www.bibliophilebooks.com 75939 IMMIGRANTS: Your


Country Needs Them by Philippe Legrain Why are ever-rising numbers of people from poor countries arriving in Europe, North America and Australasia? Can we keep them out? Should we even be trying to? The award-winning author of this controversial book makes a convincing case for proving that migration can benefit the migrants


and the country they leave as well as the country they move to. Incisive socio-economic analysis and a broad understanding of what is at stake politically and culturally, to posit the theory that - in our open world - more people will inevitably move across borders and that, generally, we should welcome them. Free- marketeers, campaigners for global justice and enlightened patriots alike, all of us, the author insists, should rally behind the cause of freer migration, because They need Us and We need Them. 374 paperback pages.


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74697 AN EDIBLE HISTORY OF HUMANITY by Tom Standage


Encompassing many fields from genetics and archaeology to anthropology and economics, and invoking food as a special form of technology. Trade in exotic spices spawned the age of exploration and the colonization of the New World. Food also helped to determine the outcome of wars. In the 20th century, Communist leaders employed food as an ideological weapon, which resulted in the death by starvation of millions in the Soviet Union and China. Today, the foods we choose in the supermarket connect us to global debates about trade, development, the environment and the adoption of new technologies. 269 pages, illus. $26 NOW £4


74698 BERLIN 1961: Kennedy, Khrushchev and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth by Frederick Kempe


Much has been written about the Cuban Missile Crisis a year later, but the Berlin Crisis was more decisive and more perilous in shaping the Cold War. American and Soviet fighting men and tanks stood arrayed against each other, only yards apart. On one side was a young untested US president still reeling from the Bay of Pigs disaster and a humiliating summit meeting that left him grasping for ways to respond. On the other, a Soviet premier hemmed in by the Chinese, East Germans and hard-liners in his own government. With an all-important Party Congress approaching, he knew Berlin meant the difference not only for the Kremlin’s hold on its empire, but for his own hold on the Kremlin. Both tried cynically to manipulate events. And so, week by week, they crept closer to the brink. 579 pages, photos and coloured maps.


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74806 THE SWEETHEARTS by Lynn Russell and Neil Hanson This is the true story of The Sweethearts, the women who roasted the cocoa beans, piped the icing and packed the boxes that became gifts for lovers, snacks for workers and treats for children. More often than not, their working days provided welcome relief from bad husbands and bad housing and, when the supervisor wasn’t looking, the occasional chocolate was popped in their mouth! Warmly nostalgic social history. 296pp, paperback.


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75091 PATRIOT OF PERSIA: Muhammad Mossadegh and a Very British Coup


by Christopher de Bellaigue Muhammad Mossadegh was an upper-class Persian politician who became prime minister after a series of confrontations with the Shah, who had a deal to give the western powers the major part of Iran’s rich oil revenues. Iranian oil had fuelled


the Allied victory in World War II, and public resentment of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company came to a head in 1951 when Mossadegh nationalised the AOIC and went on to lead the most enlightened government the country had ever known. Using the Iranian communist party, the Tudeh as a pretext, Britain enlisted the support of the US in mounting a coup to topple Mossadegh, and his removal in August 1953 was orchestrated by the British intelligence services and the CIA. Years later the US would recognise publicly that they had made a mistake. Mossadegh’s principles led him to refuse America’s demands that he should lock up communists. Mossadegh stood up to the west for a few years, earning him the enthusiastic support of his freedom- minded fellow-citizens. £20 NOW £4


310pp, photos.


75479 THEY MADE AMERICA by Harold Evans


Evans brings to the history of his adopted country the keen, dispassionate eye of a man who has been voted the best British newspaper editor of all time. The volume features 50 innovators whose contribution to American and world history has been out of all proportion to what an individual can normally expect to achieve. Here are globally recognised names such as Walt Disney, Henry Ford, Charles Goodyear and Estee Lauder, and there are also major inventors and researchers who have not hit the headlines. Larry Page and Sergey Brin were two Stanford University dropouts who created the most mathematically sophisticated search engine on the Web: the name “Google” comes from the mathematical tern “googol”, the number 1 followed by 100 zeros. An inventor who missed a deserved Nobel Prize was Raymond Damadian, developer of the MRI scanner. 496pp, colour photos. $50 NOW £8.50


75100 WHAT DID THE BABY BOOMERS


EVER DO FOR US? by Francis Beckett By 1963, the baby boomers, a generation conceived in post-war optimism, knew that they had never had it so


