is a comprehensive introduction to drawing and more-its innovative book-plus-CD-ROM package sheds new light on the relationship between perception, drawing, and design. In his distinctive graphic style, Ching takes us o... More >>

Design Drawing

45 Master Characters

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Every novelist, screenwriter and oral storyteller faces the challenge of creating original and exciting characters. Archetypes--mythic, cross-cultural models from which all characters originate--provide a solid foundation upon which to fashion new and vastly different story people. 45 Master Characters explores the most common male and female archetypes, provides instructions for using them to create your own original characters, and gives examples of how other a... More >>

45 Master Characters

Crisis on Infinite Earths

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The 'event' storyline that started it all - collected for the first time! Back in 1985, when huge multi-part crossovers and 'event' storylines were unheard of, Crisis on Infinite Earths rocked comicdom with a literally Earth-shattering epic that impacted on every character in the DC Universe and beyond. Realities were turned inside and out and classic heroes met fearful deaths. It was the end and beginning of the DC Universe, and now at last it can be seen again, co... More >>

Crisis on Infinite Earths

The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution

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In a groundbreaking new book that does for art what Stephen Pinker’s The Language Instinct did for linguistics, Denis Dutton overturns a century of art theory and criticism and revolutionizes our understanding of the arts.
The Art Instinct combines two fascinating and contentious disciplines—art and evolutionary science—in a provocative new work that will change forever the way we think about the arts, from painting to literature to movies to pottery... More >>

The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution

The Writer's Guide to Character Traits: Includes Profiles of Human Behaviors and Personality Types

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From serial killers to business tycoons to politicians, The Writer's Guide to Character Traits profiles the mental, emotional and physical qualities of dozens of different personality types. Featuring a highly accessible format, writers can mix and match the traits of specific personality types to create original, complex characters. Unique personality styles and types are profiled including psychopaths, cult members, overachievers, addicts, amnesia victims, ... More >>

The Writer's Guide to Character Traits: Includes Profiles of Human Behaviors and Personality Types

Fleurs Du Mal

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Preface par Henry Frichet... More >>

Fleurs Du Mal

Flash of the Spirit: African & Afro-American Art & Philosophy

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This book reveals how five distinct African civilizations have shaped the specific cultures of their New World descendants.... More >>

Flash of the Spirit: African & Afro-American Art & Philosophy

Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return

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In Persepolis, heralded by the Los Angeles Times as “one of the freshest and most original memoirs of our day,” Marjane Satrapi dazzled us with her heartrending memoir-in-comic-strips about growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. Here is the continuation of her fascinating story. In 1984, Marjane flees fundamentalism and the war with Iraq to begin a new life in Vienna. Once there, she faces the trials of adolescence far from her friends and family, an... More >>

Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return

Far Side Gallery

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Cartoons from BRIDE OF THE FAR SIDE, VALLEY OF THE FAR SIDE and IT CAME FROM THE FAR SIDE.... More >>

Far Side Gallery

How to See Faeries

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International bestselling artist Brian Froud and New York Times bestselling author John Matthews come together for the first time to create a spectacular interactive book that opens the doors to the enchanted world of Faerie. How does one discover faeries in one’s backyard or a garden, forest, or meadow? Through insets, hidden messages, magical signs, reflective mirrors, and other paper mechanics, Froud and Matthews reveal how anyone may discover the way to the la... More >>

How to See Faeries

Writing the Breakout Novel Workbook

• ISBN13: 9781582972633
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This powerful book builds on the success of its predecessor - Writing the Breakout Novel - and takes readers to the next level: improving their work with practical, hands-on lessons and exercises. With patented techniques from his popular writing workshops, Donald Maass shows fiction writers exactly how to make their work stand out from the crowd. Readers will learn how to strengthen any novel-in-progress, with sections on: Building Plot Layers; Creating Inner Confl... More >>

Writing the Breakout Novel Workbook

Fiction Writer's Workshop

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With more than 120 writing exercises, this l earn-by-doing guide is designed to help students improve and expand their fiction according to individual needs and sche dules. '... More >>

Fiction Writer's Workshop

The Writer's Idea Book

• ISBN13: 9781582971797
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This is the guide writers will reach for time after time to jump start their creativity and develop original ideas. Four distinctive sections offer dozens of unique approaches to "freeing the muse," each geared toward a different stage of writing. - Bending & Stretching introduces readers to a variety of loosening up techniques designed to banish inhibitions and get the words flowing. - Creating encourages readers to discover the rich writing material within their l... More >>

