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UNINA9910453358903321 |
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Autore |
Brown Jake |
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Titolo |
Tori Amos [[electronic resource] ] : in the studio / / Jake Brown |
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Toronto [Ont.], : ECW Press, c2011 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (240 p.) |
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Rock musicians - United States |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-196). |
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Those Formative Years -- Y Kant Tori Read -- Little Earthquakes -- Under the Pink -- Boys for Pele -- From the Choirgirl Hotel -- To Venus and Back -- Strange Little Girls -- Scarlet's Walk -- The Beekeeper -- American Doll Posse -- Abnormally Attracted to Sin and Midwinter Graces -- Conclusion. |
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In this book, Jake Brown goes behind the music to reveal Tori Amos's artistic process in creating 11 studio albums - from 'Little Earthquakes' to 'Midwinter Graces' - beloved by her devoted fan base and highly praised by music critics. |
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UNINA9910463741703321 |
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Autore |
Gieseke Jens |
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The history of the Stasi : East Germany's secret police, 1945-1990 / / Jens Gieseke ; translated by David Burnett |
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New York : , : Berghahn Books, , 2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (277 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Internal security - Germany (East) - History |
Secret service - Germany (East) - History |
Electronic books. |
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Monografia |
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Originally published under title: Mielke-Konzern. Stuttgart : Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 2001. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Antifascism, Stalinism, cold civil war : origins and influences, 1945 to 1956 -- The safest GDR in the world : the driving forces of Stasi growth -- The unofficial collaborator : a new type of informer -- Blanket surveillance? state security in East German society -- Resistance, opposition, persecution -- Wolf and Co. : MFS operations abroad -- Final crisis and collapse, 1989-90 -- Legacy, aufarbeitung, culture of memory : the second life of the Stasi. |
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The East German Ministry for State Security stood for Stalinist oppression and all-encompassing surveillance. The "shield and sword of the party," it secured the rule of the Communist Party for more than forty years, and by the 1980s it had become the largest secret-police apparatus in the world, per capita. Jens Gieseke tells the story of the Stasi, a feared secret-police force and a highly professional intelligence service. He inquires into the mechanisms of dictatorship and the day-to-day effects of surveillance and suspicion. Masterful and thorough at once, he takes the reader through t |
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