Biografía: arte y espectáculo

Biografía e historias reales / Biografía: general / Biografía: arte y espectáculo (6211)

Libros Eliminar filtro Biografía e historias reales Eliminar filtro Biografía: general Eliminar filtro Biografía: arte y espectáculo Eliminar filtro Quitar filtros
  • Church Boy in the Dark
    Harrell Chisolm / Har’rell
    This book will undoubtedly be one of the most controversial books of this new decade! The fact based fiction book begins with the story of a young child coming of age in 1980’s New York City, by presenting not only his awareness as a child of his sexuality but of his desire for street life as well, in spite of his middle class upbringing. The author in just (7) seven chapters t...
    Disponible

    29,13 €

  • That Certain Something
    Arlene Francis
    Not what you’d expect. Written and published in 1960 this is not a book about etiquette or charm as would lead from conventional thought. This is a book stuffed with wonderful advice on how to live your best life!A friend once summed up Arlene Francis’ wonderful magnetic quality by saying, 'Arlene is the only person I know who acts as though life were the best party she ever at...
    Disponible

    20,02 €

  • Drawing Directors
    Randal Kleiser
    For many decades, film director Randal Kleiser (Grease, The Blue Lagoon, White Fang) has been drawing sketches of other fellow directors using a technique called blind contour drawing, where you trace the lines of the subject with your eye and simultaneously draw with a pen on the paper without looking down. The difficulty was that the subjects moved or changed positions in mid...
    Disponible

    15,72 €

  • It Took Nine Tailors
    Adolphe Menjou / M. M. Musselman
    It Took Nine Tailors is a story told in Adolphe Menjou’s own voice that recounts life from his 1890 birth in Pittsburgh through days spent working in his father’s restaurants and early travails breaking into the acting business right into detailed stories of breaking into movies and climbing the ladder to become a leading man.It was Menjou’s mustache and a top hat rented for fi...
    Disponible

    17,31 €

  • Clark Gable
    Kathleen Gable
    Written by the widow of one of America’s most beloved screen idols, Clark Gable: A Personal Portrait presents a warm, tender portrait of Clark Gable-the man, the husband, the star-as only she could tell it.Here in fascinating text and a rich array of photographs-many never before published-are scenes and stories of Clark and Kay at home, on location, on hunting trips . . . flash...
    Disponible

    17,88 €

  • Immortal Beloved
    Jeanne Blanchet
    Unique...Interactive...Electrifying! On July 7, 1812 in Teplitz, Austria, Ludwig van Beethoven penciled a ten-page letter to his 'Immortal Beloved.' The missive, which was never mailed, was not discovered until after the famous composer’s death. Even today the intended recipient remains unknown and is the topic of heated debate among scholars and music historians. Just who was ...
    Disponible

    15,88 €

  • A Walk on the Wild Side
    Earl Wild
    This is a Memoir by the great American Classical Concert Pianist Earl Wild. Mr. Wild passed in January 2010 at the age of 94. He spent 30 years working on this book with Michael Rolland Davis.When Earl Wild passed, Michael completed and released his Memoirs in 2011 as a hardbound copy with over 900 pages and multiple photos. In 2023 this Memoir was heavily re-edited and release...
    Disponible

    84,24 €

  • The Fondas
    Danforth Prince / Darwin Porter
    Throughout his forty-five year career, Henry Fonda-a stable, reassuring archetype of the American male-never gave a bad performance. Personal tragedies included five wives (two of whom committed suicide), and affairs which starred such mega-divas as Lucille Ball, Joan Crawford, and Bette Davis. This, Volume Two of Blood Moon’s 'Fonda' project, turns klieg lights on three emotio...
    Disponible

    46,89 €

  • Put it in the Chicken
    Glen Felgate
    Despite being blown up in a TV building in Sarajevo and handed over to rebels in Sierra Leone, Glen Felgate is unprepared for the challenge of setting up Cambodia’s Number 1 TV station.Watch Glen stage Cambodia’s first international pop concert - without sound, televise cock-fighting programs at the deputy PM’s request, and generally fumble his way through Khmer culture. This i...
    Disponible

