The book is a collection of short stories and related poems. The subject matter is drawn from all walks of life and reflects the life and times of characters who experience the challenges and uncertainty of a troubled world and the devastation visited upon them by unforgiving nature. Frailties and weakness stifle their aspirations and yet the human spirit often rises above adversity even in its most treacherous form to find a sanctuary in laughter and love. The book is a collection of short stories and related poems. The subject matter is drawn from all walks of life and reflects the life and times of characters who experience the challenges and uncertainty of a troubled world and the devastation visited upon them by unforgiving nature. Frailties and weakness stifle their aspirations and yet the human spirit often rises above adversity even in its most treacherous form to find a sanctuary in laughter and love.
This is an updated edition of John Lennon's biography, to coincide with the 20th anniversary of his assassination. The book captures the life and work of the Beatle who wrote A Hard Day's Night through to the philosopher who wrote Imagine.
This is not only the story of one of history's most popular songs, "Yesterday"... this is unique insight into one of the world's most accomplished recording artists, Paul McCartney. Recorded over half-a-century ago at the peak of the Beatles' triumphs, "Yesterday" remains at the top of the most recorded songs ever, with over 2,500 cover versions. As a Beatle, Paul McCartney was a brilliant songwriter and performer. Today, he is a shrewd businessman, musician, composer, and philanthropist. Focusing on "Yesterday" and the era in which it was created, author Ray Coleman, who was close to the Beatles' story from the start, draws a fresh portrait of McCartney, then and now. Coleman relates candid interviews with McCartney on a wide rage of subjects, including his rich and often mercurial relationship with John Lennon.
The influence of money loans on global affairs appears to be driven by corrupt banking and large scale investors who manipulate the markets. Leonora is drawn into this ruthless world when she meets Dr Sean Doherty. Leonora is a privileged woman schooled in the arts, raised among gentry who are seriously wealthy. Richard is a poor farmers son. They meet in the woods surrounding her familys stately home and become young sweethearts. Richard is called up to serve in Britains dirty war in Kenya and when he returns they marry, resulting in Leonoras disinheritance. Their financial ruin finally wrecks the marriage. They take lovers who change their perceptions of life but their abiding love for each other rides out the storm.
Ben Mackay is in his late teens, raised by a single mother in a high rise flat situated in a run down area of Manchester where drugs and violence threaten to destroy people’s lives. He sets out to lead a gang of hoodies who terrorise the area but strange events result in him working as a secret agent for MI5. Mike Edwards is an ex-professional rugby league player who falls in love with Ben’s mother Karen. While Karen tries to maintain standards, Mike is drawn into the dark underworld of drug dealing and corruption. Heartbreak and tragedy threaten their relationship but Karen, whose courage and innate sense of what is right and what is wrong, rides out the storm to bring love and stability back into their lives.
Music journalist Coleman, the author of Lennon and Clapton!, with the full cooperation of Richard and the Carpenter famiy, explores the public and private lives of the Carpenters, portraying Richard and Karen's dynamic pop music career as well as Karen's descent into anorexia nervosa and untimely death. 32 pages of photos.
Organization is a key strength of this best-selling introduction to social problems. The book opens with an overview of the sociological tools and perspectives that are used in the study of social problems. It then lays a solid foundation by discussing fundamental changes and problems in the four basic social institutions, the economy, government, education, and family, before examining more specific topics, such as health care and poverty. The writing is clear, direct, and reinforced with high-impact, full-color graphics throughout. This edition has been updated to include two new features: "Signs of Hope" boxes, which help promote a positive outlook on today's social problems, and "Personal Perspectives" boxes, which present personal accounts of individuals' own experiences with particular social problems.
As a tribute to one of the greatest of popul ar singers, this book celebrates his contribution to the art s. Illustrated with more than 100 photographs and introduced by U2''s Bono, Sinatra vividly portrays the man and his work .
Working behind the scenes and obtaining knowledge of President Obama's political trail to victory led Coleman to write an insightful memoir that leads readers through a parallel journey of an electoral victory and spiritual confirmation.
Abstract: In the pattern formation problem, robots in a system must self-coordinate to form a given pattern, regardless of translation, rotation, uniform-scaling, and/or reflection. In other words, a valid final configuration of the system is a formation that is similar to the desired pattern. While there has been no shortage of research in the pattern formation problem under a variety of assumptions, models, and contexts, we consider the additional constraint that the maximum distance traveled among all robots in the system is minimum. Existing work in pattern formation and closely related problems are typically application-specific or not concerned with optimality (but rather feasibility). In this thesis, we begin to develop a theoretical understanding of the min-max traversal pattern formation problem. We show the necessary conditions every valid solution must satisfy and present a solution for systems of three robots. Our work also led to an interesting result that has applications beyond pattern formation. Namely, a metric for comparing two triangles where a distance of 0 indicates the triangles are similar, and 1 indicates they are fully dissimilar.
The long-time friend of John Lennon draws on his personal knowledge and the cooperation of Lennon's family and friends to detail the popular musicians life, career, and influence
Explores the public and private lives of Karen and Richard Carpenter, their rise to international fame, and Karen's struggle with anorexia and her tragic death
Mike Edwards is an ex-professional rugby league player who falls in love with Karen, a divorced, single mother with three children. Ben, her eldest son leads a gang of hoodies in a neighbourhood where drugs and violence threaten to destroy their lives. With Mike's help, Karen tries to maintain standards but Mike takes on more than he realises when Ben gets invoved with a national drug dealing syndicate and an older woman. Other lives are caught up in anti-social behaviour with heartbreak and tragedy along the way. However, Mike's love for Karen and her innate sense of what is right and what is wrong triumph in the end.
This biography probes the career and private life of Eric Clapton - pressures which culminated in heroin addiction and seven years lost to alcoholic torpor.
Thirty years ago, in 1963, Gerry and the Pacemakers made pop-music history. Their first three singles, "How Do You Do It?", "I Like It" and "You'll Never Walk Alone", went to the top of the UK charts, creating a still-unbeaten record.;For twenty-year-old Gerry Marsden it was the start of a long and colourful show-business career. A pioneer of the Liverpool pop explosion that reverberated around the world, he vowed to broaden his horizons and stay on stage for the rest of his life. Today he is more active and in even greater international demand as a performer than ever.;Brought up in the tough Dingle district of Liverpool, Marsden was a street fighter and enthusiastic boxer, who left school at the age of fifteen to work as a railways delivery boy. Like thousands of teenagers in the 1950s he got the music bug, taught himself guitar, formed a group and joined the vibrant club circuit alongside the Beatles and hundreds of other young rock 'n' rollers.;In 1962 Gerry and the Pacemakers were signed by manager Brian Epstein as his second group after the Beatles, and made their name with ballads like "Ferry Cross the Mersey" and "Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying" as well as raunchy pop.
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