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Future of Television: Your Guide to Creating TV in the New World
Pamela Douglas · Michael Wiese Productions
Format: Print book
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The book’s journey into the future of television begins with “You Are Here,” delving into “The Great Convergence” of television and Internet and the vortex of change we all inhabit now. Then, glancing back, we explore “The Old World” of broadcast... |
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World War I: The Definitive Visual History
R.G. Grant · DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Pages: 360
Format: Hardcover
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2014 marks the centennial of the start of World War I - DK will mark the occasion with the publication of World War I: The Definitive Visual Guide, a vividly illustrated, in-depth account of the Great War. Written by historian R. G. Grant, and created by DK's award-winning editorial... |
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Hamilton: The Revolution
Lin-Manuel Miranda · Grand Central Pub.
Pages: 287
Format: Print book
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Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for DramaLin-Manuel Miranda's groundbreaking musical Hamilton is as revolutionary as its subject, the poor kid from the Caribbean who fought the British, defended the Constitution, and helped to found the United States. Fusing hip-hop, pop, R&B, and the best... |
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Unbreak My Heart: A Memoir
Toni Braxton · It Books
Format: Hardcover
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In this heartfelt memoir, six-time Grammy Award-winning artist and star of WE TVs reality hitBraxton Family Values, Toni Braxton writes about her personal life decisions and their impact on her health, family and career.While Braxton appears to be living a gilded life—selling 60 million... |
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Nineties Guitar Collection: 25 Hits, from Acoustic to Punk, to Nu-Metal & Beyond
Alfred Music · ALFRED PUB CO
Pages: 120
Format: Print book
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Popular music in the 1990s had a strange and multi-faceted flowering. Early in the decade, grunge dropped an atomic bomb on the established hierarchy, resulting in a new dawn of hard rock, Brit pop, singer-songwriter, pop punk, and nu-metal music, along with captivating work by countless... |
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Music in Our Lives: Why We Listen, How It Works
Jonathan L. Friedmann · McFarland
Format: Print book
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We are in something of a golden age of music research. Technological advances have merged with philosophical interests to produce an array of distinct yet converging studies illuminating the musical nature of our species. Virtually every day, a new brick is added to the wall of interdisciplinary... |
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Capturing Music: The Story of Notation
Thomas Forrest Kelly · W. W. Norton & Company; Har/Com edition
Format: Hardcover
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An entertaining history of how musicians learned to record music for all time, filled with art that sings. In today's digital landscape, we have the luxury of experiencing music anytime, anywhere. But before this instant accessibility and dizzying array of formats -- before CDs, the eight-track... |
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The Library Book
Alberto Manguel · Aperture
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover
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In pre-Revolutionary War America, libraries were member-driven collections for the elite; it was not until 1790 that Benjamin Franklin helped to establish the first public lending library. Throughout the subsequent centuries the library has evolved, but always remained central to the cultural... |
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Tiny Worlds: Creative Macrophotography Skills
Charles Needle · Amherst Media
Format: Print book
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In his workshops, Charles Needle often asks his students if they understand the difference between looking and seeing. That difference is what lies at the heart of Needles intuitive and inventive approach to macrophotography. By really seeing the world before himwith his eyes, his mind,... |
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Miracle Dogs: Rescue Stories
Liz Stavrinides · St. Martin's Press
Format: Kindle Edition
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78 million dogs live as pets in the USA. These are the lucky ones. Five to seven million companion animals enter shelters every year, and more than half are euthanized due to the lack of space. Miracle Dogs celebrates and honors the rescuers and the dogs whose lives they've saved. It features... |
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In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art
Sue Roe · Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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A lively and deeply researched group biography of the figures who transformed the world of art in bohemian Paris in the first decade of the twentieth century In Montmartre is a colorful history of the birth of Modernist art as it arose from one of the most astonishing collections of artistic... |
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A Star Is Born
LORNA LUFT · Running Press Adult
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestselling author and daughter of Judy Garland tells the story of A Star Is Born -- at once the crowning achievement and greatest disappointment in her mother's legendary career. This is a vivid account of a film classic's production, loss, and reclamation.A Star... |
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Sammy Davis Jr.: A Personal Journey with My Father
Tracey Davis · Running Press
Pages: 207
Format: Hardcover
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Nicknamed Mr. Show Business, Sammy Davis Jr. was a consummate performer who sang, danced, and acted on film, television, radio, and the stage for over six decades. In this uniquely intimate volume, the entertainment legend's story comes to life through rare family photos and a compelling... |
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American Titan: Searching for John Wayne
Marc Eliot · Dey Street Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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From the veteran New York Times bestselling biographer comes a major, in-depth look at one of the most enduring American icons of all time, "the Duke," John Wayne.As he did in his bestselling biographies of Jimmy Stewart and Clint Eastwood, acclaimed Hollywood biographer Marc... |
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Inside the Magic: The Making of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Ian Nathan · Harper Design
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover
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Return to the wizarding world and discover how director David Yates and producer David Heyman brought J.K. Rowling's all new adventure, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them to the big screen.Inside the Magic: The Making of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them introduces filmmaking... |
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