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NEW LIBRARY TITLES (Jan/Feb 2010 Arrivals - posted February 18/10)

*please note that the library will gladly transport resources between the Burnaby, Renfrew and Culinary library locations for you. Simply contact the library to reserve/place a hold on the item(s) you are interested in and let us know which library location that you would like to pick your item(s) up.

New Books @ the Ai Burnaby Library

Apple Pro Training Series: Logic Pro 9 and Logic Express 9
Art of Planet 51 
Art of Rigging, Vol. 3
Autodesk Maya 2010: The Modeling and Animation Handbook
Cinema studies : the key concepts - REFERENCE
Cubase 5 Power!: The Comprehensive Guide 
Dance Music Manual: Tools, Toys & Techniques (2nd ed) - Course Reserve
Digital Character Painting Using Photoshop CS3
Digital Visual Effects Studio: The Artists and Their Work Revealed
Essential Zbrush 
Everything is an Argument (instructor copy)
God of Comics: Osama Tezuka and the Creation of Post-Workd War II Manga
Good Vibrations: The Physics of Music
Here Come the Regulars: How to Run a Record Label on a Shoestring Budget
How Does It Sound Now?: Legendary Engineers and Vintage Gear
How to Cheat in Maya 2010: Tools and Techniques for the Maya Animator
How to Draw comics the Marvel Way 
Joining the Conversation: Writing in College and Beyond (instructor copy)
Kontakt 2 Power!: The Comprehensive Guide
Learning Autodesk Maya 2010: Foundation
Man Who Stopped Time: The Illuminating Story of Eadweard Muybridge: Father of the Motion Picture, Pioneer of Photography, and Murderer 
MIDI Editing in Cubase: Skill Pack
Movies of the 20s 
Pervasive Games: Theory and Design
Reason 4 Ignite
Reason 4 Power!
Sketchy Past: The Art of Peter de Seve
Swallow Book 3 
Visual Effects Producer: Understanding the Art and Business of VFX
Zbrush Digital Sculpting Human Anatomy

