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Love & Mercy (DVD)
Jake Abel, Dee Wallace, John Cusack, Paul Giamatti, Joanna Going, …
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R84
Discovery Miles 840
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Ships in 10 - 20 working days
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Bill Pohlad directs this biopic about the musician, songwriter and
founding member of The Beach Boys. In the 1960s, emerging talent
Brian Wilson (Paul Dano) struggles to comprehend the sudden fame
that his hit records have brought him and his band, and, after a
panic attack, he turns away from touring and sets his mind to focus
on creating the greatest album ever made. Later on in his life,
Wilson (John Cusack)'s struggles turn to ones of health and sanity
as his therapist Dr. Eugene Landy (Paul Giamatti) sees it necessary
to have his patient permanently medicated. When Wilson, a shadow of
his former self, meets car saleswoman Melinda (Elizabeth Banks) she
finds herself determined to rid the innocent man of his
brainwashing doctor and recapture the talent that he once
possessed.
They say there are no second acts in American lives, and third acts
are almost unheard of. That's part of what makes Brian Wilson's
story so astonishing. As a cofounding member of the Beach Boys in
the 1960s, Wilson created some of the most groundbreaking and
timeless popular music ever recorded. With intricate harmonies,
symphonic structures, and wide-eyed lyrics that explored life's
most transcendent joys and deepest sorrows, songs like In My Room,
God Only Knows, and Good Vibrations forever expanded the
possibilities of pop songwriting. Derailed in the 1970s by mental
illness, drug use, and the shifting fortunes of the band, Wilson
came back again and again over the next few decades, surviving
and-finally-thriving. Now, for the first time, he weighs in on the
sources of his creative inspiration and on his struggles, the
exhilarating highs and the debilitating lows. I Am Brian Wilson
reveals as never before the man who fought his way back to
stability and creative relevance, who became a mesmerizing live
artist, who forced himself to reckon with his own complex legacy,
and who finally completed Smile, the legendary unfinished Beach
Boys record that had become synonymous with both his genius and its
destabilization. Today Brian Wilson is older, calmer, and filled
with perspective and forgiveness. Whether he's talking about his
childhood, his bandmates, or his own inner demons, Wilson's story,
told in his own voice and in his own way, unforgettably illuminates
the man behind the music, working through the turbulence and
discord to achieve, at last, a new harmony.
'My life has been written about over and over again, and that's
mostly okay with me. Other people can talk about my life. Sometimes
they'll get it right and sometimes they'll get it wrong. For me,
when I think back across my own life, there are so many things that
are painful. Sometimes I don't like discussing them. Sometimes I
don't even like remembering them. But as I get older, the shape of
that pain has changed. Sometimes memories come back to me when I
least expect them. Maybe that's the only way it works when you've
lived the life I've lived: starting a band with my brothers that
was managed by my father, watching my father become difficult and
then impossible, watching myself become difficult and then
impossible, watching women I loved come and go, watching children
come into the world, watching my brothers get older, watching them
pass out of the world. Some of those things shaped me. Others
scarred me. Sometimes it was hard to tell the difference. When I
watched my father fly into a rage and take swings at me and my
brothers, was that shaping or scarring? When we watched him grow
frustrated with his day job and take solace in music, was that
shaping or scarring? Those are all memories but I can't get to them
all at once. I've had a whole lifetime to take them in. Now I have
a whole book to put them out there.' Excerpt from I Am Brian Wilson
Golf is a major global industry. The sport is played by more than
60 million people worldwide and there are more than 32,000 courses
in 140 countries across the globe. This book looks at the power
relationships in and around golf, examining whether the industry
has demonstrated sufficient leadership on environmental matters to
be trusted to make weighty decisions with implications for public
and environmental health. The first comprehensive study of the
varying responses to golf-related environmental issues, it is based
on extensive empirical work, including research into historical
materials and interviews with stakeholders in golf such as course
superintendents, protesters and health professionals. The authors
examine golf as a sport and as a global industry, drawing on and
contributing to literatures pertaining to environmental sociology,
global social movements, institutional change, corporate
environmentalism and the sociology of sport. -- .
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Good Vibrations (Hardcover)
Mike Love, Brian Wilson; Illustrated by Paul Hoppe
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R428
Discovery Miles 4 280
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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With over 100,000 iPhone applications and 125,000 registered
iPhone developers, is it still possible to create a top-selling app
that stands apart from the six-figure crowd? Of course, but you'll
need more than a great idea and flawless codean eye-catching and
functional user interface design is essential. With this book,
you'll get practical advice on user interface design from 10
innovative developers who, like you, have sat wondering how to best
utilize the iPhone's minimal screen real estate. Their stories
illustrate precisely why, with more apps and more experienced,
creative developers, no iPhone app can succeed without a great user
interface.
