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Import only reissue of 'best of' for the former teen idol &
ex-Walker Brother. Focusing on the enigmatic, avant-garde
vocalist's hugely successful early solo career. 20 tracks including
the rare B-side 'The Plague'. Liner notes by Neil Hannon (Divine
Comedy). Universal.
DJ Screw, a.k.a. Robert Earl Davis Jr., changed rap and hip-hop
forever. In the 1990s, in a spare room of his Houston home, he
developed a revolutionary mixing technique known as chopped and
screwed. Spinning two copies of a record, Screw would "chop" in new
rhythms, bring in local rappers to freestyle over the tracks, and
slow the recording down on tape. Soon Houstonians were lining up to
buy his cassettes-he could sell thousands in a single day. Fans
drove around town blasting his music, a sound that came to define
the city's burgeoning and innovative rap culture. June 27 has
become an unofficial city holiday, inspired by a legendary mix
Screw made on that date. Lance Scott Walker has interviewed nearly
everyone who knew Screw, from childhood friends to collaborators to
aficionados who evangelized Screw's tapes-millions of which made
their way around the globe-as well as the New York rap moguls who
honored him. Walker brings these voices together with captivating
details of Screw's craft and his world. More than the story of one
man, DJ Screw is a history of the Houston scene as it came of age,
full of vibrant moments and characters. But none can top Screw
himself, a pioneer whose mystique has only grown in the two decades
since his death.
A new approach to succeeding in negotiations where failure is not
an option, from one of the world's most experienced kidnap for
ransom negotiators. Scott Walker has probably one of the most
difficult jobs in the world. When pirates have hijacked a ship,
when a criminal gang has kidnapped someone, when an entire
company's future is being held to ransom from a cyber-attack, Scott
is the person who gets called in. He has successfully negotiated
more than 300 such incidents using the principles in this book. His
methods, centred in empathy, active listening, trust-based
influence and emotional control, will help you achieve the outcome
you want. Regardless of whether you're an executive in a
multi-national organisation, the owner of a small business, a local
sports team coach or running the family household, you're
negotiating every single day, whether you realise it or not. Learn
the skills Scott uses to resolve life or death kidnappings all over
the world - from the Niger Delta, China and the Philippines to
the Middle East, Europe and Latin America - and how to apply them
to your own life, at work and at home. Order Out of Chaos provides
tools that cut straight to the most effective way of communicating,
particularly in times of crisis, change and uncertainty.
Scott Walker is undoubtedly one of the most brilliant, serious and
intelligent of artists today. As one of the greatest lyricists of
the 20th century and front man of globally loved pop trip, The
Walker Brothers, Walker commands huge devotion. A major event,
Sundog is the first ever selection of Walker's lyrics curated by
the artist himself, published for the first time with a stunning
introduction by Eimear McBride. Walker's iconic lyrics will proudly
follow in the footsteps of other famous musicians who have been
published by Faber & Faber, including Jarvis Cocker, Billy
Bragg, and Van Morrison.
This book explores the motivations behind American military
interventions in the Post-World War II era that purported to
replace autocratic regimes with democratic ones. It delves into the
Forced Democracy (FD) phenomenon, focusing on its intellectual
roots and previous attempts to study it in the academic literature.
The author examines five American interventions that attempted to
replace autocratic regimes with democratic ones-The Dominican
Republic, Grenada, Panama, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Each chapter
includes a history of the intervention and an assessment of whether
America's intentions and actions toward that particular country
were actually focused on delivering a democratic outcome.
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Pants on Fire (Paperback)
Victoria Lloyd; Illustrated by Scott Walker
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Humour for younger readers from a first-time children's author.
They looked like ordinary, innocent pants, but those pants had just
hypnotised the headteacher! Tony Trebelli has a little trouble
telling the truth. He tells the most enormous lies in the world and
nobody ever believes him. That is, until the day he gets his new
pants. When he tells his first fib, they get a little warm. When he
tells his second, there's a definite smell of burning. By the time
he's on his third, there's smoke... but Tony doesn't care. Because
each time this happens, Tony's lies get believed! His pants have
the power to hypnotise his teachers - even Mrs McMahon, the
headteacher herself. However, when Tony's pants suddenly get too
hot to bear, he finds himself naked in the playground. Suddenly his
lies become less appealing and Tony learns his lesson. Taking the
theme of the playground chant, 'Liar, liar pants on fire,' Victoria
Lloyd has written an hilarious story for younger readers. With
plenty of alliteration, repetition and humour this is a terrific
text for children able to read on their own but who don't want a
longer novel. This will be a highly illustrated text and with a
theme of 'pants' every child will want to pick it up. Pants it is
not!
The neighborhoods of Fifth Ward, Fourth Ward, Third Ward, and the
Southside of Houston, Texas, gave birth to Houston rap, a vibrant
music scene that has produced globally recognized artists such as
Geto Boys, DJ Screw, Pimp C and Bun B of UGK, Fat Pat, Big Moe,
Z-Ro, Lil’ Troy, and Paul Wall. Lance Scott Walker and
photographer Peter Beste spent a decade documenting Houston’s
scene, interviewing and photographing the people—rappers, DJs,
producers, promoters, record label owners—and places that give
rap music from the Bayou City its distinctive character. Their
collaboration produced the books Houston Rap and Houston Rap Tapes.
This second edition of Houston Rap Tapes amplifies the city’s
hip-hop history through new interviews with Scarface, Slim Thug,
Lez Moné, B L A C K I E, Lil’ Keke, and Sire Jukebox of the
original Ghetto Boys. Walker groups the interviews into sections
that track the different eras and movements in Houston rap, with
new photographs and album art that reveal the evolution of the
scene from the 1970s to today’s hip-hop generation. The
interviews range from the specifics of making music to the
passions, regrets, memories, and hopes that give it life. While
offering a view from some of Houston’s most marginalized areas,
these intimate conversations lay out universal struggles and
feelings. As Willie D of Geto Boys writes in the foreword,
“Houston Rap Tapes flows more like a bunch of fellows who
haven’t seen each other for ages, hanging out on the block
reminiscing, rather than a calculated literary guide to Houston’s
history.”
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
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original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
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imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
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Title: An accurate description of the Liverpool and Manchester
Rail-Way: the tunnel, the bridges, and other works throughout the
line: with a sketch of the objects which it presents interesting to
the traveller or tourist.Author: James Scott WalkerPublisher: Gale,
Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed
bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926
contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works
about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early
1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery
and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil
War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and
abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an
up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere,
encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North
America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th
century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and
South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights
the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary
opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to
documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts,
newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and
more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of
original works are available via print-on-demand, making them
readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars,
and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from
various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this
title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to
insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington
LibraryDocumentID: SABCP03612100CollectionID:
CTRG01-B1442PublicationDate: 18300101SourceBibCitation: Selected
Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to
AmericaNotes: Collation: 46 p., 2] folded leaves of plates: ill.,
map
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
PublishingA AcentsAcentsa A-Acentsa Acentss Legacy Reprint Series.
Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks,
notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this
work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of
our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's
literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of
thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of intere
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This
IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced
typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have
occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor
pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original
artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe
this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections,
have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We
appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the
preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
All Christians face the challenges of discipleship, and all feel,
at one time or another, that they have fallen short. Focusing on
New Testament stories about the Apostle Peter, pastor Scott Walker
asks: How does Peter's predicament apply to my life? What can I
learn through Peter's experience that will make me a better
Christian disciple? In his gentle, thoughtful style, Walker
illuminates the theme that it is only through struggle and personal
failure that we grow to be stronger followers of Jesus.
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