Creator: Jennifer Mossman
Publication date: 2002-08
Dewey code: 809
List Price: $508.00
Price: $431.80
Review Biography and Genealogy Master Index 2003 (Biography and Genealogy Master Index) / Gale Cengage:
Edition: Bilingual
Publication date: 2003-11
Dewey code: 709
Price: $140.00
Review Storaro: Colors (Writing With Light) / Electa:
Authors
- James Robert Parish
- Michael R Pitts
Publication date: 2003-07
Dewey code: 790
Price: $225.00
Review Hollywood Songsters: Singers Who Act and Actors Who Sing, Set / Routledge:For fans of musicals, singing, Hollywood history, and the lives of stars, no other work equals this new three-volume reference to the on- and off-camera careers of more than 100 performers who made major contributions to the American screen musical. From June Allyson to Mae West, Hollwood Songsters provides a detailed narrative-ranging from 2,000 to 5000 words each-of the lives and careers of stars forever etched in our memories. Each description is informative, engaging, and fun, yet the scrupulous attention to detail and accuracy ensures that even the most knowledgeable scholar will learn something new. Each entry includes a filmography, discography (of both albums and CDs), Broadway appearances, radio work, television appearances and series,and a full-page photo of the subject. A complete index of names of performers, films, and songs rounds out the work. This is the ideal reference work for everyone one from the mildly curious to the hard-core fan.
Publication date: 2001-07
Dewey code: 782.421681267
List Price: $109.95
Price: $109.95
Review Tonality and Atonality in Alban Berg's Four Songs, Op. 2 (Studies in the History and Interpretation of Music) / Edwin Mellen Press:Alban Berg's "Four Songs", op. 2 lies exactly at the boundary between "tonal" and "atonal" means of pitch organization, a boundary often taken as central to the understanding of 20th-century music. This study offers a look at the conceptions of those categories and traces their development.
Publication date: 1992-02
Dewey code: 741.6092
Price: $29.95
Review The Enchanted World of Jessie M. King / Trafalgar Square Publishing:
Publication date: 2001-06-15
Dewey code: 770.92273
Price: $75.00
Review The Illuminating Mind in American Photography:: Stieglitz, Strand, Weston, Adams / University of Rochester Press:The Illuminating Mind looks at the ideas, images and lives of four major twentieth century American photographers: Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946), Paul Strand (1890-1976), Edward Weston (1886-1958) and Ansel Adams (1902-1984). Largely because of their efforts, Americans came to accept photography as a fine art. This book examines the lives of these four photographers within the context of their times, sketching not only their contributions to American modernism, but also their struggles with epistemological and representational questions that echoed throughout American culture. They were all interested in the relationships between the artist and his subject, the knower and the known, the mind and its objects. For them, photography was not passive transcription of the outer world; instead, it is an exploratory process in which the artist interogates and probes that world. Thus they regarded photography as a creative art in which the mind illuminates its subjects, and they believed that a photograph is constituted as much by the artist's contributions as by the subject's trace. Drawing upon rarely used archival manuscripts and forgotten publication, The Illuminating Mind uses a biographical perspective to reveal these artists' unrecognized psychological intricacies, as well as the interrelationships of their creative lives and expressive themes. David Peeler is in the Department of History, United States Naval Academy.
Edition: 10th
Publication date: 2008-04-18
Dewey code: 781
List Price: $390.00
Price: $386.00
Review International Who's Who in Popular Music 2008 (International Who's Who in Popular Music) / Europa Publications:The "International Who's Who in Popular Music 2008" provides biographical details on some of the most talented and influential artists and individuals from the world of popular music. Now in its tenth edition, it includes over 6,000 biographies charting the careers and achievements of pop, rock, folk, jazz, dance, world and country artists throughout the world. Each entry includes full biographical information: principal career details, recordings and compositions, honours and contact information. It spans the full range of the popular music industry, from rock to jazz and dance to country. It provides information on established names as well as up-and-coming artists. It includes a directory section that provides details of music festivals, awards, organizations within the industry, and digital music sources. For ease of reference, the book includes an index of music group members. In one accessible volume the "International Who's Who in Popular Music 2008" provides the most comprehensive collection of information on the most famous and influential people in the popular music industry.