    17,28 €

  • Put it in the Chicken - LARGE PRINT
    Glen Felgate
    Despite being blown up in a TV building in Sarajevo and handed over to rebels in Sierra Leone, Glen Felgate is unprepared for the challenge of setting up Cambodia’s Number 1 TV station.Watch Glen stage Cambodia’s first international pop concert - without sound, televise cock-fighting programs at the deputy PM’s request, and generally fumble his way through Khmer culture. This i...
    Disponible

    25,97 €

  • Put it in the Chicken
    Glen Felgate
    Despite being blown up in a TV building in Sarajevo and handed over to rebels in Sierra Leone, Glen Felgate is unprepared for the challenge of setting up Cambodia’s Number 1 TV station.Watch Glen stage Cambodia’s first international pop concert - without sound, televise cock-fighting programs at the deputy PM’s request, and generally fumble his way through Khmer culture. This i...
    Disponible

    25,07 €

  • Put it in the Chicken - LARGE PRINT
    Glen Felgate
    Despite being blown up in a TV building in Sarajevo and handed over to rebels in Sierra Leone, Glen Felgate is unprepared for the challenge of setting up Cambodia’s Number 1 TV station.Watch Glen stage Cambodia’s first international pop concert - without sound, televise cock-fighting programs at the deputy PM’s request, and generally fumble his way through Khmer culture. This i...
    Disponible

    31,15 €

  • Beethoven - Piano Sonatas - Op. 90-Op. 111
    Terence M.. Russell
    The subjects of the monographs in this series are selected works of Beethoven relating to their creation origins and reception history.They incorporate contextual accounts of Beethoven and his contemporaries and estimations of his music as expressed by musicians and musicologist in the nineteenth century and those closer to our own time. The individual titles in the series are ...
    Disponible

    25,08 €

  • Beethoven - String Quartets - Early Period - Op.18 Numbers 1-6
    Terence M. Russell
    The subjects of the monographs in this series are selected works of Beethoven relating to their creation origins and reception history.They incorporate contextual accounts of Beethoven and his contemporaries and estimations of his music as expressed by musicians and musicologist in the nineteenth century and those closer to our own time. The individual titles in the series are ...
    Disponible

    19,99 €

  • Beethoven - String Quartets - The Galitzin Quartets - Op. 127, 132, and Op. 130
    Terence M. Russell
    The subjects of the monographs in this series are selected works of Beethoven relating to their creation origins and reception history.They incorporate contextual accounts of Beethoven and his contemporaries and estimations of his music as expressed by musicians and musicologist in the nineteenth century and those closer to our own time. The individual titles in the series are ...
    Disponible

    20,53 €

  • Beethoven - An Anthology of Selected Writings
    Terrence M. Russell
    The subjects of the monographs in this series are selected works of Beethoven relating to their creation origins and reception history.They incorporate contextual accounts of Beethoven and his contemporaries and estimations of his music as expressed by musicians and musicologist in the nineteenth century and those closer to our own time. The individual titles in the series are ...
    Disponible

    25,29 €

  • Beethoven - String Quartets - Op.59 Nos.1-3; Op. 74; Op. 95
    Terence M. Russell
    The subjects of the monographs in this series are selected works of Beethoven relating to their creation origins and reception history.They incorporate contextual accounts of Beethoven and his contemporaries and estimations of his music as expressed by musicians and musicologist in the nineteenth century and those closer to our own time. The individual titles in the series are ...
    Disponible

    20,74 €

  • Beethoven - Piano Sonatas - Middle Period - Op. 31-Op. 81A
    Terence M Russell
    The subjects of the monographs in this series are selected works of Beethoven relating to their creation origins and reception history.They incorporate contextual accounts of Beethoven and his contemporaries and estimations of his music as expressed by musicians and musicologist in the nineteenth century and those closer to our own time. The individual titles in the series are ...
    Disponible

    25,30 €

  • Beethoven - The Piano Sonatas - An Anthology of Selected Writings
    Terence M. Russell
    The subjects of the monographs in this series are selected works of Beethoven relating to their creation origins and reception history.They incorporate contextual accounts of Beethoven and his contemporaries and estimations of his music as expressed by musicians and musicologist in the nineteenth century and those closer to our own time. The individual titles in the series are ...
    Disponible

