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2012 Songwriter's Market

Adria Haley · Writer's Digest Books; Thirty-fifth Edition edition
Format: Book

The Most Trusted Guide to Songwriting Success For 35 years, Songwriter's Market has provided the most complete and up-to-date information songwriters need to place their songs with music publishers, record companies, record producers, managers, booking agents, music firms and more....
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The Lovings: An Intimate Portrait

Grey Villet · Princeton Architectural Press
Pages: 128
Format: Print book

The Lovings: An Intimate Portrait documents the extraordinary love story of Mildred and Richard Loving. The Lovings presents Grey Villet's stunning photo-essay in its entirety for the first time and reveals with striking intensity and clarity the powerful bond of a couple that helped...
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Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life

Eric Klinenberg · Crown
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

An eminent sociologist and bestselling author offers an inspiring blueprint for rebuilding our fractured society.

We are living in a time of deep divisions. Americans are sorting themselves along racial, religious, and cultural lines, leading to a level of polarization that the country...
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Max Ernst

Pere Gimferrer · Rizzoli
Format: Book

Another title from The Crown Art Library, the most useful monographs available on a wide range of significant artists. Each volume is written by an internationally recognized authority and is generously illustrated with full-color reproductions of the artist's paintings and two-color...
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Migrating Colors

Haitian Artists Assembly of Massachusetts · JEBCA Editions
Pages: 142
Format: Hardcover


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Gaudi

Ignasi De Sola-Morales · Rizzoli
Format: Hardcover

This book concerns Gaudi's architecture. Apart from the elaborate text, it contains 175 illustrations, among these are colour photos, sketches, drawings and ground- plans.
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Art and Culture: Critical Essays

Clement Greenberg · Beacon Press
Pages: 278
Format: Paperback

"Clement Greenberg is, internationally, the best-known American art critic popularly considered to be the man who put American vanguard painting and sculpture on the world map. . . . An important book for everyone interested in modern painting and sculpture." - The New York Times
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The Arts and Crafts Movement: A Study of Its Sources, Ideals, and Influence on Design Theory

Gillian Naylor · The MIT Press
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback

The Arts and Crafts Movement was concerned with the ethics as much as with the aesthetics of design. Its supporters were inspired by the idealism of Ruskin and Morris to campaign for a world that was fit to live in; in such a world men would enjoy the freedom to be creative, and this freedom...
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Gustave Moreau: History Painting, Spirituality, and Symbolism

Peter Cooke · Yale University Press
Pages: 252
Format: Book

The acclaimed French painter Gustave Moreau (1826-1898) strove to renew history painting by creating epic art in a nonacademic manner. In this thought-provoking book, Peter Cooke explains how Moreau essentially created pictorial Symbolism through his novel approach to the genre of history...
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Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim [50th Anniversary Edition]

Frank Sinatra · Universal Music Enterprises


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2014 Songwriter's Market

James Duncan · Writer's Digest Books; Thirty-seventh Edition edition
Format: Paperback

The Most Trusted Guide to Songwriting SuccessWe live in a golden age of DIY artistry, and songwriters and musicians are no strangers to pulling themselves up by their bootstraps, or guitar straps, and blazing a trail toward their own success. Songwriter's Market has been there with...
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Help!: The Beatles, Duke Ellington, and the Magic of Collaboration

Thomas David Brothers · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

The fascinating story of how creative cooperation inspired two of the world's most celebrated musical acts.The Beatles and Duke Ellington's Orchestra stand as the two greatest examples of collaboration in music history. Duke University musicologist Thomas Brothers delivers a portrait...
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Experiencing the Beatles: A Listener's Companion

Brooke Halpin · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 226
Format: Hardcover

Starting an undeniable revolution, the Beatles took pop culture by storm, shook up the recording industry, and provided a soundtrack for the lives of millions of American teenagers. No band would ever come close to the mania inspired by these four Liverpudlian exports. Brooke Halpin takes...
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Celestial Bodies: How to Look at Ballet

Laura Jacobs · Basic Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

A distinguished dance critic offers an enchanting introduction to the art of balletAs much as we may enjoy Swan Lake or The Nutcracker, for many of us ballet is a foreign language. It communicates through movement, not words, and its history lies almost entirely abroad-in Russia, Italy,...
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Jackson Pollock:An American Saga

Steven W Naifeh · C.N. Potter
Pages: 934
Format: Book

Based on family letters and documents, lengthy interviews with his widow, Lee Krasner, as well as his psychologists and psychoanalysts, this book explodes the myths surrounding his death in 1956. 12 color and 175 black-and-white photos and reproductions.
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