• Beginner’s Guide to Digital Painting in Procreate: How to Create Art on an iPad®

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    Learn how to paint on your iPad like the professionals in Beginner’s Guide to Procreate, a comprehensive introduction to this industry-standard software. Accessible and versatile, Procreate is an ideal tool for anyone wanting to give digital painting a go. Step-by-step tutorials, quick tips, and inspiring artwork ensure you’ll have all you need to create stunning concept art quickly and easily.

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  • The Classical Music Lover’s Companion to Orchestral Music

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    An invaluable guide for lovers of classical music designed to enhance their enjoyment of the core orchestral repertoire from 1700 to 1950

    Robert Philip, scholar, broadcaster, and musician, has compiled an essential handbook for lovers of classical music, designed to enhance their listening experience to the full. Covering four hundred works by sixty-eight composers from Corelli to Shostakovich, this engaging companion explores and unpacks the most frequently performed works, including symphonies, concertos, overtures, suites, and ballet scores. It offers intriguing details about each piece while avoiding technical terminology that might frustrate the non-specialist reader.
     
    Philip identifies key features in each work, as well as subtleties and surprises that await the attentive listener, and he includes enough background and biographical information to illuminate the composer’s intentions. Organized alphabetically from Bach to Webern, this compendium will be indispensable for classical music enthusiasts, whether in the concert hall or enjoying recordings at home.

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  • The Official Singles Chart – The Seventies

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    The Official Singles Charts: The Seventies is an essential gathering together of all the UK’s Official charts, week-by-week, as full Top 75s, chronicling the shifting fashions and trends of that most memorable of decades. That means more than 500 weeks of singles charts. These are the charts recognised by the music industry as their official rundowns (as curated today by the Official Charts Company – and made available at OfficialCharts.com). This means the charts broadcast by BBC Radio 1 and Top Of The Pops, and published by music industry magazine Music Week. This is the first time these Top 75s have been gathered together in the same place in a printed volume and is the first in a series of books which, over the coming months, will make up a collection of volumes spanning every week of the UK’s Official singles and albums charts from 1952 to the present day.Published at the same time as this title is the companion volume, The Official Albums Charts: The Seventies. The additional volumes on the rest of the UK’s great chart decades are coming your way very soon.

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  • Hit Singles: Top 20 Charts from 1954 to the Present Day

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    This entertaining book presents the U.S. and U.K. Top 20 charts side by side, month by month – showing how rock and pop developed on each side of the Atlantic. Fully updated, it lists the hits from 1954 through 2003. Alongside every song listing, readers will find important facts such as the artist’s name and nationality, current and previous month’s chart position, record label, weeks on the chart, and simultaneous position on the other side of the pond. Includes an alphabetical listing of song titles with artists, and an alphabetical listing of artists with song titles and chart-entry dates, enabling easy cross-referencing to help you track down any Top 20 record since 1954.

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  • The Official Charts – The Sixties

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    The Official Charts: The Sixties is an essential gathering together of all the UK’s Official charts, week-by-week, as the full published chart, chronicling the shifting fashions and trends of that most memorable of decades. That means more than 500 weeks of both singles and album charts. These are the charts recognised by the music industry as their official rundowns (as curated today by the Official Charts Company – and made available at OfficialCharts.com). This means the charts broadcast by BBC Radio 1 and Top Of The Pops, and published by music industry magazine Music Week. This is the first time the full charts have been gathered together in the same place in a printed volume and is the latest in a series of books which, over the coming months, will make up a collection of volumes spanning every week of the UK’s Official singles and albums charts from 1952 to the present day. Also included are the accompanying EP Charts, which were published between March 1960 and December 1967. Published at the same time as this title is the companion volume, The Official Sixties Hits Book. The additional volumes on the rest of the UK’s great chart decades are coming your way very soon.

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  • The Official Eighties Hits Book

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    This book is a companion volume to The Official Albums and Singles Chart books of the 1980s that were recently published on behalf of the Official Chart Company. Those books replicate the weekly charts throughout the eighties, while this book takes the data and produces artist by artist listings of hit singles and albums. Each artist entry contains brief biographical information, including individual dates of birth and place of birth (where known), together with details of awards and honours – BRIT Awards, Grammy Awards, MTV Europe awards and Birthday and New Years Honours List awards. Singles and albums that have attained silver, gold, platinum and multi-platinum status are also identified, together with RIAA Diamond Awards. This is the ultimate chart trivia book for the 1980s!

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  • Harmony and Theory: A Comprehensive Source for All Musicians (Essential Concepts)

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    (Musicians Institute Press). This book is a step-by-step guide to MI’s well-known Harmony and Theory class. It includes complete lessons and analysis of: intervals, rhythms, scales, chords, key signatures; transposition, chord inversions, key centers; harmonizing the major and minor scales; and more!

