wyszukanych pozycji: 31
The Hippest Trip in America: Soul Train and the Evolution of Culture & Style
ISBN: 9780062221049 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. An authoritative history of the groundbreaking syndicated television show that has become an icon of American pop culture, from acclaimed author and filmmaker Nelson George, "the most accomplished black music critic of his generation" (Washington Post Book World). When it debuted in October 1971, seven years after the Civil Rights Act, Soul Train boldly went where no variety show had gone before, showcasing the cultural preferences of young African-Americans and the sounds that defined their lives: R&B, funk, jazz, disco, and gospel music. The brainchild of radio... An authoritative history of the groundbreaking syndicated television show that has become an icon of American pop culture, from acclaimed author an... |
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82,15 zł |
The Darkest Hearts
ISBN: 9781617758225 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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172,38 zł |
Study: Your Eternity Depends on It!
ISBN: 9781546257820 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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164,68 zł |
City Kid: A Writer's Memoir of Ghetto Life and Post-Soul Success
ISBN: 9780452296046 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "City Kid is perhaps one of the seven greatest books ever written. It has the realness of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, the warmth of The Color Purple, and the page count of Tuesdays with Morrie. It's a must read."-Chris Rock From Nelson George, supervising producer and writer of the hit Netflix series, "The Get Down, an affecting memoir of his coming of age. Nelson George was the nerd of his ghetto neighborhood; the kid who devoured Captain America comics, Ernest Hemingway novels, and album liner notes. City Kid describes how George...
"City Kid is perhaps one of the seven greatest books ever written. It has the realness of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, the warmth ...
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103,82 zł |
Study: Your Eternity Depends on It!
ISBN: 9781546257806 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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108,06 zł |
Building a New Europe: Portraits of Modern Architects, Essays by George Nelson, 1935-1936
ISBN: 9780300115659 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Architect, designer, and architectural critic, George Nelson (1908-1986) was a young and impressionable architect when he wrote a series of articles in 1935 and 1936 that eloquently introduced astonishing buildings and fascinating personalities from across the Atlantic to wider American audiences. Building a New Europe presents this important collection of writings together for the first time. The subjects of Nelson's essays include figures both major (Mies van Der Rohe and Le Corbusier) and minor (Helweg-Moeller and Ivar Tengbom). All of these architects would soon be affected by...
Architect, designer, and architectural critic, George Nelson (1908-1986) was a young and impressionable architect when he wrote a series of articles i...
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315,77 zł |
Seduced
ISBN: 9780345412669 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. " A] smart, funny, and wonderfully resonant novel . . . It's the 1980s, and aspiring songwriter Derek Harper is a man easily seduced. Not only do the Big Three *money, fame, and women *keep him running, but Harper falls prey to subtler forms of seduction as well: the ease of rationalizing bad behavior, abdicating responsibility, and keeping the whole world at arm's length. All these issues are brilliantly interwoven with a behind-the-scenes look at the music industry, particularly the evolution of rap." *Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Seduced is at its most compelling when author... " A] smart, funny, and wonderfully resonant novel . . . It's the 1980s, and aspiring songwriter Derek Harper is a man easily seduced. Not only do the ...
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82,19 zł |
Gloves, Sweat & Years -- Vol. I: La Crosse American Legion Junior League Baseball 1932 - 1953 and Beyond/Growing Up in La Crosse During the War Years
ISBN: 9781719406826 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 422 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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90,62 zł |
Post-Soul Nation: The Explosive, Contradictory, Triumphant, and Tragic 1980s as Experienced by African Americans (Previously Known as Bl
ISBN: 9780143034476 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. One of the foremost chroniclers of the contemporary black experience offers an undeluded perspective on the 1980s. Here are crack, AIDS, and the Reagan rollback of the major advances of the civil rights movement. But Nelson George also shows how black performers, athletes, and activists made increasing inroads into the mainstream. This fast-paced, chronological retrospective profiles personalities from Bill Cosby to Louis Farrakhan and explores such flashpoints as the first rap single and the infamous Willie Horton ad campaign.
On the web: http: //www.nelsongeorge.com/ One of the foremost chroniclers of the contemporary black experience offers an undeluded perspective on the 1980s. Here are crack, AIDS, and the Reaga...
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103,82 zł |
The Accidental Hunter
ISBN: 9781617754005 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Great reading for the criminal-minded."