The Writer's Idea Book

Open Studios with Lotta Jansdotter: Twenty-Four Artists' Spaces

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Internationally acclaimed designer Lotta Jansdotter reinvents the craft book and reinforces her global appeal with this rare glimpse into the studios of accomplished artists, crafters, and designers around the world. Open Studios takes us on a tour through Lotta's favorite cities: Brooklyn, New York, where she lives; Stockholm, where she grew up; and Tokyo, where she has traveled extensively. Hundreds of color photographs showcase each artist's studio while personal... More >>

Open Studios with Lotta Jansdotter: Twenty-Four Artists' Spaces

Sin City

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Sin City TPB Written by: Frank Miller
Art by: Frank Miller
Cover by: Frank Miller Frank Miller (Give Me Liberty, Hard Boiled, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns) created a new noir opus in Sin City. The critically-acclaimed triumph - recently awarded the prestigious National Cartoonists' Award for Best Comic Book of 1992 - is now collected for the first time and features 18 new pages! Sin City combines the pulp intensity of writers like Spil... More >>

Sin City

The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait

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Featuring more than three hundred illustrations, half of them in full color, a facsimile of the diary--never before published--of the twentieth-century Mexican artist in its original size is accompanied by an English transcription and commentary. BOMC Div.Amazon.com Review
Frida Kahlo, one of the most dynamic figures of 20th-century art, has very nearly become a saint, so legendary is her tumultuous and tragic life. While there is no dearth of book... More >>

The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait

All Aboard! Revised 2nd Edition: The Complete North American Train Travel Guide

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The Only Comprehensive Guide to Riding the Rails Throughout North America Just Got Better!
There's nothing quite like the thrill of a train trip, traveling in comfort as you pass towns and meadows, venture through canyons, and cross over mountains. But in a territory as vast as North America, many of the best routes are easily overlooked — even by the most avid train travelers. Whether you're traveling from Los Mochis to Chihuahua, from Los Angeles to Ne... More >>

All Aboard! Revised 2nd Edition: The Complete North American Train Travel Guide

Origami Stationery Kit: Elegant Folded Note Cards and Envelopes for a Personal Touch

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One of the casualties of the digital age is the elegance of a handwritten note. Origami Stationery provides step-by-step instructions to create more than just a note, but a work of art that will accent your personal message. These folded pieces of origami art make an ideal accompaniment to a gift, or to commemorate a holiday or birthday, or just for sending a heartfelt message to a loved one.

Kit includes:

15 elegant origami folds

80 sheets of q... More >>

Origami Stationery Kit: Elegant Folded Note Cards and Envelopes for a Personal Touch

Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes

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This is a collection of Calvin and Hobbes cartoons. It contains Yukon Ho! and Weirdos from Another Planet as an omnibus edition, but also a story that has not been in print before. Bill Watterson won the 1986 Reuben Award as Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year.... More >>

Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes

How to Write a Book Proposal

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This newly revised edition of the Writer’s Digest classic is the definitive resource for crafting effective book proposals. Michael Larsen details every step clearly and concisely. Readers will learn how to: * Test market the potential of a book idea and effectively communicate that potentail in a proposal * Choose the best editors and publishers for a particular proposal * Create a professional-looking proposal package * Predispose a publisher to make their b... More >>

How to Write a Book Proposal

Garfield Fat Cat Three Pack Volume I

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Witty, urbane, sassy, and downright delightful, here are the first three original books of pure Garfield collected in one packed volume. They tell the story of the feisty feline's birth, adoption, and growth into general wonderfulness---just in case you've forgotten --and remind us why we loved him like we do.
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Garfield Fat Cat Three Pack Volume I

Wolverine

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A series of graphic-novel adventures featuring the X-Man Wolverine and his deadliest enemies, including the savage Sabretooth, the evil Lord Shingen, the sinister Silver Samurai, the vicious Viper and the vindictive Weapon Alpha - and the crushing power of the Hand.... More >>

Wolverine

Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States

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In America, in contrast to almost anywhere else in the world, the good life means traveling a long distance to get to work. How and why this came to be our cultural norm is the subject of this long-awaited book. Because more than two-thirds of all dwellings are single family homes surrounded by an ornamental yard, suburbia is the most distinctive physical characteristic of modern American society. Crabgrass Frontier is the first book to trace the growth of subu... More >>

Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States