Arts, Architecture & Design Books

In this Universe can we see some of what was real, a picture perhaps, a still-life where a moment went without passing and it is done, nothing to change except perfection. A sight so fine, no line misplaced, to linger on will require such a steady pace...

You wanted to get started painting but did not know how. This book is for you. Plein Air painting is a perfect way to improve your painting and drawing skills. Everything is there before you in the scene you choose to paint. We don't have to travel...

The November issue is an open issue that allows artists the freedom to choose from their repertoire the work they want to display. The resulting collection of works is curiously diverse and youthful in expression. To open the issue further, from now on...

The images in this book were all taken on Deer Isle, atthe Haystack Mountain School of Crafts during the fall of2012. The images capture the natural and manmade beautythat the students of Haystack experience every day. Thestudies explore the...

Here are over 70 movie classics from the Golden Age of Hollywood, fully annotated with complete casts and credits plus other essential information, lovingly described and recalled by one of the world's foremost movie critics, John Howard Reid, who has...

These are pieces for violin and piano in various styles from Latin Music, including Mariachi rhythms (huapango, ranchero, ranchero bolero), Latin Waltz, and Bolero. The level is moderately difficult, with some tricky doublestops. Both the violin part and...

Sometimes you have to rid yourself of a feeling or a person in order to grow. Sometimes you have to rid yourself of a couple people and a couple of emotions. Laundry was something I formulated over the last couple years. I had used my writing and...

This fictional book is based on true events on what can happen in the industry if you're not careful. This story is about a young girl trying to reach her dream, but on her way to the top, runs into a few problems. It touches a little on what happened in...

Smiling Heart Garden of Delights is a coloring book for all ages. Makes a wonderful gift. Come and allow yourself to color and make your heart smile.

Recognizing her son's potential and seeing his deep desire to get into show business, mom Melinda Raymond starts on a journey to try and figure out what she can do to help her son succeed in his dream. Journaling along the way, the book shares some...

In April 2012, Endicott College hosted the world famous New York City public arts festival, "Art in Odd Places" (AiOP) on its scenic oceanfront Beverly, MA campus. While AiOP is well established on the New York cultural calendar, each October turning the...

This is a collection from old sketchbooks from 1997- present, all pen and ink/black and white of course.

In teatro si può sorridere anche piangendo e "chi ha il coraggio di ridere è padrone del mondo". (Leopardi) L'accostamento, ironico-grottesco, vuole essere una libera e pittoresca manipolazione della nostra quotidianità rispetto agli eventi tragici che i...

Partiti e caso italiano, di sicuro rappresenta l'analisi più brillante dell'organizzazione partitica in rapporto al funzionamento della Democrazia Italiana. Tratta intelligentemente il profilo degenerativo e anche propositivo della Democrazia italiana,...

The Mass Observation social research organisation (1937 to early 1950s), a pioneering independent effort aimed at education, specialised in material about everyday life in Britain and recorded material through a panel of around 500 volunteer observers...

Biodeterioration is the most common problem of mankind and its record can be traced back to biblical times or probably earlier. Building Mycology deals with the study of fungi in and around the building environment, having direct and indirect effect on...

The interacting components of everyday life - the weekly supermarket shopping trip, fast food, children's toys - are still largely unremarked by cultural theorists. Grounded in Marxist theory, and guided by feminism, Susan Willis's lucid and entertaining...

Fully revised and updated, Archival Storytelling second edition is a timely, pragmatic look at the use of audiovisual materials available to filmmakers and scholars, from the earliest photographs of the 19th century to the work of media makers today...

This comprehensive, authoritative account of tragedy is the culmination of Hans-Thies Lehmann's groundbreaking contributions to theatre and performance scholarship. From the philosophical roots and theories of tragedy, through its inextricable...

The Stage Lives of Animals examines what it might mean to make theatre beyond the human. In this stunning collection of essays, Una Chaudhuri engages with the alternative modes of thinking, feeling, and making art offered by animals and animality,...

"Outstanding ... a technical manual (for actors and directors), an historical document of importance, and a volume that is a delight to read." Ian Watson, Rutgers"An extremely valuable personal account of Roberta Carreri's process as an actor." Alison...

This comprehensive textbook, now substantially updated for its fourth edition, provides students with a framework for understanding the key concepts and main approaches to Television Studies, including audiences, representation, industry and global...

