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The Story of the Blues

By: Paul Oliver

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Featuring over 200 vintage photographs and a new introduction by the author, the engaging, informative volume brings to life the African American singers and players who created this rich genre of music as well as the settings and experiences that inspired them. The author deftly traces the evolution of the blues from the work songs of slaves, to acoustic country ballads, to urban sounds, to electric rhythm and blues bands. Oliver vividly re-creates the economic, social, and regional forces that shaped the unique blues tradition, and superbly details every facet of the music, including themes and subjects, techniques, and recording history.

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155553354X

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Basketball on Paper

Rules and Tools for Performance Analysis

By: Dean Oliver

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Basketball on Paper

Rules and Tools for Performance Analysis

By: Dean Oliver

Journey "inside the numbers" for an exceptional set of statistical tools and rules that can help explain the winning, or losing, ways of a basketball team. Basketball on Paper doesn't diagram plays or explain how players get in shape, but instead demonstrates how to interpret player and team performance. Dean Oliver highlights general strategies for teams when they're winning or losing and what aspects should be the focus in either situation. He describes and quantifies the jobs of team leaders and role players, then discusses the interactions between players and how to achieve the best fit. Oliver conceptualizes the meaning of teamwork and how to quantify the value of different types of players working together. He examines historically successful NBA teams and identifies what made them so successful: individual talent, a system of putting players together, or good coaching. Oliver then uses these statistical tools and case studies to evaluate the best players in history, such as Magic Johnson, Wilt Chamberlain, Bill Russell, and Charles Barkley and how they contributed to their teams' success. He does the same for some of the NBA's "oddball" players-Manute Bol, Muggsy Bogues, and Dennis Rodman and for the WNBA's top players. Basketball on Paper is unique in its incorporation of business and analytical concepts within the context of basketball to measure the value of players in a cooperative setting. Whether you're looking for strategies or new ideas to throw out while watching the ballgame at a sports bar, Dean Oliver'sBasketball on Paper will give you amazing new insights into teamwork, coaching, and success.

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U of Nebraska Press

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164012389X

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Getting the Joke

The Inner Workings of Stand-Up Comedy

By: Oliver Double

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Getting the Joke

The Inner Workings of Stand-Up Comedy

By: Oliver Double

This is the kind of book that troubles grey-suited committees of academic peers. It's too enjoyable. But that, given its subject, is just what it ought to be, and it treats that subject seriously . . . There isn't a “dull” page anywhere in the book.' – Professor Peter Thomson, Studies in Theatre and Performance Comedy is changing: stand-up comedians routinely sell out stadia, their audience-figures swollen by panel-show appearances and much-followed Twitter feeds. Meanwhile, the smaller clubs are filling up, with audiences as well as aspirants. How can we make sense of it all? This new edition of Getting the Joke gives an insider's look at the spectrum of modern comedy, re-examining the world of stand-up in the internet age. Drawing on his acclaimed first edition, Oliver Double focuses in greater detail on the US scene and its comedians (such as David Cross, Sarah Silverman, Louis CK, Demetri Martin and Margaret Cho); the 'DIY' comedy circuit and its celebrated apostles and visionaries, from Josie Long to Stewart Lee; the growing importance of the solo stand-up show; the role played by Twitter (including an interview with the organiser of the world's first comedy gig on Twitter), and the driving force that is the TV guest slot, be it on Mock the Week or Live at the Apollo. With expanded sections on joke construction, as well as ways to challenge the audience, and a host of new and updated exercises to guide the aspiring comedian, this new edition of Getting the Joke is the only book to combine the history of stand-up comedy with an analysis of the elements and methods that go into its creation. Featuring a range of interviews with working comedians – from circuit veterans to new kids on the block – combined with the author's vast experience, this is a must read for any aspiring stand-up comedian.

