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Kingdom Come by Alex Ross (Cover Design by, Artist); Mark Waid
49.99 NZD
Category: Graphic Novels
Winner of five Eisner and Harvey Awards, KINGDOM COME is the best-selling graphic novel form acclaimed writer Mark Waid and superstar painter Alex Ross. Set in the not so distant future, the DC Universe is spinning inexorably out of control. The new generation of heroes has lost their moral compass, be ...Show more
Listen to This by Alex Ross
27.99 NZD
Category: Music
One of The Telegraph's Best Music Books 2011 Alex Ross's award-winning international bestseller, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, has become a contemporary classic, establishing Ross as one of our most popular and acclaimed cultural historians. Listen to This, which takes its titl ...Show more
Lore of the Stars - Folklore and Wisdom from above and Beyond by Claire Cock-Starkey; Hannah Bess Ross (Illustrator); Alex Hithersay (Editor)
32.99 NZD
Category: Children Non Fiction | Series: Nature's Folklore Ser.
Look up at the skies in wonder with this mystically illustrated treasury of folklore from above and beyond. Did you know that people used to read the future in the flight of birds? That the constellations were thought to be mythological beings set in the sky? And that eclipses were seen as demonic omens ...Show more
The Rest is Noise by Alex Ross
64.99 NZD
Category: Music
Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Awards for non-fiction. A sweeping musical history that goes from the salons of pre-war Vienna to Velvet Underground shows in the sixties. In The Rest is Noise, Alex Ross, music critic of the New Yorker, gives us a riveting tour of the wild landscape of twentieth-centu ...Show more
The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross
40.99 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: good
The scandal over modern music has not died down. While modern paintings by Picasso and Pollock sell for a hundred million or more, shocking musical works from Stravinsky's Rite of Spring onward still send ripples of unease through audiences; yet the influence of modern sound can be felt everywhere. Alex ...Show more
Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music by Alex Ross
39.99 NZD
Category: Popular Culture
Alex Ross, renowned New Yorker music critic and author of the international bestseller and Pulitzer Prize finalist The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern art and politics--an aesthetic war zone where the Western world wrestled with its capacity for beauty and ...Show more
Wagnerism - Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music by Alex Ross
44.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'An absolutely masterly work' - Stephen Fry Alex Ross, renowned author of the international bestseller The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern art and politics - an aesthetic war zone where the Western world wrestled with its capacity for beauty and violence. ...Show more
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