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 Ross, music critic for the New Yorker, shows how modern music has pervaded every corner of twentieth-century life.The Rest Is Noise takes the listener ins...

One of The Telegraph's Best Music Books 2011Alex 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 title from a beloved 2004 essay in which Ross describes his late-blooming discovery of pop music, showcases the best of his writing from more than a decade at

Alex Ross, the award-winning and bestselling creator of Marvels**,** Kingdom Come**,and Fantastic Four: Full Circle, takes readers through the Marvel Universe—but all is not as it seems.**Marvel Dimensions includes a bonus 32-page comic and is legendary artist Alex Ross’ second book in the Marvel Arts series, following the national bestselling, c...

Collects Marvels X (2020) #1-6. The amazing prequel to the legendary EARTH X trilogy! David has a problem. He’s the last normal human on Earth. He lives in a world of monsters that would love to devour him. And these monsters are his former neighbors — mutating, like the rest of the world, into something strange and frightening and new. David has one hope: to get to New York, where Captain America and the rest of the heroes are. But the big city doesn’t bring the safety he hoped it would. ...

Alex Ross' ultra-realistic, painted renditions of iconic superheroes have made him a superstar. In the vein of acclaimed and fan-favorite Alex Ross books such as Mythologies and Rough Justice, we are proud to present the ultimate collection of Alex Ross art from his extensive collaboration with Dynamite, The Dynamite Art of Alex Ross. Containing sketches, designs, layouts and pencils, interior work, covers, and a wealth of unpublished art. Collecting all of Alex's Dynamite covers and inter...

This program is read by the author, and includes excerpts from Richard Wagner's musical compositions throughout.A New York Times Notable Books of 2020Alex 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 worl...

One of The Telegraph's Best Music Books 2011Alex 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 title from a beloved 2004 essay in which Ross describes his late-blooming discovery of pop music, showcases the best of his writing from more than a decade at

Willie uncovers an ancient wheel in the bottom of Gramma's trunk of strange things, and what he discovers will change his life forever. Quickly, he finds the device fascinating and alluring. Then, tragedy strikes the family. Willie -- now a young man -- finds that the power of the wheel can be either a blessing or a curse. The Wheel of the Han comes down from the legends of the Han Dynasty in China, practiced some two thousand years ago. Once spun, the wheel yields numbers that offer its s...

It’s been three years since the adventure with the Sibylline books. This time Willie digs deep into the old trunk of treasures his great grandmother left in her attic and finds an old and strange Egyptian map. Uncertain where the map is leading him, Willie follows its siren call to try to uncover its secrets. But this journey takes him to Cairo with its mysterious Egyptian pyramids and subterranean caverns below the Great Sphinx. There Willie and his new friend Shannon find themselves trap...

When a young boy, Willie, finds a series of strange, old books in the attic of his great-grandmother’s house, things go from curious to terrifying. Soon, he embroils his entire family in a dark, menacing world where the magic of the books is sought for riches and power. Born from the ruins of ancient Greece and the Oracle at Delphi two thousand years earlier, the books have a mystical past and even more mysterious future. Willie, his mother Raya, and his older brother, Daniel, begin a hunt...

**A Fun, Standalone Gay Romance with No Cliffhanger**Birthday SurpriseA first time of a story of love from 2 best friends, Troy and Adam, romance and fun story of their first time being gay experience.Its Troy's twenty-first birthday and he had made plans to hang out with Adam for the day. Little did he know that more than just hanging out was going to happen. Troy has always wondered what it would be like to be with another man. Always failing with the girls Troy beg...

**A Fun, Standalone Gay Romance with No Cliffhanger**!Due to sexual content and heavy subject matter, including gay sex, this book is recommended for ages 18+A first time of a story of love from 2 best friends, Troy and Adam, romance and fun story of their first time being gay experience.Its Troy's twenty-first birthday and he had made plans to hang out with Adam for the day. Little did he know that more than just hanging out was going to happen. Troy has always won...