In 2012 the Rolling Stones celebrate their 50th anniversary. Their story – the band\"s meteoric rise to fame, the Marianne Faithfull, Brian Jones and Altamont scandals, the groundbreaking hits – is the stuff of twentieth century legend, and core to popular culture....

A miracle of still-plentiful hair, raw sex-appeal, and strutting talent . The frontman of one of the most influential and controversial groups of all time. A musical genius with a career spanning over four decades. Mick Jagger is a testament at once to British glamour and sensual decline, the ultimate architect and demi-god of rock....

The final word on music’s greatest legend, in which Philip Norman reveals a John Lennon the world has never seen. With ground-breaking insight into the pain, beauty and frustration that shaped the genius of modern music, John Lennon: The Definitive Biography redefines a legend....

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LITERATURE AND THE BRAIN goes straight to the human core of literature when it explains the different ways our brains convert stories, poems, plays, and films into pleasure. When we are deep into a film or book, we find ourselves "absorbed," unaware of our bodies or our surroundings....

This anthology comprises two collections of short stories, "Extraordinaries and Eschatologies" and "Why God Made the World." These thirty-eight stories have never been published before as collections, although many of them have been published individually. In discussing "Extraordinaries and Eschatologies," Dr....

This two-volume collection presents the poems Dr. Nathan wrote from the 1970s through 2012. The first set of poems, titled East/West, was inspired by viewing the painted oriental screens exhibited at the Freer Gallery in Washington, DC. Moved by these images, he used the medium of poetry to capture the feelings the screens evoked. Dr....

Welcome to the wonderfully nutty, fabulously entertaining mishaps of Professor Branestawm! Professor Branestawm is madly sane and cleverly dotty. He simply hasn\"t got the time to think about ordinary things - his head is too full of brilliant ideas and wild inventions....

Still one of the immortals of children\"s literature - Professor Branestawm\"s continues to amuse generations of young readers. The wonderfully nutty, fabulously entertaining mishaps of Professor Branestawm. He\"s madly sane and cleverly dotty....

Full of fantastical places like Kumdown Upwardz, Gadzooks and Urgburg-under-Ug, eccentric kings and queens, lessons in kindness, peace and even royal thriftiness, wrapped up in more than a smattering of nonsense, The Dribblesome Teapots brings together ten modern fairy tales to be enjoyed by generation after generation of young readers....