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| abba let the music speak book: The Gig Book: ABBA Wise Publications, 2010-02-15 If you’ve got a gig coming up or are hoping to draw a crowd while busking, then adding some ABBA to your set list is a move that is guaranteed to get people listening and even singing along. That’s why this edition of the Gig Book dedicates itself to the Swedish quartet. Each fo these 68 songs is presented with melody line arrangements in standard notation, with guitar chord boxes and complete lyrics, this is the perfect reference for guitarists, keyboard players and all other musicians, allowing you to quickly understand and learn every song – how to sing them and what chords to play. The setlist includes: - Chiquitita - Dancing Queen - Does Your Mother Know - The Day Before You Came - Fernando - I Have A Dream - Knowing Me, Knowing You - Mamma Mia - Money, Money, Money - The Name Of The Game - Super Trouper - Take A Chance On Me - Thank You For The Music - Waterloo - The Winner Takes It All And many, many more! |
| abba let the music speak book: ABBA Ian Cole, 2020-02-23 ABBA was the biggest selling pop group of the Seventies. Between their first single in 1972, when the group was not yet called ABBA, and their final singles in 1982, ABBA recorded and released 98 unique songs. In addition they recorded versions of some of their biggest hits in Swedish, German, French, and Spanish; performed a number of songs in concert that were never released on record; and recorded a number of songs that didn't see the light of day at the time, but have been released from the archive the decades since the group 'took a break'; at the end of 1982. Everyone remembers ABBA's biggest hits - songs like 'Waterloo', 'Mamma Mia', 'Fernando', 'Dancing Queen', 'Take A Chance On Me', 'Chiquitita', and 'The Winner Takes It All' - but there are many gems to be found on the eight studio albums and 21 singles released during the group's lifetime. 'ABBA: Song by Song'; is a look at every single song by the Swedish supergroup, written by a life-long ABBA fan. Find out what inspired the songs, what went in to recording them, and their impact around the world in the 1970s and 80s and beyond. |
| abba let the music speak book: My My! Giles Smith, 2024-05-09 ‘A lovely book – as bright, shiny and uplifting as an Abba hit’ Daily Mail ‘[A] witty and affectionate account . . . It’s not a stretch to say that, at its core, My My! is a book about time, death and the possibility of immortality’ Sunday Times My My! The story of ABBA told through a selection of their greatest hits. This year is the fiftieth anniversary of Waterloo (the song, not the battle) – a seminal moment in pop history which saw Swedish sensation ABBA burst on to the international music scene. How is it that half a century later this seventies Eurovision act is bigger than ever – reaching listeners of all ages and spinning off into musicals, museums and holograms? Giles Smith, writer and music fan, sets out to find out why. My My! is a celebration of ABBA through the ages. It’s one fan’s way of saying: thank you for the music. |
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| abba let the music speak book: The Complete ABBA (40th Anniversary Edition) Simon Sheridan, 2012-05-08 For four decades ABBA - the combined talents of Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad - has been a global music phenomenon, clocking up record sales of over 360 million. For the very first time The Complete ABBA compiles all of the Swedish supergroup's singles, albums, TV specials, tours and movies. Beginning with their 1972 debut single People Need Love, the book chronicles the band's incredible story right through to Björn and Benny's triumphant Thank You for the Musictribute concert held in London in 2009, and beyond, to 2012, the band's 40th anniversary. This is all the ABBA you'll ever need! |
| abba let the music speak book: ABBA Christopher J. Patrick, John Nicholas Patrick, 2008 More than 30 years after the stunning 1974 Eurovision Song Contest debut of the Swedish musical supergroup, ABBA's music remains a benchmark which continues to enthral millions of fans around the world - both on stage and screen as well as on vinyl and disc. In this equally stunning tour de force, Australian cellist and arranger Chris Patrick has combined his life-long passion for ABBA with his professional musical career skills to create this guide to ABBA's soundscape - the vocal and keyboard genius of Agnetha, Benny, Bjorn and Frida, and the precision audio engineering of Michael B Tretow and his team of arrangers - which continues to defy truly successful emulation to this day. With his lively and engaging writing style, Chris takes the reader on a personally-guided tour - to quote Foreword writer and ABBA biographer Carl Magnus Palm - over the hills of joyful exuberance, through the valleys of melancholy and along the stretched-out roads of craftsmanship where their music was created. The 420 pages of the book are liberally sprinkled with hundreds of specially-created musical notation figures to illustrate