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The Joke's Over: Bruised Memories: Gonzo, Hunter S. Thompson, and Me
by Ralph Steadman

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Complete Printmaker
by John Ross

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The most comprehensive up-to-date guide to printmaking on the market today, the revised, expanded, fully illustrated edition of this classic, containing 40 color plates and 600 black-and-white illustrations, covers every aspect of fine printing.... (read more)
 
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The Urban Homestead: Your Guide to Self-Sufficient Living in the Heart of the City
by Kelly Coyne

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The Urban Homesteadis the essential handbook for a fast-growing new movement: urbanites are becoming gardeners and farmers. Rejecting both end-times hand wringing and dewy-eyed faith that technology will save us from ourselves, urban homesteaders choose... (read more)
 
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1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die
by Robert Dimery

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1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die is a highly readable list of the best, the most important, and the most influential pop albums from 1955 through 2003. Carefully selected by a team of international critics, each album is a groundbreaking work... (read more)
 
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Artists Way
by Julia Cameron

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A course in discovering and recovering your creative self. The title provides a twelve week course that guides you to unleash your own inner artistic talent. Comparable to >Drawing On The Right Side Of Your Brain<.... (read more)
 
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Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
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Praised throughout the cartoon industry by such luminaries as Art Spiegelman, Matt Groening, and Will Eisner, this innovative comic book provides a detailed look at the history, meaning, and art of comics and cartooning.... (read more)
 
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Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
by David Bayles and Ted Orland

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"This is a book about making art. Ordinary art. Ordinary art means something like: all art notmade by Mozart. After all, art is rarely made by Mozart-like people; essentially-statistically speaking-there aren'tany people like that. Geniuses get made once-... (read more)
 
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The Visual Display of Quantitative Information 2nd Edition
by Edward R Tufte

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The classic book on statistical graphics, charts, tables. Theory and practice in the design of data graphics, 250 illustrations of the best (and a few of the worst) statistical graphics, with detailed analysis of how to display data for precise... (read more)
 
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Chinese Propaganda Posters
by Michael Wolf

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With his smooth, warm, red face which radiated light in all directions, Chairman Mao Zedong was a fixture in Chinese propaganda posters produced between the birth of the People's Republic in 1949 and the early 1980s. These infamous posters were, in turn,... (read more)
 
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HR Giger first received acclaim in the 1960s with his airbrushed fantasy landscapes. However, he scored his breakthrough in applied art, and particularly in his high-profile movie work on Ridley Scott's Alien. In 1980, he received an Oscar for "Best... (read more)
 
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Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas: The Film-The Art-The Vision
by Frank Thompson

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Primal Arts: Americas - Australia
by Geoffroy Schneiter

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Exploring the similarities between these lost cultures, Primal Arts II illuminates their lives, revealing how these people worked with nature and created and used various objects that, today, are considered great works of art. Linking previously... (read more)
 
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The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
by Steven Pressfield

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Someone finally tells it like it is — you can write that book, you can paint that picture, you can live your dreams. But first you've got to shatter the Resistance that's got you stymied, and that takes (you won't want to hear this) work.... (read more)
 
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The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
by Betty Edwards

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When Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain was first published in 1979, it hit the New York Times bestseller list within two weeks and stayed there for more than a year. In 1989, when Dr. Betty Edwards revised the book, it went straight to the Time list... (read more)
 
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Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery (Voices That Matter)
by Garr Reynolds

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Featuring a foreword by Guy Kawasaki, Presentation Zen will help presenters see the process in a way that is different, simpler, more visual, more natural, more effective, and ultimately far more meaningful. Presentations are generally poor because their... (read more)
 
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Masterpieces of Illumination
by Ingo Walther

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From The Book of Kells to Boccaccio?s Decameron and from the Vienna Genesis to Dante?s Divine Comedy - see the breathtaking originals of 167 of the greatest classics of all time. This lavishly produced book introduces the reader to the fascinating world... (read more)
 
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