Gandhi An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth
Gandhi An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth
Author: M.K. Gandhi Language: English File Format: PDF
Book Overview: Gandhi's nonviolent struggles in South Africa and India had already brought him to such a level of notoriety, adulation, and controversy that when asked to write an autobiography midway through his career, he took it as an opportunity to explain himself. Although accepting of his status as a great innovator in the struggle against racism, violence, and, just then, colonialism, Gandhi feared that enthusiasm for his ideas tended to exceed a deeper understanding. He says that he was after truth rooted in devotion to God and attributed the turning points, successes, and challenges in his life to the will of God. His attempts to get closer to this divine power led him to seek purity through simple living, dietary practices (he called himself a fruitarian), celibacy, and ahimsa, a life without violence. It is in this sense that he calls his book The Story of My Experiments with Truth, offering it also as a reference for those who would follow in his footsteps. A reader expecting a complete accounting of his actions, however, will be sorely disappointed.
Book Review: The Art Of Oral Sex from Better Sex is a sensual way for couples to extend their sexual boundaries. If done correctly this oral sex technique can create a physical, emotional and spiritual bond as intimate and pleasurable as “traditional” intercourse. Better Sex knows the art of oral sex like with any artistic endeavor, the better the technique, the better the end result. The key to mastering this oral sex technique is communication and trust. The Art Of Oral Sex from Better Sex will teach you how to give and receive, lovers will learn oral sex techniques.
Sperm Wars Infidelity, Sexual Conflict, and Other Bedroom Battles
Sperm Wars Infidelity, Sexual Conflict, and Other Bedroom Battles
Author: Robin Baker Language: English File Format: PDF
Book Overview: Sex and reproduction occupy a major part of people's time - not so much the doing, more the thinking and talking. Despite all of this attention, most people find their own sexual activities, responses and emotions the most baffling of all aspects of their lives.
Little known secret of sales professionals. Awesome book! This hard-to-find book is a little known secret of hard-core sales professionals. Most guard their worn copies with their lives.
Chapters include: 1) Emotional Appeal - the ecret of successful human relationships 2) Emotional Appeal technique - the one common denominator for all 3) The fatal four emotional appeals that make people want to listen 4) How to use self-preservation as an emotional appeal 5) Money as an emotional appeal in our relationships with others 6)Applying romance emotional appeal to our dealings with people 7) Using recognition emotional appeal to achieve personal success 8) How emotional appeal techniques rapidly rids you of fear, worries, and upsets 9) Command situations with power-packed emotional appeal questions and attitudes 10)Win arguements and settle disputes with emotional appeal technique 11) Emotional appeal will make others remember, respect and like you 12) uSE EMOTIONAL APPEAL TECHNIQUE TO ASSURE MORE SATISFACTORY MARRIAGE RELATIONSHIPS 13)Profit by bringing emotional appeal into your job or business 14) Enjoy extra benefits by adding emotional appeal to your voice 15)Better your personality and persuasion by increasing your emotional appeal
If you can find a copy of this book, buy it! You will get a lot of personal insight on dealing with people from it. It is a classic in the self-improvement genre.
Charles Bamforth, who has been described as one of the two or three brewing scientists of his generation, here gives us a revised and updated version of his definitive guide to brewing. Convenient, useful information on brewing all in one well-priced volume Updated edition includes industry information on global brewing processes, to help breweries and microbreweries keep pace in today's competitive market Ideal for the professional and novice alike, Beer: Tap into the Art and Science of Brewing is the ideal one-volume handbook on brewing beer.
