This book traces the development of the Beatles, song by song. The group's life and work is also discussed in relation to the popular culture of the 1960s. MacDonald explores the way each of their 187 songs was created, examines the lyrics, and describes their innovative and often unorthodox recording processes.
Until the publication of "Testimony", the memoirs he dictated to journalist Solomon Volkov, few doubted that Dmitri Shostakovich was a son of the Russian Revolution, whose music celebrated its triumphs, and who devoted his life to the ideals of socialist humanism and internationalism. This biography of Shostakovich repudiates reservations about ...
Updated to include material from "The Beatles Live at the BBC" and the "Anthology" series, this book goes to the heart of "The Beatles" - their records. Ian MacDonald reads their 241 tracks chronologically, from their first amateur efforts in 1957, to "Real Love" in 1995.
'My relationship with Sam Bronfman, and his sons Edgar and Charles, has sometimes been compared to that of Robert Duvall as Tom Hagen, the consigliere to the Corleone family in "The Godfather", in the sense that I was a surrogate son as well as an adviser to the father, and a friend as well as a counsellor to the sons. There's a certain amount of ...
The third edition of a neurology classic, this two-volume text is the most comprehensive neurology reference available. It encompasses the basic neuroscience and clinical features of the full range of neurological disorders, written by leading international experts in the field. Disease mechanisms are reviewed comprehensively, with particular ...
Few public policy issues have stirred political passions on both sides of the Canada/US border as free trade did in the late 1980s. Negotiated between Canada and the United States in 1987, the Free Trade Agreement became the dominant issue in the November 1988 Canadian federal election, perhaps the most dramatic and divisive campaign in the second ...
October 25th, 1918 is the day that goes down in history as the Inside Passage's worst maritime disaster. More than 350 people lost their lives and the CPR's British Columbia Coast Service was forever tarnished when the Princess Sophia went down off Vanderbilt Reef in Lynn Canal between Skagway and Juneau, Alaska. The authors, O'Keefe and Macdonald ...
This book will build on Foundation Flash 5, developing the web-development skills taught in Dynamic Content Studio and Foundation Dreamweaver Ultradev 4. It teaches transferable design skills by focusing on the central technology of e-commerce. There is a complete lack of XML books aimed at Flash designers. This book fills a void.
Robert Bourassa, a pariah after losing power to the separatist Parti Quebecois in the 1976 election, emerged a decade later from political exile to lead his party back to power. As he said: "I succeeded my successor." Claude Ryan, formerly the respected publisher of Le Devoir, had led the Quebec Liberal Party and the federalist coalition to a ...
Macdonald and O'Keefe's latest book delves into the life and times of Joe Gordon, the cop killer who lived and died in 1950s Vancouver, British Columbia. Before Gordon was hanged at British Columbia's Oakalla Prison Farm in 1957, he wrote about his downfall. His final words were published in the Vancouver Sun after his execution. They included a ...
This easy-to-follow guide can help teachers become leaders rather than followers in the new high-tech, high-speed, digital era. Students and teachers, even the most technology-resistant, can learn to solve problems from sources like Internet sites, news groups, chat-rooms, e-mail and other Internet resources.
Everyone who lives in the western provinces of Canada has been affected by Alexander Duncan McRae. That's why Betty O'Keefe and Ian Macdonald believe the man deserves more than fleeting references in Canadian history books. McRae was Vancouver's 'merchant prince', a businessman, a self-made aristocrat who lorded over Hycroft, the finest home on ...
In this excellent introduction to the theory of Lie groups and Lie algebras, three of the leading figures in this area have written up their lectures from an LMS/SERC sponsored short course in 1993. Together these lectures provide an elementary account of the theory that is unsurpassed. In the first part Roger Carter concentrates on Lie algebras ...
"On Earth, one gentle soul the less; in Heaven, one angel more." So reads the epitaph of Scottish nursemaid Janet Smith, the victim of a 1924 tragedy that ignited racial tension in a very young Vancouver. At the core of the issue were the mysterious circumstances surrounding Smith's death, particularly the fact that the only other adult in the ...
The top cop in Vancouver, police chief Walter Mulligan, is on the take. From mid 1955 through to the spring of 1956, the Tupper Inquiry, which was investigating the activities of Mulligan and the Vancouver Police Department was front-page news. "The Mulligan Affair" had everything to make headlines. It had death, graft, bootleggers, bookies, ...
This is a gripping account of Western Canada's worst aviation disaster. Mount Slesse, a jagged 2,500-metre peak near Chilliwack BC known locally as 'The Fang' lived up to its evil reputation on December 9, 1956, when Trans Canada Airlines Flight 810 slammed into it, killing all 62 aboard. For five months nobody knew what happened. Flight 810 had ...
"That year, quite a shocking incident occurred..." So reminisces old Hanshichi in a story from one of Japan's most beloved works of popular literature, Hanshichi torimonocho. Told through the eyes of a street-smart detective, Okamoto Kido's best-known work inaugurated the historical detective genre in Japan, spawning stage, radio, movie, and ...
Forests and scandals are perennial subjects of BC politics, and the controversy surrounding Robert Sommers, the provincial Lands, Forests and Mines minister in 1955, combined the two. Sommers, a prominent figure in W A C Bennett's Social Credit cabinet, was accused of taking bribes in exchange for granting tree farm licenses. The story of Sommers ...
A biography in which those who know Michael Caine best, including Woody Allen, Roger Moore, Julie Walters, Sean Connery and Caine himself, talk about the man and his movies.
'My relationship with the Bronfmans has been compared to that of Tom Hagen's consigliere to the Corleone family in "The Godfather" - I was a surrogate son and adviser to the father and a friend and counsellor to the sons. I was brought into the family as an outsider and became privy to its secrets'. Thus begins Leo Kolber's account of his ...
Iam MacDonald tells the story behind every Beatles song that went to number one in the UK and USA charts, including "Love Me Do", "From Me to You", "She Loves You", "I Want to Hold Your Hand", "Can't Buy Me Love", "I Feel Fine" and "Penny Lane".
A selection of extracts from French newspapers with comprehension questions, aimed at GCSE, adult education classes, and other readers who have a grounding in French, but need to improve their practical usage and contemporary vocabulary.
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