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'It wasn't me. I didn't do it. And I'll never do it again!' says Brian Johnson of The Lives of Brian.That AC/DC's legendary front man got to do it all is one of the most cheering and entertaining stories in rock 'n'roll history.The son of a British army sergeant-major and Italian mother, Brian grew up in Dunston, Tyne and Wear, as it emerged from the shadow of the Second World War. Then he saw
A captivating graphic edition of Timothy Snyder's bestselling book of lessons for surviving and resisting the arc toward authoritarianism, featuring the dazzling storytelling talents of renowned illustrator Nora Krug. Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny is one of the essential books of recent years, using the darkest moments in twentieth-century history to teach twenty lessons on resisting modern-day
An intensely beautiful, profound and poetic biography of the formative years of the dark prince of rock 'n' roll, Boy on Fire is Nick Cave's creation story, a portrait of the artist first as a boy, then as a young man. A deeply insightful work which charts his family, friends, influences, milieu and, most of all, his music, it reveals how Nick Cave shaped himself into the extraordinary artist he
Desaťročia cestovania sú pre nás dôkaz, že naša planéta a príroda sú zázrak. Ako inak nazvať šantenie s miliónmi zlatých medúz na súostroví Palau alebo nočný ponor k veľkým rajam na Havaji? Intenzívnejšie sme to precítili, keď sme sa ako Robinson s Piatkom ocitli na pustom ostrove na Tonge v Pacifiku, odkázaní len na seba. Krajšiu oblohu sme nikde inde nevideli. Desaťmetrové vlny, ktoré hádžu
Trojica kníh ZOOM, ZOOM 2 a ZOOM 3 v rámci jedinečného setu mapuje veľkú časť zážitkov z ciest po viac ako 140 krajinách sveta. Desaťročia cestovania sú pre nás dôkazom zázračnosti našej planéty a prírody. Za našimi fotografiami je mnoho príbehov, ktoré na prvý pohľad nevidieť. Radi sa o ne delíme, lebo vďaka nim ešte lepšie spoznávame svet
The bestselling guide to improving musical performance The Inner Game of Music is the battle that all musicians have to fight against elusive opponents such as nervousness, self-doubt and fear of failure. Using the world-famous Inner Game principles, developed by bestselling author Timothy Gallwey, acclaimed musician Barry Green explains the basic principles of 'natural learning' and shows how
Publikácia ponúka rad príspevkov slovenských odborníkov z viacerých oblastí humanitných vied (dejiny umenia, filozofia, estetika, resp. kognitívna estetika), pričom v centre pozornosti sa ocitajú otázky súčasnej umeleckej produkcie, ale aj umenia minulosti ako vytvárania ilúzie, resp. otázky teoretického fundovania vzťahov umenia k realite a vice versa,
Art history acquires a new rhythm in this unique anthology of artists’ record covers from the 1950s to today. More than 450 covers trace the thrilling interaction between music and visual art and the ways in which modernism, Pop Art, and conceptual practice have all informed the way we see the sounds we hear. Featured covers include Salvador Dalí’s skewered butterfly for Jackie Gleason and
So, I've written a book. Having entertained the idea for years, and even offered a few questionable opportunities ('It's a piece of cake! Just do four hours of interviews, find someone else to write it, put your face on the cover, and voila!'), I have decided to write these stories just as I have always done, in my own hand. The joy that I have felt from chronicling these tales is not unlike
What does winter look like in the far north? According to the cliches: as dark and cold as a refrigerator. And yet it is precisely in these wintertime months that photographer Michael Koenigshofer picks up his camera and heads to the Arctic Circle!In this rich and original photo book, the Scandinavia-savvy Austrian captures much more than the cliched images of the Northern Lights. With an eye on
Shimmering like a movie star and "a very British affair": for 99 years, Jaguar has been synonymous with elegance and luxury in automobile culture - high time to commemorate an exquisite car brand. Right on time for the 60th anniversary of the E-Type, this new Jaguar photo book from automobile photographer Rene Staud captures iconic Jaguar designs: the E-Type or XK 140, the SS90 from the
Has pink always been feminine and blue a man's color? Why does orange whet our appetite? Why do we feel blue? Shades of color accompany our lives and shape our language: We become green with envy, or remove our rose-tinted spectacles. But how did colors acquire these associations? In this beautiful coffee table book, we traverse the color spectrum with 150 remarkable stories of our experience,
Art Nouveau developed in very different forms between the 1880s and the First World War, starting in Western Europe. Organic lines and plant forms, building in iron, glass, and concrete, as well as the idea of the “Gesamtkunstwerk” (Complete work of art) can be found in London, Glasgow, and Riga as well as in St. Petersburg and Moscow. But above all in the Scandinavian countries and in Eastern
Most priests take confessions. This one is giving his. 'Rob Halford has written one of the most candid and surprising memoirs of the year.. . Confess is a riproaring tale, a funny, often shocking and genuinely emotional story' The Telegraph'The Metal God shares stories from a life like no other, spending over 50 years in the heavy metal bubble, facing adversity head-on but always with a wry smile
'I see my story as a suite of songs that have a magical connection. I never understood that connection until I sat down to write. It was then that the magic started to flow.'Let Love Rule is a work of deep reflection.Lenny Kravitz looks back at his life with candor, self-scrutiny, and humour. 'My life is all about opposites,' he writes. 'Black and white.Jewish and Christian. The Jackson 5 and Led
The debut memoir from the hip-hop icon Lil' Kim When teenager Kimberly Denise Jones - better known as Lil' Kim - burst onto the hip-hop scene in the mid-nineties, no one was prepared for how she would shake-up the entire music industry. As the sole female member of the Notorious B.I.G.'s rap collective, Junior M.A.F.I.A., and an affiliate of Puff Daddy and the Bad Boy family, Lil' Kim always
Ever wonder what a dog really wants to do for fun? What would make their "bucket list" of must-see and -do adventures?In Adventure Dogs: The Dog-Approved Guide to Having Fun (with Humans), author Lauren Watt consults dog experts and lovers worldwide and her own research to answer just that-and shares her advice for living life to the fullest with your four-legged best friend. This
The authoritative portrait of the bestselling metal classic, with unseen photographs from the recording sessions and toursFollowing its release in August 1991, Metallica's landmark self-titled album--better known by fans as the Black Album--debuted at number one in ten countries and spent four consecutive weeks at the top of the Billboard 200. It has since become one of the bestselling albums of
The Charlatans' Tim Burgess invites you to the greatest listening party of all time. In 2020 when the world was forced to hit pause on live in-person gigs, Tim Burgess found an ingenious way to bring people together by inviting artists and bands, from Paul McCartney and New Order to Michael Kiwanuka and Kylie, to host real-time album playbacks via Twitter. Relive 100 of the most memorable
Ellen von Unwerth's knock-out collection of female sexuality, starring some of the most iconic women of our timeincluding Claudia Schiffer, Eva Mendes, and Dita von Teese. Enter a world of femininity, playfulness, and fetish in which subjects intermittently flaunt or guard, but always own, their fantasies.
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