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Audition
A Memoir
Written by Barbara Walters
Format: Hardcover, 624 pages
On Sale: May 6, 2008
Price: $29.95
Young people starting out in television sometimes say to me: “I want to be you.” My stock reply is always: “Then you have to take the whole package.”
And now, at last, the most important woman in the history of television journalism gives us that “whole package,” in her inspiring and riveting... Read more >
A Memoir
Written by Barbara Walters
Format: Hardcover, 624 pages
On Sale: May 6, 2008
Price: $29.95
Young people starting out in television sometimes say to me: “I want to be you.” My stock reply is always: “Then you have to take the whole package.”
And now, at last, the most important woman in the history of television journalism gives us that “whole package,” in her inspiring and riveting... Read more >
Journey of a Thousand Miles
My Story
Written by Lang Lang and David Ritz
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: July 15, 2008
Price: $24.95
My Story
Written by Lang Lang and David Ritz
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: July 15, 2008
Price: $24.95
“Number One” was a phrase my father—and, for that matter, my mother—repeated time and time again. It was a phrase spoken by my parents’ friends and by their friends’ children. Whenever adults discussed the great Chinese painters and sculptors from the ancient dynasties, there was always a single artist named as...
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Practicing
A Musician's Return to Music
Written by Glenn Kurtz
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: August 5, 2008
Price: $13.95
In a remarkable memoir written with insight and humor, Glenn Kurtz takes us from his first lessons at the age of eight to his acceptance at the elite New England Conservatory of Music. After graduation, he attempts a solo career in Vienna but soon realizes that he has neither the ego... Read more >
A Musician's Return to Music
Written by Glenn Kurtz
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: August 5, 2008
Price: $13.95
In a remarkable memoir written with insight and humor, Glenn Kurtz takes us from his first lessons at the age of eight to his acceptance at the elite New England Conservatory of Music. After graduation, he attempts a solo career in Vienna but soon realizes that he has neither the ego... Read more >
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Mythology
The DC Comics Art of Alex Ross
Written by Alex Ross
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: November 8, 2005
Price: $25.95
THE EISNER AWARD-WINNING, NATIONALLY BEST-SELLING MYTHOLOGY IS HERE IN PAPERBACK, IN AN EXPANDED EDITION WITH 32 NEW PAGES.
Mythology returns, in a newly expanded paperback edition of the book Entertainment Weekly awarded a grade of A, saying: “Alex Ross brings to his work an unparalleled sense of the real. His heroes–both super... Read more >
The DC Comics Art of Alex Ross
Written by Alex Ross
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: November 8, 2005
Price: $25.95
THE EISNER AWARD-WINNING, NATIONALLY BEST-SELLING MYTHOLOGY IS HERE IN PAPERBACK, IN AN EXPANDED EDITION WITH 32 NEW PAGES.
Mythology returns, in a newly expanded paperback edition of the book Entertainment Weekly awarded a grade of A, saying: “Alex Ross brings to his work an unparalleled sense of the real. His heroes–both super... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
The Mailroom
Hollywood History from the Bottom Up
Written by David Rensin
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: February 3, 2004
Price: $17.00
It’s like a plot from a Hollywood potboiler: start out in the mailroom, end up a mogul. But for many, it happens to be true. Some of the biggest names in entertainment—including David Geffen, Barry Diller, and Michael Ovitz— started their dazzling careers in the lowly mailroom. Based on more than... Read more >
Hollywood History from the Bottom Up
Written by David Rensin
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: February 3, 2004
Price: $17.00
It’s like a plot from a Hollywood potboiler: start out in the mailroom, end up a mogul. But for many, it happens to be true. Some of the biggest names in entertainment—including David Geffen, Barry Diller, and Michael Ovitz— started their dazzling careers in the lowly mailroom. Based on more than... Read more >
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: August 12, 2008
Price: $5.95
Alternately lighthearted and savage, innocent and erotic, filled with love, mischief, and folly, A Midsummer Night’s Dream is perhaps the perfect Elizabethan romantic comedy.
