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I Wrote That One, Too . . .

Author : Steve Dorff
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1540005011
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book I Wrote That One, Too . . . written by Steve Dorff and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Book). One of the most successful songwriters and composers of the last 25 years, Steve Dorff has penned over 20 Top 10 hits for pop and country artists around the world, including Barbra Streisand, Celine Dion, Blake Shelton, Smokey Robinson, Kenny Rogers, Ray Charles, Anne Murray, Whitney Houston, George Strait, Dolly Parton, Judy Collins, Cher, Dusty Springfield, Ringo Starr, and Garth Brooks. He has scored for television shows, including Growing Pains , Major Dad , Murder She Wrote , Reba , and several films, including Any Which Way but Loose for which he penned the titular song, and more recently, he has embarked on Broadway (forthcoming musical Josephine ). Chronicling his four decades behind the music, Steve Dorff gives anecdotes, advice, and insights into his journey. The book follows Steve from his childhood in Queens to Manhattan to Nashville and to his eventual arrival in Los Angeles, California. Oftentimes, songs are attributed to the singers who perform them, but it is the songwriter who really knows the story behind the story from conception to execution. Full of heartfelt stories, hard-earned wisdom, and delightful wit, I Wrote That One, Too . . . is a great read for musicians, music fans, and whoever has chased their dreams and survived the surprising but often serendipitous turns in the road.

Stephen King

Author : Michael Gray Baughan
Publisher : Infobase Learning
ISBN 13 : 1438147783
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Stephen King written by Michael Gray Baughan and published by Infobase Learning. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

I Wrote This Book Because I Love You

Author : Tim Kreider
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9781476738994
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (389 download)

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Download or read book I Wrote This Book Because I Love You written by Tim Kreider and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *A People Top 10 Book of 2018* The New York Times essayist and author of We Learn Nothing, Tim Kreider trains his singular power of observation on his (often befuddling) relationships with women. Psychologists have told him he’s a psychologist. Philosophers have told him he’s a philosopher. Religious groups have invited him to speak. He had a cult following as a cartoonist. But, above all else, Tim Kreider is an essayist—one whose deft prose, uncanny observations, dark humor, and emotional vulnerability have earned him deserved comparisons to David Sedaris, Sarah Vowell, and the late David Foster Wallace (who was himself a fan of Kreider’s humor). “Beautifully written, with just enough humor to balance his spikiness” (Booklist), I Wrote This Book Because I Love You focuses Tim’s unique perception and wit on his relationships with women—romantic, platonic, and the murky in-between. He talks about his difficulty finding lasting love and seeks to understand his commitment issues by tracking down the John Hopkins psychologist who tested him for a groundbreaking study on attachment when he was a toddler. He talks about his valued female friendships, one of which landed him on a circus train bound for Mexico. He talks about his time teaching young women at an upstate New York college, and the profound lessons they wound up teaching him. And in a hugely popular essay that originally appeared in The New York Times, he talks about his nineteen-year-old cat, wondering if it’s the most enduring relationship he’ll ever have. “In a style reminiscent of Orwell, E.B. White and David Sedaris” (The New York Times Book Review), each of these pieces is “heartbreaking, brutal, and hilarious” (Judd Apatow), and collectively they cement Kreider’s place among the best essayists working today.

Who Wrote That?

Author : Donald Ostrowski
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501749722
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Who Wrote That? written by Donald Ostrowski and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who Wrote That? examines nine authorship controversies, providing an introduction to particular disputes and teaching students how to assess historical documents, archival materials, and apocryphal stories, as well as internet sources and news. Donald Ostrowski does not argue in favor of one side over another but focuses on the principles of attribution used to make each case. While furthering the field of authorship studies, Who Wrote That? provides an essential resource for instructors at all levels in various subjects. It is ultimately about historical detective work. Using Moses, Analects, the Secret Gospel of Mark, Abelard and Heloise, the Compendium of Chronicles, Rashid al-Din, Shakespeare, Prince Andrei Kurbskii, James MacPherson, and Mikhail Sholokov, Ostrowski builds concrete examples that instructors can use to help students uncover the legitimacy of authorship and to spark the desire to turn over the hidden layers of history so necessary to the craft.

Who Wrote This?

