Download or read book Get It While You Can written by Nick Jaina and published by . This book was released on 2015-01-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Love Janis written by Laura Joplin and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-12-26 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revealing and intimate biography about Janis Joplin, the Queen of Classic Rock, written by her younger sister. Janis Joplin blazed across the sixties music scene, electrifying audiences with her staggering voice and the way she seemed to pour her very soul into her music. By the time her life and artistry were cut tragically short by a heroin overdose, Joplin had become the stuff of rock–and–roll legend. Through the eyes of her family and closest friends , we see Janis as a young girl, already rebelling against injustice, racism, and hypocrisy in society. We follow Janis as she discovers her amazing talents in the Beat hangouts of Venice and North Beach–singing in coffeehouses, shooting speed to enhance her creativity, challenging the norms of straight society. Janis truly came into her own in the fantastic, psychedelic, acid–soaked world of Haight–Asbury. At the height of her fame, Janis's life is a whirlwind of public adoration and hard living. Laura Joplin shows us not only the public Janice who could drink Jim Morrison under the table and bean him with a bottle of booze when he got fresh; she shows us the private Janis, struggling to perfect her art, searching for the balance between love and stardom, battling to overcome her alcohol addiction and heroin use in a world where substance abuse was nearly universal. At the heart of Love, Janis is an astonishing series of letters by Janis herself that have never been previously published. In them she conveys as no one else could the wild ride from awkward small–town teenager to rock–and–roll queen. Love, Janis is the new life of Janis Joplin we have been waiting for–a celebration of the sixties' joyous experimentation and creativity, and a loving, compassionate examination of one of that era's greatest talents.
Download or read book Last Lecture written by Perfection Learning Corporation and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Chair Volume III written by Robert McKenzie and published by Fresh Ink Group. This book was released on 2023-06-06 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A grand epic saga by Robert McKenzie, The Chair series spans centuries, touching the lives of 22 generations of related mothers and daughters, their stories witnessed by a simple pine chair. Resolute, strong, loving, and fiercely protective, these women must strive to pass their values to new generations in a world of racism and sexism, politics, scandal, fashion—even the rise and dominance of baseball. They live in privilege and poverty, with faith and despair, relishing every moment of love even as they suffer abiding grief. In Volume III: Seven, Eight, & Nine, the chair flashes back to pre-Civil War America, featuring a woman from the second Mayflower, her daughter the black-market Irish lace importer, and a Canadian World War I fighter pilot. A blend of history and philosophy told through satire and parody, the story of The Chair could be found in some old trunk in any dusty old attic, but McKenzie breathes it alive with riveting tales that span the real and the imagined.
Download or read book Scars of Sweet Paradise written by Alice Echols and published by Picador. This book was released on 1999 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Janis Joplin was the skyrocket chick of the sixties, the woman who broke into the boys' club of rock and out of the stifling good-girl femininity of postwar America. With her incredible wall-of-sound vocals, Joplin was the voice of a generation, and when she OD'd on heroin in October 1970, a generation's dreams crashed and burned with her. Alice Echols pushes past the legary Joplin-the red-hot mama of her own invention-as well as the familiar portrait of the screwed-up star victimized by the era she symbolized, to examine the roots of Joplin's muscianship and explore a generation's experiment with high-risk living and the terrible price it exacted. A deeply affecting biography of one of America's most brilliant and tormented stars, Scars of Sweet Paradise is also a vivid and incisive cultural history of an era that changed the world for us all.
Download or read book The Bapkin Plan written by Gerard Hass and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixty-one percent of Canadians between the ages of 45 and 64 don’t have a formal financial strategy. In The BAPKIN Plan, author and financial planner Gerard Hass provides simple yet effective guidance for creating a financial plan to help you save, invest, and plan for retirement. The BAPKIN Plan presents an easy-to-remember framework and explains the basic steps you can use to simplify and improve your life and your financial wellbeing. Offering checklists to help you organize your journey, this reference tool can guide you to a better understanding of what your financial adviser or planner is recommending—including the positive and negative features of potential investments. You’ll learn how to • develop a commitment to setting simple goals and to following a simple plan based on common sense; • commit to strategies to live within your means; • draft a statement of net worth and revisit it every year; • protect yourself with an emergency fund, line of credit, and insurances; • protect your loved ones by having life insurance coverage, a will, and powers of attorney; • understand how you are taxed and the importance of seeking professional help; • develop a personal pension plan strategy based on your life sta≥ • institute a disciplined investment strategy that will suit your objectives; and • work with the adviser who is a professional—not a salesman. Communicating a wealth of information, Hass provides advice to help move you forward in your financial empowerment.
Download or read book Janis written by Holly George-Warren and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence This blazingly intimate biography of Janis Joplin establishes the Queen of Rock & Roll as the rule-breaking musical trailblazer and complicated, gender-bending rebel she was. Janis Joplin’s first transgressive act was to be a white girl who gained an early sense of the power of the blues, music you could only find on obscure records and in roadhouses along the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast. But even before that, she stood out in her conservative oil town. She was a tomboy who was also intellectually curious and artistic. By the time she reached high school, she had drawn the scorn of her peers for her embrace of the Beats and her racially progressive views. Her parents doted on her in many ways, but were ultimately put off by her repeated acts of defiance. Janis Joplin has passed into legend as a brash, impassioned soul doomed by the pain that produced one of the most extraordinary voices in rock history. But in these pages, Holly George-Warren provides a revelatory and deeply satisfying portrait of a woman who wasn’t all about suffering. Janis was a perfectionist: a passionate, erudite musician who was born with talent but also worked exceptionally hard to develop it. She was a woman who pushed the boundaries of gender and sexuality long before it was socially acceptable. She was a sensitive seeker who wanted to marry and settle down—but couldn’t, or wouldn’t. She was a Texan who yearned to flee Texas but could never quite get away—even after becoming a countercultural icon in San Francisco. Written by one of the most highly regarded chroniclers of American music history, and based on unprecedented access to Janis Joplin’s family, friends, band mates, archives, and long-lost interviews, Janis is a complex, rewarding portrait of a remarkable artist finally getting her due.
