Author: Fredric Dannen
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307802086
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
Copiously researched and documented, Hit Men is the highly controversial portrait of the pop music industry in all its wild, ruthless glory: the insatiable greed and ambition; the enormous egos; the fierce struggles for profits and power; the vendettas, rivalries, shakedowns, and payoffs. Chronicling the evolution of America's largest music labels from the Tin Pan Alley days to the present day, Fredric Dannen examines in depth the often venal, sometimes illegal dealings among the assorted hustlers and kingpins who rule over this multi-billion-dollar business. Updated with a new last chapter by the author.
Hit Men
Author: Fredric Dannen
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307802086
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
Copiously researched and documented, Hit Men is the highly controversial portrait of the pop music industry in all its wild, ruthless glory: the insatiable greed and ambition; the enormous egos; the fierce struggles for profits and power; the vendettas, rivalries, shakedowns, and payoffs. Chronicling the evolution of America's largest music labels from the Tin Pan Alley days to the present day, Fredric Dannen examines in depth the often venal, sometimes illegal dealings among the assorted hustlers and kingpins who rule over this multi-billion-dollar business. Updated with a new last chapter by the author.
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307802086
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
Copiously researched and documented, Hit Men is the highly controversial portrait of the pop music industry in all its wild, ruthless glory: the insatiable greed and ambition; the enormous egos; the fierce struggles for profits and power; the vendettas, rivalries, shakedowns, and payoffs. Chronicling the evolution of America's largest music labels from the Tin Pan Alley days to the present day, Fredric Dannen examines in depth the often venal, sometimes illegal dealings among the assorted hustlers and kingpins who rule over this multi-billion-dollar business. Updated with a new last chapter by the author.
An Epic and Puranic Bibliography (up to 1985) Annotated and with Indexes
Author: Heinrich von Stietencron
Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
ISBN: 9783447030281
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1116
Book Description
Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
ISBN: 9783447030281
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1116
Book Description
Epic Traditions in the Contemporary World
Author: Margaret Beissinger
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520210387
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Fourteen essays on epic, oral and literary, from ancient to modern, from the Americas to India.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520210387
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Fourteen essays on epic, oral and literary, from ancient to modern, from the Americas to India.
Michael Jackson: Rewind
Author: Daryl Easlea
Publisher: Rockport Publishers
ISBN: 1631062530
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
With over 300 stunning photographs, Michael Jackson: Rewind tells the story of the King of Pop's life, in reverse.
Publisher: Rockport Publishers
ISBN: 1631062530
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
With over 300 stunning photographs, Michael Jackson: Rewind tells the story of the King of Pop's life, in reverse.
Review of the Administration's Drug Interdiction Efforts
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Government Information, Justice, and Agriculture Subcommittee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drug control
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drug control
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
When the Goddess was a Woman
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004216227
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
Explicitly acknowledging its status as a strī-śūdra-veda (a Veda for women and the downtrodden), the Mahābhārata articulates a promise to bring knowledge of right conduct, fundamental ethical, philosophical, and soteriological teachings, and its own grand narrative to all classes of people and all beings. Hiltebeitel shows how the Mahābhārata has more than lived up to this promise at least on the ground in Indian folk traditions. In this three-part volume, he journeys over the overlapping terrains of the south Indian cults of Draupadī (part I) and Kūttāṇṭavar (part II), to explore how the Mahābhārata continues to be such a vital source of meaning, and, in part III, then connects this vital tradition to wider reflections on prehistory, sacrifice, myth, oral epic, and modern theatre. This two volume edition collects nearly three decades of Alf Hiltebeitel’s researches into the Indian epic and religious tradition. The two volumes document Hiltebeitel’s longstanding fascination with the Sanskrit epics: volume 1 presents a series of appreciative readings of the Mahābhārata (and to a lesser extent, the Rāmāyaṇa), while volume 2 focuses on what Hiltebeitel has called “the underground Mahābhārata,” i.e., the Mahābhārata as it is still alive in folk and vernacular traditions. Recently re-edited and with a new set of articles completing a trajectory Hiltebeitel established over 30 years ago, this work constitutes a definitive statement from this major scholar. Comprehensive indices, cross-referencing, and an exhaustive bibliography make it an essential reference work. For more information on the first volume please click here.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004216227
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
Explicitly acknowledging its status as a strī-śūdra-veda (a Veda for women and the downtrodden), the Mahābhārata articulates a promise to bring knowledge of right conduct, fundamental ethical, philosophical, and soteriological teachings, and its own grand narrative to all classes of people and all beings. Hiltebeitel shows how the Mahābhārata has more than lived up to this promise at least on the ground in Indian folk traditions. In this three-part volume, he journeys over the overlapping terrains of the south Indian cults of Draupadī (part I) and Kūttāṇṭavar (part II), to explore how the Mahābhārata continues to be such a vital source of meaning, and, in part III, then connects this vital tradition to wider reflections on prehistory, sacrifice, myth, oral epic, and modern theatre. This two volume edition collects nearly three decades of Alf Hiltebeitel’s researches into the Indian epic and religious tradition. The two volumes document Hiltebeitel’s longstanding fascination with the Sanskrit epics: volume 1 presents a series of appreciative readings of the Mahābhārata (and to a lesser extent, the Rāmāyaṇa), while volume 2 focuses on what Hiltebeitel has called “the underground Mahābhārata,” i.e., the Mahābhārata as it is still alive in folk and vernacular traditions. Recently re-edited and with a new set of articles completing a trajectory Hiltebeitel established over 30 years ago, this work constitutes a definitive statement from this major scholar. Comprehensive indices, cross-referencing, and an exhaustive bibliography make it an essential reference work. For more information on the first volume please click here.
