Kenneth Clark: life, art and Civilisation

By Stourton, James

Publishing Date: 2016

Classification: 700

Call Number: 709.2 STO

This work is a biography on Kenneth Clark, British author, museum director, broadcaster, and one of the best-known art historians.

Embroideries

By Satrapi, Marjane

Publishing Date: 2005

Classification: 700

Call Number: 741.5944 SAT

A collection of stories and anecdotes, told in the form of a graphic novel, reveals the love and sex lives of a group of women as revealed during an afternoon of conversation and tea-drinking.

Art of McSweeney's

Publishing Date: ©2010

Classification: 700

Call Number: 741.652

McSweeney's began in 1998 as a San Francisco-based literary journal edited by Dave Eggers, and has since grown into a celebrated independent publishing company. Its publications have won awards from AIGA and Print and have appeared in exhibits at the Smithsonian and the Pasadena Museum. Created by the McSweeney's staff to commemorate their 11th (or 12th) anniversary, this book showcases their award-winning art and design across all the company's activities. It features hundreds of images, interviews with collaborators such as Chris Ware and Michael Chabon, and dozens of insights into McSweeney's quirky creative process and the visual experience of reading.--

Eyes of the world: Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, and the invention of modern photojournalism

By Aronson, Marc

Publishing Date: [2017]

Classification: 700

Call Number: 770 ARO

Recounts the achievements of photojournalism pioneers Robert Capa and Gerda Taro as they captured the tragedies of the Spanish Civil War and documented the fight against Facism.

Do not sell at any price: the wild, obsessive hunt for the world's rarest 78 rpm records

By Petrusich, Amanda

Publishing Date: 2014

Classification: 700

Call Number: 780.26 PET

A celebration of 78 rpm record subculture reveals the growing value of rare records and the determined efforts of their collectors and archivists, exploring the music of blues artists who have been lost to the modern world.

The people's artist: Prokofiev's Soviet years

By Morrison, Simon Alexander

Publishing Date: 2009

Classification: 700

Call Number: 780.92 MOR

This is a detailed chronicle of Prokofiev's career from 1932 to 1953, based on exclusive and extensive research conducted at several Russian archives. The book examines Prokofiev's decision to relocate to Stalin's Russia in 1936 and the composer's aesthetic and spiritual views.

Why you love music: from Mozart to Metallica : the emotional power of beautiful sounds

By Powell, John

Publishing Date: 2016

Classification: 700

Call Number: 781.11 POW

"Why does music affect us so profoundly? The songs we love do far more than bring back happy memories. They impact the way we think, talk, feel, behave, and even spend money. With his conversational style, humor, and endless knowledge, scientist and musician John Powell explores the fascinating science of music, showing that shoppers spend more money in stores that play classical music and that music can even change the flavor of wine! With chapters on music and our emotions (why do we listen to sad music?), music as medicine (how does music reduce pain at the dentist?), music and intelligence (how does the 'Mozart effect' really work?), and much more, WHY YOU LOVE MUSIC provides a fascinating study of how our brains respond to the joys of music,"--NoveList.

Living with the Dead: twenty years on the bus with Garcia and the Grateful Dead

By Scully, Rock

Publishing Date: [1996]

Classification: 700

Call Number: 781.66 SCU

The Grateful Dead's manager provides an eyewitness account of the band's history, from the writing of their greatest songs and their encounters with other celebrities to their emergence as cultural icons.

Good vibrations: my life as a Beach Boy

By Love, Mike

Publishing Date: 2016

Classification: 700

Call Number: 782.4216 LOV

Mike Love tells the story of his legendary, raucous, and ultimately triumphant five-decade career as the front man of The Beach Boys, the most popular American band in history -- timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of "Good Vibrations." Love describes the stories behind his lyrics for pop classics such as "Good Vibrations," "California Girls," "Surfin' USA," and "Kokomo," while providing vivid portraits of the turbulent lives of his three gifted cousins, Brian, Dennis, and Carl Wilson. His partnership with Brian has few equals in American pop music, though Mike has carved out a legacy of his own -- he co-wrote the lyrics to eleven of the twelve original Beach Boy songs that were top 10 hits while providing the lead vocals on ten of them.

