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  Limelight: Rush in the ’80s

  Martin Popoff

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  Part two of the definitive biography of the rock ’n’ roll kings of the North — covering Rush’s most iconic and popular albums, Moving Pictures and Power Windows
  		 
  Includes two full-color photo inserts, with 16 pages of the band on tour and in the studio
  		 
  In the follow-up to Anthem: Rush in the ’70s, Martin Popoff brings together canon analysis, cultural context, and extensive firsthand interviews to celebrate Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neil Peart at the peak of their persuasive power. Rush was one of the most celebrated hard rock acts of the ’80s, and the second book of Popoff’s staggeringly comprehensive three-part series takes readers from Permanent Waves to Presto, while bringing new insight to Moving Pictures, their crowning glory. Limelight: Rush in the ’80s is a celebration of fame, of the pushback against that fame, of fortunes made — and spent …
  		 
  In the latter half of the decade, as Rush adopts keyboard technology and gets pert and poppy, there’s an uproar amongst diehards, but the band finds a whole new crop of listeners. Limelight charts a dizzying period in the band’s career, built of explosive excitement but also exhaustion, a state that would lead, as the ’90s dawned, to the band questioning everything they previously believed, and each member eying the oncoming decade with trepidation and suspicion.

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  Lost and Found Sound and Beyond...

  Kitchen Sisters, Jay Allison

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  The second volume of the LOST & FOUND SOUND collection explores how recorded sound has shaped and captured the history of the last 100 years. Drawing from the archives and attics of the nation, this historic and intimate collection of radio documentaries presents a compelling array of sonic pioneers and legends, eccentric collectors, and original American voices. Highlights include, haunting audio letters from a soldier in the foxholes of Vietnam, the surprising tale of Liberace and the Trinidad Tripoli Steel Band, the voices and stories of Mohawk iron workers at the World Trade Center, and a 1977 home recording made by Francis Ford Coppola and his five-year old daughter Sofia. Funny, historic and deeply moving, this audio time capsule of American life begs to be listened to again and again.

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  Design Mixology - The Interiors...

  Chase Reynolds Ewald, Heather...

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  Inspired by designers who break away from the pack, Tineke Triggs is known for creating soulful, artistic and imaginative interiors. By mastering both the art and science of design, her work gives rise to a distinct form of design mixology—each home as individual as each of her clients. This book includes an eclectic mix of projects from ski houses in Lake Tahoe and beachfront getaways in Northern and Central California, to reimagined period Victorians to modern homes in Marin County and Silicon Valley.

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  The Weird Circle

  Various Contributors, Robert...

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  Originally broadcast between 1943 and 1945, these thirty-minute, supernatural episodes featured stories written by popular authors at the time including Robert Louis Stevenson, Victor Hugo, Edgar Allan Poe, and even Charles Dickens.

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  Tea From Assam

  Anil

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  Tea from Assam. 
  This story about Tea From Assam. When Bhodhidharama,an ancient Buddhist ascetic, cut off his eyelids because he felt sleepy during meditation. Tea ten plants grew out of the eyelids. Tea was 1st drunk in china. In fact words such as tea, 'chai' and 'chini'are from Chinese.Tea is really popular in world.

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  Top Secret - The Battle for the...

  Geoffrey Cowan, Leroy Aarons

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  Geoffrey Cowan and Leroy Aarons’ timely docudrama about The Washington Post’s decision to publish the Pentagon Papers, a top secret study documenting U.S. involvement in Vietnam. The subsequent trial tested the parameters of the First Amendment, pitting the public’s right to know against the government’s desire for secrecy.
  
  An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring:
  
  Diane Adair as Meg Greenfield
  Bo Foxworth as George Wilson/Eugene Patterson
  John Getz as Ben Bagdikian
  James Gleason as Murray Marder/Judge Martin Peel
  Gregory Harrison as Brian Kelly
  John Heard as Ben Bradlee
  Raphael Sbarge as Robert Mardian/Ron Ziegler
  Russell Soder as Soldier/Darryl Cox/Clerk-Bailiff
  Susan Sullivan as Katherine Graham
  Peter Van Norden as Fritz Beebe/Dr. Henry Kissinger
  Tom Virtue as Dennis Doolin/President Richard Nixon
  Geoffrey Wade as General John Mitchell/Chal Roberts/Lamont Vanderhall
  
  Directed by John Rubinstein. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles in March of 2008.

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