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Biography: arts & entertainment
Hardcover. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1DN; APF; BGF; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 234 x 23. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788763539784
- ISBN
- 9788763539784
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 39.57
€ 54.99
€ 39.57
Paperback. A fresh appreciation of the great musical figure that gives him his due as composer as well as conductor Series: Jewish Lives. Num Pages: 360 pages, 1 b/w illus. BIC Classification: AVGC6; AVH; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 146. .
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300219852
- ISBN
- 9780300219852
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 13.25
€ 15.99
€ 13.25
Paperback. In this text, Allen Shawn puts aside ultimate judgements about Arnold Schoenberg's place in music history to explore the composer's world in a series of linked essays that are searching and suggestive. Num Pages: 368 pages, 22 halftones, 2 line illustrations, 124 musical examples. BIC Classification: AVH; BGF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 143 x 27. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780674011014
- ISBN
- 9780674011014
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 31.14
€ 36.99
€ 31.14
Hardback. Ally Hilfiger, daughter of designer Tommy Hilfiger, shares her story of battling, and eventually recovering from, Lyme disease. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: BGFA; VFJB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 237 x 30. Weight in Grams: 532.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Little, Brown & Company
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781455567065
- ISBN
- 9781455567065
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 19.24
€ 27.99
€ 19.24
Hardback. Creator of favorite tunes such as "I'm in the Mood for Love" and "On the Sunny Side of the Street", Jimmy McHugh was a one-man history of twentieth-century popular music. This biography of McHugh captures the significant contributor to American songwriting. Series: Music in American Life. Num Pages: 288 pages, 24 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVH; BGF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 248 x 167 x 24. Weight in Grams: 668.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252034657
- ISBN
- 9780252034657
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 43.62
€ 43.99
€ 43.62
Paperback. A biography of Ian Carr, pioneer bebop player and founding father of jazz rock in the UK. This work also draws a picture of Ian Carr's home region, the North-East of England, of literary influences such as W Somerset Maughan, of post-war continental Europe and its Bohemian arts scene, and of the London jazz world from the 1960s onwards. Series: Popular Music History. Num Pages: 256 pages, 24 b&w photos. BIC Classification: AVGJ; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 159 x 13. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Equinox Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845532222
- ISBN
- 9781845532222
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.91
€ 42.91
Paperback. Translator(s): Wright, Ann. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: AVGW; AVH; BGFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 170.
- Publisher
- Route
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781901927450
- ISBN
- 9781901927450
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.14
€ 11.14
Paperback. Explores how a tiny acoustic record has puttered and purred its way into the millennium. This book contains interviews of producer Joe Boyd, string arranger Robert Kirby, and the marketing team behind the VW commercial. Series: 33 1/3. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; AVGP; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 121 x 8. Weight in Grams: 120. Series: 33 1/3. 144 pages. Explores how a tiny acoustic record has puttered and purred its way into the millennium. This book contains interviews of producer Joe Boyd, string arranger Robert Kirby, and the marketing team behind the VW commercial. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; AVGP; BGF. Dimension: 165 x 121 x 8. Weight: 120.
- Publisher
- Continuum
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826427908
- ISBN
- 9780826427908
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.44
€ 13.99
€ 11.44
Paperback. Num Pages: 164 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGC4; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 261 x 13. Weight in Grams: 268.
- Publisher
- Samuel Wachtman´s Sons, Inc.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781941905005
- ISBN
- 9781941905005
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.82
€ 13.99
€ 10.82
Hardback. Documents how American experimental music and its practitioners came to prominence in the West German cultural landscape between the end of the Second World War in 1945 and the reunification of East and West Germany in 1990. This work chronicles German views on American music, and American composers' pursuit of professional opportunities abroad. Series: California Studies in 20th-Century Music. Num Pages: 359 pages, 10 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1DFGW; 3JJPN; AVGC6; BGF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 359
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520247550
- ISBN
- 9780520247550
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.30€ 63.54
€ 82.30
€ 63.54
Paperback. Extraordinary lives, tangled relationships, innovative art: the story of sisters Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf and their Bloomsbury Group. Num Pages: 336 pages, 30. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 2AB; 3JJC; ACX; BGF; BGL; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 197 x 31. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Publisher
- Amberley Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781445660080
- ISBN
- 9781445660080
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.19
€ 23.19
Series: CultureAmerica. Num Pages: 400 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; APB; APF; BGF; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700621002
- ISBN
- 9780700621002
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 59.29
€ 59.29
Paperback. Hollywood, Interrupted is a sometimes frightening, occasionally sad, and frequently hysterical odyssey into the darkest realms of showbiz pathology, the endless stream of meltdowns and flameouts, and the inexplicable behavior on the part of show business personalities. Num Pages: 394 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APF; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 146 x 29. Weight in Grams: 584.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 394
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780471706243
- ISBN
- 9780471706243
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 21.63
€ 26.99
€ 21.63
Hardcover. A private view of the genius of Cecil Beaton, reflected through the lens of his town and country idylls, and his passion for interior design, gardening, and entertaining a circle of Bright Young Things. Num Pages: 368 pages, 300 colour and black and white photographs. BIC Classification: AMR; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 267 x 317 x 38. Weight in Grams: 2732.
