Arts

Under Foreign Eyes

by James King

This book is about the perception of Japan in the sixty films set there by gaijin (foreigners) —outsiders who almost always do not speak or read Japanese. My area of attention is directed to films depicting...

Low Budget Hell Making Underground Movies with John Waters

by Robert G. Maier

Low Budget Hell is an unauthorized insider's story of outrageous 70s and 80s low budget filmmaking where every rule was broken in a crazy world of sex, drugs, and rock & roll. In his journey through the underground,...

Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay: Reflections on Art, Family, and Survival

by Christopher Benfey

New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2012

"Beautiful, haunted, evocative and so open to where memory takes you. I kept thinking that this is the book that I have waited for: where objects, and poetry intertwine....

Party Planning Secrets The Ultimate Guide to a Successful Party

by Charlie Scola

The Perfect Planning Guide Guaranteed to Save Time and Money Every time you plan a party Learn the 5 Steps to planning and outrageously successful party, learn how to create the energy necessary to have an amazing...

Robber Barons of the Big Board

by Chandra Niles Folsom

Robber Barons of the Big Board is a feature film screenplay inspired by the book Merrill Lynch: The Cost Could Be Fatal-My War Against Wall Street's Giant by Keith Schooley. Money Never Sleeps meets The Insider...

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....

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...

And Now... Here's Max

by Max Ferguson & Shelagh Rogers

Now fans need no longer wait for the CBC to re-run recordings of Max Ferguson's notorious radio shows (assuming that the tapes have not all been destroyed by court order). A full dose of his lunacy, depravity,...

The Boy Who Cried Freebird

by Mitch Myers

Wedding the American oral storytelling tradition with progressive music journalism, Mitch Myers' The Boy Who Cried Freebird is a treatise on the popular music culture of the twentieth century. Trenchant, insightful,...

Top Ten Reasons Why It's A Great Time to be A Filmmaker

by Michael Wiese Authors & Ken Lee

Collection of inspiriting and informative articles written by some of the best-selling authors in the world about filmmaking, careers, and life choices.

52 Weeks

by Dominique Lecomte

52 Weeks is the much anticipated coffee table book calendar, and ready- to- frame collection of stunning photographs that transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary. Each chapter of the book opens with an...

More Precious Than Silver: The God Stories Behind the Songs of Lynn DeShazo

by Lynn DeShazo

Just as every song has a story, so does every songwriter. More Precious Than Silver: The God Stories Behind the Songs of Lynn DeShazo tells the stories behind today's most-loved worship songs-and the songwriter...

Food Network Star: The Official Insider's Guide to America's Hottest Food Show

by Ian Jackman

An all-access pass for fans of television’s most challenging food fight . . . and the Food Network stars it has created

For seven delicious seasons, Food Network Star finalists have endured weeks of grueling...

The Contemporary Violinist: Book/CD Pack

by Julie Lieberman

(Fretted). Learn some of the most important fiddle and violin styles in the world! With this book and the help of the practice CD, players will be guided through dozens of left- and right-hand exercises and...

Everything I Drew (I Drew It For You)

by Stefaan Pauwels

These are notes, pictures and drawings I made for you. I hope you like them.

Phil's Favorite 500: Loves of a Moviegoing Lifetime

by Phil Berardelli

Phil Berardelli has been in love with movies ever since his first encounter as a little boy thrilled him and then scared the daylights out of him. In the intervening years, including a six-year stint as a TV...

The Music of Time

by Preston B. Nichols & Peter Moon

The "Music of Time" blends music with time travel as Preston Nichols reveals his hidden role in the music industry where he worked as an expert sound engineer and recorded hundreds of hit records during the...

Easy Riders Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-And Rock 'N Roll Generation Save

by Peter Biskind

In 1969, a low-budget biker movie, Easy Rider, shocked Hollywood with its stunning success. An unabashed celebration of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll (onscreen and off), Easy Rider heralded a heady decade in...

The Problem of Space Travel

by Herman Potočnik Noordung

Herman Potocnik Noordung’s ‘Inhabitable Wheel’.

In 1929, an Austro-Hungarian - Slovene called Herman Potocnik published a book under the pseudonym of ‘Noordung’. The book was Das Problem der Befahrung...