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Book Two Faces Have I

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jeff Kaye
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2003-06-13
  • ISBN : 1469111330
  • Pages : 436 pages

Download or read book Two Faces Have I written by Jeff Kaye and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2003-06-13 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Stoner is having a bad day. A psycho thief wants to kill him for being a snitch, a serial killer has set him up as a murder suspect, and hes about to cross paths with an organized crime boss, which will cause a sexy female F.B.I. Agent to enter his life and add to his troubles. On top of all this, hes having problems remembering he is really a cop named Jake Slater, who has been left undercover far too long. Follow him through Nevadas glitter towns on an emotional and action-packed tour of the dirty little secret Law Enforcement calls undercover work.

Book The Two Faces of American Freedom

Download or read book The Two Faces of American Freedom written by Aziz Rana and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-07 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Two Faces of American Freedom boldly reinterprets the American political tradition from the colonial period to modern times, placing issues of race relations, immigration, and presidentialism in the context of shifting notions of empire and citizenship. Today, while the U.S. enjoys tremendous military and economic power, citizens are increasingly insulated from everyday decision-making. This was not always the case. America, Aziz Rana argues, began as a settler society grounded in an ideal of freedom as the exercise of continuous self-rule—one that joined direct political participation with economic independence. However, this vision of freedom was politically bound to the subordination of marginalized groups, especially slaves, Native Americans, and women. These practices of liberty and exclusion were not separate currents, but rather two sides of the same coin. However, at crucial moments, social movements sought to imagine freedom without either subordination or empire. By the mid-twentieth century, these efforts failed, resulting in the rise of hierarchical state and corporate institutions. This new framework presented national and economic security as society’s guiding commitments and nurtured a continual extension of America’s global reach. Rana envisions a democratic society that revives settler ideals, but combines them with meaningful inclusion for those currently at the margins of American life.

Book A Bandit

    Book Details:
  • Author : Glenn Kaino
  • Publisher : Prestel
  • Release : 2017
  • ISBN : 9783791355641
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book A Bandit written by Glenn Kaino and published by Prestel. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multifaceted book is the latest collaboration between Glenn Kaino and Derek DelGaudio, who work together as the conceptual performance art duo A.Bandit to make magical art. A.Bandit is an experimental performance art group started by conceptual artist Glenn Kaino and magician Derek DelGaudio. Together they have exhibited and performed their work in venues that span a diverse range of cultural activities. The book introduces their pioneering work in the fields of art and magic, along with interviews and stories from noteworthy practitioners from both fields. It will be a generous access point into the normally secret practice from which A.Bandit operates. The book itself will contain several secret elements and magical features that will distinguish it as a type of performance in and of itself.

Book Billboard

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1963-05-11
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 60 pages

Download or read book Billboard written by and published by . This book was released on 1963-05-11 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.

Book Billboard

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1963-06-15
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 58 pages

Download or read book Billboard written by and published by . This book was released on 1963-06-15 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.

Book 40 Hits  40 Stories

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rick Simmons
  • Publisher : McFarland
  • Release : 2022-11-08
  • ISBN : 1476646902
  • Pages : 258 pages

Download or read book 40 Hits 40 Stories written by Rick Simmons and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-11-08 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovative sounds in pop, rock and soul in the 1960s and 1970s meant that music appealed to more people than ever before. While some songs appealed to a broad audience, some targeted a much narrower demographic, meaning songs on the pop charts might not do as well on the adult contemporary or soul charts, or vice versa. This book examines forty songs featured on song charts of the 1960s and 1970s. Charts considered are Billboard Pop, Billboard Soul, Adult Contemporary, Cashbox and British Charts. Each listing includes discussion of the factors that contributed to the songs' popularity. Author interviews with songwriters, musicians and artists such as KC (of KC and the Sunshine Band), Mark Farner (of Grand Funk), Jerry Butler, Ron Dante (of the Archies and the Cuff Links), Freda Payne, Lou Christie, Tommy Roe, The Spinners and others tell the stories behind some of the era's most popular songs.

