Brian: 7780 books
Het almachtige apparaat
De verborgen geschiedenis van de Iphone
Language: Dutch
Release Date: August 13, 2018
Bijzondere eerste druk in mooie bewaardoos, limited edition. Journalist Brian Merchant legt in ‘Het almachtige apparaat’ de geheimen bloot van een van de meest gesloten bedrijven in de geschiedenis en vertelt het échte verhaal achter je meest gebruikte apparaat: de iPhone. Een mobiele telefoon...
The FitzPatrick Tapes
The Rise and Fall of One Man, One Bank, and One Country
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2011
The FitzPatrick Tapes: The sensational story of the man and the bank that brought Ireland low
One day in May 2009, Sean FitzPatrick - the disgraced former chief executive and chairman of Anglo Irish Bank - sat down to lunch in a Holiday Inn in Dublin. Across the table sat Tom Lyons, a business...
Save Me from Myself
How I Found God, Quit Korn, Kicked Drugs, and Lived to Tell My Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
The amazing true story of an out-of-control rock star, his devastating addiction to drugs, and his miraculous redemption through Jesus Christ.
In February 2005, more than ten thousand people in Bakersfield, California, watched as Brian "Head" Welch—the former lead guitarist of...
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Album, the Beatles, and the World in 1967
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
A carefully crafted and collectible volume celebrates the 50th anniversary of a legendary and groundbreaking Beatles album. Expert Brian Southall's unique edition recounts the story behind the music and the cultural climate of 1967 when Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band debuted.
The...
by Brian A. Shook
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
William Vacchiano (19122005) was principal trumpet with the New York Philharmonic from 1942 to 1973 and taught at Juilliard the Manhattan School of Music the Mannes College of Music Queens College and Columbia Teachers College. While at the Philharmonic Vacchiano performed under the batons of Arturo...
by Brian Southall
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2009
A fascinating insider's account of the notorious three months that turned the British music industry on its head.
Here is the story of how the Sex Pistols shocked and shamed EMI—the UK's most revered and profitable record company—and ended up £40,000 the richer thanks to manager Malcolm...
by Brian Abbey
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE, is an English singer, multi-instrumentalist, and composer. With John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr, he gained worldwide fame as a member of the Beatles, one of the most popular and influential acts in the history of rock music; his songwriting partnership...
Prince
A Thief in the Temple
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
Prince Rogers Nelson released his first album in 1978. In the years that followed until his death in April 2016, he became a superstar, a recluse, an inspiration, an enigma, a slave and a symbol. He was a master of reinvention, but the one constant in his astonishing career was his genius: as a singer,...
by Brian Abbey
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
After high school, David Lynch went to Boston to attend the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. Shortly after that, he planned a three-year trip to Europe to work on his art, but didn't take to it and left after 15 days.
In 1977, he released his first film Eraserhead (1977),...
High-Status Characters
How The Upright Citizens Brigade Stormed A City, Started A Scene, And Changed Comedy Forever
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2013
By the early ‘90s, comedy was no longer cool. The stand-up bubble had burst, sitcoms had become more formulaic than ever, and Hollywood studios were pumping out soulless, star-driven schmaltz. There were signs of hope in shows like Seinfeld, The Simpsons, and The Larry Sanders Show, all of which...
Jim Henson
The Biography
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • For the first time ever—a comprehensive biography of one of the twentieth century’s most innovative creative artists: the incomparable, irreplaceable Jim Henson
He was a gentle dreamer whose genial bearded visage was recognized around the world, but most people...
by Brian Turner
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
"Brilliant and beautiful. It surely ranks with the best war memoirs I’ve ever encountered." —Tim O’Brien, author of The Things They Carried
An award-winning poet and former infantry team leader in Iraq, Brian Turner combines his devastating recollections as “Sergeant Turner”...
Escape to Pagan
The True Story of One Family's Fight to Survive in World War II Occupied Asia
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
The true story of a soldier who survived Japanese capture, a sinking hell ship, and the bombing of Nagasaki, all while his family fought their own battle in the Burmese jungle.
While leading an attack on Hong Kong’s Golden Hill, Jack Devereux of the Royal Scots is shot through the head. Then...
by Brian Lane
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Lane was the author of Spitfire!, originally published in 1942 under the pseudonym B.J. Ellan. The book is a first hand account of his experiences as a front line Spitfire pilot and is one of only a few contemporaneous autobiographical accounts of the life of a Battle of Britain Spitfire pilot.