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| Author | : Maurice Peress |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 166 |
| Release | : 2016-09-16 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1315478951 |
Maurice Peress leads an unusual American musical life. Born to a Baghdadian father and Polish mother, his first music was Arabic and Yiddish songs. He grew up in New York's Washington Heights, became a busy dance band and symphonic trumpeter, and was drafted towards the end of the Korean conflict, landing him in a newly integrated Negro Regimental Band. In this memoir, he shares what he learned from an enormous range of American works and musicians. In his first book, Peress explored America's music and its African American roots. A musical mission emerges, a lifelong commitment to "give concerts that reconstruct delicious mixed marriages of music, black and white, Jazz and classical, folk and concert, Native American and European; works that bring people together, that urge us to love one another."
| Author | : Sally Gibbs |
| Publisher | : iUniverse |
| Total Pages | : 258 |
| Release | : 2001-08-26 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0595197159 |
Main Line Maverick, with fast-paced dialogue, humor and complex characters, creates a realistic drama describing the struggles of being individualistic in a conformist society. The setting is suburban Philadelphia's Main Line, pre-World War II and subsequent years. It tells the life of Brenda Marr, a Main Line debutante who kicks the stuffy social scene for the theatre as a singing showgirl in a Broadway musical. Her maverick nature leads her into various romantic adventures, the New York nightlife and literary world, of entanglement with a literary agent and of her marriage to a dashing, hard drinking, abusive Naval test pilot…all against the wishes of her over possessive Mother. Main Line Maverick is a 'must read' for anyone who has desired to go against the grain and to discover their own place in the world.
| Author | : Gordon Hughes |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 248 |
| Release | : 2017-09-16 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0230214118 |
This timely book offers a wide-ranging and authoritative analysis of the complex issues and debates in the politics of crime and community safety.
| Author | : Stephen McGowan |
| Publisher | : Birlinn |
| Total Pages | : 297 |
| Release | : 2011-10-04 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0857901516 |
As Rangers manager Walter Smith once put it, Scottish football supporters have always liked their footballing superstars to come complete with very human flaws. But what is it that makes the seriously flawed footballer so intriguing? From Hugh Gallacher, the Wembley Wizard who died of shame, to George Best, Hibernian's ageing lothario, to the Three Amigos - Celtic's trio of wayward overseas mercenaries - the great entertainers have always come with baggage. Never before have the individual stories of these mavericks of Scottish football's past been collated and told in one place. Flawed Genius does just that. Through the words of the men themselves - allied to testimonies from friends and close colleagues - McGowan recounts the in-depth stories of Gascoigne and Goram, Best and Baxter, Charnley and Cadette and the equally wayward figures of Paolo Di Canio, Andy Ritchie, Pierre van Hooijdonk and Willie Hamilton. Here, together for the first time, the colourful contributions of each and every player in the Scottish game's rich tapestry of flawed geniuses are brought vividly back to life.
| Author | : Richard Bath |
| Publisher | : Random House |
| Total Pages | : 243 |
| Release | : 2011-01-11 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1907195386 |
With three Military Crosses, three Croix de guerre, a Légion d'honneur and a papal knighthood for his heroics during the Second World War, Sir Tommy Macpherson is the most decorated living soldier of the British Army. Yet for 65 years the Highlander's story has remained untold. Few know how, aged 21, he persuaded 23,000 SS soldiers of the feared Das Reich tank column to surrender, or how Tommy almost single-handedly stopped Tito's Yugoslavia annexing the whole of north-east Italy. Twice captured, he escaped both times, marching through hundreds of miles of German-held territory to get home. Still a schoolboy when war broke out, Tommy quickly matured into a legendary commando, and his remarkable story features a dizzyingly diverse cast of characters, including Winston Churchill, Field Marshal Montgomery and Charles de Gaulle.
