Continuum imprint: 595 books
by John Niven
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2005
*"*Music From Big Pink is a moving book that succeeds not just in vividly evoking its time and place but in distilling one young man's cliched and minor destiny into something approaching tragedy....This well-written first novel captures not just some of the dreams of that bygone era, but the...
Art & Fear
Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
"This is a book about making art. Ordinary art. Ordinary art means something like: all art not made by Mozart. After all, art is rarely made by Mozart-like people; essentially—statistically speaking—there aren't any people like that. Geniuses get made once-a-century or so, yet good art gets made...
The View From The Studio Door
How Artists Find Their Way In An Uncertain World
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
In the perennial best-seller Art & Fear, Ted Orland (with David Bayles) examined the obstacles that artists encounter each time they enter their studio and stand before a new blank canvas. Now, in The View From The Studio Door, Orland turns his attention to broader issues that stand to either side...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
The second compendium of extracts from Continuum's acclaimed and successful 33 1/3 series, Volume 2 features 20 sharp, savvy and very different writers' takes on albums by Neutral Milk Hotel, Sonic Youth, My Bloody Valentine, David Bowie, the Pixies, the Beastie Boys, Nirvana, R.E.M, the Band and many more. A perfect gift for the music lover in your life!
Power of Reading
From Socrates to Twitter
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Here is a natural companion to Christopher Booker`s bestselling The Seven Basic Plots (Continuum) and John Gross`s seminal study The Rise and Fall of the Man of Letters (Weidenfeld and Nicolson). The most eminent cultural and social historian Frank Furedi presents an eclectic and entirely original...
by Professor John Cottingham
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
In Why Believe? (Continuum) Professor John Cottingham argued that every human being possesses impulses and aspirations for which religious belief offers a home. His new book, How to Believe is concerned not so much with why we should believe as with what leads a person to become a believer. Cottingham...
Projectify
How to use projects to engage your people in strategy that evolves your business
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Even the best laid strategic plans are not enough to keep on top of today’s dynamic and competitive marketplace.
Today, the 20th century adage that a business is 'either growing or dying' is no longer good enough - you can't just do what you’ve always done and make it bigger, or do it...
by David R. Cerbone
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2008
Continuum's Guides for the Perplexed are clear, concise and accessible introductions to thinkers, writers and subjects that students and readers can find especially challenging. Concentrating specifically on what it is that makes the subject difficult to fathom, these books explain and explore key...
God and Evil
In the Theology of St Thomas Aquinas
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2010
Herbert McCabe was one of the most original and creative theologians of recent years. Continuum has published numerous volumes of unpublished typescripts left behind by him following his untimely death in 2001. This book is the sixth to appear. McCabe was deeply immersed in the philosophical theology...
Right or Wrong
The Memoirs of Lord Bell
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
Tim Bell is the original 'spin doctor'; the Chairman of Bell Pottinger public relations, and one of the best known figures in UK media communications. Right or Wrong is his highly personal account of political, commercial and social life from the '70s to the present day. With a refreshingly uncompromising...
Jerry Lee Lewis
Lost and Found
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
A superb new study of Jerry Lee Lewis that's as intense and fast paced as the life of "The Killer" himself, from the height of fame to the bumpy road that followed
"The category in which Jerry Lee Lewis truly belongs is 'Jerry Lee Lewis.' The Killer is as big as Mount Rushmore,...
Looking for Calvin and Hobbes
The Unconventional Story of Bill Watterson and his Revolutionary Comic Strip
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
For ten years, Calvin and Hobbes was one the world's most beloved comic strips. And then, on the last day of 1995, the strip ended. Its mercurial and reclusive creator, Bill Watterson, not only finished the strip but withdrew entirely from public life.
In Looking for Calvin and Hobbes, Nevin...
Song and Circumstance
The Work of David Byrne from Talking Heads to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
For over three decades now, David Byrne has been a leading light in American culture - in popular music, experimental theatre, film, television, fine art, and writing. Based on the cultural capital he gained with his groundbreaking band Talking Heads, Byrne is able to enter into collaborations with...
Inside the Christmas Story
Reflections for Advent
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012
If you are troubled by the loss of 'Christ' in 'Christmas'; and by the noise, pressure and materialism of secular Advent with its emphasis on material and commercial rather than spiritual preparation for Christmas, this book will help you to read and think about Advent and Christmas in a new way....