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Virdition

Celebrity Success Secrets to Fast Track YOUR Path to Stardom

By: Forbes Riley,Will Quinones

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Virdition

Celebrity Success Secrets to Fast Track YOUR Path to Stardom

By: Forbes Riley,Will Quinones

In this digital age, it is more exciting than ever to seek a career in the entertainment industry—from stuntmen and musicians to actresses, dancers, and even make-up artists. With the advent of social media, YouTube, Facebook, and more, someone with talent in any medium can (and needs to) create their own brand, steer their career, and master the art of “virtually auditioning” at all times with every post. This is a far cry from the “old days” of paper headshot and cattle calls. Forbes Riley, an overnight success 20+ years in the making, shares her insights, obstacles, and successes as she pursued her career as an actress, dancer, and TV host. For her, meeting Will Quinones and hearing his dream of building his audition platform, Virdition, to help struggling artists of all levels was a dream come true. Virdition takes auditioning to a whole new level and helps aspiring entertainers truly understand the possibilities from contest shows like The Voice and American Idol to feature film casting.

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Morgan James Publishing

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1683508386

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Woody Guthrie's Modern World Blues

By: Will Kaufman

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Woody Guthrie's Modern World Blues

By: Will Kaufman

Mention Woody Guthrie, and people who know the name are likely to think of the “Okie Bard,” dust storms behind him, riding a boxcar or walking a red-dirt road, a battered guitar strapped to his back. But unlock Guthrie from the confines of rural folk and Hollywood mythology, as Will Kaufman does here, and you’ll find an abstract painter and sculptor who wrote about atomic energy and Ingrid Bergman and developed advanced theories of dialectical materialism and human engineering—in short, a folk singer who was deeply engaged with the art, ideas, and issues of his time. Guthrie may have been born in the Oklahoma hills, but his most productive years were spent in the metropolitan centers of Los Angeles and New York. Machines and their physics were among his favorite metaphors, fast cars were his passion, and airplanes and even flying saucers were his frequent subjects. His career-long immersion in radio, recording, and film inspired trenchant observations concerning mass media and communication, and he contributed to modern art as a prolific abstract painter, graphic artist, and sculptor. This book explores how, through multiple artistic forms, Guthrie thought and felt about the scientific method, atomic power, and war technology, as well as the shifting dynamics of gender and race. Drawing on previously unpublished archival sources, Kaufman brings to the fore what Guthrie’s insistently folksy popular image obscures: the essays, visual art, letters, verse, fiction, and voluminous notebook entries that reveal his profoundly modern sensibilities. Woody Guthrie emerges from these pages as a figure whose immense artistic output reflects the nation’s conflicted engagement with modernity. Capturing the breathtaking social and technological changes that took place during his extraordinarily productive career, Woody Guthrie’s Modern World Blues offers a unique and much-needed new perspective on a musical icon.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806159693

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9780806159690

Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Vol. 1

By: Will Murray,Dan Slott,Ryan North,Steve Ditko

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Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Vol. 1

By: Will Murray,Dan Slott,Ryan North,Steve Ditko

Collects Unbeatable Squirrel Girl (2015B) #1-11 and Howard The Duck (2015B) #6. With her unique combination of wit, empathy and squirrel powers, computer-science student Doreen Green is all that stands between the Earth and total destruction. Well, Doreen plus her friends Tippy-Toe (a squirrel) and Nancy (a regular human). So mainly Squirrel Girl. Then what hope does Earth have if she gets hurled back in time and erased from history? Some hope, hopefully, as Howard the Duck is waiting impatiently for a crossover! If that animal encounter isn't enough, prepare for Swarm, a buzzkill made of bees, and Mole Man, the subterranean super villain looking for love! But you're not here for flowers and kissing, you're all about computer science and super heroics. Get both - and more - in a showdown with Count Nefaria! You go, Squirrel Girl!

