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A New Day Yesterday
Music journalist Mike Barnes (MOJO, The Wire, Prog, and author of the acclaimed biography Captain Beefheart) goes back to the birth of progressive rock and surveys the cultural conditions and attitudes that fed into, and were in turn affected by, this remarkable musical phenomenon. He examines the myths and misconceptions that have grown up around progressive rock and paints a vivid, colourful picture of the Seventies based on hundreds of hours of his own interviews with musicians, music business insiders, journalists and DJs, and from the personal testimonies of those who were fans of the music in that extraordinary decade.
Captain Beefheart: The Biography
“Barnes gets the story, and with the full participation of those brave musicians who attempted to interpret Beefheart's sometimes otherworldly methodology” – The Times Through new interview material, and with reference to reports and eulogies that appeared in the media, Mike Barnes studies the star’s legacy – putting the last two decades into context with the revelation of Van Vliet’s battle with MS.
The Beginner's Guide to Medical Cannabis
Do you suffer from chronic pain, insomnia, anxiety, depression, epilepsy or MS? World expert, Professor Mike Barnes, explains how medical cannabis can help.Cannabis has been used as a medicine for over 6,000 years, but fell out of favour in the 1960s. Declared illegal, it was largely replaced with modern, synthetic drugs. Now medical cannabis is enjoying a come back and patients find it is helpful for: Pain control - approximately 25 per cent of patients using opioids for pain no longer need to take them thanks to medical cannabis, Childhood Epilepsy; Multiple sclerosis; Cancer; Anxiety and depression; Insomnia and many other chronic conditions. The Beginner's Guide to Medical Cannabis, by Professor Michael Barnes, a leading expert in the area, explains how it works and the difference between medical and recreational cannabis. It looks at the evidence of its effectiveness, gives an honest opinion on its safety, explains how to use it, where to get it and tells you where it's legal.
Trinity Rock & Pop 2018 Drums
(Drum Instruction). Whether you are self-taught or taking lessons, learning for fun or heading for a career in the music industry, Trinity College London Rock & Pop exams will help you develop valuable playing skills and achieve your musical ambitions. Available for bass, drums, guitar, keyboard and vocals, from Initial (beginner) to Grade 8 (advanced), these exams cover a wide variety of music and artists giving a great choice in all rock and pop styles.
Be With
SHORTLISTED FOR THE TORONTO BOOK AWARD AS SEEN ON GLOBAL NEWS TV'S THE MORNING SHOW A CBC CANADIAN BOOK TO READ FOR MENTAL HEALTH WEEK Drawing on the author’s seven years of caring for his mother through Alzheimer’s, Be With: Letters to a Caregiver is what its title promises: four dispatches to an anonymous long-term caregiver. In brief passages that cast fresh light on what it means to live with dementia, Barnes shares trials, insights, solace—and, ultimately, inspiration. Meant to be a companion in waiting rooms, on bus routes, or while a loved one naps, Be With is a dippable source of clarity for harried readers who might only have time for a few lines or paragraphs. Mike Barnes writes with sensitivity and grace about fellowship, responsibility, and joyful relatedness—what it means to simply be with the people that we love.
The Adjustment League
"Fiercely alive, marked by a sharp, unerring eye for detail and a wonderful way with metaphors."—Toronto Star At a psychiatric hospital in the eighties, patients formed what they called The Adjustment League to protect themselves against the depredations of a corrupt and abusive staff. Many years later, the leader of this group—a man known only as "The Super"— receives a letter leading to the discovery of a pornographic ring in need of "adjustment." Mike Barnes is the author of eight previous books. Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, he lives and writes in Toronto, Ontario.
Braille Rainbow
Poems about perception across the sensory spectrum and the arc of learning about the outer world and the inner self.
Plunging Into Haiti
For much of the early 1990s, Haiti held the world's attention. A fiery populist priest, Jean Bertrand Aristide, was elected president and deposed a year later in a military coup. Soon thousands of desperately poor Haitians started to arrive in makeshift boats on the shores of Florida. In early 1993, the newly elected Clinton administration pledged to make the restoration of President Aristide one of the cornerstones of its foreign policy. But that fall the U.S. let supporters of Haiti's ruling military junta intimidate America into ordering the USS Harlan County and its cargo of UN peacekeeping troops to scotch plans and return to port. Less than a year later, for the first time in U.S. history, a deposed president of another country prevailed on the United States to use its military might to return him to office. These extraordinary events provide the backdrop for Plunging into Haiti: Clinton, Aristide, and the Defeat of Diplomacy mdash;Ralph Pezzullo's detailed account of the international diplomatic effort to resolve the political crisis.
The Jackie Stewart Book of Shooting
Priročnik z nasveti, anekdotami, osnovnimi navodili za začetne vaje in koristnimi napotki za izkušene športne strelce, obsega vse vidike športnega streljanja: od nakupa orožja, športne obleke, opisa raznih športnih disciplin in podrobnosti iz športnega življenja velikega borca ter zmagovalca na mnogih pomembnih tekmovanjih - Jackieja Stewarta.
The New Politics of Disablement
Disability luminary Mike Oliver is joined by Colin Barnes in this agenda-setting response to a capitalist society faced with globalisation, financial instability and lower public expenditure. A timely new edition which reignites the debate on the nature of disability and reasserts the political power of the academic field of disability studies.
