The Quitter
Title | The Quitter PDF eBook |
Author | Harvey Pekar |
Publisher | Vertigo |
Pages | 112 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN |
"Suggested for mature readers"--P. [4] of cover.
Man, the Masterpiece
Title | Man, the Masterpiece PDF eBook |
Author | John Harvey Kellogg |
Publisher | |
Pages | 664 |
Release | 1886 |
Genre | Hygiene |
ISBN |
Mr. Tuba
Title | Mr. Tuba PDF eBook |
Author | Harvey Phillips |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 505 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0253007240 |
With warmth and humor, tuba virtuoso Harvey Phillips tells the story of his amazing life and career from his Missouri childhood through his days as a performer with the King Brothers and the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circuses, his training at the Juilliard School, a stint with the US Army Field Band, and his freelance days with the New York City Opera and Ballet. A founder of the New York Brass Quintet, Phillips served as vice president of the New England Conservatory of Music and became Distinguished Professor of Music at Indiana University. The creator of an industry of TubaChristmases, Octubafests, and TubaSantas, he crusaded for recognition of the tuba as a serious musical instrument, commissioning more than 200 works. Enhanced by an extensive gallery of photographs, Mr. Tuba conveys Phillips's playful zest for life while documenting his important musical legacy.
Reach for the Top
Title | Reach for the Top PDF eBook |
Author | Anne Sinai |
Publisher | Scarecrow Press |
Pages | 402 |
Release | 2007-02-09 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1461670764 |
The popular screen and stage star Laurence Harvey (1928-1973) is best remembered for his stellar performance in the film The Manchurian Candidate—a 20th century classic. Of his 50 films, Room At the Top not only brought sexual permissiveness to American and British screens and an Oscar nomination, but it also branded him a heartthrob sensation. For all his fame and fortune, Harvey's short life was riddled with controversy, demonized by critics, and fraught with tragedy. In this revealing biography by Harvey's sister-in-law, readers are provided a close-up view of his career, his three marriages and his longtime sexual affair with one of his male producers. It also details his battle with cancer and his failure to acknowledge its seriousness. Packed with personal anecdotes, more than twenty black and white photographs, and a filmography, Reach for the Top: The Turbulent Life of Laurence Harvey will fascinate film students, scholars, and fans of the actor.
Perfectly Delightful
Title | Perfectly Delightful PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Weeks |
Publisher | |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
To this fascinating story of multicontinental revelry, Weeks attentively adds the background and development of Harvey Ladew's unique and wonderful gardens. 132 illustrations.
The Sensational Alex Harvey
Title | The Sensational Alex Harvey PDF eBook |
Author | John Neil Munro |
Publisher | Birlinn Limited |
Pages | 265 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781846970887 |
Glasgow-born Alex Harvey's career began in the 1950s when he won a competition to become Scotland's answer to Tommy Steele (he dubbed himself 'Last of the Teenage Idols'). He was a devoted family man but in front of an audience he became an unforgettable entertainer -- charismatic, provocative and intense. The Sensational Alex Harvey Band eventually became one of the most exciting live acts of the 1970s --taking in Jacques Brel, rock and vaudeville. But Harvey's life offstage was beset by tragedy and his own alcoholism: his younger brother, Les, was electrocuted on stage; his manager and friend Billy Fehilly was killed in a plane crash. Eventually with his band in tatters, Alex sank into a sea of alcohol, finally succumbing to a fatal heart attack whilst waiting for a ferry home from a gig in Belgium in 1982, the day before his 47th birthday. "The Sensational Alex Harvey Band were one of the craziest, most honest, most creative and most courageous bands of their time . . . [Harvey] would go to any length to enlighten and to entertain." --NME "Alex was cheeky. Special. Very charismatic. A naughty boy who didn't want to grow up.'" --RICHARD O'BRIEN (Rocky Horror Show) "I would have died to have had Alex Harvey as an uncle." --Robert Smith, The Cure
John Harvey Kellogg, M.D.
Title | John Harvey Kellogg, M.D. PDF eBook |
Author | Richard W. Schwarz |
Publisher | Review and Herald Pub Assoc |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 9780828019392 |
He seemed bigger than life, but in the end John Harvey Kellogg fell victim to his personality weaknesses. In this engrossing biography, Richard Schwarz probes Kellogg`s fascinating, complicated, and controversial life. Marked by successes and failures, strengths and weaknesses, his story is one you will not soon forget.