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  Don't Stop Believin' - The...

  Erin Balser, Suzanne Gardner

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  The fictional high-school milieu of Glee — the wildly popular Fox television series that debuted in 2009 — is celebrated and dissected in this detailed companion to the series. The songs, the students, and the idiosyncratic teachers all come under affectionate scrutiny in this fan's compendium. The familiar dramas that beset the members of the McKinley High glee club, New Directions, have struck a chord with a wide Audience that ranges from tweens to 20-somethings and beyond.Glee watchers will relish this analysis of everyrelationship, fashion statement, insult, and triumph that is plumbed for greater meaning and nostalgic pleasure. The music that is such a key element of the show — a careful mix of show tunes and popular hits — is also thoughtfully discussed. Trivia, in-jokes, profiles of the actors,and a detailed synopsis of the show's first season make this an indispensable reference for the growing fan base of "gleeks" that are devoted to this fledgling television sensation.

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  NPR Driveway Moments Baseball -...

  NPR

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  Stories from the National Public Radio archives honor America’s national pastime. Peabody-winning Talk of the Nation host Neal Conan presents tales about the big leagues and the little, the fans in the stands, the players, the history, and the lore.Highlights include commentaries from some of the game's most recognized authorities, a look back at some of baseball's most important figures (Jackie Robinson, Joltin' Joe DiMaggio), and colorful segments about the game's unexpected delights, from the Hidden Ball Trick to the "All You Can Eat" option at Dodger Stadium.What is a Driveway MomentSM? Maybe it’s happened to you as it has to countless others. . . . You’re driving home, listening to a story on NPR. Suddenly, you find yourself in your driveway (or parking space or parking garage). Rather than turn the radio off, you stay in your car to hear the piece to the end. It’s a Driveway Moment. The NPR Driveway Moments Series collects these “best of” stories so that you are never more than a “play” away from a Driveway Moment.

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  Dirty Rocker Boys

  Caroline Ryder, Bobbie Brown

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  An uncensored Hollywood tell-all filled with explicit tales of love, sex, and revenge from the video vixen made famous by Warrant’s rock anthem “Cherry Pie.”Who could forget the sexy “Cherry Pie” girl from hair metal band Warrant’s infamous music video? Bobbie Brown became a bona fide vixen for her playful role as the object of lead singer Jani Lane’s desires. But the wide-eyed Louisiana beauty queen’s own dreams of making it big in Los Angeles were about to be derailed by her rock-and-roll lifestyle. After her tumultuous marriage to Jani imploded, and her engagement to fast-living Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee ended in a drug haze—followed by his marriage later to Pamela Anderson—Bobbie decided it was time Hollywood’s hottest bachelors got a taste of their own medicine. Step one: get high. Step two: get even.In a captivating, completely uncensored confessional, Bobbie explicitly recounts a life among some of the most famous men in Hollywood: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kevin Costner, Mark McGrath, Dave Navarro, Sebastian Bach, Ashley Hamilton, Rob Pilatus of Milli Vanilli, Matthew and Gunnar Nelson, Orgy’s Jay Gordon, and many more. No man was off limits as the fun-loving bombshell spiraled into excess, anger, and addiction.Bobbie survived the party—barely—and her riveting, cautionary comeback tale is filled with the wildest stories of sex, drugs, and rock and roll ever told.

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  For many in El Salvador life...

  PBS NewsHour

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  Extraordinary violence is among the factors pushing Central Americans north toward the U.S. In El Salvador, rival gangs like MS-13 and the 18th Street Gang kill thousands per year, despite a harsh crackdown by law enforcement. Special correspondent Danny Gold reports from San Martin on how these brutal groups control the population and drive one of the highest murder rates in the world.

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  Modern Enchantments - The...

  Simon During

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  “A history of “secular,” or non-supernatural, or entertainment magic as an important but neglected constituent of modern culture” (Nicholas Daly). 
   
