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How Not to Make a Short Film

By: Munroe, Roberta Marie

Anyone can make a short film, right? Just grab some friends and your handheld and you can do it in a weekend or two befo ... more

Best price: $9.65

The Power of the Actor

By: Chubbuck, Ivana

In The Power of the Actor, a Los Angeles Times bestseller, premier acting teacher and coach Ivana Chubbuck reveals her cutting- ... more

Best price: $17.50

Architecture

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Frank Lloyd Wright: The Lost Years, 1910-1922

By Alofsin, Anthony

Frank Lloyd Wright: The Lost Years, 1910-1922 is a landmark study that reconstructs Wright's early travels to europe, provides the definitive history of his famous Wasmuth publications, and introduces an experimental Primitivist phase in the architect's work that followed hi ...

Best price: $24.99
Ship Design for Efficiency and Economy

By Schneekluth, H.

The previous edition of Ship Design for efficiency and economy was published as a Butterworth's marine engineering title. It has now been completely revised and updated by Schneekluth and Bertram. This book gives advice to students and naval architects on ...

Best price: $175.00
Green Roof Construction and Maintenance (GreenSource Books)

By Luckett, Kelly

A Complete Guide to Building and Maintaining Green Roofs
Written by an industry expert in green roof design and installation, this GreenSource book presents all of the information you need to skillfully design, construct, and maintain green ...

Best price: $55.62
Vernacular Architecture and Regional Design: Cultural Process and Enviro

By Heath, Kingston Wm.

A comprehensive analysis of vernacular design theory and its influence on sustainable design ...

Best price: $80.95
Facility Design and Management Handbook

By Teicholz, Eric

A new paradigm in facility management
A unique, just-in-time resource from profession leader eric Teicholz, Facility Design and Management Handbook empowers you to make your facility state of the art. Packed with tips from U.S. and international case studies from governme ...

Best price: $125.25
Architect's Portable Handbook

By Guthrie, John Patten ("Pat")

When it comes to providing architects with quick, accurate guidance for a complete range of on-the-job issues, no book matches The Architect's Portable Handbook from McGraw-Hill. ...

Best price: $59.95
Urban Design: Health and the Therapeutic Environment

By Trauner

Urban Design: Health and the Therapeutic environment shows how the theory and practice of urban design and planning impact on public health issues and sustainable development. With cities increasingly crowded and the need for new homes paramount, Moughtin explores the concep ...

Best price: $60.95
Architect's Handbook of Formulas, Tables, and Mathematical Calculations

By Ballast, David Kent

This is the eBook version of the printed book. If the print book includes a CD-ROM, this content is not included within the eBook version.
The Architect's Handbook of Formulas, Tables, and Mathematical Calculations compliles a vast range of practical, concis ...

Best price: $54.40
The Ecology of Building Materials

By Berge, Bjørn

A comprehensive guide to choosing sustainable and environmentally friendly building materials ...

Best price: $84.95
Landscape Architect's Pocket Book

By Vernon, Siobhan

An indispensable tool for all landscape architects, this time-saving guide answers the most frequently asked questions in one pocket-sized volume. It is a concise, easy-to-read reference that gives instant access to a wide range of information needed on a daily basis, both o ...

Best price: $40.95

Holy Place: Architecture, Ideology, and History in Russia

By Akinsha, Konstantin

Holy Place: Architecture, Ideology, and History in Russia ...

Best price: $38.00
Alternative Energy Systems in Building Design (GreenSource Books)

By Gevorkian, Peter

Design High-Performance Alternative energy Systems for BuildingsA comprehensive reference for architects and engineers, this GreenSource book provides practical design and installation guidelines for some of the most commercially viable alternative energy technologies. Const ...

Best price: $88.98
2009 International Building Code Need to Know : The 20% of the Code You Need 80% of the Time: The 20% of the Code You Need 80% of the Time

By Woodson, R. Dodge

2009 International Building Code essentials at Your FingertipsThis handy resource delivers quick access to international building code information. 2009 International Building Code Need To Know explains and interprets the most common International Code Council requirements. ...

