Social Sciences
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2012-10-10 | Author:Henri Charrière [Charrière, Henri]

Maracaibo was seething. There was excitement in the air, and so many businesses and oil refineries were springing up that everything, from beer to cement, was sold on the black ...
( Category: Criminology March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-11 | Author:Geoffrey Knight [Knight, Geoffrey]

§ § § Anne Anne, tell us the reactions you’ve had from people to the idea of Gay Romance in general, both good and bad. I’ve been surprised at how ...
( Category: LGBT March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-14 | Author:Chuck Klosterman [Klosterman, Chuck]

If the appreciation of reality-based entertainment can be broken into two classes—and at the moment, it seems like everything in America is destined to be broken into two classes—there is ...
( Category: Authors March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-16 | Author:R. Murray Schafer

But this will not do. Too many misunderstandings and distortions lie along the edges separating these compartments. Interfaces are missing. Let us follow through a few specimen sounds to understand ...
( Category: Mental & Spiritual Healing March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jonathan Sterne

Keyword: Record Although the exhibitions of 1878 were short-lived, Redpath quickly went on to fresh projects, and souvenir sheets of tinfoil were soon forgotten, the medium of sound recording had ...
( Category: Acoustics March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-07-25 | Author:Steve Stoute

The Sound and Rhythm of Sports During my initiation into the field of marketing it had been my observation that a lot of the men and women working in creative ...
( Category: Rap March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-09-23 | Author:Neil, Vince [Neil, Vince]

( Category: Heavy Metal March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-07-07 | Author:Mark LeVine

Building a Temple of Rock Moe Hamzeh has always loved two things, rock music and rocks. Before he became a professional musician, he received his BA and then his master’s ...
( Category: Heavy Metal March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-14 | Author:Chuck Klosterman [Klosterman, Chuck]

CK: Maybe so. But it seems that whenever people talk about the dawn of heavy metal, the logic usually goes like this: Black Sabbath created a certain kind of sound ...
( Category: Authors March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-02-08 | Author:Peter Guralnick [Guralnick, Peter]

Louis Armstrong poses with two Tennessee fans, circa 1957. So this piece is by way of apology, some forty-six years later, and to note that when I hear him singing ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 26,2014 )
epub |rus | 2008-10-14 | Author:Alex Ross [Ross, Alex]

On January 30, 1939, Hitler celebrated the sixth anniversary of his regime by delivering a major address to the Reichstag. Since the burning of the Reichstag building in 1933, the ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Charles Shaar Murray [Murray, Charles Shaar]

As Howlin’ Wolf once said of Elvis Presley, Jimi Hendrix ‘started from the blues. He made his pull from the blues.’ His most fundamental musical instincts were those of a ...
( Category: Pop March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-03-25 | Author:Kleiman, Mark A. R. [Kleiman, Mark A. R.]

SKETCH OF A COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS How do the three main categories of criminal-justice expenditure—on policing, on incarceration, and on community corrections—stack up against one another as ways of spending public ...
( Category: Criminal Procedure March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-25 | Author:Tonry, Michael

THE SOUTHERN STRATEGY The Republican Southern Strategy is commonly said to date from the 1960s and Kevin Phillips’s The Emerging Republican Majority (1969) is generally described as its basic text. ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Radley Balko [Balko, Radley]

THE ELECTION OF BILL CLINTON IN 1992 GAVE HOPE TO some in the drug reform community that an admitted pot smoker who had some ties to the counterculture during his ...
( Category: Criminology March 26,2014 )