Oyster War

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Publisher : Oni Press
ISBN 13 : 1620102633
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (21 download)

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Book Synopsis Oyster War by : Ben Towle

Download or read book Oyster War written by Ben Towle and published by Oni Press. This book was released on 2015-10-07 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ben Towle’s critically acclaimed, Eisner-nominated comic finally comes to print! In the coastal town of Blood's Haven, the economy runs on oysters. Oyster farming is one of the most lucrative professions, but also the most dangerous. Not just from the unforgiving ocean and its watery depths—there are also oyster pirates to worry about! Commander Davidson Bulloch and his motley crew are tasked with capturing these ne'er-do-wells—but they don't know that Treacher Fink, the pirates' leader, possesses a magical artifact that can call forth a legendary spirit with the power to control the sea and everything in it!

A Kingdom of Tender Colors

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Publisher : Europa Editions
ISBN 13 : 1609455843
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (94 download)

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Book Synopsis A Kingdom of Tender Colors by : Seth Greenland

Download or read book A Kingdom of Tender Colors written by Seth Greenland and published by Europa Editions. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young Hollywood screenwriter faces lymphatic cancer in this witty memoir. One unremarkable day at the age of thirty-seven, Seth Greenland finds himself in everyone’s nightmare: a routine doctor visit, some swollen glands, a series of tests, a biopsy, and finally a diagnosis of an aggressive form of lymphatic cancer. A screenwriter and satirist with a blooming career in Hollywood, Seth has felt pretty good about his life until now; suddenly, the world has tipped on its axis. With the support of friends and family, Seth launches into an attempt to save his own life without losing either his sanity or his sense of humor. From chemotherapy treatments, to meditation and more alternative treatments, he battles the disease with wit, honesty, and no small amount of sheer terror. There are no pat answers or inspirational revelations here, just one man confronting hopes and fears recognizable to us all—and triumphing. Praise for A Kingdom of Tender Colors “Intelligent, self-aware, and resistant to easy answers, A Kingdom of Tender Colors defies any expectation of being a cancer survival guide. Instead, more radically, it is a book about finding a way of being. It is existential in the way of Camus’s The Stranger, without the murder and with more jokes.” —Tom Teicholz, Los Angeles Review of Books “[Greenland] provides genial, engaging, humorous company throughout the narrative, showing how one can gain a new appreciation for life at its most mundane as well as miraculous.” —Kirkus Reviews “Absorbing and funny . . . Readers may come for the screenwriter/novelist’s cancer story, but they’ll stay for his gifts as a raconteur.” —Shelf Awareness “A Kingdom of Tender Colors brings a charming humor to a subject that is nothing if not dire. . . . Greenland holds nothing back, including his feelings of inadequacy and incredulity.” —Alta Journal

Psychedelia and Other Colours

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Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 057128275X
Total Pages : 509 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)

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Book Synopsis Psychedelia and Other Colours by : Rob Chapman

Download or read book Psychedelia and Other Colours written by Rob Chapman and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Psychedelia and Other Colours, acclaimed author Rob Chapman explores in crystalline detail the history, precedents and cultural impact of LSD, from the earliest experiments in painting with light and immersive environments to the thriving avant-garde scene that existed in San Francisco even before the Grateful Dead and the Fillmore Auditorium. In the UK, he documents an entirely different history, and one that has never been told before. It has its roots in fairy tales and fairgrounds, the music hall and the dead of Flanders fields, in the Festival of Britain and that peculiarly British strand of surrealism that culminated in the Magical Mystery Tour. Sitars and Sergeant Pepper, surfadelica and the Soft Machine, light shows and love-ins - the mind-expanding effects of acid were to redefine popular culture as we know it. Psychedelia and Other Colours documents these utopian reverberations - and the dark side of their moon - in a perfect portrait.

