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It's a Sin to Tell a Lie: My Life in Jazz is the autobiography of Marty Grosz, today's foremost jazz rhythm guitarist and chord soloist. Part memoir, part transcribed oral history, it serves up Marty's story raconteur style - full of sardonic wit with a touch of vaudeville. Marty has many stories to tell. In a career spanning over 70 years, he has performed with jazz greats such as Herb Ellis, Charlie Byrd, Ruby Braff, Dick Hyman, Leroy "Slam"...

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Instead of treating art as a unique creation that requires reason and refined taste to appreciate, Elizabeth Grosz argues that art-especially architecture, music, and painting-is born from the disruptive forces of sexual selection. She approaches art as a form of erotic expression connecting sensory richness with primal desire, and in doing so, finds that the meaning of art comes from the intensities and sensations it inspires, not just its in...

Dieses Buch ist ein so bewegendes Dokument des Gefühls der Krise, mit dem wir im Moment leben, weil es ganz stoisch notiert, was sich vor unseren Augen und Ohren zurückzieht. Die heimatlich vertrauten Klänge, Farben und Gerüche der einmal auf Frühling, Sommer, Herbst und Winter datierten Wahrnehmungen. Das jahreszeitlich bestimmte Gebaren der Tiere und Pflanzen. Die Welt des ›ewigen‹ Schnees. Die Geschichten der Lebenden und der Toten, von der...

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In 1806, the return to St. Louis of Lewis and Clark from their epic journey across the unexplored American West with their tales of untold abundance of valuable furbearers, especially beaver, excited the populace! Men like General Ashley and Major Henry responded to such tales of valuable furbearers in abundance by forming a fur company, employing 100 adventurous young men as company trappers, and keelboating up the Missouri River to the Yello...

Terry Grosz returns to the largely unexplored American West in his fifth historical novel in the Mountain Man series, "The Saga of the Barnes Clan, Mountain Men."Wallace, Oliver, Otis, Cedrick and Sterling, sons of Barnes Clan Patriarch Rufous Barnes, in one day suffer the loss of their father to a heart attack and lose their family farm and Missouri Moonshine business to the Federal Government over unexpected and unpaid whiskey taxes!Thus beg...

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In The Thin Green Line, Terry Grosz stays closer to home with a major piece on a massive undercover sting operation that netted more than one hundred arrests for poaching and illegal wild game crimes. These arrests led to the conviction of almost all those caught and at least temporarily halted the vast slaughter of wildlife in Colorado's San Juan Valley. Other stories are more personal and complete a portrait of this dedicated conservation ve...

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Stephen Grosz was born in Indiana and educated at Berkeley and Oxford. For the past twenty-five years he has worked as a psychoanalyst. He teaches at the Institute of Psychoanalysis and in the Psychoanalytic Unit at University College London. His stories have appeared in the Financial Times Weekend Magazine and Granta. He lives in London.

This book gathers, for the first time, an overview of nearly all of the magnetic sensors that exist today. The book is offering the readers a thorough and comprehensive knowledge from basics to state-of-the-art and is therefore suitable for both beginners and experts. From the more common and popular AMR magnetometers and up to the recently developed NV center magnetometers, each chapter is describing a specific type of sensor and providing al...

Josiah Pike, a captive of the Lakota, Sioux, came into manhood the hard way…a slave, an outcast, a young man constantly tested…who finally proved himself as a warrior among a people being driven and overwhelmed by a force they didn't understand and came to despise.A turbulent story of man against man, man against the elements, and oft-times, man against himself… who he was, who he found himself to be, and who he eventually evolved into. Terry ...

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