Best Art Books

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The classic book on statistical graphics, charts, tables. Theory and practice in the design of data graphics, 250 illustrations of the best (and a few of the worst) statistical graphics, with detailed analysis of how to display data for precise, effective, quick analysis. Design of the highresolution displays, small multiples. Editing and improvin...

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A thoughtprovoking and wideranging exploration of machine learning and the race to build computer intelligences as flexible as our ownIn the world's top research labs and universities, the race is on to invent the ultimate learning algorithm: one capable of discovering any knowledge from data, and doing anything we want, before we even ask. In Th...

The world is working exactly as designed. The combustion engine which is destroying our planet's atmosphere and rapidly making it inhospitable is working exactly as we designed it. Guns, which lead to so much death, work exactly as they're designed to work. And every time we "improve" their design, they get better at killing. Facebook's privacy set...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around Cinema, NonFiction, Film, Art, Filmmaking lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for creative discipline, craft, or artistic motivation. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

It took AlphaZero only a few hours of selflearning to become the chess player that shocked the world. The Artificial Intelligence, system, created by DeepMind, had been fed nothing but the rules of the Royal Game when it beat the world’s strongest chess engine in a prolonged match. The selection of ten games published in December 2017 created a wor...

Explores the epic human drama behind the making of the five movies nominated for Best Picture in 1967Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, The Graduate, In the Heat of the Night, Doctor Doolittle, and Bonnie and Clydeand through them, the larger story of the cultural revolution that transformed Hollywood, and America, forever....

There is no single methodology for creating the perfect productbut you can increase your odds. One of the best ways is to understand users' reasons for doing things. Mental Models gives you the tools to help you grasp, and design for, those reasons. Adaptive Path cofounder Indi Young has written a rollupyoursleeves book for designers, manager...

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"Paradigms of AI Programming," is the first text to teach advanced Common Lisp techniques in the context of building major AI systems. By reconstructing authentic, complex AI programs using stateoftheart Common Lisp, the book teaches students and professionals how to build and debug robust practical programs, while demonstrating superior programm...

Maira Kalman paints her highly personal worldview in this inimitable combination of image and textAn irresistible invitation to experience life through a beloved artist's psyche, The Principles of Uncertainty is a compilation of Maira Kalman's New York Times columns. Part personal narrative, part documentary, part travelogue, part chapbook, and all...

From his marriage to Ali McGraw, his cocaine bust, the accusations of murder, the friendships with the likes of Jack Nicholson and Dustin Hoffman, to his legendary court case and bust up with Francis Ford Coppola, this is the tellall autobiography from Robert Evans, the legendary Hollywood producer (The Godfather, Rosemary's Baby and Chinatown) wh...

Now in full color, the 10th anniversary edition of this classic book packs more insight into what it means to design games for fun. Theory of Fun for Game Design challenges and inspires game designers as well as game enthusiasts looking for products and experiences that are truly fun and entertaining.The book discusses the impact of designing in a ...

This bestselling classic, which the New York Times called the classiest `howtoâ text on landscape color photography ever published,â captures the unique artistic vision of the late Galen Rowell, one of Americaâs greatest outdoor photographers. Here Rowell assembled eighty of his finest images, along with the stories behind themwhat he was...

The Visual History of Type is a comprehensive, detailed survey of the major typefaces produced since the advent of printing with movable type in the mid?fifteenth century to the present day. Arranged chronologically to provide context, more than 320 typefaces are displayed in the form of their original type specimens or earliest printing. Each entr...

Internationallyrenowned directing coach Weston demonstrates what constitutes a good performance, what actors want from a director, what directors do wrong, script analysis and preparation, how actors work, and shares insights into the director/actor relationship....

The first definitive biography of the iconic, notoriously private British fashion designer Alexander McQueen explores the connections between his dark work and even darker life.When fortyyearold Alexander McQueen committed suicide in February 2010, a shocked world mourned the loss. McQueen had risen from humble beginnings as the son of an East Lo...

Note to customers: The print version of this book is highly formatted, and many pages contain examples that use a variety of approaches to text layout including the use of multiple fonts. The subtleties of this layout would be lost when converted to ePub, so we have chosen to offer this ebook only in PDF format, which keeps the page layout intact.B...

