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The origin story of a groundbreaking albumThe 1971 Allman Brothers Band album At Fillmore East was a musical manifesto years in the making. In Play All Night!, Bob Beatty dives deep into the motivations and musical background of band founder Duane Allman to tell the story of what made this album not just a smash hit, but one of the most important live rock albums in history. Featuring insights from bootleg tapes, radio ads, early reviews, never-before-published photos, and the memories of band members, fans, and friends, Beatty chronicles how Allman rejected the traditional route of music business success—hit singles and record sales—and built a band that was at its best jamming live on stage, feeding off the crowd’s energy, and pushing each other to new heights of virtuosic improvisation. Every challenge, from recruiting a group of relatively unknown but established musicians like Jaimoe and Dickey Betts, touring the American South as an interracial band, and the failure of their first two studio albums, sharpened Allman’s determination to pursue the band’s truly unique sound. He made a bold choice—to record their next album live at Bill Graham’s famous concert hall in New York’s Lower East Side, a gamble that launched a new strand of American music to the top of the charts. Four days after the album went gold, Duane Allman was killed in a motorcycle accident. He was 24. This book explores how At Fillmore East cemented Allman’s legacy as a strong-willed, self-taught visionary, giving fans of Southern rock and all readers interested in the role of rock music in American popular culture a new appreciation for this pathbreaking album.

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“Whether he’s in Cuba, Mozambique, or attempting to climb Mount Ararat, [Shacochis] vividly places you in both the past and present of his destinations . . . [his] restlessness and recklessness, all couched in a headlong maximalist prose, are impossible to resist.”—Boston Globe“Shacochis’ fiery, wrought prose is on full display . . . This is travel writing at its finest.” —Men’s Journal, a Best Book of the MonthBest known for his sweeping international and political fiction narratives, including The Woman Who Lost Her Soul, which won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and was finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Bob Shacochis began his writing career as a pioneering journalist and contributing editor for Outside Magazine and Harper’s. Kingdoms in the Air brings together the very best of Shacochis’s culture and travel essays in one livewire collection that spans his global adventures and his life passions; from surfing, to his obsession with the South American dorado, to the time he went bushwhacking in Mozambique. Replete with Shacochis’s signature swagger, humor, and crystalline wisdom,Kingdoms in the Air is a majestic and essential collection from one of our most important writers.

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A green-eyed mouse called Noah and a blue-eyed mouse called Raffaella see each other's eyes through a small hole in a wall. Both mice let their imagination run wild thinking what strange creature the eye belongs to. Beautifully illustrated, humorously written and brilliantly designed with a real hole in each of its pages to create a peep-show effect, this charming book is a visual treat for children and their parents.

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While poor nutrition and disease plagued medieval Europe, a civilization on the other side of the Atlantic - the Aztecs - thrived, thanks to a healthful high-protein, low-fat diet. At its center was an ancient grain known as chia, a remarkable low-calorie, high-fiber seed bursting with omega-3, iron, calcium, and other nutrients. In a world with an obesity epidemic that shows no sign of slowing down, the secret weapon that helped the ancient Aztecs achieve their greatness is back. Now modern Americans can lose weight, boost energy levels, and improve wellbeing by eating the healthy, delicious foods that nourished these traditional cultures. In this highly readable, easy-to-follow guide, physician Dr. Bob Arnot shows readers how to make chia a central part of a daily diet that includes foods high in protein with few fats and oils, no refined sugars, and limited amounts of wheat. Divided into three parts, "The Aztec Diet" begins by showing you how to jump-start weight loss with a two-week chia smoothie plan. In phase two, you can enjoy a mix of chia smoothies and solid meals-a balance that will make you feel revitalized and lighter. The final phase shows how to sustain a new, healthy lifestyle by incorporating chia into your meal plan. Here, too, are easy, delicious, and flexible set of healthy swaps, meal plans, and superfood additions to help you easily adapt and adhere to new eating habits. "The Aztec Diet" helps reduce their risk of serious conditions, including obesity, heart disease, diabetes, as well as other lesser known maladies, such as raging internal inflammation and wild fluctuations in blood sugar levels that affect daily moods, energy, and wellbeing. Reset your metabolism, drop pounds, and feel more energized and clear-headed-let "The Aztec Diet" help you look and feel like an entirely new person.

