80s Books

People are still stumbling upon the exciting hobby of collecting vintage movie posters. Tony Nourmand has created dozens of movie poster books that are sure to help you learn about these rare collectibles. His books cover the most important posters for each decade and also focus on certain genres of film like SCI FI and HORROR and film historian favorites like ALFRED HITCHCOCK and JAMES BOND. His photographs are top notch and his eye for selecting the most interesting images for our favorite classi films is extraordinary. Buy one and you will surely be back to check out his other books too.

No solamente la musica fue victima de la cultura POP, sino tambien el cine y es en este libro con los posters mas relevantes de le época en donde el arte POP se ve a la perfeccion. Desde los poster clasicos hasta lo posters mas extraños. Ya que esta recopilacion no solamente tiene los artes que conocimos pegados en los carteles del cine, sino que ademas contiene artes muy extraños. Destaca la recopilacion de artes de las cintas de David Cronenberg. Muy REcomendable.

This is by far the greatest collection of the essential movies of the decade series. The 80's created blockbusters like The Terminator, Friday the 13th, Poltergeist, Fletch, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Raiders of the Lost Ark, ET, Rainman, The Breakfast Club, Lethal Weapon, Die Hard, Beverly Hills Cop, Robo Cop and Rambo to name but a few. They're all inside just begging to go up on your wall and be admired along with heaps of others.

You could either keep this intact as a collection of posters in a book to show and discuss with friends, or cut the book up and actually have a vast number of posters up on your wall. This book is about a third the size of your standard film poster and most movies are full page colour. Any of them would look great up on the wall. If there's a better poster collection out there then it must be really good as this is sensational!

this book is amazing... reflections on life, love, loss and highways. as lee says, you cant always call [sonic youth] music, but you can usually call it sound. well i cant always call this book poetry, but anyone who reads it will see the power of lees words. 5 stars!

this book is really cool. lee is an excellent writer and anyone interested in his, or sonic youth's work should read it. the photography is great too.

fans of lee and fans of leah alike will always remember those rocket screaming, headcase creaming, psycho reaming, and convulsion dreaming days of volcanic glory. hey, don't we all? even still, lee's acounts easily rile old ghosts thought long dead and trampled on. go lee! (goalie! heh-heh.)

so anyway. any fan of lee, leah, or SONIC YOUTH will enjoy this book gluttonously. lee's writing style is jacked up, true, but usually in the best way. the very pages come to life and strangle and intimidate the reader with ruthless efficiency, rendering them stunned and confused and feeling momentarily adrift in their surroundings. a truly thrilling congregation of words and pictures.

a minor drawback would be the book's tendency to cause temporary consentration disruptions, and temporary short-term memory loss. that, and it's super harsh.

in closing i highly recommend this literature. it, frankly, is perfect.

FOR ME TO POOP ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-Elijah Jimerson

We moved to Japan 6 years ago with only a vague understanding of Japanese political-economy. We ran across Christopher Wood's book at a local bookstore. It was fascinating and has proved to be an astoundingly accurate depiction foretelling the events of today. I picked the book up again today and concluded that, short of having a crystal ball, this guy had to have been the lone voice of common sense and sound reason on the planet at the time he wrote this book. People must have regarded him as an oddity at the time. One wonders where he is now and what he is doing.

Let's face it, many of the "Japan experts" have totally missed the boat. Mr. Wood's book, published in 1992, was "right on the money" and predicted Japan's current economic plight (although underestimating abit the time it would take to get there). This book provides readers with valuable insights into how the Japanese political economy functions (and doesn't function). By focusing on fundamentals, particularly the banking system, Mr. Wood provides the reader with a framework for analyzing the daily tidbits of information coming out in the press.

Much better than Trivial Pursuits!!! A fun series of books that you will never tire of.

These puzzles are way too much fun! Forget Sudoku or those other puzzle books; Mental Blocks are my new favorite to grab and go - anywhere! They're the perfect pocket size for travel (don't get on a plane without them) yet easy to grab on the way to your favorite reading chair at home. Remember those old team-building word puzzles everyone does at work? (The word "under" below the word "stand" = "understand"?) Varma has taken that idea to a new level of fun and added tons more fun, categorizing the puzzles into popular themes (movies, sports, famous faces) and adding a twist of difficulty to keep your brain and pencil busy. My vote: One of each, please!

I thought it might be helpful to you to know the complete contents of this songbook.

Contents:

Candle In The Wind
Careless Whisper
Could've Been
Don't Worry, Be Happy
Ebony And Ivory
Endless Love
Every Breath You Take
Every Rose Has Its Thorn
Fast Car
Flashdance...What A Feeling
Good Thing
Got My Mind Set On You
Hard Habit To Break
I Love Rock 'N Roll
I Want To Know What Love Is
I'll Always Love You
I'll Be Loving You (Forever)
Islands In The Stream
(Just Like) Starting Over
Kokomo
Lost In Your Eyes
Man In The Mirror
Memory
Miami Vice
One More Try
Physical
Sailing
Sara
She's Like The Wind
Soldier Of Love
Somewhere Out There
There'll Be Sad Songs (To Make You Cry)
These Dreams
Through The Years
Time After Time
Total Eclipse Of The Heart
Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go
We Built This City
We Didn't Start The Fire
What A Wonderful World
What's Love Got To Do With It
With Or Without You

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I hope you will forgive me for rating an item that I do not own, but I do feel justified enough in that I own a number of these songbooks from the Decade Series and am always pleased with them. I am also basing my rating on the selection of song titles as a whole.

