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Backstage Passes and Backstabbing Bastards: Memoirs of a Rock ‘N’ Roll Survivor A rock ‘n roll classic, back in print, updated and revised. One of the funniest rock memoirs ever, Al Kooper’s legendary Backstage Passes is available again! Al’s quirkly life, from would’be teenage rocker, to crashing Bob Dylan’s recording session and playing the organ on Highway 61, to forming Blood, Sweat, and Tears and masterminding the Super Sessions, it’s all here…plus, in this updated version, Al rides with us all the way back to the end of the 20th century. There has never been a more wickedly humorous and honest book by a man who has made such rock history.
Customer Review: Al Kooper: One of a kind
One of the great rock musicians of all-time. This guy should definitely be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, in fact he should have his own wing. Great writing throughout, this is the most entertaing rock and roll book that I’ve ever read. One of the finest memoirs I’ve ever read for that matter. I wish he would write more.
Customer Review: Not enough
I did not want this book to end. I have been a fan of Al’s since the Blood,Sweat,and Tears days and this book filled in so many unanswered questions I had. I recommend that anyone who likes him in any capacity read this book and see him live.

The Makeup Artist Handbook: Techniques for Film, Television, Photography, and Theatre This full-color and amply illustrated book is written for film, television, and theatre makeup artists who need to know the basics on how to accomplish flawless makeup applications. It begins with fundamental practices and continues through more complex techniques usually known only by Hollywood makeup artists. Written by two expert authors who have experience doing makeup for television, commmercials, and blockbuster films, readers will learn about beauty, time periods, black and white film, as well as cutting edge techniques such as air brusshing makeup for computer-generated movies, and makeup effects.

Expectations Investing: Reading Stock Prices for Better Returns Expectations Investing is well worth picking up.

-Financial Executive

Expectations Investing offers a fundamentally new alternative for identifying value-price gaps, built around a deceptively simple and obvious tool: a company’s stock price. The authors walk readers step-by-step through their breakthrough method, revealing how portfolio managers, security analysts, investment advisors, and individual investors can more accurately evaluate established and “new economy” stocks alike-and translate shareholder value from theory to reality.
AUTHORBIO: Alfred Rappaport directs Shareholder Value Research for L.E.K. Consulting and is a Professor Emeritus at Northwestern’s Kellogg School. Michael J. Mauboussin is Credit Suisse First Boston’s Chief U.S. Investment Strategist and an adjunct professor at Columbia University.

Customer Review: Must read for investors who invest in individual companies
I am an individual investor investing primarily in individual companies. “Expectation investing” provides me with an effective process that I can trust, believe and most importantly to follow in my decision makings.

The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir

In search of a place to call home, thousands of Hmong families made the journey from the war-torn jungles of Laos to the overcrowded refugee camps of Thailand and onward to America. But lacking a written language of their own, the Hmong experience has been primarily recorded by others. Driven to tell her family’s story after her grandmother’s death, The Latehomecomer is Kao Kalia Yang’s tribute to the remarkable woman whose spirit held them all together. It is also an eloquent, firsthand account of a people who have worked hard to make their voices heard.