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  • The Faber Music Christmas Piano Anthology (Faber Music Piano Anthology series)

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    The Faber Music Christmas Piano Anthology is an essential collection of the greatest Christmas songs and carols, specially arranged for solo piano, for the intermediate pianist. The perfect gift for Christmas, this beautiful anthology includes favourites such as O Holy Night, Sleigh Ride and It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas alongside arrangements of Winter (from the Four Seasons), Troika (from Lieutenant Kije), and more.

    Contents:

    A Holly Jolly Christmas

    A Marshmallow World

    A Winter’s Tale

    All I Want For Christmas Is You

    All Through The Night

    Auld Lang Syne

    Away In A Manger

    Bethlehem Down

    Carol Of The Bells

    Coventry Carol

    December Prayer

    December Song (I Dreamed Of Christmas)

    Deck The Halls

    Ding Dong Merrily On High

    Do They Know It’s Christmas?

    (Everybody’s Waitin For) The Man With The Bag

    Frosty The Snowman

    God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen

    Hallelujah Chorus (from Messiah)

    Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

    Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas

    Holy, Holy, Holy

    I Am Blessed

    I Saw Three Ships

    I’ll Be Home For Christmas

    I’ve Got My Love To Keep Me Warm

    In The Bleak Midwinter

    It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas

    It’s Christmas Time All Over The World

    Jingle Bell Rock

    Jingle Bells

    Joy To The World

    Last Christmas

    Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!

    Little Donkey

    Merry Xmas Everybody

    Mistletoe And Wine

    O Christmas Tree

    O Come O Come Emmanuel

    O Come, All Ye Faithful

    O Holy Night

    O Little Town Of Bethlehem

    Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree

    Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer

    Santa Baby

    Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town

    Silent Night

    Sinfonia (from Christmas Oratorio)

    Sleigh Ride

    Stop The Cavalry

    The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas To You)

    The First Noel

    The Holly And The Ivy

    The Little Drummer Boy

    The Power Of Love

    The Star

    Troika from Lieutenant Kije

    We Three Kings

    We Wish You A Merry Christmas

    Weihnachtsbaum: Die Hirten an der Krippe (In Dulci Jubilo)

    What A Wonderful World

    What Child Is This?

    When A Child Is Born

    While Shepherds Watched

    Winter (from The Four Seasons)

    Winter Wonderland

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  • My Town: An Artist’s Life in London

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    David Gentleman has lived in London for almost seventy years, most of it on the same street. This book is a record of a lifetime spent observing, drawing and getting to know the city, bringing together work from across his whole career, from his earliest sketches to watercolours painted just a few months ago.

    Here is London as it was, and as it is today: the Thames, Hampstead Heath; the streets, canals, markets and people of his home of Camden Town; and at the heart of it all, his studio and the tools of his work. Accompanied by reflections on the process of drawing and personal thoughts on the ever-changing city, this is a celebration of London, and the joy of noticing, looking and capturing the world.

    ‘David has spent a lifetime depicting with wit and affection a London he has made his own’ Alan Bennett

    ‘He delivers a poetry of exultant concentration … The surface fusion of the sensuous and the sharply modern is echoed by Gentleman’s imagery’ Guardian

    ‘The artist and illustrator has been responsible for some of the most-seen public artworks in this country’ The Times

    ‘Perhaps the last of the great polymath designer-painters’ Camden New Journal

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  • Kim Jong Il Looking at Things

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    Comical and bizarre, Kim Jong Il Looking at Things is based upon one of the most followed, shared and imitated monothematic Tumblr blogs in recent years. Created by João Rocha, an art director at an advertising firm in Lisbon, the blog is a collection of photographs which depict the former “Dear Leader” of North Korea, often accompanied by military personnel or senior advisers, engaged in the act of looking at things. Since its creation in October 2010, Rocha has posted photographs appropriated from the North Korean Central News Agency, which he matches with deadpan captions: “looking at cows”; “looking at blue rods”; “looking at pastry”; “looking at a metalworker”; “looking at a DVD labeling machine.” This hilarious book collects a series of the blog’s most memorable photographs and includes an essay by visual culture writer Marco Bohr.

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  • Kyffin in Venice: An Illustrated Conversation

    A series of interviews between Kyffin Williams and David Meredith, in which Meredith takes Kyffin on a return visit to his beloved Venice, the inspiration for so many of his best-loved paintings. Includes over 15 full colour reproductions of Kyffin’s paintings, together with photographs of the artist, and fascinating insights into his experiences.

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  • Redouté. The Book of Flowers. 40th Ed.

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    Flower painter Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759–1840) devoted himself exclusively to capturing the diversity of flowering plants in watercolor paintings which were then published as copper engravings, with careful botanical descriptions. The darling of wealthy Parisian patrons including Napoleon’s wife Josephine, he was dubbed “the Raphael of flowers,” and is regarded to this day as a master of botanical illustration.

