In David Byrne's song Stay Up Late a new baby is brought home and the excitement begins. Aunts, uncles and friends gather round to admire the baby, and big sister and brother have a wild assortment of games to amuse him. Full-color illustrations.
From a renowned musician and visual artist comes "Bicycle Diaries"--part travelogue, part journal, part photo album--a behind-the-handlebars celebration of seeing the world from the seat of a bike. 100 b&w photos throughout.
In his latest book, writer, photographer, musician, and former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne has created an extraordinary document and critique of the times we live in. "Your Action World" parodies the 'inspirational' promotional materials including books, tapes, and corporate advertising - with which we are inundated daily. Byrne's impulse ...
For more than a year David Byrne has been employing the ubiquitous sales and presentation program PowerPoint as an art medium. "E.E.E.I (Envisioning Emotional Epistemological Information)" is a book of images and essays, plus a DVD which plays 5 of his PowerPoint presentations accompanied by original music. The book component contains a dozen new ...
Threatened with extinction in 2005, the downtown New York punk rock club CBGB launched several fund-raising campaigns to raise both money and awareness of its plight. One of them took the form of this evocative collection of photographs of bands, audiences, and regulars from the club's 30 years of existence. Black-clad and well-assembled, this ...
Reviews of the First Edition: 'Thoughtful, critical, comprehensive, genuine! Byrne's work should prove compulsory reading for any critical and nuanced view of social exclusion' - "Progress in Human Geography". 'The presentation of a single, coherent argument is one of the strengths of this book! [It] fills a gap in the debate on social exclusion' ...
Chaos and complexity are the new buzz words in both science and in contemporary society. The ideas they represent have enormous implications for the way we understand and engage with the world. Complexity Theory and the Social Sciences introduces students to the central ideas which surround the chaos/complexity theories. It discusses key concepts ...
A collection of photographs by writer and composer David Byrne of Talking Heads rock band, designed to appeal to photographers and rock fans alike. The collection appeared at the 1996 Edinburgh Festival. It is accompanied by Byrne's account of his selection of the images and what they mean to him.
This book provides real-world guidelines for implementing EVA. Today's most comprehensive and unbiased evaluation of Value-Based Management and EVA Economic Value Added (EVA) and Value Based Management (VBM), despite persistent claims to the contrary, are not magic wands, guaranteeing instant success. Instead, they are a set of management tools - ...
This text is part of a double volume anthology which presents a survey of current philosophical and scientific writings on colour. In this first volume, the introduction provides a philosophical background and links the philosophical issues to the empirical work covered in volume two.
How do quantitative methods help us to acquire knowledge of the real world? What are the 'do's' and 'don'ts' of effective quantitative research? This refreshing and accessible book provides students with a novel and useful resource for doing quantitative research. It offers students a guide on how to: interpret the complex reality of the social ...
This text is part of a double volume anthology which presents a survey of current philosophical and scientific writings on colour. This second volume provides an overview of colour science and presents work in colour science that is relevant to philosophical thinking about colour.
This interdisciplinary text examines the contemporary nature and possible futures of cities in a postindustrial and globalized world. Cities are considered both as complex systems and as the product of collective human action. The theoretical perspectives of urban history, geography and sociology, and empirical studies from the developed, ...
Featuring both a short profile of David Byrne's professional life and a transcription of a lengthy conversation between subject and author, John Howell's analysis of Byrne's creative achievements is a neat re-imagining of the usual star biography. Howell's examination of Talking Heads' musical output encompasses, among other things, their Rhode ...
Blending musical influences from blues, country, reggae and classical music with their own original style, Talking Heads are "the thinking man's rock band" whose last four albums have each sold over one million copies. 60 four-color plates.
Between 1975 and 1988 New York City spawned an incredible and wild array of artistic communities that overlapped and interbred with scant heed for generic "purity" (let alone posterity): every musician, it seemed, was also an artist, every artist a filmmaker and every filmmaker was in a band. These heady years saw the births of Punk at CBGB and ...
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of the movie True Stories by David Byrne of Talking Heads, featuring his complete annotated screenplay and lyrics to all the songs in the film as well as the "true stories" from tabloids that inspired characters in the movie. An extraordinary view inside Byrne's creative process. Photographs.
Rising 14,000 feet into the clear skies of the Big Island of Hawaii, Mauna Kea is a special place a sacred mountain to be approached with reverence and respect. Beneath Mauna Keas often snow-capped summit are historic Hawaiian sites, rare flora and fauna, spectacular vistas and, for astronomers, the best base on Earth for exploring the universe. ...
Chaos and complexity are the new buzz words in both science and in contemporary society. The ideas they represent have enormous implications for the way we understand and engage with the world. Complexity Theory and the Social Sciences introduces students to the central ideas which surround the chaos/complexity theories. It discusses key concepts ...
MusicHound World breaks down 1,100 acts and 300 compilation CDs, making sure you pick the best sounds in the world. Resource section and indexes help you explore world music through the ages and around the globe.
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