101 Movies to Watch Before You Die
Title | 101 Movies to Watch Before You Die PDF eBook |
Author | Ricardo Cavolo |
Publisher | National Geographic Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2017-11-07 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1910620254 |
Taking the form of a diary, this vibrant graphic novel takes the reader from Goodfellas to The Goonies, Harry Potter to Apocalypse Now in a zany and hilarious exploration of the movies that have shaped Cavolo's life and the lives of his generation.
1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die
Title | 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Dimery |
Publisher | Cassell Illustrated |
Pages | |
Release | 2021-10-07 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781788403474 |
101 Albums that Changed Popular Music
Title | 101 Albums that Changed Popular Music PDF eBook |
Author | Chris Smith |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0195373715 |
Chris Smith tells the fascinating stories behind the most groundbreaking, influential, and often controversial albums ever recorded.
101 Irish Records (You Must Hear Before You Die)
Title | 101 Irish Records (You Must Hear Before You Die) PDF eBook |
Author | Tony Clayton-Lea |
Publisher | Liberties Press |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2012-03-01 |
Genre | Popular music |
ISBN | 9781907593345 |
101 Irish Records is an absorbing introduction into the world of Irish music by a huge range of artists. Ireland has a rich history of music and never before have the best 101 been highlighted in this way. This wonderfully browseable book contains the work of Ireland's most gifted songwriters. Each entry includes notes on the historical and cultural significance of the album or song; critical analysis; and also features quotes and comments from the bands and singers.
Daily Rituals
Title | Daily Rituals PDF eBook |
Author | Mason Currey |
Publisher | Knopf |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2013-04-23 |
Genre | Reference |
ISBN | 0307962377 |
More than 150 inspired—and inspiring—novelists, poets, playwrights, painters, philosophers, scientists, and mathematicians on how they subtly maneuver the many (self-inflicted) obstacles and (self-imposed) daily rituals to get done the work they love to do. Franz Kafka, frustrated with his living quarters and day job, wrote in a letter to Felice Bauer in 1912, “time is short, my strength is limited, the office is a horror, the apartment is noisy, and if a pleasant, straightforward life is not possible then one must try to wriggle through by subtle maneuvers.” Kafka is one of 161 minds who describe their daily rituals to get their work done, whether by waking early or staying up late; whether by self-medicating with doughnuts or bathing, drinking vast quantities of coffee, or taking long daily walks. Thomas Wolfe wrote standing up in the kitchen, the top of the refrigerator as his desk, dreamily fondling his “male configurations”.... Jean-Paul Sartre chewed on Corydrane tablets (a mix of amphetamine and aspirin), ingesting ten times the recommended dose each day ... Descartes liked to linger in bed, his mind wandering in sleep through woods, gardens, and enchanted palaces where he experienced “every pleasure imaginable.” Here are: Anthony Trollope, who demanded of himself that each morning he write three thousand words (250 words every fifteen minutes for three hours) before going off to his job at the postal service, which he kept for thirty-three years during the writing of more than two dozen books ... Karl Marx ... Woody Allen ... Agatha Christie ... George Balanchine, who did most of his work while ironing ... Leo Tolstoy ... Charles Dickens ... Pablo Picasso ... George Gershwin, who, said his brother Ira, worked for twelve hours a day from late morning to midnight, composing at the piano in pajamas, bathrobe, and slippers.... Here also are the daily rituals of Charles Darwin, Andy Warhol, John Updike, Twyla Tharp, Benjamin Franklin, William Faulkner, Jane Austen, Anne Rice, and Igor Stravinsky (he was never able to compose unless he was sure no one could hear him and, when blocked, stood on his head to “clear the brain”).
Audubon, On The Wings Of The World [Graphic Novel]
Title | Audubon, On The Wings Of The World [Graphic Novel] PDF eBook |
Author | Fabien Grolleau |
Publisher | National Geographic Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2017-04-04 |
Genre | Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | 1910620157 |
At the start of the nineteenth century, John James Audubon embarked upon an epic ornithological quest across America with nothing but his artist’ s materials, an assistant, a gun and an all-consuming passion for birds... This beautiful volume tells the story of an incredible artist and adventurer: one who encapsulates the spirit of early America, when the wilderness felt limitless and was still greatly unexplored. Based on Audubon's own retellings, this graphic novel version of his travels captures the wild and adventurous spirit of a truly exceptional naturalist and painter.
Out Of Nothing [Graphic Novel]
Title | Out Of Nothing [Graphic Novel] PDF eBook |
Author | David Blandy |
Publisher | National Geographic Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2018-02-05 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1910620289 |
Spanning millennia, Daniel Locke's ambitious graphic novel explores humanity's inherent 'dreaming mind and its impact on our world. Surreal sequences take us from Gutenberg's printing press to Tim Berners-Lee's World Wide Web via Picasso, Einstein, Grandmaster Flash and more. Locke shows hour our basic instinct to observe, record and connect has formed the basis for all human invention and progress.