the points Chris is making in his text, where sparkling descriptions of ABBA's different musical techniques join hands with some insightful - sometimes surprising - musical analysis and thought-provoking discussion. But the 'musically illiterate' among us need not worry - Chris pulls out all the stops in his professional skills case and encourages the lay reader along with much simpler note numbering and 'sol-fa' examples of ABBA's genius ¿ and if you understood where Julie Andrews was going when she sang Let's start at the very beginning ¿ then you will be quite at ease in the pages of this book as well. At the chapter breaks, fresh visual delights excite the eye, with a selection of images from the covers of the hundreds of ABBA albums, discs and singles in Chris' own collection, each carefully chosen for position relative to the preceding or following chapter's topic. A comprehensive Glossary of musical terms used, a Selected Discography of the essential ABBA albums, and a detailed Index complete the book, but before we get to the end, there is almost another 'book-within-the-book' first - The world of ABBA timeline! Writing for a market which includes ABBA fans today who may not even have been born when Agnetha, Benny, Bjorn and Frida were at their height, Chris has provided a fascinating snapshot of the 1960s, 70s and 80s of 'what in the world' was happening at the time - for ABBA, for the music industry in general and its chart hits, as well as for world political and social events. No previous experience is necessary for readers of all types to enjoy the tour - this book has been carefully crafted to appeal to the interested general reader as well as to ABBA fans and serious musicians alike - and don't we all have an ABBA album somewhere which we would like to enjoy rediscovering? You will too, after you read this book! |
| abba let the music speak book: Sound of the Crowd: a Discography of the '80s (Fourth Edition) Steve Binnie, 2018-11-05 SOUND OF THE CROWD: A DISCOGRAPHY OF THE '80s is the ultimate record collector's guide to the 1980s. In the era of multi-formatting, picture discs, coloured vinyl, multiple remixes, funny shaped records and tiny CDs you could lose down the back of the sofa, this book lists every format of every single, EP and album released in the UK in the 1980s by over 140 of the decade's biggest acts, from ABBA to Paul Young. This fourth edition has been fully revised and expanded to include even more acts than ever before, with additional sections to cover Band Aid-style charity congregations and compilation albums from the early '80s K-Tel efforts through to the Now That's What I Call Music series and its competitors. Compiled by Steve Binnie, editor of the '80s music website Sound of the Crowd and writer, producer and co-host of the unconventional '80s chart show Off The Chart, broadcast weekly on Mad Wasp Radio. |
| abba let the music speak book: Abba's Child Brennan Manning, 2015-04-10 Are you struggling to accept God’s love? We’ve bought into the lie that we are worthy of God’s love only when our lives are going well. But when life begins to fall through the cracks and things become less-than-perfect, we scramble to present a good front to the world―and to God. God longs for us to deeply believe and know that He loves us and accepts us as we are. He calls for us to remove our masks and establish honest, deep, and trusting relationships with Him. When we are our true selves, we can finally claim our authentic identities as His own―Abba’s children. Brennan Manning, author of The Ragamuffin Gospel, soulfully encourages you to let go of the pressure of an impostor lifestyle and lean into the life-changing wonder of a truly loving relationship with God. With a gentle wisdom and tender style, this book addresses: Developing deeper intimacy with God Overcoming your inner pharisee Resting in your true identity as God’s child Abba’s Child will light the way to freely accepting your belovedness and being renewed by the reassurance of our Father’s deep care for you―regardless of how perfect your life isn’t. “Honest. Genuine. Creative. God hungry. These words surface when I think of the writings of Brennan Manning. Read him for yourself―you’ll see what I mean!” ―Max Lucado, New York Times bestselling author “I pray that Brennan Manning and the timeless voices . . . in this book might offer you hope. May they remind you that you are loved by the Father-Creator Himself. May they sing and speak into your life against the voices that tell you otherwise.” ―Jon Foreman, lead singer of Switchfoot |
