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The Field Guide to Trains: Locomotives and Rolling Stock
Brian Solomon · Voyageur Press
Pages: 208
Format: Print book
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Now you can be the human Wikipedia page of trains--from locomotives to rolling stock. No Great American road trip would be complete without seeing trains streaming across wild prairies and through thick forests. All kinds of diesel and even a few steam locomotives can be seen, with everything... |
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How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin: The Untold Story of a Noisy Revolution
Leslie Woodhead · Bloomsbury USA
Format: Print book
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Imagine a world where Beatlemania was against the law-recordings scratched onto medical X-rays, merchant sailors bringing home contraband LPs, spotty broadcasts taped from western AM radio late in the night. This was no fantasy world populated by Blue Meanies but the USSR, where a vast... |
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This Is the Day: The March on Washington
Leonard Freed · J. Paul Getty Museum; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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This Is the Day: The March on Washington is a stirring photo-essay by photographer Leonard Freed documenting the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom of August 28, 1963, the historic day on which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech at the base... |
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The Way She Wears It: The Ultimate Insider's Guide to Finding Your Personal Style
Dallas Shaw · William Morrow
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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The most highly sought-after fashion illustrator/luxury project designer working today uses her sketches, styling skills and visual expertise to help you develop your eye, define your aesthetic, banish the predictable, stock your wardrobe, and make heads turn in this highly visual and lavishly... |
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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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Young Frankenstein: A Mel Brooks Book: The Story of the Making of the Film
Mel Brooks · Black Dog & Leventhal
Pages: 198
Format: Hardcover
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Mel Brooks' own words telling all about the players, the filming, and studio antics during the production of this great comedy classic. The book is alive and teeming with hundreds of photos, original interviews, and hilarious commentary. Young Frankenstein was made with deep respect for the craft... |
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From Scratch: Inside the Food Network
Allen Salkin · Putnam Adult
Format: Hardcover
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An Entertainment Weekly Best Tell-All of 2013! “Allen Salkin shows how the sausage really gets made at the Food Network in From Scratch, a behind-the-scenes history liberally spiced with gossip and unsavory tidbits.”—Entertainment Weekly “A detailed look at the network... |
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My Life
Isadora Duncan · Liveright; Revised and Updated edition
Format: Paperback
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A remarkable account of a wildly artistic life, finally restored to its unexpurgated form, with a revealing new introduction by Joan Acocella. The visionary choreographer and dancer Isadora Duncan (1877–1927) not only revolutionized dance in the twentieth century but blazed a path... |
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Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think about Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth
A. O. Scott · Penguin Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times film critic shows why we need criticism now more than everFew could explain, let alone seek out, a career in criticism. Yet what A.O. Scott shows in Better Living Through Criticism is that we are, in fact, all critics: because critical thinking informs almost every aspect... |
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Being John Lennon: A Restless Life
Ray Connolly · Pegasus Books
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover
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An intimate yet unsparing biography of one of the greatest and most mythologized musicians of the twentieth century.What was it like to be John Lennon? What was it like to be the castoff child, the clown at school, and the middle-class suburban boy who pretended to be a working-class hero?... |
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5-Minute Sketching -- Architecture: Super-quick Techniques for Amazing Drawings
Liz Steel · Firefly Books
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
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Sketching has become very popular. In more than 60 cities around the world, from New Jersey, San Diego, and Montreal to as far as Moscow and Australia, "sketch crawls" find artists drawing what they see. A new social network has emerged where these sketch artists meet for group... |
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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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