Author: Richard Marsh
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752416572
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Coward Behind the Curtain by Richard Marsh
From Behind the Curtain
Author: Akiva Bruck
Publisher: Mosaica Press
ISBN: 9781946351791
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher: Mosaica Press
ISBN: 9781946351791
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Behind the Curtain
Author: Jonathan Wilson
Publisher: Orion
ISBN: 1409109046
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
'Epic... Wilson writes captivatingly with humour...anyone with an interest in eastern European sport will be consulting this book for years to come' FINANCIAL TIMES 'This fascinating and perceptive travelogue includes a fine collection of anecdotes too colourful for fiction' SUNDAY TIMES 'A blissful book, lovingly and stylishly written' DAILY TELEGRAPH From the war-ravaged streets of Sarajevo, where turning up for training involved dodging snipers' bullets, to the crumbling splendour of Budapest's Bozsik Stadium, where the likes of Puskás and Kocsis masterminded the fall of England, the landscape of Eastern Europe has changed immeasurably since the fall of communism. Jonathan Wilson has travelled extensively behind the old Iron Curtain, viewing life beyond the fall of the Berlin Wall through the lens of football. Where once the state-controlled teams of the Eastern bloc passed their way with crisp efficiency - a sort of communist version of total football - to considerable success on the European and international stages, today the beautiful game in the East has been opened up to the free market, and throughout the region a sense of chaos pervades. The threat of totalitarian interference no longer remains; but in its place mafia control is generally accompanied with a crippling lack of funds. In BEHIND THE CURTAIN Jonathan Wilson goes in search of the spirit of Hungary's 'Golden Squad' of the early fifties, charts the disintegration of the footballing superpower that was the former Yugoslavia, follows a sorry tale of corruption, mismanagement and Armenian cognac through the Caucasuses, reopens the case of Russia's greatest footballer, Eduard Streltsov, and talks to Jan Tomaszewski about an autumn night at Wembley in 1973...
Publisher: Orion
ISBN: 1409109046
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
'Epic... Wilson writes captivatingly with humour...anyone with an interest in eastern European sport will be consulting this book for years to come' FINANCIAL TIMES 'This fascinating and perceptive travelogue includes a fine collection of anecdotes too colourful for fiction' SUNDAY TIMES 'A blissful book, lovingly and stylishly written' DAILY TELEGRAPH From the war-ravaged streets of Sarajevo, where turning up for training involved dodging snipers' bullets, to the crumbling splendour of Budapest's Bozsik Stadium, where the likes of Puskás and Kocsis masterminded the fall of England, the landscape of Eastern Europe has changed immeasurably since the fall of communism. Jonathan Wilson has travelled extensively behind the old Iron Curtain, viewing life beyond the fall of the Berlin Wall through the lens of football. Where once the state-controlled teams of the Eastern bloc passed their way with crisp efficiency - a sort of communist version of total football - to considerable success on the European and international stages, today the beautiful game in the East has been opened up to the free market, and throughout the region a sense of chaos pervades. The threat of totalitarian interference no longer remains; but in its place mafia control is generally accompanied with a crippling lack of funds. In BEHIND THE CURTAIN Jonathan Wilson goes in search of the spirit of Hungary's 'Golden Squad' of the early fifties, charts the disintegration of the footballing superpower that was the former Yugoslavia, follows a sorry tale of corruption, mismanagement and Armenian cognac through the Caucasuses, reopens the case of Russia's greatest footballer, Eduard Streltsov, and talks to Jan Tomaszewski about an autumn night at Wembley in 1973...
