Traces the career of the popular singer and actress and her twenty-year association with Motown Records

Diana Ross

Arts & Photography

Brown, Geoff

Music

Sigdwick & Jackson

St Martins Pr

This guide to the music of Michael Jackson and the Jackson family examines every song released by The Jackson 5, both as a group and as individuals. There is a section on the solo careers of Michael and Janet and the book is CD shaped to sit alongside a CD collection.

Michael Jackson

Humor & Entertainment

Omnibus Pr & Schirmer Trade Books

Silent cinema was never silent. But from the mid-1920s onwards, the 'sound' part of the cinema experience was transformed by the arrival of films, long and short, with clearly audible talk, music, and sound effects built in. It marked the most fundamental shift in cinema technology since cinema's birth. The first book devoted to Britain's conversion to talkies, and the result of eight years' research, Silent to Sound: British Cinema in Transition takes a lively and comprehensive look at the production side of the British sound revolution, stretching from experimental efforts in the late 19th century, through the sound shorts of the 1920s, to the key year of 1929, the year of Hitchcock's Blackmail (Britain's first home-grown talkie feature), and the industry turmoil that followed. The narrative concludes in 1934, when John Grierson's GPO Film Unit finally acquired sound equipment, prompting a late burst of experimentation just when commercial feature soundtracks had settled down. Films familiar, neglected, and unknown are examined: overripe melodramas (the lost Black Waters), local versions of Hollywood musicals (Harmony Heaven), visually elaborate science-fiction (High Treason), plus newsreels, documentaries, amateur films, and the last phase of British silent production. The impact of sound on studio technique is examined, along with the industry's complex relations with Britain's strong theatre traditions, with Europe, and above all, cinema's superpower, America. It's also never forgotten that the sound transition was shaped not just by technology but by the talents, foibles, and follies of individual people. Film history with a human face.

Silent to Sound: British Cinema in Transition

Movies

John Libbey Publishing

, 128 pages, illustrated throughout with monochrome photographs, Michael Powell's personal copy, DEDICATED by Bill Johnson ( an American Architect and trustee of Museum of Modern Art) and others to Michael Powell.

Michael Balcon: The Pursuit of British Cinema

KARDISH, Laurence

Business & Money

Museum of Modern Art

Missions from the Extinction Cycle Volume 2. Over 500 pages of short stories set in the Extinction Cycle world from some of the biggest names in post-apocalyptic fiction! The bestselling Extinction Cycle series by Nicholas Sansbury Smith first introduced readers to a world ravaged by an engineered virus that turned men into monsters. Billions died, civilization collapsed, and the human race teetered on the brink of extinction. Humanity’s only hope was not a cure, but another bioweapon. When deployed, it killed ninety percent of the infected, but the remaining ten percent transformed into even more terrifying creatures called Variants. Heroes have risen up to meet these abominations. Men like Master Sergeant Reed Beckham of Delta Force Team Ghost and Marine Corporal Joe Fitzpatrick. Women like Dr. Kate Lovato and firefighter Meg Pratt. Throughout the world, survivors band together to fight the evolving monsters in an effort to save humanity. This second collection of Extinction Cycle missions include; heroic last stands, the transformation of men into beasts, and hardened warriors engaged in battle against overwhelming odds. All from some of the leading voices in the post-apocalyptic genre. Strap in, you’re about to experience the Extinction Cycle. Featured Authors Include: Outpost 46: Deadwood by Rachel Aukes Extinction Bridge by AJ Spedding and Geoff Brown The White King by Eloise J. KnappMother by G. Michael Hopf From the Ashes by Michael Patrick Hicks

Missions from the Extinction Cycle (Volume 2)

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Hopf, G. Michael

Aukes, Rachel

Hicks, Michael Patrick

Knapp, Eloise J.

Spedding, AJ

Science Fiction

Independently published

I Want What I Want

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

Biking on rural roads is a sure way to discover the real Nova Scotia. This guide includes a broad range of trails appealing to all tastes and experience.

Mountain Bike Nova Scotia (Maritime Travel Guides Series)

Sports & Outdoors

Degooyer, Kermit

Individual Sports

Nimbus Pub Ltd

As the former managing editor of Baltimore magazine and a long-term resident of the city, Geoff Brown knows firsthand why so many publications are touting Baltimore as a hidden treasure. Brown leads travelers both to famous destinations and little-known secrets, from historic sights like Fort McHenry, the birthplace of The Star-Spangled Banner, to the music shows and galleries of the art collective Wham City. Brown also includes unique trip ideas tailored for different kinds of travelers, such as A Cinematic Tour de Baltimore and The Locals-Only, Never-See-Another-Tourist Way. With details on visiting the National Aquarium and finding the best Italian food in Little Italy, Moon Baltimore gives travelers the tools they need to create a more personal and memorable experience.

Moon Handbooks Baltimore

Travel

United States

Moon Travel

Otis Redding: Try a Little Tenderness

Otis Redding's definitive southern soul voice resonates down the years as a thing of profound beauty and unfathomable emotional depth. His unique vocal delivery gave Motown's pop artists a run for their money, while his stage presence matched pioneering funk magus -- and fellow Georgia native -- James Brown for sheer entertainment value. Crucial to the success of the Stax label, Otis quickly rose from obscurity to mainstream crossover fame, thanks chiefly to his dizzying performance at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967. In this, the first serious book on the soul legend, Geoff Brown talks to Stax illuminati Booker T. Jones, Isaac Hayes, and David Porter, plus many others, about Redding's tragically brief life and incredible talent.

Canongate Books Ltd.

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