| abba let the music speak book: Space Opera Catherynne M. Valente, 2018-04-10 2019 HUGO AWARD FINALIST, BEST NOVEL The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy meets the joy and glamour of Eurovision in bestselling author Catherynne M. Valente's science fiction spectacle, where sentient races compete for glory in a galactic musical contest…and the stakes are as high as the fate of planet Earth. A century ago, the Sentience Wars tore the galaxy apart and nearly ended the entire concept of intelligent space-faring life. In the aftermath, a curious tradition was invented—something to cheer up everyone who was left and bring the shattered worlds together in the spirit of peace, unity, and understanding. Once every cycle, the great galactic civilizations gather for the Metagalactic Grand Prix—part gladiatorial contest, part beauty pageant, part concert extravaganza, and part continuation of the wars of the past. Species far and wide compete in feats of song, dance and/or whatever facsimile of these can be performed by various creatures who may or may not possess, in the traditional sense, feet, mouths, larynxes, or faces. And if a new species should wish to be counted among the high and the mighty, if a new planet has produced some savage group of animals, machines, or algae that claim to be, against all odds, sentient? Well, then they will have to compete. And if they fail? Sudden extermination for their entire species. This year, though, humankind has discovered the enormous universe. And while they expected to discover a grand drama of diplomacy, gunships, wormholes, and stoic councils of aliens, they have instead found glitter, lipstick, and electric guitars. Mankind will not get to fight for its destiny—they must sing. Decibel Jones and the Absolute Zeroes have been chosen to represent their planet on the greatest stage in the galaxy. And the fate of Earth lies in their ability to rock. |
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| abba let the music speak book: I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die Sarah J. Robinson, 2021-05-11 A compassionate, shame-free guide for your darkest days “A one-of-a-kind book . . . to read for yourself or give to a struggling friend or loved one without the fear that depression and suicidal thoughts will be minimized, medicalized or over-spiritualized.”—Kay Warren, cofounder of Saddleback Church What happens when loving Jesus doesn’t cure you of depression, anxiety, or suicidal thoughts? You might be crushed by shame over your mental illness, only to be told by well-meaning Christians to “choose joy” and “pray more.” So you beg God to take away the pain, but nothing eases the ache inside. As darkness lingers and color drains from your world, you’re left wondering if God has abandoned you. You just want a way out. But there’s hope. In I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die, Sarah J. Robinson offers a healthy, practical, and shame-free guide for Christians struggling with mental illness. With unflinching honesty, Sarah shares her story of battling depression and fighting to stay alive despite toxic theology that made her afraid to seek help outside the church. Pairing her own story with scriptural insights, mental health research, and simple practices, Sarah helps you reconnect with the God who is present in our deepest anguish and discover that you are worth everything it takes to get better. Beautifully written and full of hard-won wisdom, I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die offers a path toward a rich, hope-filled life in Christ, even when healing doesn’t look like what you expect. |
| abba let the music speak book: The Wesleyan Hymn and Tune Book Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1859 |
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| abba let the music speak book: One Day I Will Write About This Place Binyavanga Wainaina, 2011-11-03 Binyavanga Wainaina tumbled through his middle-class Kenyan childhood out of kilter with the world around him.This world came to him as a chaos of loud and colourful sounds: the hair dryers at his mother's beauty parlour, black mamba bicycle bells, mechanics in Nairobi, the music of Michael Jackson - all punctuated by the infectious laughter of his brother and sister. He could fall in with their patterns, but it would take him a while to carve out his own. In this vivid and compelling debut, Wainaina takes us through his school days, his failed attempt to study in South Africa, a moving family reunion in Uganda, and his travels around Kenya.The landscape in front of him always claims his main attention, but he also evokes the shifting political scene that unsettles his views on family, tribe, and nationhood. Throughout, reading is his refuge and his solace. And when, in 2002, a writing prize comes through, the door is opened for him to pursue the career that perhaps had been beckoning all along. Resolutely avoiding stereotype and cliche, Wainaina paints every scene in One Day I Will Write About This Place with a highly distinctive and hugely memorable brush. |
| abba let the music speak book: Abridged Congregational Hymn Book. A Selection from the Congregational Hymn Book&Supplement, Etc , 1875 |
| abba let the music speak book: The Baptist Hymn and Tune Book, being:"The Plymouth Collection"enlarged and adapted to the use of Baptist Churches. [Edited by J. S. Holme, music arranged by J. Zundal, C. Beecher and R. R. Raymond.] John Stanford Holme, 1875 |
