Arts

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...

The Victorian House Explained

by Trevor Yorke

The Victorian house comes in all shapes, sizes and materials. The legacy of this hugely influential era can be found in every region of England, from the majestic rows of gleaming white terraces in West London...

The Edwardian House Explained

by Trevor Yorke

The period from 1900 to 1914-the Edwardian Age-is often thought of as a golden time of country house parties and endless summers. In fact, it was a time of great social change. Wealthy industrialists were building...

Dancing with Natasha

by Natasha Yushanov, Gregory Causey & Barbara Haller

Dancing With Natasha takes the reader from "I Can't Dance," to "I'm A Dancing Machine." Greg and co-author Natasha detail the often agonizing, but always rewarding endeavor of learning Ballroom Dance. In this...

Bookclub-in-a-Box Discusses The Beauty of Humanity Movement, by Camilla Gibb: The Complete Package for Readers and Leaders

by Marilyn Herbert & Jo-Ann Zoon

The Beauty of Humanity Movement reflects the true story of art and politics before and after Vietnam's liberation from colonial rule.

A Fist in the Hornet's Nest: On the Ground in Baghdad Before, During & After the War

by Richard Engel

When war broke out in Iraq, every major U.S. network pulled its correspondents from the scene. Despite the risk, Richard Engel stayed. As our tanks entered Baghdad in April 2003, he was there, bringing the Iraqi...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Victorians and Edwardians at Play

by John Hannavy

A picture can say a thousand words and the images caught on camera during the Victorian and Edwardian periods provide a fascinating insight into the lives of Britons during this time. Take a step back between...

The Victorians and Edwardians at Work

by John Hannavy

A picture can say a thousand words and the images caught on camera during the Victorian and Edwardian periods provide a fascinating insight into the lives of Britons during this time. Take a step back between...

Church Misericords and Bench Ends

by Richard Hayman

Although misericords were originally installed on the hidden undersides of church folding seats to provide comfort to those standing for long periods of prayer, the have gradually become more ornately carved...