The Last Night On The Beat

Author : Mikal Gilmore
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 723 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2000-01-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780385500296

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Night Beat by Mikal Gilmore Pdf

Few journalists have staked a territory as definitively and passionately as Mikal Gilmore in his twenty-year career writing about rock and roll. Now, for the first time, this collection gathers his cultural criticism, interviews, reviews, and assorted musings. Beginning with Elvis and the birth of rock and roll, Gilmore traces the seismic changes in America as its youth responded to the postwar economic and political climate. He hears in the lyrics of Bob Dylan and Jim Morrison the voices of unrest and fervor, and charts the rise and fall of punk in brilliant essays on Lou Reed, The Sex Pistols, and The Clash. Mikal Gilmore describes Bruce Springsteen's America and the problem of Michael Jackson. And like no one else, Gilmore listens to the lone voices: Al Green, Marianne Faithfull, Sinead O'Connor, Frank Sinatra. Four decades of American life are observed through the inimitable lens of rock and roll, and through the provocative and intelligent voice of one of the most committed chroniclers of American music, and its powerful expressions of love, soul, politics, and redemption.

Author : Ronald Callander
Publisher : 30 Degrees South Publishers
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781928211204

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One Beat of a ButterflyÕs Heart by Ronald Callander Pdf

In this book we are given a unique view of East Africa of the 1950s; not the stereotyped picture of wildlife safaris and leaping Masai, but the emerging independence struggle of a new African nation from the viewpoint of a white police office, in an exceptionally detailed, thoroughly readable, firsthand account of a rare period of recent history. It tells how an Australian veteran, fresh from the Korean War, became a colonial police officer in Tanganyika Territory (later Tanzania after federation with the offshore islands of Zanzibar in 1964). Ê The reader is taken on a journey which tourists in Africa never see: from back alleys and police cells in the polyglot city of Dar es Salaam, to snake-infested camps on UgandaÐRuanda border patrols, and on police field force emergency operations from barracks at the foot of Kilimanjaro. There is much here to discover about a mostly benign semi-colonial period in Africa which lasted less than fifty years, passing, in one AfricanÕs description, as briefly as a butterflyÕs heartbeat; where a few conscientious white administrators and their loyal African assistants managed vast regions of a desolate territory with remarkably selfless care and scarce resources; where things worked most of the time, but sometimes where chaos reigned. It is about the country itself, its ubiquitous animals and its people at close range, including villagers, criminals, hunters, witch doctors, and colonial officials, but most of all, the African askari policemen who were the authorÕs closeÑand often onlyÑcompanions.

Author : Barry Miles
Publisher : Random House
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780753544761

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Beat Collection by Barry Miles Pdf

The Beats. a title that Jack Kerouac coined to define the exhausted exaltation of a generation, produced a body of works infected with a new energy. Their spontaneous, often-unedited style epitomised their own era and their famed close-knit literary community continues to inspire writers today. Barry Miles, friend and biographerof Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, was there , part of the Beat Vibe. here he gathers together some of the most influential as well as the most overlooked writers of the era. He covers the writings from The Original Beats (New York 1944-53): The San Francisco Scene (1954-57) and The Second Wave (New York 1958-60) including works from Gregory Corso, John Clellon Holmes, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Frank O'Hara, Diane di Prima and Alexander Trocchi to the king of the Beats Himself, Jack Kerouac. The result is a fascinating compendium that recaptures the unique but varied voices of the Beat generation..

Author : Jessica Brody
Publisher : Ten Speed Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780399579752

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Save the Cat! Writes a Novel by Jessica Brody Pdf

The first novel-writing guide from the best-selling Save the Cat! story-structure series, which reveals the 15 essential plot points needed to make any novel a success. Novelist Jessica Brody presents a comprehensive story-structure guide for novelists that applies the famed Save the Cat! screenwriting methodology to the world of novel writing. Revealing the 15 "beats" (plot points) that comprise a successful story--from the opening image to the finale--this book lays out the Ten Story Genres (Monster in the House; Whydunit; Dude with a Problem) alongside quirky, original insights (Save the Cat; Shard of Glass) to help novelists craft a plot that will captivate--and a novel that will sell.

Author : Lynda La Plante
Publisher : Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781785764493

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Tennison by Lynda La Plante Pdf

1973. After leaving the Metropolitan Police Training Academy, 22 year-old Jane Tennison is placed on a probationary exercise in Hackney, London where criminality thrives. At first she struggles to deal with the shocking situations she faces, receiving no help or sympathy from her superiors. Jane feels out of her depth in this male-dominated, chauvinistic environment. Then she is given her first murder case . . .

