Vocal Jazz Improvisation
Author : Darmon Meader
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 32,34 MB
Release : 2016-08-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781532312588
Author : Darmon Meader
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 32,34 MB
Release : 2016-08-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781532312588
Author : Graham Swift
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 32,69 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780330518222
Four men once close to Jack Dodds, a London butcher, meet to carry out his peculiar last wish: to have his ashes scattered into the sea. For reasons best known to herself, Jack's widow, Amy, declines to join them. On the surface the tale of a simple if increasingly bizarre day's outing, Last Orders is Graham Swift's most poignant exploration of the complexity and courage of ordinary lives.Celebrating 40 years of outstanding international writing, this is one of the essential Picador novels reissued in a beautiful new series style.
Author : Cedric J. Robinson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 31,36 MB
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1469628228
Do we live in basically orderly societies that occasionally erupt into violent conflict, or do we fail to perceive the constancy of violence and disorder in our societies? In this classic book, originally published in 1980, Cedric J. Robinson contends that our perception of political order is an illusion, maintained in part by Western political and social theorists who depend on the idea of leadership as a basis for describing and prescribing social order. Using a variety of critical approaches in his analysis, Robinson synthesizes elements of psychoanalysis, structuralism, Marxism, classical and neoclassical political philosophy, and cultural anthropology in order to argue that Western thought on leadership is mythological rather than rational. He then presents examples of historically developed "stateless" societies with social organizations that suggest conceptual alternatives to the ways political order has been conceived in the West. Examining Western thought from the vantage point of a people only marginally integrated into Western institutions and intellectual traditions, Robinson's perspective radically critiques fundamental ideas of leadership and order.
Author : William F. Pepper
Publisher : Grand Central Pub
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 38,26 MB
Release : 1998-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780446673945
Argues that James Earl Ray was not King's assassin, and gathers evidence to support a theory that figures in government and organized crime were actually responsible
Author : Kyle M. Lascurettes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 14,89 MB
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0190068574
When and why do powerful countries seek to enact major changes to international order, the broad set of rules that guide behavior in world politics? This question is particularly important today given the Trump administration's clear disregard for the reigning liberal international order in the United States. Across the globe, there is also uncertainty over what China might seek to replace that order with as it continues to amass power and influence. Together, these developments mean that what motivates great powers to shape and change order will remain at the forefront of debates over the future of world politics. Prior studies have focused on how the origins of international orders have been consensus-driven and inclusive. By contrast, Kyle M. Lascurettes argues in Orders of Exclusion that the propelling motivation for great power order building has typically been exclusionary. Dominant powers pursue fundamental changes to order when they perceive a major new threat on the horizon. Moreover, they do so for the purpose of targeting this perceived threat, be it another powerful state or a foreboding ideological movement. The goal of foundational rule writing in international relations, then, is blocking that threatening entity from amassing further influence, a motive Lascurettes illustrates at work across more than three hundred years of history. Far from falling outside of the bounds of traditional statecraft, order building is the continuation of power politics by other means.
Author : Alfred W. McCoy
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 36,30 MB
Release : 2021-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1642596752
In a tempestuous narrative that sweeps across five continents and seven centuries, this book explains how a succession of catastrophes—from the devastating Black Death of 1350 through the coming climate crisis of 2050—has produced a relentless succession of rising empires and fading world orders. During the long centuries of Iberian and British imperial rule, the quest for new forms of energy led to the development of the colonial sugar plantation as a uniquely profitable kind of commerce. In a time when issues of race and social justice have arisen with pressing urgency, the book explains how the plantation’s extraordinary profitability relied on a production system that literally worked the slaves to death, creating an insatiable appetite for new captives that made the African slave trade a central feature of modern capitalism for over four centuries. After surveying past centuries roiled by imperial wars, national revolutions, and the struggle for human rights, the closing chapters use those hard-won insights to peer through the present and into the future. By rendering often-opaque environmental science in lucid prose, the book explains how climate change and changing world orders will shape the life opportunities for younger generations, born at the start of this century, during the coming decades that will serve as the signposts of their lives—2030, 2050, 2070, and beyond.
Author : Shan Mui
Publisher : Weatherhill, Incorporated
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 46,84 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Courage
ISBN : 9780834830134
With the help of an old man's advice and seven magic orders, the brave Chung Shun wins his bride back from the demon monster.
Author : Barbara Ann Kipfer
Publisher : Random House Reference
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 22,36 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Philosophy
ISBN :
A practical, entertaining and amazingly wide-ranging reference book, offering guided access to hundreds of hierarchies, classifications, systems, and other structures. You'll find the 64 emperors of Byzantium, ranks in the British army, how a television dish is operated, the different layers of soil, coal sizes, the various ice iges, how your ear hears something, how all the languages in the world are organized - and much much more.
Author : Colin Wolf
Publisher :
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 14,10 MB
Release : 2019-08-19
Category :
ISBN : 9781687388933
SMEAC Orders (or the five-paragraph format) is a style of issuing military orders that is used by the US military forces, the Canadian Forces (variations are used by other NATO members). The acronym stands for Situation, Mission, Execution, Administration, and Command. This book contains 20 SMEAC Order sheets, to make formatting your orders quick and easy.
Author : Douglass Cecil North
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 47,78 MB
Release : 2009-02-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521761735
This book integrates the problem of violence into a larger framework, showing how economic and political behavior are closely linked.