Download or read book Rocking Player written by Victoria Pinder and published by Love in a Book. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baseball games are supposed to be fun, right? I got tickets to bring my son. Popcorn, soda and an easy day in the sun, but then I saw him. But Surprise! There’s Michael. His last name is Irons. He plays major leagues and he’s the father of my son. Every instinct told me to take our boy and run. I hadn’t known his name or how to get in touch with him the past six years. Now not only does he see me in the stand, it takes him a glance at my boy and he knows the truth. It was like fate brought us to this point, but he climbed into the fan benches to talk and flirt. I told myself it was just about our son, but alone, our conversations are getting heated. I didn’t expect our magical memory would be burned in his brain. Or he’d want me again. All I wanted was a quiet life to raise my son. Ball players are dangerous. But what happens when the season ends? Let me tell you the truth… I never expected what actually happened.
Download or read book Rocking the Classics written by Edward Macan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1997-01-09 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few styles of popular music have generated as much controversy as progressive rock, a musical genre best remembered today for its gargantuan stage shows, its fascination with epic subject matter drawn from science fiction, mythology, and fantasy literature, and above all for its attempts to combine classical music's sense of space and monumental scope with rock's raw power and energy. Its dazzling virtuosity and spectacular live concerts made it hugely popular with fans during the 1970s, who saw bands such as King Crimson, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Yes, Genesis, Pink Floyd, and Jethro Tull bring a new level of depth and sophistication to rock. On the other hand, critics branded the elaborate concerts of these bands as self- indulgent and materialistic. They viewed progressive rock's classical/rock fusion attempts as elitist, a betrayal of rock's populist origins. In Rocking the Classics, the first comprehensive study of progressive rock history, Edward Macan draws together cultural theory, musicology, and music criticism, illuminating how progressive rock served as a vital expression of the counterculture of the late 1960s and 1970s. Beginning with a description of the cultural conditions which gave birth to the progressive rock style, he examines how the hippies' fondness for hallucinogens, their contempt for Establishment-approved pop music, and their fascination with the music, art, and literature of high culture contributed to this exciting new genre. Covering a decade of music, Macan traces progressive rock's development from the mid- to late-sixties, when psychedelic bands such as the Moody Blues, Procol Harum, the Nice, and Pink Floyd laid the foundation of the progressive rock style, and proceeds to the emergence of the mature progressive rock style marked by the 1969 release of King Crimson's album In the Court of the Crimson King. This "golden age" reached its artistic and commercial zenith between 1970 and 1975 in the music of bands such as Jethro Tull, Yes, Genesis, ELP, Gentle Giant, Van der Graaf Generator, and Curved Air. In turn, Macan explores the conventions that govern progressive rock, including the visual dimensions of album cover art and concerts, lyrics and conceptual themes, and the importance of combining music, visual motif, and verbal expression to convey a coherent artistic vision. He examines the cultural history of progressive rock, considering its roots in a bohemian English subculture and its meteoric rise in popularity among a legion of fans in North America and continental Europe. Finally, he addresses issues of critical reception, arguing that the critics' largely negative reaction to progressive rock says far more about their own ambivalence to the legacy of the counterculture than it does about the music itself. An exciting tour through an era of extravagant, mind-bending, and culturally explosive music, Rocking the Classics sheds new light on the largely misunderstood genre of progressive rock.
Download or read book Paul Sills Story Theater written by Paul Sills and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2000 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Books). The creator of Story Theater , the original director of Second City , and one of the greatest popularizers of improvisational theater, Paul Sills has assembled some of his favorite adaptations from world literature. Includes: The Blue Light and Other Stories, A Christmas Carol (Dickens), Stories of God, Rumi .
Download or read book The Girls Guide to Rocking written by Jessica Hopper and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 2009-06-04 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Everything you need to know to turn your love of music--and desire to play it--into something real"--P. [4] of cover.
Download or read book English Rock Star written by Victoria Pinder and published by Love in a Book. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TAYLOR I followed a man and got my heart broken. So I let the pain out in my songs. Now my band is finally going places. Unlike the others though I’ve been classically trained. And I missed my best friend from school, Eddie. And clearly I was blind then because now he’s the world hottest English Rock Star. He’s ripped, handsome and that soul of his is special. I wish I’d been smarter years ago cause I’m always wondering ‘what if.’ EDDIE Her song played on the radio and suddenly I knew how to find her again. I’d let her slip out of my arms and into another man’s car as she drove away. Every song I sing is for her and how I should have told her she was the one. Now I need to find her. It’s only so much a song can fill in my heart. This time Taylor will hear me. She’s the one and not just a friend to me. Her heart will never break again if she accepts my heart that was always hers.
