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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The guardian of all style” (The New York Times Magazine) shares stories on life, love, style, and career, from Paris to New York, and inspires readers to cultivate an effortless chic that is all their own. Garance Doré, the voice and vision behind her eponymous...

Keith Haring is synonymous with the downtown New York art scene of the 1980's. His artwork-with its simple, bold lines and dynamic figures in motion-filtered in to the world's consciousness and is still instantly recognizable, twenty years after his death. This Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition features...

From Holbein to Hockney, from Norman Rockwell to Pablo Picasso, from sixteenth-century Rome to 1980s SoHo, Robert Hughes looks with love, loathing, warmth, wit and authority at a wide range of art and artists, good, bad, past and present. As art critic for Time magazine, internationally acclaimed...

The beautifully written, deeply affecting story of Jean-Michel Basquiat's partner, her past, and their life together New York City in the 1980s was a mesmerizing, wild place. A hotbed for hip hop, underground culture, and unmatched creative energy, it spawned some of the most significant art...

Locura y Arte es un libro sobre el horror de quienes dedicaron su vida a crear belleza. Por sus páginas desfi lan los nombres más ilustres de la historia de la música, la pintura y la literatura: Shakespeare, Cervantes, Poe, Rimbaud, Artaud, Edith Piaf, Frida Kahlo, Janis Joplin, Stevenson, Hemingway,...

Queen, the epitome of rock in the 70s and 80s and one of the most bootlegged bands ever in the history saw its origin with the classic line-up of Freddie Mercury(lead vocals), Brian May(guitar, vocals), Roger Taylor(drums, vocals) and John Deacon(bass guitar). Melding glam-rock with hard-rock, Queen...

An ABA Indies Introduce Top Ten Title for Winter 2018 William A. Noguera has spent thirty-four years at the notorious San Quentin Prison, home to the nation’s largest and deadliest death row. Each day, men plot against you and your life rests on a razor’s edge. In Escape Artist, he describes his...

Born to an opera singer mother Helga Meyer and an American voice teacher John Bullock, Sandra Arnette Bullock, well known as Sandra Bullock, first of all started her career by performing in the children chorus in her mother's operas.   That was the initiation. Sandra Bullock is...

The first definitive biography of the master painter in more than a century, Titian: His Life is being hailed as a "landmark achievement" for critically acclaimed author Sheila Hale (Publishers Weekly). Brilliant in its interpretation of the 16th-century master's paintings, this monumental...

"If you've ever thought seriously, or for that matter just fantasized, about getting away from it all, going off-grid...this book is a must read." The Fethiye Times I couldn't teach another lesson. Nor could I tolerate another day with a boss, a punch card, and the indigestion I suffered from...

This book is part of Hyperink's best little books series. This best little book is nearly 6,500 words of fast, entertaining information on a highly demanded topic. Based on reader feedback (including yours!), we may expand this book in the future. If we do so, we'll send a free copy to all previous...

These meditations inspired by a Matisse painting are “a paean to the act of seeing, celebrating our capacity to be transformed by the truths art holds.” —The New York Times Book Review Named a Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year and a Los Angeles Times Favorite Nonfiction of the Year Just...

La misteriosa y discreta visita que realizó Antonin Artaud a nuestro país en 1936 devino tema de culto y en reto para los estudiosos que cada tanto reviven la esperanza de desenterrar documentos inéditos o dar con testimonios desconocidos. Fabienne Bradu reconstruye la conversación epistolar entre...

A survivor’s look at the science of the soul, drugs, death, art, music, time travel and the mysterious matter that makes up most of our universe. Thomas has unique insight into four and a half decades of hardship, loss and reanimation. Full of wit and humility, Dark Matter speaks as a painful trek...