Arts

Runaway Dream

by Louis P. Masur

To millions of listeners, Bruce Springsteen's Born to Run is much more than a rock-and-roll album-it's a poetic explosion of freedom and frustration. It confirmed Springsteen's status as a quintessential American...

The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer

by Anne-Marie O'Connor

The spellbinding story, part fairy tale, part suspense, of Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, one of the most emblematic portraits of its time; of the beautiful, seductive Viennese Jewish salon...

Music, Science, and the Rhythmic Brain

by Jonathan Berger & Gabe Turow

This book studies the effects of repetitive musical rhythm on the brain and nervous system, and in doing so integrates diverse fields including ethnomusicology, psychology, neuroscience, anthropology, religious...

Witness: One of the Great Correspondents of the Twentieth Century Tells Her Story

by Ruth Gruber

With her perfect memory (and plenty of zip), ninety-five-year-old Ruth Gruber–adventurer, international correspondent, photographer, maker of (and witness to) history, responsible for rescuing hundreds of...

Photography Techniques Digital Field Guide 3-Book Set

by Alan Hess & Brian McLernon

Three Digital Field Guides in one information-packed e-book bundle

Digital photographers are always looking for information on the fundamentals--composition, exposure, and lighting--and often they turn to Digital...

Digital Slr Photography Elearning Kit for Dummies

by John Wiley

Understand and use digital SLR cameras with this complete photography course

If you're making the switch from simple point-and-shoot cameras to more complex dSLRs and hoping to enhance your photography skills...

The Art of Alfred Hitchcock: Fifty Years of His Motion Pictures

by Donald Spoto

This completely revised and updated edition of the classic text describes and analyzes every movie made by master filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

Museographs: Japanese Satsuma Pottery

by Caron Caswell Lazar

Two thousand years ago, Japan and Korea began a long-standing history of cultural contact. For the Koreans, this meant an invasion in the 1590s spawning four centuries of bitter contempt for Japanese society....

The Toughest Show on Earth

by Joseph Volpe & Charles Michener

The Toughest Show on Earth is the ultimate behind-the-scenes chronicle of the divas and the dramas of New York’s Metropolitan Opera House, by the remarkable man who rose from apprentice carpenter to general...

Chianti: The Land, the People and the Wine

by Raymond Flower

Raymond Flower brings the enchanting history of the secluded Italian region Chianti to vivid life. Using meticulous research, Flower presents the engrossing tales of the Etruscans, the Romans, the Lombards,...

Amazing Musicians: Inspirational Stories

by Charles Margerison

It is often said that music is a universal language, and our greatest musicians have succeeded in reaching the stars. Do you dream of following in their footsteps? Take a fascinating trip through the lives of...

Radio: Essays in Bad Reception

by John Mowitt

In a wide-ranging, cross-cultural, and transhistorical assessment, John Mowitt examines radio's central place in the history of twentieth-century critical theory. A communication apparatus that was a founding...

I'm Feeling the Blues Right Now

by Stephen A. King

In I'm Feeling the Blues Right Now: Blues Tourism and the Mississippi Delta, Stephen A. King reveals the strategies used by blues promoters and organizers in Mississippi, both African American and white, local...

Africa and the Blues

by Gerhard Kubik

In 1969 Gerhard Kubik chanced to encounter a Mozambican labor migrant, a miner in Transvaal, South Africa, tapping a cipendani, a mouth-resonated musical bow. A comparable instrument was seen in the hands of...

Alban Berg and His World

by Christopher Hailey

Alban Berg and His World is a collection of essays and source material that repositions Berg as the pivotal figure of Viennese musical modernism. His allegiance to the austere rigor of Arnold Schoenberg's musical...

Denman Ross and American Design Theory

by Marie Frank

The life and thought of one of the founders of twentieth-century American design

Technologies of History: Visual Media and the Eccentricity of the Past

by Steve F. Anderson

Captain Kirk fought Nazis. JFK's assassination is a videogame touchstone. And there's no history like "Drunk History."

Reggae, Rastafari, and the Rhetoric of Social Control

by Stephen A King & Barry T. Bays III

Who changed Bob Marley's famous peace-and-love anthem into "Come to Jamaica and feel all right"?

When did the Rastafarian fighting white colonial power become the smiling Rastaman spreading beach towels for...

Great Violinists of the Twentieth Century. Enriched version

by Jean-Michel Molkhou

Great Violinists of the 20th Century provides the first English-language introduction to fifty performers who made their mark upon the twentieth century.

Readers will discover the lives and careers of these...

Gustav Holst

by Mary Christison Huismann

Gustav Holst: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography of all substantial, relevant published resources relating to this important composer.