Publication date: 2001-01
Dewey code: 759.994290899915
Price: $45.00
Review Aboriginal Artists of the Western Desert: A Biographical Dictionary / Craftsman House (AU):
Authors
- Joe Esposito
- Daniel Lombardy
Publication date: 2007-10-31
Dewey code: 780
Price: $19.99
Review Celebrate Elvis - Volume 2 / TCB JOE Enterprises:Celebrate Elvis is a series that will leave no stone unturned. From rumor busters to private personal memories and experiences to emotionally gripping fan interviews. Celebrate Elvis is an ongoing collaboration with fans from around the world that are interested in preserving and broadening the Elvis Presley legacy. Get ready to sit back and relax as Joe Esposito and the fans share experiences, insights and memories that have never before been published. until now. [+]I want to thank you from the depths of my heart for giving me the "Elvis Fan" insight and truths to the man with the soulful voice. This book is "off the hook" genius. I await patiently for the next one. Joe you are the Elvis fans "Best Friend". - Phyllis Davis.
Edition: Limited
Publication date: 2002-12-17
Dewey code: 809
Price: $250.00
Review My Losing Season (Autographed Edition) / Nan A. Talese:PAT CONROY—AMERICA’S MOST BELOVED STORYTELLER—IS BACK!“I was born to be a point guard, but not a very good one. There was a time in my life when I walked through the world known to myself and others as an athlete. It was part of my own definition of who I was and certainly the part I most respected. When I was a young man, I was well-built and agile and ready for the rough and tumble of games, and athletics provided the single outlet for a repressed and preternaturally shy boy to express himself in public. [+]I lost myself in the beauty of sport and made my family proud while passing through the silent eye of the storm that was my childhood. ” So begins Pat Conroy’s journey back to 1967 and his startling realization “that this season had been seminal and easily the most consequential of my life. ” The place is the Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina, that now famous military college, and in memory Conroy gathers around him his team to relive their few triumphs and humiliating defeats. In a narrative that moves seamlessly between the action of the season and flashbacks into his childhood, we see the author’s love of basketball and how crucial the role of athlete is to all these young men who are struggling to find their own identity and their place in the world. In fast-paced exhilarating games, readers will laugh in delight and cry in disappointment. But as the story continues, we gradually see the self-professed “mediocre” athlete merge into the point guard whose spirit drives the team. He rallies them to play their best while closing off the shouts of “Don’t shoot, Conroy” that come from the coach on the sidelines. For Coach Mel Thompson is to Conroy the undermining presence that his father had been throughout his childhood. And in these pages finally, heartbreakingly, we learn the truth about the Great Santini. In My Losing Season Pat Conroy has written an American classic about young men and the bonds they form, about losing and the lessons it imparts, about finding one’s voice and one’s self in the midst of defeat. And in his trademark language, we see the young Conroy walk from his life as an athlete to the writer the world knows him to be.
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 2004-10-20
Dewey code: 790
Price: $18.95
Review The King Is Dead / KATCO MEDIA:It was another routine day for Robert Kendall as he reported to work at the Memphis Funeral Home. But, early in the afternoon of this mundane day, Kendall’s life would forever change. Elvis Presley-the undisputed king of rock & roll lay dead on an autopsy table at Baptist’s Memorial Hospital in Memphis. Kendall would learn, in fairly short order, that he would be in charge of arranging the funeral for the deceased singer-idol. Soon, the call would come from Elvis’ personal friend, Joe Esposito, summoning him to the mansion to discuss the arrangements. Elvis’ father, Vernon Presley, would be calling the shots. But what would he want? “THE KING IS DEAD” is a compelling minute-by-minute narrative of a facet of the Elvis Presley story NEVER before told. This book is based on the memoirs of Elvis’ Funeral Director, Robert Kendall. For the first time, readers and Elvis enthusiasts alike will learn. [+]• The ordeal Kendall went through to secure Elvis’ $8,000 coffin, identitical to the one his mother was buried in • Who attended the private viewing at Graceland and intimate details of Elvis’ eulogy and services. • The orders given, personally, by Vernon Presley for Elvis’ funeral in a private, late-night meeting at Graceland on the evening of the singer’s death. • The details of the last moments 9-year old Lisa Marie Presley would spend with her father’s body at Graceland. • How the SWAT team descended on the Memphis Funeral Home to protect Elvis’ dead body.
