xlibris feb 2007 (10 Ergebnisse)

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Dr. Exeeto is an action/adventure story somewhat along the lines of James Bond stories. The action is riveting. The book includes many massive explosions, hi tech equipment and romance described in a way that won't shock mothers of teenage readers.Dr. Exeeto is a scientist in charge of a vast underwater biological warfare laboratory. He is intensely interested in protecting the human and animal gene pools. To that end, he accepts money from the United States and from Iran. Each thinks the other will be targeted with poisonous snakes, malaria carrying mosquitoes and bubonic plague carrying rats. Dr. Exeeto will target all nations who are housing atomic bombs. He feels those bombs will destroy the gene pool.A team of United States secret agents are sent to check up on Dr. Exeeto on two different occasions. The last time they go to see Dr. Exeeto, they are captured in his secret back up laboratory. The agents are a male and female team. There is some love interest. The agents are named Major Sandra Ferguson and Major Donald McBride. They barely escape being blown up in Dr. Exeeto's initial lab. They escape just before Exeeto blows it up. Ferguson and McBride are taken in a submarine, to the new lab, which is a mile or so under the floor of the Atlantic Ocean.Dr. Exeeto also released tons and tons of F-12 refrigerant gas, which destroyed the ozone layer and quickly raised the average temperature of earth to one hundred and ten degrees Fahrenheit. When Ferguson and McBride arrive, it's much too late to stop Dr. Exeeto.World War III comes and the nuclear winter kills off most of mankind. Dr. Exeeto's people survive in their tunnels and caves beneath the oceans. Some people from the United States survive in a cave known as Iron Mountain. Despite Dr. Exeeto's warnings, civilization rebuilds itself after a thousand years, and comes back to atomic warfare. This time the warring nations use a new 'fusion' bomb which is over 100 times more powerful than previous atomic bombs. The earth is split in half and the United States and Dr. Exeeto's people end up on mars. There is humor mixed in with the tragedy.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - CLASSICAL COOKS: A GASTROHISTORY OF WESTERN MUSIC by Ira Braus The expression, 'Classical music is an acquired taste' takes on new meaning in Ira Braus's Classical Cooks: A Gastrohistory of Western Music. Unlike most classical music guides, Classical Cooks links music and food synaesthetically. Synaesthesia means experiencing one sense modality by stimulating another, such as 'hearing' colors. Music and food, as my book shows, are close enough aesthetically, so that we can enjoy them synaesthetically. The book correlates the respective musical and culinary talents of composers living between 1350 and 2000; it also suggests ways for listeners to distinguish composers' styles by way of gastro-musical association. Classical Cooks complements a recent line of books dealing with food and culture, e.g., The Toulouse Lautrec Cookbook, Keats's Porridge, and Jazz Cooks. To be sure, American orchestras, like the Boston Symphony and New York Philharmonic, have published recipes contributed by their players. But no substantial anthology of composer recipes has thus far appeared. Classical Cooks has Three Courses, plus Dessert. Course 1, 'Why Musicians Love to Talk Shop in the Kitchen,' matches food categories with musical ones. Take fat. Musicians associate fat with lush, full-bodied orchestration as we hear in, say, Hollywood scores of the 1950s. These composers learned their craft from lipid composers like Puccini and Debussy. Puccini's 'fat,' mellifluous as it is, may be compared to olive oil - clear, fruity, digestible, while Debussy's is voluptuous, like butter - filmy, artery-clogging, and delectable. Course 2, 'A Gastrohistory of Music in Documents' offers accounts of composers as gastro- nomes. Beethoven's culinary disasters are juxtaposed with Rossini's haute cuisine, so haute in fact, that one of his recipes ('Tournedos Rossini') appears in Larousse Gastronomique. One also reads stories of Liszt's food-fights with his pupils and of his chiding the American pianist, Amy Fay, for 'making an omelette' when playing wrist-bending passages in his piano music. Course 3, 'You Eat What you Compose, or, Will the Real Mozart Please Stand Up ' addresses riddles of music history: how knowledge of Mozart's favorite foods -- liver dumplings and sauerkraut -- might revise his popular image as a composer of 'sweet' music, e.g. Eine kleine Nachtmusik; how a gastronomic kinship between J.S. Bach and Brahms -- their love of herring -- might reflect their dense musical expression, as well as Brahms's composing minuets and sarabandes during the mid-1800s; and how knowing Ravel's preference for 'hot' food helps us to distinguish the sound of his music from the more understated style of Debussy. Dessert comprises 'The Well-Tempered Cuisinier: Twenty-four Pastries and Foods from the Classical Cooks.' Readers will find here a combination of recipes and menus suitable for diverse musical occasions (concert receptions, composer birthdays, opera café entreés).