    This collection brings our best-selling XL-sized edition to a smaller, more convenient format, still gathering some of the finest color engravings from Redouté’s illustrations of Roses, Lilies, and Choix des plus belles fleurs et quelques branches des plus beaux fruits (Selection of the Most Beautiful Blooms and Branches with the Finest Fruits). Offering a vibrant overview of Redouté’s admixture of accuracy and beauty, it is also a privileged glimpse into the magnificent gardens and greenhouses of a bygone Paris.

    About the series

    TASCHEN is 40! Since we started our work as cultural archaeologists in 1980, TASCHEN has become synonymous with accessible publishing, helping bookworms around the world curate their own library of art, anthropology, and aphrodisia at an unbeatable price. Today we celebrate 40 years of incredible books by staying true to our company credo. The 40 series presents new editions of some of the stars of our program―now more compact, friendly in price, and still realized with the same commitment to impeccable production.

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  • Hardware: The Definitive SF Works of Chris Foss

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    Foss’s groundbreaking and distinctive science fiction art revolutionized paperback covers in the 1970s and 80s. Dramatically raising the bar for realism and invention, his trademark battle-weary spacecraft, dramatic alien landscapes and crumbling brutalist architecture irrevocably changed the aesthetic of science fiction art and cinema. Featuring work for books by Isaac Asimov, E. E. Doc Smith, Arthur C. Clarke, A. E. Van Vogt and Philip K. Dick, and film design for Ridley Scott and Stanley Kubrick, this volume brings together many rare and classic images that have never been seen or reprinted before. The first comprehensive retrospective of Chris Foss sci-fi career.

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  • Atlas of the Invisible: Maps & Graphics That Will Change How You See the World

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    Winner of the British Cartographic Society Award 2021
    Winner of the John C Bartholomew Award for Thematic Mapping 2021
    Winner of the Stanfords Award for Printed Mapping 2021

    Discover the hidden patterns in human society as you have never seen them before – through the world of data

    In Atlas of the Invisible, award-winning geographer-designer team James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti redefine what an atlas can be. Transforming enormous data sets into rich maps and cutting-edge vizualisations, they uncover truths about our past, reflect who we are today, and highlight what we face in the years ahead. With their joyfully inquisitive approach, Cheshire and Uberti explore happiness and anxiety levels around the globe; they trace the undersea cables and cell towers that connect us; they examine hidden scars of geopolitics; and illustrate how a warming planet affects everything from hurricanes to the hajj.

    Years in the making, Atlas of the Invisible invites readers to marvel at the promise and peril of data, and to revel in the secrets and contours of a newly visible world.

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  • The History of Graphic Design. 40th Ed.

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    Through the turbulent passage of time, graphic design―with its vivid, neat synthesis of image and idea―has distilled the spirit of each age. Surrounding us every minute of every day, from minimalist packaging to colorful adverts, smart environmental graphics to sleek interfaces: graphic design is as much about transmitting information as it is about reflecting society’s cultural aspirations and values.

    With his sweeping knowledge of the field, author Jens Müller curates the standout designs for each year, a running sequence of design milestones. This collection of important graphic works represents a long-overdue reflection on the development of a creative field constantly changing and challenging itself. These key pieces act as coordinates through contemporary history, helping us trace the sheer influence of graphic design on our daily lives.

    About the series

    TASCHEN is 40! Since we started our work as cultural archaeologists in 1980, TASCHEN has become synonymous with accessible publishing, helping bookworms around the world curate their own library of art, anthropology, and aphrodisia at an unbeatable price. Today we celebrate 40 years of incredible books by staying true to our company credo. The 40 series presents new editions of some of the stars of our program―now more compact, friendly in price, and still realized with the same commitment to impeccable production.

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  • A Year Unfolding: A Printmaker’s View

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    A BEAUTIFUL CHRISTMAS GIFT

    ‘A cosy and delightful book – a real joy to behold.’ Daily Mail
    ‘A gorgeous book to be treasured’ BBC Countryfile

    A beautifully illustrated guide to nature through the seasons by much-loved printmaker Angela Harding.

    This stunning work, the first book that is solely dedicated to Angela’s art, is a celebration of her beautiful prints, and a glimpse into her detailed and meticulous process.

    A Year Unfolding is a journey through Angela’s year in nature watching the seasons unfold in front of her from her studio in Rutland, and giving the reader detail into how nature transforms and evolves over the course of the year.

    A Year Unfolding also tells the stories behind some of Angela’s most popular images, giving context to Angela’s celebrated work, as well as new art created specifically for the book. The beautiful illustrations and evocative imagery of the prose make this the perfect book for Angela’s fans and readers and art lovers everywhere.

    Angela has created the covers for many bestselling books, including The Salt Path and The Wild Silence by Raynor Winn, October, October by Katya Balen, English Pastoral by James Rebanks, Christmas is Murder by Val McDermid and RSPB Birds among many others.

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  • Linocut: A Creative Guide to Making Beautiful Prints

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    A step-by-step guide on how to create personal and contemporary linocut prints.