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Marvel Entertainment

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1302514032

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9781302514037

Love Goes to Buildings on Fire

Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever

By: Will Hermes

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Love Goes to Buildings on Fire

Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever

By: Will Hermes

This title provides a group portrait of some of the greatest musicians of the 20th century, including Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith, Grandmaster Flash and Bob Dylan.

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385

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Macmillan

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0374533547

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9780374533540

Unique Hustle

My Drive to be the Best Car Customizer in Hip Hop and Sports

By: Will Castro,Mark Finkelpearl

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Unique Hustle

My Drive to be the Best Car Customizer in Hip Hop and Sports

By: Will Castro,Mark Finkelpearl

“This book is a must-read for anybody interested in bangin’ custom cars, Hip Hop culture, and sports lifestyle.” —LeBron James Will Castro, star of Velocity Channel’s Unique Rides and one of the most popular car customizers in the country, has achieved the American Dream, finding great success doing something he loves. He has worked with many marquee names, and Unique Hustle is packed with anecdotes of some of the biggest names in sports, music, film and television; including P. Diddy, LeBron James, Nicki Minaj, Carmelo Anthony, Jason Derulo, Ice-T, and DJ Khaled, just to name a few. Discover Will’s inspiring journey to success from growing up poor in the housing projects of New York’s Lower East Side to customizing the rides of the rich and famous. Unique Hustle tells his personal stories of trial and triumph. With only a high school education, audacity, and passion, he ground out a place for himself in the world and hustled his way to the top. Alongside Will’s story, Unique Hustle also provides a “how to” from a professional to readers who love to learn about cars and customization techniques. Readers will learn: Which cars are best suited for specific customizations The dos and don’ts of car exteriors including paint jobs, rims, and wraps The dos and don’ts of car interiors How to add “unique” flair with stereo and video systems, cigar boxes, and more

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145

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Mango Media Inc.

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1633538907

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9781633538900

The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Vol. 1

Squirrel Power

By: Ryan North,Steve Ditko,Will Murray

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The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Vol. 1

Squirrel Power

By: Ryan North,Steve Ditko,Will Murray

Doctor Doom, Deadpool, even Thanos: Theres one hero whos beaten them all and now shes starring in her own series! Thats right, its SQUIRREL GIRL! The nuttiest and most upbeat super hero in the world is starting college! And as if meeting her new roommate and getting to class on time isnt hard enough, now she has to deal with Kraven the Hunter, too? At least her squirrel friend Tippy-Toe is on hand to help out. But what can one girl, and one squirrel, do when a hungry Galactus heads toward Earth? Youd be surprised! With time running out and Iron Man lending a helping hand (sort of), who will win in the battle between the Power Cosmic and the Power Chestnut? Plus: Squirrel Girls classic debut! Collecting UNBEATABLE SQUIRREL GIRL #1-4 and material from MARVEL SUPER-HEROES (1990) #8.

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133

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Marvel Entertainment

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130248186X

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9781302481865

Rapper, Writer, Pop-Cultural Player

Ice-T and the Politics of Black Cultural Production

By: Josephine Metcalf,Will Turner

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Rapper, Writer, Pop-Cultural Player

Ice-T and the Politics of Black Cultural Production

By: Josephine Metcalf,Will Turner

This collection of essays critically engages with factors relating to black urban life and cultural representation in the post-civil rights era, using Ice-T and his myriad roles as musician, actor, writer, celebrity, and industrialist as a vehicle through which to interpret and understand the African American experience. Over the past three decades, African Americans have faced a number of new challenges brought about by changes in the political, economic and social structure of America. Furthermore, this vastly changed social landscape has produced a number of resonant pop-cultural trends that have proved to be both innovative and admired on the one hand, and contentious and divisive on the other. Ice-T’s iconic and multifarious career maps these shifts. This is the first book that, taken as a whole, looks at a black cultural icon's manipulation of (or manipulation by?) so many different forms simultaneously. The result is a fascinating series of tensions arising from Ice-T’s ability to inhabit conflicting pop-cultural roles including: ’hardcore’ gangsta rapper and dedicated philanthropist; author of controversial song Cop Killer and network television cop; self-proclaimed ’pimp’ and reality television house husband. As the essays in this collection detail, Ice-T’s chameleonic public image consistently tests the accepted parameters of black cultural production, and in doing so illuminates the contradictions of a society erroneously dubbed ’post-racial’.