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“Available recommendation signals cluster around NonFiction, Film, Art, Writing lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for creative discipline, craft, or artistic motivation. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

The Technique of Film and Video Editing provides a detailed, precise look at the artistic and aesthetic principles and practices of editing for both picture and sound. Because editing is about more than learning a specific software program, this book focuses on the fundamentals of editing as art. Analysis of photographs from dozens of classic and c...

Most companies today have innovation envy. They yearn to come up with a game?changing innovation like Apple's iPod, or create an entirely new category like Facebook. Many make genuine efforts to be innovative?they spend on R&D, bring in creative designers, hire innovation consultants. But they get disappointing results.Why In The Design of Busines...

Not just a look at the art of record cover design Record covers are a sign of our life and times. Like the music on the discs, they address such issues as love, life, death, fashion, and rebellion. For music fans the covers are the expression of a period, of a particular time in their lives. Many are works of art and have become as famous as th...

Fashion is everchanging, and while some styles mark a dramatic departure from the past, many exhibit subtle differences from year to year that are not always easily identifiable. With overviews of each key period and detailed illustrations for each new style, How to Read a Dress is an authoritative visual guide to women's fashion across five centu...

The present volume offers eloquent testimony that many of the master builders of this century have held passionate convictions regarding the philosophic and social basis of their art. Nearly every important development in the modern architectural movement began with the proclamation of these convictions in the form of a program or manifesto. The mo...

This lush book of photography represents National Geographic's Photo Ark, a major crossplatform initiative and lifelong project by photographer Joel Sartore to make portraits of the world's animalsespecially those that are endangered. His powerful message, conveyed with humor, compassion, and art: to know these animals is to save them.Sartore in...

Naked Fashion invites you to join the movement of consumers, entrepreneurs, and creative professionals who are using their purchasing power, talents, and experience to make fashion more sustainable.Anyone with an active interest in fashion and where our clothes come from or looking for a career in fashion and the media will find inspiration and adv...

A stunning and unique collection of satellite images of Earth that offer an unexpected look at humanity, derived from the wildly popular Daily Overview Instagram project.Inspired by the ?Overview Effect??a sensation that astronauts experience when given the opportunity to look down and view the Earth as a whole?the breathtaking, high definition sat...

Web services have been used for many years. In this time, developers and architects have encountered a number of recurring design challenges related to their usage, and have learned that certain service design approaches work better than others to solve certain problems. In Service Design Patterns, Rob Daigneau codifies proven design solutions fo...

Popular Music from Vittula tells the fantastical story of a young boy's unordinary existence, peopled by a visiting African priest, a witch in the heart of the forest, cousins from Missouri, an old Nazi, a beautiful girl with a black Volvo, silent men and tough women, a championbicyclist music teacher with a thumb in the middle of his hand?and, no...

Over the coming decades, Artificial Intelligence, will profoundly impact the way we live, work, wage war, play, seek a mate, educate our young, and care for our elderly. It is likely to greatly increase our aggregate wealth, but it will also upend our labor markets, reshuffle our social order, and strain our private and public institutions. Eventual...

Featuring more than 350 pieces of development artwork that includes early character designs, story sketches, and concept paintings never before released by the studio, The Art of How to Train Your Dragon offers a stunning view of DreamWorks Animation's film about an unlikely alliance between a young Viking and a deadly dragon, inspired by the origi...

Representing a new generation of designers in Japan, Kenya Hara (born 1958) pays tribute to his mentors, using long overlooked Japanese icons and images in much of his work. In Designing Design, he impresses upon the reader the importance of emptiness in both the visual and philosophical traditions of Japan, and its application to design, made visi...

After more than thirty years of research and teaching, artist Valerie Winslow has compiled her unique methods of drawing human anatomy into one groundbreaking volume: Classic Human Anatomy. This longawaited book provides simple, insightful approaches to the complex subject of human anatomy, using drawings, diagrams, and readerfriendly text. Three...

Slim Aarons offers images of jetsetters and the wealthy, and beautiful, glittering people living the glamorous life. However, the main character is the pool and everything that goes with them magnificent suntanned bodies, welloiled skin, bikiniclad women, yachts, summer cocktails, sumptuous buffets, and, above all, fun....