Creator: Serge Lutens
Edition: De Luxe edition
Publication date: 1998-10
Dewey code: 770
Price: $750.00
Review Serge Lutens / Assouline:Photographer, makeup artist, interior and set designer, and creator of extraordinary objects, Serge Lutens is an image-maker of genius. His first book-published in 1992 and printed in 16 colors-was an event in the publishing world. With his second book, Lutens returns to reconfirm his art, which brings together pure aesthetics and a quest for perfection.
Creator: Fiona Robertson
Publication date: 1997-06
Dewey code: 821.7
List Price: $495.00
Price: $490.50
Review Lives of the Great Romantics II / Pickering & Chatto Publishers:In this second collection of biographical accounts of Romantic writers, the characters of Keats, Coleridge and Scott are recalled by their contemporaries, offering insights into their lives and writings, as well as into the art of 19th-century biography. Keats died at the age of 25. Memoir writers attempted to capture the tragedy of what they saw as thwarted promise. The memoirs in this collection explore the Romantic cult of the poet, sharing Keats's own reluctance to turn his private life into public art. Coleridge, a famous theologian and drug-user, was seen by his contemporaries both as a degenerate and as "the sage of Highgate", a defender of the Established Church. The reminiscences collected here struggle to present a clear, coherent image of their subject, whether heroic or disreputable. More recent reappraisals of Sir Walter Scott's work accompany a revived curiousity about his private personality and public persona. Memoirs selected here include material from a biography written by his son-in-law J. G. Lockhart, as well as from the many dissident and more informal recollections of his varied literary acquaintances.
Creator: James Grant Wilson
Edition: Facsimile Ed
Publication date: 2002-06
Dewey code: 809
List Price: $1,175.00
Price: $1,171.00
Review Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography / Thoemmes Continuum:
Publication date: 2006-11
Dewey code: 782.42166092
Price: $70.00
Review The Love There That's Sleeping: The Art And Spirituality of George Harrison / Continuum International Publishing Group:From his days as the "quiet Beatle" - a tag he quite disliked - to his immensely successful and critically admired solo career, George Harrison produced one of the most memorable bodies of music in modern times. His "Something" and "Here Comes the Sun" can certainly lay claim to being the best offerings on The Beatles' Abbey Road, while his 1970 album "All Things Must Pass" introduced new musical styles to rock and roll. Harrison was the pioneer in making mainstream rock a vehicle for religious convictions. In this respect, he is a forerunner of bands such as U2 and Creed. People often criticized him for being preachy or didactic. Reviewers over the years exhibited either an anxious disinclination to say much about his evangelistic lyrics or showed a condescending tendency to dismiss them. His devotional language was not their language. They regularly thought him sanctimonious and full of irrelevant religious platitudes. Allison's book views Harrison's religious bent as his most interesting trait. Harrison should be admired for having something distinctive to say, and for saying it while knowing that many would not understand and that others who might understand might not be sympathetic. [+]He had the courage of his convictions, to sing to the public what he sang to himself in his heart. Allison traces Harrison's religious pilgrimage from Liverpool Roman Catholicism to a brand of philosophical Hinduism. He sorts through Harrison's musical corpus - through its mixed bag of fragmentary feelings, religious poetry, secular love songs, perceptions of the world, and anxieties about life, to interpret what matters most to Harrison. In short, this is a book about Harrison's religious sentiments as they surface in his songs.
Creator: Amanda Holden
Publication date: 2001-11-18
Review The New Penguin Opera Guide (Penguin Reference Books) / Penguin Books Ltd:"The New Pengiun Opera Guide" is a fully revised and updated edition of the most comprehensive single-volume opera encyclopaedia ever published. In the course of hundreds of meticulously researched articles, it explores the complete operas of figures as diverse as Bellini and Britten, Handel and Hindemith, Massenet and Monteverdi, Rameau and Rossini, Weber and Weill; offers fresh insights into such perennial favourites as Mozart, Verdi and Wagner; and examines stage works by composers not primarily remembered for their operas - Schumann, Faure and Schoenberg among them. It also brings the reader right up to date with the latest operas by contemporary composers worldwide, including Ades, Carter, Holliger, Macmillan, Picker, Reich, Saariaho and Tan Dun. In all it discusses nearly 850 composers and looks in detail at around 2,000 works. For every composer, there is an outline of their operatic career and an assessment of their contribution to the genre. Each of their significant operatic works has its own entry, with information about the libretto, duration, cast and orchestra, the background to the work, the plot, and musical highlights. Selected recordings are included, to guide the reader towards the best versions, and there is also information about publishers and available editions, as well as bibliographical references. Each article has been written by a leading expert in the field, for example, Tim Carter on Monteverdi, Philip Gossett on Rossini, David Cairns on Berlioz, Roger Parker on Puccini, Michael Kennedy on Richard Strauss, John Tyrrell on Janacek, Stephen Walsh on Stravinsky. For the enthusiast or novice, amateur or professional, "The New Penguin Opera Guide" is an ideal source of information and insight. It brings alive the entire rich and varied tapestry of opera, from its beginnings four hundred years ago right up to the present day.
