Download or read book Please Allow Me to Introduce Myself Essays on Debut Albums written by George Plasketes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debut albums are among the cultural artefacts that capture the popular imagination especially well. As a first impression, the debut album may take on a mythical status, whether the artist or group achieves enduring success or in rare cases when an initial record turns out to be an apogee for an artist. Whatever the subsequent career trajectory, the debut album is a meaningful text that can be scrutinized for its revelatory signs and the expectations that follow. Please Allow Me to Introduce Myself: Essays on Debut Albums tells the stories of 23 debut albums over a nearly fifty year span, ranging from Buddy Holly and the Crickets in 1957 to The Go! Team in 2004. In addition to biographical background and a wealth of historical information about the genesis of the album, each essay looks back at the album and places it within multiple contexts, particularly the artist’s career development. In this way, the book will be of as much interest to sociologists and historians as to culture critics and musicologists.
Download or read book Please Allow Me to Introduce Myself Essays on Debut Albums written by Professor George Plasketes and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-07-28 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debut albums are among the cultural artefacts that capture the popular imagination especially well. As a first impression, the debut album may take on a mythical status, whether the artist or group achieves enduring success or in rare cases when an initial record turns out to be an apogee for an artist. Whatever the subsequent career trajectory, the debut album is a meaningful text that can be scrutinized for its revelatory signs and the expectations that follow. Please Allow Me to Introduce Myself: Essays on Debut Albums tells the stories of 23 debut albums over a nearly fifty year span, ranging from Buddy Holly and the Crickets in 1957 to The Go! Team in 2004. In addition to biographical background and a wealth of historical information about the genesis of the album, each essay looks back at the album and places it within multiple contexts, particularly the artist’s career development. In this way, the book will be of as much interest to sociologists and historians as to culture critics and musicologists.
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Download or read book Learn From Gary Kasparov s Greatest Games written by Eric Schiller and published by Cardoza Publishing. This book was released on with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before his recent retirement, Garry Kasparov held the number one position in chess for nearly twenty years. He is considered the greatest player of all time. Now, beginning and intermediate players ninety percent of the chess playing audience can benefit from his wisdom. Packed with diagrams and easy-to-understand pointers showing what Kasparov was thinking during his matches and how you can apply these concepts and strategies to your own games, this great learning tool borrows from the grace and power of Kasparovs greatest games.
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Download or read book ENGLISH FOR COMMUNICATION SCIENCE written by TIM LC UMM and published by UMMPress. This book was released on 2020-06-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English for Communication Science is written to fulfill students' needs to learn Foreign Language for Specific Purposes. This book is designed to provide an opportunity for the students to develop their English skills more communicatively and meaningfully. It consists of twenty eight units. Each unit presents reading, writing, and speaking section. Reading section consists of pre-reading, reading comprehension, and vocabulary exercises related to the topic of the text. In writing section, some structure and sentence patterns are completed with guided writing exercises. Meanwhile, in speaking section students are provided with models and examples followed by practical activities which are presented in various ways. The materials have been arranged and graded in accordance with their language levels. Above all, to improve the quality of this textbook, criticisms and suggestions for better editions are highly appreciated.
Download or read book The Book of Godom Somorrah written by The Orbitology and published by Author House. This book was released on 2010-03-23 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The oldest book from the Western Hemisphere The Book of Godom and Somorrah follows the lives of the gods and goddesses on Thorn Prick Peak as they go about in a frenzy creating time, the universe, and a nation of fleas bent on propagating a Union of Satanic Assassins. Written in cuneiform chicken scratch by scribes before their time and discovered on the thirteenth floor of an inaccessible box canyon, the text has been rendered into English by both the nomadic and sedentary scholars of The Orbitology.
Download or read book This is the manager speaking written by Wolfgang Obenaus and published by Linde Verlag GmbH. This book was released on 2008-08-08 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vielfältig sind die Situationen, die internationale Manager im Ausland sprachlich souverän bewältigen müssen. In diesem Buch finden sie sprachliche Unterstützung für alle Lebenslagen: kurz, prägnant und ohne überflüssigen Ballast Übersetzungshilfen werden in ausreichendem Maß angeboten, somit kann das Buch auch von Anfängern - sowohl in sprachlicher als auch in wirtschaftlicher Hinsicht - sinnvoll genutzt werden. Das ideale Training für die englische Geschäftskommunikation!
Download or read book The Comprehensive Guide to Careers in Sports written by Glenn Wong and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As more students enter the growing field of sports management, there is a greater need for information informing them about their career choices. Careers in Sports provides an overview of what students should consider and expect from the varied career options available to them. This book answers the questions students are most likely to have, including what courses they should take, what areas are available to them, what salary can they expect to earn after graduation, and how they can get the job of their dreams. In the highly competitive field of sports management, it is important for individuals to prepare themselves well and to make the right decisions along the way. Although there are no guarantees of success, this book will increase students’ likelihood of finding success in the sports industry. Encouraging research and realistic expectations, this book has been developed by an author with many years of experience as a respected practitioner, teacher and internship coordinator.