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358

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Routledge

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1317071506

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9781317071501

American Song and Struggle from Columbus to World War 2

A Cultural History

By: Will Kaufman

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American Song and Struggle from Columbus to World War 2

A Cultural History

By: Will Kaufman

Long before anyone ever heard of 'protest music', people in America were singing about their struggles. They sang for justice and fairness, food and shelter, and equality and freedom; they sang to be acknowledged. Sometimes they also sang to oppress. This book uncovers the history of these people and their songs, from the moment Columbus made fateful landfall to the start of the Second World War, when 'protest music' emerged as an identifiable brand. Cutting across musical genres, Will Kaufman recovers the passionate voices of America itself. We encounter songs of the mainland and the conquered territories of Hawai'i, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines; we hear Indigenous songs, immigrant songs and Klan songs, minstrel songs and symphonies, songs of the heard and the unheard, songs of the celebrated and the anonymous, of the righteous and the despicable. This magisterial book shows that all these songs are woven into the very fabric of American history.

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919

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Cambridge University Press

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1009085948

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9781009085946

Lou Reed

The King of New York

By: Will Hermes

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Lou Reed

The King of New York

By: Will Hermes

“The only Lou Reed bio you need to read.” —The Washington Post A Rolling Stone best music book of 2023 | One of Pitchfork’s ten best music books of 2023 | A Variety best music book of the year | A Kirkus Reviews best nonfiction book of 2023 “There have been many biographies of Lou Reed, but Will Hermes has written the definitive life . . . He has brought to the assignment a sharp eye, a clear head, a lucid prose style, and a determination to let Lou be Lou, without judgment.” —Lucy Sante, author of Low Life The most complete and penetrating biography of the rock master, whose stature grows every year. Since his death in 2013, Lou Reed’s living presence has only grown. The great rock poet presided over the marriage of Brill Building pop and the European avant-garde, and left American culture transfigured. In Lou Reed: The King of New York, Will Hermes offers the definitive narrative of Reed’s life and legacy, dramatizing his long, brilliant, and contentious dialogue with fans, critics, fellow artists, and assorted habitués of the demimonde. We witness Reed’s complex partnerships with David Bowie, Andy Warhol, John Cale, and Laurie Anderson; track the deadpan wit, street-smart edge, and poetic flights that defined his craft as a singer and songwriter with the Velvet Underground and beyond; and explore the artistic ambition and gift for self-sabotage that he took from his mentor the poet Delmore Schwartz. As Hermes follows Reed from Lower East Side cold-water flats to the eminent status he later achieved, he also tells the story of New York City as a cultural capital. The first biographer to draw on the New York Public Library’s much-publicized Reed archive, Hermes employs the library collections, the release of previously unheard recordings, and a wealth of recent interviews with Reed’s contemporaries to give us a new Lou Reed—a pioneer in writing about nonbinary sexuality and gender identity, a committed artist who pursued beauty and noise with equal fervor, and a turbulent and sometimes truculent man whose emotional imprint endures.

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320

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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0374712743

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9780374712747

The Grammar of Civil War

A Mexican Case Study, 1857-61

By: Will Fowler

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The Grammar of Civil War

A Mexican Case Study, 1857-61

By: Will Fowler

Unlike wars between nations, wherein the population generally comes together to defend its borders and is united by a common national goal, civil wars tear countries apart, divide families, and turn neighbors against each other. Civil wars are a form of self-harm in which a country's people seek redemption through self-destruction, punishing or severing those parts that are seen to have made the nation ill. And yet civil wars--with their characteristically appalling violence--remain chillingly common, defying the notion that they are somehow an aberration. In The Grammar of Civil War Will Fowler examines the origin, process, and outcome of civil war. Using the Mexican Civil War of 1857-61 (or the War of the Reform, the political and military conflict that erupted between the competing liberal and conservative visions of Mexico's future), Fowler seeks to understand how civil wars come about and, when they do, how they unfold and why. By outlining the grammatical principles that underpin a new framework for the study of civil war, Fowler stresses what is essential for one to take place and explains how, once it has erupted, it can be expected to develop and end, according to the syntax, morphology, and meanings that characterize and help understand the grammar of civil war generally.