| abba let the music speak book: Notes on Grief Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 2021-05-11 From the internationally acclaimed, bestselling author of We Should All Be Feminists and Americanah, a profound reckoning with loss, written in the wake of her father’s death. During the brutal summer of 2020, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s beloved father, a celebrated professor at the University of Nigeria and an irreplaceable figure in a close-knit family, succumbed unexpectedly to complications of kidney failure. Notes on Grief is Adichie’s tribute to him, and a moving meditation on loss. Here Adichie offers a candid snapshot of the shock, loneliness, and disillusionment that followed the news of her father’s death. Her family, unable to be together except for on video calls, struggles to go through the rites of mourning amid a global crisis of unimaginable scale. As Adichie wrestles with his passing, she recalls with vivid, poignant detail who her father was: a remarkable survivor of the Biafran war, a man of kindness and charm, and a fierce supporter of his youngest daughter. Here is a uniquely personal, profound work of remembrance and hope by one of today’s luminaries—a book to bring us together in a time when we need it most. |
| abba let the music speak book: Mamma Mia! How Can I Resist You? Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus, Judy Craymer, 2008-11-13 The story of a double phenomenon: the group who reinvented the world's perception of pop music in the 1970s, and the show based around their hits which became an entertainment industry legend in its own right, opening in over 180 cities and seen by over 32 million people. This paperback edition ends the story with insights into Mamma Mia! the movie and features fascinating interviews with those involved, plus tons of great photos from the set. Through the stories, recollections and reflections of ABBA, intertwined with the commentary and observations of the MAMMA MIA! team and the inside look at the film, this book is one for all ABBA and MAMMA MIA! fans. |
| abba let the music speak book: Songbooks Eric Weisbard, 2021-04-23 In Songbooks, critic and scholar Eric Weisbard offers a critical guide to books on American popular music from William Billings's 1770 New-England Psalm-Singer to Jay-Z's 2010 memoir Decoded. Drawing on his background editing the Village Voice music section, coediting the Journal of Popular Music Studies, and organizing the Pop Conference, Weisbard connects American music writing from memoirs, biographies, and song compilations to blues novels, magazine essays, and academic studies. The authors of these works are as diverse as the music itself: women, people of color, queer writers, self-educated scholars, poets, musicians, and elites discarding their social norms. Whether analyzing books on Louis Armstrong, the Beatles, and Madonna; the novels of Theodore Dreiser, Gayl Jones, and Jennifer Egan; or varying takes on blackface minstrelsy, Weisbard charts an alternative history of American music as told through its writing. As Weisbard demonstrates, the most enduring work pursues questions that linger across time period and genre—cultural studies in the form of notes on the fly, on sounds that never cease to change meaning. |
| abba let the music speak book: This is Uncool Garry Mulholland, 2002 Every one of these 500 songs, from “Anarchy in the UK” to “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” helped reshape popular music and culture. Illuminating essays pay tribute to their undeniable power. “Spaces pithy commentaries with sleeve and label art. With its in-your-face attitude and strong opinions, this is a good one.”—Booklist |
| abba let the music speak book: ReFocus Jim Daly, Paul Batura, 2012-10-16 Written by Jim Daly, the compassionate leader of Focus on the Family, ReFocus inspires and motivates Christians to transcend political agendas and partisan battles and instead interact with others in a way that will consistently reveal the heart of God to a desperately hurting world. Our culture has become painfully polarized, often hindering relationships with neighbors, colleagues, and the very people who need to discover the love of Jesus Christ. Remembering that we are foremost citizens of heaven serving a loving Father, we who call ourselves followers of Christ can once again be known by our love. But how? In what context and through what means? How can we tear down the walls that divide our culture, our neighborhoods and workplaces and families, in this increasingly contentious world? Drawing on a rich variety of true stories and sources both historical and contemporary--from behind the scenes in today's halls of power, to moving accounts from church history, to powerful breakthrough's in Daly's own life and ministry--Daly challenges us to reclaim our responsibility, and our privilege, as God's sons and daughters. As followers of Jesus with His humility and compassion as our model, ReFocus: Living a Life that Reflects God's Heart demonstrates how Christians can show the world an inexplicable taste of grace with no agenda other than to reveal the heart of God as the loving Abba Father He is. |