  Magic, Simon During suggests, has helped shape modern culture. Devoted to this deceptively simple proposition, During’s superlative work, written over the course of a decade, gets at the aesthetic questions at the very heart of the study of culture. How can the most ordinary arts—and by “magic,” During means not the supernatural, but the special effects and conjurings of magic shows—affect people? 
   
  Modern Enchantments takes us deeply into the history and workings of modern secular magic, from the legerdemain of Isaac Fawkes in 1720, to the return of real magic in nineteenth-century spiritualism, to the role of magic in the emergence of the cinema. Through the course of this history, During shows how magic performances have drawn together heterogeneous audiences, contributed to the molding of cultural hierarchies, and extended cultural technologies and media at key moments, sometimes introducing spectators into rationality and helping to disseminate skepticism and publicize scientific innovation. In a more revealing argument still, Modern Enchantments shows that magic entertainments have increased the sway of fictions in our culture and helped define modern society’s image of itself. 
   
  Praise for ModernEnchantment 
   
  “During documents the extent to which magic and magical thinking have pervaded, and continue to pervade, secular life . . . the author examines 19th- and 20th-century theatrical magic and “commercial conjuring” with great sensitivity to the social and cultural context in the Western world. Equally fascinating is the analysis of magic and early film.” —R. Sugarman, Choice 
   
  “A richly informed, warmly argued addition to the growing number of books in which writers worry at the pervasive blurring of distinctions between act and appearance, organic consciousness and artificial intelligence, imagination and empirical experience, illusion and thought, reality TV and real life, dreams and money.” —Marina Warner, Financial Times 
   
  “During moves confidently across three centuries of magic (and covers aspects of a few more besides). The sheer wealth of historical detail he provides is impressive, but no less impressive is the subtlety of his argumentation, and the suggestiveness of his claims . . .  This extremely significant piece of work will appeal to literary critics, historians, and not least, devotees of magic.” —Nicholas Daly, author of Modernism, Romance, and the Fin de Siècle: Popular Fiction and British Culture, 1880–1914

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  Chinese Paintings During The...

  Tom Geng

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  The Song Dynasty (960-1279) was divided into two stages: the Northern Song Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty. Song Dynasty painting entered the ranks of handicraft industry and commerce, and established a closer relationship with more people. A group of skilled professional painters have sold their works as commodities in the market. There are already professional shops selling books and pictures. The calligraphy and painting market has been prosperous and developed. The calligraphy and painting works in this period also have the characteristics of the times.
  
  With flowers and birds as the theme, this book mainly contains the famous flowers and birds paintings of Song Dynasty. Each of them is a masterpiece and handed down from generation to generation. It is worth watching and collecting.
  
  Reader comments
  
  I like the paintings of Song Dynasty very much. Their paintings are so beautiful. Every painting and calligraphy of Song Dynasty collected in this book is worth watching carefully. I like this book very much.
  ——David
  
  I'm very interested in Chinese culture, especially the culture of Song Dynasty. This book is very characteristic. It includes the paintings of flowers and birds in Song Dynasty. It is very professional and interesting.
  ——Steven
  
  The paintings in this book are so beautiful. I have never seen such paintings. They are really different.
  ——Alexande
  
  
  It's hard to imagine. I can't believe it. Was it really painted by people thousands of years ago? What they painted was so beautiful.
  ——Lucas
  
  I like Chinese culture very much. This book is very helpful for me to understand Chinese culture. If you are also interested in Chinese culture, I suggest you also read this book.
  ——Isabella
  
  
  The painting style of this book is different from what I read before. I think it may be a unique painting in China. This book is really a unique experience for me.
  ——Madeline
  
  If you are interested in oriental culture, you must read this book. The oriental culture here does not only refer to China. I think the painting style of the whole East has been influenced by China. Through this book, you can have a better understanding of the whole oriental culture.
  ——Liu Qingdong

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