Best price: $26.29
Frank Lloyd Wright: The Lost Years, 1910-1922

By Alofsin, Anthony

Frank Lloyd Wright: The Lost Years, 1910-1922 is a landmark study that reconstructs Wright's early travels to europe, provides the definitive history of his famous Wasmuth publications, and introduces an experimental Primitivist phase in the architect's work that followed hi ...

Best price: $24.99
Green Roof Construction and Maintenance (GreenSource Books)

By Luckett, Kelly

A Complete Guide to Building and Maintaining Green Roofs
Written by an industry expert in green roof design and installation, this GreenSource book presents all of the information you need to skillfully design, construct, and maintain green ...

Best price: $55.62
Construction Administration for Architects

By Winkler, Greg / Chiumento, Gary

The ideal desktop architectural guide to navigating the construction process and anticipating, avoiding, and managing liability risks
This invaluable book on construction administration leads the architect through a typical project--from contract to ...

Best price: $55.62
Green Building Through Integrated Design (GreenSource Books)

By Yudelson, Jerry

Design and Construct High-Performance Buildings on Standard Budgets
This comprehensive, well-illustrated guide covers the entire process of building a certified green building. It offers expert insight into tackling various projects, from concept and design, ...

Best price: $60.31
Architect's Portable Handbook

By Guthrie, John Patten ("Pat")

When it comes to providing architects with quick, accurate guidance for a complete range of on-the-job issues, no book matches The Architect's Portable Handbook from McGraw-Hill. ...

Best price: $59.95
Buildings for the Performing Arts: A Design and Development Guide

By Appleton, Ian

This Design and Development Guide is an essential book for those who are involved in the initiation, planning, design and building of facilities for the various performing arts, from local to metropolitan locations. It includes the stages in the developme ...

Best price: $70.95
Architectural Design and Ethics: Tools for Survival

By Fisher, Thomas

"Architectural Design and ethics" offers both professional architects and architecture students a theoretical base and numerous suggestions as to how we might rethink our responsibilities to the natural world and design a more sustainable future for ourse ...

Best price: $35.95

Comics & Graphic Novels

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Shooting War

By Lappe, Anthony

The global war on terror is raging out of control. The president is popping Prozac. And the #1 selling videogame in 2011 America is the terrorist-simulator Infidel Massacre: Los Angeles< ...

Best price: $12.28
Black Hole

By Burns, Charles

Suburban Seattle, the mid-1970s. We learn from the out-set that a strange plague has descended upon the area's teenagers, transmitted by sexual contact. The disease is manifested in any number of ways ' from the hideously grotesque to the subtle (and concealable) ' but once ...

Best price: $16.63
Scions of Josiah

By Rogers, Bud

A Rash Attempt at Vengeance Puts Judah in Peril. King Jehoahaz approaches the city where egypt's mighty army is encamped. There he's been summoned to appear before Pharaoh Neco, but Jehoahaz is planning to take revenge on Neco for killing his father. Can anyone stop this foo ...

Best price: $6.99
Elk's Run

By Fialkov, Joshua Hale

Featuring more than 100 pages of never-before-seen material! The Harvey Award'nominated sensation that rocked the comics world'and left readers hanging in sheer suspense'is now a full-length graphic novel that finally carries the stunning elk's Run saga to its shocking conc ...

Best price: $17.51
Comic Books 101: The History, Methods and Madness

By Ryall, Chris / Tipton, Scott

Want to begin reading (or rereading) comics, but unsure where to start? This simple, accessible primer on everything related to comics gives you an easy-to-follow resource whether you want to enjoy the myriad of comics available today or rediscover the comics you grew up re ...

Best price: $22.99
Fly on the Wall

By Brink, Jason

Privy to the details of all your secret moments, all your misdeeds, private conversations and indulgences, the fly on the wall is neutral. It doesn't care that you cheat on your income tax, it won't stop you from jumping, and it won't call the police when you eliminate the n ...