--VIBE "George writes with pace and panache...packing his tale with more glitzy characters than a red carpet E broadcast." --Kirkus Reviews "Emmy-winning TV producer George examines the ambition, deception, corruption and pervasive drug culture that lurk on the underside of the music world in this noirish thriller." --Publishers Weekly "The Accidental Hunter is a real page-turner, worth staying up late into the night for." --PopMatters.com "From the beginning, there is... "Great reading for the criminal-minded."
--VIBE "George writes with pace and panache...packing his tale with more glitzy characte... |
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81,53 zł |
Buppies, B-Boys, Baps, & Bohos: Notes on Post-Soul Black Culture
ISBN: 9780306810275 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this new and expanded edition of Nelson George's classic cultural study, contemporary black culture is chronicled through essays on music, film, sports, publishing, politics and city life, both uptown and down. Buppies enters nearly every arena of the black urban USA: roisterous rappers and legendary hoopsters, streetwise hustlers and influential filmmakers, unsung musicians and drug dealers at work.
In this new and expanded edition of Nelson George's classic cultural study, contemporary black culture is chronicled through essays on music, film, sp...
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139,48 zł |
Urban Romance
ISBN: 9780345472731 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Hip music critic Dwayne Robinson has two main gigs: defending rap's rightful place in the music industry and scoring as many women as possible. But this smooth-talking b-boy has yet to try working love into his lingo--until "buppie" Danielle Embry slides into and rocks his world. A Connecticut suburbanite, Danielle is as far removed from Dwayne's Brooklyn ghetto upbringing as it gets. Yet despite this clash, these unlikely lovers are drawn together. While struggling to grind out a harmonious tune amid the grit and glamour of New York City, they soon find themselves confronted with issues...
Hip music critic Dwayne Robinson has two main gigs: defending rap's rightful place in the music industry and scoring as many women as possible. But th...
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82,19 zł |
The Death of Rhythm and Blues
ISBN: 9780142004081 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From Nelson George, supervising producer and writer of the hit Netflix series, "The Get Down," this passionate and provocative book tells the complete story of black music in the last fifty years, and in doing so outlines the perilous position of black culture within white American society. In a fast-paced narrative, Nelson George's book chronicles the rise and fall of "race music" and its transformation into the R&B that eventually dominated the airwaves only to find itself diluted and submerged as crossover music.
From Nelson George, supervising producer and writer of the hit Netflix series, "The Get Down," this passionate and provocative book tells the complete...
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103,82 zł |
Home Boy
ISBN: 9781641385558 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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69,00 zł |
Sex Position: Physical And Emotional Benefits Of Different sex position
ISBN: 9798374314069 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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49,92 zł |
Becoming Christ's Disciple: A Guide to Become a True Disciple of Jesus Christ
ISBN: 9781795430531 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 66 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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40,83 zł |
Animal Farm
ISBN: 9780573605383 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 60 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. George Orwell's biting satire, adapted by Nelson Bond
Characters: 5 male, 2 female Bare Stage. Animal Farm is a fable with a sting. Much has been written about the threat of Communism, but it remained to the late George Orwell, farsighted British author of the brilliant and frightening 1984, to expose the Russian experiment for what it really is; an idealist's dream, converted by realists into a nightmare. In staged dramatic reading version of this timely allegory you will meet beasts whose prototypes have dominated news headlines for many fearful years. Opening... George Orwell's biting satire, adapted by Nelson Bond
Characters: 5 male, 2 female Bare Stage. Animal Farm is a fable wi... |
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69,00 zł |
Life and Def: Sex, Drugs, Money, + God
ISBN: 9780609807156 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Russell Simmons, the original and eternal hip-hop mogul, is one of the most innovative and influential figures in modern American business and culture. When no one outside of inner-city New York had even heard of hip-hop, Simmons saw the seeds of a global force that would change the way people talk, dress, listen to music, and choose the heroes they hang on their walls. Today, he oversees a sprawling, multimillion-dollar empire of culture-defining businesses in everything from music to fashion, advertising to film, and media to visual art. At the same time he's broadened his interests and...
Russell Simmons, the original and eternal hip-hop mogul, is one of the most innovative and influential figures in modern American business and culture...
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86,52 zł |
I Company: The First and Last to Fight on Okinawa
ISBN: 9781410732200 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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149,04 zł |
I Company: The First and Last to Fight on Okinawa
ISBN: 9781410732194 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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102,70 zł |