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	Evening in the Palace of Reason In one corner, a godless young warrior, Voltaire's heralded 'philosopher-king', the It Boy of the Enlightenment. In the other, a devout if bad-tempered old composer of 'outdated' music, a scorned genius in his last years. The sparks from their brief conflict illuminate a turbulent age. Author: James F. Gaines Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers ISBN: 9780007153930 Format: Paperback Book In Store Price: $28.95 Online Price: $25.33
	Framing Techniques and Decorating Ideas Framing a photograph, oil painting, watercolour, poster, calendar page, greeting card, or other artwork can be easy and inexpensive. The experts at Aaron Brothers, who have been offering custom framing since 1946, share their know-how in a presentation of the varied and wonderful ways of choosing, decorating, and using frames. Not only do snapshots get the royal treatment, but also artwork, textiles, jewellry, documents, and collectibles. Find out about the many fantastic styles available, from box and clip frames to closed-corner and float frames to shadow boxes and scrapbook frames. Consider what size is appropriate, which mats and glass work best, and what motifs suit your lifestyle and the showcased object. Every page offers beautiful ideas for arrangements, vignettes, and great groupings on the wall or table, as well as suggestions for unusual items to frame that really make a statement. Provides instructions on determining measurements and proportions; selecting colours and accents for matting; obtaining the necessary materials and equipment; cutting the material to size; matting, mounting and framing the art; and glazing, installing and hanging framed art. Author: Aaron Brothers Publisher: Sterling Publishing Co Inc ISBN: 9781402728051 Format: Paperback Book In Store Price: $29.95 Online Price: $26.21
	Peter Jackson Authorised and fully illustrated insight into the life and career of the award-winning director, from his childhood film projects up to King Kong, together with Jackson's revealing personal account of his six-year quest to film The Lord of the Rings. Author: Brian Sibley & Peter Jackson Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers ISBN: 9780007175581 Format: Hardback Book In Store Price: $59.95 Online Price: $52.46
	Hans Haacke The resulting artworks (such as his project for the Reichstag in Berlin, Der Bevolkerung [To The Population, 1999]) have often drawn immense controversy. Haacke is a unique figure in post-war art, and his work has touched on such diverse movements as Conceptual, Pop, Minimal and Land art. His integrity as well as the formal innovations of his art have proven hugely influential for many generations of contemporary artists. Haacke has presented solo exhibitions in such museums as the Tate Gallery, London (1984) the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, and tour (1986) and the Musee nationale d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (1989), among others. Haacke has participated in such landmark group exhibitions as 'When Attitudes Become Form', Kunsthalle Bern, and tour (1969), and 'Information' at The Museum of Modern Art, New York (1970). He has been featured in four Documentas, Kassel (1972, 1982, 1987 and 1997), both 'Skulptur. Projekte in Munster' exhibitions (1987 and 1997), and three Venice Biennales (1976, 1978 and 1993). Author: Walter Grasskamp, Molly Nesbit and Jon Bird Publisher: Phaidon Press Ltd ISBN: 9780714843193 Format: Paperback Book In Store Price: $69.95 Online Price: $61.21
	The Lisa Book Pi carumba! You'll be livin' la vida Mensa with The Lisa Book! Whether she's extolling the virtues of vegetarianism and the global village, raising awareness about the world's moral and social ills, or simply playing with her Malibu Stacy doll and dreaming of ponies, Lisa Simpson is a role model for the 21st century! Discover Lisa's lifelong ambitions, gather snappy answers to environmentally insensitive questions, uncover the Truth by logging onto her Internet blog, and follow along as she solves a real mystery. From the benefits of being Teacher's Pet to the secret correspondences of Commander-in-chief Lisa's presidential administration, you will explore the inner workings of one of America's most progressive eight-year-old minds. The Simpsons Library of Wisdom, according to Matt Groening, the creator of The Simpsons, offers an on-going series of portable and quotable books that will eliminate the need for all religions and philosophies, exalt man's role in the universe, and make the world a better place...sort of. No other television show in history has commented so freely and so humorously on modern times, and there seems to be no end in sight for the sharp satire and pointed parody that The Simpsons serves up every night of the week all around the world. Add the newest entries in the series, Krusty and Lisa, to your library and become a sophisticated, well-read person of distinction, join the literati, and become a scholar of Simpsonology. Author: Matt Groening Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers ISBN: 9780007234578 Format: Hardback Book In Store Price: $25.95 Online Price: $22.71
