Arts, Architecture & Design Books

Regarding Charlottesville Music is a photography project of the present, rooted in the past, documenting five decades of local musicians. This book is the oral history. The book focuses on local musical centers of influence. The stories of a few bands...

A quiz book on movie clips that makes a great party game. Can be played alone, one-on-one, or in large groups. Has clips from movies as far back as 1930, all the way up to current day.

Getting the hands moving is crucial to successful performance. One wouldn't run a marathon without stretching a bit! Getting the brain warmed up is equally important. The disciplines required to warm up are laid out in a progressive manner allowing head...

This is a book about the organization of an organization called M.O.A.T. (The Monumental Outrageousness Around Texas). It is a view of the M.O.A.T. project from different perspectives of viewers, and it each alternative perspective is written down as if...

A Living Jazz Legend, musician and composer David Baker has made a distinctive mark on the world of music in his nearly 60-year career--as player (chiefly on trombone and cello), composer, and educator. In this richly illustrated volume, Monika Herzig...

WHAT CAN I SAY???...EVERYBODY CAN DRAW...Drawing comes from the heart,drawing comes from the soul or sometimes drawing comes out of noway we can't explain it, but it's ALL GOOD FUN AND GAMES ...ZTEZNILA, an underground artist...who asked other artist to...

Ernest Hemingway shot himself in the legs with a machine gun while wrestling a shark.George RR Martin can only type with one finger at a time.Arthur Conan Doyle passionately believed in fairies.Bram Stoker couldn't walk until he was seven.CS Lewis...

Why doesn't Cinderella's glass slippers vanish at the stroke of midnight like the rest of her clothes?In Home Alone, why doesn't Kevin just ring the police?In Aladdin, why doesn't Jafar use his hypnotic staff to make Jasmine fall in love with him?How did...

No more unknown songs in a Songbook! Small is beautiful! You can take this little book with you everywhere. Who knows where the next opportunity for singing in spiritual circles arises. Mantras, Bhajans, Kirtans, Rainbow Family and Nature Songs,...

In Prometheus, Jesus Christ is an alien.The first horror film to win an Oscar was Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.One of the main actors in Alien3 is a murderer.The Sunken Place in Get Out is meant to represent how minorities' rights are ignored by society. None...

I Feel Great is a collection of words, from Amazing to Zestful, positive words aimed for children. It can be used as a tool to learn English, as a discussion starting point for emotions, or as a mindful practice of colouring.

Tres piezas de teatro para no olvidar que los logros se cimentan en los sueños y se levantan con las palancas de la convicción y la perseverancia.Las novias, Hotel Glamour y Escalofríos fueron escritas por Antonia Castillo entre los años 2011 y 2014 para...

This publication contains transcriptions of how the world reacted to Aretha Franklin death and is a tribute to one of the true greats. Included, the complete studio album discography and song list plus a selected collection of magazines front cover.

Steve Buscemi nearly played Freddy Krueger.The ship in Alien was meant to be called The Snark.Eddie Murphy was meant to play the lead in Get Out.Evil Dead was turned into a Broadway musical in 2006.The Fly was turned into an opera in 2008.Friday the 13th...

El deporte más peligroso no es el fútbol americano. Es volar una cometa.El mapa del mundo es impreciso.Los silenciadores no existen.Todos pronuncian "Monte Everest" incorrectamente.El Viejo Oeste no era nada como lo imaginamos.Los Illuminati existieron...

King Henry VIII had a pet polar bear.Herodotus wrote the first history book. It stated that Europe was full of cyclops.Steve Jobs never wrote a single line of programming code in his life.Joseph Stalin wasn't Russian.Michael Jackson used to be a...

Korte biografieën van 52 popartiesten en achtergrondinformatie bij 6 muzieknummers van die artiesten. Het betreft popartiesten uit de periode van 1960 tot 2010. Van elke popartiest is een foto bijgevoegd.

1) Created and inspired by young people - not just old reprints 2) Modern arrangements to suit the modern piano player 3) Simple progressions- most are two note chords 4) No big jumps - octave stretches a rarity! 5) No long stretches - ideal for small...

Emergo Art Magazine is published bi-monthly.We feature great emerging artists, and every magazine has new exciting works. A great thing about our magazine is the fact that our issues don't "age" as the artwork in this issue, will be as relevant as the...

Gebrauchsanweisung zur Verwendung dieses Buches:Man lese das erste Kapitel eines der vorliegenden Filmromane, anschließend die „Filmnotizen" und schließlich den Schluss besagter Geschichte, und die Erinnerung ist perfekt - vorausgesetzt, dass man einst...

The Lion King takes place before humanity existed.Before he was famous, Bryan Cranston did voiceovers for several animes including Ghost in the Shell and Street Fighter II.Beauty and the Beast is based on a 1,800 year old story.The Minions are based on...

Despite Toy Story's legacy, it didn't win a single Oscar.Somebody counted every single spot in 101 Dalmatians. There's a lot.Animators stopped working on The Lion King because they were certain it would fail. It made over $900 million.The original...

New Argentine Film is the most complete text to be published on the new Argentine cinema. While anchored in critical discourse and written by an academic, it also has the virtue of using clear and accessible language. In addition, the book is more than a...