| Author | : Bert Cardullo |
| Publisher | : Scarecrow Press |
| Total Pages | : 356 |
| Release | : 2012-08-09 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 0810885255 |
In World Directors and Their Films, Bert Cardullo offers readable analyses of some of the most important films and the artists who produced them. Beyond simple biographical capsules and plot summaries, these readings demonstrate with clarity and elegance how international moviemakers use the resources of the medium to pursue complex, significant human goals. Including essays on filmmakers from China, Japan, India, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Iran, Senegal, and Chad, this book is an engaging collection of enlightening and helpful essays that will appeal as much to the general reader as it will to scholars of international cinema.
| Author | : Sharmistha Gooptu |
| Publisher | : Roli Books Private Limited |
| Total Pages | : 376 |
| Release | : 2018-05-31 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 8193704959 |
Sharmistha Gooptu is a founder and managing trustee of the South Asia Research Foundation (SARF), a not-for-profit research body based in India. SARF’s current project SAG (South Asian Gateway) is in partnership with Taylor and Francis, and involves the creation of what will be the largest South Asian digital database of historical materials. She is also the joint editor of the journal South Asian History and Culture (Routledge) and the Routledge South Asian History and Culture book series.
| Author | : Soumik Kanti Ghosh |
| Publisher | : iNK Books - an imprint of MJSOLS |
| Total Pages | : 59 |
| Release | : 2020-11-19 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 8194823978 |
The contribution of Mrinal Sen in reshaping the epistemic boundary of new wave of Indian cinema engaged in capturing socio- eco- political condition of Bengal can hardly be overstated. The doyen ignited the mass’ imaginative verve and presented it without any pretentious facade. This volume recaptures Mrinal Sen’s unique credentials as a cinematographer, as a director and as visionary who can anticipate future courses of events while indicating and intoxicating his indications with positive imaginative force. Sen’s rendering of the experience of sub altern groups and proletariat is analyzed with a critical acumen. Hope readers will find curiosity on the subject property addressed. Like filmmaker, Sen’s film have journeyed thematically from contemporary social and political crises to an examination of inner journey of individual.
| Author | : Joshua Bycer |
| Publisher | : CRC Press |
| Total Pages | : 259 |
| Release | : 2024-09-11 |
| Genre | : Computers |
| ISBN | : 1040113699 |
This entry in the Game Design Deep Dive series takes a look at the shooter genre: one that has grown with the times and whose influence can be felt from indie teams to major studios. Joshua Bycer breaks down the 30‐plus‐year history of one of the most popular genres of the games industry to educate readers on how to design their own. This book is suitable for students and designers to learn about one of the most popular genres on the market. Key features: Discusses reflex‐driven design and the challenges and balances that go into single and multiplayer gameplay Provides a breakdown of what gunplay is and how to make your FPS design pop Draws from examples across the industry Examines the design and philosophies that went into many of the best shooters released in the past 30 years
| Author | : E. Varughese |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 235 |
| Release | : 2020-06-29 |
| Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
| ISBN | : 1000043061 |
Graphic Novels and Visual Cultures in South Asia explores the shifting landscapes of the graphic narratives and related visual cultures scene in South Asia today. This exciting volume explores the ever-developing scene of graphic novels, graphic narratives and related visual cultures in South Asia. Covering topics such as Tamil comics, material memory, the politics of graphic adaptation, the fandom of Ms Marvel as well as watching Pakistani social lives on Indian TV, this collection of essays are testament to how visual cultures across South Asia are responding to a new world order. The collection of work explores how certain visual cultures in South Asia are attempting to re-shape previous modes of visuality by unpacking what it means to be living in South Asia today. Through its inclusion of articles, visual essays and in-conversation pieces, this collection offers insight into the ways in which this narrative is unfolding, the kind of stories which are being told and how, in telling these stories, South Asian society is called upon to engage and crucially, to react to what we see, how and why we see it. This book was originally published as a special issue of the South Asian Popular Culture journal.
