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Extreme and Dangerous
This book is about a daughter asking and answering the question-Was my father extreme and dangerous? Why Ian Macdonald was seen as a security threat by so many, and how he was dealt with, is relevant to today's surveillance of citizens. In 2007 Kate Hutchison read in her father's ASIO file that he was 'extreme' and 'dangerous'. These words did not describe the father she knew, an idealist, a life-long communist, a doctor in WW2 who never carried a revolver-but he was so dangerous that the Attorney General drafted a special regulation of the National Security Act 1939-1940 just for him. This book is the result of Kate's 13-year research to understand why her father was a problem for federal, military and para-military groups. Kate looks at the information that was covertly collected, how it was interpreted and how the army and government dealt with a citizen it deemed a serious threat. It is also an account of growing up in a middle-class, communist family in Australia.
The Best of Ian McDonald
"Ian McDonald, the author of such landmark novels as Desolation Road, Chaga, River of Gods, and The Dervish House, has long been regarded as one of Britain's finest SF writers. Just like those full-length works, his shorter fiction has commanded much admiration, and now, in this massive retrospective volume, the best McDonald tales are assembled in glittering array. Represented here are all the phases of McDonald's career: the poetic early retro-visions that in the late Eighties signalled the arrival of a marvellously fluent new stylistic voice; the virtuoso Nineties riffs on themes such as the Irish Troubles, nanotechnology, alternate history, and alien sexuality; the bold post-millennial ventures into the futuristic politics of Third World countries such as Kenya, India, and Brazil, as well as far afield to alien solar systems; and recent, dazzlingly conceived variations on the Arab Spring, the nature of superheroes, and Mars as pulp SF writers once fondly imagined it to be. The treasures are abundant, each presented in McDonald’s addictive, immersive prose--language at once elegantly timeless and edgily contemporary."--Publisher's statement.
The Operation of the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) and the Use of Special Advocates
operation of the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) and the use of special Advocates : Seventh report of session 2004-05, Vol. 2: Oral and written Evidence
Lennon and McCartney
Lennon and McCartney: Painting with Sound explores the work of two of the most influential composers of the twentieth century. Five decades after the breakup of the Beatles, the music of John Lennon and Paul McCartney continues to fascinate and inspire. Evidence suggests that their uniquely eclectic approach can be traced back to the Liverpool College of Art. Following on that idea, this book explores the creative dialogue between John Lennon and Paul McCartney, both with the Beatles and on their own, that grew out of that early influence. The book is presented in three sections: I. Stretching the Canvas considers the Liverpool College of Art as the backdrop for John and Paul’s early colla...
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Bibliographia Aethiopica II
Erstmals wird hier die Fulle der englischsprachigen Athiopienliteratur geordnet dargeboten. In 100 Sections fuhrt der Autor alle fur die wissenschaftliche Beschaftigung mit Athiopien wichtigen Buch- und Zeitschriftenbeitrage zum Beispiel zur "Historyof Research", "Archaeology", "Religion", aber auch Fragen der "Sociology", "Agriculture", "Zoology" und "Medical Sciences" auf. Wie im Falle der deutschsprachigen Literatur ("Bibliographia Aethiopica: Die athiopienkundliche Literatur des deutschsprachigenRaumes" = Aethiopistische Forschungen 9 [1982]) berucksichtigt der Autor auch alle ihm zuganglichen Besprechungen, womit bei einer Aufnahme von mehr als 24.000 Titeln eine Art "Bibliographic Enzyclopedia" entstanden ist.
Mike Torrez
The history of baseball is filled with players whose careers were defined by one bad play. Mike Torrez is remembered as the pitcher who gave up the infamous three-run homer to Bucky "Bleeping" Dent in the 1978 playoffs tie-breaker between the Red Sox and Yankees. Yet Torrez's life added up to much more than his worst moment on the mound. Coming from a vibrant Mexican American community that settled in Topeka, Kansas, in the early 1900s, he made it to the Majors by his own talent and efforts, with the help of an athletic program for Mexican youth that spread through the Midwest, Texas and Mexico during the 20th century. He was in the middle of many transformative events of the 1970s--such as the rise of free agency--and was an ethnic role model in the years before the "Fernandomania" of 1981. This book covers Torrez's life and career as the winningest Mexican American pitcher in Major League history.
The People's Music
Wild mercury: a tale of two Dylans - Marvellous Marvin reconsidered - John and Paul: the start of a partnership - The Stones in the sixties - Chic: elegance and alienation - Cream: Those Were the Days - Retire the fences: The Beach Boys from gimmick to gospel - Jimi Hendrix: transcending the blues - The Band's Music from the Big Pink - The psychedelic Beatles: love and drugs - Bob Marley and the message of Rastafarianism - Lenny Bruce: timebound topicality - America's John: the radical Lennon - Love's Forever Changes - Decadent diversions: Steally Dan's Gaucho - The artistry of Laura Nyro - Tropic of Gemini: Miles Davis's Filles de Kilimanjaro - White lines, black magic: Bowie's dark doings - Pulse of the Machine - Simon and Garfunkel: polite rebellion - Not a revolution: Jefferson Airplane from play-power to power-play - The elusive Spirit - John Fahey: minstrel of the mysterious - Randy Newman's debut album - Minimalism and the corporate age - Homage to the Supremes - Pink Floyd's Echoes - The people's music - Exiled from heaven: the unheard message of Nick Drake.