	Between the Lines From Neighbours to the chart-topping music career, from Joseph to the appearance on I'm A Celebrity that sealed our affection, Jason Donovan has captured the hearts of his adopted country and entertained us all along the way. This is his candid autobiography of his rollercoaster life. But behind the squeaky-clean popstar image was a man increasingly addicted to recreational drugs and on a spiralling downwards path until the love of a good woman pulled him through. Jason Donovan burst onto our TVs in the 80s as Scott Robinson from Neighbours, one half of TV couple Scott and Charlene with Kylie Minogue. Kylie and Jason became the celebrity couple of the eighties and released the number one Stock, Aitken and Waterman hit Especially For You in 1988. His pop career launched, Jason went on to sell over 30 million records worldwide and appeared in West End musicals such as Joseph and His Technicolour Dreamcoat and, more recently, The Rocky Horror Show. But just as Jason reached the pinnacle of his career, everything collapsed around him. When Jason sued style magazine The Face for calling him gay, the press tore him apart. Years of binge drug taking and partying to excess followed. In his frank and honest account of his life, Jason talks candidly about the drugs that nearly saw the end of his career, about his relationship with the princess of pop, Kylie Minogue, and how he finally got his own very happy ending with the woman who saved him, his partner Angela and their two children. Author: Jason Donovan Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers ISBN: 9780007264414 Format: Paperback Book In Store Price: $32.95 Online Price: $28.83
	Art a New History A personal view of the history of art follows every period from prehistoric times to today, examining both major movements and lesser-known contributors. Author: Paul Johnson Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers ISBN: 9780060530754 Format: Hardback Book In Store Price: $63.95 Online Price: $55.96
	The Judgement of Paris In 1863, the French painter Ernest Meissonier was one of the most famous artists in the world. The darling of the 'Salon' - that all important public art exhibition held biannually in Paris - he painted historical subjects in meticulous detail and sold his works for astronomical sums to collectors who included Napoleon III himself. Manet, on the other hand, was struggling in obscurity. Famous today as the father of Impressionism, when this books opens he was known only as the sloppy painter of a few much-derided canvases depicting absinthe-drinking beggars and bourgeois gentlemen in top hats. With his usual narrative brilliance and eye for telling detail, Ross King has taken the parallel careers of Meissonier and Manet and used them as a lens for their times. Beginning with the year that Manet exhibited his ground-breaking Dejeuner sur l'herbe and ending in 1874 with the first 'Impressionist' exhibition, King plunges us into Parisian life - on the streets and in the corridors of power - during a ten-year period full of social and political ferment. These were the years in which Napoleon III's autocratic and pleasure-seeking Second Empire fell from its heights into the ignominy of the Franco-Prussian war and the ensuing Paris Commune of 1871. But it was also a period in which a group of artists, with Manet in the vanguard began to challenge the establishment by refusing to paint classical or historical subjects and, instead, turning to the landscapes and ordinary people they saw around them. Benign as such paintings might seem today, they helped change the course of history. The struggle between Meissonier and Manet to get their paintings exhibited in pride of place at the Salon was not just about art, it was about how to see the world. Author: Ross King Publisher: Random House Publishers ISBN: 9781844134076 Format: Paperback Book In Store Price: $27.95 Online Price: $24.46
	Can't Stop Won't Stop Provides an introduction of the players who came up with the ideas that form the basic elements of the hip-hop culture. It describes how it all began with social upheavals in Jamaica, the Bronx, the Black Belt of Long Island and South Central LA. It is intended for DJs, B-Boys, MCs and those with an interest in the history of America. Author: Jeff Chang Publisher: Ebury Press ISBN: 9780091912215 Format: Paperback Book In Store Price: $28.95 Online Price: $25.33
	Universe of Stone In the twelfth century, Christians in Europe began to build a completely new kind of church - not the squat, gloomy buildings we call Romanesque, but soaring, spacious monuments flooded with light from immense windows. This book explains the genesis and development of the Gothic style. Author: Philip Ball Publisher: Random House Publishers ISBN: 9780224078634 Format: Hardback Book In Store Price: $62.95 Online Price: $55.08
	In England Combines the author's work with a body of photographs of England where the line between the wealthy and the deprived is as defined as ever. Author: Don McCullin Publisher: CCV ISBN: 9780224078702 Format: Hardback Book In Store Price: $103.95 Online Price: $90.96
	Our Way Our Way: Contemporary Aboriginal Art from Lockhart River introduces the unique and stunning art of a group of young Aboriginal artists from far north Queensland's Lockhart River community. Lockhart River is Australia's only remote youth-driven Aboriginal art initiative, and the rise to national and international recognition of a number of these artists is a unique and remarkable chapter in Australia's art history. Their art is about 'Sandbeach' culture and community and its spectacular wilderness environment in Cape York Peninsula. But it is also a worldly art of the twenty-first century that shows the global scope of Aboriginal cultural expression today. Lockhart River art is always about the community, but each artist approaches this communal identity in distinctive and innovative ways. Their art is a beguiling insight into how individuality and community co-exist in the contemporary life of Aboriginal people. Our Way brings all of this extraordinary art together in the one place for the first time. Author: Sally Butler Publisher: University of Queensland Press ISBN: 9780702236341 Format: Hardback Book In Store Price: $80.00 Online Price: $70.00
