High Art

Mick Jagger, Jimmy Cliff, Roger Waters, Jimmy Page, Stevie Wonder, Bonnie Raitt, and many other leading artists reveal for the first time the emotions, inspirations, and techniques behind their influential works. Covering the history of rock, R&B, country, disco, soul, reggae, and pop, Anatomy of a Song is a love letter to the songs that have defined generations of listeners.

Whoever said “boyfriending is hard” clearly didn’t have the right tools for the job. What do you do if you’re a fifteen-year-old girl whose much older (eighteen) boyfriend breaks up with her because you won’t “go all the way?” What do you do if you live in the smallest town in the world, where everyone knows your business before you do, and it’s the first day of school, and you just want to hide under the covers and pretend you’re dead? What do you do if you love theatre more than anything, and you want to go to New York to study and be on Broadway, but your dads named you...

A group of criminals in 1946 pull off the heist of the century, stealing a dozen priceless works of art from a Boston museum. But while the thieves get caught, the art is never found. Forty years later, the last surviving thief gets out of jail and goes hunting for the loot, involving some innocent college students in his dangerous plan—and twenty-eight years after that, in the present day, the former college kids, now all grown up, are drawn back into danger as the still-missing art tempts a deadly new generation of treasure hunters.

Everybody's Doin' It is the eye-opening story of popular music's 70-year rise in the brothels, dance halls, and dives of New York City. It traces the birth of popular music, including ragtime and jazz, to convivial meeting places for sex, drink, music, and dance. Whether coming from a single piano player or a small band, live music was a nightly feature in New York's spirited dives, where men and women, often black and white, mingled freely - to the horror of the elite.

Xiaolu Guo has traveled further than most to become who she needed to be. Now, as she experiences the birth of her daughter in a London maternity ward surrounded by women from all over the world, she looks back on that journey. It begins in the fishing village shack on the East China Sea where her illiterate grandparents raised her, and brings her to a rapidly changing Beijing, full of contradictions: a thriving underground art scene amid mass censorship, curious Westerners who held out affection only to disappear back home.

Heating and cooling your home is generally your largest energy bill, costing more than fueling your car, but you can make big cuts in your heating and cooling costs while still staying comfortable. Learn how you can dramatically reduce your costs through projects some small and some large, many of which you can do yourself that will reduce what it takes to keep your home’s temperature where you want it. Learn what heating options are available today; including high efficiency gas and oil heating units, geothermal heat pumps, wood, outdoor wood boilers, coal, solar heating, wood pellets, ...

In today’s fast-paced and ever-changing business environment, exceptional executives face unprecedented challenges. The demands of leadership have evolved, requiring a new set of skills and a mindset that embraces change. "The Adaptive Leader" is your essential guide to mastering transformative leadership in a VUCA world—where volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity are the new normal. Authored by renowned executive coach Ammanuel Santa Anna, this book is tailored specifically for high-performing leaders who are ready to elevate their game. Through actionable strategies, real...

Mastering urban survival doesn't have to be complicated or expensive. Even if you live in a tiny apartment with limited storage space, it's easier than you think. Urban preppers with proper knowledge and minimal equipment have a 78% higher survival rate in crisis situations. Well-prepared urban dwellers can be self-sufficient for up to 30 days with the right planning and resources. You can achieve peace of mind and readiness without turning your home into a bunker or breaking the bank.

An oral-history biography of the legendary Latin American writer and Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Márquez, brimming with atmosphere and insight.

Many people who seek guidance from Tarot are searching for a different view of their life with support for changes. This book illustrates a powerful new approach to achieve this goal. Transformative Tarot Counseling™ combines the deep potential for change in a reading with the techniques and ethics needed to support the client. This introductory book presents Tarot Readers and other Metaphysical Consultants with professional guidance to begin exploring ways that enrich the reading experience for both the reader and client.

Plagued by the suicides of both his siblings, heir to alcohol and drug abuse, divorce and economic ruin, James Brown lived a life clouded by addiction, broken promises and despair. In The Los Angeles Diaries, he reveals his struggle for survival, mining his past to present the inspiring story of his redemption. Beautifully written and limned with dark humor, these 12 deeply confessional, interconnected chapters address personal failure, heartbreak, the trials of writing for Hollywood, and the life-shattering events that finally convinced Brown that he must "change or die".

