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Product Description: Frequently hailed as the greatest movie star of all time, Elizabeth Taylor was a friend of Warhol’s in the 1970s and 1980s. The personification of charisma whose highly public life charged with drama, tragedy, and romance, this iconic muse was a perfect vehicle for Warhol’s vivid silkscreen portraiture derived from press clippings, publicity shots, and film stills...read more
By Bob Colacello (contributor), Andy Warhol (other contributor) and John Waters (contributor)
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9780847837854 | Rizzoli Intl Pubns, April 17, 2012, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: Frequently hailed as the greatest movie star of all time, Elizabeth Taylor was a friend of Warhol’s in the 1970s and 1980s.

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Product Description: Here, from the incomparable John Waters, is a paean to the power of subversive inspiration that will delight, amuse, enrich—and happily horrify readers everywhere.Role Models is, in fact, a self-portrait told through intimate profiles of favorite personalities—some famous, some unknown, some criminal, some surprisingly middle-of-the-road...read more
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9780374251475 | 1 edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, May 25, 2010), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Here, from the incomparable John Waters, is a paean to the power of subversive inspiration that will delight, amuse, enrich—and happily horrify readers everywhere.

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Product Description: Waters explores the process by which the hope of a society was sabotaged and plundered in the name of a mis-defined freedom and a utopia of the now. In the late spring of 2008 the acclaimed Irish writer Nuala O' Faolain went on a national Irish radio program to tell the Irish people that she was dying of cancer...read more
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9781441114211 | Continuum Intl Pub Group, April 22, 2010, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Waters explores the process by which the hope of a society was sabotaged and plundered in the name of a mis-defined freedom and a utopia of the now.

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Product Description: Irish Times columnist and former partner of Sinead O'Conner tells the story of one man's journey from belief to un-belief and back again.John Waters is known for being the most astute and perceptive commentator for The Irish Times where his regular column has a huge following, and for his championing of fathers' rights stemming from his own custody battle...read more
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9780826491466 | Continuum Intl Pub Group, March 10, 2008, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Irish Times columnist and former partner of Sinead O'Conner tells the story of one man's journey from belief to un-belief and back again.

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Product Description: Each of us wears our personality like a disguise-but with the Enneagram, you can strip away that mask, and reveal your true self. A timeless tool used by corporate trainers, counselors, and mental health professionals, the Enneagram defines nine basic personality types...read more
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9781598692761, titled "The Everything Enneagram Book: Identify Your Type, Gain Insight into Your Personality and Find Success in Life, Love, and Business" | Adams Media Corp, August 1, 2007, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Each of us wears our personality like a disguise-but with the Enneagram, you can strip away that mask, and reveal your true self.

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Product Description: In a powerful new body of photographs, sculpture and installation, John Waters continues his investigations of film history and contemporary politics. Primarily known as the filmmaker behind such cult classics as Pink Flamingos, Polyester and Pecker, Waters has been making "fine" art since the early 1990s...read more
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9780977950300 | Marianne Boesky Gallery, July 15, 2006, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: In a powerful new body of photographs, sculpture and installation, John Waters continues his investigations of film history and contemporary politics.

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Product Description: Here are three more of John Waters's most popular screenplays — for the first time in print, including an original introduction by Waters and dozens of fun film stills. John Waters, the writer and director of these movies, is a legendary filmmaker whose films occupy their own niche in cinema history...read more
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9781560257028 | Running Pr Book Pub, September 7, 2005, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Here are three more of John Waters's most popular screenplays — for the first time in print, including an original introduction by Waters and dozens of fun film stills.

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Product Description: Here are three of the filthiest-and yet, in their own way, sweetest—screenplays ever written: Pink Flamingos, Desperate Living, and Flamingos Forever. Intermixed with the scripts are dozens of classic stills from the films.In Pink Flamingos, Waters's muse and leading lady, Divine, a 300-pound cross-dresser who could turn your stomach in one scene and break your heart in the next, competes with her family for the title of "filthiest people alive"—as readers will see, it's really anyone's game...read more
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9781560257011 | Running Pr Book Pub, April 6, 2005, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Here are three of the filthiest-and yet, in their own way, sweetest—screenplays ever written: Pink Flamingos, Desperate Living, and Flamingos Forever.

