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The Grand Turk -- Sultan Mehmet II -- Conqueror of Constantinople and Master of an Empire by John Freely, Overlook '09, $26.95, 265 pages, ISBN #1590202481. Index, bibliography, glossary, source notes, grouping of b&w glossy images. Never heard of...
Bon Jovi -- When We Were Beautiful, conversations with Phil Griffin, Collins Design '09 in coffee table-sized format on glossy stock, $30, 192 pages, ISBN #0061864153. Credits, scores of b&w and color glossy images. In college, you discovered a brand...
The New Yorker Theater and Other Scenes from a Life at the Movies by Toby Talbot, foreword by Martin Scorsese. Columbia UP '09, $24.95, 352 pages, ISBN #0231145667. Index, New Yorker Theater ledger, guest book, list of theatrical premieres and program...
Missions to the Moon -- The Complete Story of Man's Greatest Adventure, by Rod Pyle, foreword by Gene Kranz, former NASA flight director. Sterling '09 oversized format in slipcase including pockets containing replicas of historic documents, $40, 58...
The New Yorker: "In college, my film professor, Gilberto Perez (whose book 'The Material Ghost,' a treasure trove of insights, was recently voted the most important cinema-studies book of the decade*), taught a class on the political cinema, centered...