“ Bamforth traces the history of beer from ancient Babylon some 8,000 years ago to today's brewing science, recounting important brewing milestones along the way. This new edition contains expansive coverage of global beer styles throughout the world, the sensory character of beer flavor, and the development of the global brewing industry. Each of the staples of brewing (barley, hops, water, and yeast), the fundamental processes of brewing (mashing, boiling, fermentation, maturation, and packaging), and the quality determinants (flavor, foam, color, and clarity) is covered in comprehensive detail. Never losing sight of the central role of science in beer's design and manufacture, Bamforth closes with some predictions about the future of the industry. ”
Contents:
- From Babylon to Busch: The World of Beer and Breweries - Grain to Glass: The Basics of Malting and Brewing - Eyes, Nose, and Throat: The Quality of Beer - The Soul of Beer: Malt - The Wicked and Pernicious Weed: Hops - Cooking and Chilling: The Brewhouse - Goddisgoode: Yeast and Fermentation - Refining Matters: Downstream Processing - Measure for Measure: How Beer is Analyzed - To the Future: Malting and Brewing in Years to Come - Appendix: Some Scientific Principles - Glossary - Index
Author: Lisa Shoemaker Language: English File Format: PDF
Book Overview: Foreplay is to sex what stretching is to a workout: easy to skip but essential for great results. And it's a lot more fun than stretching.
Taoist Secrets of Love - Cultivating Male Sexual Energy
Taoist Secrets of Love - Cultivating Male Sexual Energy
Mantak Chia’s books offer a workable combination of accessible, popular writing and real research on the topic of Taoist sexual practice. For example, the sections on position and gesture match exactly the information from the classical text regarding the "Eight Benefits."’ The major difference is that the classical language is rendered here in a vernacular adaptation.
You’re About To Learn Secrets That Most Men (And Women) Will Never Know About The Female G-Spot And How A Few Simple Techniques Will Allow You To Give Her Mind Numbing, Leg Shaking Orgasms...
By Louisa May Alcott Little Women is a novel by Louisa May Alcott published on September 30, 1868, concerning the lives and loves of four sisters growing up during the American Civil War. It was based on Alcott's own experiences as a child in Concord, Massachusetts. After much demand, Louisa May Alcott wrote a sequel, Good Wives, which was published in 1869 and is often published together with Little Women as if it were a single work. Good Wives picks up three years after the events in the last chapter of Little Women ("Aunt March Settles The Question"), and includes characters and events often felt by fans to be essential to the Little Women story.
Alcott later wrote Little Men and Jo's Boys and How They Turned Out, which followed the lives of the girls' children.
Blue Fairy Book, The by Andrew Lang # Story 1 THE BRONZE RING # Story 2 PRINCE HYACINTH AND THE DEAR LITTLE PRINCESS # Story 3 EAST OF THE SUN AND WEST OF THE MOON # Story 4 THE YELLOW DWARF # Story 5 LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD # Story 6 THE SLEEPING BEAUTY IN THE WOOD # Story 7 CINDERELLA, OR THE LITTLE GLASS SLIPPER # Story 8 ALADDIN AND THE WONDERFUL LAMP # Story 9 THE TALE OF A YOUTH WHO SET OUT TO LEARN WHAT FEAR WAS # Story 10 RUMPELSTILTZKIN # Story 11 BEAUTY AND THE BEAST # Story 12 THE MASTER-MAID # Story 13 WHY THE SEA IS SALT # Story 14 THE MASTER CAT; OR, PUSS IN BOOTS # Story 15 FELICIA AND THE POT OF PINKS # Story 16 THE WHITE CAT # Story 17 THE WATER-LILY. THE GOLD-SPINNERS # Story 18 THE TERRIBLE HEAD # Story 19 THE STORY OF PRETTY GOLDILOCKS # Story 20 THE HISTORY OF WHITTINGTON # Story 21 THE WONDERFUL SHEEP # Story 22 LITTLE THUMB # Story 23 THE FORTY THIEVES # Story 24 HANSEL AND GRETTEL # Story 25 SNOW-WHITE AND ROSE-RED # Story 26 THE GOOSE-GIRL # Story 27 TOADS AND DIAMONDS # Story 28 PRINCE DARLING # Story 29 BLUE BEARD # Story 30 TRUSTY JOHN # Story 31 THE BRAVE LITTLE TAILOR # Story 32 A VOYAGE TO LILLIPUT # Story 33 THE PRINCESS ON THE GLASS HILL # Story 34 THE STORY OF PRINCE AHMED AND THE FAIRY PARIBANOU # Story 35 THE HISTORY OF JACK THE GIANT-KILLER # Story 36 THE BLACK BULL OF NORROWAY # Story 37 THE RED ETIN
"Simply the best thing in print on the subject of using the Internet in your job search." -Richard N. Bolles, author of What Color Is Your Parachute?
