Autobiography: arts and entertainment Books
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Yo. Elton John / Me: Elton John. Official
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£17.53
Kitsune Books TODO ES AMOR
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£16.86
Alianza Editorial Alfredo Kraus Una concepcion del canto A
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£33.79
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial El año del mono / The Year of the Monkey
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£19.41
Editorial Almuzara La mujer en el cante flamenco
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£19.77
Libros del Kultrum Cash: La Autobiografía
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£14.19
Silvana Escape to Berlin
Book SynopsisThis volume offers the autobiography of artist Adrian Piper (1948, New York). Established as a conceptual and minimalist artist as well as a performer on the New York art scene of the late 1960s, Piper traces in these pages - enriched with personal photographs, drawings and poems - her human and professional history.Do you want to know why I left the United States and why I refuse to return? This is why. (...) Instead the hard, stony layer of ego that separates the sprout within it from all the outer layers that surrounded it, begins to melt and disintegrate as it unravels, releasing its constricting death-grip on the tiny, now highly impacted sprout trapped inside it, allowing the sprout to inhale endlessly, to take everything into it, to expand without limit, to disperse and evaporate into everything it has ever been, everything that has ever surrounded it, everything it left behind when it began to unspool from its wrappings. Then you are really free. That is when you
£25.60
Forma Edizioni Adolfo Natalini 'Four Sketchbooks': From
Book SynopsisFounder of Superstudio and initiator of the so-called 'Radical Architecture' movement (one of the most important avant-garde movements of the sixties and seventies), Adolfo Natalini describes years of designed and constructed architectural projects through his preferred media: drawings and sketches shown in his Black notebooks (Quaderni Neri). This book contains many of his numerous designs and constructed projects, witness to almost fifty years of his career, collected in four new Notebooks. The first section describes the experiences shaping Natalini's education, including his studies and work at Superstudio and the 'Pistioia school'. The other chapters present his designs and completed projects, divided by geographic area and then in chronological order. The Italian, German and Dutch sketchbooks show the work he considers the best representations of his career, told through images, technical drawings and original sketches from his famed sketchbooks. Many excerpts from interviews with the Natalini are interspersed throughout, complementing and tying everything together. This significant book helps us understand a key player in Italian architecture, his career, how his ideas evolved, and how he sees and understands his work and designs.
£42.75
Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. DIVIDED BY PARTITION: United by RESILIENCE: 21
Book SynopsisDuring the mayhem of the 1947 Partition,akhs of peopleost their homes andivelihoods, whileakhs died. It was a time of catastrophicoss. Despite this, people found the strength toook towards the future and focused on rebuilding theirives and the country they had migrated to. This book captures stories of resilience and sheer grit of people caught in the vortex.It comprisesife stories of twenty-one extraordinary individuals who were deeply affected by the Partition, yet went on to achieve greatness in Independent India. Through their first-hand accounts, they provide a visceral insight into the devastation of families who endured the migration, the camps and the struggle of rebuilding theirives.Each of these stories is inspirational in a timeless way and the book is ultimately about the resilience and triumph of the human spirit over everything else.Manmohan Singh,.K. Advani, Madanal Khurana, M.S. Kohli, Dharampal Gulati, Faqir Chand Kohli, Manoranjan Byapari, Gulzar, Hamida Habibullah, Kasturial Wadhwa, Krishen Khanna, Kuldip Nayar, Ajeet Cour, Brijmohanall Munjal, Govind Nihalani, Anjolie Ela Menon, Milkha Singh, Ram Jethmalani, Satish Gujral, Surinder Singh Gandhi, Ved Marwah.
£13.67
Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. Engineering a Life
Book SynopsisIn December of 1961, twenty-year-old Krishan Bedianded at a port in New York armed with only $300 in his pocket and a resolve to study engineering in the United States. What transpires then is a story of one man''s perseverance and determination to create theife he had always dreamed for himself as aittle boy in Indiaa place where his options seemed anything butimitless. Krishan K. Bedi''s memoirs reflect the hardships and the triumphs on his path to fulfilling his dream of becoming an engineer and returning home to India as a successful man. Aesson in attitude, survival, perseverance and grit, Bedi brilliantly narrates the story of the immigrant experience, his close-knit relationships, and enmeshing culturesa story that not only affirms the American dream, but also resonates with millions.
