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London Film Location Guide
This intriguing guide to London locations used in movies covers the whole of the metropolis area by area, so you’ll be able to find streets where you live, work or play, whether in Chelsea, Greenwich or Whitechapel. The book reveals the cinematic moments of a range of named streets, pubs, libraries, shops and offices that Londoners know and love. The book includes ‘then’ and ‘now’ photographs – stills from the films and the same locations photographed recently. A comprehensive index enables you to easily find the streets and areas that you know.
The films featured include those famously set in London – ‘Notting Hill’, ‘Love Actually’, ‘Patriot Games’, ‘Alfie’, ‘Basic Instinct 2’ – as well as those that contained seminal scenes set in the capital. Some interesting shots of London mocked up to look like foreign climes, from Amsterdam to Vietnam. The author’s painstaking research covers films from the 1940s and 1950s – including the great Ealing productions – right up to the recent Shaun of the Dead.
The book offers delights for both film buffs and London enthusiasts.
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Star Wars Art: Ralph McQuarrie
Ralph McQuarrie is the most iconic artist in the history of Star Wars. He worked hand-in-hand with George Lucas to help establish the saga’s visual aesthetic, its inimitable look and feel. Beyond designing Darth Vader, C-3PO, and R2-D2, McQuarrie produced hundreds of pieces of Star Wars artwork, including conceptual paintings, costume designs, storyboards, and matte paintings, as well as posters, book covers, and album covers―even Lucasfilm’s annual Christmas cards―all rescanned and rephotographed for this book. In Star Wars Art: Ralph McQuarrie, readers will find the most definitive collection of the artist’s Star Wars work ever assembled, including hundreds of never-before-seen illustrations. Rare unpublished interviews, as well as recollections from McQuarrie’s colleagues and friends, complement and contextualise the art. Star Wars Art: Ralph McQuarrie is a comprehensive tribute to cinema’s most beloved and influential concept artist.Read more
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Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garcons: Art of the In-Between (Fashion Studies)
A revelatory look at the influential and enigmatic designer behind Comme des Garçons
The great pantheon of fashion designers produces only a handful of creators who are masters of their métier. Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons is one of them. Widely recognized among her contemporaries as the most important and influential designer of the past forty years, she has, since her Paris debut in 1981, defined and transformed the aesthetics of our time. This lavishly illustrated publication examines Kawakubo’s fascination with interstitiality, or the space between boundaries. Existing within and between dualities―whether self/other, object/subject, art/fashion―Kawakubo’s work challenges the rigid divisions that have come to define received notions of identity and fashionability, inviting us to rethink fashion as a site of constant creation, re-creation, and, ultimately, hybridity. Featuring brilliant new photography, and thought-provoking texts by Andrew Bolton, this book expresses the conceptual and challenging aesthetic of this visionary designer. An insightful interview and illustrated chronology of Kawakubo’s career provide additional context.Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press
Exhibition Schedule:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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Paula Rego (Hardback)
A stunning new volume which tells the story of Paula Rego’s extraordinary life, exploring the personal and socio-political contexts in which her work is rooted.
Since the 1950s, Paula Rego has played a key role in redefining figurative art in the UK and internationally. An uncompromising artist of extraordinary imaginative power, she has revolutionised the way in which women are represented. This stunning voulme tells the story of Rego’s extraordinary life, highlighting the personal nature of much of her work and the socio-political context in which it is rooted. It also reveals the artist’s broad range of references, from comic strips to history painting. Featuring over 100 illustrations, including collage, paintings, largescale pastels, ink and pencil drawings, etchings and sculpture, including including early work from the 1950s in which Rego first explored personal as well as social struggle, her large pastels of single figures from the acclaimed Dog Women and Abortion series and her richly layered, staged scenes from the 2000-10s. The range of texts reflects the themes explored in the exhibition, relating to the artist’s childhood memories and everyday life, the experience of love and the loss of the beloved. It also addresses broader socio-political issues, such as the policing of women’s bodies, the struggle to legalise abortion, and the fight against authoritarianism and war, from the dictatorship in Portugal to the Iraq War. The book reflects the richness of Rego’s work, from the socio-political context to the biographical, from her many literary references to her vast knowledge and referencing of key historical paintings from the Western tradition.Read more
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Mid-Century Modern at Home: A Room-by-Room Guide
The mid-twentieth century was a dynamic period in international design, including interior design, and has retained its influence on popular culture today. This handbook shows readers how to create a tailor-made home inspired by the iconic designs of this period. Working through the home one room at a time, the book highlights classic items of furniture and signature accessories. In-depth case studies demonstrate the essential elements and provide inspiration. Colour combinations are explored to help personalise these inventive styles for the home.Anyone eager to bring mid-century chic to their own home will find this book a valuable resource.
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QUINLAN’S FILM CHARACTER ACTORS
This is a guide to over 1100 character actors and actresses. The people covered include John le Mesurier, Irene Handl, Dora Bryan and Sam Kydd from the British studios; and Elisha Cook, Iris Adrian, Hattie McDaniel and Irving Bacon from Hollywood. There is a portrait to accompany every entry. After a short account of each actor’s career and characteristics, all their known film credits are given, including many fleeting appearances never previously recorded, plus shorts and TV movies. David Quinlan is also the author of “The Illustrated Directory of Film Stars”, “The Illustrated Directory of Film Directors” and “British Sound Films 1928-1959”.Read more
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How to Extend Your Victorian Terraced House
Brimming with design ideas, drawings and photographs of exemplary projects, this is a must-have, highly visual guide to extending a Victorian terraced house for designers, architects and homeowners.