False Colors

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Publisher : Baen Books
ISBN 13 : 162579570X
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (257 download)

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Book Synopsis False Colors by : William R. Forstchen

Download or read book False Colors written by William R. Forstchen and published by Baen Books. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MORE WAR… A desperate attack on the Kilrathi homeworld had succeeded in destroying the entire planet, including the Emperor and his warlords. The surviving Kilrathi, on warships and on their colony worlds were hopelessly demoralized and had sued for peace. The catlike warrior race was no longer a threat to Earth and its colonies. Thirty-five years of war had finally come to an end, bringing peace in our time. They thought… The reality was more ominous. There were still plenty of independent Kilrathi warlords surviving, commanding a formidable array of warships and weaponry. Some wanted revenge on the apes who had destroyed the sacred homeworld, some wanted to set up their own new empires, and some were simply content to go pirate, raiding human colonies at will. But back on Earth, the war-weary people and their leaders turned a deaf ear to reports of Kilrathi belligerence, preferring to look forward to a peaceful and prosperous future. But it was only the calm before a new story… At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Looks Like Rain

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Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1623499275
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (234 download)

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Book Synopsis Looks Like Rain by : Brian T. Atkinson

Download or read book Looks Like Rain written by Brian T. Atkinson and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mickey Newbury (1940–2002) grew up in Houston and moved to Nashville in the early 1960s, following his muse. He wrote top hits for many well-known artists, including Don Gibson, Andy Williams, Kenny Rogers, Tom Jones, and others. He is probably best known, however, for being name-checked in the song “Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love)” by Waylon Jennings. Newbury has been cited by Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, Townes Van Zandt, and many other eminent singer-songwriters as a primary influence. In his own independent fashion, Newbury helped to loosen the grip maintained for decades by the Nashville studio system, thus paving the way for later innovators like Willie Nelson, David Allan Coe, and others. He is still the only songwriter to produce hits on four different charts in the same year in 1968: “Just Dropped In (to See What Condition My Condition was In)” on the pop/rock charts, “Sweet Memories” on easy listening, “Time Is a Thief” on the R & B charts, and “Here Comes the Rain, Baby” in country. Following the successful pattern established in his previous works on Townes Van Zandt and Ray Wylie Hubbard, veteran music journalist Brian T. Atkinson has interviewed artists such as Kris Kristofferson, Bobby Bare, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Steve Earle, Rodney Crowell, and many others to learn how Newbury’s influence continues to shape the musical and artistic approach of both seasoned and newer performers. Forewords by Larry Gatlin and Don McLean set the stage for a fascinating look back at one of the most revered songwriters and musicians of recent decades.

The Colors of Clay

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Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 0892369426
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (923 download)

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Book Synopsis The Colors of Clay by : Beth Cohen

Download or read book The Colors of Clay written by Beth Cohen and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2006 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The catalogue ... is truly excellent and makes an important contribution to the study of Greek Art." --Bryn Mawr Classical Review "An overwhelming volume. The subject matter ... is described in great detail in nine chapters. Essential." --Choice This catalogue documents a major exhibition at the Getty Villa that was the first ever to focus on ancient Athenian terracotta vases made by techniques other than the well-known black- and red-figure styles. The exhibition comprised vases executed in bilingual, coral-red gloss, outline, Kerch-style, white ground, and Six's technique, as well as examples with added clay and gilding, and plastic vases and additions. The Colors of Clay opens with an introductory essay that integrates the diverse themes of the exhibition and sets them within the context of vase making in general; a second essay discusses conservation issues related to several of the techniques. A detailed discussion of the techniques featured in the exhibition precedes each section of the catalogue. More than a hundred vases from museums in the United States and Europe are described in depth.

SPIN

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book SPIN written by and published by . This book was released on 1989-12 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the concert stage to the dressing room, from the recording studio to the digital realm, SPIN surveys the modern musical landscape and the culture around it with authoritative reporting, provocative interviews, and a discerning critical ear. With dynamic photography, bold graphic design, and informed irreverence, the pages of SPIN pulsate with the energy of today's most innovative sounds. Whether covering what's new or what's next, SPIN is your monthly VIP pass to all that rocks.

Quantoons

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Publisher : National Science Teachers Association
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Quantoons by : Tomas Bunk

Download or read book Quantoons written by Tomas Bunk and published by National Science Teachers Association. This book was released on 2006 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you crave both pysics problems and captivating illustrations? If your answer is "yes", look no further! Quantoons combines challenging problems and provocative quotes with intricate drawings that mix Isaac newton and Marie Antoinetter with Romeo, Juliet, and Einstein. The book is a compilation of 58 contest problems that ran between 1991 and 2001 in Quantum magazine; a collaboration between U.S. and Russian scientists that was published by NSTA. In addition to serving as a reader-involvement device, the problems and cartoons were intended to make inquiring minds thing about physics and art in new ways, and have fun doing it. When you open Quantoons, you'll be instantly attracted to the colourful cartoons, densely populated with quirky characters that look like something out of MAD magazine. And no wonder: Illustrator Tomas Bunk is a regular contributor to that publication. But when you pull yourself away from the drawings, you'll find that they work with the text to give new contest to interesting physics concepts. For example, a Quantoon that explores the classic physics problem of crossing a raging river and determining where you'll land on the opposite shore is accompanied by a funny/sad metaphorical cartoon about traversing the rier of life from birth to death.

