Howard: 4650 books
Marc Blitzstein:His Life, His Work, His World
His Life, His Work, His World
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
A composer and lyricist of enormous innovation and influence, Marc Blitzstein remains one of the most versatile and fascinating figures in the history of American music, his creative output running the gamut from films scores and Broadway operas to art songs and chamber pieces. A prominent leftist...
by Howard Gray
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
Howard Gray. A series of biographies of great composers which present the subjects against the social background of their times. Each draws on personal letters and recollections, engravings, paintings and - where they exist - photographs, to build up a complete picture of the composer’s life.
by Howard Johns
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2006
With Hollywood's Celebrity Playground, Howard Johns picks up where his Palm Springs Confidential left off-this time covering the other fabled desert resort towns that stretch from Hollywood to Las Vegas. This book includes the million dollar cities of Rancho Mirage, Palm Desert, Indian Wells, and historic...
Changing Lenses
A New Focus for Crime and Justice
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
Crime victims have many needs, most of which our criminal justice system ignores. In fact, the justice system often increases the injury. Offenders are less ignored by this system, but their real needsfor accountability, for closure, for healingare also left unaddressed.Such failures are not...
City of Promises
A History of the Jews of New York, 3-volume box set
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
New York Jews, so visible and integral to the culture, economy and politics of America’s greatest city, has eluded the grasp of historians for decades. Surprisingly, no comprehensive history of New York Jews has ever been written. City of Promises: The History of the Jews in New York, a three volume...
A History of the Oratorio
Vol. 4: The Oratorio in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
With this volume, Howard Smither completes his monumental History of the Oratorio. Volumes 1 and 2, published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1977, treated the oratorio in the Baroque era, while Volume 3, published in 1987, explored the genre in the Classical era. Here, Smither surveys...
by John Howard Reid
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2011
M-G-M (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) was generally regarded as Hollywood's number one movie studio. Easily the world's largest and most glamorous, the studio, under the leadership of Louis B. Mayer, often boasted that it had "more stars than there are in heaven" under contract. This was true. By...
Creating Minds
An Anatomy of Creativity as Seen Through the Lives of Freud, Einstein, Picasso, Stravinsky, Eliot, G
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
Howard Gardner changed the way we think about intelligence. In his classic work Frames of Mind, he undermined the common notion that intelligence is a single capacity that every human being possesses to a greater or lesser extent. Now building on the framework he developed for understanding intelligence,...
Fred & Rose
The Full Story of Fred and Rose West and the Gloucester House of Horrors
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
The definitive account of one of Britain**’**s most notorious killer couples, who loved, tortured, and slayed together as husband and wife.
Updated with a new afterword from the author on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the arrests
From the outside, 25 Cromwell Street in Gloucester,...
by Joseph Howard Tyson
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2005
Until 1997, author Joseph Howard Tyson did not know that he descended from Germantown's original settlers. This realization deepened his concern for Philadelphia and his appreciation of William Penn's legacy. During the past eight years, he has tried to view the city through Penn's eyes. Penn's Luminous...
by John Howard Reid
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011
A feast for western movie fans, this book takes a close look at over 400 of the 2,000 DVDs currently available. In addition to detailed reviews of classics (Abilene Town, The Big Country, Broken Arrow, Curtain Call at Cactus Creek, Destry Rides Again, Down Mexico Way, Fargo Express, Fort Worth, Frontier...
by John Howard Reid
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
As the author of the acclaimed "Merryll Manning" series of crime and detective novels, Movie Mystery and Suspense is a topic right up my alley. Of course, this is not the first, nor is it the only movie book, in which I've tackled the mystery and suspense genre. Other books include "Great...
The Confession of Joe Cullen
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2011
A New York detective’s investigation of a Catholic priest’s murder leads him to a shocking drug plot that reaches the highest seats of American power
Detective Mel Freedman’s life changes forever the day Joe Cullen walks into his New York City office to confess to murder. Cullen, a pilot...
No Time To Think
The Menace of Media Speed and the 24-hour News Cycle
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
An eviscerating look at the state of journalism in the age of the 24 hour news cycle by a Pulitzer Prize-winning television critic and a veteran news correspondent.
No Time To Think focuses on the insidious and increasing portion of the news media that, due to the dangerously extreme speed...