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  Studs Terkel's Chicago

  Studs Terkel

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  In a blend of history, memoir, and photography, the Pulitzer Prize winner paints a vivid portrait of this extraordinary American city.   Chicago was home to the country’s first skyscraper (a ten-story building built in 1884), and marks the start of the famed Route 66. It is also the birthplace of the remote control (Zenith) and the car radio (Motorola), and the first major American city to elect a woman (Jane Byrne) and then an African American man (Harold Washington) as mayor.   Its literary and journalistic history is just as dazzling, and includes Nelson Algren, Mike Royko, and Sara Paretsky. From Al Capone to the street riots during the Democratic National Convention in 1968, Chicago, in the words of Studs Terkel, “has—as they used to whisper of the town’s fast woman—a reputation.”   Chicago was also home to Terkel, the Pulitzer Prize–winning oral historian, who moved to Chicago in 1922 as an eight-year-old and who would make it his home until his death in 2008 at the age of ninety-six. This book is a splendid evocation of Studs Terkel’s hometown in all its glory—and all its imperfection.

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  Giant Steps - Bebop and the...

  Kenny Mathieson

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  A music journalist offers a lively history of modern jazz through its formative and most vital decades—from Charlie Parker to John Coltrane. 
   
  In Giant Steps, Kenny Mathieson examines the most important figures in the creation of modern jazz, detailing the emergence and evolution of bebop through the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Fats Navarro, Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis. Using this as its starting point, Mathieson then delves into the developments of jazz composition, modal jazz and free jazz.  
   
  The music of the great masters is examined in detail and will provide both a fine introduction for the large audience newly attracted to the music but unsure of their direction through it, as well as an entertaining and informative read for those with a more substantial background.

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  Killer Abs Workout

  Antonio Smith

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  This collection of fitness music is perfectly mixed, set at just the right pace to help you perform a high-energy, body-moving workout.

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  AGILE PROJECT MANAGEMENT : A...

  John Kelly

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  Get A Comprehensive Look At Agile Project Management And See What It Can Mean To You  
  Agile Project Management is a very flexible structure and method for the project and its processes. Although it takes a competent and capable person to be successful at the helm of things. It will ensure that a quality product is delivered on time through a constantly changing and iterative approach. Many ground-breaking and innovative goods have been developed over the years using this technique. 
  Written for beginners, this book explains Agile Principles using Scrum and puts them together in a cohesive sense. Instead of clearly defining terms, Agile defines itself as a living, dynamic system for taking off frills and returning to basics while handling projects. The first half of the book explains the Agile Manifesto in detail, both theoretically and in action. 
  What You Will Learn:Introduction     Agile Project Management       How The Agile Method Works           How To Apply The Agile Method Effectively  The Advantages Of The Agile MethodChallenges Of Implementing Agile        Keys To Successful Implementation Of Agile   How To Know Whether You Have Gone Agile          What It Means To Be Agile 
  And Many More…       
  Small startups and entrepreneurs will find practical advice, encouragement and inspiration in this book, while development teams in larger companies will enjoy a quick, concise explanation of how Agile puzzle pieces fit together.

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  DIY as Privilege - A Manifesto

  Richard Phoenix

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  Originally a one-page manifesto, this poignant and funny pamphlet documents over a decade of experiences, both supporting musicians with learning disabilities and being part of a D.I.Y. punk scene. Through anecdotes, observations and the voices of the people he's met along the way, artist Richard Phoenix shares moments that have stayed with him, and shows us how he re-evaluated his perception of Do-It-Yourself culture. Featuring Daniel Wakeford, Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät, The Fish Police, Beat Express, Robyn Steward, Electric Fire and more.

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  Playing the Mask - Acting...

  John Wright

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  In Playing the Mask, award-winning theatre-maker and teacher John Wright explores and demystifies mask-work: what masks do, how they do it, and, above all, what they can teach us about acting.
  This book is a wonderfully accessible introduction to a fresh and innovative acting technique for actors, theatre-makers and teachers to use in training and rehearsal. A mask releases the actor to be playful, and playfulness generates ideas, finds meaning, develops characterisation – and is infinitely more fun than traditional training.
  Rather than a dry guide to making masked theatre, it is about, for instance, playing Lady Macbeth in Red Nose, or Hamlet in the mask of The Victim, The Ogre or The Fool, or even Romeo and Juliet in grotesque half-masks… All in the name of liberating your creativity and, ultimately, improving your performance.
  Extensively illustrated with a rich variety of masks, this inventive and pragmatic book is full of invaluable games and exercises drawn from the author's own workshops, his experience as co-founder of both Trestle and Told by an Idiot, and his pioneering mask and clown work in many professional productions.
  'Brilliant, entertaining and accessible' Paul Hunter, from his Foreword

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