	The Revolution Continues Provides a link between the rebellious spirit of the current generation of Chinese artists and the mood of rebellion that was so evident during the years of the Cultural Revolution that ran from 1966 to 1976. This work argues that the destruction of traditional Chinese treasures by the Red Guards, especially in 1966, overshadows the entire period. Author: Jiang Jiehong Publisher: CCV ISBN: 9780224084994 Format: Hardback Book In Store Price: $93.95 Online Price: $82.21
	Timing for Animation Written by two internationally acclaimed animators, this classic text teaches you all you need to know about the art of timing and its importance in the animated film. This reissue includes a new foreword by John Lasseter, executive vice president of Pixar Animation Studios and director of Toy Story, Toy Story 2, A Bug's Life and Monsters Inc.. He sets the wealth of information in this classic text in context with today's world of computer animation, showing how this is a must-have text if you want to succeed as a traditional drawn, or computer animator. You can learn all the tips and tricks of the trade from the professionals. How should the drawings be arranged in relation to each other? How many are needed? How much space should be left between one group of drawings and the next? How long should each drawing, or group of drawings, remain on the screen to give the maximum dramatic effect? The art of timing is vital. Highly illustrated throughout, points made in the text are demonstrated with the help of numerous superb drawn examples. Timing for Animation not only offers invaluable help to those who are learning the basis of animation techniques, but is also of great interest to anyone currently working in the field and is a vital source of reference for every animation studio. John Halas, known as the 'father of animation' and formerly of Halas and Batchelor Animation unit, produced over 2000 animations, including the legendary Animal Farm and the award winning Dilemma. He was also the founder and president of the ASIFA and former Chairman of the British Federation of Film Societies. Harold Whitaker is a professional animator and teacher. Many of his former students are now among some of the most outstanding animation artists of today. It includes a new foreword by John Lasseter of Pixar and Toy Story fame. You can benefit from the expertise of two internationally acclaimed animators. It provides all you need to breathe life into your animation Author: Harold Whitaker & John Halas, John Lasseter Publisher: Elsevier Publishers ISBN: 9780240517148 Format: Paperback Book In Store Price: $65.00 Online Price: $56.88
	Confessions of a Video Vixen Part tell-all, part cautionary tale, this emotionally charged memoir from a former video vixen nicknamed 'Superhead' goes beyond the glamour of celebrity to reveal the inner workings of the hip-hop dancer industry--from the physical and emotional abuse that's rampant in the industry, and which marked her own life--to the excessive use of drugs, sex and bling. Once the sought-after video girl, this sexy siren has helped multi-platinum artists, such as Jay-Z, R. Kelly and LL Cool J, sell millions of albums with her sensual dancing. In a word, Karrine was H-O-T. So hot that she made as much as $2500 a day in videos and was selected by well-known film director F. Gary Gray to co-star in his film, A Man Apart, starring Vin Diesel. But the film and music video sets, swanky Hollywood and New York restaurants and trysts with the celebrities featured in the pages of People and In Touch magazines only touches the surface of Karrine Steffans' life. Her journey is filled with physical abuse, rape, drug and alcohol abuse, homelessness and single motherhood--all by the age of 26. By sharing her story, Steffans hopes to shed light on an otherwise romanticised industry and help young women avoid the same pitfalls she encountered. If they're already in danger, she hopes to inspire them to find a way to dig themselves out of what she knows first-hand to be a cycle of hopelessness and despair. Author: Karrine Steffans Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers ISBN: 9780060892487 Format: Paperback Book In Store Price: $29.99 Online Price: $26.24
	Directing the Story Francis Glebas, a top Disney storyboard artist, shows how to reach the ultimate goal of animation and moviemaking by showing how to provide audiences with an emotionally satisfying experience. "Directing the Story" offers a structural approach to clearly and dramatically presenting visual stories. With Francis' help you'll discover the professional storytelling techniques which have swept away generations of movie goers and kept them coming back for more. You'll also learn to spot potential problems before they cost you time or money and offers creative solutions to solve them. Best of all, it practices what it preaches, using a graphic novel format to demonstrate the professional visual storytelling techniques you need to know. It uses the classic story of '1001 Arabian Nights' to show how to storyboard stories that will engage an audience's attention and emotions. It contains 1001 drawings in graphic novel format plus teaching concepts and commentary. All of the storyboarding examples have a real project context rather to engage a very visual audience on their own terms and teaches through demonstration. Author: Francis Glebas Publisher: Elsevier Publishers ISBN: 9780240810768 Format: Paperback Book In Store Price: $60.00 Online Price: $52.50
