This book depicts the ups and downs, ins and outs of surviving and sustaining a solidplace in the radio broadcasting industry from a female minority perspective.
In Writing a Life - part drama, part sitcom - veteran Hollywood writer-producer Joel Rogosin guides us through a highly entertaining memoir, a touching love story, an engaging family history, and an intimate journal
This heartbreaking tale uncovers a mystery in the life of one of the most important personalities of the twentieth century, guitarist Andres Segovia (1893-1987).
Conducting an orchestra is something that is seen as well as heard, but it is quite misunderstood when it comes to knowing what this person actually does for a living.
For nearly a decade, ';Dear Guitar Hero' where everyday fans get a chance to ask their hero a question has remained one of Guitar World magazine's most popular departments.
In hard rock history, there is the time before Metallica and there is everything that has come since: metal, punk, industrial, grunge, alternative all of it absorbed, transformed, and reinvented by the band that, for decades, has ruled as both the Beatles and the Stones of heavy music.
Award-winning beloved actress and talented singer/songwriter Katey Sagal crafts an evocative and gripping memoir told in essaysperfect for fans of Patti Smith's M Train and Mary-Louise Parker's Dear Mr.
One of The Christian Science Monitor's Best Nonfiction Books of the Year ';An engrossing reada historically and psychologically rich account of the young Picasso and his coteries in Barcelona and Paris' (The Washington Post) and how he achieved his breakthrough and revolutionized modern art through his masterpiece, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.
A refreshingly candid and wickedly funny look at lifes second half from Everybody Loves Raymond TV sitcom star and three-time Emmy Awardwinning comic Brad Garrett.
David Hallberg, the first American to join the famed Bolshoi Ballet as a principal dancer and the dazzling artist The New Yorker described as ';the most exciting male dancer in the western world,' presents a look at his artistic lifeup to the moment he returns to the stage after a devastating injury that almost cost him his career.
The riveting story of the rivalry between the two most renowned actresses of the nineteenth century: legendary Sarah Bernhardt, whose eccentricity on and off the stage made her the original diva, and mystical Eleonora Duse, who broke all the rules to popularize the natural style of acting we celebrate today.
An expansive and insightful exploration of one of the most iconic and electrifying artists ever, this book reveals the stunning, multi-generational influence and appeal of Prince and his revered musicfrom celebrated journalist, author, and host of the popular podcast The Tour Show.
Adopted as a child from the Masonic Home for Children at Oxford, Tommy Malboeuf grew up in Troutman, North Carolina before enlisting in the Navy in the early 1950s.
Jan Berry, leader of the music duo Jan & Dean from the late 1950s to mid-1960s, was an intense character who experienced more in his first 25 years than many do in a lifetime.
From his birth in Owensboro, Kentucky, in 1947, to his 2020 album featuring the music of Lee Hammons, Wayne Howard has lived an exceptionally creative life.
Sarah Caldwell, the leader of the Opera Company of Boston from 1958-1990, was a groundbreaking and idiosyncratic woman who established her own career as a conductor and stage director in an environment resistant to change.
Composer, conductor and operatic polymath Daron Hagen has written five symphonies, a dozen concertos, 13 operas, reams of chamber music and more than 350 art songs.
Herb Hicks is an artist who understands the fear behind painting a self-portrait but who also appreciates that a candid recounting of events in life can provide an emotional catharsis.
Hughesworld is an authentic account written by a press spokesman for Howard Hughes that traces the highlights of his varied life in motion pictures and aviation but concentrates on the management struggle that followed his death in 1976.
El autor se ha dado a la tarea de satisfacer la curiosidad de los lectores que al leer su primer libro, echaron de menos la historia de su vida temprana en Colombia.
In Staying Happy, Healthy and Hot, author and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame radio personality Dick Summer introduces us to his brand new Louie Louie Generation.
Continuing the insights into the creative processes of contemporary composer David Cope, Tinman Too presents another 150 vignettes from the author's life begun in his previous book Tinman.
When author Steve Burton heard the plan for transforming a relatively untouched bird sanctuary in the Middle Eastern emirate of Abu Dhabi into a complex, global entertainment and premier yachting destination within thirty months, he thought the idea was impossible.
