Biography: arts and entertainment Books
Museum of New Mexico Press Of God and Mortal Men
Book SynopsisThis book conveys the artistic genius of T C Cannon (19461978) through his best and most iconic paintings and essays that offer a fresh and inclusive look at Cannons work extending beyond the confines of American Indian art. This group of paintings -- nine major canvases from the Nancy and Richard Bloch Collection -- represent the finest of Cannons artwork anywhere, from Cannons mature Santa Fe period and important pieces in the Heard Museums collections, including a canvas, lithographs, and woodblock prints, as well as paintings from the New Mexico Museum of Art permanent collections. Added to this are sketch books and music, from Howard and Joy Berlin and Cannons sister Joyce Cannon Yi, and Cannons poetry.
£36.89
Music Sales Ltd ozzyozbournerandyrhoadstribute
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£20.66
Chicago Review Press Better Days Will Come Again
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£23.79
Chicago Review Press Joni on Joni
Book SynopsisTrade Review"In a moment of great public interest in Joni Mitchell, one voice has been mostly absentMitchell's own. Joni on Joni rectifies that, and offers a great songwriter in dialogue with pop music critics, cable access hosts, and, best of all, her prismatic self." -- RJ Smith, author of American Witness: The Art and Life of Robert Frank and The One: The Life and Music of James Brown"Generations of young women -- and men -- found out who they were through Joni Mitchell's naked lyricism, singular tunings, and her willingness to resist boundaries. Here, editor Susan Whitall shows us who the ever-evolving songwriter is through myriad interviews with some of the world's smartest critics, and her own scene-setting/contextualizing introductions to each chapter.... For anyone who's loved Blue, Mingus, Court and Spark , The Hissing of Summer Lawns , or Turbulent Indigo , Joni on Joni is a journey worth taking." -- Holly Gleason, editor, Woman Walk the Line: How the Women of Country Changed My Life"This fascinating portrait of an artist is highly recommended for Mitchell's fans and readers interested in the creative process." -- Library Journal"Susan Whitall is a veteran music writer and brings a deep well of understanding in her introductions to each of the 27 interviews. For Joni fans, a must-read." -- Sarah Murdoch, Toronto Star
£24.26
Chicago Review Press The Most Human
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£24.26
Schott Carl OrffDocumentation His Life and Works Music
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£23.62
The Heard Museum Awa Tsireh Pueblo Painter Metalsmith Pueblo
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£23.39
A L-J A S Enterprises, L. P. My Son Jimi
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£14.20
Art Guild Press Lloyd Kiva New A New Century
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£36.89
Paladin Communications Hooked on Hollywood
Book SynopsisLeonard Maltin is America's best-known film historian, film reviewer, and author of books that have sold more than 7 million copies. He remains a thought leader on past and present Hollywood through his website www.leonardmaltin.com, and a social media presence that includes an active Facebook page and a Twitter feed with more than 66,000 followers. In Hooked on Hollywood , Maltin opens up his personal archive to take readers on a fascinating journey through film history. He first interviewed greats of Hollywood as a precocious teenager in 1960s New York City. He used what he learned from these luminaries to embark on a 50-year (and counting) career that has included New York Times bestselling books, 30 years of regular appearances coast-to-coast on Entertainment Tonight, movie introductions on Turner Classic Movies, and countless other television and radio performances. Early Maltin interviews had literally been stored in his garage for more than 40 years until GoodKnight Books broughTrade Review"The latest from film critic and historian Maltin (Leonard Maltin's 151 Best Movies You've Never Seen ) is an often delightful if uneven collection of work from the past five decades. The bulk of the text consists of interviews with Hollywood performers and filmmakers conducted between 1967 and 2010. The subjects range from celebrated star Joan Blondell to the obscure but prolific Leslie H. Martinson, a film script supervisor turned film and TV director who worked on "every Warner Bros. show imaginable." The author is a generous, well-informed interviewer, whose introductory text helps the reader understand why lesser-known figures like Martinson merit attention. In the earliest selections, the still teenaged Maltin takes some time to find his footing as an interviewer, but any initial amateurism on his part is offset by his contagious enthusiasm. The book also includes several essays, most memorably about the use of popular songs in Casablanca, the late-career