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 Starting a Business All-in-One For Dummies by Eric Tyson English | May 29, 2019 | ISBN: 1119565219 | 656 pages | MOBI | 2.93 Mb Starting a business? Don't sweat it!  Stan Kenton: This Is an Orchestra! By Michael Sparke 2010 | 384 Pages | ISBN: 1574412841 | PDF | 4 MB Stan Kenton (1911-1979) formed his first full orchestra in 1940 and soon drew record-breaking crowds to hear and dance to his exciting sound. He continued to tour and record unrelentingly for the next four decades. Stan Kenton: This Is an Orchestra! sums up the mesmerizing bandleader at the height of his powers, arms waving energetically, his face a study of concentration as he cajoled, coaxed, strained, and obtained the last ounce of energy from every musician under his control.Michael Sparke's narrative captures that enthusiasm in words: a lucid account of the evolution of the Kenton Sound, and the first book to offer a critical evaluation of the role that Stan played in its creation. Insightful and thought-provoking throughout, and supported by liberal quotes from the musicians who made the magic, even at his most contentious the author's high regard and admiration for his subject shines through. The most knowledgeable of Stan's fans will learn new facts from this far-reaching biography of a man and his music. Stan Kenton will be essential reading for every Kenton devotee and jazz historian.  Karen Jackson Ford, "Split-Gut Song: Jean Toomer and the Poetics of Modernity" English | ISBN: 0817358463 | 2015 | 220 pages | PDF | 14 MB A deft study of the evolving literary aesthetic of one of the first avant-garde black writers in America.  William Kittredge, "Southwestern Homelands" English | 2002 | ISBN: 0792265343 | EPUB | pages: 176 | 0.4 mb For part of each of the last twenty years, much-loved essayist and fiction writer William Kittredge has ventured to the storied desert landscape of the American Southwest and immersed himself in the region's wide-ranging wonders and idiosyncrasies. Here Kittredge brings all this experience to bear as he takes us on a rewarding tour of the territory that runs from Santa Fe to Yuma, and from the Grand Canyon on south through Phoenix and Tucson to Nogales. It is a region where urban sprawl abuts desert expanse, where Native American pueblos compete for space with agribusiness cotton plantations, and where semi-defunct mining towns slowly give way to new-age hippie gardening and crafts enclaves.  Sound, Society and the Geography of Popular Music By Ola Johansson, Thomas L. Bell, Ola Johansson, Thomas Bell 2009 | 320 Pages | ISBN: 0754675777 | PDF | 6 MB Popular music is a cultural form much rooted in space and place. This book interprets the meaning of music from a spatial perspective and, in doing so it furthers our understanding of broader social relations and trends, including identity, attachment to place, cultural economies, social activism and politics. The book's editors have brought together a team of scholars to discuss the latest innovative thinking on music and its geographies, illustrated with a fascinating range of case studies from the USA, Canada, the Caribbean, Australia and Great Britain.  Sound and Music in Film and Visual Media: A Critical Overview By Graeme Harper, Ruth Doughty, Jochen Eisentraut 2009 | 896 Pages | ISBN: 0826458246 | PDF | 48 MB Sound and Musicin Film and Visual Media: A Critical Overviewis a comprehensive work defining and encapsulating concepts, issues and applications in and around the use of sound in film and the cinema, media/broadcast and new media. Over thirty definitive full-lengthessays, which are linked by highlighted text and reference material, bring together original research by many of the world's top scholars in this emerging field. Complete with an extensive bibliography, Sound and Music in Film and Visual Media provides the most comprehensive and wide-ranging considerationof this subjectyet produced. >  Soul of Beijing Opera, The: Theatrical Creativity and Continuity in the Changing World By Ruru Li 2010 | 368 Pages | ISBN: 9622099947 | PDF | 10 MB The book looks at the evolution of Beijing Opera's singing and performance styles, make-up and costume, audience demands, as well as stage and street presentation modes amid tumultuous social and political changes.  Soil Management for Sustainable Agriculture: New Research and Strategies English | 2022 | ISBN: 1774630230 | 625 Pages | PDF True | 27 MB Taking a sustainable approach, this volume explores the various soil management techniques. It begins with an overview of the elementary concepts of soil management and then delves into new research and novel soil management tools and techniques.  Klaus Hurrelmann, "Socialisation During the Life Course" English | ISBN: 1138502189 | 2017 | 168 pages | PDF | 1280 KB This comprehensive text highlights new developments in sociological, educational and psychological aspects of socialisation, examining how human beings as 'subjects' - experiencing, thinking and acting individuals - confront the material, social and cultural 'objects' of their environment and sustain their position. The authors provide an overview of the most important theories of socialisation, then integrate these using the Productive Processing of Reality (PPR) model. This novel approach is applied to a life course analysis, examining developmental tasks and the challenges of productive processing of the internal and external reality at various stages of development. The book also considers contexts, addressing the inequalities between different socio-economic and ethnic groups and genders, to consider how humans - with their genetic dispositions and their individual instincts and needs - solve the task of coping with the requirements of society, culture and economy while at the same time safeguarding their status as unique individuals.  Jacqueline Kelly, Teagan White, Jennifer L. Meyer, "Skunked!: Calpurnia Tate, Girl Vet" English | 2017 | ISBN: 1250129443, 1627798684 | EPUB | pages: 106 | 4.6 mb From Newbery honor author Jacqueline Kelly comes Skunked!, a new illustrated chapter book series for younger readers featuring the beloved characters from The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate. |
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