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A Broken Hallelujah: Rock and Roll, Redemption, and the Life of Leonard Cohen
Liel Leibovitz · W W Norton & Co Inc
Pages: 281
Format: Hardcover |
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Brings to life a passionate poet-turned-musician and what compels him and his work. Why is it that Leonard Cohen receives the sort of reverence we reserve for a precious few living artists? Why are his songs, three or four decades after their original release, suddenly gracing the charts,... |
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Lonely Planet's Beautiful World
Lonely Planet · Lonely Planet
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback |
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Journey to the planet's most magnificent places and see the world as you've never seen it before through the lenses of Lonely Planet, the world's leading travel guide publisher. Forty years of passion and experience has been poured into this thought-provoking portrait of our beautiful... |
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Psychedelic Bubble Gum: Boyce & Hart, The Monkees, and Turning Mayhem into Miracles
Bobby Hart · Select Books (NY)
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover |
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From the man who wrote the songs that outsold the Beatles and the Rolling Stones in 1967-1968, comes the story of the first decades of his life in Hollywood and New York. Immerse yourself in Grammy, Golden Globe, and Academy Award nominated songwriter Bobby Hart's world as he shares... |
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Digital Photography Through the Year, 2nd Edition
Tom Ang · Dk Publishing, 2016.
Pages: 360
Format: Print book |
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Digital Photography Through the Year is your essential companion to capturing the most beautiful moments of every season. Updated to include all the latest technological developments and creative trends, this guide is packed with practical explanations of key techniques and tips and tricks... |
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The Camera Does the Rest: How Polaroid Changed Photography
Peter Buse · The University of Chicago Press
Pages: 320
Format: Print book |
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In a world where nearly everyone has a cellphone camera capable of zapping countless instant photos, it can be a challenge to remember just how special and transformative Polaroid photography was in its day. And yet, there's still something magical for those of us who recall waiting... |
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I'm the Man: The Story of That Guy from Anthrax
Scott Ian · Da Capo Press
Format: Hardcover |
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I'm the Man is the fast–paced, humorous, and revealing memoir from the man who co-founded Anthrax, the band that proved to the masses that brutality and fun didn’t have to be mutually exclusive. Through various lineup shifts, label snafus, rock 'n' roll mayhem, and unforeseen... |
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Daily show - the book : an oral history
Chris Smith · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 459
Format: Print book |
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The complete, uncensored history of the award-winning The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, as told by its correspondents, writers, and host. For almost seventeen years, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart brilliantly redefined the borders between television comedy, political satire, and opinionated... |
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A Bowl of Olives: On Food and Memory
Sara Midda · Workman Publishing Company
Format: Hardcover |
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From the author of the international bestseller In and Out of the Garden and the wondrous sketchbook Sara Midda’s South of France comes a long-awaited treasure of a book. Drawn from the artist’s wealth of impressions and memories, it is a book for lovers of food and art and fine... |
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Wild Encounters: Iconic Photographs of the World's Vanishing Animals and Cultures
David Yarrow · Rizzoli
Pages: 336
Format: Print book |
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From big cats to elephants and indigenous communities, Wild Encounters is a must-have for nature lovers, conservationists, and anyone who is inspired by all that remains wild. David Yarrow travels from pole to pole and continent to continent to visit frozen Arctic tundras, vast African... |
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Evolution: A Visual Record
Robert Clark · Phaidon
Pages: 240
Format: Print book |
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Stunning images to reawaken us to the scientific process that drives the amazing diversity of life on earthEvidence of evolution is everywhere. Through 200 revelatory images, award-winning photographer Robert Clark makes one of the most important foundations of science clear and exciting... |
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Mom in the Movies: The Iconic Screen Mothers You Love
Turner Classic Movies Inc. · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 231
Format: Hardcover |
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Turner Classic Movies and film historian Richard Corliss present Mom in the Movies: The Iconic Screen Mothers You Love (and a Few You Love to Hate) , the definitive, fully illustrated book that shares the many ways Hollywood has celebrated, vilified and otherwise memorialized dear old Mom.With... |
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Absolute Music: The History of an Idea
Mark Evan Bonds · Oxford University Press
Pages: 375
Format: Print book |
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What is music, and why does it move us? From Pythagoras to the present, writers have struggled to isolate the essence of "pure" or "absolute" music in ways that also account for its profound effect. In Absolute Music: The History of an Idea, Mark Evan Bonds traces the history... |
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On Becoming an Architect
Frank Welch · Texas Christian University Press
Format: Hardcover |
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A vivid memory and sharp focus on sensory detail—particularly sights, sounds, emotions—enable Frank Welch to narrate the extraordinary story of his life with great richness and insight. From his boyhood in Sherman, Texas, through his education at Texas A&M in the 1950s and his first... |
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