Author: Jason Lute
Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly
Keywords: smoke, city, book, berlin
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2008-09-16
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1897299532
ISBN-13: 9781897299531
The second installment of the epic historical trilogy The second volume of Jason Lutess historical epic finds the people of Weimar Berlin searching for answers after the lethal May Day demonstration of 1929. Tension builds along with the dividing wall between communists and nationalists, Jews and Gentiles, as the dawn of the Second World War draws closer. Meanwhile, the nightlife of Berlin heats up as many attempt to distract themselves from the political upheavals within the city. The American jazz band Cocoa Kids arrives and quickly becomes a fixture. The lives of the characters within Lute
Author: Gwen Lute
Publisher: Amherst Media, Inc.
Keywords: photoshop, adobe, retouching, photo
Number of Pages: 150
Published: 2002-08-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1584280808
ISBN-13: 9781584280804
This updated manual teaches the specialized techniques needed for correcting photos using the latest version of Adobe Photoshop. With Photoshop, the skilled photographer’s ability to retouch photos has become almost limitless. Included are professional techniques aimed specifically at photographers and photo-imaging enthusiasts. Photographers will learn how to restore damaged photographs, correct blemishes, change backgrounds, and add or subtract people from an image. Important advanced techniques are also covered, including vignettes, important hardware requirements, and managing files.
Authors:Gjergj Fishta, Robert Elsie,
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Keywords: lute, highland
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2006-03-03
List price: $56.00
ISBN-10: 1845111184
ISBN-13: 9781845111182
The Highland Lute became enormously popular in the 1920s and 30s, with its vivid, archetypal characters and panoramic descriptions: the backdrop to Albania’s historical battles for freedom and independence from the Turks and Montenegrins. It propelled its author, Gjergj Fishta, to universal recognition as the national poet of Albania until the Communists took power in 1944. On its first public recital in post-Communist Albania, 45 years later, many in the audience still knew parts by heart. Robert Elsie’s masterful new translation, the first to appear in English, captures the spiri
Author: Jason Lute
Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly
Keywords: one, part, book, stones, city, berlin
Number of Pages: 209
Published: 2000-06-01
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 1896597297
ISBN-13: 9781896597294
It’s difficult to think of a story with a greater sense of elegant, nuanced foreboding than Jason Lutes’s Berlin, Book One: City of Stones. Set in the Weimar Republic-era of German history, Lutes’s story takes an unimaginably large and historically important time and observes it through the small lives of a band of sympathetic protagonists. The author spends the most time with his main characters, Kurt Severing and Marthe Mller, but the quality of Berlin is such that the reader cares emphatically about the fate of the rest of the cast: the lovelorn dyke art student, the rece
Author: Douglas Alton Smith
Publisher: LSA
Keywords: renaissance, antiquity, lute, history
Number of Pages: 389
Published: 2002-05
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 097140710X
ISBN-13: 9780971407107
Author: Melanie Axel-Lute
Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
Keywords: literature, children, index, quotation
Number of Pages: 317
Published: 2001-04-15
List price: $48.00
ISBN-10: 1563088096
ISBN-13: 9781563088094
Not just an anthology, this extensive index offers keyword, title, and author name access to more than 1,800 quotations from nearly 500 classic, award-winning, and popular works for children. Pearls of humor and wisdom from authors such as the Brothers Grimm, Dr. Seuss, Judith Viorst, and Shel Silverstein are at your fingertips. Very few quotations have been indexed in other works, making this a unique tool to find that elusive quote.
Author: Hannu Annala & Heiki Matlik
Publisher: Mel Bay Pulications, Inc.
Keywords: composers, lute, guitar, handbook
Number of Pages: 172
Published: 2007-10-11
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0786658444
ISBN-13: 9780786658442
Hannu Annala & Heiki Matlik have used more than 70 music books as sources as well as dozens of composer leaflets acquired from the musical information centers of several countries. During the writing process, which lasted for more than three years, we received extra information from many modern composers, Leo Brouwer and Reginald Smith Brindle among others. In addition, several internationally renowed performing guitarists gave us valuable information, we are indebted to the following; Magnus Andersson (Sweden), Remi Boucher (Canada), Margarita Escarpa (Spain), Aleksander Frauchi (Russia) and