An essential resource for designing and delivering a wide variety of extensions, it features case studies from the full gamut of nineteenth-century terrace house types. Detailed plans reveal, floor by floor, a range of options for extending and/or reconfiguring space. Colour-coded, before-and-after plans show at a glance which walls have been removed or changed in each option. This is complemented by extensive colour photography of realised, built work.
Ideas and inspiration are supplemented by practical guidance with ‘rules of thumb’ for design and key information on permitted development rights. All plans are drawn to scale, so that they may be measured from and used for planning any renovation project.
Covering different types of briefs and design solutions, this indispensable guide to renovating Victorian terraces features extensions, loft conversions, basements and interior remodelling. It contains over 150 floor plans and 100 full-page colour images.
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Light on the Landscape: Photographs and Lessons from a Life in Photography
See the images and read the stories behind the creative process of one of America’s most respected landscape photographers, William Neill.
For more than two decades, William Neill has been offering his thoughts and insights about photography and the beauty of nature in essays that cover the techniques, business, and spirit of his photographic life. Curated and collected here for the first time, these essays are both pragmatic and profound, offering readers an intimate look behind the scenes at Neill’s creative process behind individual photographs as well as a discussion of the larger and more foundational topics that are key to his philosophy and approach to work.
Drawing from the tradition of behind-the-scenes books like Ansel Adams’ Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs and Galen Rowell’s Mountain Light: In Search of the Dynamic Landscape, Light on the Landscape covers in detail the core photographic fundamentals such as light, composition, camera angle, and exposure choices, but it also deftly considers those subjects that are less frequently examined: portfolio development, marketing, printmaking, nature stewardship, inspiration, preparation, self-improvement, and more. The result is a profound and wide-ranging exploration of that magical convergence of light, land, and camera.
Filled with beautiful and inspiring photographs, Light on the Landscape is also full of the kind of wisdom that only comes from a deeply thoughtful photographer who has spent a lifetime communicating with a camera. Incorporating the lessons within the book, you too can learn to achieve not only technically excellent and beautiful images, but photographs that truly rise above your best and reveal your deeply personal and creative perspective–your vision, your voice.
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Trinity College London Acoustic Guitar Exam Pieces From 2020: Grades 6-8 (Notation & Guitar Tab): Fingerstyle & Plectrum Pieces for Trinity College London Exams 2020–2023
Trinity’s new Acoustic Guitar syllabus reinvents the popular Plectrum Guitar syllabus, keeping it vital and relevant to today’s guitarist by giving teachers and learners the flexibility to develop fingerstyle and plectrum playing. A selection of the best-loved pieces from the previous syllabus has been retained at every grade for continuity.
This book contains all the exam pieces for Grades 6-8, covering a wide range of styles at each grade folk, acoustic, rock and pop styles, jazz, blues, country allowing candidates to follow distinct stylistic pathways as they progress. All pieces are printed in both tablature and standard notation so are accessible for any learner.
Note: As of April 2023, Trinity’s Acoustic Guitar 2020-2023 Syllabus will no longer operate with an end date. Therefore, Trinity’s Acoustic Guitar Exam Pieces 2020-2023 books will be valid indefinitely (subject to copyright) and any planned updates will be announced at least 12 months in advance. Trinity will be gradually amending the covers on these books upon reprint to ‘from 2020’, however there are books in circulation with the previous date range. In those cases, the change to syllabus arrangements overrides the dates printed on the cover of the book.
Contents:
Country Pickin’ (Chilton)
Here, There and Everywhere (Lennon & McCartney, arr. Adie)
How Do I Live (Warren, arr. Walker)
Minor Swing (Reinhardt & Grappelli, arr. Walker)
Never So Close (Chilton)
Over the Hills and Far Away (Page & Plant)
Ruby Blue (Walker)
Swing Thing (Powlesland)
You’ve Got a Friend (King, arr. Morandell)
Alien Waffle House (Dawes)
Anji (Graham, arr. Carroll)
Ballad (Chilton)
Be Deedle De Do (Kessel)
Classical Gas (Williams)
Fly Me to the Moon (Howard, arr. Jones)
Hole Hearted (Bettencourt & Cherone)
(Somewhere) Over the Rainbow (Arlen & Harburg )
Soul Agent (Chilton)
Blue Boy (Barney)
Deep River Blues (Trad., arr. Watson)
For My Father (McKee)
Mister Punch (Chilton)
Mister Sandman (Ballard)
Night and Day (Porter, arr. Leduc)
Overlap (Chilton)
Solo no. 2 (Elden)
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Trinity College London Classical Guitar Exam Pieces From 2020: Grade 4
This book contains a selection of ten pieces for Trinity Classical Guitar Grade 4 exams, carefully chosen, graded and edited for the syllabus from 2020 by a panel of experts. Encompassing a wide range of styles and including duets up to Grade 5, our progressive series offers teachers and learners a wealth of engaging repertoire, whether working towards Trinity exams or studying with other guitar methods.
Note: As of April 2023, Trinity’s Classical Guitar 2020-2023 Syllabus will no longer operate with an end date. Therefore, Trinity’s Classical Guitar Exam Pieces 2020-2023 books will be valid indefinitely (subject to copyright) and any planned updates will be announced at least 12 months in advance. Trinity will be gradually amending the covers on these books upon reprint to ‘from 2020’, however there are books in circulation with the previous date range. In those cases, the change to syllabus arrangements overrides the dates printed on the cover of the book.
