Arts

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...

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...

An Introduction to the Ajanta Caves: With Examples of Six Caves

by Rajesh Singh

This book is designed for students, educators, libraries, and general readers with keen interest in the subject of Indian or South Asian art, architecture, history, and culture. It is work of the author's fifteen...

Make Good Art

by Neil Gaiman

In May 2012, bestselling author Neil Gaiman delivered the commencement address at Philadelphia's University of the Arts, in which he shared his thoughts about creativity, bravery, and strength. He encouraged...

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...

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....

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...

Dario Argento AND THE MAKING OF “DEEP RED ” (PROFONDO ROSSO)

by Luigi Cozzi, Federico Patrizi & Antonio Tentori

Forty years ago, in the summer of 1974, Dario Argento directed his masterpiece DEEP RED, one of the most famous and admired thrillers ever made. This volume, edited by Luigi Cozzi, analyzes the genesis and the...

Sundancing

by John Anderson & David Morgan

Every winter, 8,000 feet above sea level in the Utah snow, the hopes and dreams of young moviemakers are put on display at the Sundance Film Festival--the haven for independent films where you can show up a...

Green Shadows, White Whale

by Ray Bradbury

In 1953, the brilliant but terrifying titan of cinema John Huston summons the young writer Ray Bradbury to Ireland. The apprehensive scribe's quest is to capture on paper the fiercest of all literary beasts...

Owsley and Me: My LSD Family

by Rhoney Gissen Stanley & Tom Davis

Owsley and Me is an insider's account of sixties counterculture, told by the partner of Owsley "Bear" Stanley.

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...

Living with Shakespeare: Essays by Writers, Actors, and Directors

by Susannah Carson & Harold Bloom

Why Shakespeare? What explains our continued fascination with his poems and plays? In Living with Shakespeare, Susannah Carson invites forty actors, directors, scholars, and writers to reflect on why his work...

I, Lucifer

by Gabriele Mastropaolo

He is unapologetic and smug. He has a sense of humor, and vindictive. He does not seek complacency nor pity. He has changed his mortal remains. He has been transformed: in his youth was a boer goat, in old age,...

May 4th Voices: Kent State, 1970: A Play

by David Hassler

Eyewitness testimony brought to life through verbatim theaterOn May 4, 1970, National Guardsmen occupying the Kent State University campus fired 67 shots in 13 seconds, leaving four students dead. This tragedy...

The Stone Roses

by SIMON SPENCE

The Stone Roses captures the magic—and chaos—behind the UK band's rise, fall, and recent resurrection.

The iconic Brit pop band The Stone Roses became an overnight sensation when their 1989 eponymous album...

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...

Roaring Boys: Shakespeare's Rat Pack

by Judith Cook

In the late 1580s a new kind of entertainment flowered in London: professional theatre, with its custom built playhouses, professional companies, incredible staging and, last but not least, the new writers,...