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The Rising Damp Quiz & Trivia Book: 300 Questions on the Great British Sitcom

by Mark McCaighey

During the 1970s millions of viewers tuned in every week to watch the iconic British sitcom, Rising Damp? Even today, the show that brought us some of the most unforgettable characters in TV history is remembered...

Has Hollywood Lost Its Mind?: A Parent's Guide to Movie Ratings

by Chris Hicks

30-year movie reviewer Chris Hicks explores the history of the movie rating system, the inconsistency in the ratings, and shares advice on how to make better choices in your family's movie entertainment.

Shakespeare on Theatre

by William Shakespeare & Nick de Somogyi

(Book). Shakespeare was a man of the theatre to his core, so it is no surprise that he repeatedly contemplated the nuts and bolts of his craft in his plays and poems. Shakespeare scholar Nick de Somogyi here...

The Patient Ecstasy of Fraulein Braun

by Lavonne Mueller

(Book). Eva understands Hitler is married to Germany and must herself stand back unacknowledged as he enclasps the world in a passionate, python-like thrall. Until the last days in the final chapter of the Third...

Pantaloons and Power: A Nineteenth-Century Dress Reform in the United States

by Gayle V. Fischer

By the early nineteenth century clear definitions had developed regarding how American women and men were supposed to appear in public and how they were meant to lead their lives. As men's style of dress moved...

9 1/2 Years Behind the Green Door, A Memoir

by Simone Corday

"Corday's book is a delicious page turner." --Tristan Taormino, The Village Voice "the book offers a wealth of lurid and surreal anecdotes. . . . In what other setting could Thompson turn out to be the most...

Left of the Dial: Conversations with Punk Icons

by David Ensminger

Featuring interviews with leading figures of the punk underground, including Ian MacKaye, from Minor Threat and Fugazi; Jello Biafra, from Dead Kennedys; and Dave Dictor, from MDC, this book probes the legacy...

Favorite Pieces for Classical Guitar (Songbook)

by Hal Leonard Corp.

(Guitar Solo). 11 classical standards arranged in notes and tab for solo guitar. Includes: Canon in D * Clair De Lune * The Entertainer * Fur Elise * Greensleeves * Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring * Maple Leaf Rag...

Hal Leonard Guitar Method Book 2 (Music Instruction): Second Edition

by Will Schmid & Greg Koch

(Guitar Method). Book 2 includes studies and songs in the keys of C, G, D, Em, and F, syncopations and dotted rhythms, more advanced strums, the most common 1st position chords, solos, bass runs and a variety...

Hal Leonard Guitar Method Book 3 (Music Instruction): Second Edition

by Will Schmid & Greg Koch

(Guitar Method). Book 3 covers: the major, minor, pentatonic and chromatic scales, sixteenth notes; barre chords; drop D tuning; movable scales; notes in fifth position; slides, hammer-ons, pull-offs and string...

Post Cinematic Affect

by Steven Shaviro

Post-Cinematic Affect is about what it feels like to live in the affluent West in the early 21st century. Specifically, it explores the structure of feeling that is emerging today in tandem with new digital...

The Country Blacksmith

by David Mcdougall

This book tells the story of the country blacksmith and his importance as the hub of village life. It describes his techniques, tools, and contribution to rural work. It includes the mythology of the blacksmith...

Music Lessons: Guide Your Child to Play a Musical Instrument (and Enjoy It!)

by Stephanie Stein Crease

Providing guidance for parents who want their children to enjoy learning to play a musical instrument, this resource teaches parents the best ways to encourage children's musical talents. Key guidance is provided...

Dirty Bow Wow

by Jeffrey Katz

A winsome collection of 50 full-color, all-breed canine portraits, each posed with a favorite play toy and accompanied by an affectionate anecdote.

Dirty Wow Wow was ranked #3 on Entertainment Weekly's "Ten...

Chords for Guitar

by Gareth Evans

Moveable chord shapes based on the C A G E D system. A reference of over 200 unique shapes for just over 60 different chord types from basic majors and minors to extended chords, altered chords and inversions....

Shakespeare's Comedies Collection

by William Shakespeare

Collection containing All’s Well That Ends Well, As You Like It, The Comedy of Errors, Love’s Labour ’s Lost, Measure for Measure, The Merchant of Venice, The Merry Wives of Windsor, A Midsummer Night’s...

Great Movie Lines

by Dale Thomajan

"You must remember this . . ."

A kiss is just a kiss, but famous movie lines last forever, and many have become permanently part of American culture. For silver-screen fanatics and current blockbuster buffs,...

The Mammoth Book of Slasher Movies

by Peter Normanton

An engrossing A-Z of over 60 gory years of slasher and splatter movies, from Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later to Lucio Fulci's Zombie Flesh Eaters. Here you will find the low-down on over 250 movies with entries...

Four flies on grey velvet

by Luigi Cozzi

The movie FOUR FLIES ON GREY VELVET is considered by most critics as the high point in Dario Argento's first giallo trilogy. Luigi Cozzi, who co-wrote FOUR FLIES ON GREY VELVET and closely followed its making,...

Mario Bava - Master of Horror

by Luigi Cozzi

Luigi Cozzi -the author of this book - had the pleasure to meet Mario Bava in the most fertile period of the latter’s extraordinary career in the movies: therefore, this volume offers an in-depth and very...