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Sub-Categories of Music & Performing Arts
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Mamoulian: Life on Stage and Screen
David Luhrssen
Film, TV & Radio; Individual actors & performers; Individual film directors, film-makers; Biography: arts & entertainment; Autobiography: arts & entertainment
Hardback
An Armenian national raised in Russia, Rouben Mamoulian began working in film just as the sound revolution was dramatically... [more]
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Great Operas: A Guide to Twenty Five of the World's Finest Musical Experiences...
Michael Steen
Music; Opera
Hardback
Michael Steen, author of the acclaimed The Lives and Times of the Great Composers, provides a compendium of self-standing... [more]
$39.99 $36.00
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Firefly: A Celebration
Joss Whedon
Television; Television scripts & screenplays; Fiction-related items
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Collects three bestselling Firefly titles. Presented in a foil-stamped leather-effect binding, this title comes with bonus... [more]
$90.00 $81.00
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Camille Saint-Saens and His World
Jann Pasler
Music; Romantic music (c 1830 to c 1900); Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups
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Camille Saint-Saens - perhaps the foremost French musical figure of the late nineteenth century and a composer who wrote in... [more]
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One Hundred Latin Hymns: Ambrose to Aquinas
Christopher Husch
Medieval & Renaissance music (c 1000 to c 1600); Sacred & religious music; History; Medieval history; Christian hymnals
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This volume collects one hundred of the most important and beloved Late Antique and Medieval Latin hymns from Western Europe.... [more]
$45.00 $40.50
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Mozart's Grace
Scott Burnham
Music; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups
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It is a common article of faith that Mozart composed the most beautiful music we can know. But few of us ask why. Why does... [more]
$39.95 $35.95
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Hedy's Folly: the Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most...
Richard Rhodes
Film, TV & Radio; Individual actors & performers; Films, movies & cinema; Biography: general; Autobiography: general; Biography: arts & entertainment; Autobiography: science, technology & engineering; Gender studies: women; History of engineering & technology
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What other book brings together 1920's Paris, player pianos, Nazi weaponry, and digital wireless into one satisfying whole?... [more]
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MP3: The Meaning of a Format
Jonathan Sterne
Music; Western "classical" music; Music recording & reproduction; Communication studies; History of science; Technology: general issues; Communications engineering & telecommunications; Acoustic & sound engineering
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Demonstrates that formats, standards, and infrastructures are every bit as central to communication as the boxes we call media... [more]
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The First Lady of Bond: the Autobiography of Eunice Gayson
Eunice Gayson
Film, TV & Radio; Individual actors & performers; Films, movies & cinema; Autobiography: arts & entertainment
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By the time Eunice Gayson played James Bond's girlfriend Sylvia Trench in Dr No and From Russia With Love she had already... [more]
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Is it Just Me?
Miranda Hart
Individual actors & performers; Television; Biography; Biography: general; Autobiography: arts & entertainment; Memoirs; Humour
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A Sunday Times Number One Bestseller. Britain's best loved comedienne, Miranda Hart, laments on the horrors of growing up... [more]
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The First Four Notes: Beethoven's Fifth and the Human Imagination
Matthew Guerrieri
Music; Western "classical" music; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900
Hardback
A unique and revelatory work of musical history: the first book to examine in great depth what is perhaps the best known and... [more]
$39.95 $35.95
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Lennon: The Man, the Myth, the Music - The Definitive Life
Tim Riley
Music; Rock & Pop music; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups; Biography: arts & entertainment
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Describes Lennon's life, from his widely misunderstood Working Class Hero origins to his epic romance with Yoko Ono. This... [more]
$32.95 $29.65
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This Is a Call: The Life and Times of Dave Grohl
Paul Brannigan
Music; Rock & Pop music; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups; Biography: arts & entertainment
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'Someone called and said Kurt died. I just f*****g lost it.' [more]
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Marilyn Monroe: Private and Undisclosed
Michelle Morgan
Film, TV & Radio; Individual actors & performers; Films, movies & cinema; Biography: arts & entertainment; Autobiography: arts & entertainment
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A sourcebook of documentary and photographic evidence that brings an important fresh perspective to the many controversies... [more]
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One Dream, One Direction
Ellen Bailey
Music; Music: general interest (Children's&YA); Pop music (Children's&YA); Drama & performing (Children's&YA); Educational: Music
Paperback
Originally published in Great Britain in 2012 by Buster Books --T.p. verso. [more]
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Give Me Excess of it
Richard Gill
Music; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups; Autobiography: general; Autobiography: arts & entertainment
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Richard Gill is one of Australia's best-known and best-loved musical figures. His career has taken him from a music teacher... [more]
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David Mitchell: Back Story
David Mitchell
Individual actors & performers; Television; Biography; Autobiography: arts & entertainment
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David Mitchell, who you may know for his inappropriate anger on every TV panel show except Never Mind the Buzzcocks, his look... [more]
$35.00 $31.50
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Thomas Ades: Full of Noises: Conversations with Tom Service
Thomas Ades, Tom Service
Music; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups
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Thomas Ades is feted from Los Angeles to London, from New York to Berlin, as the musician who has done more than any other... [more]
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The Best of Grand Designs
Kevin McCloud
Industrial: Commercial Art & Design; Houses, apartments, flats, units; Television; Building construction & materials
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A complete celebration of Britain's favourite architectural show. [more]
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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Classical Music But Were Too Afraid...
Darren Henley, Sam Jackson
The Arts: General & Reference; Music; Western "classical" music
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The authors have set out to make the world of classical music accessible to all. Three sections steer you through the terminology... [more]
$29.95 $26.95
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Sherlock: The Casebook
Guy Adams
Television; Fiction & Literature; Crime & mystery
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Attempts to shine a light on the work of the best and wisest the author have ever known. In this title, Sherlock Holmes has,... [more]
$39.95 $35.95
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The World Atlas of Musical Instruments
Bozhidar Abrashev, Vladimir Gadjev
Music; Music reviews & criticism; Musical instruments & instrumental ensembles; General encyclopaedias
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Throughout human history, music has accompanied us in times of joy and in times of sorrow. This comprehensive encyclopedia... [more]
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Wit & Wisdom: Movies: Unforgettable Quotes from Actors, Actresses and Directors...
Nick Holt
Films, movies & cinema; Reference; Humour collections & anthologies
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A bizarre mix of myth and myopia, the movies are a source of wonderful wit and wisdom rarely offered by real life; the scriptwriter... [more]
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Audrey: The 60s
David Wills
Art & design styles: from c 1960; Photographs: collections; Film, TV & Radio; Films, movies & cinema; Popular culture
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<p> Audrey Hepburn, 60s icon. <p> Audrey Hepburn charmed audiences in the 1950s as a new type of cinema personality--gamine,... [more]
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Hollywood Sketchbook: A Century of Costume Illustration
Deborah Nadoolman Landis
Electronic, holographic & video art; Industrial: Commercial Art & Design; Fashion & textiles: design; Fashion design & theory; Film, TV & Radio
Hardback
A follow-up volume to Dressed: A Century of Hollywood Costume Design , this title showcases the work of one hundred of the... [more]
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