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X-Ray: The Unauthorized Autobiography

X-Ray: The Unauthorized Autobiography

Ray Davies

This subversively brilliant, one-of-a-kind rock autobiography ingeniously styled as a biography, is written by a nameless, faceless writer hired by an Orwellian entity called "the Corporation" to capture the essence of Ray Davies, lead ...
Ray Davies: Not Like Everybody Else

Ray Davies: Not Like Everybody Else

Thomas M. Kitts

Based on interviews with his closest associates, as well as studies of the recordings themselves, this book creates the most thorough picture of Davies’ work to date.
X-Ray: The Unauthorized Autobiography

X-Ray: The Unauthorized Autobiography

Ray Davies

More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA.
Americana: The Kinks, the Road and the Perfect Riff

Americana: The Kinks, the Road and the Perfect Riff

Ray Davies

The book is interspersed with lyrics and also includes photographs from Davies's own collection and the Kinks’ archive.
X-ray

X-ray

Ray Davies

"R.D". tells the story of his life - or does he?
X-Ray: The Unauthorized Autobiography

X-Ray: The Unauthorized Autobiography

Ray Davies

The Kinks lead singer and songwriter tells the story of his life and career to a nameless writer hired by "the Corporation" to be the rock singer's biographer, offering a vivid account of London, the swinging 1960s rock scene, and such ...
Fragment-Based Drug Discovery and X-Ray Crystallography

Fragment-Based Drug Discovery and X-Ray Crystallography

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DOI: 10.1007/128_2011_179 # Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011 Published online: 16 June 2011 Fragment Screening Using X-Ray Crystallography Thomas G. Davies and Ian J. Tickle Abstract The fragment-based approach is now ...
Murder, Magic, Madness: The Victorian Trials of Dove and the ...

Murder, Magic, Madness: The Victorian Trials of Dove and the ...

Davies Owen

3 For a thorough account of cunning-folk in this period see Owen Davies, Cunning-Folk: Popular Magic in English History (London, 2003); Owen Davies, Witchcraft, magic and culture 1736–1951 (Manchester, 1999), pp. 214–29; Owen Davies, ...
Waterloo Sunset: Stories

Waterloo Sunset: Stories

Ray Davies

The creative force behind the '60s superband, The Kinks, offers his debut collection of short stories.
Handbook of X-Ray Spectrometry, Second Edition,

Handbook of X-Ray Spectrometry, Second Edition,

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"Updates fundamentals and applications of all modes of x-ray spectrometry, including total reflection and polarized beam x-ray fluorescence analysis, and synchrotron radiation induced x-ray emission.
A Celtic Temperament: Robertson Davies as Diarist

A Celtic Temperament: Robertson Davies as Diarist

Robertson Davies

We would like to thank our readers, Miranda Davies, Rosamond Bailey, James Neufeld, Judith Skelton Grant and John Grant, and to acknowledge the support and enthusiasm from our publisher, Doug Pepper, and our editor, Jenny Bradshaw, ...
Americana: The Kinks, the Riff, the Road: the Story

Americana: The Kinks, the Riff, the Road: the Story

Ray Davies

The British Invasion musician discusses his love/hate relationship with America, from his first U.S. tour in the early 1960s to being nearly murdered during a botched robbery in New Orleans in 2004.
Rachael Ray: From Candy Counter to Cooking Show

Rachael Ray: From Candy Counter to Cooking Show

Shaina C. Indovino

IN BOOKS Abrams, Dennis. Rachael Ray: Food Entrepreneur. New York: Chelsea House, 2009. Keedle, Jayne. Rachael Ray: People We Should Know. New York: Gareth Stevens, 2009. Ray, Rachael. Cooking Rocks! Rachael Ray 30Minute ...
Globalization in the Asian Region: Impacts and Consequences

Globalization in the Asian Region: Impacts and Consequences

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Impacts and Consequences Gloria Davies, Chris Nyland. Contributors. John Rallingall: New Zealand Institute of Economic ... Gloria Davies: School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, Monash University gloria. davies ...
Recollections of the Rev. Griffith Davies Owen, of ...

Recollections of the Rev. Griffith Davies Owen, of ...