“Available recommendation signals cluster around NonFiction, Film, GardeningHobbies, Art, Gardening lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for creative discipline, craft, or artistic motivation. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

"It has been a while since I devoured a book on Architecture, with as much pleasure. I love a good section and I love this book."?Aaron Betsky, Architect MagazineAwardwinning architects Paul Lewis, Marc Tsurumaki, and David J. Lewis's essential guide to section. Section, along with plan and elevation, is one of the most important representational t...

Brand new: An unprecedented catalog of modern trademarks Modernist aesthetics in Architecture,, art, and product design are familiar to many. In soaring glass structures or minimalist canvases, we recognize a time of vast technological advance which affirmed the power of human beings to reshape their environment and to break, radically, from the con...

Atmospheres is a poetics of Architecture, and a window into Zumthor?s personal sources of inspiration. In nine short, illustrated chapters framed as a process of selfobservation, Zumthor describes what he has on his mind as he sets about creating the atmosphere of his buildings: images of spaces and buildings that affect him are every bit as import...

Michael Johnson is one of the world?s leading graphic designers and brand consultants. His studio, johnson banks, is responsible for the rebranding of many notable clients, including Virgin Atlantic, Think London, BFI, Christian Aid, and MORE TH>N, and he has garnered a plethora of awards in the process.In Branding, Johnson strips everyday brands d...

Don't simply show your datatell a story with it! Storytelling with Data teaches you the fundamentals of data visualization and how to communicate effectively with data. You'll discover the power of storytelling and the way to make data a pivotal point in your story. The lessons in this illuminative text are grounded in theory, but made accessible...

"...reviews the historic development of western script...Photographs clearly show how to hold and angle the pen in order to recreate 26 different styles of lettering...". Library Journal...

The Hollywood Standard describes in clear, vivid prose and hundreds of examples how to format every element of a screenplay or television script. A reference for everyone who writes for the screen, from the novice to the veteran, this is the dictionary of script format, with instructions for formatting everything from the simplest master scene head...

Metric Pattern Cutting for Women's Wear provides a straightforward introduction to the principles of form pattern cutting for garments to fit the body shape, and flat pattern cutting for casual garments and jersey wear.This sixth edition remains true to the original concept: it offers a range of good basic blocks, an introduction to the basic princ...

The possibilities for threedimensional manipulation of fabric gathering, pleating, tucking, shirring, and quilting woven materials are seemingly endless. To describe them all would be to describe the entire history of sewing. In "The Art of manipulating Fabric," Colette Wolff has set herself just this task, and she succeeds brilliantly. Workin...

Fairchild writes the ultimate insider's guide to today's fashion folliesa savage, gossipy, noholdsbarred look at the world of superstar designers and the superrich social climbers who buy their clothes. A scandalous expose of high fashion and high society by the publisher of W. Simon & Schuster. Fairchild writes the ultimate insider's guide to...

This is the only book you'll ever need on scales and modes! An encyclopedia with over 6,000 diagrams, charts and graphs. Harmony and Theory is as easy as 1, 2, 3. Best of all, scales are graphed out for you in all twelve keys so you can start using them immediately while you learn. Complete explanation of all five, six, seven and eighttone scal...

A professional architect presents an update to the classic manual on residential and light construction techniques and includes increased coverage of environmentally friendly materialsplus the latest data on concrete, steel and glazing Technology,, energy efficiency in buildings, moisture and thermal protection, natural lighting, and masonry. 100...

Comprehensive. Detailed. Practical. Set Lighting Technician's Handbook, Fourth Edition , is a friendly, handson manual covering the daytoday practices, equipment, and tricks of the trade essential to anyone doing motion picture lighting, including the lamp operator, rigging crew, gaffer, best boy, or director of photography. This handbook offers...

The one book your family needs to understand the world of art. A beautiful, unusual and engaging compendium of art history, providing an accessible entree into the world of art for everyone, regardless of their experience.From cave paintings to the Renaissance, Impressionism to Pop Art, The Collins Big Book of Art takes you on a journey through the...

