Joel: 1733 books

*Cool. *It was a new word and a new way to be, and in a single generation, it became the supreme compliment of American culture. The Origins of Cool in Postwar America uncovers the hidden history of this concept and its new set of codes that came to define a global attitude and style. As Joel Dinerstein...

Embrace God's blessings every morning and experience the glory of His promises with thirty-one powerful Scripture lessons based on a regular, favorite feature of Joel Osteen's sermons at Lakewood Church. Broken into thirty-one segments, this book defines the most powerful blessings in Scripture...

In Elvis Presley: A Southern Life, one of the most admired Southern historians of our time takes on one of the greatest cultural icons of all time. The result is a masterpiece: a vivid, gripping biography, set against the rich backdrop of Southern society--indeed, American society--in the second half...

J. S. Bach's sonatas and partitas for solo violin have been central to the violin repertoire since the mid-eighteenth century. This engaging volume is the first comprehensive exploration of the place of these works within Bach's music: it focuses on their structural and stylistic features as they...

In 1975 legendary bassist Lemmy decreed that Motörhead would be “the dirtiest rock’n’roll band in the world. If you moved in next door, your lawn would die.” Overkill: The Untold Story Of Motörhead tells the whole story of the ultimate rock trip. The Omnibus Enhanced edition includes...

Over 17 years and eight albums, heavy metal band Machine Head have sold millions of units, earned a Grammy nomination and won personal awards from Metal Hammer and other magazines. The story is a classic rise, fall and rise again scenario -- they exploded onto the metal scene in 1994, enjoyed a successful...

Joel Benjamin is one of the most prominent faces in the history of US chess. At thirteen years of age he broke Bobby Fischer's record as the youngest ever national master, and this was followed by countless tournament successes. Perhaps most famously, in 1997 he hit the headlines when he became the...

The very first book about the Anglo-American metal band Tool explores not only their uncompromising music but also their unsettling self-made image based on mythological symbols and arcane theories. The quartet of master musicians - Maynard James Keenan Danny Carey Justin Chancellor and Adam Jones -...

"His use of language, his ability to twist the narrative and turn the obscure into the profound is outstanding." – The Stage Looking for a creative writing guide out there that will tell you how to write better? A book to tell you how to structure a perfect plot, create great characters,...

Joel McIver erzählt mit akribischer Genauigkeit Metallicas Geschichte, enthüllt die Mythen, die seit Jahren mit der Band umgeben und verrät die ungeschminkte Wahrheit über seine Entstehung und seine Entwicklung. Fangen Sie an mit den frühen Jahren mit den volltrunkenen Club-Gigs und endlosen...

Von den meisten als die erste Heavy-Metal-Band überhaupt bezeichnet und von Millionen vergöttert, hat die Band in ständig wechselnder Besetzung weltweit Tausende von Konzerten gespielt, dabei die unheilige Dreifaltigkeit aus Sex, Drogen und Skandalen ausgelebt und auf diesem Weg so ziemlich jede...

Los Angeles, 1956. Glamorous. Prosperous. The place to see and be seen. But beneath the shiny exterior beats a dark heart. For when the sun goes down, L.A. becomes the noir city of James Ellroy's L.A. Confidential or Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins novels. Segregation is the unwritten law of the land....

At eighty-seven, Patricia Wilde remains a grande dame of the ballet world. As a young star she toured America in the company of the Ballet Russe. In her heyday in the 1950s and ’60s, she was a first-generation member and principal dancer of New York City Ballet during the uniquely dramatic Balanchine...

Ceci est le tout premier livre écrit sur Tool, lequel est bien plus qu’un simple groupe de métal ; il explore non seulement leur musique sans concession, mais également l’image trouble que le quatuor s’est fabriquée en se basant sur divers symboles mythologiques et d’obscures théories. Maynard...