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A&C Black

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1408177706

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The Battle For Hong Kong 1941-1945

Hostage to Fortune

By: Oliver Lindsay

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The Battle For Hong Kong 1941-1945

Hostage to Fortune

By: Oliver Lindsay

In this remarkable study of the Far Eastern War, Oliver Lindsay and John R Harris have provided the most thorough and searching enquiry into the debacle which led to over 12,000 British, Canadian, Indian and Chinese defenders surrendering Hong Kong on Christmas Day 1941. The authors have made use of a mass of unpublished material - part of it drawn from the original war diaries which have never before been in the public domain. Although it is over 60 years since Hong Kong was liberated from the Japanese, numerous important questions regarding the war in the East and occupation of the Colony from 1941 to 1945 have not been explored until now. To what extent, for example, were Churchill and the successive Chiefs of the Imperial General Staff responsible for abandoning this outpost, which could not be reinforced when attacked or defended adequately? Is it true that fine leadership prolonged the fighting, inflicting serious casualties on the highly experienced Japanese when they struck in 1941? How useful was Britain's spying organization in China, which led to catastrophic repercussions for the POWs and Internees? What form did the Japanese atrocities take upon the helpless captives? This detailed and authoritative account of the campaign will provide a particularly compelling read for those interested in the Second World War or the history of the Far East.

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The History Press

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0750980540

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9780750980548

Devices of Curiosity

Early Cinema and Popular Science

By: Oliver Gaycken

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Devices of Curiosity

Early Cinema and Popular Science

By: Oliver Gaycken

4e de couv.: Beginning around 1903, a variety of producers began making films about scientific topics for general audiences, inspired by a vision of cinema as an educational medium. Excavating this largely unknown genre of early cinema, Devices of curiosity traces its development from its beginnings in England to its flourishing in France around 1910. Oliver Gaycken investigates how such films both relied upon previous traditions and created novel visual paradigms that led to the creation of ambitious new film collections. Gaycken also discerns a transit between nonfictional and fictional modes, seeing affinities between popular-science films and certain aspects of fiction films, particularly Louis Feuillade's crime melodramas. Drawing on the insights of the history of science as well as the history of cinema, Devices of curiosity reveals the extent to which popular-science films impacted the formation of documentary, educational, and avant-garde cinemas.

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Oxford University Press

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0199860688

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Cruising with Robert Louis Stevenson

Travel, Narrative, and the Colonial Body

By: Oliver S. Buckton

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Cruising with Robert Louis Stevenson

Travel, Narrative, and the Colonial Body

By: Oliver S. Buckton

Cruising with Robert Louis Stevenson: Travel, Narrative, and the Colonial Body is the first booklengthstudy about the influence of travel on RobertLouis Stevenson's writings, both fiction and nonfiction.Within the contexts of late-Victorian imperialism andethnographic discourse, the book offers original closereadings of individual works by Stevenson while bringingnew theoretical insights to bear on the relationshipbetween travel, authorship, and gender identity in theVictorian fin de siècle. Oliver S. Buckton develops "cruising" as a criticalterm, linking Stevenson's leisurely mode of travelwith the striking narrative motifs of disruption andfragmentation that characterize his writings. Bucktontraces the development of Stevenson's career from hisearly travel books to show how Stevenson's majorworks of fiction, such as Treasure Island, Kidnapped, andThe Ebb-Tide, draw on innovative techniques and materialsStevenson acquired in the course of his globaltravels. Exploring Stevenson's pivotal role in the revivalof "romance" in the late nineteenth century, Cruisingwith Robert Louis Stevenson highlights Stevenson's treatmentof the human body as part of his resistance torealism, arguing that the energies and desires releasedby travel are often routed through disturbingly resistantor darkly comic corporeal figures. Buckton gives extensiveattention to Stevenson's writing about the SouthSeas, arguing that his groundbreaking critiques ofEuropean colonialism are formed in awareness of thefragility and desirability of Polynesian bodies and islandlandscapes. Cruising with Robert Louis Stevenson will be indispensableto all admirers of Stevenson as well as of greatinterest to readers of travel writing, Victorian ethnography, gender studies, and literary criticism.