Digital Photography Complete Course will help you build your photography skills stepbystep, with an independent photography course that guides you through every aspect of digital photography. Digital Photography Complete Course uses a combination of tutorials, stepbystep demonstrations, practical assignments, and Q&As to help you understand and...

This work is a chronicle of the photographic genre created from the chaotic energy of everyday street life. It grew out of a 15year collaboration between an esteemed curator and a distinguished photographer. The work of such celebrated masters as Arget, Stieglitz, Cartierbresson, Brassai, Walker Evans, Robert Frank and Garry Winogrand is presente...

From ancient Chinese civilization to the postmodern world Organized along a global timeline, A Global History of Architecture, presents an innovative approach to the study of architectural history. Spanning from 3,500 B.C.E. to the present, this unique guide is written by an allstar team of architectural experts in their fields who emphasize the co...

The 20th edition of Sir Banister Fletcher's A History of Architecture, is the first major work of history to include an overview of the architectural achievements of the 20th Century. Banister Fletcher has been the standard one volume architectural history for over 100 years and continues to give a concise and factual account of world Architecture, f...

In Vogue is a fascinating look at the history of the world's most influential magazine. The complete compendium is illustrated with hundreds of covers and archival interiors of past Vogue editions, featuring the work of some of the twentieth century's most respected artists, cover illustrators, and photographers?from Edward Steichen, Toni Frissell,...

Moses and his school friends are deaf, but like most children, they have a lot to say. They communicate in American Sigh Language, using visual signs and facial expressions. This is called signing. And even though they can't hear, they can enjoy many activities through their other senses. Today, Moses and his classmates are going to a concert. Thei...

The ultimate guide to visual storytelling! How to make the audience "feel" the story while they are "reading" the story. Using his experiences from working in the comic book industry, movie studios and teaching, Marcos introduces the reader to a stepbystep system that will create the most successful storyboards and graphics for the best visual co...

For her first book in ten years, Kelly Wearstler, one of the most irreverent and fascinating designers working today, continues to push boundaries with her inventive and opulent interiors, here inviting readers into her latest creations including her newly designed home.Celebrated for luxurious interiors that capture the swankiness of oldworld Hol...

An indispensable new guide for developing and designing typefaces One of the most essential tools of graphic design, typography influences the appearance of visual print materials perhaps more than any other component. This essential book explains the processes behind creating and designing type. Author Karen Cheng discusses issues of structure, op...

This illustrated essay traces the history of one of the leading exponents of" Swiss Graphic Design " in the 1950s and 1960s. Josef MullerBrockmann'sposters have become world famous for their ability to convey information withgreat visual tension, a sense of drama, and an extreme economy of means.He created a body of work in which timeless principl...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around NonFiction, Design, Art lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for creative discipline, craft, or artistic motivation. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

Internationally renowned artist and best selling author Stephen Quiller shows readers how to discover their own personal "color sense" in Color Choices, a book that offers readers a fresh perspective on perfecting their own color styles.With the help of his own "Quiller Wheel," a special foldout wheel featuring 68 precisely placed colors, the autho...

Behind National Geographic's worldwide reputation as a powerhouse of photography lies one of the most extensive, valuable, and unique graphic resources on Earth: the National Geographic Image Collection. The book by the same name, now in small format, lets readers plumb the fascinating depths of this immense archive from the earliest photographs co...

Newly updated and revised, How to Shoot Video That Doesn?t Suck is a quick and easy guide that will make your video better instantly?whether you read it cover to cover or just skim a few chapters. It?s about the language of video and how to think like a director, regardless of equipment (amateurs think about the camera, pros think about communicati...

When it comes to photography, it's all about the light.After spending more than thirty years behind the lensworking for National Geographic, Time, Life, and Sports IllustratedJoe McNally knows about light. He knows how to talk about it, shape it, color it, control it, and direct it. Most importantly, he knows how to create it...using small hot ...

With the popularity of digital photography growing by leaps and bounds over the last decade, some say film has been dying a slow death ever sinceor is already dead. The reality is that film has never gone away, and in recent years has experienced a surging, renewed popularitysometimes simply for its retro, analog status, but mostly for film's abi...