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good: not only sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll, but also full employment, free healthcare, schooling and university education. So where did it all go? The author of this book argues that the baby boomers have betrayed their heritage, rolling back the principles of the welfare state and imposing the debt and inequality from which their generation briefly freed itself. Baby boomer Charles Clarke removed grants from students and imposed tuition fees. In this gutsy polemic the author lays bare the massive betrayals of the past half-century through newspaper reportage etc. 218pp, paperback. £12.99 NOW £4


75666 DEVIL AND MR CASEMENT by Jordan Goodman


Sir Roger Casement is notorious for arming the Irish rebels in 1916 and being executed for treason as a result, but less famous is his fight to free thousands of rubber- workers in the depths of the Amazon from slavery. Casement became Consul for the Congo region in Africa at a time when king Leopold of Belgium was perpetrating untold cruelty in the rubber trade. It was estimated that three million Congolese had died. Casement’s report made him a humanitarian hero in England and led to his posting to investigate similar atrocities in the Peruvian Amazon, where the devilish Julio Cesar Arana of the Peruvian Amazon Rubber Company was perpetrating untold cruelty on the Putumayo. The next step was to influence international opinion so that action would be taken. Casement moved on to the Irish cause and within a few years had changed from public hero to public menace. 298pp, paperback, photos. £10.99 NOW £3.50


75965 TIME TO START THINKING: America


and the Spectre of Decline by Edward Luce It may surprise and shock readers to read that America is in long-term economic and geopolitical decline. The Washington bureau chief for the Financial Times delivers a brilliant analysis of the world’s sole remaining superpower, revealing the country at a time of global, financial and political upheaval. Covering areas from education and health-care to politics and innovation, he compares America to Britain as it was in the early 20th century, and argues that the same situation is evolving today in America. In scientific research, Chinese and Korean innovators are increasingly competing with American scientists. In business, giant companies like IBM and General Electric now employ more people abroad than in the US. In domestic politics Republicans and Democrats conduct sterile debates in Washington, while lobbyists and campaign-finance lead the agenda, and bureaucracy cripples the education system. Have the American élites totally failed to come to grips with the real problems facing the country? 292 pages. £20 NOW £6


MUSIC AND DANCE


He who sings scares away his woes. - Cervantes


76304 JOHANNES BRAHMS: The Complete Sonatas for


Violin and Piano by Johannes Brahms


Brahms composed just three sonatas for violin and piano, all of them staples of the repertoires studied, practiced and performed by chamber music players worldwide. Musicians will be delighted to own all three


works in this single volume compilation, reprinted from authoritative editions. Both Sonata No.1 in G Major, Op78 and Sonata No.2 in A Major, Op100 are intensely lyrical in nature containing some of Brahms’ most beautiful and expressive melodies. Sonata No.3 in D Minor, Op108 is a tempestuous work full of fire and passion. The violin part has been edited by Leopold Auer and appears within the book as a separate, removable score. Outsize softback, 88pp plus separate violin part. Outstanding value. £14.95 NOW £6.50


Jacket madness A splendid collection of album art from the 1960s to the 90s


75154 1000 RECORD


COVERS by Michael Ochs While us oldies bemoan the shift from vinyl to CD and the fact that it deprived us of one of the greatest pleasures of music ownership - that great 12 inch artwork that was the album sleeve, replaced by a tiddly five inch booklet that you need a magnifying glass to read - spare a thought for this generation with their


i-Pods and downloaded mp3s - they get nothing at all to go with the music! Here is both an unashamed wallow in nostalgia for us, and a taste of what they are missing for them, 1000 album sleeves, split into three sections; the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s & ’90s, beautifully presented by Taschen. Many are works of art, for example Andy Warhol’s covers including the banana he designed for The Velvet Underground. Printed in eye- popping colour throughout, each has a caption of artist, title, year of release, record label, sleeve designer and extra notes. 5.5 x 7.7". 576 pages. Text in English, French and German. ONLY £13


74714 MAKING RECORDS: The Scenes Behind the Music


by Phil Ramone with Charles L. Granata For almost 50 years, Phil Ramone has been a force in the music industry. There is a craft to making records, and he has spent his life mastering it. Here is a thrilling peep behind the glass of a recording studio he allows readers to sit in on the sessions during Frank Sinatra’s Duets album, Bob Dylan’s Blood on the Tracks, Ray Charles’ Genius Loves Company and Paul Simon’s Still Crazy After All These Years. In addition to being a ringside seat for contemporary popular music history, this volume is an unprecedented tutorial on the magic behind what music producers and engineers actually do. 320 pages, illus.


