Arts

Creative Photography Ideas using Adobe Photoshop: Mono effects and retro photography

de Tony Worobiec

Mono effects and retro photography is an excerpt from Creative Photography Ideas Using Photoshop which presents 75 comprehensive workshops that have been specifically designed for photographers; each offers...

Writing Screenplays That Sell, New Twentieth Anniversary Edition

de Michael Hauge

For more than twenty years, Writing Screenplays That Sell has been hailed as the most complete guide available on the art, craft, and business of writing for movies and television. Now fully revised and updated...

This Wheel's on Fire: Levon Helm and the Story of the Band

de Levon Helm & Stephen Davis

The Band, who backed Bob Dylan when he went electric in 1965 and then turned out a half-dozen albums of beautifully crafted, image-rich songs, is now regarded as one of the most influential rock groups of the...

Jelly's Blues: The Life, Music, and Redemption of Jelly Roll Morton

de Howard Reich & William M. Gaines

The acclaimed, definitive biography of the first jazz composer, based on newly discovered archival material

Piano - Guided Sight-Reading

de Leonhard Deutsch

Piano GUIDED Sight Reading- A New Approach to Piano Study by LEONHARD DEUTSCH. Table of Contents: Foreword xi The Story of the Sight-Reading Method 3 The Problems of Sight-Reading 13 What is the correct way...

Andrei Tarkovsky

de Sean Martin

Andrei Tarkovsky is the most celebrated Russian filmmaker since Eisenstein, and one of the most important directors to have emerged during the 1960s and 70s. Although he made only seven features, each one was...

The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star

de Nikki Sixx

In one of the most unique memoirs of addiction ever published, Mötley Crüe's Nikki Sixx shares mesmerizing diary entries from the year he spiraled out of control in a haze of heroin and cocaine, presented...

This Is Gonna Hurt

de Nikki Sixx

This Is Gonna Hurt: Music, Photography And Life Through The Distorted Lens Of Nikki Sixx is part photo, part journal—but all Nikki Sixx. It is a collection of compelling photography and stories that capture...

Diary of a Player: How My Musical Heroes Made a Guitar Man Out of Me

de Brad Paisley & David Wild

The Story of a Life with Strings Attached

Brad Paisley is one of country music’s leading men—admired as a recording artist, a performer, a songwriter, and a guitar slinger. This was not always so. In Diary...

Writing Better Lyrics

de Pat Pattison

The Must-Have Guide for Songwriters Writing Better Lyrics has been a staple for songwriters for nearly two decades. Now this revised and updated 2nd Edition provides effective tools for everything from generating...

The Psychology of Beauty

de Ethel D. Puffer

THE human being who thrills to the experience of beauty in nature and in art does not forever rest with that experience unquestioned. The day comes when he yearns to pierce the secret of his emotion, to discover...

Play Great Guitar: Brilliant ideas for getting more out of your six string

de Rikki Rooksby

Knowing how to play the guitar is just one of those things we'd all love to be able to do. Think back to your formative years - at parties it was always the kid with the guitar who got all the attention, and...

Nicki Minaj: An Unauthorized Biography

de Belmont and Belcourt and Be Biographies

With so many different sides of her personality coming out in each new track, it's hard to figure out just who Nicki Minaj really is. But like any other story, it sometimes helps to look back at the beginning...

Tattoos & Tequila: To Hell and Back with One of Rock's Most Notorious Frontmen

de Vince Neil

"So where do we start? I remember when we did The Dirt, the Mötley Crüe book, I was interviewed at The Grand Havana Room in Beverly Hills. A lot of people think I didn't get to say much in The Dirt. It's probably...

My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business: A Memoir

de Dick Van Dyke

Dick Van Dyke, indisputably one of the greats of the golden age of television, is admired and beloved by audiences the world over for his beaming smile, his physical dexterity, his impeccable comic timing, his...

Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking

de David Bayles & Ted Orland

An artist's survival guide, written by and for working artists.

Scar Tissue

de Anthony Kiedis

Scar Tissue is a story of dedication and debauchery, of intrigue and integrity, of recklessness and redemption -- a story that could only have come out of the world of rock.

Scar Tissue is Anthony Kiedis's searingly...

The Borgias (Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 1)

de Alexandre Dumas

There are many dreadful -- and perhaps scurrilous -- rumors about the Borgia family of renaissance Italy, and Alexandre Dumas (author of "The Three Musketeers" and many other period classics) reveals one possible...

Concerning the Spiritual in Art

de Wassily Kandinsky

Kandinsky sees the spiritual life of humanity as a pyramid. The artist must lead the layman to the top of this pyramid through the soulful exercise of art. Kandinsky differentiates between the superficial pleasure...

Sleepwalk with Me: and Other Painfully True Stories

de Mike Birbiglia

Hello, I am Mike Birbiglia and I want you to read my book. Too on the nose? Sorry. Let me dial it back.

 I’m Mike Birbiglia and I’m a comedian. You may know me from Comedy Central or This American Life...