Book The Two Faces of Justice

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  • Author : Jiwei Ci
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2006-05-15
  • ISBN : 9780674029569
  • Pages : 280 pages

Download or read book The Two Faces of Justice written by Jiwei Ci and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2006-05-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Justice is a human virtue that is at once unconditional and conditional. Under favorable circumstances, we can be motivated to act justly by the belief that we must live up to what justice requires, irrespective of whether we benefit from doing so. But our will to act justly is subject to conditions. We find it difficult to exercise the virtue of justice when others regularly fail to. Even if we appear to have overcome the difficulty, our reluctance often betrays itself in certain moral emotions. In this book, Jiwei Ci explores the dual nature of justice, in an attempt to make unitary sense of key features of justice reflected in its close relation to resentment, punishment, and forgiveness. Rather than pursue a search for normative principles, he probes the human psychology of justice to understand what motivates moral agents who seek to behave justly, and why their desire to be just is as precarious as it is uplifting. A wide-ranging treatment of enduring questions, The Two Faces of Justice can also be read as a remarkably discerning contribution to the Western discourse on justice re-launched in our time by John Rawls.

Book Two Brothers

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  • Author : Bernardo Atxaga
  • Publisher : Random House
  • Release : 2014-04-24
  • ISBN : 1473511895
  • Pages : 132 pages

Download or read book Two Brothers written by Bernardo Atxaga and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An elegiac tale of lost innocence and the ruthlessness of the natural world, where the hunter all too soon becomes the prey. As he dies leaving his two boys orphans, Paulo's father lays on him the duty to look after his retarded but overgrown younger brother, for otherwise Daniel will be put away in an institution. But Daniel never listens to his brother, who is unable to exert any authority over him. Instead Daniel, aged twenty and still in the throes of puberty, goes off in an inept, fumbling pursuit of the village girls, as they ride past on their bicycles on the way to sewing lessons or cake-baking classes. Among these girls are pretty Teresa and her plain friend, Carmen, a girl disfigured by a birthmark on one cheek. Both of them are sweet on Paulo, the quiet, irresolute but handsome lad who works in the family sawmill, while Teresa is the reluctant, indeed disgusted, object of Daniel's dreams. Each girl schemes to cut the other out and win favour with Paulo. All ends in tears. And the narrators of this story, who take turns to continue the tale, are creatures of the wild, driven by their inner voices - a bird, squirrels, a black snake.

Book Catalog of Copyright Entries

Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 1208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The 13th Juror

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  • Author : John Lescroart
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2005-08-02
  • ISBN : 1101531940
  • Pages : 490 pages

Download or read book The 13th Juror written by John Lescroart and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-08-02 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He is obsessed with her innocence. He will be destroyed by her guilt. The walls were champagne. The house was immaculate. A prosperous doctor lived there with his son and his beautiful wife. But the elegant walls hid a family's secret, a wife's shame. And one day shots rang out in the doctor's house. Suddenly Jennifer Witt was in jail, facing the death penalty. Jennifer insisted that she had not killed her abusive husband -- and she could never have killed her own son. Dismas Hardy believed her. But Hardy was only part of the defense team, and the only lawyer who continued to believe her...even as her story was torn to pieces, even as her lies came out, even as she was found guilty of murder. Now there's only one thing Jennifer can do to save her life...and she refuses to do it. So Hardy must do it for her. And in a shocking case of violence, betrayal, and lies, his only weapon is the truth... The 13th Juror...When innocence is not enough.

Book American Lonesome

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gavin Cologne-Brookes
  • Publisher : LSU Press
  • Release : 2018-11-14
  • ISBN : 080716948X
  • Pages : 255 pages

