Sylvan Elf Chronicles: Kaleen the Discovery: Book One
Sylvan Elf Chronicles: Kaleen the Discovery: Book One

Author: Christianne Van Keuren

Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc.

Published: 2017-12-18

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 1633386368

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Is it legendary myths or memories clouded by the mists of time? Rumors that the prophesy for a powerful elven Grace’s rebirth stirs more than just good fortune. Relief to all but one as his seething anger and murderous resentment rise like bitter bile from his first defeat to Lynerin. Sensing her rebirth, Nalas has sworn to hunt her down to kill her body and soul for good. So be it if the new being she chose dies as well. That was just gravy. He needed to find the book and the three tal

Sylvan Elf Chronicles
Sylvan Elf Chronicles

Author: Christianne Van Keuren

Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc.

Published: 2019-04-15

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 1633388379

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The time for training is over and the toughest journey of Kaleen’s life must begin. Kaleen and Bertie both sense they must leave Silvarnon quicker than anticipated. The push was accelerated on the eve of Kaleen’s departure from Silvarnon with a blinding mental pain almost bringing Kaleen and all other surviving Graces to their knees announcing Nalas’ forced soul switch.They soon strike out on the path to track down and put an end Nalas. The soul switch cos

SYLVAN ELF CHRONICLES
SYLVAN ELF CHRONICLES

Author: Christianne Van Keuren

Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc.

Published: 2020-09-23

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13: 1646548396

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Separated momentarily by a fell beast and a ravine, the trio reunite as the trails converge in pursuit of Nalas at Slithon Mountain. Lynerin’s falconette, Tiabhse, hatches and flies to reach her beloved mistress again. A new weapon of eyes in the skies for Kaleen against Nalas and his troops. Darius must seek out his sister to pass on vital information regarding Nalas. On his way to Kaleen, Darius finds his soulmate in Vitaria and asks her to become his wife. Teaming up with Kaleen and the others they run into a large Lorkian scouting party with tragic outcomes for all. Afterwards, all eyes turn to Elvenfeld as Nalas’ new target is revealed for destruction and control of all. Sometimes one must pay attention to the “invisibles” in the room when you declare your intentions.

Switched on Pop
Switched on Pop

Author: Nate Sloan

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 0190056657

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Based on the critically acclaimed podcast that has broken down hundreds of Top 40 songs, Switched On Pop dives in into eighteen hit songs drawn from pop of the last twenty years--ranging from Britney to Beyoncé, Kelly Clarkson to Kendrick Lamar--uncovering the musical explanations for why and how certain tracks climb to the top of the charts. In the process, authors Charlie Harding and Nate Sloan reveal the timeless techniques that animate music across time and space.

Big Bad Breakfast
Big Bad Breakfast

Author: John Currence

Publisher: Ten Speed Press

Published: 2016-09-13

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1607747375

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From the James Beard Award winner, Top Chef Masters contestant, and acclaimed author comes this fun, festive, and highly caffeinated ode to the joys and rituals of the Southern breakfast, with over 125 recipes inspired by the author's popular restaurant in Oxford, Mississippi. John Currence is one of the most celebrated and well-loved chefs in the South. Among his string of highly successful restaurants in Oxford, Mississippi, Big Bad Breakfast holds a special place in diners' hearts: It is a gathering place where people from all walks come together to share the most important meal of the day, breakfast. Southerners know how to do breakfast right, and Currence has elevated it to an artform: dishes like Banana-Pecan Coffee Cake, Spicy Boudin and Poached Eggs, and Oyster Pot Pie are comforting, soulful, and packed with real Southern flavor. Big Bad Breakfast is full of delicious recipes that will make the day ahead that much better--not to mention stories of the wonderful characters who fill the restaurant every morning, and a meditation on why the Southern breakfast is one of America's most valuable culinary contributions.