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I hope I have been a little helpful to you.

When my boyfriend's firend saw this book at the piano, he sat down and started playing, we all started singing and it was like all the songs we like are there! Great chords, all the best music from the 80's... I talked his friend out of stealing this book by telling him I was going to order it first thing in the morning.

Ahh, the 1980s. Those, my friend, were good times. Correction. Great times. Remember in 1982,when Disney bought the UK and opened the United Magic Kingdom theme park? Or the oil glut, when the trillion gallons of heretofore undicovered crude under Kansas assured America that "We're Eating More Oil Than Ever Before!" Or in 1984, when the movie musical extravaganza "Rats!" took the work of George Orwell, the music of Andrew Lloyd Webber, and created something so good, so powerful, that we were all forced to stop watching "Hello, Larry" for two glorious hours?

Christopher Cerf and Tony Hendra do.

Written in 1979 by some of the more important supporting cast of the oringional National Lampoon, this book was both a hilarious work of satire and a totally inaccurate guide to the future. Not since Vietnamization has the future been so completely mispredicted.

It is probably one of the last entries into that giddy generation of printed satire that began with the Lampoon in the 1970s. Evil, cruel and ridiculous humor met on the printed page with a ferocity and accuracy that Lewis Grizzard never quite could get down pat. Erma Bombeck, though...that's and entirely identical story.

If you find it, get it. If you can't, sit shivering alone in the dark, watcing Falco, eating Jelly Shoes, listening to your cassettes of Tip and the O'Neils, and wondering where it all went so terribly right.

When people say "do you remember the 80's?", many things might come to mind.

The Go Go's, Pac Man, Neon, legwarmers worn as everyday fashion, but one of my most favorite things, was a little magazine out of the UK called Smash Hits.

Smash Hits was the Bible for the 80's pop music scene.

From music to fashion, bizarre interviews and strange, but true, pop star horror stories, candid pop celeb photos, painfully honest, but sometimes hysterical record reviews, and even a pen pal section, which served as a place to find a kindred spirit, or ten, that you could gab to, and share the latest gossip about Madonna, Morrissey, Pete Burns, or just about any pop or new wave band that was worth mentioning.

The absolute best part of all, was that for a time, Neil Tennant of 80's icons, The Pet Shop Boys, mightily wielded his poison pen across the pages of this beloved magazine, and is now also the brains behind this fabulous book!

The Best of Smash Hits 80's is 192 pages of full color bliss.

Make no mistake,this is NOT a documentary styled book, that talks about the heyday of what was once Smash Hits, it looks and reads like one HUGE issue of Smash Hits!

As a big fan and avid collector of Smash Hits, and our version here in the US, Star Hits, I can tell you, that you will never find a more comprehensive collection of the best moments of one of the most amazing magazines to ever cover pop music.

So, whether you want a simple stroll down memory lane, or want to see what all the fuss is about, The Best of Smash Hits: The 80's is for you!

This is an absolutely critical sourcebook for any student of Russian art, including post Revolutionary Impressionism and Socialist Realism. It has critical biographies of a huge number of Russian artists. No one should invest in Russian art without this book.

"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream" by Hunter S. Thompson

Hunter Thompson practiced total immersion journalism. This form of reporting is called gonzo journalism.

Hunter Thompson drove to Las Vegas to report on a motorcycle race and ended up writing a story about himself writing a story about a motorcycle race. If he would have written a conventional report on motorcycle racing it would have been interesting to motorcycle enthusiasts for a few days. Since he wrote a gonzo story he had a very wide canvas and he used it well to create a classic.

The reader might be turned off by the obstreperous behavior, extreme self indulgence and offensive inconsiderate language. If you can look past this offensive conduct and you will see that Hunter Thompson gave us an insight into the American character of the 1970's.

See also: Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga (Modern Library)

I completely enjoyed this book and recommend it to others.

"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream" by Hunter S. Thompson

Hunter Thompson practiced total immersion journalism. This form of reporting is called gonzo journalism.

Hunter Thompson drove to Las Vegas to report on a motorcycle race and ended up writing a story about himself writing a story about a motorcycle race. If he would have written a conventional report on motorcycle racing it would have been interesting to motorcycle enthusiasts for a few days. Since he wrote a gonzo story he had a very wide canvas and he used it well to create a classic.

The reader might be turned off by the obstreperous behavior, extreme self indulgence and offensive inconsiderate language. If you can look past this offensive conduct and you will see that Hunter Thompson gave us an insight into the American character of the 1970's.

See also: Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga (Modern Library)

I completely enjoyed this book and recommend it to others.