The author considers a brave new world where the old economic certainties are bring undermined by a growing flood of free goods. He explains why this has become possible-why new technologies, such as the internet, have caused production and distribution costs in many sectors to plummet to an extent unthinkable even a decade ago.
This book examines the most salient and misunderstood aspect of twentieth-century poetry, free verse. Although the form is generally approached as if it were one indissoluble lump, it is actually a group of differing poetic genres proceeding from much different assumptions. Separate chapters on T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, H.D., and William Carlos Williams elucidate many of these assumptions and procedures, while other chapters address more general theoretical questions and trace the continuity of Modern poetics in contemporary poetry. Taking a historical and aesthetic approach, this study demonstrates that many of the forms considered to have been invented in the Modern period actually extend underappreciated traditions. Not only does this book examine the classical influence on Modern poetry, it also features discussions of the poetics of John Milton, Abraham Cowley, Matthew Arnold, and a host of lesser-known poets. Throughout it is an investigation of the prosodic issues that free verse foregrounds, particularly those focusing on the reader's part in interpreting poetic rhythm.
Four best friends. Four ways to serve their country. Morris, Rudi, Ivan, and Beck are best friends for life. So when one of the teens is drafted into the Vietnam War, the others sign up, too. Although they each serve in a different branch, they are fighting the war together -- and they promise to do all they can to come home together.Rudi is perhaps the most concerned about whether or not he'll be able to keep that promise. After all -- and he'd be the first to admit this -- he's not the most capable guy. He's not smart like Beck, or brave like Ivan. He lacks the strength of Morris's moral convictions.But once Rudi is pulled kicking and screaming into the Marines, he at last finds something he's good at: following orders. Will that be enough to keep him alive? And if he does survive the war, will his best friends even recognize him on the other side?
Hi. In your hands, right now, you hold the culmination of thousands of years of human intelligence, ingenuity, and brilliance. Now put your goddamn phone down and pay attention to my book. What is in my book, you ask? (I'm really glad you asked, by the way, because now I get to tell you.) Time travel. Gay marriage. Sportsballing. Futuristic goggles that DO NOTHING. Tiny brags from my publisher, stuff like: "This is an uproarious, uncensored take on empathy, personal responsibility, and what it means to be human." Excessive brags about myself: "An extraordinarily clever, punishingly funny, sharp-tongued blogosphere star, NFL player, husband and father, one-time violin prodigy, voracious lifetime reader, obsessive gamer, and fearless champion of personal freedom." Oh, and also an essay on the Pope's Twitter account. Honestly, if that doesn't draw you in, there's no hope left for humanity. I also give my own funeral eulogy, in case you were hoping I'd go away and die now! So please, join me in the glorious art of windmill tilting by reading this "collection of rousing, uncensored personal essays, letters, and stories" (I have no idea why that's in quotes). Join the herd of Beautifully Unique Sparkleponies. (You know you want to.)
Chris Barez-Brown, author of SHINE, brings us a new book which inspires you to set your own rules at work, and make your job work for you. 'Life and work are intrinsically linked. They are not separate; they are one. If we want to live an extraordinary life, we have to make our work equally extraordinary. When your work resonates with purpose, you jump out of bed every morning, excited by the possibilities the day holds for you. Everything else in your life seems to have a glow about it, and you exude much more personal shine. My aim in writing this book is to help you feel like that every day. To help you make your work work for you. To feel truly free. Reading FREE will: -Remind you that you are fantastic and have the ability to do amazing things. -Show you that work is your slave, not the other way round. -Help you make work your ticket to an extraordinary future. Put you in the driving seat and show you a route to freedom.' 'Buy this book and free your mind, life and career' Shaa Wasmund, bestselling author of Stop Talking, Start Doing 'Successful people love what they do. You can too. Read FREE and learn how to make work work for you' Marshall Goldsmith, bestselling author of What Got You Here Won't Get You There Chris Baréz-Brown is on a mission to bring creative leadership to the business world and beyond. After helping turn Carling Black Label into the first British billion pound brand, he joined ?What If!, the innovation and ideas agency. There he helped some of the world's biggest businesses get better at innovating. In 2009 he founded Upping Your Elvis, a business whose sole focus is to release the genius of organisations by helping their people shine more brightly. He works with the likes of Coca-Cola, Nike, Diageo and WPP to help their teams make an extraordinary impact. His previous book,SHINE: HOW TO SURVIVE AND THRIVE AT WORK, found a global audience. As Seth Godin said, 'This book doesn't read: it buzzes.
