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Godard On Godard by Jean-Luc Godard
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $22.91Jean-Luc Godard, like many of his European contemporaries, came to filmmaking through film criticism. This collection of essays and interviews, ranging from his early efforts for La Gazette du... -
Nuremberg Diary by G. Gilbert
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $23.38In August 1945 Great Britain, France, the USSR, and the United States established a tribunal at Nuremberg to try military and civilian leaders of the Nazi regime. G. M. Gilbert, the prison... -
Chelsea Horror Hotel: A Novel by Dee Dee Ramone
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $21.57Dee Dee Ramone doesn't quite know what he's getting himself into when he and his wife Barbara move into the Chelsea Hotel with their dog Banfield. The room he's staying in might be the very room... -
Nothing's Bad Luck: The Lives of Warren Zevon by C. M. Kushins
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $34.91As is the case with so many musicians, the life of Warren Zevon was blessed with talent and opportunity yet also beset by tragedy and setbacks. Raised mostly by his mother with an occasional cameo... -
The Show I'll Never Forget: 50 Writers Relive Their Most Memorable Concertgoing Experience by Sean Manning
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $26.95In The Show I'll Never Forget , writer Sean Manning has gathered an amazing array of unforgettable concert memories from a veritable A-list of acclaimed novelists, poets, biographers, cultural... -
The Mobile Wave: How Mobile Intelligence Will Change Everything by Michael J. Saylor
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $27.30In the tradition of international bestsellers, Future Shock and Megatrends , Michael J. Saylor, CEO of MicroStrategy, brings The Mobile Wave , a ground-breaking analysis of the impact of mobile... -
Dawn of Infamy: A Sunken Ship, a Vanished Crew, and the Final Mystery of Pearl Harbor by Stephen Harding
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $30.63On December 7, 1941, even as Japanese carrier-launched aircraft flew toward Pearl Harbor, a small American cargo ship chartered by the Army reported that it was under attack from a submarine halfway... -
To Live's to Fly: The Ballad of the Late, Great Townes Van Zandt by John Kruth
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $27.30At last, the authorized biography of Townes Van Zandt (1944-1997), who wrote such unforgettable songs as Pancho & Lefty" and If I Needed You." Born to a wealthy oil family in Ft. Worth, Texas,... -
Six Women of Salem: The Untold Story of the Accused and Their Accusers in the Salem Witch Trials by Marilynne K. Roach
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $26.95Six Women of Salem is the first work to use the lives of a select number of representative women as a microcosm to illuminate the larger crisis of the Salem witch trials. By the end of the trials,... -
When I Left Home: My Story by Buddy Guy
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.49According to Eric Clapton, John Mayer, and the late Stevie Ray Vaughn, Buddy Guy is the greatest blues guitarist of all time. An enormous influence on these musicians as well as Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy... -
First SEALs: The Untold Story of the Forging of America's Most Elite Unit by Patrick O'Donnell
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $26.95In the summer of 1942, an extraordinary group of men united to form an exceptional unit. Known as the Maritime Unit, it comprised America's first swimmer-commandos- an elite breed of warrior-spies... -
Satchmo by Louis Armstrong
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $23.26"In all my whole career the Brick House was one of the toughest joints I ever played in. It was the honky-tonk where levee workers would congregate every Saturday night and trade with the gals who'd... -
The Devil's Music: A History Of The Blues by Giles Oakley
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.48Superbly researched and vividly written, The Devil's Music is one of the only books to trace the rise and development of the blues both in relation to other forms of black music and in the context... -
Da Capo Best Music Writing 2003: The Year's Finest Writing On Rock, Pop, Jazz, Country & More by Matt Groening
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $26.95It's here: the fourth and latest volume in the series that you have come to rely upon for your music reading fix. The 2003 volume will celebrate the year's best writing about music and its culture... -
The Quantum Universe: (And Why Anything That Can Happen, Does) by Brian Cox
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $23.19In The Quantum Universe , Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw approach the world of quantum mechanics in the same way they did in Why Does E=mc2? and make fundamental scientific principles accessible,and... -
Dr. Benjamin Rush: The Founding Father Who Healed a Wounded Nation by Harlow Giles Unger
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $34.32Dr. Benjamin Rush was the Founding Father of an America that other Founding Fathers forgot or ignored--an America of women, African-Americans, Jews, Quakers, Roman Catholics, indentured workers, and... -
Hannibal: Enemy Of Rome by Leonard Cottrell
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $27.30In the year 216 B.C., Hannibal of Carthage, faced with an opposing Roman army twice the size of his own, outwitted the enemy at Cannae by means of a strategy which has become a classic of its kind... -
Sassy: The Life Of Sarah Vaughan by Leslie Gourse
Booksplease Price: $33.35Sarah Vaughan possessed the most spectacular voice in jazz history. In Sassy , Leslie Gourse, the acclaimed biographer of Nat King Cole and Joe Williams, defines and celebrates Vaughan's vital... -
Trieste And The Meaning Of Nowhere by Jan Morris
Booksplease Price: $25.74Here's a book for lovers of all things Italian. This city on the Adriatic has always tantalized Jan Morris with its moodiness and changeability. After visiting Trieste for more than half a century,... -
They Fight Like Devils: Stories From Lucknow During The Great Indian Mutiny, 1857-58 by D. A. Kinsley
Booksplease Price: $29.02Vastly outnumbered, British soldiers and civilians were threatened with extermination in their most valued colonial possession. As the vaunted Victorian army began a counteroffensive, the key to... -
The Spotsylvania Campaign: May 7-21, 1864 by John Cannan
