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Standout in Stillness: Mindfulness for Actors and Performers
Delve into the captivating world of mindfulness practices, tailored made for the theatre and entertainment industry, with Michael Andersen’s special report: “Standout in Stillness: Mindfulness for Actors and Performers”.
Infused with wisdom from Andersen’s vast experience, this easy-to-follow guide unravels the intertwining threads of mindfulness and extraordinary performances. The content is engaging, enlightening, and, above all, practical, making it ideal for performers across all spectrums, from the fledgling to the seasoned veteran.
- “The Art of Being Present: Mindfulness Basics” will introduce you to the profound concepts of the practice.
- In “Breathing for the Stage: Core of Acting Mindfulness”, you’ll dig deep into the magnificent impacts of purposeful breathwork.
- Chapters like “Emotional Equipoise: Achieving Balanced Sentiments Through Mindfulness” and “Rehearsing Mindfully: A Pathway to Authenticity” will provide invaluable tools in honing your acting abilities while maintaining inner stillness.
With this special report, you can harness your inner calm to ignite your acting potential. So, gear up for a transformative journey through the echoes of encore, from the comforting stillness behind the curtains to standing tall on the grandiose stage. Grab your copy now and commence a journey towards mindful performances that resonate deeply with your audience.
Remember, because in stillness, you truly standout!
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Charles Laughton: A Difficult Actor
The creator of the Hunchback of Notre Dame, Henry VIII and Captain Bligh, Charles Laughton’s career spans 50 films and 40 stage roles. This entralling biography follows him from his parents’ hotel in Scarborough to his climactic assumption of the role of King Lear in Statford at the end of his life. Along the way we meet a galaxy of Hollywood greats – from Korda, Hitchcock and Billy WIlder to Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum and Marilyn Monroe. We also discover a hugely talented and complex man – a legend in his own lifetime who nonetheless counted himself a failure.Read more
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Memorization for Actors (Psychology for Actors Series)
Imagine if you could learn your lines in half the usual time yet feel confident they will roll off your tongue when needed.
Memorization for Actors provides you with a range of practical psychology tools and a bullet-proof memorization process that will put you miles ahead of the competition.
Read this book and discover:
• How you can become a master at learning your lines
• Simple tricks to learn more lines in less time
• Advanced tools to turbo-charge your memorization process
• Proven strategies to remember your lines in high stress situations
• When to schedule your memorization sessions for maximum effect, and more…Short enough to read in an afternoon, yet jam-packed with practical advice, Memorization for Actors will transform your acting career.
Alexa Ispas holds a PhD in psychology from the University of Edinburgh. The books in her Psychology for Actors Series provide actors with proven psychology techniques to thrive and build a successful career.
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Making It So: A Memoir
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
‘He writes as well as he acts, with insight, truth and passion’ – Sir Ian McKellen‘Highly entertaining… You don’t need to be a fan of Stewart the man of stage and screen to be as beguiled by the decades of professional acting that follow’ – The Times
The long-awaited memoir from iconic, beloved actor and living legend Sir Patrick Stewart.
From his acclaimed stage triumphs to his legendary onscreen work, Sir Patrick Stewart has captivated audiences around the world and across multiple generations in a career spanning six decades with his indelible command of stage and screen.
No other British working actor enjoys such career variety, universal respect and unending popularity, as witnessed through his seminal roles – whether as Captain Jean-Luc Picard of Star Trek fame, Professor Charles Xavier of Marvel’s X-Men hit film franchise, his more than forty years as part of the Royal Shakespeare Company and in such critically lauded roles for Hamlet and The Tempest on the West End and Broadway, his unforgettable one-man show adapted from Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, or his comedic work in American Dad!, Ted, Extras and Blunt Talk, among many others.
Now, he presents his long-awaited memoir, Making It So, a revealing portrait of a driven artist whose astonishing life – from his humble and hardscrabble beginnings in Yorkshire, to the dizzying heights of Hollywood and worldwide acclaim – proves a story as exuberant, definitive and enduring as the author himself.
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Harry Potter: Patronus Mini Projector Set (Rp Minis)
Expecto Patronum! Call on the Patronuses of 11 major Harry Potter characters with this officially licensed collectible set.
* SPECIFICATIONS: 3-inch projector features 11 Patronuses from the Harry Potter films and projects them across a 5-foot distance. Bonus 12th projection of the Harry Potter logo also included.
* BONUS STICKER BOOK: Mini sticker book includes 22 full-color stickers.
* PERFECT GIFT: A unique and keepsake item for all fans of Harry Potter.
* OFFICIALLY LICENSED: Authentic collectible.Copyright © 2022 Warner Bros. Entertainment. WIZARDING WORLD characters, names, and related indicia are © & ™ Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. WB SHIELD: © & ™ WBEI. Publishing Rights © JKR. (s22)
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Old Fashioned Christmas Coloring Book: 50 Vintage Christmas Coloring Pages with Mindful Holiday Designs for Men & Women – Stress and Anxiety Relief
Immerse yourself in the nostalgic joy of old-fashioned Christmas with this Vintage Christmas Coloring Book. With 50 enchanting pages, this book offers a therapeutic escape from the holiday hustle and bustle. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced colorist, you can unwind, reduce stress, and reconnect with cherished holiday memories. As you bring to life the classic holiday scenes, featuring vintage ornaments, festive decorations, and classic winter landscapes, you’ll find hours of entertainment and therapeutic relaxation. It’s not only perfect for your own enjoyment but also a heartwarming gift to share the comfort and joy of the holiday season with friends and family. ????????????️????Read more
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Piano & Keyboard Exercises for Beginners, Daily Technical Exercising for Pianists: 230 Essential Exercises with Scales, Chords, Arpeggios, Practical Finger Workout, Sheet Music…
Piano & Keyboard Exercises for Beginners: 230 Essential Exercises for Pianists!
