Art

The Artist’s Way is the seminal book on the subject of creativity. In this edition, Julia Cameron reflects upon the impact of The Artist’s Way and describes the work she has done during the last decade and the new insights into the creative process that she has gained....

For centuries, works of art have been stolen in countless ways from all over the world, but no one has been quite as successful at it as the master thief Stéphane Breitwieser....

An “exquisite” (The Washington Post) “hauntingly beautiful” (Associated Press) portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former New Yorker staffer who spent a decade as a museum guard.

The Red Book, published to wide acclaim in 2009, contains the nucleus of C. G. Jung's later works.

It’s an audio compilation of Steal Like an Artist, Show Your Work and Keep Going, the bestselling and transformative series on how to unlock your creativity, find community and an audience in the digital age, and stay focused, creative and true to yourself—for life....

What is art? Many of us think of the arts as entertainment—a luxury of some kind. In Your Brain on Art, authors Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross show how activities from painting and dancing to expressive writing, architecture, and more are essential to our lives.

Incisive and absorbing, Paris in Ruins captures the shifting passions and politics of the art world, revealing how the siege and the chaos of the Commune had a profound impact on modern art, and how artistic genius can emerge from darkness and catastrophe.

Award-winning celebrity stylist and the world's only image architect Law Roach provides a groundbreaking guide to becoming your ultimate, confident self.

Comedy legend Carol Burnett tells the hilarious behind-the-scenes story of her iconic weekly variety series, The Carol Burnett Show....

An award-winning journalist obsessed with obsession, Bianca Bosker’s existence was upended when she wandered into the art world—and couldn’t look away....

In Teaching to Transgress, Bell Hooks - writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual - writes about a new kind of education, education as the practice of freedom. Teaching students to....

The unforgettable, unknown history of colors and the vivid stories behind them....

Mindy Kaling has lived many lives: the obedient child of immigrant professionals, a timid chubster afraid of her own bike, a Ben Affleck–impersonating Off-Broadway performer and playwright, and, finally, a comedy writer and actress....

In Van Gogh Has a Broken Heart, Russ Ramsey digs into these artists' stories for readers who may be new to art, as well as for lifelong students of art history, to mine the transcendent beauty and hard lessons we can take from their masterpieces and their lives.

From the acclaimed author of American Comics and Jewish Comedy comes a highly entertaining book that examines the American obsession with horror—and what it tells us about ourselves.

All That Glitters is a dazzling insider’s account of the contemporary art world and the stunning rise and fall of the charismatic American art dealer Inigo Philbrick, as seen through the eyes of his friend and fellow dealer.

Five women revolutionize the modern art world in postwar America in this "gratifying, generous, and lush" true story from a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist (Jennifer Szalai, New York Times)....

This audiobook is a quick and easy guide that will make your video better instantly - whether you hear it cover to cover or just listen to a few chapters....

Have your sense of art history overturned and your eyes opened to many artforms often ignored or dismissed. From the Cornish coast to Manhattan, Nigeria to Japan, this is the history of art as it's never been told before....

Every person is born a creator, but the world has conditioned us to believe that we are not. Most of us are not fulfilled because we have forgotten who we truly are and what we were created to do — create....

Offering insights into the economic and social dimensions of clothmaking - and countering the enduring, often demeaning, association of textiles as "merely women's work" - The Golden Thread offers an alternative guide to our past, present, and future....

Finally, we are learning that simplicity equals sanity. We’re rebelling against technology that’s too complicated, DVD players with too many menus, and software accompanied by 75-megabyte “read me” manuals....

It's all Nikki Sixx. This is a collection of compelling photography and stories that capture the rage, love, optimism, darkness, and determination that shape his work....

Take a journey inside the private world of Luther Vandross, one of the world greatest R&B vocalists of all time and a notoriously secretive star, and listen to this audiobook as it chronicles his journey from the projects of New York City's Lower East Side to the top of the charts....

First published in 1973, this is a study of the force of photographic images, which are continually inserted between experience and reality....

In August of 1931, a dashing 25-year-old resident of the author's present Manhattan apartment building in 2024 – an artist named Norma Jeanne Bernstein – was driven back to Manhattan by her father from the summer camp she had been supervising in the Adirondacks to submit to a police interrogation. The subject? Dr. Milton Thomashefsky had just been shot in the spine by his nurse – Agnes Birdseye, daughter of a Republican DA clerk who was cousin to the inventor of frozen foods. That Birdseye. The nurse had then turned the gun on herself. Three shots had been fired in total. Two ...

The Psychology of Dungeons & Dragons, is relevant to players, game masters, and even game designers. It applies decades of established and cutting-edge research to help listeners understand how playing the game drives behaviors, shapes play, impacts relationships, and changes players once they put away the dice. Every chapter concludes with specific, practical tips and takeaways for players and game masters to use not only in their games of Dungeons & Dragons but also in any other tabletop role-playing game.

Before his astonishing redemption, before he terrorized London's rich and poor alike with his stingy Bahs and caustic Humbugs, Scrooge was Ebenezer. Who and what shaped this brilliant, haunted boy? Well, they are all here. From his mercurial father and beloved sister to fanciful Fezziwig and lovely Belle, to good Frederick Scrooge to Jacob Marley himself, witness the infamous miser's origin, in all its Christmassy and sinister glory! A Christmas Overture, written in the style and spirit of Charles Dickens' legendary A Christmas Carol, covers the years before 'Jacob Marley was dead', with ...

For many years, Nobel Prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk kept a record of his daily thoughts and observations, entering them in small notebooks and illustrating them with his own paintings. This book combines those notebooks into one volume. He writes about his travels around the world, his family, his writing process, and his complex relationship with his home country of Turkey. He charts the seeds of his novels and the things that inspired his characters and the plots of his stories. Intertwined in his writings are the vibrant paintings of the landscapes that surround and inspire him.

I Like It Like THAT! is a heartwarming, humorous, and inspiring collection of over 115 stories celebrating heroes from all walks of life—humans and animals alike. Written by Harold and Carmen Laski, a physician and EMT with over 50 years of marriage and storytelling experience, this book dives into tales of courage, resilience, and kindness that will make you laugh, cry, and reflect. From famous icons like Nelson Mandela and Rosa Parks to unsung heroes like Wesley the subway rescuer and Lulu the doorbell-ringing pig, each story reminds us of the extraordinary power of ordinary people. ...