This definitive guide to harnessing the Internet's powerful research capabilities has been thoroughly updated to include the latest online job searching techniques. Using Guide to Internet Job Searching, 2004-2005, absolutely anyone with access to a computer can immediately conduct a timesaving, low-cost, high-impact job search. Copublished with the Public Library Association, the Guide to Internet Job Searching offers expert advice on how to find and use online bulletin boards, job listings, recruiter information, discussion groups, and resumeposting services. Its easy-to-use format and user-friendly tone make this an excellent tool for both the experienced surfer and Internet newbie. Includes:
* Local, state-by-state, government, and international resource listings and opportunities * Online career resources * Specific career path information * Reviews of some of the more popular job listing and recruiting websites
The package contains the following topics: 1. Feng Shui Secrets Revealed 2. The Top 10 Feng Shui Mistakes & How to Avoid them 3. A Quick Guide to the 5 Elements 4. Wind Chimes and Water Fountains - Favorite Feng Shui Objects & How To Use Them 5. How To Use Feng Shui To Attract Wealth 6. How To Use Feng Shui To Attract Love 7. How To Use Feng Shui To Improve Your Business and Office
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As A Man Thinketh Above Life's Turmoil Byways to Blessedness The Path of Prosperity The Way of Peace The Reign Of Law
James Allen is a literary mystery man. His inspirational writings have influenced millions for good. Yet today he remains almost unknown...... None of his nineteen books give a clue to his life other than to mention his place of residence - Ilfracombe, England. His name cannot be found in a major reference work. Not even the Library of Congress or the British Museum has much to say about him. Who was this man who believed in the power of thought to bring fame, fortune and happiness? Or did he, as Henry David Thoreau says, hear a different drummer?...... James Allen never gained fame or fortune. That much is true. His was a quiet, unrewarded genius. He seldom made enough money from his writings to cover expenses.
Allen was born in Leicester, Central England, November 28, 1864. The family business failed within a few years, and in 1879 his father left for America in an effort to recoup his losses. The elder Allen had hoped to settle in the United States, but was robbed and murdered before he could send for his family.
The financial crisis that resulted forced James to leave school at fifteen. He eventually became a private secretary, a position that would be called administrative assistant today. He worked in this capacity for several British manufacturers until 1902, when he decided to devote all his time to writing.
Unfortunately, Allen's literary career was short, lasting only nine years, until his death in 1912. During that period he wrote nineteen books, a rich outpouring of ideas that have lived on to inspire later generations.
Soon after finishing his first book, From Poverty To Power, Allen moved to Ilfracombe, on England's southwest coast. The little resort town with its seafront Victorian hotels and its rolling hills and winding lanes offered him the quiet atmosphere he needed to pursue his philosophical studies.
Anne Hooper's KAMA SUTRA-classic love making techniques re-interpreted for today's lovers. 122 pages.PDF,14.4mb. Author: Anne Hooper Language: English File Type: PDF
Lighting The Nude: Top Photography Professionals Share Their Secrets
Lighting The Nude: Top Photography Professionals Share Their Secrets
Author: Alex Larg Language: English File Format: PDF
Book Overview: The most common response from the photographers who contributed to this book, when the concept was explained to them, was "I'd buy that." The aim is simple: to create a library of books, illustrated with first-class photography from all around the world, which show exactly how each inidvidual photograph in each book was lit.
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Bungalow Style: Creating Classic Interiors in Your Arts and Crafts Home
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The classic American bungalow is as popular today as when introduced in the Victorian era. Bungalow Style pictures a wide variety of interior details and describes how to add or restore elements that suggest a historic flair while keeping the home comfortable and functional. Common problems such as integrating modern conveniences or gaining needed space are also addressed.
