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Why You Should Read Kafka Before You Waste Your Life
St. Martin's Press
Everybody knows the face of Franz Kafka, whether they have read any of his works or not. And that brooding face carries instant images: bleak and threatening...
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What People Wore When
A Complete Illustrated History of Costume from Ancient Times to the Nineteenth Century for Every Level of Society
St. Martin's Griffin
What People Wore When combines the studies of two classic nineteenth-century illustrators Auguste Racinet and Friedrich Hottenroth for the first time. Their...
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Drawing Words and Writing Pictures
Making Comics: Manga, Graphic Novels, and Beyond
First Second
"A gold mine of essential information for every aspiring comics artist. Highly recommended." --Scott McCloud Drawing Words and Writing Pictures is a course...
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Shopping for Vintage
The Definitive Guide to Vintage Fashion
St. Martin's Griffin
This definitive guide to vintage clothing and accessories covers every major fashion epoch and designer from the 1880s to today--from Charles Worth to Vivienne...
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In Bruges
A Screenplay
Faber & Faber
After a shooting in London goes hideously wrong, two hitmen, Ray and Ken, are sent to hide out in the strange, Gothic, medieval town of Bruges, Belgium, by...
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Superheroes!
Capes and Crusaders in Comics and Films
I. B. Tauris
Modern myths, cheap trash or the objects of fetishist desire? Most people know something about Superman, Batman, Spider-Man and Wonder Woman, even if what...
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The Great Funk
Falling Apart and Coming Together (on a Shag Rug) in the Seventies
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
In the sixties, as the nation anticipated the conquest of space, the defeat of poverty, and an end to injustice at home and abroad, no goal seemed beyond...
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Watching the World Change
The Stories Behind the Images of 9/11
Picador
A Chicago Tribune Best Book of theYear The attack on the World Trade Center was the most watched event in human history. And the footage seen of that...
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Men's Style
The Thinking Man's Guide to Dress
Thomas Dunne Books
Guys don’t wear wolf pelts anymore, but not much else has changed in the world of men’s clothes: the right suit, or tie, or shirt, or shoes still projects...
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Building Jerusalem
The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City
Holt Paperbacks
“Hunt tells this complex, epic story with dazzling clarity and organizational brilliance . . . I know nothing equaling its scope and ambition.”—Phillip Lopate,...

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The Animator's Survival Kit
A Manual of Methods, Principles and Formulas for Classical, Computer, Games, Stop Motion and Internet Animators
Faber & Faber
The definitive book on animation, from the Academy Award-winning animator behind Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Animation is one of the hottest areas of...
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On Photography
Picador
Winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award for Criticism. One of the most highly regarded books of its kind, On Photography first appeared in 1977...
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How to Survive and Prosper as an Artist, 5th ed.
Selling Yourself Without Selling Your Soul
Holt Paperbacks
The classic handbook for launching and sustaining a career that "explodes the romantic notion of the starving artist", with new and expanded resources for...
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Suburban Nation
The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
North Point Press
A manifesto by America's most controversial and celebrated town planners, proposing an alternative model for community design. There is a growing movement...
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Camera Lucida
Reflections on Photography
Hill and Wang
This personal, wide-ranging, and contemplative volume--and the last book Barthes published--finds the author applying his influential perceptiveness and...
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The Visual Dictionary of American Domestic Architecture
Holt Paperbacks
Architectural historian Rachel Carley offers a richly detailed guide to 500 years of American home design. More than 600 precisely detailed illustrations show...
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Subway Art
Holt Paperbacks
Two gifted photographers have documented every aspect of this extraordinary urban subculture, complete with 239 full-color photographs.
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The Art of Getting Over
Graffiti at the Millennium
St. Martin's Press
What started as simple street movement, a way to assert individuality and pride, has blossomed into much more: Graffiti is everywhere. From Sprite...
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New York Sketchbook
St. Martin's Press
Venice is seen through the eyes of artist Fabrice Moireau, with sketches in watercolor and pencil. This resident of the world's most romantic city is the...
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Betty Page Confidential
St. Martin's Griffin
Curvaceous, friendly and wholesome-looking, Playboy pinup Betty Page was the perfect compliment to the still-innocent fantasies of young men during the...
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The Monster Show
A Cultural History of Horror
Faber & Faber
Illuminating the dark side of the American century, The Monster Show uncovers the surprising links between horror entertainment and the great social crises of...
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How to Draw Animals
Famous Artists School, Step-By-Step Method
Cortina
This book introduces you to an exciting approach to animal drawing. It was especially created by a group of America's most eminent artists who have...
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Jackie
Her Life in Pictures
St. Martin's Griffin
A legendary life shown in rare, mostly never before published photographsArguably the most famous woman of the century, certainly one of its most photographed,...
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How to Draw the Human Figure
Famous Artists School, Step-by-Step Method
Cortina
This book introduces you to an exciting approach to figure drawing. It was especially created by a group of America's most eminent artists who have...