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Ever Fallen in Love

The Lost Buzzcocks Tapes

By: Pete Shelley,Louie Shelley

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Ever Fallen in Love

The Lost Buzzcocks Tapes

By: Pete Shelley,Louie Shelley

*** 'Lots of great stories... A fascinating insight.' -JOHN MAHER, Buzzcocks 'Perfectly executed, highly detailed, incredibly interesting.' -HENRY ROLLINS, Black Flag 'Pete and Buzzcocks were there right from the beginning.' -BERNARD SUMNER, Joy Division, New Order When Pete Shelley, lead singer of legendary punk band Buzzcocks, passed away in 2018 we lost the chance to hear one of music's brightest stars tell his story. Or so it seemed. Now, recordings have surfaced of a series of remarkable interviews in which Pete tells the story of his life, his band and his place at the beating heart of the punk explosion in fascinating detail. Recorded over a series of late-night calls with a close friend, the tapes hear Pete talk song-by-song through Buzzcocks releases to reveal the personal memories behind the music and the inspiration for masterpieces such as 'Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)' and 'What Do I Get?'. Published for the first time and with the blessing of Pete's estate, Ever Fallen In Love: The Lost Buzzcocks Tapes is a tribute to a founding member of punk and a chance to hear one of music's true visionaries tell his own story at last. 'A true gentleman and a great artist and songwriter.' -PETER HOOK, Joy Division, New Order 'Shot through with self-doubt and mild regret, Pete Shelley's lovesick pop classics have a bittersweet charm that will forever speak to the young romantic' -JOHN COOPER CLARKE 'Buzzcocks were the blue touchpaper for my love of music. Pure pop met punk and the result was perfection.' -TIM BURGESS, The Charlatans

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Cassell

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1788402898

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9781788402897

Hasta La Flip Flops!

By: Louie O'Brien

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Hasta La Flip Flops!

By: Louie O'Brien

Hasta La Flip-Flops! is the hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking, story of Louie 'The Lip' O'Brien, a face on the club scene of Palma, Mallorca from 1967 until the early 90s and, in his own way, a legend. Louie's story begins when young people tasted freedom in the sun for the first time and a revolution was quietly taking place in Majorca. But it ends in darkness, when, for Louie who believed he'd found paradise in the sun forever, the party is over. A real page-turner, Hasta La Flip-Flops! also uncovers a side of Majorca and Spain never really explored before.

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317

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Grosvenor House Publishing

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1786237261

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9781786237262

Antiauthoritarian Youth Culture in Francoist Spain

Clashing with Fascism

By: Louie Dean Valencia-García

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Antiauthoritarian Youth Culture in Francoist Spain

Clashing with Fascism

By: Louie Dean Valencia-García

How did kids, hippies and punks challenge a fascist dictatorship and imagine an impossible dream of an inclusive future? This book explores the role of youth in shaping a democratic Spain, focusing on their urban performances of dissent, their consumption of censored literature, political-literary magazines and comic books and their involvement in a newly developed underground scene. After forty years of dictatorship, Madrid became the centre of both a young democracy and a vibrant artistic scene by the early 1980s. Louie Dean Valencia-García skillfully examines how young Spaniards occupied public plazas, subverted Spanish cultural norms and undermined the authoritarian state by participating in a postmodern punk subculture that eventually grew into the 'Movida Madrileña'. In doing so, he exposes how this antiauthoritarian youth culture reflected a mixture of sexual liberation, a rejection of the ideological indoctrination of the dictatorship, a reinvention of native Iberian pluralistic traditions and a burgeoning global youth culture that connected the USA, Britain, France and Spain. By analyzing young people's everyday acts of resistance, Antiauthoritarian Youth Culture in Francoist Spain offers a fascinating account of Madrid's youth and their role in the transition to the modern Spanish democracy.

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269

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350038490

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9781350038493

Measuring Quality in Planning

Managing the Performance Process

By: Matthew Carmona,Louie Sieh

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Measuring Quality in Planning

Managing the Performance Process

By: Matthew Carmona,Louie Sieh

The question of how to measure the quality and effectiveness of the output of the planning process is a current major debate. This book deals with issues of defining quality, public sector management, the use of indicators and the planning process.