    20,31 €

  • Beethoven - The Piano Sonatas - Early Period - Op. 2-Op. 28
    Terence M. Russell
    The subjects of the monographs in this series are selected works of Beethoven relating to their creation origins and reception history.They incorporate contextual accounts of Beethoven and his contemporaries and estimations of his music as expressed by musicians and musicologist in the nineteenth century and those closer to our own time. The individual titles in the series are ...
    Disponible

    25,58 €

  • SHAW
    Orlanda Shaw
    From Bums to Bentleys is a true, raw, uncensored story about the life and times of an innocent little girl from an inner-city ghetto filled with drugs, and violence, who didn’t give up.  That little girl is me, Orlanda Shaw.  With the turn of each page, you will be more and more intrigued, as you dive deeper into the book to understand the mental mind state of a TRUE survivor. T...
    Disponible

    24,43 €

  • SHAW
    Orlanda Shaw
    From Bums to Bentleys is a true, raw, uncensored story about the life and times of an innocent little girl from an inner-city ghetto filled with drugs, and violence, who didn’t give up.  That little girl is me, Orlanda Shaw.  With the turn of each page, you will be more and more intrigued, as you dive deeper into the book to understand the mental mind state of a TRUE survivor. T...
    Disponible

    16,56 €

  • English Book
    Austin Hunsaker
    This book is a combination of stories and poems that I, Austin Hunsaker, created during my Creative Writing class at Philomath High School. ...
    Disponible

    7,99 €

  • Rock My Soul
    Stephen G. Metzger
    On June 28, 2015, retired California State University, Chico librarian Jim Dwyer was found unconscious on the floor of the men’s room in a mini-mart outside Sacramento, apparently on his way home from the Bay Area opening night of the Grateful Dead’s Fare Thee Well tour. He died that evening in a nearby hospital. A nationally recognized literary scholar, Jim had dubbed his alte...
    Disponible

    25,19 €

  • The Great Clivette
    Michael David MacBride
    Merton Clivette once dominated the 1920s and 1930s art world. He ruled the Orpheum Circuit as a magician, shadowgraphist, mindreader, and acrobat. He performed in the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show. Clivette worked with Houdini and PT Barnum, and he inspired Mark Twain. He taught Sir Arthur Conan Doyle how to be a medium. He went by names such as Clivette the Great, The Man in Bla...
    Disponible

    16,31 €

  • The Great Clivette
    Michael David MacBride
    Merton Clivette once dominated the 1920s and 1930s art world. He ruled the Orpheum Circuit as a magician, shadowgraphist, mindreader, and acrobat. He performed in the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show. Clivette worked with Houdini and PT Barnum, and he inspired Mark Twain. He taught Sir Arthur Conan Doyle how to be a medium. He went by names such as Clivette the Great, The Man in Bla...
    Disponible

    41,58 €

  • Making the Low Notes
    Bill Harrison
    A bass player navigates his way through the muddy waters of Chicago’s music scene Bill Harrison chronicles his journey from bumbling music student to successful professional bass player in late twentieth-century Chicago. Told with a mixture of wry humor and hard-won insight, Making the Low Notes gives readers an insider’s peek into the prosaic life of a working musician. Harris...
    Disponible

    15,14 €

  • 'Dear Mr. G.'- The biography of Clark Gable
    Inez Cocke / Jean Garceau
    'Dear Mr. G.-' The Biography of Clark Gable is a detailed and intimate look at the life and career of one of Hollywood’s most iconic leading men. Written by Jean Garceau, the book delves into the complex and often private world of Clark Gable, exploring his childhood, his rise to fame, his personal relationships, and his enduring legacy.The book begins with Gable’s early years ...
    Disponible

    19,54 €

  • Christian Petzold
    Marco Abel
    Christian Petzold (b. 1960) is the best-known filmmaker associated with the 'Berlin School' of postunification German cinema. Identifying as an intellectual, Petzold self-consciously approaches his work for both the big and the small screen by weaving critical reflection on the very conditions of contemporary filmmaking into his approach. Archeologically reconstructing genre fi...
    Disponible

    20,74 €

  • A Hardcore Heart
    David Gamage
    Packed with first-hand stories and unpolished nuggets, this book plots a path through UKHC in the ’90s as it developed into an underground scene.Focusing on the people; artists, promoters, venues, record labels and fanzines, and following the evolution of the author’s bands, it looks at the intricacies of the post-punk genre and bursts with ’straight from the horse’s mouth’ har...
    Disponible

    61,19 €