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Wire Re-up
By Steve Busfield & Paul Owen
Paperback
Published 02-Dec-2005
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Covers an epic novel in the form of a TV programme. This book answers questions such as Is Omar Little the coolest criminal since Robin Hood? Which series has the best theme tune? Will Bubbles survive Baltimore? Avon or Stringer? How does McNulty have so much success with women?
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Dawn of the Dumb
By Charlie Brooker
Paperback
Published 01-Nov-2007
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Polite, pensive, mature, reserved... Charlie Brooker is none of these things and less. Picking up where "Screen Burn" left off, this work collects the best of Charlie Brooker's TV writing, together with spleen-venting diatribes on a range of non-televisual subjects - tackling topics ranging from David Cameron to human hair.
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'Have You Seen...?'
By David Thomson
Paperback
Published 04-Mar-2010
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Looks at a century of cinema. This title is the author's personal, irreverent, hilarious and utterly original take on the 1,000 films he has most loved - and hated - from "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein" to "Zabriskie Point", from esteemed classics to forgotten curiosities, guilty pleasures to noir treats, horror gems to kitsch disasters.
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Clash
By Strummer Jones
Paperback
Published 01-May-2010
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The Clash: trendsetters, icons, revolutionaries. They were the pioneers of British punk rock and their story is steeped in mythology. Many people have an opinion about what made them who they were. This book gives the chance to read the full story, from the band themselves.
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My Generation: the Glory Years of British Rock
By Alwyn W Turner
Hardback
Published 01-Apr-2010
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Tells the story of the people who provided the soundtrack a momentous time in music history and includes images of the biggest names in rock history - from the Beatles, Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan to Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd and David Bowie.
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World in Six Songs
By Daniel Levitin
Paperback
Published 25-Mar-2010
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The World in Six Songs will change the way you listen to music for ever.
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Electric Eden
By Rob Young
Paperback
Published 05-Aug-2010
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Documents one of the great untold stories of British music over the past century. This title surveys the visionary, topographic and esoteric impulses that have driven the margins of British visionary folk music from Vaughan Williams and Holst to The Incredible String Band, Nick Drake, John Martyn and Aphex Twin.
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Playing For Real
By Tom Cantrell
Paperback
Published 30-Jul-2010
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This is the first book to explore how actors play real people. How do you capture Hitler, Mugabe, or a serial killer? How do you portray living monarchs or political leaders? Is it possible to embody a genius like Mozart or Darwin? With a multiple award-winning line-up, including Sir Ian McKellen on playing himself in Ricky Gervais's Extras.
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Just Kids
By Patti Smith
Hardback
Published 01-Feb-2010
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Patti Smith's evocative, honest and moving coming-of-age story of her extraordinary relationship with the artist Robert Mapplethorpe
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Music and Sentiment
By Charles Rosen
Hardback
Published 18-May-2010
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How does a work of music stir the senses, creating feelings of joy, sadness, elation, or nostalgia? This title reveals how composers from Bach to Berg have used sound to represent and communicate emotion in mystifyingly beautiful ways.
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