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Piano Tutorial - Practising And Performing (A Pianist Guide) - By Daniels Abram
Practice for results and perform with confidence! Daniel Abrams shows how to get maximum results from minimum time spent at the keyboard. Relaxation, inspiration, attitude, and interpretation, plus more traditional topics like phrasing, scales, wrist action, and understanding chords are covered. Also includes advice about mistakes and how to isolate, practice, and master difficult passages. 75 minutes.
Mastering Piano Technique (Piano Tutorial) - Book (PDF)
Mastering Piano Technique (Piano Tutorial) - Book (PDF)
Seymour Fink's renowned Mastering Piano Technique sets pianists of every skill level free to express their most musical ideas with a holistic approach to the keyboard based on a sound understanding of the relationship between physical function and movement and musical purpose. In this invaluable resource for pianists and teachers, Professor Fink explains his groundbreaking ideas and demonstrates his innovative developmental exercises. 86 minutes. Professor Seymour Fink, retired senior piano professor in the Department of Music, University of New York at Binghamton, has made a lifetime study of piano technique and its pedagogy. An active solo and chamber pianist, Professor Fink gives numerous master classes and lecture demonstrations on piano teaching and technical development. He brings to this study a wealth of European and American educational experience, worldwide travel and observation of the pianistic scene, and more than 35 years of piano teaching experience.
How should tones be cut in the background of a manga page? How should I hold a cutter? And at what angle? Have you, the reader, ever seen a book before that answers all the questions to techniques you have been dying to know? Well, here is the book you have been looking for covering the fundamental techniques you have been longing for with easy to understand and in depth content. Building on Volume One 'Creating Characters' we have included everything you need to know to create your frames. This book is aimed at a wide audience from first timers to advanced users who have hit a wall in their work but mainly for people who want to improve their manga'techniques from school children to adults. Centering around how to draw backgrounds, this volume covers the indispensable techniques for filling frames - effect lines, flashes, perspective, tone techniques, expression of light and shadows with extremely thorough examples and explanations especially for tones. With this one book, your manga ability will improve beyond belief.
How to Draw Manga Vol 1 & 2 This bookis aimed at those who waht to start drawing cartoons (or comics) or those who are at a certain level but want to study it more seriously, or those who are already serious but do not see any improvement. In other words, this bookis designed to help all non-professional people, from elementary school pupils to adults to improve their technical skills. This book concentrates on character types. Speaking of characters, we guess most of you are confident in your native drawing skill. However, do you vibrate people with life? Are they 3-07 Are body parts smoothly and flexibly jointed? Here, a group member of the author will teach you the rational methodand technique to improve yourself, based on their experiences. First of all, Chapter 1 will show you how to draw figures, in fully realised 3-D. Chapter 2 will focus on how to draw bodies. It will show how the muscle structure of the body can be rendered, and will enable you to draw human bodies which look quite natural. Chapter 3 will teach you how to draw character. It wili enable you to bring out character closer to how professionals do it.
Really? Yes! So why don't you give it a go!
A SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF MANGA TECHNIQUES
REPRESENTATIVE MEMBERS
Hideki Matsuoka Tatsuhiro Ozaki Takehiko Matsumoto Planning: Tatsuhiro Ozaki Editing : Motofumi Nakanishi Cover designing and text layout: Hideyuki Amemura Photographing: Yasuo Imai English translation: Steve K.Arnemura
As composed by Tom Kolb. 101 Patterns for All Styles from Folk to Funk]. Musicians This private lesson with MI instructor Tom Kolb is an easy-to-use guide to the most essential chords, rhythms and strumming patterns for a huge variety of musical styles: rock, blues, jazz, country, folk, R&B, funk, soul, Latin jazz, fusion, ska, reggae and gospel] Each musical example in the book is demonstrated on the accompanying CD, backed by a full rhythm section.
A comprehensive source for learning rhythm guitar in a variety of musical styles. It covers: open chords, barre chords, and other movable shapes; strumming, fingerstyle, flatpicking and arpeggiation; common progressions and basic chord theory; triads, sixth, seventh, ninth, and many other .
