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Pushing Pixels: Chris Georgenes' Secret Weapons for the Modern Flash Animator

by Chris Georgenes

You've got the cheats, tutorials, and how-tos. What else do you need? Go above and beyond those stop-gaps and step-by-steps with Pushing Pixels, the real-world guide to developing dynamic and fun content from...

Palestinian Literature and Film in Postcolonial Feminist Perspective

by Anna Ball

Palestinian Literature and Film in Postcolonial Feminist Perspective is the first sustained study of gender-consciousness in the Palestinian creative imagination. Drawing on concepts from postcolonial feminist...

Comics for Film, Games, and Animation: Using Comics to Construct Your Transmedia Storyworld

by Tyler Weaver

In recent years, a new market of convergence culture has developed. In this new market, one story, idea, concept, or product can be produced, distributed, appreciated, and understood by customers in a variety...

Japanese Things: Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected with Japan

by Basil Hall Chamberlain

Armchair travelers beware!

Japanese Things will lure you out of your cozy, comfy home and chair to an unusual country with bewitching manners and customs—and once you have succumbed to its spell you will never...

Balinese Textiles

by Brigitta Hauser-Schaublin, Marie_Louise Nabholz-Kartaschoff & Urs Ramseyer

In this beautifully illustrated book, three experts examine the history, production and uses of textiles in Balinese society. Many fine pieces are presented, their raw materials and methods of weaving and dyeing...

The Empty Museum: Western Cultures and the Artistic Field in Modern Japan

by Morishita

The book examines the processes through which public art museums, as modern Western institutions, were introduced to Japan in the late nineteenth century and how they subsequently developed distinctive national...

Conservation Treatment Methodology

by Barbara Appelbaum

Conservation Treatment Methodology presents a systematic approach to decision-making for conservation treatments. The methodology is applicable to all cultural property, independent of object type or material,...

Mirrors of Clay: Reflections of Ancient Andean Life in Ceramics from the Sam Olden Collection

by Yumi Park & Eric Huntington

Mirrors of Clay: Reflections of Ancient Andean Life in Ceramics from the Sam Olden Collection features photographs and descriptions of sixty ceramic vessels from ancient Andean American cultures, including the...

Postcard Collector

by Barbara Andrews

An exciting overview of the manufacturers, design and subject matter used in 19th and 20th century American postcards.

Confederate States Paper Money: Civil War Currency from the South

by George S. Cuhaj

Intriguing and Authoritative!

Filled with fascinating history and an easy-to-use, full-color catalog of issues, the twelfth edition of Confederate States Paper Money will delight and inform every Confederate...

Looking Astern: An Artist's View of Maine's Historic Working Waterfronts

by Loretta Krupinski

Loretta Krupinski depicts coastal towns 70 to 150 years ago in their heyday. Each beautifully rendered image captures Maine when fishing, quarrying, and the cargo trade were the backbone of Maine's economy....

Freshwater Game Fish of North America

by Peter Thompson

Freshwater Game Fish of North America is an illustrated encyclopedia of freshwater game for anglers, scientists, and nature lovers. In this first book from Fly Rod & Reel Books, Peter Thompson provides the most...

Designing Sustainable Cities in the Developing World

by Roger Zetter & Georgia Butina Watson

Roger Zetter and Georgia Butina Watson have produced a fascinating book that explores the concept of urban sustainability within the context of urban design in the developing world. Using a wealth of examples...

Using Museums as an Educational Resource: An Introductory Handbook for Students and Teachers

by Graeme K. Talboys

Visits to museums have long been recognised as an important aspect of the education of young people. Graeme K. Talboys offers a comprehensive introduction for students, practising teachers and other educators...

Art Practice in a Digital Culture

by Hazel Gardiner & Charlie Gere

In this unique book artists, art historians, art theorists and curators of new media reflect on the idea of art as research and how it has changed practice. Intrinsic to the volume is an investigation of the...

Museums and Design Education: Looking to Learn, Learning to See

by Beth Cook & Rebecca Reynolds

This book looks at the interaction between Design students and museums, and explores issues, projects and emerging ideas about how museums can better support HE students. It illustrates the general lessons that...

Interfaces of Performance

by Maria Chatzichristodoulou & Janis Jefferies

This collection of essays and interviews investigates current practices that expand our understanding and experience of performance through the use of state-of-the-art technologies. It brings together leading...

The Responsive Museum: Working with Audiences in the Twenty-First Century

by Caroline Lang & John Reeve

The Responsive Museum interrogates the thinking, policies and practices that underpin the educational role of the museum. It unravels the complex relationship of museums with their publics, and discusses today's...

Corporate Art Collections: A Handbook to Corporate Buying

by Charlotte Appleyard & James Salzmann

This new volume in the series of Handbooks in International Art Business published in association with Sotheby's Institute of Art offers a timely guide to corporate collecting, examining the history, nature...

Vinyl Junkies

by Brett Milano

Not too far away from the flea markets, dusty attics, cluttered used record stores and Ebay is the world of the vinyl junkies. Brett Milano dives deep into the piles of old vinyl to uncover the subculture of...