Contents:
Orlando Sleepeth (Dowland, arr. Hegel)
Gavotte (from Suite in D minor) (de Visée, arr. Scheit)
Menuets I & II (from Partie in A major) (Daube, arr. Willis)
Andante (no. 2 from 24 leçons progressives, op. 31) (Sor)
Nostalgia: petite mélodie (from Tres piezas fáciles) (Sagreras)
Bossa-Nova Breeze (Schwertberger)
Line by Line (Norton, arr. Nestor)
Spice Trail (Ryan)
Village Blackbird Blues (Fogel)
Allemande (from Sonata for Two Guitars) (Baron)
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Octopath Traveler: The Complete Guide
Master Square Enix’s critically acclaimed RPG Octopath Traveler with this comprehensive guide] Explore every corner of Orsterra with the help of this complete guide which includes insight and explanation of the main narrative as well as boss strategies for each of the game’s eight protagonists] Dive deeper with detailed environment maps, subquest information, and beautiful illustrations that fully realize Octopath Traveler’s HD-2D graphics with exclusive explanations and commentary from the development team. Dark Horse Books and Square Enix present a faithful localization of the original Japanese volume, offered in English for the first time] Whether you’re a first-time player or looking to take your game to one hundred percent completion, this guide book is not to be missed]Read more
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The Art of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla Deluxe Edition
On-Sale Date Subject To Change.This masterfully designed oversized hardcover art book invites the reader on a visual journey through the world of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla A world defined by the harsh beauty of Viking life, rich with fascinating characters and breathtaking landscapes.
The Assassin’s Creed series is renowned for its skillful blend of historical fiction, epic environments, and exciting action. This art book offers an insider’s look at the immersive art direction of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, the first title in the franchise to explore Norse culture and the Viking invasion of England in the 9th century. Featuring iconic artworks ranging from stunning settings to brutal weapons, as well as developer insights.
This deluxe edition includes:
– An exclusive cover
– A decorative slipcase
– A gallery-quality lithograph print
Ubisoft and Dark Horse Books offer this enticing collection of art and commentary that is sure to attract returning fans and newcomers alike.
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Art of God of War Ragnarok, The: Ragnarök
A full-colour, oversized hardcover volume that collects concept art and creative commentary chronicling the development of the next entry in the God of War saga. The god of war himself returns in this brand-new installment to the beloved God of War series. As the threat of Ragnarok grows ever closer, Kratos and Atreus find themselves choosing between the safety of their family and the safety of the realms. This passionately assembled tome details a story of parenthood, destiny, and adventure in the voices of the team that brought it to life. Dark Horse Books and Santa Monica Studio join forces to present stunning, never-before-seen concept art of the world, characters, creatures, and artifacts with The Art of God of War Ragnarok. See what adventures await in Midgard and beyond.Read more
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Paul McCartney: Music Is Ideas. The Stories Behind the Songs (Vol. 1) 1970-1989
With 25 albums of pop music, 5 of classical – a total of around 500 songs – released over the course of more than half a century, Paul McCartney’s career, on his own and with Wings, boasts an incredible catalogue that’s always striving to free itself from the shadow of The Beatles. The stories behind the songs, demos and studio recordings, unreleased tracks, recording dates, musicians, live performances and tours, covers, events: Music Is Ideas Volume 1 traces McCartney’s post-Beatles output from 1970 to 1989 in the form of 346 song sheets, filled with details of the recordings and stories behind the sessions. Accompanied by photos, and drawing on interviews and contemporary reviews, this reference book draws the portrait of a musical craftsman who has elevated popular song to an art-form.Read more
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Just Kids: the National Book Award-winning memoir
Winner of the 2010 Non-Fiction National Book Award
Patti Smith’s definitive memoir is an evocative, honest and moving coming-of-age story of her extraordinary relationship with the artist Robert Mapplethorpe‘Sharp, elegiac and finely crafted’ Sunday Times
‘Terrifically evocative … The most spellbinding and diverting portrait of funky-but-chic New York in the late ’60s and ’70s that any alumnus has committed to print’ New York Times
‘Render, harrowing, often hilarious’ VogueIn 1967, a chance meeting between two young people led to a romance and a lifelong friendship that would carry each to international success never dreamed of. The backdrop is Brooklyn, Chelsea Hotel, Max’s Kansas City, Scribner’s Bookstore, Coney Island, Warhol’s Factory and the whole city resplendent. Among their friends, literary lights, musicians and artists such as Harry Smith, Bobby Neuwirth, Allen Ginsberg, Sandy Daley, Sam Shepherd, William Burroughs, etc. It was a heightened time politically and culturally; the art and music worlds exploding and colliding. In the midst of all this two kids made a pact to always care for one another. Scrappy, romantic, committed to making art, they prodded and provided each other with faith and confidence during the hungry years–the days of cous-cous and lettuce soup.
Just Kids begins as a love story and ends as an elegy. Beautifully written, this is a profound portrait of two young artists, often hungry, sated only by art and experience. And an unforgettable portrait of New York, her rich and poor, hustlers and hellions, those who made it and those whose memory lingers near.
