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  Classic Rock & Rock Radio...

  Frank Zappa, The Grateful Dead

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  Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 - December 4, 1993) was an American composer, singer-songwriter, guitarist, recording engineer, record producer and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa Zappa produced almost all of the more than 60 albums he released with the band, The Mothers of Invention, and as a solo artist. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed album covers. The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in Palo Alto, California. The founding members were Jerry Garcia (lead guitar, vocals), Bob Weir (rhythm guitar, vocals), Ron "Pigpen" McKernan (keyboards, harmonica, vocals), Phil Lesh (bass, vocals), Bill Kreutzmann (drums) and, later, Mickey Hart (drums).The band was known for its unique and eclectic style, which fused elements of rock, folk, bluegrass, blues, reggae, country, improvisational jazz, psychedelia, and space rock, and for live performances of long musical improvisation. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994. This fascinating audio program includes actual radio commercials from the 1960s for each of the bands.

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  Cosimo de' Medici: The Life and...

  Charles River Editors

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  Most historians credit the city-state of Florence as the place that started and developed the Italian Renaissance, a process carried out through the patronage and commission of artists during the late 12th century. If Florence has received its due credit, much of it belongs to the House of Medici, the family dynasty of Florence that ruled at the height of the Renaissance. The dynasty held such influence that some of its family members even became pope, and it all started with a banker colloquially known as Cosimo the Elder.  
  	Cosimo’s trajectory was nothing short of incredible. In the spring of 1433, he sat in a small stone cell high in the tower of the Palazzo della Signoria, listening to the bells of the city he had spent his life serving and waiting to learn whether he was to be beheaded. He was 43 and held no public title of consequence, commanded no army, and had taken pains for most of his life to appear as one prosperous citizen among many. Nonetheless, the men who then governed Florence had decided that he was too dangerous to leave at liberty, and for several days the question before the city was not whether Cosimo possessed power but whether the republic dared to kill him for it.  
  	Instead of being executed, within 18 months, he returned from exile to a city that received him as a deliverer, and for the 30 years that followed, he ruled Florence more completely than any king ruled a kingdom, despite never assuming a crown, a permanent office, or a public claim to authority. He governed through a network of friendships, debts, favors, and quiet arrangements so subtly that foreign observers struggled to describe it, but what they saw was plain enough even when the mechanisms by which Cosimo maintained control were not. The peace and the wars of Italy answered to his judgment, and the powerful leaders across the peninsula carried their business to his house, settling across a banker’s table the questions other cities settled in council chambers and throne rooms.

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  The Property Developers...

  Andy Hubbard

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  The Property Developers Blueprint 
  Have you ever wanted more time, freedom and money? 
  Do you want to spend more time with the family, enjoy your hobbies, be in great health, travel the world and live life on your terms? 
  Do you want to sack the boss, stop working for customers and not have to go through life worrying about paying the bills or what things cost ? 
  The only way you are going to get all of this is to start working on a strategy that is proven to deliver all of these things, and stop doing what you are currently doing by being a busy fool, working hard until you retire at 70, if and a big if, you even live that long. The system has you trapped, but luckily for you you’ve found this book and there is a way out. 
  Just imagine working 5-6 months a year and never being paid less than £100,000 ever again, maybe £500,000 or even £1,000.000! Now this may sound far-fetched at the moment in your current situation, but this book will teach you the step by step the system that has delivered results like this time after time, not just for me but for many of my students.

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  The New Female Antihero - The...

  Gillian Silverman, Sarah Hagelin

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  The New Female Antihero examines the hard-edged spies, ruthless queens, and entitled slackers of twenty-first-century television. 
    
  The last ten years have seen a shift in television storytelling toward increasingly complex storylines and characters. In this study, Sarah Hagelin and Gillian Silverman zoom in on a key figure in this transformation: the archetype of the female antihero. Far from the sunny, sincere, plucky persona once demanded of female characters, the new female antihero is often selfish and deeply unlikeable. 
    
  In this entertaining and insightful study, Hagelin and Silverman explore the meanings of this profound change in the role of women characters. In the dramas of the new millennium, they show, the female antihero is ambitious, conniving, even murderous; in comedies, she is self-centered, self-sabotaging, and anti-aspirational. Across genres, these female protagonists eschew the part of good girl or role model. In their rejection of social responsibility, female antiheroes thus represent a more profound threat to the status quo than do their male counterparts. From the devious schemers of Game of Thrones, The Americans, Scandal, and Homeland, to the joyful failures of Girls, Broad City, Insecure, and SMILF, female antiheroes register a deep ambivalence about the promises of liberal feminism. They push back against the myth of the modern-day super-woman—she who “has it all”—and in so doing, they give us new ways of imagining women’s lives in contemporary America.

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  Moguls - The Lives and Times of...

  Michael Benson, Craig Singer

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  Groundbreaking pioneers of the Hollywood Dream Factory, Joseph and Nicholas Schenck may not have been household names like the Warner brothers or Louis B. Mayer, but they were infinitely more powerful, influential—and ruthless. A pair of Russian immigrants with giant ambitions, the Schencks turned their small nickelodeon business in New York's Bowery into a partnership with Loew's movie theaters and a controlling interest in three major studios: MGM, 20th Century Fox, and United Artists. They painted the silver screen silver, laid the foundations for the all-powerful studio system, and ruled a global movie empire from their Gatsby-sized mansions on the East and West coasts. The Schencks had become moguls. 
   
   
   
  Their story is the stuff of legends—and their scandals are among the greatest stories Hollywood never told. This riveting, behind-the-scenes account reveals many surprising truths. 
   
   
   
  From the earliest days of silent films and the swinging era of the Roaring Twenties, through the Golden Age of the studio system and the patriotic call of WWII, to the Red Scare paranoia of the McCarthy years, the history of the Schenck brothers is the story of Hollywood itself—and the enduring power of the American Dream. Moguls is a must-listen for film fans, history buffs, and anyone who loves the movies.

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  The Theatre - from Civizilation...

  George Jean Nathan

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  When does popular entertainment become art—and who is responsible when it does not? 
   
  In The Theatre, celebrated drama critic George Jean Nathan delivers a sharp, unapologetic assessment of the American stage during the early twentieth century. 
   
  Nathan examines a theatrical culture in which safe spectacles, fashionable stars, sentimental dramas, and easily marketable productions frequently overpower more ambitious work. While serious plays struggle to survive, commercially dependable entertainment fills theatres and dominates public attention. 
   
  Yet Nathan does not place the blame solely on producers. He considers the influence of audiences, critics, newspapers, advertising, regional tastes, and the relentless demands of the box office. He argues that American theatre can rise only when artists are encouraged to pursue imagination, honesty, and dramatic excellence without surrendering completely to commercial pressure. 
   
  Along the way, Nathan defends playwrights and theatrical innovators willing to take genuine artistic risks, including Eugene O’Neill, while questioning the standards by which acting, playwriting, and theatrical success are judged. 
   
  Witty, provocative, and uncompromising, The Theatre offers a revealing portrait of Broadway and American cultural life at a moment when modern drama was still fighting for recognition. 
   
  Narrated by Brett Carter, this historic essay will appeal to actors, directors, playwrights, critics, theatre students, and listeners interested in the continuing struggle between art and commerce.

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