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Anthony Bourdain's long time director and producer takes readers behind the scenes to reveal the insanity of filming television in some of the most volatile places in the world and what it was like to work with a legend. In the nearly two years since Anthony Bourdain's death, no one else has...

New York Times Bestseller The greatest Southern storyteller of our time, New York Times bestselling author Rick Bragg, tracks down the greatest rock and roller of all time, Jerry Lee Lewis—and gets his own story, from the source, for the very first time. A monumental figure on the American...

'In Never schetst Astley zijn eigen merkwaardige rise and fall and rise, deels als ooggetuigenverslag van de eigthies-popcultuur, deels als muzikale zedenschets van het digitale tijdperk.' OOR 'Ik had me met beroemd zijn niet erg op mijn gemak gevoeld, maar ná het beroemd zijn wist ik niet wat ik met mezelf aan moest. Oppervlakkig gezien was ik enorm opgelucht dat ik van de hele toestand af was. Het was alsof ik vrijgelaten was.

Read by the author, Rick Astley 'I hadn’t been very comfortable with fame, but I didn’t know what to do with myself after I was famous. On the surface, I was just hugely relieved to be shot of the whole thing. I felt like I’d been let off the hook . . . But underneath that, I was pretty...

THE INSTANT #1 BESTSELLER At the end of his memoir Talking to Canadians, Rick Mercer was poised to make the biggest leap yet in his extraordinary career. Having overcome a serious lack of promise as a schoolboy and risen through the showbiz ranks—as an aspiring actor, star of a surprisingly...

Around about August 1948, Mr and Mrs Cyril Wakeman had an early night and some time later, at Perivale in Middlesex, Mrs Wakeman produced a bonny baby son. They named him Richard, but he quickly became known as Rick. Rick was a likable little fellow who had a talent for the piano and for making...

INSTANT #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER Canada's beloved comic genius tells his own story for the first time. What is Rick Mercer going to do now? That was the question on everyone's lips when the beloved comedian retired his hugely successful TV show after 15 seasons—and at the peak of its...

Rick Rubin, einer der erfolgreichsten Musikproduzenten der Welt, verrät in seinem Hörbuch alle wichtigen Prinzipien, um wahrhaft schöpferisch zu sein. "Kreativ. Die Kunst zu sein" ist eine weise und überaus klare Quintessenz seines Lebenswerks. Es beleuchtet den Weg des Künstlers in einer Weise, dass wir ihm alle folgen können. Es führt uns zu den magischen Momenten von Hochstimmung und Transzendenz, in denen alles möglich ist. Viele berühmte Musikproduzenten sind für einen bestimmten Sound bekannt, der seine Zeit hat.

J. G. Boswell was the biggest farmer in America. He built a secret empire while thumbing his nose at nature, politicians, labor unions, and every journalist who ever tried to lift the veil on the ultimate "factory in the fields". The King of California is the previously untold account of how a Georgia slave-owning family migrated to California in the early 1920s, drained one of America 's biggest lakes in an act of incredible hubris and carved out the richest cotton empire in the world.

Che cosa vuol dire creare? Cosa è un'opera d'arte? Cos'è la musica? Il processo creativo è spiegabile? Vera e propria icona dell'industria musicale, Rubin è noto per tirare fuori il meglio dagli artisti con cui lavora grazie alla sua capacità di sviluppare un rapporto di fiducia reciproca che porta i musicisti ad accedere alle più profonde sorgenti della loro fonte creativa e scoprire la musica che desiderano fare.

“A gripping journey.”—People The highly anticipated memoir from hip-hop icon Rick Ross chronicles his coming of age amid Miami’s crack epidemic, his star-studded controversies and his unstoppable rise to fame. Rick Ross is an indomitable presence in the music industry, but few people...

Del legendario productor musical, un maestro en el arte de ayudar a los demás a conectar con las fuentes de su propia creatividad, llega un libro maravillosamente fraguado a lo largo de muchos años con una visión profunda de la creatividad y de la vida dirigida todo el mundo. "Me propuse a mí mismo escribir un libro acerca de cómo crear una gran obra de arte. En lugar de eso, se reveló como un libro acerca de cómo Ser." Los grandes productores musicales suelen ser reconocidos por un sonido único que solo ellos son capaces de lograr.

Join Rick Reynolds as he guides you through the foibles, fumbles and pratfalls of his own life beginning with his bizarre childhood. From the drowning of his father at a family picnic, to a bank-robbing stepfather, to his mother's 3 marriages and innumerable affairs, Reynolds portrays a striking picture of the lengths people will go for love and the human connection.

Hear the voices of Olympic Track Greats, including Jesse Owens, winner of 4 Gold Medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics; Josy Barthel, a Luxembougish runner who won the men's 1500 meters at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics; and Roger Bannister, an English athlete best known for breaking the four-minute mile.

From Wall Street to the West Coast, from blue-collar billionaires to blue-blood fortunes, from the Google guys to hedge fund honchos, All the Money in the World gives us the lowdown on, among other things: the all-time richest Americans, who made and lost the most money in the past 25 years, the fields and industries that have produced the greatest wealth, the biggest risk takers, the most competitive players, the most wasteful family feuds, the trophy wives.