Sunday, April 27, 2025

iTunes Store: Top 25 Books in Arts & Entertainment 2025-04-27

JoAnna Robinson, Dave Gonzales & Gavin Edwards - MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios artwork MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios
JoAnna Robinson, Dave Gonzales & Gavin Edwards
Genre: Movie
Price: $20.99
Publish Date: October 10, 2023
Publisher: Liveright
Seller: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Empire • Christmas Gift Guide 2024: Books For Movie-Lovers "A superb chronicle of how Marvel Studios conquered Hollywood…. This definitive account of the Hollywood juggernaut thrills." —Publishers Weekly, starred review The unauthorized, behind-the-scenes story of the stunning rise—and suddenly uncertain reign—of the most transformative cultural phenomenon of our time: the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Marvel Entertainment was a moribund toymaker not even twenty years ago. Today, Marvel Studios is the dominant player both in Hollywood and in global pop culture. How did an upstart studio conquer the world? In MCU, beloved culture writers Joanna Robinson, Dave Gonzales, and Gavin Edwards draw on more than a hundred interviews with actors, producers, directors, and writers to present the definitive chronicle of Marvel Studios and its sole, ongoing production, the Marvel Cinematic Universe. For all its outward success, the studio was forged by near-constant conflict, from the contentious hiring of Robert Downey Jr. for its 2008 debut, Iron Man, all the way up to the disappointment of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and shocking departures of multiple Marvel executives in 2023. Throughout, the authors demonstrate that the original genius of Marvel was its resurrection and modification of Hollywood’s old studio system. But will it survive its own spectacular achievements? Dishy and authoritative, MCU is the first book to tell the Marvel Studios story in full—and an essential, effervescent account of American mass culture.



Chris Bourke - Crowded House: Something So Strong artwork Crowded House: Something So Strong
Chris Bourke
Genre: Music
Price: $4.99
Publish Date: August 14, 2014
Publisher: Pan Macmillan Australia
Seller: Macmillan Publishers Australia and Pan Macmillan Australia

'It's pretty stupid comparing us to the Beatles. There were four of them. There's only three of us.' — Paul Hester Crowded House promised to become the most successful band ever to have come out of Australasia. When 'Don't Dream It's Over' and 'Something So Strong' exploded in the US charts, worldwide success looked inevitable. Critics compared them musically to the Beatles and fans adored them for their warmth and humour on stage. Four brilliant albums later, their rollercoaster ride of achievements and disappointments came to an end on the steps of the Sydney Opera House, in front of one of the largest audiences in Australian history. The dream was over, the band had finally broken up, their enormous promise was only partially fulfilled. In this definitive account, New Zealand journalist Chris Bourke has written the true story of the first phase of Crowded House. With unparalleled access to all the band members, their families, friends, musical collaborators, managers, and record company personnel, he has captured their essence. It is a unique tale of musical chemistry, family bonds and the personal costs of pursuing an artistic vision. From the manic energy of the recording studio to the machinations of the record industry, this riveting account is a book for every Crowded House fan. This latest edition of Crowded House: Something So Strong includes new material from the author.



Stephanie von Reiswitz - Murder Most Puzzling artwork Murder Most Puzzling
Twenty Mysterious Cases to Solve
Stephanie von Reiswitz
Genre: Games
Price: $14.99
Publish Date: August 25, 2020
Publisher: Chronicle Books LLC
Seller: Chronicle Books LLC

Murder Most Puzzling is a gorgeous and witty book that invites readers to play detective and solve a series of absorbing, murder-mystery-themed puzzles. Readers are cast as the faithful sidekick to amateur sleuth Medea Thorne in order to solve 20 puzzling cases. Meet a cast of colorful characters—from ghost hunter extraordinaire Augustin Artaud, to Leonard Fanshawe, a competitor in the Annual Perfect Pickled Foods Festival. • A witty riff on the classic whodunit that brings out everyone's inner detective • Each mystery is sumptuously illustrated. • The mysteries require different deductive tactics, making them a good brain exercise A body in the topiary garden, a death at a clairvoyants' convention, and the mysterious accident of the boating lake—prepare for a whirlwind adventure, laced with humor and a dash of the macabre. This book will delight fans of Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Edward Gorey. • This is a collection of darkly humorous puzzles. • Features illustrations in a gorgeous gothic style by Stephanie von Reiswitz • Perfect for Edward Gorey fans, mystery buffs, puzzle addicts, and fans of true crime podcasts and TV shows • You'll love this book if you love books like The Gashlycrumb by Edward Gorey, File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents by Lemony Snicket, and The Composer Is Dead by Lemony Snicket.