Whatever type of iPhone project you have in mindsocial
networking app, game, or reference toolyou'll benefit from the
information presented in this book. More than just tips and
pointers, you'll learn from the authors' hands-on experiences,
including: Dave Barnard of App Cubby on how to use Apple's user
interface conventions and test for usability to assure better
results Joachim Bondo, creator of Deep Green Chess, beats a classic
design problem of navigating large dataset results in the realm of
the iPhone Former Apple employee Dan Burcaw tailors user interfaces
and adds the power of CoreLocation, Address Book, and Camera to the
social networking app, Brightkite David Kaneda takes his Basecamp
project management client, Outpost, from a blank page (literally)
to a model of dashboard clarity Craig Kemper focuses on the
smallest details to create his award-winning puzzle games TanZen
and Zentomino Tim Novikoff, a graduate student in applied math with
no programming experience, reduces a complex problem to simplicity
in Flash of Genius: SAT Vocab Long-time Mac developer Chris Parrish
goes into detail on the creation of the digital postcard app,
Postage, which won the 2009 Apple Design Award Flash developer
Keith Peters provides solutions for bringing games that were
designed for a desktop screen to the small, touch-sensitive world
of the iPhone Jurgen Siebert, creator of FontShuffle, outlines the
anatomy of letters and how to select the right fonts for maximum
readability on the iPhone screen Eddie Wilson, an interactive
designer, reveals the fine balance of excellent design and
trial-by-fire programming used to create his successful app Snow
Report
Combined with Apress' best-selling Beginning iPhone 3
Development: Exploring the iPhone SDK, you'll be prepared to match
great code with striking design and create the app that everyone is
talking about. What you'll learn How to optimize your design for
the iPhone's limited screen real estate and the mobile environment
How to create a user interface that is eye-catching and stands
apart from the crowd How to maximize your use of typographic
elements for style and readability How to perfect entry views and
display large amounts of data in an exciting way How to translate
games made for the desktop's big screen to the iPhone How to strike
the perfect balance between simplicity, beauty, and features Who
this book is for
iPhone application developers of all experience levels and
development platforms. Table of Contents App Cubby Yet Another
Google Reader Brightkite for the iPhone Outpost TanZen and
Zentomino Flash of Genius: SAT Vocab Postage Falling Balls and
Gravity Pods FontShuffle Snow Reports for the iPhone
Sport and the environment are inextricably linked. Sport is
dependent on its environmental contexts and is potentially
environmentally impactful in its own right. Sport facilities - like
ski hills, golf courses, and stadiums - can upset ecosystems and
displace local residents. Teams and fans commonly travel in cars
and planes that emit CO2. Rising temperatures might make
participation in some sports impossible. Other examples abound. Yet
while sport can be environmentally damaging, there is also hope
that it can be a force for positive environmental change - for
example, in modelling pro-environment forms of sport, and in
decision-making by sport's many stakeholders. In a context where
pressing concerns about the climate crisis have inspired calls for
changes in how people relate to the environment, questions remain
about the environmental sustainability of sport. Such questions are
at the core of Sport and the Environment: Politics and Preferred
Futures, which brings together a diverse collection of contributors
to explore a range of topics, such as how sport is implicated in
environmentally damaging activities, how decisions about responding
to environmental issues are made, who benefits most and least from
these decisions, and, ultimately, what a truly
environmentally-friendly sport could look like.
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Mars 2242 (Paperback)
Brian Wilson
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R494
R441
Discovery Miles 4 410
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Bumpy Roads is a collection of thirty-five entertaining and
mostly humorous short stories comprising of life experiences in
which we can all relate. Life travels many roads. Some are bumpy
and may not be welcomed experiences, but they are also often the
funniest times in our life. These are the times to cherish, reflect
on, build upon, and sometimes, are a catalyst for moving on.
Bumpy Roads reminds us that life is unpredictable and change,
inevitable-new faces, places, and unique experiences. Life can be
embarrassing, demanding, challenging, yet rewarding. We largely
decide our own destiny by the directions we decide to take.
This book sets out to entertain the reader, yet provoke thought.
It is my hope that you, the reader, will enjoy these stories.
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