Free Exercise is an innovative contribution to both United States constitutional history and the history of religious toleration in the United States. It traces the routes by which Americans arrived at the First Amendment's religious clauses, the cultural currents that shaped their meaning, and the consequences that flowed from them.
This book chronicles the process of creating a documentary that shares the story of Derek Free and other patients with Diamond Blackfan Anemia. DBA is considered an "orphan disease," one that affects so few people that it is not profitable to pharmaceutical companies, and therefore does not justify research. Until recently, not enough people had the disease to justify governmental aid. A transformation towards hope reveals a disease that is defying odds and treading new ground for the possibility of a cure. The small documentary interviews Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Beth Whitehouse (author of The Match: "Savior Siblings" and One Families Battle to Heal Their Daughter, the story of the Trebing family), Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy, Dr. David Bodine from the National Institutes of Health, Drs. Jeffrey Lipton and Adrianna Vlachos from Cohen Children's Hospital, the Diamond Blackfan Anemia Foundation's founder, Dawn Baumgardner, and Marie Arturi, founder of the Daniella Maria Arturi Foundation.
You don't need to own a car to live well in America. In fact, you'd probably be better off without one. In this groundbreaking guide, award-winning journalist Chris Balish exposes the true costs of car ownership and shows how car-free living can put anyone on the path to financial freedom. Using the book's car cost worksheet, first figure out how much owning a car really costs-you'll be surprised. Then, see how easy it is to transition to a car-free or car-lite lifestyle using Chris's strategies for commuting, running errands, taking trips, dating, socializing, and more. You'll also find hundreds of tips and success stories from car-free people in cities and suburbs across America. Without car payments, rising gas prices, and traffic jams to worry about, you'll have more money and leisure time to spend as you choose. Discover why getting rid of your car may be the soundest and sanest lifestyle change you can make. Reviews View a video clip from NBC's Today Show: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25609661/ "Chris Balish offers a mix of the practical-a worksheet to figure out a car's total cost and impact-as well as the horrifying: The average American walks just 300 yards a day." —Sierra Magazine "If ever there was a practical inducement to get out of the car trap, this is it. For the multitude of Americans stuck in traffic and spending thousands of dollars a year on their cars, Chris's lively and pragmatic step-by-step solutions provide a way out." —Jane Holtz Kay, author of Asphalt Nation "Chris Balish's book can help environmentally conscious Americans live their values. If you're concerned about pollution and global warming, follow the program in these pages. There can be life without a car. And a good life at that!" —Ed Begley, Jr., actor and environmental activist "[Chris Balish's] prescriptions are feasible and most important, reasonable." —San Antonio Express News "Even if living car-free or car-lite isn't for you, you'll still learn a lot from this book. I did." —Michelle Singletary, Washington Post Listen to Chris Balish talk about living car-free in Los Angeles on NPR's Morning Edition.
“I didn’t do it!” is something cops hear all the time. But when the plea comes from a close friend who’s fallen on hard times, it’s tougher to ignore, especially for young Officer Danny Boyle.It’s the start of another action-packed summer for the wise cracking Boyle and straight-arrow cop (now Chief of Detectives) John Ceepak down the Jersey Shore as they do their best to help Danny’s friend, a young nurse who claims she has been falsely accused of aggravated assault. Ceepak’s unshakable code of honor is tested when he trusts that the nurse is telling the truth. It’s stretched to the limit when one of the nurse’s home health care patients turns up dead. Now Ceepak and Danny must answer the hard and horrible question: “Did we just help a friend get away with murder?”Get ready for another fun and fast-paced page-turner from Anthony and Agatha award-winner Chris Grabenstein.