Author : Naomi S. Baron
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503637905
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Who Wrote This? written by Naomi S. Baron and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-12 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Would you read this book if a computer wrote it? Would you even know? And why would it matter? Today's eerily impressive artificial intelligence writing tools present us with a crucial challenge: As writers, do we unthinkingly adopt AI's time-saving advantages or do we stop to weigh what we gain and lose when heeding its siren call? To understand how AI is redefining what it means to write and think, linguist and educator Naomi S. Baron leads us on a journey connecting the dots between human literacy and today's technology. From nineteenth-century lessons in composition, to mathematician Alan Turing's work creating a machine for deciphering war-time messages, to contemporary engines like ChatGPT, Baron gives readers a spirited overview of the emergence of both literacy and AI, and a glimpse of their possible future. As the technology becomes increasingly sophisticated and fluent, it's tempting to take the easy way out and let AI do the work for us. Baron cautions that such efficiency isn't always in our interest. As AI plies us with suggestions or full-blown text, we risk losing not just our technical skills but the power of writing as a springboard for personal reflection and unique expression. Funny, informed, and conversational, Who Wrote This? urges us as individuals and as communities to make conscious choices about the extent to which we collaborate with AI. The technology is here to stay. Baron shows us how to work with AI and how to spot where it risks diminishing the valuable cognitive and social benefits of being literate.

Who Wrote That?

Author : John Bowman
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1796076627
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Who Wrote That? written by John Bowman and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-01-08 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here’s a book that will appeal to all well-read individuals, at many levels, for many reasons. For starters, as an anthology it is a collection of texts--both fiction and non-fiction—that are just plain engaging, intrinsically so, whoever the author. No wonder, since they are all by some of the most accomplished, most admired, British and American writers of their time and to this day. Then there is the sheer surprise and pleasure in discovering that these texts are so unlike the work associated with these authors—again, authors whose enduring reputations lead you to think you could not be surprised by anything they wrote. And finally, the aspect that makes this anthology unique: the format that invites you to identify, to guess, just who is the author of the texts you have enjoyed. For this is how and why this anthology has been concocted: a deliberate selection of offbeat texts set forth in such a way that you will not learn whether you have guessed the correct author until you turn to the back of the book. And in fact, as “offbeat” as these texts are there are clues—whether in the subject matter, point of view or style—to give the perceptive reader a fair chance of guessing correctly. So go ahead—test your knowledge, your perceptiveness, all the while enjoying a good read!

Who Wrote That Movie?

Author : Chris Wehner
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595292690
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (952 download)

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Download or read book Who Wrote That Movie? written by Chris Wehner and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the director or actors can work their magic onscreen a writer, often working alone, faces the blank page and must be the first to create the magic. Yet the writer is usually ignored by critics eager to give credit to the director or sometimes an actor. Not only that, the original vision of the screenwriter rarely makes it to the screen intact-Imagine if your favorite movie could have even been better had that image-conscious actress not demanded changes to the script? The screenplays and movies discussed include: A Beautiful Mind Adaptation Almost Famous Ararat Black Hawk Down Blade 2 Cast Away Catch Me if You Can City by the Sea The Cell Dancer in the Dark Far From Heaven Frailty The Gift Gladiator John Q. Insomnia In the Bedroom Memento MIB2 Minority Report Monster's Ball Ocean's Eleven Panic Room Pay it Forward Pearl Harbor Proof of Life Road to Perdition Signs Spy Game We Were Soldiers Windtalkers Traffic Unbreakable

Who Wrote the Rest of It?

Author : Rumaisa Qadri
Publisher : Partridge Publishing Singapore
ISBN 13 : 1543740758
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (437 download)

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Download or read book Who Wrote the Rest of It? written by Rumaisa Qadri and published by Partridge Publishing Singapore. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the place where you will observe how the relationship of many things, whether big or small; many circumstances, whether good or bad; and many people, whether common or important in our lives, shows its effect in our personalities. I believe that in every step of our life, we learn something that influences us. We learn, learn, and learn from professionals as well as nonprofessionals. Life always challenges us with lots of things, and as we learn how to win, life comes up with the other big or small challenge.

The Man Who Wrote Dirty Books

Author : Hal Dresner
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497605768
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book The Man Who Wrote Dirty Books written by Hal Dresner and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An author of racy novels heads to picturesque Vermont to finish his manuscript—but finds his retreat less than peaceful—in this “bright, slapstick comedy” (The New York Times). Told through a sequence of exchanged letters, this comic novel introduces softcore pornographer “Guy LaDouche” as he heads to the wilderness in the hope of solitude and concentration to write his next book under a looming deadline. Instead of peace, he finds harassment and distraction—from his publisher, his old girlfriend, and an angry father convinced that LaDouche’s last novel, featuring a genuine nymphomaniac, was based on the man’s daughter. Soon, the author also finds his quiet getaway plan beset by a lawsuit and investigation by the FBI and local sheriff. Clever, satirical, and at times over-the-top absurd, The Man Who Wrote Dirty Books has been delighting readers since its first publication in 1964. “A very funny tale. . . . It would not be quite true to report that The Man Who Wrote Dirty Books contains no word capable of bringing the blush of shame to the cheek of modesty, but it is perfectly true that the thing is neither a dirty book nor about them.” —The Atlantic

Who Wrote the Bible?

