Salut Brassens by Joel Favreau

Release Date: November 30, 2007

The 1950s and 1960s were the golden era of French popular song, known as chanson français, and Georges Brassens and Jacques Brel epitomized both the music and the era. Their fame was worldwide, with writers and artists such as David Bowie and Gabriel García Márquez citing them as key influences.In Georges Brassens and Jacques Brel, Chris Tinker sheds new light on the pair and their work by moving beyond the biographical and linguistic approaches that tend to dominate the study of French song. Instead, Tinker focuses on the social and cultural impact of the music—and public personas—of Brassens and Brel. He explores the fascinating mix of the personal and the general in their lyrics and the way those often opposing impulses played out in their songs and through their careers. Tinker also is careful to give the musical aspects of the songs their proper attention, considering the ways in which they alternately support or undermine the personas developed in the singers' lyrics.Georges Brassens and Jacques Brel will be the definitive look at the work—and the world—of the two greatest figures of chanson français.

Best diverges from the convention of devoting a chapter each to a particular social problem, and instead uses chapters to discuss the different stages in process by which particular problems become a focus of concern. He seeks to explain how and why attention to different issues rises and falls over the years. This being an introductory textbook, he does not aspire for comprehension, and avoids most of the jargon that people who go into the field will eventually come to love. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Free Worldwide Delivery : Studio Space : Paperback : Image Comics : 9781582409085 : 1582409080 : 28 May 2008 : Offering a glimpse at the way that the finest comic artists work, visiting their studios and getting into their mindset, this work also discusses the training that the artists undertook, their big break, and whether their working methods have changed over the years. It also showcases the creators of "Watchmen", "300", "Sin City", and "Hellboy".

Store Search search Title, ISBN and Author Joel: Escape from Abuse by Ted Louis Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Physically and sexually abused by his father, then locked in a garden shed without food, Joel spends the night digging his way out through the hard dirt floor with only his hands and a sharp stick. As he reenters the house, he is confronted by the sight of his abuser shooting and killing his mother. After being threatened by his father, the t

God or Darwin? It is one of the most contentious conflicts of our time. It is also completely unnecessary, according to Joel W. Martin, an evolutionary biologist and ordained elder in the Presbyterian Church USA. In this slim but powerful book, Martin argues that it is not contradictory to be a practicing, faithful Christian who accepts the science of evolution. Martin finds that much of the controversy in the United States over evolution is manufactured and predicated on a complete -- and sometimes willful -- misapprehension of basic science. Science and religion, he says, serve different purposes and each seeks to answer questions that the other need never address. He believes that many of the polarizing debates about evolution distract from the deeper lessons of Christianity and that literal, fundamentalist readings of the Bible require the faithful to reject not just evolution but many of science's greatest discoveries.Just as the scientific explanation of rainbows is not meant to refute

Pages: 94, Paperback, Grant & Cutler

This textbook reviews the current state of polymer science and assesses emerging developments in the field. Basic principles and current applications are both covered, with particular attention to the use of polymers in medicine, biotechnology, chemistry, electronics, and the production of rubber, solid states, and plastics. Chapters also discuss conformation, solution, and molecular weight, viscoelsaticity and rubber elasticity, polymer degradation and the environment, additives, blends, and composites, and polymer processing and rheology. Fried teaches chemical engineering at the University of Cincinnati. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Buildings inhabit and symbolize time, giving form to history and making public space an index of the past. Photographs are made of time; they are literally projections of past states of their subjects. This visually striking meditation on architecture in photography explores the intersection between these two ways of embodying the past. Photographs of buildings, Joel Smith argues, are simultaneously the agents, vehicles, and cargo of social memory. In The Life and Death of Buildings  photographers as canonical as Bernd and Hilla Becher, Laura Gilpin, Lewis W. Hine, and William Henry Fox Talbot enter into visual dialogue with amateurs, architects, propagandists, and insurance adjusters. Rather than examine photographers' aims in isolation, Smith considers how their images reflect and inflect the passage of time. Much as a building's shifting function and circumstances substantially alter its significance, a photograph comes to be coauthored by history, growing layers of

Release Date: April 01, 2004