    A linocut is a relief print created by carving a design into a printing block. It is the uncut surface, not the carved away areas, that gives you your image when you roll it with ink, lay paper on top then apply pressure to produce a print.

    With 18 easy-to-follow projects that can be adapted to suit your own ideas, experienced printmaker Sam Marshall guides you through the whole process – from the drawing to the carving to the inking to the printing – of creating your own beautiful prints and handmade cards whether you are working from your kitchen table or a more advanced studio set-up.

    By taking inspiration from everyday life, Sam helps you to build your confidence with observational drawing. Featuring step-by-step projects, the book demonstrates a range of skills with low-cost materials to produce simple linocuts, reduction linocuts and colourful multi-block prints. You will also learn more experimental techniques such as combining monoprint, chine collé, jigsaw linocuts and rainbow rolls and pick up handy tips on subjects such as ‘noise’ and editioning your prints.

    Beautifully illustrated with photographs of Sam’s own drawings and linocuts, and featuring the work of 5 talented printmakers, Linocut is an essential guide to linocut printmaking. Packed with creative and practical advice to guide and encourage you, whether you’re just starting out, returning to the craft or looking to expand your printmaking skills.

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  • Wood Engraving: How to Do It

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    Wood Engraving is an easily followed, practical manual on wood engraving for the beginner, written by a master in the field. The processes of printing and engraving are clearly explained, together with their material requirements. Up-to-date variations on techniques, and all the tips and methods that the author has found helpful in 30 years as a practitioner are included. The book is also a beautiful object in its own right and as the author Simon Brett’s work is highly collectible. It is a must have for all those who treasure his work and fine wood engraving in general.

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  • The Artist’s Manual: The Definitive Art Sourcebook: Media, Materials, Tools, and Techniques

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    Take your creativity to the next level with the ultimate artist’s bible!

    Covering everything from how to draw and paint to ceramics, sculptures and printmaking, you’ll get the most out of your passion for art with this beautifully illustrated artist’s handbook. It also includes newer areas such as digital art and animation – perfect for modern artists!

    Discover everything you need to help you release the artist within! This essential art book includes:

    – All areas of visual art; including drawing, painting, 3D art, printmaking, textiles, and digital arts including photography
    – Each section is written by an acknowledged expert in that field – both practising professionals and university-level teachers
    – Comprehensive coverage of equipment and tools, including step-by-step sequences, where appropriate on how to use
    – Techniques are illustrated in step-by-step sequences by professional artists, with basic skills leading on to more advanced techniques

    Whether you’re dipping in to find a specific painting technique or browsing for artistic inspiration, this artist’s reference book covers all the elements of painting and drawing. Brush up on the art basics like choosing the right tool, mixing watercolours, and preparing a canvas. Take your skills further and learn how to glaze a pot, try out 3D printing and mosaic, or create a digital collage.

    The Artist’s Manual will help you become a more confident, creative artist. Equipment, materials, and methods are fully explained and beautifully illustrated. Perfect for artists of every skill level, you’ll be creating your own masterpieces in no time with this guide to art. It’s a must-have for every artist’s studio!

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  • Heraldic Crests: A Pictorial Archive of 4,424 Designs for Artists and Craftspeople (Dover Pictorial Archive)

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    Rich selection of royalty-free motifs from famous British reference. Striking, varied designs suitable for any number of graphic projects. Images include lions, tigers, wreaths, falcons, rosettes, human figures, mythical creatures, crowns, and much more. Add aristocratic flair to book and magazine illustrations, advertisements, newsletters, etc.

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  • Sidemen: The Book: The book you’ve been waiting for

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    Billions of you have watched their videos and millions of you have followed them on social media.

    So here we go; it’s time to back up because YouTube superstars, The Sidemen, are finally here in book form and they’re dishing the dirt on each other as well as the YouTube universe.

    There’s nowhere to hide as the guys go in hard on their living habits, their football ability, and their dodgy clobber, while also talking Fifa, Vegas and superheroes. They’ll also give you their grand house tour, letting you in on a few secrets, before showing you their hall of fame, as well as revealing some of their greatest shames.

    Along the way you’ll learn how seven of the world’s biggest YouTube stars started off with nothing more than a computer console, a PC and a bad haircut before joining forces to crush the internet. And they’ll tell you just how they did it (because they’re nice like that) with their ultimate guide to YouTube while also sharing their memories of recording their favourite videos as well as a typical day in the life of The Sidemen.

    You’ll feel like you’re with them every step of the way, smelling the ‘sweet’ aroma of the boys’ favourite dishes in the kitchen, stamping your passport as you follow them on their trips around the world and kicking every ball as the boys gear up for the biggest football match of their lives.

    It’s going to get personal. It’s going to get intense, and JJ is going to have lots of tantrums, so take a moment to prepare yourself, because this is The Sidemen book you’ve been waiting for!

    Enter the Sidemen LUCKY DIP

    Submit your pre-order confirmation for a chance to win a selection of amazing prizes, including a trip to Gravity Force with the Sidemen! Go to sidemenbook.co.uk for all the details.