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Peter Doig (Rizzoli Classics): -compact edition-
In every generation of artists, there are a few who propose a new set of ques- tions and alter the way we understand art. Peter Doig is such an artist. This handsome monograph considers the painter’s entire career, beginning with the early work produced in the 1990s when Doig’s enigmatic but wholly new conception of painting was first introduced to audiences. Doig was born to Scottish parents, spent several years as a child in Trinidad, later settling in Canada for his formative early teen years. He found his voice while at art school in London, albeit one that was out of step with the work of the time (much of it installation-based and dripping with neo-conceptualist leanings). He had developed a small following of fellow artists and critics when the rest of the art world caught up and took notice. In 2002, he left London for Trinidad, where he has remained. The small Caribbean island-with its own distinctive light and landscape-has deeply influenced his recent work. This volume was designed in close collaboration with the artist, with a cover and various interior elements created especially by the artist.Read more
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Tattoo Design Book: Over 1400 Tattoo Designs for Real Tattoo Artists, Professionals and Amateurs. Original, Modern Tattoo Designs That Will Inspire … for Your First Tattoo….
Tattoo Design Book.Are you looking for a tattoo?
This tattoo design book contains over 1400 tattoo ideas and designs for both professional artists and amateurs.
It can also be a great source and inspiration for getting your first tattoo and more.
Inside the book are designs of various themes.
There are original and modern tattoo designs that will inspire you.
Flower tattoos, skulls, ornamental designs, tribal designs, butterflies, hearts, women tattoos, Japanese Tattoos, and much more.About this book:
- Over 1400 tattoos on different themes
- Great as a source of inspiration for a new or next tattoo
- Perfect gift idea for anyone who loves tattoos
- Great gift for men and women
- Perfect format 8.5 x 11 inches (21.59 x 27.94 cm)
- Bonus download PDF version via QR code
This book is the perfect gift idea for tattoo lovers for Christmas or Birthdays, or maybe you run a tattoo studio and are looking for a book that will inspire your customers and more!
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Bass Technique Finger Gym: Build stamina, coordination, dexterity and speed with essential bass exercises (Learn how to play bass)
Build and Master Essential Bass Technique
The Bass Technique Finger Gym is an instant ‘shot-in-the-arm’ for bass players of any level. It focuses on building a solid foundation of clean, usable, musical skills.
Important, Effective Exercises
Each exercise is individually targeted to a common bass technique problem. You will work on timing, strength, fluency and speed, as well as getting an overview of slapping and popping.
Solve Every Common Bass Problem
Whether you play rock, jazz, blues or funk, all bassists come up against the same pain points.
The Bass Technique Finger Gym will build your skills and develop your finesse in an organic and musical way.
Which Exercises?
Over 130 essential bass technique exercises are included to help you build speed and fluency along with exciting musical studies to consolidate your skills.
These exercises focus on:
- Speed & Dexterity
- Coordination & Control
- Strength & Stamina
- Scale Sequences & Fretboard Fluency
Bonus: Exclusive video content that guides you through the perfect slap technique.
The Bass Technique Finger Gym Also Includes:
- Audio examples of each exercise to download for free
- Standard Notation and Tab
- Bespoke, Timed Workouts and Practice Schedules
- Musical Pieces to Consolidate your Skills
Hear it!
Learning from paper is one thing, but once you hear how to apply them, they become music. The First 100 Chords for Guitarists contains many supporting audio examples to help you get inside the music, and quickly apply every new chord in a musical situation.
Get the audio for free from our dedicated website.
Buy it now to Give your Playing the Workout It Deserves
Bass Technique Finger Gym is available for free on Kindle Unlimited, or just $14.99 in Paperback with Amazon’s quality Guarantee.
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The Ukulele Songbook: Shanties & Songs of the Sea
Thomas Balinger
The Ukulele Songbook
Shanties & Songs of the SeaFar-away oceans, perilous storms, bold explorers, bloodthirsty pirates and treasures hidden on mysterious islands – but likewise the hopes and the fears of friends, lovers and families left back home on dry land – have made for fascinating and evocative stories since the day men caught a glimpse of the deep blue sea.
But there’s more to the ocean’s fascination than just stories and myths. It also spawned its very own kind of music: the Shanties – songs of the wind and the waves, of hard work on the seven seas, of romantic buccaneers and brutal skippers harrying their crews to the marrow.In this book you’ll find a collection of shanties known and loved all over the world, arranged for easy Ukulele in standard C tuning (G-C-E-A). Of course, there’s „classics“ like Banks of Sacramento, Blow the man down or What shall we do with the drunken sailor, but you’ll also encounter some songs not as common and maybe some you might never have heard before.
All songs in musical notation with chord symbols plus melody TAB – you don’t have to read music to start playing right away!
Whether you want to pick the melody, strum the chords or just need the complete lyrics: you’ll find everything you need on these pages. And if you don’t know how to play a particular chord, don’t worry: each song features easy-to-read chord diagrams, too.
For reference, there’s a handy appendix listing all the chords used in this book plus a selection of easy strumming patterns you can use to accompany songs.Songs
1. A drop of Nelson’s blood
2. All for me grog
3. A sailor and his true love
4. Banks of Sacramento
5. Banks of the Ohio
6. Blow the man down
7. Blow the wind southerly
8. Boney was a warrior
9. Boston harbor
10. (Bound for) South Australia
11. Bound for the Rio Grande
12. Bully in the alley
13. Cape Cod girls
14. Dundee whalers (Balena)
15. Essequibo river
16. Eternal Father, Strong to Save
17. Goodbye, fare thee well
18. Good night, ladies
19. Handsome Molly
20. Harbour Grace
21. Haul away, boys
22. Jack the Sailor (Jackie Monroe)
23. John Kanaka
24. Lowlands away
25. Maggie May
26. Miss Lucy Long
27. Molly Malone
28. My Bonnie lies over the ocean
29. New York girls
30. On board of the Kangaroo
31. Paddy lay back
32. Roll, Alabama, roll
33. Rowler Bowler
34. Rule, Britannia
35. Sailor on the deep blue sea
36. Santiana (Across the plains of Mexico)
37. Shenandoah
38. Spanish ladies
39. The bottle-o
40. The coast of High Barbaree
41. The dead horse
42. The flying dutchman
43. The Forsaken Mermaid
44. The Glendy Burk
45. The John B. sails
46. The mermaid
47. The Shanty Boy on the Big Eau Claire
48. What shall we do with the drunken sailor
49. Whip Jamboree
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So You Want to Be in Musicals?