return of silent stars like Buster Keaton and Lillian Gish in television roles, and early Hollywood remakes. Other essays, though, will be too granular for any but the Maltin completist. Nonetheless, this enjoyable anthology will be a welcome addition to the bookshelves of classic film fans." Publishers Weekly"Leonard and Jessie Maltin talk about their father/daughter podcast, where the longtime movie critic and buff joins forces with his offspring to interview actors and directors, and talk their favorite films." Podcast, "Talking Tech" ( USA Today )"Interview with host Larry Mantle on this NPR affiliate" KPCC"I have read it, as in every word, as in reading nothing else till it was finished, as in being sorry when it was finished, because I could as much have enjoyed 400 more pages of Hooked On Hollywood 's delve into sagas of past film all new to me, indeed unknown to anyone before Maltin dug his customary deep to find lost lore regarding movies we all love." John McElwee, Greenbriar Picture Shows"Interview with Barry Kibrick. His show is on PBS Los Angeles + syndicated to many PBS affiliates nationally." http://klcs.org/between-the-lines/"Interview on a daily radio show based in Washington DC with multiple radio stations, a loyal international listenership, over 100 million downloads and a consistent presence on the Top Audio Podcast chart on iTunes." http://mikeomearashow.com" ...Many of the names and actors are known only by film buffs. Yet it's fascinating because the history of the movies reflects the history of the 20th century. The passing parade may have new players but the journeys remain timeless. Here is invaluable insight because the men and women Maltin assembles here were there. As history was being made." Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald"Interview on FilmWeek on AirTalk , hosted by Larry Mantle, is a one-hour weekly segment offering reviews of the week's new movies, interviews with filmmakers, and discussion." KPCC (NPR)
£17.95
BookBaby Follow Your Dreams so Am I
£21.59
BookBaby Double Helix
£16.99
Random House USA Inc Sticky Fingers
Book SynopsisNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A New York Times Top 10 Book of the Year • A delicious romp through the heyday of rock and roll and a revealing portrait of Jann Wenner, the man at the helm of Rolling Stone magazine, with candid look backs at the era from major musicians • Come for the essayist in Hagan, stay for the eye-popping details and artful gossip.–Dwight Garner, The New York Times Through his nuanced portrait of Wenner, [Hagan] shows us how thoroughly the publication reflected its founder, warts and all.”–Margaret Sullivan, The Washington Post The story of Jann Wenner, Rolling Stone's founder, editor, and publisher, and the pioneering era he helped curate, is told here for the first time in glittering, glorious detail. Joe Hagan provides readers with a backstage pass to storied concert venues and rock-star hotel rooms; he tells never before heard stories abou
£12.70
Random House USA Inc Tom Stoppard
Book SynopsisA NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS' TOP BOOK OF THE YEAR • One of our most brilliant biographers takes on one of our greatest living playwrights, drawing on a wealth of new materials and on many conversations with him.“An extraordinary record of a vital and evolving artistic life, replete with textured illuminations of the plays and their performances, and shaped by the arc of Stoppard’s exhilarating engagement with the world around him, and of his eventual awakening to his own past.” —Harper'sTom Stoppard is a towering and beloved literary figure. Known for his dizzying narrative inventiveness and intense attention to language, he deftly deploys art, science, history, politics, and philosophy in works that span a remarkable spectrum of literary genres: theater, radio, film, TV, journalism, and fiction. His most acclaimed creations—Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, The Real Thing, Arcadia, The
£19.00
St Martin's Press The Fund
Book SynopsisThe unauthorized, unvarnished story of famed Wall Street hedge-fund manager Ray Dalio. An instant New York Times bestseller!Ray Dalio does not want you to read this book.When the billionaire founder of Bridgewater Associates, the largest hedge fund on the planet, announced in 2022 that he was stepping down from the company he started out of his apartment nearly 50 years ago, the news made headlines around the world. Dalio cultivated an aura of international admiration and fame thanks to his company's eye-popping success, coupled with a mystique he encouraged with frequent media appearances, celebrity hobnobbing, and his bestselling book, Principles. In The Fund, award-winning New York Times journalist Rob Copeland punctures this carefully-constructed narrative of the benevolent business titan, exposing his much-promoted principles as one of the great feats of hubris in modern memoryin practice, they encouraged a toxic culture of par