Author : Mike Blakely
Publisher : Forge Books
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250189868

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Dead Reckoning and The Last Chance by Mike Blakely Pdf

Dead Reckoning and The Last Chance are two historical novels of murder and revenge from Spur Award-winning author Mike Blakely Dead Reckoning After a botched confidence scam, swindler Dee Hassard begins a killing spree that covers half the Colorado Territory. His first victim is the brother of rustler-turned-preacher Carrol Moncrief, who falls back on his former outlaw savvy to track the murderer. In the final reckoning, either the preacher or the killer will go to his dusty death. Last Chance Ross Caldwell is on the run from the Army and from his wife, pursued by bitter enemies from the Civil War. In Last Chance Gulch in the gritty Montana gold country, Caldwell finds refuge behind a sheriff’s badge, and passion in the arms of a sultry madam. His bloody past catches up with him when the town’s stagecoach turns out to be run by the murderous ex-soldier who’s sworn to plant Caldwell six feet deep . . . and when his wife comes looking for him as well. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : William T. Lawlor
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2005-05-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781851094059

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Beat Culture by William T. Lawlor Pdf

The coverage of this book ranges from Jack Kerouac's tales of freedom-seeking Bohemian youth to the frenetic paintings of Jackson Pollock, including 60 years of the Beat Generation and the artists of the Age of Spontaneity. Beat Culture captures in a single volume six decades of cultural and countercultural expression in the arts and society. It goes beyond other works, which are often limited to Beat writers like William Burroughs, Charles Bukowski, and Michael McClure, to cover a wide range of musicians, painters, dramatists, filmmakers, and dancers who found expression in the Bohemian movement known as the Beat Generation. Top scholars from the United States, England, Holland, Italy, and China analyze a vast array of topics including sexism, misogny, alcoholism, and drug abuse within Beat circles; the arrest of poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti on obscenity charges; Beat dress and speech; and the Beat "pad." Through more than 250 entries, which travel from New York to New Orleans, from San Francisco to Mexico City, students, scholars, and those interested in popular culture will taste the era's rampant freedom and experimentation, explore the impact of jazz on Beat writings, and discover how Beat behavior signaled events such as the sexual revolution, the peace movement, and environmental awareness.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1826
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015063736626

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Measure for measure. Much ado about nothing. Midsummer-night's dream. Love's labour's lost by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : Kurt Hemmer
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781438109084

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Encyclopedia of Beat Literature by Kurt Hemmer Pdf

Discusses the literary works and great authors of the Beat Generation.

Author : Dan Gordon
Publisher : Cardoza Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-25
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781580424226

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Beat the Sports Books by Dan Gordon Pdf

Dan Gordon, who is widely regarded as one of the three best football handicappers in the world, shares his inside tips and strategies on making big money betting on NFL football. Much of the information here is available nowhere else. More than 40 chapters cover basic, advanced and expert concepts that will give readers the most powerful winning information available anywhere. Readers learn how to set up betting models and use power ratings and how to separate performance from perception. Gordon shows how to beat the point spreads and money lines, and how to bet underdogs, propositions, teasers, parlays, futures, and much, much more.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Electronic
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030037415785

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Dramatic Works by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : Anna Hecker
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781510733343

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When the Beat Drops by Anna Hecker Pdf

It's time to face the music. Seventeen-year-old Mira has always danced to her own beat. A music prodigy in a family of athletes, she'd rather play trumpet than play ball—and with her audition to a prestigious jazz conservatory just around the corner (and her two best friends at music camp without her), she plans to spend the summer focused on jazz and nothing else. She only goes to the warehouse party in a last-ditch effort to bond with her older sister. Instead, she falls in love with dance music, DJing... and Derek, a gorgeous promoter who thinks he can make her a star. Suddenly, trumpet practice and old friendships are taking a back seat to packed dance floors and sun-soaked music festivals, outsized personalities and endless beats. But when a devastating tragedy plunges her golden summer into darkness, Mira discovers just how little she knows about her new boyfriend, her old friends, and even her own sister. Music brought them together. Will it also tear them apart?

Author : F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783387092752

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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Pdf

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015082505564

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The Works of William Shakespeare: Addenda. Preface to the first edition. Much ado about nothing. Love's labour's lost. Midsummer-night's dream. Merchant of Venice. As you like it by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : Clea Simon
Publisher : Severn House Publishers Ltd
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448313051

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Bad Boy Beat by Clea Simon Pdf

A page-turning journalistic thriller starring a rookie female reporter for the Boston Standard who’s determined to chase down a big story . . . with potentially deadly consequences. Boston Standard journalist Emily – Em – Kelton is desperate for a big story. As a new reporter Em covers the police beat, which has her responding to every crime that comes across the newsroom scanner. Despite the drudgery and the largely nocturnal hours, it’s a beat that suits her – especially with her affinity for the low-level criminals she regularly interacts with and what she considers a healthy scepticism for the rules. But she’s sick of filing short news briefs about random street murders that barely merit a byline, and when she sets out to cover yet another shooting of a low-level dealer, she begins to wonder if these crimes are somehow connected. With not much to go on but her instincts, Em sets out to uncover the truth behind these sordid crimes. But the more she investigates and uncovers a pattern, the more she digs herself into a hole from which she might not come out of alive . . . Drawing on her career as a journalist, Clea Simon delivers a fast-paced, intricate plot and intriguing characters that bring the city of Boston to life. Mystery fans who love a strong female protagonist, unexpected twists and turns and a mind-blowing ending won’t want to miss Bad Boy Beat!