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Quincy Jones (b. 1933) is one of the most prolific composers, arrangers, bandleaders, producers, and humanitarians in American music history and the recording and film industries. Among pop music fans he is perhaps most famous for producing Michael Jackson's album, Thriller. Clarence Bernard Henry focuses on the life, music, career, and legacy of Jones within the social, cultural, historical, and artistic context of American, African American, popular, and world music traditions.Jones's career has spanned over sixty years, generating a substantial body of work with over five hundred compositions and arrangements. The author focuses on this material as well as many of Jones's accomplishments: performing as a young trumpeter in the bands of Lionel Hampton and Dizzy Gillespie, becoming the first African American to hold an executive position in the competitive white-owned recording industry, breaking racial barriers as a composer in the Hollywood film and television industries, producing the best-selling album of all time, and receiving numerous Grammy Awards.The author also discusses many of Jones's compositions, arrangements, and recordings and his compositional study in France with legendary teacher Nadia Boulanger. In addition, details are provided about Jones's distinct ability as one of the most innovative composers and arrangers who incorporates many different styles of music, techniques, and creative ideas in his compositions, arrangements, and film scores. He collaborated with an array of musicians and groups such as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Frank Sinatra, Clifford Brown, Ray Charles, Michael Jackson, USA for Africa, and many others. Clarence Bernard Henry shows how Jones has, throughout his career, wholeheartedly embraced philosophies of globalization and cultural diversity in his body of work, collaborations, humanitarian projects, and musical creativity.

A mirror of great changes that were occurring on the national labor rights scene, the 1913-14 Michigan Copper Strike was a time of unprecedented social upheaval in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. With organized labor taking an aggressive stance against the excesses of unfettered capitalism, the stage was set for a major struggle between labor and management. The Michigan Copper Strike received national attention and garnered the support of luminaries in organized labor like Mother Jones, John Mitchell, Clarence Darrow, and Charles Moyer. The hope of victory was overshadowed, however, by

On the assumption that John Updike was correct when he asserted, in a 1978 letter to Joyce Carol Oates, that "Nobody can read like a writer," Why I Like This Story presents brief essays by forty-eight leading American writers on their favorite American short stories, explaining why they like them. The essays, which are personal, not scholarly, not only tell us much about the story selected, they also tell us a good deal about the author of the essay, about what elements of fiction he or she values. Among the writers whose stories are discussed are such American masters as James, Melville, Hemingway, O'Connor, Fitzgerald, Porter, Carver, Wright, Updike, Bellow, Salinger, Malamud, and Welty; but the book also includes pieces on stories by canonical but lesser-known practitioners such as Andre Dubus, Ellen Glasgow, Kay Boyle, Delmore Schwartz, George Garrett, Elizabeth Tallent, William Goyen, Jerome Weidman, Peter Matthiessen, Grace Paley, William H. Gass, and Jamaica Kincaid, and relative newcomers such as Lorrie Moore, Kirstin Valdez Quade, Phil Klay, Viet Thanh Nguyen, and Edward P. Jones. Why I Like This Story will send readers to the library or bookstore to read or re-read the stories selected. Among the contributors to the book are Julia Alvarez, Andrea Barrett, Richard Bausch, Ann Beattie, Andre Dubus, George Garrett, William H. Gass, Julia Glass, Doris Grumbach, Jane Hamilton, Jill McCorkle, Alice McDermott, Clarence Major, Howard Norman, Annie Proulx, Joan Silber, Elizabeth Spencer, and Mako Yoshikawa. Editor Jackson R. Bryer is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Maryland.

Drawing upon newly released CIA files, conversations with KGB defectors, and interviews with key operatives of the CIA and Secret Intelligence Service, CIA SpyMaster is the inside story of an Agency legend, George Kisevalter.