Download or read book Playing With Light written by Beatriz Rivera and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 2000-06-30 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Rebecca, a well-to-do Cuban-American woman, decides that sheÍd like to revive the old Cuban tradition of the tertulia, or womenÍs get-together, her best friend dashes her hopes, explaining that in todayÍs career-driven world even her friends require a compelling reason to come from all over Miami to casually meet and chat. At last, the ingenious Becky hits upon the idea of a reading group, and the book selected is a historical novel about nineteenth-century Cuba: the saga of an aristocratic dress-manufacturing clan, the Santa Cruz family. The novel is called . . . Playing with Light. Oddly, as they get ever deeper into the story of the Santa Cruzesespecially Tico and Lolostrange things begin to happen to the reading group. Everyone seems to be . . . sucked in . . . and affected (not necessarily pleasantly) by the saga. (ñWhatÍs for dinner, Mommy?î ñGet a slice of salami out of the refrigerator, dear. CanÍt you see IÍm reading?î) As two worlds, from two different centuries, begin to intertwine in odd ways, and her friends begin to . . . well, to disappear, actually . . . Rebecca canÍt help but wonder what sheÍs gotten herself into. Beatriz Rivera has written an entrancing and wonderfully ambitious novel that places her in the first rank of writers of her generation.
Download or read book Military Threats written by Branislav L. Slantchev and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-03 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is military power central in determining which states get their voice heard? Must states run a high risk of war to communicate credible intent? In this book, Slantchev shows that states can often obtain concessions without incurring higher risks when they use military threats. Unlike diplomatic forms of communication, physical military moves improve a state's expected performance in war. If the opponent believes the threat, it will be more likely to back down. Military moves are also inherently costly, so only resolved states are willing to pay these costs. Slantchev argues that powerful states can secure better peaceful outcomes and lower the risk of war, but the likelihood of war depends on the extent to which a state is prepared to use military threats to deter challenges to peace and compel concessions without fighting. The price of peace may therefore be large: states invest in military forces that are both costly and unused.
Download or read book Behind the Rock and Beyond written by Leon Isackson and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2014-07-21 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teen Time, Bandstand, Dig Richards, Johnny O'Keefe, Sing, Sing, Sing, Col Joye & The Joy Boys, The Delltones, Sydney Stadium, Saigon ... some of the names to be found in Behind The Rock, the refreshing frank reminiscences of Australian rock musicians, Jon Hayton and Leon Isackson. Based on personal diaries, Behind The Rock is a humorous and honest account of life in the Australian rock'n'roll scene from its birth in 1956 to the mid-sixties (and Beyond). With the changing fortunes of the band, the R'Jays, the authors take us behind-the-scenes of Festival Records, 'live' television, stadium concerts and dances, band tours in Australia, New Zealand and war-torn Vietnam and the world of adolescent sex, fans and 'band vultures', bungling managers, and hard-living and heart-broken rock stars. A no-holds-barred, eyewitness story, Behind The Rock is a vital document for understanding the history of 'Oz Rock'.
