Kick It Till It Breaks

Author : Ira Robbins
Publisher : Trouser Press Press
ISBN 13 : 0984253904
Total Pages : 585 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kick It Till It Breaks written by Ira Robbins and published by Trouser Press Press. This book was released on 2010-02-13 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his first novel, veteran music journalist Ira Robbins satirizes the foibles and fanaticism of '60s radicalism. The dark humor of Kick It Till It Breaks is tempered by affection and respect for those who devoted themselves to ending the war in Viet Nam. Ydinia Ochreman is the leader of the Plumbers, a pre-Watergate organization engaged in watery terrorism; her travels and exploits shape the story, which involves a colorful cast of dubious characters, including the incompetent FBI agent on her trail, a pacifist protest leader with a complicated agenda, a cranky peg-legged bar owner, an Irish atheist on a quest to end organized religion whose son kills people for it and a confused loser from Memphis who gets lost in London and finally finds a way to live. Rich with period detail, slang and settings, Kick It Till It Breaks is both a fond epic of long-ago times and a stick in the eye of anyone with too idealized a recollection of the era.

Author : Singer Debra
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780979336805
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Just Kick it Till it Breaks written by Singer Debra and published by . This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Matt Brennan
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190683864
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kick It written by Matt Brennan and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Kick It, the first social history of the drum kit, looks closely at key innovators in the development of the instrument: inventors and manufacturers like the Ludwig and Zildjian dynasties, jazz icons like Gene Krupa and Max Roach, rock stars from Ringo Starr to Keith Moon, and popular artists who haven't always got their dues as drummers, such as Karen Carpenter and J Dilla. Addressing a seeming contradiction--the centrality of the drum kit on the one hand, and the general disparagement of drummers on the other--author Matt Brennan makes the case for the drum kit's role as one of the most transformative musical inventions of the modern era. Tackling the history of race relations, global migration, and the changing tension between high and low culture, Kick It shows how the drum kit and drummers helped change modern music--and society--from the bottom up"--Back cover

Author : Joseph A. Ruiz
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Power to Break the Chains written by Joseph A. Ruiz and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2024-06-10 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Power to Break the Chains is more than a true-life story. It is a book about a man born in Mexico who moved to the United States, endured his father’s incarceration, his brother’s electrocution, his sister’s genetic disorder, and his time in an orphanage. You will see the power of resilience, hard work, and perseverance, but above all, you will see the power of God available to all of us. All the odds were against him. He should have been one more sad statistic. However, he overcame all obstacles through education, hard work, resilience, and God’s love and mercy. God uses ordinary people to spread His message and help others. He gives us the power to break the chains that bind us to generational struggles, poverty, addictions, and anything else that holds us back. He wants to see you live a life full of freedom and hope. He has great plans for your life. You will laugh, cry, and be inspired after reading this book.

Author : Ira Robbins
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0984253912
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kick It Till It Breaks written by Ira Robbins and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-12-31 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do radicals, religion, race, riots, restaurants and Rufus Thomas all have in common? According to this provocative first novel by veteran music journalist Ira Robbins, they are all defining elements of the 1960s. At times dishearteningly bleak, Kick It Till It Breaks is rich with offbeat characters vividly drawn against a tableau of antiwar violence. Unlike most stories of the time, the author - who nonetheless claims a high regard for its political and cultural achievements - is unsparing in his depiction of dedicated idealists failing to uphold their ideals. The author uses slang, dialect and timely pop culture touchstones to bring the Viet Nam era to life in such disparate locales as Memphis, London, Los Angeles, Washington D.C., San Francisco, Chicago and New York. Fans of Putney Swope, The Young Ones and A Confederacy of Dunces will likely recognize a harmony of tone and perspective with those darkly humorous works.

Author : Brian Echenberg
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gyprock, Breaking Dangerous Habits written by Brian Echenberg and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2023-07-28 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book portrays me accurately as an individual with a severe case of OCD as well as a form of Tourette's syndrome. Most of my life has been dysfunctional especially from the age of 18 to 60 and has been accompanied by severe anger and destructive issues. I talk about my unique experiences in these regards and my living in largely demolished living quarters. I also discuss my early development and the source of my problems. I hope some readers, will be fascinated by my past circumstances and strange behavior accompanying my existence. The title of this short book refers to all the walls and gyprock I've punched and kicked in. Gyprock.

Author : Brooke Carter
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1459816439
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lucky Break written by Brooke Carter and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2018-08-28 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Clever, quippy dialogue and enjoyable first-person voice make the sassy, inner-monologuing Lucy a pleasure of a protagonist...A sweet, sincere look at the complexities of female friendship between competitive athletes. This book tackles a lot and scores at every turn." —Booklist Seventeen-year-old Lucy "Lucky" Graves is devoted to her championship rugby team, but her dreams of a scholarship are destroyed when she breaks her ankle during an important game. If it doesn't heal properly, Lucy could be benched for the rest of the year. Goodbye pro career, goodbye college, goodbye future. Without rugby, who is she? Now her anxiety and OCD are getting worse, and a past trauma has resurfaced to haunt her. Lucy needs to stop running from her past to discover what it really means to be a team player.

Author : Ryan P. Kegel
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1483661539
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Legend of the Gatekeepers written by Ryan P. Kegel and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-07-31 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book one of three in the Legend of the Gatekeepers Trilogy starts off with meeting Rholdin. Rholdin was once a young teen who is now entering adult hood and is suppose to take over the kingdom of Ralzare as its new king. However after an unforeseen turn of events Rholdin is met by a crazed old man who reveals to him that Rholdin is actually a gatekeeper, a powerful warrior selected by the cosmos at birth. As a gatekeeper Rholdin must travel to train his Spirit, Body, and Mind in order to defeat an unknown force in an unfamiliar world.

Author : Tetsuya Imai
Publisher : Kodansha USA
ISBN 13 : 1684919053
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Break of Dawn written by Tetsuya Imai and published by Kodansha USA. This book was released on 2023-02-14 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the year 2038, but more importantly, it's summer. A little boy named Yuma is obsessed with the impending return of the Arville Comet. Then, one day, he sneaks onto the roof of an apartment building and finds something even more amazing-something not from this world. Now Yuma and his friends, and his hovering autopet Nanako, must work together to uncover a secret that's slumbered in the Earth for years, as dawn breaks over a new era for him and for humanity... Entire story in a single volume.

Author : William Jelani Cobb
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814716717
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To the Break of Dawn written by William Jelani Cobb and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With roots that stretch from West Africa through the black pulpit, hip hop emerged in the streets of the South Bronx in the 1970s and has spread to the farthest corners of the earth. "To the Break of Dawn" uniquely examines this freestyle verbal artistry on its own terms. A kid from Queens who spent his youth at the epicenter of this new art form, music critic William Jelani Cobb takes readers inside the beats, the lyrics, and the flow of hip hop, separating mere corporate rappers from the creative MCs that forged the art in the crucible of the street jam.The four pillars of hip hop - break dancing, graffiti art, deejaying, and rapping - find their origins in traditions as diverse as the Afro-Brazilian martial art Capoeira and Caribbean immigrants' turnstile artistry.