From the legendary producer of Nick Drake, R.E.M., Toots and the Maytals, and Pink Floyd and author of White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s comes a riveting, world-spanning tour de force illuminating the artists, histories, controversies, and collaborations that shaped global music.

Paul Simon told Joe Boyd that when he first heard the accordion flourish that would open his multi-platinum album Graceland, it seemed to proclaim, You haven't heard this before! Yet the 1980s world music boom that Simon's album helped usher in had roots that extended back through the decades and across continents: tango on the eve of World War I, Latin dance across the '30s, '40s and '50s, reggae in the '70s, pre-War samba and pre-Beatles bossa nova, Eastern European ensembles filling capitalist concert halls during the Cold War, Indian ragas changing rock and roll in the 1960s, the folk music-inspired classical composers of the 19th and 20th centuries.

In this sweeping history compiled from more than a decade of travel, research, interviews, and deep listening, Boyd sets out to explore centuries of fascinating backstories to these sounds. He shows how personalities, events, and politics in places such as Havana, Lagos, Budapest, Kingston, and Rio are as colorful and momentous as anything that took place in New Orleans, Harlem, Laurel Canyon, or Liverpool. And, moreover, how jazz, rhythm and blues, and rock 'n' roll would never have happened if it weren't for the notes and rhythms emanating from over the horizon. The one-of-a-kind result is And the Roots of Rhythm Remain: a glorious, symphonic celebration of the music that shapes our world.

Completing these 200+ engaging Korean word search puzzles will expand your Korean vocabulary and reading skills in more than 40 fundamental topics including entertainment, business, travel, and more. Learning Korean by solving word search puzzles is a refreshing break from tedious flashcard and textbook memorization and enables you to learn Korean in a fun and easy way.

Each stimulating puzzle introduces 12 essential Korean words hidden among Hangul syllable blocks from the words in the same puzzle. After completing these puzzles, you will be familiar with essential Korean words most commonly used in television, dramas, and everyday life.

These fun puzzles are a unique and must-have resource for anyone studying Korean. Korean Word Search doubles as a fantastic collection of more than 200 stimulating puzzles and as a valuable and fresh approach to learning Korean. Begin the search today!

Many know Jonathan Lethem as one of our most celebrated and eclectic writers, whose iconic novels--Motherless Brooklyn, The Fortress of Solitude, Chronic City, among many others--play with genres and storytelling modes like a DJ mixing music. But Lethem grew up in his father's studio, went to art school, and, in his own words, made hundreds if not thousands of drawings, collages, paintings, hand-drawn comics, and even two animated shorts before diverting, at nineteen, to prose fiction. The surreal and form-defying panoply of his stories, essays, and novels celebrates--and mourns--this forsaken world of the visual and plastic arts. That leap, between the cellophane ephemerality of language and the brick-like tangibility of visual art, which operates as a sublimated wellspring for Lethem's writing, is the subject of this book.

Cellophane Bricks gathers a lifetime of Lethem's art-writing, along with stunning, full-color images from the author's own collection and elsewhere. Here we tour Lethem's fictions in response to (and in exchange for) artworks by his friends; his meditations on comics and graffiti art; his collaborations with artists and interventions into visual culture, and his portrait of the museum that was and continues to be his home, untethered from geography. More than just a compilation, Cellophane Bricks comprises a kind of stealth memoir of Jonathan Lethem's parallel life in visual culture--a ravishing assemblage that makes the perfect gift for story lovers of all kinds, and an essential, singular brick to add to your own collection.

These engaging kana puzzles are fun for every Japanese skill level, whether you're learning hiragana and katakana for the first time or fluent in Japanese.

These puzzles feature over 900+ essential Japanese words that are most commonly written as hiragana and katakana and found in manga, newspapers, television dramas, and more.

With a convenient chart of all hiragana and katakana characters included and a complete list of all 980 vocabulary words used in the puzzles, Japanese Kana Word Search doubles as a fun and valuable educational resource that can be referenced again and again.

Japanese Kana Word Search is a new and exciting way to learn Hiragana and Katakana. Begin the search today!

Rorke Burningsoul, Paladin of Weltyr, has been betrayed.

With the object of his most recent quest stolen out from under him, Rorke has been left for dead in the treacherous Nightlands: a place hateful to all surface-dwellers, full of things the human--even the elfin--eye has never seen. Gray-faced berich dwarves, frightful half-spider misshapens--and, of course, the sensual and dark-complexioned durrow elves, a race of power-hungry women who live in service to the goddess Roserpine.

