The Dastgah Concept in Persian Music by Hormoz Farhat
$60.00 NZD
Category: Music | Series: Cambridge Studies in Ethnomusicology Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The tradition of Persian art music embodies twelve modal systems, known as dastgahs. Each dastgah represents a complex of skeletal melodic models on the basis of which a performer produces extemporised pieces. The dastgahs revolve around unspecified central nuclear melodies which the individual musician ...Show more
Alexander Liberman - The Artist in His Studio by Alexander Liberman
$75.00 NZD
Category: Photography | Reading Level: very good
Classical Persian Music - An Introduction by Ella Zonis
$30.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: good-very good
Loetz Austria 1905-1918 - Glass by Waltraud Neuwirth
$45.00 NZD
Category: Antiques | Reading Level: very good
501 Movie Directors by Steven Jay Schneider (editor)
$16.00 NZD
Category: Film | Reading Level: very good
This valuable book is a chronological compendium that profiles the 501 most important film directors of all time. Here is a comprehensive survey of the creative imaginations behind more than 100 years of filmmaking.
1001 Movies to See Before You Die (revised edition 2003) - out of print by Steven Jay Schneider (ed.)
$16.00 NZD
Category: Film | Reading Level: very good
b>Welcome to the movies you must see before you die  simply the best of the best. 1001 Movies is the definitive guide to the movie greats, and celebrates the best of the best in nearly a century of film. It features all the movies one should see before itÂs too late, from the masterpieces th ...Show more
Biographic Degas by Katie Greenwood
$10.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Series: Great Lives in Graphic Form | Reading Level: very good
The Biographic senes presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits and achievements of each subject, and uses infographics to convey all of them in vivid snapshots. Many people know that Edgar ...Show more
Maori Carving - The Art of Recording Maori History by Malcolm Mulholland; Robyn Bargh
$10.00 NZD
Category: Maori & Pacific | Reading Level: very good
This photograph-rich book shows and describes the process of carving, covering the types of materials and tools used, the carving strokes and surface patterns and different regional styles. It shows the range of items carved from meeting houses to musical instruments, waka or canoes, storehouses, weapon ...Show more
Inside Vogue - A Diary of My 100th Year by Alexandra Shulman
$10.00 NZD
Category: Fashion | Reading Level: good-very good
"Coinciding with its 100th anniversary, Inside Vogue is Alexandra Shulman's record of her life at the magazine during its centenary year. These diaries are a fascinating glimpse into the realities of her day to day as the longest serving Editor-in-chief in Vogue's history: the emotional and personal str ...Show more