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Kind of Blue
The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece
by Ashley Kahn
Now in paperback: "A small treasure" ( The New Yorker ) and the best-selling account of the creation of a jazz classic. This critically and commercially acclaimed tribute to the most popular jazz album of all time is now available in paperback. With transcriptions of the unedited session tapes; in-depth interviews with musicians; freshly discovered Columbia Records files; never-before-seen photographs; and a... (more)
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The Making of Kind of Blue: Miles Davis and His Masterpiece
by Eric Nisenson
From the moment it was recorded, more than forty years ago, Miles Davis's Kind of Blue was hailed as a jazz classic. To this day, it remains the bestselling jazz album of all time, embraced by fans of all music genres. The album represented a true watershed moment in jazz history, and helped to usher in the first great jazz revolution since bebop. The Making of Kind of Blue is an exhaustively researched... (more)
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Girls at War
And Other Stories
by Chinua Achebe
Twelve stories by the internationally renowned novelist which recreate with energy and authenticity the major social and political issues that confront contemporary Africans on a daily basis.
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Americus, Book I
by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Lawrence Ferlinghetti lights out for the territories with Book I of his own born-in-the-U.S.A. epic, Americus . Describing Americus as "part documentary, part public pillow-talk, part personal epic—a descant, a canto unsung, a banal history, a true fiction, lyric and political," Ferlinghetti combines "universal texts, snatches of song, words or phrases, murmuring of love or hate, from Lotte Lenya to the... (more)
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The Birthday Party and the Room: Two Plays
by Harold Pinter
In The Birthday Party, a musician who escapes to a dilapidated boarding house becomes the victim of a ritual murder in which everyone- assassins, victim, and observers- implacably plays out the role assigned him by fate.The Room, a derelict boarding house again becomes the scene of a visitation of fate when a blind Black man suddenly arrives to deliver a mysterious message.
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Lakota Woman
by Richard Erdoes, Mary Crow Dog
A unique autobiography unparalleled in American Indian literature, and a deeply moving account of a woman's triumphant struggle to survive in a hostile world.
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Accident: A Day's News: A Novel (Phoenix Fiction)
by Christa Wolf
An East German writer, awaiting a call from the hospital where her brother is undergoing brain surgery, instead receives news of a massive nuclear accident at Chernobyl, one thousand miles away. In the space of a single day, in a potent, lyrical stream of thought, the narrator confronts both mortality and life and above all, the import of each moment lived-open, as Wolf reveals, to infinite analysis.
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Parmenides (Studies in Continental Thought (Paperback))
by Martin Heidegger
"... excellent translation... " -- The Philosopher Parmenides, a lecture course delivered by Martin Heidegger at the University of Freiburg in 1942-1943, presents a highly original interpretation of ancient Greek philosophy. A major contribution to Heidegger's provocative dialogue with the pre-Socratics, the book attacks some of the most firmly established conceptions of Greek thinking and of the Greek world.
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Mountain Language
by Harold Pinter
Two plays in one volume: "Mountain Language" - "extraordinarily economical and extraordinarily chilling"; and "Ashes to Ashes" - "dark, elegiac play, studded with brutally and swaggeringly funny jokes".
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No Man's Land
by Harold Pinter
Do Hirst and Spooner really know each other, or are they performing an elaborate charade? The ambiguity - and the comedy - intensify with the arrival of Briggs and Fraser. All four inhabit a no-man's-land between time present and time remembered, between reality and imagination.
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The Burning Plain and Other Stories
by Juan Rulfo
A major figure in the history of post-Revolutionary literature in Mexico, Juan Rulfo received international acclaim for his brilliant short novel Pedro Páramo (1955) and his collection of short stories El llano en llamas (1953), translated as a collection here in English for the first time. In the transition of Mexican fiction from direct statements of nationalism and social protest to a concentration on... (more)
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A Marginal Jew: Book 2
Mentor, Message, and Miracles (A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Volume 2)
by John P. Meier
The second volume of the author's quest for the real Jesus focuses on the development of Jesus's ministry, the powerful influence of his mentor, John the Baptist, and his practice of exorcisms, healings, and miracles.
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Miles
The Autobiography
by Miles Davis, Quincy Troupe
For more than forty years Miles Davis has been in the front rank of American music. Universally acclaimed as a musical genius, Miles is one of the most important and influential musicians in the world. The subject of several biographies, now Miles speaks out himself about his extraordinary life. Miles: The Autobiography, like Miles himself, holds nothing back. For the first time Miles talks about his five-year... (more)
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Betrayal
a Play
by Harold Pinter
Part of a collection of Harold Pinter's works, this is a comedy of sexual manners in which Pinter captures the psyche's sly manoeuvres for self-respect with sardonic forgiveness. Written in 1978 by the author of "The Caretaker", "The Lover", "The Homecoming" and "The Birthday Party".
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The Homecoming
by Harold Pinter
When Teddy, a professor in an American university, brings his wife Ruth to visit London and his family, he finds himself prey to old conflicts. But now it is Ruth who becomes the focus of the family's struggle for supremacy. The playwright's other works include "The Birthday Party" and "Old Times".