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|  | Cool Sites by Baird Duncan
Here are the coolest World Wide Web and CD-ROM screen grabs from such diverse sources as club sites, product promotion pages, experiments from design students, and exhibition entries from design professionals. In drawing together these disparate elements, this roundup exhibits today's most exciting digital work, forming an essential catalog for designers, students, and habitual net surfers. AUTHOR: Baird Duncan
PUBLISHER: Hearst Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Hobbies & Interests 
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 | Make Your Voice Heard by Chuck Jones
A breakthrough book: different than those on the shelves from British authors, whose theatrical tradition stresses articulation and dialects in speech training, this is the first guide devoted exclusively to vocal training -- tone, breathing, and projection of emotion, taught through exercises geared specifically to the American approach to acting. AUTHOR: Chuck Jones
PUBLISHER: Watson-Guptill Publications, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Hobbies & Interests
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 | Idiot Letters by Paul Rosa
Occasionally cynicism and Weltschmerz takes a turn for the creative. In this book, Paul Rosa, who is sick to death of TV commercials and advertising in general, decides to act like the very idiot that large corporations insist on taking him for. Idiot Letters is a collection of missives (missiles?) launched tongue-in-cheek at major companies such as Pizza Hut (who had addressed him as the kind of customer we`d like to see more often --he asked them which kind of customer you wouldn`t like to see more often? ); Rand-McNally & Co. (complaining that he couldn`t see the lines dividing actual state borders the way they were represented on the maps); Colgate-Palmolive Co. (whose toothpaste tubes instruct one to Squeeze From the Bottom and Flatten It As You Go Up , to which Rosa inquired, What other choices are there? ); and Penthouse (requesting photos of the INSIDES of the women, from X-rays and MRIs). AUTHOR: Paul Rosa
PUBLISHER: Doubleday Publishing
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Humor
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 | Country Woodworker by Jack Hill, James Merrell
The 18 projects in this do-it-yourself guide incorporate authentic 18th- and 19th-century European and American designs, such as a Shaker peg rail and shelves, a rocking chair, and a storage chest. Each project is accompanied by instructional illustrations and color photographs. Also includes a section on tools and techniques. AUTHOR: Jack Hill, James Merrell
PUBLISHER: Chronicle Books LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Hobbies & Interests
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 | Folk Songs of the Southern Appalachians As Sung by Jean Ritchie
Jean Ritchie is the best known and most respected singer of traditional ballads in the United States. It has been nearly thirty years since she originally published Folk Songs of the Southern Appalachians, and the music found here tells the story of the Singing Ritchie Family at a time when railroads, coal mines, and hillbilly radio were making their first incursions into the mountains of eastern Kentucky. Built upon a foundation of balladry inherited from old-world Scotland, the family's repertoire was certainly eclectic but not haphazard. The Child ballads, lyric folksongs, play party or frolic songs, Old Regular Baptist lined hymns, Native American ballads, hant songs, and carols brought together in this collection were assembled by family members who actively sought out fragments of tunes and completed them by adding or embellishing verses and melodies. This new edition has faithfully retained all seventy-seven line scores of the songs and added four new ones, Loving Hannah, Lovin' Henry, Her Mantle So Green, and The Reckless and Rambling Boy. The original headnotes and photographs tell the history of the song as well as how it became a part of the family's life. Chords are indicated for accompaniment; however, music notation and the printed word can present only a reasonable facsimile of any actual song. Jean's singing is simply the best guide to how the song should be sung, so a new audiography and videography have been added to this edition.
PUBLISHER: University Press of Kentucky
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Hobbies & Interests
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 | Shave the Whales by Scott Adams
Hot on the heels of Dogbert's Clues for the Clueless, this new Dilbert collection will be widely welcomed by fans of that attention-grabbing comic which appears in 175 newspapers nationwide. Don't miss incompetent, socially inept technohead Dilbert and his megalomaniac pet Dogbert as they try to not only survive in but rule the world. AUTHOR: Scott Adams
PUBLISHER: Andrews McMeel Publishing
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Humor
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