Engaging in Community Music: An Introduction focuses on the processes involved in designing, initiating, executing, and evaluating community music practices. Designed for both undergraduate and graduate students, in community music programs and...

In this updated second edition, Jason Farman offers a groundbreaking look at how location-aware mobile technologies are radically shifting our sense of identity, community, and place-making practices. Mobile Interface Theory is a foundational book in...

The tensions between utopian dreams and dystopian anxieties permeate science fiction as a genre, and nowhere is this tension more evident than in Star Trek. This book breaks new ground by exploring music and sound within the Star Trek franchise across...

Staging Sex lays out a comprehensive, practical solution for staging intimacy, nudity, and sexual violence. This book takes theatre practitioners step-by-step through the best practices, tools, and techniques for crafting effective theatrical intimacy...

Culture is a living thing. In social settings, it is often used to represent entire ways of life, including rules, values, and expected behavior. Varying from nation to nation, neighborhood to neighborhood and beyond, even in the smallest localities,...

Waterfronts Revisited addresses the historical evolution of port cities and re-examines waterfront development.

Planning is centrally focused on places which are significant to people, including both the built and natural environments. In making changes to these places, planning outcomes inevitably benefit some and disadvantage others. It is perhaps surprising...

As a response to the ubiquity of drawing in contemporary consciousness and a corresponding dearth of critical engagement with the medium, these collected essays provide original interpretations of artists' drawing today. Questions of process, politics,...

This study explores how and why people have made and modified images and other cultural material from pre-history into the 21st century. By juxtaposing objects and places usually considered in isolation, provocative questions are raised about our...

Graduate of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Chartered Landscape Architect, MBA and Barrister, Gordon Rowland Fraser draws upon 30 years of project management, professional practice and teaching experience to provide an uncomplicated and intuitive guide...

Although the idea of excess has often been used to degrade, many of the essays in this collection demonstrate how it has also been used as a strategy for self-fashioning and empowerment, particularly by women and queer subjects. This volume examines a...

In this remarkable study, Robert R. Faulkner shows that the Hollywood film industry, like most work communities, is dominated by a highly productive and visible elite who exercise major influence on the control of available resources, career chances, and...

Based on interviews with over forty award-winning artists, How to Rehearse a Play offers multiple solutions to the challenges that directors face from first rehearsal to opening night. The book provides a wealth of information on how to run a rehearsal...

This book examines three landmark utopian visions central to 20th century landscape architectural, planning, and architectural theory. The period between the 1890s and the 1940s was a fertile time for utopian thinking. Significant geographic shifts...

This book uses a clear and accessible voice to situate Maxwell's work within the context of contemporary American culture and international theatre practice. Through a close reading of theatre productions and plays, Gorman identifies how Maxwell...

This book provides a timely intervention in the fields of performance studies and theatre history, and to larger issues of global cultural exchange. The authors offer a provocative argument for rethinking the scholarly assessment of how diverse...

The sixteen studies in this book include six specially translated from Greek and another two published here for the first time. They deal with the art of painting in Crete at a time when the island was under Venetian rule. The main emphasis is on the...

Where is the academic study of music today, and what paths should it take into the future? Should we be looking at how music relates to society and constructs meaning through it, rather than how it transcends the social? Can we 'remix' our discipline and...

This is book one of my fantasy artwork. There are 32 fully colored pieces throughout which includes 4 from my Fae Erotica collection. Most of the pieces are nudes with erotic themes making this a book not suitable for children. The illustrations are fun...

Scott Collins' GuitArchitecture method replaces the standard approach to learning guitar, rote memorization, with a simple, intuitive two-string approach that anyone can learn. This method, where players can actually see scales on a fingerboard, is...

iona rozeal brown's images simultaneously confront and entice viewers through their complex iconography and superb visuals. In her paintings, prints, drawings, and performance work, brown explores issues of cultural and geographic identity employing both...

Henry Martin's Preludes and fugues #17 and 18, of an eventual 24. Suitable for concert, recital and church use.

Grab your camera, set it to thirty seconds, scrounge up some flashlights and have fun! This book contains amazing images created with flashlights and a camera taking a thirty second long exposure. From the imagination of industrial designer Jeff...

Desde hace pocos años comenzó la gran aventura de nadar en las letras, canalizando ideas y desafíos. Como todos, inició con una difícil tarea de definir su pasión por escribir, pausar los sueños para describirlos y entregar nuevas ideas, como también...

A twist on the well known song on Frosty, because what you read in this book will make your thoughts haywire!!