In celebration of the centenary of the Spirit of Ecstasy - the legendary motorcar figurine - photographer Rankin and luxury car company Rolls Royce unite to re-imagine the 'flying lady' in a contempor
There is no need to read between the lines of this new style of flash thinking speed illustration in this hilarious new book. Why? There are not that many lines. In "Who Farted Wrong? Illustrated Weig
In 1973, graffiti ran rampant in NYC, reaching its peak that summer. The work of black writers from the Bronx like SUPER COOL 223, RIFF 70 (WORM/CASH), and PHASE 2 defined the art which the kids calle
SALOME is an evocation of biblical horror in which blasphemies inflame an atmosphere that seethes with a dangerous erotic charge from the very outset. Relentless, hypnotic repetitions in the words, ar
Edgar Allan Poe's experiments in crime and cryptography fiction can be seen to date from 1840 and "The Man Of The Crowd" - a crime story without a crime - and reach their perfect expression in his tri
25 years of graffiti through the eyes of Kaos - Vandals In Motion Kaos - Vandals In Motion is the story about one of Europe's most famous graffiti artists. Through the words of Kaos along with an incr
There has long been a divide between flyfishing and coarse fishing - but there is no reason for it Over 3 million people in Britain fish one way or the other - and there is growing interest in combini
1948. A cold, rainy night in a forest across the Ganges, deep in the heart of eastern India. An unarmed man with anger in his heart and a fortune on his person. A handsome Thakur with evil on his mind
An invitation for a wonderful walk in Paris, as seen through the eyes of an artist deeply inlove with the city.It is a set of stolen moments featuring radiant,elegant women in the city that was create
Everything in existence functions because of laws of nature. Knowledge of those laws is what allows us to accomplish anything in life. Our spiritual and religious life is no different. Spiritual awake
In chess, sacrificing material is the most dramatic way to try to seize the advantage. Most sacrifices have a forcing aim in mind, but most profound of all are positional sacrifices where the end is i
In Megan Falleys new poetry collection, The Newlydeads, she writes, "...if you really love a writer, bury her in all your awful and watch as she scrawls her way out,” Welcome to an incessant and fearl
The Romans believed that an artist's inspiration came from a spirit, called a genius, that lived in the walls of the artist's home. In her second book, Sierra DeMulder examines her childhood in a smal
Heinesen's novels always contain the portrait of what might be termed a "good" woman: Simona in Windswept Dawn, Eliana in The Lost Musicians, Liva in The Black Cauldron. Here, however, the "good" woma
"A satirical guidebook that examines, in a humorous way, the craziness of the college admissions process in 21st century America"--Provided by publisher.
A fascinating study of how the phenomenon that was Pub Rock started in the UK in the early 1970s and how it had reinvented itself as New Wave by the end of that decade. Features new interviews with ma
" A brief but sparkling bon-bon from the French writer Jacques Cazotte, who was guillotined in 1792. A young captain, stationed in Naples, is tempted into summoning up Beelzebub, who appears first in
Freeing the Actor is the seventh in a series of acting books by Eric Morris, which explain and describe his unique system of acting. In this book, which is totally aimed at the instrument, Eric has im
Vladimir Popov is a distinguished Russian chess coach whose two most celebrated pupils, Nadezhda and Tatiana Kosintseva, are both in the top 5 of women’s chess. In Chess Lessons Popov offers his secre
In this guide we select 32 things to do in the city of light – none of which involve sharing a bottle of wine, eating bread and cheese on the banks of the Seine, or strolling arm in arm with a loved o
A guide to the New York you always wanted to see but feared might have disappeared for good. From Patsy’s Pizzeria in Harlem, to the Nom Wah Tea Parlor in Chinatown, it depicts a city where that old c
In 1974 Zaire's football team were told that if they lost to Brazil by more than three goals the following day they would never see their families again. In this astonishing book Jon Spurling has tr
The water-color-works, photographies and videos of artist Martin Dammann have their origin in pictures and films of WWI and WWII. Found in private archives as the Archive of Modern Conflict, these tra
Attacking Manuals 1 & 2 comprise the first thorough examination of the nature of dynamics in chess, and the principles explained in this book are relevant to every chess game played. In lively no-
People have forgotten how to breathe out. Caught in a materialistic matrix, humanity has become trapped in an unsustainable pattern of living, breathing in until we are ready to implode. The Earth is
Originally published in 1945 by Les Éditions de l'Oubli in Bucharest, The Passive Vampire caught the attention of the French Surrealists when an excerpt appeared in 1947 in the magazine La part du sab
After taking a wrong turn in a wormhole, Jake, Scott, and their alien friend Nojo find themselves in the land of the dinosaurs where they must escape meat-eaters only to find that alien criminals are
In the summer of 2007 Grand Central Art Center in Santa Ana, California presented an installation constructed in the form of a treasure chamber featuring reliquaries from the life of sardonic artist J
Berlin is still the city of writing of modern times. This book assembles 15 Berlin artists from a circle that originated in writing. They are linked by a long, partly shared experience in Berlin's pub
No other region in North America features the variety and intensity of unusual phenomena found in the world's largest alpine valley, the San Luis Valley of Colorado and New Mexico. Since 1989, Christo
In this ambitious work, chess Grandmaster Mihail Marin examines and explains the contribution from the chess legends who influenced him strongly in his own development. This personal and sympathetic j
In the 1980s the bank robber Johann Rettenberger was the most wanted criminal in Austria. Known as Pumpgun Ronnie because of the weapon he used and the Ronald Reagan mask he wore for his robberies, he
In 1964 Bobby Fisher wasn't a complete unknown, not with six U.S. Championships to his credit -- including a scintillating 11-0 in the 1963/64 affair -- but U.S. chess players had never had a real opp
Bram Stoker's classic best-seller Dracula was first published in 1897. But in 1901, Stoker revised and edited the book for a new English paperback edition. Since this was the last work Stoker did on t
