Shapiro: 578 books
by Nat Hentoff, Nat Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
"Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn." — Charlie Parker
"What is jazz? The rhythm — the feeling." — Coleman Hawkins
"The best sound usually comes the first time you do something. If it's spontaneous,...
Creed
From Zero to Platinum
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2000
Creed's story is indeed an inspirational one. The group of rockers originating from Tallahassee, Florida, made an indelible impression with their debut album, My Own Prison, released on the independent Wind Up Records label. Creed dominated the rock charts and made history when all four singles from...
Lorde: Your Heroine
How This Young Feminist Broke All the Rules and Succeeded
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
Lorde is the voice of her generation, a head-strong, determined young woman who knows what she wants and has known how she was going to get it from an early age.
She's a renowned feminist, a performer with a minimalist/Goth/Electropop style that is as haunting as it is incredibly enticing...
Stephenie Meyer
The Unauthorized Biography of the Creator of the Twilight Saga
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
The romance of vampire Edward and human Bella in the books Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn has captured the imaginations of millions of readers and become an amazing success story. No less amazing is the story of how an unknown Arizona wife and mother, Stephenie Meyer, became a superstar...
Who Is Katie Holmes?
An Unauthorized Biography
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2013
Who is Katie Holmes we all wondered when she defied all odds and stealthy left her older, richer more powerful Hollywood husband with her celebrity daughter in tow arriving in New York City to welcome arms, and a starring role on Broadway. Where did she get that independent streak? ...
by Marc Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Once upon a time, Tim Tebow had the world on a string. Will he be able to do it again?
An all around nice guy with mad, albeit unorthodox, football skills that saw him shattering high school and college records on the way to the most coveted award in intercollegiate sports, The Heisman...
by Steve Stone, C.W. Cooke, Sandra C. Ruckdeschel
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2010
You know their songs, now read their stories. Madonna, Cher, Kylie Minogue, Olivia Newton-John, and Whitney Houston dominated the pop charts during the era daring age of excess, Reagonimcs, the Fall of the Berlin Wall, and the birth of the internet, proving themselves members of StormFront’s famed...
by Marc Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
Justin Bieber is 18. He can legally drink, drive and be whatever he wants to be. Justin Bieber is legally an adult. But the question remains...Is the teen sensation up to being a man?
Legally Bieber...Justin Bieber At 18: An Unauthorized Look At His First Year As An Adult'follows the multi-platinum...
by Howard Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2008
"The point is, and I learned this a long time ago before I could let other things into my life to have the opportunity and the chance to play hockey, anywhere at anytime meant the world to me. To be playing the game with my friends on the ice, in a parking lot or in someone's backyard or basement...
Les Six
The French Composers and Their Mentors Jean Cocteau and Erik Satie
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
The absorbing, comprehensive story of an absolutely unique experiment in classical music, involving many key figures of the Dada and Surrealist movements Les Six were a group of talented composers who came together in a unique collaboration that has never been matched in classical music, and here...
The Top 100 American Situation Comedies
An Objective Ranking
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
A number of books and articles have been written ranking the best situation comedies of all time. These have all had something in common—subjective criteria based on the authors’ opinions. This book attempts an objective ranking of the best 100 American sitcoms, based on a mathematical formula...
Magic Trash
A Story of Tyree Guyton and His Art
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Vacant lots. Abandoned houses. Trash--lots of trash. Heidelberg Street was in trouble!
Tyree Guyton loved his childhood home--that's where his grandpa Sam taught him to "paint the world." So he wanted to wake people up... to make them see Detroit's crumbling communities.
Paintbrush...
Tao of Photography
Seeing Beyond Seeing
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
This provocative, visually stunning volume draws upon Taoist teachings to explore the creative and spiritual dimensions of the art of photography. Excerpts from the Taoist classic the Chuang-tzu and the writings of Western aesthetes are complemented by over 60 photographs from the work of such canonical...
The Prosody Handbook
A Guide to Poetic Form
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Written by two major American poets, this guide to versification is immensely useful for anyone interested in poetry or in general poetic structure. Its systematic study of meter, tempo, rhyme, and other components of verse incorporates countless vivid illustrative examples.Concise and informal, The...