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74716 MAMMOTH BOOK OF SEX, DRUGS AND ROCK


N’ROLL by Jim Driver Over 50 contributions include Paul Morley getting into the head of Jim Kerr, Peter Paphides on cocaine, Mike Gee on the death of Michael Hutchence and gnomic utterances by Allen Ginsburg. Nat Hentoff describes Dylan’s jealousy when Baez stole the audience’s attention by doing the Charleston, but Joanie


stayed loyal to the Kid’s genius. The final section of the book is a quiz: how many Stones turned up at Brian Jones’s funeral? How did Keith Moon come to bite his neighbour Steve McQueen’s dog? 592pp, paperback. $13.95 NOW £3.50


75451 MY SONG: A Memoir


by Harry Belafonte with Michael Shnayerson Now in his 88th year, Harold George “Harry” Belafonte Jnr has lived one of the great lives of the last century. His poverty-stricken upbringing in Harlem and Jamaica with a caring but forever angry mother and a distant and physically abusive father was far from perfect. In the US Navy during WWII he encountered racism the like he had never before, but also met his first wife Marguerite. Returning to Harlem after the war he drifted from job to job until in 1948 he saw his first theatre production and found the life he wanted to lead. He developed a lifelong passionate involvement at the heart of the civil rights movement, becoming close with Martin Luther King, the Kennedys, Fidel Castro and others. His singing career never faltered: his 1956 breakthrough album Calypso was the first solo LP to sell over a million copies and its Banana Boat Song (“Day-O!”) made Belafonte and calypso music famous the world over. Belafonte has touched countless lives. With My Song he has found yet another way to entertain and inspire. 469 roughcut pages with 88 colour and b/w photos. Tiny remainder mark. $30.50 NOW £6


74710 JOHN LENNON: The


Life by Philip Norman The author talks frankly about the mother who gave her toddler away and how this haunted John Lennon’s mind and music for the rest of his days. Here is his upbringing by his strict Aunt Mimi, the evolution of his partnership with Paul McCartney, his Beatle-busting love affair with a Japanese performance artist, his forays into painting and literature,


his experiments with Transcendental Meditation, primal scream therapy and drugs. The book’s numerous informants and interviewees include Sir Paul McCartney, Sir George Martin and Yoko Ono. 851 paperback pages. $19.99 NOW £4


76113 WAGING HEAVY PEACE: A Hippie Dream by Neil Young


Southern Man has a fantastic music and song writing career spanning 40 years and 34 studio albums of rock and roll, folk and country. From his early days with Buffalo Springfield and his solo career and collaborations with Crosby, Stills & Nash, Crazy Horse and dozens of other notable musicians and groups, Neil Young has been acclaimed for both his musical talents and his artistic integrity. A well known political activist, environmentalist and philanthropist, he has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice. He is unpredictable and bafflingly digressive, wryly funny and painfully honest. 500pp, photos. £9.99 NOW £4.50


74719 OPERA: The Great Composers and Their Masterworks by Joyce Bourne


A compelling tour de force of 400 years of the world’s greatest operas from Monteverdi and Purcell through to Philip Glass and John Adams. Concise biographies and synopses of the key works of all the major composers are featured, accompanied by stunning stage photography and listings of the key pieces of music to listen out for. There are works from Armenia, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Italy, Germany, Britain, France, Austria, Russia and the United States, with revelations about the conductors and entrepreneurs, the great opera houses such as Sadler’s Wells Opera, and the great singers of the stature of Maria Callas, Sir Peter Pears, Jessye (sic) Norman, and a host of others who have won the public’s heart. 224 pages, colour and b/w illus with list of opera houses and festivals, and glossary. £30 NOW £7.50


74691 60 YEARS OF FENDER: Six Decades of


the Greatest Electric Guitars by Tony Bacon Leo Fender introduced the world to the solid body electric guitar in 1950, with the instrument we know now as the Fender Telecaster. He soon gave us two more classics: the Fender Stratocaster and the Fender Precision Bass. His sleek, adaptable instruments fuelled the pop-music boom of the 1960s, and the company’s range of instruments have been used ever since by virtually every top player, from Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton to Jaco Pastorius and Kurt Cobain. 27 x 21cm, 144 pages, colour photos, chronology of models. £20 NOW £5.50


Music and Dance 23 74019 CLAPTON: The Ultimate


Illustrated History by Chris Welch One of the greatest blues guitarists ever, Eric Clapton was being hailed as a giant of rock by the end of the sixties. This sumptuous book is not only crammed with wonderful pictures but also aims to assess Clapton’s appeal and achievement. His first band was the Roosters, and when he at last got a call - though he had no phone - from a serious Blues band, the Yardbirds, Clapton was on his way to the top. Ever publicity- conscious, the Yardbirds invaded Lord Willis’s home after he made disparaging remarks about modern bands, and an archive photo shows them performing for the grinning peer. In 1965 Clapton quit the Yardbirds and the following year Cream was formed, with the iconic album Blues Breakers featuring Clapton on the cover reading the Beano. Clapton is a survivor. 256pp, colour photos, features on his guitars, discography. £25 NOW £9


