Peter Jones
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Donald Fagen will forever be associated with Steely Dan, the band he formed with Walter Becker and four other musicians in 1972.
The smooth, radio-friendly veneer of the duo's songs made Steely Dan internationally popular and famous in the 1970s, but the polish glossed over the underlying layers of anger, disappointment, sleaze, and often downright weirdness lurking just beneath the surface. The elliptical lyrics were-and continue to be-an endless...
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Bad Cat Library
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©2021.
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249 pages
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Motojournalist Peter Jones tells all in The Bad Editor, Collected Columns and Untold Tales of Bad Behavior. This 250-page book reveals the inside story of a motojournalist's life in the USA motorcycle industry. The book was created to be irreverent entertainment for motorcycle enthusiasts, not to even scores, vent anger, or be hard-hitting muckraking journalism. In this book, no names are mentioned, brands identified, or world problems solved.The...
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In this compelling tour of the classical world, Peter Jones reveals how it is the power, scope and fascination of their ideas that makes the Ancient Greeks and Romans so important and influential today. For over 2,000 years these ideas have gripped Western imagination and been instrumental in the way we think about the world. Covering everything from philosophy, history and architecture to language and grammar, Jones uncovers their astonishing intellectual,...
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A cataclysmic change has occurred as our culture has shifted toward belief in "Oneism."Every religion and philosophy fits into one of two basic worldviews: "Oneism" asserts that everything is essentially one, while "Twoism" affirms an irreducible distinction between creation and Creator. The Other Worldview exposes the pagan roots of Oneism, traces its spread throughout Western culture, and demonstrates its inability to save. "For bodily holiness...
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The ancient Greeks gave us our alphabet and much of our scientific, medical, and cultural language, they invented democracy, atomic theory, and the rules of logic and geometry, laid the foundations of philosophy, history, tragedy, and comedy, and debated everything from the good life and the role of women, to making sense of foreigners and the best form of government, all in the most sophisticated terms. But who were they? In Eureka!, Peter Jones...
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In this revealing and entertaining guide to how the Romans confronted their own mortality, Peter Jones shows us that all the problems associated with old age and death that so transfix us today were already dealt with by our ancient ancestors two thousand years ago. Romans inhabited a world where man, knowing nothing-about hygiene let alone disease, had no defenses against nature. Death was everywhere. Half of all Roman children were dead by the age...
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His nineteenth-century cousin, paddled ashore by slaves, twisted the arms of tribal chiefs to sign away their territorial rights in the oil-rich Niger Delta. Sixty years later, his grandfather helped craft Nigeria's constitution and negotiate its independence, the first of its kind in Africa. Four decades later, Peter Cunliffe-Jones arrived as a journalist in the capital, Lagos, just as military rule ended, to face the country his family had a hand...
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Angel City Press
Pub. Date
2009
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208 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 x 29 cm.
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"Inventing L.A.: The Chandlers and Their Times" is the tale of the Chandlers family's reign over L.A. with the help of their mighty scepter, the Times, and their entwinement with politics, family feud, and fortune. This is truly the story of the building of one of the most famous, populated, and culturally rich cities in the world"--Provided by publisher.
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WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
c2007
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1 DVD (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Unselfishness is the rule. Everything ants do is for their colony's good. This film explores the world of ant colonies. They can be found almost everywhere on the planet, and have existed in some form back almost to the time of the earliest living things. Dr. Edward O. Wilson argues that the instinctive behavior of ants, particularly their tendency to live in large colonies, have made it possible for ants to survive in most conditions. The program...
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2002
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2 DVDs (190 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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This compilation contains all six episodes of the BBC's adaptation of a sci-fi fantasy about an unassuming Englishman and his outwardly average neighbor who is actually an alien from the vicinity of Betelgeuse.
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
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1 DVD (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Mr. Bean enters a church raffle and wins a vacation to France as well as a camcorder. Boarding a Eurostar train and arriving in Paris, the French language proves to be a barrier for Bean. He struggles to catch his train to the south of France. He orders a seafood meal and finds the consumption of the platter to be a challenge. Just before catching his train, he asks Russian film director Emil, who is on his way to be a judge at the Cannes Film festival,...
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PBS Distribution
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c2009.
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1 DVD (ca. 117 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
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The story of the Chandler family's influence over Los Angeles through their publication, the Los Angeles Times, and its entwinement with politics, civic ideals, and personal agendas.