Mick Jagger. Ken Kesey. Timothy Leary. Allen Ginsberg. Jim Morrison. Neil Young. Abbie Hoffman. Jerry Garcia. Janis Joplin. Grace Slick. Pete Townshend. Ram Dass. Dennis Hopper. Peter Fonda. Jane Fonda. Jerry Rubin. Hippies on Mt. Tam. The March on Washington. Anti-war demonstrations. People's Park. Berkeley. Haight-Ashbury.The Sixties brings together a collection of photographs of the people, events, culture, rock and roll stars, writers, political figures, and other icon...

The screenplay of iconic radio host Garrison Keillor’s Robert Altman-directed major motion picture, A Prairie Home Companion, starring Meryl Streep and Lily Tomlin.The day of reckoning has come to the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, home of A Prairie Home Companion. The show is closing, the theater is going dark. Station WLT has been sold to a broadcast conglomerate in Texas. The wrecking ball is poised to swing as the regulars—the Johnson Girls, Yolanda and Rhond...

The filmmakers who defy convention and validate the legitimacy of the auteur theory are revealed in probing, wide-ranging and provocative interviews that first appeared in Playboy magazine. From foreign masters of direction and style Ingmar Bergman and Federico Fellini to champions of independent film Spike Lee and The Coen Brothers to the godfathers of the gangster movie Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese, the visionaries to constantly push the boundaries of their medium and portray hu...

From “one of the great short story writers of our time” (The Philadelphia Inquirer)—nine stories and a poem that offer a searing portrait of American innocence and loss—and formed the basis for the film “Short Cuts” directed by Robert Altman.With deadpan humor and enormous tenderness, this is the work of “one of the true contemporary masters” (The New York Review of Books).Features stories from the collections Will You Please Be Quiet,...

The Association Knowledge CycleIf you've picked up this book, you're probably facing the same questions we were: How do associations thrive in an increasingly connected world? What role does artificial intelligence play? And perhaps most importantly, how do we turn all this technological potential into real value for our members?We wrote this book to explore those questions, but we did something unusual in the process. We didn't just write about AI and conn...

From the Center for Creative Leadership's most popular and best known leadership program Leadership Development Program comes a book for anyone who wants to have a competitive edge in today's complex marketplace. Discovering the Leader in You shows what it looks like to fit in a leadership role and provides a system of self-discovery that allows for exploration into the roles within an organization. The book includes illustrative cases examples and puts the spotlight on the transi...

Managing Credit Risk, Second Edition opens with a detailed discussion of today’s global credit markets—touching on everything from the emergence of hedge funds as major players to the growing influence of rating agencies. After gaining a firm understanding of these issues, you’ll be introduced to some of the most effective credit risk management tools, techniques, and vehicles currently available. If you need to keep up with the constant changes in the world of credit risk managem...

It was never just an act. These leading men actually transformed into their on-screen characters—a modus operandi thats revealed in probing, wide-ranging and provocative interviews that first appeared in Playboy magazine. From method men Marlon Brando and Dustin Hoffman to multiple Oscar nominees Jack Nicholson and Jack Lemmon to co-stars Paul Newman and Robert Redford, these indelible actors reflect the very best of 50 years of the Playboy Interview.Screen Gods is part of the 50 Years of the...

The most widely feared misfits and controversial heretics to ever challenge society norms and behavior are revealed in probing, wide-ranging and provocative interviews that first appeared in Playboy magazine. From convicted murderers James Earl Ray and Jeffrey MacDonald, to activists Abbie Hoffman and Saul Alinsky, to revolutionary leaders Yasir Arafat and Fidel Castro, these iconoclasts and contrarians reflect the very best of the 50 years of the Playboy Interview.

In mid-1962, Playboy founder Hugh Hefner was given a partial transcript of an interview with Miles Davis. It covered jazz, of course, but it also included Daviss ruminations on race, politics and culture. Fascinated, Hef sent the writer—future Pulitzer Prize–winning author Alex Haley, an unknown at the time—back to glean even more opinion and insight from Davis. The resulting exchange, published in the September 1962 issue, became the first official Playboy Interview and kicked off a remarkab...

The writers who crafted the innovative ideas, characters and worlds that changed our perception of reality and shaped our future are revealed in probing, wide-ranging and provocative interviews that first appeared in Playboy magazine. From the masters of the stage like Henry Miller and Tennessee Williams to the controversial revolutionaries of the word Vladimir Nabokov and Allen Ginsberg to the kings of science fiction and horror Kurt Vonnegut, Ray Bradbury and Chuck Palahniuk, these liter...

The heartbreakers, lovemakers and dreamers always at the top of the music charts are revealed in probing, wide-ranging and provocative interviews that first appeared in Playboy magazine. From the forefathers of modern music Frank Sinatra, the Beatles and Bob Dylan to larger-than-life rock gods Elton John, David Bowie and Frank Zappa to the kings of hip-hop Jay-Z and Kanye West, the musicians who never missed a beat and have turned sound into magic reflect the very best of the 50 years of the ...