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Author
Publisher
Flammarion
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
English-language ed.
Physical Desc
247 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Traces the history of Japanese art from the seventh century through the present, offering insight into its long-time role in Japanese culture and the social factors that are shaping its development in the modern world.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"In addition to being among the most celebrated of contemporary filmmakers, Quentin Tarantino is possibly the most joyously infectious movie lover alive. For years he has touted in interviews his eventual turn to writing books about films. Now, with Cinema Speculation, the time has come, and the results are everything his passionate fans--and all movie lovers--could have hoped for. Organized around key American films from the 1970s, all of which he...
Author
Language
English
Description
In this special seasonal edition, bestselling author Robert J. Morgan shares the incredible stories behind traditional holiday hymns of faith, including Christmas, Easter, and more.
Is there a festive season of the year that is complete without one of your favorite hymns? Not only do hymns connect you to great memories, but they also reveal the faith of those who lived throughout history.
As Robert Morgan explored the stories behind some of the best-loved...
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 312 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"An outstanding new collection, A Hitch in time is a must have for Hitchens completists and the perfect starting point for understanding one of the most brilliant essayists of all time. Anthologized here for the first time, A HITCH IN TIME is a choice selection of Christopher Hitchens's finest reviews, diary entries and essays - along with a smattering of ferocious letters. Familiar bêtes noires--Kennedy, Nixon, Kissinger, Clinton--rub shoulders...
6) Limericks
Author
Series
Publisher
Creative Education
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
Despite its sparse population, Kansas is well represented in the annals of music history. The state claims some of the most popular acts from the past century, including Kansas, Count Basie, Big Joe Turner, Martina McBride, Melissa Etheridge and Charlie Parker. A wide variety of genres plays and prospers here, from blues to bluegrass. Beloved venues from mega-festivals like Walnut Valley to jam sessions just off the front porch preserve the state's...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[1974]
Physical Desc
255 pages : illustrations (part color) ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents the texts of twenty-four well-known fairy tales as they were first printed in English and summarizes the history of each title, especially from the textual point of view.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
xxii, 599 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
An addictively readable, encyclopedic history of pop music that includes individual chapters to groups and individuals -- the Monkees, the Beach Boys, the Bee Gees, Michael Jackson, Prince, Madonna -- that changed the shape of pop music.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A biography of the late Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and screenwriter Larry McMurtry from New York Times bestselling author Tracy Daugherty. In over forty books, in a career that spanned over sixty years, Larry McMurtry staked his claim as a superior chronicler of the American West, and as the Great Plains' keenest witness since Willa Cather and Wallace Stegner. Larry McMurtry: A Life traces his origins as one of the last American writers...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Marc Masters explores the surprising ups and downs of the cassette tape's journey through international music culture, showing us the cultural impact of cassettes on music listening, music portability, and music making itself. Winding through early hip-hop tape trading, the deeply personal act of making a mixtape, and even contemporary composers who use cassettes to create musique concrète compositions, this book chronicles the resilient do-it-yourself...
17) Merlin
Author
Publisher
F. Watts
Pub. Date
1987.
Physical Desc
386 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
18) Music is history
Author
Language
English
Description
Music Is History combines Questlove's deep musical expertise with his curiosity about history, examining America over the past fifty years.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xx, 476 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The entire history of popular music over the past fifty years refracted through the big genres that have defined and dominated it-including rock, country, punk, R&B, dance and hip-hop-woven together into a cosmic reckoning with music's evolution as a popular art form, as a huge cultural and economic force, and as an essential component to our identities, from Black Sabbath to Black Flag to Beyoncé, and beyond"--
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