Praise Weltyr, Rorke is rescued by two such splendid durrow--and told that, in exchange for his life, he must now submit to slavery as, among other things, breeding stud to the female race. He willingly agrees, hopeful that his obedience will help him find a way out of the Nightlands and back to the business of retrieving the lost artifact: but when the Materna of the durrow city decides during his appraisal that she needs a new guard, he is soon surprised to find himself taken, heart and soul, by the exquisite durrow high priestess known as Valeria.

But Valeria's need of a personal guard is not just some ruse to keep her new slave in her bedroom without controversy--would that it were. The high priestess's life is at stake, and as her assassins' attacks grow more frequent all the time, she needs the assistance of a man capable of keeping himself alive along with her.

Who better than a paladin she's seen in dreams for decades?

Mature readers only This fantasy harem adventure in the style of Dungeons & Dragons contains explicit encounters between the lucky hero and many gorgeous women he encounters on his quest. Use discretion when purchasing.

Strengthen your Japanese-Language Proficiency Test kanji and vocabulary skills by completing over 50 of these specially crafted word search puzzles. Learning Japanese by solving word search puzzles is a refreshing break from tedious flashcard and textbook memorization and enables you to learn Japanese in a fun and easy way.

Each stimulating puzzle includes eight essential JLPT level words conveniently paired with their furigana reading and English translation. Words are cleverly hidden among a combination of kanji taken from other words in the same puzzle. This innovative format allows you to recall each kanji many times in a short time span, rivaling or even surpassing the benefits of flashcard study methods-and best of all, it's so much fun that it doesn't feel like studying!

A helpful list of all 380+ JLPT level words included in the puzzles and all puzzle solutions are provided in the back of the book for easy look up. These fun puzzles are a unique and must-have resource for anyone studying for the JLPT.

Be sure you've read Book II of THE BURNINGSOUL SAGA!

Rorke Burningsoul, Wanderer of Weltyr, is dead.

Since Rorke Burningsoul escaped the Nightlands, his life has been adventure without rest. Why should he be surprised when the airship set to whisk him and his four lovely companions to Rhineland is boarded by the all-female pirate crew of the legendary ship, the Flying Rhinemaid? There's no such thing as a cruise in the world of Urd-there's only peril, and the will to overcome it. As the chaos in the air takes turns no one could expect, and certain shattering truths come to light, Rorke must struggle to stay focused on the task of reclaiming the Ring of Roserpine...especially when he's forced to confront the truth of what happened to him upon the airship.

But that is not the only truth he is forced to confront. Stranded, Rorke and two of his lovely companions must brace themselves for a series of encounters they never expected to endure: starting with the mysterious Deep-Children, who beg that Rorke return the sacred gold stolen from their mother's home. Normally, such a task would be his pleasure. But when the thief turns out to have been Weltyr, himself, well...

That makes things a little more complicated.

This fantasy harem adventure in the style of Dungeons & Dragons contains explicit encounters between the lucky hero and many gorgeous women he encounters on his quest. Use discretion when purchasing.

July 1967. After the arrest, beating, and imprisonment of cab driver John Smith by local police, the city of Newark--already a tinderbox--became a hotbed of protest and retaliation. Over five long days, 26 people were killed by police gunfire and hundreds more were injured, thousands arrested, and millions of dollars in property damage caused. The scars on the city remained for decades.

Bud Lee, a 26-year-old novice photographer for Life magazine, was called upon to cover the civic uprising in Newark as it broke out. Lee and Life reporter Dale Wittner arrived to find a majority Black population--already struggling under a corrupt local government and a vicious, authoritarian police force--trying to persevere in extraordinary circumstances: stores burned and looted; a city under siege by trigger-happy city and state police; and the young, inexperienced, and exhausted National Guardsmen sent to patrol it day and night.

The War Is Here documents the several days Bud Lee spent in Newark. These photographs capture life in a city transformed into an urban war zone. Lee witnessed first-hand two policemen shoot a man named Billy Furr in the back. Lee's dramatic images of this cold-blooded murder ran in Life. The same bullets also hit and wounded a 12-year-old boy named Joey Bass Jr., who had been playing at a nearby intersection. Lee's stark, emotional image of Bass, lying bleeding and contorted in pain on dirty concrete, ran on the July 28, 1967 cover of Life, sparking a national conversation on race and police violence and becoming the defining image of the long, hot summer of '67--a summer of fire and fury, protest and rage across the country.