Vico and Joyce
Vico and Joyce

Author: Donald Phillip Verene

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 1987-07-01

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 1438422873

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Joyce said, "My imagination grows when I read Vico as it doesn't when I read Freud or Jung." This volume is the first extended examination of the connections between Vico and Joyce. Joyce employed Vico's New Science as the basis of Finnegans Wake, as he employed Homer's Odyssey as the basis of Ulysses. In what ways are Vico and Joyce similar? To what extent is Vico an influence on Joyce? And in what ways can Vico's philosophy be newly understood when seen in relation to Joyce's use of it? This book suggests ways to see both thinkers anew. Vico and Joyce is divided into three major parts: "Cycles and History," in which Vico's famous conception of the course and recourse of historical events is examined in relation to Joyce's use of this idea in Finnegans Wake; "Joyce and Vico," in which the relationship between the two thinkers is approached more from the side of Joyce than Vico; "Language and Myth," in which the similarities of Vico's and Joyce's grasp of language and imaginative forms of thought are considered. This book opens up a relationship and set of ideas whose time has come. In the last decade there has been an exciting renaissance in the study of Vico that originated in the English-speaking world and spread back to Italy. Joyce has been the one major twentieth-century figure through which most English readers have come to know something of Vico. To consider them together opens up new avenues for our understanding of the imagination, memory, and the cyclic course of human history.

The James Bond Songs
The James Bond Songs

Author: Adrian Daub

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2015-08-31

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0190234547

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Starting with 1964's Goldfinger, every James Bond film has followed the same ritual, and so has its audience: after an exciting action sequence the screen goes black and the viewer spends three long minutes absorbing abstract opening credits and a song that sounds like it wants to return to 1964. In The James Bond Songs authors Adrian Daub and Charles Kronengold use the genre to trace not only a changing cultural landscape, but also evolving conceptions of what a pop song is. They argue that the story of the Bond song is the story of the pop song more generally, and perhaps even the story of its end. Each chapter discusses a particular segment of the Bond canon and contextualizes it in its era's music and culture. But the book also asks how Bond and his music reflected and influenced our feelings about such topics as masculinity, race, money, and aging. Through these individual pieces the book presents the Bond song as the perfect anthem of late capitalism. The Bond songs want to talk about the fulfillment that comes from fast cars, shaken Martinis and mindless sex, but their unstable speakers, subjects, and addressees actually undercut the logic of the lifestyle James Bond is sworn to defend. The book is an invitation to think critically about pop music, about genre, and about the political aspects of popular culture in the twentieth century and beyond.

The Games Black Girls Play
The Games Black Girls Play

Author: Kyra D. Gaunt

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2006-02-06

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 0814731201

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Illustrates how black musical styles are incorporated into the earliest games African American girls learn--how, in effect, these games contain the DNA of black music. Drawing on interviews, recordings of handclapping games and cheers, and her own observation and memories of gameplaying, Gaunt argues that black girls' games are connected to long traditions of African and African American musicmaking, and that they teach vital musical and social lessons that are carried into adulthood. - from publisher information.

Decomposed
Decomposed

Author: Kyle Devine

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2019-10-15

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 0262537788

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The hidden material histories of music. Music is seen as the most immaterial of the arts, and recorded music as a progress of dematerialization—an evolution from physical discs to invisible digits. In Decomposed, Kyle Devine offers another perspective. He shows that recorded music has always been a significant exploiter of both natural and human resources, and that its reliance on these resources is more problematic today than ever before. Devine uncovers the hidden history of recorded music—what recordings are made of and what happens to them when they are disposed of. Devine's story focuses on three forms of materiality. Before 1950, 78 rpm records were made of shellac, a bug-based resin. Between 1950 and 2000, formats such as LPs, cassettes, and CDs were all made of petroleum-based plastic. Today, recordings exist as data-based audio files. Devine describes the people who harvest and process these materials, from women and children in the Global South to scientists and industrialists in the Global North. He reminds us that vinyl records are oil products, and that the so-called vinyl revival is part of petrocapitalism. The supposed immateriality of music as data is belied by the energy required to power the internet and the devices required to access music online. We tend to think of the recordings we buy as finished products. Devine offers an essential backstory. He reveals how a range of apparently peripheral people and processes are actually central to what music is, how it works, and why it matters.