Elise Petter - Dr House - Kit de survie du série-addict artwork Dr House - Kit de survie du série-addict
Elise Petter
Genre: Arts & Entertainment
Price: $16.99
Publish Date: June 01, 2010
Publisher: L'Archipel
Seller: Interforum, S.A.

Cynique et irrespectueux, génial et odieux, Gregory House suscite admiration ou exaspération... mais ne laisse personne indifférent ! Des millions de spectateurs suivent les enquêtes de ce maître de l'objectivité scientifique, se réjouissent de ses sarcasmes et de ses caprices.Dr House : le guide non officiel révèle les coulisses de la série. On y découvre l'équipe de producteurs et scénaristes à l'origine du feuilleton, des anecdotes sur la vie ou la carrière des acteurs, dont le charismatique Dr House, Hugh Laurie. La seconde partie de l'ouvrage aborde personnages, intrigues amoureuses, lieux, cas médicaux, exemples de consultation type, meilleures répliques. Rien n'est oublié, pas même un guide complet des épisodes des saisons 4 et 5 et d'un aperçu de la saison 6.



Corey Christiansen - Essential Jazz Lines: Miles Davis - Guitar Edition artwork Essential Jazz Lines: Miles Davis - Guitar Edition
Corey Christiansen
Genre: Music
Price: $24.99
Publish Date: December 17, 2010
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications, Inc.
Seller: Mel Bay Publications, Inc.

Miles Davis was one of the most innovative musicians of the 20th century. This book will shed some insight into the music and soloing devices he used during his earlier periods. First, to help the student better understand Miles' early bebop style of improvising, the authors discuss the use of guide tones, bebop scales, three to flat nine, targeting, and other techniques commonly used in the bebop language. Then the text presents numerous one-, two-, and three-measure jazz lines in Miles' style grouped by the harmony over which they can be used. The accompanying play-along audio provides the rhythm parts for each section, including a track for each section that modulates through the cycle of fourths, helping you master the phrases in all keys. By combining various lines, musicians will be able to mix and match numerous combinations of these lines to play over ii-V-I progressions, turnarounds, and other harmonic situations. Incorporate these essential jazz lines into your vocabulary and you will be able to create your own lines in the style of Miles Davis. Includes access to online audio.



Jeremy Silman - Complete Book of Chess Strategy artwork Complete Book of Chess Strategy
Grandmaster Techniques from A to Z
Jeremy Silman
Genre: Games
Price: $9.99
Publish Date: July 01, 1998
Publisher: Siles Press
Seller: Silman-James Press Inc.

An easy-to-understand guide to chess strategy-conceptual planning-has always been the amateur's dream. The Complete Book of Chess Strategy makes that dream a reality. This comprehensive guide in dictionary form, the first of its kind, makes all aspects of chess strategy quick, easy, and painlessly accessible to players of all degrees of strength. Each strategic concept is listed alphabetically and followed by a clear, easy-to-absorb explanation accompanied by examples of how this strategy is used in practice. World Champions such as Steinitz, Capablanca, Petrosian, Fischer, and Karpov have used these strategies in virtually all of their games. Now you can arm yourself with their weapons. As you incorporate these weapons into your own play, they will enrich your appreciation of the game and lead you to one beautiful victory after another.



Michael Pilhofer & Holly Day - Music Theory For Dummies artwork Music Theory For Dummies
Michael Pilhofer & Holly Day
Genre: Music
Price: $20.99
Publish Date: June 14, 2019
Publisher: Wiley
Seller: John Wiley & Sons Canada, Ltd.