An insider’s guide to achieving that dream career by one of the brightest stars in musical theatre.Being in a West End or Broadway musical is the dream of thousands of talented performers. But competition is intense and reaching the spotlight can often require a leap into the dark. So You Want To Be In Musicals? is your comprehensive guide to building – and sustaining – a successful career in musical theatre, and introduces you to everything you need to know about:
- Training how to select a drama school, what to do to get in, and what to do once you’re there
- Auditioning how to choose and prepare your pieces, and foster a positive attitude towards auditions
- Rehearsing how to construct your character, work with the director, and develop your own creative process
- Performing how to deal with nerves, what to do as an understudy, and how to sustain that eight-show-a-week routine
- Working how to get an agent, how to market yourself effectively, and how to maintain a healthy body and mind
Along with a wealth of honest, straightforward advice, the book is packed with instructive anecdotes from Ruthie’s own glittering career.
Written with Daniel Bowling music supervisor and director on many of the West End’s biggest shows – including The Phantom of the Opera, Joseph, Mary Poppins and Avenue Q – So You Want To Be In Musicals? provides an extraordinary wealth of inside information and advice, that would usually take years of hard work and determination to obtain, in one essential volume.
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Book The Fucking Job!: A Guide for Actors
As the follow-up to his best-selling At Left Brain Turn Right and Alphabet Soup for Grown-Ups, Book The F*cking Job is fast becoming the how-to manual for working actors all over the world. To Celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Anthony Meindl’s Actor Workshop, we created a variety colorful covers for the re-issue of Book The Fucking Job! Pick the color that fits your mood!For over 20 years, top Acting Coach Anthony Meindl has been demonstrating his unique approach to modern acting training to thousands of actors worldwide. The demands for today’s actors have changed and with it have emerged many new breakthroughs in understanding creativity.From science to the power of the moment; from consciousness and mindfulness meditation to the art of the “f*ck it,” Mr. Meindl describes how you can let go of your control of how you think a scene should be and instead let something much more powerful and creative happen for you. Discover the exciting possibilities that await you in your creative journey when you learn the science of surrender.Find answers to your questions about technique, the business, and life in Book The F*cking Job! A new guide for the next generation of artists.Read more
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Talking Theatre: Interviews with Theatre People
The Sunday Times Theatre Book of the year. Ian McKellen, Judi Dench, Stephen Sondheim, Arthur Miller, Alan Ayckbourn, John Gielgud, Tom Stoppard and many more talk about the stories behind some of the most important and successful theatre productions and performances of recent times. Shortly after he left the directorship of the National Theatre, Richard Eyre embarked on a series of interviews with people who had played a significant part in making and influencing the theatre of the second half of the twentieth century. Forty of these interviews – threaded through with Eyre’s own commentary – are published in this new paperback edition. Talking Theatre is a fascinating and revealing insight into the world and mindset of the artists and creative talent who have shaped – and continue to shape – modern theatre.Read more
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Jojo: Finally Home – My Inspirational Memoir – THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER (2023)
*THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER!*
Champion dancer and Strictly Come Dancing professional Johannes Radebe has captured our hearts with his mesmerising talent, bringing joy to millions of fans and wowing the most critical of judges. He is loved not only for his dancing, but for his beautiful, infectious spirit and energy.
Jojo: Finally Home is his never-before-told story, where he shares the experiences and challenges he’s faced – from growing up in Zamdela, a township in South Africa, as a young boy with a passion for dance (and playing with Barbies), to becoming the star he is today. Dance transformed Jojo’s future, giving him a tool to express himself – but as you will learn, this was not always easy.
Captivating and moving, these are Jojo’s tales of euphoric highs and all-time lows, of making history, of grief, love, family and opportunity. It is a celebration of him finally feeling at home in his own skin. These are the personal moments that have shaped him into the man he is today – someone who lives life to the full and believes that no mountain is insurmountable.
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My Name is Barbra: The Sunday Times Bestselling autobiography of the living legend
A Sunday Times Bestseller. The exhilarating and startlingly honest autobiography of the living legend.