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272

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U of Nebraska Press

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1496231554

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9781496231550

Unlikely Collaboration

Gertrude Stein, Bernard FaØ, and the Vichy Dilemma

By: Barbara Will

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Unlikely Collaboration

Gertrude Stein, Bernard FaØ, and the Vichy Dilemma

By: Barbara Will

From 1941 to 1943, the Jewish American writer and avant-garde icon Gertrude Stein translated for an American audience thirty-two speeches in which Marshal Philippe Petain, head of state for the collaborationist Vichy government, outlined the Vichy policy barring Jews and other "foreign elements" from the public sphere while calling for France to reconcile with its Nazi occupiers. Why and under what circumstances would Stein undertake such a project? The answers lie in Stein's link to the man at the core of this controversy: Bernard Faÿ, her apparent Vichy protector. Barbara Will outlines the formative powers of this relationship, treating their interaction as a case study of intellectual life during wartime France and an indication of America's place in the Vichy imagination.

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Columbia University Press

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0231152639

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9780231152631

Hanging Out in Spain

The Complete Guide to the Hottest Cities, Scenes & Parties

By: Amanda Buttinger,Will Lloyd,Brian Frank,Arianna Martinez,Mike Livermore

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Hanging Out in Spain

The Complete Guide to the Hottest Cities, Scenes & Parties

By: Amanda Buttinger,Will Lloyd,Brian Frank,Arianna Martinez,Mike Livermore

This is a new breed of travel guides, the first student guides to satisfy the real needs and interests of a college-age crowd. The tone: fresh, sarcastic, irreverent, intrepid, but not anti-intellectual. This complete guide covers Spain's hottest party towns and resorts, most gorgeous (and challenging) outdoor spots, and secluded towns where you can lay low and mingle with the locals. We highlight everything a hip, young crowd wants: the club and music scene, the best bars, hanging out, retro shopping, cheap eats and sleeps, the gay and lesbian scene, a fresh take on all the cultural sights, and more! Hanging Out in Spain covers Madrid, Barcelona, Seville and much more, all with dozens of maps.

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*Frommers

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0764562452

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9780764562457

Virdition

Celebrity Success Secrets to Fast Track YOUR Path to Stardom

By: Forbes Riley,Will Quinones

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Virdition

Celebrity Success Secrets to Fast Track YOUR Path to Stardom

By: Forbes Riley,Will Quinones

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Morgan James Publishing

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1683508386

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The Will Rogers Scrapbook

By: Will Rogers

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The Will Rogers Scrapbook

By: Will Rogers

A nostalgic return to Will Roger's America. Plus 100 photographs and exclusive interviews with some of Rogers' famous friends ... Wild-West shows and vaudeville, Hollywood, the silent movies and "talkies" and ... politics"--Jacket.

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0448123592

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9780448123592

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Virdition

Virdition

Woody Guthrie's Modern World Blues

Woody Guthrie's Modern World Blues

Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Vol. 1

Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Vol. 1

Love Goes to Buildings on Fire

Love Goes to Buildings on Fire

Unique Hustle

Unique Hustle

The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Vol. 1

The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Vol. 1

Rapper, Writer, Pop-Cultural Player

Rapper, Writer, Pop-Cultural Player

American Song and Struggle from Columbus to World War 2

American Song and Struggle from Columbus to World War 2

Lou Reed

Lou Reed

The Grammar of Civil War

The Grammar of Civil War

Unlikely Collaboration

Unlikely Collaboration

Hanging Out in Spain

Hanging Out in Spain

Virdition

Virdition

The Will Rogers Scrapbook

The Will Rogers Scrapbook

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