Over half a century later, Bud Lee's raw, desolate, and empathetic photographs of the people of Newark, at a turning point in the city's history, continue to resonate: a testament to their resilience and fortitude.

Discover over 1,000 different advanced level Korean words across more than 50 puzzles in this unique and exciting way to learn Korean.

Over 1,150 unique Korean wordsMore than 50 puzzlesPuzzle solution keys located in the back of the bookPuzzle solution page number listed below each puzzle to check your answers easilyChallenging Korean words used in news, business, and everyday life

Each crossword clue is the English definition of a Korean word or phrase. Solve the clue by translating the definition to its Korean word in hangul.

Solving these fun puzzles will help you become familiar with words in Korean conversation, business, newspapers, magazines, science, and more.

If you're like most people studying Korean, there's going to be clues you don't know the answer to - when that is the case, you are encouraged to look up the word in the back of the book. After trying your best, looking up the answer is completely expected - it is part of the educational process and it is a great way to learn new words. Each puzzle includes its puzzle solution page number for easy lookup.

Learning Korean by solving crossword puzzles is a fun way to recall words you already know and discover new and important words for the first time. Begin solving today!

I Can Sleep When The Wind Blows is a retelling of the classic story of Jim, a 17-year-old boy who applies to work on a farm. His only qualification is that he can sleep when the wind blows. The farmer doesn't understand what he means, but he hires him. When a terrible storm comes in the night, the farmer learns the value of this unusual skill.

This delightful story helps young children understand how to plan ahead to be prepared to deal with potentially stressful situations and how doing this can help them feel more in control and prepared when difficult times come. Young children who suffer from stress or anxiety can follow Jim's example of planning ahead and believing in themselves and their ability to feel peace even when hard things are happening around them.

Be sure you've read Book I of THE BURNINGSOUL SAGA!

Rorke Burningsoul, Paladin of Weltyr, is free.

Free, and able to pursue the adventurers who left him for dead in the harrowing realm of the Nightlands. When one of those treacherous adventurers falls right into his lap, all he can do is praise Weltyr and make use of his good fortune. Upon learning that the dwarf, Grimalkin, may have taken the Scepter of Weltyr for himself back to Rhineland, Rorke manages to convince his beautiful durrow companions to come on this retrieval mission--not just for his own purposes, but to increase their odds of successfully retrieving Valeria's sacred ring.

Not everyone is on board, though. High elf druid Branwen, freshly rescued from the den of misshapen bandits, has some designs of her own...and though Rorke is devoted to assisting his former mistress, Branwen seduced him once before. She's confident she can do it again.

But when a sensual wild witch from the mountains outside the Nightlands claims she knows the secrets of his heritage, Branwen will have to learn to play nice with the rest of Rorke's harem if she wants to keep him from being spirited away.

Mature readers only! This fantasy harem adventure in the style of Dungeons & Dragons contains explicit encounters between the lucky hero and many gorgeous women he encounters on his quest. Use discretion when purchasing.

A portrait of a keen social observer at the center of the last 50 years of cultural life, captured through a vivid selection of O'Brien's own writings on music to fashion to downtown art and, just as importantly and unexpectedly, the political temperature of America.

Glenn O'Brien collaborated with visual artists, writers, fashion houses, and musicians throughout his almost 50-year career. Intelligence for Dummies gathers Glenn O'Brien's essays, aphorisms and tweets, to create a portrait of the artist as cultural bellwether, complimented by artwork and photographs from his collaborators. A full color, hardcover edition, Intelligence for Dummies is a deeply personal aper u into Patti Smith and Jean Michel Basquiat's New York, and the culture of money that ensued. It also reveals O'Brien's incisive and prescient understanding of America's political culture, and of our current president.

BECOMING AN IMMORTAL HAS A PRICE...

Eighteen-year-old Brindall Harper never imagined he would fail his rite of passage called The Day of the Nail. Now marked as an immortal, he is forced to lead a decades-long war that rages over control of the fabled Skylight System orbiting in earth's atmosphere. Suddenly, everything is on the line, including his family's life. However, victory means a one-way ticket to the utopian haven for him and his loved ones if he can survive the deadly war.

