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"My Life was written in Moscow in 1921--1922, when Chagall was thirty-five years old. Although long out-of-print, it remains one of the most extraordinarily inventive and beautifully told of all autobi"

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My piano recital is about to start. I feel a thumping in my heart! These are the words to the beautifully illustrated children's poem called My Piano Recital. Every musician feels anxious right before a performance, but those who focus on their songs and not the audience, play their best! The book also contains original piano songs with fun lyrics and QR codes that link a recording to each song!

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Buster Keaton's autobiography is a view into the quirky mind behind the stoic face of the legendary film comedian.

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A terrific new, can't-put-it-down autobiography (New York Observer) by the extraordinary man who pioneered music festivals in Newport, New Orleans, and around the world

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"Cook's accounts of periodicals are consistently informative, clear, and penetrating: his sensitivity to much of what he discusses, is, at times, positively uncanny." Reference Books Bulletin

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With over 100 images and a lively text, Anne Prather documents her life as a congenitally blind woman who gained sight in later life. She explores every aspect of her visual world, from the physical to the spiritual.

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This book identifies the cultural and devotional conventions underlying expressions of mystical love in poetry and music of the German baroque. It sheds new light on the seemingly erotic overtones in settings of the Song of Songs and dialogues between Christ and the faithful s...

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For Naked City, his first collection, Weegee cruised the streets of 1940s New York in the wee hours in search of the sensational. Lewd, louche, licentious but always brimming with life (except when brimming with death), Weegee's photographs have endured decades of modern art criticism and are again enjoying a much-deserved cult revival.

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The most comprehensive and authoritative academic examination of Nancy Meyers' work and career.

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Nationalist African Cinema: Legacy and Transformations reexamines African cinema of the nationalist era within the context of contemporary major Euro-American film trends. It argues that that the aesthetic diversification of African cinema can be traced as far back as the nationalist era.

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Written for the both the scholar and amateur enthusiast interested in modern classical music and American social history, Nationalist and Populist Composers creates a contextual frame through which all audiences can better understand such eternal works as Rhapsody in Blue, Appalachian Spring, and West Side Story.

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This book looks at portrayals of Native Americans, from the silent and early sound films through the present, covering more than 800 films, including The Vanishing American, They Died with Their Boots On, Cheyenne Autumn, Dances with Wolves, and The Lone Ranger (2013). A compl...

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This is the book for anyone who aspires to the title "informed citizen." It clearly explains how political news works, how the media influences readers-and how to sort through it all to be a better, smarter consumer of political news.

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An entertaining, abundantly illustrated history of a Chicago landmark, inspired by Daniel Burnham and a feat of engineering, now a grand locale for public recreation.

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Examines the implications of the portrayals of Nazis in low-brow culture and that culture's re-emergence. This title also examines past intersections of National Socialism and popular cinema and the reemergence of this imagery in contemporary visual culture.

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Examines the implications of the portrayals of Nazis in low-brow culture and that culture's re-emergence today. This title also examines when and why the Nazisploitation genre emerged as it did, how it establishes and violates taboos, and why this iconography resonates with contemporary audiences.