1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910453358903321

Autore

Brown Jake

Titolo

Tori Amos [[electronic resource] ] : in the studio / / Jake Brown

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto [Ont.], : ECW Press, c2011

ISBN

1-55490-945-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Disciplina

782.42166092

Soggetti

Rock musicians - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-196).

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910463741703321

Autore

Gieseke Jens

Titolo

The history of the Stasi : East Germany's secret police, 1945-1990 / / Jens Gieseke ; translated by David Burnett

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Berghahn Books, , 2014

ISBN

1-78238-255-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (277 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BurnettDavid

Disciplina

363.28/30943109045

Soggetti

Internal security - Germany (East) - History

Secret service - Germany (East) - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published under title: Mielke-Konzern. Stuttgart : Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 2001.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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