Everyman's Library, September 2003. Hardcover. Born in African American work songs, field hollers, and the powerful legacy of the spirituals, the blues traveled the country from the Mississippi delta to "Sweet Home Chicago," forming the backbone of American music. In this anthology-the first devoted exclusively to blues poems-a wide array.....
Rock Out Books, December 2015. Hardcover. A photographic document of the Grateful Dead's final five Fare Thee Well concerts in Santa Clara, Ca. and Chicago, Il.. The book follows the final reunion of the core four surviving members of the Grateful Dead - Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh, and.....
Everyman's Library, March 2017. Hardcover. A beautiful hardcover selection of poems by one of the giants of contemporary American poetry. EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY POCKET POETS. James Merrill once called his body of work chronicles of love and loss, and in twenty books written over four decades he used the details of.....
Hachette Original, November 2015. Audio CD. Listen in on hours of revelatory conversations with Jerry Garcia, one of the most beloved and missed figures in the world of music, with JERRY ON JERRY. More than twenty years after his death, at too young an age, Jerry remains a cultural icon.....
Insight Editions, November 2007. Hardcover. In November 1980, on the eve of John Lennon's untimely murder by a lone gunman, photographer Allan Tannenbaum had unique and total access to John and Yoko, who were emerging from five years of seclusion and avoiding the media. As one of the few photographers.....
Rizzoli, November 2012. Hardcover. Created by Kate Moss herself, in collaboration with creative director Fabien Baron, Jess Hallett, and Jefferson Hack, this book is a highly personal retrospective of Kate Moss's career, tracing her evolution from "new girl with potential" to one of the most iconic models of all time.....
William Collins, April 2020. Hardcover. A profound, powerful and moving collection of 100 letters from around the world responding to the climate crisis, introduced by Emma Thompson and lovingly illustrated by CILIP award winner Jackie Morris. 'All power to this amazing project.' JOANNE HARRIS'Makes sense of the climate crisis in.....
Yale University Art Gallery, October 2007. Hardcover. The highly anticipated, definitive reference on Stuart Davis's paintings, watercolors, drawings, and published illustrations Stuart Davis (1892-1964) made a mark on the art world early in his career, first with his Ashcan works and then with his highly personal version of Cubism, which.....
Modern Library, May 1999. Trade Paperback. Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time 'I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams, ' said Gore Vidal. 'He was remarkably prescient about the coming horrors.' His political ideals shaped by.....
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, October 2010. Trade Paperback. A riveting true-life tale of newspaper noir and Japanese organized crime from an American investigative journalist who "pulls the curtain back on ... [an] element of Japanese society that few Westerners ever see" (San Francisco Examiner). Now a Max Original Series on.....
Outskirts Press, November 2017. Trade Paperback. Songs to Fill the Air: Tales of the Grateful Dead is my follow-up to Aces Back to Back: The History of the Grateful Dead. Songs to Fill the Air is a collection of my essays on the Dead: never-before-told tales that reach across far-ranging.....
Outskirts Press, February 2022. Trade Paperback. Were They Ever Here at All? More Epic Tales of the Grateful Dead is author Scott W. Allen's third and final installment in his written histories of the revered San Francisco group, updating the Dead's history through August 2022. Mr. Allen's series of biographies.....
Outskirts Press, February 2014. Trade Paperback. Aces Back to Back is the most comprehensive, fun, fact-filled and up-to-date history of the Grateful Dead ever written - now updated through August, 2016 !! From the band's inception, through the death of Jerry Garcia, and on to their incarnations as the Other.....
Grand Central Publishing, April 2002. Trade Paperback. Baseball's best writer offers an extraordinarily candid and thorough exploration of the inner craft of pitching from one of the game's best, David Cone. There is no big league pitcher who is more respected for his skill than David Cone. In his stellar.....
Random House Trade Paperbacks, January 2006. Trade Paperback. He found Rome made of clay and left it made of marble. As Rome's first emperor, Augustus transformed the unruly Republic into the greatest empire the world had ever seen. His consolidation and expansion of Roman power two thousand years ago laid.....
Dafina, June 2017. Trade Paperback. A treat for every hip hop fan, this book presents a rare and indispensable look into the private life of the iconic Tupak Shakur, complete with original letters and poems.
Riverhead Books, October 2008. Trade Paperback. A New York Times Notable Book, and a "chaotic, laugh riot" (San Francisco Chronicle) of a memoir. Shalom Auslander was raised with a terrified respect for God. Even as he grew up and was estranged from his community, his religion and its traditions, he.....
Tsunami Press, January 2022. Hardcover. A bullet train of a book, fast-paced, hilarious, rich with action. A harbinger of good things to come in mysterious ways. It all began at a cocktail party at Wallace Stegner's for the Stanford writing class of 1958. Ken Kesey and Ken Babbs became cronies.....
Modern Library, April 2021. Hardcover. A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences.....
Yale University Press, July 2019. Hardcover. A modern rethinking of the career and vision of one of the greatest artists of all time on the 500th anniversary of his death The towering genius of Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) has been celebrated--and remained undisputed--for hundreds of years. A groundbreaking, essential addition.....
Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster, March 2021. Trade Paperback. It's one of the greatest comebacks of all time. And for Tiger Woods, getting back to the winner's circle was only half the story. Written by a New York Times bestselling author and reporter who "knows the world of.....
Three Rivers Press, June 2019. Trade Paperback. John Perry Barlow's wild ride with the Grateful Dead was just part of a Zelig-like life that took him from a childhood as ranching royalty in Wyoming to membership in the Internet Hall of Fame as a digital free speech advocate. Mother American.....
Chicago Review Press, October 2005. Trade Paperback. 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.....
Mariner Books, April 2013. Trade Paperback. From the New York Times bestselling author of Fun Home, Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama is a brilliantly told graphic memoir of Alison Bechdel becoming the artist her mother wanted to be. A New York Times, USA Today, and Time Best Book.....
Yale University Press, March 2020. Hardcover. From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, an exuberant biography of the world's greatest escape artist "Will leave [readers] entertained and astonished, and that's a kind of magic of its own."--Jerry Z. Muller, Jewish Review of Books In 1916, the war in Europe having prevented.....