Arts, Architecture & Design Books

"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 a technical manual (for actors and directors), an historical document of importance, and a volume that is a delight to read."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!!

This book is controversial, abrasive, thought provoking, and humorous. It illuminates the decline of America while offering solutions as well as exposing the most inane behavior by our inhabitants.I relay stark conversation of religion, political and...

Exhibition Catalog for Arizona Visions- Paintings from the Picerne Collection of Arizona Landmark Art at the Phippen Museum in Prescott Arizona in 2011. Features paintings from over 40 different artists including Maynard Dixon, James Swinnerton, Jessie...

A paper doll featuring 12 hand-painted watercolor outfits of goddesses from around the world, each with a description of that goddess. The doll and outfits are ready to be cut out & enjoyed!

This third annual of the Scarab Arts Annual is among the organization's most notable achievements of the 2011 calendar year. The purpose of the Annual is to provide Scarab Club member artists and poets an opportunity to have their work published in book...

James Swinnerton was a well known cartoonist who came to the American Southwest expecting to die from either tuberculosis or alchoholism in 1906. Instead, he experienced a full recovery from both afflictions. He spent the next fifty years painting the...

A favorite artwork can provide you with enjoyment and inspiration, help you recall important events of the past, and help you project a course into the future. Get even more enjoyment from a work of art you love by approaching it with an active mind.This...

A book that will show you how to affordably decorate your home!We all enjoy living in picturesque locations where we may enjoy the gratification that comes with them. To achieve this goal of making our homes exude elegance at first glance, we all go...

Welcome to the enchanting world of "Summer Fairies: An Art Book of Enchantment," a mesmerizing art coffee table book that invites you to immerse yourself in the whimsical kingdom of EverSummer Fairy Forest. Be captivated by portraits of seventy diverse...

Crashing Hollywood "Fíngelo hasta que lo logres" es un libro de memorias cautivador que detalla la increíble historia de un joven taxista haitiano, Jeffery Dread, que irrumpió en algunas de las fiestas de celebridades más grandes de Hollywood y más allá...

Crashing Hollywood "Fíngelo hasta que lo logres" es un libro de memorias cautivador que detalla la increíble historia de un joven taxista haitiano, Jeffery Dread, que irrumpió en algunas de las fiestas de celebridades más grandes de Hollywood y más allá...

Imagine que está sentado ante un piano de cola frente a un público enorme. Sus dedos bailan expertamente sobre las teclas mientras interpreta una hermosa melodía. Las notas de su piano llenan la sala, encantando a todos los presentes y transportándolos a...

Drawn in Tampa Bay is the second coloring book from St. Pete artist and Illustrator Ezra Sembler. Contained in this book are over 50 line drawings of iconic areas all over the Tampa Bay region, with an emphasis on St. Pete. From the local beers at St...

Crashing Hollywood "Fake it until you snap it" est un mémoire captivant qui détaille l'incroyable histoire d'un jeune chauffeur de taxi haïtien, Jeffery Dread, qui a organisé certaines des plus grandes fêtes de célébrités à Hollywood et au-delà. Armé de...

Are you dreaming of playing the guitar like a pro? Are you a beginner looking for simple and effective methods to learn the basics of guitar chords and notes?Look no further!This comprehensive guide is designed to help aspiring guitarists embark on their...

Have you always been interested in learning how to play an instrument? Have you listened to some of your favorite musicians and you want to be able to play like them but you think it may be too hard to even look at getting started? Do you want to get...

How Much Does A Dollar Cost? The answer to thisquestion is more complicated than its' intrinsic value.Sometimes the answer isn't about money as more asit's about what's the moral value. Is it worth the lightbill? Is it worth friendships? Is it worth...

John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople, was an important Early Church Father. He is known for his preaching and public speaking, his denunciation of abuse of authority by both ecclesiastical and political leaders, the Divine Liturgy of Saint John...

Al and the Moon Dogs is Steven G. Farrell's fictional alternative historical novel the early days of the Beatles before they became internationally famous. When Gerard Moran flies over to Ireland to bury his Uncle Al, he discovers an old and battered...

Power is the most ugly term in leadership. It brings forward crass imagery and evokes the rhetoric of hard leadership. And in the arts, the entire idea of power feels as though it dirties the soft elements of artistic expression. Ignoring the discussion...

This poem and art book includes amorous poems on relatable themes written by Antonio Journie, accompanied with gorgeous art works created by an artist named Deon(Stephanie Hayes).This book fascinates readers who inspire to love, and love deep. This...

Mental Health has become a buzzword in contemporary society. At times it functions as a source of positive, progressive change and at other times it functions as a nebulous suggestion for positive life experiences. In the arts world, where the psyche is...