Untouchable
Author: Randall Sullivan
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 0802195652
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 577
Book Description
The investigative biography of Michael Jackson’s final years: “A tale of family, fame, lost childhood, and startling accusations never heard before” (ABC Nightline). When Michael Jackson died on June 25, 2009, millions of fans around the world were shocked. But the outpouring of emotion that followed his loss was bittersweet. Dogged by scandal for years and undone by financial mismanagement, Jackson had become untouchable in many quarters. Untouchable pulls back the curtain Jackson’s public person to introduce a man who, despite his immense fame, spent his entire life utterly alone; who, in the wake of a criminal trial that left him briefly hospitalized, abandoned Neverland to wander the globe before making one final—and fatal—attempt to recover his wealth and reputation. The Jackson that emerges in these pages is both naïve and cunning, a devoted father whose parenting became an international scandal, a shrewd businessman whose failures nearly brought down a megacorporation, and an inveterate narcissist who craved a quiet, normal life. Randall Sullivan delivers never-before-reported information about Jackson’s business dealings, his relationship with his family, and the pedophilia allegations that derailed his life and mar his legacy today, as well as the suspicious nature of his death. Based on exclusive access to Jackson’s inner circle, Untouchable is an intimate, unflinching portrait of the man who continues to reign as the King of Pop. “A dishy Michael Jackson biography that makes the exhaustively covered King of Pop fascinating all over again.” —People
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 0802195652
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 577
Book Description
The investigative biography of Michael Jackson’s final years: “A tale of family, fame, lost childhood, and startling accusations never heard before” (ABC Nightline). When Michael Jackson died on June 25, 2009, millions of fans around the world were shocked. But the outpouring of emotion that followed his loss was bittersweet. Dogged by scandal for years and undone by financial mismanagement, Jackson had become untouchable in many quarters. Untouchable pulls back the curtain Jackson’s public person to introduce a man who, despite his immense fame, spent his entire life utterly alone; who, in the wake of a criminal trial that left him briefly hospitalized, abandoned Neverland to wander the globe before making one final—and fatal—attempt to recover his wealth and reputation. The Jackson that emerges in these pages is both naïve and cunning, a devoted father whose parenting became an international scandal, a shrewd businessman whose failures nearly brought down a megacorporation, and an inveterate narcissist who craved a quiet, normal life. Randall Sullivan delivers never-before-reported information about Jackson’s business dealings, his relationship with his family, and the pedophilia allegations that derailed his life and mar his legacy today, as well as the suspicious nature of his death. Based on exclusive access to Jackson’s inner circle, Untouchable is an intimate, unflinching portrait of the man who continues to reign as the King of Pop. “A dishy Michael Jackson biography that makes the exhaustively covered King of Pop fascinating all over again.” —People
Broadcasting for Wales
Author: Elain Price
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1786839660
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
This study provides an insight into the history of one of Wales’ most important cultural organisation. It provides a detailed insight into the key decisions and debates from within S4C. It contains interviews with key individuals who were part of the debates and discussions providing significant context to those debates.
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1786839660
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
This study provides an insight into the history of one of Wales’ most important cultural organisation. It provides a detailed insight into the key decisions and debates from within S4C. It contains interviews with key individuals who were part of the debates and discussions providing significant context to those debates.
Margaret Thatcher: From Grantham to the Falklands
Author: Charles Moore
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307958957
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
With unequaled authority and dramatic detail, the first volume of Charles Moore's authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher reveals as never before the early life, rise to power, and initial period as prime minister of the woman who transformed Britain and the world in the late twentieth century. Moore illuminates Thatcher's youth--her relationship with her parents and early romantic attachments, including her courtship and marriage to Denis Thatcher--moving forward to the determination and boldness that marked even the very beginning of her political career. His account of her political relationship with Ronald Reagan is riveting. Throughout Moore explores in compelling detail the obstacles and indignities that Thatcher encountered as a woman in what was still overwhelmingly a man's world. A clear-eyed, fair account, conveying Thatcher's remarkable talents and sometimes infuriating qualities, Moore's portrait enlivens the woman who was prime minister for more than a decade (1979-1990), re-creating the circumstances and experiences that shaped one of the most significant world leaders of the postwar era.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307958957
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
With unequaled authority and dramatic detail, the first volume of Charles Moore's authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher reveals as never before the early life, rise to power, and initial period as prime minister of the woman who transformed Britain and the world in the late twentieth century. Moore illuminates Thatcher's youth--her relationship with her parents and early romantic attachments, including her courtship and marriage to Denis Thatcher--moving forward to the determination and boldness that marked even the very beginning of her political career. His account of her political relationship with Ronald Reagan is riveting. Throughout Moore explores in compelling detail the obstacles and indignities that Thatcher encountered as a woman in what was still overwhelmingly a man's world. A clear-eyed, fair account, conveying Thatcher's remarkable talents and sometimes infuriating qualities, Moore's portrait enlivens the woman who was prime minister for more than a decade (1979-1990), re-creating the circumstances and experiences that shaped one of the most significant world leaders of the postwar era.
Marvel
Author: Les Daniels
Publisher: ABRAMS
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Here are five fabulous decades of the world's greatest comics. Now in paperback, 288 information-packed pages and more than 700 illustrations of the original hardcover edition are sure to appeal to every comicbook fan. Includes 17 profiles of the main Marvel super heroes and 40 pages of facsimile stories.
Publisher: ABRAMS
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Here are five fabulous decades of the world's greatest comics. Now in paperback, 288 information-packed pages and more than 700 illustrations of the original hardcover edition are sure to appeal to every comicbook fan. Includes 17 profiles of the main Marvel super heroes and 40 pages of facsimile stories.