Author: Jacquelyn Dortch
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1543427103
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 137
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As Quite as Its Kept is a journey into the heart, mind, and soul of the author. Jacquelyn Dortch has used writing as a means of dealing with lifes joys and challenges. This book is a compilation of short stories and poems that depict major events occurring in Jacquis life. She credits these events as the driving forces for how she stumbled into her purpose. The ultimate reward for this author is that someone might be inspired or encouraged by her words.
Author: Christoph Cox
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501318365
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 665
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The groundbreaking Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music (Continuum; September 2004; paperback original) maps the aural and discursive terrain of vanguard music today. Rather than offering a history of contemporary music, Audio Culture traces the genealogy of current musical practices and theoretical concerns, drawing lines of connection between recent musical production and earlier moments of sonic experimentation. It aims to foreground the various rewirings of musical composition and performance that have taken place in the past few decades and to provide a critical and theoretical language for this new audio culture. This new and expanded edition of the Audio Culture contains twenty-five additional essays, including four newly-commissioned pieces. Taken as a whole, the book explores the interconnections among such forms as minimalism, indeterminacy, musique concrète, free improvisation, experimental music, avant-rock, dub reggae, ambient music, hip hop, and techno via writings by philosophers, cultural theorists, and composers. Instead of focusing on some "crossover" between "high art" and "popular culture," Audio Culture takes all these musics as experimental practices on par with, and linked to, one another. While cultural studies has tended to look at music (primarily popular music) from a sociological perspective, the concern here is philosophical, musical, and historical. Audio Culture includes writing by some of the most important musical thinkers of the past half-century, among them John Cage, Brian Eno, Ornette Coleman, Pauline Oliveros, Maryanne Amacher, Glenn Gould, Umberto Eco, Jacques Attali, Simon Reynolds, Eliane Radigue, David Toop, John Zorn, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and many others. Each essay has its own short introduction, helping the reader to place the essay within musical, historical, and conceptual contexts, and the volume concludes with a glossary, a timeline, and an extensive discography.
Author: Vincent Lee Benjamin
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1435717805
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 118
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ISMS... those things that divide & separate us. SCHISMS... those things that keep us apart & POETIC RHYTHMS... those things that bring us together... puts a smile on our faces and keeps LOVE in our Hearts. A Collection of Poetry Geared Toward the Young and the Old... Combining Old School Values and Wisdom With the Witty Wordplay of Today's Generation. If You Don't Have it, You Need To Get It... Today!
Author: Erika Jolma
Publisher: Pelican Ventures Book Group
ISBN: 1522302212
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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As the Great War clamors into Finland, Sergeant Matti Ranta of the Finnish Conscripted Corps and his new girlfriend Anna Ojala struggle to keep their lives intact. Matti is sent to the front to lay siege on Leningrad in alliance with a terrible enemy. Torn between his desire to regain his homeland and an aching suspicion that what they are doing isn't right, Matti is forced to make an unimaginable choice to save an orphan who will surely die without his intervention. Set in 1940's Finland and Leningrad, this story weaves two cultures together through the lives of three people who never should have met, but who would be inexplicably drawn together through a great miracle of faith in a time when miracles seem impossible. And in the end, love survives.
Author: Jocelyn Dexter
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 150406996X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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A deaf woman must stop a serial killer obsessed with targeting everyone she loves in this intense psychological thriller. Annie Black, who is profoundly deaf, has always looked out for her friend’s deaf son Toby. Now she’s looking for him as part of a search party. And when the fifteen-year-old turns up murdered, it’s only the beginning of Annie’s nightmare. Someone is targeting people close to her—someone merciless and very smart. Teaming up with the lead Detective, Annie attempts to understand the killer’s mind. With everyone she cares about in mortal danger, her work puts the entire deaf community at risk. And as the murders escalate, the killer’s obsession grows. Will the police untangle the killer’s motivation before it’s too late?
Author: Nicole A. Bourke
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN: 9780702234460
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Paperback re-issue of novel delving into the psyche of a woman unable to escape domestic abuse - first from her father then from a partner who alternates between ferocious protection and vicious physical abuse. Traces her journey from her frustrating passivity to her emerging strength, but in the end she remains unable to protect her infant daughter. Author won the 2000 Queensland Premier's Literary Award for best manuscript from an emerging Queensland writer.
Author: Jonathan Burton Peters Jr
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557445833
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 423
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A boy warrior wakes up one morning to find himself face to face with a giant sphinx. That same sphinx ends up fighting for his life in several events to come. Her name is Medea, she must protect her sphinx friend and stand by his side throughout all the harsh events. Together they must fight off the power of evil to save the world, the light must survive, it cannot be extinguished by the darkness.
Author: Simon Scarrow
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 142998032X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Well-paced and intricately plotted, When the Eagle Hunts is a brazen tale of military adventure, political intrigue, and a suicide mission. Is the unflinching courage of the Roman army a match for the ruthless barbarity of the British tribes? In the bitter winter of a.d. 44, the Roman troops in Britain are impatiently awaiting the arrival of spring so that the campaign to conquer the island can be renewed. But the native Britons are growing more cunning in their resistance, constantly snapping at the heels of the mighty Roman forces. When the most brutal of the native tribesmen, the Druids of the Dark Moon, capture the shipwrecked wife and children of General Plautius, quick action is called for. Two volunteers from the crack Second Legion must venture deep into hostile territory in a desperate attempt to rescue the prisoners.
Author: Helmut Lucka
Publisher: novum publishing
ISBN: 1642685046
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 590
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A story could not begin more ingloriously. Young Willi Lenz is bored at school and tries to cover up his lack of preparation with a fever. When he is caught stealing, he is expelled from school. There are also problems in the family because the father is building a house on his own with the help of his sons' labor. While his friends spend the weekend at the disco, Willi is "allowed" to work on the building site. Eventually, the idea of attending a ship's boy's school matures in him. The theoretical training is followed by two years of practical training on the ship MS "Fryga". This is followed by exciting adventures on deck, but also many professional insights into seafaring and the so-called "economic miracle era".
Author: Todd Lockwood
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0756408342
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 514
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The debut novel from the acclaimed illustrator--a high fantasy adventure featuring dragons and deadly politics. Maia and her family raise dragons for the political war machine. As she comes of age, she hopes for a dragon of her own to add to the stable of breeding parents. But the war goes badly, and the needs of the Dragonry dash her hopes. Her peaceful life is shattered when the Summer Dragon—one of the rare and mythical High Dragons—makes an appearance in her quiet valley. The Summer Dragon is an omen of change, but no one knows for certain what kind of change he augurs. Political factions vie to control the implied message, each to further their own agendas. And so Maia is swept into an adventure that pits her against the deathless Horrors—thralls of the enemy—and a faceless creature drawn from her fears. In her fight to preserve everything she knows and loves, she uncovers secrets that challenge her understanding of her world and of herself.
