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  • Eugene O'Neill

    A Life in Four Acts

    by Robert M. Dowling ...
    An "absorbing" biography of the playwright and Nobel laureate that "unflinchingly explores the darkness that dominated O'Neill's life" ( Publishers Weekly).This extraordinary biography fully captures the intimacies of Eugene O'Neill's tumultuous life and the profound impact of his work on American drama, innovatively highlighting how the stories he told for the stage interweave with his actual ... Read more

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  • Coyote

    The Dramatic Lives of Sam Shepard

    by Robert M. Dowling ...
    A revelatory, magisterial biography of Sam Shepard—the dark, rugged genius of modern American theater and film, “the poet laureate of America’s emotional badlands” (Jack Kroll).Sam Shepard was a true American original. A theater and film icon who lived life on a mythic scale, Shepard became an embodiment of the fierce independence and wild freedom of the American West. Taking us from the creative ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Coyote

    The Dramatic Lives of Sam Shepard

    by Robert M. Dowling ...
    Narrated by Stephen Graybill ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 33 min

    A revelatory, magisterial biography of Sam Shepard—the dark, rugged genius of modern American theater and film, “the poet laureate of America’s emotional badlands” (Jack Kroll).Sam Shepard was a true American original. A theater and film icon who lived life on a mythic scale, Shepard became an embodiment of the fierce independence and wild freedom of the American West. Taking us from the creative ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Conversations with Sam Shepard

    Edited by Jackson R. Bryer, Robert M. Dowling, Mary C. Hartig ...
    Series series Literary Conversations Series
    A prolific playwright, Sam Shepard (1943–2017) wrote fifty-six produced plays, for which he won many awards, including a Pulitzer Prize. He was also a compelling, Oscar-nominated film actor, appearing in scores of films. Shepard also published eight books of prose and poetry and was a director (directing the premiere productions of ten of his plays as well as two films); a musician (a drummer in ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Recent Progress in Mathematical Psychology

    Psychophysics, Knowledge Representation, Cognition, and Measurement

    Edited by Cornelia E. Dowling, Fred S. Roberts, Peter Theuns ...
    Series series Scientific Psychology Series
    Mathematical psychology is an interdisciplinary area of research in which methods of mathematics, operations research, and computer science in psychology are used. Now more than thirty years old, the field has continued to grow rapidly and has taken on a life of its own. This volume summarizes recent progress in mathematical psychology as seen by some of the leading figures in the field as well as ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • The Perception of Music

    by Robert Frances, W. Jay Dowling ...
    This translation of this classic text contains a balance of cultural and biological considerations. While arguing for the strong influence of exposure and of formal training on the way that music is perceived, Frances draws on the literature concerning the amusias to illustrate his points about the types of cognitive abstraction that are performed by the listener. ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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    by Robert Byrne ...
    Drawing from diverse personages from Goethe to Churchill to Woody Allen, The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said is a witty wise quotation collection that deserves a special place on every humor lover's bookshelf.These unique, funny, and outrageous quotations, previously published in four separate volumes, are now gathered together in a seemingly limitless trove of pithy and often irreverent one ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • True West

    Sam Shepard's Life, Work, and Times

    by Robert Greenfield ...
    NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A revelatory biography of the world-famous playwright and actor Sam Shepard, whose work was matched by his equally dramatic life, including collaborations with the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan as well as tumultuous relationships with Patti Smith, Joni Mitchell, and Jessica Lange“What [True West] achieves in its finest pages is placing the artist in his time. . . . ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • Garner's Quotations

    A Modern Miscellany

    by Dwight Garner ...
    A selection of favorite quotes that the celebrated literary critic has collected over the decades.From Dwight Garner, the New York Times book critic, comes a rollicking, irreverent, scabrous, amazingly alive selection of unforgettable moments from forty years of wide and deep reading. Garner's Quotations is like no commonplace book you'll ever read. If you've ever wondered what's really going on ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Sam Shepard

    A Life

    by John J. Winters ...
    “John Winters offers a master class in literary sleuthing, untangling the many lives and unearthing the origin story of America’s foremost Renaissance man of letters.” —Kelly Horan, coauthor of Devotion and DefianceWith more than fifty–five plays to his credit—including the 1979 Pulitzer Prize–winning Buried Child, an Oscar nod for his portrayal of Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff, and an onscreen ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • A Lit Fuse: The Provocative Life of Harlan Ellison

    by Nat Segaloff ...
    An unguarded, uncensored, unquiet tour of the life of Harlan Ellison.In late 2011 Harlan Ellison—the multi-award-winning writer of speculative fiction and famously litigious personality—did two uncharacteristic things. First, he asked biographer Nat Segaloff if he'd be interested in writing his life story. Second, he gave Segaloff full control. The result is the long-anticipated A Lit Fuse: The ... Read more

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  • Real Life Rock

    The Complete Top Ten Columns, 1986-2014

    by Greil Marcus ...
    For nearly thirty years, Greil Marcus has written a remarkable column called “Real Life Rock Top Ten.” It has been a laboratory where he has fearlessly explored and wittily dissected an enormous variety of cultural artifacts, from songs to books to movies to advertisements. Taken together, his musings, reflections, and sallies amount to a subtle and implicit theory of how cultural objects fall ... Read more

    $25.99 USD