£25.60
St Martin's Press The Shores of Bohemia
Book SynopsisAn intimate portrait of a legendary generation of artists, writers, activists, and dreamers who created a utopia on the shores of Cape Cod during the first half of the twentieth centuryTheir names are iconic: Eugene O'Neill, Willem de Kooning, Josef and Anni Albers, Emma Goldman, Mary McCarthy, Edward Hopper, Walter Gropiusthe list goes on and on. Scorning the devastation that industrialization had wrought on the nation's workforce and culture in the early decades of the twentieth century, they gathered in the streets of Greenwich Village and on the beachfronts of Cape Cod. They began as progressives but soon turned to socialism, then communism. They founded theaters, periodicals, and art schools. They formed editorial boards that met in beach shacks and performed radical new plays in a shanty on the docks, where they could see the ocean through cracks in the floor. They welcomed the tremendous wave of talent fleeing Europe in the 1930s. At the end of their era, in th
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WW Norton & Co The UpsideDown World
Book SynopsisA Washington Post Notable Book of 2023 Plunged into a strange land at twenty-five, Benjamin Moser began an obsessive, decades-long study of the Dutch Masters to set his world right again.Trade Review"Conversational and congenial, essayistic and elevating . . . by the book’s end, I found that Moser’s intimate asides had accumulated into something affecting and open-ended . . . much more than an elegant guide to Dutch painters." -- Sebastian Smee - Washington Post"In a luminous, splendidly illustrated melding of art history and memoir, Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer, translator, and essayist Moser pays homage to 17th-century artists whose works he discovered when he first settled in the Netherlands 20 years ago. [Moser] sets artists’ lives in the context of violence and upheaval, as well as personal loss, poverty, grief, and longing. In Vermeer, he sees “a mind seeking.” In writing about art, Moser admits that he, too, was a mind seeking: to understand his identity as a writer and as a foreigner in a new culture.... A graceful meditation on art." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review"The most agreeable of companions in his encompassing yet highly personal tour of the Golden Age of Dutch painting, Benjamin Moser delivers fresh insights that will delight the expert and the casual museum-goer alike, in prose as precise and intimate as a Vermeer—and as luminous." -- Jim Holt, author of Why Does the World Exist?"Benjamin Moser’s fascinating study of Dutch art and artists is more than the sum of its extraordinary parts. Part memoir, part critical and historical analysis, the book also offers a superb commentary—one of the best I’ve ever read—on what it means to be displaced in a never entirely whole world, and what it means to see between the cracks. I learned so much reading this fine book, and so will you." -- Hilton Als, author of White Girls"I always dreamed of living in the rooms of my favorite paintings. Finally! A book that animates these rooms, their light, the people in them—that evokes their character and emotions and places them in the context of their culture. Profound and intensely alive, Benjamin Moser’s writing describes these artists as living beings and brings to life their works of art, connecting his own life as a writer to deep insights into the meaning of art." -- Laurie Anderson
£27.67
Hyperion Hello Friends
Book SynopsisWELCOME TO A COMEDIC TRIP THROUGH THE LIFE OF ONE OF THE COUNTRY’S MOST EXCITING COMEDIANS. MEET DULCÉ SLOAN, WHOSE LIFE HAS BEEN AN INCREDIBLE JOURNEY FILLED WITH LESSONS AND LAUGHTER. IN ADDITION TO DOING STAND-UP AROUND THE WORLD, DULCÉ IS A TRAINED ACTOR, SINGER, AND HAS BEEN A CORRESPONDENT ON THE DAILY SHOW ON COMEDY CENTRAL.Dulcé Sloan’s first memoir is organized into essays from her life. From a childhood moving between cities, starting her own business selling toys at a Miami flea market, to being a Black kid in a predominately white school, she’s always used her masterful wit to challenge the status quo. Her purpose in comedy unfolded while navigating clubs and the set of The Daily Show. Have you ever dated an adult who roller skated, or went out with a mechanic just to get free auto service? Yup, she’s got that story for you. Her stories are both wildly
£22.39
Alfred A. Knopf Conversations with Woody Allen His Films the
Book SynopsisIn discussions that begin in 1971 and end in 2009, Allen talks about every facet of moviemaking through the prism of his own work as well as the larger world of film, and in so doing reveals an artist’s development over the course of his career. He speaks about his influences and about the genesis of his ideas; about writing, casting, acting, shooting, directing, editing, and scoring—and throughout shows himself to be thoughtful, honest, self-deprecating, always witty, and often hilarious.