Down the Rabbit Hole
Author: Peter Abrahams
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061891290
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
"My all-time favorite. Astonishing." (Stephen King) Down the Rabbit Hole is the first book in the Echo Falls mystery series by bestselling crime novelist Peter Abrahams. Perfect for middle school readers looking for a good mystery. Welcome to Echo Falls, home of a thousand secrets. In Down the Rabbit Hole, eighth grader Ingrid Levin-Hill is in the wrong place at the wrong time. Or at least her shoes are. And getting them back will mean getting tangled up in a murder investigation as complicated as the mysteries solved by her idol, Sherlock Holmes. With soccer practice, schoolwork, and the lead role in her town's production of Alice in Wonderland, Ingrid is swamped. But as things in Echo Falls keep getting curiouser and curiouser, Ingrid realizes she must solve the murder on her own—before it's too late. "Deft use of literary allusions and ironic humor add further touches of class to a topnotch mystery," said School Library Journal. "Intriguing twists." Publishers Weekly agreed: "The fresh dialogue and believable small-town setting will tempt fans to visit Echo Falls again." The next book in this Edgar Award-nominated series in Behind the Curtain, followed by Into the Dark.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061891290
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
"My all-time favorite. Astonishing." (Stephen King) Down the Rabbit Hole is the first book in the Echo Falls mystery series by bestselling crime novelist Peter Abrahams. Perfect for middle school readers looking for a good mystery. Welcome to Echo Falls, home of a thousand secrets. In Down the Rabbit Hole, eighth grader Ingrid Levin-Hill is in the wrong place at the wrong time. Or at least her shoes are. And getting them back will mean getting tangled up in a murder investigation as complicated as the mysteries solved by her idol, Sherlock Holmes. With soccer practice, schoolwork, and the lead role in her town's production of Alice in Wonderland, Ingrid is swamped. But as things in Echo Falls keep getting curiouser and curiouser, Ingrid realizes she must solve the murder on her own—before it's too late. "Deft use of literary allusions and ironic humor add further touches of class to a topnotch mystery," said School Library Journal. "Intriguing twists." Publishers Weekly agreed: "The fresh dialogue and believable small-town setting will tempt fans to visit Echo Falls again." The next book in this Edgar Award-nominated series in Behind the Curtain, followed by Into the Dark.
Behind the Curtain
Author: Gregory D. Booth
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019971665X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Beginning in the 1930s, men and a handful of women came from India's many communities-Marathi, Parsi, Goan, North Indian, and many others--to Mumbai to work in an industry that constituted in the words of some, "the original fusion music." They worked as composers, arrangers, assistants, and studio performers in one of the most distinctive popular music and popular film cultures on the planet. Today, the songs played by Mumbai's studio musicians are known throughout India and the Indian diaspora under the popular name "Bollywood," but the musicians themselves remain, in their own words, "behind the curtain"--the anonymous and unseen performers of one of the world's most celebrated popular music genres. Now, Gregory D. Booth offers a compelling account of the Bollywood film music industry from the perspective of the musicians who both experienced and shaped its history. In a rare insider's look at the process of musical production from the late 1940s to the mid 1990s, before the advent of digital recording technologies, Booth explains who these unknown musicians were and how they came to join the film music industry. On the basis of a fascinating set of first-hand accounts from the musicians themselves, he reveals how the day-to-day circumstances of technology and finance shaped both the songs and the careers of their creator and performers. Booth also unfolds the technological, cultural, and industrial developments that led to the enormous studio orchestras of the 1960s-90s as well as the factors which ultimately led to their demise in contemporary India. Featuring an extensive companion website with video interviews with the musicians themselves, Behind the Curtain is a powerful, ground-level view of this globally important music industry.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019971665X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Beginning in the 1930s, men and a handful of women came from India's many communities-Marathi, Parsi, Goan, North Indian, and many others--to Mumbai to work in an industry that constituted in the words of some, "the original fusion music." They worked as composers, arrangers, assistants, and studio performers in one of the most distinctive popular music and popular film cultures on the planet. Today, the songs played by Mumbai's studio musicians are known throughout India and the Indian diaspora under the popular name "Bollywood," but the musicians themselves remain, in their own words, "behind the curtain"--the anonymous and unseen performers of one of the world's most celebrated popular music genres. Now, Gregory D. Booth offers a compelling account of the Bollywood film music industry from the perspective of the musicians who both experienced and shaped its history. In a rare insider's look at the process of musical production from the late 1940s to the mid 1990s, before the advent of digital recording technologies, Booth explains who these unknown musicians were and how they came to join the film music industry. On the basis of a fascinating set of first-hand accounts from the musicians themselves, he reveals how the day-to-day circumstances of technology and finance shaped both the songs and the careers of their creator and performers. Booth also unfolds the technological, cultural, and industrial developments that led to the enormous studio orchestras of the 1960s-90s as well as the factors which ultimately led to their demise in contemporary India. Featuring an extensive companion website with video interviews with the musicians themselves, Behind the Curtain is a powerful, ground-level view of this globally important music industry.
