Da Capo Press

The first tell-all autobiography from one of the world's most influential and controversial punk bands.

Over thirteen centuries, Baghdad has enjoyed both cultural and commercial pre-eminence, boasting artistic and intellectual sophistication and an economy once the envy of the world. It was here, in the time of the Caliphs, that the Thousand and One... Lire la suite

The 25th anniversary edition of this "Important...timely...powerful" book (New York Times) and a pioneering work in the men's movement, combining myth, psychology, and anthropology to offer important lessons on what it is to be a man. In this... Lire la suite

The Great Good Place argues that "third places" - where people can gather, put aside the concerns of work and home, and hang out simply for the pleasures of good company and lively conversation - are the heart of a community's social vitality and... Lire la suite

"I don't think I'm easy to talk about. I've got a very irregular head. And I'm not anything that you think I am anyway."-Syd Barrett's last interview, Rolling Stone, 1971 Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett (1946-2006) was, by all accounts, the very... Lire la suite

Potty Training Boys the Easy Way is a pediatrician's guide for navigating the challenges unique to toilet training boys. Boys tend to take longer to be trained, learn this skill at later ages, and have different challenges from girls. Parents will... Lire la suite

The definitive biography of post hardcore rock band My Chemical Romance, based on exclusive, unpublished interviews by the journalist who knew the band best.
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My Chemical Romance is the Nirvana of the post hardcore generation. As the most... Lire la suite

Chronicling Nick Kent's up-close , personal, often harrowing adventures with the Rolling Stones, Lester Bangs, David Bowie, Led Zeppelin, the Sex Pistols, and Chrissie Hynde, among scores of others, Apathy for the Devil is a picaresque memoir that... Lire la suite

General Leslie Groves and J. Robert Oppenheimer were the two men chiefly responsible for the building of the first atomic bomb at Los Alamos, code name "The Manhattan Project." As the ranking military officer in charge of marshalling men and... Lire la suite

The Terra Cotta Army is one of the greatest archaeological discoveries ever made. Over seven thousand life-size figures of warriors and horses were interred in the mausoleum of the first emperor of China-and each figure was individually carved... Lire la suite

Using firsthand accounts-journals, letters from British officers in the field, reports from colonial governors in the colonies-Michael Pearson has provided a contemporary report of the Revolution as the British witnessed it. Seen from this... Lire la suite