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  Calamity-Free Crochet -...

  Catherine Hirst

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  Get it right the first time! Calamity-Free Crochet is a comprehensive, quick-reference guide for both new and advanced crocheters. It presents easy-to-follow advice on tools and materials, troubleshooting tips, and step-by-step techniques. What do you do if your stitches keep twisting? What happens if you've counted your stitches incorrectly? How do you substitute yarns, and what do you do if your border doesn't lie flat? Organized by the stages in a project, Calamity-Free Crochet provides cross-references between sections and lays out the best practice methods to help you through every step of the crochet process.More than 200 full-color photographs and illustrations

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  Yiddish Radio Project

  Scott Simon

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  The Yiddish Radio Project is based on a series of stories featured on NPR's All Things Considered in the spring of 2002. The series highlights the golden age of Yiddish-American broadcasting in the 1930s to '50s. In its heyday Yiddish radio was heard from coast to coast, with a dozen stations in New York alone. All that survives from that incredible era are 500 hours of material preserved on 1,000 fragile discs—all of them rescued from storerooms and attics and even dumpsters, by one man, Henry Sapoznik, a musician and historian who has been on a fifteen-year mission to save every remnant from the "golden age" of Yiddish radio. This collection is an unprecedented intimate snapshot of American Jewish life during the 1930s and '40s. The series features translations of the Yiddish language broadcasts by a cast that includes Eli Wallach, Carl Reiner, and Isaiah Sheffer.

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  KEYBOARD LESSONS - Advanced...

  Green Light Studios

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  Have you ever wondered why learning the basics of playing a keyboard is not enough? Why do we need to take advanced lessons and hone our skills even further? How can advanced keyboard lessons push your hobby into something more serious, possibly as far as a career in music? This book will explore why advancing your keyboard learning journey is so important and how it can help you reach greater heights in the music industry. 
  First off, what exactly do advanced keyboard lessons entail? Many keyboard books provide basic tutorials on playing chords, scales, and other simple sounds, but these are too rudimentary for those who wish to take their music to the next level. Advanced keyboard lessons delve into more complex topics such as trills, textures, leaps, and even jazz and blues music. Through chapters 1-2, readers will learn about advanced chords to play on the piano. Chapter 3 explores melodic and harmonic scales, while chapter 4 delves into trills, textures, and leaps. It’s important to practice what you have learned and find ways to apply it within various musical genres and settings. In Chapters 5 and 6, we look at jazz and blues music as well as honing techniques to become a better player. We will look at how classical music can benefit from keyboard-playing techniques and explore jazz, pop, rock, and blues styles. With this knowledge under your belt, you will be in a position to bring creative energy into any performance.

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  Edward Curtis: Portrait of...

  PBS NewsHour

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  Backed by Theodore Roosevelt, Edward Curtis set out in 1900 to document the lives of Native Americans. Over the next 30 years, he took more than 40,000 pictures and 10,000 audio recordings. Jeffrey Brown talks to Pulitzer Prize winner Timothy Egan about his new biography about Curtis, Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher.

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  Tell Them It's A Dream Sequence:...

  John Gaspard

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  Is it your dream to make feature films? 
  Get advice on how to do that by some of the best in the business!  
  It’s like going to film school without ever leaving home. 
  Valuable Lessons on Making a Successful Feature Film.  
  Includes great tips and ideas from: Steven Soderbergh (“sex, lies & videotape”)Roger Corman (“Little Shop of Horrors”)Jon Favreau (“Swingers”)Rebecca Miller (“Personal Velocity”)Kenneth Lonergan (“You Can Count on Me”)Henry Jaglom (“Venice/Venice”)Miranda July (“Me and You and Everyone We Know”)Bob Odenkirk (“Melvin Goes to Dinner”)Dan O'Bannon (“Dark Star”)Whit Stillman (“Metropolitan”)Jonathan Lynn (“My Cousin Vinny”)Carol Littleton (“The Big Chill”)Dan Futterman (“Capote”)Joan Micklin Silver (“Hester Street”)Griffin Dunne (“Lisa Picard is Famous”)Stuart Gordon (“Re-Animator”)Kasi Lemmons (“Eve’s Bayou”)George Romero (“Martin”)Tom Noonan (“What Happened Was…”)Daniel Myrick (“The Blair Witch Project”) 
  And many more! 
  Topics covered include getting started, scripting, pre-production, production, post-production and distribution.

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  Practicing Presence - A Mother's...

  Joy Prouty

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  Your camera isn't a distraction--it's your portal to presence 
   
  As a mother, life often feels like it is passing by in a blur. You take countless pictures trying to freeze time and capture the memories, but in looking back find you barely even remember experiencing the moments. But what if there were a way to preserve your family's story while also becoming fully present within it? 
   
  Combining the science of memory preservation with photography principles, professional photographer Joy Prouty shows you how to exit survival mode and enter the present moment through the photos you're already taking. With the camera as your magnifying glass for meaning, you'll learn to let go of perfect pictures, embody self-compassion, and rewire your brain to experience more joy in the memories you are making right now. Through human stories, poetic motherly wisdom, and gorgeous full-color photographs, Practicing Presence is your invitation to show up to the practice of fully living.

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