Andrew Loomis is one of those rare, gifted artists who can articulate as clearly and truthfully using words as he could with lines. Using very simple tools to define the structure of the human body, essentially the skeleton as the foundation, he teaches how fantastically easy it is to draw the human body from any angle, in any action, and of any type. I wish there were 10 stars.
Having stood the test of time, it was first published in the 30's, this book teaches you all that is there to figure drawing.
Andrew Loomis is one of those rare, gifted artists who can articulate as clearly and truthfully using words as he could with lines.
Using very simple tools to define the structure of the human body, essentially the skeleton as the foundation, he teaches how fantastically easy it is to draw the human body from any angle, in any action, and of any type.
This is not one of those 'feel good' books that teaches you to do 'yet another thing'. This is a grand text. absolutely dedicated work, you can see the earnestness in Loomis' anxious words about getting across the details to the reader.
Kimon's 'Natural Way to Draw' is a classic in a different way, where he asks us to discover almost everything. Loomis gives us the crutches. I think a combination of these two approaches can be terrific. thats what I am finding out.
It has been very fullfilling , since I can pick up the artifacts of drawing the figure, and infact drawing anything for that matter, Loomis will lead you to explore and expand, the techniques are amazingly simple, yet absolutely powerful.
He reiterates to see the structure beneath anything, the skeleton, and how it aids us in construction.
Publisher: Lulu.com Number Of Pages: 356 Publication Date: 2007-04-05 File Type: PDF
Book Review: A Java/J2EE technical job interview guide for job seekers, promotion seekers, pro-active learners and interviewers. Learn the core concepts and issues relating to Java/J2EE in an easy to understand questions and answers approach . Covering over 220 interview questions and answers on: Java, J2EE, Applet, Servlets, JSP, EJB, JNDI, RMI, JDBC, LDAP, JMS, XML, RUP, UML, STRUTS, SQL, Design concepts & design patterns, JUnit, Ant, CVS, Development process, Emerging technologies/frameworks like AOP, IoC, Hibernate, Spring, JSF and more.
A Platform-Centric Approach to System-on-Chip (SOC) Design
Publisher: Springer Number Of Pages: 205 Publication Date: 2004-12-15 File Type: PDF
Book Review: The platform-centric SoC method is aimed at the design of today’s SoC systems with emphasis on real-time, embedded systems. The approach provides a guideline and an SoC design environment that promotes an integration of state-of-the-art tools and techniques necessary for the development of the systems. It renders a new and better perspective towards co-design approaches, while also raising a level of design abstraction. Because the configurable platform objects are designed off-cycle, they contribute to a general improvement in development time. By incorporating their usage, the overall method strikes a balance between total design flexibility and minimal time-to-market.
In Chapter 1, challenges in the co-design of SoCs are introduced. The chapter briefly describes the technical challenges facing system developers and introduces a proposed solution to the problem. The remainder of this book presents a more thorough examination on the problem and the proposed approach.
Chapter 2 describes the proposed platform-centric SoC design method in detail. It illustrates the design flow and discusses each main step in the design process. Definition of a platform as originally defined by Sabbagh [96], as well as the platform-based and platform-centric design approaches, are presented. The chapter concludes by comparing the proposed approach with previous related work.
Chapter 3 lays out the technological background for the proposed SoC design method. Whereas the platform technology is discussed in Chapter 2, this chapter gives an overview of the other two fundamental technologies: the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and the Extensible Markup Language (XML). The chapter begins with an introduction to UML as a modeling tool very well perceived within the software engineering community. It is followed by a discussion on an attempt by the Object Management Group (OMG) to empower UML for the development of real-time embedded software – an effort which will eventually culminate in a design framework known as the UML Profile for Schedulability, Performance, and Time Specification [29]. Thereafter, an overview of XML and a few other related internet technologies ensue.
Chapter 4 outlines the structure of the library of platform objects (LPO), as well as furnishes a comprehensive guideline and requirements specification that a platform object must possess in order to be scalable and compatible with the proposed approach. Essential elements for each platform object, e.g. architecture blueprint, XML-based self-described modules, platform managing tool, etc., are also discussed in detail.