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456

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Routledge

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1134377061

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9781134377060

Politics of Chinese Language and Culture

The Art of Reading Dragons

By: Bob Hodge,Kam Louie

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Politics of Chinese Language and Culture

The Art of Reading Dragons

By: Bob Hodge,Kam Louie

An innovative text which adopts the tools of cultural studies to provide a fresh approach to the study of Chinese language, culture and society. The book tackles areas such as grammar, language, gender, popular culture, film and the Chinese diaspora and employs the concepts of social semiotics to extend the ideas of language and reading. Covering a range of cultural texts, it will help to break down the boundaries around the ideas and identities of East and West and provide a more relevant analysis of the Chinese and China.

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214

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Routledge

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1134691637

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9781134691630

Keeping the Immigrant Bargain

The Costs and Rewards of Success in America

By: Vivian Louie

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Keeping the Immigrant Bargain

The Costs and Rewards of Success in America

By: Vivian Louie

Most nineteenth and early-twentieth-century European immigrants arrived in the United States with barely more than the clothes on their backs. They performed menial jobs, spoke little English, and often faced a hostile reception. But two or more generations later, the overwhelming majority of their descendants had successfully integrated into American society. Today's immigrants face many of the same challenges, but some experts worry that their integration, especially among Latinos, will not be as successful as their European counterparts. Keeping the Immigrant Bargain examines the journey of Dominican and Colombian newcomers whose children have achieved academic success one generation after the arrival of their parents. Sociologist Vivian Louie provides a much-needed comparison of how both parents and children understand the immigrant journey toward education, mobility, and assimilation. Based on Louie's own survey and interview study, Keeping the Immigrant Bargain examines the lives of thirty-seven foreign-born Dominican and Colombian parents and their seventy-six young adult offspring—the majority of whom were enrolled in or had graduated from college. The book shows how they are adapting to American schools, jobs, neighborhoods, and culture. Louie discovers that before coming to the United States, some of these parents had already achieved higher levels of education than the average foreign-born Dominican or Colombian, and after arrival many owned their own homes. Significantly, most parents in each group expressed optimism about their potential to succeed in the United States, while also expressing pessimism about whether they would ever be accepted as Americans. In contrast to the social exclusion experienced by their parents, most of the young adults had assimilated linguistically and believed themselves to be full participants in American society. Keeping the Immigrant Bargain shows that the offspring of these largely working-class immigrants had several factors in common that aided their mobility. Their parents were highly engaged in their lives and educational progress, although not always in ways expected by schools or their children, and the children possessed a strong degree of self-motivation. Equally important was the availability of key institutional networks of support, including teachers, peers, afterschool and other enrichment programs, and informal mentors outside of the classroom. These institutional networks gave the children the guidance they needed to succeed in school, offering information the parents often did not know themselves. While not all immigrants achieve such rapid success, this engrossing study shows how powerful the combination of self-motivation, engaged families, and strong institutional support can be. Keeping the Immigrant Bargain makes the case that institutional relationships—such as teachers and principals who are trained to accommodate cultural difference and community organizations that help parents and children learn how to navigate the system—can bear significantly on immigrant educational success.

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261

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Russell Sage Foundation

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1610447794

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9781610447799

Against The Winds

By: Louie Brighton

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Against The Winds

By: Louie Brighton

An Autobiography of Louie Brighton who lived against many harsh and cruel winds of life which beat relentlessly upon her. Louie is a determined individual with a strong faith in God. This book is her testimony of how the Lord Jesus Christ saved her life.

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327

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Lulu.com

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129115325X

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9781291153255

Louie

A Country Lady

By: Doreen Louie West

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A Country Lady

By: Doreen Louie West

Set against the backcloth of the two World Wars and farming life as it was in rural Oxfordshire, this is the story of the wife of a prosperous Oxfordshire farmer and a country lady. Louie's amusing and tempestuous story is brought to life by her daughter Doreen, who vividly evokes a world of horse-drawn traps, milking by hand, clean air, cottage hospitals and childhood innocence. She describes a rural community in which people's lifes were tightly circumscribed, moving with the seasons and rarely affected by the wider world.

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255

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Isis Large Print Books

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075315076X

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9780753150764

Book's by Louie Brighton

Ever Fallen in Love

Ever Fallen in Love

Hasta La Flip Flops!

Hasta La Flip Flops!

Antiauthoritarian Youth Culture in Francoist Spain

Antiauthoritarian Youth Culture in Francoist Spain

Measuring Quality in Planning

Measuring Quality in Planning

Politics of Chinese Language and Culture

Politics of Chinese Language and Culture

Keeping the Immigrant Bargain

Keeping the Immigrant Bargain

Against The Winds

Against The Winds

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