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Product Description: To me, bad taste is what entertainment is all about. If someone vomits watching one of my films, it's like getting a standing ovation. Thus begins John Waters's autobiography. And what a story it is. Opening with his upbringing in Baltimore ("Charm City" as dubbed by the tourist board; the "hairdo capital of the world" as dubbed by Waters), it covers his friendship with his muse and leading lady, Divine, detailed accounts of how Waters made his first movies, stories of the circle of friends/actors he used in these films, and finally the "sort-of fame" he achieves in America...read more
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9781560256984 | Running Pr Book Pub, April 4, 2005, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: To me, bad taste is what entertainment is all about.
9781560250920 | 2 edition (Thunder''s Mouth Pr, December 1, 1995), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Softcover Book

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Product Description: In this collaboration with four preeminent artists and writers, Roni Horn presents her latest work: Wonderwater (Alice Offshore). The publication takes the form of four individual books contained in a slipcase, plus an envelope of drawings by Anne Carson...read more
By Louise Bourgeois (contributor), Anne Carson (contributor), Helene Cixous (contributor) and John Waters (contributor)
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9783865210050 | Steidl / Edition7L, October 15, 2004, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: In this collaboration with four preeminent artists and writers, Roni Horn presents her latest work: Wonderwater (Alice Offshore).

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Product Description: For nearly fifteen years John Waters has been a dissident voice writing in his weekly column for The Irish Times, invariably confronting the conventional wisdom on issues ranging from fatherhood and the official denial of the rights of parents and children, to the absurdity of Ireland's seemingly endless tribunals...read more
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9781904148463 | Liffey Pr, September 15, 2004, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: For nearly fifteen years John Waters has been a dissident voice writing in his weekly column for The Irish Times, invariably confronting the conventional wisdom on issues ranging from fatherhood and the official denial of the rights of parents and children, to the absurdity of Ireland's seemingly endless tribunals.

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Product Description: Known as a highly entertaining and controversial filmmaker, John Waters is also an artist and photographer. This book surveys e of his still photographic works and presents early underground films, sketchbooks and source material for the first time.
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9780810943063 | Harry N Abrams Inc, March 2, 2004, cover price $37.50 | About this edition: Known as a highly entertaining and controversial filmmaker, John Waters is also an artist and photographer.

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9780810991750 | Guggenheim Museum Pubns, January 1, 2004, cover price $10.01 | About this edition: Known as a highly entertaining and controversial filmmaker, John Waters is also an artist and photographer.

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Product Description: Written by a veteran Web designer, The Real Business of Web Design goes beyond the usual philosophy of simply creating a better customer experience online. Instead, it provides an array of visual design practices and tested business principles for clarifying and simplifying the Web development process and making a Website more customer friendly...read more
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9781581153163 | Allworth Pr, January 1, 2004, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Written by a veteran Web designer, The Real Business of Web Design goes beyond the usual philosophy of simply creating a better customer experience online.

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Product Description: Cult film director John Waters and art critic and curator Bruce Hainley offer a provocative and personal interpretation of the theme of sex and sexuality in art. They have selected a wide range of works, from graphic depictions of the body to abstract images suggesting or inviting different ideas of the erotic, and have arranged them into "rooms" just as in a real exhibition...read more
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9780500284353 | Thames & Hudson, October 1, 2003, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Cult film director John Waters and art critic and curator Bruce Hainley offer a provocative and personal interpretation of the theme of sex and sexuality in art.

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A collection of essays, originally published in 1986 and updated to include new material, reflects the author's offbeat world view and features advice on such topics as how not to make a movie, how to become famous, and how to retain a sense of humor under the most dire circumstances. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.
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9780743246279 | Rep sub edition (Scribner, September 30, 2003), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A collection of essays reflects the author's off-beat world view and features advice on such topics as how to not make a movie, how to become famous, and how to retain a sense of humor under the most dire circumstances.
9780394755342 | 1 edition (Vintage Books, September 1, 1987), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Essays discuss Los Angeles, movie promotions, Pia Zadora, jail, the National Enquirer, fame, Christmas, movie making, and the bizarre

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9781416591245 | Scribner, September 30, 2003, cover price $11.99

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Product Description: The Republic of Ireland, described variously as "The Emerald Tiger", "The Celtic Tiger" and "The Tiger Economy of Europe", is apparently one of the great success stories of 20th-century Europe. Just 75 years into independence, less than 40 years from the stygian blackness of pre-modernity, and only a decade from what seemed to be an economic apocalypse, Ireland has finally modernized...read more
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9780715627914 | Duckbacks, June 1, 2003, cover price $23.50 | About this edition: The Republic of Ireland, described variously as "The Emerald Tiger", "The Celtic Tiger" and "The Tiger Economy of Europe", is apparently one of the great success stories of 20th-century Europe.

