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Paperback edition of the intimate memoir by Freddie Mercury's Personal Assistant. Peter Freestone lived with him in Europe and America for over a decade. From the West 50s apartment in New York to the Kensington Mews house where Mercury died - not to mention the innumerable international hotel rooms...

LEGENDARY founding KISS drummer Peter “Catman” Criss has lived an incredible life in music, from the streets of Brooklyn to the social clubs of New York City to the ultimate heights of rock ’n’ roll success and excess. KISS formed in 1973 and broke new ground with their elaborate makeup,...

A journey back to the spangled age of Glam Rock, when men were men and women were often men in disguise, in the company of the most outrageous band of all   This is the first biography to explore the beautiful dichotomy of the Sweet, still one of the best-loved bands of their age....

With Robert Mapplethorpe's full endorsement and encouragement, Morrisroe interviewed more than three hundred friends, lovers, family members, and critics to form this definitive biography of America's most censored and celebrated photographer. “Eventually I found several hundred people who...

Approaching the 500th anniversary of Leonardo’s death, the world- renowned da Vinci expert recounts his fifty- year journey with the work of the world’s most famous artist A personal memoir interwoven with original research, Living with Leonardo takes us deep inside Leonardo da Vinci scholar...

Financial Times Book of the Year The extraordinary artist, the spider woman, the intellectual, the rebel, the sly enchantress, and the “good girl” sing together in this exuberant, lithe text beautifully translated by Cole Swensen.         This brilliant portrait of the renowned...

From the co-founder of the Vera Bradley empire, a practical and inspiring book that shows women how to awaken their full potential, at any age. "This place could use some color!" That's what Barbara Bradley said to her friend Pat during an airport layover. It was 1982 and all the...

Un volumen que presenta la vida de la escritora y dramaturga mexicana Luisa Josefina Hernández, escrita por propia mano: su iniciación en el teatro; la relación que tuvo con personajes como Juan Rulfo, Emilio Carballido, Jorge Ibargüengoitia, entre otros; su teoría dramática, y su creación...

While hiding from the limelight, Banksy has made himself into one of the world's best-known living artists. His pieces have fetched millions of dollars at prestigious auction houses. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his film Exit Through the Gift Shop. Once viewed as vandalism, his work is...

According to Wikipedia: "Benvenuto Cellini (3 November 1500 13 February 1571) was an Italian goldsmith, sculptor, painter, soldier and musician , who also wrote a famous autobiography. He was one of the most important artists of Mannerism."

El hispanista Ian Gibson profundiza en las raíces de la vida de Buñuel para ofrecer al lector una nueva perspectiva desde la que abordar una de las trayectorias creativas más fascinantes del siglo XX. La de Luis Buñuel es una de las obras cinematográficas más vanguardistas y originales...

"I found Mr. Lankford’s writing thought-provoking and Mr. Isaacson’s thought-stifling.Mr.Lankford proposes a great many insights...With immediacy and grace, Becoming Leonardo starts on a high note and gets better to the very end."—WALL STREET JOURNAL A Wall Street Journal 2017...

From acclaimed biographer and cultural historian, author of Balthus and Patron Saints—the first full-scale life of le Corbusier, one of the most influential, admired, and maligned architects of the twentieth century, heralded is a prophet in his lifetime, revered as a god after his death. He...

J.M.W. Turner was a painter whose treatment of light put him squarely in the pantheon of the world’s preeminent artists, but his character was a tangle of fascinating contradictions. While he could be coarse and rude, manipulative, ill-mannered, and inarticulate, he was also generous, questioning,...