Stephen: 10786 books
by Stephen Dunn
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Brilliant new poems and an expansive gathering from six collections by a Pulitzer Prize winner celebrated as “indispensable.”
What Goes On displays the evolving style and sensibility of a major award-winning poet, and a traceable growth that has blossomed into a provocative confrontation...
by Stephen Dunn
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 1999
"This Astaire-like glide through our not-so-idle talk is a pleasure."—Publishers Weekly
Stephen Dunn experiments with short, related pieces that play off each other in the manner of jazz improvisations. The resulting pairs cover such subjects as "Scruples/Saints," "Hypocrisy/Precision,"...
Larz and Isabel Anderson
Wealth and Celebrity in the Gilded Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
Larz and Isabel Anderson were wealthy socialites whose extraordinary lives spanned a century of American historyfrom the Civil War to World War II. Their world included dozens of celebrities who helped define modern culture and politics: Henry and Clover Adams, Alice Pike Barney, Cecilia Beaux, Lord...
by Alastair Gunn, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Washington Irving
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Twenty ghostly tales from the supernatural masters of the Victorian age. Wimbourne Books presents the fourth in a series of rare or out-of-print ghost stories from Victorian authors. With an introduction by author Alastair Gunn, Volume 4 in the series spans the years 1835 to 1869 and includes stories...
by Stephen Zeifman
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Stephen Zeifman, artist and teacher of studio art and art history, and the founder of Mill Road Studio, discusses his unique approach to art. He talks about being an artist, and about the importance of having a focus driven not by commerce but rather by the challenges of engaging in a creative practice. The...
by Stephen Weiner, Will Eisner
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Graphic novels have exploded off bookstore shelves into movies, college courses, and the New York Times book review, and comics historian and children’s literature specialist Stephen Weiner explains the phenomenon in this groundbreaking book—the first history of graphic novels. From the agonizing...
Leading Lady
Sherry Lansing and the Making of a Hollywood Groundbreaker
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
The definitive biography of movie executive and philanthropist Sherry Lansing traces her groundbreaking journey to become the first female head of a major motion picture studio, sharing behind-the-scenes tales from movie sets and Hollywood boardrooms.
When Sherry Lansing became the first woman...
Whatever It Takes
Life Lessons from Degrassi and Elsewhere in the World of Music and Television
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2018
This book will change the way you think about success.
Producer of television’s iconic Degrassi franchise Stephen Stohn tells stories from behind the scenes and of making it in the music and television world in this star-studded, rock ’n’ roll trip through a Canadian show business explosion....
The Modernist Novel
A Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2011
Leading scholar Stephen Kern offers a probing analysis of the modernist novel, encompassing American, British and European works. Organized thematically, the book offers a comprehensive analysis of the stunningly original formal innovations in novels by Conrad, Joyce, Woolf, Proust, Gide, Faulkner,...
David Susskind
A Televised Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
A rich biography of one of the most important cultural figures of the ‘50s, ‘60s and ‘70s—maverick television producer and talk show host David Susskind
A flamboyant impresario who began his career as an agent, David Susskind helped define a fledgling television industry. He was a provocateur...
The Strangest Tribe
How a Group of Seattle Rock Bands Invented Grunge
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
Grunge isn’t dead – but was it every truly alive? Twenty years after the height of the movement, The Strangest Tribe redefines grunge as we know it. Stephen Tow takes a second look at the music and community that vaulted the likes of Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Mudhoney, and Soundgarden to international...
Due to Enemy Action
The True World War II Story of the USS Eagle 56
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
Due to Enemy Action tells for the first time a World War II story that spans generations and straddles two centuries, a story that begins with the dramatic Battle of the Atlantic in the 1940s and doesn't conclude until an emotional Purple Heart ceremony in 2002. Based on previously classified government...
Pacific Lst 791
A Gallant Ship and Her Hardworking Coast Guard Crew at the Invasion of Okinawa
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011
On the evening of March 31, 1945, hours before the invasion of Okinawa, Max Stripe, Billy Thornhill, and five other crewmen manned the forward twin 40 mm mount of LST 791. Riley was stationed up in the Conn, tracking enemy planes from bogey reports that came in over the radio. An increase in air attacks...
Life at the Dakota
New York's Most Unusual Address
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
A history of the Manhattan building and its famous tenants, from Lauren Bacall to John Lennon, by the New York Times–bestselling author of “Our Crowd”.
When Singer sewing machine tycoon Edward Clark built a luxury apartment building on Manhattan’s Upper West Side in the late 1800s,...