Best price: $14.95
Resurrection

By Rogers, Bud

Have Well-meaning Missionaries Unleashed a Storm? Thinking that Titan and his comrades destroyed the Tempest, and grateful to them for battling thugs sent to wipe out an African village, the world hails them as heroes. But as the world waits for the mysterious Morningstar to ...

Best price: $6.99

Scions of Josiah

By Rogers, Bud

A Rash Attempt at Vengeance Puts Judah in Peril. King Jehoahaz approaches the city where egypt's mighty army is encamped. There he's been summoned to appear before Pharaoh Neco, but Jehoahaz is planning to take revenge on Neco for killing his father. Can anyone stop this foo ...

Best price: $6.99
Resurrection

By Rogers, Bud

Have Well-meaning Missionaries Unleashed a Storm? Thinking that Titan and his comrades destroyed the Tempest, and grateful to them for battling thugs sent to wipe out an African village, the world hails them as heroes. But as the world waits for the mysterious Morningstar to ...

Best price: $6.99
Shooting War

By Lappe, Anthony

The global war on terror is raging out of control. The president is popping Prozac. And the #1 selling videogame in 2011 America is the terrorist-simulator Infidel Massacre: Los Angeles< ...

Best price: $12.28
Comic Books 101: The History, Methods and Madness

By Ryall, Chris / Tipton, Scott

Want to begin reading (or rereading) comics, but unsure where to start? This simple, accessible primer on everything related to comics gives you an easy-to-follow resource whether you want to enjoy the myriad of comics available today or rediscover the comics you grew up re ...

Best price: $22.99
Elk's Run

By Fialkov, Joshua Hale

Featuring more than 100 pages of never-before-seen material! The Harvey Award'nominated sensation that rocked the comics world'and left readers hanging in sheer suspense'is now a full-length graphic novel that finally carries the stunning elk's Run saga to its shocking conc ...

Best price: $17.51
Black Hole

By Burns, Charles

Suburban Seattle, the mid-1970s. We learn from the out-set that a strange plague has descended upon the area's teenagers, transmitted by sexual contact. The disease is manifested in any number of ways ' from the hideously grotesque to the subtle (and concealable) ' but once ...

Best price: $16.63
Fly on the Wall

By Brink, Jason

Privy to the details of all your secret moments, all your misdeeds, private conversations and indulgences, the fly on the wall is neutral. It doesn't care that you cheat on your income tax, it won't stop you from jumping, and it won't call the police when you eliminate the n ...

Best price: $14.95
Taking Your Pet to the Vet: Cartoons Collected by David Seidman

By Seidman, David

Garfield, Peanuts, The New Yorker, The Far Side-these are just a few of the sources for Taking Your Pet to the Vet, a collection of cartoons from more than 200 strips, panels, and other drawings from the best cartoonists in the world. Included are the eerie art of Playboy ca ...

Best price: $5.95
Method Man

By Man, Method

Private investigator Mosley Paine (a thinly veiled Method Man) hasn't always been a P.I. Before retiring to civillian life, he was a top agent of an international conspiracy known as the Order of the Secret Method, a deeply religious assembly of elite "murder priests", de ...

Best price: $10.99
Roses at Dawn in an Ice Age World

By Witzsche, Rolf, A. F.

Mankind is the child of the Ice Age. Our more than 2-million-year history extends through the entire Pleistocene Ice Age epoch. We were shaped by the need to be creative to survive, and still are. Now that our warm interglacial epoch is nearly over, we find ourselves challen ...

Best price: $9.00

Photography

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Speedlights & Speedlites: Creative Flash Photography at the Speed of Lig

By Jones, Lou

Canon Speedlites and Nikon Speedlights are small, off-camera flashguns that can provide big results - if you know how to use them properly. Acclaimed Boston photographers Lou Jones, Bob Keenan and Steve Ostrowski guide you through the technical and creative aspects of h ...

