5 Ergebnisse.

First-person account of the famous New York City Cedar Bar in the 1950s when it was regularly visited by what came to be known as the "greatest generation in American art history." The author was friends with Willem DeKooning, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Philip Guston and Franz Kline. In this short book he describes what these giants of the American art world were really like when they relaxed among friends in their favorite neighborhood han...

BABYLOVING is a comfortable and reassuring read to new parents. Hiag Akmakjian, as a Book of the Month Club author and an authority on babies and childhood development, explains in his new book how emotions grow in the first 36 months of life. Writing in a cheerful and conversational tone, he discusses, among many topics, how a baby learns to tolerate frustration. The importance of love and hugging in the baby's development. Where healthy self...

In this raunchy novel, a young American veteran, using the GI Bill to attend an art school in Montparnasse, returns to post-World War II Paris where he meets Cleo. She is a 19-year-old virginal American studying abroad who, along with a group of café friends and a comic overweight middle-aged Parisian prostitute, hopes to explore love, philosophy, sex and early movies in the easygoing ways of Left Bank Paris. It is an unusual kind of novel: a ...

Many lovers of poetry consider haiku to be literature's most subtle art form. The whole of life seems effortlessly expressed in only a few words and images. Snow Falling From a Bamboo Leaf: The Art of Haiku presents readers with sixty of the more famous classical haiku in the original romanized Japanese along with their interlinear transliterations. This unique combination becomes a great help in understanding how they were made. An introducto...

A young New York journalist moves to Hollywood to interview his famous movie star friend Roz as well as the renowned film director Max Petrov. His real motive is to create for himself an opportunity for pitching a film idea to the Great Max on the abduction and sexual slavery of women. The theme of the story gets the director's attention but Max objects that the film has no ending. Women are missing, true, and their suffering must of course be...