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Homeward Bound
The Life of Paul Simon
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
A revelatory account of the life of beloved American music icon, Paul Simon, by the bestselling rock biographer Peter Ames Carlin
To have been alive during the last sixty years is to have lived with the music of Paul Simon. The boy from Queens scored his first hit record in 1957, just months...
That Old Black Magic
Louis Prima, Keely Smith, and the Golden Age of Las Vegas
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Both a love story and a tribute to the entertainment mecca, this exploration shines a spotlight on one of the hottest acts in Las Vegas in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The illuminating depiction showcases the unlikely duo-a grizzled, veteran trumpeter and vocalist molded by Louis Armstrong and...
Tango
Una pasión ilustrada
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 15, 2009
El tango se desplegó en el centro de una sociedad específica compuesta por una masa de inmigrantes que se aglomeraba en los conventillos porteños. Fue tomando diferentes medios de expresión: la música, la canción y la danza, sin letras en sus comienzos, pero enunciando un importante número...
Like a Rolling Stone
Bob Dylan at the Crossroads
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2006
Greil Marcus saw Bob Dylan for the first time in a New Jersey field in 1963. He didn't know the name of the scruffy singer who had a bit part in a Joan Baez concert, but he knew his performance was unique. So began a dedicated and enduring relationship between America's finest critic of popular music-...
The Lizard King
The Essential Jim Morrison
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Jim Morrison, lead singer of the Doors, has achieved a bizarre cult status since his death in 1971. Morrison was one of the most popular and controversial figures to emerge during the sixties; described as an 'erotic politician', poet, shaman, Dionysian drunk, his style and influence have grown steadily...
Life Is a Gift
The Zen of Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
One of the most well-known and beloved vocalists of our time, Tony Bennett is an American icon. Now, in this rich and beautiful memoir, the legendary Grammy and Emmy Award–winning singer takes us behind the scenes of his multi-platinum career. Revealing, insightful, and always moving, Life Is a...
In Real Life
Love, Lies & Identity in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
From the host of MTV's #1 show Catfish comes the definitive guide about how to connect with people authentically in today's increasingly digital world.
IN REAL LIFE: Love, Lies & Identity in the Digital Age
As the host of the wildly popular TV series Catfish which investigates online...
Good Vibrations
My Life as a Beach Boy
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Mike Love tells the story of his legendary, raucous, and ultimately triumphant five-decade career as the front man of The Beach Boys, the most popular American band in history -- timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of "Good Vibrations." The eBook edition includes 85 additional photos.
As...
by Tom Fletcher, Danny Jones, Harry Judd
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Prepare to meet the real McFly .
In 2003, Tom Fletcher, Danny Jones, Harry Judd and Dougie Poynter came together and formed what would become one of the most popular and successful bands in the UK. Just teenagers at the time, they were catapulted into the limelight and had to adapt quickly...
Slimed!
An Oral History of Nickelodeon's Golden Age
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
**The special 5th Anniversary Edition of SLIMED!
An Entertainment Weekly “Best Tell-All” Book
One of Parade Magazine's “Best Books About Movies/TV”
Included in Publishers Weekly's “Top Ten Social Science Books”
Before the recent reboots, reunions, and renaissance of classic...
Scandals of Classic Hollywood
Sex, Deviance, and Drama from the Golden Age of American Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Gossip meets history—a compulsively readable collection of Hollywood's most notorious clashes and controversies in the spirit of Hollywood Babylon
Believe it or not, America's fascination with celebrity culture was thriving well before the days of TMZ, Perez Hilton, Charlie Sheen's breakdown and...
We Are the Nerds
The Birth and Tumultuous Life of Reddit, the Internet's Culture Laboratory
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Named a Best Book of 2018 by Fast Company, this is a "sharply written and brilliantly reported" (Shelf Awareness) look inside Reddit, the wildly popular, often misunderstood website that has changed the culture of the Internet.
Reddit hails itself as "the front page of the Internet."...
Cubed
A Secret History of the Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
You mean this place we go to five days a week has a history? Cubed reveals the unexplored yet surprising story of the places where most of the world's work—our work—gets done. From "Bartleby the Scrivener" to The Office, from the steno pool to the open-plan cubicle farm, Cubed is a fascinating,...
The Tanning of America
How Hip-Hop Created a Culture That Rewrote the Rules of the New Economy
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2011
The business marketing genius at the forefront of today's entertainment marketing revolution helps corporate America get hip to today's new consumer-the tan generation - by learning from hip-hop and youth culture.
"He is the conduit between corporate America and rap and the streets-he...