£21.84
Speaking Tiger Publishing Private Limited Soumitra Chatterjee: His Life in Cinema and
Book SynopsisWhen Soumitra Chatterjee debuted in Satyajit Ray's Apur Sansar in 1959the final part of Ray's Apu trilogya star was born in Bengali cinema. Soumitra soon transcended the boundaries of the Bengali film industry to become an internationally celebrated actor who was compared to the best in the business, from Max von Sydow to Marcello Mastroianni. Famously known as Ray's actor', in a career spanning six decades, Soumitra worked with practically every Bengali director worth the name Mrinal Sen, Tapan Sinha, Chidananda Dasgupta, Aparna Sen, Tarun Majumdar, Rituparno Ghosh and Goutam Ghose, to name but a few.Following Apur Sansar, Soumitra played the lead in another Ray film, Devi, in 1960. From then until the posthumously released Abhijan and Belashuru(2022), the more than 300 films in which he acted rank among the best in Bengali cinema, and won him a string of awards, including the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award (1995), the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (1999), the Padma Bhushan (2004), the Dadasaheb Phalke Award (2012) and the Legion d'Honour awarded by the French Government (2018). But it was not just on the silver screen that Soumitra shone. He was also an accomplished playwright and theatre actor, a poet, a painter, the literary editor of the magazine, Ekshan, and an elocutionist.
£14.99
Speaking Tiger Publishing Private Limited Helen: The Making of a Bollywood H-Bomb
Book SynopsisEqually, the book is a gloriously witty and provocative examination of middle-class Indian morality; the politics of religion, gender and sexuality in popular culture; and the importance of the song, the item number and the wayward woman in Hindi cinema.
£16.62
HarperCollins India Remo: The Autobiography of Remo Fernandes
Book SynopsisA story of brave dreams and musical passions'' - Ian Anderson of Jethro TullI sit, I think, I write my story of longing, of long agoI try to fit a lifetime in a hundred and fifty thousand words, blow by blow.- Remo, on writing his autobiography, from his song ''Keep the Faith''Remo Fernandes is a legend: there''s no other word for him really.When he started out as a relatively unknown artist in the 1970s, Remo would record his first albums in his home studio and distribute them around Goa on his yellow scooter. But soon, he was to become a national craze, with blockbuster hits to his credit in English and Hindi pop, and in film music as well. His stage performances were sensational and brought his incredible musical talent. REMO is an extraordinary memoir. It is the story of a rich and full life - filled with professional highs and lows as well as personal triumphs and tragedies.
£22.79
Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. MUSIC BY LAXMIKANT PYARELAL: THE INCREDIBLY
Book SynopsisA saga without parallel in the music industry axmikant-Pyarelal''s music is played, every hour if not more frequently, in every nook and cranny of the country, over two decades after they stopped composing together. It also finds due place globally, wherever Indian music isoved. Today, Pyarelal has his own global standing, and is the only Indian composer to have a symphony registered in his name. This book encapsulates what can only be called the Musical Universe'' ofaxmikant-Pyarelal. Here is a duo known as much for incomparable range and quality as for unmatched popularity and quantity; as much for intimate associations withyricists, singers, filmmakers and stars as for giving career breaks and breakthroughs to so many; as much for chartbusters from the 1960s to 1990s as foreading in theist of re-created songs today. From teenage musicians to being the composers of over 500 films, their journey is truly incredible in every aspect. They are admired by international as well as Indian classical maestros.
£19.50
HarperCollins India Spreading Joy: How Joyalukkas Became the World's
Book SynopsisThrough the 1990s, he laboured to expand the Alukkasâ footprint, opening outlets within and around the UAE.
£20.89
HarperCollins Publishers India REMO
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£16.49
Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. THE STRANGER IN THE MIRROR
Book SynopsisThe Stranger in the Mirror is the memoir of theegendary producer-director, Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra. Co-written by noted marketer-author, Reeta Ramamurthy Gupta, this book chronicles the richly experiential, multi-facetedife of one of India''s most celebrated and feted directors who has made critically acclaimed filmsike Rang De Basanti, Delhi-6 and Bhaag Milkha Bhaag. Though it may seem natural for an autobiography to have a primary narrator, what makes this book truly unique is its many narrators. It is this multi-dimensional, multi-character narration that will enable readers to delve deep and truly understand what it means to be as unselfish as Mehra, a man who gleefully steps back andets the experts do their job. Peppered with anecdotes from Mehra''sifefrom the chai-biscuit college days to the popping of the proverbial champagneit implores readers to pay attention to understand who is narrating, because the plot may have just shifted aittle bit, justike his movies. At the end, what really stands out is how effortless the journey has actually been. And hereinies the greatest paradox because there is noack of perseverance in this journey. The miraculous manner in which things fall into place naturally,ike pieces of a pre-ordained puzzle with the universe acting as the sutradhar'', is the fulcrum around which the joy of this remarkable journey is built.