Download or read book Love and Electronic Affection written by Lindsay Grace and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love and Electronic Affection: A Design Primer brings together thought leadership in romance and affection games to explain the past, present, and possible future of affection play in games. The authors apply a combination of game analysis and design experience in affection play for both digital and analog games. The research and recommendations are intersectional in nature, considering how love and affection in games is a product of both player and designer age, race, class, gender, and more. The book combines game studies with game design to offer a foundation for incorporating affection into playable experiences. The text is organized into two sections. The first section covers the patterns and practice of love and affection in games, explaining the patterns and practice. The second section offers case studies from which designers can learn through example. Love and Electronic Affection: A Design Primer is a resource for exploring how digital relationships are offered and how to convey emotion and depth in a variety of virtual worlds. This book provides: • A catalog of existing digital and analog games for which love and affection are a primary or secondary focus. • A catalog of the uses of affection in games, to add depth and investment in both human-computer and player-to-player engagement. • Perspective on affection game analyses and design, using case studies that consider the relationship of culture and affection as portrayed in games from large scale studios to single author independent games. • Analysis and design recommendations for incorporating affection in games beyond romance, toward parental love, affection between friends, and other relationships. • Analysis of the moral and philosophical considerations for historical and planned development of love and affection in human–computer interaction. • An intersectionality informed set of scholarly perspectives from the Americas, Eurasia, and Oceania. Editor Bio: Lindsay D. Grace is Knight Chair of Interactive Media and an Associate Professor at the University of Miami School of Communication. He is Vice President for the Higher Education Video Game Alliance and the 2019 recipient of the Games for Change Vanguard award. Lindsay is author of Doing Things with Games, Social Impact through Design and more than fifty peer-reviewed papers on games and related research. He has given talks at the Game Developers Conference, SXSW, Games for Change Festival, the Online News Association, the Society for News Design, and many other industry events. He was the founding director of the American University Game Lab and Studio and the designer-developer behind several award winning games, including two affection games. He served as Vice President and on the board of directors for the Global Game JamTM non-profit between 2014 and 2019. From 2009 to 2013 he was the Armstrong Professor at Miami University’s School of Art. Lindsay also served on the board for the Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA) between 2013 and 2015.
Download or read book Legendary Rock Star written by Victoria Pinder and published by Love in a Book. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow the dream you had all your life? Or fall for the crush whose picture hung on your wall? You probably told me to follow my dream first, right? I mean that’s what I’m supposed to do. I made my way onto the TV stage to sing for my life and drove thousands of miles to do just that. But Phoenix Steel is here and he wants a comeback. Out of all the former bands in the world, it’s my teenage obsession whose sexier now than ever. Except he’s here to win so he’s the competition. But if he wins, then I go back to living in that same room that used to have his poster as I skipped out on college to follow my music. As the competition heats up, so are his kisses. And they burn through me, making me want to break rules. I didn't know what to do. I was getting distracted and nothing else mattered except more of Phoenix. This was going to end bad for me. I can’t lose my once in a lifetime chance. At some point I need to stop everything with Phoenix and focus on winning. But part of me doesn’t want too and that’s bad news. But what happened when the curtains fell wasn’t ever on my radar of possibilities...
Download or read book Playing Along written by Kiri Miller and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-16 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Playing Along shows how video games and social media are bridging virtual and visceral experience, transforming our understanding of musicality, creativity, play, and participation.
Download or read book The Players Realm written by J. Patrick Williams and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2007-03-28 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Digital games have become an increasingly pervasive aspect of everyday life as well as an embattled cultural phenomenon in the twenty-first century. As new media technologies diffuse around the world and as the depth and complexity of gaming networks increase, scholars are becoming increasingly savvy in their approach to digital games. While aesthetic and psychological approaches to the study of digital games have garnered the most attention in the past, scholars have only recently begun to study the important social and cultural aspects of digital games. This study sketches some of the various trajectories of digital games in modern Western societies, looking first at the growth and persistence of the moral panic that continues to accompany massive public interest in digital games. The book then continues with what it deems a new phase of games research exemplified by systematic examination of specific aspects of digital games and gaming. Section One includes four chapters that collectively consider politics and the negotiation of power in game worlds. Section Two details the ideological webs within which games are produced and consumed. Specifically, this important section offers a critical cultural analysis of the hegemony that exists within games and its influence upon players' personal ideologies. To conclude this analysis, Section Three examines game design features that relate to players' self-characterization and social development within digital game worlds. Section Four explores the important relationship between the producers and consumers of digital games, especially insomuch as this relationship is giving rise to a community of novices and professionals who will together determine the future of gaming and--to a degree--popular culture.
Download or read book Slap Shot Science written by Alain Haché and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2015-11-30 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Slap shot science is an under-the-hood, behind-the-scenes, action-packed romp through special moments in the game as seen from the perspective of science and explained in a way everyone can understand"--Back cover.
