Philip: 4665 books

Book cover of John Lennon: The Life
by Philip Norman
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009

For more than a quarter century, biographer Philip Norman's internationally bestselling Shout! has been unchallenged as the definitive biography of the Beatles. Now, at last, Norman turns his formidable talent to the Beatle for whom being a Beatle was never enough. Drawing on previously untapped sources,...
Book cover of The One from the Other

The One from the Other

A Bernie Gunther Novel

by Philip Kerr
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2009

In the fourth mystery in Philip Kerr's New York Times bestselling series, Bernie Gunther—a former policeman and reluctant SS offier—attempts to start over in the aftermath of World War 2 and quickly learns that the past is never far behind you... Berlin, 1949. Amid the chaos of defeat,...
Book cover of Doreen Valiente Witch
by Philip Heselton
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016

A personal biographical account of the life of Doreen Valiente, described by Professor Ronald Hutton as "the greatest single female figure in the modern British history of witchcraft". Author Philip Heselton draws on first hand testimony and Doreen's own personal papers to reveal previously...
Book cover of Sir Elton
by Philip Norman
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2019

'He's got me spot on' Elton John ‘Anyone who can read will admire the intelligence, the detail and the robust good sense of this biography. It captures the flavour of the times every bit as distinctively as it captures the personality of Elton John’ Sunday Telegraph Elton John is...
Book cover of The Lady from Zagreb
by Philip Kerr
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015

In this Edgar® Award-nominated novel in Philip Kerr’s New York Times bestselling series, former detective and unwilling SS officer Bernie Gunther is on the hunt for a beautiful femme fatale...   Berlin, 1942. Three players take the stage. The first, a gorgeous actress—the rising star of a giant...
Book cover of The Man in the High Castle
by Philip K. Dick
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012

“The single most resonant and carefully imagined book of Dick’s career.” —New York Times It’s America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco, the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some twenty...
Book cover of Zen Guitar
by Philip Toshio Sudo
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013

Unleash the song of your soul with Zen Guitar, a contemplative handbook that draws on ancient Eastern wisdom and applies it to music and performance. Each of us carries a song inside us, the song that makes us human. Zen Guitar provides the key to unlocking this song—a series of life lessons...
Book cover of Patti Smith's Horses
by Dr. Philip Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2008

Described as the perfect fusion of poetry and garage band rock and roll (the original concept was "rock and Rimbaud"), Horses belongs as much to the world of literary and cultural criticism as it does to the realm of musicology. While Horses pays homage to the record's origins in the nascent...
Book cover of Music and Displacement

Music and Displacement

Diasporas, Mobilities, and Dislocations in Europe and Beyond

by Michael Beckerman, Sean Campbell, Ruth F. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010

The grand narratives of European music history are informed by the dichotomy of placements and displacements. Yet musicology has thus far largely ignored the phenomenon of displacement and underestimated its significance for musical landscapes and music history. Music and Displacement: Diasporas,...
Book cover of Mick Jagger
by Philip Norman
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 8, 2014

Mick Jagger, en sus cinco décadas al frente de los Rolling Stones, ha sido visto como la más arrogante y narcisista de las súper estrellas, con un apetito sexual y un comportamiento con las mujeres que rivalizaba con el del legendario Casanova, y cuyo imprudente –y presunto– consumo de drogas...
Book cover of The New Anti-Catholicism

The New Anti-Catholicism

The Last Acceptable Prejudice

by Philip Jenkins
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2003

Anti-Catholicism has a long history in America. And as Philip Jenkins argues in The New Anti-Catholicism, this virulent strain of hatred--once thought dead--is alive and well in our nation, but few people seem to notice, or care. A statement that is seen as racist, misogynistic, anti-Semitic, or homophobic...
Book cover of The American Song Book

The American Song Book

The Tin Pan Alley Era

by Philip Furia, Laurie J. Patterson
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2015

The American Song Book, Volume I: The Tin Pan Alley Era is the first in a projected five-volume series of books that will reprint original sheet music, including covers, of songs that constitute the enduring standards of Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, the Gershwins, and other lyricists and composers...
Book cover of Mississippi John Hurt

Mississippi John Hurt

His Life, His Times, His Blues

by Philip R. Ratcliffe
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011

When Mississippi John Hurt (1892-1966) was "rediscovered" by blues revivalists in 1963, his musicianship and recordings transformed popular notions of prewar country blues. At seventy-one he moved to Washington, D.C., from Avalon, Mississippi, and became a live-wire connection to a powerful,...
Book cover of The Music Instinct:How Music Works and Why We Can't Do Without It

The Music Instinct:How Music Works and Why We Can't Do Without It

How Music Works and Why We Can't Do Without It

by Philip Ball
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010

From Bach fugues to Indonesian gamelan, from nursery rhymes to rock, music has cast its light into every corner of human culture. But why music excites such deep passions, and how we make sense of musical sound at all, are questions that have until recently remained unanswered. Now in The Music Instinct,...
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