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Experiencing David Bowie: A Listener's Companion
Ian Chapman · Rowman & Littlefield
Pages: 221
Format: Print book
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In Experiencing David Bowie: A Listener's Companion, musicologist, writer, and musician Ian Chapman unravels the extraordinary marriage of sound and visual effect that lies at the heart of the work of one of the most complex and enduring performers in popular music. Still active in a career... |
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The Memory Palace: A Book of Lost Interiors
Edward Hollis · Counterpoint,
Pages: 351
Format: Print book
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The rooms we live in are always more than just four walls. As we decorate these spaces and fill them with objects and friends, they shape our lives and become the backdrop to our sense of self. One day, the houses will be gone, but even then, traces of the stories and the memories they... |
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Master of Ceremonies: A Memoir
Joel Grey · Flatiron Books
Pages: 246
Format: Print book
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Joel Grey, the Tony and Academy Award-winning Master of Ceremonies in Cabaret finally tells his remarkable life story. Born Joel David Katz to a wild and wooly Jewish American family in Cleveland, Ohio in 1932, Joel began his life in the theater at the age of 9, starting in children's theater... |
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Rocks: My Life in and out of Aerosmith
Joe Perry · Simon & Schuster; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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An insightful and harrowing roller coaster ride through the career of one of rock and rolls greatest guitarists. Strap yourself in. —Slash Rocking Joe Perry rocks again! —Jimmy Page Before the platinum records or the Super Bowl half-time show or the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Joe Perry... |
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Retronaut: The Photographic Time Machine
Chris Wild · National Geographic
Format: Hardcover
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"An emporium of retro treasure...from shocking sculptures of the 1700s, to Kodachrome snaps of 1950s Piccadilly Circus, to biblical scenes captured by Google Earth. Rather than nostalgia or folly, the aim is enlightenment, wonder and the pleasure of weirdness." --The Guardian... |
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Closer: Seeing the World in Details
Michael Clinton M.B.A. · Glitterati Incorporated
Pages: 255
Format: Print book
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In Michael Clinton's earlier books - all travel photography - he has shown us the world in context, in long shots that describe people, places and things/architecture and design objects. In Closer he looks at the world through a telescopic lens, honing in on specifics to people, their... |
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Interstellar: Beyond Time and Space
Mark Cotta Vaz · Running Press
Format: Hardcover
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In his sci-fi epic Interstellar, Christopher Nolan takes on the infinite canvas of space to deliver a cutting-edge, emotionally charged adventure that will amaze audiences of all ages. Interstellar Beyond Time and Space documents the making of Nolans latest masterpiece in fascinating detail... |
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Children of the Stone: The Power of Music in a Hard Land
Sandy Tolan · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
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It is an unlikely story. Ramzi Hussein Aburedwan, a child from a Palestinian refugee camp, confronts an occupying army, gets an education, masters an instrument, dreams of something much bigger than himself, and then, through his charisma and persistence, inspires scores of others to work... |
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The Sound of Music Companion
Laurence Maslon · Universe
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive book on the world's most beloved musical, The Sound of Music Companion charts the incredible and enduring story of Maria von Trapp and her story over the last hundred years - from Maria's birth in Vienna in 1905 to the 50th anniversary of the film's release in 2015.... |
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Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington
Terry Teachout · Gotham; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A major new biography of Duke Ellington from the acclaimed author of Pops A Life of Louis ArmstrongEdward Kennedy Duke Ellington was the greatest jazz composer of the twentieth centuryand an impenetrably enigmatic personality whom no one not even his closest friends claimed to understand... |
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The Sonic Boom: How Sound Transforms the Way We Think, Feel, and Buy
Joel Beckerman · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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A surprising look at the hidden power of sound, revealing how people and brands can use it to inspire and persuade — or annoy From horror movie scores to national anthems to the crunchy sound of potato chips, sound and music greatly impact how we feel about our lives and the messages... |
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The Making of Hillary Clinton: The White House Years
Robert McNeely · University of Texas Press
Pages: 192
Format: Print book
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Beginning with the 1992 presidential campaign that propelled them to two terms in the White House, Hillary and Bill Clinton have occupied the American political stage like no other couple in history. Indeed, it is impossible to understand the past twenty-five years of American politics... |
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