| abba let the music speak book: Sophie's World Jostein Gaarder, 1994 The protagonists are Sophie Amundsen, a 14-year-old girl, and Alberto Knox, her philosophy teacher. The novel chronicles their metaphysical relationship as they study Western philosophy from its beginnings to the present. A bestseller in Norway. |
| abba let the music speak book: The Book of Alternative Services of the Anglican Church of Canada Anglican Church of Canada, Anglican Church of Canada. Doctrine and Worship Committee, Anglican Church of Canada. General Synod, 1985 The pew edition of the prayer book of the Anglican Church of Canada. Includes: the Divine Office; Baptism and Reconciliation; the Holy Eucharist; the Proper of the Church Year; Pastoral Offices; Episcopal Offices; Parish Thanksgiving and Prayers; the Psalter; and Music. (ABC). |
| abba let the music speak book: Cutting for Stone Abraham Verghese, 2012-05-17 Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their mother’s death and their father’s disappearance and bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution. Moving from Addis Ababa to New York City and back again, Cutting for Stone is an unforgettable story of love and betrayal, medicine and ordinary miracles—and two brothers whose fates are forever intertwined. |
| abba let the music speak book: Elemental Antony John, 2012-11-21 A lost colony is reborn in this heart-pounding fantasy adventure set in the near future. Enter the world of the Elementals, which James Dashner called “completely gripping and full of intrigue, revelation, mystery, and suspense.” Sixteen-year-old Thomas has always been an outsider. The first child born without the power of an element—earth, water, wind, or fire—he has little to offer his tiny, remote Outer Banks colony. Or so the Guardians would have him believe. In the wake of an unforeseen storm, desperate pirates kidnap the Guardians, intent on claiming the island as their own. Caught between the Plague-ridden mainland and the advancing pirates, Thomas and his friends fight for survival in the battered remains of a mysterious abandoned settlement. But the secrets they unearth will turn Thomas’s world upside-down, and bring to light not only a treacherous past but also a future more dangerous than he can possibly imagine. Written by an award-winning author, this dynamic series is perfect for fans of dystopian thrillers like James Dashner’s The Maze Runner and Marie Lu’s Legend. “Plenty of action for readers who enjoy survival stories with a twist of the supernatural and a hint of romance.” –School Library Journal “The novel’s captivating storyline, rapid pace, and cliffhanger ending are sure to leave fans of novels like Grant’s Gone series absorbed with the action and anxious for a sequel.” –Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books Engaging characters and plenty of mystery, adventure, and action. -Publishers Weekly |
| abba let the music speak book: Musiktheater und Kommerz Patrick Mertens, 2024-08-12 The Mikado und Chess sind herausragende Beispiele dafür, wie auf dem Londoner Musiktheatermarkt künstlerische und ökonomische Überlegungen miteinander wechselwirken. Die Untersuchung ihrer Verwertungsnetzwerke zeigt exemplarisch, wie Musiktheaterwerke 1885 bzw. 1984 auf Kulturmärkten gehandelt wurden. Bei der Produktion von Musiktheaterwerken treffen seit der Entstehung der Oper künstlerische und ökonomische Überlegungen aufeinander. Gerade der Londoner Theatermarkt kennzeichnet sich (durch seine nicht-subventionierte, privatwirtschaftliche Prägung) durch einen besonderen Fokus auf kommerzielle Aspekte. Ein Blick auf die viktorianischen Savoy Opern und die Megamusicals der 1980er-Jahre zeigt, wie Autor*innen und Produzent*innen in zwei Hochphasen der britischen Musiktheaterproduktion mit diesem Spannungsfeld umgegangen sind. Dabei offenbart sich nicht nur, wie stark wirtschaftliche Rahmenbedingungen die künstlerische Gestaltung eines Werkes beeinflussen können, sondern auch, dass diese Wechselwirkung von Kunst und Ökonomie einem historischen Wandel unterworfen ist. |
| abba let the music speak book: My Forbidden Face Latifa, 2008-09-04 Latifa was born into an educated middle-class Afghan family in Kabul in 1980. She dreamed of one day of becoming a journalist, she was interested in fashion, movies and friends. Her father was in the import/export business and her mother was a doctor. Then in September 1996, Taliban soldiers seized power in Kabul. From that moment, Latifa, just 16 years old became a prisoner in her own home. Her school was closed. Her mother was banned from working. The simplest and most basic freedoms - walking down the street, looking out a window - were no longer hers. She was now forced to wear a chadri. My Forbidden Face provides a poignant and highly personal account of life under the Taliban regime. With painful honesty and clarity Latifa describes the way she watched her world falling apart, in the name of a fanatical interpretation of a faith that she could not comprehend. Her voice captures a lost innocence, but also echoes her determination to live in freedom and hope. Earlier this year, Latifa and her parents escaped Afghanistan with the help of a French-based Afghan resistance group. |