Chapter 5 provides a detailed treatment of UML extensions for the development of real-time embedded systems. The chapter starts with a layout of the Co-design Modeling Framework (CMF) hierarchy that encompasses five other sub-profiles – the generic utility profile (PCUprofile), the Exception Modeling profile (EMprofile), the Interrupt Modeling profile (IMprofile), the Synthesizable Hardware Description Language profile (SHDLprofile), and the Architecture Blueprint profile (ABprofile). Each of these profiles furnishes a design framework that is specifically tailored for the proposed approach, and may be able to meet with the challenges posed by the design and test of real-time embedded SoC-based systems. The chapter, then, proceeds to discuss the domain concept for each sub-profile, followed by the description of the corresponding stereotypes.
Chapter 6 applies the platform-centric SoC design method, using the CMF profile in UML, to the development of a simplified digital camera system so as to demonstrate the use and the robustness of the proposed approach. Specifically, the NiOS development board is used to mimic the digital camera system where raw image data are read from a charge-coupled device (CCD), and then JPEG encoded and stored into memory. The chapter begins with an overview of the Altera’s NiOS system, followed by the actual system development process that explicitly demonstrates the use of the proposed approach. A quantitative evaluation is then presented that compares the development cost of the proposed platform-centric SoC design method against some alternative approaches using cost estimation models and tools.
Chapter 7 concludes the book with a summary and a discussion of future directions for this effort on platform-based design.
The first full-length biography of Hermann Goring, Hitler's partner, alter ego, and chosen successor. Includes 23 pages of photos, some from the Goring family album, and diaries and letters that disclose the nature of Goring's death.
This is an account of the world according to Hilary, her view of her life as First Lady of the U.S.A. and wife to an incorrigible womanising President. She also covers her childhood and coming of age during the sixties. The sixties, as anyone who grew up then will remember, was a time of turbulent change with the Vietnam War protests and the growing Women’s Liberation Movement setting campuses in turmoil throughout the States. We can follow her progress from her years of student activism to her years as one of the most controversial First Ladies America has had.
Readers will be disappointed if they are expecting gory details of what ‘Hil said to Bill’ when she found he had lied and lied about his affair with Monica Lewinsky. It is dealt with, but without emotion and this would seem to be why people find Hilary cold and unfeeling – she doesn’t bleed in public. She humorously describes the pitfalls of balancing being a wife, mother and a very political First Lady in the face of prurient Press interest. She held Jacqueline Kennedy and Eleanor Roosevelt, two equally formidable ladies, as her role models in creating her own idea of being a First Lady.
This book covers Hilary’s role in the internal politics of the U.S. as well as her travels abroad and her meetings with the great and the good from all over the world and from all walks of life, but in a documentary fashion rather than as a personal recollection. Overall this is an interesting book, well written but perhaps a bit over-edited as one would expect from such a self-controlled intelligent lady.
Former President William Jefferson Clinton's hotly anticipated 957-page doorstop of a memoir is much like its author-charismatic, longwinded, and, many might say, deeply flawed. The first Democratic president to be elected to a second term since FDR in 1936, Clinton has lived what is by any account an eventful, inspiring life. As explained in early passages notable for their frankness and humanity, Clinton, born to humble Arkansas roots, never knew his father. William Jefferson Blythe was killed in an automobile accident just months before his son's birth. Clinton adored his mother, Virginia, a nurse with a large, loving family and a harmless penchant for the racetrack. Difficulties began when Virginia married Roger Clinton, who struggled with alcohol and a violent temper. A turbulent home life and the vagaries of a segregated South, however, only pushed the gregarious Clinton to achieve. He became interested in politics at an early age. He wrote, debated, played the saxophone, and eventually made it to Georgetown and Oxford universities, a law practice, then to Little Rock and the governor's mansion, and eventually to the White House. Clinton's administration was equally dramatic. Domestically, he fought to balance the federal budget, presided over a government shutdown, and beat back a conservative cultural backlash. Diplomatically, Clinton skirmished with a bellicose Saddam Hussein, ended a genocidal crisis in Bosnia, accelerated the Mideast peace process until its eventual