The Early Years of the Les Paul Legacy, 1915-1963

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Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780634048616
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (486 download)

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Book Synopsis The Early Years of the Les Paul Legacy, 1915-1963 by : Robb Lawrence

Download or read book The Early Years of the Les Paul Legacy, 1915-1963 written by Robb Lawrence and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2008 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Book). Journey through the career of musical giant, milestone guitarist, and recording innovator Les Paul, and marvel at the world of cutting-edge guitar design! This book, along with its companion book The Modern Era of the Les Paul Legacy 1968-2007 (Fall 2008) emerged out of author Robb Lawrence's years of research, interviews, extensive vintage archives (including original Les Paul/Mary Ford articles, press photos, music and recordings), and gorgeous original photography. It's all here: the factory pictures, the designers, the electronics; the first experimtela "Log" and "Clunker" guitars, stories of the various Goldtops, the humbucking pickup evolution, and over 80 pages dedicated to the heralded '50s "Sunburst" Standard. Exclusive interviews with Les Paul, as well as Michael Bloomfield and Jeff Beck. A beautiful and insightful book on a legendary inventor, musician and his partnership with Gibson to make the world's most-cherished electric guitar.

Art Digest

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Art Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes section "The great calendar of American exhibitions."

The Hard Crowd

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982157712
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Book Synopsis The Hard Crowd by : Rachel Kushner

Download or read book The Hard Crowd written by Rachel Kushner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now includes a new essay, “Naked Childhood,” about Kushner’s family, their converted school bus, and the Summers of Love in Oregon and San Francisco! “The Hard Crowd is wild, wide-ranging, and unsparingly intelligent throughout.” —Taylor Antrim, Vogue From a writer celebrated for her “chops, ambition, and killer instinct” (John Powers, Fresh Air), a career-spanning collection of spectacular essays about politics and culture. Rachel Kushner has established herself as “the most vital and interesting American novelist working today” (The Millions) and as a master of the essay form. In The Hard Crowd, she gathers a selection of her writing from over the course of the last twenty years that addresses the most pressing political, artistic, and cultural issues of our times—and illuminates the themes and real-life experiences that inform her fiction. In twenty razor-sharp essays, The Hard Crowd spans literary journalism, memoir, cultural criticism, and writing about art and literature, including pieces on Jeff Koons, Denis Johnson, and Marguerite Duras. Kushner takes us on a journey through a Palestinian refugee camp, an illegal motorcycle race down the Baja Peninsula, 1970s wildcat strikes in Fiat factories, her love of classic cars, and her young life in the music scene of her hometown, San Francisco. The closing, eponymous essay is her manifesto on nostalgia, doom, and writing. These pieces, new and old, are electric, vivid, and wry, and they provide an opportunity to witness the evolution and range of one of our most dazzling and fearless writers. “Kushner writes with startling detail, imagination, and gallows humor,” said Leah Greenblatt in Entertainment Weekly, and, from Paula McLain in the Wall Street Journal: “The authority and precision of Kushner’s writing is impressive, but it’s the gorgeous ferocity that will stick with me.”

The Official Vintage Guitar Magazine Price Guide

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Publisher : Hal Leonard
ISBN 13 : 9781884883217
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book The Official Vintage Guitar Magazine Price Guide written by Alan Greenwood and published by Hal Leonard. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses market research and analysis to provide values for vintage or collectible instruments, including information on more than eighteen hundred brands accompanied by eleven hundred photographs.

