I want to introduce you to my third book of photographs, Farewell to Valparaiso, that describes my feelings at the time to say good-bye to a loved city where I lived in my adolescence and young adult life. This book is intended to reach an audience of people interested in knowing the suffering of those that were forced to leave their roots behind and not knowing if they will ever come back to them.

Despite her parents' struggles with addiction, Lilly Dancyger always thought of her childhood as a happy one. But what happens when a journalist interrogates her own rosy memories to reveal the instability around the edges? Dancyger's father, Joe Schactman, was part of the iconic 1980s East Village art scene. He created provocative sculptures out of found materials like animal bones, human hair, and broken glass, and brought his young daughter into...

P. T. Barnum's "The Art of Money Getting" is a timeless guide to achieving financial success, filled with practical advice and insights from one of America's most famous showmen and businessmen. First published in 1880, Barnum's wisdom on wealth accumulation remains relevant today, offering readers a blend of common sense, business acumen, and moral guidance. In this classic work, Barnum shares his principles for acquiring wealth, emphasizing the...

Molly Peacock uncovers the history of neglected painter Mary Hiester Reid, a trailblazing artist who refused to choose between marriage and a career. Molly Peacock looks at the balancing act of female creativity and domesticity in the life of Mary Hiester Reid, a painter, who produced over three hundred stunning, emotive floral still lifes and landscapes. Born in the U.S. in 1854, trained by libertine Thomas Eakins, Mary trailblazed in a life, where...

Calvé, avant d'être chansonnier, poète ou musicien, est assurément un des grands humanistes de la chanson québécoise et pourtant universelle, puisque sa chanson est de toutes latitudes et de tous horizons. Elle se cherche autant qu'elle nous trouve, toujours en douceur comme pour ne pas déranger, s'insinuant au cœur des sentiments pour prendre son sel et saumurer l'éternité du rêve. D'aussi loin qu'il m'en souvienne, les chansons de Calvé...

This intimate account of the year of Patten's employment offers a rare glimpse of O'Keeffe's daily life when she could no longer see well enough to paint.

The Top 5 Greatest Artists is a collection of biographies on Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, Vincent Van Gogh, and Pablo Picasso.

Ed Pusick was a quiet and eccentric man, a bachelor all his life, whose passion was his artwork. After his time in the Navy when an accident disabled his legs for the rest of his life, Ed became a source of many inventive designs as a professional but apparently never took the trouble to seek patents, recognition, nor much gratitude for his work. Ed later drew sketches as an illustrator for an architectural firm in Grand Rapids, where he met a co-worker...

L'un et l'autre se disaient qu'ils se ressemblaient. Leur univers c'était eux. Ils apprenaient à se connaître en bénissant le ciel de s'être rencontrés. Malgré leur passé, ils se découvraient tous aussi ingénus l'un que l'autre. Comment aurait-il pu en être autrement? Johnny avait trouvé sa reine, Sylvie, contrée lointaine, forêt sombre et lumineuse, seule elle aussi, et aussi belle que lui. Du reste, les histoires d'amour ressemblent...

A captivating exploration of the life, work, and insider insight of legendary film producer Howard Kazanjian Howard Kazanjian, a film producer whose career spans 50 years, has collaborated with Hollywood legends such as Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, Sam Peckinpah, Steven Spielberg, and George Lucas, and worked on such classics as The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Return of the Jedi. Complete with personal anecdotes from the...