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Modern Rhyming Dictionary
Gene LeesA modern classic! Written by renowned lyricist Gene Lees, this book contains fascinating, creative and clear techniques for writing lyrics. Invaluable to the beginner, it will prove beneficial to professionals, poets, and teachers.
Singers and the Song II
Gene LeesGene Lees is probably the best jazz essayist in America today, and the book that consolidated his reputation was Singers and the Song, which appeared in 1987. Now this classic volume is being rereleased in an expanded edition.
Meet Me at Jim & Andy's: Jazz Musicians and Their World
Gene LeesGene Lees, author of the highly acclaimed Singers and the Song, offers, in Meet Me at Jim & Andy's, another tightly integrated collection of essays about postwar American music.
Waiting for Dizzy: Fourteen Jazz Portraits
Gene Lees[Lees] is the most readable jazz writer alive.--The Observer (London)
Arranging the Score: Portraits of the Great Arrangers
Gene LeesThese thirteen original essays draw together Gene Lee's observations on the craft of the arranger.
Cats of Any Color: Jazz Black and White
Gene LeesTracing the jazz world's shifting attitude towards race, many of the stories Lees tells are inspiring--Brubeck cancelling 23 out of 25 concert dates in the South rather than replace black bass player Eugene Wright, or Silver insisting that ...
Lees' Loss Prevention in the Process Industries: Hazard ...
Frank LeesTable A14.47 Leak sources on closed process plant (after A. W. Cox, Ang and Lees, 1990; reproduced by permission of the Institution of Chemical Engineers) Table A 14.48 Leak sources for plants and activities with open surfaces, etc.
Oscar Peterson: The Will to Swing
Gene LeesAn engaging biography of a living musical legend, Oscar Peterson.
Political Marketing in the United States
Jennifer Lees-MarshmentJennifer Lees-Marshment, Brian Conley, Kenneth Cosgrove. Khermouch, G. ( 1993, May 17). All Snapple needs is love—and a dash of cleverness. Brandweek , 44–46. Lees-Marshment,J. (2001). Political marketing and British political parties.
Portrait of Johnny: The Life of John Herndon Mercer
Gene LeesAn intimate biography of the great songwriter, this is also a deeply affectionate memoir by one of Johnny Mercer's best friends.
The Lees of Virginia: Seven Generations of an American Family
Paul C. NagelIn The Lees of Virginia, Paul Nagel chronicles seven generations of Lees, from the family founder Richard to General Robert E. Lee, covering over two hundred years of American history.
The Political Marketing Revolution: Transforming the ...
Jennifer Lees-MarshmentTransforming the Government of the UK Jennifer Lees-Marshment. Lees- Marshment, J. (2001c), 'Comprehensive Political Marketing: What, How and Why', Proceedings of the Academy of Marketing Conference, Cardiff University, 2-4 ...
Portrait of Johnny: The Life of John Herndon Mercer
Gene LeesAn intimate biography of the great songwriter, this is also a deeply affectionate memoir by one of Johnny Mercer’s best friends. “Moon River,” “Laura,” “Skylark,” ”That Old Black Magic,” “One for My Baby,” ...
Jade Visions: The Life and Music of Scott LaFaro
Helene LaFaro-FernandezTold by his sister with the assistance of well-known jazz experts including Gene Lees, this book uniquely combines family history with insight into LaFaro's music.
Cats of Any Color: Jazz Black and White
Gene LeesIn the summer of 1990, the president of Chicago's Columbia College appointed Sam Floyd academic dean. Floyd wanted to retain his position as director of its Center for Black Music Research. To hold both jobs, he would have to select ...
James Lees-Milne: The Life
Michael BlochJames Lees-Milne (19081997)known to friends as Jimis remembered for his work for the National Trust, rescuing some of England's greatest architectural treasures, and for the vivid and entertaining diaries which have earned him a reputation ...
