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Hawaii's own Grammy-nominated musician was carving out a growing
reputation as a professional surfer when an accident left him too
injured to compete at the highest level. Jack Johnson switched to
making surf movies but gradually found his voice as a
singer-songwriter.
Initially a cult favorite among surfers, he has now crossed over
to the mainstream, acclaimed as a "Dylan for the twenty-first
century." His third album, 2005's "In Between Dreams, " sold over
two million copies worldwide and continues to ride high in album
charts, and he has just picked up a BRIT Award for International
Breakthrough Act.
Acclaimed George Harrison biographer Marc Shapiro has conducted
hours of new interviews with those who knew Johnson both as a
surfer and a musician, to produce a compelling portrait of one of
rock's most original new stars.
Pete Brown is a lot of things. A major songwriting talent who was
responsible for Cream's classic musical moments, important
collaborations with Jack Bruce and such notable experiments in jazz
and rock as The Battered Ornaments, Graham Bond and countless
progressive music groups. A talented poet who helped pioneer the
emerging UK Beat scene in the sixties, making history with his
earliest performances and going poetic toe to toe with the likes of
Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Gregory Corso. He was
also a child of war and the memories of The Blitz are still with
him to this day. He is an anarchist at heart who believes in the
mantra of telling it like it is and has done as much through the
decades of a songwriter, musician, producer and poet. Within
certain circles Pete Brown is a legend, a creative force of nature
who is constantly on the move to the next big thing. To much of the
world, Pete Brown is an unknown quantity, known for his Cream fame
and not much else. With this book, Pete Brown: The Poet Who Rocks,
the creative whirlwind will be on full display. This is Pete Brown.
Now his story can be told.
Lindsay Lohan was on the fast track to the top when, suddenly,
alcohol, drug problems, arrests, stints in rehab, too much
partying, and, yes, jail time derailed her celebrity train! Find
out how Lindsay fought the law - and the law won!
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th
International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems,
OPODIS 2014, Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, in December 2014. The 32
papers presented together with two invited talks were carefully
reviewed and selected from 98 submissions. The papers are organized
in topical sections on consistency; distributed graph algorithms;
fault tolerance; models; radio networks; robots;
self-stabilization; shared data structures; shared memory;
synchronization and universal construction.
Ron Paul is well read. He speaks in complete sentences. And his
views are often so far right that they make sense. Did I mention
that he's a Republican with Tea Party tendencies? Find out what
makes this Presidential hopeful tick when Bluwater's Political
Power: Ron Paul, written by New York Times bestselling author Marc
Shapiro, has readers on either side of the aisle agreeing to
disagree.
The book contains dark thrillers and chilling horror. Short stories
that are not for the faint of heart. If you enjoy a good unnerving
thrill, then look no further.
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