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  • Basics Animation 03: Drawing for Animation

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    The thinking process behind drawing, characters, composition and movement, narrative and adaptation are all fully examined in the latest title “Drawing for Animation”. Drawing is a fundamental part of the preparatory stages of virtually all design-led projects. It is the core method by which ideas and concepts may be envisaged and ultimately shared with collaborators, clients and audiences. Aimed at students and those interested in entering the animation business, this book explores the pre-production work essential for producing great animation. It is supported by student exercises and includes varied contributions from pioneers in the industry, as well as contemporary practitioners.

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  • The Day the Music Died: A Life Lived Behind the Lens

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    ‘An extraordinary book by an extraordinary man’ Ken Loach

    Tony Garnett’s story begins in working-class, war-torn Birmingham where he movingly describes the trauma of his mother’s death following a back-street abortion. Nineteen days later, stricken with grief, Tony’s father committed suicide and Tony was sent to live with other family members. He eventually moved to London and was part of the counterculture scene in the 1960s.

    Tony takes us behind the scenes of a selection of his more famous productions, offering secrets and anecdotes, some moving, some amusing. He gives accounts of angry clashes with the BBC and movie executives as he battles to make films that are thought too controversial. Year after year he fought the BBC and movie bosses to bring to the public films about police corruption and psychiatrists’ cruelty; films advocating abortion law reform and the abolition of the death penalty; films about the homeless and the waste of young people in poor schools.

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  • A British Picture: An Autobiography

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    With a foreword by Melvyn Bragg. The updated autobiography of Britain’s most controversial film director. Moving with astonishing assurance through time and space, Russell recreates his life in a series of interconnected episodes – his 30s childhood in Southampton, his first sexual experience (watching Disney’s Pinocchio), his schooldays at the Nautical College, Pangbourne and early careers in the Merchant Marines and the Royal Air Force. Full of marvellously funny anecdotes and fascinating insights, this is a remarkable autobiography.

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  • Rock ‘N’ Film: Cinema’s Dance With Popular Music

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    For two decades after the mid-1950s, biracial popular music played a fundamental role in progressive social movements on both sides of the Atlantic. Balancing rock’s capacity for utopian popular cultural empowerment with its usefulness for the capitalist media industries, Rock ‘N’ Film explores how the music’s contradictory potentials were reproduced in various kinds of cinema, including major studio productions, minor studios’ exploitation projects, independent documentaries, and the avant-garde.

    These include Rock Around the Clock and other 1950s jukebox musicals; the films Elvis made before being drafted, especially King Creole, as well as the formulaic comedies in which Hollywood abused his genius in the 1960s; early documentaries such as The T.A.M.I. Show that presented James Brown and the Rolling Stones as the core of a black-white, US-UK cultural commonality; A Hard Day’s Night that marked the British Invasion; Dont Look Back, Monterey Pop, Woodstock, and other Direct Cinema documentaries about the music of the counterculture; and avant-garde films about the Rolling Stones by Jean-Luc Godard, Kenneth Anger, and Robert Frank.

    After the turn of the decade, notably Gimme Shelter, in which the Stones appeared to be complicit in the Hells Angels’ murder of a young black man, 1960s’ music-and films about it-reverted to separate black and white traditions based respectively on soul and country. These produced blaxploitation and Lady Sings the Blues on the one hand, and bigoted representations of Southern culture in Nashville on the other. Ending with the deaths of their stars, both films implied that rock ‘n’ roll had died or even, as David Bowie proclaimed, that it had committed suicide. But in his documentary about Bowie, Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, D.A. Pennebaker triumphantly re-affirmed the community of musicians and fans in glam rock.

    In analyzing this history, David E. James adapts the methodology of histories of the classic film musical to show how the rock ‘n’ roll film both displaced and recreated it.

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  • Hollywood: The Oral History

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    Hollywood: The Oral History covers the history of Hollywood from the Silent era up to the 21st century.

    What makes this book unique from any other survey of Hollywood’s history is that it is the history of an art form through the words of those people who created it – from Harold Lloyd to Katharine Hepburn to Warren Beatty to Jane Fonda and beyond, including directors, writers, producers, editors, designers of sets and costumes.
    As such, the authenticity of the text is irrefutable.
    The material in the book – gathered over the decades by the American Film Institute – has never been published before, has never been heard before.

    It is comprehensive – a monument that will never age nor be surpassed.

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  • The Film Encyclopedia 7th Edition: The Complete Guide to Film and the Film Industry

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    “The best movie reference book, hands down” (Newsweek) is now available in a deftly revised and meticulously updated seventh edition. Ephraim Katz’s celebrated and comprehensive cinema Bible, The Film Encyclopedia, has been lovingly expanded to include new, thorough coverage of independent films, the artistic and technical aspects of filmmaking, and the trends that lie close to the heart of today’s movie buff. Cinephiles will delight in new entries ranging from Sophia Coppola and Wes Anderson to The Lord of the Rings and Captain America. Built upon a foundation which inspired Katherine Hepburn to comment, “Wow! What a book!,” The Film Encyclopedia 7e is an indispensable addition to any movie fan’s home library.