This unique book will elevate your playing technique and increase the dexterity of both your right and left hands. It is a must-have for anyone looking to improve their musical ability and piano or keyboard skills.
Do you struggle with coordinating your two hands while playing? Do your fingers feel uncooperative? Are you a pianist looking to further develop your skills? Are you seeking knowledge and exercises that will support your progress? IF THE ANSWER IS YES, THIS BOOK IS FOR YOU!
About this book:
- Contains 230 practical exercises
- Spans 136 pages
- Includes theory on the Circle of Fifths
- Features exercises on interlaced white keys in All Keys
- Provides Introductory exercises
- Offers exercises on Scales, Arpeggios, and Chords
- Includes exercises on Scales in 3 Different Patterns
- Contains Scales-Based exercises
- Provides exercises on playing chords together
- Includes exercises on Arpeggios and Dominant Seventh Chords (7)
- Features Arpeggios in different meters for Both Hands
- Provides exercises on Arpeggios for Both Hands
- Exercises are written in All Keys
- Fingers are labeled for both the Left and Right Hand
- Piano exercises are available in all Key Signatures
Master and synchronize both hands forever with these exercises!
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Aliens – Colonial Marines Technical Manual
The Aliens Colonial Marines Technical Manual is your official guide to the equipment and organisation of the United States Colonial Marine Corps as featured in the hit film Aliens. Packed with never-before-published diagrams, technical schematics and plans, the manual takes a detailed look at the guns, vehicles and ships of the USCMC, and the men and women who use them.Read more
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The Bare Bones Camera Course for Film and Video
Over 200,000 sold! Adopted for use by over 700 college courses!Written by a working professional, here is the most user-friendly book available on the subject of film and video production; it reduces the shooting experience to its essence, making complicated concepts easy to grasp. Using simple clear language and more than 150 illustrations, the book explains:
- Exposure
- Lenses
- Composition
- Basic sequence
- Crossing the line
- Lighting
- Montages
- Sound
- Editing
- And much more!
When you finish this book, you will know and understand how to shoot good pictures that will edit together seamlessly in post-production. With added chapters on sound and editing, this new edition of The Bare Bones Camera Course for Film and Video rounds out the education of any filmmaker.
Allworth Press, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, publishes a broad range of books on the visual and performing arts, with emphasis on the business of art. Our titles cover subjects such as graphic design, theater, branding, fine art, photography, interior design, writing, acting, film, how to start careers, business and legal forms, business practices, and more. While we don’t aspire to publish a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are deeply committed to quality books that help creative professionals succeed and thrive. We often publish in areas overlooked by other publishers and welcome the author whose expertise can help our audience of readers.
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Robin
‘This well-written page-turner is the definitive biography of the genius of Robin Williams, whose life redefines the highs and lows of the American dream’ – Steve Martin
‘Tenderly written . . . frequently hilarious’ – Sunday Times
From his rapid-fire stand-up comedy riffs to his breakout role in Mork & Mindy and his Academy Award-winning performance in Good Will Hunting, Robin Williams was a singularly innovative and beloved entertainer. He often came across as a man possessed, holding forth on culture and politics while mixing in personal revelations – all with mercurial, tongue-twisting intensity as he inhabited and shed one character after another with lightning speed.
But as Dave Itzkoff shows in this revelatory biography, Williams’s comic brilliance masked a deep well of conflicting emotions and self-doubt, which he drew upon in his comedy and in celebrated films like Dead Poets Society; Good Morning, Vietnam; The Fisher King; Aladdin; and Mrs Doubtfire, where he showcased his limitless gift for improvisation to bring to life a wide range of characters. And in Good Will Hunting he gave an intense and controlled performance that revealed the true range of his talent.
Robin by Dave Itzkoff shows how Williams struggled mightily with addiction and depression – topics he discussed openly while performing and during interviews – and with a debilitating condition at the end of his life that affected him in ways his fans never knew. Drawing on more than a hundred original interviews with family, friends and colleagues, as well as extensive archival research, Robin is a fresh and original look at a man whose work touched so many lives.