Tune in to how music really works   Whether you’re a student, a performer, or simply a fan, this book makes music theory easy, providing you with a friendly guide to the concepts, artistry, and technical mastery that underlie the production of great music. You’ll quickly become fluent in the fundamentals of knocking out beats, reading scores, and anticipating where a piece should go, giving you a deeper perspective on the works of others — and bringing an extra dimension to your own.  Tracking to a typical college-level course, Music Theory For Dummies breaks difficult concepts down to manageable chunks and takes into account every aspect of musical production and appreciation — from the fundamentals of notes and scales to the complexities of expression and instrument tone color. It also examines the latest teaching techniques — all the more important as the study of music, now shown to provide cognitive and learning benefits for both children and adults, becomes more prevalent at all levels. Master major and minor scales, intervals, pitches, and clefs Understand basic notation, time signals, tempo, dynamics, and navigation Employ melodies, chords, progressions, and phrases to form music Compose harmonies and accompanying melodies for voice and instruments Wherever you want to go musically — as a writer or performer, or just as someone who wants to enjoy music to its fullest — this approachable guide gives you everything you need to hear!



Robert McKee - Story artwork Story
Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting
Robert McKee
Genre: Movie
Price: $29.99
Publish Date: September 28, 2010
Publisher: Dey Street Books
Seller: Harper Collins Canada Limited

Robert McKee's screenwriting workshops have earned him an international reputation for inspiring novices, refining works in progress and putting major screenwriting careers back on track. Quincy Jones, Diane Keaton, Gloria Steinem, Julia Roberts, John Cleese and David Bowie are just a few of his celebrity alumni. Writers, producers, development executives and agents all flock to his lecture series, praising it as a mesmerizing and intense learning experience. In Story, McKee expands on the concepts he teaches in his $450 seminars (considered a must by industry insiders), providing readers with the most comprehensive, integrated explanation of the craft of writing for the screen. No one better understands how all the elements of a screenplay fit together, and no one is better qualified to explain the "magic" of story construction and the relationship between structure and character than Robert McKee.



David Byrne - How Music Works artwork How Music Works
David Byrne
Genre: Music
Price: $18.99
Publish Date: May 02, 2017
Publisher: Crown
Seller: Penguin Random House Canada

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • David Byrne’s incisive and enthusiastic look at the musical art form, from its very inceptions to the influences that shape it, whether acoustical, economic, social, or technological—now updated with a new chapter on digital curation. “How Music Works is a buoyant hybrid of social history, anthropological survey, autobiography, personal philosophy, and business manual”— The Boston Globe Utilizing his incomparable career and inspired collaborations with Talking Heads, Brian Eno, and many others, David Byrne taps deeply into his lifetime of knowledge to explore the panoptic elements of music, how it shapes the human experience, and reveals the impetus behind how we create, consume, distribute, and enjoy the songs, symphonies, and rhythms that provide the backbeat of life. Byrne’s magnum opus uncovers thrilling realizations about the redemptive liberation that music brings us all.



Greg Koch - Hal Leonard Guitar Method - Blues Guitar artwork Hal Leonard Guitar Method - Blues Guitar
Greg Koch
Genre: Music
Price: $16.99
Publish Date: January 01, 2002
Publisher: Hal Leonard
Seller: Hal Leonard Corporation

The Hal Leonard Blues Guitar Method is your complete guide to learning blues guitar. This book uses real blues songs - no corny arrangments of nursery rhymes here] (well, except Mary Had a Little Lamb, but this is NOT the version you learned in kindergarten]) to teach you the basics of rhythm and lead blues guitar in the style of B.B. King, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Buddy Guy, Eric Clapton, Muddy Waters, and many others. Lessons include: 12-bar blues; chords, scales and licks; vibrato and string bending; riffs, turnarounds, and boogie patterns; hammer-ons, pull-offs, and slides; standard notation and tablature; and much more] Songs include: Boom Boom * Born Under a Bad Sign * Double Trouble * Killing Floor * Sweet Home Chicago * You Shook Me * and more. This great book also includes audio of over 70 tracks for demo and play-along.