Los Logos 7 is the authoritative reference on contemporary logo design worldwide. Like the previous editions of Gestalten?s Los Logos series, the book is both a guide to the latest innovations as well as a precursor to coming trends.The 400page, fully indexed compendium presents an unparalleled selection of cuttingedge examples from around the gl...

"This is a first?class resource for students who wish to improve their drawing skills. A must for those who want to advance their visual communication" Simon Pattison, York St John University"?another brilliant teaching and learning recourse by LKP" Nooshin Akrami, University of Bolton"Extremely approachable ? the illustrations are not too polished...

The Secret Lives of Color tells the unusual stories of seventyfive fascinating shades, dyes, and hues. From blonde to ginger, the brown that changed the way battles were fought to the white that protected against the plague, Picasso's blue period to the charcoal on the cave walls at Lascaux, acid yellow to kelly green, and from scarlet women to im...

Perspective, the author tells us, is easy; yet surprisingly few artists are aware of the simple rules that make it so. This easytofollow book ? the first devoted entirely to clarifying the laws of perspective ? remedies the situation. In it, the author uses over 250 simple line drawings to illustrate the concepts involved.Beginning with clear, co...

The great challenge in writing a featurelength screenplay is sustaining audience involvement from page one through 120. Screenwriting: The Sequence Approach expounds on an oftenoverlooked tool that can be key in solving this problem. A screenplay can be understood as being built of sequences of about fifteen pages each, and by focusing on solving...

Over 500 illustrated chords are covered for Rock, Blues, Soul, Country, Jazz and Classical music. This compact dictionary is designed to fit in your bag and is completed with fingering diagrams for each chord and photographs showing how each one is played. Over 360,000 copies sold worldwide. This compact dictionary of over 500 popular chords in the...

Nothing brings anime artists more satisfaction than creating original characters to use in a comic strip or graphic novel. Bestselling howtodraw author Christopher Hart helps them reach this goal by providing insight into the six most popular anime types: schoolgirls, schoolboys, preteens, vengeful bad guys, humorous personalities, and Fantasy, fi...

Mark Rothko's iconic paintings are some of the most profound works of twentiethcentury Abstract Expressionism. This collection presents fifty largescale artworks from the American master's color field period (1949?1970) alongside essays by Rothko's son, Christopher Rothko, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art curator of painting and sculpture J...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around Architecture, Art lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for creative discipline, craft, or artistic motivation. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

Quentin Tarantino director of "Reservoir Dogs" and writer of "True Romance" won the Palme d'Or for best film at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival for "Pulp Fiction, " his unique vision of the underworld, starring John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Bruce Willis, Samuel Jackson, and Harvey Keitel. Taking his inspiration from the popular, and often lurid, "p...

A perfect introduction to art for children everywhere, The Art Book for Children brings the clarity and innovation of Phaidon?s bestselling The Art Book to our youngest readers ever. A guide to 30 great artists and their most famous works, designed for both parent and child to enjoy together. The book encourages children to look closely and use the...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around NonFiction, Fashion, History, Art lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for creative discipline, craft, or artistic motivation. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

One day three white mice discover three jars of paintred, blue, and yellow. Both parents and children alike will appreciate this lighthearted presentation of a lesson in color. ?Walsh?s cutpaper collage illustrations have bold colors and just the right simplicity for the storyline. A real charmer that?s great fun as well as informative.?School...

Balmond is making the transition from structural engineer working alongside other architects to an architect in his own right. His structural thinking differs from that of others in his field, in its completely innovative conception of the engineer's contribution to Architecture,. The plasticity of architectural plans is enhanced through a decisive ...

Adapted from one of Bob Marley's most beloved songs, One Love brings the joyful spirit and unforgettable lyrics of his music to life for a new generation. Readers will delight in dancing to the beat and feeling the positive groove of change when one girl enlists her community to help transform her neighborhood for the better. Adapted by Cedella Mar...

(Musicians Institute Press). Navigate the guitar neck better than ever before with this easytouse book! Designed from Musicians Institute core curriculum programs, it covers essential concepts for players of every level, acoustic or electric. A handson guide to theory, it will help you learn to build any scale or chord on your own and unleash cr...

