Phil: 1611 books
The Book of Absinthe
A Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
A witty, erudite primer to the world’s most notorious drink.
La Fée Verte (or “The Green Fairy”) has intoxicated artists, poets, and writers ever since the late eighteenth century. Stories abound of absinthe’s drug-like sensations of mood lift and inspirati8on due to the presence of wormwood,...
Punk Avenue
Inside the New York City Underground, 1972-1982
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Finalist, 2017 Indie Book Awards for Autobiography/Memoir, Foreword Reviews
Punk Avenue: The New York City Underground 1972-1982 is an intimate look at author Paris-born Phil Marcade’s first ten years in the United States where drifted from Boston to the West Coast and back, before winding...
Ticket to the Opera
Discovering and Exploring 100 Famous Works, History, Lore, and Singers, with Rec
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
In Ticket to the Opera, Phil G. Goulding finally makes the magic and mystique of opera accessible to all. Here he offers a complete operatic education, including history, definitions of key musical terms, opera lore and gossip, portraits of famous singers and the roles they immortalized, as well as...
Stoking the Creative Fires: 9 Ways to Rekindle Passion and Imagination
9 Ways to Rekindle Passion and Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
In Stoking the Creative Fires, award-winning author and filmmaker, Phil Cousineau, gives readers the tools they need to alleviate burnout and rekindle passion in all areas of their lives. Based on twenty years of teaching, Cousineau offers a multitude of stories, ideas, and exercises drawn from historical...
Design Matters--A Lot
Don't Develop Products Without It!
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2009
This Element is an excerpt from From Concept to Consumer: How to Turn Ideas into Money (ISBN: 9780137137473) by Phil Baker. Available in print and digital formats. Why design matters more now than ever, what every company can learn from Apple, and a five-step industrial design process that works....
by Phil Baker
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2010
This Element is an excerpt from From Concept to Consumer: How to Turn Ideas Into Money (9780137137473) by Phil Baker. Available in print and digital formats. Start any product design project the right way--and dramatically improve your odds of success! Every product should have a Market Requirements...
The IndoChina Chronicles
Travels in Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2007
In this insightful travelogue, American war veteran Phil Karber takes you on a journey down the roads, rivers and rails of Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. He writes insightfully about the political effect of the Vietnam War on the people and places, adding a whole new perspective on the regions history and...
by Phil Armstrong
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
From the - 2 Promises series - book 2 of 2.
The ancient Egyptians worshipped the oldest of Gods leaving a legacy of their relationship with the underworld. In modern times, dangerously rich businessmen plot to unravel this knowledge to rule the world. Beth Martindale is reluctantly drawn into...
Leeds United - From Darkness into White
The Year of Resurrection
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
The 2007-08 season for Leeds United Football Club will have been anything but regular. At the end of the previous season, one of England's most famous football clubs was relegated to what is in effect the Third Division. Still stricken with mountains of debt accumulated under an earlier regime, the...
The Last Laugh
The World of Stand-Up Comics
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2000
The Last Laugh is the first and only book to take readers deep into the bizarre universe of the standup comic, from the classic years of Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, and Shecky Greene, to today's comedy superstars. Phil Berger shows how styles and trends in standup have changed over the past fifty years,...
Classical Music
The 50 Greatest Composers and Their 1,000 Greatest Works
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
MAKE A SOUND INVESTMENT IN CLASSICAL MUSIC
Who are the ten most important classical composers? Who in the world was Palestrina? Why did Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" cause a riot? Which five of each important composer's works should you buy? What is a concerto and how does it differ from...
by Phil Cousineau
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2002
The pricking anticipation of a phone call seconds before ringing the premonition dream of birth exactly nine months before the chance meeting that opens a new career path the eerie realization of a loved one's death half a world away . . . From Jung to Einstein across boundaries of culture and time...
Bali: Heaven and Hell
Chaos and corruption, free love, great surf and high times from the Rajas to Jokowi
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
For a century now, Bali has been the subject of a beautiful mythology created by movies and music, but there are few factual accounts of its transformation from besieged peasant colony to booming tourist mecca.It’s a tale begging to be told: a story of survival in the face of genocide, natural...
Celtic Thunder (Songbook)
The Music
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). Not a group but a show, Celtic Thunder is a collection of traditional and contemporary Celtic music at its finest. Featuring five male vocalists, the show was first staged in Dublin of August 2007, and has since been a mainstay on PBS stations. Our songbook includes...