Adriano Exists

Adriano Exists

Author: Lisa Sa

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2019-06

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 0244477027

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From working out of unheated basements of independent record labels, to fetching coffee for pervy, untalented, doughnut-loving tech nerds in their forties, Alexis Brunetti has done every music internship out there. Yet despite her efforts, nobody is hiring. Or at least, nobody is hiring her. That is, until she accidentally crosses paths with multi-platinum award winning Italian singer, Paolo Petrinelli, and his band of colourful characters. Or perhaps more specifically, his rhythm guitarist and pro-feminist, Riccardo D'Angelo. Following this encounter, Alexis finds herself propelled into a battle against sexism, drugs, tantrum-prone musicians, and the abominable chaos that ensues, the moment you have the luck of entering the music business...


A Literary Cavalcade-V

A Literary Cavalcade-V

Author: Robert A. Parker

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2013-05-14

Total Pages: 435

ISBN-13: 1304037428

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For six decades, writer and editor Robert A. Parker has followed up each book he reads, mainly novels, with an evaluation of that book. His comments are informed by an independent critical view that balances a moral and literary sensibility. In this fifth of six volumes, the authors covered range from Brian Moore to Neil Sheehan, and include O'Connor, Pamuk, Patchett, Percy, Plante, Price, Read, Richler, Roth, Rowling, and Saramago. There are at least 120 authors included in this volume. These writers represent a range of writing styles, cultural influences, and moral philosophies. All are rated on their literary achievement, the effectiveness of plot, character, and setting, plus their recognition of the moral, ethical, and spiritual values of mankind.


The Man Who Loved Dogs

The Man Who Loved Dogs

Author: Leonardo Padura

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2014-01-28

Total Pages: 593

ISBN-13: 0374201749

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Cuban writer Iván Cárdenas Maturell meets a mysterious foreigner on a Havana Beach who is always in the company of two Russian wolfhounds. Ivan quickly names him 'the man who loves dogs'. The man eventually confesses that he is the man who murdered Leon Trotsky in Mexico.


Untamed Urbanisms

Untamed Urbanisms

Author: Adriana Allen

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-07-30

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1317599101

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An electronic version of this book is available Open Access at www.tandfebooks.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. One of the major challenges of urban development has been reconciling the way cities develop with the mounting evidence of resource depletion and the negative environmental impacts of predominantly urban-based modes of production and consumption. This book aims to re-politicise the relationship between urban development, sustainability and justice, and to explore the tensions emerging under real circumstances, as well as their potential for transformative change. For some, cities are the root of all that is unsustainable, while for others cities provide unique opportunities for sustainability-oriented innovations that address equity and ecological challenges. This book is rooted in the latter category, but recognises that if cities continue to evolve along current trajectories they will be where the large bulk of the most unsustainable and inequitable human activities are concentrated. By drawing on a range of case studies from both the global South and global North, this book is unique in its aim to develop an integrated social-ecological perspective on the challenge of sustainable urban development. Through the interdisciplinary and original research of a new generation of urban researchers across the global South and North, this book addresses old debates in new ways and raises new questions about sustainable urban development. .


The Grotto

The Grotto

Author: Linn Carr

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2018-02-24

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1462069746

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A medicine woman will mend the birdmans broken wings, but take heed, my lovely, for he is a brooding angel. So whispers a famous clairvoyant to neuroscientist Aimee Moreau, a woman who is not typically a follower of paranormal beliefs. This riddle propels Aimee on an amazing journey of discovery that will soon uncover deep secrets about her mother. A few months after her visit to the clairvoyant, Aimee learns her mother is dead. In the midst of her grief, she finds a cryptic note concealed inside a rosary pouch. Aimee slowly begins to interpret clues that reveal her mothers double life, which included a clandestine relationship with a Jesuit priest. As she learns, she embarks on a mission to discover more. When Aimee arrives at the hermitage of the reclusive clericcalled the Brooding Angel by her mothershe is swept into a world of mysticism, magic, and paranormal seduction. Shocked by her findings and fueled by maternal loyalty, Aimee flees to her ancestral homeland, where she must join forces with her mothers beguiling companion to decipher a powerful spiritual riddle. As Aimee finally unravels her mothers web of illusions, she uncovers something so sinisterso spellbindingthat it shatters not only everything she has ever believed in, but also everything she is.


Corporate Cultural Responsibility

Corporate Cultural Responsibility

Author: Michael Bzdak

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2022-05-22

Total Pages: 137

ISBN-13: 1000585131

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Is corporate investing in the arts and culture within communities good business? Written by an expert on the topic who ran the Corporate Art Program at Johnson & Johnson, the book sets out the case for business patronage of the arts and culture and demonstrates how to build an effective program for businesses to follow. As companies seek new ways to add value to society, this book places business support of the arts in a corporate social responsibility context and offers a new concept: Corporate Cultural Responsibility. It discusses the issues underlying business support of the arts and explores new avenues of collaboration and value creation. The framework presented in the book serves as a guide for identifying the key attributes and projected impact of successful and sustainable models. Unlike other books centered on the relationship of art and commerce, this book looks at the broader and global implications of Corporate Cultural Responsibility. It also usefully sets the discussion about the role of philanthropy and corporate social responsibility and the arts within an historical timeframe. As the first book to link culture to community responsibility, the book will be of particular relevance to corporate art advisors and auction houses, as well as students of arts management and corporate social responsibility at advanced undergraduate and postgraduate levels.


Creating Communities

Creating Communities

Author: Nourit Melcer-Padon

Publisher: transcript Verlag

Published: 2018-06-30

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 3732841863

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How does historical reality interrelate with fiction? And how much are readers themselves involved in the workings of fictional literature? With innovative interpretations of various well-known texts, Nourit Melcer-Padon introduces the use of literary masks and illustrates literature's engagement of its readers' ethical judgement. She promotes a new perception of literary theory and of connections between thinkers such as Iser, Castoriadis, Sartre, Jung and Neumann. The book offers a unique view on the role of the community in post-existentialist modern cultural reality by emphasizing the importance of ritual practices in literature as a cultural manifestation.