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Vintage Lingerie
30 Patterns Based on Period Garments Plus Finishing Techniques

St. Martin's Griffin
Vintage Lingerie includes: -30 beautiful and historically accurate examples of period lingerie from 1850 to 1970, covering a range of fabulous vintage pieces...
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Fashion: A Visual History
From Regency & Romance to Retro & Revolution

St. Martin's Griffin
Every generation can recall and identify with the fashion icons and idols of their era. The crinoline-caged Victorian female, the Gibson girl, and the...
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Beautiful Chickens

Thomas Dunne Books
An awe-inspiring collection featuring commissioned photographic portraits of the best in feathered beauties Beautiful Chickens takes the humble farmyard...
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Popular Italian Cinema
Culture and Politics in a Postwar Society

Tauris Academic Studies
With its monsters, vampires, and cowboys, Italian popular culture in the post-war period has generally been dismissed as a form of evasion or escapism. Here,...
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Exchanging Hats
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
When the distinguished art critic Meyer Schapiro said that Elizabeth Bishop “writes poems with a painter’s eye,” Bishop was “very flattered: I’d love to be a...
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40 Years of Queen

St. Martin's Press
The first authorized, comprehensive history of one of the biggest rock bands ever, with never-before-seen photos and memorabilia, on their 40th anniversary...
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Celia Birtwell

St. Martin's Press
Celia Birtwell has been described as “the most important textile designer of a generation.” Her work is regarded as timeless and is immediately recognizable...
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Land Matters
Landscape Photography, Culture and Identity

I.B. Tauris
In this major work on landscape photography, extensively illustrated in color and black and white, Liz Wells is concerned with the ways in which photographers...
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Historic English Churches
A Guide to Their Construction, Design and Features

I.B. Tauris
The ancient churches and cathedrals of England's towns and countryside are among the glories of our national heritage.Yet how were our ancestors able to...
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Vertiginous Mirrors
The Animation of the Visual Image and Early Modern Travel

Manchester University Press
In early modern Europe, the visual image began to move, not only as it traveled across great distances but also due to the introduction of innovative visual...

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The Animator's Survival Kit--Revised Edition
A Manual of Methods, Principles and Formulas for Classical, Computer, Games, Stop Motion and Internet Animators

Faber and Faber, Inc.
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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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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The Painted Word

Picador
"America's nerviest journalist" (Newsweek) trains his satirical eye on Modern Art in this "masterpiece" (The Washington Post) Wolfe's style has never been...
  
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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 and Faber, Inc.
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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One Million Mandalas
For You to Create, Print, and Color

St. Martin's Griffin
Mandalas are one of the most popular aids to meditation, with people worldwide finding enlightenment through the simple task of bringing a sparse outline to...
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Lives of the Artists

Holt Paperbacks
“Brilliantly illuminating . . . This latter-day Vasari puts his dry wit and keen eye to work in fashioning enduring portraits of ten contemporary-art stars,...
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The Chairs Are Where the People Go
How to Live, Work, and Play in the City

Faber and Faber, Inc.
Should neighborhoods change? Is wearing a suit a good way to quit smoking? Why do people think that if you do one thing, you’re against something else? Is...
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The Photographer
Into War-torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders

First Second
In 1986, Afghanistan was torn apart by a war with the Soviet Union. This graphic novel/photo-journal is a record of one reporter’s arduous and dangerous...
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Look at This F*cking Hipster

St. Martin's Griffin
A hilarious send-up—and ironic celebration—of hipster culture based on the hugely popular website Look at this Fucking Hipster (LATFH.com) was born in April...
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Adventures in Cartooning Activity Book

First Second
The magic cartooning elf is back—along with the Knight, Edward the hungry horse, and a whole new cast of charming characters! And this time, readers can join...
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A Giacometti Portrait

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
When we look at a painting hanging on an art gallery wall, we see only what the artist has chosen to disclose--the finished work of art. What remains...
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Castles
A History of Fortified Structures: Ancient, Medieval & Modern

St. Martin's Griffin
While the word “castle” conjures up an image of the classic medieval stone edifice, resplendent with towers and turrets, battlements and barbicans, and the odd...
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Off the Wall
A Portrait of Robert Rauschenberg

Picador
Calvin Tomkins first discovered the work of Robert Rauschenberg in the late 1950s, when he began to look seriously at contemporary art. While gazing at...