	Did Someone Say Participate? A report from the front lines of cultural activism that looks at spatial practitioners who actively trespass into neighboring or alien fields of knowledge. Author: Markus Miessen & Shumon Basar Publisher: MIT Press ISBN: 9780262134712 Format: Hardback Book In Store Price: $47.95 Online Price: $41.96
	The Projective Cast Anyone reviewing the history of architectural theory, Robin Evans observes, would have to conclude that architects do not produce geometry, but rather consume it. In this text Evans recasts the idea of the relationship between geometry and architecture, drawing on mathematics, engineering, art history and aesthetics to uncover processes in the imagining and realizing of architectural form. Evans shows that geometry does not always play a stolid and dormant role but may be an active agent in the links between thinking and imagination, imagination and drawing, drawing and building. He suggests a theory of architecture that is based on the many transactions between architecture and geometry as evidenced in individual buildings, largely in Europe, from the 15th to the 20th centuries. From the Henry VII chapel at Westminster Abbey to Le Corbusier's Ronchamp, from Raphael's S. Eligio and the work of Piero delia Francesca and Philibert Delorme to Guarino Guarini and the painters of cubism, this book explores the geometries involved, asking whether they are in fact the stable underpinnings of the creative, intuitive, or rhetorical aspects of architecture. In particular it concentrates on the history of architectural projection, the geometry of vision that has become an internalized and pervasive pictorial method of construction and that, until now, has played only a small part in the development of architectural theory. The author describes the ambivalent role that pictures play in architecture and urges resistance to the idea that pictures provide all that architects need, suggesting that there is much more within the scope of the architect's vision of a project than what can be drawn. He defines the different fields of projective transmission that concern architecture and investigates the ambiguities of projection and the interaction of imagination with projection and its metaphors. Author: Robin Evans Publisher: MIT Press ISBN: 9780262550383 Format: Paperback Book In Store Price: $71.95 Online Price: $62.96
	The Pythons Autobiography by the Pythons Over thirty years ago, a group of five Englishmen and one wayward American, re-wrote the rules of comedy. Monty Python's Flying Circus, an unheralded, previously unseen and practically unprogrammed half hour of sketches, hilarities, inanities and animations first appeared on the BBC late one night in 1969. Its impact on the world has been felt ever since. From its humble beginnings as late night entertainment on a British TV channel that went off the air before midnight, it blossomed into arguably the most influential movement in modern comedy. They found the Holy Grail, they detailed the life of the Savior-also-ran Brian, and when we were lost, they explained The Meaning of Life. Now, those purveyors of dead parrots and silly walks are going to tell us something more: Their story. In their own, intimate, never before heard words. "The Pythons" by The Pythons is the definitive word on all things Pythonesque (the only word invented by a modern comedian which is listed in the Oxford English Dictionary.) 30 years of insight, hindsight, and bad sight - now told for the first time. Stuff they're never remembered before alongside stories they'd forgotten to say, coupled with things they couldn't say then and even more things they can't pronounce now (with a healthy dollop of things they would never have said in the first place if any others had been in the room at the time.) "The Pythons" by The Pythons is a unique look at arguably the most important comic team of the modern age, lavishly illustrated with 1000 photographs and illustrations, many culled from the teams' own personal collections, many seen here for the first time. A tome, a tombstone, the definitive word on allthings Python, as told by all things Python - do you want Spam with that? Author: John Cleese, Terry Gilliam & Others Graham Chapman Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin ISBN: 9780312311452 Format: Paperback Book In Store Price: $31.95 Online Price: $27.96
	People in Vogue The archives of British Vogue define modern portraiture. Its collection remains the essential barometer of the social and cultural changes of the last century. So, portrayed here are the great, the good, and, frequently, the infamous too. PEOPLE IN VOGUE provides an insight into those who, through talent, beauty, personality or an alchemical combination of all three, set a stamp on their age. From life-enhancers to the great catalysts of change. Princesses and pop stars. Models, writers and actors. Architects and designers. Society beauties and style dictators. Scientists and world leaders. They all appear here, fixed in their time by the 20th-century's leading photographers: Hoppe, Baron de Meyer, Horst, Beaton, Steichen, Snowdon, Parkinson, Bailey, Newton, Weber, Knight, Teller, Testino and others. A commentary accompanies each picture, describing the subject and their allure (or notoriety) in terms of their era, circumstance and lifestyle, frequently with the reactions of Vogue's critics and commentators. PEOPLE IN VOGUE is a unique modern archive of a century and beyond - as stunningly produced as the people within its pages. Author: Robin Derrick & Robin Muir Publisher: Little, Brown ISBN: 9780316731140 Format: Paperback Book In Store Price: $45.00 Online Price: $39.38

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