Andrew: 10354 books
California Dreaming: The LA Pop Music Scene and the 60s
Guides to Music
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
In 1960, a group of young men in California recorded an instrumental single, Moon Dawg, and started what would become known as surf music. Within a few years, those young men would have been important parts of records by the Beach Boys, Frank Zappa, Canned Heat, the Monkees, and many more.
In...
O Sing unto the Lord
A History of English Church Music
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
For as long as people have worshipped together, music has played a key role in church life. With O Sing unto the Lord, Andrew Gant offers a fascinating history of English church music, from the Latin chant of late antiquity to the great proliferation of styles seen in contemporary repertoires.
The...
Preservation: The Kinks' Music 1964-74
Guides to Music
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2018
In the first ten years of their career, the Kinks underwent a creative explosion that was almost unparalleled in popular music.
Starting with simple but potent garage rock tracks like You Really Got Me, the band, and lead singer/songwriter Ray Davies, quickly became one of the most idiosyncratic...
by Andrew Gant
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Ideas in Profile Series
Is music a science or an art? It's both, as Andrew Gant reveals in this lively and accessible account of what music is and what it's for. Music has been central to life since the dawn of humankind and is intimately bound up with the origins of language.
Andrew...
Catfish and Mandala
A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
A Vietnamese Bicycle Days by a stunning new voice in American letters.
Andrew X. Pham dreamed of becoming a writer. Born in Vietnam and raised in California, he held technical jobs at United Airlines-and always carried a letter of resignation in his briefcase. His father had been a POW of the...
The Beach Boys on CD Volume Three
The Beach Boys on CD, #3
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2017
Between 1983 and 2017 the Beach Boys released dozens of albums, together and apart, including some of the best music ever recorded - and some not so good. In this book, Andrew Hickey looks at this music track by track, analysing every song that Brian, Carl, Dennis, Mike, Al, Bruce and David recorded...
by Andrew Lang
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
Andrew Lang, FBA was a Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at the University of St Andrews are named after him.
More of a Man
Diaries of a Scottish Craftsman in Mid-Nineteenth-Century North America
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
More of a Man presents the only known diaries of a skilled craft-worker in Victorian Canada: Andrew McIlwraith, a Scottish journeyman who migrated to North America during a tumultuous period marked by economic depression and early industrial change. McIlwraith's journals illuminate his quest to succeed...
The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary
A True Story of Resilience and Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
The “moving” true story of a woman fighting to give a group of chimpanzees a second chance at life (People).
In 1997, Gloria Grow started a sanctuary for chimps retired from biomedical research on her farm outside Montreal. For the indomitable Gloria, caring for thirteen great apes is like...
Sick On You
The Disastrous Story of The Hollywood Brats, the Greatest Band You've Never Heard Of
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
MOJO magazine’s 2015 Book of the Year, the outrageous true story of the Hollywood Brats—the greatest punk band you've never heard of—brilliantly told by founding member Andrew Matheson
With only a guitar, a tatty copy of the Melody Maker, and his template for the perfect band, Andrew...
Convicted
An Innocent Man, the Cop Who Framed Him, and an Unlikely Journey of Forgiveness and Friendship
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Jameel McGee: “For the next three years not a day went by that I didn’t think about my son who I had never seen and the cop who had kept me from him. And for most of those three years I promised myself that if I ever saw this cop again, I was going to kill him. I intended to keep that promise.”
Andrew...
by Andrew Delaplaine
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2015
Here are the most essential quotations about THE MOVIES, culled from as wide a variety of source materials that are available.They have been compiled, edited and carefully selected for inclusion in this book by that well-known Quote Monger, Andrew Delaplaine.
Hitler and Churchill
Secrets of Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
'His book is timely and a triumph. Roberts manages to convey all the reader needs to know about two men to whom battalions of biographies have been devoted' EVENING STANDARD
Adolf Hitler and Winston Churchill were two totally opposite leaders - both in what they stood for and in the way in...
America's Jubilee
A Generation Remembers the Revolution After 50 Years of Independence
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
InAmerica's Jubilee distinguished historian Andrew Burstein presents an engrossing narrative that takes us back to a pivotal year in American history, 1826, when the reins of democracy were being passed from the last Revolutionary War heroes to a new generation of leaders.
Through brilliant...