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Block City: Incredible Minecraft Worlds: How to Build Like a Minecraft Master
Kirsten Kearney · Harry N. Abrams
Format: Print book |
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Minecraft - a humble computer game about placing blocks - is a global phenomenon that has captured the imagination of more than 36 million players around the world. Often described as a digital version of LEGO, Minecraft offers an open-ended playing field where players design and build... |
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Dylan Goes Electric!: Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties
Elijah Wald · Dey Street Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover |
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One of the music world's pre-eminent critics takes a fresh and much-needed look at the day Dylan "went electric" at the Newport Folk Festival, timed to coincide with the event's fiftieth anniversary.On the evening of July 25, 1965, Bob Dylan took the stage at Newport Folk... |
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Follies of God: Tennessee Williams and the Women of the Fog
James Grissom · Knopf
Format: Hardcover |
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An extraordinary book; one that almost magically makes clear how Tennessee Williams wrote; how he came to his visions of Amanda Wingfield, his Blanche DuBois, Stella Kowalski, Alma Winemiller, Lady Torrance, and the other characters of his plays that transformed the American theater of the mid-twentieth... |
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Creating the Future: Art and Los Angeles in the 1970s
Michael Fallon · Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover |
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Conceived as a challenge to long-standing conventional wisdom, Creating the Future is a work of social history/cultural criticism that examines the premise that the progress of art in Los Angeles ceased during the 1970s—after the decline of the Ferus Gallery, the scattering of its stable... |
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Never a Dull Moment: 1971--The Year That Rock Exploded
David Hepworth · Henry Holt and Company
Pages: 320
Format: Print book |
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A rollicking look at 1971 - the busiest, most innovative and resonant year of the 70s, defined by the musical arrival of such stars as David Bowie, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, and Joni MitchellOn New Year's Eve, 1970, Paul McCartney told his lawyers to issue the writ at the High Court... |
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Keepers: The Greatest Films--and Personal Favorites--of a Moviegoing Lifetime
Richard Schickel · Knopf Publishing Group
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover |
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From a legendary film critic and movie fan extraordinaire, the highlights reel of a life spent at the movies Richard Schickel has seen, by his own estimate, more than twenty thousand films. He has been a reviewer since 1965 (long for Time magazine), has written almost forty books on the subject,... |
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Monologue: What Makes America Laugh Before Bed
Jon Macks · Blue Rider Press
Format: Hardcover |
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"Jon Macks is one of the greatest comedy writers of all time." - Chris RockA hilarious, revealing look behind the history and culture of American late-night TV, by a longtime comedy writer for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Ever since Johnny Carson first popularized the late-night... |
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Inside the Machine: Art and Invention in the Electronic Age
Megan Shaw Prelinger · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 269
Format: Print book |
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A visual history of the electronic age captures the collision of technology and art -- and our collective visions of the future.A hidden history of the twentieth century's brilliant innovations -- as seen through art and images of electronics that fed the dreams of millions.A rich historical... |
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