Review imprint: 1779 books
Let's Spend the Night Together
Backstage Secrets of Rock Muses and Supergroupies
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
This intimate account of 24 legendary groupies reveals what went on behind the closed doors of rock stars from Elvis to Marilyn Manson. Consisting of Pamela Des Barres's revealing interviews with and profiles of other supergroupies, this book offers firsthand glimpses into the backstage world of...
I'm with the Band
Confessions of a Groupie
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2005
The stylish, exuberant, and remarkably sweet confession of one of the most famous groupies of the 1960s and 70s is back in print in this new edition that includes an afterword on the author's last 15 years of adventures. As soon as she graduated from high school, Pamela Des Barres headed for the Sunset...
Take Another Little Piece of My Heart
A Groupie Grows Up
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
Updated to include the escapades of the last 16 years of the "queen of the groupies," this rollicking, piquant, and sometimes heartbreaking follow-up to I’m With the Band documents Pamela Des Barres' struggles with postmodern marriage and motherhood. Covering the middle-passage years...
The Problem of the Media
U.S. Communication Politics in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
The symptoms of the crisis of the U.S. media are well-known—a decline in hard news, the growth of info-tainment and advertorials, staff cuts and concentration of ownership, increasing conformity of viewpoint and suppression of genuine debate. McChesney's new book, The Problem of the Media, gets...
The Vulnerable Planet
A Short Economic History of the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1999
From reviews of the first edition (1994): "Extraordinarily well written . . . "--Contemporary Sociology "A readable chronicle aimed at a general audience . . . Graceful and accessible . . . "--Dollars and Sense "Has the potential to be a political bombshell in radical circles around...
by John Austin
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
With the advent of modern household products and office supplies—binder clips, clothespins, rubber bands, ballpoint pens, toothpicks, paper clips, plastic utensils, and matches and barbeque lighters—troublemakers of all stripes have the components needed to build an impressive, if somewhat miniaturized,...
Debunked!
Conspiracy Theories, Urban Legends, and Evil Plots of the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
As he did in Urban Legends and Hollywood Urban Legends, and as he has done in dozens of columns for the Chicago Sun-Times over the last decade and a half, Richard Roeper lays out the basics of the conspiracy theory, quotes some of the true believers-and then tears the theory apart with his bare hands....
If We Can Put a Man on the Moon
Getting Big Things Done in Government
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2009
The American people are frustrated with their government-dismayed by a series of high-profile failures (Iraq, Katrina, the financial meltdown) that seems to just keep getting longer. Yet our nation has a proud history of great achievements: victory in World War II, our national highway system, welfare...
by Larry Dean Olsen
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1997
How to survive in almost any outdoor environment with little or no purchased equipment, relying only on what nature provides.
Oddball Florida
A Guide to Some Really Strange Places
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2003
This entertaining guide directs travelers to the off-the-wall and offbeat destinations in Florida, home of gator wrestlers, school bus demolition derbies, Hemingway wannabes, the Fountain of Youth, the Nudist Hall of Fame, and a utopian community based on the premise that the earth is not round, but...
The Broken Road
From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
In the winter of 1933, eighteen-year-old Patrick (“Paddy”) Leigh Fermor set out on a walk across Europe, starting in Holland and ending in Constantinople, a trip that took him almost a year. Decades later, Leigh Fermor told the story of that life-changing journey in A Time of Gifts and Between...
by Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger, to venture illegally into the Zone to collect the mysterious artifacts that the alien visitors left scattered around. His life is dominated by the place and the thriving black market in the alien products....
Makers of Modern Architecture, Volume II
From Le Corbusier to Rem Koolhaas
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
In the first volume of Makers of Modern Architecture (2007), Martin Filler examined the emergence of that revolutionary new form of building and explored its aesthetic, social, and spiritual aspirations through illuminating studies of some of its most important practitioners, from Louis Sullivan and...
From the Velvets to the Voidoids
The Birth of American Punk Rock
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2005
Exhaustively researched and packed with unique insights, this history journeys from the punk scene's roots in the mid-1960s to the arrival of "new wave" in the early 1980s. With a cast that includes Patti Smith, Pere Ubu, Television, Blondie, the Ramones, the MC5, the Stooges, Talking Heads,...