Packed with anecdotes and interviews from musicians, producers, journalists, record company executives, managers, groupies and fan club presidents, Paul Stump provides an intelligent and historical record of an overlooked but fascinating pop genre.
Digital Gothicfocuses fascinatingly on the pre-soporific roots of the group and their place in a cool electronic lineage which traces right up to Detroit techno."-Mojo"A stimulating companion to the group's music."-The WirePaul Stump picks his way through a minefield of releases, assessing Tangerine Dream's long career with a highly critical eye, and for the very first time places their mammoth output within an ordered perspective.
Gentle Giant evolved from the ashes of Simon Dupree and the Big Sound, best known for the hit single Kites. Based around the Shulman brothers, the band quickly acquired a world-wide cult following. This is the story of one of the most enduring bands of the British progressive rock movement.
The third volume of Paul Kuttner's popular "tricky questions" series makes science fun for those who shy away from it and challenges those who consider themselves science know-it-alls: Why is the saline content of the Dead sea higher than that of the Atlantic Ocean? What part of the human body can increase up to two hundred times its normal volume? How much of a smile can you expect to get from a smilodon? These and other intriguing scientific queries make up the 402 questions in Science's Trickiest Questions--the follow-up to History's Trickiest Questions and Arts and Entertainment's Trickiest Questions. Teasers that include the fields of botany, geometry, biology, psychology, chemistry, anatomy, and others will delight and entertain you as the answers surprise! Whether you use it to quiz friends, to fascinate a classroom full of students, or simply to test you "cultural literacy," Science's Trickiest Questions will amust, enlighten and stump readers of all ages.
Can you detect the technical blunder that occurred in the motion picture Gone With the Wind? What great mysterious writer lived up to his craft and died in the most mysterious way? The follow-up to Paul Kuttner's successful History's Trickiest Questions, this new volume of 402 delightful and intriguing teasers centers on the world of arts and entertainment. Categories include Stage and Screen, The Literary World, Music, and Fine Arts--and the questions often lead to very surprising answers! Whether you use it to quiz friends, to amuse a classroom full of students, or simply to test your "cultural literacy," Arts and Entertainment's Trickiest Questions will entertain, enlighten, and stump readers of all ages.
Is evil evidence against the existence of God? A collection of essays by philosophers, theologians, and other scholars. Even if God and evil are compatible, it remains hotly contested whether evil renders belief in God unreasonable. The Evidential Argument from Evil presents five classic statements on this issue by eminent philosophers and theologians, and places them in dialogue with eleven original essays reflecting new thinking by these and other scholars. The volume focuses on two versions of the argument. The first affirms that there is no reason for God to permit either certain specific horrors or the variety and profusion of undeserved suffering. The second asserts that pleasure and pain, given their biological role, are better explained by hypotheses other than theism. Contributors include William P. Alston, Paul Draper, Richard M. Gale, Daniel Howard-Snyder, Alvin Plantinga, William L. Rowe, Bruce Russell, Eleonore Stump, Richard G. Swinburne, Peter van Inwagen, and Stephen John Wykstra.
The Turtles find themselves unexpectedly transported to Stump Asteroid, where they're forced to compete in wrestling matches against a four-armed creature named Cryin' Houn' and their old nemesis Leatherhead.
Comedy set in two backyards of adjoining houses. Aging middle class people reveal their hopes, ambitions, and frustrations. 3 acts, 4 men, 5 women, 1 setting.
Mycelium Running is a manual for the mycological rescue of the planet. That’s right: growing more mushrooms may be the best thing we can do to save the environment, and in this groundbreaking text from mushroom expert Paul Stamets, you’ll find out how. The basic science goes like this: Microscopic cells called “mycelium”--the fruit of which are mushrooms--recycle carbon, nitrogen, and other essential elements as they break down plant and animal debris in the creation of rich new soil. What Stamets has discovered is that we can capitalize on mycelium’s digestive power and target it to decompose toxic wastes and pollutants (mycoremediation), catch and reduce silt from streambeds and pathogens from agricultural watersheds (mycofiltration), control insect populations (mycopesticides), and generally enhance the health of our forests and gardens (mycoforestry and myco-gardening). In this comprehensive guide, you’ll find chapters detailing each of these four exciting branches of what Stamets has coined “mycorestoration,” as well as chapters on the medicinal and nutritional properties of mushrooms, inoculation methods, log and stump culture, and species selection for various environmental purposes. Heavily referenced and beautifully illustrated, this book is destined to be a classic reference for bemushroomed generations to come.
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