collapse, and began to deal with the budding threat posed by Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda. To top that off, he left office in 2000 amid the bizarre Bush/Gore electoral crisis. Of course, what Clinton is also remembered for are the scandals that plagued his efforts. Beginning with Gennifer Flowers in the 1992 campaign, to Whitewater, Travelgate, the FBI file scandal, Paula Jones and ultimately the Monica Lewinsky affair that led to his historic impeachment, Clinton endured what then First Lady Hillary Clinton termed a "vast right-wing conspiracy" to push him from office. The most interesting passages of Clinton's memoir reveal a simmering, deep animosity toward special prosecutor Ken Starr. Clinton defiantly blisters Starr as an unethical, overreaching partisan who illegally leaked details of his investigations to the press; exceeded his authority; humiliated, bankrupted and jailed innocent people for not playing ball; and served only to ring up huge legal bills for the Clintons, their staff and supporters. Certainly, Clinton's memoir has the raw material for a blockbuster book. But the sheer deluge of information is mind-numbing. Rather than expose the hurricane's eye of a remarkable life and an eventful presidency, the book instead blurs into an unrelenting blizzard of names, dates, campaigns, speeches, events, handshakes, tangential observations, memories, meetings, cities and towns, and anecdotes. The result is a narrative that obscures any meaningful measure of Clinton's true character and values. Save for his strong feelings about Starr, Clinton offers only brief personal assessments of the colorful personalities with whom he crossed paths, including his wife, Hillary Clinton, Al Gore and James Carville, opponents like George Bush, Bob Dole and Ross Perot, or world leaders such as Boris Yeltsin, and Yasser Arafat. Monica Lewinsky also escapes any meaningful scrutiny. Most frustratingly, Clinton, while admitting mistakes, offers no deep personal introspection. In an excerpt from a high school essay, Clinton wrote that he was a "living paradox," who "detests selfishness but sees it in the mirror everyday." That passage marks the most insightful stroke of self-analysis in the book. Yet while lacking immediacy, the book nevertheless manages a certain gravitas, if only for being a painstakingly thorough act of recollection. Given the fevered "tell-all" anticipation surrounding the book's publication, however, it is certain to disappoint many readers even as it sells an astonishing number of copies. Some of that disappointment, however, was inevitable. After all, My Life is a presidential memoir, a historically self-serving category of autobiography alone unto itself and very much an extension of presidential politics--a profession that is never "tell-all." Even more tricky, Clinton's wife, Hillary, now the junior Senator from New York, is very much still in politics. When matched against other presidential memoirs, though, Clinton's scores favorably, certainly exceeding the flaccid efforts of his most recent predecessors, Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush. Still, Clinton, a popular, gifted orator with a clear mastery of public policy, has missed, or, perhaps, passed on, a golden opportunity to offer a truly resonant portrait of his embattled presidency or an enduring political vision.
Rock, country, pop, soul, funk, punk, folk, hip-hop, techno, grunge--it's all here. In American Popular Music: The Rock Years, Larry Starr and Christopher Waterman take readers on a fascinating journey through the rich historical and stylistic landscape of American rock. An abridged version of the authors' acclaimed American Popular Music: From Minstrelsy to MTV, this volume includes chapters 8-14 of the longer book along with new introductory and concluding chapters. American Popular Music: The Rock Years traces the development of rock from its roots in the mid-1940s to its current state in the twenty-first century, integrating in-depth discussions of the music itself with solid coverage of the attendant historical, social, and cultural circumstances. It strikes a balance between musical analysis and social context, showing how rock and American culture have continuously influenced each other over time. Using well-chosen examples, insightful commentaries, and an engaging writing style, the authors highlight the contributions of diverse groups to the development of rock music, explain the effects of advancements in recording technology, and chronicle the growth of rock music as an industry. The book is enhanced by a rich illustration program; boxed inserts on significant individuals, recordings, and intriguing topics; and well-organized listening charts for recordings that are discussed in detail in the text. Remarkably accessible, American Popular Music: The Rock Years is ideal for introductory courses in the history of rock and roll and will encourage readers to become more critically aware listeners of rock music.
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