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This chronological record covers every moment of Peggy Lee's professional life. Detailed entries describe recordings, radio and television appearances, her work in films, and her songwriting efforts, drawing from interviews with Lee and others, nightclub and concert reviews, and a wealth of other sources. Appendices list CD releases of Lee's recordings and the songs she composed.

The second book in the Game Changer Challenge series by Jonathan Albin, the Game Market Guru, "Counter Measures" provides insight into the embattled business of brick and mortar retail. Dedicated to his passion, the Game Market Guru gets people playing games, and in this volume offers tips, tools, and techniques to propel the game retail stores he champions to new heights.

This book by Hiram Crespo, the founder of the Society of Friends of Epicurus, discusses the ancient wisdom that seems to be the best philosophical solution for current problems such as widespread anxiety, thoughtless confusion of values, socioeconomic crisis, religious fanaticism, and environmental hazards.

Centreing round a thirty year old Glasgow murder this novel introduces Lassiter a tough and extremely shrewd investigative reporter. An ex-gang member himself Lassiter has many friends on both sides of the law. Written largely in the tough, no nonsense language of the Glasgow streets Liam Leddy`s first novel takes us on a whirlwind tour of the life of Glasgow`s sixties underworld. Breathtaking twists and turns follow fast and furious. With an ...

Deals with the challenge of how to design and put into practice strategies for inquiring into the intersections of philosophy and anthropology. The authors explore the contemporary from past works: how to conceptualize, test, and give form to breakdowns of truth and conduct, and how to open up possibilities for the remediation of such breakdowns.

Equated with notions of public interaction, the term "participation" is often used very loosely, especially within the contexts of new media and innovation research. Among a recent generation of artists and designers working in new media, there is an increasing need to work across disciplines and domains in ways that enable end users to contribute content, form and structure. These artists are currently developing new parameters in creative co...

Writing is the principal means by which doctoral candidature is monitored and measured, this, combined with the growing tendency to use publications as proxy measures of individual and institutional productivity, underlines the centrality of writing in academia. One of the central questions for scholars in higher education, therefore, is `How do we make writing happen?¿, and it is this question which the book seeks to answer.

Provides nursing students with the knowledge and skills they need to become competent in assuming research functions. The book is written in simple language covering the concepts of research required by nurses.

Reflections on the Religious, the Ethical, and the Political presents fourteen essays devoted to the interconnected topics of religion, ethics, and politics, along with an introductory interview with the author regarding his philosophical development over the years. This volume serves two interconnected purposes: as an introduction or reintroduction to Calvin O.Schrag's intellectual contributions to a critical consideration of these three topi...

Two curious cubs have never seen snow. It is already half past winter and there has been no snow. They decide to find it for themselves. They do find it, along with a good deal of trouble. Now, how will they ever get home again?

Albert is not only the runt of his herd, he was born with an extra long trunk - a trunk that makes him feel ashamed and ostracized, so Albert runs away to the city. Unfortunately, his troubles continue as people and other animals tease and humiliate him. Then one morning Albert has the opportunity to turn his "disability" into a very special "ability". Will Albert finally find the friends and respect he craves? Trey Martin's Albert the Elephan...

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A collection of poems inspired by the race horse, Secretariat.

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Jonathan Saruk documents the Taliban-banned cinemas of Kabul - venues which are an escape from the harsh reality.

The Return explores the attempt to implement a nomadic ideal as it intersects with the reality of modern life.

Working in a forensic fashion, Hyers and Mebane photographed the objects they encountered--stoves, family photographs, computers, trophies and the like.

Mariette Pathy Allen documents the transgender community of Cuba that is growing in visibility and acceptance.

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The arc and the machine is a timely and original defence of narrative in an age of information. Stressing interpretation and experience alongside affect and sensation it convincingly argues that narrative is key to contemporary forms of cultural production and to the practice of contemporary life. Re-appraising the prospects for narrative in the digital age, it insists on the centrality of narrative to informational culture and provokes a crit...