Tennesse Williams - A Streetcar Named Desire artwork A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennesse Williams
Genre: Theatre
Price: $3.99
Publish Date: November 05, 2019
Publisher: Delhi Open Books
Seller: Prateek Bihani

Tennesse Williams, one of the 20th century's most superb writers, was also one of its most successful and prolifts. His classic works include Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Glass Menagerie, Summer and Smoke, Camino Real, Sweet Bird of Youth, Night of the Iguanna, Orpheus Descending, and The Rose Tattoo.



Sophocles - Oedipus Rex artwork Oedipus Rex
Sophocles
Genre: Theatre
Price: $0.99
Publish Date: February 29, 2012
Publisher: Dover Publications
Seller: INscribe Digital

Considered by many the greatest of the classic Greek tragedies, Oedipus Rex is Sophocles' finest play and a work of extraordinary power and resonance. Aristotle considered it a masterpiece of dramatic construction and refers to it frequently in the Poetics . In presenting the story of King Oedipus and the tragedy that ensues when he discovers he has inadvertently killed his father and married his mother, the play exhibits near-perfect harmony of character and action. Moreover, the masterly use of dramatic irony greatly intensifies the impact of the agonizing events and emotions experienced by Oedipus and the other characters in the play. Now these and many other facets of this towering tragedy may be studied and appreciated in Dover's attractive inexpensive edition of one of the great landmarks of Western drama.



Kevin Kerr - Unity (1918) artwork Unity (1918)
Kevin Kerr
Genre: Theatre
Price: $25.99
Publish Date: March 21, 2013
Publisher: Talonbooks
Seller: Lightning Source, LLC

In the fall of 1918, a world ravaged by four years of war was suddenly hit by a mysterious and deadly plague—the “spanish Flu.” The illness struck not only the young and the elderly, but also people in the prime of their lives, advancing rapidly toward mortality in its victims. This phenomenon in effect brought the terror, the panic, the horror and the sense of helplessness of the Great War home with the returning soldiers—more people died of this epidemic than had been killed in battle throughout the armed conflict. As fear of the dreaded flu begins to fill the town of Unity with paranoia, drastic measures are taken. The town is quarantined in an attempt to keep the illness out. Trains are forbidden to stop, no one can enter, and the borders are sealed. Mail from overseas, feared to be carrying the deadly virus, is gathered and then burned. But when the disease descends upon the town despite their precautions, the citizens begin to turn on each other as they attempt to find a scapegoat for the crisis. Very little has been written about this worldwide calamity which, more than the war itself, destroyed forever the genteel and naive presumptions of European colonial society at the beginning of the twentieth century. Kevin Kerr offers audiences not only an epic chronicle of this forgotten chapter of Canadian history, but a chilling preview of the beginnings of our own new century. The play is a gothic romance, filled with dark comedy and the desperate embrace of life at the edge of death.



Michael Shurtleff - Audition artwork Audition
Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part
Michael Shurtleff
Genre: Performing Arts
Price: $19.99
Publish Date: May 26, 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Seller: Bookwire Gesellschaft zum Vertrieb digitaler Medien mbH

The casting director for Chicago, Pippin, Becket, Gypsy, The Graduate, the Sound of Music and Jesus Christ Superstar tells you how you can find your dream role! Absolutely everything an actor needs to know to get the part is here: What to do that moment before, how to use humour; create mystery; how to develop a distinct style; and how to evaluate the place, the relationships and the competition. In fact, Audition is a necessary guide to dealing with all the "auditions" we face in life. This is the bible on the subject.