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‘[Itzkoff] has written a book about the truth and the pain that lies in comedy, and the price paid by a sensitive soul’ – Amy Poehler
‘An amazing read’ – Patton Oswalt
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London College of Music Piano Anthology Grades 5 & 6
These Piano Anthologies contain pieces which have been carefully selected from previous piano exam lists dating from 1988 to 2006. All of the pieces in these volumes have proved popular with piano students, teachers and listeners, and we are pleased to be able to make them available again in these new collections. Pieces from these anthologies may be chosen as List B and C pieces, allowing students to increase their choice of repertoire beyond the already extensive selection offered in the LCM piano repertoire lists for grade, recital grade and leisure play options. It is hoped that these anthologies will also be of interest to piano students generally. The range of styles broadly covers the late 18th century to the present. Some familiar pieces are present in these volumes, but they include pieces additionally from composers who have had a distinguished career in the role of teacher or student at LCM. Amongst the former are William Lloyd Webber and Martyn Williams, and amongst the latter are Nicholas Grace and John Guilfoyle, who now have eminent academic and professional musical careers. CONTENTS: Grade 5, List B:; Pensive Rag (Cornick); Am Abend (Hofmann); Drifting (Hounsome); A Sailor Tune (Howells); Champagne Waltz (McCabe); Dance (Kabalevsky); Promenade (Prokofiev); Wiegenliedchen (Schumann); Allegro (Stravinsky); Compound Frolics (Williams); Grade 5, List C:; Easy Music (Ball); Blues (Chapple); Come Dancing (Chapple); On the Cool Side (Chapple); Washtub Rag (Chapple); Cheesecake Walk (Draper); Downstream (Guilfoyle); Rumba (Ingoldsby); La Poupée de Marcella (Linn); Taking it Easy (Mier); Young at Heart (Norton); The Owlglass (Rybicki); Grade 6, List B:; Capricho Catalan (Albéniz); Saturdays Child (Bennett); Klavierstück (Bruch); Mazurka (Glière); Volkslied (Grieg); Variations XI, XII and Coda (Kabalevsky); Mélodie (Massenet); Prelude (Pachulski); Sonata in F (Duek); Cortège de Sauterelles (Prokofiev); Valse (Prokofiev); Modinha Russo-Brasileira (Slonimsky); Londonderry Air (Trad. (arr. Cornick)); Fantasie-Dance (Schumann); Grade 6, List C:; Traffic Jam (Grace); No. V from 5 Short Pieces (Berkeley); Un Phare dons le Brouillard (Linn); Elite Syncopations (Joplin (arr. Turner)); Prelude VI (Norton); Small Hours (Peters).Read more
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London College of Music Piano Anthology Grades 7 & 8
These Piano Anthologies contain pieces which have been carefully selected from previous piano exam lists dating from 1988 to 2006. All of the pieces in these volumes have proved popular with piano students, teachers and listeners, and we are pleased to be able to make them available again in these new collections. Pieces from these anthologies may be chosen as List B and C pieces, allowing students to increase their choice of repertoire beyond the already extensive selection offered in the LCM piano repertoire lists for grade, recital grade and leisure play options. It is hoped that these anthologies will also be of interest to piano students generally. The range of styles broadly covers the late 18th century to the present. Some familiar pieces are present in these volumes, but they include pieces additionally from composers who have had a distinguished career in the role of teacher or student at LCM. Amongst the former are William Lloyd Webber and Martyn Williams, and amongst the latter are Nicholas Grace and John Guilfoyle, who now have eminent academic and professional musical careers. CONTENTS: Grade 7, List B:; Merry Andrew (Bartók); Prelude No. 26 in A flat (Chopin); Rêverie (Debussy); Holy Boy (Ireland); Bagatelle No. 2 in F sharp Minor (Ferguson); Petites Litanies de Jésus (Grovlez); Berceuse (Ilynsky); Versönung (Reger); Grade 7, List C:; No. 3 from Four Piano Blues (Copland); Stamp! (Gould); Le Chat et le Moucheron (Linn); A Steady Hand (Norton); Folksong Prelude No. 2 (Warlock); Prelude II (Norton); Grade 8, List B:; Dance in Bulgarian Rhythm No. 3 (Bartók); Suite Op. 14, first movement (Bartók); Nouvelle Etude No. 3 in A flat (Chopin); Prelude No. 5 (Berkeley); Andaluza (Granados); Prelude No. 12 (Rachmaninov); Menuet (Ravel); Valse Viennoise (Schmitt); Grade 8, List C:; Minstrels (Debussy); Scottish Dance No. 3 (Arnold (arr. York)); Ode to a Princess (Barnett); Burlesque (Moeran); Sturdy Build (Norton); Novelette No. 3 in E Minor (Poulenc).Read more
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Oxford Colleges Large Calendar – 2024
Oxford Colleges & University calendar – spiral bound wall calendar with 12 photographic images showing the Colleges and University buildings of Oxford. Size: 320mm x 320mm. Mailing envelope includedRead more
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Trinity College London Piano Exam Pieces Plus Exercises From 2021: Grade 7
This book contains a selection of 12 pieces for the Trinity Piano Grade 7 exam, carefully chosen, graded and edited by a panel of experts, along with informative performance notes to help students and teachers get the most out of the repertoire. It also includes the exercises required for the exam, which have been newly composed for the syllabus. Encompassing a wide range of styles and genres at every grade and with more pieces in each book than ever before, this progressive series provides a wealth of engaging repertoire for any pianist. An extended edition of this book is also available. This includes everything in this book along with the scales and arpeggios for the grade, an ebook of nine extra pieces (with performance notes) and downloadable audio for all 21 pieces.
Note: Effective immediately, Trinity’s Piano 2021-2023 Exam Pieces syllabus books will no longer operate with an end date, and the pieces they contain will remain listed in the syllabus indefinitely. Any planned changes, or removal of pieces listed in the syllabus will be messaged out with a one-year overlap period. Trinity will be gradually amending the covers on these books upon reprint to ‘from 2021’, however there are books with the previous date range. In those cases, the change to syllabus arrangements overrides the dates printed on the cover of the book. Trinity’s 2021 Piano books will be indefinitely valid alongside the new 2023 Piano books.
