Arts

Quiz Show and Bullet Catch

by Rob Drummond

Quiz Show:

Welcome to False!, the quiz show where there are no questions, only statements, where every statement is a lie, and where the prize is nothing less than the truth. Everyone's favourite quizmaster,...

The Mammoth Book of the Rolling Stones: An anthology of the best writing about the greatest rock ?n? roll band in the world

by Sean Egan

A bumper collection of writing in celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of 'the greatest rock 'n' roll band in the world', from John Pidgeon's first encounter with The Rolling Stones at the...

The Art of Practicing: A Guide to Making Music from the Heart

by Madeline Bruser & Yehudi Menuhin

This landmark book enlightens amateur and professional musicians about a way of practicing that transforms a sometimes frustrating, monotonous, and overly strenuous labor into an exhilarating and rewarding experience....

The 1950s American Home

by Diane Boucher

This title explores what life was like in the 1950s American home. An age of optimism, it is about living the American Dream and how this was achieved, changes in the home, new convenience technology, new ways...

A Brief History of Painting: 2000 BC to AD2000

by Roy Bolton

The urge to create pictures of our world has been with us ever since early man daubed a fingerful of pigment on a rock, or used primitive colours to create exquisite images of the beasts he hunted - images so...

Sleepless in Hollywood: Tales from the New Abnormal in the Movie Business

by Lynda Obst

The veteran producer and author of the bestseller Hello, He Lied takes a witty and critical look at the new Hollywood.

Over the past decade, producer Lynda Obst gradually realized she was working in a Hollywood...

You Don't Know Me But You Don't Like Me: Phish, Insane Clown Posse, and My Misadventures with Two of Music's Most Maligned Tribes

by Nathan Rabin

When memoirist and head writer forThe A.V. ClubNathan Rabin first set out to write about obsessed music fans, he had no idea the journey would take him to the deepest recesses of both the pop culture universe...

Integral Facade Construction

by Tillmann Klein

Integral Facade Construction focuses on the future development of the curtain wall. While the requirements on facades have slowly increased over the last decades, the curtain wall has evolved from craftsmanship...

The Bluffer's Guide to Jazz

by Paul Barnes

From 'riffs' to 'rhythms', and the difference between 'Acid Jazz' and 'Big Band Jazz', The Bluffer's Guide to Jazz contains everything you need to give your conversation that certain 'sax' appeal.

Rainer on Film: Thirty Years of Film Writing in a Turbulent and Transformative Era

by Peter Rainer

From American Beauty (overrated) to The Night of the Hunter (masterpiece), this collection of Peter Rainer’s film criticism spans the course of his illustrious 30-year career, which dates back to the early...

Hollywood on Lake Michigan: 100+ Years of Chicago and the Movies

by Michael Corcoran & Arnie Bernstein

Ranging from the dawn of the silent era to today’s blockbusters and independent films, this revamped second edition chronicles the significant contributions by Chicago and Chicagoans to more than a century...

The Best Film You've Never Seen: 35 Directors Champion the Forgotten or Critically Savaged Movies They Love

by Robert K. Elder

Revealing a festival of guilty pleasures, almost-masterpieces, and undeniable classics in need of revival, 35 directors champion their favorite overlooked or critically savaged gems in this guide. The list includes...

Love Him Madly: An Intimate Memoir of Jim Morrison

by Judy Huddleston & Pamela Des Barres

Chronicling a young woman’s four-year relationship with the lead singer of the Doors, this intensely intimate memoir provides a direct and unprecedented view of the late-1960s Los Angeles subculture. When...

Strippers, Showgirls, and Sharks

by Peter Filichia

“Wait..Gypsy didn’t win the Tony for Best Musical?”

That’s a question that gets asked over and over again, every time a new Rose takes to the runway in the Broadway classic “Gypsy”.  In "Strippers,...

Up in Lights

by Marjorie Graham

The touching true story of a young 1920s ‘flapper’, who dreamed of becoming a chorus girl ‘Early that January, there was snow on the ground, and Victoria Carmen took a violent chill. I played Principal...

Dirty Great Love Story

by Richard Marsh

Two hopeful, hapless romantics get drunk, get it on, and then get the hell away from each other. In her eyes, he's a mistake. A mistake who keeps turning up at parties. In his eyes, she's perfect. He's short-sighted....

Refugee Boy

by Lemn Sissay

An eye for an eye. It's very simple. You choose your homeland like a hyena picking and choosing where he steals his next meal from. Scavenger. Yes you grovel to the feet of Mengistu and when his people spit...

Heather Gardner

by Robin French

All the rooms reek of lavender and rose petals. There's something dead about it. Like flowers the day after a ball.

Returning to her home town in the house of her dreams, her husband with a new job on the horizon,...

Paper Dolls

by Philip Himberg

"You know, Yossi, we couldn't dress like this in the Philippines... wear earrings, dye our hair, put on make up, lipstick. It's forbidden."

In Tel Aviv, Israel, a group of Filipino immigrants work as live-in...

Stretching Exercises for Guitarists

by Gareth Evans

Stretching Exercises for Guitarists is a compact guide that can be used as part of a healthy and productive practice regime. All 30 exercises are demonstrated with over 40 professionally hand-drawn illustrations...