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  Extended interview with Philip...

  PBS NewsHour

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  Jeffrey Brown continues the conversation with Philip Glass online with a few more questions.

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  ArcHive Tapes The: Cybermen

  David Banks

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  David Banks portrayed the Cyber Leader in BBC TV sci-fi series Doctor Who and wrote the best-selling book Doctor Who –Cybermen, illustrated by veteran sci-fi artist Andrew Skilleter. The ArcHive Tapes: Cybermen is a audio book based on that book, the hypothesised history of the cyber race, written and narrated by the Cyber Leader himself. This is gripping re-telling of the origins and history of the Cybermen, is fully dramatised with vivid effects and original music.

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  Spice Girls: The Story of the...

  Sean Smith

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  ‘Get the inside scoop on all things Spice!’ 
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  'A compelling new book' Daily Express 
  From the moment they burst into our lives, the Spice Girls have inspired millions around the world. 
  Emma, Geri, Melanie C, Mel B and Victoria were adored and admired in equal measure. Their determination, fierce independence and Girl Power philosophy have motivated generation after generation of young women. 
  Sunday Times bestselling biographer Sean Smith reveals what life was really like for the fab five, before and after they found fame – the ups and downs, personal conflicts, break-ups and controversies, health issues and trials of parenthood. Baby, Ginger, Sporty, Scary and Posh  have always been so much more than their iconic image. 
  They conquered a male dominated music industry, raised twelve children between them while, over the years, their reunion tours have led to renewed outpourings of affection and excitement: the story of five ordinary women achieving extraordinary things is as wonderfully resonant and powerful as ever. 
  This biography by Sunday Times bestselling author Sean Smith offers an in-depth look at the Spice Girls rise to fame, their unique styles, and their lasting impact on pop culture. It's a must-read for anyone interested in the intersection of biography, autobiography, and popular music. 
  For fans of Steve Dennis (Britney), Tina Brown (The Palace Papers), Melanie Brown (Brutally Honest), Kelly Brook (Close Up), and Elton John (Me).

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  Ballet Musik For Exercises 4 -...

  Klaus Bruengel

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  Original Musicscores to the Soundtrack of "Ballet Music For Exercises 4", Pianomusic by Klaus Bruengel. The label "Scores &Parts" produces eBooks containing musical scores and parts. The eBooks can be effectively used on stage, with an eReader, to read music whilst playing an Instrument. Klaus Bruengel is a professional composer and arranger, working for the label "Scores And Parts".

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  The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - A...

  L. Frank Baum, Jerry Robbins

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  One of the true classics of American literature. Originally published in 1900, it was the first truly American fairy tale, as Baum crafted a wonderful fantasy, peopled with memorable characters — a cornfield scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and a humbug wizard.  
  Follow the adventures of young Dorothy Gale and her dog, Toto, as their Kansas house is swept away by a cyclone and they find themselves in a strange land called Oz. Here she meets the Munchkins and joins the Scarecrow, the Tinman, and the Cowardly Lion on an unforgettable journey to the Emerald City.

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  Rediscovering Jacob Riis -...

  Bonnie Yochelson, Daniel Czitrom

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  Before publishing his pioneering book How the Other Half Lives—a photojournalistic investigation into the poverty of New York’s tenement houses, home to three quarters of the city’s population—Jacob Riis (1849-1914) spent his first years in the United States as an immigrant and itinerant laborer, barely surviving on his carpentry skills until he landed a job as a muckraking reporter. These early experiences provided Riis with an understanding of what it was like to be poor in the immigrant communities that populated New York’s slums, and it was this empathy that would shine through in his iconic photos. With Rediscovering Jacob Riis, art historian Bonnie Yochelson and historian Daniel Czitrom place Jacob Riis’s images in historical context even as they expose a clear sightline to the present. In the first half of their book, Czitrom explores Riis’s reporting and activism within the gritty specifics of Gilded Age New York: its new immigrants, its political machines, its fiercely competitive journalism, its evangelical reformers, and its labor movement. In delving into Riis’s intellectual education and the lasting impact of How the Other Half Lives, Czitrom shows that though Riis argued for charity, not sociopolitical justice, the empathy that drove his work continues to inspire urban reformers today. In the second half of the book, Yochelson describes for the first time Riis’s photographic practice: his initial reliance on amateur photographers to take the photographs he needed, his own use of the camera, and then his collecting of photographs by professionals, who by 1900 were documenting social reform efforts for government agencies and charities. She argues that while Riis is rightly considered a revolutionary in the history of photography, he was not a photographic artist. Instead, Riis was a writer and lecturer who first harnessed the power of photography to affect social change. As staggering inequality continues to be an urgent political topic, this book, illustrated with nearly seventy of Riis’s photographs, will serve as a stunning reminder of what has changed, and what has not.

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