It's a haunting image. At least it was for author John Thomas. Some seventy women sit in four rows in front of the Gibson Guitar factory in the mid-1940s. Conventional wisdom and company lore had i...więcej »
Now that directors such as Stephen Spielberg, George Lucas, and Francis Ford Coppola are celebrated along-side movie stars, it is hard to imagine that little more than a century ago the director...więcej »
Islamic Culture in Medieval Sicily illustrates how the great artistic and cultural heritage of the Arabs who ruled the island in the 10th and11th centuries was assimilated and reinterpreted duri...więcej »
2013 Reprint of 1945 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Camillo Sitte (1843-1903) was a noted Austrian architect, painter and theo...więcej »
Hoopdance Revolution puts a new spin on that favorite childhood pastime, hula hooping. The book is a history of hoopdancing, the flow art that evolved from hula hooping in the 1990s to become a ...więcej »
Improvisation for Classical, Fingerstyle, and Jazz Guitar - Creative Strategies, Technique and Theory:
Is the product of over twenty five years experience as a professional musician and guitar tuto...więcej »
This volume is from our series of carefully-selected historical publications on the subject of violins. The titles in this range include "A Guide to Violin Strings" "A History of Violins in England...więcej »
Formed in Boston in 2001, Arcade Fire quickly relocated to Montreal and started performing in art galleries and lofts while hoping for a record deal.
The ...więcej »
This CMYK colour catalogue has been specially designed for anyone who produces colour material for printing and who wants a quick and easy no hassle way to select colours to show the customer what ...więcej »
'School of Classical Dance' is the official textbook of the Vaganova School in St. Petersburg, and takes the student and teacher from the basic concepts of the syllabus to the most complex exercise...więcej »
Pierre Rameau's Le Maitre a Danser is the standard work on the technique of eighteenth century dancing. It was first published in Paris in 1725, and bore the printed recommendation of the celebrate...więcej »
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Practical guide to creating meaningful Polynesian tattoos.This book by the creators of TattooTribes.com takes the readers by the hand through the meaningful beauty of Po...więcej »
This book draws on aesthetic theory, including ideas from the history of painting, music and dance, to offer a fresh perspective on the video game as a popular cultural form. It argues that games l...więcej »
This collection of essays explores how science fiction films and computer games attempt to come to grips with the changing conceptions of the world around us, and our identity within it.
This book ...więcej »
When it was originally published in 1999, Techno Rebels became the definitive text on a hard-to-define but vital genre of music. Author Dan Sicko demystified techno’s characteristics, infl...więcej »
There may be no more iconic image of mid-1980s network television than Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs speeding down Biscayne Boulevard in Crockett’s sleek black Ferrari on Miami Vice. Wi...więcej »
Mockumentary is now an established part of the spectrum of television styles, with both deep roots in television history and a key part of innovations in the sitcom genre since the 1990s. Tracing t...więcej »
British author Barry Atkinson chronicles his childhood adventures as an underage horror film fanatic, who, along with his best chums, schemed to sneak into X-rated horror films such as Them!, Ta...więcej »
This vintage book contains a comprehensive treatise on the subject of music form, and includes information on sentencing and phrasing, modulation, rhythm, and much more. This detailed yet accessibl...więcej »