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Food Styling and Photography For Dummies

di John Wiley

Discover how to style and photograph food like the pros

Whether you're taking shots for a foodie blog, advertisements, packaging, menus, or cookbooks, Food Styling & Photography For Dummies shows you how to take...

Universal Design: Creating Inclusive Environments

di Edward Steinfeld & Jordana Maisel

The new standard text on the topic, Universal Design introduces designers to the principles and practice of designing for all people. From the foundations of accessibility and aging to the practice of designing...

A Difficult Woman: The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman

di Alice Kessler-Harris

Lillian Hellman was a giant of twentieth-century letters and a groundbreaking figure as one of the most successful female playwrights on Broadway. Yet the author of The Little Foxes and Toys in the Attic is...

Island Songs

di Godfrey Baldacchino

Island Songs is a work of sonic anthropology that does more than probe song as a part of the sociocultural life on islands. It illuminates how song performs island life. Gathered here are 15 case study chapters...

Harlem Jazz Adventures

di Timme Rosenkrantz & Fradley Garner

Timme Rosenkrantz (1911-1969) was a journalist, author, concert and record producer, broadcaster, and entrepreneur with a consuming passion for jazz and little head for business. He was the first European journalist...

Afro-Colombian Hip-Hop: Globalization, Transcultural Music, and Ethnic Identities

di Christopher Dennis

Afro-Colombian Hip-Hop: Globalization, Transnational Music, and Ethnic Identities, by Christopher Dennis, reveals how, through a mode of transculturation, Afro-Colombian youth are transforming U.S. hip-hop into...

Stradivari's Genius: Five Violins, One Cello, and Three Centuries of Enduring Perfection

di Toby Faber

“’Tis God gives skill, but not without men’s hands: He could not make Antonio Stradivari’s violins without Antonio.”

–George Eliot

Antonio Stradivari (1644—1737) was a perfectionist whose single-minded...

Sweet Judy Blue Eyes: My Life in Music

di Judy Collins

A vivid, highly evocative memoir of one of the reigning icons of folk music, highlighting the decade of the ’60s, when hits like “Both Sides Now” catapulted her to international fame.

Sweet Judy Blue...

Digital Photography For Dummies

di Julie Adair King

A new edition gets you in the picture for learning digital photography

Whether you have a point-and-shoot or digital SLR camera, this new edition of the full-color bestseller is packed with tips, advice, and...

Nikon 1 J1/V1 for Dummies

di Julie Adair King

Master Nikon's first mirrorless camera with this full-color guide

The Nikon 1 is a revolutionary new pocket-size camera line that packs the power of a digital SLR into a smaller body. This easy-to-follow guide...

Sony Alpha SLT-A65/A77 For Dummies

di Robert Correll

Just what you need to get up and running with Sony's new flagship dSLRs

The Sony a77, with its 24.3 megapixel sensor, full HD video capability, and translucent mirror system, is poised to be Sony's flagship dSLR...

Fashion Drawing For Dummies

di Lisa Arnold & Marianne Egan

The fast and easy way to learn the art of fashion drawing

This fun guide gives you dozens of step-by-step diagrams that walk you through the process of preparing creative illustrations that you can later develop...

The Great Movies

di Roger Ebert

America’s most trusted and best-known film critic Roger Ebert presents one hundred brilliant essays on some of the best movies ever made. 

For the past five years Roger Ebert, the famed film writer and critic,...

Nothing and Everything - The Influence of Buddhism on the American Avant Garde: 1942 - 1962

di Ellen Pearlman

In America in the late 1950s and early 60s, the world—and life itself—became a legitimate artist’s tool, aligning with Zen Buddhism’s emphasis on “enlightenment at any moment” and living in the now....

Unbuilt Victoria

di Dorothy Mindenhall

For most people, the city of Victoria, British Columbia, is a time capsule of Victorian and Edwardian buildings. Unbuilt Victoria examines some of the architectural plans that were proposed but rejected and...

China on Screen: Cinema and Nation

di Christopher J. Berry & Mary Ann Farquhar

In China on Screen, Chris Berry and Mary Farquhar, leaders in the field of Chinese film studies, explore more than one hundred years of Chinese cinema and nation. Providing new perspectives on key movements,...

Triksta: Life and Death and New Orleans Rap

di Nik Cohn

Acclaimed music writer Nik Cohn’s love of hip-hop goes back to its beginnings, and his love of New Orleans even further, to when he passed through the Big Easy on tour with The Who and discovered a place with...

Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion

di Popmatters

HE ESSENTIAL UNOFFICIAL GUIDE TO THE WHEDONVERSE

Joss Whedon’s importance in contemporary pop culture can hardly be overstated, but there has never been a book providing a comprehensive survey of his career...

The Complete Costume Dictionary

di Elizabeth Lewandowski

Significantly greater in scope than anything currently available—online or in print—this comprehensive resource includes more than 20,000 fashion and costume terms as well as more than 300 illustrations....

The Show I'll Never Forget: 50 Writers Relive Their Most Memorable Concertgoing Experience

di Sean Manning

A rite of passage, a defining event, a catalyst of musical and personal epiphanies-a concert is an experience unlike any other