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Author
Publisher
Indigo River Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The author recounts his life story from the 1960s on, including his experiences at Oxford, in Europe's clubs and on morning radio in L.A., as well as his personal connections to some of the most notable names in New wave music.
Blade provides an uncensored insider's look into the world of music, movies, and television, starting in the sixties and continuing through to the new century. He covers his days as a student at Oxford and the wild nights...
Author
Publisher
Crown Books
Pub. Date
©2011
Language
English
Description
In this book the author recounts the story of the Faulkners of Mississippi, whose legacy includes pioneers, noble and ignoble war veterans, three never convicted murderers, the builder of the first railroad in north Mississippi, the founding president of a bank, an FBI agent, four pilots (all brothers), and a Nobel prize winner arguably the most important American novelist of the twentieth century. She also reveals wonderfully entertaining and intimate...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"Amanda Podany here takes readers on a vivid tour through a thousand years of ancient Near Eastern history, from 2300 to 1300 BCE, paying particular attention to the lively interactions that took place between the great kings of the day. Allowing them to speak in their own words, Podany reveals how these Near Eastern leaders and their ambassadors devised a remarkably sophisticated system of diplomacy and of trade that extended from the Aegean Sea...
Publisher
Interlink Books, an imprint of Interlink Publishing Group, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the Caine Prize for African Writing, this collection showcases all twenty prize-winning short stories - each with its own unique take on modern African life. A jailer's love poems ghost-written by a prisoner... Love blossoming between two girls despite the horror of their community... Street kids stick-fighting or stealing guavas from the rich... A dystopian world where women must go naked until they marry......
87) Tintinnabuli
Author
Publisher
Gimell Records
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Multiple
Description
"It is with great pleasure that we present our tribute to Arvo Pärt in his 80th year. Tintinnabuli (from the Latin for "bell") is the compositional style created by Arvo Pärt which informs every work on this recording. In all my searchings for inspiring contemporary music I have not come across anyone to rival him."
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
The fascinating, untold story of the history of undressing: over fifty years of taking it off. Striptease combined sexual display and parody, cool eros and wisecracking Bacchanalian humor. Striptease could be savage, patriotic, irreverent, vulgar, sophisticated, sentimental, and subversive--sometimes, all at once. In this vital cultural history, Rachel Shteir traces the ribald art from its nineteenth century vaudeville roots, through its long and...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Tom was a young engineer employed at one of the country's largest steel companies. He had been an outstanding individual performer, and now he was a new manager, leading a team responsible for producing steel for a major automobile company. After just one week on the job, Tom and his team met with over 20 engineers from that other company. It was a rude awakening. I sat in a room with maybe 20 or 25 of their engineers for the annual quality evaluation...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Everyone knows the story of the murder of young Emmett Till. In August 1955, the fourteen-year-old Chicago boy was murdered in Mississippi for having--supposedly--flirted with a white woman named Carolyn Bryant, who was working behind the counter of a store. Emmett was taken from the home of a relative later that night by white men; three days later, his naked body was recovered in the Tallahatchie River, weighed down by a cotton-gin fan. Till's...
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
©2011
Language
English
Description
The pre-Civil War autobiographies of famous fugitives such as Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, and Harriet Jacobs form the bedrock of the African American narrative tradition. After emancipation arrived in 1865, former slaves continued to write about their experience of enslavement and their upward struggle to realize the promise of freedom and citizenship. Slave Narratives After Slavery reprints five of the most important and revealing first-person...
Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
On a career that spanned nearly five decades, Dorothy Fields penned the words to more than four hundred songs. Charlotte Greenspan offers the most complete, serious treatment of Field's life and work to date, tracing her rise to prominence in a male-dominated world.--[book jacket].
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Since the birth of civilisation, human beings have manipulated other life-forms. We have selectively bred plants and animals for thousands of years to maximize agricultural production and cater to our tastes in pets. The observation of the creation of artificial animal and plant variants was a key stimulant for Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. The ability to directly engineer the genomes of organisms first became possible in the 1970s, when the...
Author
Publisher
World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The autobiography of Martin Karplus, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2013, describes the journey from his childhood in Vienna, his escape to Switzerland in 1938 shortly after Hitler's entrance into Austria, his education in New England and California, and scientific career which took him to England, Illinois, Columbia, Strasbourg, and Harvard. The author's optimistic outlook and faith in himself made it possible for him to overcome difficulties in his...
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