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Meet You in Atlantic City: Travels in Springsteens New Jersey
James Pettifer · Interlink Pub Group
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
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An insightful cultural history that will appeal to fans of rock music and new jersey. Bruce SpringsteenThe Bosshas towered over the rock world since he shot to international fame with Born to Run and other classics in the early 1970s. He has always been an outspoken advocate of his home... |
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Scenic Construction for the Stage: Key Skills for Carpenters
Mark Tweed · Crowood Press
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
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This book details the progression from interpeting design, model boxes and drawings, to material selection, fabrication and finishing. It also includes advice for developing accuracy, finish and consistency; tool selection and sharpening; CDM, Health and Safety; practical workshop mathematics... |
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Women Who Write Are Dangerous
STEFAN BOLLMANN · Abbeville Press
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
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A sequel to the best-selling Women Who Read Are Dangerous, presenting portraits and profiles of fearless women writers past and presentWriting has not always been considered a suitable career for women. Indeed, it was once common for women authors to adopt a masculine pseudonym in order... |
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Drawing for the Absolute and Utter Beginner, Revised: 15th Anniversary Edition
Claire Watson Garcia · Watson-Guptill
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
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This revised 15th anniversary edition of the bestselling beginning drawing book updates art and text examples to include new student pieces, up-to-date materials, and additional sections on drawing in 3D and travel sketching, along with refreshed and contemporary design.Based on author... |
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The Devil's Music: How Christians Inspired, Condemned, and Embraced Rock 'n' Roll
Randall J Stephens · Harvard University Press
Pages: 337
Format: Hardcover
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When rock 'n' roll emerged in the 1950s, ministers denounced it from their pulpits and Sunday school teachers warned of the music's demonic origins. The big beat, said Billy Graham, was "ever working in the world for evil." Yet by the early 2000s Christian rock had become... |
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Rebel for God: Faith, Business, and Rock 'n' Roll
EDDIE DEGARMO · Regnery Faith
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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Unlikely tales are the most fun to tell. The long strange trip Eddie DeGarmo has experienced over a half century in the music business is full of such stories. From playing keyboards at 10 years old in his first 1960s Memphis rock and roll band in the shadow of Graceland and Johnny Cash,... |
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Rock Gets Religion: The Battle for the Soul of the Devil's Music
Mark Joseph · BP Books
Pages: 325
Format: Paperback
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Rock music, once largely the domain of hedonism and debauchery of every kind, is now populated by a surprising case of upstanding and in many cases devout citizens who create all different kinds of music and oftentimes are animated by religious ideas that would have been completely alien... |
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The Design of Childhood: How the Material World Shapes Independent Kids
ALEXANDRA LANGE · Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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From building blocks to city blocks, an eye-opening exploration of how children's playthings and physical surroundings affect their development.Parents obsess over their children's playdates, kindergarten curriculum, and every bump and bruise, but the toys, classrooms, playgrounds,... |
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Stage Lighting Design
Neil Fraser · Crowood Press
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
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This comprehensive introduction traces the evolution of lighting design from ancient drama to contemporary performance. It covers everythingfrom the simple nuts and bolts of equipment to the complexity of a full lighting rig, including all aspects of the stage electrician and lighter designer's... |
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Charlotte Motor Speedway
Deb Williams · Arcadia Publishing
Pages: 95
Format: Paperback
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When Charlotte Motor Speedway opened in June 1960, the track built by Bruton Smith and Curtis Turner became a cornerstone in the decade that launched NASCAR's superspeedway era. Stock car racing's first paved 1.5-mile track immediately grabbed the motorsports world's attention... |
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