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  • Stranger Things: Worlds Turned Upside Down: The Official Behind-The-Scenes Companion

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    THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

    Welcome to Hawkins, Indiana.

    The official behind-the-scenes companion guide to the first two seasons of Stranger Things and beyond, brought to life with exclusive photos and stunning concept art.

    Stranger things have happened. . . .

    When the first season of Stranger Things debuted on Netflix in the summer of 2016, the show struck a nerve with millions of viewers worldwide and received broad critical acclaim. The series has gone on to win six Emmy Awards, but its success was driven more than anything by word of mouth, resonating across generations. Viewers feel personal connections to the characters. Now fans can immerse themselves in the world―or worlds―of Hawkins, Indiana, like never before. Inside you’ll find

    · original commentary and a foreword from creators Matt and Ross Duffer
    · exclusive interviews with the stars of the show, including Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard, and David Harbour
    · the show’s earliest drafts, pitches to Netflix, and casting calls
    · insights into the Duffers’ creative process from the entire crew―from costume and set designers to composers and visual-effects specialists
    · deep dives into the cultural artifacts and references that inspired the look and feel of the show
    · a map of everyday Hawkins―with clues charting the network of the Upside Down
    · a digital copy of the Morse code disk Eleven uses, so you can decipher secret messages embedded throughout the text
    · a look into the future of the series―including a sneak preview of season three!

    Adding whole new layers to enrich the viewing experience, this keepsake is essential reading for anyone and everyone who loves Stranger Things.

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    Note: The ebook is best viewed on a colour device with a larger screen.

    Note :This book is supposed to look worn and torn.

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  • Chunky: The Best Bits from Acorn Antiques to Kitty and more

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    ‘Absolutely perfect. All Christmas presents sorted. No notes.’ Sarra Manning

    Published to celebrate the much-missed Victoria Wood’s 70th birthday, this stunning hardback edition of Chunky contains the very best of Wood’s sketches and shows, including those never seen on TV, as well as:

    NEW introduction from Celia Imrie, star of many of Victoria Wood’s shows

    Additions and annotations from Wood’s acclaimed official biographer, Jasper Rees.

    ‘I was very proud to be part of her gang.’ Celia Imrie

    ‘There was none like her before and there’s been none like her since – she was unique.’ Dawn French

    ‘She is on a par with Alan Bennett.’ Clive James

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  • Cinema Speculation

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    A unique cocktail of personal memoir, cultural criticism and Hollywood history by the one and only Quentin Tarantino.

    The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the number one New York Times bestselling Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: a deliriously entertaining, wickedly intelligent cinema book as unique and creative as anything by Quentin Tarantino.

    In addition to being among the most celebrated of contemporary filmmakers, Quentin Tarantino is possibly the most joyously infectious movie lover alive. For years he has touted in interviews his eventual turn to writing books about films.

    Now, with CINEMA SPECULATION, the time has come, and the results are everything his passionate fans – and all movie lovers – could have hoped for.

    Organized around key American films from the 1970s, all of which he first saw as a young moviegoer at the time, this book is as intellectually rigorous and insightful as it is rollicking and entertaining.

    At once film criticism, film theory, a feat of reporting, and wonderful personal history, it is all written in the singular voice recognizable immediately as QT’s and with the rare perspective about cinema possible only from one of the greatest practitioners of the artform ever.

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  • Straight from the Heart: BONNIE TYLER’S LONG-AWAITED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

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    You know the name and you can’t mistake the voice. Now you can read the incredible story of how a shy, music-loving teenager called Gaynor Hopkins morphed into legendary international superstar Bonnie Tyler and carved out an extraordinary career that is still going strong to this day.

    After five decades in the business – during which time she has recorded some of the most iconic songs of all time, travelled the world and performed for royalty and the Pope – Bonnie is sharing her fascinating journey for the first time. And she’s not holding back.

    From her early days growing up in a tiny mining village in South Wales, to her career as a club singer that led to her accidental discovery by a talent scout, the Top of the Pops devotee had no idea she would one day grace the infamous illuminated stage alongside some of her biggest idols. Her rise to fame would sound like a fairy tale if it wasn’t all true.

    Bonnie has always determinedly followed her own path, even when sceptical music execs told her she would fail. Her bravery led to her working with the legendary producer and songwriter Jim Steinman, going on to record the classic power ballads ‘Total Eclipse of the Heart’ and ‘Holding Out for a Hero’, as well as duetting with some of the best-known names in the business.

    She is undoubtedly one of the biggest vocal powerhouses of her generation, but her roots remain firmly in her beloved Wales. She is resolutely down to earth, funny and endlessly charming. Whether she’s talking about the family she adores or sharing hilarious anecdotes from her many years in the spotlight, Bonnie never fails to entertain.

