Biography: arts and entertainment

Spanning the entire history of the Doors, this book will long remain the definitive biography of a band that forever changed popular music.

Are all governments--east and west, Muslim and secular, authoritarian and constitutional, Republican and Democratic--fundamentally the same, all of them under the extraordinary, growing power of "e;technique"e; and bureaucracy?

Steve Adelman's humorous and engaging memoir reflects on his years as the director of some of the world's most popular nightclubs, including the Roxy, Limelight, Tunnel, and Palladium in the heyday of clubs in New York City during the 1980s and 1990s, followed by Avalon (Boston, Hollywood, and Singapore locations), and the New Daisy Theatre in Memphis.

In this digital age, it is more exciting than ever to seek a career in the entertainment industry-from stuntmen and musicians to actresses, dancers, and even make-up artists.

Jack Crawford (1847-1917) entertained a generation of Americans and introduced them to their frontier heritage.

Throughout his life, clothes have provided an outlet through which journalist Teo van den Broeke understands both himself and the world around him.

Before his death in 2016, Abbas Kiarostami wrote or directed more than thirty films in a career that mirrored Iranian cinema's rise as an international force.

They made fans go crazy and censors apoplectic, spent fortunes faster than they made them, forged Rembrandts and hung them in major museums, went on trial for committing statutory rape with necrophiliac teenage girls, reinterpreted Hamlet as an incestuous mamas boy,and swilled immeasurable quantities of spirits during week-long parties on wobbly yachts.

The Sunday Times bestsellerGrowing up in Liverpool in the 1960s and '70s, when skinheads, football violence and fear of just about everything was the natural order of things, a young Will Sergeant found the emerging punk scene provided a shimmer of hope amongst a crumbling city still reeling from the destruction of the Second World War.

As the lead guitarist of Queen, Brian May is one of rock's most recognisable stars.

For every woman searching for her voice, Anna Kloots shares her story of starting over by trusting the magic that was always within.

In late 20th-century India, Christian-Hindu dialogue was forever transformed following the opening of Shantivanam, the first Christian ashram in the country.

For the first time EVER, global superstars One Direction are releasing their 100% official autobiography, offering a new, intimate insight into their lives as never before seen or heard!

Now in Paperback!

The first full-length biography of the actor known for his roles in The Invisible Man, Casablanca, and other classics, based on newly released interviews.

Did he ever play Hamlet?

Born without social instincts many people take for granted, brought up in a troubled environment and possessed with an extraordinary musical talent, Mike Oldfield was thrust into the spotlight at the tender age of nineteen.

The search for a republican morality provides an exciting new study of an important event in the French Revolution and a defining moment in the career of its principal actor, Maximilien Robespierre, the Festival of the Supreme Being.

Politics, while always an integral part of the daily life in the South, took on a new level of importance after the Civil War.

Raised in poverty on an Iowa farm, the Cherry Sisters had little education and no training.

Engaging with current philosophers and thinkers, this book questions the roots to our human condition.

In this groundbreaking, historically-informed semiotic study of late eighteenth-century music, Stephen Rumph focuses on Mozart to explore musical meaning within the context of Enlightenment sign and language theory.

Artist Kate Freeman Clark (1875-1957) left behind over one thousand paintings now stored at a gallery bearing her name in her hometown of Holly Springs, Mississippi.

Master composer Ennio Morricone's scores go hand-in-hand with the idea of the Western film.

In der Zeit, in welcher der Punkrock den Zeitgeist beherrschte, waren Crass an der Spitze der Bewegung und definierten neue Mastabe.

How wonderful that one of those exciting and innovative women artists of the 60s should be recovered and celebrated in this way.

Here is the extreme story of the indestructible LA group from their early funk days to eventual success as one of America's top-selling bands.

The new edition of this popular book is reorganized to present pairs of contrasting views on what it means to be a man in contemporary Western culture.

From famed celebrity biographer Darwin Porter, this is the most honest and journalistically important biography of Michael Jackson ever published, with a roster of literary reviews that outnumber and outclass any other MJ bio on the market.

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What role should religion play in shaping and implementing U.

Franz Liszt is most well-known for his compositions for piano and orchestra, but his influence is also strong in chamber music, choral music, and orchestral transcriptions.

Folk singer and folk music collector, writer, painter, journalist, art critic, whalerman, sheep station roustabout, Marxist, and much more - this is the story of A.

What is Elijah to do?

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Engaging with current philosophers and thinkers, this book questions the roots to our human condition.

Long before the silver screen showed the face of Mary Pickford to millions of Americans, Annie Oakley, born as Phoebe Anne Oakley Moses on August 13, 1860, had won the right to the title of ';America's Sweetheart.

When Living and Sustaining a Creative Life was published in 2013, it became an immediate sensation.

Rising up aus der Asche von Kyuss, Queens Of The Stone Age sind eine elektrisierende musikalische Kraft, die eine ganz neue Musik-Bewegung inspiriert haben.

Cath Kidston - queen of vintage-inspired homeware and joyously decorated spaces - grants unprecedented insight into her creative process and personal style in this lifestyle-meets-memoir-meets-interior-design book.

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Kokoschka und Österreich: Das ist eine Geschichte von Kränkung und Bewunderung, von Heimat- und Hassliebe, politischer Vereinnahmung und Opportunismus, ein Parcours durch die Kunst und die politische Geschichte des 20.

Kevin Pollak rose through the comedy club ranks at the feet of Don Rickles and Bill Cosby, Johnny Carson and George Carlin.

The dramatic and tormented life of Jerry Lee Lewis is the most fabled in rock 'n' roll history.

*Shortlisted for the Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize*A Times and Sunday Times Book of the YearA Wall Street Journal Book of the YearA Spectator Book of the YearA Times Literary Supplement Book of the YearA New Yorker Book of the Year?

Between the late 1970s and the early 1980s, Nayra Atiya gathered the oral histories of five Egyptian men: a fisherman, an attorney, a scholar, a business- man, and a production manager.

The British television director Alan Clarke is primarily associated with the visceral social realism of such works as his banned borstal play Scum, and his study of football hooliganism, The Firm.

Edward Braun's acclaimed work on Meyerhold available for the first time in paperback

Vsevolod Meyerhold began his career in theatre as an actor with the Moscow Art Theatre, and after a spell in the remote provinces, he returned to Moscow at Stanislavski's invitation and founded a new, experimental studio for the Art Theatre.