Alfred A. Knopf, April 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Hart's famous autobiography, 'Act One', ends at what was only the beginning, when he was 25. Now Bach, the author of 'Final Cut' and 'Marlene Dietrich: Life and Legend', presents the first full-scale biography of 'The Prince of Broadway', who rose from..... More
Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, September 2006. Paper Back. Top front corner bent. Minor shelf wear. More
Liverpool University Press, June 1996. Trade Paperback. The works of James Joyce have long been regarded as central to European modernism. It is also clear what a continuing provocation and source of renewal Joyce's works are for contemporary cultural theory, especially feminism, post modernism and postcolonialism. This new edition of..... More
Little Brown and Company, June 1998. Hardcover. Steven Gaines is a bestselling storyteller with a special gift for capturing social nuance, colorful detail, and quirks of character. Just a few examples: -- A well-to-do former ballet dancer arrested for stealing his neighbors' furniture -- and showered with thank-you notes from..... More
Penguin USA, October 2001. Cloth. In the stories and novellas he wrote for Black Mask and other pulp magazines in the 1920s and 1930s, Dashiell Hammett took the detective story and turned it into a medium for capturing the jarring textures and revved-up cadences of modern American life. In this..... More
Porcupine's Quill, April 1995. Trade Paperback. Inscription, possibly by the author, on the half title page. More
Watson-Guptill Publications, October 2007. Oversized Hardcover. Choose, use, and understand great vintage type with this authoritative guide. Retro is the new modern. And nowhere is that fact more evident than in typography, which today uses vintage type in ads, book and magazine design, movies, and everywhere words convey meaning. Viewers..... More
Random House Inc, January 2003. Trade Paperback. From the dean of Scandinavian noir, the first riveting installment in the internationally bestselling and universally acclaimed Kurt Wallander series, the basis for the PBS series staring Kenneth Branagh. It was a senselessly violent crime: on a cold night in a remote Swedish..... More
Jewish Pubn Society, June 1978. Hardcover. More
Princeton University Press, August 1986. Trade Paperback. Describing all of Colombia's birds, Steven Hilty and William Brown bring together information on one of the world's largest avifaunas-nearly 1,700 species. Over half of all the species of birds in South America are included, thus making the book useful in regions adjacent..... More
Wiley, September 1998. Hardcover. International Conference on Fish Migration and Bypass Channels held in Vienna in September 1996. It covers the range of fish pass technologies currently in use throughout the world and attempts to develop a wider, more ecological perspective on this formerly engineering-orientated discipline. Emphasis is placed on..... More
Broadway, April 2005. Trade Paperback. At last! An A-to-Z reference guide for readers who want to learn the cryptic language of Rock Snobs, those arcana-obsessed people who speak of Rickenbacker guitars and Gram Parsons. We've all been there--trapped in a conversation with smarty-pants music fiends who natter on about the..... More
The MIT Press & The Museum of Contemporary Art, December 1999. Oversized Hardcover. This is the most comprehensive publication ever produced on the work of American artist Barbara Kruger. Kruger, one of the most influential artists of the last three decades, uses pictures and words through a wide variety of..... More
Hachette Books, October 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. A Washington Post 2019 Notable Selection A vivid and inspiring account of the bromance between Barack Obama and Joe Biden. The extraordinary partnership of Barack Obama and Joe Biden is unique in American history. The two men, their characters and styles sharply contrasting..... More
Warner Books, October 1992. First Edition. Spiral Binding. Folio, First printing, Oct., 1992. Full number string. Spiral bound with hardcover metallic cover with some scratches. {11' x 13 & 1/2'}. Includes the bound-in comic book 'Dita in the Chelsea Girl.' Does not include the CD. Also lacks the silver mylar..... More
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, November 2000. Trade Paperback. The classic book on the development of human language by the world's leading expert on language and the mind. In this classic, the world's expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works..... More
William Morrow & Company, February 1994. Hardcover. In this 'extremely valuable book, very informative, and very well written' (Noam Chomsky), one of the greatest thinkers in the field of linguistics explains how language works--how people, ny making noises with their mouths, can cause ideas to arise in other people's minds..... More
Penguin Books, September 2015. Trade Paperback. "Charming and erudite, from the author of Rationality and Enlightenment Now, The wit and insight and clarity he brings . . . is what makes this book such a gem." --Time.com Why is so much writing so bad, and how can we make it..... More
Viking, September 2014. Hardcover. From the author of Enlightenment Now, a short and entertaining book on the modern art of writing well by New York Times bestselling author Steven Pinker. Why is so much writing so bad, and how can we make it better? Is the English language being corrupted..... More
Harper Perennial, November 2000. Trade Paperback. How does language work, and how do we learn to speak? Why do languages change over time, and why do they have so many quirks and irregularities? In this original and totally entertaining book written in the same engaging style that illuminated his bestselling..... More
Sentinel, May 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. A brilliant look into the psyche of combat. Where he once took us into the Spartan line of battle at Thermopylae, Steven Pressfield now takes us into the sands of the Sinai, the alleys of Old Jerusalem, and into the hearts and souls of..... More
Workman Publishing, May 2001. Oversize Softcover. Winner of an IACP Cookbook Award, How to Grill is "the definitive how-to guide for anyone passionate about grilling, from the newest beginner to the most sophisticated chef" (Tom Colicchio). A full-color, photograph-by-photograph, step-by-step technique book, How to Grill gets to the core of..... More
N/A, July 2007. Trade Paperback. "This brave new musical, haunting and electrifying by turns, restores the mystery, the thrill to that shattering transformation that stirs in all our souls."--Charles Isherwood, The New York Times "The staggering purity of this show will touch all open hearts...In its refined, imaginative simplicity, it..... More
Barron's Educational Series/ Quintet Publishing, October 2005. Reprint. Cloth. Updated with brand-new entries to describe the most recent major motion pictures, this critically-acclaimed volume spans more than a century of moviemaking, concisely describing 1001 of the best films from around the world. New in this edition are entries to describe..... More
Harper Perennial, January 2011. Trade Paperback. "I read this wide-ranging and thoughtful book while sitting on the banks of the Ganges near Varanasi--it's a river already badly polluted, and now threatened by the melting of the loss of the glaciers at its source to global warming. Four hundred million people..... More
