Product Description: Thrust into the unlikely role of professional "literary walking tour" guide, an expat writer provides the most irresistibly witty and revealing tour of Paris in years. In this enchanting memoir, acclaimed author and long- time Paris resident John Baxter remembers his yearlong experience of giving "literary walking tours" through the city...read more

Product Description: SERIES COPY: Fully revised and updated for 2011, these gorgeous guides include color regional mapping, detailed walks, and cycle maps for every not-to-be-missed destination across England, Scotland, and Wales Explore Britain with the AA's Leisure Guide series...read more

Belligerent and evasive, Josef von Sternberg chose to ignore his illegitimate birth in Austria, deprived New York childhood, abusive father, and lack of education. The director who strutted onto the set in a turban, riding breeches, or a silk robe embraced his new persona as a world traveller, collected modern art, drove a Rolls Royce, and earned three times as much as the president. Von Sternberg traces the choices that carried the unique director from poverty in Vienna to power in Hollywood, including his eventual ostracism in Japan. Historian John Baxter reveals an artist few people knew: the aesthete who transformed Marlene Dietrich into an international star whose ambivalent sexuality and contradictory allure on-screen reflected an off-screen romance with the director.In his classic films The Blue Angel (1930), Morocco (1930), and Blonde Venus (1932), von Sternberg showcased his trademark visual style and revolutionary representations of sexuality. Drawing on firsthand conversations with von Sternberg and his son, Von Sternberg breaks past the classic Hollywood caricature to demystify and humanize this legendary director.

Product Description: Averitable smorgasbord of sin, John Baxter's Carnal Knowledge is a delightfully unabashed education in sex and erotic culture. Would you ever consent to a knee-trembler at a love hotel? Would you enjoy a hot lunch while watching kinbaku? Would you consider wearing a French tickler, a merkin, a strap-on, or pasties ...read more

A witty, personal view of Paris as it appears to the emotionally and intellectually hungry of the world furnishes a guided cultural tour of the people and places associated with the Parisian legend and explores the city's legend as a place to find love. Original. 35,000 first printing.

Product Description: He described escapes and partisan attacks and ritual hangings and midnight assignations with beautiful women in the midst of war He survived, he told me, in a Europe, where every corner he turned held the threat of death. But at every turn, luck-and often a woman: there were many women-had stepped in to save him...read more

Product Description: First published in 1980. At their most successful, Shakespeare's styles are strategies to make plain the limits of thought and feeling which define the significance of human actions. John Baxter analyses the way in which these limits are reached, and also provides a strong argument for the idea that the power of Shakespearean drama depends upon the co-operation of poetic style and dramatic form...read more

The memoirs of a book collector are comprised of the author's whimsical recollections of his encounters with literary figures and trace his transformation from an Australian bush child to a Parisian penthouse occupant with a personal library worth millions. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

This is the life of the elusive actor Robert De Niro. As well as his film roles, Baxter examines De Niro's often controversial private life and his collaborations with directors like Martin Scorsese and performers like Harvey Keitel and Meryl Streep. (view table of contents)

Describes the origins of the game 'Dungeons & Dragons,' and recounts the struggle to produce a film based on the game, including financing; creating sets, costumes, and special effects; casting; and other details. (view table of contents)

The first comprehensive biography of the great filmmaker analyzes the life and art of Woody Allen, from details of his troubled childhood and relationships to the brilliantly neurotic art he has produced from these traumas. Reprint. (view table of contents)

The life of Star Wars and Indiana Jones mastermind George Lucas has remained shrouded in mystery until this ground-breaking new biography, which reveals the man behind the cinematic genius. Reprint.

Product Description: This encyclopedia is designed to provide mandolin players with a wide variety of chords in different voicings. This book is intended as both a starting point of learning chord voicings and patterns, as well as a dictionary of common mandolin chords...read more

Woody Allen's life and unlikely rise to film superstardom as an actor and producer of such great comedies as Annie Hall, Manhattan, and Crimes and Misdemeanors is examined, sharing insight into Woody's famous fetishes, obsessions, and phobias. (view table of contents)

The life of Star Wars and Indiana Jones mastermind George Lucas has remained shrouded in mystery until this ground-breaking new biography, which reveals the man behind the cinematic genius. 33,000 first printing.

Product Description: Ever wonder what albums your favourite recording artist listens to and loves? Now in this one-of-a-kind reference book more than 100 artists from the worlds of pop, rock, folk, jazz, country, and blues offer their opinions on what moves them to tears of joy or just spends a lot of time on their turntables...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)