Sympathy for the Devil
Sympathy for the Devil

Author: Kent Anderson

Publisher: Mulholland Books

Published: 2018-11-13

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 0316489492

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Kent Anderson's stunning debut novel is a modern classic, a harrowing, authentic picture of one American soldier's experience of the Vietnam War--"unlike anything else in war literature" (Los Angeles Review of Books). Hanson joins the Green Berets fresh out of college. Carrying a volume of Yeats's poems in his uniform pocket, he has no idea of what he's about to face in Vietnam--from the enemy, from his fellow soldiers, or within himself. In vivid, nightmarish, and finely etched prose, Kent Anderson takes us through Hanson's two tours of duty and a bitter, ill-fated return to civilian life in-between, capturing the day-to-day process of war like no writer before or since.

Symphony for the Devil
Symphony for the Devil

Author: Charlie Newton

Publisher:

Published: 2014-04-01

Total Pages: 81

ISBN-13: 9780692309438

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Sex Greed Drugs Power Religion and Race. Nine voices from the smoking rubble.

Sympathy for the Devil
Sympathy for the Devil

Author: Michael Mewshaw

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2015-01-13

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 0374280487

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"An intimate memoir of the author's long friendship with notoriously difficult author, Gore Vidal"--Provided by publisher.

Sympathy for the Devil
Sympathy for the Devil

Author: Tim Pratt

Publisher: Start Publishing LLC

Published: 2010-08-01

Total Pages: 557

ISBN-13: 1597802425

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The Devil is known by many names: Serpent, Tempter, Beast, Adversary, Wanderer, Dragon, Rebel. His traps and machinations are the stuff of legends. His faces are legion. No matter what face the devil wears, Sympathy for the Devil.

Bargaining with the Devil
Bargaining with the Devil

Author: Robert Mnookin

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2010-02-09

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 1416583645

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The art of negotiation—from one of the country’s most eminent practitioners and the Chair of the Harvard Law School’s Program on Negotiation. One of the country’s most eminent practitioners of the art and science of negotiation offers practical advice for the most challenging conflicts—when you are facing an adversary you don’t trust, who may harm you, or who you may even feel is evil. This lively, informative, emotionally compelling book identifies the tools one needs to make wise decisions about life’s most challenging conflicts.

Nosferatu
Nosferatu

Author: Cristina Massaccesi

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2016-02-23

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 0993238467

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Unravels the never-ending fascination exercised by the film and provides a clear guide to the film's contexts, cinematography, and possible interpretations, covering the political and social contexts.

The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones

Author: Dezo Hoffmann

Publisher:

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 9780070293045

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Gathers photographs of the popular British rock group in concert, on television, and offstage, taken from 1963 to 1971

Life of a Song
Life of a Song

Author: Jan Dalley

Publisher: Nicholas Brealey

Published: 2017-11-07

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 1473670470

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Who knew that Paul McCartney originally referred to Yesterday as 'Scrambled Eggs' because he couldn't think of any lyrics for his heart-breaking tune? Or that Patti LaBelle didn't know what 'Voulez-vous couches avec moi ce soir?' actually meant? These and countless other fascinating back stories of some of our best-known and best-loved songs fill this book, a collection of the highly successful weekly The Life of a Song columns that appear in the FT Weekend every Saturday. Each 600-word piece gives a mini-biography of a single song, from its earliest form (often a spiritual, or a jazz number), through the various covers and changes, often morphing from one genre to another, always focusing on the 'biography' of the song itself while including the many famous artists who have performed or recorded it. The selection covers a wide spectrum of the songs we all know and love - rock, pop, folk, jazz and more. Each piece is pithy, sparkily written, knowledgeable, entertaining, full of anecdotes and surprises. They combine deep musical knowledge with the vivid background of the performers and musicians, and of course the often intriguing social and political background against which the songs were created.

The Devil and His Advocates
The Devil and His Advocates

Author: Erik Butler

Publisher: Reaktion Books

Published: 2021-04-08

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1789143748

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Satan is not God’s enemy in the Bible, and he’s not always bad—much less evil. Through the lens of the Old and New Testaments, Erik Butler explores the Devil in literature, theology, visual art, and music from antiquity up to the present, discussing canonical authors (Dante, Milton, and Goethe among them) and a wealth of lesser-known sources. Since his first appearance in the Book of Job, Satan has pursued a single objective: to test human beings, whose moral worth and piety leave plenty of room for doubt. Satan can be manipulative, but at worst he facilitates what mortals are inclined to do anyway. “The Devil made me do it” does not hold up in the court of cosmic law. With wit and surprising examples, this book explains why.

A Devil to Play
A Devil to Play

Author: Jasper Rees

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2009-10-06

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13: 0061979716

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In the days before his fortieth birthday, London-based journalist Jasper Rees trades his pen for a French horn that has been gathering dust in the attic for more than twenty-two years, and, on a lark, plays it at the annual festival of the British Horn Society. Despite an embarrassingly poor performance, the experience inspires Rees to embark on a daunting, bizarre, and ultimately winning journey: to return to the festival in one year's time and play a Mozart concerto—solo—to a large paying audience. A Devil to Play is the true story of an unlikely midlife crisis spent conquering sixteen feet of wrapped brass tubing widely regarded as the most difficult instrument to master, as well as the most treacherous to play in public. It is the history of man's first musical instrument, a compelling journey that moves from the walls of Jericho to Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, from the hunting fields of France to the heart of Hollywood. And it is the account of one man's mounting musical obsession, told with pitch-perfect wit and an undeniable charm—an endearing, inspiring tale of perseverance and achievement, relayed masterfully, one side-splittingly off-key note at a time.