Arts

Digital Photography Composition for Dummies

by Thomas Clark

Turn ordinary photographs into striking works of art

Mastering the craft of composing a photograph is all about having a trained eye. Digital Photography Composition For Dummies helps emerging photographers create...

Exposure Digital Field Guide

by Alan Hess

Secrets of exposure revealed, with a bonus color checker card included

Exposure is the number one topic that digital photographers want to know about. This full-color book fits in your camera bag and provides...

Nikon Creative Lighting System Digital Field Guide

by Thomas

A full-color, go-anywhere guide to Nikon's entire array of creative lighting possibilities

Nikon's Creative Lighting System is like having a low-cost, wireless, studio lighting system that's portable enough to...

The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food

by Judith Jones

From the legendary editor who helped shape modern cookbook publishing-one of the food world's most admired figures-comes this evocative and inspiring memoir.

Living in Paris after World War II, Jones broke free...

Learning to Live Out Loud: A Memoir

by Piper Laurie

An intimate memoir by three-time Oscar nominee Piper Laurie, one of Hollywood's most gifted and respected actresses

At the age of seventeen, in the glory days of movie-making, Piper Laurie was living every little...

The Lives of the Muses

by Francine Prose

All loved, and were loved by, their artists, and inspired them with an intensity of emotion akin to Eros.

In a brilliant, wry, and provocative book, National Book Award finalist Francine Prose explores the complex...

Beatles

by Maxwell Mackenzie

John, Paul, George and Ringo still rule! The music of the most important and popular group ever fills the airwaves to this day, winning a new generation of fans to the fold almost thirty years after the quartet...

Oscar Micheaux: The Great and Only

by Patrick McGilligan

Oscar Micheaux was the Jackie Robinson of film, the black D. W. Griffith: a bigger-than-life American folk hero whose important life story is nearly forgotten today. Now, in a feat of historical investigation...

The Film Director Prepares: A Complete Guide to Directing for Film and Tv

by Myrl A. Schreibman

• Insider author gives no-nonsense advice

• Required reading for film students, educators, anyone interested in film

From script analysis to post production, here is the all-inclusive guide to directing for...

The Painter's Chair

by Hugh Howard

"I am so hackneyed to the touches of the painters pencil, that I am now altogether at their beck ... no dray moves more readily to the Thill, than I do to the Painters Chair." - George Washington, 16, 1785When...

Tom and Jack

by Henry Adams

The drip paintings of Jackson Pollock, trailblazing Abstract Expressionist, appear to be the polar opposite of Thomas Hart Benton's highly figurative Americana. Yet the two men had a close and highly charged...

The Director & The Stage: From Naturalism to Grotowski

by Edward Braun

Beginning with the triple impulses of Naturalism, symbolism and the grotesque, the bulk of the book concentrates on the most famous directors of this century - Stanislavski, Reinhardt, Graig, Meyerhold, Piscator,...

The Calling Card Script: A writer’s toolbox for screen, stage and radio

by Paul Ashton

The calling card script is the script that expresses your voice, gets you noticed and helps you reach commission and production. Written by Paul Ashton, Development Manager of the BBC writersroom, and born out...

Actor’s Guide to Auditions and Interviews

by Margo Annett

Now in its third edition, this useful guide outlines the techniques needed to achieve success in the challenging process of getting work. It covers all aspects of casting, including gaining a place on a drama...

Audition

by Michael Shurtleff

The casting director for Chicago, Pippin, Becket, Gypsy, The Graduate, the Sound of Music and Jesus Christ Superstar tells you how you can find your dream! Absolutely everything an actor needs to know to get...

The Judgment of Paris

by Ross King

The Judgment of Paris chronicles the dramatic decade in Paris between two famous exhibitions-the scandalous Salon des Refuses in 1863 and the first Impressionist showing in 1874-set against the rise and dramatic...

The Irish Game

by Matthew Hart

In the annals of art theft, no case has matched-for sheer criminal panache-the heist at Ireland's Russborough House in 1986.

The Irish police knew right away that the mastermind was a Dublin gangster named Martin...

The Amber Room

by Adrian Levy

The history of art has produced few works as ambitious and as valuable as the Amber Room. Famous throughout Europe as "the eighth wonder of the world," its vast and intricately worked amber panels were sent...

The Billboard Guide to Writing and Producing Songs that Sell: How to Create Hits in Today's Music Industry

by Eric Beall

The Billboard Guide to Writing and Producing Songs that Sell unveils the secrets to climbing the charts and reaching success in today’s ultracompetitive music industry. Eric Beall supplies his firsthand knowledge...

Infinite Music: Imagining the Next Millennium of Human Music-Making

by Adam Harper

In the last few decades, new technologies have brought composers and listeners to the brink of an era of limitless musical possibility. They stand before a vast ocean of creative potential, in which any sounds...