The online economy offers challenges to traditional businesses as well as incredible opportunities. Chris Anderson makes the compelling case that in many instances businesses can succeed best by giving away more than they charge for. Known as "Freemium," this combination of free and paid is emerging as one of the most powerful digital business models. In Free, Chris Anderson explores this radical idea for the new global economy and demonstrates how it can be harnessed for the benefit of consumers and businesses alike. In the twenty-first century, Free is more than just a promotional gimmick: It's a business strategy that is essential to a company's successful future.
You’re searching desperately for a breakthrough. But as night creeps in and earth rains down around you, faith begins to fade. Now what? Free Cash and Coffee shines a guiding light, so you can discover • Hope (that the best is yet to come) • Happiness & Prosperity (especially in trying times) • Your Inner Savage (for a remarkable life) • Your Unique Voice (it’s in there) • Freedom (as God intended) Mental Toughness Bonus Includes easy-to-use Technology Addiction Breaker and Anxiety & Depression Breaker exercises for mood-lifting relief and a positive frame of mind. Written for all Learners—auditory, visual, kinesthetic, and reading & writing—Free Cash and Coffee ignites spiritual revolution!
Overcome failed Christian church mediocrity and embrace the abundant life as a disciple of Christ. God wants you to be abundant in ALL 8 areas of life - not just a couple...For both Christians and non-Christians who love God, this book Spiritually and Financially Free will: -Explain the one thing that is holding you back from becoming abundant. -Help you to become your true, empowered, authentic self. -Explain the origins of your self-sabotage and how to get over it once and for all. -Help you to see the value of ALL of the "bad things" that happened in your life.-Explain how to never give up on yourself. -Explain the one trick that gets visualization to work every time. -Explain what you really want and how to get that NOW. -Help you to become a true, covenant leader using examples from the Bible. -Explain how to use the latest energy healing techniques in order to gain confidence and overcome limiting beliefs.-Inspire you to be not only the best version of yourself, but your best version 24/7, as a disciple of Christ. The problem is that the Christian churches are not helping their people enough to bring Christ consciousness into their daily lives. But when you combine the advice from this book, the latest self-help techniques, along with Christ consciousness, nothing can stop you from finally getting the abundant life that you deserve. There has never been a more crucial or critical moment in human history than now for true Christians to stand up and take the lead in business, politics, and in their personal lives too. Christianity is under attack, and we need to step up! Let this book help to inspire and guide you to become the best covenant leader that you can in ALL areas of your life. Let preacher, entrepreneur, business owner and coach Chris McGrath take you by the hand and lead you to become spiritually and financially free, once and for all. There truly isn't a moment to waste in reading this book and applying all of what you will learn given all of the craziness in the world today... Buy it, read it, and apply it before it's too late! There is a supplementary weekly/monthly/yearly workbook planner sold separately to further help you to get on track, accomplish all of your important goals, and embrace the covenant leader who you really are...For more information go to: www.BorntoBeAlive.info
Thank you for taking a few moments of your time to look at my guide. Take its hand and come alongone scene of life at a time, one past picture at a time, and one full indelible life lasting tattoo, like a branded number for a name. All we were left with as a peoples, a family, a race, a culture or even as a name you can help trace back that missing link, that cast away tribe, a blood or even a DNA connection. Yes, you could help us, and we All would be eternally grateful in our appreciation to YOU... So you see, but do you understand, just how difficult a task, or such a search, is to us as we try to find our past? Think of losing all your identity for over 400 years and finally finding a word, afile, or a disc which shows a connection to your past... Would you walk by and ignore it or step into the fray as you searched for that scene where-from you perhaps DID come......? So thank you for stopping to show a little interest.....dnc
This book is a collections of gluten-free recipes from the 2013 year. Originally I was going to make a year's worth of recipes and the following year I would post them to an internet blog. Half way through the year I didn't like that idea anymore, I wanted to go right to the book. I came up with the idea of a 'book blog' which is more or less the same thing as a blog, just in book form rather than on the internet. A glorified Christmas Letter if you will, with recipes to accompany it. I did in the end, try to include as many different types of recipes as I could, with a good mix of breakfasts, lunches, dinners and deserts.