‘Exhilarating … leaves blood on the page … My Name Is Barbra is 992 pages of startling honesty and self-reflection, deadpan parenthetical asides (including a running bit about how much she loves going to the dentist), encyclopedic recall of onstage outfits, and rigorous analyses of her films’ Vanity Fair
‘I have been patiently waiting for Barbra Streisand’s autobiography for 54 years….My Name is Barbra is a Streisand obsessive’s dream come true. It addresses all the rumours and misrepresentations of her long and extraordinary life, from nearly missing out on A Star is Born to dating Pierre Trudeau, Omar Sharif and Marlon Brando. The wait has been worth every word!’ – Richard E Grant, Sunday Times
‘The mother of all memoirs’ New Yorker
‘Glorious, exuberant, chatty and candid, a 970-page victory lap past all who ever doubted, diminished or dissed her, with lingering high fives for the many supporters . . . generous dollops of chutzpah … Nobody puts Barbra in the corner’ New York Times
‘Mystical, messy, bawdy and funny … My Name is Barbra confides her insecurities and a ravening hunger for fame…silent but eloquent and vociferous writing’ Peter Conrad, The Observer
‘An extraordinary life – you couldn’t make it up’ The Guardian
‘This enormous, poignant memoir from the ultimate showbusiness trouper shows that you can never have it all (even if you’re Barbra). The writing is great and the likeable formidable personality shines through . . . deeper than the average celebrity memoir’ The Times
‘The book is crammed with delicious details of backstage arguments, bewildered suitors and at least one incident of falling off a London bus’ BBC
‘A glorious doorstopper… the sheer ambition of this intricately woven memoir makes it a fascinating read. The delicate pages bring to mind a Russian novel or, perhaps more appropriately for the many who view Streisand as akin to a deity, a bible. And yet, Streisand writes relatively succinctly, with warmth and wit. Behind the sequins, beneath the wigs and through the glass of the recording studio, there’s just a woman who dreamed of being famous and make it happen, on her terms. It’s an accomplished and entrancing walk through a life well lived’ Evening Standard
‘Streisand is no less than a living legend, one of a handful of EGOT winners (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony) and now, she’s taking us all back to where it began. Streisand’s story is truly inspirational and it’s one that you’ll want to pick up again and again’ Glamour
Barbra Streisand is by any account a living legend, a woman who in a career spanning six decades has excelled in every area of entertainment. She is among the handful of EGOT winners (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony) and has one of the greatest and most recognizable voices in popular music. She has been nominated for a Grammy 46 times, and with Yentl she became the first woman to write, produce, direct, and star in a major motion picture. In My Name Is Barbra, she tells her own story about her life and extraordinary career, from growing up in Brooklyn to her first star-making appearances in New York nightclubs to her breakout performance in Funny Girl (musical and film) to the long string of successes in every medium in the years that followed. The book is, like Barbra herself, frank, funny, opinionated, and charming. She recounts her early struggles to become an actress, eventually turning to singing to earn a living; the recording of some of her acclaimed albums; the years of effort involved in making Yentl; her direction of The Prince of Tides; her friendships with figures ranging from Marlon Brando to Madeleine Albright; her political advocacy; and the fulfillment she’s found in her marriage to James Brolin.
No entertainer’s memoir has been more anticipated than Barbra Streisand’s, and this engrossing and delightful book will be eagerly welcomed by her millions of fans.
‘A brilliant memoir’ Hillary Clinton
Sunday Times Bestseller, November 2024
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Seats of London: A Field Guide to London Transport Moquette Patterns
Moquette is the carpet-like fabric covering the seats we sit on in London’s Tubes, buses, trams and Overground trains – and here is a brilliantly colourful guide to all its patterns. London Transport has always wanted the best design, be it Charles Holden’s superb art deco Tube stations on the Piccadilly Line, its elegant Johnston typeface or Harry Beck’s Tube map. And this pursuit of excellence has extended even to the design of the fabrics it covers our bus and Tube seats with: moquette. In the Thirties top artists like Paul Nash and Enid Marx were commissioned to design patterns; nowadays every line like Crossrail or the Overground gets its own unique, colour-co-ordinated moquette pattern. Now, in conjunction with the London Transport Museum, which has the definitive London Transport moquette archive, Andrew Martin has written a delightful, surprising and covetable guide to all these patterns, from the first horse bus to the latest Tube train.Read more
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Technical Drawing for Stage Design
Technical Drawing for Stage Design explains the importance of drawing in the design process, revealing how the initial two-dimensional drawing is a crucial building block in creating the scale model that in turn will develop into the stage set – that will transport the audience into another world.Read more
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Drawing Perspective & Space: Basic Principles of Drawing in Perspective B/W
This book is dedicated in its entirety to the topic “Drawing in Perspective”. Primarily, it involves so-called vanishing-point perspective. By making use of vanishing-point perspective, it is possible to realistically display objects, landscapes and architecture. A persuasive illusion of reality is thus created on paper.
This book offers many vivid examples and exercises about perspective drawing. In this way you will learn to use the technique of drawing in perspective quickly. The most important contents are:
- Methods of illustration depth and space
- How the perspective occurs in our eye
- Drawing in one-point perspective
- Drawing in two-point perspective
- Drawing in three-point perspective
- How to draw circles, cylinders and arcs in perspective
- How to draw shadows in perspective
- Illustrating in perspective that is true to proportion
Learn how to draw in perspective easily with many step-by-step lessons for beginners. For advanced drawers, this book provides methods that will show you how to draw and paint bodies that are true to proportion – a skill that is especially interesting for people who have to draw architecture.
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Character Animation Crash Course!
Character Animation Crash Course! is a veritable Genie s lamp stuffed with everything the aspiring animator could wish for! Renowned animator Eric Goldberg s detailed text and drawings illuminate how to conceive characters “from the inside out to create strong personalities. Classic animation techniques are analyzed and brought to life through this unique book and its accompanying website companion that offers readers animated movie examples that show, in real time or frame-by-frame, the author s principles at work. Add to this Goldberg s discussions of classic cartoons and his witty, informative observations based on the wealth of knowledge he s gained during his 30-plus years in professional animation, and you have a tour-de-force guide to character animation with the classic touch.Read more
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National Geographic Stunning Photographs
Shot by National Geographic’s most renowned photographers and peppered throughout with inspiring quotations, Stunning Photographs is a vibrant tapestry of images that showcases the medium’s ability to reveal extraordinary moments of wit and discovery, harmony and intimacy, energy and joy. Definitive, striking, and always unstaged, the remarkable pictures in this book will appeal to all who want to enjoy the smorgasbord of colors, textures, and sensations that comprise the fabric of everyday lifeRead more
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Smart Phone Smart Photography: Simple techniques for taking incredible pictures with iPhone and Android
“… a genuinely useful guide to the more technical side of phone shooting, including editing with popular apps like Snapseed. Jo Bradford makes the most of the creative possibilities of modern smartphone cameras, and her tips on improving exposure and ensuring decent prints are really useful.” Awarded 5 stars by Amateur Photographer
Maximize your potential to get the shots you want with this guide to photography for both Apple and Android phones.
