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The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, Volume 3 - Letters to John Middleton Murry 1912-1918

[headline]Volume 3 of the new authoritative edition of Katherine Mansfield's complete correspondence Unlike the first two volumes of this...

The Crown in Vogue. Deluxe Edition

Herman Miller - A Way of Living

' There have been many books about Herman Miller, its ethos, designers, and furniture, but none as comprehensive as this .' - Interior De...

Our Blessed Rebel Queen - Essays on Carrie Fisher and Princess Leia

Our Blessed Rebel Queen: Essays on Carrie Fisher and Princess Leia is the first full-length exploration of Carrie Fisher's career as actr...

The Fall of Buster Keaton - His Films for MGM, Educational Pictures, and Columbia

Born into a family of vaudevillians, Buster Keaton made his first film appearance in 1917 at the age of 21. By the early 1920s, he had es...

The Experimentalists - The Life and Times of the British Experimental Writers of the 1960s

The Experimentalists is a collective biography, capturing the life and times of the British experimental writers of the swinging 1960s. A...

Private Practices - Harry Stack Sullivan, the Science of Homosexuality, and American Liberalism

Private Practices examines the relationship between science, sexuality, gender, race, and culture in the making of modern America between...

Einstein: The Man and his Mind

Albert Einstein is known by name and image throughout the world to people of all ages. He is probably the most well-known scientist of al...

Jacques-Louis David, Revolutionary Artist - Art, Politics, and the French Revolution

The lifetime of Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825) coincides with the most tumultuous period in the history of France and much of the Wester...

In the Secret Service of James Bond - Tales of Stars and Stunts from 50 Years in the Movie Business

He rode a sled with Pierce Brosnan, went golfing with Sean Connery, drank red wine with Friedrich Dürrenmatt, went hiking with Jon Voight...

The Lady Anatomist - The Life and Work of Ana Morandi Manzolini

Anna Morandi Manzolini (1714-74), a woman artist and scientist, surmounted meager origins and limited formal education to become one of t...

Shane MacGowan - Threescore

For forty years journalists predicted Shane wouldn't live to see the end of the year. At the end of 2018 he's done it again. This is by w...

The Letters of Seamus Heaney

The letters provide us with an intimate, multi-layered understanding of this extraordinarypoet's life and mind.

MUMMENSCHANZ - The virtuosos of silence and their successful journey through the world of fantasy

50 years of Mummenschanz - this is the success story of a unique theater company, the likes of which the world has never seen before. Mum...

Surrealism Women - Art's 20-20 Rebels with a Cause (Part 1: MPK)

Readers may wonder what is my interest in Surrealism and its rebellious 20-20 (20 more famous and 20 less popular) women artists? Well, I...

House Of Psychotic Women - Expanded Edition

In 2012, a book debuted that would go on to canonical status and usher in a new way of writing about film. Kier-La Janisse's HOUSE OF PSY...

Maurice Blanchot - A Critical Biography

Maurice Blanchot : a Critical Biography attempts a critical and theoretical biography by drawing on unpublished documents and interviews ...

Kanye West - A Biography

A revealing biography of Kanye West explores the artist-and the man. Kanye West is a star. His music has jumped from sensation to staple ...

Paris Hilton - A Biography

This revealing portrait of the real Paris Hilton gets underneath the hype and hate, the glamour and greed. Unlike other biographies that ...

The Lemberg Mosaic

The Memoirs of Two who Survived the Destruction of Jewish Galicia.

HR Giger - Die frühen Jahre - The Early Years - Les jeunes annés

HR Giger (1940-2014) is one of the outstanding figures in Swiss art and design history, celebrated around the world for his design of the...

Selected Tables, Charts And Formulas for the Student Cinematographer 4TH Ed

From its basic chapter on cinematographic principles to the actual tables, charts and formulas used by professional cinematographers, thi...

Renegades: Born in the USA

Two long-time friends share an intimate and urgent conversation about life, music and their enduring love of America, with all its challe...

The Works of Lord Byron - Including the Suppressed Poems. Complete in One Volume

The Big Reveal - An Illustrated Manifesto of Drag

?Drag embodies the queer possibility that exists within each of us?the infinite ways in which gender, good taste, and art can be lived.? ...

The Life of Augustus, Viscount Keppel, Admiral of the White, and First Lord of the Admiralty in 1782-3; Volume 1

The Court and Reign of Francis the First, King of France; Volume 2

My Name Is Barbra

No entertainer's memoir has been more anticipated than Barbra Streisand's, and this engrossing and delightful book will be eagerly welcom...

My Name is Barbra

Barbra Streisand is by any account a living legend, a woman who in a career spanning six decades has excelled in every area of entertainm...

Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales; Volume 2

Nicolai Gedda - My Life and Art

This autobiography is the first full-length book in English on Nicolai Gedda, born in Sweden in 1925 but deeply influenced by his Russian...

