In her powerful and inspiring memoir, Cookie Johnson, wife of NBA legend Earvin ';Magic' Johnson, shares details of her marriage, motherhood, faith, and how an HIV diagnosis twenty-five years ago changed the course of their lives forever.
Switzerland has developed a distinctive yet evident culture over these years, this has been influenced by the neighboring countries and the international sentiment prevailing in Switzerland.
An incisive new look at the pivotal modernist composerAlban Berg and His World is a collection of essays and source material that repositions Berg as the pivotal figure of Viennese musical modernism.
This is a topical resource that provides a comprehensive look at the most influential women in Hollywood cinema across a wide-range of occupations rarely found together in a single volume.
[A] page-turning story Times Literary Supplement Eye-opening Michael Billington A detailed and highly compelling story that involves so much more than bricks and mortar.
The New York Times-bestselling author of Salt examines the intersections between his life and Ernest Hemingway's in this mix of travel memoir and history.
Werner Herzog is the undisputed master of extreme cinema: building an opera house in the middle of the jungle; walking from Munich to Paris in the dead of winter; descending into an active volcano; living in the wilderness among grizzly bears - he has always been intrigued by the extremes of human experience.
This new and updated edition of U2 A Diary brings U2s story up to date with information about the band's ground-breaking film, U2 3D, recording sessions for No Line on the Horizon and the story of how the album was leaked online twice before its official release, the U2 360 world tour and Bono's back injury that forced an entire leg to be postponed and the band's struggles to decide how to follow No Line on the Horizon and the 360 Tour with new material.
THE INSPIRATIONAL MEMOIR FROM HARRY POTTER STUNTMAN DAVID HOLMES, WITH A FOREWORD BY DANIEL RADCLIFFE: PERFECT FOR HARRY POTTER FANS As stunt double to Daniel Radcliffe in the Harry Potter film franchise, stuntman David Holmes helped to move J.
When 20th Century Fox planned its blockbuster portrayal of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, it looked to Akira Kurosawa - a man whose mastery of the cinema led to his nickname "e;the Emperor"e; - to direct the Japanese sequences.
Luigi Russolo (1885-1947)-painter, composer, builder of musical instruments, and first-hour member of the Italian Futurist movement-was a crucial figure in the evolution of twentieth-century aesthetics.
Though his father had faced bankruptcy, James Clarke Hook (1819-1907) nevertheless managed to paint himself into country-gentlemanhood, becoming famous for his landscapes of British coastal scenes and his ability to evoke not just the sights but also the sounds and even the smell of the sea.
In 1923, when the pioneer of feminist activism, Huda Shaarawi, removed her veil in Cairo's train station, she created what became a landmark (and much-copied) gesture for feminists throughout Egypt and the Middle East and cemented her status as one of the most important feminists in twentieth-century Egypt.
Reveals how Jessie broke away from her background - a tough area of Essex where stabbings and violent crime were rife - to become the antithesis of the typical Essex girl.
Ringo: With a Little Help is the first in-depth biography of Beatles drummer Ringo Starr, who kept the beat for an entire generation and who remains a rock icon over fifty years since the Beatles took the world by storm.
Brian Blessed has a lifelong love of animals and over the years has rescued cats and dogs, horses and ponies, and even a very ungrateful fighting cock.
The tempestuous, scandalous love affair of the 20th century's Romeo and Juliet was second in fame and notoriety only to that of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and by many accounts, even more corrupt.
The Wild American is the story of Kristofferson's triumphant pursuit of a career that took an even more unlikely turn when he broke into movies and became famous all over again.
For more than seven decades Nick Lucas was an entertainer, beginning as a child street musician and becoming one of the most popular singer-guitarists of all time.
This in-depth series of literary portraits studies celebrities who died in famous and tragic ways-ways that still resonate as archetypal death scenarios in present day.
