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Author
Publisher
Multnomah Publishers
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
Make sense of the "random" pieces of life. Get a God's-eye perspective, and get answers to questions about unexplained experiences. Readers will discover that they've been in the right place at the right time, every time.
Author
Language
English
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Description
*Updated with a new chapter on digital curation* "How Music Works is David Byrne's incisive and enthusiastic look at the musical art form, from its very inceptions to the influences that shape it, whether acoustical, economic, social or technological. Utilizing his incomparable career and inspired collaborations with Talking Heads, Brian Eno, and many others, Byrne taps deeply into his lifetime of knowledge to explore the panoptic elements of music,...
Author
Publisher
Right Hand Music Group
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Hailing from El Paso, Texas, eighteen-year-old singer/songwriter Khalid releases his debut album. It features the first single, Location, along with Let's Go; Hopeless; Coaster; Saved; and the newly released track, Shot Down. Khalid burst onto the music scene with his first single, Location, which received great critical acclaim.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Murder--a dark, shameful deed, the last resort of the desperate or a vile tool of the greedy. And a very strange obsession. But where did this fixation develop? And what does it tell us about ourselves? In The Art of the English Murder, Lucy Worsley explores this phenomenon in forensic detail, revisiting notorious crimes like the Ratcliff Highway Murders, which caused a nationwide panic in the early nineteenth century, and the case of Frederick and...
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Publisher
Film Movement
Language
English
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This documentary was the first film to explore Frantz Fanon, the pre-eminent theorist of the anti-colonial movements of this century. Fanon's two major works, *Black Skin, White Masks* and *The Wretched of the Earth*, were pioneering studies of the psychological impact of racism on both colonized and colonizer. This innovative film biography restores Fanon to his rightful place at the center of contemporary discussions around post-colonial identity....
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In 1911, the famed cartoonist Winsor McCay debuted an animated version of his popular newspaper strip, Little Nemo in Slumberland. Loosely inspired by Sigmund Freud's research on dreams, the film was one of the very first of its kind. McCay is largely forgotten today, but his work helped unleash the creative energy of animators like Otto Messmer, Max Fleischer, Walt Disney, and Chuck Jones. Their origin stories, rivalries, and sheer genius, as Reid...
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Far from displacing religions, as has been supposed, capitalism became one, with money as its deity. Eugene McCarraher reveals how Mammon ensnared us and how we can find a more humane, sacramental way of being in the world. If socialists and Wall Street bankers can agree on anything, it is the extreme rationalism of capital. At least since Max Weber, capitalism has been understood as part of the "disenchantment" of the world, stripping material objects...
Series
Publisher
Flicker Alley
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Arranged in chronological order, this comprehensive thirteen hour collection gathers for the first time nearly all surviving films of Georges Méliès from his first (Card party, 1896) to his last (The voyage of the Bouririchon Family, 1913), bracketing more than 170 others. Beautiful new music has been prepared by ten leading practitioners of silent film accompaniment.
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Overview: Another wonderful poetry anthology from Garrison Keillor-rooted in the American landscape. Greatness comes in many forms, and as Garrison Keillor demonstrates daily on The Writer's Almanac, the most affecting poems in the canon are in plain English. Third in Keillor's series of anthologies, Good Poems, American Places brings together poems that celebrate the geography and culture that bind us together as a nation. Think of these poems as...
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