There’s a saying that the best camera for the job is the one you have with you when an opportunity arises. Thanks to the boom in camera-phone technology, today we’re lucky enough to have a camera to hand to capture all those incredible moments. But are you making the most of that powerful tool in your pocket? Do the photos you have taken tend to be blurry, or look nothing like what you’re seeing? If you want to shoot incredible images with your phone, buy Smart Phone, Smart Photography. Covering simple techniques that will allow you to get the image that you see every single time, you will soon be telling your camera what to do with confidence. Start with The Big Picture and get to know your camera phone and the rules behind taking the perfect shot. The next chapter, Taking Great Pictures, explains the key disciplines of photography – portrait, abstraction, macro, still life and plenty more. Finally, the Post-production chapter demonstrates how to use apps to edit and enhance your images and create incredible prints for display.
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Photography Handbook: Digital photography made easy!
THE ULTIMATE, easy-to-understand, practical guide to taking better photos! This convenient booklet covers everything from composition and exposure through to aperture, shutter speed, ISO, lighting, lenses and more. This is the digital version of the internationally popular ‘Course Notes’ booklet from award-winning Australian Geographic photographer Chris Bray’s ‘1 Day Photography Course’ – now a hugely successful online video series. Filled with examples and written in his approachable, practical style, this booklet will get you off Auto Mode, unlock your creative potential and get the most out of your camera! Filled with handy tips for photographers at any level, this guide is a must-read for any photographer who wants to improve.Read more
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Street Photography Workshop
You may think that a big part of street photography is simply being in the right place at the right time, but great urban photography is more than just luck. The ability to observe, compose and capture fleeting moments takes skill and experience.
In this comprehensive guide, acclaimed photographer and founder of Streetsnappers Brian Lloyd Duckett uncovers the closely guarded secrets of the successful street photographer, exploring the theories and approaches at the heart of this art form, and translating them into practical tutorials and game-changing tips and advice.
Aimed at intermediate to advanced level photographers, this informative, accessible book covers all aspects of this popular genre, from selecting the right approach, conquering your fears, and creating the ultimate street photographer’s toolkit, to composition, legal and ethical considerations, and sharing your photographs with the world. If you’re a keen observer and documenter of city life, this book will take your street photography know-how to the next level, improving your observation and intuition skills, teaching you how to ‘read the streets’, giving you the tools to develop your own personal style, and helping you to create meaningful street images.
“The stand-out book of the Mastering… Brian Lloyd Duckett’s years of experience” –Digital Camera World on Mastering Street Photography
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Beginner’s Digital SLR Crash Course: Complete guide to mastering digital photography basics, understanding exposure, and taking better pictures.
Who Else Wants To Take Better Pictures?
That’s what this guide is all about; making the most of your digital camera, so that you can create beautiful photographs. You won’t find all the complicated technical jargon that fills other books and blogs. I was like you at one point – I was just a guy who had no clue how to use all the fancy features of my new digital camera, and it was an extremely frustrating experience. My pictures were awful, and I was starting to question why I spent so much money on a DSLR.
Sound familiar?
I decided I wouldn’t settle for mediocre results, so I spent years of trial and (mostly) error to figure out all the tips and little known tricks that I’ll help you learn in this concise digital photography guide.
Give Me 24 Hours – And I’ll Make You A Better Photographer
I’m going to teach you how to take better photos today. You’ll see an improvement in your photos right away and they’ll keep getting even better as you practice. Students in my digital photography workshops pay $100 per hour to see drastic improvement in their photography, and you get all the same information at a fraction of the cost. I believe in the 80/20 rule; I’m going to give you 20% of the tricks that will get 80% of the results so you can spend more time doing what you love.Are You Harnessing The Creative Power Of These 3 Camera Modes?
Shooting in automatic mode can produce a decent photo every now and then, but you have zero creative control. The digital SLR cameras on the market offer several better modes to create beautiful photos. I’m going to walk you through each one of those modes, one at a time, so that you know exactly how and when to use them. The camera modes we’ll master together include:- Aperture Priority mode (Av, A)
- Shutter Priority mode (Tv, S)
- Manual Mode (M)
Warning: If You Shoot In Auto Mode, You Have Wasted $1000
Prices have come down significantly, but cameras are still really expensive. There’s no point in having an expensive camera if you’re just shooting in Auto mode, because you could have spent a tenth the money for the same results. If you don’t take advantage of the more advanced modes that you’ll master with this guide, you’ve wasted hundreds or even thousands of dollars on a tool you can’t use properly.11 More Things You’ll Learn About Your Digital Camera
In addition to all the shooting modes, I’ll teach you everything you need to know about:- Image size
- Image quality
- Memory cards
- Color space
- ISO speed
- Digital noise
- Histograms
- White balance
- Composition tips
- Photo storage tips
- Camera accessories for the (not so) beginner
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5 Simple Ways To Be A Better Photographer Than 99% Of Beginners
Once you understand the basics in this book, it’s really not hard to be a great photographer. I’m not promising that you’ll sell out galleries in New York, but I guarantee if you follow these five simple principles that are covered in depth within this guide, you’ll stand out from the crowd of beginners.- Set yourself up for success by pre-programming your camera.