Contents:
Invention no. 12 in A major (Bach)
Capriccio in G minor, HWV 483 (Handel)
Finale (3rd movt from Sonata in D major, Hob. XVI:24) (Haydn)
Allegro (1st movt from Sonata in E major) (von Martinez)
Prelude no. 8 (Bullard)
Mélodie, op. 4 no. 2 (Hensel)
Lento (no. 139 from Moods, Impressions and Souvenirs, op. 41) (Fibich)
Improvisation (no. 4 from Twelve Virtuoso Studies, op. 46) (MacDowell)
Assez modéré (no. 1 from Trois mouvements perpétuels) (Poulenc)
Struttin’ at the Waldorf (no. 3 of Three Little Bites at the Big Apple) (Lane)
At Miss Florence’s (homage to Robert Schumann) (Earl)
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Super Mario 2024 Calendar
Featuring bold, colorful art from the Super Mario™ video game series, this 12-month calendar is a memorable journey through the Mushroom Kingdom.Join Mario and his friends on a colorful journey through the Mushroom Kingdom in this 12-month wall calendar featuring images from the Super Mario™ series. Iconic characters including Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach, Yoshi, Bowser, and more are showcased each month. Nostalgic Mario fans and new gamers alike are sure to be entertained all year long!
Features include:- 12″ x 12″ (12″ x 24″ open)
- Printed on FSC-certified paper with soy-based ink
- Planning spread for September–December 2023
- Spans January–December 2024
- Generous grid space for notes, appointments, and reminders
- Official major world holidays and observances
- Moon phases, based on Universal Time
- 35 images of characters and items
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Final Fantasy XIV Picture Book: The Namazu and the Greatest Gift
A whimsical, heartwarming picture book for Final Fantasy XIV fans young and old] When their river starts running dry, the catfish-like Namazu set out on a quest to bring the rain. They meet an odder otter who just might be able to help, but first they’ll have to find ‘something no one has ever seen.’ Will the Namazu be able to find this precious thing? Will they be able to make it rain?] Created by the Final Fantasy XIV development team, written by lead story designer Banri Oda, and illustrated by concept artist Hiroyuki Nagamine, this adorable tale will delight readers of all ages.Read more
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Chords Scales and Arpeggios Book for Accordion Training: 160 Essential Exercises, Practical Finger Workout, Sheet Music for Beginners
Professional EXERCISES for Accordionists. 160 PRACTICAL EXERCISES!
This is the perfect book for anyone who wants to improve their playing technique and practice chords, arpeggios, and scales on both hands, along with a variety of practical exercises for accordion. The exercises are written in all sharp and flat keys.
About this book:- 110 full pages,
- 160 practical exercises,
- Printed on High-Quality white paper,
- Practice Music Theory,
- Fingerings signed for LEFT and RIGHT hands,
- Exercises are written in All Keys (#) and (b),
Your playing technique will go to the next level with this book!
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Soft Machine On Track: Every Album, Every Song
Soft Machine are perceived as cold and forbidding. At their peak in the 1970s, they purposefully raised the hackles of pop journalists, the musical establishment, and even their own fans. Their music was designed to exclude all but the most devoted. Their line-up constantly churned, divesting themselves of every player that tried to make a human connection. Instead of the community of live performance, they favoured an abusive blast of ferocious noise that never ceased from the first note to the point you were driven out of the venue in shock. That all this was true only for a short period of their career and is certainly not the case for more recent incarnations is irrelevant if potential listeners are turned away before they’ve even dared to hear a note of their music. Do so, and an entirely different band emerges: one that is sly, spry, tuneful, trippy, and surprisingly welcoming, merging a glorious melange of prog rock, jazz fusion, and much more and capable of shifting on a unison beat from soul ballad to freeform skronk, from fuzz-driven pounding to aching minimalism. This book guides you through the maze of the band’s works, revealing why every album is worthy of re-evaluation, why they’re so influential, and why you should rush to assimilate as many of them as you can. It covers the live and studio material released by the parent group, all related projects with a ‘Soft’ in their name, and the essential extracurricular activities of every member from 1960 to the present day.Read more
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Primo Piano. Easy Piano Music for Adults. 55 Timeless Piano Songs for Adult Beginners with Downloadable Audio
If you have just started reading sheet music you probably noticed that there are not many options for adult piano beginners besides children music or songs that just are not so inspiring to play.If you are just starting out at the piano and want toplay easy songs that sound sophisticated, then this is the perfect book for you.
In this book you will find a wonderful and diverse selection of many evergreen pieces in simplified versions, along with corresponding fingerings.
In this book will get:
- 55 EASILY ARRANGED PIANO PIECES — All songs have been specifically arranged for learners. This means that all complex chords and rhythms have been simplified. In addition, all the pieces are kept relatively short, only one or two pages long. This will allow you to play otherwise complicated but beautiful melodies without any trouble.
- BEAUTIFUL MELODIES – Most pieces for beginners often sound quite boring. However, in this book you will find compositions that are both easy to play and sound sophisticated and rich. This will allow you to express your feelings brilliantly without growing tired of the song.
- DIVERSE COLLECTION – You will get a very varied selection of songs, from classics and famous English evergreens to international folk songs. This diverse selection of sheet music will fuel your enjoyment when practicing the piano.