Livet er en seksuelt overført sykdom med 100 % dødelighet. R. D. Laing Barn er som Jesus. De har ofte ugifte foreldre, de bor hjemme til de er 30 - og gjør de noe, er det et under. ukjent Hvis ateisme er en slags religion, er avhold en slags fyll. Marilyn Burge Noen sier at religion gjør folk lykkelige. Det samme gjør lattergass. Det samme gjør whisky. Clarence Darrow Da jeg var liten, ba jeg hver kveld om en ny sykkel. Så oppdaget jeg at det er ikke slik det fungerer, så jeg stjal en sykkel og ba om tilgivelse isteden. Emo Philips Vi skal respektere vår nestes religion, men bare på samme måte som vi res.pekterer hans idéer om at kona hans er vakker og ungene oppvakte. H. L. Mencken Hvis du snakker til Gud, ber du. Hvis Gud snakker til deg, er du schizofren. Thomas Szasz, psykiater Boken er på hele 430 sider og har over 1400 korte, slående og kritiske sitater om religion og livssyn av ca. 400 kjente og ukjente kjettere - blant andre: Aristoteles, Cæsar, Shakespeare, Kierkegaard, Strindberg, Ibsen, Bjørnson, Kielland, Vinje, Garborg, Edvard Munch, Fridtjof Nansen, Charlie Chaplin, Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain, George Bernard Shaw, Spinoza, Voltaire, Goethe, Heine, Lord Byron, Shelley, Tolstoj, Holberg, Wergeland, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Nehru, Sartre, Salman Rushdie, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Richard Dawkins, Peter Wessel Zapffe, Arne Næss, Bertrand Russell, Karl Popper, Heinrich Böll, Darwin, Einstein, Umberto Eco, Øverland, Sandemose, Bjørneboe, George Orwell, John Lennon, Rowan Atkinson, Ingmar Bergman, Jan Guillou, Axel Jensen, Erik Fosnes Hansen, Shabana Rehman og hundrevis av andre mer eller mindre kjente navn. Sitatene er godt dokumentert med originaltekst og kildehenvisninger. Korte biografier over forfatterne inngår.

Mordet på Lloyd Wilson ryster småbyen Lincoln i Illinois. Et nært vennskap har endt i drap og selvmord. Fortelleren skildrer begivenhetene i ettertid, femti år etter hendelsen. Samtidig prøver han å nøste opp hva som forårsaket skuddene. Forsøket på å rekonstruere fortiden bringer ham tilbake til egen barndom. Vennen hans, Cletus, er sønn av han som drepte Lloyd Wilson. På vemodig vis lar William Maxwell historien folde seg ut: tre familier, to mislykte ekteskap, en intens kjærlighetshistorie. So Long, See You Tomorrow [1980] vant National Book Award, var finalist til Pulitzer-prisen og regnes som en av 1900-tallets beste amerikanske romaner.

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Presenting the best current archaeological scholarship on the American Civil War, From These Honored Dead shows how historical archaeology can uncover the facts beneath the many myths and conflicting memories of the war that have been passed down through generations. By incorporating the results of archaeological investigations, the essays in this volume shed new light on many aspects of the Civil War. Topics include soldier life in camp and on the battlefield, defense mechanisms such as earthworks construction, the role of animals during military operations, and a refreshing focus on

The recent work of anthropologists, historians, and historical archaeologists has changed the very essence of military history. While once preoccupied with great battles and the generals who commanded the armies and employed the tactics, military history has begun to emphasize the importance of the "common man" for interpreting events. As a result, military historians have begun to see military forces and the people serving in them from different perspectives. The Historical Archaeology of Military Sites has encouraged efforts to understand armies as human communities and to address the lives of those who composed them. Tying a group of combatants to the successes and failures of their military commanders leads to a failure to understand such groups as distinct social units and, in some instances, self-supporting societies: structured around a defined social and political hierarchy; regulated by law; needing to be supplied and nurtured; and often at odds with the human community whose lands they occupied, be they those of friend or foe. The Historical Archaeology of Military Sites will afford students, professionals dealing with military sites, and the interested public examples of the latest techniques and proven field methods to aid understanding and conservation of these vital pieces of the world's heritage.

Big Man tells the fascinating story of Clarence Clemons, the larger-than-life saxophone player of the E Street Band. Clarence and his longtime friend, writer/producer Don Reo, take you on a thrilling ride from Clarence's childhood to the present, from beat-up vans to private jets, from boardwalk bars to stadiums and concert halls all over the world. It's a fitting account of a life lived to the full by a man who threw himself wholeheartedly into his music right up until his tragic death in 2011. The book is filled with never-before-told stories about Clarence's life, his friendship with Bruce Springsteen, and his encounters with some of the most famous people in the world. Along the way, Clarence and Don spin their own fictional "legends" that add to the already-mystical lore of E Street. An absolute must for all Springsteen fans, Big Man reveals the heart and soul of the man who brought so much music and love to so many people for so long.

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