- Capture tack sharp photos, every single time.
- Find subjects that jump off the screen.
- Harness the correct camera mode for the situation.
- Effectively use composition principles to lead the viewer’s eye.
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The Football Shirts Book: The Connoisseur’s Guide
They think it’s all over…it is now, with this comprehensive guide to football shirts through the years.
From the obscure to the ubiquitous, The Football Shirts Book is packed with over 150 original and super rare shirts from the greatest game on earth. Covering everything from the iconic to the unusual, even the most hard-core fans will find out something new about the kit of their favourite team.
Including full-colour photography, as well as interviews with football shirt design teams, musicians, and fashion designers, this guide offers a full exploration of the brands, design, and sponsorship history behind the world’s best-loved football shirts.
It is a must-have for those crazy about football shirts, as well as those whose interest is piqued by history, design, and pop-culture.
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The Art of Horror Movies: An Illustrated History (Applause Books)
This magnificent companion to The Art of Horror, from the same creative team behind that award-winning illustrated volume, looks at the entire history of the horror film, from the silent era right up to the latest releases and trends. Through a series of informative chapters and fascinating sidebars chronologically charting the evolution of horror movies for more than a century, profusely illustrated throughout with over 600 rare and unique images including posters, lobby cards, advertising, promotional items, tie-in books and magazines, and original artwork inspired by classic movies, this handsomely designed hardcover traces the development of the horror film from its inception, and celebrates the actors, filmmakers, and artists who were responsible for scaring the pants off successive generations of moviegoers! Edited by multiple award winning writer and editor Stephen Jones, and boasting a foreword by director and screenwriter John Landis (An American Werewolf in London), this volume brings together fascinating and incisive commentary from some of the genre s most highly respected experts. With eye-popping images from all over the world, The Art of Horror Movies is the definitive guide for anyone who loves horror films and movie fans of all ages.Read more
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Flute & Jazz Flute Scales & Arpeggios from 2015: Grades 1 – 8 (Woodwind Exam Repertoire)
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Trinity College London: Violin Scales, Arpeggios & Studies Initial-Grade 8 from 2016
Contains all the scales, arpeggios and studies required for Trinity College London’s violin exams for Initial to Grade 8, valid from 2016. Newly commissioned studies are also included for Grades 1-5 which may be used as an alternative to scales and arpeggios.Read more
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Around the World in 80 Dishes: Classic Recipes from the World’s Favourite Chefs
David Loftus is one of the world’s leading food photographers: on the road 350 days of the year, camera in hand, shooting top chefs and their wonderful dishes from Battersea to New York to the Bahamas. Now, in Around the World in 80 Dishes, he shares the most delicious cuisine he has come across on his travels: introduced by his close friend Jamie Oliver, eighty recipes from the world’s favourite chefs, many of whom have shared David’s adventures.
Around the World in 80 Dishes features mouthwatering recipes from international chefs and cookery writers including Jamie Oliver, Nigella Lawson, Gennaro Contaldo, Heston Blumenthal and Atul Kochhar. It follows in the footsteps of Phileas Fogg and his famous Grand Tour, taking in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and America, to create a treasure-trove of treats from the four corners of the globe.
Lovingly compiled and beautifully photographed, rich with the stories behind the recipes captured in these pages, this is a dream anthology for committed cooks and amateurs alike. If you love food and travel, and you’ve a hearty appetite for life, warm up the oven, pick a destination and prepare to set off on your own culinary journey.Read more
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The World Atlas of Street Art
This truly global and visually stunning compendium showcases some of the most breath-taking pieces of street art and graffiti from around the world.Since its genesis on the East Coast of the United States in the late 1960s, street art has travelled to nearly every corner of the globe, morphing into highly ornate and vibrant new styles.
This unique atlas is the first truly geographical survey of urban art, revised and updated in 2023 to include new voices, increased female representation and cities emerging as street art hubs.
Featuring specially commissioned works from major graffiti and street art practitioners, it offers you an insider’s view of the urban landscape as the artists themselves experience it.
Organized geographically, by continent and by city – from New York, Los Angeles and Montreal in North America, through Mexico City and Buenos Aires in Latin America, to London, Berlin and Madrid in Europe, Sydney and Auckland in the Pacific, as well as brand new chapters covering Africa and Asia – it profiles more than 100 of today’s most important artists and features over 700 astonishing artworks.
This beautifully illustrated book, produced with the help of many of the artists it features, dispels the idea of such art as a thoughtless defacement of pristine surfaces, and instead celebrates it as a contemporary and highly creative inscription upon the skin of the built environment.
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Apex Legends: Pathfinder’s Quest
This full-colour, oversized hardcover art book delves deep into the lore of the tremendously popular competitive first-person shooter Apex Legends. Explore the world of the hit game through the eyes of the lovable robot, Pathfinder, as he chronicles his journey throughout the various environs of the Outlands to interview his fellow Legends–all in the hope of finally locating his mysterious creator. The rich history of Apex Legends is explained by the characters that helped to shape it, as are their unique bonds of competition and camaraderie. This volume chronicles the world of Respawn Entertainment’s stunning free-to-play game that has captivated the online gaming scene, attracting over seventy million players and counting. Don’t miss your opportunity to own a piece of Apex Legends history]Read more
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