Blue Smoke: The Recorded Journey of Big Bill Broonzy By Roger House
2010 | 255 Pages | ISBN: 0807137200 | PDF | 3 MB
A contemporary of blues greats Blind Blake, Tampa Red, and Papa Charlie Jackson, Chicago blues artist William "Big Bill" Broonzy influenced an array of postwar musicians, including Muddy Waters, Memphis Slim, and J. B. Lenoir. In Blue Smoke, Roger House tells the extraordinary story of "Big Bill," a working-class bluesman whose circumstances offer a window into the dramatic social transformations faced by African Americans during the first half of the twentieth century. One in a family of twenty-one children and reared by sharecropper parents in Mississippi, Broonzy seemed destined to stay on the land. He moved to Arkansas to work as a sharecropper, preacher, and fiddle player, but the army drafted him during World War I. After his service abroad, Broonzy, like thousands of other black soldiers, returned to the racism and bleak economic prospects of the Jim Crow South and chose to move North to seek new opportunities. After learning to play the guitar, he performed at neighborhood parties in Chicago and in 1927 attracted the attention of Paramount Records, which released his first single, "House Rent Stomp," backed by "Big Bill's Blues." Over the following decades, Broonzy toured the United States and Europe. He released dozens of records but was never quite successful enough to give up working as a manual laborer. Many of his songs reflect this experience as a blue-collar worker, articulating the struggles, determination, and optimism of the urban black working class. Before his death in 1958, Broonzy finally achieved crossover success as a key player in the folk revival movement led by Pete Seeger and Alan Lomax, and as a blues ambassador to British musicians such as Lonnie Donegan and Eric Clapton. Weaving Broonzy's recordings, writings, and interviews into a compelling narrative of his life, Blue Smoke offers a comprehensive portrait of an artist recognized today as one of the most prolific and influential working-class blues musicians of the era.

Blue Smoke: The Lost Dawn of New Zealand Popular Music, 1918-1964 By Chris Bourke
2010 | 395 Pages | ISBN: 1869404556 | PDF | 34 MB
Bringing to life the musical worlds of New Zealanders both at home and out on the town, this history chronicles the evolution of popular music in New Zealand during the 20th century. From the kiwi concert parties during World War I and the arrival of jazz to the rise of swing, country, the Hawaiian sound, and then rock'n'roll, this musical investigation brings to life the people, places, and sounds of a world that has disappeared and uncovers how music from the rest of the world was shaped by Maori and Pakeha New Zealanders into a melody, rhythm, and voice that made sense on these islands.

Blood Money: A History of the First Teen Slasher Film Cycle By Richard Nowell
2010 | 304 Pages | ISBN: 1441117059 | PDF | 4 MB
Scholars have consistently applied psychoanalytic models to representations of gender in early teen slasher films such as Black Christmas (1974), Halloween (1978) and Friday the 13th (1980) in order to claim that these were formulaic, excessively violent exploitation films, fashioned to satisfy the misogynist fantasies of teenage boys and grind house patrons. However, by examining the commercial logic, strategies and objectives of the American and Canadian independents that produced the films and the companies that distributed them in the Us, Blood Money demonstrates that filmmakers and marketers actually went to extraordinary lengths to make early teen slashers attractive to female youth, to minimize displays of violence, gore and suffering and to invite comparisons to a wide range of post-classical Hollywood's biggest hits; including Love Story (1970), The Exorcist (1973), Saturday Night Fever (1977), Grease and Animal House (both 1978).Blood Money is a remarkable piece of scholarship that highlights the many forces that helped establish the teen slasher as a key component of the North American film industry's repertoire of youth-market product.

Bigger Than Tiny, Smaller Than Average by Sheri Koones
English | March 29th, 2022 | ISBN: 1423658450 | 224 pages | True EPUB | 69.25 MB
Inspiration and answers for people wanting to live more sustainably in a smaller house while respecting the environment and saving money on energy and maintenance.

Be Smarter: Develops skills of spatial perception, logical and lateral thinking, as well as logical mathematical thinking. by E Grothendieck
English | 2019 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B081K9SHPC | 185 pages | MOBI | 1.83 Mb
The human brain is like one of our muscles, and like any of them, you must work constantly to not atrophy. We are used to seeing physically wellbeing more important than our own thinking, and because of that, we hardly work on our intelligence.

Bagels, Schmears, and a Nice Piece of Fish: A Whole Brunch of Recipes to Make at Home by Cathy Barrow
English | March 15th, 2022 | ISBN: 1797210556 | 208 pages | True EPUB | 16.71 MB
A playful-yet-comprehensive cookbook that let's anyway create bagels, schmears, and other deli favorites at home.

Bag Man: The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-up, and Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House by Rachel Maddow
English | December 8, 2020 | ISBN: 0593136683 | 304 pages | PDF | 20 Mb
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The knockdown, drag-out, untold story of the other scandal that rocked Nixon's White House, and reset the rules for crooked presidents to come-with new reporting that expands on Rachel Maddow's Peabody Award-nominated podcast

Badiou and Cinema By Alex Ling
2010 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 0748641130 | PDF | 1 MB
Applies Badiou's philosophy to well-known films such as Hiroshima Mon Amour, Vertigo and The MatrixAlex Ling employs the philosophy of Alain Badiou to answer the question central to all serious film scholarship: 'can cinema be thought?' Treating this question on three levels, the author first asks if we can really think what cinema is, at an ontological level. Secondly, he investigates whether cinema can actually think for itself; that is, whether or not it is truly 'artistic'. Finally, he explores in what ways we can rethink the consequences of the fact that cinema thinks. In answering these questions, the author uses well-known films ranging to illustrate Badiou's philosophy and to consider the ways in which his work can be extended, critiqued and reframed with respect to the medium of cinema.

Back and Neck Health: Mayo Clinic Guide to Treating and Preventing Back and Neck Pain by Mayo Clinic Press
English | February 2, 2021 | ISBN: 1893005631 | 285 pages | PDF | 57 Mb
The spine is one of the most important parts of the human body. And yet, studies suggest that, along with back pain, 10% to 30% of the adult population is impaired by neck pain, with seemingly minimal treatment options available.

BLOCKCHAIN MASTERY GUIDE FOR BEGINNERS AND EXPERT: Beginner To Expert Guide On Blockchain Technology, Cryptocurrency And Coin Investment by SMART WEBB
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09VGBWJ19 | 93 pages | PDF | 0.41 Mb
LEARN THE BLOCKCHAIN REVOLUTION FOR CRYTOCURRENCY