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Ohio University Press

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0821417568

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9780821417560

The National Curriculum and its Effects

By: Cedric Cullingford,Paul Oliver

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The National Curriculum and its Effects

By: Cedric Cullingford,Paul Oliver

This title was first published in 2001. What impact has the National Curriculum for England and Wales had on pupils, teachers, academic and social standards in the ten years since its introduction? The distinguished contributors to this volume examine the history and development of the National Curriculum to date and assess its effects.

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Routledge

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1351755188

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The American Book of the Dead

By: Oliver Trager

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The American Book of the Dead

By: Oliver Trager

Contains over 750 alphabetically-arranged entries that provide information about the rock group Grateful Dead, featuring profiles of band members and associated musicians, filmmakers, photographers, composers, and others, and descriptions of the band's albums and solo releases.

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Simon and Schuster

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0684814021

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9780684814025

Turn-taking in Shakespeare

By: Oliver Morgan

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Turn-taking in Shakespeare

By: Oliver Morgan

Oxford Textual Perspectives is a series of informative and provocative studies focused upon literary texts (conceived of in the broadest sense of that term) and the technologies, cultures, and communities that produce, inform, and receive them. It provides fresh interpretations of fundamental works and of the vital and challenging issues emerging in English literary studies. By engaging with the materiality of the literary text, its production, and reception history, and frequently testing and exploring the boundaries of the notion of text itself, the volumes in the series question familiar frameworks and provide innovative interpretations of both canonical and less well-known works. Whenever people talk to one another there are at least two things going on at once. First, and most obviously, there is an exchange of speech. Second, and slightly less obviously, there is a negotiation about how that exchange is organised—about whose turn it is to talk at any given moment. Linguists call this second, organisational level of activity 'turn-taking' and since the late 1970s it has been central to the way in which spoken interaction is understood. In spite of its obvious relevance to the study of drama, however, turn-taking has received little attention from critics and editors of Shakespeare. Turn-taking in Shakespeare offers a fresh perspective on the dramatic text by reversing the priorities of traditional literary analysis. Rather than focussing on what characters say, it focuses on when they speak. Rather than focussing on how they talk, it focuses on how they gain access to the floor. Its central argument is that the turn-taking patterns of Shakespeare's plays are a part of what Emrys Jones has called their 'basic structural shaping'—as fundamental to dialogue as rhythm is to verse. The book investigates what it means for a character to speak in or out of turn, to interrupt or overlap with a previous speaker, to pause before speaking, or to fail to speak at all. It explores how these moments are—and are not—signalled by the Shakespearean text, how best to describe and understand them, and the implications of such questions for contemporary debates about editing, rhetoric, prosody, and early modern performance practices.

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019257339X

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Same-Sex Desire in Indian Culture

Representations in Literature and Film, 1970-2015

By: Oliver Ross

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Same-Sex Desire in Indian Culture

Representations in Literature and Film, 1970-2015

By: Oliver Ross

This book explores representations of same-sex desire in Indian literature and film from the 1970s to the present. Through a detailed analysis of poetry and prose by authors like Vikram Seth, Kamala Das, and Neel Mukherjee, and films from Bollywood and beyond, including Onir's My Brother Nikhil and Deepa Mehta's Fire, Oliver Ross argues that an initially Euro-American "homosexuality" with its connotations of an essential psychosexual orientation, is reinvented as it overlaps with different elements of Indian culture. Dismantling the popular belief that vocal gay and lesbian politics exist in contradistinction to a sexually "conservative" India, this book locates numerous alternative practices and identities of same-sex desire in Indian history and modernity. Indeed, many of these survived British colonialism, with its importation of ideas of sexual pathology and perversity, in changed or codified forms, and they are often inflected by gay and lesbian identities in the present. In this account, Oliver Ross challenges the preconception that, in the contemporary world, a grand narrative of sexuality circulates globally and erases all pre-existing narratives and embodiments of sexual desire.

