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Da Capo Best Music Writing 2006

The Year's Finest Writing on Rock, Hip-Hop, Jazz, Pop, Country, & More

by Mary Gaitskill, Daphne Carr
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2009

Whether you count yourself a member of the hip-hop nation, bang your head yearly at Ozzfest, wear a cowboy hat, or dance to the top twenty, you're sure to find something to love in Da Capo Best Music Writing 2006. Gathering a rich array of writing by music journalists, novelists, and scribes from...

Da Capo Best Music Writing 2005

The Year's Finest Writing on Rock, Hip-Hop, Jazz, Pop, Country, & More

by JT LeRoy
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2009

Da Capo Best Music Writing has become one of the most eagerly awaited annuals of them all. Celebrating the year in music writing by gathering a rich array of essays, missives, and musings on every style of music from rock to hip-hop to R&B to jazz to pop to blues and more, it is essential reading...

The Patton Papers

1940-1945

by Martin Blumenson
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009

One of World War II's most brilliant and controversial generals, George S. Patton (1885-1945) fought in North Africa and Sicily, as commander of the Third Army, spearheaded the Allies' spectacular 1944-1945 sweep through France, Belgium, and Germany. Martin Blumenson is the only historian to enjoy...
by Mike Doughty
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017

Essays and stories about life on the road (and more) from Mike Doughty, author of The Book of Drugs and former lead singer/chief songwriter of legendary '90s band Soul Coughing

Leonardo's Legacy

How Da Vinci Reimagined the World

by Stefan Klein
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010

Revered today as, perhaps, the greatest of Renaissance painters, Leonardo da Vinci was a scientist at heart. The artist who created the Mona Lisa also designed functioning robots and digital computers, constructed flying machines and built the first heart valve. His intuitive and ingenious approach-a...

Mona Lisa in Camelot

How Jacqueline Kennedy and Da Vinci's Masterpiece Charmed and Captivated a Nation

by Margaret Leslie Davis
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2008

In December 1962 Da Vinci's Mona Lisa set sail from Paris to New York for what was arguably the riskiest art exhibition ever mounted. The fragile icon traveled like a head of state, with armed guards and military surveillance, in a temperature-controlled vault. Masterminding the entire show was First...

Lost Over Laos

A True Story Of Tragedy, Mystery, And Friendship

by Richard Pyle, Horst Faas
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2008

In 1971, as American forces hastened their withdrawal from Vietnam, a helicopter was hit by enemy fire over Laos and exploded in a fireball, killing four top combat photographers: Larry Burrows of Life magazine, Henri Huet of Associated Press, Kent Potter of United Press International, and Keisaburo...

27

27

A History of the 27 Club through the Lives of Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, and Amy Winehouse

by Howard Sounes
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013

When singer Amy Winehouse was found dead at her London home in 2011, the press inducted her into what Kurt Cobain's mother named the 27 Club. “Now he's gone and joined that stupid club,” she said in 1994, after being told that her son, the front man of Nirvana, had committed suicide. “I told him...

Fug You

An Informal History of the Peace Eye Bookstore, the Fuck You Press, the Fugs, and Counterculture in the Lower East Side

by Ed Sanders
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011

Fug You is Ed Sanders's unapologetic and often hilarious account of eight key years of "total assault on the culture," to quote his novelist friend William S. Burroughs. Fug You traces the flowering years of New York's downtown bohemia in the sixties, starting with the marketing problems...

Cured

The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys

by Lol Tolhurst
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016

A deeply moving and engaging memoir by Laurence "Lol" Tolhurst, cofounder of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees The Cure As two of the first punks in a provincial English town, Lol Tolhurst and Robert Smith didn't have it easy. Outsiders from the start, theirs was a friendship based...

Jimmy Page

The Definitive Biography

by Chris Salewicz
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019

An in-depth biography of Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page by the acclaimed biographer of Bob Marley and Joe Strummer, based upon the author's extensive research and interviews The original enigmatic rock star, Jimmy Page is a mass of contradictions. A towering presence in the guitar world...

Now It Can Be Told

The Story Of The Manhattan Project

by General Leslie R. Groves
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009

General Leslie Groves and J. Robert Oppenheimer were the two men chiefly responsible for the building of the first atomic bomb at Los Alamos, code name "The Manhattan Project." As the ranking military officer in charge of marshalling men and material for what was to be the most ambitious,...

Taliban

The Unknown Enemy

by James Fergusson
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011

From a small group of religious students formed in 1994, the Taliban quickly grew into a national movement that occupied all of Afghanistan. Led by the mysterious Mullah Omar, the group established a theocracy based on strict observance of Sharia law. When the Americans overthrew the Taliban in 2001,...

Game Face

A Lifetime of Hard-Earned Lessons On and Off the Basketball Court

by Bernard King
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017

A memoir by the NBA Hall of Fame player, active from 1977-1993 and widely regarded as one of the all-time great New York Knicks. NBA Hall of Famer Bernard King is one of the most dynamic scorers in basketball history. King was notoriously private as a player, and rarely spoke to the press-not...
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