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Baseball as a Road to God
Seeing Beyond the Game
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
The president of New York University offers a love letter to America’s most beloved sport and a tribute to its underlying spirituality.
For more than a decade, John Sexton has taught a wildly popular New York University course about two seemingly very different things: religion and baseball....
National Performance
Representing Quebec from Expo 67 to Celine Dion
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
In National Performance, Erin Hurley examines the complex relationship between performance and national identity. How do theatrical performances represent the nation in which they were created? How is Quebecois performance used to define Quebec as a nation and to cultivate a sense of 'Quebec-ness'...
What the Eye Hears
A History of Tap Dancing
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Magisterial, revelatory, and-most suitably-entertaining, What the Eye Hears offers an authoritative account of the great American art of tap dancing. Brian Seibert, a dance critic for The New York Times, begins by exploring tap's origins as a hybrid of the jig and clog dancing from the British Isles...
In Love with Art
Francoise Mouly's Adventures in Comics with Art Spiegelman
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
Françoise Mouly, an editor and publisher of uncommon taste and creativity, and an artist in her own right, has spent nearly four decades transforming comics. With her husband, Art Spiegelman, Mouly founded the landmark magazine RAW, which showcased artists such as Chris Ware, Charles Burns and Sue...
by The Editors of BroBible.com
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
DAD IS THE MOST IMPORTANT MAN IN A BRO’S LIFE.
He teaches you how to swing a baseball bat, grill a steak, and master a stick shift. Dad helps you laugh off a breakup, guides you on big decisions, and doesn’t tell your Mom when he catches you hooking up with a girl—yet still warns you...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
This book offers the first in-depth analysis of the relationship between art and design, which led to the creation of 'pop'. Challenging accepted boundaries and definitions, the authors seek out various commonalities and points of connection between these two exciting areas.
Confronting the...
Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss
How an Unlikely Couple Found Love, Dodged the FBI, and Transformed Children's Literature
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
Crockett Johnson (born David Johnson Leisk, 1906-1975) and Ruth Krauss (1901-1993) were a husband-and-wife team that created such popular children's books as The Carrot Seed and How to Make an Earthquake. Separately, Johnson created the enduring children's classic Harold and the Purple Crayon and...
On Highway 61
Music, Race and the Evolution of Cultural Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
“An essential volume for music lovers.” —East Bay Times
On Highway 61 searches for the deeper roots of American cultural and musical evolution over the past 150 years—by studying what the Western European culture learned from African American culture in a historical progression that...
Planet Funny
How Comedy Took Over Our Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year
The witty and exuberant New York Times bestselling author Ken Jennings relays the history of humor in “lively, insightful, and crawling with goofy factlings,” (Maria Semple, author of Where’d You Go Bernadette)—from fart jokes on clay Sumerian...
On the Origin of Superheroes
From the Big Bang to Action Comics No. 1
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Most readers think that superheroes began with Superman’s appearance in Action Comics No. 1, but that Kryptonian rocket didn’t just drop out of the sky. By the time Superman’s creators were born, the superhero’s most defining elements—secret identities, aliases, disguises, signature symbols,...
Kirby
King of Comics (Anniversary Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Jack Kirby created or co-created some of comic books’ most popular super heroes, including Captain America, The X-Men, The Hulk, The Fantastic Four, The Mighty Thor, Darkseid, and The New Gods. More significantly, he created much of the visual language for fantasy and adventure comics. There were...
Light of India
A Conflagration of Indian Matchbox Art
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
With all the zany vibrancy of a Bollywood musical, the colorful matchbox labels of LIGHT OF INDIA present a fascinating confluence of popular culture and a sophisticated graphic arts tradition that stretches back for centuries.
Populated with pouncing Bengal tigers, regal jungle elephants,...
by Stephen Weiner, Will Eisner
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Graphic novels have exploded off bookstore shelves into movies, college courses, and the New York Times book review, and comics historian and children’s literature specialist Stephen Weiner explains the phenomenon in this groundbreaking book—the first history of graphic novels. From the agonizing...
by John Schweingrouber
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Explore the 80's culture, movies, music, and fads. Your "go-to" 80's guide for everything cool about the 1980's. You know you're a child of the 80's if...
Topics include 80's fashion icons and how fashion impacted the music and movie scene, the greatest movies of the 80's that defined the...