Uncle John's Weird Weird World Epic

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1626864292
Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (268 download)

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Book Synopsis Uncle John's Weird Weird World Epic by : Bathroom Readers' Institute

Download or read book Uncle John's Weird Weird World Epic written by Bathroom Readers' Institute and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of some of the wildest and weirdest trivia packed with incredible facts, obscure history, interesting origins, bizarre quotes, and more. The second fully illustrated entry in Uncle John’s popular new Weird, Weird World series opens a portal to the bizarre. It’s page after page of unbelievable history, odd origins, tales of amazing luck, kooky conspiracy theories, epic fails, astounding facts, and some things that are so weird that they defy description. That’s where the pictures come in: Hundreds of eye-popping photographs and illustrations take the humor and the fun to a whole new dimension . . . to the EPIC zone! Read about . . . • How to Hypnotize a Chicken • The Origin of the Lie Detector • Weirdest Ways to Die at National Parks • Feral Cat Day and Other Strange-But-Real Holidays • Here Comes the Spammobile! • Keith Urban Legends • The Power of Poo • Winners of “Ugly Dog” Contests • Weird World Records • TV Shows That Were All a Dream • Kalshnikov Pat & the Helicopter Jailbreakers • Odd-phrodisiacs • Japan’s Most Surreal Video Games • News Pundits Gone Wild • The Pacific Garbage Patch • Calamity Jane and the Old West’s Toughest Gals • What Your Nose Says About Your Love Life • Scams That Could Only Be Pulled Off by Identical Twins • Anarchy in the E.R. And much, much more

Graphic Design

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Publisher : Writer's Digest Books
ISBN 13 : 9780891348986
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (489 download)

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Book Synopsis Graphic Design by : Diana Martin

Download or read book Graphic Design written by Diana Martin and published by Writer's Digest Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Graphic Design: Inspirations and Innovations offers you answers. In firsthand accounts by top designers, who nevertheless still must fight the battles of inspiration, creation and client persuasion, you'll see what has worked for them. And what can work for you. You'll also see page after page of terrific design - true marriages of remarkable ideas and graphics talent. Read Graphic Design: Inspirations and Innovations. Let it inspire you to do your best work. Let it help you build good client relationships.

Right to Rock

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Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822386135
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Book Synopsis Right to Rock by : Maureen Mahon

Download or read book Right to Rock written by Maureen Mahon and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2004-06-23 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The original architects of rock ’n’ roll were black musicians including Little Richard, Etta James, and Chuck Berry. Jimi Hendrix electrified rock with his explosive guitar in the late 1960s. Yet by the 1980s, rock music produced by African Americans no longer seemed to be “authentically black.” Particularly within the music industry, the prevailing view was that no one—not black audiences, not white audiences, and not black musicians—had an interest in black rock. In 1985 New York-based black musicians and writers formed the Black Rock Coalition (brc) to challenge that notion and create outlets for black rock music. A second branch of the coalition started in Los Angeles in 1989. Under the auspices of the brc, musicians organized performances and produced recordings and radio and television shows featuring black rock. The first book to focus on the brc, Right to Rock is, like the coalition itself, about the connections between race and music, identity and authenticity, art and politics, and power and change. Maureen Mahon observed and participated in brc activities in New York and Los Angeles, and she conducted interviews with more than two dozen brc members. In Right to Rock she offers an in-depth account of how, for nearly twenty years, members of the brc have broadened understandings of black identity and black culture through rock music.

Arts Digest

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Arts Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Painting Women

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Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421429217
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Painting Women written by Patricia Phillippy and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This original analysis of the representation and self-representation of women in literature and visual arts revolves around multiple early modern senses of "painting": the creation of visual art in the form of paint on canvas and the use of cosmetics to paint women's bodies. Situating her study in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italy, France, and England, Patricia Phillippy brings together three distinct actors: women who paint themselves with cosmetics, women who paint on canvas, and women and men who paint women—either with pigment or with words. Phillippy asserts that early modern attitudes toward painting, cosmetics, and poetry emerge from and respond to a common cultural history. Materially, she connects those who created images of women with pigment to those who applied cosmetics to their own bodies through similar mediums, tools, techniques, and exposure to toxic materials. Discursively, she illuminates historical and social issues such as gender and morality with the nexus of painting, painted women, and women painters. Teasing out the intricate relationships between these activities as carried out by women and their visual and literary representation by women and by men, Phillippy aims to reveal the delineation and transgression of women's creative roles, both artistic and biological. In Painting Women, Phillippy provides a cross-disciplinary study of women as objects and agents of painting.