| abba let the music speak book: Wonderbook Jeff VanderMeer, 2018-07-03 Now expanded: The definitive visual guide to writing science fiction and fantasy—with exercises, diagrams, essays by superstar authors, and more. From the New York Times-bestselling, Nebula Award-winning author, Wonderbook has become the definitive guide to writing science fiction and fantasy by offering an accessible, example-rich approach that emphasizes the importance of playfulness as well as pragmatism. It also embraces the visual nature of genre culture and employs bold, full-color drawings, maps, renderings, and visualizations to stimulate creative thinking. On top of all that, it features sidebars and essays—most original to the book—from some of the biggest names working in the field today, among them George R. R. Martin, Lev Grossman, Neil Gaiman, Michael Moorcock, Charles Yu, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Karen Joy Fowler. For the fifth anniversary of the original publication, Jeff VanderMeer has added fifty more pages of diagrams, illustrations, and writing exercises, creating the ultimate volume of inspiring advice. “One book that every speculative fiction writer should read to learn about proper worldbuilding.” —Bustle “A treat . . . gorgeous to page through.” —Space.com |
| abba let the music speak book: Tearing Down The Wall of Sound Mick Brown, 2012-10-17 In 2002, the reclusive and legendary record producer Phil Spector gave his first interview in twenty-five years to Mick Brown. The day after it was published an actress named Lana Clarkson was shot dead in Spector's LA castle. This is Brown's odyssey into the strange life and times of Phil Spector. Beginning with that fateful meeting in Spector's home and going on to explore his colourful and extraordinary life and career, including the unfolding of the Clarkson case, this is one of the most bizarre and compelling stories in pop history. |
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| abba let the music speak book: The Rock-'n'-Roll Guide to Grammar and Style Michael J. Zerbe, 2019-04-16 Believe it or not, you can use your favorite Rock-‘n’-Roll song titles to show you, clearly and concisely, how English grammar and style work—and it’s fun! Inspired by a lifelong love of music and language, this book captures the brilliant bond between music and language, using song titles as an innovative and memorable way to teach grammar and style. The book does not critique grammar and style use in Rock-‘n’-Roll song titles. Instead, it celebrates this use and demonstrates different kinds of sentences, parts of speech, verb tenses, stylistic figures of speech, and more. The book starts with short but complete sentences—song title subject/verb combinations of songs you know such as “Love hurts” and “Voices carry.” The patterns of English grammar and style then become strikingly visible when you see them in the titles of Rock-‘n’-Roll songs you love, all the way from the 1950s to today. |
| abba let the music speak book: The Finkler Question Howard Jacobson, 2010-09-10 He should have seen it coming. His life had been one mishap after another. So he should have been prepared for this one... Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular and disappointed BBC worker, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television personality, are old school friends. Despite a prickly relationship and very different lives, they've never quite lost touch with each other - or with their former teacher, Libor Sevick, a Czechoslovakian always more concerned with the wider world than with exam results. Now, both Libor and Finkler are recently widowed, and with Treslove, his chequered and unsuccessful record with women rendering him an honorary third widower, they dine at Libor's grand, central London apartment. It's a sweetly painful evening of reminiscence in which all three remove themselves to a time before they had loved and lost; a time before they had fathered children, before the devastation of separations, before they had prized anything greatly enough to fear the loss of it. Better, perhaps, to go through life without knowing happiness at all because that way you had less to mourn? Treslove finds he has tears enough for the unbearable sadness of both his friends' losses. And it's that very evening, at exactly 11:30pm, as Treslove hesitates a moment outside the window of the oldest violin dealer in the country as he walks home, that he is attacked. After this, his whole sense of who and what he is will slowly and ineluctably change. The Finkler Question is a scorching story of exclusion and belonging, justice and love, ageing, wisdom and humanity. Funny, furious, unflinching, this extraordinary novel shows one of our finest writers at his brilliant best. |