Download or read book The Gritterman written by Orlando Weeks and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Sometimes it feels like I might be the only person awake in the whole country. People might find that a lonely thought. Not me...' As the rest of the world sleeps, the Gritterman goes out to work. Through the wind and the snow and the freezing cold, in the blue-black hours when time slips away, he grits the paths and the pavements and the roads. For him, there is romance in the winter and comfort in his purpose. But what would a life without gritting mean? A song for the unsung hero, this is a bittersweet story about stoicism, dignity and a man leaving behind the work that he loves. It is accompanied by the author's own illustrations.
Download or read book Get it While You Can written by Gillian G. Gaar and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Renowned critic Gillian G. Gaar provides an all-encompassing, chronological look at Janis Joplin's life and work. Her book covers Joplin's inspiring rise to fame: how an artistic, sensitive girl from a small town in Texas beat the odds (and more than a few obstacles) to become the first solo female rock star. Plus, reviews of every record, sidebars that explore topics from Janis's musical influences to her psychedelic fashion, and stunning photography throughout"--
Download or read book You Can Get It If You Really Want written by Levi Roots and published by Mitchell Beazley. This book was released on 2011-03-07 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You Can Get It If You Really Want, by Levi Roots, the man behind the Reggae Reggae Sauce empire and hero of BBC's 'Dragons' Den', is a business book brimming with positivity. In this inspirational and upbeat book, Levi provides essential tips and advice for successful business start-ups whatever your idea and wherever your starting point might be. This book includes informative and practical advice as well as Levi's personal anecdotes of his success and the lessons he learned from his mistakes. Levi's experience and passion for his message shines through every chapter. Additionally, the book includes personal insights from Peter Jones (Levi's own Dragon) and many other entrepreneurs and captains of industry. You Can Get It If You Really Want also includes Levi's Top 10 Rules for the Roots of Business Success - together with an array of business tools to slay the dragons waiting in the world of start-ups.
Download or read book Soul Eyes written by Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami and published by Satsvarupa dasa Goswami. This book was released on 2010-01-22 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poems and prose-poems dedicated to transformation and healing.
Download or read book Investigation of Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce written by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 1588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Me and Sister Bobbie written by Willie Nelson and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Abandoned by their parents as toddlers, Willie and Bobbie Nelson found their love of music almost immediately through their grandparents, who raised them in a dusty small town in east Texas. Their close relationship ... is the longest-lasting bond in either of their lives. In alternating chapters, this ... dual memoir weaves together their lives as they experienced them both side-by-side and apart with powerful, emotional stories from growing up, playing music in public for the first time, and the trials they each faced in adulthood as Willie pursued a songwriting career and Bobbie faced a series of challenging relationships and a musical career that only took off when attitudes about women began to change in Texas"--
Download or read book Investigation of Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce New York New Jersey written by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 1724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dynamic Leader written by Shelley Flett and published by Major Street Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you a business owner who, as your business has grown, has had to learn to lead a team? Or have you been promoted to a leadership role and thought 'What now?' You haven't received any training, there's little support and you're finding few places to go for advice; so you decide to just follow your own leader, only to realise they are not the type of leader you want to be.By following the proven nine-stage model outlined in this book - which Shelley Flett has created and tested - you will be well on your way to finding your own dynamic leadership style. By focusing on relationships, respect and results, you will succeed as a new leader.The Dynamic Leader may not be the only thing you'll need to become an amazing leader, but it's a great place to start.
Download or read book The Abstract Soul written by Phil Osopher and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-04-13 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hello, my name is Philip R. Richards, the author of this book. I suppose you want to know something about the word smith that created these writings. Oh, this is my friend Harry pictured with me. He has passed now, but he will always be in our hearts. I was born in 1959, I enjoy photography and the natural world. I married a wonderful woman in 1983 and had two beautiful daughters, Hannah and Allison. I am blessed with a wonderful Granddaughter named Lillian Jade. We live in the Michigan, the winter wonderland. It is a beautiful state with much to explore. I discovered that I really enjoyed writing. Mostly I feel a need to write, to express how I view different aspects of life and to try to relate to other people with similar visions and view points. Writing is a great way to express your feelings and create an avenue between you and those around you. I hope you can relate to what I have written in this book, maybe enough to get Book II, when I get around to it.
Download or read book Hitomi written by Nick Jaina and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel about a piano player.Ian moved to New York to write a novel. But a series of unfortunate losses-his car, his housemate, possibly his best friend Robert-have led him to join a band of musicians and tour across the country. As he charts the states of ambiguous grief for his friend, he is falling in equally ambiguous love with Hitomi, who may or may not still be dating the guitarist.