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Sie wollen sich einen Mac anschaffen und ihn optimal nutzen können? Oder Sie haben schon einen Mac, wollen aber auf das neue Betriebssystem umsteigen? Dann bildet dieses Buch eine passende Grundlage für den Umgang mit einem Mac. Bob LeVitus zeigt Ihnen alles was Sie im Umgang mit einem Mac wissen müssen. Im Besonderen wird auf das neue Betriebssystem Big Sur eingegangen. Sie lernen wie Sie mit dem Dock umgehen, Safari nutzen und mit den iLife-Programmen arbeiten. Auch für potenzielle Probleme zeigt Ihnen das Buch Möglichkeiten des Troubleshooting und gibt Ihnen hilfreiche Tipps.

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Goodman Games presents Dark Tower DCC Dice for your DCC RPG game. This set of 14 weird RPG dice comes in green and gold, representing the iconic gods of Set and Mitra from the classic adventure Dark Tower. Dark Tower DCC Dice is the perfect accessory when playing Original Adventures Reincarnated #7 Dark Tower or any other fantasy RPG game.Dark Tower DCC Dice include a standard set of seven RPG dice (d4, d6, d8, d10, d%, d12, and d20), plus the weird (d3, d5, d7, d14, d16, d24, and d30) dice DCC RPG is known for, all packaged in a plastic tube. The opposite side of the tube insert contains the description of the Desecrated Visage of Mitra, a new magical item for any DCC RPG campaign. Test your luck with these dice today!

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In the second volume of Harrier Boys, as with the first, the history of this remarkable aircraft in service with UK armed forces is illustrated through personal reminiscences of the people who worked with it. The book begins with explanations of the mature concept of operations with the Harrier GR3 in the Cold War. It then progresses through the evolution of Harrier II, starting with the GR5, and updates to the Sea Harrier, while the potential battles to be fought necessitated ever-changing tactics and technology. The new Harriers used digital developments for airframe, engine and weapons control. Conflicts in Iraq, Bosnia, Kosovo, Sierra Leone and Afghanistan saw ground-attack missions move towards the delivery of smart weapons from medium level, rather than the dumb bombs and low level of the Cold War era meaning that the Harrier had once more to demonstrate its legendary versatility. The introduction of the Sea Harrier FA2, with its beyond visual range air-to-air missiles and improved radar, gave much improved air defence. The UK Harrier story ends with the closer integration of the RN and RAF forces, before the aircraft's all-too-early retirement in 2010, possibly decades before other countries forsake this unique capability.

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Take your students on an imagination journey! Filled with thrilling activities that build creativity in your students, I Believe in Unicorns is a must have for teachers interested in encouraging imaginative thinking. Get an elephant down from a tree, build a monstrous (and odorous) smelt, evaluate the job performance of an octopus who moonlights as a lifeguard, or remove a porcupine from your lunchbox! Activities like these will challenge your students'' creativity and imagination.I Believe in Unicorns offers fun, exciting activities designed to encourage creativity and imagination among children in grades K-4. Written by a master of creativity teaching, this book offers activities that strengthen the skills essential for creative thoughtfluency, flexibility, originality, and elaboration.This book was meant to be torn apart! Each student activity page was designed for duplication so that it can be used by individuals or the entire class. Mix these activiti

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Looking at the night sky, you’d be forgiven for thinking it’s all quiet up there in space. But you’d be wrong. Extreme events are forever unfolding: galaxies explode, cosmic debris hurtles through the heavens and our own Milky Way is on a collision course with the giant Andromeda galaxy. Mayhem moulded the cosmos, shaped life on Earth and at times threatened to end it. With an enduring sense of wonder, through cataclysms great and small, Bob Berman presents a destructive history of our universe.

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