Dara Marks - Inside Story: The Power of the Transformational Arc artwork Inside Story: The Power of the Transformational Arc
Dara Marks
Genre: Performing Arts
Price: $15.99
Publish Date: February 07, 2017
Publisher: Dara Marks
Seller: Draft2Digital, LLC

What is the secret to writing a great screenplay? Whether you’re a beginning screenwriter or an A-list Academy Award winner, all writers struggle with the same thing: to get to the great script inside. Step by step, Inside Story guides you through an extraordinary new process that helps identify your thematic intention—what your story is really about—and teaches you how to turn that intention into the driving force behind all your creative choices. The result is a profound relationship between the movement of the plot and the internal development of character, which is the foundation for the transformational arc. The transformational arc is the deeper line of structure found inside the story. Knowing how to work with the arc enhances your ability to: • Express your unique point of view • Give meaning and urgency to the line of action • Infuse your characters with richness, subtlety, and surprise • Develop a powerful emotional undercurrent • Make your stories stand out and get attention Inside Story delivers what the name implies: it’s the real inside scoop on how to write a great screenplay with depth, dimension, and substance. It is a must-have book for any serious screenwriter, playwright, or novelist.



Linda Kemp - Watercolor Painting Outside the Lines artwork Watercolor Painting Outside the Lines
Linda Kemp
Genre: Art & Architecture
Price: $12.99
Publish Date: February 14, 2004
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Seller: Penguin Random House Canada

Harness the power of negative space! Breathe new life into your art through negative painting. Linda Kemp shares her techniques for using the strength of negative space - the areas not occupied by subject matter - to create alluring works of art. Watercolor Painting Outside the Lines is a comprehensive guide to evoking more passion in your paintings. You'll learn how to take hold of the often-overlooked areas of a painting through interactive, easy to follow elements including:    • Step-by-step techniques, exercises and projects    • Do-it-yourself tests and worksheets    • Troubleshooting suggestions and secrets    • Straightforward diagrams for color and design Both beginning and advanced artists will benefit from negative painting concepts presented in this guide. Using landscapes, florals, and motifs from nature, you'll gain the skills and knowledge to make your next watercolor your most striking work yet.



Graydon Carter - Vanity Fair's Tales of Hollywood artwork Vanity Fair's Tales of Hollywood
Rebels, Reds, and Graduates and the Wild Stories Behind the Making of 13 Iconic Films
Graydon Carter
Genre: Movie
Price: $6.99
Publish Date: December 10, 2008
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Seller: Penguin Random House Canada

The stories behind the stories of some of Hollywood's most iconic movies The magazine world 's monthly arbiter of culture, personality, and world affairs, Vanity Fair has always offered the definitive insider's look at Hollywood power and glamour since its relaunch twenty-five years ago. Now, for the first time ever, Vanity Fair presents a one-of-a-kind collection featuring thirteen behind-the- scenes stories on some of cinema's most iconic films-including pictures as varied as All About Eve, Cleopatra, Sweet Smell of Success, Rebel Without a Cause , and Saturday Night Fever . For pop-culture fanatics and movie buffs alike, Vanity Fair's Tales of Hollywood is an irresistible glimpse at how classic films-and box office bombs-are made.



Unattributed 9/11 Photographer - Photo-Book: 250 Unattributed 9/11 Photographs of the September 11th Terrorist Attack On the World Trade Center artwork Photo-Book: 250 Unattributed 9/11 Photographs of the September 11th Terrorist Attack On the World Trade Center
New York City 2001
Unattributed 9/11 Photographer
Genre: Art & Architecture
Price: $5.99
Publish Date: October 01, 2012
Publisher: E-artnow
Seller: IMMATERIEL.FR

250 photographs arranged in a chronological sequence and showing the disastrous aftermath of two airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan after being highjacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Includes the burning towers seen from uptown; the photographer's trip to the ground zero area; and the conditions north of the World Trade Center, near West Street. Also views of New York City Fire Department fire fighting and rescue operations in the areas near West Street, the Verizon Building, 7 World Trade Center, the North Bridge, the Customs House, the Winter Garden, and the American Express Tower at the World Financial Center. Credits:  Courtesy of the Prints and Photographs Division. Library of Congress, USA. These slides were received from the New York District Attorney's office with the photographer relinquishing any and all copyright and right of attribution. Therefore, the photographer's name will not be associated with these photographs.