Download or read book My Parents An Introduction This Does Not Belong to You written by Aleksandar Hemon and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two books in one in a flip dos-à-dos format: The story of Aleksandar Hemon’s parents’ immigration from Sarajevo to Canada and a book of short memories of the author’s family, friends, and childhood in Sarajevo In My Parents, Aleksandar Hemon tells the story of his parents’ immigration to Canada—of the lives that were upended by the war in Bosnia and siege of Sarajevo and the new lives his parents were forced to build. As ever with his work, he portrays both the perfect, intimate details (his mother’s lonely upbringing, his father’s fanatical beekeeping) and a sweeping, heartbreaking history of his native country. It is a story full of many Hemons, of course—his parents, sister, uncles, cousins—and also of German occupying forces, Yugoslav partisans, royalist Serb collaborators, singing Ukrainians, and a few befuddled Canadians. My Parents is Hemon at his very best, grounded in stories lovingly polished by retelling, but making them exhilarating and fresh in writing, summoning unexpected laughs in the midst of the heartbreaking narratives. This Does Not Belong to You, meanwhile, is the exhilarating, freewheeling, unabashedly personal companion to My Parents—a perfect dose of Hemon at his most dazzling and untempered in a series of beautifully distilled memories and observations and explosive, hilarious, poignant miniatures. Presented dos-à-dos with My Parents, it complements and completes a major work from a major writer. In the words of Colum McCann, “Aleksandar Hemon is, quite frankly, the greatest writer of our generation.” Hemon has never been better than here in these pages. And the moment has never been more ready for his voice, nor has the world ever been more in need of it.
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Download or read book Happy Dog written by Billy Rafferty and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Show off your happy dog! Every Friday from September 6 – October 2, 2009 the authors will choose a photograph of a happy dog to post on their website and treat the winner to a fabulous prize package. See www.happydogland.com/contest for details.A well cared-for dog is a happy dog. This book goes beyond grooming to explain how the personal touch can make a big difference in a pet’s physical and emotional health. From basic first aid to understanding the complete needs of a canine companion, Happy Dog shows pet owners step-bystep how to: • Monitor a pet’s health • Set up a stellar home grooming station • Brush, bathe, and dry a panting pal • Dog-proof the home and travel right With his extensive expertise, Billy Rafferty includes invaluable and exclusive features, such as: • A yearly grooming calendar • Appraisals of products and tools on the market • Safety and emergency preparedness tips • Pet nutrition, exercise and play rules • Illustrations and photos throughout—including special appearances by celebrity dogs With the expert knowledge condensed in these pages, reading Happy Dog could be the best thing a dog owner ever does for a furry best friend.
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Download or read book Gaspar written by Steve Barber and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the eighteenth century draws to a close, a mystic figure appears on the timeline of history whose presence is even felt today. Some call him a pirate sailing under the black flag of death. Others call him a ghost-a figment of the imagination. To those who know him, however, he is just an ordinary man who comes full circle in life. He comes to realize that life's greatest treasures are the simple pleasures and the God-given blessings that are regularly bestowed upon the children of God. He sails the west coast of Florida during some the most turbulent times, and he aids a young nation during the political unrest of 1812. Through love, political intrigue, and adventures at sea, José Gaspar becomes the last of the buccaneers.
Download or read book Rude Awakenings from Sleeping Rough written by Peter C. Mitchell and published by Stark Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story that the charities don't want you to read. This is the fate that can befall any of us that you don't want to acknowledge. For years you have passed them on the streets, as much a part of your routine as your morning shower, your half-hearted scan of the world's news — fake or otherwise — and the barista who artistically crafts the £4 cappuccino with soya milk, three drops of vanilla, and a flutter of chocolate sprinkles that has to be made just right or it throws your day off in ways that nobody else understands. You see them as often as you see your own family. The disenfranchised. The rough sleepers. The homeless. Camped out and befouling the sidewalks and alleyways of your daily commute, their worldly possessions, such as they are, spread around them —as dirty and worn out as the sleepers themselves, but as valuable to them as your £100 brogues are to you. Occasionally you get the urge to throw some loose change at them as a gesture of magnanimous humanity, but when push comes to shove you would rather tip the honest, hard-working barista who ensures your day gets off to a proper start. Better to support the successful rather than throw good money after bad trying to keep the great unwashed afloat. You have conditioned yourself to look through them – allowing your eyes to pass over them without actually seeing them. A defeated acceptance of lives gone wrong; uncomfortable reminders of what can happen when the best laid plans of mice and men go horribly awry. "Thank god I'm not like them," you think, sipping your £4 cup of liquid gold. "I could never let that happen to me." Until suddenly – inexplicably – it does. And you discover the life you have built was nothing more than a house of cards that crashed down around you with frightening ease. A spate of bad luck, a poor decision or two, and the ubiquitous 'circumstances beyond your control' conspire to create a perfect storm of events that leaves you cast away on the streets feeling dazed, disjointed, and damned. This is Peter C. Mitchell's story. But it could be your story. Not to mention the thousands of others, past and present, that have found themselves broken behind closed charity doors. Theirs are the stories that need to be heard. To be read.