- INCREASING LEVEL OF DIFFICULTY – This collection of sheet music contains pieces that vary in difficulty. At the beginning, the pieces are much easier and gradually become more challenging as the book progresses. This will keep you motivated constantly and enable you to accelerate your progress.
- FREE DOWNLOADABLE AUDIO FILES – Do you want to get an idea of what a piece should sound like? If you are unsure how to play a piece, our audio files will help you get a feel for the melody.
If you finally want to play the piano with soul and expression, buy this book NOW to facilitate your way into the magic world of piano playing.
This book is also a perfect gift idea, birthday gift or Christmas present!
Good luck and enjoy practicing!
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Caravaggio
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610) was always a name to be reckoned with. Notorious bad boy of the Italian Baroque, the artist was at once celebrated and controversial, violent in temper, precise in technique, a creative master, and a man on the run.
Though famed for his dramatic use of color, light, and shadow, it was above all Caravaggio’s boundary-breaking naturalism which scorched his name into the annals of art history. From the dirtied soles of feet to the sexualized languor of bare flesh, the artist allowed even sacred and biblical scenes to unfold with a startling, often visceral humanity. This vivid pictorial world was accompanied by an equally intense personal biography, scored by gambling, debts, drunken brawls, and even a murder charge.
This book brings together more than 50 of Caravaggio’s most famous and revolutionary works to explore how and why this artist is now considered the most important painter of the early Baroque period and one of the defining influences of art history, without whom Ribera, Vermeer, Rembrandt, Delacroix, Courbet, and Manet could never have painted the way they did.
About the series
Born back in 1985, the Basic Art Series has evolved into the best-selling art book collection ever published. Each book in TASCHEN’s Basic Art series features:
a detailed chronological summary of the life and oeuvre of the artist, covering his or her cultural and historical importance
a concise biography
approximately 100 illustrations with explanatory captions
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How to talk to small people: Funny Calendar / Christmas Gifts / Birthday Calendar / Gift Idea / Present / Humour Calendar / Secret Santa Gift / Calendar For 2023
Great Christmas Gift Idea
Brighten up someone’s day with this How to talk to small people 2023 calendar. The calendar has no hole and can be pinned up or a hole puncher can be used to create a hole. Keep track of important dates and never miss a birthday by recording them on the calendar grid.
will undoubtedly brighten up a loved one, family member, friend, or coworker, or win over that particular someone.
Features:
8.5” x 8.5”
January 2023 to December 2023
Funny Memes Cover
illustrator Memes
★ SPECIAL GIFT: A unique gift to give to friends and family. Perfect for Christmas, New Year, or birthday gifts.Read more
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Bob Ross 2024 Coloring Wall Calendar
This official Bob Ross™ 2024 Wall Coloring Calendar features 12 of Bob Ross’s signature landscapes that can be colored in to create happy little clouds, friendly trees, and powerful mountains. Make your own decisions, embrace your mistakes, and make each painting your own―just as Bob Ross encouraged us to do.- Features inspirational quotes from Bob Ross and iconic paintings
- 12 black-and-white illustrations to color, each paired with the Bob Ross painting that inspired it for reference
- Bonus spread for September–December 2023
- Generous grids for adding appointments and reminders
- Includes major official world holidays
- Opens to 12 inches x 24 inches
- Wire-o binding to lie flat for easier coloring
- Now 100% PLASTIC-FREE!
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How to Draw Cool Stuff: A Drawing Guide for Teachers and Students
How to Draw Cool Stuff shows simple step-by-step illustrations that make it easy for anyone to draw cool stuff with precision and confidence. These pages will guide you through the basic principles of illustration by concentrating on easy-to-learn shapes that build into complex drawings. With the step-by-step guidelines provided, anything can become easy to draw.This book contains a series of fun, hands-on exercises that will help you see line, shape, space and other elements in everyday objects and turn them into detailed works of art in just a few simple steps. The exercises in this book will help train your brain so you can visualize ordinary objects in a different manner, allowing you to see through the eyes of an artist. From photorealistic faces to holiday themes and tattoo drawings, How to Draw Cool Stuff makes drawing easier than you would think and more fun than you ever imagined! Now is the time to learn how to draw the subjects and scenes you’ve always dreamt of drawing.
How to Draw Cool Stuff is suitable for artists of any age benefiting everyone from teachers and students to self-learners and hobbyists. How to Draw Cool Stuff will help you realize your artistic potential and expose you to the pure joy of drawing!
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Angela Harding: Seal Song (Blank Sketch Book) (Luxury Sketch Books)
A FLAME TREE SKETCH BOOK. Beautiful and luxurious, the sketch books combine high-quality production with magnificent art. Perfect as a gift, the thick paper stock makes them ideal for sketching and drawing. Features a wide range of well-known and modern artists, with new artworks published throughout the year.
BEAUTIFULLY DESIGNED. The highly crafted covers are printed on foil paper, embossed then foil stamped, complemented by the luxury binding and bookmark ribbons. The covers are created by our artists and designers who spend many hours transforming original artwork into gorgeous 3d masterpieces that feel good in the hand, and look wonderful on a desk or table.
THE ARTIST. Angela Harding is a fine art painter and illustrator based in Rutland, UK. She specialises in lino prints and her work is inspired by British birds and countryside.
THE FINAL WORD. As William Morris said, “Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.”
