Yves Saint Laurent: Icons of Fashion Design & Photography
An incredible collection of Yves Saint Laurent's designs, beautifully captured by the leading fashion photographers of the 20th century Yves Saint Laurent: Icons of Fashion Design & Photography is a gorgeous homage to the uncrowned king of hau...
Topics in Jazz Bass
Do you usually shake your head no when offered a chance to solo? Maybe you think it's not a part of the job. After all, you didn't learn the instrument to sound like a guitarist, right? However, a bassist who avoids soloing is like a baker who refuses to frost their cakes. Sure, frosting is decoration, and too much is dangerous. But your bass playing is meant to be more than just a dry foundation. Maybe you've tried soloing and the effort fell flat. You even learned the scales, memorized patterns, followed advice, and attempted transcribing, only to produce less-than-stellar solos. What if you discovered a way to break past your limitations and solo with freedom and authentic self-expression? Topics in Jazz Bass Vol. 2: Soloing is a groundbreaking resource that can tie all of your efforts together and get you soloing with confidence. Through this book, you will: * Discover powerful ear-training techniques to unlock your inner soloist. * Develop a melodic, compositional approach to
Living in the Present with John Prine
In the spring of 2018, Tom Piazza climbed into a 1977 Coupe de Ville with the great singer-songwriter John Prine to write an article for the Oxford American. Their Florida road trip ignited a deep friendship, full of tall tales over epic meals, lo...
Jim Jarmusch
Jim Jarmusch: Music, Words and Noise is the first book to examine the films of Jim Jarmusch from a sound-oriented perspective. Exploring the director's extensive filmography, including Stranger Than Paradise (1984), Down By Law (1986), Dead Man (1...
Statistical Physics
This book, provides a general introduction to the ideas and methods of statistical mechanics with the principal aim of meeting the needs of Master's students in chemical, mechanical, and materials science engineering. Extensive introductory inform...
Living in the Present with John Prine
In the spring of 2018, Tom Piazza climbed into a cherry-red Cadillac Coupe-Deville with the great singer-songwriter John Prine. The two embarked on a road trip through Florida full of jokes and tall tales, afternoons digging around record stores a...
Poltrona Frau
Poltrona Frau
Soft Matter
Roberto Piazza says: "Physics should be made simple enough to be amusing, but not so trivial as to spoil the fun." This is exactly the approach of this book in making the science of 'soft matter' relevant to everyday life things such as ...
Topics in Jazz Bass
Bassists are on a mission to create hip bass lines-but don't always have the right tools to do it. Topics in Jazz Bass: Harmony offers a fresh take on the fundamentals of harmony, enabling you to create beautifully melodic bass lines that don't sound like cut & paste patterns. Written for both upright bass and bass guitar, musicians of all levels will find this book to be beneficial. Only a fundamental grasp of music theory and reading skills is required. Each chapter provides a different take on building bass lines, with many written samples and accompanying audio too. Best of all, the concepts are immediately applicable in performance and practice situations. Perfect for those who want to expand their knowledge-and not get bogged down in the nitty-gritty details Danny Ziemann is a professional jazz bassist and educator, with a love for helping jazz bassists-both upright and electric- become their most swinging selves. Danny has toured the US, Europe, and Asia extensively, playing
Sicilian Inheritance
Don't miss this transporting novel full of family secrets, a disputed inheritance, and a century-old unsolved mystery ? 'A gritty and whip-smart read. Strong friendships, powerful women, mighty lives. I utterly devoured it, was swept to Sicily, lo...
A Lexicon of Terror
Tanks roaring over farmlands, pregnant women tortured, 30,000 individuals "disappeared"--these were the horrors of Argentina's Dirty War. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year and Finalist for the L.L. Winship / PEN New England Award...
My Cinema
My Cinema
The Easy Life
The Easy Life
The Lover, Wartime Notebooks, Practicalities
Marguerite Duras was one of the leading intellectuals and novelist of post-war France, but her wartime writings were not published in full until after her death. The Wartime Notebooks trace Duras's formative experiences - including her difficult childhood in Indochina and her harrowing wait for her husband's return from Nazi internment - revealing the personal history behind her bestselling novels. The Lover is the best known of these; set in pre-war Indochina, its haunting tale of a tumultuous affair between an adolescent French girl and her wealthy Chinese lover is based on her own life. In spare and luminous prose, Duras evokes life on the margins in the waning days of France's colonial empire, and the passionate relationship between two unforgettable outcasts. Practicalities is a collection of small and intensely personal pieces Duras dictated near the end of her life. These deceptively simple meditations on motherhood, domesticity, sex, love, alcohol, writing, and more are witty,