£23.24
Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. LET’S KILL GANDHI: CHRONICLE OF HIS LAST DAYS,
Book SynopsisOn 30 January 1948, Mahatma Gandhi was murdered by a Hindu extremist. False narratives blaming Gandhi for Partition and favoring Muslims persist. "Let's Kill Gandhi!" by Tushar Gandhi sets the record straight with facts from various sources, exposing the conspiracy behind Gandhi's assassination.
£32.99
Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. THE MAKING OF THE GREATEST MICROSOFT
Book SynopsisStarting with a turnover of just $16, 005 in 1976, Microsoft, the house that Windows built'', had clocked up over $143 billion in revenues in 2020. It also became one of the very few companies to cross the $1 trillion mark in market capitalization! It''s not just the story of its main architectsbill Gates and Paul allenbut also of peopleike Steve Ballmer and Satan Nadella, who have taken Microsoft into an orbit of its own. This book affords us fascinating insights into how modern businesses are built, sustained and scaled up, besides offering an analysis of how differenteadersead the same organization in their own unique ways. The book traces Microsoft''s eventful journey from its early fledgling days to the current dominant statusits first major deal with IBM and theaunching of Windows and Office software, gaming gadgets, and making forays into other computer products and servicesike cloud, mobile phones, computer hardware and artificial intelligence, covering the entire gamut of information Technology. This is a story that has no parallels.
£6.39
Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. THE MAKING OF THE GREATEST: SONY
Book SynopsisInnovation has been the cornerstone of Japaneseegend masaru ibuka''s business philosophy. Starting from a small radio-repair Unit in a bombed-out store in post-war Tokyo, he and hisifelong business partner akio morita built a staggering business empire straddling all seven continents. Right from its early days, Sony, as the company came to be called, continued to shock and surprise the world by coming out with one innovative product after the other: commercially successful transistor radio when even the inventors of the transistor didn''t think of its use beyond creating hearing aids; a colour TV that redefined entertainment; the walk man'', a new market phenomenon, that got the young generation all excited and revved up. All these in addition to a vast variety of products that became the Gold standard for the industry! Drawing on the vision of the founders, Sony has fortified their business unimaginablywith gaming PlayStation, blockbuster Hollywood movies, hit music albums and critical components for futuristic technologies, including robotics and artificial intelligence. This book is as much a tribute to the Sony founders, as it is to the dynamism and spiritedness of their successors who are proud to carry theiregacy and innovations forward.
£6.39
Juggernaut Publication The 7 Sins of Being a Mother 2021
Book SynopsisThere's nothing as beautiful as the mother and child bond - or is there? In her new book, author Tahira Kashyap Khurrana shows you the darker, smellier, more mortifying and - let's say it - the infinitely more celibate side of parenthood.
£8.00
NUS Press A New World in the Making: Life and Architecture
Book SynopsisA memoir and collection of essays on architecture and urbanism from one of the most interesting figures in Singapore’s cultural landscape. According to architect Tay Kheng Soon, the time has come to change and build a new world. The feeling has impelled him to write this book, bringing together memoir and writings on identity, landscape and belonging, and on architecture and urbanism. Born in British-ruled Singapore, Soon was deeply engaged in the debates about building a new world that attended the end of colonialism. His focus, but far from his only concern, was Singapore's built environment—and its spiritual one—since the early 1960s. A New World in the Making is a must-read reflection on tropical Asia, on architecture and urbanism, and on looking ahead to the always urgent task of building a new world.Table of Contents Beginnings Becoming Being A Tribute to the Malayan Generation Ideas and Essays Proposals and Plans Design Thinking for a New World List of Figures
£18.86
Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Pte Ltd Fight Through Cartoons: My story of harassment,
Book SynopsisThis book chronicles Zunar’s fight through cartoons from 2009 to 2018. Peppered within the pages of this book are some of Zunar’s timeless philosophies on cartooning, which have kept him going despite the odds stacked against him – arrests, court charges, banning of books, travel ban. In this book, Zunar also sheds light on the methodological approach he utilises in his cartoons to effectively deliver his messages. From the conception of a cartoon right down to inking it, Zunar bares what goes on his mind when he draws these cartoons. From being labelled controversial to becoming an award winning cartoonist, this is Zunar’s fight through cartoons in his own words.
£13.59
Hong Kong University Press Life on the Fringe
£29.70
Armida Publications Ltd Dark Tales
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£13.50
Independently Published I'm Just The Guy Who Says Action
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£9.99
Thorndike Press Large Print Friends Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing
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£35.14
Thorndike Press a Part of Gale a Cengage Company The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: A
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£36.10
Thorndike Press a Part of Gale a Cengage Company Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond
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£37.52
Prh Grupo Editorial Lisa Marie Presley. Desde aquí a lo desconocido
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£19.76
Library Tales Publishing Hidden Runways
£13.34
Ludlow Press Haute Pursuit
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£17.24