A short memoir of a huge hoax. The true story of a student who, to publicise Plymouth Charities Week, created the Free Cornish Army and convinced the UK media that Cornwall had risen up and declared independence. As he told police at the time, "It was only a small country, and I did give it back." But how do you follow a hoax that pushed the 1974 general election result off the front page? Well... This 36-page memoir contains five hilarious stories from Chris's early life - from the Free Cornish Army and other outrageous Rag Week stunts, to the day he created the most aggressive chess program the world has ever seen. Chris Dolley's first memoir - French Fried: One Man's Move to France With Too Many Animals and an Identity Thief - was a New York Times bestseller. "A splendid hoax," - Punch
A comprehensive portrait of a uniquely American epidemic--devastating in its findings and damning in its conclusions The opioid epidemic has been described as "one of the greatest mistakes of modern medicine." But calling it a mistake is a generous rewriting of the history of greed, corruption, and indifference that pushed the US into consuming more than 80 percent of the world's opioid painkillers. Journeying through lives and communities wrecked by the epidemic, Chris McGreal reveals not only how Big Pharma hooked Americans on powerfully addictive drugs, but the corrupting of medicine and public institutions that let the opioid makers get away with it. The starting point for McGreal's deeply reported investigation is the miners promised that opioid painkillers would restore their wrecked bodies, but who became targets of "drug dealers in white coats." A few heroic physicians warned of impending disaster. But American Overdose exposes the powerful forces they were up against, including the pharmaceutical industry's coopting of the Food and Drug Administration and Congress in the drive to push painkillers--resulting in the resurgence of heroin cartels in the American heartland. McGreal tells the story, in terms both broad and intimate, of people hit by a catastrophe they never saw coming. Years in the making, its ruinous consequences will stretch years into the future.
What happens when advances in technology allow many things to be produced for more or less nothing? And what happens when those things are then made available to the consumer for free? In his groundbreaking new book, The Long Tail author Chris Anderson considers a brave new world where the old economic certainties are being undermined by a growing flood of free goods - newspapers, DVDs, T-shirts, phones, even holiday flights. He explains why this has become possible - why new technologies, particularly the Internet, have caused production and distribution costs in many sectors to plummet to an extent unthinkable even a decade ago. He shows how the flexibility provided by the online world allows producers to trade ever more creatively, offering items for free to make real or perceived gains elsewhere. He pinpoints the winners and the losers in the Free universe. And he demonstrates the ways in which, as an increasing number of things become available for free, our decisions to make use of them will be determined by two resources far more valuable than money: the popular reputation of what is on offer and the time we have available for it. In the future, he argues, when we talk of the 'money economy' we will talk of the 'reputation economy' and the 'time economy' in the same breath, and our world will never be the same again.
Do you love a good book? Of course you do otherwise you won't be reading this description. Bookstore in the Box is your one stop for finding thousands of good and completely free stories. Bookstore in the Box shows you: • Where to read books from the classics to comics for free. • A website that the reader can use to find out whether a library has the book, DVD, CD on its shelves even without the reader leaving his or her computer. • Find old time radio dramas that feature classic entertainers such as Jack Benny and Burns and Allen as well as new audio dramas such as Supper Human Times and Shadow Falls. • Need statistics, facts or figures? Book store in a Box Has those too. Available to the reader is a complete reference section ready to use at the click of a mouse. From Census data to information on pirates and much more. • Every wanted to take a class at Yale, Harvard or one of the many colleges offering video lectures online. Here is your chance. Learn everything from US History to the Psychology of Food and everything in between. There are thousands of fascinating classes including, one med school lecture complete with a neat but gross video lecture on the dissection of the brain. • Maybe it's a skill you're looking for like how to do someone's hair in a French Bun or how to make fondant roses. From the usual to the not so usual skills, Bookstore in a Box has what you’re looking for. • Do you love the first amendment? The author does, so Bookstore in a Box has a section on censorship. The section covers what books have been censored covering the when, why, where and how. So come one come all the bookstore is now open.
