Where Have All the Good Times Gone?

Where Have All the Good Times Gone?
Author: Louis Barfe
Publisher: Atlantic Books Ltd
Total Pages: 591
Release: 2013-03-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 178239219X

Louis Barfe's elegantly written, authoritative and highly entertaining history charts the meteoric rise and slow decline of the popular recording industry. Barfe shows how the 1920s and 1930s saw the departure of Edison from the phonograph business he created and the birth of EMI and CBS. In the years after the war, these companies, and the buccaneers, hucksters, impresarios and con-men who ran them, reaped stupendous commercial benefits with the arrival of Elvis Presley, who changed popular music (and sales of popular music) overnight. After Presley came the Beatles, when the recording industry became global and record sales reached all time highs. Where Have All The Good Times Gone? also charts the decline from that high-point a generation ago. The 1990s ushered in a period of profound crisis and uncertainty in the industry, encapsulated in one word: Napster. Barfe shows how the almost infinite amounts of free music available online have traumatic and disastrous consequences for an industry that has become cautious and undynamic.

For The Good Times

For The Good Times
Author: David Keenan
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2019-01-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0571340539

LONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2019 SHORTLISTED FOR THE ENCORE PRIZE 2020 Sammy and his three friends are country boys from Armagh, the disputed borderlands of a country cannbalising itself. They love sharp clothes, a drink, and a night on the town singing Perry Como's classics. Their dream is a Free State, and their methods for achieving this are uncompromising. Heading for Belfast - ground zero of the Troubles - they find themselves in the incongruous position of running a comic book shop by day. Their clandestine activities belong in the x-rated pages of graphic fiction: burglary, blackmail, extortion, torture, and murder. No criminal act is too taboo for these boys. But when punk rock arrives and the hard edge of the decade starts to reveal its true paranoid colours, Sammy finds himself increasingly isolated. Camaraderie and loyalty is the fuel of a terrorist cell. When those virtues prove faulty, the game is up - and Sammy's world starts to radically shrink. For the Good Times shouts and sings with visionary intensity and gallows humour. It is not just a book about the IRA, but an exploration of what it means to 'go rogue', and the heartbreak and devastation that commitment to 'the cause' can engender. It unpacks any dewy-eyed romance associated with the Troubles, and establishes David Keenan as one of our generation's most fearless and entertaining literary stylists.

Ghosts of Good Times

Ghosts of Good Times
Author:
Publisher: University of Louisiana
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Dance halls
ISBN: 9781935754855

Ghosts of Good Times: South Louisiana Dance Halls Past and Present examines a world of Cajun dance halls, Zydeco clubs, Chitlin' Circuit R&B night clubs, Swamp-Pop Honkytonks and other venues that at one time were prevalent throughout the region. Photographs by Philip Gould blend architectural imagery of buildings still standing with historic photographs of the clubs that he took in their heyday. Herman Fuselier and other writers provide a rich selection of historic accounts and essays about their personal experiences in the clubs. The book also examines the dance hall scene today and how the venues have changed. The music following remains strong and people still come to dance. The surviving old dance halls and newer venues are still in full swing. Old or new, they are icons, a proud south Louisiana legacy of Good Times.

The Good Times

The Good Times
Author: Russell Baker
Publisher: Diversion Publishing Corp.
Total Pages: 447
Release: 2014-08-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1626813256

A “superb [and] often hilarious” memoir of a life in journalism, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Growing Up (The New York Times Book Review). “Baker here recalls his years at the Baltimore Sun, where, on ‘starvation wages,’ he worked on the police beat, as a rewrite man, feature writer and White House correspondent. Sent to London in 1953 to report on the coronation, he spent the happiest year of his life there as an innocent abroad. Moving to the New York Times and becoming a ‘two-fisted drinker,’ he covered the Senate and the national political campaigns of 1956 and 1960, and, just as he was becoming bored with routine reporting and the obligation to keep judgments out of his stories, was offered the opportunity to write his own op-ed page column, ‘The Observer.’ With its lively stories about journalists, Washington politicians and topical scandals, the book will delight Baker’s devotees—and significantly expand their already vast number.” —Publishers Weekly “Aspiring writers will chuckle over Baker’s first, horrible day on police beat, his panicked interview with Evelyn Waugh, and his arrival at Queen Elizabeth’s coronation in top hat, tails, and brown-bag lunch.” —Library Journal “A wonderful book.” —Kirkus Reviews

Good Times Inc.

