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From the New York Times bestseller Dima Zales comes an Urban Fantasy rollercoaster adventure with unforgettable characters, non-stop action, and thrilling mind powers. For a limited time, get all 4 full-length novels and one novella (1000+ pages) in one convenient, discounted bundle. Darren's always known there's something wrong with him, but he's learned how to make the most of it. After all, graduating Harvard early, landing a dream job, and getting filthy rich is easy when you have the ability to stop time. What isn't easy is figuring out how he got these strange powers, or if they're even real. Darren thinks he might be crazy—until he meets her. Mira can also stop time, and she's the key to unraveling Darren's past. The only problem? She wants nothing to do with him. But when Darren gets caught in the middle of Mira's secret revenge mission, the two must work together. Drawn into Mira's dangerous, hidden world of Thought Readers and Pushers, Darren discovers that his powers go deeper than he could've imagined... and that a dark past threatens his new life. With new enemies out for blood and a secret that could turn even his closest friends against him, can Darren master his new powers in time to save himself?

“Hold tight. The way to go mad without losing your mind is sometimes unruly.” So begins La Marr Jurelle Bruce's urgent provocation and poignant meditation on madness in black radical art. Bruce theorizes four overlapping meanings of madness: the lived experience of an unruly mind, the psychiatric category of serious mental illness, the emotional state also known as “rage,” and any drastic deviation from psychosocial norms. With care and verve, he explores the mad in the literature of Amiri Baraka, Gayl Jones, and Ntozake Shange; in the jazz repertoires of Buddy Bolden, Sun Ra, and Charles Mingus; in the comedic performances of Richard Pryor and Dave Chappelle; in the protest music of Nina Simone, Lauryn Hill, and Kendrick Lamar, and beyond. These artists activate madness as content, form, aesthetic, strategy, philosophy, and energy in an enduring black radical tradition. Joining this tradition, Bruce mobilizes a set of interpretive practices, affective dispositions, political principles, and existential orientations that he calls “mad methodology.” Ultimately, How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind is both a study and an act of critical, ethical, radical madness.

An international, interdisciplinary exploration of the band that helped define 1960s America

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference of the 11th International Symposium on Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval, CMMR 2015, held in Plymouth, UK, in June 2015. The 30 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 126 submissions. This year’s post symposium edition contains peer-reviewed and revised articles centered around the conference theme “Music, Mind, and Embodiment”. It is divided into 6 sections devoted to various sound and technology issues with a particular emphasis on performance, music generation, composition, analysis and information retrieval, as well as relations between sound, motion and gestures and human perception and culture.

The one-hit wonder has a long and storied history in popular music, exhorting listeners to dance, to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony, to ponder mortality, to get a job, to bask in the sunshine, or just to get up and dance again. Catchy, memorable, irritating, or simply ubiquitous, one-hit wonders capture something of the mood of a time. This collection provides a series of short, sharp chapters focusing on one-hit wonders from the 1950s to the present day, with a view toward understanding both the mechanics of success and the socio-musical contexts within which such songs became hits. Some artists included here might have aspired to success but only managed one hit, while others enjoyed lengthy, if unremarkable, careers after their initial chart success. Put together, these chapters provide not only a capsule history of popular music tastes, but also ruminations on the changing nature of the music industry and the mechanics of fame.