Read the first 12 chapters in the compelling, action-packed, science fiction adventure from acclaimed film producer, director, and screenwriter Chris Weitz. Summary:After a mysterious Sickness wipes out the rest of the population, the young survivors assemble into tightly run tribes. Jefferson, the reluctant leader of the Washington Square tribe, and Donna, the girl he's secretly in love with, have carved out a precarious existence among the chaos. But when another tribe member discovers a clue that may hold the cure to the Sickness, five teens set out on a life-altering road trip to save humankind. The tribe exchanges gunfire with enemy gangs, escapes cults and militias, braves the wilds of the subway and Central Park...and discovers truths they could never have imagined.
Today you can build powerful, enduring brands at amazingly low cost -- without expensive ad campaigns, huge marketing budgets, self-interested outside agencies, or deep specialized expertise. [...] Chris Grams integrates classic brand positioning concepts with 21st century digital strategies, tools, and practices. Grams presents great new ways to collaboratively uncover, communicate, and evolve your ideal brand position, embed it in organizational culture, and work with your brand community to make it come to life. This step-by-step guide will lead you through the entire brand positioning process, while providing all you need to build a winning brand on a tight budget!"--Back cover.
Breaking Free is about making the transition from working for the man to working for yourself by starting your own business or freelancing. By focusing on the personal experiences, ideas, and actions of a variety of self-employed people—including freelance writers, contractors, service providers, store owners and franchisees, sales reps, and others—this book offers readers deep insights into the ideas and decisions required to make self-employment a reality. Along the way, author and self-employed professional Chris Lauer offers a wealth of practical small-business insights and tips. Breaking Free thus offers would-be entrepreneurs and freelancers something priceless—both the skills and encouragement required to shake free of corporate shackles and take the leap into small-scale entrepreneurship. Featuring real stories about the initial spark that motivated individuals to pursue independence and entrepreneurship, Breaking Free follows a variety of entrepreneurs as they move from their jobs as employees to the ranks of the self-employed. It also covers the nuts and bolts of self-employment—pricing and marketing services, keeping an eye on the bottom line, and growing the business, among other topics. In addition, Lauer focuses on the advances in technology that make self-employment easier today than ever before. Unlike most books on self-employment, Lauer uses vivid, real-life stories and tips to help would-be entrepreneurs decide the route that is best for them. Experienced entrepreneurs describe how they came up with ideas for their businesses, how they kept their ventures in motion during the early days and over the long term, how they grew, and when they recognized it was time to call it quits and sell or shutter the business. This is not a book for the next Bill Gates, but for the majority of new business owners and those dreaming of creating their own jobs: people ready to take a few risks to make a decent living on their own terms and gain some independence. Both descriptive and prescriptive, Breaking Free presents the latest ways to capitalize on today's many opportunities for self-sufficiency and financial autonomy.
Is your cable bill to high? Were you one of the thousands affected by the analog digital crossover, and now you're not getting any TV at all? Tired of the video store being out of the movie you want to see? Do you just want to save some of your hard earned cash in these trying economic times. If you answered yes to any of these questions then Video Store in a Box: The Guide to Free Television and Movies on the Internet is for you. This book will show you how to watch thousands of current and older television shows and movies for free online. Well known websites like Hulu, Fancast and Crackle are featured in the book as well as lesser known websites that feature shows including: Steven King's The N, IQ 145 and Heathens. The book has step by step directions, with screenshots to get you up and watching your favorite TV shows and movies in minutes. The author's contact information is also included if you have any questions feel free to email. Video Store in a Box Features: -What tools you will need to watch TV and movies on the Internet and where to download them for free.-What types of TV and movies are available online? -How to easily locate when a TV show or movie will next be shown on broadcast TV as well as online. The types of TV shows and movies covered include: Current Shows(Revolution, Bones) -Past shows(Bonanza, Cheers) -Cartoons(Liberty's Kids, The Amazing Spiderman) -Fan made Series(Star Trek: Phase Two, Dark Shadows) -Older Movies(Ghostbusters, Ace Ventura) -Fan made Films: (Quantum Leap: A Leap to Di for) -Documentaries(Supersize Me, Sicko) -Original Web Only Series(H+, Sorority Forever) So what are you going to watch tonight?
