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Description not available.A first monograph by the recipient of the International Center for Photography's 2001 Infinity Award for Best Young Photographer showcases the breadth of her work from the erotic to the ethereal, in a collection of ninety intimate family portraits, self-portraits, and artful abstractions.
PUBLISHER: Chronicle Books LLC
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Hobbies & Interests 
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 | How to Build Wooden Gates & Picket Fences by Kevin Geist
From country quaint to formal and elegant, this book offers fence patterns to complement every architectural style. It covers every aspect of fence building--from selecting the most appropriate design to choosing the materials--and provides complete instructions for installation. 115 line drawings. AUTHOR: Kevin Geist
PUBLISHER: Stackpole Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Home Improvement
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 | Music & the Mind by Anthony Storr
Storr, the bestselling author of Solitude, explores the intimate effects of music, and the reasons for its central place in our lives. He traces the origins of music and its functional development in society as entertainment, communication, and therapy, making a powerful argument for the universality and centrality of music. AUTHOR: Anthony Storr
PUBLISHER: Ballantine Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Hobbies & Interests
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 | Beethoven by Barry Cooper, Johann A. Schlosser, Reinhard G. Pauly
Ludwig van Beethoven: Eine Biographie appeared in Prague a few months after the composer's death, thirteen years before the next biography of Beethoven would appear. Virtually nothing is known about the author, Johann Aloys Schlosser, except that he was born in the small town of Lann, in Bohemia, around 1790 and was a partner in a publishing firm in Prague from 1827-28, at which time he published this first brief biography of Beethoven. Many writers have pointed out the flaws in Schlosser's biography . The purpose of the present edition is not to provide a clear and vivid picture of Beethoven's life, but to enable English-speaking readers to judge Schlosser's book for themselves rather than relying on secondhand criticisms, and to illuminate what was known and believed in Vienna and Prague in 1827 - not only about Beethoven but about his relationship to Haydn and Mozart, and to the music of Bach and Handel. Copious annotations and an introductory essay by the eminent Beethoven scholar Barry Cooper put Schlosser's text into perspective and clarify inaccuracies in the original text. Available for the first time in English, Schlosser's first biography of Beethoven substantially enriches our understanding of the attitudes of Beethoven's contemporaries and fills an important gap in Beethoven scholarship. AUTHOR: Barry Cooper, Johann A. Schlosser, Reinhard G. Pauly
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Hobbies & Interests
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 | The Complete Idiot's Guide to Chess by Christopher F. Chabris, Patrick Wolff
Description not available.An introduction to chess discusses the history of the game, tactics, strategies, chess superstars, tournament play, and computer chess. AUTHOR: Christopher F. Chabris, Patrick Wolff
PUBLISHER: Alpha Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Hobbies & Interests
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 | Bystander by Colin Westerbeck, Joel Meyerowitz
Description not available.A fascinating celebration of street photography features works by such renowned masters as Atget, Stieglitz, Cartier-Bresson, and Robert Frank, as well as unknown photgraphers, and is filled with detailed text that chronicles the history of this energetic movement. Reprint. 10,000 first printing. AUTHOR: Colin Westerbeck, Joel Meyerowitz
PUBLISHER: Bulfinch Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Hobbies & Interests
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