Industries Professions category: 12443 books
The Speed of Sound
Breaking the Barriers Between Music and Technology: A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
The remarkable story of rising to the top of the music charts, a second act as a tech pioneer, and the sustaining power of creativity and art.
Thomas Dolby’s hit songs “She Blinded Me with Science” and “Hyperactive!” catapulted him to international fame in the early 80’s. A pioneer...
Jim Henson
The Biography
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • For the first time ever—a comprehensive biography of one of the twentieth century’s most innovative creative artists: the incomparable, irreplaceable Jim Henson
He was a gentle dreamer whose genial bearded visage was recognized around the world, but most people...
Ladies Who Punch
The Explosive Inside Story of "The View"
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER
Like Fire & Fury, the gossipy real-life soap opera behind a serious show.
When Barbara Walters launched The View, network executives told her that hosting it would tarnish her reputation. Instead, within ten years, she’d...
Grace
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Beautiful. Willful. Charming. Blunt. Grace Coddington’s extraordinary talent and fierce dedication to her work as creative director of Vogue have made her an international icon. Known through much of her career only to those behind the scenes, she might have remained fashion’s best-kept secret...
Intimate Strangers
Comic Profiles and Indiscretions of the Very Famous
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2009
Schwarzenegger intimidates.
Sharon Stone strips.
Leno and Letterman duel.
In twenty years of raw and raucous celebrity profiles
Irreverently bold journalist Bill Zehme has long been celebrated for his ability to get under the skins of our most elusive icons, from the evasive Warren Beatty to...
I.M.
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“In I.M., Isaac Mizrahi puts his life to paper with the same mix of spirit and wryness as the designs he popularized.” —Vanity Fair
Isaac Mizrahi is sui generis: designer, cabaret performer, talk-show host, a TV celebrity. Yet ever since he shot...
The Time of Their Lives
The Golden Age of Great American Book Publishers, Their Editors, and Authors
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
A lively portrait of mid-twentieth-century American book publishing—“A wonderful book, filled with anecdotal treasures” (The New York Times).
According to Al Silverman, former publisher of Viking Press and president of the Book-of-the-Month Club, the golden age of book publishing began...
by Alan Brinkley
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
Acclaimed historian Alan Brinkley gives us a sharply realized portrait of Henry Luce, arguably the most important publisher of the twentieth century.
As the founder of Time, Fortune, and Life magazines, Luce changed the way we consume news and the way we understand our world. Born the son of...
The Vanity Fair Diaries
1983 - 1992
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Named one of the best books of 2017 by Time, People, Amazon.com, The Guardian, Paste Magazine, The Economist, Entertainment Weekly, & Vogue
Tina Brown kept delicious daily diaries throughout her eight spectacular years as editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair. Today they provide an incendiary...
JELL-O Girls
A Family History
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
A "gorgeous" (New York Times) memoir that braids the evolution of one of America's most iconic branding campaigns with the stirring tales of the women who lived behind its facade - told by the inheritor of their stories.
A New York Times Editors' Choice
One of People Magazine's Best...
Good Times, Bad Times
The Explosive Inside Story of Rupert Murdoch
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
A renowned journalist’s “vivid” account of his battle with Murdoch after the global media baron bought the Times of London (Chicago Tribune).
In 1981, Harold Evans was the editor of one of Britain’s most prestigious publications, the Sunday Times, which had thrived under his watch....
Truth and Duty
The Press, the President, and the Privilege of Power
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006
A riveting account of how the public's right to know is being attacked by an unholy alliance among politicians, news organizations and corporate America
For twenty five years, Mary Mapes has been an award-winning television producer and reporter -- the last fifteen of them for CBS News, principally...
Avid Reader
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
A spirited and revealing memoir by the most celebrated editor of his time
After editing The Columbia Review, staging plays at Cambridge, and a stint in the greeting-card department of Macy's, Robert Gottlieb stumbled into a job at Simon and Schuster. By the time he left to run Alfred A. Knopf...
The Innovators
How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson’s New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed The Innovators is a “riveting, propulsive, and at times deeply moving” (The Atlantic) story of the people who created the computer and the Internet.
What were the talents...