This is a colouring book created for adults, but it could be enjoyed by anyone with a love for art. Due to my love of abstract art, this book is full of fun abstract designs. Some of the designs may have hidden images within them! So get creative and add...

The nor'easter blew across the surging sea,Churning swells of aqua fury.The sharks attacked 'midst breaking wavesAs shackled slaves sank into their graves.Sun swirls and clouds of greyOvercast the horrors of that day,And as the ocean heaved with streaks...

For more than a century, the Ontario wine industry had found success producing mainly ports and sherries from American hybrid grapes, but as the 1970s approached, consumer tastes were changing and sales of the higher-alcohol wines were decreasing...

(UN)IMAGINABLEThe Pandemic SeriesWorldwide Pandemic? Honestly, who would've believed this could happen? Not me. But it did.I was laid off from my day job on March 18th, and all of a sudden told to stay home for the unforeseeable future. After ten days of...

Far from the least deployed weapons in America's fighting the Cold War were Hollywood movies, Elvis Presley and rock & roll. The paradox of socially sanctioned rebellion was especially evident in the Hollywood propaganda for the new music and its...

What do Osama bin Laden, H.G. Wells, and the GTA series have to do with Hideo Kojima? A lot more than you'd think!In this stunning second installment of The Kojima Code series, author Terry Wolfe walks the reader through the brightest and darkest...

African people have a spirituality that is uniquely theirs. Before Judaism, Christianity and Islam even existed, African people had a history and spiritual system that these religions copied and plagiarized from. This book specializes in African...

As I sit and begin to write these linesI'm reminded of a much earlier timeI must have been 8 when I first beganTo create prose with a pen in my handAlthough most times it was done for funWho'd have guessed one day a writer I'd becomeSo I've laid myself...

This coloring book is perfect for tea time and princess hours. It is filled with images of royalty, a theme your little girl is interested in. Coloring has so many benefits, but the most important would be the fact that it builds your child's "I can do...

When the Canadian Electronic Ensemble (CEE) began as a group of students at the University of Toronto in 1972, they performed with cumbersome, finicky analog instruments and DIY logistics, never sure if everything would work as intended. Today's CEE...

At the turn of the millennium Canadian cinema appeared to have reached an apex of aesthetic and commercial transformation. Domestic filmmaking has since declined in visibility: the sense of celebrity once associated with independent directors has...

Si la devise du Québec sombre parfois dans l'oubli, ce livre s'impose tel un véritable devoir de mémoire envers les pionniers du cinéma de fiction LGBTQ+ québécois : Je me souviens de ce premier et courageux aveu queer de Claude Jutra dans À tout...

In her study of Chinese shadow theatre Fan Pen Li Chen documents and corrects misconceptions about this once-popular art form. Drawing on extensive research and fieldwork, she argues that these plays served a mainly religious function during the Qing...

Drawn into the circuit of men cruising for sex in and around a train station, restless adolescent Henri begins a frenzied pursuit of a dangerously charismatic older man, with sometimes violent and ultimately tragic consequences. Premiering at Cannes in...

Morley Calvert's Suite from the Monteregian Hills is cherished by brass players worldwide and performed hundreds of times annually, making Calvert perhaps the most performed Canadian composer outside the country. Yet little is known about Calvert beyond...

The nineteenth-century study of hysteria at the Salpêtrière hospital was a medical project, but also a theatrical one. The hysteric's public appearance was a continual ethical provocation, pointing not only to the vulnerability of her person but to the...

In the past decade, Vancouver dance has received tremendous acclaim nationally and internationally, as witnessed by the success of choreographer Crystal Pite and a rejuvenated Ballet BC. But this is only part of a vibrant and diverse story of...

And Then Came Dance provides new insight into the evolution of Russian literary scholar, art historian, and ballet critic Akim Volynsky's life-altering fascination with female ballet dancers, and the dance writings that resulted from his fascination.

The sketches in this Fairy tale fantasy coloring book for adult sare very detailed, giving you the perfect palette to create your own faity tale masterpieces. Fantasy coloring lovers will enjoy the great variety of beautiful sketches in this fantasy...

What set this book apart from many of other coloring books is that authentic vintage images have been used.RELAX AND RELIVE YOUR STRESS WHILE COLORING BEAUTIFUL ROOSTERS AND HENS FOR FARM LOVING FUN.Big size 8.5" x 11"Coloring is great for...

A solid, hard-hitting, and uncompromising journalistic look at the fashion industry.The time when "fashion" was defined by French designers whose clothes could be afforded only by elite has ended. Now designers take their cues from mainstream consumers...

Why is gender inseparable from pop songs? What can gender representations in musical performances mean? Why are there strong links between gender, sexuality and popular music? The sound of the voice, the mix, the arrangement, the lyrics and images all...

Ubiquitous Musics offers a multidisciplinary approach to the pervasive presence of music in everyday life. The essays address a variety of situations in which music is present alongside other activities and does not demand focused attention from...

For many years ergonomists and human engineering specialists have made significant contributions to the solution of problems faced in the area of human labour and to the introduction of their research results and field...