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A Little Thing Called Life : From Elvis's Graceland to Bruce Jenner's Caitlyn and Songs in Between.

Linda Thompson · Dey Street Books
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

Award-winning songwriter Linda Thompson breaks her silence, sharing the extraordinary story of her life, career, and epic romances with two of the most celebrated, yet enigmatic, modern American superstars - Elvis Presley and Bruce Jenner.For the last forty years, award-winning songwriter...
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The film crew of Hollywood : profiles of grips, cinematographers, designers, a gaffer, a stuntman and a makeup artist

James C Udel · McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Pages: 247
Format: Print book

"This is a compilation of interviews with motion picture crew members who worked during Hollywood's Independent Age of film and television production. A celebratory insiders' look at the Tinseltown machine, the project utilizes individual interviews, with rare crew photographs to provide...
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Minecraft in the Classroom: Ideas, inspiration, and student projects for teachers

Colin Gallagher · Peachpit Press; 1 edition

Learn how educators are using Minecraft® as a powerful instructional tool to engage students and teach subjects as varied as math and humanities. This book offers ten classroom projects from teachers using Minecraft® to teach math, science, languages, and more. Each project includes...
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A Brief History of Video Games

Richard Stanton · Running Press Book Publishers
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

This Brief History provides a unique look at the history and culture of video games, starting with the 1960s classics like Pong to modern favorites such as Grand Theft Auto V and Bioshock. Focusing on creative and scientific advances between 1962 and today, A Brief History of Video Games...
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Franz Liszt: Musician, Celebrity, Superstar

Oliver Hilmes · Yale University Press
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

Hungarian composer Franz Liszt (1811-1886) was an anomaly. A virtuoso pianist and electrifying showman, he toured extensively throughout the European continent, bringing sold-out audiences to states of ecstasy while courting scandal with his frequent womanizing. Drawing on new, highly...
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Adobe Premiere Elements 12 Classroom in a Book

Adobe Creative Team · Adobe Press; 1 edition

Adobe Premiere Elements 12 Classroom in a Book is the most thorough and comprehensive way for you to master all the new features in Adobes top-rated consumer-targeted video-editing software. Each chapter in this step-by-step, project-based guide contains a project that builds on your growing...
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The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, Fifth Edition

Merriam-Webster · Merriam-Webster; 5 edition
Format: Hardcover

The book that millions of SCRABBLE players consider the only necessary resource.- More than 100,000 playable two-to-eight-letter words including more than 5,000 newly added entries.- Includes variant spellings with expanded coverage of Canadian and British words.- Updated to include new vocabulary...
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