One of the few voices to challenge George Monbiot on the future of food and farming (and the restoration of nature) is academic, farmer and author of A Small Farm Future Chris Smaje. In Saying NO to a Farm-Free Future, Smaje presents his defence of agroecological, small-scale farming and a robust critique of Monbiot’s vision for an urban and industrialised future. Responding to Monbiot’s portrayal of an urban, high-energy, industrially manufactured food future as the answer to our current crises, and its unchallenged acceptance within the environmental discourse, Smaje was compelled to challenge Monbiot’s evidence and conclusions. At the same time, Smaje presents his powerful counterargument – a low-carbon agrarian localism that puts power in the hands of local communities, not high-tech corporates. In the ongoing fight for our food future, this book will help you to understand the difference between a congenial, ecological living and a dystopian, factory-centred existence. A must-read!
Chris Lynam left a passion for screenwriting to pursue a summer job as a dance teacher. More than two decades later, he found a way to combine both passions as the co-owner of seven of the top Arthur Murray Dance Studios in the world with his wife and dance partner, Daisey. Chris firmly believes that behind the atmosphere of glitter, Tango dancing, and spray tans lies one of the greatest customer service organizations in the world. The close proximity to the clients creates a level of service where the help desk lies within a dance frame and the connection is impossible to fake. That is high touch service. In a business landscape that has been hit with hardship, wouldn’t it be crazy if the answers were right there, dancing in the background? In the past, customer service might have been the difference between a good online review and a bad one. Today, it might be the difference between staying in business and shutting down. With five customer service components, you and your business can become masters of high touch service, even in a touch free environment. Learn how to make a lasting connection with your customers; speak with clarity, conviction, and confidence; and never again leave the customer experience up to chance.
FlavorGod has released his debut cookbook called Paleo and Gluten-Free Recipe eBook, a perfect blend of healthy and savory. Complete with pictures as delicious as the food, this eBook takes Paleo and Gluten-Free recipes to the pinnacle of flavor, with directions so easy anyone can feel like a FlavorGod! Didn’t think Paleo and Gluten-free could satisfy all of your wild cravings? Think again! This cookbook will bring out the primal chef in everyone. FlavorGod adds the perfect amount of zest to prepare dishes that are both tasty and creative.
This book examines the facts versus the fiction in relation to the beliefs of the Abrahamic religions, in particular, Christianity. Are the things you believe based on facts or are they fictitious? This book might help you find out but it will be up to you whether or not you accept reality over superstition.
Modern Power and Free Speech explores the complicated relationship between the First Amendment and culturally disempowered groups within the United States. By focusing on hate speech, Internet pornography, and political dissent, Chris Demaske analyzes First Amendment discourse and doctrine, and questions the role of the concept of the autonomous individual. Demaske asserts that the presupposed equality of so-called autonomous individuals does not exist and goes on to show how these specious claims to equality only serve to further silence those marginalized members of American society. Combining legal analysis. First Amendment theory, feminist theory, and political theory, Demaske addresses the inadequacies of current free
Are you one of the 1.5 Million children being educated in an alternative school setting (Virtual School Home School or Independent study) or just a student in need of help in school. If you answered yes then Tutor in the Box is for you. This resource rich book will show you where the best education resources are on the internet. Less• Are you one of the 1.5 Million children being educated in an alternative school setting (Virtual School Home School or Independent Study)? • Are you one of the thousands of parents who spends their Saturdays at the local coffee with other parents trying to figure out their kid’s homework so you can help? • Are you tired of educators telling you there are resources on the internet but not where they are? • Would you like to put fun back into your child’s education? If you answered yes to any of the questions then Tutor in the Box is for you. This resource rich book will show you where the best education resources are on the internet, The book is set up like a fictional school day with the following sections: • Math • Language • Recess (Education games) • Social Studies • Art and Music • Science • Virtual Field Trips • Continuing Education (Free how to videos and college lectures) • Computer Programs • Free Clipart and Sound Effects So if educational resources are what you’re looking for there is a tutor in the box you call a computer just waiting to help a person in need.