£21.21
Random House USA Inc Whatever You Say I Am
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£15.30
Thomas Nelson Publishers Alone in Plain Sight
Book SynopsisAre you tired of people knowing who you are but no one really knowing you?As the star of the twentieth season of The Bachelor, Ben Higgins looked like he had it all together. Instead, Ben felt dissatisfied, fearful, and deeply alone. Like so many of us, he thought of himself as the kid who never got picked for the game, the person always on the outside of the joke, the friend who knew a lot of people but was never truly known. He wondered if he mattered at all.In Alone in Plain Sight, Ben vulnerably shares how he found authentic connection with himself, with others, and with God. As Ben helps us name our own yearning for meaning, he explores ways to understand ourselves more deeply so that we are free to connect with others; how shared pain can bridge even the widest gaps between two very different people; why we must decon
£14.24
Tyndale House Publishers Official Chuck Norris Fact Book The
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£14.24
HarperCollins Espanol Desnudo
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£13.23
Thorndike Press, a Cengage Group 100 Rules for Living to 100
£37.62
Disney Book Publishing Inc. Dream It Do It
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£20.39
Ricordi Don Pasquale Score Ricordi Opera Full Scores
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£32.50
Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation Hank Williams
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£19.99
Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation Vh1 100 Greatest Hard Rock Songs
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£35.99
Pelican Publishing Co From the Outhouse to the Mouse House
Book SynopsisA positive how-to guide for the road to success! After graduating from college, Eva Steortz moved across the country on a whim to seek better opportunities. She took a leap of faith and answered a job ad for The Walt Disney Company, and in a true Cinderella story, she rose through the ranks to eventually become vice president. She reveals the unspoken truths about the crap you cant control in your career while focusing on the areas you can control. She discusses how to rally your relationships, possess positive style, master self-motivation, and the simple secrets to crafting your happily ever after plan. Her mission is to inspire others to aim high in their careers, and Steortz provides the tools to get to the top.
£20.39
Pelican Publishing Company Professor Longhair
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£17.95
Arcadia Publishing (SC) Tampa Bay Music Roots Images of America
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£19.99
Arcadia Publishing (SC) Gershwin in Pittsburgh Images of America
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£19.99
Arcadia Publishing Honolulu Television
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£21.24
Arcadia Publishing The Erie Canal Sings A Musical History of New
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£21.24
Arcadia Publishing The Life and Legacy of BB King A Mississippi
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£20.39
History Press Pioneering Oregon Architect WD Pugh Landmarks
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£18.69
History Press A History of Milwaukee Drag
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£18.69
History Press Growing Up Yinzer
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£19.99
History Press Hidden History of Atlantic City
£17.66
History Press Live at McCabes Guitar Shop
£18.01
Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation Ukulele PlayAlong Bob Marley Ukulele PlayAlong
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£14.24
Hal Leonard Corporation Rhapsody in Black The Life and Music of Roy
Book SynopsisRHAPSODY IN BLACK: THE LIFE AND MUSIC OF ROY ORBISON
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Amazon Publishing David Lynch The Man from Another Place 10 Icons
£10.90
Backbeat Leonard Cohen Everybody Knows
Book SynopsisLEONARD COHEN: EVERYBODY KNOWS
£29.74
Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation Pete Seeger Banjo PlayAlong Volume 5 Hal Leonard
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£15.29
Archway Publishing Memories of La La Land
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£37.99
Globe Pequot Press To Hell and Back
Book SynopsisThere have been many books written about Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers, but only by people who weren't there. Walter Lure wasfrom the band's chaotic beginnings on New York's Lower East Side, through a now-legendary UK tour with the Sex Pistols and the Clash, and on to a yearlong stay in Londoneyewitness and midwife to the birth of UK punk.Now, he tells his story in To Hell and Back, a thrilling ride through the clubs and dives of two continents, in the company of one of the most notorious junkies in rock 'n' roll history. Drawing from his own contemporary journals, Lure paints a vivid portrait of life in both cities, during perhaps the most crucial musical uprising of the past forty yearsthe music, the characters, the clothes, the fights, the drugs, the orgies, the lot.Lure lays bare his own battle with drugs, and reflects upon his life after the band's splitrising to become a Wall Street fixture yet still finding time to make music.
£18.99
Backbeat Freddie Mercury A Kind of Magic
Book SynopsisFREDDIE MERCURY: A KIND OF MAGIC
£29.74