    Finally, we get to hear the amazing tale of a woman who has led the way for so many other female artists – and has had a bloody great time doing it. Bonnie’s much-anticipated memoir is inspirational, moving and straight from the heart.

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  • Thunderclap: From the Sunday Times bestselling author of On Chapel Sands

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    ‘One of the most captivating books I have ever read … A wonderful read (or a great present) for anyone who loves stories and art’ Nina Stibbe, author of Love, Nina

    A beautifully illustrated new memoir of a life in art, a father and daughter, and what a shared love of a painting can come to mean.

    ‘We see with everything that we are’

    On the morning of 12 October 1654, a gunpowder explosion devastated the Dutch city of Delft. The thunderclap was heard over seventy miles away. Among the fatalities was the painter Carel Fabritius, dead at thirty-two, leaving only his haunting masterpiece The Goldfinch and barely a dozen known paintings. The explosion that killed him also buried his reputation, along with answers to the mysteries of his life and career.

    What happened to Fabritius before and after this disaster is just one of the discoveries in a book that explores the relationship between art and life, interweaving the lives of Laura Cumming, her Scottish painter father, who also died too young, and the great artists of the Dutch Golden Age.

    This is a book about what a picture may come to mean: how it can enter your life and change your thinking in a thunderclap. Beautifully illustrated in full colour, this is the perfect Christmas gift for art lovers.

    ‘A book that often borders on the sublime’ Sunday Times
    ‘No one writes art like Laura Cumming’ Philip Hoare
    ‘I will never look at any painting in the same way again’ Polly Morland
    ‘Superb … this book taught me to see anew’ Daily Telegraph
    ‘Her pages stay with you long after you finish’ Simon Schama
    ‘Brilliant … rush out and buy it’ Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber Eyes

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  • The Mousetrap: 70th Anniversary Edition

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    ‘Even more thrilling than the plot is the atmosphere of shuddering suspense . . . No one brews it better than Agatha Christie’ Daily Express

    For more than 70 years, Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap has kept millions of people, from every corner of the globe, on the edge of their seats, and it continues to be a sell-out hit of London theatre. This brand new edition of the world’s longest-running play contains a new introduction by Sophie Hannah, bestselling author of the authorised Agatha Christie Poirot continuation novels, as well as the official play script and a host of exclusive material from the show’s archives.

    As news spreads of a murder in London, a group of seven strangers find themselves in a remote countryside guesthouse. When a police sergeant arrives, the guests discover – to their horror – that a killer is in their midst. One by one, the suspicious characters reveal their sordid pasts. Which one is the murderer? Who will be their next victim? And can you solve this world-famous mystery for yourself?

    This beautiful 70th anniversary edition contains an introduction by Sophie Hannah, the official playscript, an exclusive interview with producer Adam Spiegel, a treasure trove of letters, speeches, photographs, and other fascinating insights into the making of this iconic play.

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  • The Complete Beatles Songs: The Stories Behind Every Track Written by the Fab Four (Stories Behind the Songs)

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    In The Complete Beatles Songs, Steve Turner shatters many well-worn myths and adds a new dimension to the Fab Four’s rich legacy.

    This beautifully packaged book examines every Beatles-penned song and the inspiration behind them all; with fresh research and packed with new information, there are revelations aplenty. The book covers the Fab Four’s entire output chapter by chapter and includes a complete set of printed lyrics to accompany each song, used with exclusive permission from the band’s music publishers.

    Who was ‘just seventeen’ and made Paul’s heart go ‘boom’? Who was ‘Lady Madonna’? Was there really an Eleanor Rigby? What inspired ‘Happiness is a Warm Gun’? Why was Paul the ‘walrus’ and what inspired the lyrics to Ringo’s ‘Octopus’s Garden’?

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  • Star Wars Timelines: From the Time Before the High Republic to the Fall of the First Order

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    Chart the history of Star Wars in this stunning guide, from the time before the High Republic to the end of the First Order.

    An indispensable companion for all Star Wars fans, this premium quality book displays visual timelines that chronologically map key events, characters, and developments, and mark their significance.

    Track crucial conflicts across the years that affect the galaxy in profound ways. Follow the Skywalker lightsaber as it passes through the generations and witness the evolution of the iconic TIE fighter across different eras. Trace the movement of the Death Star plans over the years and uncover multiple branching timelines that break down important battles.

    See essential events at a glance arranged by era and drill down into details to discover major and minor events, key dates, and fascinating insights all chronologically arranged. Pore over intricate timelines on nearly every page.

    Soar into Star Wars Timelines to explore:

    • Chronological approach divides Star Wars history into seven eras:
    Early History, The High Republic, The Fall of the Jedi, The Reign of the Empire, The Age of Rebellion, The New Republic, and The Rise of the First Order

    A must-have addition to the library of all fans of Star Wars, Star Wars Timelines is sure to thrill.