Good Times Inc.
Author: Philippe Pascal
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2013
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1481797662

New York City, Phil a business school student against his will has to write a paper on how to create a successful business. He comes up with a high standard escort service. Prior to turning in the paper luck allows him to make it all reality. He created a very successful business but soon had to deal with a criminal organization using his services and blackmailing him. He and his employees assisted Interpol and the FBI to arrest the villains on both sides of the Atlantic.

The Still Good Times

The Still Good Times
Author: Fred H. Meyer
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2019-09-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 383821305X

Ever since I left the land that was my home, wherever I have traveled and lived, I have been asked the same question: How could a Hitler happen, in the land of poets and scientists and thinkers, the land of music and arts, the land of plenty, the land of orderliness and efficiency, of cleanliness and dependability, the very land of humaneness? Born in Hannover in 1905 as a German Jew, Fred Harry Meyer (1905–1969) and his new Christian bride fled to the USA in the nick of time in 1937. His autobiography provides a vivid and detailed yet flowing picture of the life left behind in Germany up till 1932 and the events that led to Nazi Germany, World War II, and the Holocaust.

Poems and Rhymes for All Times

Poems and Rhymes for All Times
Author: Natalie Mason
Publisher: Pneuma Springs Publishing
Total Pages: 90
Release: 2012-07-26
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1907728422

An enjoyable collection of thoughtful and poignant poems relating to life experiences designed to lift your spirits, including some light-hearted rhymes guaranteed to make you smile. Thought-provoking and uplifting moments big and small put into words describing celebrations of love, marriage, birth, death and special occasions that we all witness in everyday life. Rhyming words that make you stop and think about the small things in life as well as the bigger picture, ultimately helping us to respect one another in this life. These poems are like moments captured and framed into verses that make you pause and reflect on what really matters most in life, helping you connect with your inner-self. As you read you will be reminded that you are not alone on your own personal journey along life’s winding highway. Someone has walked the path you are on and has felt what you are feeling–both your tears and joys. This is the perfect book to inspire, comfort and invigorate you throughout a lifetime with an ample assortment of topics to delight every palate. Book reviews online: PublishedBestsellers website.

Ritalin Nation

Ritalin Nation
Author: Richard J. DeGrandpre
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2000
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780393320251

In this illuminating investigation of the epidemic of attention deficit disorder (ADD) and Ritalin, psychologist DeGrandpre sounds the warning that we may be failing our children by treating symptoms and not causes with a quick fix and ultimately unsatisfactory solution.

The Good Times are Killing Me

The Good Times are Killing Me
Author: Lynda Barry
Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2020-08-28
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1770464271

Lynda Barry’s classic heartbreaking and heartwarming coming of age novella back in print Young Edna Arkins lives in a neighborhood that is rapidly changing, thanks to white flight from urban Seattle in the late 1960s. As the world changes around her, Edna is exposed to the callous racism of adults—sometimes subtle and other times blatant, but always stinging. By weaving the importance of music in adolescence with the forbidden friendship between Edna, who is white, and Bonna Willis, who is Black, Lynda Barry captures the earnest, awkward, yet always honest adolescent voice as perfectly in prose as she does in comics.

In Good Times and Bad

In Good Times and Bad
Author: M. Gary Neuman
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2009-09-17
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0470573252

How to maintain a strong marriage no matter what comes your way Now more than ever, couples are facing tough times that can impact on even the strongest of marriages. In In Good Times and Bad, family counselor and relationships expert M. Gary Neuman and his wife, Melisa, take a look at one of the biggest issues couples face, money management, and give you the tools you need to deal with whatever financial challenges come your way. The Neumans explain why it's so important to talk about money in your marriage and offer strategies on how to discuss this often avoided topic. No matter what your age or how long you've been together, In Good Times and Bad will teach you how to come together when it matters most. Learn what money means to you and how to strengthen your marriage even during challenging times Includes strategies for dealing with other tough times such as grieving or serious illness From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Truth about Cheating In Good Times and Bad is the tool you need to ensure your relationship remains strong through all of life's ups and downs.