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Welfare And A Dream is the story of a young girl named Ebony born into a life of poverty. Her family lived on the welfare system. She endured abuse by her mother. Ebony longed for her mother to love her. It wasn't until she was on her death bed that she told Ebony she loved her. Ebony dreamed that one day she would escape her dysfunctional life. She found out the hard way that dreams don't always come true. She didn't know how to better herself. She met and fell in love with Zarius, a drug dealer. She had two children for him. Life was good for a while until he ended up in prison. While he was in prison she became involved with another man Miles who she vowed to have a no strings attached relationship with. She let him know that as soon as Zarius got out of prison she was going back to him. But the tables turned when she became pregnant by Miles. Ebony mistreated Miles because he wasn't Zarius. But Miles was determined to win her love. Zarius was angry when he found out she was with child. He didn't want anything to do with her. Eventually Miles moved on and she was left alone with three kids. She had become a statistic-an unwed mother with three kids. Her life was filled with pain and heartache. Would she ever overcome.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Ralph 'Petey' Greene was a comic genius who spent years 'clowning around' and spiraling to life's lowest depths. Then he conned, rhymed, and 'speechified' his way to heights he hardly dared imagine, using lessons from his unconventional grandmother. He gained national recognition with 'Petey Greene's Washington,' on cable (BET), and when he signed off with, 'I'll tell it to the hot, I'll tell it to the cold, I'll tell it to the young, I'll tell it to the old, I don't want no laughin', I don't want no cryin', and most of all, no signifyin' .,' viewers asked, 'Who IS this man 'Laugh . answers and introduces two characters destined to capture hearts.

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Richard Seff has spent 60 years in the theatrical jungle as actor, playwright, librettist, agent, investor and now memoirist. He first acted professionally in 1946 and his last engagement onstage was in 2006. He took a 22 year leave of absence from the stage after a long run on Broadway in support of Claude Rains and on tour with Edward G. Robinson in the prize winning Darkness At Noon. During those 22 years he represented artists in the musical theatre.He left the talent agency in 1974 at the height of his career to return to the stage. In the 30 years that have followed, he's appeared in some 25 plays, for one of which (Angels Fall) he won the Carbonell Award for 'Best Supporting Actor In A Play'. He's been in 7 feature films and over 50 television series, soap operas, TV films and mini-series. He is the author of Paris Is Out! which brightened Broadway in 1970 for 104 performances. The musical Shine! for which he wrote the book, won a National Music Theatre Network Award in 2001 and has been published by Samuel French, Inc. and recorded by Original Cast Records.Hit the dressing rooms with him and discover what goes on backstage, in the wings, and behind closed doors. Learn about theatre investing in the Golden Age, when one could buy a piece of a show in theintermission on opening night. He's got tales to tell!Join him on this fun filled odyssey through the decades in shows starring Alan Alda, Ethel Merman, Chita Rivera, Dick Van Dyke, William Hurt, Christopher Reeve, Richard Thomas, Judd Hirsch, Jason Robards, in others directed by Hal Prince and written by John Kander and Fred Ebb. Come on along and listen to - well, you know what.He's Got Tales to Tell!'Richard Seff's career in the theatre represents active participation as agent, producing associate, librettist, and, ultimately, as a skilled actor . In fact, he was responsible for recommending me to, among others, John Kander and James and William Goldman, to take over the direction of A Family Affair in Philadelphia on its way to Broadway . It turns out he's a fine writer as well, and this chronicle of an unusual and varied life in the theatre makes excellent and valuable reading.' Hal Prince'Oh, what a journey we've had. I thank Richard Seff for helping mold the life that I am still enjoying today. To live it again, through his own words, fills my heart.' Chita Rivera'He is a clever old sausage. Far more interesting to see written from his perspective than from a grander vantage point. Far more revealing and very redolent of the profession and its various joys, tribulations, and humiliations. Well done!' Emma Thompson'A very interesting look at our business from an angle most people never are aware of, including those who are most visibly involved.' Alan Alda'For years Richard Seff has been one of the wittiest raconteurs on the Rialto, but a pleasure known only to the cognoscenti. Now he has gone public with a biographical reminiscence brimming with anecdota, insight and intelligence. Bravo!' Stefan Kanfer author of Ball of Fire.