Best price: $34.95
FRET and FLIM Techniques

By Gadella, Theodorus W. J.

In this inspiring book, acclaimed artist, author and lecturer Susan Ruddick Bloom shows you how to use Photoshop to turn your photographs into works of art. ...

Best price: $99.95
50 Principles of Composition in Photography: A Practical Guide to Seeing

By Bohn, Klaus

50 Principles of Composition in Photography will reveal how to capture more creative, imaginative and inspired photographs. With Klaus Bohn's clear and practical guidelines you will discover how to heighten your visual acuity and take more artistic, appealing and captivatin ...

Best price: $17.51
Photoshop CS4: Essential Skills

By Galer / Andrews

This inspirational guide to creative image editing helps readers to master the essential features and tools of Adobe Photoshop CSX. Broken into three parts to form a structured, self-study guide, the book covers foundation skills and more advanced techniq ...

Best price: $39.95
How to Cheat in Photoshop Elements 7: Creating stunning photomontages on

By Asch, David

Photoshop elements is the cut-down, low-price version of Adobe's powerful Photoshop software and like Photoshop, it's not just intended for tweaking and retouching those less than perfect photographs--it has huge creative potential too. How to Cheat in Photoshop elements 7 ...

Best price: $39.95
Outdoor Glamour Photography: The Complete Digital Guide to Taking Succes

By Lemon, Bill

Outdoor Glamour Photography: The Complete Digital Guide to Taking Successful Outdoor Glamour Photographs ...

Best price: $39.95
Handbook of Medical Image Processing and Analysis

By Bankman, Isaac

Practical, full-color guide to the world's bestselling DSLR, the Canon Digital Rebel ...

Best price: $175.00
Langford's Starting Photography: The guide to creating great images

By Ford

The' Focal Press introductory photography book, this authoritative classic by leading photography writer and lecturer Michael Langford has been refreshed and revised by best-selling photography author Philip Andrews for today's photographers. Strongly focused on digital, bu ...

Best price: $26.95
Digital Photography For Seniors For Dummies

By Hinton, Mark Justice

Take the mystery out of digital photography and join the fun! You don't need to be a professional photographer or a technology expert to take great digital photos! This down-to-basics guide makes it easy to choose the right camera, understand all its dials and controls, tak ...

Best price: $24.99
We Make a Life by What We Give

By Gunderman, Richard B.

How generosity enriches lives and communities ...

Best price: $15.25

Nikon DSLR: The Ultimate Photographer's Guide

By White, Jim / Sweet, Tony

Whilst camera-specific guides provide the how-to, manual style information on how to use your particular model of camera, this manufacturer-specific guide provides you with all the information you need as a Nikon DSLR photographer to optimise your workflow and capture great ...

Best price: $39.95
The Naked and the Lens: A Guide to Nude Photography

By Benjamin, Louis

The Naked and the Lens is designed as both a technical guide and an artistic inspiration. Filled with beautiful images of the nude form, it also shows you how this can be technically achieved. The book covers key topics: concept, lighting, directing, post-production, and art ...

Best price: $34.95
50 Principles of Composition in Photography: A Practical Guide to Seeing Photographically Through the Eyes of a Master Photographer

By Bohn, Klaus

50 Principles of Composition in Photography will reveal how to capture more creative, imaginative and inspired photographs. With Klaus Bohn's clear and practical guidelines you will discover how to heighten your visual acuity and take more artistic, appealing and captivatin ...

Best price: $17.51
The Adobe Photoshop CS4 Dictionary: The A to Z desktop reference of Photoshop

By Andrews

The indispensable encyclopedic guide to Photoshop's tools and features ...

Best price: $29.95
How to Cheat in Photoshop CS4: The art of creating photorealistic montages

By Caplin

Photoshop CS4 edition of Steve Caplin's widely acclaimed classic on photomontage ...

