Robert Altman: An Oral Biography

Draws on the perspectives of family members, colleagues, and actors to assess the director's life and artistic achievements, discussing such topics as his womanizing reputation, his heart transplant, and the creation of his films.
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Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression

The Great Depression of the 1930s had an undeniable impact on the economics and politics of the United States. Less studied is the impact it had on the country's cultural makeup. The Depression reshaped the American dream. How that dream, and the contemporary reality, was portrayed by artists, photographers, dancers, poets, novelists, and filmmakers of the era is the subject of this impressive, highly-readable history. Dickstein delves deeply, but not ponderously, into the works of individuals shaping the culture of the day, as well as provides readers with an excellent overview of the times and their cultural meaning.
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Stitches: A Memoir...

The author recounts in graphic novel format his troubled childhood with a radiologist father who subjected him to repeated x-rays and a withholding and tormented mother, an environment he fled at the age of sixteen in the hopes of becoming an artist.
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The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society

An engrossing, lucid exploration of the origins of human morality that challenges our most basic assumptions, from the world’s leading primatologist

Is it really human nature to stab one another in the back in our climb up the corporate ladder? Competitive, selfish behaviour is often explained away as instinctive, thanks to evolution and “survival of the fittest,” but in fact humans are equally hard-wired for empathy. Using research from the fields of anthropology, psychology, animal behaviour, and neuroscience, de Waal brilliantly argues that humans are group animals — highly cooperative, sensitive to injustice, and mostly peace-loving — just like other primates, elephants, and dolphins. This revelation has profound implications for everything from politics to office culture. 
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Taste of Home The New Appetizer: 230 Recipes for Today's Party Starters

Over 150 color photos compliment an array of easy-to-follow appetizer recipes--including dips and spreads, meatballs, party pizzas, snack mixes and more--in a book that includes practical pointers, serving ideas, entertaining tips and handy guidelines on food portions and quantities.
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101 Law Forms for Personal Use

Contains forms covering legal issues faced by people everyday, including a simple will, rental application, monthly payment record, storage contract, and complaint letter.
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The American Theatre Wing Presents The Play That Changed My Life: America's Foremost Playwrights on the Plays That Influenced Them

What was the play that changed your life? What was the play that inspired you; that showed you something entirely new; that was so thrilling or surprising, breathtaking or poignant, that you were never the same? Nineteen of today's most gifted playwrights respond in this most revealing and personal book, published by Applause Books and presented by the American Theatre Wing, founder of The Tony Awards. From Edward Albee's 1935 visit to New York's Hippodrome Theatre to see Jimmy Durante (and an elephant) in Rodgers and Hart's Jumbo, to Diana Son's twelfth-grade field trip in 1983 to see Diane Venora play Hamlet at The Public Theater, from David Henry Hwang's seminal San Francisco encounter with Equus to a young Beth Henley's epiphany after seeing her mother in a "Green Bean Man costume," The Play That Changed My Life offers readers a unique peek into the theatrical influences of some of the nation's most important dramatists. The book is filled with tributes, memories, anecdotes and other insights that connect past to present and make this volume an instant "must have" for anyone who adores the theatre. Also in the book are pieces by David Auburn, Jon Robin Baitz, Nilo Cruz, Christopher Durang, Charles Fuller, A. R. Gurney, Tina Howe, David Ives, Donald Margulies, Lynn Nottage, Suzan-Lori Parks, Sarah Ruhl, John Patrick Shanley, Regina Taylor, and Doug Wright, as well as an introduction by Paula Vogel. All together, the playwrights featured here have won more than 40 Tony Awards, Pulitzer Prizes, Obies, and MacArthur genius grants.
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