Leisure has always been associated with freedom, choice and flexibility. The week-end and vacations were celebrated as 'time off'. In his compelling new book, Chris Rojek turns this shibboleth on its head to demonstrate how leisure has become a form of labour. Modern men and women are required to be competent, relevant and credible, not only in the work place but with their mates, children, parents and communities. The requisite empathy for others, socially acceptable values and correct forms of self-presentation demand work. Much of this work is concentrated in non-work activity, compromising traditional connections between leisure and freedom. Ranging widely from an analysis of the inflated aspirations of the leisure society thesis to the culture of deception that permeates leisure choice, Rojek shows how leisure is inextricably linked to emotional labour and intelligence. It is now a school for life. In challenging the orthodox understandings of freedom and free time, The Labour of Leisure sets out an indispensable new approach to the meaning of leisure. Chris Rojek is Professor of Sociology and Culture at Brunel University. In 2003 he was awarded the Allen V. Sapora Award for outstanding achievement in the field of leisure studies.
Voices Found: Free Jazz and Singing contributes to a wave of voice studies scholarship with the first book-length study of free jazz voice. It pieces together a history of free jazz voice that spans from sound poetry and scat in the 1950s to the more recent wave of free jazz choirs. The author traces the developments and offers a theory, derived from interviews with many of the most important singers in the history of free jazz voice, of how listeners have experienced and evaluated the often unconventional vocal sounds these vocalists employed. This theory explains that even audiences willing to enjoy harsh sounds from saxophones or guitars often resist when voices make sounds that audiences understand as not-human. Experimental poetry and scat were combined and transformed in free jazz spaces in the 1960s and 1970s by vocalists like Yoko Ono (in solo work and her work with Ornette Coleman and John Stevens), Jeanne Lee (in her solo work and her work with Archie Shepp and Gunter Hampel), Leon Thomas (in his solo work as well as his work with Pharoah Sanders and Carlos Santana), and Phil Minton and Maggie Nicols (who devoted much of their energy to creating unaccompanied free jazz vocal music). By studying free jazz voice we can learn important lessons about what we expect from the voice and what happens when those expectations are violated. This book doesn't only trace histories of free jazz voice, it makes an attempt to understand why this story hasn't been told before, with an impressive breadth of scope in terms of the artists covered, drawing on research from the US, Canada, Wales, Scotland, France, The Netherlands, and Japan.
The Paleo Slow Cooker is Whole30 recommended and approved. Note: This is a revised and updated edition.The Paleodiet has been the latest health movement, taking the low carb diet a step further by eliminating grains and legumes and eating only lean, grass-fed meat. In short they consume only what was available to ancient humans or cavemen. The theory says that by eating what human bodies were designed to eat, people will be healthier, have fewer illnesses and lose weight. In many cases, Paleo diet consumers are also fueling their P90X or Cross Fit exercise routines, the two most popular fitness regimes in the country. The health benefits have been supported by major studies. This is a popular trend much like the low carb diet. It is combined with the great bookselling topic of slow cooking. While the cavemen didn't have slow cookers, they certainly used slow cooking techniques over fires which make the meals in this book one step closer to the origins and theory behind the diet. The delicious dishes are as homey as they are healthy€”and ready when you are.
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