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Our Noise

The Story of Merge Records, the Indie Label That Got Big and Stayed Small

By: Laura Ballance,John Cook,Mac McCaughan

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Our Noise

The Story of Merge Records, the Indie Label That Got Big and Stayed Small

By: Laura Ballance,John Cook,Mac McCaughan

Merge Records defies everything you’ve heard about the music business. Started by two twenty-year-old musicians, Merge is a lesson in how to make and market great music on a human scale. The fact that the company is prospering in a failing industry is something of a miracle. Yet two of their bands made the Billboard Top 10 list; more than 1 million copies of Arcade Fire's Neon Bible have been sold; Spoon has appeared on Saturday Night Live and The Tonight Show; and the Magnetic Fields' 69 Love Songs is a contemporary classic. In celebration of their twentieth anniversary, founders Mac and Laura offer first-person accounts—with the help of their colleagues and Merge artists—of their work, their lives, and the culture of making music. Our Noise also tells the behind-the-scenes stories of Arcade Fire, Spoon, the Magnetic Fields, Superchunk, Lambchop, Neutral Milk Hotel, and Butterglory. Hundreds of personal photos of the bands, along with album cover art, concert posters, and other memorabilia are included.

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Algonquin Books

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1565129687

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9781565129689

Rethinking the Scottish Revolution

Covenanted Scotland, 1637-1651

By: Laura A. M. Stewart

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Rethinking the Scottish Revolution

Covenanted Scotland, 1637-1651

By: Laura A. M. Stewart

The English revolution is one of the most intensely-debated events in history; parallel events in Scotland have never attracted the same degree of interest. Rethinking the Scottish Revolution argues for a new interpretation of the seventeenth-century Scottish revolution that goes beyond questions about its radicalism, and reconsiders its place within an overarching 'British' narrative. In this volume, Laura Stewart analyses how interactions between print and manuscript polemic, crowds, and political performances enabled protestors against a Prayer Book to destroy Charles I's Scottish government. Particular attention is given to the way in which debate in Scotland was affected by the emergence of London as a major publishing centre. The subscription of the 1638 National Covenant occurred within this context and further politicized subordinate social groups that included women. Unlike in England, however, public debate was contained. A remodelled constitution revivified the institutions of civil and ecclesiastical governance, enabling Covenanted Scotland to pursue interventionist policies in Ireland and England - albeit at terrible cost to the Scottish people. War transformed the nature of state power in Scotland, but this achievement was contentious and fragile. A key weakness lay in the separation of ecclesiastical and civil authority, which justified for some a strictly conditional understanding of obedience to temporal authority. Rethinking the Scottish Revolution explores challenges to legitimacy of the Covenanted constitution, but qualifies the idea that Scotland was set on a course to destruction as a result. Covenanted government was overthrown by the new model army in 1651, but its ideals persisted. In Scotland as well as England, the language of liberty, true religion, and the public interest had justified resistance to Charles I. The Scottish revolution embedded a distinctive and durable political culture that ultimately proved resistant to assimilation into the nascent British state.

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697

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Oxford University Press

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0192563785

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9780192563781

Jesus Caesar

A Roman Reading of the Johannine Trial Narrative

By: Laura J. Hunt

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Jesus Caesar

A Roman Reading of the Johannine Trial Narrative

By: Laura J. Hunt

Back cover: In this work, Laura J. Hunt notes the evidence of local interactions with Rome in important first-century CE cities. The resulting reading of the Johannine trial narrative depicts Jesus in the words and images of a Caesar, and Pilate negotiating his power over "the Jews" and his vulnerabilty before Caesar.

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Mohr Siebeck

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3161575261

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9783161575266

The Rough Guide to New Zealand

By: Laura Harper,Paul Whitfield,Tony Mudd,Catherine Le Nevez

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The Rough Guide to New Zealand

By: Laura Harper,Paul Whitfield,Tony Mudd,Catherine Le Nevez

The new Rough Guide to New Zealandis the definitive guide to the world's adventure capital. Now in full-colour throughout, it contains dozens of tempting colour photos illustrating the country's iconic landmarks and its stupendously diverse scenery. Detailed accounts of every attraction along with crystal-clear maps and plans will show you the very best New Zealand has to offer- from white-sand beaches and vast kauri trees in the north to the hairline fiords and penguin colonies in the south. With expert guidance you won't put a foot wrong when experiencing Maori culture or simply striking out on multi-day hikes. At every point this guide steers you to little-known sights such as secluded hot pools or Wellington's best caf�s. Insider tips, planning itineraries and author picks give you the inside scoop on the best accommodation across every price range, how to track down Marlborough's tastiest Sauvignon blancs and where the most delectable Maori hangi can be found. Make the most of your time with The Rough Guide to New Zealand.

