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What is America? It’s Monopoly and Mickey Mouse, but also Sinatra and Fred Astaire It’s the Declaration of Independence, but it’s also Barbie and Playboy, Winslow Homer and Rudi Gernreich’s topless bathing suit. This juxtaposition of images reflects America’s unique eclecticism, and the unprecedented influence that the images of America’s pop culture have had on the world. This book works as a great treasury of Americana, and as a mischievously enjoyable observation on all things truly American. Fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger and famous adman George Lois have crafted an enlightening book, searching American history to find over 350 people, symbols, and things of import. Their iconic and iconoclastic choices are entertainingly presented through surprising visual juxtapositions. Inspired by Tommy Hilfiger’s passion for Americana and George Lois’ wit, Iconic America dramatizes the national ethos, and makes us think about who we are and what we stand for, with humor and charm..
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PANORAMA OFFERS THE BIG PICTURE IN A BRIEF BOOK. Responding to the many instructors who require or prefer a brief text, we offer PANORAMA, a concise, easy-to-use program shaped from the best selling VISTAS. PANORAMA features: * 15 Lessons * Focus on practical communication * Clear, intuitive treatment of essential grammar * Natural, realistic vocabulary * Contemporary cultural emphasis * Distinctive, easy-to-navigate design * Unique, cohesive integration of text and video The P.
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It’s Barbie sticker fun time!  This exciting sticker play pack is based on the newest direct-to-video release in September 2008 – Barbie and the Diamond Castle.  Girls can follow along with the story and then create their own version with reusable stickers and a two-sided play board—sure to inspire hours of creative play.

 

 

Based on the latest direct–to–video Barbie movie, the newest title in this best-selling series comes alive. In it, Barbie plays Emma, who, with her best friend Isabelle, goes on an incredible adventure. Girls can follow along with the story and then create their own version with reusable stickers and a two-sided playboard—sure to inspire hours of creative play.

 

Set includes:  16-page full color storybook / over 20 reusable paper stickers to create multiple scenes  / A double-sided vivid panoramic backdrop for sticker play that folds out from back cover.
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The 1930s were perhaps the seminal decade in twentieth-century history, a dark time of global depression that displaced millions, paralyzed the liberal democracies, gave rise to totalitarian regimes, and, ultimately, led to the Second World War. In this sweeping history, Piers Brendon brings the tragic, dismal days of the 1930s to life.

From Stalinist pogroms to New Deal programs, Brendon re-creates the full scope of a slow international descent towards war. Offering perfect sketches of the players, riveting descriptions of major events and crises, and telling details from everyday life, he offers both a grand, rousing narrative and an intimate portrait of an era that make sense out of the fascinating, complicated, and profoundly influential years of the 1930s..
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It's Barbie sticker fun time! This exciting sticker play pack is based on the newest direct-to-video release featuring Barbie The Island Princess! Girls can follow along with the story and then create their own version with reusable stickers and a two-sided play board -- sure to inspire hours of creative play.

Follow Barbie as she plays a girl stranded on an island with only her animal friends, and then create their own version of the story with reusable stickers and a two-side playboard -- sure to inspire hours of creative play.

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- 16-page full color storybook / over 20 reusable paper stickers to create multiple scenes / A double-sided vivid panoramic backdrop for sticker play that folds out from back cover

- Interactive -- kids place their stickers on the sticker board to recreate the story in the storybook.

With over 46 years, Barbie is the #1 girl's brand worldwide!.
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When it appeared in France in 1955, A Panorama of American Film Noir was the first book ever on the genre. Now this classic is at last available in English translation. This clairvoyant study of Hollywood film noir is "a benchmark' for all later work on the topic" (James Naremore). A Panorama of American Film Noir addresses the essential amorality of its subject from a decidedly Surrealist angle, focusing on noir's dreamlike, unwonted, erotic, ambivalent, and cruel atmosphere, and setting it in the social context of mid-century America.

Raymond Borde (b. 1920), founder of the Cinmathque de Toulouse, has written extensively on film history.

Etienne Chaumeton was the film critic of the Toulouse newspaper La Dpche until his recent death.

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Whether you're a new photographer or an experienced pro, this book will guide you through the labyrinth of options and choices you face from the moment you see a photo opportunity to the time you share your final results. And it will help you minimize the time needed to fix your mistakes along the way.

Through step-by-step procedures based on years of experience, professional photographer Ken Milburn describes a complete workflow sequence that begins with essential equipment and preparation, takes you through detailed editing techniques, and ends with your finished images looking the way you want, ready to be shown to the world.

This completely revised edition of Milburn's original bestseller teaches you everything you need to do before, during, and after the editing process.

• Be prepared with the right equipment
• Get the basic shots right
• Organize your photos and find the gems
• Make reversible adjustments
• Refine your images with care
• Use special effects cautiously and tastefully
• Publish and share your images effectively

You'll also learn advanced techniques with Photoshop CS2 and Photoshop Elements, though this isn' t a typical Photoshop how-to book. Milburn's workflow strategy ensures that high-production jobs are done professionally with a minimum of frustration. With Digital Photography: Expert Techniques, you'll become a better (and more profitable) photographer.

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Matteo Pericoli trained as an architect in Milan and then came to work in New York in 1995. His arrival preceded by just a few days the arrival of the biggest snowstorm of the decade, and the sense of the city in its wake–especially its silence–remained in his mind. He experienced similar feeling taking photographs of Riverside Drive from the Circle Line ferry, and decided to transpose them into a line drawing. It was then that he felt compelled to photograph the whole of New York’s shoreline profile–from Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx, and New Jersey (which he reached by motorcycle) — and make two continuous and continuously enchanting pen-and-ink drawing of Manhattan’s skyline.

Manhattan Unfurled is published in an elegant slipcase, and the drawings fold out, accordion-style, with the West on one side and the East on the other. An introduction by distinguished New Yorker architecture critic Paul Goldberger, who first wrote bout Matteo’s project in The New Yorker’s “Talk of the Town,” will accompany the drawing in a separate pamphlet. This book is both a wonderful New York City memento, perfect for gift giving, and an entirely unique work of art..
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