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Springer

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1137566922

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Write and Sell Your Novel

The Beginner's Guide to Writing for Publication

By: Marina Oliver

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Write and Sell Your Novel

The Beginner's Guide to Writing for Publication

By: Marina Oliver

All you need to know to write and sell your own novel can be found in this updated third edition, from how to start writing, honing your work with other writers through to the process of publication. It includes lists of names and addresses for publishers, author contacts and resources.

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How To Books Ltd

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1857038762

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Dealing with Death

A Search for Cross-cultural and Time-transcending Similarities

By: Oliver Nahm

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Dealing with Death

A Search for Cross-cultural and Time-transcending Similarities

By: Oliver Nahm

Any sentence that begins 'All societies have' is either baseless or banal. Oliver Nahm sets out to disprove this statement, made by the renowned anthropologist Clifford Geertz. Analyzing the beliefs, myths, and legends of different religious groups surrounding death and dying, author Nahm shows that behind the faÃ?Â§ade of diversity there lie the same needs which are in turn met by similar solutions. With an interdisciplinary approach, Nahm uncovers important commonalities between diverse societies and demonstrates that such findings are neither baseless nor banal. Dissertation. (Series: Studies in interdisciplinary Thanatology / Studien zur interdisziplinaeren Thanatologie, Vol. 14) [Subject: Cultural Studies, Sociology, Death Studies, Religious Studies]

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LIT Verlag Münster

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3643909330

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Blues Fell This Morning

Meaning in the Blues

By: Paul Oliver

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Blues Fell This Morning

Meaning in the Blues

By: Paul Oliver

A new, revised edition of Paul Oliver's classic study of the blues, first published in 1960.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521377935

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Songsters and Saints

Vocal Traditions on Race Records

By: Paul Oliver

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Songsters and Saints

Vocal Traditions on Race Records

By: Paul Oliver

Paul Oliver rediscovers the wealth of neglected vocal traditions represented on Race records.

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Lacey, Wells and Quick Reconstructing Criminal Law

Text and Materials

By: Celia Wells,Oliver Quick

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Lacey, Wells and Quick Reconstructing Criminal Law

Text and Materials

By: Celia Wells,Oliver Quick

Since the publication of the first edition, this textbook has offered one of the most distinctive and innovative approaches to the study of criminal law. Looking at both traditional and emerging areas, such as public order offences and corporate manslaughter, it offers a broad and thorough perspective on the subject. Material is organised thematically and is clearly signposted at the beginning of each section to allow the student to navigate successfully through the different fields. This fourth edition looks at topical issues such as policing, the Serious Crime Act 2007, and reform of the Fraud Act 2006. Relevant case law and extracts from the most topical and engaging debates on the subject give the subject immediacy. The book is essential for both undergraduate and postgraduate study of criminal law and justice.

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1139488759

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Critical Companion to Walt Whitman

A Literary Reference to His Life and Work

By: Charles M. Oliver

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Critical Companion to Walt Whitman

A Literary Reference to His Life and Work

By: Charles M. Oliver

Presents a complete reference to the life and works of Walt Whitman.

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1438108583

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The Story of the Blues

The Story of the Blues

Basketball on Paper

Basketball on Paper

Getting the Joke

Getting the Joke

The Battle For Hong Kong 1941-1945

The Battle For Hong Kong 1941-1945

Devices of Curiosity

Devices of Curiosity

Cruising with Robert Louis Stevenson

Cruising with Robert Louis Stevenson

The National Curriculum and its Effects

The National Curriculum and its Effects

The American Book of the Dead

The American Book of the Dead

Turn-taking in Shakespeare

Turn-taking in Shakespeare

Same-Sex Desire in Indian Culture

Same-Sex Desire in Indian Culture

Write and Sell Your Novel

Write and Sell Your Novel

Dealing with Death

Dealing with Death

Blues Fell This Morning

Blues Fell This Morning

Songsters and Saints

Songsters and Saints

Lacey, Wells and Quick Reconstructing Criminal Law

Lacey, Wells and Quick Reconstructing Criminal Law

Critical Companion to Walt Whitman

Critical Companion to Walt Whitman

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