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Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock'N'Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock 'N'Roll (Vintage)
by Lester Bangs, Greil Marcus
Vintage presents the paperback edition of the wild and brilliant writings of Lester Bangs--the most outrageous and popular rock critic of the 1970s--edited and with an introduction by the reigning dean of rack critics, Greil Marcus. Advertising in Rolling Stone and other major publications.
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Everything You Know About God Is Wrong
The Disinformation Guide to Religion
by Russ Kick
In the new mega-anthology from best-selling editor Russ Kick, more than fifty writers, reporters, and researchers invade the inner sanctum for an unrestrained look at the wild and wooly world of organized belief. Richard Dawkins shows us the strange, scary properties of religion; Neil Gaiman turns a biblical atrocity story into a comic (that almost sent a publisher to prison); Erik Davis looks at what... (more)
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Paperweight
by Stephen Fry
A hilarious collection of the many articles written by Stephen Fry for magazines, newspapers and radio. It includes selected wireless essays of Donald Trefusis, the ageing professor of philology brought to life in Fry's novel "The Liar", and the best of Fry's weekly column for the Daily Telegraph.
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The World As I See It
by Albert Einstein
To the majority of people Einstein's theory is a complete mystery. Their attitude towards Einstein is like that of Mark Twain towards the writer of a work on mathematics: here was a man who had written an entire book of which Mark could not understand a single sentence. Einstein, therefore, is great in the public eye partly because he has made revolutionary discoveries which cannot be translated into the common... (more)
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Driven to Distraction
by Jeremy Clarkson
Brace yourself, Clarkson's back. And he'd like to tell you what he thinks about some of the most awe-inspiring, earth-shatteringly fast and jaw-droppingly gorgeous cars in the world (alongside a few irredeemable disasters ...). Or he would, if there weren't so many things competing for his attention first. So much to get off his chest. The world according to Clarkson is a perplexing place, filled with thorny... (more)
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The World's Weirdest Newspaper Stories
by Tim Healey
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Milk It!: Collected Musings on the Alternative Music Explosion of the '90s
by Jim Derogatis
Taking its title with suitable slacker irony from a song on Nirvana's In Utero , Milk It! is an anthology of pieces written in the heat of the moment-an urgent and diverse overview that mirrors the chaotic rush of the postmodern sounds it covers. Headnotes and connective material-the "stories behind the stories"-provide running commentary on the music business, rock criticism, a troubled generation, and an... (more)
The LotMichael Leunig
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The Lot
The Journalism of Michael Leunig
by Michael Leunig
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Red Lipstick Journals - March 2011
by Brindle Chase
Red Lipstick Journals - Created by a group of strong sassy erotic content writers, Red Lipstick Journals (RLJ) blog provides a variety of erotic flavors able to entice even the most discriminate palate. Built upon the unique styles of nine talented authors, this open format blog is fashioned to fill the erotica blog genre gap in the ever expanding Blog Universe.
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The Hoogsteder Mercury
by Hoogsteder Hoogsteder
Articles by Alan Chong, Ben Broos, Christina J.A. Wansink, Debra Miller, E.K.J. Reznicek, Edith Wyss, Elisabeth Epe, Fred G. Meier, Gregor J.M. Weber, Guido Jansen, Guido M.C. Jansen, Hans Vlieghe, Henk T. van Veen, Ilja M. Veldman, Ingvar Bergström, J. van Tatenhove, Jacques Foucart, James A. Welu, Jim van der Meer Mohr, John Loughman, John Michael Montias, Karel Citroen, Katlijne Van der Stighelen, Lubomír... (more)
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Connecting Boys With Books 2: Closing the Reading Gap
by Michael Sullivan
In his hugely successful "Connecting Boys with Books" (2003), Sullivan delved into the problem that reading skills of pre-adolescent boys lag behind those of girls in the same age group. In this companion book, Sullivan digs even deeper, melding his own experiences as an activist with perspectives gleaned from other industry experts to help you: learn about the books that boys love to read; uncover the signs that... (more)
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The Cambridge Companion to African American Women's Literature (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
The Cambridge Companion to African American Women's Literature covers a period dating back to the eighteenth century. These specially commissioned essays highlight the artistry, complexity and diversity of a literary tradition that ranges from Lucy Terry to Toni Morrison. A wide range of topics are addressed, from the Harlem Renaissance to the Black Arts Movement, and from the performing arts to popular fiction.... (more)
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Racing in the Street: The Bruce Springsteen Reader
by June Skinner Sawyers, Martin Scorsese
For more than three decades, Bruce Springsteen’s ability to express in words and music the deepest hopes, fears, loves, and sorrows of average Americans has made him a hero to his millions of devoted fans. Racing in the Street is the first comprehensive collection of writings about Springsteen, featuring the most insightful, revealing, famous, and infamous articles, interviews, reviews, and other writings. This... (more)
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The World According To Clarkson: Book 2
And Another Thing : The World According to Clarkson Volume 2
by Jeremy Clarkson
This publication is in 5 volumes and is not for sale to libraries. Jeremy Clarkson finds the world a perplexing place. So much so, in fact, that he wrote a book about it. But despite the appearance of the bestselling "The World According To Clarkson", things don't seem to have changed much. And so Jeremy's having another go. In "And Another Thing", our exasperated hero discovers that: he inadvertently dropped a... (more)
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The Best of Speaking Tree Volume 4
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Michael
by The Editors of Rolling Stone
"Being onstage is magic. There's nothing like it. You feel the energy of everybody who's out there. You feel it all over your body. When the lights hit you, it's all over, I swear it is." —Michael Jackson From the triumph of Thriller to the tragedy of his premature death, this landmark book—almost 40 years in the making—tells the full story of Michael Jackson's epic life. Chatting with Michael over fried... (more)
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The Economic Naturalist's Field Guide: Common Sense Principles for Troubled Times
by Robert H. Frank
Ask a dozen talking heads about how the economy works and what course of action we should take and you’ll get thirteen different answers. But what if we possessed a handful of basic principles that could guide our decisions—both the personal ones about what to buy and how to spend but also those national ones that have been capturing the headlines? Robert H. Frank, (a.k.a. the Economic Naturalist) has been... (more)
The New MythologiesJe?ro?me Garcin
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The New Mythologies
by Je?ro?me Garcin
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el-Nazarat
by Mustafa Lutfi AL-Manflooti
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Restituiri
by I. L. Caragiale
Articole, "Bucurestiuri", "diverse", "mofturi", note, insemnari, texte literare si traduceri din ziarele: Alegatorul liber, Unirea democratica, Vointa nationala, Constitutionalul, Era noua, Gazeta poporului