In the tradition of Rich Cohen's Sweet and Low and Sean Wilsey's Oh the Glory of it All, a memoir of a city, an industry, and a dynasty in decline, and the story of a young artist's struggle to find her way out of the ruins Frances Stroh's earliest memories are ones of great privilege: shopping trips to London and New York, lunches served by black-tied waiters at the Regency Hotel, and a house filled with precious antiques, which she was forbidden to touch. Established in Detroit in 1850, by 1984 the Stroh Brewing Company had become the largest private beer fortune in America and a brand emblematic of the American dream itself; while Stroh was coming of age, the Stroh family fortune was estimated to be worth $700 million. But behind the beautiful façade lay a crumbling foundation. Detroit's economy collapsed with the retreat of the automotive industry to the suburbs and abroad, and the Stroh family found their wealth and legacy disappearing. As their fortune dissolved in a little over a decade, the family was torn apart internally by divorce and one family member's drug bust; disagreements over the management of the business; and disputes over the remaining money they possessed. Even as they turned against one another, looking for a scapegoat on whom to blame the unraveling of their family, they could not anticipate that even far greater tragedy lay in store. Stroh's memoir is elegantly spare in structure and mercilessly clear-eyed in its self-appraisal -- at once a universally relatable family drama and a great American story.

Product Description: The nationally recognized Roosevelt Row Artists District in downtown Phoenix originated during the platting of the Churchill Addition in 1888, when fewer than 4,000 people called the city home. The Evans and Churchill Additions enjoyed vibrant, walkable mixed-use growth until the suburban sprawl of the 1950s pulled people and resources away from the downtown city core...read more

Product Description: A fun introduction to the world of modern artists, from Albers to Zox, via Basquiat, Kahlo, Warhol and more.A striking, design-led reference book, A-Z Great Modern Artists features Andy Tuohy's portraits of 52 key modern artists, rendered in each artist's own characteristic style - including Aleksandr Rodchenko in trademark green and red, Andy Warhol as a classic repeated print, and Marc Quinn as a frozen blood head in a box...read more

Product Description: Faculty Department focuses on the lives, spaces and stories of creative individuals worldwide. Photographer Justin Chung's interest in capturing creative people came alive when he moved to New York City to pursue a career in commercial fashion photography and portraiture in 2011...read more

Product Description: From the influential craftsmen of the high renaissance to the Dutch masters, and from the rococo and neoclassical movements of the 18th century to romanticism, modernism and contemporary art, the lives of the great artists are as varied and multifaceted as the works of creative genius they produced...read more

Product Description: From his humble beginnings in Hungary in 1920, Alfred Tibor, sculptor and Holocaust survivor, recounts his battles with discrimination that began in his childhood. He shares his adventures through the ravages of World War II, the restrictions imposed by postwar communism in Hungary, and his determination to live and work in a free society...read more

Product Description: A man visits his friend, Roderick Usher, who lies ill in a gloomy estate. Spooky events inside and outside the house escalate into a terrifying conclusion to the physical and ancestral House of Usher. This is a must-have collection of stories from Edgar Allan Poe, legendary author of Gothic mysteries...read more

This collection of macabre stories includes "The Fall of the House of Usher", "The Murders in Rue Morgue", "The Man in the Crowd", "The Oval Portrait", "The Masque of the Red Death" and "The Tell-Tale Heart".

Product Description: Creative personalities are always fascinating, and to learn something new about the 20th and 21st centuries' greatest artists―whether eccentric or sober, outspoken or reclusive―is compelling. 105 artists are presented in lively short biographies, and each entry is illustrated with important works, self-portraits, and photographs...read more

In a compilation of one hundred essays, a critic offers an illuminating study of humanism that examines the work of Louis Armstrong, Sigmund Freud, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Franz Kafka, Walter Benjamin, Marcel Proust, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and other notable philosophers, musicians, artists, humanists, and writers of the twentieth century.