Creator: Michael James
Publication date: 1993-07
Dewey code: 780
Price: $29.50
Review Django Reinhardt / Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation:No European jazz musician has so enchanted the word as Django Reinhardt, the gypsy guitarist whose recording with Stephane Grappelly and the Hot Club of France have meant "The Thirties" to several generations of listeners, influencing musicians as far afield as Larry Coryell, Leon Redbone, Eddy Lang, and Charlie Christian. This is the only full-length study of Django ever published in English, an unforgettable portrait of a wild and independent figure who never learned to read or write (friends forged his autographs), exasperated those people who lived by schedules, gambled away a week's salary in a night, but who played the guitar like no one before or since. The distinguished French critic Charles Delaunay, who knows more about Django than anyone alive, here provides not only the familiar outline of a life-the childhood travels in gypsy caravans, the fire that left Django with a crippled hand, the legendary temper and generosity-but he also collected scores of anecdotes about the sensitivity and musical gifts that were the basis for Django's appearance as a character in Jean Cocteau's Les Enfants Terribles. Who else but Django could charm his way out of a jail sentence by serenading the police officer with his guitar?The comprehensive discography at the back of the book completes Delaunay's picture of this "misrepresented and fantastic creature, at once so captivating and so divorced from the contentions of his age. ".
Edition: 23
Publication date: 2007-09-21
Dewey code: 809
List Price: $390.00
Price: $386.00
Review International Who's Who of Authors & Writers 2008 (International Who's Who of Authors and Writers) / Routledge:"International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2008" provides an invaluable and practical source of biographical information on the key personalities and organizations of the literary world. Now in its Twenty-Third edition, the book is revised and updated annually by our editorial team and covers the most important authors and writers at work today. This title will prove an invaluable acquisition for journalists, television and radio companies, public and academic libraries, PR companies, literary organizations and anyone needing up-to-date information in this field. Entries Biographical details are listed for writers of all kinds, including novelists, playwrights, essayists, editors, columnists, journalists, as well as literary agents and publishers. Each entry provides personal information, career details, works published, literary awards and prizes, memberships and contact information, where available. Entries listed include Thomas Pynchon, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Xinran Xue, Fred Vargas and Kazuo Ishiguro. Key features include: over 8,000 entries; a directory section, including detailed lists of major international literary awards and prizes, principal literary organizations, and literary agents; entries for established writers, as well as for those who have recently risen to prominence; and, hundreds of new entries are included in this edition.
Publication date: 2002-06-01
Dewey code: 823.809
List Price: $19.95
Price: $500.00
Review The Brontes: A Life in Letters / Overlook TP:Upon its publication in 1995, Juliet Barker's The Brontës was deemed a monumental achievement that set a new standard in literary biography; it garnered rave reviews and was cited as a New York Times Notable Book of 1995 and a Publisher's Weekly Best Book of 1995. In The Brontës: A Life in Letters, the much anticipated follow-up to that landmark biography, Barker uses newly discovered letters and manuscripts, some appearing in print for the first time, to reveal the authentic voices of the three novelist sisters. The letters detail the siblings' self-absorbed childhood, highlighted by wild, imaginative games; the years of struggling to earn a living in uncongenial occupations before they took the literary world by storm; the terrible marring of that success as Branwell, Emily, and Anne died tragically young; the final years as Charlotte, battling against grief, loneliness, and ill health, emerged from anonymity to take her place in literary society. In The Brontës: A Life in Letters, Juliet Barker has produced a work of impeccable scholarship but also a story as dramatic, and undeniably readable as Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights. "Barker proves herself an impeccable editor of family papers we are all the richer for possessing. " (New York Times Book Review) "Provides a real sense of what those strange, brilliant people were like. " (The Atlantic Monthly).
Publication date: 1998-12
Dewey code: 809
Price: $35.00
Review Writer's Tale / Deadline Pr:
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