The 35th anniversary edition of the classic howto book that has helped millions of artists learn to draw.When it was originally published in 1970, How to Draw What You See zoomed to the top of WatsonGuptill's bestseller listand it has remained there ever since. "I believe that you must be able to draw things as you see themrealistically," wr...

Since its first publication in 1982, Modern Architecture, Since 1900 has become established as a contemporary classic. Worldwide in scope, it combines a clear historical outline with masterly analysis and interpretation. Technical, economic, social and intellectual developments are brought together in a comprehensive narrative which provides a setti...

Stephen Rogers Peck's Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist remains unsurpassed as a manual for students. It includes sections on bones, muscles, surface anatomy, proportion, equilibrium, and locomotion. Other unique features are sections on the types of human physique, anatomy from birth to old age, an orientation on racial anatomy, and an analysi...

1989 facsimile of 1954 original edition. A personal history of fifty years of changing tastes and the people who have inspired them....

Draw Natural and Believable Clothed FiguresIn Drawing People, awardwinning illustrator and instructor Barbara Bradley provides all the information you need to render clothed human figures with energy, detail and control.Bradley begins by teaching the basics of any drawing, including proportion, perspective and value. Next, you'll learn how to over...

Showcasing cuttingedge underwater photography from the world?s leading marine and nature photographers, The Life & Love of the Sea is a breathtaking visual tour of the ocean?s great diversity. Readers will experience land meeting sea with images of dramatic coastlines, barrier reefs, and island chains, as well as the spectacular power of the ocean...

Grayson Perry?s book will overturn everything you thought you knew about ?art? Now Grayson Perry is a fully paidup member of the art establishment, he wants to show that any of us can appreciate art (after all, there is a reason he?s called this book Playing to the Gallery and not Sucking Up to the Academic Elite). This funny, personal journey thr...

Lavishly illustrated and supercondensed, Architecture,: A World History is the perfect gift for any Architecture, buff. In this pocketsized book bursting with 600 illustrations, page after page is dedicated to significant architectural movements, time lines that explore the evolution of the practice, and capsule biographies of great architects and ...

Little Suzette and her nursemaid enjoy daily walks in the handsome park near their home. Often, they see a tall, elegant lady strolling in the park with her tiny puppy. Then, a comical incident transforms Suzette and the puppy into friends. The time and place of this gentle story is Paris in the 1870s, when many fine artists were creating the excit...

Anyone who can hold a pencil can learn to draw.In this book, Bert Dodson shares his complete drawing systemfiftyfive "keys" that you can use to render any subject with confidence, even if you're a beginner.These keys, along with dozens of practice exercises, will help you draw like an artist in no time.You'll learn how to:Restore, focus, map, an...

Profusely illustrated with fine instances of architectural experimentation through the centuries, Experiencing Architecture, manages to convey the intellectual excitement of superb design. From teacups, riding boots, golf balls, and underwater sculpture to the villas of Palladio and the fishfeeding pavilion of the Peking Winter Palace, the author r...

In her design book, Homebody: A Guide To Creating Spaces You Never Want to Leave, Joanna Gaines walks you through how to create a home that reflects the personalities and stories of the people who live there. This comprehensive guide will help you assess your priorities and your instincts, as well as your likes and dislikes, with practical steps fo...

Ever wondered how you could become a character designer for video games, film or animation Veteran art director and concept artist Marc Taro Holmes shares proven methods for honing the skills and building the portfolio necessary to become a pro gaming artist. This is the first and only workatyourown pace home study program that teaches the cruc...

IDEO, the widely admired, awardwinning design and development firm that brought the world the Apple mouse, Polaroid's IZone instant camera, the Palm V, and hundreds of other cuttingedge products and services, reveals its secrets for fostering a culture and process of continuous innovation.There isn't a business in America that doesn't want to be...

The Fifth Beatle is the untold true story of Brian Epstein, the visionary manager who discovered and guided The Beatlesfrom their gigs in a tiny cellar in Liverpool to unprecedented international stardom. Yet more than merely the story of "The Man Who Made The Beatles," The Fifth Beatle is an uplifting, tragic, and ultimately inspirational human s...