When people think of Florida, what comes to mind are sandy beaches, alligators, and Mickey Mouse. Few realize that Florida was the third state to secede from the Union. It was also the smallest in population, being referred to as the "smallest tadpole in the dirty pool of secession."
This work does not concern itself with the politics, issues of slavery, economics, or military strategies of the Civil War. Instead, it focuses directly on the h...
While dreaming of an easier way to order pizza, Mike Evans founded the online food delivery site, Grubhub, in his basement and grew it into the multi-billion-dollar colossus that is now a household name. But it wasn't as easy as searching, clicking, and checking out. Mike's meteoric rise to the top of the booming tech and business world demanded a decade of 80 hour work weeks, endless financing rounds, cliffhanger acquisitions, the near collap...
This history of the LP is a must-have for any music connoisseur!When vinyl LP records took over the music industry in the late 1950s, a new era began. No longer bound by the time constraints of the shellac 78s that had been in use since the 1910s, recording artists could now present an entire album-rather than a lone three-minute single-on a vinyl LP, giving listeners a completely new way to experience their music. In recent years, vinyl has f...
Photographers have taken pictures of England's buildings and landscapes since the invention of the medium, making images of the traces of past societies as well as photographing the new buildings around them. They have done so for many reasons: to capture the picturesque, to make a living or a souvenir, to promote or to condemn, to record what is disappearing or to reveal what is normally hidden. The formats and types of photograph they have u...
Singer, songwriter, author, actor, husband, father, drug addict, and devout Christian who declared himself ''the biggest sinner of them all'', Johnny Cash was one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. He has been dubbed ''the philosopher-prince of American country music'', and this collection of interviews '' covering every major stage of his five-decade career '' provides a compelling insight into the life and times of the ic...
Die Magie der schwarzen Scheibe - Grooves, Design, Labels, Geschichte und Revival - in aktualisierter 4. Ausgabe!
Die Entwicklung der Schallplatte, die wichtigsten Labels und Schallplattenläden, bahnbrechende Künstler und legendäre Veröffentlichungen, Kult-Cover, Spinning, Scratching und Sampling, Botschaften in der Auslaufrille, Picture Discs, Limited Editions und Deluxe-Reissues, Plattenspieler und Musikboxen ... Ohne VINYL - DIE MAGIE DER ...
Follows the Who's tumultuous history via incisive text, archive reviews and interviews, and a track-by-track summary of all the studio and live albums.
A decade-by-decade tribute to the influential, charismatic "chameleon of rock." David Bowie always defied expectations with his dizzying series of stylistic transformations. Packed with photographs, this beautiful book covers everything about this iconic figure: his music, his film work, his partners, his life. Images of rare memorabilia-much of it from Bowie's early career-complement insightful text from a top music journalist.
An updated edition of the illustrated book charting the life and work of David Bowie, with 20 pieces of memorabilia. Now covers his final album, "Blackstar", and his death.
Charts the history of the blues from its rural roots in the American South, focusing on the key musicians and singers who brought it recognition worldwide.
Rockmusik in 30 Sekunden liefert verständliche und prägnante Antworten darauf. Die 50 Einträge informieren über Geschichte, Genres und grundlegende Elemente der Rockmusik. Jedes Thema ist auf etwa 300 Wörter und eine Illustration begrenzt und kann in 30 Sekunden gelesen werden. Von Blues und Folk über klassischen Rock 'n' Roll (und seine Wurzeln), Progressive Rock, Heavy Metal, Punk, Indie- und Alt-Rock zu den Profi len außergewöhnlicher Bands...
Senior Officer Ron Darby is on a fast track with the North Lakes Police Department. Physically fit and tactically astute with a street smart earned from years of being in the trenches, he is at the top of his law enforcement game. Yet on one routine night during one typical call on non-descript Kentwood Street, Darby's faith in his skills and beliefs is shattered. Forced to look inward (which cops hate) and acknowledge his failures (which cops...
The remarkable story of a T-shirt company that sparked a global movement to aid people living in poverty.All his life, Derek Evans felt a spiritual pull to be a part of something greater than himself, but it wasn't until he and a friend embarked on a transformational trip to LA's infamous skid row that he found his true calling. They returned home with a plan to build a mission-minded business that would change the world-one T-shirt at a time....
Since its introduction by Andrew Yao in the 1980s, multi-party computation has developed from a theoretical curiosity to an important tool for building large-scale privacy-preserving applications. Secure multi-party computation (MPC) enables a group to jointly perform a computation without disclosing any participant's private inputs. The participants agree on a function to compute, and then can use an MPC protocol to jointly compute the output...
Das Woodstock-Festival war nicht bloß eine Musikveranstaltung, es gilt als Höhepunkt der Hippie-Bewegung und definierte eine ganze Generation, wurde zum Symbol einer Ära. Pünktlich zum 50. Jubiläum des legendären Musikfestivals lässt dieser Bildband das Lebensgefühl der Sechzigerjahre wieder aufleben.
Tag für Tag wird in diesem Buch aufgearbeitet, wie das dreitägige Festival Geschichte schrieb. Interviews und Originalzitate der Musiker und Fes...
