Seems you have not registered as a member of localhost.saystem.shop!
You may have to register before you can download all our books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
SPIN
From the concert stage to the dressing room, from the recording studio to the digital realm, SPIN surveys the modern musical landscape and the culture around it with authoritative reporting, provocative interviews, and a discerning critical ear. With dynamic photography, bold graphic design, and informed irreverence, the pages of SPIN pulsate with the energy of today's most innovative sounds. Whether covering what's new or what's next, SPIN is your monthly VIP pass to all that rocks.
Please Stop Helping Us
Why is it that so many efforts by liberals to lift the black underclass not only fail, but often harm the intended beneficiaries? In Please Stop Helping Us, Jason L. Riley examines how well-intentioned welfare programs are in fact holding black Americans back. Minimum-wage laws may lift earnings for people who are already employed, but they price a disproportionate number of blacks out of the labor force. Affirmative action in higher education is intended to address past discrimination, but the result is fewer black college graduates than would otherwise exist. And so it goes with everything from soft-on-crime laws, which make black neighborhoods more dangerous, to policies that limit school...
The Last Templeton
Mavis Templeton faces a crisis when his septuagenarian father drops dead outside a dubious Mexican restaurant, somewhere in the bleak North Dakotan outback. After a moment of panic, Mavis props up his dead father in the passenger seat of the old Ford Pinto and makes a run for the Canadian border, determined to get the old duffer home at any cost. But time is running out for the last Templeton, and the greatest crisis of his life awaits his return. Told through the unique eyes and mind of Mavis, The Last Templeton is the poignant and slightly off-kilter story of a man who learns that family doesn't have to be defined by bloodlines.
50 Degrees in the Shade
Tired of the climate wars and boardroom piss-ups? Wish you could fight back... with extreme prejudice? Buckle up for "50 Degrees in the Shade," a serotonin satire where vigilante justice meets environmental meltdown in the heart of the Australian outback. Too many murders linked to the fossil fuel industry in one desert-rim community was enough to fire the cause. That was a couple of years ago. With the embers simmering and environmental war seeking interlude, a greed cell in the London Square Mile was back. Worldwide climate disaster payouts needed a backdoor offset and Australian gas exports were perfect. Net-Zero appeared pure aspiration and while ‘Big Energy’ cooked-the-books downund...
Dead Loss
A cool November evening heats up when a 170 foot megayacht catches fire at the Fort Lauderdale boat show. Left behind are a multi-million dollar crime scene, a dead body, and a lot of questions. Detective Adria Hill was tired of dressing up for prostitution stings, but complaining hadn’t gotten her anywhere. Not until she was forced to make a politically embarrassing arrest did her superiors decide that maybe this was a good time for a change. Freshly reassigned to Homicide, and over the objections of her new captain, she is put on the high-profile case of the boat show fire. With no experience and no support from her co-workers, she has to deal with a lack of evidence, a sick mother, and a suspended Sheriff’s deputy who is pursuing his own special revenge fantasy. She eventually finds an ally in Luc, a fraud investigator sent by the French insurance company. Together, they work to unravel the mystery of the fire, the murder, and Adria’s own enigmatic family history. The story mixes action, suspense, and humor in this new entry in the South Florida mystery thriller genre.
Life After the State
In 2006, the comedian Dominic Frisby began to question the advice his financial advisers were giving him and began to look after his own money. He was fascinated by the world of finance. Mad though his friends and family thought him at the time, he put everything he owned into gold, which subsequently appreciated by several hundred per cent. Soon MoneyWeek were asking him to write a weekly column and he began seven years of obsessive reading and study. Life After the State is the culmination of that process. Just as Frisby saw the financial crash of 2008 coming, he now sees another one, even more calamitous, headed our way – only this one has serious political ramifications as well. But no...
Let's Play Pretend
"Attention, please! For the next event, I will play a game. It's called Switch Partner!" "What? Switch partners? Don't tell me that you want me to exchange husband with you again! Trevor is mine now!" *** Trevor continues to hide his identity from Lumina. As the their relationship grows closer, Lumina hates Travis more. Every time when Trevor wants to confess that he and Travis are the same person, he is interrupted. He has no choice but to keep hiding his identity from Lumina. But what If Lumina has already known the fact and she is just pretending? "Madam, you can take Travis, but leave Trevor for me. If you want your grandson, then I want my husband, although they are the same person." "You're just so crazy!" On the other hand, Lumina's sister, Aurora, is planning to switch her husband back and enemies who want to sabotage their relationship are surrounding them. Will they succeed in beating the odds?
Talent Is An Asset: The Story Of Sparks
When LA musicians Russell and Ron Mael moved to Britain in 1973, they hit the pop world as Sparks and looked like oddballs, even in the context of the glam rock movement that made them welcome. Soon defined by their weird and wonderful 1974 single This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Both Of Us from the Kimono My House album, Sparks have now released 22 albums over four decades, each record inhabiting a bizarre world of its own. Their songs were peppered with puns and pop culture nods, as well as nostalgia and jokey images, all mixed up in a kaleidoscope of musical references ranging from rock to opera to disco. They remain one of pop music's truly original and uncompromising acts. The Sparks story is now celebrated in this unauthorised book, Daryl Easlea's exploration of their extraordinary drawing on hours of new interviews and research. Talent Is An Asset comes as close as possible to pinning down the quicksilver nature of two gifted musicians who have gone out of their way to remain unpredictable and elusive, forever entrenched behind a dazzling gallery of jokes, impersonations and musical eccentricities.
