201 results for '"Blanford Parker'

Leading art critic and writer Richard Cork tells the stories of his personal encounters with some of the world's most influential modern and contemporary artists. Richard Cork draws on his...

The performance history of each of Puccini's operas are reviewed and related to events in his life

Awesome Man, our favorite superhero, is back, and in this fantastic sequel from New York Times bestselling author Michael Chabon, he must prepare for his greatest threat yet! Awesome Man's secret...

Can you remember what happens at the end of 1984? Or what triggered Quentin Compson's suicide in The Sound and the Fury? Perhaps you need to know who won the National Book Award in 1960, how many...

Well known for having generated new interest in Verdi as a subtle and elaborate musical thinker, Pierluigi Petrobelli offers here lively, penetrating explanations of how music in the theater works:...

Everyone has heard of Albert Einstein-but what exactly did he do? How much do kids really know about Albert Einstein besides the funny hair and genius label? For instance, do they know that he was...

A substantial new appraisal of Consuelo Kanaga (1894-1978), one of the pioneers of modern American photography. Consuelo Kanaga (1894-1978) was one of the pioneers of modern American photography...

"I believe in the flapper as an artist in her particular field, the art of being – being young, being lovely." -- Zelda FitzgeraldA sparkling new collection of "flapper fiction": stories featuring...

Rafa Nasiri's art derives from his direct exposure to the mysterious and infinite horizons of his homeland-Iraq. Rafa's passion for and competency in printmaking grew out during his training years at...

The best guide to the birds of Peru—now in a revised paperback editionBirds of Peru is the most complete and authoritative field guide to this diverse, neotropical landscape. It features every one of...

More than to any other musician, the credit for the birth of modern jazz belongs to Charles "Yardbird" Parker--known to his friends and fans simply as "Bird."Parker's virtuoso technique, melodic...

Together at last. Under the pseudonym Richard Stark, Donald E. Westlake, one of the greats of crime fiction, wrote twenty-four fast-paced, hard-boiled novels featuring Parker, a shrewd career...

You probably haven’t ever noticed them. But they’ve noticed you. They notice everything. That’s their job. Sitting quietly in a nondescript car outside a bank making note of the tellers’ work habits,...