| abba let the music speak book: Burning Down the Haus Tim Mohr, 2018-09-11 NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Rolling Stone * BookPage * Amazon * Rough Trade Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence “[A] riveting and inspiring history of punk’s hard-fought struggle in East Germany.” —The New York Times Book Review “A thrilling and essential social history that details the rebellious youth movement that helped change the world.” —Rolling Stone “Original and inspiring . . . Mr. Mohr has written an important work of Cold War cultural history.” —The Wall Street Journal “Wildly entertaining . . . A thrilling tale . . . A joy in the way it brings back punk’s fury and high stakes.”—Vogue It began with a handful of East Berlin teens who heard the Sex Pistols on a British military radio broadcast to troops in West Berlin, and it ended with the collapse of the East German dictatorship. Punk rock was a life-changing discovery. The buzz-saw guitars, the messed-up clothing and hair, the rejection of society and the DIY approach to building a new one: in their gray surroundings, where everyone’s future was preordained by some communist apparatchik, punk represented a revolutionary philosophy—quite literally, as it turned out. But as these young kids tried to form bands and became more visible, security forces—including the dreaded secret police, the Stasi—targeted them. They were spied on by friends and even members of their own families; they were expelled from schools and fired from jobs; they were beaten by police and imprisoned. Instead of conforming, the punks fought back, playing an indispensable role in the underground movements that helped bring down the Berlin Wall. This secret history of East German punk rock is not just about the music; it is a story of extraordinary bravery in the face of one of the most oppressive regimes in history. Rollicking, cinematic, deeply researched, highly readable, and thrillingly topical, Burning Down the Haus brings to life the young men and women who successfully fought authoritarianism three chords at a time—and is a fiery testament to the irrepressible spirit of revolution. |
| abba let the music speak book: 4 Keys to Hearing God's Voice Mark Virkler, 2010-08-01 Based on the highly popular and successful book, How to Hear God’s Voice, this exciting new book emphasizes the 4 Keys to Hearing God’s Voice. “When I learned to hear God’s voice after 11 years as a believer without it, every part of me was radically transformed. Thousands have told me they have had this same metamorphosis, and I believe that this will become your testimony also,” writes co-author, Mark Virkler. The keys that are examined, discussed in detail, and can be immediately applied to your life are: How to recognize God’s voice as spontaneous thoughts. Learning how to become still before the Lord. Looking for vision as you pray. Realizing the importance of two-way journaling. Filled with insights from years of hearing from God, 4 Keys to Hearing God’s Voice also includes visual aids that enhance the teaching and learning experience. Very reader-friendly, you will find that the concepts and principles are easily adapted to your personal circumstances and lifestyle. Designed to bring even more depth to your relationship with God, this book is part of an integrated package that includes a DVD and seminar guide for either individual or group study. Either as a stand-alone book or as part of a package, you are sure to gain valuable encouragement and motivation to seek intimate communication with God, your heavenly Father. |
| abba let the music speak book: How Music Got Free Stephen Witt, 2015-06-18 For fans of The Social Network, the story of an accidental pirate, a mastermind, and a mogul. How Music Got Free is a blistering story of obsession, music and obscene money. A story of visionaries and criminals, tycoons and audiophiles with golden ears. Itâe(tm)s about the greatest pirate in history, the most powerful executive in the music business, and an illegal website six times the size of iTunes. It begins with a small-time thief at a CD-pressing plant, and a groundbreaking invention on the other side of the globe. Then pans from the multi-million-dollar deals of the music industry to the secret recesses of the web; from German audio laboratories to a tiny Polynesian radio station. This is how one manâe(tm)s crime snowballs into an explosive moment in history. How suddenly all the tracks ever recorded could be accessed by anyone, for free. And life became forever entwined with the world online. It is also the story of the music industry âe the rise of rap, the death of the album, and how much can rest on the flip of a coin. How an industry ate itself. And how the most successful music release group in history is one youâe(tm)ve probably never heard of. How Music Got Free is a thrilling, addictive masterpiece of reportage from Stephen Witt. Itâe(tm)s a story thatâe(tm)s never been told âe but thatâe(tm)s written all over your hard drive. |
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$A^2=AB+BA$. Prove that $\\det(AB-BA)=0$ - Mathematics Stack …
Let A, B be two 3 × 3 matrices with complex entries, such that A2 = AB + BA. Prove that det(AB − BA) = 0 Nice problem, and I want to find a solution. AB − BA = A2 − 2BA = (A − 2B)A so if |A| …
How to prove $\\operatorname{Tr}(AB) = \\operatorname{Tr}(BA)$?
