Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages Publisher: Main Street Books On Sale: August 13, 1985 Price: $23.00 ISBN: 978-0-385-19033-6 (0-385-19033-6)
Foreword by Jess Oppenheimer. This classic book traces the history of the popular comedy series, offers plot summaries, cast listings, ratings, and original air dates for all 179 episodes, and shares behind-the-scenes information about the show. Also includes researched notes on how the program was created, written, and filmed plus an...
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Format: Hardcover, 352 pages Publisher: Knopf On Sale: November 25, 2008 Price: $25.00 ISBN: 978-0-375-71157-2 (0-375-71157-0)
The most comprehensive, accessible, and completely up-to-date guide available for today’s photographer: whether beginner or advanced, using a film camera or digital.
Award-winning photographer Tom Ang provides a thorough, explicitly detailed bottom-to-top understanding of modern photography, explaining all the techniques that will help anyone who uses a camera—in a professional capacity or...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages Publisher: Shambhala On Sale: March 2, 2004 Price: $22.95 ISBN: 978-1-59030-105-0 (1-59030-105-6)
Here, in the first book ever of its kind, is a collection of interesting and original ideas for drawing projects, contributed by art instructors from all over the United States (and a few from Canada, Great Britain, and Australia) who have invented creative alternatives to standard exercises.
The accompanying illustrations demonstrate ways...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 656 pages Publisher: Vintage On Sale: September 1, 1992 Price: $23.00 ISBN: 978-0-679-74135-0 (0-679-74135-6)
Auletta chronicles the revolution in American business and popular culture that was the story of network television in the 1980s: the big three networks lost a third of their audience and more than half of their annual profits, while takeovers and coups turned NBC and ABC into assets of two megacorporations...
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Format: Hardcover, 368 pages Publisher: Pantheon On Sale: January 4, 2005 Price: $28.95 ISBN: 978-0-375-42318-5 (0-375-42318-4)
From the highly-acclaimed French comics artist, a moving and powerful graphic memoir that describes growing up with an epileptic brother in France in the late 60s and 70s and the devastating effects of his illness on the entire family. David B. was born Pierre-Francois Beauchard in a small town outside of...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages Publisher: Titan Books On Sale: April 1, 2003 Price: $14.95 ISBN: 978-1-84023-430-5 (1-84023-430-X)
Spielberg, Truffaut & Me is a fascinating look into the making of Spielberg's sci-fi classic. A detailed account of Spielberg at work, this book also includes a revealing portrait of the late Truffaut, and captures the reality of creating a sci-fi blockbuster.
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Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages Publisher: Vintage On Sale: January 8, 1992 Price: $12.00 ISBN: 978-0-679-73656-1 (0-679-73656-5)
Berger reveals the ties between love and absence, the ways poetry endows language with the assurance of prayer, and the tensions between the forward movement of sexuality and the steady backward tug of time. He recreates the mysterious forces at work in a Rembrandt painting, transcribes the sensorial experience of viewing...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages Publisher: Vintage On Sale: March 7, 1995 Price: $21.00 ISBN: 978-0-679-73724-7 (0-679-73724-3)
As constructed by John Berger and Swiss photographer Jean Mohr, two of our most thoughtful and eloquent interrogators of the visual, offer a singular meditation on the ambiguities of what is seemingly our most straightforward art form. This theory includes images as well as words; not only analysis, but anecdote and...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages Publisher: Vintage On Sale: October 27, 1992 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-679-73714-8 (0-679-73714-6)
When he stands before Giorgione's La Tempesta, Berger sees not only the painting but our whole notion of time, sweeping us away from a lost Eden. With the luminous essays in Keeping a Rendezvous we are given to see the world as Berger sees it--to explore themes suggested by the work...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages Publisher: Vintage On Sale: November 30, 1993 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-679-73722-3 (0-679-73722-7)
With this provocative and infinitely moving collection of essays, a preeminent critic of our time responds to the profound questions posed by the visual world. When Berger writes about Cubism, he writes not only of Braque, Leger, Picasso, and Gris, but of that incredible moment early in this century when the...
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Format: Hardcover, 288 pages Publisher: Pantheon On Sale: May 11, 2004 Price: $21.00 ISBN: 978-0-375-42270-6 (0-375-42270-6)
For those of you who thought the comic strip was dead by the end of the twentieth century, here are 292 pieces of proof that you were wrong. Mark Beyer was breathing delirious, heartbreaking, otherworldly life into it by means of Amy and Jordan. Obviously, you weren’t reading New York Press. ...
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Format: Trade Paperback Publisher: Del Rey On Sale: May 10, 1999 Price: $19.95 ISBN: 978-0-345-43119-6 (0-345-43119-7)
An exclusive entrée to the behind-the-scenes world of the newest chapter in the Star Wars saga, brought to life by masters of movie-making magic. Lavishly illustrated throughout with hundreds of drawings and photographs. Features: A series of exclusive interviews with George Lucas as he discusses the genesis of the Star Wars...