New Books @ the Ai Vancouver & Culinary Libraries

100 Contemporary Fashion Designers
100 New Fashion Designers 
100 years of menswear
1000 Fonts
1000 Music Graphics
200% COTTON: NEW T-SHIRT GRAPHICS
20th Century Fashion: 100 Years of Apparel Ads
300% Cotton: More T-Shirt Graphics (Paperback) 
400 Years of Fashion
50 designers, 50 costumes : concept to character
500 years of book design
ABC's of the Bauhaus:: The Bauhaus and Design Theory 
Adobe Photoshop for fashion designers
Alinea
American costume jewelry: art and industry 1935-1950 (Vol 1)
American costume jewelry: art and industry 1935-1950 (Vol 2)
American countercultures : an encyclopedia of nonconformists, alternative lifestyles, and radical ideas in U.S. history
American Modernism
American Vernacular Architecture : Buildings and Interiors, 1870-1960 
Anatomy for the Artist (All About Techniques Series)
Araxi: Seasonal Recipes from the Celebrated Whistler Restaurant
Architectural graphics
Art and Text
Art Deco Fashion
Art deco textiles : the French designers
Art Direction and Editorial Design
Art Nouveau: Utopia: Reconciling the Irreconcilable 
Art of Dress: Clothes and Society, 1500-1914 
Art of Responsive Drawing (6th ed)
Art of the Korean Renaissance, 1400-1600
Arts in Latin America, 1492-1820 
Asian Art: An Anthology 
Asian Furniture: A Directory and Sourcebook
AutoCAD 2009 and AutoCAD LT 2009: No Experience Required
Balenciaga and His Legacy: Haute Couture from the Texas Fashion Collection 
Basics Design: Design Thinking
Best of Newspaper Design: 28th edition
Big Book of Illustration Ideas 
Big Book of Illustration Ideas 2
Blue Water Café Seafood Cookbook
Build Your Own Database Driven Web Site Using PHP & MySQL
Building a Meal: From Molecular Gastronomy to Culinary Constructivism
Century of Olympic Posters
Changing Clothes in China: Fashion, History, Nation
Children’s costume : the complete historical sourcebook
Chindia : how China and India are revolutionizing global business
Chinese dress : from the Qing Dynasty to the Present
Classical Tutu Book
Clothes
Color Management for Packaging: A Comprehensive Guide for Graphic Designers 
Communicating with Pattern: Circles and Dots
Communicating with Pattern: Squares, Checks and Grids
Complete Embellishing: Techniques and Projects 
Complete Robuchon
Construction Drawings and Details for Interiors: Basic Skills (2nd ed)
Contemporary Indian fashion
Costume in Detail: 1730-1930 
Costumes and Textiles of Royal India
Cut my Coat
Cut of his coat : men, dress, and consumer culture in Britain, 1860-1914
Cut of Men's Clothes: 1600-1900 
Design encyclopedia
Design Essentials Index 
Design of Dissent
Designer's Desktop Manual 
Designing a home with wood
Designing for the Digital Age: How to Create Human-Centered Products and Service
Digital Textile Design
Display: 2-D and 3-D Design for Exhibitions, Galleries, Museums and Trade Shows
Drawing Fashion: The Art of Kenneth Paul Block 
Drawing the Landscape- Third Edition
Dressing the past
E-Commerce 2009
eCommerce Best Practices - How to market, sell, and service customers with internet technologies 
Eileen Gray: Her life and work
Elements of Design: Rowena Reed Kostellow and the Structure of Visual Relationships 
Embroidered Textiles: A world guide to traditional patterns
Emerging: Contemporary Readin for Writers
Encyclopedia of furnishing textiles, floorcoverings and home furnishing practices, 1200-1950
Envisioning Architecture
Events Management: An Integrated and Practical Approach
Experimental Formats.2: Books Brochures, Catalogs (v. 2) 
Exploring Psychology
Fabric Jewelry: 25 Designs to Make Using Silk, Ribbon, Buttons, and Beads
Fabricate: 17 Innovative Sewing Projects that Make Fabric the Star 
Fashion and Accessories
Fashion and Modernity
Fashion and Sport
Fashion at the time of fascism : Italian modernist lifestyle, 1922-1943
Fashion Prints: How to Design and Draw
Feet & Footwear: A cultural encyclopedia
Felt (Textiles that Changed the World)
Flashback: A Tribute to Classic Art in Contemporary Graphics
Food and Wine Festivals and Events Around the World: Development, management and markets
Forms, Folds and Sizes, Second Edition: All the Details Graphic Designers Need to Know but Can Never Find
Functional packaging prototypes
Furniture and Interiors of the 1960's
Furniture and Interiors of the 1970's
Further Adventures in Search of Perfection: Reinventing Kitchen Classics
Grand Finales: A Modernist View of Plated Desserts
Graphic Design for Architects
Graphic Design Sources
Graphic Details: A style guide to patterns and applications
Graphic Style: From Victorian to Digital 
Graphics Master 8 - The workbook of Graphic Arts Reference Guides
Green Building Products, 3rd ed.
Green Design: A Healthy Home Handbook 
Gunter Kupetz: Industrial Design
Handy book of Artistic Printing
History of Interior Design (3rd ed)
History of the Surrealist Movement 
How to be an illustrator
How to Dress Dancers
How to find a job on Linked in, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and other social networks
Illustrated History of Furniture: Furniture Design from The Ancient Times To The 19th Century: 256 original illustrations 
Illustration Now! 3
Illustration: A Visual History
In Search of Perfection: Tv Tie-In
In the Realm of Gods and Kings: Arts of India
Introduction to Two-Dimensional Design: Understanding Form and Function
It started with a kiss: 20 years of Mexx
Japanese Fashion: A Cultural History 
Japanese Kitchen Knives: Essential Techniques and Recipes
Just Labels
Juxtapose - Car Culture
Juxtapose Illustration
Juxtapose Tattoo
Knock 'em Dead Resumes: Features the Latest Information on: Online Postings, Email Techniques, and Follow-up Strategies
Le Corbusier Le Grand
Lesage (Universe of Fashion) 
LogoLounge Master Library, Volume 1: 3,000 Initials & Crest Logos
London look : fashion from street to catwalk
Macrame book
Majesty of Mughal Decoration: The Art and Architecture of Islamic India
Making Kimono and Japanese Clothes
Map as art : contemporary artists explore cartography
Masterpieces: Hospital Architecture & Design 
Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man
Modern Café
Modern Gastronomy: A to Z
Momufuku
More dress pattern design
More Fabulous Flowers: Mini-quilts in Dimensional Applique
My favorite dress
Native American Art in the Twentieth Century: Makers, Meanings, Histories
Native American Clothing: An Illustrated History
Natural Fashion: Tribal Decoration from Africa
New Encyclopedia of Fashion Details: Over 1000 Fashion Details
New Shoes: Contemporary footware design
One-Off: Independent Retail Design
Otl Aicher
Package Design Workbook
Paris 1962: Yves Saint Laurent and Dior, Christian Dior, The Early Collections
Paris Fashion: A Cultural History 
Paris-New York: Design Fashion Culture 1925-1940
Patternmaking for fashion design (5th ed)
Perspectives on Design Pacific Northwest: Design Philosophies Expressed by the Pacific Northwest's Leading Professionals 
Pictograms, Icons & Signs: A guide to information graphics
Pierre Gagnaire: Reinventing French Cuisine
Playful Type: Ephemeral Lettering and Illustrative Fonts
Pop Art: A Continuing History
Pop Art: A Critical History
Pop Surrealism: The Rise Of Underground Art 
Practical Guide to Costume Mounting 
Professional Sewing Techniques for Designers 
Public relations for dummies
Public Relations Writing: Form & Style 
Rare Bird of Fashion: The Irreverent Iris Apfel 
Raven Travelling: Two Centuries of Haida Art 
Real Writing
Really Good Packaging Explained: Top Design Professionals Critique 300 Package Designs and Explain What Makes Them Work
Relax: Interiors for human wellness
Road to Byzantium: Luxury Arts of Antiquity
Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman
Science of the Oven 
Sergio Rossi
Serialize: Family Faces and variety in graphic design
Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Fashion in Detail
Seventeenth Century Art and Architecture (2nd Edition) 
Shopping For Vintage: The Definitive Guide to Fashion 
Signs: Lettering in the environment
Sister parish design on decorating
Speak Human: Outmarket the Big Guys by Getting Personal 
Star Pieces : The Enduring Beauty of Spectacular Furniture 
Sustainable Graphic Design: Tools, Systems and Strategies for Innovative Print Design 
Sustainable Healthcare Architecture 
Temple Architecture of India
Textile Desgners at the Cutting Edge
Thinking Through Art: Reflections on Art as Research
Tibetan Furniture
Total Perfection
Toward a New Regionalism: Environmental Architecture in the Pacific Northwest 
Twentieth-Century Fashion in Detail 
Type & Typography
Type: The Secret History of Letters
Typographie: A Manual of Design
Under Pressure: Cooking Sous Vide
Vancouver Achievement: Urban Planning and Design
Visual Merchandising
West: The Cookbook
When Clothes become fashion
Where Am I Wearing?
White dress : fashion inspiration for brides
Wiley Encyclopedia of Packaging Technology
Window Displays

New DVD's & Games

Last updated 18 February, 2010