- Publisher
- Rizzoli
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847848775
- ISBN
- 9780847848775
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 69.55€ 55.78
€ 69.55
€ 55.78
Paperback. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio lived the darkest and most dangerous life of any of the great painters. This book presents the readings of Caravaggio's pictures, which show how he created their drama, immediacy and humanity, and how completely he departed from the conventions of his time. Num Pages: 544 pages, Illustrations (chiefly col.), maps. BIC Classification: ACQB; AGB; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 136 x 28. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Number of pages
- 544
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241954645
- ISBN
- 9780241954645
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.75
€ 19.99
€ 14.75
Paperback. A lucid assessment of the achievements and films of actress Barbara Stanwyck. Celebrating her flexibility and range, Andrew Klevan explores Stanwyck's skilful execution in performance and her relation to the wider concerns of the classic Hollywood films she starred in, which include Stella Dallas, The Lady Eve and Double Indemnity. Series: Film Stars. Num Pages: 152 pages, 31 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFB; BGF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 134 x 192 x 11. Weight in Grams: 252.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 152
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 2013th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844576487
- ISBN
- 9781844576487
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 26.05
€ 30.99
€ 26.05
Hardback. Num Pages: 320 pages, 19, 19 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: ASZH; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 628.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801449703
- ISBN
- 9780801449703
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.99
€ 33.99
€ 30.99
Paperback. In 1963, in a south London hotel, Andrew Loog Oldham discovered a rhythm and blues band called the Rolling Stones and became their manager and producer. This title follows on from "Stoned", in which Oldham recorded the Stones' early years, to reveal what happened afterwards. Num Pages: 480 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGK; AVGP; BGFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 132 x 30. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- paperback / softback
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099443650
- ISBN
- 9780099443650
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.13
€ 17.99
€ 13.13
Paperback. An account of the author's life as the manager and producer of one of the world's greatest rock bands, The Rolling Stones, as well as a story of the whole Sixties scene. Andrew Loog Oldham was a hustler of genius, addicted to scandal, notoriety and innovation. Num Pages: 384 pages, portraits. BIC Classification: AVGP; BGFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 133 x 24. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099284673
- ISBN
- 9780099284673
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 10.92
€ 14.99
€ 10.92
Paperback. The Hollywood Brats are the greatest band you've never heard of. Recording one near - perfect punk album in 1974, they were tragically ahead of their time. This is memoir about never quite achieving success, despite flying so close to greatness. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPL; AVGU; AVH; BGFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 197 x 24. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Publisher
- Ebury Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780091960445
- ISBN
- 9780091960445
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.81
€ 13.99
€ 10.81
Paperback. Great escapes meet greater escapism: how the life of a displaced Jewish actor illuminates the 1963 Hollywood blockbuster. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: APB; APF; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Publisher
- Biblioasis
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781927428337
- ISBN
- 9781927428337
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.51
€ 17.99
€ 17.51
Paperback. A collection of essays on the concept of film stardom, and the shifting definition of a 'star'. The collection ranges across contemporary stars such as Sandra Bullock, Jackie Chan and Jim Carrey, those from Hollywood's past like Clara Bow and Charlton Heston, and those from other arenas, such as Prince and Cynthia Rothrock. Editor(s): Willis, Andrew; Willis, Andy. Series Editor(s): Jancovich, Mark; Schaefer, Eric. Series: Inside Popular Film. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: APF; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 218 x 17. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719056451
- ISBN
- 9780719056451
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.12
€ 26.12
Paperback. The definitive biography of Alexander McQueen which reveals the source of his genius and the links between his dark work and even darker life. Num Pages: 400 pages, 2x8pp Colour Plates. BIC Classification: AKB; AKT; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130. .
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781471131806
- ISBN
- 9781471131806
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.53
€ 13.99
€ 10.53
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Griffin Publishing
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781250031464
- ISBN
- 9781250031464
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 16.87
€ 18.99
€ 16.87