Download or read book Playing Laughing and Learning with Children on the Autism Spectrum written by Julia Moor and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2008-07-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for the first edition: `An approachable and practical edition that will be welcomed by parents and carers alike. I know how hard it can be to find 'How to' resources for parents. Well here is a gem.' - Children, Young People and Families Parents of young children newly diagnosed as on the autism spectrum are often at a loss for ideas about how best to help their child. Playing, Laughing and Learning with Children on the Autism Spectrum is not just a collection of play ideas; it shows how to break down activities into manageable stages, and looks at ways to gain a child's attention and motivation and to build on small achievements. Each chapter covers a collection of ideas around a theme, including music, art, physical activities, playing outdoors, puzzles, turn-taking and using existing toys to create play sequences. There are also chapters on introducing reading and making the most of television. This updated second edition contains an extensive chapter on how to use the computer, the internet and the digital camera to find and make resources and activities, and suggests many suitable websites to help parents through the internet maze. The ideas are useful both for toddlers and primary age children who are still struggling with play.
Download or read book Alien Girlfriend written by V. Pinder and published by Love in a Book. This book was released on 2020-02-05 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do you when your body’s been stolen and you’re not stuck as a teenager about to marry? You run, right? That’s my plan anyhow. Run and run fast. So when the human space ship crew visits this backward planet, I make my move. But to get away I’m going to have to borrow someone else’s body for a while. Unlike the girl who took mine, this is totally temporary. I’ll give it back once I find her and get my life back. The human woman would get her life back eventually and we all go our separate ways. Nothing else could go wrong with my life, right? But it did. And on the way I am starting to like the human commander, but we’re totally from different planets and I met him when I’m wearing someone else’s skin and life. Get it now. (Formerly published as the Zoastra Affair.)
Download or read book Hidden Raphael written by Victoria Pinder and published by Love in a Book. This book was released on with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cold, remote island. A mysterious, sexy resident. And a harrowing, dark secret that was never meant to be discovered. When Kimberly Mira lands on an island with a real stone castle off the coast of Maine, the two assassins who crashed her plane are hot on her heels and intent on murdering her, the only witness. Luckily the castle is inhabited by the temperamental, brooding, and extremely handsome Raphael Murphy who sweeps her off her feet and into his protective arms, despite the danger. However, soon Kimberly realizes Raphael lives in the shadow of his former sins, and even inside of the walls, the cast of the shadows presents a lingering evil that might destroy them both. Fans of Victoria Holt and Nora Roberts are addicted to this contemporary romance series by USA Today bestselling author Victoria Pinder! Scroll up and one click today to start reading Hidden Raphael, a romantic suspense novel from USA Today bestselling author Victoria Pinder! Topics: billionaire romance books, billionaire seeks, Billionaire Boss, Billionaire Beau, Billionaire Ransom, royal romance books, prince romance, contemporary romance, new adult romance, romance books free, romance, romance, romance books, romantic books, Secret Baby, Secret Baby, Convenient Wife, friends to lovers, Friends Forever, friends with benefits, Opposites Attract, Victoria’s secret, best friends, best friends forever, royal tea, prince romance, king romance, princess, princess ever after, princess diaries, tempted, tempted by the rogue prince, tempted by fire, secrets, crushing, crush, bet, bet me, wish, wishes, baby yours, baby daddy, heir, date, date night, romeo, match, admirer, bridesmaid, rock star, movie star, alone romance, forbidden, royally, royally screwed, secret, tempting, irresistibly, irresistible, happily ever after, enemies to lovers, billionaire ever after, prince ever after, cinderella, hidden, billionaire, holiday, revenge, romantic suspense, adventure romance, romantic comedy, gothic romance, lost romance, indiana jones, action adventure, Billionaire romance, new adult romance, dramatic romance romance drama, Accidental Romance, mystery romance, broken heroine romance, abused hero
Download or read book Steel Family 1 3 written by Victoria Pinder and published by Love in a Book. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet the sexy men that win the heart of the Steel sisters. Join the family that is harder than metal and fall in love with baseball player, billionaire and a cowboy all have to prove their hearts in this collection of three contemporary romances. Rocking Player Surprise! There’s Michael. His last name is Irons. He plays major leagues and he’s the father of my son. Ruthless Financier ♥Office romances are a no even if he promises to make all my dreams come true.♥ And I have big dreams.✓ ★$25 million dollars★ takes care of everything on the list. Wicked Cowboy Those kisses under the bright moon send sweet tingles on my lips. And the boots he bought me are wanting to knock with his. These are just samples of what’s in this set. Lose yourself in each emotional, swoon worthy, and exciting stories. Whether you enjoy ball players, secret babies, arrogant billionaires, former Navy Seals settling in on his ranch… Get it now and fall in love with the men willing to face down the one thing the Steels have that most don’t… a strong family that holds the binds together.