Best price: $44.95
Perfect Digital Photography

By Dickman, Jay / Kinghorn, Jay

Master the art of digital photography"Jay Dickman and Jay Kinghorn again have brought an insightful book on digital photography based on creating your best digital photographs, regardless of the rapid changes in the digital technology... From cover to cover, this book is fil ...

Best price: $37.09
We Make a Life by What We Give

By Gunderman, Richard B.

How generosity enriches lives and communities ...

Best price: $15.25
Speedlights & Speedlites: Creative Flash Photography at the Speed of Light

By Jones, Lou

Canon Speedlites and Nikon Speedlights are small, off-camera flashguns that can provide big results - if you know how to use them properly. Acclaimed Boston photographers Lou Jones, Bob Keenan and Steve Ostrowski guide you through the technical and creative aspects of h ...

Best price: $34.95
Digital Photography For Seniors For Dummies

By Hinton, Mark Justice

Take the mystery out of digital photography and join the fun! You don't need to be a professional photographer or a technology expert to take great digital photos! This down-to-basics guide makes it easy to choose the right camera, understand all its dials and controls, tak ...

Best price: $24.99
Langford's Starting Photography: The guide to creating great images

By Ford

The' Focal Press introductory photography book, this authoritative classic by leading photography writer and lecturer Michael Langford has been refreshed and revised by best-selling photography author Philip Andrews for today's photographers. Strongly focused on digital, bu ...

Best price: $26.95

Top Art & Music eBooks Authors

> Cross, Craig

Best price: $6.00

The Beatles

By Cross, Craig

The Beatles: Day-by-Day, Song-by-Song, Record-by-Record contains all you need to know about the world's greatest band in a single volume. The day-by-day diary covers their entire career from the Quarrymen days in '57 right up to their eventual break-up in April 1970...more ...

Best price: $6.00

> Blake, Marc

Best price: $4.99

How to be a Sitcom Writer: secrets from the inside

By Blake, Marc

TV sitcom is the goldmine genre, watched by millions. An absurd predicament, witty banter, a group of hilariously dysfunctional people: it all seems so easy. But is it? If you've ever said 'I can do better than that', then this book will encourage, test and pull you through...more ...

Best price: $4.99

> Wang, Thomas C.

Best price: $24.95

Pencil Sketching

By Wang, Thomas C.

Pencil Sketching...more ...

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> Rohrer, Paul Neal

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Listen, Feel, Respond

By Rohrer, Paul Neal

'Never have I met a more dedicated and passionate coach, actor, and human being! Paul owns his craft and is willing and wanting to share with all who want to learn!"-Annie Hamilton-Null, Hamilton Casting
'Paul Rohrer has proven his Listen, Feel...more ...

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> Huth, Joe F

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Knight Rider Legacy

By Huth, Joe F

Knight Rider Legacy: The Unofficial Guide to the Knight Rider Universe by Joe Huth IV and Richie F. Levine is the ultimate guide to the creation and production of this cult classic. Contained within are extensive cast and crew interviews, a season-by-season epi...more ...

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> Gardner, Penny

Best price: $9.95

Nine-Note Recorder Method, Easy Music for Beginners: Alto Edition

By Gardner, Penny

Learn to play the 9 easiest notes on alto or sopranino recorder with The Nine-Note Recorder Method, easy Music for Beginners: ALTO edition. This book is specifically designed to be a thorough introduction for beginners using the same proven format of the soprano edition. Con...more ...

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> Malbon, J., / Moran, A.

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Understanding the Global TV Format

By Malbon, J., / Moran, A.

Recent years have seen an astonishing growth in the adaptation of program formats in television systems across the world. Under the new market conditions of the multi-channel cluster brought about by new technologies and increased privatisation of service, the adaptation of...more ...

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> Herron, Anthony

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Scriptwriting and Structure

By Herron, Anthony

Watching movies, either at the theatre or on video, is a very popular form of entertainment that is enjoyed by the whole spectrum of society, from the very young to the elderly. Movies have varying effects upon people and they touch and inspire people in different ways. Ther...more ...

Best price: $6.00