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Rough Guides UK

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140539000X

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9781405390002

Fatal Attractions, Abjection, and the Self in Literature from the Restoration to the Romantics

By: Laura Alexander

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Fatal Attractions, Abjection, and the Self in Literature from the Restoration to the Romantics

By: Laura Alexander

This book examines Julia Kristeva’s theory of abjection in several works by early British writers from the Restoration to the Romantic era. This period saw an increased emphasis on understanding the self. Poems with anxious speakers or narratives featuring characters with considerable psychic pressures emerged as writers responded to ideas on consciousness by natural philosophers. The pursuit of self-knowledge also reached greater imaginative depths, inspiring new artistic movements, including sensibility, with its attention to expressions of the suffering self, and the Gothic, a mode of art that examines the self’s deepest fears. Romantic writers theorized about artistic genius, creating a cult of the self that has never left us. Kristeva offers a more complete psychoanalytic vocabulary for understanding the self’s unconscious motivations in literature written during this period, and this book provides readers interested in early British literature, philosophy, and literary theory with a constructive perspective for thinking about literary depictions of the self-in-crisis.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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152753152X

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9781527531529

China and the First Vietnam War, 1947-54

By: Laura M. Calkins

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China and the First Vietnam War, 1947-54

By: Laura M. Calkins

This book charts the development of the First Vietnam War – the war between the Vietnamese Communists (the Viet Minh) and the French colonial power – considering especially how relations between the Viet Minh and the Chinese Communists had a profound impact on the course of the war. It shows how the Chinese provided finance, training and weapons to the Viet Minh, but how differences about strategy emerged, particularly when China became involved in the Korean War and the subsequent peace negotiations, when the need to placate the United States and to prevent US military involvement in Southeast Asia became a key concern for the Chinese. The book shows how the Viet Minh strategy of all-out war in the north and limited guerrilla warfare in the south developed from this situation, and how the war then unfolded.

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198

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Routledge

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1134078471

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9781134078479

Nursing Care of the Pediatric Surgical Patient

By: Nancy Tkacz Browne,Laura M. Flanigan,Carmel A. McComiskey,Pam Pieper

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Nursing Care of the Pediatric Surgical Patient

By: Nancy Tkacz Browne,Laura M. Flanigan,Carmel A. McComiskey,Pam Pieper

The book packages all aspects of the pediatric surgical nurse's job into one comprehensive reference, including pre- and post-operative care, minimally invasive surgery, innovative therapies, fetal surgery, pediatric solid organ transplantation, and more. It offers up-to-date information on pediatric surgical nursing and includes many critical pathways and research topics. It is a must-have resource for all healthcare providers involved in the care of the general pediatric surgical patient.

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Jones & Bartlett Publishers

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0763768030

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9780763768034

Playwrights and Plagiarists in Early Modern England

Gender, Authorship, Literary Property

By: Laura J. Rosenthal

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Playwrights and Plagiarists in Early Modern England

Gender, Authorship, Literary Property

By: Laura J. Rosenthal

Passage of the first copyright law in 1710 marked a radical change in the perception of authorship. According to Laura J. Rosenthal, the new construction of the author as the owner of literary property bore different consequences for women than for men, for amateurs than for professionals, and for playwrights than for other authors. Rosenthal explores distinctions between legitimate and illegitimate forms of literary appropriation in drama from 1650 to 1730. In considering the alleged plagiarists Margaret Cavendish (the Duchess of Newcastle), Aphra Behn, John Dryden, Colley Cibber, and Susanna Centlivre, Rosenthal maintains that accusations had less to do with the degree of repetition in texts than with the gender of the authors and the cultural location of the plays. Questions of literary property, then, became not just legal matters but part of a discourse aimed at conferring or withholding cultural authority. Struggles over literary property must be seen in the context of competing conceptions of property in general, Rosenthal asserts, and she shows how both Filmerian and Lockean models gender the position of the owner. Drawing on feminist theory and from scholarship in history, philosophy, and political science, Rosenthal debates the relationship between women and property in modern England. Gender and class, she contends, continue to influence judgments as to what stories a playwright can own or use, as to whom critics praise as heirs to Shakespeare and Jonson, and as to whom they damn as plagiarists.

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Cornell University Press

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1501744801

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9781501744808

Word Track Workbook

By: Laura Cryer

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Word Track Workbook

By: Laura Cryer

First Published in 2004. Word track Workbook is ideal for all learner with specific learning difficulties who have particular problems memorising spellings. The activities in the book support and reinforce correct spellings of words within the context of the sentence. concentrating on the letters and sounds (phonemes) of words. The workbook: contains 180 graded, illustrated model sentences. The learner reads the model sentence and tracks the words of that sentence in correct order; encourages users to check each phoneme using visual discrimination skills proofreading skills; encourages users to recognise critical features of words- for example, shape and length of words, common spelling patterns and words within words; supports the reading and spelling of high-frequency words and easily muddles spellings(sed/said), letter order mistake (form/from, no/on, saw/was) and confusion over letter formation (dent/bent, bin/pin, bd/deb, met/wet).

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1136602097

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Our Noise

The Story of Merge Records, the Indie Label That Got Big and Stayed Small

By: Laura Ballance,John Cook,Mac McCaughan

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The Story of Merge Records, the Indie Label That Got Big and Stayed Small

By: Laura Ballance,John Cook,Mac McCaughan

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Our Noise

Our Noise

Rethinking the Scottish Revolution

Rethinking the Scottish Revolution

Jesus Caesar

Jesus Caesar

The Rough Guide to New Zealand

The Rough Guide to New Zealand

Fatal Attractions, Abjection, and the Self in Literature from the Restoration to the Romantics

Fatal Attractions, Abjection, and the Self in Literature from the Restoration to the Romantics

China and the First Vietnam War, 1947-54

China and the First Vietnam War, 1947-54

Nursing Care of the Pediatric Surgical Patient

Nursing Care of the Pediatric Surgical Patient

Playwrights and Plagiarists in Early Modern England

Playwrights and Plagiarists in Early Modern England

Word Track Workbook

Word Track Workbook

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