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $24.41A detailed examination of one of the Civil War's most tragic battles pitting Robert E. Lee against Ulysses S. GrantBook InformationISBN 9780306812897Author John CannanFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
Goodbye 20th Century by David Browne
Booksplease Price: $40.60Rising from the drug-infested streets of '80s New York City, the incomparable Sonic Youth recorded some of the most important albums in alternative music history and influenced an entire generation... -
Butterfly in the Typewriter: The Tragic Life of John Kennedy Toole and the Remarkable Story of A Confederacy of Dunces by Cory MacLauchlin
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $33.54The saga of John Kennedy Toole is one of the greatest stories of American literary history. After writing A Confederacy of Dunces , Toole corresponded with Robert Gottlieb of Simon & Schuster for... -
Art Isn't Easy: The Theater Of Stephen Sondheim by Joanne Gordon
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $27.30The musical theatre of Stephen Sondheim probes deeply into the most disturbing issues of contemporary life. By challenging his audience with intricate music, biting wit, and profound themes, he... -
Backbeat: Earl Palmer's Story by Tony Scherman
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $29.66There he is, drumming on "Tutti Frutti," "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'," and thousands of other songs. As a studio player in New Orleans and Los Angeles from the 1940s through the 1970s, Earl... -
Treat It Gentle: An Autobiography by Sidney Bechet 9780306811081
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $31.38A legend on both the clarinet and the soprano saxophone, one of the most brilliant exponents of New Orleans jazz, Sidney Bechet (1897-1959) played with such fellow jazz legends as Louis Armstrong,... -
Lost Over Laos: A True Story Of Tragedy, Mystery, And Friendship by Horst Faas 9780306812514
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $27.30In 1971, as American forces hastened their withdrawal from Vietnam, a helicopter was hit by enemy fire over Laos and exploded in a fireball, killing four top combat photographers: Larry Burrows of... -
Best of Rivals: Joe Montana, Steve Young, and the Inside Story behind the NFL's Greatest Quarterback Controversy by Adam Lazarus 9780306822636
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $27.30In this revealing, in-depth look at the NFL's greatest quarterback controversy, Adam Lazarus takes readers into the locker room and inside the huddle to deliver the real story behind the rivalry... -
A Very Irregular Head by Rob Chapman 9780306821431
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $44.42"I don't think I'm easy to talk about. I've got a very irregular head. And I'm not anything that you think I am anyway."-Syd Barrett's last interview, Rolling Stone, 1971 Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett... -
A Continent Of Islands: Searching For The Caribbean Destiny by Mark Kurlansky 9780201622317
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $33.29In this richly detailed portrait of the individual countries and peoples of the Caribbean, Mark Kurlansky brings to life a society and culture often kept hidden from foreigners,the arts, history,... -
Mingus: A Critical Biography by Brian Priestley 9780306802171
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $27.30It would be no exaggeration to call Charles Mingus the greatest bass player in the history of jazz indeed, some might even regard it as understatement, for the hurricane power of his work as a... -
Eric Dolphy: A Musical Biography And Discography by Barry Tepperman 9780306805240
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.41In his tragically short life (1928-1964), Eric Dolphy was a titanic force in the development of the sixties avant-garde (or "new thing") from the hard bop of the late fifties. The searing... -
The Apocalypse Now Book by Peter Cowie 9780306810466
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $28.70The movie took years to be filmed and edited, and was the subject of endless stories, rumors, and speculation. At a screening at Cannes in May 1979, Francis Ford Coppola said simply, "There wasn't a... -
Truly Wilde: The Unsettling Story Of Dolly Wilde, Oscar's Niece by Joan Schenkar 9780306810794
Booksplease Price: $40.56Born a scant three months after her uncle Oscar's notorious arrest, raised in the shadow of the greatest scandal of the turn of the twentieth century, Dolly Wilde attracted people of taste and talent... -
Stealth Patrol: The Making Of A Vietnam Ranger by Bill Shanahan 9780306813856
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $26.95From Stealth Patrol :"He spoke in a sort of clipped cadence, his words tumbling out quickly, one on top of the other and his voice was deep and throaty, the way a bear might sound, if he could talk,... -
Lightning Man: The Accursed Life Of Samuel F.B. Morse by Kenneth Silverman 9780306813948
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $41.63This brilliantly conceived biography is the very American tale of a quiet man, raised by religious zealots, who became a gifted and prolific painter (more than three hundred portraits and historical... -
Halfbreed: The Remarkable True Story of George Bent-- Caught Between the Worlds of the Indian and the White Man by David Fridtjof Halaas 9780306814105
RRP: $46.78Booksplease Price: $30.17This is the story of the amazing and uncommon life of George Bent-a "halfbreed" born to a prominent white trader and his Indian wife-whose lifetime spanned one of the most exciting epochs in our... -
The Bee Gees: The Biography by David Meyer 9780306820250
RRP: $62.40Booksplease Price: $47.66The first narrative biography of the Bee Gees, the phenomenally popular vocal group that has sold more than 200 million records worldwide- sales in the company of the Beatles and Michael Jackson. ... -
Calming Your Fussy Baby: The Brazelton Way by T. Berry Brazelton 9780738207810
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.41Sleepless nights, wailing babies, and defiant toddlers-these are universal issues for new parents. Now beloved pediatrician T. Berry Brazelton and his esteemed colleague the child psychiatrist Joshua... -
Iron Coffins: A Personal Account Of The German U-boat Battles Of World War II by Herbert A. Werner 9780306811609
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $36.60The former German U-boat commander Herbert Werner navigates readers through the waters of World War II, recounting four years of the most significant and savage battles. By war's end, 28,000 out of...