Brindall is sent to an elite war academy to hone his skills, where he is teamed with several other young immortals. As they prepare to lead the deadly campaign, Brindall begins to notice cracks in the so-called 'utopia' they fight for. There are undercurrents of manipulation-someone is trying to control him and the other powerful immortals for a more sinister purpose. The lines of reality get even blurrier when they face 'dark immortals' on the battlefield.

Brindall seeks the truth behind his immortal heritage, a truth that not only threatens his mission, but the very existence of his ancient race. He soon finds himself at the heart of a grim conspiracy that could unravel the foundations of the war itself. With the clock ticking and the fate of his family hanging in the balance, Brindall faces a harrowing truth: if he fails...the human race may not survive.

From the legendary producer of Nick Drake, R.E.M., Toots and the Maytals, and Pink Floyd and author of White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s comes a riveting, world-spanning tour de force illuminating the artists, histories, controversies, and collaborations that shaped global music.

Paul Simon told Joe Boyd that when he first heard the accordion flourish that would open his multi-platinum album Graceland, it seemed to proclaim, You haven't heard this before! Yet the 1980s world music boom that Simon's album helped usher in had roots that extended back through the decades and across continents: tango on the eve of World War I, Latin dance across the '30s, '40s and '50s, reggae in the '70s, pre-War samba and pre-Beatles bossa nova, Eastern European ensembles filling capitalist concert halls during the Cold War, Indian ragas changing rock and roll in the 1960s, the folk music-inspired classical composers of the 19th and 20th centuries.

In this sweeping history compiled from more than a decade of travel, research, interviews, and deep listening, Boyd sets out to explore centuries of fascinating backstories to these sounds. He shows how personalities, events, and politics in places such as Havana, Lagos, Budapest, Kingston, and Rio are as colorful and momentous as anything that took place in New Orleans, Harlem, Laurel Canyon, or Liverpool. And, moreover, how jazz, rhythm and blues, and rock 'n' roll would never have happened if it weren't for the notes and rhythms emanating from over the horizon. The one-of-a-kind result is And the Roots of Rhythm Remain: a glorious, symphonic celebration of the music that shapes our world.

Why does it sometimes feel so hard to consistently eat well, be active, and manage life?

Would you like a simple lifestyle program you can actually do?

EAT MOVE GROOVE is the answer - a source for positive, practical, easy-to-practice recommendations based on proven research from professionals in nutrition, fitness, and well-being. You'll find a philosophy developed as a lifestyle - not a diet - for anyone at any age.

Wanting to boost your energy? Manage high blood pressure, diabetes, or support a healthy body weight in a positive way?

EAT MOVE GROOVE is flexible, so you can individualize the plan and apply the basics of the plan daily, even when you're extra busy, short on time, traveling, or feeling rundown. When life gets in the way of your well-being, you can rely on EAT MOVE GROOVE to renew yourself and refresh your perspective.

Unlike other books you have read, or programs you may have tried, EAT MOVE GROOVE is:

SimpleFlexibleGrounded in solid researchA lifestyle, not a fad dietPositiveSustainable

Strengthen your Japanese-Language Proficiency Test kanji and vocabulary skills by completing over 50 of these specially crafted word search puzzles. Learning Japanese by solving word search puzzles is a refreshing break from tedious flashcard and textbook memorization and enables you to learn Japanese in a fun and easy way.

Each stimulating puzzle includes eight essential JLPT level words conveniently paired with their furigana reading and English translation. Words are cleverly hidden among a combination of kanji taken from other words in the same puzzle. This innovative format allows you to recall each kanji many times in a short time span, rivaling or even surpassing the benefits of flashcard study methods-and best of all, it's so much fun that it doesn't feel like studying!

A helpful list of all 380+ JLPT level words included in the puzzles and all puzzle solutions are provided in the back of the book for easy look up. These fun puzzles are a unique and must-have resource for anyone studying for the JLPT.

The territory master wants me for his bride, but his closest servant is my fated mate. Dare a woman ask for both a husband and her bonded companion?

When I was born, my father made a deal.

Now, to protect my remaining family, I must make good his bargain.

A rare specimen in a deadly and dissolving world, I am to belong to Malin Farrow: the master of Gudrune, and among the most feared leaders since the beginning of the Rift Events and all the monsters they bring with them.

Yet, despite his wicked reputation, and all the dark proclivities that make him infamous, he comes to love me--and I love him.