No longer dismissed as relics of the hippie era, a new generation has lionized the Dead for creating a culture that paved the way for social networking, free music swapping, and the uncompromising anticorporate attitude of indie rock. Now, fifty years after the band first began changing rock 'n' roll both sonically and psychically, So Many Roads paints the most vivid portrait yet of the Grateful Dead, one of the most enduring institutions in American music and culture.

🔥 THE INFERNAL AWAKENING 🔥 Unleash the Pandemonium Within Hidden within the abyss of your soul lurks an insatiable beast, a spark of ancient and malevolent power thirsting for release. Can you hear it—the insidious murmur, the sinister whisper in the shadows, beckoning you toward dominion? Envision harnessing an inferno so catastrophic, so immense, that reality itself crumbles before your might. This is no mere book; this is your grimoire—a hellish portal to arcane realms and sinister knowledge. As you devour its cursed words, you will awaken the eldritch energies buried within, ...

Bobby was happy with colony life on Nibiru. His job at the Colonial Security Force and his family were all the man needed. Then two renegades escaped confinement in stasis and teleported from the LARC1 colony to Earth’s Stone Age to wipe humanity and its primordial cousins from existence. Now, armed only with a shugarra, Bobby must journey across our prehistoric world and through the realms that our extinct cousins once ruled. Can he and a band of misfit hominins overcome two dangerous aliens with god-like magic and their army of cannibals? High fantasy has long ventured through the ...

Elevate: Mastering the Luxurious Art of High-Frequency Living Discover the transformative power of high-frequency living in this groundbreaking guide by visionary author Ammanuel Santa Anna. "Elevate" is not just a book; it's a passport to a life of purpose, elegance, and unparalleled fulfillment. In a world often characterized by chaos and distraction, Santa Anna offers a refreshing perspective on how to cultivate a life that resonates at the highest frequencies. Drawing from personal experiences and spiritual insights, he unveils the secrets to: Designing a lifestyle that aligns with your...

In an evolving networked era, social-issue documentaries like Blackfish are art for civic imagination and social critique. In Story Movements, producer and scholar Caty Borum Chattoo explores how documentaries disrupt dominant cultural narratives through complex, creative, often investigative storytelling.

This original recording - his first - features Trillin at his most uproarious, reading from his own articles and books. Wonderfully funny and full of surprises, this is a thoroughly satisfying, eminently entertaining, and beautifully crafted collection.

In a work of romance and loss, a wandering boy loses his mother and finds solace in his only escape: painting. After countless portraits of her, he still can’t figure out how to sell or where to fit into the world. Stricken by poverty, he must commercialize his conflicted conscience. As Constantine rises through the world of social media influence and high-class murals, so does his addiction to drugs and reckless spending until one day, it all comes crashing down. Through this story of romance, love, and loss, with hands and soul crushed, Constantine goes on a journey to find the ...

5X Best-Selling & Award-Winning Author and Podcaster; Leadership, HR, Innovation, Future of Work, & Culture Global Thought Leader; Chair/Professor of Organizational Leadership; Change/OD/HR/Social Impact Consultant; Ranked in the top 20 of global researchers in the following topic areas - "Future of Work," "Global Leadership," "Organizational Development, "Public Service Motivation," and "Social Impact" (Google Scholar); ScholarGPS has ranked him the #18 scholar in the world for job satisfaction research. The Art and Science of Organizational Leadership provides actionable frameworks to ...

Why would the multimillionaire producer of Cats, The Phantom of the Opera, and Miss Saigon take his limo from Manhattan to the struggling former steel town of Levittown, Pennsylvania, to see a high school production of Les Misérables? To see the show performed by the astoundingly successful theater company at Harry S Truman High School, run by its legendary director, Lou Volpe. Broadway turns to Truman High when trying out controversial shows such as Rent and Spring Awakening before they move on to high school theater programs across the nation. Volpe’s students from this blue-collar town go on to become Emmy-winning producers, entertainment executives, newscasters, and community-theater founders.