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M.C. Escher. The Graphic Work
From impossible staircases to tesselated birds, Dutch artist M.C. Escher (1898–1972) crafted a unique graphic language of patterns, puzzles, and mathematics. Dense, complex, and structured by intricate principles, his work is at the same time decorative and playful, toying constantly with optic illusions and the limitations of sensory perception. For mathematicians and scientists, Escher is a mastermind. For hippies, he was the pioneer of psychedelic art.
Born in Leeuwarden, in the Netherlands in 1898, Escher’s early works focused on nature and landscapes, with regular exhibitions in Holland, and some international recognition. It was on a trip to the Alhambra Palace in Spain in the 1920s, however, that Escher found his niche. Sketching the patterns of the palace’s Moorish architecture, Escher became captivated by the codependency of forms within and next to each other.
Working mainly with lithographs and woodcuts, Escher went on to explore the relationships among shapes, figures, and space with a near-obsessive delight. He reveled in quirky vantage points, multiple perspectives, the transition from paper flatness to illusory volume, and intricate mathematical puzzles such as the Möbius strip, a seemingly infinite loop which twists and recoils on itself in a contortion of apparent physical impossibility.
This introductory book from TASCHEN Basic Art 2.0 taps into Escher’s brilliant mind with key works from his restless investigation of image and perception. Along the way, you’ll find fish morphing into birds, lizards crawling off the page, masterful reflections, infinite mazes, and some of the most mind-bending images of 20th-century art.
About the series
Born back in 1985, the Basic Art Series has evolved into the best-selling art book collection ever published. Each book in TASCHEN’s Basic Art series features:
a detailed chronological summary of the life and oeuvre of the artist, covering his or her cultural and historical importance
a concise biography
approximately 100 illustrations with explanatory captions
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Moomin Pull-Out Prints: Tove Jansson’s Art & Pictures
A beautiful collection of Tove Jansson’s classic Moomin artwork showcased alongside warm, witty and mindful quotes from the original books and characters. The perfect gift book for Moomin fans!
Packed full of stunning artwork from the Moomin archive including book covers, illustrations, and a detailed map of Moominvalley, this book is a wonderful introduction to the magical world of the Moomins and a must-have for any Moomin fan.
Includes 22 prints on sturdy, high-quality A4 card, which can be pulled out and framed, or the book can be read from start to finish to give a history of the Moomins and their unique world.
Publishing to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the creation of the Moomins, this gorgeous gift book is filled with inspirational quotes and additional info alongside the artwork, and will appeal to collectors and new fans alike.
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Angela Harding: Seal Song (Blank Sketch Book) (Luxury Sketch Books)
A FLAME TREE SKETCH BOOK. Beautiful and luxurious, the sketch books combine high-quality production with magnificent art. Perfect as a gift, the thick paper stock makes them ideal for sketching and drawing. Features a wide range of well-known and modern artists, with new artworks published throughout the year.
BEAUTIFULLY DESIGNED. The highly crafted covers are printed on foil paper, embossed then foil stamped, complemented by the luxury binding and bookmark ribbons. The covers are created by our artists and designers who spend many hours transforming original artwork into gorgeous 3d masterpieces that feel good in the hand, and look wonderful on a desk or table.
THE ARTIST. Angela Harding is a fine art painter and illustrator based in Rutland, UK. She specialises in lino prints and her work is inspired by British birds and countryside.
THE FINAL WORD. As William Morris said, “Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.”
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Hokusai
Meet the artist whose majestic breaking wave sent ripples across the world. Hokusai (1760–1849) is not only one of the giants of Japanese art and a legend of the Edo period, but also a founding father of Western modernism, whose prolific gamut of prints, illustrations, paintings, and beyond forms one of the most comprehensive oeuvres of ukiyo-e art and a benchmark of japonisme. His influence spread through Impressionism, Art Nouveau, and beyond, enrapturing the likes of Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot, Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt, and Vincent van Gogh.
Hokusai was always a man on the move. He changed domicile more than 90 times during his lifetime and changed his own name through over 30 pseudonyms. In his art, he adopted the same restlessness, covering the complete spectrum of Japanese ukiyo-e,“pictures of the floating world”, from single-sheet prints of landscapes and actors to erotic books. In addition, he created album prints, illustrations for verse anthologies and historical novels, and surimono, which were privately issued prints for special occasions.
Hokusai’s print series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, published between c. 1830 and 1834 is the artist’s most renowned work and, with its soaring peak through different seasons and from different vantage points, marked the towering summit of the Japanese landscape print. The series’ Under the Wave off Kanagawa, also known simply as The Great Wave, is one of the most recognized images of Japanese art in the world.
This TASCHEN introduction spans the length and breadth of Hokusai’s career with key pieces from his far-reaching portfolio. Through these meticulous, majestic works and series, we trace the variety of Hokusai’s subjects, from erotic books to historical novels, and the evolution of his vivid formalism and decisive delineation of space through color and line that would go on to liberate Western art from the constraints of its one-point perspective and unleash the modernist momentum.