Behind the Curtain
Author: Beth Kery
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0399583726
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Cultures clash and passion ignites in the novel that will leave you begging for more—from the bestselling author of The Affair and Looking Inside. There’s something about this woman… On a break between overseas jobs, journalist Asher Gaites returns to his hometown of Chicago—and allows his friends to persuade him to check out a hot new singer. At a downtown jazz club, he’s soon transfixed by the lyrical voice and sensuous body of a woman who performs behind a thin, shimmering veil... …That could bring a man to his knees. The veil gives Moroccan-American Laila Barek the anonymity she needs since she has never been able to reconcile her family’s values with her passion for music. But one man is inexplicably drawn to her. And when Asher confronts her on a subway platform after a gig, he’s shocked to recognize the woman who walked away from him nine years ago... Laila has never been able to forget the touch, the feel, the taste of Asher. And despite the doubt and fear that wind their way into their lives, they must trust the heat of their desire to burn down the walls the world has placed between them… MATURE AUDIENCE
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0399583726
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Cultures clash and passion ignites in the novel that will leave you begging for more—from the bestselling author of The Affair and Looking Inside. There’s something about this woman… On a break between overseas jobs, journalist Asher Gaites returns to his hometown of Chicago—and allows his friends to persuade him to check out a hot new singer. At a downtown jazz club, he’s soon transfixed by the lyrical voice and sensuous body of a woman who performs behind a thin, shimmering veil... …That could bring a man to his knees. The veil gives Moroccan-American Laila Barek the anonymity she needs since she has never been able to reconcile her family’s values with her passion for music. But one man is inexplicably drawn to her. And when Asher confronts her on a subway platform after a gig, he’s shocked to recognize the woman who walked away from him nine years ago... Laila has never been able to forget the touch, the feel, the taste of Asher. And despite the doubt and fear that wind their way into their lives, they must trust the heat of their desire to burn down the walls the world has placed between them… MATURE AUDIENCE
Behind the Curtain
Author: Christian Thee
Publisher: Workman Publishing
ISBN: 9781563055256
Category : Opera
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Describes, in text and look-through and pull-up illustrated panels, the onstage and backstage activities during a performance of the opera "Hansel and Gretel."
Publisher: Workman Publishing
ISBN: 9781563055256
Category : Opera
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Describes, in text and look-through and pull-up illustrated panels, the onstage and backstage activities during a performance of the opera "Hansel and Gretel."
The Man Behind the Curtain
Author: Brandon Hughes
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780983062813
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780983062813
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
The Coward Behind the Curtain
Author: Richard Marsh
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752416572
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Coward Behind the Curtain by Richard Marsh
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752416572
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Coward Behind the Curtain by Richard Marsh
Before and Behind the Curtain
Author: William Knight Northall
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Behind the Curtain
Author: Kay Lovell
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN: 1950015009
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Colonel Jack Marsh, decorated for bravery during World War 1, is now with M15, working closely with the P.M, Mr. Chamberlain. In 1938, Hitler’s armed forces are on a relentless assault across Europe. Jews are being rounded up and sent to concentration camps, trying to escape anyway they can. Adolph Vanir and his wife, Florence, are such Jews, arriving in the UK around 1934. Living in St. Anne’s Court where he has a small business, as well as his clandestine activities he has forsaken his Jewish roots, much to the sadness of his wife. Colonel Marsh becomes aware of Adolph Vanir’s activities, and has instructed a colleague to watch him. The formation of Local Defence Volunteers and Air Raid Patrol in 1937 took men who were unable to go to war for one reason or another. Harry Lloyd was one of them. A worker at the London Docks making ships, he was exempt from call up, though he was a soldier between wars. Married to Mattie, and with one child, Lorna, perhaps Harry was saved for better things. The Vanirs and the Lloyds cross paths and are linked to the assassination attempt on the War Minister, the man who is now Prime Minister.
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN: 1950015009
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Colonel Jack Marsh, decorated for bravery during World War 1, is now with M15, working closely with the P.M, Mr. Chamberlain. In 1938, Hitler’s armed forces are on a relentless assault across Europe. Jews are being rounded up and sent to concentration camps, trying to escape anyway they can. Adolph Vanir and his wife, Florence, are such Jews, arriving in the UK around 1934. Living in St. Anne’s Court where he has a small business, as well as his clandestine activities he has forsaken his Jewish roots, much to the sadness of his wife. Colonel Marsh becomes aware of Adolph Vanir’s activities, and has instructed a colleague to watch him. The formation of Local Defence Volunteers and Air Raid Patrol in 1937 took men who were unable to go to war for one reason or another. Harry Lloyd was one of them. A worker at the London Docks making ships, he was exempt from call up, though he was a soldier between wars. Married to Mattie, and with one child, Lorna, perhaps Harry was saved for better things. The Vanirs and the Lloyds cross paths and are linked to the assassination attempt on the War Minister, the man who is now Prime Minister.