Author : Richard Friedman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 198212900X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book Who Wrote the Bible? written by Richard Friedman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A much anticipated reissue of Who Wrote the Bible?—the contemporary classic the New York Times Book Review called “a thought-provoking [and] perceptive guide” that identifies the individual writers of the Pentateuch and explains what they can teach us about the origins of the Bible. For thousands of years, the prophet Moses was regarded as the sole author of the first five books of the Bible, known as the Pentateuch. According to tradition, Moses was divinely directed to write down foundational events in the history of the world: the creation of humans, the worldwide flood, the laws as they were handed down at Mt. Sinai, and the cycle of Israel’s enslavement and liberation from Egypt. However, these stories—and their frequent discrepancies—provoke questions: why does the first chapter in Genesis say that man and woman were made in God’s image, while the second says that woman was made from man’s rib? Why does one account of the flood say it lasted forty days, while another records no less than one hundred? And why do some stories reflect the history of southern Judah, while others seem sourced from northern Israel? Originally published in 1987, Richard Friedman’s Who Wrote the Bible? joins a host of modern scholars who show that the Pentateuch was written by at least four distinct voices—separated by borders, political alliances, and particular moments in history—then connected by brilliant editors. Rather than cast doubt onto the legitimacy of the Bible, Friedman uses these divergent accounts to illuminate a text that was written by real people. Friedman’s seminal and bestselling text is a comprehensive and authoritative answer to the question: just who exactly wrote the Bible?

A Layman's Guide to Who Wrote the Books of the Bible?

Author : C. Trickler
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1425984533
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (259 download)

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Download or read book A Layman's Guide to Who Wrote the Books of the Bible? written by C. Trickler and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2007 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pursued by menacing strangers through her small Midwest city, twelve-year-old Alyssha Dodson takes refuge in a mysterious room under a bridge, a place that turns out to be a doorway into another universe. In the country where she then finds herself, Alyssha learns that the pursuit has not ended. A powerful and sinister man, Lord Raf Var Ne, seeks to gain possession of an object she was given years ago by her older brother a few days before he went missing. Told she can't return to her own world, she begins a search for that brother, aided by Lord Raf's charming but impetuous stepson. In the process, the two become involved in a revolutionary conflict. Underland is the story of a girl's coming of age in the midst of an adventure like no other.

Your Song Changed My Life

Author : Bob Boilen
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062344463
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Your Song Changed My Life written by Bob Boilen and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the beloved host and creator of NPR’s All Songs Considered and Tiny Desk Concerts comes an essential oral history of modern music, told in the voices of iconic and up-and-coming musicians, including Dave Grohl, Jimmy Page, Michael Stipe, Carrie Brownstein, Smokey Robinson, and Jeff Tweedy, among others—published in association with NPR Music. Is there a unforgettable song that changed your life? NPR’s renowned music authority Bob Boilen posed this question to some of today’s best-loved musical legends and rising stars. In Your Song Changed My Life, Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin), St. Vincent, Jónsi (Sigur Rós), Justin Vernon (Bon Iver), Cat Power, David Byrne (Talking Heads), Dave Grohl (Nirvana, Foo Fighters), Jeff Tweedy (Wilco), Jenny Lewis, Carrie Brownstein (Portlandia, Sleater-Kinney), Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens), Colin Meloy (The Decemberists), Trey Anastasio (Phish), Jackson Browne, Valerie June, Philip Glass, James Blake, and other artists reflect on pivotal moments that inspired their work. For Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy, it was discovering his sister’s 45 of The Byrds’ “Turn, Turn, Turn.” A young St. Vincent’s life changed the day a box of CDs literally fell off a delivery truck in front of her house. Cat Stevens was transformed when he heard John Lennon cover “Twist and Shout.” These are the momentous yet unmarked events that have shaped these and many other musical talents, and ultimately the sound of modern music. A diverse collection of personal experiences, both ordinary and extraordinary, Your Song Changed My Life illustrates the ways in which music is revived, restored, and revolutionized. It is also a testament to the power of music in our lives, and an inspiration for future artists and music lovers. Amazing contributors include: Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin), Carrie Brownstein (Sleater-Kinney, Portlandia, Wild Flag), Smokey Robinson, David Byrne (Talking Heads), St. Vincent, Jeff Tweedy (Wilco), James Blake, Colin Meloy (The Decemberists), Trey Anastasio (Phish), Jenny Lewis (Rilo Kiley), Dave Grohl (Nirvana, Foo Fighters), Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens), Sturgill Simpson, Justin Vernon (Bon Iver), Cat Power, Jackson Browne, Michael Stipe (R.E.M.), Philip Glass, Jónsi (Sigur Rós), Hozier, Regina Carter, Conor Oberst (Bright Eyes, and others), Courtney Barnett, Chris Thile (Nickel Creek, Punch Brothers), Leon Bridges, Sharon Van Etten, and many more.