Under the editorial supervision of Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen, two of today’s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, this Modern Library series incorporates definitive texts and authoritative notes from... Read more >
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: August 12, 2008
Price: $5.95
Alternately lighthearted and savage, innocent and erotic, filled with love, mischief, and folly, A Midsummer Night’s Dream is perhaps the perfect Elizabethan romantic comedy.
Under the editorial supervision of Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen, two of today’s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, this Modern Library series incorporates definitive texts and authoritative notes from... Read more >
Jim Henson: The Works
The Art, the Magic, the Imagination
Written by Christopher Finch
Format: Hardcover, 268 pages
On Sale: October 12, 1993
Price: $49.95
The ultimate gift for Muppet lovers everywhere, this extraordinary tribute celebrates 40 years of Henson's creative genius--from his best-known inventions to his lesser known but equally fascinating notions for everything from designs for futuristic nightclubs and homes to experimental films. 500 color illus. Read more >
The Art, the Magic, the Imagination
Written by Christopher Finch
Format: Hardcover, 268 pages
On Sale: October 12, 1993
Price: $49.95
The ultimate gift for Muppet lovers everywhere, this extraordinary tribute celebrates 40 years of Henson's creative genius--from his best-known inventions to his lesser known but equally fascinating notions for everything from designs for futuristic nightclubs and homes to experimental films. 500 color illus. Read more >
The Tempest
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: August 12, 2008
Price: $5.95
Generally believed to be the last play written solely by Shakespeare, The Tempest centers on a banished noble who uses sorcery to confront his foes. In this play, Shakespeare offers some of his most insightful meditations on themes ranging from vengeance and forgiveness to nature and nurture.
Under the editorial supervision... Read more >
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: August 12, 2008
Price: $5.95
Generally believed to be the last play written solely by Shakespeare, The Tempest centers on a banished noble who uses sorcery to confront his foes. In this play, Shakespeare offers some of his most insightful meditations on themes ranging from vengeance and forgiveness to nature and nurture.
Under the editorial supervision... Read more >
Richard III
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: August 12, 2008
Price: $5.95
The dramatic concluding months of The Wars of the Roses provide the setting for Shakespeare’s incomparable saga of power and intrigue.
Under the editorial supervision of Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen, two of today’s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, this Modern Library series incorporates definitive texts and authoritative notes from William Shakespeare... Read more >
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: August 12, 2008
Price: $5.95
The dramatic concluding months of The Wars of the Roses provide the setting for Shakespeare’s incomparable saga of power and intrigue.
Under the editorial supervision of Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen, two of today’s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, this Modern Library series incorporates definitive texts and authoritative notes from William Shakespeare... Read more >
My First Movie: Take Two
Ten Celebrated Directors Talk About Their First Film
Written by Stephen Lowenstein
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: January 15, 2008
Price: $26.00
NOBODY FORGETS THEIR FIRST TIME--AND FILM DIRECTORS ARE NO EXCEPTION.
In these strikingly candid interviews, ten internationally acclaimed directors--Richard Linklater, Richard Kelly, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Takeshi Kitano, Shekhar Kapur, Émir Kusturica, Agnès Jaoui, Lukas Moodysson, Terry Gilliam, and Sam Mendes--talk about the struggles and rewards of making their first film.
Each chapter is... Read more >
Ten Celebrated Directors Talk About Their First Film
Written by Stephen Lowenstein
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: January 15, 2008
Price: $26.00
NOBODY FORGETS THEIR FIRST TIME--AND FILM DIRECTORS ARE NO EXCEPTION.
In these strikingly candid interviews, ten internationally acclaimed directors--Richard Linklater, Richard Kelly, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Takeshi Kitano, Shekhar Kapur, Émir Kusturica, Agnès Jaoui, Lukas Moodysson, Terry Gilliam, and Sam Mendes--talk about the struggles and rewards of making their first film.
Each chapter is... Read more >
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