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Dive into the captivating world of jazz with "Women in Jazz" by Sammy Stein, a groundbreaking book that shines a spotlight on the incredible contributions of women in this beloved genre. This special edition book containing both "Women in Jazz: The Women, the Legends & their Fight" and "In Their Own Words" by Sammy Stein in one hardcover volume, takes readers on an inspiring journey through the lives and stories of female agents, arrangers, co...

An Anthology of East African Literature: A Collection of Masterfully Crafted Pieces from 50+ Contributors across 10+ Countries. The literary world has received a gift in the form of An Anthology of East African Literature. This new book, featuring the works of more than 50 contributors from over 10 countries, promises to be a granary of artistic abundance. With over 300 pages of literary art, this anthology is a rich tapestry of poems and sh...

One of the most famous books on the occult ever written: a record of Crowley's journey into strange regions of consciousness: his initiation into magick, his experiments in the occult, and the philosophy of his famous "Book of the Law".

Nos Passos de Nietzsche é uma emocionante jornada vicária pelos lugares favoritos de Nietzsche: Nice, França, Turim, Itália, e Sils Maria, Suíça. Dentro da reflexão pessoal do autor está uma pragmática ruminação sobre os muitos aspectos da filosofia de Nietzsche que surgem ao longo da viagem. O que significa permanecer-se um indivíduo enquanto se alimenta os laços que fazem a vida valer a pena, principalmente aqueles que temos com a família? A...

One of the most famous books on the occult ever written, this is a record of Crowley's journey into strange regions of consciousness: his initiation into magic his world-wide travels and mistresses, his experiments with sex and drugs, and the philosophy of his famous "Book of the Law". Aleister Crowley, self-styled "the Beast", founder of his own spiritual orders, was already a legend the world over when he penned his biography. Known as a nov...

The moon's a cool moscato and the sun a sauvignon A poet-robot-a chain-smoking seductress-a dying connoisseur. All of these characters and more make appearances in this strikingly original poetry collection from acclaimed Canadian writer and illustrator Rolli. "Plumstuff" is part reissue, part reinvention. It contains all the best poems from Rolli's 2010 debut collection "Plum Stuff", along with dozens of new poems-and all-new drawings. Rip...

Burning It Down by Darren C. Demaree At a time so charged with volatility, from an atmosphere so polarized, and nations not only socially-distanced but divided, comes this timely collection, volcanic eruptions of the social and political injustices that ravage the landscape. Furious and debauched and careening, with an intensity that never lets up, Darren C. Demaree reimagines The Bacchae through the lens of American politics, Ohio, and reve...

In Their Own Words - Interviews with Women in Jazz by Sammy Stein Intimate and revealing interviews with female musicians who have made it on the jazz scene are presented here. Meet some of the greatest female stars and upcoming personalities in the world of jazz. Among these you will find: Selina Albright, Sheila Jordan, Tina May, Isabel Sorling, Ellen Andrea Wang, Silvia Bolognesi, Alison Rayner, Shirley Smart, Mimi Fox, Brandee Younger, Gin...

Darren C. Demaree's collection Nude Male with Echo examines and challenges male vanity, power, and expectation. While exploring the place of his gender in this world, Demaree's attempt to expand upon the expectations of "what makes a man", while drilling down into the artistic framework provided by the body and aging provides a new landscape for these modern questions. Nude Male with Echo, Demaree's thirteenth full-length collection, utilizes ...

This book is about women in jazz. It charts their journeys, celebrates their presence, hears their voices, wonders at their prowess and revels in their being. We hear from female agents, arrangers, composers, musicians, PR people, radio hosts, record label managers, singers, writers and more. These are their stories, their views of jazz and how they see the future. The established performers share their years of experience whilst those newer t...

TWOXISM by Claudia Serea & Maria Haro What began as a collaboration project between two life-long friends-Maria Haro, a visual artist, and Claudia Serea, a poet-resulted in a refreshing lyricism of urban photography and poetry. Twoxism is a work that finds beauty in unexpected places and sees the mundane with redemptive eyes. A city love story, tender and gritty at the same time, Twoxism, an invented word for all things two, is about love, lif...

THE WAR OF NONEXISTENT WOMEN & Other Instances by Jason Price Everett Nonexistence represents the paradox at the pinnacle of the human mind, of evolved intelligence: the ability to conceive of something that is not real and does not exist. The word itself is a tribute to imagination. Brittle black fingers are turning her contorted ink-stained pages as she is read. Against this curse of war we have only ourselves to offer, the ceaseless celebr...

Sam Cooke, the man, the musician, the lover - his natural genius, his wanton escapades, his raw passion, his business talent and his brilliant, soulful music are all here conjured in a series of poems by Darren C. Demaree. From humble gospel beginnings, to world-fame stature and cold murder, the beauty, unlikeliness and tragedy of a genius and his life are here commemorated and eternally brought to life. "It is hard to imagine a collection of ...

Lock 7" is the highest and last lift up the historic Welland canal. In this literary novel, it is also the dominant metaphor for Leo's final life epiphany. The one that always seems to come too late... Leo Meurso, a trained mercenary and assassin gone AWOL, has crossed some bad people and is now his employer's next hit. With a death sentence hanging over him, Leo decides to return home after twenty years of absence. His plan is to attend his ...

IN NIETZSCHE'S FOOTSTEPS by Jonathan R. Cohen ¿"I am dynamite, " says Nietzsche. "I teach you the Superman!" he proclaims. So what does it mean to follow in the footsteps or live in the shadow of such explosive material? Is it wise, or even desirable? How does one integrate philosophic truth and exalted thought and ideals into the mundane, everyday life? Ruminate upon these questions with the author as he travels both interiorly and externally...

Rewritten in their entirety, these blasphemous new and old testaments are an attempt at a reversal of morals--a dialectical approach to the truth in which the opposite is mirrored against the established with the goal of producing a new transcendent truth uniting the two contradictory views. ". . . a means of challenging zealots to read their own holy books and possibly force them to consider the harder questions and contradictions contained ...

Students fail to optimize their grade scores not because they are unfamiliar with the relevant material, but because of their inability to utilize the information they had to solve problems and answer questions. The Grade Booster Series (GBS)-Macroeconomics is designed to help the student improve his/her grade in Macroeconomics. Through the Grade Booster Series you, the student, will better understand the principles and concepts discussed in y...

Students fail to optimize their grade scores not because they are unfamiliar with the relevant material, but because of their inability to utilize the information they had to solve problems and answer questions. The Grade Booster Series (GBS)-Microeconomics is designed to help the student improve his/her grade in Microeconomics. Through the Grade Booster Series you, the student, will better understand the principles and concepts discussed in y...

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Call it America. Vast the tumble-rocket-particle-wave shows the world in a rush to arrive depart and become and forget and remember everything all at once. Call it history. Call it time and memory the way water is the measure of the clock your bones the measure of love. I mean everything passes. I said the earth is a sentry, everything passes and nothing escapes. Call it home, call it exile in a kingdom of rain." The first novel in an upcoming...