Who Wrote Shakespeare's Plays?

Author : William D. Rubinstein
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445609320
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Who Wrote Shakespeare's Plays? written by William D. Rubinstein and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2012-02-15 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating look at one of English literature's greatest mysteries.

"Who Wrote Eikōn Basilikē?"

Author : Christopher Wordsworth
Publisher : London Murray 1824.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book "Who Wrote Eikōn Basilikē?" written by Christopher Wordsworth and published by London Murray 1824.. This book was released on 1824 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Who Wrote the Book of Life?

Author : Lily E. Kay
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804734172
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book Who Wrote the Book of Life? written by Lily E. Kay and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a detailed history of one of the most important and dramatic episodes in modern science, recounted from the novel vantage point of the dawn of the information age and its impact on representations of nature, heredity, and society. Drawing on archives, published sources, and interviews, the author situates work on the genetic code (1953-70) within the history of life science, the rise of communication technosciences (cybernetics, information theory, and computers), the intersection of molecular biology with cryptanalysis and linguistics, and the social history of postwar Europe and the United States. Kay draws out the historical specificity in the process by which the central biological problem of DNA-based protein synthesis came to be metaphorically represented as an information code and a writing technologyand consequently as a book of life. This molecular writing and reading is part of the cultural production of the Nuclear Age, its power amplified by the centuries-old theistic resonance of the book of life metaphor. Yet, as the author points out, these are just metaphors: analogies, not ontologies. Necessary and productive as they have been, they have their epistemological limitations. Deploying analyses of language, cryptology, and information theory, the author persuasively argues that, technically speaking, the genetic code is not a code, DNA is not a language, and the genome is not an information system (objections voiced by experts as early as the 1950s). Thus her historical reconstruction and analyses also serve as a critique of the new genomic biopower. Genomic textuality has become a fact of life, a metaphor literalized, she claims, as human genome projects promise new levels of control over life through the meta-level of information: control of the word (the DNA sequences) and its editing and rewriting. But the author shows how the humbling limits of these scriptural metaphors also pose a challenge to the textual and material mastery of the genomic book of life.

Who Wrote the Bible?

Author : Washington Gladden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 3752302542
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (523 download)

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Download or read book Who Wrote the Bible? written by Washington Gladden and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-16 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Who Wrote the Bible? by Washington Gladden

The Man Who Wrote the Teddy Bears' Picnic

Author : J. J. Kennedy
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 146788569X
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (678 download)

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Download or read book The Man Who Wrote the Teddy Bears' Picnic written by J. J. Kennedy and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-11-04 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A first biography of one of Britain's leading lyric songwriters. The Man Who Wrote The Teddy Bears' Picnic tells the story of Irish-born Jimmy Kennedy, one of the last - and arguably the finest - of the professional Tin Pan Alley songwriters of the pre-Beatles 'golden age' of popular song. A fascinating insight into the life of a man who rose from small town beginnings to become for fifty years the lyrical and musical power behind some of the twentieth centurys top popular song entertainers from the days of Variety right up to The Beatles era. Jimmy had something like 30 No. 1 hits to his credit worldwide but is little known outside of music business circles. The book, written by his younger son, ex journalist J.J.Kennedy, sets out to remedy this omission and celebrates his contribution to the genre. Though his romantic ballads like Red Sails in the Sunset continue to be played all round the world, Jimmy is possibly best rembered today for the Cokey Cokey, which he adapted from a Canadian folk song in 1943, and The Teddy Bears' Picnic, which gave magical childrens' words to an old American tune. Well written and easy to read, the book serves as an excellent historical record of pop and is full of facts, observations and authoritative comment on the cut and thrust village that was Tin Pan Alley. It captures the bustle of the place and its almost industrial approach to song creation. It paints a colourful picture of some of the leading characters of the period and exposes the double dealing, greed and downright exploitation prevalent in that world. But the book also creates a romantic mysticism around the characters who dashed around in Denmark street, peddling their talent so often in vain. It transports you to smoky little rooms with music coming from every corridor and it tells the story in black and white, like an old Hollywood movie. Swimming among all these sharks is the unlikely figure of Jimmy Kennedy dapper and charming, modest and artistically fine-tuned, yet steely, resilient and highly commercial. A man who could spot the financial worth of his work, write to order sometimes in lightning-quick time and stand his ground when he knew he had a hit. He was in fact, a one man hit machine. But it wasnt always one man, and the book illuminates the winning partnerships with Michael Carr, Will Grosz et al. One of the key strengths of the book is its nostalgia appeal and has some wonderful anecdotes including recollections from Terry Wogan, Val Doonican and others and non-musical people such as Denis and Margaret Thatcher. All in all, a very intelligent book and one which will become a work of reference for anyone studying the popular music art form of the twentieth century.