Black Order LP

Black Order LP PDF

Author: James Rollins

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2006-10-24

Total Pages: 702

ISBN-13: 0061120839

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A fire in a Copenhagen bookstore leads Commander Gray Pierce into a mystery that is connected to horrific Nazi experiments, an insidious madness affecting Buddhist monks, a possible mythological beast run amok in South Africa, and a century-old plot that threatens to destroy the current world order.

Deep Fathom

Deep Fathom PDF

Author: James Rollins

Publisher: William Morrow

Published: 2012-03-13

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780061916489

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Now in hardcover New York Times bestselling author James Rollins dives far beneath the waves into unimaginable peril in this classic tale of action and adventure Ex–Navy SEAL Jack Kirkland surfaces from an aborted underwater salvage mission to find Earth burning. Solar flares have triggered a series of gargantuan natural disasters. Earth-quakes and hellfire rock the globe. Air Force One has vanished from the skies with America’s president on board. Now, with the United States on the narrow brink of a nuclear apocalypse, Kirkland must pilot his oceangoing exploration ship, Deep Fathom, on a desperate mission miles below the ocean’s surface. There, devastating secrets await him—and a power an ancient civilization could not contain that has been cast out into modern day, where it will forever alter a world that’s already racing toward its own destruction. See why the Providence Journal-Bulletin calls James Rollins “the modern master of the action thriller” with this classic Rollins tale.

Vinyl Freak

Vinyl Freak PDF

Author: John Corbett

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2017-05-12

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 0822373157

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From scouring flea markets and eBay to maxing out their credit cards, record collectors will do just about anything to score a long-sought-after album. In Vinyl Freak, music writer, curator, and collector John Corbett burrows deep inside the record fiend’s mind, documenting and reflecting on his decades-long love affair with vinyl. Discussing more than 200 rare and out-of-print LPs, Vinyl Freak is composed in part of Corbett's long-running DownBeat magazine column of the same name, which was devoted to records that had not appeared on CD. In other essays where he combines memoir and criticism, Corbett considers the current vinyl boom, explains why vinyl is his preferred medium, profiles collector subcultures, and recounts his adventures assembling the Alton Abraham Sun Ra Archive, an event so all-consuming that he claims it cured his record-collecting addiction. Perfect for vinyl newbies and veteran crate diggers alike, Vinyl Freak plumbs the motivations that drive Corbett and collectors everywhere.

B-Side

B-Side PDF

Author: Andy Cowan

Publisher: SCB Distributors

Published: 2023-06-06

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 1915316146

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Pop music would be a different beast without the B-Side. Music history is riven with songs deemed throwaway that revolted against their lowly status and refused to be denied. Be it rock'n'roll’s national anthem (‘Rock Around The Clock’), disco’s enduring game-changer (‘I Feel Love’) or hip-hop’s most notorious dis track (‘Hit ’Em Up’), all three started life as the so-called ‘lesser’ track on releases primed for maximum chart impact. But the B-side has done much more than make stars of Bill Haley, Donna Summer and 2Pac. Whether it was the Beatles, the Kinks and the Yardbirds in the 60s, Elton John, the Who and Queen in the 70s, Depeche Mode, the Cure and Prince in the 80s, or Oasis, Pulp and Radiohead in the 90s, the B-side allowed many of the world’s greatest artists freedom to experiment with no commercial constraints in an age where physical product ruled the roost. A quickfire A-Z of 500+ flips, B-SIDE is the first serious examination of the format’s covert role in pushing the musical envelope. Best read with one eye on YouTube and one ear on a streaming service, its revelations will prick up the ears of music fans of all persuasions.