Powerhouse Books imprint: 30 books

64 Shots

Leadership in a Crazy World

by Kevin Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016

64 Shots: Leadership in a Crazy World is a compendium of value-accelerators for business and life. It is gathered as a 64 shot method from the astute observations and remarkable life of creative business leader and iconoclast Kevin Roberts. A provocative figure traversing the peaks of global commerce,...
by @leeclowsbeard, Jason Fox
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012

For four decades, Lee Clow has created and shepherded the kind of advertising ideas that move businesses and move us emotionally. He first garnered global attention with what is still considered the greatest Super Bowl commercial ever—Apple's 1984. Working closely with Steve Jobs, Lee Clow went...

Leaping Tall Buildings

The Origins of American Comics

by Christopher Irving
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012

Some are mild mannered geeks, others mad geniuses or street-smart city dwellers driven to action. These are the men and women behind the masks and tights of America’s most beloved superheroes. But these aren’t the stories of the heroes’ hidden alter egos or secret identities…these are the...
by Kenneth Goldsmith
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013

What are the words we use to describe something that we never thought we'd have to describe? In Seven American Deaths and Disasters, Kenneth Goldsmith transcribes historic radio and television reports of national tragedies as they unfurl, revealing an extraordinarily rich linguistic panorama of passionate...
by David Shields, David Hickey
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2019

Bestselling author David Shields analyzed over a decade’s worth of front-page war photographs from The New York Times and came to a shocking conclusion: the photo-editing process of the “paper of record,” by way of pretty, heroic, and lavishly aesthetic image selection, pulls the wool over...
by Margot Mifflin
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2013

"In this provocative work full of intriguing female characters from tattoo history, Margot Mifflin makes a persuasive case for the tattooed woman as an emblem of female self-expression." —Susan Faludi Bodies of Subversion is the first history of women’s tattoo art, providing a...

Forrest Bess

Key to the Riddle

by Chuck Smith
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013

Painter, fisherman, pseudo-hermaphrodite—Forrest Bess lived his life in obscurity at an isolated bait camp off the east coast of Texas. From 1949 through 1967, Bess showed at the Betty Parsons Gallery in New York City, alongside superstar artists such as Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. Rediscovered...

Beyond the Robe

Science for Monks and All It Reveals about Tibetan Monks and Nuns

by Bobby Sager, Robert Thurman, Matthieu Ricard
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013

Twelve years ago, the Sager Family Foundation, the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, and the Dalai Lama's private office began a groundbreaking program called Science for Monks to teach Western science to Tibetan monks and nuns. Recently, Tenzin Gyatso, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama announced...

My Name is New York

Ramblin' Around Woody Guthrie's Town

by Nora Guthrie
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012

Woody Guthrie's prolific output popularized folk music in the 1940s and his presence in New York City helped spark the 1960s folk revival. My name is New York, I’m a brick on a brick I’m a hundred folks running, and ten dying sick I’m a saint, I’m a sinner, a whore and her pimp Your...
by Peter Madsen
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014

"The criminal class is a more exact cross-section of humanity than any trade could be." –Luc Sante, interview by The Believer   Weed, coke, heroin, molly, promethazine, crack, PCP, LCD, opium, hashish, mushrooms, and countless other illicit substances flood the streets of New York City...

hoop

the american dream

by Robin Layton
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013

"Those of us who have tested gravity under a hoop know its mystical properties. Robin Layton, as I would have expected, has turned this staple of Americana into a gorgeous art form." —George Vecsey, The New York Times "This book provides such inspiration. With just a ball and...
by Paola Gianturco, Musimbi Kanyoro
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017

Wonder Girls: Changing Our World is the first photographic book to document groups of activist girls (age 10 to 18) globally. It’s award winning and inspiring! Paola Gianturco and her eleven-year-old granddaughter documented the work of fifteen girl-led nonprofit groups in thirteen countries...
by Scot Sothern
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013

Originally published in the U.K. as a limited edition artist's book in 2011, and now out of print, An American Lowlife has been resurrected and is now presented as an eBook for all who missed the original. Using his camera like a knuckled fist, Scot Sothern spent five years photographing street...
by Dylan Fracareta
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013

The PIN–UP Interviews* *is a compilation of over 50 of the most fascinating interviews from PIN-UP magazine since its first issue was published in October 2006. Serious, yet accessible, featuring the elegant and modern aesthetic PIN-UP’s readers have come to expect, there is no comparable...
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