Music & Performing Arts - "You should be at Abbey's man. It's like... WOW!"

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The Serenity Handbook: The Official Crew Member's Guide to the Firefly-Class...

Marc Sumerak

Films, movies & cinema; Television; Fiction-related items

Hardback

If you've ever wondered what it's like to soar through space like a leaf on the wind in a Firefly spaceship, this is the manual... [more]

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Cameras & Kalashnikovs: The Making of Jirga

Benjamin Gilmour

Film, TV & Radio; Memoirs

Hardback

Moved by his travel experiences in Afghanistan and encounters with war veterans in Australia, filmmaker Benjamin Gilmour wrote... [more]

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All Gates Open: The Story of Can

Irmin Schmidt, Rob Young

Music; Rock & Pop music; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups

Hardback

All Gates Open presents the definitive story of arguably the most influential and revered avant-garde band of the late twentieth... [more]

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Origins of a Song: 202 True Inspirations Behind the World's Greatest Lyrics...

Jake Grogan

Music

Hardback

Synopsis coming soon....... [more]

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Hitchcock's Heroines

Caroline Young

Art & design styles: from c 1960; Film, TV & Radio; Films, movies & cinema; Individual film directors, film-makers; Popular culture

Hardback

Synopsis coming soon....... [more]

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James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction

Randall Frakes, Brooks Peck, Sidney Perkowitz, Matt Singer, Lisa Yaszek

Film theory & criticism; Film & movie: styles & genres; Dance & Performing arts; Literature: history & criticism; Reference works

Hardback

Synopsis coming soon....... [more]

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Steven Spielberg: A Life in Films

Molly Haskell

Film, TV & Radio; Film theory & criticism; Individual film directors, film-makers; Biography: arts & entertainment

Paperback

A film-centric portrait of the extraordinarily gifted movie director whose decades-long influence on American popular culture... [more]

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We'll Always Have Casablanca: The Legend and Afterlife of Hollywood's Most...

Noah Isenberg

Film, TV & Radio; Films, movies & cinema

Paperback

A Los Angeles Times bestseller A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice Selection Even the die-hardest Casablanca fan... [more]

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Feel Free: Essays

Zadie Smith

Film movie guides & reviews; Music reviews & criticism; Literary essays; Reportage & collected journalism; Literary companions

Paperback

Arranged into four sections--In the World, In the Audience, On the Bookshelf, and Feel Free--this collection poses questions... [more]

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Music by the Numbers: From Pythagoras to Schoenberg

Eli Maor

Music; History of mathematics; History of science

Hardback

How music has influenced mathematics, physics, and astronomy from ancient... [more]

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Being Wagner: The Triumph of the Will

Simon Callow

Music; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups; Biography: general

Paperback

The perfect introduction to the Master. [more]

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Platform Paper 54: Young People and the Arts

Sue Giles

Theatre Studies; Other performing arts

Paperback

Expectations around theatre for young people are too prescribed today. Adults have long-held views on what works are appropriate... [more]

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Is There Life Outside the Box?: An Actor Despairs

Peter Davison

Film, TV & Radio; Individual actors & performers; Television; Autobiography: arts & entertainment

Paperback

His fans have spoken, but despite their requests, Peter Davison has gone ahead and written his autobiography anyway. It wasn't... [more]

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The Beauty of Her Age: A Tale of Sex, Scandal and Money in Victorian England...

Jenifer Roberts

Ballet; Biography: arts & entertainment; History; Social & cultural history

Paperback

The story of a French ballerina who became richer than the Queen. Jenifer Roberts unearths this fascinating story of sex,... [more]

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Who-Ology: The Official Miscellany (Doctor Who)

Cavan Scott, Mark Wright

Television; Science fiction; Trivia & quiz question books; TV tie-in humour

Paperback

Test your knowledge of the last Time Lord and the worlds he's visited in Who-ology, an unforgettable journey through over... [more]

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Symphony of Seduction: The Great Love Stories of Classical Composers

Christopher Lawrence

Music; Western "classical" music; Classical music (c 1750 to c 1830); 20th century & contemporary classical music; Popular culture

Paperback

Love-crazed geniuses, a killer soundtrack and a garnish of imagined pillow talk - here are the real love stories of the great... [more]

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Something Wonderful: Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway Revolution

Todd S. Purdum

Theatre Studies

Hardback

A revelatory portrait of the creative partnership that transformed musical theater and provided the soundtrack to the American... [more]

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Wonderland: Alice on Screen

Emma Mcrae, Alexandra He

Film, TV & Radio; Film movie guides & reviews

Hardback

Wonderland follows Alice's journey through her many cinematic appearances from 1930's silent Alice in Wonderland to the recent... [more]

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Star Wars: The Rebel Files

Daniel Wallace

Films, movies & cinema; Science fiction

Hardback

A repository of Alliance intelligence, The Rebel Files weaves together classified documents, intercepted transmissions, and... [more]

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Memphis Rent Party: The Blues, Rock & Soul in Music's Hometown

Robert Gordon

Music; Rock & Pop music

Hardback

Blues, being the wellspring of all American music for over a century, is always worth studying. Robert does it right. - Keith... [more]

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Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece...

Michael Benson

Film, TV & Radio; Film theory & criticism; Individual film directors, film-makers

Hardback

Synopsis coming soon....... [more]

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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: An Art Book

Drawing & drawings; Music; Rock & Pop music; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups

Hardback

A beautifully produced collection of illustrations by Reinhard Kleist, capturing Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' thirty-year career... [more]

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Vision: Color and Composition for Film

Hans P. Bacher, Sanatan Suryavanshi

Film, TV & Radio; Animated movies & films

Hardback

Featuring hundreds of carefully hand-crafted illustrations as well as significant tuition on how to best compose and use images... [more]

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Comparing Notes - How We Make Sense of Music

Adam Ockelford

Music; Theory of music & musicology

Hardback

How does music work? Indeed, what is (or isn't) music? We are all instinctively musical, but why? Adam Ockelford has the answers.... [more]

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Marvels Avengers: Infinity War Hardcover Ruled Journal

Insight Editions

Film & movie: styles & genres; Graphic novels; Fiction-related items

Hardback

Assemble your heroic ideas and turn them into actions with this hardcover ruled journal inspired by the Avengers: Infinity... [more]