Roman Mornings
James Lees-MilneIn eight illuminating chapters we have the history of the Eternal City--Ancient Roman, Early Christian, Romanesque, Renaissance, Baroque, and Rococo--the history of the buildings themselves, and Lees-Milne's inspired description and ...
Diaries, 1971-1983
James Lees-MilneFunny, indiscreet, candid, touching and sharply observed, this second compilation from James Lees-Milne's celebrated diaries covers his life during his sixties and early seventies, when he was living in Gloucestershire with his formidable ...
What Have You Done Now, Eugene?
Gene MingoPerhaps due to finding success too quickly, Gene developed a tendency to fall in with a bad crowd. His poor choices led to near tragedy, but he always found a home on the football field. Gene Mingo's story isn't simple.
IBM System Blue Gene Solution Blue Gene/Q Application ...
Megan GilgeIt describes the requirements to develop applications on this high-performance supercomputer. This book explains the unique Blue Gene/Q programming environment.
The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene
Richard DawkinsIn The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins crystallized the gene's eye view of evolution developed by W.D. Hamilton and others. The book provoked widespread and heated debate.
Routledge Handbook of Political Marketing
Jennifer Lees-MarshmentJennifer Lees-Marshment. Routledge, 96–112. Kohli,A.K. and Jaworski, B.J. ( 1990) 'Market orientation: the construct, research propositions, and managerial implications', Journalof Marketing 54,2: 1–18. Kotzaivazoglou, I. and Zotos,Y. ( 2010) ...
Gene Marshall: Girl Star
Mel OdomA fictional biography of Gene Marshall, the popular fashion doll, captures the glamour of the Golden Age of Hollywood as it chronicles Gene's humble beginnings, her discovery by a famed Hollywood director, and her meteoric rise of fame, all ...
Attending Daedalus: Gene Wolfe, Artifice and the Reader
Peter WrightThis new study of the fiction of Gene Wolfe, one of the most influential contemporary American science fiction writers, offers a major reinterpretation of Gene Wolfe’s four-volume The Book of the New Sun and its sequel The Urth of the New ...
Lees' Loss Prevention in the Process Industries: Hazard ...
Frank LeesThe explosion at ApplebyFrodingham steelworks Scunthorpe, 4 November 1975. HM Stationery Office, London. Health and Safety Executive, 1976b. The Explosion at Laporte Industries Ltd, Ilford 5 April 1975. HM Stationery Office, London.
Canadian Democracy from the Ground Up: Perceptions and ...
Elisabeth GidengilGiasson, Thierry, Jennifer Lees-Marshment, and Alex Marland. 2012. “ Challenges for Democracy.” In Political Marketing in Canada, edited by Alex Marland, Jennifer Lees-Marshment, and Thierry Giasson, 241-56. Vancouver: UBC Press.
The Selfish Gene
Richard DawkinsAn ethologist shows man to be a gene machine whose world is one of savage competition and deceit
The Hungry Gene: The Science of Fat and the Future of Thin
Ellen Ruppel ShellThe Hungry Gene takes an unflinching look at the spread of obesity, the most vexing scientific mysteries of our time.Acclaimed science journalist Ellen Ruppel Shell reveals the existence of a gene that causes obesity and meets the ...
Gene Cloning
Julia LodgeApplications of gene cloning in medicine, both for diagnosis and treatment, and in the pharmaceutical industry and agriculture, are also covered in the book.
Proteomics of Spermatogenesis
G. S. GuptaBut observations suggest that the gene regulation by histone acetylation may operate in both methylation dependent and independent manners (Kundo and Rao 1999; Struhl, 1998) (Fig. 14.4). Role of acetylases and deacetylases in testis germ cells and their isoform are yet to be investigated. 14.6.2. ESET Histone Methyltransferase Covalent modifications of histone tails play important roles in gene transcription and silencing. An ERG (ets - related gene)-associated protein with a SET ...
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