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Arboretum by David Byrne
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.94For over thirty years, besides making music, David Byrne has focused his unique genius upon forms as diverse as the archaeology of music as we know it, architectural photography and the uses of... -
American Utopia by David Byrne
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $22.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635576689Author David ByrneFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint -
Bicycle Diaries by David Byrne
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37'Byrne comes across like a post-punk Michael Palin.' Sephen Dalton, The Times'An engaging book; part-diary, part-manifesto.' ObserverDavid Byrne, co-founder of the group Talking Heads, has been... -
Secret Life of Humans by David Byrne
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $12.19In 1949, scientist and mathematician Dr Jacob Bronowski installs a hidden, locked room in his house. Fifty years later, his grandson discovers the secrets contained in the room, unearthing echoes... -
How Music Works by David Byrne
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.67How Music Works is David Byrne's bestselling, buoyant celebration of a subject he has spent a lifetime thinking about. Drawing on his own work over the years with Talking Heads, Brian Eno, and his... -
How Music Works by David Byrne 9780804188937
RRP: $37.52Booksplease Price: $26.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804188937Author David ByrneFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint -
A History of the World (in Dingbats): Drawings & Words by David Byrne
RRP: $40.13Booksplease Price: $27.79As featured in The New York Times, T Magazine, and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon The phenomenally creative musician and filmmaker David Byrne presents new artwork that explores daily life in... -
Totally Wired: Postpunk Interviews and Overviews by Simon Reynolds
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.67Totally Wired features 32 interviews with the post-punk era's most innovative musicians and colourful personalities. From Ari Up, Jah Wobble, David Byrne, Edwyn Collins, it also includes... -
Paying for the Welfare State in the 21st Century: Tax and Spending in Post-Industrial Societies David Byrne (School of Applied Social Sciences, University of Durham) 9781447336532
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $18.41What does the future hold for the welfare state in the post-industrial 21st century? Political and economic forces are threatening the taxation regimes of highly globalised, capitalist societies,... -
Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us Susan Magsamen 9781805301233
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.12THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2023BARNES & NOBLE'S BEST SCIENCE & NATURE BOOKS OF 2023The arts can deliver potent, accessible and proven solutions for the wellbeing of... -
The Musical Human: A History of Life on Earth - A BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week' by Michael Spitzer
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.27A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'Full of delightful nuggets' Guardian online 'Entertaining, informative and philosphical ... An essential read' All About History 'Extraordinary range ... All the... -
Burning Down the House: Talking Heads and the New York Scene That Transformed Rock by Jonathan Gould 9780063022980
RRP: $37.52Booksplease Price: $27.87Rolling Stone Best Music Books of the Year"Definitive...Not just for Talking Heads fans-it's a masterful dive into downtown New York in the 70s, and the changing face of rock music."-Town &... -
Mind is the Ride Jet McDonald 9781783529391
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.54When Jet McDonald cycled four thousand miles to India and back, he didn't want to write a straightforward account. He wanted to go on an imaginative journey. The age of the travelogue is over: today... -
Two Beats Ahead: What Great Musical Minds Teach Us About Creativity and Innovation by Panos A. Panay 9780241410929
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $20.41'Groundbreaking' Amy Cuddy, bestselling author of Presence 'A roadmap for innovators, entrepreneurs and those seeking new avenues for exploring and reimagining the future' Deepak Chopra Musicians... -
Songwriters On Songwriting: Revised And Expanded by Paul Zollo
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $21.45In these fifty-two interviews, the greatest songwriters of our time go straight to the source of the magic of songwriting by offering their thoughts, feelings, and opinions on their art. Representing... -
A Sound Mind: How I Fell in Love with Classical Music (and Decided to Rewrite its Entire History) by Paul Morley
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11'Exhilarating' - Sunday Times 'Funny and moving' - Jarvis Cocker Music critic and writer Paul Morley weaves together memoir and history in a spiralling tale that establishes classical music as... -
The Song Machine: How to Make a Hit by John Seabrook
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68How do you make a song into a global smash hit that is guaranteed to make millions? Read The Song Machine and find out!From Tin Pan Alley and Motown to Rihanna and Taylor Swift, manufactured music... -
Fifty Years Of Carry On by Richard Webber
Booksplease Price: $18.40In August 1958, the opening scenes of a low-budget black and white film flickered onto cinema screens up and down the country. No one could have foreseen what impact Carry on Sergeant would have then... -
The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature by Daniel Levitin
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Dividing the sum total of human musical achievement, from Beethoven to The Beatles, Busta Rhymes to Bach, into just six fundamental forms, Levitin illuminates, through songs of friendship, joy,... -
How Music Works: A listener's guide to harmony, keys, broken chords, perfect pitch and the secrets of a good tune John Powell 9781846143151
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Have you ever listened to an incredible piece of music and wondered exactly why it makes you want to dance or cry? Are you mystified by how musicians just 'know' what notes to play next when they're... -