74513 SERPENT OF THE NILE: Women and


Dance in the Arab World by Wendy Buonaventura


The women’s solo dance raqs al-sharqi (dance of the east), a variation on the Egyptian baladi, is not strictly Arabic but is found throughout North Africa and the Middle East. Painters like Delacroix and Holman Hunt, who visited the eastern Mediterranean, made serious efforts to capture the real thing. The dances of Ouled Nail exerted a special fascination for their extravagant dress, and inevitably these erotic displays raise questions about women’s roles in society and entertainment within Islam. Ruth St. Denis, famous for the rippling movement of her arms in the Cobra dance, achieved celebrity. 223pp, softback, colour photos. £14.99 NOW £3.50


74020 FENDER


TELECASTER: The Life and Times of the Electric Guitar That Changed the World


by Dave Hunter The Fender Telecaster is the ultimate blue-collar guitar. A solid, single cutaway body of swamp-grown hardwood, six strings, one set of pick-ups, two chrome knurled tone and volume


controls and that iconic six-in-a-line headstock that can turn its hand to any style, be it C&W, blues, rock’n’roll, punk, jazz or reggae. Tracing the evolution of the Telecaster from the Broadcaster, Nocaster and Esquire of the late ’40s and early ’50s, here are over 400 mouthwatering colour shots of the Telecaster, as well as its afore-mentioned siblings and its other family members, the Stratocaster and Precision Bass, pictured in the factory, in collections, waiting to be picked up and, most thrillingly, in use with their acolytes, people like Bruce Springsteen, Joe Strummer, Luther Perkins, Wilko Johnson (who provides the foreword), Jimmy Page, Chrissie Hynde, Keith Richards, Waylon Jennings, Jeff Beck, Andy Summers, Merle Haggard and a great many more. 240pp, 9½”×11", colour. £25 NOW £11


74621 GOD OF HELLFIRE: The Crazy Life and


Times of Arthur Brown by Polly Marshall As a student, Arthur Brown bought a bass guitar and turned up at a jazz band rehearsal saying “I’m your new bassist, tell me how to play”. A chance encounter with agent Philip Woods sent him to Paris with a newly formed band which tangled with the mafia and had to make a hasty exit. Back in the U.K., Brown adopted an increasingly psychedelic persona and when his band, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, penned the song ‘Fire’, influenced by Bosch and Blake, they tapped into the volatile zeitgeist of 1968. Black now adopted the full Gothic persona. Brown sang falsetto, performed archaic wobble dances and peeled off layer after layer to reveal ever more bizarre costumes. Brown made world headlines by stripping off onstage in Palermo. Crazy World was soon to be broken up by rivalry between band members Vincent and Drachen. 255pp, photos. £20 NOW £5.50


74680 MORE ROOM IN A BROKEN HEART: The True Adventures of Carly Simon by Stephen Davis


Carly Simon was arguably the first feminist pop star, a very difficult thing to be in an era that blatantly marketed female artistes on their sex appeal - her erect nipples, gracing the cover of No Secrets, her third album, are even today discussed. Her relationships with Warren Beatty, Mick Jagger and Kris Kristofferson and Cat Stevens, her stormy marriage to US folk hero James Taylor, her battle with breast cancer and more recent artistic and financial struggles, the stories behind the songs. Photos, 438pp paperback. $18 NOW £3.50


74687 WILL YOU TAKE ME AS I AM? Joni


Mitchell’s Blue Period by Michelle Mercer Joni Mitchell is one of the most celebrated artists of the last 50 years, and her landmark 1971 album, Blue, is one of her most beloved and revered works. Mercer calls Mitchell’s early to mid-1970s career - which also encompasses the much-loved and largely autobiographical albums For the Roses, Court and Spark and Hejira - her “Blue Period”. Biography, memoir, reportage, criticism and interviews about places, books, music, pastimes and philosophies she holds dear and strike new perspectives on the art of songwriting. 240pp paperback, photos. £15.99 NOW £5.50


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75974 CLASSIC ALBUM COVERS OF THE 1970s by Aubrey Powell


Compiled by a co-founder of the massively influential design group Hipgnosis, and responsible for many of the decade’s cover art, this volume is a stunning reflection of the vital record sleeves that came to define the music of their time. Whether you remember the seventies because of the striking originality of Dark Side of The Moon, or the campness of David Bowie’s Aladdin Sane, or The Sex Pistols outrageous Never Mind the Bollocks, the fact remains that those covers perfectly echoed the time, the place, the climate and the circumstances. In


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