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Format: Hardcover, 400 pages Publisher: Knopf On Sale: November 17, 2009 Price: $75.00 ISBN: 978-0-307-27187-7 (0-307-27187-0)
This one-of-a-kind book of 300 photographs of some of the most celebrated actors, artists, models, First Ladies, and social figures draws on stories that have appeared in the pages of Vogue over the past four decades, as well as photographs from those stories that have never been published. These trendsetters and...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 684 pages Publisher: Vintage On Sale: November 25, 1997 Price: $25.00 ISBN: 978-0-679-77630-7 (0-679-77630-3)
For Alexander the Great, fame meant accomplishing what no mortal had ever accomplished before. For Julius Caesar, personal glory was indistinguishable from that of Rome. The early Christians devalued public recognition, believing that the only true audience was God. Marilyn Monroe owed much of her fame to the fragility that led...
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Format: Hardcover, 244 pages Publisher: Knopf On Sale: October 22, 2002 Price: $50.00 ISBN: 978-0-375-41102-1 (0-375-41102-X)
In the heat of battle, in the devastated countryside, among troops and civilians equally hurt by the savagery of war, Larry Burrows photographed the conflict in Vietnam from 1962, the earliest days of American involvement, until 1971, when he died in a helicopter shot down on the Vietnam–Laos border. His images...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages Publisher: Modern Library On Sale: March 25, 2003 Price: $16.95 ISBN: 978-0-8129-6723-4 (0-8129-6723-2)
“[An] excellent and thorough new biography.” —Michael Kimmelman, The New York Times
Norman Rockwell’s hundreds of memorable covers for The Saturday Evening Post made him a twentieth-century American icon. However, because of the very popularity of his idealized depictions of middle-class life, his more serious paintings have been largely ignored, and he...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages Publisher: Broadway On Sale: October 9, 2001 Price: $19.00 ISBN: 978-0-7679-0555-8 (0-7679-0555-5)
The legendary singer and actress shares the personal story of her extraordinary life and career, detailing her rise to success in the entertainment world, her troubled marriage to Jose Ferrer, her battle with addiction and depression, and the new triumphs in her life.
"Warm, intimate…Clooney's writing conveys the same kind of honesty...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages Publisher: Villard On Sale: June 12, 2007 Price: $18.00 ISBN: 978-0-8129-7775-2 (0-8129-7775-0)
A Tribe Called Quest • Beastie Boys • De La Soul • Eric B. & Rakim • The Fugees • KRS-One • Pete Rock & CL Smooth • Public Enemy • The Roots • Run-DMC • Wu-Tang Clan • and twenty-five more hip-hop immortals
It’s a sad fact: hip-hop album liners have...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks On Sale: November 30, 2004 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-8129-6897-2 (0-8129-6897-2)
2005 BOOK SENSE BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD, ADULT NON-FICTION
Alessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous cloth merchant, brings a young painter back from northern Europe to decorate the chapel walls in the family’s Florentine palazzo. A child of the Renaissance, with a precocious mind and a...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks On Sale: February 6, 2007 Price: $13.95 ISBN: 978-0-8129-7404-1 (0-8129-7404-2)
My lady, Fiammetta Bianchini, was plucking her eyebrows and biting color into her lips when the unthinkable happened and the Holy Roman Emperor’s army blew a hole in the wall of God’s eternal city, letting in a flood of half-starved, half-crazed troops bent on pillage and punishment.
Format: Hardcover, 432 pages Publisher: Random House On Sale: July 14, 2009 Price: $25.00 ISBN: 978-1-4000-6382-6 (1-4000-6382-5)
The year is 1570, and in the convent of Santa Caterina, in the Italian city of Ferrara, noblewomen find space to pursue their lives under God’s protection. But any community, however smoothly run, suffers tremors when it takes in someone by force. And the arrival of Santa Caterina’s new novice sets...Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages Publisher: Del Rey On Sale: October 29, 2002 Price: $39.95 ISBN: 978-0-345-43128-8 (0-345-43128-6)
Anecdote-filled and sporting an edgy, modern design, this is the only total-access look behind the scenes at "Star Wars: Attack of the Clones", by one of the most talented and authoritative authors in the field.
Features: Cutting edge design and hundreds of photos from the set and from the movie itself; Interviews...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages Publisher: Del Rey On Sale: October 29, 2002 Price: $19.95 ISBN: 978-0-345-45624-3 (0-345-45624-6)
Anecdote-filled and sporting an edgy, modern design, this is the only total-access look behind the scenes at "Star Wars: Attack of the Clones", by one of the most talented and authoritative authors in the field.
Features: Cutting edge design and hundreds of photos from the set and from the movie itself; Interviews...
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Format: Hardcover, 400 pages Publisher: Random House On Sale: January 9, 2007 Price: $27.95 ISBN: 978-0-375-50907-0 (0-375-50907-0)
SOMETHING IN THE AIR is a sweeping, anecdotal account of the great sounds and voices of radio--and how it became a bonding agent for a generation of American youth.
When television became the next big thing in broadcast entertainment, everyone figured video would kill the radio star--and radio, period. But radio came...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages Publisher: Vintage On Sale: September 12, 1973 Price: $22.95 ISBN: 978-0-394-71968-9 (0-394-71968-9)
Seeing/Drawing is a way of contemplation by which all things are made new, by which the world is freshly experienced at each moment. It is the opposite of looking at things from the outside, or taking them for granted. "What I have not drawn, I have never really seen," says Frederick...
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