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Author: Sarah Castille
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2016-12-06
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 1250104033
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDangerous passion and dark secrets fly in the first in a Mafia romance series from New York Times bestselling author Sarah Castille.
Author: Jennifer Otter Bickerdike
Publisher: Hachette UK
Published: 2021-08-10
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 0306922894
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA new, definitive biography of the iconic and mysterious singer, Warhol superstar, Velvet Underground collaborator: influential solo artist Nico. YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL AND YOU ARE ALONE is a new biography of Nico, the mysterious singer best known for her work with the Velvet Underground and her solo album Chelsea Girl. Her life is tangled in myth--much of it of her own invention. Rock and roll cultural historian Jennifer Bickerdike delivers a definitive book that unravels the story while making a convincing case for Nico's enduring importance. Over the course of her career, Nico was an ever-evolving myth: art film house actress, highly coveted fashion model, Dietrich of Punk, Femme Fatale, Chelsea Girl, Garbo of Goth, The Last Bohemian, Heroin Junkie. Lester Bangs described her as 'a true enigma.' At age 27, Nico became Andy Warhol's newest Superstar, featuring in his one commercial break out hit film Chelsea Girls and garnering the position of chanteuse for the Velvet Underground. It wasn't Nico's musical chops which got her the gig; it was her striking beauty. Her seeming otherworldly and unattainable presence was further amplified by her reputation for dating rock stars (Brian Jones, Bob Dylan, Jim Morrison, among others). She became famous for being Nico. Yet Nico's talent and her contribution to rock culture are often overlooked. She spent most of her career as a solo artist on the road, determined to make music, seemingly against all the odds, enduring empty concert halls, abusive fans, and the often perilous reality of being an ageing artist and drug addict. She created mesmerizing and unique projects that inspired a generation of artists, including Henry Rollins, Morrissey, Siousxie Sioux and the Banshees and Iggy Pop. Drawing on the archives at the Andy Warhol Museum and at Nico's record labels, various private collections, and rarely seen footage, and featuring exclusive new interviews from those who knew her best, including Iggy Pop and Danny Fields, and those inspired by her legacy, YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL AND YOU ARE ALONE reveals the complicated, often compromised, self-destructive and always head strong woman behind the one-dimensional myths.
Author: Andrea Maturana
Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
Published: 2016-04-01
Total Pages: 44
ISBN-13: 1771386118
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMaia and Nico are the very best of friends, spending all of their time together. When Nico and his family move far away for a little while, Maia is left with a hole in her life that she thinks will never be filled. Eventually, though, she meets a furry companion, makes a new friend and even discovers a new passion. Her life feels full once again. When it's finally time for Nico to return, Maia worries --- does she still have enough room in her life for her old friend? This heartfelt story explores complex childhood emotions: the sadness of loneliness, the uncertainty of the unknown and the joy of new experiences. A tender tale about a deeply felt friendship, Life Without Nico will win over readers of all ages.
Author: Míriam Bonastre Tur
Publisher: Etch/Clarion Books
Published: 2021-09
Total Pages: 389
ISBN-13: 0358468302
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen Dani and Dorian missed the bus to magic school, they never thought they'd wind up declared traitors to their own kind! Now, thanks to a series of mishaps, they are being chased by powerful magic families seeking the prophesied King of Witches and royals searching for missing princes. But they aren't alone. With a local troublemaker, a princess, and a teacher who can see the future on their side, they might just be able to clear their names...but can they heal their torn kingdom?
Author: Nico Slate
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2019-02-25
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 0295744979
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMahatma Gandhi redefined nutrition as fundamental to building a more just world. What he chose to eat was intimately tied to his beliefs, and his key values of nonviolence, religious tolerance, and rural sustainability developed in tandem with his dietary experiments. His repudiation of sugar, chocolate, and salt expressed his active resistance to economies based on slavery, indentured labor, and imperialism. Gandhi’s Search for the Perfect Diet sheds new light on important periods in Gandhi’s life as they relate to his developing food ethic: his student years in London, his politicization as a young lawyer in South Africa, the 1930 Salt March challenging British colonialism, and his fasting as a means of self-purification and social protest during India’s struggle for independence. What became the pillars of Gandhi’s diet—vegetarianism, limiting salt and sweets, avoiding processed food, and fasting—anticipated many twenty-first-century food debates and the need to build healthier and more equitable global food systems.