Download or read book American Lonesome written by Gavin Cologne-Brookes and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2018-11-14 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Lonesome: The Work of Bruce Springsteen begins with a visit to the Jersey Shore and ends with a meditation on the international legacy of Springsteen’s writing, music, and performances. Gavin Cologne-Brookes’s innovative study of this popular musician and his position in American culture blends scholarship with personal reflection, providing both an academic examination of Springsteen’s work and a moving account of how it offers a way out of emotional solitude and the potential lonesomeness of modern life. Cologne-Brookes proposes that the American philosophical tradition of pragmatism, which assesses the value of ideas and arguments based on their practical applications, provides a lens for understanding the diversity of perspectives and emotions encountered in Springsteen’s songs and performances. Drawing on pragmatist philosophy from William James to Richard Rorty, Cologne-Brookes examines Springsteen’s formative environment and outsider psychology, arguing that the artist’s confessed tendency toward a self-reliant isolation creates a tension in his work between lonesomeness and community. He considers Springsteen’s portrayals of solitude in relation to classic and contemporary American writers, from Frederick Douglass, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Emily Dickinson to Richard Wright, Flannery O’Connor, and Joyce Carol Oates. As part of this critique, he discusses the difference between escapist and pragmatic romanticism, the notion of multiple selves as played out both in Springsteen’s work and in our perception of him, and the impact of performances both recorded and live. By drawing on his own experiences seeing Springsteen perform—including on tours showcasing the album The River in 1981 and 2016—Cologne-Brookes creates a book about the intimate relationship between art and everyday life. Blending research, cultural knowledge, and creative thinking, American Lonesome dissolves any imagined barriers between the study of a songwriter, literary criticism, and personal testimony.

Book Subtle Isn   t My Style

Download or read book Subtle Isn t My Style written by Nieli Langer and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-05 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In I’m Not Subtle . . . the author reflects on who she is, how she has and continues to behave, her closest relationships and what they mean to her. It is a psychological self- portrait that stretches back to roots in her childhood and her private and professional life with experiences and impressions that make her a uniquely unfiltered Yenta.

Book 13 Moons over Vietnam  3Rd Moon   Discord

Download or read book 13 Moons over Vietnam 3Rd Moon Discord written by Ben Thieu Long and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the third volume in a memoir series describing a military policeman’s moral and emotional dilemmas in the Vietnam war. Stories of actual experience are positioned sequentially among actual letters sent home to his new wife. He tries to censor his daily experiences in the letters in an effort to protect their relationship from the contradictions of his behavior and progressively disturbed thoughts.The soldier’s responses to temptation trigger an inner battle over values, identity, and spiritual well-being. His actions and subsequent turmoil prompt a transformation from naïve innocence toward alienated detachment. 3rd Moon: Discord highlights his responses to temptation that challenge his moral convictions. His journey through a minefield of ethical trials undercuts his strength of commitment and precipitates a metamorphosis of mind and spirit.

Book Magic in the Night

Download or read book Magic in the Night written by Rob Kirkpatrick and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-03-03 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive look at The Boss and how his music has both shaped and confronted American mythology Emerging on the music scene with 1973's "Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.", Bruce Springsteen was heralded as "the future of rock and roll", and since then his influence and popularity have exploded. Rob Kirkpatrick's Magic in the Night uses Springsteen's biography as a lens through which listeners can reevaluate his music as he morphs from "the next Bob Dylan" to a Reagan-era pop culture icon, and again to today's populist voice, discussing each album in chronological order. Kirkpatrick's keen insights show why the classic 1975 album "Born to Run" is the most popular album of all time (according to a recent ZagatSurvey) and what's made Springsteen the most respected and influential artist in rock music. Though his career has been widely documented, Springsteen fans have never had a book like this one, which lets them immerse themselves in his music and learn about his influences, lyrical choices, and the themes Springsteen has been drawn to again and again in his career. Kirkpatrick's in-depth analysis of Springsteen's work–even unreleased songs–and the political controversies surrounding it make Magic in the Night a must for any true Springsteen fan.

Book Life  Etc

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charley Swayne
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 1996-05-21
  • ISBN : 0684815982
  • Pages : 164 pages

Download or read book Life Etc written by Charley Swayne and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1996-05-21 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whimsical yet profound, as entertaining as it is instructive, this one-of-a-kind guide to living is a treasure that no student of life should be without. Book jacket.

Book Bruce

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peter Ames Carlin
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2012-10-30
  • ISBN : 1439191824
  • Pages : 493 pages

Download or read book Bruce written by Peter Ames Carlin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " ... A stunning biography of Bruce Springsteen describing his life and work in vivid intimate detail"--

Book Billboard

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1963-05-18
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 66 pages

Download or read book Billboard written by and published by . This book was released on 1963-05-18 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.