Villard imprint: 271 books
Check the Technique
Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
A Tribe Called Quest • Beastie Boys • De La Soul • Eric B. & Rakim • The Fugees • KRS-One • Pete Rock & CL Smooth • Public Enemy • The Roots • Run-DMC • Wu-Tang Clan • and twenty-five more hip-hop immortals
It’s a sad fact: hip-hop album liners have always been...
by Henry Rollins
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2009
Henry Rollins is an artist whose legendary, no-holds-barred performances encompasses music, acting, and written and spoken word. As Details magazine said when it named Rollins the 1994 Man of the Year: "through two decades of rage and discipline, Henry Rollins has transformed himself from an...
Twenty Thousand Roads
The Ballad of Gram Parsons and His Cosmic American Music
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2008
**“A terrific biography of a rock innovator that hums with juicy detail and wincing truth. . . . Page after page groans with the folly of the ’60s drug culture, the tragedy of talent toasted before its time, the curse of wealth and the madness of wasted opportunity.”—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
NAMED...
Let Me Take You Down
Inside the Mind of Mark David Chapman, the Man Who Killed John Lennon
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
A top crime journalist reveals precisely how the world-shattering murder of John Lennon happened—and why
In Let Me Take You Down, Jack Jones penetrates the borderline world of dangerous fantasy in which Mark David Chapman stalked and killed Lennon:
Mark David Chapman rose early on...
Shutterbabe
Adventures in Love and War
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2001
What if the protagonist in that age-old tale—boy goes to war, comes back a man—were a female? Shutterbabe, Deborah Copaken Kogan's remarkable debut, is just that: the story of a twenty-two-year-old girl from Potomac, Maryland, who goes off to photograph wars and comes back, four years and one...
Cocaine's Son
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
With sharp wit, self-deprecating humor, and penetrating honesty, New York Times journalist Dave Itzkoff turns a keen eye on his life with the mysterious, maddening, much-loved man of whom he writes, “for the first eight years of my life I seem to have believed he was the product of my imagination.”
Itzkoff’s...
I Ain't Got Time to Bleed
Reworking the Body Politic from the Bottom Up
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2000
When he left the navy SEALs to become a pro wrestler, the fans knew him as "Jesse, the Body."
When he hosted his hard-hitting KFAN radio talk show, he became "Jesse, the Mouth."
And now that this body-slamming, straight-talking, charismatic hero is masterminding Minnesota's...
How Can I Keep from Singing?
The Ballad of Pete Seeger
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
How Can I Keep from Singing? is the compelling story of how the son of a respectable Puritan family became a consummate performer and American rebel. Updated with new research and interviews, unpublished photographs, and thoughtful comments from Pete Seeger himself, this is an inside history of the...
Insecure at Last
Losing It in Our Security-Obsessed World
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2006
“Why has all this focus on security made me feel so much more insecure? Nothing is secure. And this is the good news. But only if you are not seeking security as the point of your life.”–Eve Ensler
When her stage play The Vagina Monologues became a runaway hit and an international sensation,...
Emergency!:
True Stories from the Nation's ERs
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Long before the hit TV show E.R., emergency room doctor Mark Brown decided that the world just had to know about real life in a hospital's E.R.
The emergency room is a cauldron of human emotions. The anguish, fear, need, and gore is wearing. As the protective layer of the self is weakened,...
The Newman's Own Organics Guide to a Good Life
Simple Measures That Benefit You and the Place You Live
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2003
It’s fairly obvious that one can’t be a ‘perfect’ environmentalist. But that’s okay. Perfection isn’t the goal. A good life is. And a good life has as much to do with your intent as with the end result.” —from the Introduction
The Newman’s Own Organics Guide to a Good Life...
The Eternal Summer
Palmer, Nicklaus, and Hogan in 1960, Golf's Golden Year
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2009
Was there ever a year in golf like 1960?
It was the year that the sport and its vivid personalities exploded on the consciousness of the nation, when the past, present, and future of the sport collided. Here was Arnold Palmer, the workingman’s hero, “sweating, chain-smoking, shirt-tail...
by Bode Miller
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2005
“I don’t master the mountain, I master speed.” Coming from Bode Miller, this isn’t boasting, it’s just the way he lives: fast, honest, and wide open. In this candid book, the two-time Olympic medalist and champion skier shares his story, the secret of his success, and his philosophy of life.
Born...
Can I Keep My Jersey?
11 Teams, 5 Countries, and 4 Years in My Life as a Basketball Vagabond
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2007
He’s been called a journeyman. Even Paul wouldn’t dispute that classification. Regardless, Bill Simmons, ESPN.com’s “The Sports Guy,” has said of Paul Shirley, “We could finally have an answer to the question ‘What would it be like if one of our friends was an NBA player?”
There’s...