Jeff Carlson

Jason Parent

Adrian Cole

Richard Dansky

Joshua Rex

Billie Mosiman

Rose Blackthorn

Mark Carroll

Kya Aliana

Christine Morgan

Jeremy Hepler

Pete Kahle

D. Ballmer

John Bruni

The The Behrg

Adrian Chamberlin

Beau Johnson

Rob Lammle

Marc Lyth

Megan Neumann

NO VAMPIRES... NO WEREWOLVES... NO ZOMBIES... BEEN THERE. DONE THAT. You've heard their stories before and you're screaming for a different breed of horror. Those monsters have had their moments in the moonlight and now it's time for us to bury them in their graves. Let's lock them in their coffins, pierce their hearts with wooden stakes and shoot them between their rotting eyes with silver bullets from an AK-47. You wanted some new monsters. You got 'em. Say "hello" to the ones that are still hidden by the shadows. The ones that peer from behind the gravestones with multi-faceted eyes and crawl from the sewers on slime-covered tentacles. The ones that stain the pages within this tome with the blood of their victims. NOT YOUR AVERAGE MONSTER:A BESTIARY OF HORRORS 22 new monstrosities unleashed upon the world from the deviant minds of: Kya Aliana D. Morgan Ballmer Rose Blackthorn John Bruni The Behrg Jeff Carlson Mark Carroll Adrian Chamberlin Adrian Cole Richard Dansky Jeremy Hepler Beau Johnson Pete Kahle Rob Lammle Esther M. Leiper-Estabrooks Marc Lyth Christine Morgan Billie Sue Mosiman Megan Neumann Jason Parent Joshua Rex Seth Skorkowsky THIS AIN'T YOUR DADDY'S NIGHTMARE!

A Bestiary of Horrors

Not Your Average Monster

This volume gathers together a cross-section of essays and book chapters dealing with the ways in which musicians and their music have been pressed into the service of political, nationalist and racial ideologies. Arranged chronologically according to their subject matter, the selections cover Western and non-Western musics, as well as art and popular musics, from the eighteenth century to the present day. The introduction features detailed commentaries on sources beyond those included in the volume, and as such provides an invaluable and comprehensive reading list for researchers and educators alike. The volume brings together for the first time seminal articles written by leading scholars, and presents them in such a way as to contribute significantly to our understanding of the use and abuse of music for ideological ends.

Music and Ideology

The Ballets Russes in Australia and Beyond draws together essays by leading international and national scholars, who explore the rich legacy of the Ballets Russes. A dazzling array of pictures brings to life the sheer vitality of the companies in a way that makes the volume indispensable to balletomanes, scholars, and those fascinated by the synergies between the creative arts in general.

The Ballets Russes in Australia and Beyond

David Pear

Malcolm Gillies

Shortly before his death, Percy Grainger (1882-1961) lodged over twenty unpublished sketches in his Australian Museum. Self-Portrait of Percy Grainger draws exclusively from these sketches, revealing for the first time an illuminating portrait of the composer's life. With such titles as "The Aldridge-Grainger-Strom Saga," "Thunks," "Ere-I-Forget," "The Love-Life of Helen and Paris," and "Anecdotes," these manuscripts were intended as precursors to Grainger's autobiography, My Wretched Tone-Life, which he only commenced in his final years. Expertly shaping these sketches, the editors have created a "self-portrait" along the lines that Grainger himself had intended. The volume first introduces Grainger's forebears, parents, friends, wife, and himself before moving on to his views on composition, performance, and the musical world. In these sketches, Grainger addresses such topics as racial and national identity, the meaning of work, physical culture, language reform, sexual practice, and artistic patronage. Grainger also probes the nature of musical genius, discussing a broad range of composers including Igor Stravinsky, Thomas Beecham, Frederick Delius, Edvard Grieg, Charles Stanford, Cyril Scott, Fritz Kreisler, Donald Tovey, Ferruccio Busoni, and Balfour Gardiner. Among the works of his own that Grainger most featured are his The Warriors --Music for an Imaginary Ballet, Colonial Song, the Lincolnshire Posy series of band pieces, his greatest "hit" Country Gardens, and his many settings of English folk-music. Written in Grainger's own self-created "Nordic English" as well as translated from Danish, the language of his most intimate confessions, Self-Portrait of Percy Grainger sheds light on some of the most revealing details of the composer's life. The sketches trace Grainger's changing self-perception, from the romantically tinged, even lustful, views of his forties and fifties, through a period of wistfulness in his sixties, to the bitterness and self-loathing of his old age. The volume also includes several of Grainger's own drawings as well as both public and private photographs. A fascinating and revealing collection of vignettes, this extraordinary book will appeal to instructors, students, and enthusiasts in musicology, music history, cultural studies, and Australian, British, and American history.

Self-Portrait of Percy Grainger

This book places the radicalization of art music in early post-war France in its broader socio-cultural and political context. It pursues two general and intersecting lines of inquiry. The first details the stances towards musical conservatism and innovation adopted by cultural strategists representing Western and Soviet ideological interests at the onset of the Cold War. The second, which draws upon the commentaries of Theodor Adorno and Jean-Paul Sartre, recognizes that the Cold War generated a heightened political awareness amongst French musicians at the very time when the social relevance of avant-garde music had become the subject of widespread debate. The study considers the implications of the performance at L'Oeuvre du XXe siècle, an international arts festival staged in Paris in 1952 with the intention of discrediting socialist realism by means of two opposing musical types: neo-classicism (represented by Stravinsky's Symphony in C) and serialism (Boulez's Structures 1a).

Music and Ideology in Cold War Europe

Personal Power is a motivational and self help book intend to assist people in discovering their power within and making the world a better place through self-improvement. The book is divided into three parts. The first part focuses on how to develop power, and it is in this chapter that the author lays out his theories for how to improve the self. The second and third parts of the book deal with utilizing your newly developed power and the pleasures that come along with it. "The mistake so many people make is to confuse greatness with riches," states the author. "The great man can have all he wants, but he need not necessarily become rich." It is thus clear from the outset that this book is intended for those driven by an intrinsic desire to improve their life.

Personal Power

Alan Emrich

This is the first strategy guide ever written about Empire, a computer game that, in various forms, has proven to be the most durable ever invented. Written about the latest and greatest version, Empire Deluxe, this book shows how to play the game better; explains the various upgrades; tells readers where to find LIVE opponents; and shows them how to build their own scenarios.

The Official Strategy Guide

Empire Deluxe

Mark Carroll

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