Arts

The Drum: A History

by Matt Dean

The Drum: A History highlights the different uses and customs associated with drumming and examines how the drum developed across many cultures and over thousands of years before they became the instruments...

Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections: An Author and Title Index to Plays Appearing in Collections Published since 1900

by Denise L. Montgomery

Representing the largest expansion between editions, this updated volume of Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections is the standard location tool for full-length plays published in collections and anthologies...

The Ballad Collectors of North America: How Gathering Folksongs Transformed Academic Thought and American Identity

by Scott B. Spencer

Both biographical and topical, The Ballad Collectors of North America chronicles those individuals most influential in the gathering of North American folksongs and investigates the two leading schools of thought...

Adapting Buildings and Cities for Climate Change

by David Crichton, Fergus Nicol & Sue Roaf

From the bestselling author of Ecohouse, this fully revised edition of Adapting Buildings and Cities for Climate Change provides unique insights into how we can protect our buildings, cities, infra-structures...

iPhoto '09 for Dummies

by Angelo Micheletti

iPhoto ’09 is packed with cool photo-editing features, and iPhoto ’09 For Dummies is your fast track to using every one. You’ll learn to clean up and enhance your photos, print them or upload them to a...

A Catalog of Music Written in Honor of Martin Luther King Jr.

by Anthony McDonald

McDonald organizes and makes available information on music appropriate for concerts performed by a symphony orchestra, school music department, church choir, or solo performer in celebration of Martin Luther...

Modern Korean Drama: An Anthology

by Richard Nichols

Carefully selected and represented, the plays in this collection showcase both the fantastic and the realistic innovations of Korean dramatists during a time of rapid social and historical change. Stretching...

The New Yorker Theater and Other Scenes from a Life at the Movies

by Toby Talbot & Martin Scorcese

The nation didn't know it, but 1960 would change American film forever, and the revolution would occur nowhere near a Hollywood set. With the opening of the New Yorker Theater, a cinema located at the heart...

Hollywood's Copyright Wars: From Edison to the Internet

by Peter Decherney

Copyright law is important to every stage of media production and reception. It helps determine filmmakers’ artistic decisions, Hollywood’s corporate structure, and the vatieties of media consumption. The...

Music at the Gonzaga Court in Mantua

by Donald Sanders

In Music at the Gonzaga Court in Mantua, Donald C. Sanders examines the history of musical composition and performance at the northern Italian court of Mantua from the fifteenth century to the seventeenth century....

Death Metal and Music Criticism: Analysis at the Limits

by Michelle Phillipov

Death Metal and Music Criticism: Analysis at the Limits, by Michelle Phillipov, is a significant intervention in popular music studies, and in the growing area of metal studies in particular. Combining original...

Setting up a Successful Photography Business

by Lisa Pritchard

Setting Up a Successful Photography Business is a practical handbook which covers everything you need to know to start your own photography business. Packed full of helpful information and advice on all the...

The Horses of St. Mark's: A Story of Triumph in Byzantium, Paris, and Venice

by Charles Freeman

The Horses of St. Mark's in Venice are among art's finest creations-and certainly one with a story like no other. Celebrated historian Charles Freeman, author of the 2009 surprise hit A.D. 381, explores the...

Norman Foster: A Life in Architecture

by Deyan Sudjic

Norman Foster is a phenomenon - as an architect, but also as an individual. He is responsible for a dozen or more of the most recognizable buildings of the last 30 years.

Amongst many other buildings, Norman...

Digital Photography FAQs

by Jeff Wignall

Straightforward, clear answers to the most commonly asked digital photography questions

What's the difference between optical zoom and digital zoom? Do more megapixels equate to better photo quality? Why is there...

Pro Tools All-In-One for Dummies

by Jeff Strong

A professional musician guides serious hobbyists through Pro Tool

Pro Tools puts professional recording and music production software in the hands of anyone with the appropriate hardware and the knowledge to...

Cinema at the Crossroads: Nation and the Subject in East Asian Cinema

by Hyon Joo Yoo

What does it mean to rethink postcolonial studies through East Asian experience and cinema? Cinema at the Crossroads: Nation and the Subject in East Asian Cinema by Hyon Joo Yoo, pursues this question by bringing...

Along the Cherry Lane: Tales from the Life of Music Industry Legend Milton Okun

by Richard Sparks & Milton Okun

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John Denver said, "I have a producer who looks like an accountant, and an accountant who looks like a producer." Soberly dressed, unflashy, and a trained classical musician, in the golden age of the music...

100 Ways to take better Landscape Photographs

by Guy Edwardes

100 Ways to Improve Your Landscape Photographs is an easy-reference guide to landscape photography; packed with practical advice and stunning photos this book will help and inspire photographers of all levels....

The Logo Brainstorm Book: A Comprehensive Guide for Exploring Design Directions

by Jim Krause

Don't Wait for Inspiration to Strike

Whether you're facing a new logo project or you've reached a block in your current work, The Logo Brainstorm Book will inspire you to consider fresh creative approaches that...