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CHAPTER I. MR. OWEN'S EARLY HISTORY. THE REv. GRIFFITH DAVIES Owen was the second surviving son of the late Thomas and Benedicta Davies Owen, and born on Sunday the 24th day of January, 1790, at Llanrwst, in Denbighshire.
Market Research Handbook

Market Research Handbook

ESOMAR

Ray Poynter e-mail: [email protected] Ray Poynter is Director of Virtual Surveys (a UK based market research agency specialising in the Internet) and principal of The Future Place. Ray has spent the last 25 years at the interface  ...
Childhood Days: A Memoir

Childhood Days: A Memoir

Satyajit Ray

Frank and funny, these stories written originally for the Bengali children's magazine Sandesh, are an essential read for all Ray enthusiasts as well as those who want to know Ray, the writer and film-maker, better.
A Bibliography of Robertson Davies

A Bibliography of Robertson Davies

Carl Spadoni

Using Davies' archives and the archives of other authors, organizations, and publishers, Carl Spadoni and Judith Skelton Grant present A Bibliography of Robertson Davies to serve the research demands of Canadian literature and book history ...
The Cambridge History of Magic and Witchcraft in the West: ...

The Cambridge History of Magic and Witchcraft in the West: ...

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Davies, Owen. A People Bewitched: Witchcraft and Magic in NineteenthCentury Somerset. Bruton, 1999. Davies,Owen. Witchcraft, Magicand Culture, 1736–1951 . Manchester: ManchesterUniversity Press, 1999. Davies, Owen. CunningFolk: ...
Doctor Who Episode By Episode: Volume 2 Patrick Troughton

Doctor Who Episode By Episode: Volume 2 Patrick Troughton

Ray Dexter

Ray Dexter ... A Spinderella Paperback First published in Great Britain in 2012 By Spinderella 2 3 4 5 6 789 10 1112 Copyright © Ray Dexter 2015 The right of Ray Dexter to be identified as the authors of this work has been asserted by them ...
Ray Davies: A Complicated Life

Ray Davies: A Complicated Life

Johnny Rogan

Robert Wace, quoted in John Mendelssohn, The Kinks Kronikles (New York: Quill , 1985), p. 29. “We were mercly considering..." Grenville Collins, email to the author: 23 September 2012. Collins adds, somewhat obliquely: “The overt reason  ...
Indiana Ditchweed and the Politics of Ray

Indiana Ditchweed and the Politics of Ray

Aric Heintzelman

That was a bit too private for Ray to stomach, but he could hear old Ed “Gravel” Washington was starting to warm up his vocals. Ray could easily prod ... “Not much, but it's worth its weight in nonexistent sugar beets. Pretty much overrun with ...
Conversations with Robertson Davies

Conversations with Robertson Davies

Robertson Davies

Ed. Judith Skelton Grant. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1979. The Rebel Angels. Toronto: Macmillan, 1981. Brothers in the Black Art. Vancouver: Alcuin Society, 1981. Robertson Davies: The Well-Tempered Critic. Ed. Judith Skelton Grant.
Cuckoo: Cheating by Nature

Cuckoo: Cheating by Nature

Nick Davies

How do they get away with it? In this enormously engaging book, naturalist and scientist Nick Davies reveals how cuckoos trick their hosts.
Satyajit Ray on Cinema

Satyajit Ray on Cinema

Satyajit Ray

Spanning forty years of Ray's career, these essays, for the first time collected in one volume, present the filmmaker's reflections on the art and craft of the cinematic medium and include his thoughts on sentimentalism, mass culture, ...
Centenary volume, 1955

Centenary volume, 1955

Presidency College (Calcutta, India)

... in these fixtures more or less regularly in the last few years may be mentioned Sailajaranjan Ray, K. L. Ray, Niren De, P. B. Datta, P. Sen, Nirmal Chattopadhyay, Dhruba Das, Siddharta Ray, A. Dasgupta and Amal Chattopadhyay.
Teenage Revolution

Teenage Revolution

Alan Davies

When Alan Davies was growing up he seemed to drive his family mad.
Rapid Ray: The Story Ray Lewis

Rapid Ray: The Story Ray Lewis

John Cooper

Throughout his long life – he is now in his nineties – Ray Lewis has fought discrimination not only in sports, but in every walk of life. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Rachael Ray: Food Entrepreneur

Rachael Ray: Food Entrepreneur

Dennis Abrams

Food Entrepreneur Dennis Abrams. 3. Rachael Ray, 30-Minute Meals. New York: Lake Isle Press, 1998, p. 130. 4. Jacobs, “Just Say Yum-O!” 5. Ibid. 6. Keel, “ Recipe for Success.” 7. “Rachael Ray,” Chefography. 8. Rachael Ray, “My Journey ...

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