Wesley So, Michael Adams, Graham Burgess, John Nunn, John Emms & Vishy Anand - The Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games . artwork The Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games .
New edn
Wesley So, Michael Adams, Graham Burgess, John Nunn, John Emms & Vishy Anand
Genre: Games
Price: $14.99
Publish Date: August 05, 2021
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Seller: Hachette Digital, Inc.

Improve your chess by studying the greatest games of all time, from Adolf Anderssen's 'Immortal Game' to Magnus Carlsen's world championship victories , and featuring a foreword by five-times World Champion Vishy Anand. This book is written by an all-star team of authors. Wesley So is the reigning Fischer Random World Champion, the 2017 US Champion and the winner of the 2016 Grand Chess Tour. Michael Adams has been the top British player for the last quarter of a century and was a finalist in the 2004 FIDE World Championship. Graham Burgess is the author of thirty books, a former champion of the Danish region of Funen, and holds the world record for marathon blitz chess playing. John Nunn is a three-time winner of both the World Solving Championship and the British Chess Federation Book of the Year Award. John Emms is an experienced chess coach and writer, who finished equal first in the 1997 British Championship and was chess columnist of the Young Telegraph . The 145 greatest chess games of all time, selected, analysed, re-evaluated and explained by a team of British and American experts and illustrated with over 1,100 chess diagrams. Join the authors in studying these games, the cream of two centuries of international chess, and develop your own chess-playing skills - whatever your current standard. Instructive points at the end of each game highlight the lessons to be learned. First published in 1998, a second edition of The Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games in 2004 included an additional twelve games. Another new edition in 2010 included a further thirteen games as well as some significant revisions to the analysis and information regarding other games in earlier editions of the book, facilitated by the use of a variety of chess software. This 2021 edition, further updated and expanded, now includes 145 games. The authors have made full use of the new generation of chess analysis engines that apply neural-network based AI.



Mark McGrain - Music Notation artwork Music Notation
Mark McGrain
Genre: Music
Price: $19.99
Publish Date: July 01, 1990
Publisher: Berklee Press
Seller: Hal Leonard Corporation

Learn the essentials of music notation, from fundamental pitch and rhythm placement to intricate meter and voicing alignments. This book also covers the correct way to subdivide rhythms and notate complex articulations and dynamics. An excellent resource for both written and computer notation software]



Warlord Games - Bolt Action: Third Edition artwork Bolt Action: Third Edition
World War II Wargames Rules
Warlord Games
Genre: Games
Price: $45.99
Publish Date: September 26, 2024
Publisher: Osprey Games
Seller: Bookwire Gesellschaft zum Vertrieb digitaler Medien mbH

A revised and updated third edition of the best-selling Bolt Action World War II wargaming rules. Bring the great battles of World War II to your tabletop with Bolt Action. Strike out from the beaches of Normandy towards Germany. Sweep across the deserts of North Africa in lightning raids. Battle the enemy and the sweltering heat in the jungles of Asia and on the islands of the Pacific. Fight doggedly from street to street in Arnhem, Stalingrad, and Berlin. Whatever your preferred style of play, your miniature collection, or your historical interests, the diverse army and scenario options will allow you to build a force that fits. Field everything from standard rifle platoons to heavily armoured tank forces, fast-moving reconnaissance patrols, and even artillery units. This third edition features refined and updated rules and starter army lists to get new players straight into the action. Seasoned veterans, meanwhile, will find new tactical depth in the detailed force composition mechanics and a wide variety of fresh challenges in the scenario generation system. Rally your forces, study the terrain, and prepare for battle – the fight continues!



