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  • A Dream of Kings

    by David Grubb ...
    A DREAM OF KINGS is a novel of Civil War Days; an intense, lyric projection of Tom Christopher's growth to manhood, and a deeply moving love story.Tom Christopher is an orphan, raised by his Aunt Sarah in a West Virginia river town. He shares a strange, lonely childhood with a girl whom Sarah Holmbrook has also taken in, Cathie. Through their early years these two children are sustained by their ... Read more

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  • Records Ruin the Landscape

    John Cage, the Sixties, and Sound Recording

    by David Grubbs ...
    John Cage's disdain for records was legendary. He repeatedly spoke of the ways in which recorded music was antithetical to his work. In Records Ruin the Landscape, David Grubbs argues that, following Cage, new genres in experimental and avant-garde music in the 1960s were particularly ill suited to be represented in the form of a recording. These activities include indeterminate music, long ... Read more

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  • The Voice in the Headphones

    by David Grubbs ...
    The voice in the headphones says, “you’re rolling” . . .The Voice in the Headphones is an experiment in music writing in the form of a long poem centered on the culture of the recording studio. It describes in intricate, prismatic detail one marathon day in a recording studio during which an unnamed musician struggles to complete a film soundtrack. The book extends the form of Grubbs's previous ... Read more

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  • Good night the pleasure was ours

    by David Grubbs ...
    With Good night the pleasure was ours, David Grubbs melts down and recasts three decades of playing music on tour into a book-length poem, bringing to a close the trilogy that includes Now that the audience is assembled and The Voice in the Headphones. In Good night the pleasure was ours, the world outside the tour filters in with eccentric sparseness. From teenage punk bands to ensembles without ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Now that the audience is assembled

    by David Grubbs ...
    Following his investigation into experimental music and sound recording in Records Ruin the Landscape, David Grubbs turns his attention to the live performance of improvised music with an altogether different form of writing. Now that the audience is assembled is a book-length prose poem that describes a fictional musical performance during which an unnamed musician improvises the construction of ... Read more

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  • The Best British Short Stories 2014

    Series series Best British Short Stories
    'There is no more carefully chosen yet eclectic anthology series in existence in Britain today' – Susan Haigh, The Short ReviewBest British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or more accurately, by its title. This new series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year by British writers, whether based in the UK or elsewhere. The editor's ... Read more

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  • Leading from the Inside Out

    Expanded Roles for Teachers in Equitable Schools

    This book proposes that the collective responsibility of teachers as classroom and school leaders working together to solve their own problems provides the fulcrum of school change. It makes the case that teachers and school leaders do not operate in a vacuum, but rather, they work within the larger context of policy and other social influences. Grubb and Tredway provide the building blocks of ... Read more

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  • Star Wars Insider: The Fiction Collection Vol. 1

    Series series Star Wars Insider
    18 fully illustrated short stories.Darth Vader confronts a mysterious face from Anakin Skywalker’s past… Lando Calrissian faces the terrifying power of an Imperial walker… The Empire’s stormtroopers ruthlessly pursue survivors from Alderaan… A squadron of B-wing fighters engage in a desperate mission during the Battle of Endor…This special edition includes stories from the Legends era and tales ... Read more

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  • The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Policing, Communication, and Society

    Series series Bloomsbury Handbooks
    The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Policing, Communication, and Society brings together well-regarded academics and experienced practitioners to explore how communication intersects with policing in areas such as cop-culture, race and ethnicity, terrorism and hate crimes, social media, police reform, crowd violence, and many more. By combining research and theory in criminology, psychology, and ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Still Standing…

    My Journey from Streets and Saloons to the Stage, and Sinatra

    From shining shoes in dark saloons on the south side of Chicago to traveling the country as the opening act for Frank Sinatra, this is the story of Tom Dreesen’s unlikely journey to a fifty-plus year career as a pioneer of stand-up comedy and a legend of the entertainment industry. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Best British Short Stories 2015

    Series series Best British Short Stories
    "Hilary Mantel and Helen Simpson feature in the nation's favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its fifth year …"Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or more accurately, by its title. This new series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year by British writers, whether based in the UK or elsewhere. The editor's brief ... Read more

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  • The Best British Short Stories 2013

    Series series Best British Short Stories
    The third in a series of annual anthologies, The Best British Short Stories 2013 reprints the cream of short fiction, by British writers, first published in 2012. These stories appeared in magazines from the Edinburgh Review to Granta, in anthologies from various publishers, and in authors' own short story collections. They appeared online at 3:AM Magazine, Fleeting and elsewhere.This new ... Read more

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