A BiographyThe most authoritative, comprehensive, perceptive biography of R. L. Stevenson to date, using for the first time his collected correspondence (unavailable to previous writers). The...9999903112686Claire Harman
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
lunes, 22 de abril de 2024
How the Short, Unruly Life of Ramparts Magazine Changed AmericaA Mother Jones "Best Book of 2009," A Bomb in Every Issue uncovers the largely untold story of Ramparts magazine, the spectacular San Francisco muckraker that captured the zeitgeis...9999903112655Peter Richardson
New Press, The
lunes, 22 de abril de 2024
The Gulshan -i Raz of Mahmud Shabistari'The Garden of Mystery' (Gulshana-i Raz) holds a unique position in Persian Sufi literature. It is a compact and concise exploration of the doctrines of Sufism at the peak of their...9999903112648Ma?mud ibn ?Abd al-Karim ...
Editors Varis
lunes, 22 de abril de 2024
The Inside History of the Allman Brothers BandA New York Times Best seller!One Way Out is the powerful biography of The Allman Brothers Band, an oral history written with the band's participation and filled with original, neve...9999903112549Alan Paul
Picador
lunes, 22 de abril de 2024
His Epic LifeA new biography of Michelangelo by Martin Gayford, the acclaimed author of Constable in Love and The Yellow House. There was an epic sweep to Michelangelo's life. At 31 he was cons...9999903112532Martin Gayford
Fig Tree
lunes, 22 de abril de 2024
Today's Leading Thinkers on Why Things Are Good and Getting BetterIn a provocative series of essays, 150 of the world's leading scientific thinkers--including Steven Pinker, Richard Dawkins, Jared Diamond, J. Craig Venter, and Freeman Dyson--shar...9999903112402John Brockman
HarperCollins
sábado, 20 de abril de 2024
His World and WorkWith unparalleled historical and critical perspective, Andrew Delbanco gives us a commanding biography and a riveting portrait of a nation. He uncovers autobiographical traces thro...9999903112471Andrew Delbanco
Pan Books
sábado, 20 de abril de 2024
The Battle for the Magic Kingdom'When you wish upon a star', 'Whistle While You Work', 'The Happiest Place on Earth' - these are lyrics indelibly linked to Disney, one of the most admired and best-known companies...9999903112457James B. Stewart
Pocket Books
sábado, 20 de abril de 2024
This is the first volume of letters from William Burroughs, covering the years 1945-1959. The letters are entertaining and revealing, placing Burroughs' work in the context of an e...9999903112396William S. Burroughs
Pan Books
sábado, 20 de abril de 2024
"A preeminent scientist - and the world's most prominent atheist - asserts the irrationality of belief in God and the grievous harm religion has inflicted on society, from the Crus...9999903112105Richard Dawkins
London : Bantam Press, 2006.
sábado, 20 de abril de 2024
If You Love These Blues(Book). Guitarist Michael Bloomfield shot to stardom in the '60s with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Bob Dylan, the Electric Flag and on Al Kooper's "Super Session." His story is...9999903112259Jan Mark Wolkin Bill Keen...
New York : Backbeat Books, 2008.
sábado, 20 de abril de 2024
Tales of Glamour and ExcessIn this feisty, supercharged memoir, Danny Sugerman tells of his life as the "adopted son" of the celebrated rock singer Jim Morrison, and how the world of money, drugs, fast cars,...9999903112204Daniel Sugerman
Plume
sábado, 20 de abril de 2024
Critical Thinking for a New Age"This brief, affordable text helps students to think critically, using examples from the weird claims and beliefs that abound in our culture to demonstrate the sound evaluation of ...9999903112174Theodore Schick Lewis Vau...
Mcgraw-Hill
sábado, 20 de abril de 2024
Music, Emotion, and Trancing"A fascinating thesis and a timely synthesis. . . . Becker urges the reader to view certain arcane cultural rituals as being in the mainstream of spiritual development and argues t...9999903112129Judith Becker
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1990.
sábado, 20 de abril de 2024
An Exploration of Art and the BrainWhat is it that makes a work of art appear to us as beautiful? How do external form and internal perception coalesce to create the distinctive aesthetic pleasures we look to find i...9999903112099Sémir Zeki Semir Zeki
Oxford University Press
sábado, 20 de abril de 2024
Movies, Media, and the Mythology of the SixtiesA brilliant cultural history detailing the fascinating relationship between movies and American society in the 1960s. In what the New York Times's A.O. Scott called a "suave, schol...9999903111931J. Hoberman,
New Press
sábado, 20 de abril de 2024
The Story of the WhoBefore I Get Old is one of the best books ever written about rock'n'roll, discarding much of the mythology that often surrounds a lesser informed appraisal of the Who. It tells the...9999903111924Marsh, Dave
Plexus Publishing Ltd
sábado, 20 de abril de 2024
The BiographyWritten with complete cooperation from the band, the updated and revised version of this rock biography chronicles the trio that began its career at Woodstock and wrote such classi...9999903111900Dave Zimmer
Da Capo Press
sábado, 20 de abril de 2024
A revealing and intimate biography about Janis Joplin, the Queen of Classic Rock, written by her younger sister. Janis Joplin blazed across the sixties music scene, electrifying au...9999903111894Laura Joplin
HarperCollins
sábado, 20 de abril de 2024
Why Insults Hurt???And Why They Shouldn'tInsults are part of the fabric of daily life. But why do we insult each other? Why do insults cause us such pain? Can we do anything to prevent or lessen this pain? Most importantl...9999903111825William B. Irvine
Oxford University Press
sábado, 20 de abril de 2024
From Impressionism to the InternetThe complexities of recent art history can overwhelm even the most knowledgeable art insider. Art: From Impressionism to the Internet is a portable, up-to-date and easy to use guid...9999903111405Klaus Richter
Prestel Publishing
sábado, 20 de abril de 2024
Artists do a number of things that are very useful. In this deceptively modest book, some of these things are described. Seminal works by artists Marcel Duchamp, John Cage, Richard...9999903110095Leonard Koren
Editors Varis
miércoles, 17 de abril de 2024
A new captivating, inspiring, and totally perspective-shifting volume from the wife and husband team behind Gender Swapped Fairy Tales The Greek myths were first told thousands of...9999903108467Karrie Fransman Jonathan ...
Faber & Faber
lunes, 15 de abril de 2024
The Revolt of ArtThis pocket-sized, illustrated guide contains an introduction to the Dada movement, which flourished all over Europe and in New York between 1915 and 1925.9999903108153Marc Dachy
London; Thames & Hudson
domingo, 14 de abril de 2024
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