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  • The Dressmaking Book: Over 80 Techniques

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    This is your complete guide to dressmaking, from designing, creating and customising your clothes. Master every dressmaking technique in the book!

    Fully illustrated and easy to use, this updated dressmaking book covers all the essential skills and techniques you need to make timeless wardrobe staples. It’s a must-have for beginners and expert stitchers alike.

    Inside the pages of this reference book, you’ll discover:

    – Step-by-step instructions and techniques, accompanied by clear, full-colour photography
    – Thorough sections on tools and equipment, to help the reader choose the right items for each project
    – 13 downloadable patterns for skirts, dresses, trousers, tops, and jackets that can be used to create 31 different garments
    – Over 80 techniques, including how to cut out a pattern, machine stitch, and hand stitch
    – Projects graded by difficulty level so as you can challenge yourself; whether you are a beginner, or looking for more advanced ideas

    Fed up with fast fashion and fancy making your own clothes? This is the ultimate dressmaking guide for absolute beginners. Comprehensive, step-by-step guides and dressmaking patterns cover everything from choosing the perfect fabric for any project to trying your hand at a range of machine-sewing techniques.

    Accompanied by close-up photographs, clear instructions, and a glossary of dressmaking terminology to demystify even the trickiest technique. This book will help you advance from a sewing learner to a seasoned stitcher in no time. Zoomed-in photographs of hand and machine tools show you the best dressmaking equipment for the job and teach you exactly how to use it.

    The Essential Guide to Dressmaking

    An updated edition of The Dressmaking Book that guides you through every hand stitch, machine stitch, and sewing technique you’ll ever need. We’ve included the best way to stitch, alter, put in linings, seam and hem, so you can make your favourite bespoke outfits to suit your unique style.
    Old edition 9781409384632

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  • Morbid Curiosities: Collections of the Uncommon and the Bizarre

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    A fascinating insight into the strange world of collectors of the macabre, Morbid Curiosities features 18 unique collections and an extensive interview with each collector, explaining how and why they collect, and showcasing the most remarkable pieces from each collection. The collections include skulls, mummified body parts, taxidermy, occult objects and various carnival, and side-show and criminal ephemera. Detailed captions tell the curious stories behind each object, many of which are being shown outside the private world of their collections for the first time. Morbid Curiosities includes stunning, specially commissioned photography of both the individual objects and the context of how the collector exhibits their work, forming a unique showcase of the bizarre and the intriguing.

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  • One Hundred Great Paintings (National Gallery London Publications)

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    This beautiful book presents one hundred great works from the National Gallery Collection, each by a different artist. Arranged in chronological order and accompanied by Louise Goviers lively text, full-page reproductions of these selected highlights introduce you to some of the most inspiring paintings ever made. From the earliest Italian altarpiece of around 1265, to the most recent – Paul Cézannes great Bathers, of about 18941905 – each painting has been chosen for its unique significance; whether representing a particular artist, a place or a time, or simply for its beauty and the pleasure it provides.

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  • Contraptions: a timely new edition by a legend of inventive illustrations and cartoon wizardry

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    Heath Robinson was one of Britain’s most successful graphic artists. His work has had a huge influence on comic art in this country, but also on the image and self-image of the British. As the champion of pragmatic man, Heath Robinson presented a vision of the British as an unflappable, ingenious and slightly demented breed of inventors that persists to the present day. The British are still a nation of garage-haunting amateur engineers who will recognise the inhabitants of Heath Robinson’s world, with their pot bellies and pots of tea, archaic faces and sturdily commonsensical approach to the problems of existence. How to hunt tigers by elephant, how to get an even tan, rise with the sun or put out a chimney fire, these and many more pressing questions are answered in the pages of Contraptions. With illustrations salvaged from the family archives and commentary by Heath Robinson expert, Geoffrey Beare, Contraptions is the best possible introduction to the work of one of Britain’s great comic talents.

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  • Japandi Style: When Japanese and Scandinavian Designs Blend

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    Japandi is the newest and hottest trend in interiors: a harmonious combination of functionality, comfort, and the minimalist look that characterizes Scandinavian design, with the purest elegance of traditional Japanese craftsmanship. Japandi harmoniously blends Scandinavian hygge with wabi-sabi, a concept derived from Zen Buddhism that advocates peaceful sobriety and invites us to admire the beauty hidden in slight imperfections in nature. This first major survey of Japandi style will introduce the reader to the fundamentals, and to iconic objects that will transform an interior into a Japandi-inspired retreat. Chapter one of the book examines the converging principles that have contributed to the emergence of Japandi Style such as functionality, neutral colours, the importance of organic materials, and the thoughtful simplicity of shapes. Chapter two presents some of the most emblematic works of Japandi Style, and the design studios behind them. Chapter three gives examples of how to decorate and furnish rooms – the living room, dining room, bedroom, bathroom, winter garden, or home office – in Japandi Style.

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