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Product Description: The Republic of Ireland, described variously as "The Emerald Tiger", "The Celtic Tiger" and "The Tiger Economy of Europe", is apparently one of the great success stories of 20th-century Europe. Just 75 years into independence, less than 40 years from the stygian blackness of pre-modernity, and only a decade from what seemed to be an economic apocalypse, Ireland has finally modernized...read more
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9780715628478 | Duckbacks, November 1, 2000, cover price $15.50 | About this edition: The Republic of Ireland, described variously as "The Emerald Tiger", "The Celtic Tiger" and "The Tiger Economy of Europe", is apparently one of the great success stories of 20th-century Europe.

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Collects different images and icons, from Bill Gates to nose rings, to create an overview of popular culture in the late twentieth century
By Kim Hastreiter (editor), David Hershkovits (editor) and John Waters
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9781891024047 | Distributed Art Pub Inc, December 1, 1999, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Collects different images and icons, from Bill Gates to nose rings, to create an overview of popular culture in the late twentieth century

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Product Description: Bonded Thru Injustice is a compelling look into a most improbable human bond a hardened, licenced private investigator and his client who was falsely accused of a dozen charges ... including murder. Bonded Thru Injustice delves into the shady and down-right dirty dealings of our justice system in what turned out to be California's first federal death penalty case...read more
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9781893466005 | Got 2 Goshop.Com, February 1, 1999, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Bonded Thru Injustice is a compelling look into a most improbable human bond a hardened, licenced private investigator and his client who was falsely accused of a dozen charges .

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9781893466012 | Got 2 Goshop.Com, September 1, 1999, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Bonded Thru Injustice is a compelling look into a most improbable human bond a hardened, licenced private investigator and his client who was falsely accused of a dozen charges .

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9781874597223 | New Island Books, May 1, 1999, cover price $12.95
9781854592637 | Theatre Communications Group, September 1, 1996, cover price $14.95

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Product Description: John Waters, famed underground director of such outrageous, cult classics as Pink Flamingos, Polyester, Hairspray, Cry Baby and Serial Mom, "re-directs" forgotten art films, obscure melodramas, lurid pot-boilers and his own early films in the form of photographic story boards made up of stills...read more
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9783931141561 | Scalo Verlag Ac, December 1, 1997, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: John Waters, famed underground director of such outrageous, cult classics as Pink Flamingos, Polyester, Hairspray, Cry Baby and Serial Mom, "re-directs" forgotten art films, obscure melodramas, lurid pot-boilers and his own early films in the form of photographic story boards made up of stills.

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Product Description: To Todd Oldham, one of today's most important young fashion designers, style and artistic expression aren't about money, nor about achieving aesthetic perfection--he believes that, with a self-aware eye, all people can unleash their own distinctive tastes...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780789300430 | Universe Pub, May 1, 1997, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: To Todd Oldham, one of today's most important young fashion designers, style and artistic expression aren't about money, nor about achieving aesthetic perfection--he believes that, with a self-aware eye, all people can unleash their own distinctive tastes.

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Product Description: Greg Gorman Inside LifePhotographs by Greg GormanIntroduction by Dave Fulton, Foreword by John WatersFrom images of rock concerts and anti-Vietnam demonstrations of the turbulent late 1960s to today's most recognizable faces from the motion picture and music worlds, Greg Gorman's unique, ever-evolving photographic style has cast modern America in a new light...read more
By Dave Fulton (introduced by), Greg Gorman and John Waters (introduced by)
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9780847819980 | Rizzoli Intl Pubns, January 1, 1997, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Greg Gorman Inside LifePhotographs by Greg GormanIntroduction by Dave Fulton, Foreword by John WatersFrom images of rock concerts and anti-Vietnam demonstrations of the turbulent late 1960s to today's most recognizable faces from the motion picture and music worlds, Greg Gorman's unique, ever-evolving photographic style has cast modern America in a new light.

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Reprints the screenplays from two of Waters' cult films and the screenplay for the never-produced sequel to 'Pink Flamingos'
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9781560251279 | 2 sub edition (Thunder''s Mouth Pr, May 1, 1996), cover price $12.95
9780394759869 | Vintage Books, December 1, 1988, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Reprints the screenplays from two of Waters' cult films and the screenplay for the never-produced sequel to 'Pink Flamingos'

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