The Painted Word

Written by artists, for artists, this survival guide explores the way art gets made, the reason it often doesn't get made, and the nature of the difficulties that cause so many artists to give up along the way.

Why does man exist? In the gears of reality and eternity there is a very promising reason. And the perspectives from which it is told includes that of a profound individual. He is a most powerful extradimentional being that has been around for milli...

What Is Art? is the result of fifteen years reflection on the nature and purpose of art. Tolstoy claims that all good art is related to the authentic life of the broader community and that the aesthetic value of a work of art is not independent of ...

The Advisor Playbook: Regain liberation and order in your personal and professional life Practice management is often misunderstood. The Advisor Playbook will take the mystery away. Practice management is confused with marketing, or is limited to s...

The gripping, six-century history of the world's most frequently stolen masterpiece, as told by Noah Charney, whom the New York Times Magazine called a pioneer in "apply[ing] to art thefts the techniques of criminal profiling."

DisneyWar is the breathtaking, dramatic inside story of what drove Americas best-known entertainment company to civil war. With access to both Michael Eisner and Roy Disney, company executives and board members, as well as letters and documents neve...

While the Civil War raged in America, another very different revolution was beginning to take shape across the Atlantic, in the studios of Paris: The artists who would make Impressionism the most popular art form in history were showing their first ...

In this technology-driven age, it’s tempting to believe that science can solve every mystery. After all, science has cured countless diseases and even sent humans into space. But as Jonah Lehrer argues in this sparkling debut, science is not t...

Two days into her stop in Paris, she met Christophe, who worked in the butcher shop across from the cafe where she wrote. A sizzling romance began, yet soon her wanderlust pushed her to continue her travels. But his Daniel Craig good looks and big ...