Twisted Tales - My Life as a Mongolian Contortionist

At age seven, Otgo first fell in love with the beautiful art form that is contortion; and since then, she has never changed her mind. Thr...

Twain, M: INNOCENTS ABROAD

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Ivan the Terrible

The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien - Revised and Expanded Edition

The comprehensive collection of letters spanning the adult life of one of the world's greatest storytellers, now revised and expanded to ...

The Art of Neil Gaiman - A Visual Biography

Novelist, comics writer, scriptwriter, poet, and occasional artist, there are few creative avenues Neil Gaiman hasn't ventured down?from ...

Life of Thurlow Weed Including His Autobiography and a Memoir

Life of Thurlow Weed Including His Autobiography and a Memoir is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1883. Hans...

The Letters of Marsilio Ficino: Volume 5: Volume 5

The problems which troubled people's minds during the Italian Renaissance were much the same as today. In trying to cope with them, many ...

Gottfried Salzmann - mit über 160 Abbildungen seiner Aquarelle, Kohlezeichnungen und Collagen - Just Believe in Art

»Das ist mein Leben. Das ist meine Kunst.« Gottfried Salzmann Gottfried Salzmann, geboren 1943 in Saalfelden, lebt und arbeitet seit 1965...

The Lalita Vistara - or Memoirs of the Early Life of Sakya Sinha

The Lalita Vistara - or Memoirs of the Early Life of Sakya Sinha is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1877. H...

Karl August Varnhagen und Charlotte Williams Wynn - Eine deutsch-englische Briefliebe um 1850

Anhand kürzlich entdeckter Manuskripte wird die langjährige Brief-Beziehung des Rahel-Witwers zu einer lesehungrigen jüngeren Engländerin...

Save Yourself. Part I of Trilogy Creation of the Universe

Whatever we might be doing and wherever we might be going, we were moving toward one goal - to one's inner self, to remembering oneself. ...

Hollywood's Annamania - Heart of My Dreams Anna Nicole Smith

Artist/Entertainer Mark "Hollywood" Hatten was secretly married to Ms. Anna Nicole Smith in numerous private wedding ceremonies, complete...

Florine Stettheimer - A Biography

Florine Stettheimer (1871-1944), der hier erstmals eine umfassende Biografie gewidmet ist, zählt zu den wichtigsten und progressivsten Kü...

Ilse Koch on Trial - Making the "Bitch of Buchenwald"

After WWII, Ilse Koch became known worldwide as the "Bitch of Buchenwald.? She was assuredly guilty of atrocities, but the most sensation...

George Eliot - Whole Soul

This account of George Eliot's spiritual life reveals a writer who devoted the full span of her career to imagining a wide religious sens...

Letters of Note - Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience

An updated edition of this compulsive collection of the world's most entertaining, inspiring and powerful letters, curated by the founder...

The Complete Works Of Edgar Allan Poe - Tales

The Prisoner - A Memoir

A sweeping account of modern Korean history told through one writer's imprisonment—in time, in language, and in a divided country—from Ko...

Giacometti in Paris - A Life

'Marvellous . . . intimate and insightful . . . reads like a novel by Samuel Beckett' Paul Theroux A portrait of one of the twentieth cen...

Elvis Presley

Elvis Presley was born on January 8th, 1935, in a shack in Tupelo, Mississippi. Though he was born a twin, his brother - who had been nam...

The Hong Kong Diaries

"In June 1992 Chris Patten went to Hong Kong as the last British governor, to try to prepare it not (as other British colonies over the d...

Virginia Bruce

Delve into her turbulent life and career. In James Robert Parish's Foreword, he notes Virginia's quiet charisma, the haunted, distracted ...

Life of Andrew Jackson - Volume 2

Life of Andrew Jackson - Volume 2 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1870. Hansebooks is editor of the lite...

The Global Merchants - The Enterprise and Extravagance of the Sassoon Dynasty

The astonishing story of the Sassoons, one of the nineteenth century's preeminent commercial families and 'the Rothschilds of the East' T...

Pride and Prejudice - The Complete Novel, with Nineteen Letters from the Characters' Correspondence, Written and Folded by Hand

Nothing captures Jane Austen's vivid emotion and keen wit better than her characters' correspondence. This deluxe edition pays homage to ...

Tata Dada: The Real Life and Celestial Adventures of Tristan Tzara - The Real Life and Celestial Adventures of Tristan Tzara

The first biography in English of Tristan Tzara, a founder of Dada and one of the most important figures in the European avant-garde. Tri...

Philip Roth - The Biography

'Superlative... definitive and genuinely gripping' SUNDAY TIMES'Utterly engrossing' EVENING STANDARD'Compulsively readable... Beautifully...

Virginia Cousins - A Study of the Ancestry and Posterity of John Goode of Whitby

Virginia Cousins - A Study of the Ancestry and Posterity of John Goode of Whitby is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original ed...