Product Description: Heartwarming and hilarious stories and advice from Ireland's most famous matchmaker.In his long career as a matchmaker, Willie Daly has helped hundreds of couples find happiness. With his unique blend of intuition, quiet wisdom and a small drop of cunning, Willie reveals the secret to finding true love, and shares the story of a life spent bringing people together in love and marriage...read more

An investigation into the stories and people behind everyday eponymous words includes the tales of a New Haven baker whose pie tins inspired Wham-O's flying disc, the innovator of the bubbling spa, and a German doctor for whom the g-spot was named.

'The personalities of 250 international cities are examined in this globe-trotting gazetteer of history, customs, climate, and cuisine of major and minor spots worldwide.'

An updated edition of the rock-and-roll encyclopedia is an introduction to 500 of the world's most influential singers and musicians, in a volume featuring key biographical information, defining quotes, and photographs. Original.

Covers major and minor groups and rock musicians, highlighting their achievements and influence.

Three hundred color and black-and-white photographs, many never before published, enliven a rich, insider's history of the seminal rock group, chronicling the evolution of Pink Floyd through its entire forty-year history, from its earliest origins in the 1960s to the present day. Original. 35,000 first printing.

Product Description: The Book of Cities is an inspiring gazetteer of the world’s cities—a celebration of their diversity, energy, and culture. We set off from the Greenwich meridian in London and head west, visiting the Americas and beyond. We explore all the classic metropolitan destinations—New York, Paris, Rio, Rome, Tokyo—and also take in those that are lesser known...read more

Product Description: Why do we value art? In what ways do we assess its value? Why do we care so much about the signature of the artist on a painting? What relation does the financial value of a work of art bear to its aesthetic value? How are our perceptions of works of art influenced by viewing them in museums? These and other questions are answered in this book which spans past and present and travels the world to enquire into the nature of art...read more

Brought together for the first time, these lively, sophisticated essays bring into focus contemporary debates regarding the representation of women in film and analyze women's practices as filmmakers and actors. Sight and Sound, the pioneering magazine of film criticism, has enlisted a distinguished group of cultural commentators—critics, scholars, novelists—to consider the roles of gender and sexuality in classic and recent cinema. Like Sight and Sound itself, the essays in this book are international in scope and represent the newest perspectives in cultural theory and criticism in a readily accessible style. Challenging dominant myths and the status quo in the industry, these provocative writers consider a wide range of fascinating topics that define the boundaries of traditional cinema and explore unmapped territory. Essays are generously illustrated with stills of films discussed, and each section contains a comprehensive bibliography and filmography.

Product Description: This book discusses gender and autobiography, and the politics of autobiography. It offers examples of ways of making sense of individual works or groups of works.

Product Description: First published in 1982. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: First Published in 1981. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.