GamerGuides.com - God of War (2018) - Strategy Guide artwork God of War (2018) - Strategy Guide
GamerGuides.com
Genre: Games
Price: $12.99
Publish Date: July 14, 2018
Publisher: GamerGuides.com
Seller: Gamer Guides Ltd

Following the destruction of the Greek Pantheon, Kratos hides himself away in the Norse realm Midgard. Upon the death of his beloved, Kratos and his son begin a journey that will change them forever throughout the Norse realms. As a mentor to his son, he must be a guiding light but the burden of his past still looms over him. The most complete guide for God of War features everything you could wish to know during your time in Midgard. A step-by-step walkthrough featuring every collectible, treasure map and more illustrated with gorgeous screenshots. Version 1.0: - Full walkthrough of the main storyline. - Coverage of all Sidequests. - Detailed strategies on how to defeat every optional boss. - Find every Treasure Hoard. - Every collectible uncovered. - Detailed information on character builds for Kratos.



Carolyn Scrace - Zen Doodling artwork Zen Doodling
Carolyn Scrace
Genre: Art & Architecture
Price: $10.99
Publish Date: May 05, 2016
Publisher: The Salariya Book Company
Seller: Salariya Book Company Limited

Zen Doodling is a fun, relaxing pastime for all ages. Zen Doodling releases creativity, and the intricate, repetitive nature of the designs also focus one's mind and encourage a sense of inner calm, aiding meditation. Packed with inspirational designs and ideas, this in-depth guide shows how to create beautiful drawings that reflect innovation, brilliance and infinite possibilities.



Brian O'Neil - Acting as a Business artwork Acting as a Business
Brian O'Neil
Genre: Performing Arts
Price: $13.99
Publish Date: April 08, 2014
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Seller: Penguin Random House Canada

An essential handbook for actors–a modern classic–in a newly updated edition. Since its original publication, Acting as a Business has earned a reputation as an indispensable tool for working and aspiring actors. Avoiding the usual advice about persistence and luck, Brian O’Neil provides clear-cut guidelines that will give actors a solid knowledge of the business behind their art. It’s packed with practical information–on everything from what to say in a cover letter to where to stand when performing in agent’s office–including: •How to craft a winning theatrical résumé •The most effective ways to join the performer’s unions •Tactics for getting an agent •Strategies for finding work in the theater, on daytime television, and in independent films •Navigating the different customs and cultures of New York and Los Angeles O’Neil has updated Acting as a Business to keep up with the latest show-business trends, including how best to use the Internet, making this new edition no actor should be without.



Graham McCann - A Very Courageous Decision artwork A Very Courageous Decision
The Inside Story of Yes Minister
Graham McCann
Genre: TV
Price: $11.99
Publish Date: October 16, 2014
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA
Seller: OpenRoad Integrated Media, LLC

A behind-the-scenes history of one of the most successful and admired British sitcoms of the 1980s. In 1977 the BBC commissioned a new satirical sitcom set in Whitehall . Production of its first series was stalled, however, by the death throes of Jim Callaghan’s Labour government and the ‘Winter of Discontent’; Auntie being unwilling to broadcast such an overtly political comedy until after the general election of 1979. That Yes Minister should have been delayed by the very events that helped bring Margaret Thatcher to power is, perhaps, fitting. Over three series from 1980—and two more as Yes, Prime Minister until 1988—the show mercilessly lampooned the vanity, self-interest and incompetence of our so-called public servants, making its hapless minister Jim Hacker and his scheming Permanent Secretary Sir Humphrey two of the most memorable characters British comedy has ever produced. The new prime minister professed it her favourite television programme—a ‘textbook’ on the State in inaction—and millions of British viewers agreed. In the years since Yes Minister has become a national treasure: Sir Humphrey’s slippery circumlocutions have entered the lexicon, regularly quoted by political commentators, and the series’ cynical vision of government seems as credible now as it did thirty years ago. Much of this success can be credited to its writers, Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, who drew on their contacts in Westminster to rework genuine political folly as situation comedy. Storylines that seemed absurd to the public were often rooted in actual events—so much so that they occasionally attracted the scrutiny of Whitehall mandarins. In A Very Courageous Decision acclaimed entertainment historian Graham McCann goes in search of the real political fiascos that inspired Yes Minister . Drawing on fresh interviews with cast, crew, politicians and admirers, he reveals how a subversive satire captured the mood of its time to become one of the most cherished sitcoms of Thatcher’s Britain.