Author: Karen Fuller
Publisher: World Castle Publishing, LLC
Published: 2023-11-14
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHis destiny was her. Her fate was him. But love has claws… Forced to take over a pack as their new Alpha, Nico De Lucia, has only two months to find his fated mate or risk losing his choice forever—his father will find a mate for him. But the dreams that lead him to her reveal are only fragments that make her impossible to pinpoint. Cop Carrie Mansfield is plagued by erotic dreams of a stranger who awakens a burning desire she can't control. When Carrie is injured in the line of duty, Nico saves her life by turning her into a Lycan, but the transition doesn't go smoothly. As rogue factions continue to threaten Nico's reign, Carrie struggles to accept her new reality and overwhelming connection to a man she barely knows. With time running out, Nico and Carrie must overcome their differences or risk losing everything. Nico is a steamy paranormal romance that blends pulse-pounding action, magnetic attraction, and supernatural suspense. Fans of hot alpha heroes, strong heroines, and fated love won't want to miss this addictive read.
Author: James Young
Publisher: ABRAMS
Published: 1994-05-01
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1468309846
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNico’s keyboardist recounts her ill-advised eighties tour in this “funny memoir . . . A well-written black comedy” of life on the fringes of rock & roll (The New York Times). This is the story of the last “scene” of the art rock diva Nico, whose fifteen minutes of fame included her tenure with Andy Warhol’s Factory, the films Chelsea Girls and La Dolce Vita, and a momentous stint with The Velvet Underground, singing on their debut album, The Velvet Underground & Nico. In 1982, Nico was living in Manchester, England, far from her “fifteen minutes” and interested only in feeding her heroin habit. Local promoter Dr. Demetrius saw an opportunity, hired musicians to back her, and set off on a disastrous tour of Italy. In a daze of chaotic live shows and countless heroin scores, Nico toured the world with assorted thrown-together bands, encountering a wild crew of personalities, including John Cale, Allen Ginsberg, John Cooper Clarke, and Gregory Corso. This story of Nico and the characters who orbited around her is “a funny and engaging chronicle that puts you right on the tour bus, amid the clutter of drums and drugs and unwashed bodies” (Kirkus Reviews).
Author: Leusa Fflur Llewelyn
Publisher: Y Lolfa
Published: 2013-10-04
Total Pages: 88
ISBN-13: 1847718086
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNofel i ddisgyblion Bl. 7-9 i'w darllen ar y cyd fel dosbarth neu fel unigolion. Mae Nico yn cydblethu digwyddiadau ar lan Llyn Celyn heddiw ag elfennau ffantasi gwlad Selador.
Author: Rob Herber
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2019-11-25
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 3030257371
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis biography is a personal portrait of one of the best-known Dutch physicists, Nicolaas Bloembergen. Born in 1920 in Dordrecht, Bloembergen studied physics in Utrecht, leaving after World War II for the United States, where he became an American citizen in 1958. At Harvard University, he pioneered nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR, used in chemistry and biology for structure identification; moreover leading to MRI), laser theory and nonlinear optics. In 1978 he was awarded the Lorentz Medal for his contribution to the theory of nonlinear optics (used in fiber optics), and in 1981 he received the Nobel Prize for physics, along with Arthur Schawlow and Kai Siegbahn. The book is based on numerous conversations with Nicolaas Bloembergen himself, his wife Deli Brink, his family, and colleagues in science. It describes his childhood and study in Bilthoven and Utrecht, the first postwar years at Harvard, the discoveries of masers and lasers, and the award of the Nobel Prize. It also delves into Bloembergen's involvement in American politics, particularly his role in Ronald Reagan's controversial "Star Wars" program.
Author: Marian T. Adolf
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-05-14
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 3319769952
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis unique volume brings together a selection of the most important texts of Nico Stehr for the first time and puts them in dialogue with original research that draws on his prolific work. Covering five decades of pioneering sociological research on the theory of society and knowledge, the book introduces the reader to Stehr’s seminal inquiries into the economic, political and social role of knowledge. Original concepts, such as his groundbreaking studies on the Knowledge Society, are introduced as the volume traces Stehr’s pursuit of social scientific research as a source of practical knowledge for modern society. The book comprises three parts devoted to the many facets and the remarkable range of Nico Stehr’s oeuvre. Part 1 provides an introduction to the significance of his pioneering work and career. Part 2 demonstrates the practical application of Nico Stehr’s research as seen through the eyes of eminent scholars. Part 3 presents a selection of the milestones of his publications.
