Non-Fiction
U2
The Illustrated Biography
Martin Andersen
Winners of 22 Grammy Awards, more than any other band, U2 has sold over 150 million records. In July 2011, the record-breaking 360 Degree became the top grossing tour of all time. This volume offers a unique collection of 200 classic, rare, and unseen photographs, accompanied by intriguing captions and a chronology.
The Wages of Expectation
A Biography of Edward Dahlberg
Charles DeFanti
The flamboyant and irascible Edward Dahlberg (1900-1977) wrote more than twenty
books including, most notably, BECAUSE I WAS FLESH, his autobiographical masterpiece.
Dahlberg’s stormy literary career spanned five decades and brought him into contact (and conflict) with many of the luminaries of his time, including D.H. Lawrence (who wrote the Introduction to his first novel, BOTTOM DOGS), Granville Hicks, Sidney Hook, James T. Farrell, Ford Madox Ford, Robert Graves, Robert Creeley, Charles Olson, Alice Neel, and Allen Ginsberg.
What Every Woman Should Know
Lifestyle Lessons from the 1930's
Christopher Hudson
In the post-World War I era, until the Second World War, newly empowered women enjoyed greater buying power and control over their lives than ever before. Into this gap, stepped the Daily Mail, which provided news and current affairs reporting for many decades, and also guidance and style commentary on fashion, etiquette and entertainment to its readers.
The facsimile pages from 1930s editions of the Daily Mail are reprinted with startling clarity in this book, giving a revealing and entertaining insight ranging from beauty and fashion to counsel on how to remove butter stains using gasoline…
What'd I Say
The Atlantic Story
Ahmet Ertegun
Essays by Greil Marcus, Lenny Kaye, Robert Christgau, David Fricke, Barney Hoskyns, Nat Hentoff, Will Friedwauld, Robert Gordon & Vincent Aletti. Contributors include: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Robert Plant, Pete Townsend, Eric Clapton, Phil Spector, Jack Bruce, Jewel, Tori Amos, Cher, Booker T., Rufus Thomas, Steven Stills, Graham Nash, Neil Young, Yes, Greg Allman, Genesis, Phil Collins, Blues Brothers, Stevie Nicks and many, many more.
The Will to Doubt
Bertrand Russell
A Philosophical Library Book
A collection of twelve essays by the Nobel Prize winner railing charmingly and persuasively against facile thinking and conformity; as relevant and pertinent today as when they were written.
Essays include “Can Men Be Rational,” “Free Thought and Official Propaganda,” “On the Value of Scepticism,” “On Youthful Cynicism,” “Is Science Superstitious?,” “”Useless” Knowledge,” “What is the Soul?,” “The Ancestry of Fascism,” “Stoicism and Mental Health,” “Modern Homogeneity,” “Men versus Insects,” and “On Comets.”