So what draws me to Eleison--his adversarial, standoffish, maddeningly beautiful footman with a beast in his heart?

For that matter...why must I be obsessed when Eleison can't stand to be near me?

Inspired by Bluebeard, Beauty & The Beast, and Rapunzel, The Rift Bride is a reverse harem gothic romance set in a techno-Victorian universe. This entry features fated mates on the one hand and age gap attraction on the other. It's a slow burn with no male cheating, jealous/possessive love, an HFN ending in an HEA series, and just the right amount of angst to balance out the very steamy scenes! 18+

This series is by and large about VILLAINS who will get their happy ending, so be forewarned! Plot content can be dark and triggers include sadism, bondage, knifeplay, kidnapping, and some shocking twists in future volumes. Reader discretion is encouraged.

What can Jake learn from his day filled with mistakes?

Jake starts his day feeling happy and optimistic. Then the mistakes begin. Every time he tries to do something, he makes a mistake.

- He misses buttons on his shirt when he gets dressed.

- He can't throw the ball as his friends can.

- He gets the math question wrong.

Can Jake find a way to stop making mistakes? Or are his mistakes a good thing?

The purpose of this book is twofold. First and foremost, this book was written to disseminate information regarding a serious health issue that is plaguing our society. The issue is cadmium poisoning. Second, the book will hopefully be a stimulating and thought-provoking source of entertainment for the reader, touching on a wide variety of themes-some based on reality, others on conjecture, and still others on pure fantasy.

The story line of the book, a science-fiction aliens from another planet theme, is laid out in chapters, with information related to cadmium appended at the end of each chapter. Readers who have no interest in the cadmium issue can skip over these Cadmium Poisoning Facts appendices, focus on the sci-fi plot of the book, and still benefit from new insights into the problem. Hopefully, most readers will find the appendices informative, gaining a new perspective on our common malady . . . one that has multiple, seemingly unrelated symptoms.

To all my readers-I wish you an entertaining journey on a cross-country adventure. Enjoy the read, and enjoy the ride.

From the heavens they came to our Mother Earth; through a different dimension, they moved freely to examine the fruits of the seeds they had planted several millennia ago. Their race was characterized by a highly developed intellect, evolving only after the conquest of the poisoned environment of their world and the maladies that had nearly driven their race to extinction. They traveled the galaxy on a search. This tale of intrigue involves national secrets that NASA, the DHS, the Air Force, the CDC, and the FDA cannot disclose. From a web of misinformation and concealment that spans the nation from coast to coast, the truth must be extracted and revealed. Why are we being protected from the truth-the existence of a race of alien beings and the known environmental causes of problems ailing our society-and what is the price we pay for this protection?

The story unfolds drawing parallels between their world and our own-conspiracies to exploit the masses, events and conditions that are not as they appear, the universal need to know, the conflict between self-interests and the universal good, and the ultimate triumph of valor over fear.

This is a story involving different kinds of races. For the space travelers, it is a race against time and a message traversing the vast emptiness of space at the speed of light. For Earthlings, it is a race to reverse an environmental tailspin leaving death in its wake. A tale of mass deceit and denial, conquest without overt violence, insidious enemies, and turbulent battles fought within, Heaven and Earth explores the very sources of pain and suffering and offers a surprise ending to free two races from oppression and exploitation. But the battles . . . are just beginning.

The story line is intertwined with the story of cadmium and our chronic exposure to this carcinogenic heavy metal. The information provided at the end of each chapter and in the appendices makes this a hybrid sci-fi/self-help novel.

Strengthen your Japanese-Language Proficiency Test kanji and vocabulary skills by completing over 50 of these specially crafted word search puzzles. Learning Japanese by solving word search puzzles is a refreshing break from tedious flashcard and textbook memorization and enables you to learn Japanese in a fun and easy way.

Each stimulating puzzle includes eight essential JLPT level words conveniently paired with their furigana reading and English translation. Words are cleverly hidden among a combination of kanji taken from other words in the same puzzle. This innovative format allows you to recall each kanji many times in a short time span, rivaling or even surpassing the benefits of flashcard study methods-and best of all, it's so much fun that it doesn't feel like studying!

A helpful list of all 380+ JLPT level words included in the puzzles and all puzzle solutions are provided in the back of the book for easy look up. These fun puzzles are a unique and must-have resource for anyone studying for the JLPT.