HARRY PARTCH A BIOGRAPHY by Bob Gilmore
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Category: Biography
Visionary composer, theorist, and creator of musical instruments, Harry Partch (1901-1974) was a leading figure in the development of an indigenously American contemporary music. A pioneer in his explorations of new instruments and new tunings, Partch created multimedia theater works that combine sight ...Show more
I Thought We Were Making Movies, Not History by Walter Mirisch
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Category: Biography | Series: Wisconsin Film Studies
This is a moving, star-filled account of one of Hollywood's true golden ages as told by a man in the middle of it all. Walter Mirisch's company has produced some of the most entertaining and enduring classics in film history, including "West Side Story", "Some Like It Hot", "In the Heat of the Night", a ...Show more
Glenn Ford - A Life by Peter Ford; Patrick McGilligan (Foreword by)
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Category: Biography | Series: Wisconsin Film Studies
Glenn Ford--star of such now-classic films as Gilda, Blackboard Jungle, The Big Heat, 3:10 to Yuma, and The Rounders--had rugged good looks, a long and successful career, and a glamorous Hollywood life. Yet the man who could be accessible and charming on screen retreated to a deeply private world he cre ...Show more
ILLUMINATION AND NIGHT GLARE by Carson McCullers; Carlos L. Dews (Contribution by)
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Category: Biography | Series: Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography Ser.
Dictated in an idiomatic, associative style, this book exposes the doubleness of Carson McCullers's life. A mine of information for anyone interested in McCullers and American literary life in the 1950s, these memoirs are also a testament to the courage and love of life of their author.
"bloomsbury Ballerina: Lydia Lopokova, Imperial Dancer And Mrs Jo by Mackrell, Judith
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Category: Biography
Born in 1891 in St Petersburg, Lydia Lopokova lived a long and remarkable life. Just five feet tall and a natural comedian, her vivacious personality and the sheer force of her charm propelled her to the top of Diaghilev's Ballet Russes. Through a combination of luck, determination and talent, Lydia bec ...Show more
Lives: Virginia Woolf by Nicholson Nigel
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Category: Biography | Series: Lives Ser.
'As a short introduction to Virginia Woolf this deceptively brief book could hardly be bettered and achieves high status instantly as a significant work of reference in its own right' THE TIMES Virginia Woolf was undoubtedly one of the literary giants of the twentieth century. She was a central figure ...Show more
IN THE GARDEN OF MEMORY by Olczak-Ronikier J.
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Category: Biography
The story of the Horowitz family follows the lives of four generations of Polish Jews who lived through the turbulent twentieth century. Full of tales of bravery as well as the comical anecdotes of everyday life, the book follows the family members as they are dispersed around the world--to European sp ...Show more
FAMOUS FIRST BUBBLES FUNDAMENTALS OF EARLY MANIAS by Peter M. Garber
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Category: Biography
The jargon of economics and finance contains numerous colorful terms for market-asset prices at odds with any reasonable economic explanation. Examples include "bubble," "tulipmania," "chain letter," "Ponzi scheme," "panic," "crash," "herding," and "irrational exuberance." Although such a term suggests ...Show more
AL CAPONE AND HIS AMERICAN BOYS by William J. Helmer
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Category: Biography
When her husband was murdered on the orders of Chicago mobster Frank Nitti, Georgette Winkeler--wife of one of Al Capone's "American Boys"--set out to expose the Chicago Syndicate. After an attempt to publish her story was squelched by the mob, she offered it to the FBI in the mistaken belief that they ...Show more
The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens by Claire Tomalin
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Category: Biography
This is the story of someone who - almost - wasn't there; who vanished into thin air. Her names, dates, family and experiences very nearly disappeared from the record for good...Claire Tomalin's multi-award-winning story of the relationship between Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens is a remarkable work o ...Show more
KICKING THE BLACK MAMBA LIFE ALCOHOL AND DEATH by Robert Anthony Welch
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Category: Biography
'If I die, ' Egan Welch wrote in a note to his father, 'it is not alcohol that killed me. It's something else.' This title is an unforgettable many-layered story of the death of a son. It is a vivid, haunting personal tragedy, but Welch explores its roots in generations of Irish lives scarred by shame a ...Show more
CONFESSIONS OF A LAPSED CATHOLIC by Sheila Cassidy
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Category: Biography
Sheila Cassidy's honest and wise books on suffering and healing have made her one of the UK's best-loved and most popular writers on pastoral care and personal growth. She is widely known for her work in the hospice movement, and as a young doctor who survived torture for daring to give medical care to ...Show more