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Talented people of all levels can find profitable careers in today's thriving music industry with the help of this definitive guide. From song writers to producers, solo artists to band members, a wide variety of careers in the music business are fully described, outlining the skills and training required for each and how to target the right markets and income sources. Other professional advice includes an in-depth discussion on the pros and cons of starting a record label versus working with an established one. AUTHOR: Josquin de Pres, Mark Landsman
PUBLISHER: Allworth Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction 
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 | Shock Wave by Clive Cussler, Michael Prichard
How would it feel to have the weight of a million lives on your shoulders? It`s just part of the job for Dirk Pitt, eco-warrior for a national marine agency, on a case in the year 2000. Pitt`s after a diamond tycoon who mines the Pacific with high-frequency, undersea sound waves. The sound`s incredible energy kills everything in range, setting off a marine holocaust that threatens to reach Honolulu AUTHOR: Clive Cussler, Michael Prichard
PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster Audio
FORMAT: Audio
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | The Intruders by Stephen Coonts
With the Vietnam War over, Lieutenant Grafton finds himself on the aircraft carrier Columbia teaching Marines the nuances of military aviation, and that precision flying can be a matter of life and death even in peacetime. AUTHOR: Stephen Coonts
PUBLISHER: Pocket Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | The Three Little Puppies & the Big Bad Flea by Charles Jordan, Ted Lish
This twist on the traditional story of THE THREE LITTLE PIGS features three little puppies being pursued by a big, bad flea. Illustrated with colored pencil drawings. AUTHOR: Charles Jordan, Ted Lish
PUBLISHER: Munchweiler Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | Wit'ch War by James Clemens
In this, the third volume of the Banished and Banned series, the quest for the mythical Blood Diary draws to a close. Elena and her companions, still learning to control their own individual powers, find that those very powers will be put to the ultimate test in their confrontation with the evil Shorkan. AUTHOR: James Clemens
PUBLISHER: Ballantine Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | Denaturalizing Disaster by Eric Klinenberg
On Thursday, July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees. The heat index, which measures how the temperature actually feels on the body, would hit 126 degrees by the time the day was over. Meteorologists had been warning residents about a two-day heat wave, but these temperatures did not end that soon. When the heat wave broke a week later, city streets had buckled; the records for electrical use were shattered; and power grids had failed, leaving residents without electricity for up to two days. And by July 20, over seven hundred people had perished--more than twice the number that died in the Chicago Fire of 1871, twenty times the number of those struck by Hurricane Andrew in 1992--in the great Chicago heat wave, one of the deadliest in American history. Though we seldom hear about them, during a typical year more people die in heat waves in the United States than in all other natural disasters combined. Until now, no one could explain either the overwhelming number or the heartbreaking manner of the deaths resulting from the 1995 Chicago heat wave. Meteorologists and medical scientists have been unable to account for the scale of the trauma, and political officials have puzzled over the sources of the city's vulnerability. In Heat Wave, Eric Klinenberg takes us inside the anatomy of the metropolis to conduct what he calls a social autopsy, examining the social, political, and institutional organs of the city that made this urban disaster so much worse than it ought to have been. Starting with the question of why so many people died at home alone, Klinenberg investigates why some neighborhoods experienced greater mortality than others, how the city government responded to the crisis, and how journalists, scientists, and public officials reported on and explained these events. Through a combination of years of fieldwork, extensive interviews, and archival research, Klinenberg uncovers how a number o AUTHOR: Eric Klinenberg
PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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