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The long-awaited memoir from the iconic Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, Rush bassist, and bestselling author of Geddy Lee's Big Beautiful Book of Bass. Includes two new songs by Geddy Lee, available exclusively in the My Effin’ Life audiobook. Geddy Lee is one of rock and roll's most respected...

Dive into the enchanting world of Dantes La vita nuova, one of his earliest masterpieces that masterfully blends prose and poetry. This work chronicles Dantes youthful infatuation with Beatrice, illuminating his journey from the confines of courtly love to a more sacred understanding of love itself. Through a seamless narrative that interweaves poetry with prose, Dante seeks to redefine love, elevating its expression beyond mere self-indulgence. Beatrice symbolizes this ideal, a divine muse whose beauty inspires a profound longing for spiritual enlightenment. Join us as we explore how Dante’...

One of Dante's earliest works, La vita nuova or La vita nova (The New Life) is in a prosimetrum style, a combination of prose and verse, and tells the story of his youthful love for Beatrice. The prose creates the illusion of narrative continuity between the poems; it is Dante's way of reconstructing himself and his art in terms of his evolving sense of the limitations of courtly love (the system of ritualized love and art that Dante and his poet-friends inherited from the Provençal poets, the Sicilian poets of the court of Frederick II, and the Tuscan poets before them). Sometime in his ...

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Every week the Creative Arts team at New Life Community Church in Gardner, KS leads via song, technology, and the arts. What makes up the culture of our team? Why does every role matter? This podcast exists to serve the Creative Arts team, the body, and those needing another perspective on why the church should worship passionately, lead creatively, and keep the Gospel of Jesus as "number one" in every aspect.

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Dive into the vibrant autobiography of Martha Summerhayes, an adventurous New England woman and the wife of an American Army officer. In this captivating narrative, she shares her experiences and anecdotes about life in various military camps and forts, the challenges of raising a family on the move, and the intriguing characters she met along the way. (Summary by Stav Nisser)

Station Life in New Zealand offers a delightful glimpse into the life of Lady Mary Anne Barker (née Mary Anne Stewart) through a captivating collection of her letters, which have become a cherished part of New Zealands literary heritage. These letters, penned between 1865 and 1868, chronicle her travels with her husband, Frederick Broomie, to the colonial sheep station they called home, Broomielaw, in the picturesque Province of Canterbury on New Zealands South Island. With a blend of humor and storytelling, Lady Barker shares the lighter and more whimsical aspects of colonization, while ...

Arthel "Doc" Watson (1923-2012) is arguably one of the most influential musicians Appalachia has ever produced. A musician's musician, Doc grew up on a subsistence farm in the North Carolina mountains during the Depression, soaking up traditional music and learning to play guitar even though he was blind. Full of fascinating stories—from Doc's first banjo made from his grandmother's cat to the founding of MerleFest—this promises to be the definitive biography of the man and how he came to be synonymous with roots music in America and shows how his influence is still felt in music today.

From the Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of How to Be an Artist, a deliciously readable survey of the art world in turbulent times. Jerry Saltz is one of our most-watched writers about art and artists, and a passionate champion of the importance of art in our shared cultural life...

This beautiful and inspiring book tells the stories of 80 birds around the world: from the Sociable Weaver Bird in Namibia which constructs huge, multi-nest 'apartment blocks' in the desert, to the Bar-headed Goose of China, one of the highest-flying migrants which crosses the Himalayas twice a...

An electrifying updated edition of the bestselling memoir from the frontwoman of Divinyls and one of Australia's greatest rock singers Brave, funny, ferocious - there's never been anyone like Chrissy Amphlett. A true legend of Australian rock'n'roll, we are so lucky that she shared her raw...

The LW Experience in music and arts is devoted to interviewing artists and musicians that have impacted our lives. The first phase of The LW Experience Podcast will focus on past interviews of various artists that appeared on the radio show The LW Experience Sunday Morning Classics on WUAG 103.1FM The Music in Greensboro, NC at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro UNCG during the years 2005-2014.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-lw-experience--978522/support.

Over the course of her sixty-five-year career, the longest of any female filmmaker, Agnes Varda (1928-2019) wrote and directed some of the most acclaimed films of her era. She helped to define the French New Wave, inspired an entire generation of filmmakers, and was recognized with major awards at the Cannes, Berlin, and Venice Film Festivals, as well as an honorary Oscar at the Academy Awards. In this lively biography, Carrie Rickey explores the "complicated passions" that informed Varda's charmed life and indelible work.

Hadley Freeman brings us her personalised guide to American movies from the 1980s – why they are brilliant, what they meant to her, and how they influenced movie-making forever. For Hadley Freeman, American moves of the 1980s have simply got it all. Comedy in Three Men and a Baby, Hannah and...

Jesus Life Church International is a new ministry founded in 2021, we are dedicated to inspiring and supporting youth around the world to have the best quality life possible. This podcast features our pastors from around the world giving ministry and life advice to help youth who are new and looking for a purpose in life. We believe that faith is the difference between having a life without purpose and having a life that is so fulfilling that each day feels more blessed than the last.

A Times Book of the Year 'Most underrated group? World of Twist.' - LIAM GALLAGHER 'They're a top band. No one could do what World of Twist do, except World of Twist.' - NOEL GALLAGHER 'They were such a special band, such a moment in time, and Gordon has written such a special book.' - JON...

Given the great deal of attention paid to music and autism, it is surprising to discover that autistic people have rarely been asked to account for how they themselves make and experience music or why it matters to them that they do. In Speaking for Ourselves, renowned ethnomusicologist Michael Bakan does just that, engaging in deep conversations - some spanning the course of years - with 10 fascinating and very different individuals who share two basic things in common: an autism spectrum diagnosis and a life in which music plays a central part. 

Lively, sophisticated, and filled with first-person tributes and glorious images, Sondheim: His Life, His Shows, His Legacy lifts the curtain on a Broadway legend. "Aside from Sondheim's own exceptional books...this may be the best coffee-table volume devoted to his work."(Shelf Awareness)...

Host Chris Joseph dives into the 39 songs of the Nine Lives Project, with special guests telling their stories about their involvement in this wonderful endeavor. Nine Lives started as a book written in 2009 by the New York Times best-selling author and former New Yorker writer Dan Baum. The non-fiction book marvelously covered nine "characters" in New Orleans, starting from Hurricane Betsy in 1965 through Hurricane Katrina in 2005. In 2011, Paul Sanchez and his writing partner on this project Colman deKay turned the book into a musical. In addition to the CDs, live performances of Nine Lives ...