Jan 11, 2015 · there is a similar thread here Coordinate-free proof of $\operatorname {Tr} (AB)=\operatorname {Tr} (BA)$?, but I'm only looking for a simple linear algebra proof.
matrices - When will $AB=BA$? - Mathematics Stack Exchange
Aug 29, 2013 · Given two square matrices A, B A, B with same dimension, what conditions will lead to this result? Or what result will this condition lead to? I thought this is a quite simple …
The commutator of two matrices - Mathematics Stack Exchange
The commutator [X, Y] of two matrices is defined by the equation $$\begin {align} [X, Y] = XY − YX. \end {align}$$ Two anti-commuting matrices A and B satisfy $$\begin {align} A^2=I \qu...
How to show that $\\det(AB) =\\det(A) \\det(B)$?
It is also alternating, in the sense that if you swap two columns of B, you multiply your overall result by − 1. These properties both follow directly from the corresponding properties for the …
Show that $ e^{A+B}=e^A e^B$ - e^ {A+B}=e^A e^B
As a remark, it is actually legitimate to assume that A and B are simultaneously diagonalisable (surprise, surprise!), so the proposition is trivial. But obviously, the reason why we can make …
How many $4$-digit palindromes are divisible by $3$?
Feb 28, 2018 · How many 4 4 -digit palindromes are divisible by 3 3? I'm trying to figure this one out. I know that if a number is divisible by 3 3, then the sum of its digits is divisible by 3 3. All I …
$A^2=AB+BA$. Prove that $\\det(AB-BA)=0$ - Mathematics Stack …
Let A, B be two 3 × 3 matrices with complex entries, such that A2 = AB + BA. Prove that det(AB − BA) = 0 Nice problem, and I want to find a solution. AB − BA = A2 − 2BA = (A − 2B)A so if |A| = 0 …
How to prove $\\operatorname{Tr}(AB) = \\operatorname{Tr}(BA)$?
Jan 11, 2015 · there is a similar thread here Coordinate-free proof of $\operatorname {Tr} (AB)=\operatorname {Tr} (BA)$?, but I'm only looking for a simple linear algebra proof.
matrices - When will $AB=BA$? - Mathematics Stack Exchange
Aug 29, 2013 · Given two square matrices A, B A, B with same dimension, what conditions will lead to this result? Or what result will this condition lead to? I thought this is a quite simple question, …
The commutator of two matrices - Mathematics Stack Exchange
The commutator [X, Y] of two matrices is defined by the equation $$\begin {align} [X, Y] = XY − YX. \end {align}$$ Two anti-commuting matrices A and B satisfy $$\begin {align} A^2=I \qu...
How to show that $\\det(AB) =\\det(A) \\det(B)$?
It is also alternating, in the sense that if you swap two columns of B, you multiply your overall result by − 1. These properties both follow directly from the corresponding properties for the function A …
Show that $ e^{A+B}=e^A e^B$ - e^ {A+B}=e^A e^B
As a remark, it is actually legitimate to assume that A and B are simultaneously diagonalisable (surprise, surprise!), so the proposition is trivial. But obviously, the reason why we can make …
How many $4$-digit palindromes are divisible by $3$?
Feb 28, 2018 · How many 4 4 -digit palindromes are divisible by 3 3? I'm trying to figure this one out. I know that if a number is divisible by 3 3, then the sum of its digits is divisible by 3 3. All I …