I'm your man: the life of Leonard Cohen

By Simmons, Sylvie

Publishing Date: 2013

Classification: 700

Call Number: 782.4216 SIM

In this biography the author explores the facets of Cohen's life from his early childhood in Montreal, to his entree into the worlds of literature and music, his immersion in Jewish culture, obsession with Christian imagery, and deep commitment to Buddhist detachment, including the five years he spent at a monastery outside of Los Angeles and his ordainment as a Rinzai Zen Buddhist Monk. The author draws on research that includes Cohen's personal archives and more than one hundred exclusive interviews with those closest to Cohen, from his lovers, friends, monks, professors, rabbis, and fellow musicians to his muses, including Rebecca DeMornay, Marianne Ihlen, Suzanne Elrod, and Suzanne Verdal.

Why Bob Dylan matters

By Thomas, Richard F

Publishing Date: [2017]

Classification: 700

Call Number: 782.4216 THO

When the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Bob Dylan in 2016, a debate raged. Some celebrated, while many others questioned the choice. How could the world's most prestigious book prize be awarded to a famously cantankerous singer-songwriter who wouldn't even deign to attend the medal ceremony? In 'Why Bob Dylan matters', Harvard Professor Richard F. Thomas answers this question with magisterial erudition. A world expert on Classical poetry, Thomas was initially ridiculed by his colleagues for teaching a course on Bob Dylan alongside his traditional seminars on Homer, Virgil, and Ovid. Dylan's Nobel Prize brought him vindication, and he immediately found himself thrust into the spotlight as a leading academic voice in all matters Dylanological. Today, through his wildly popular Dylan seminar - affectionately dubbed "Dylan 101"--Thomas is introducing a new generation of fans and scholars to the revered bard's work. This witty, personal volume is a distillation of Thomas's famous course, and makes a compelling case for moving Dylan out of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and into the pantheon of Classical poets.

The last days of Marilyn Monroe

By Wolfe, Donald H.

Publishing Date: c1998

Classification: 700

Call Number: 791.43 WOL

The author examines the events surrounding the death of Marilyn Monroe, and presents evidence to support his contention that the actress was killed in a conspiracy to keep her from revealing government secrets.

The rainman's third cure: an irregular education

By Coyote, Peter

Publishing Date: 2015

Classification: 700

Call Number: 791.4302 COY

In a new spiritual biography, which is drawn from a line in an early Bob Dylan song, an ordained practitioner of Zen Buddhism and a politically engaged actor provides intimate portraits of the mentors who helped to shape him into the man he is today.

Basic principles of classical ballet: Russian ballet technique

By Vaganova, A. IlA

Publishing Date: 1969

Classification: 700

Call Number: 792.82 VAG

Discusses all basic principles of ballet, grouping movement by fundamental types. Diagrams show clearly the exact foot, leg, arm, and body positions for the proper execution of many steps and movements. Offers dancers, teachers, and ballet lovers information often difficult to locate in other books.

The league of outsider baseball: an illustrated history of baseball's forgotten heroes

By Cieradkowski, Gary

Publishing Date: 2015

Classification: 700

Call Number: 796 CIE

From an award-winning graphic artist and baseball historian comes a strikingly original illustrated history of baseball's forgotten heroes, including stars of the Negro Leagues, barnstorming teams, semi-pro leagues, foreign leagues, and famous players like Shoeless Joe Jackson, Jackie Robinson, Willie Mays, and Joe DiMaggio before they achieved notoriety.

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The comeback: Greg LeMond, the true king of American cycling, and a legendary Tour de France

By De Visé, Daniel

Publishing Date: 2018

Classification: 700

Call Number: 796.6 DEV

In July 1986, Greg LeMond stunned the sporting world by becoming the first American to win the Tour de France, the world's pre-eminent bicycle race, defeating French cycling legend Bernard Hinault. Nine months later, LeMond lay in a hospital bed, his life in peril after a hunting accident, his career as a bicycle racer seemingly over. And yet, barely two years after this crisis, LeMond mounted a comeback almost without parallel in professional sports. In summer 1989, he again won the Tour--arguably the world's most grueling athletic contest--by the almost impossibly narrow margin of 8 seconds over another French legend, Laurent Fignon. It remains the closest Tour de France in history. The Comeback chronicles the life of one of America's greatest athletes, from his roots in Nevada and California to the heights of global fame, to a falling out with his own family and a calamitous confrontation with Lance Armstrong over allegations the latter was doping--a campaign LeMond would wage on principle for more than a decade before Armstrong was finally stripped of his own Tour titles. With the kind of narrative drive that propels books like Moneyball, and a fierce attention to detail, Daniel de Vis©♭ reveals the dramatic, ultra-competitive inner world of a sport rarely glimpsed up close, and builds a compelling case for LeMond as its great American hero.