About the series
Born back in 1985, the Basic Art Series has evolved into the best-selling art book collection ever published. Each book in TASCHEN’s Basic Art series features:
a detailed chronological summary of the life and oeuvre of the artist, covering his or her cultural and historical importance
a concise biography
approximately 100 illustrations with explanatory captions
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Art Forms in the Plant World (Dover Pictorial Archive)
Originally intended as reference for his work as architect, sculptor, and teacher, Blossfeldt’s exquisite sharp-focus photo studies of plant form ― leaves, buds, stems, seed pods, tendrils and twigs ― won acclaim with publication of the 1928 edition of this book. 120 full-page black-and-white plates. Original introduction. Publisher’s Note. Captions.Read more
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Food For Ravens: A Film for Television (Oberon Modern Plays)
Winner of a Royal Television Society Award, this is the text of the television drama broadcast by the BBC starring Brian Cox and Sinead Cusack. Food for Ravens is a powerful political drama about one of the great politicians of the Twentieth Century, Aneurin (Nye) Bevan.Read more
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Threads of Time: Recollections
Director Peter Brook reveals the myriad sources driving his lifelong passion for finding the most expressive way to tell a story. Over the years we watch his metamorphosis from traditionalist to radical innovator, witnessing his expanding field of vision and sense of dramatic possibility.For fifty years, Peter Brook’s opera, stage, and film productions have held audiences spellbound. His visionary directing has created some of the most influential productions in contemporary theater. Now at the pinnacle of his career, Brook has given us his memoir, a luminous, inspiring work in which he reflects on his artistic fortunes, his idols and teachers, his philosophical path and personal journey. In this autobiography, the man The New York Times has called “the English-speaking world’s most eminent director” and The London Times has named “theater’s living legend” reveals the myriad sources behind his lifelong passion to find the most expressive way of telling a story. Whether in India’s epic “Mahabharata” or a stage adaptation of Oliver Sak’s The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, South Africa’s “Woza Albert” or “The Cherry Orchard,” Brook’s unique blend of practicality and vision creates unforgettable experiences for audiences worldwide.
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Harry Potter: The Monster Book of Monsters: It Roams and Chomps!
The textbook of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry’s Care of Magical Creatures class comes to life in this one-of-a-kind collectible featuring the sound and movement of the famous Monster Book of Monsters.
Kit includes:
– 3-1/2″ Monster Book of Monsters replica featuring audio of the book in chomping action and movement. Both special features are sound-activated, prompted by a simple sound such as hand-clapping.
– 48-page book on magical creatures, featuring descriptions, quotes, and full-color illustrations and photos from the films throughout.
Requires two AAA batteries (not included).
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Insights Harry Potter: Marauder’s Map Lock and Key Diary
“Celebrate the magic of the HARRY POTTER films with this lock and key diary, featuring the Marauder s Map and a magic-reveal pen to help find invisible ink surprises concealed throughout the 192 pages of the diary. Includes a lock and two keys to keep thoughts secure from even the most powerful witches and wizards.”Read more
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The Little Book of Colour: How to Use the Psychology of Colour to Transform Your Life
A SUNDAY TIMES DESIGN BOOK OF THE YEAR
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The definitive guide to using the power of colour to improve your happiness, wellbeing and confidence.What if I told you that all around you is something that can increase your motivation and positively influence how you feel?
It’s called colour.
Building on over 20 years of experience, Applied Colour & Design Psychology Specialist Karen Haller puts this life-changing solution in your hands. With her unmatched expertise, she demonstrates the many practical ways in which you can use colour to transform your life. Whether you’re decorating an interior or revamping your wardrobe, get ready to be inspired by the possibilities to:
– Create a home that reflects your personality
– Grow your confidence in using colour
– Add colour to your workplace
– Choose clothes that express the true you
– Find your unique colour palette & design compatibilityIn the first book that mixes the science, psychology and emotional impact of colour, Karen Haller takes you on a journey through rediscovering the joy of colour.
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Magnolia Parks: Book 1 (Original Cover Collection) (Magnolia Parks Universe)
‘If Gossip Girl and Made in Chelsea had a baby, it would be this book.’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
‘How many loves do you get in a lifetime?’
She is a beautiful, affluent, self-involved and mildly neurotic London socialite.
He is Britain’s most photographed bad-boy who broke her heart.
Magnolia Parks and BJ Ballentine are meant to be, and everyone knows it.
She dates other people to keep him at bay; he sleeps with other girls to get back at her for it. But at the end of their every sad endeavour to get over one another, it’s still each other they crawl back to.
But now their dysfunction is catching up with them, pulling at their seams and fraying the world they’ve built; a world where neither has ever let the other go completely.
As the cracks start to show and secrets begin to surface, Magnolia and BJ are finally forced to face the formidable question they’ve been avoiding all their lives: How many loves do you really get in a lifetime?
READERS LOVE MAGNOLIA PARKS
‘Magnolia and BJ have embedded themselves into my DNA.’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
‘This book gave drama, love triangles, toxicity, chaos and I ate up every single moment.’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
‘TikTok made me do it, 1000% lived up to the hype.’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
‘Hands down the most emotional romance book I have ever read and therefore my favourite’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
‘Ridiculously addictive … My heart broke a million times’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
‘This book will tear your heart out!’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
‘Never have I felt more emotions reading a single book before. The angst and pure rollercoaster of emotions was real! Jessa Hastings had me crying by 10%.’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
MAGNOLIA PARKS UNIVERSE SERIES
1 – Magnolia Parks
2 – Daisy Haites
3 – Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home
4 – Daisy Haites: The Great Undoing
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National Galleries Scotland 2024 Desk Diary – Week to View, Illustrated on every page
Produced in partnership with National Galleries of Scotland, this diary showcases a stunning selection of artworks from their extensive collection, one of the finest in the world. Including artwork from Samuel John Peploe, Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell, George Leslie Hunter and John Duncan Fergusson – known as the Scottish Colourists – this practical and stylish week-to-view desk diary is a wonderful gift or a treat for yourself. Printed on FSC-certified paper.Read more
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Breuer
In 1956, TIME magazine called him one of the defining “form-givers of the 20th century.” Today, Marcel Breuer (1902–1981) remains a locus classicus of modernism for architects and designers alike. As a Bauhaus pioneer, even his earliest work was marked by a material restraint; the balance of texture, color, and shape; and a symbiosis of local and global, big and small, rough and smooth.