Voices: How a Great Singer Can Change Your Life by Nick Coleman 9781784701338
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92***ONE OF BILLBOARD'S TOP TEN MUSIC BOOKS OF 2018***'A brilliant book about singing... I have been talking to Nick Coleman about music, in person and in my head, for forty years now. [With Voices]... -
White Tears by Hari Kunzru
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.47'A stunning, audacious new thriller... It will shock you, horrify you, unsettle you, and that's exactly the point. As brave as it is brutal, it lets nothing and nobody off the hook' NPR'A book that... -
Sounds Wild and Broken by David George Haskell
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37An awe-inspiring exploration of the sounds of the living Earth, and the joys and threats of human music, language and noise. 'A symphony, filled with the music of life . . . fascinating,... -
Landscape Photographer of the Year: Collection 6: Collection 6 by Charlie Waite 9780749573652
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $23.68'Take a view', the Landscape Photographer of the Year competition, is the brainchild of Charlie Waite, one of today's most respected landscape photographers. Together with AA Publishing, he created... -
Creative Quest by Questlove 9780062670571
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.84NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2018 BY Esquire * PopSugar * The Huffington Post * Buzzfeed * Publishers WeeklyA unique new guide to creativity from Questlove-inspirations, stories, and lessons on... -
Remain in Love Chris Frantz 9781474615143
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'As the Brits say: I'm gobsmacked. I devoured this book... one of the most potent examples of living the dream' DEBBIE HARRY'A great drummer who has written a great book'... -
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Remain in Love by Chris Frantz 9781474615143 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $8.24THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'As the Brits say: I'm gobsmacked. I devoured this book... one of the most potent examples of living the dream' DEBBIE HARRY'A great drummer who has written a great book'... -
The Incident Room by Olivia Hirst
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11It's 1975. The Millgarth Incident Room in Leeds is the epicentre of the biggest manhunt in British history, for one of the most notorious serial killers: the Yorkshire Ripper. With public and... -
Nina Simone's Gum: A Memoir of Things Lost and Found by Warren Ellis
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.48THE TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLERA GUARDIAN, TELEGRAPH, THE TIMES, IRISH TIMES, ROUGH TRADE, MOJO, CLASH, ROLLING STONE, UNCUT BOOK OF THE YEARFrom award-winning musician and composer Warren Ellis comes... -
Nina Simone's Gum by Warren Ellis
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.27THE TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLERA GUARDIAN, TELEGRAPH, THE TIMES, IRISH TIMES, SUNDAY EXPRESS, ROUGH TRADE, MOJO, CLASH, ROLLING STONE, UNCUT BOOK OF THE YEARFrom award-winning musician and composer... -
Brian Eno: His Music And The Vertical Color Of Sound by Eric Tamm 9780306806490
Booksplease Price: $21.15Musician, composer, producer: Brian Eno is unique in contemporary music. Best known in recent years for producing U2's sensational albums, Eno began his career as a synthesizer player for Roxy Music... -
The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation by Carl Benedikt Frey
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.73"Made me look at the industrial revolution, invention, sleeping beauties, contexts and the forces that shape our societies differently."-David Byrne, New York Times Book ReviewHow the history of... -
This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession by Professor Daniel J Levitin
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $18.30In this groundbreaking union of art and science, rocker-turned-neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin explores the connection between music-its performance, its composition, how we listen to it, why we... -
Buchanan-Smith's Axe Handbook: Knowing, Buying, Using, Hanging, Restoring & Adorning by Peter Buchanan-Smith 9781419747670
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $14.65A compendium for the axe-wielding adventurer by one of the industry's leading tastemakers Buchanan-Smith's Axe Handbook is a trusted resource for anyone looking to reconnect with handcraft and... -
The Year: Reawakening the legend of cycling's hardest endurance record by Dave Barter 9781910240434
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.14In 1939 British cyclist Tommy Godwin cycled 75,065 miles in a single year. Think about that for a second: it's an average of over 200 miles each day. And it's a mark that still stands after almost... -
Tom Waits by Matt Mahurin by Matt Mahurin 9781419739095
RRP: $53.60Booksplease Price: $39.80A collection of wildly inventive portraits of musician Tom Waits, the result of a 30-year collaboration with photographer and illustrator Matt Mahurin This visually arresting book is a... -
Wildlife by Richard Ford 9780747585237
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36The setting is Great Falls, Montana, where the Rockies end and where, in 1960, the promise of good times seems as limitless as the sweep of the prairies beyond. This is where the Brinson family hopes... -
The idea of poverty Paul Spicker (Robert Gordon University) 9781861348883
RRP: $30.81Booksplease Price: $29.20This book examines views about what poverty is and what should be done about it. 'Poverty' means many different things to different people - for example, material deprivation, lack of money,... -
The Collaborative Habit: Life Lessons for Working Together by Twyla Tharp 9781416576518
Booksplease Price: $17.92* An important and useful skill: In education, collaborative classroom learning is replacing head-to-head competition. In business, the best leaders are team-builders who can inspire great group... -
What Is Posthumanism? by Cary Wolfe 9780816666157
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.07What does it mean to think beyond humanism? Is it possible to craft a mode of philosophy, ethics, and interpretation that rejects the classic humanist divisions of self and other, mind and body,...