Author: Leo F. Buscaglia
Publisher: Slack
ISBN:
Category : Friendship
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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A little boy wonders what it is like to have a "memory" and his new friendship with an elderly neighbor results in a beautiful one.

Author: John Caps
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252093844
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 317

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Through film composer Henry Mancini, mere background music in movies became part of pop culture--an expression of sophistication and wit with a modern sense of cool and a lasting lyricism that has not dated. The first comprehensive study of Mancini's music, Henry Mancini: Reinventing Film Music describes how the composer served as a bridge between the Big Band period of World War II and the impatient eclecticism of the Baby Boomer generation, between the grand formal orchestral film scores of the past and a modern American minimalist approach. Mancini's sound seemed to capture the bright, confident, welcoming voice of the middle class's new efficient life: interested in pop songs and jazz, in movie and television, in outreach politics but also conventional stay-at-home comforts. As John Caps shows, Mancini easily combined it all in his music. Mancini wielded influence in Hollywood and around the world with his iconic scores: dynamic jazz for the noirish detective TV show Peter Gunn, the sly theme from The Pink Panther, and his wistful folk song "Moon River" from Breakfast at Tiffany's. Through insightful close readings of key films, Caps traces Mancini's collaborations with important directors and shows how he homed in on specific dramatic or comic aspects of the film to create musical effects through clever instrumentation, eloquent musical gestures, and meaningful resonances and continuities in his scores. Accessible and engaging, this fresh view of Mancini's oeuvre and influence will delight and inform fans of film and popular music. John Caps is an award-winning writer and producer of documentaries. He served as producer, writer, and host for four seasons of the National Public Radio syndicated series The Cinema Soundtrack, featuring interviews with and music of film composers. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland. A volume in the series Music in American Life

Author: Hugo D. Menendez
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1514482894
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 181

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This book by Mr. Menendez is a complete departure from his previous books. His prior works, though written as fiction, did in fact chronicle investigations that he had conducted both in the federal and private sectors. These cases were successfully litigated in the federal court for the southern district of Florida. Mr. Menendez maintains his unique style of storytelling; however, this book is a completely fictional story. The story line will keep the reader transfixed and guessing as to what the conclusion will be. While reading the story, the reader will constantly wonder what the answer is. Dr. Harold Steiner is an internationally recognized researcher who, together with other renown researchers, set out to answer the question which scientists have pondered through the years. What is the reason why some individuals, in rare occasions, become a genius? The question is, why is a genius a genius? Dr. Steiner, as the main researcher and project director for the Genius Project, spent over ten years researching this question. By accident, as often occurs in science, he makes a discovery, and at first, he does not understand the enormous implication of what he has discovered. He came to realize his discovery could alter the balance of power in the world if improperly utilized. If utilized with the intent of helping the human race, it could help in curing many types of mental illnesses. He and his fellow researchers preferred risking death rather than allowing this discovery to fall in the hands of the intelligence community of nations. His final act was to place upon the shoulders of his son and daughter-in- law the responsibility for the future course of this discovery.

Author: Tino Villanueva
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 68

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A fourteen-year-old boy sits in the darkness of the Holiday Theater watching GIANT, the 1956 Warner Brothers extravaganza starring Rock Hudson and Elizabeth Taylor. The film depicts the rise of newly rich oil barons as they replaced and came into conflict with the old cattle aristocracy. And yet the movie also teems with characters that depict racist stereotypes of Mexicans. One scene, this memory, is at the heart of Scene from the Movie GIANT, a remarkable book-length poem in five parts by Tino Villanueva. Villanueva excavates the meaning of this scene and in doing so grapples with urgent questions of cultural identity.

Author: Isabel Schon
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810826229
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 318

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This installment covers books published mainly since 1989. Citations are grouped by subject within sections according to country, from Argentina to Venezuela. The author has rated each entry as to artistic and literary appeal, and provides general grade level, ISBN and price. Appendices include contact data for book dealers in Spanish-speaking countries and the US. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author: Leighton Greene
Publisher: Leighton Greene
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 539

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Luca thought keeping me out of the Family business would keep me safe. He was wrong. Now his own life is hanging in the balance. While our enemies stalk us, long-buried secrets begin to resurface, and I’m not sure who we can trust. But I won’t let anyone take him from me. No matter what I have to do. I meant every promise I made to Luca in my marriage vows. And now it’s time to make good on them -- for better or worse. Till death do us part? Over my dead body. I’ve been underestimated my whole life. But if there’s one thing our enemies should have counted on, it’s my love for my husband... And my devotion to the Don. *** Join Finch and Luca in a dangerous, action-packed, steamy adventure that takes them from New York to Boston, through Roman ruins and a Venetian masquerade, as they redefine their marriage and search for a way to eliminate their enemies for once and for all.

Author: Tino Villanueva
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810150344
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 93

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Poems by a Chicano. In one he describes the bigotry he experienced in Texas as a child migrant worker: "Teach me to save myself from those who / with wrathful hand cut off the germinal hope / from my first breath on and wrecked my days." By the author of Shaking Off the Dark.

Author: José Mira
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3540316728
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 555

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The two-volume set LNCS 3561 and LNCS 3562 constitute the refereed proceedings of the First International Work-Conference on the Interplay between Natural and Artificial Computation, IWINAC 2005, held in Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain in June 2005. The 118 revised papers presented are thematically divided into two volumes; the first includes all the contributions mainly related with the methodological, conceptual, formal, and experimental developments in the fields of Neurophysiology and cognitive science. The second volume collects the papers related with bioinspired programming strategies and all the contributions related with the computational solutions to engineering problems in different application domains.

Author: J. C. Peterson
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN: 1681819600
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Enraged by his loss in a bitter custody fight, Michael Johnson kidnaps his son Adam. As they drive through the Arizona desert, Michael suffers heart failure. Adam strikes out in search of help and encounters two Mexican teenagers who have crossed into the U.S. illegally. Adam’s mother has reported her son missing and Sheriff Patterson is close on their trail.

Author: William Zanotti
Publisher: Back Hill Press
ISBN: 1737242958
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 318

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The Dramatic Conclusion to The Link Series On the verge of cataclysm, humanity needs heroes. Reggie and Lisa are in no condition for the job. When fate pulls them from the brink of despair, only to push them into confrontation with a cosmic madman, they both must reach past personal loss, and work together to discover the truth about the link. The answers they seek lie deep in The Beyond, and time is running out. Reluctant heroes, a maniacal cosmonaut, all of humanity in peril. The search to find out what it means to be human ends here.