In this essential introductory monograph, we survey Breuer’s complete career through some of his most influential projects and ideas, from his landmark tubular furniture to the MoMA Research House to his innovation of “binuclear” housing, splitting living and sleeping areas into separate wings. Along the way, we follow Hungarian-born Breuer’s journey to international acclaim, with featured projects from Germany, France, England, Switzerland, and across the United States contributing to his global status as a modernist maestro.
About the series
Born back in 1985, the Basic Art Series has evolved into the best-selling art book collection ever published. Each book in TASCHEN’s Basic Architecture series features:
an introduction to the life and work of the architect
the major works in chronological order
information about the clients, architectural preconditions as well as construction problems and resolutions
a list of all the selected works and a map indicating the locations of the best and most famous buildings
approximately 120 illustrations (photographs, sketches, drafts, and plans)
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Saarinen
The creator of the ubiquitous Knoll “Tulip” chairs and tables, Eero Saarinen (1910–1961) was one of the 20th century’s most prominent space shapers, merging dynamic forms with a modernist sensibility across architecture and design.
Among Saarinen’s greatest accomplishments are Washington D.C.’s Dulles International Airport, the very sculptural and fluid TWA terminal at JFK Airport in New York, and the 630 ft. (192 m) high Gateway Arch of St. Louis, Missouri, each of them defining structures of postwar America. Catenary curves were present in many of his structural designs. During his long association with Knoll, Saarinen’s other famous furniture pieces included the “Grasshopper” lounge chair and the “Womb” settee. Married to Aline Bernstein Saarinen, a well-known critic of art and architecture, Saarinen also collaborated with Charles Eames, with whom he designed his first prize-winning chair.
With rich illustration tracing his life and career, this introduction follows Saarinen from his studies across his training all the way to his most prestigious projects, and explores how each of his designs brought a new dimension to the modernist landscape.
About the series
Born back in 1985, the Basic Art Series has evolved into the best-selling art book collection ever published. Each book in TASCHEN’s Basic Architecture series features:
an introduction to the life and work of the architect
the major works in chronological order
information about the clients, architectural preconditions as well as construction problems and resolutions
a list of all the selected works and a map indicating the locations of the best and most famous buildings
approximately 120 illustrations (photographs, sketches, drafts, and plans)
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Yves Klein
In the mid-1950s, Yves Klein (1928–1962) declared that “a new world calls for a new man.” With his idiosyncratic style and huge charisma, this bold artist would go on to pursue a brief but bountiful career, producing more than 1,000 paintings over seven years in an oeuvre now considered a mainstay of postwar modernism.
Klein made his name above all with his large monochrome canvases in his own patented hue of blue. International Klein Blue (IKB), composed of pure pigment and binding medium, is at once rich and luminous, evocative and decorative, and was conceived by Klein as a means of evoking the immateriality and infinitude of the world. The works of this “Blue Revolution” seem to draw us into another dimension, as if hypnotized by a perfect summer sky. Klein was also renowned for his deployment of “living brushes,” in which naked women, daubed in International Klein Blue, would make imprints of their bodies on large sheets of paper.
This Basic Art introduction presents key Klein works to introduce an artist who was at once a showman, inventor, and pioneer of performance art. With page after page of the ever-alluring International Klein Blue, it is both an essential guide to a modern art master and a meditation on the unique effects of a single color.
About the series
Born back in 1985, the Basic Art Series has evolved into the best-selling art book collection ever published. Each book in TASCHEN’s Basic Art series features:
a detailed chronological summary of the life and oeuvre of the artist, covering his or her cultural and historical importance
a concise biography
approximately 100 illustrations with explanatory captions
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Pop Art
Peaking in the 1960s, Pop Art began as a revolt against mainstream approaches to art and culture and evolved into a wholesale interrogation of modern society, consumer culture, the role of the artist, and of what constituted an artwork.
Focusing on issues of materialism, celebrity, and media, Pop Art drew on mass-market sources, from advertising imagery to comic books, from Hollywood’s most famous faces to the packaging of consumer products, the latter epitomized by Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s soup cans. As well as challenging the establishment with the elevation of such popular, banal, and kitschy images, Pop Art also deployed methods of mass-production, reducing the role of the individual artist with mechanized techniques such as screen printing.
With featured artists including Andy Warhol, Allen Jones, Ed Ruscha, Robert Indiana, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Roy Lichtenstein, this book introduces the full reach and influence of a defining modernist movement.
About the series
Born back in 1985, the Basic Art Series has evolved into the best-selling art book collection ever published. Each book in TASCHEN’s Basic Art History series features:
approximately 100 color illustrations with explanatory captions
a detailed, illustrated introduction
a selection of the most important works of the epoch, each presented on a two-page spread with a full-page image and accompanying interpretation, as well as a portrait and brief biography of the artist
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