'Non lo direi se non fosse vero' è il racconto di come scrivere canzoni e suonare in gruppi musicali sia il tramite per un mondo che il suo autore avrebbe potuto a stento immaginare: un mondo di grandi etichette, tour bus di lusso e teatri esauriti, ma anche di alcol, droghe e tutta la Babilonia del rock'n'roll. Partendo dall'infanzia in California negli anni Sessanta e Settanta, Steve Wynn arriva a un punto di svolta con la formazione dei Dream Syndicate nel 1981, come antidoto alla musica pop preconfezionata dell'epoca. Il libro ripercorre gli alti e bassi dei primi anni della band, protagonista del Paisley Underground insieme a Green on Red, Rain Parade e Bangles; l'impatto sismico del loro album di debutto; il caos delle sessioni per il seguito, medicine show; lo scioglimento della line-up originale e il lancio di una seconda fase dei Dream Syndicate con 'Out of the grey' e 'Ghost stories', culminando con la pubblicazione dello storico album 'Live at Raji's'. Questa è la storia di Wynn, ma vi si trovano anche alcuni dei più grandi e colorati personaggi dell'epoca, offrendo una dettagliata guida al business musicale che glorifica e demistifica in egual misura. E, infine, è una storia di redenzione, con la musica come veicolo di trasformazione e trascendenza artistica e personale.

On the centennial of his birth, Sinatra 100—with the participation of his three children—is an intimate and dramatic visual portrait of Frank Sinatra, revealing many of the previously unseen moments in a remarkable life. Of course, Sinatra’s legacy speaks for itself. An entertainer of mesmerizing talent, charisma, and style, he is one of the best-selling recording artists of all time, and Academy Award-winning actor, and a cultural icon.From inciting bobby-soxer riots and achieving teen idol status in the 1940s to the incredible recording career, the film career, the Rat Pack and Las Vegas, Sinatra 100 has the unseen photographs (and the iconic ones) as well as a rare trove of memorabilia and ephemera—over half of it never before published. With a majority of the text based on unpublished personal interviews and conversations with Frank Sinatra and his friends, family, and colleagues, Sinatra 100 unparalleled in its scope and depth. It’s the ultimate Sinatra gift, both for the fans who think they’ve seen it all and those just discovering this inimitable artist.

Located in downtown Oklahoma City, Film Row once flourished as a sales hub for theater owners needing films, posters, and concessions for their Midwest venues. The film exchange offices along this three-square-block area and across the cityscape housed major film production studios like Paramount Pictures, MGM, Universal, Fox, and Warner Brothers from 1907 until the 1980s. But changes in demographics, economy, and technology nearly wiped their memory from the city landscape. Now these decades-old structures and their nearly forgotten history are being rediscovered and utilized once again for business. This book tells their story through rare images discovered in shoeboxes, back rooms, and the Oklahoma Historical Society's archives. Most of the images within these pages are shared here for the very first time. The Images of America series celebrates the history of neighborhoods, towns, and cities across the country. Using archival photographs, each title presents the distinctive stories from the past that shape the character of the community today. Arcadia is proud to play a part in the preservation of local heritage, making history available to all.

Venezuela has an immensely rich bird fauna, with 1,381 known species, many of them found nowhere else in the world. This spectacularly illustrated, comprehensive, and up-to-date guide brings together under one cover much of what is known about these species. Its users can identify all the birds in this vast country, from the Caribbean coast in the north to the Amazonian jungles in the south, from the Andes in the west to the Gran Sabana plateau in the east.

With a completely new text by Steven Hilty, Birds of Venezuela is a greatly expanded and thoroughly reformatted successor to the pioneering Guide to the Birds of Venezuela (Princeton,1978). It includes sixty-seven beautiful color and black-and-white plates, most by the well-known artists John Gwynne and Guy Tudor, as well as numerous line drawings. The plates and drawings together--almost half of them never before published--depict most of Venezuela's bird species. Introductory chapters cover physical geography, climate, biogeography, vegetation and habitats, conservation, migration, and the history of ornithology in Venezuela. A gallery of forty-four stunning color habitat photos and color habitat and relief maps complete the opening section.

Detailed range maps plot collection localities and sight records--a unique feature--for almost all species. Plumage descriptions are provided for each bird, as is extensive information on voice, behavior, and status. More than 800 bibliographic entries accompany the text, making this book an invaluable and broad-based reference to the avifauna of not only Venezuela but much of northern South America. Treating nearly 40 percent of the continent's bird species, Birds of Venezuela is the definitive resource for all birders with an eager eye on this splendorous country and the surrounding region.

• The most comprehensive, up-to-date, and best illustrated guide to the birds of Venezuela
• Covers all 1,381 known species and their subspecies from the Caribbean coast to the jungles of the Amazon, from the Andes to the Gran Sabana plateau--nearly 40 percent of all bird species in South America
• Completely new text accompanied by more than 800 bibliographic entries
• Strikingly illustrated with 67 color and black & white plates and numerous line drawings
• 44 stunning color habitat photos and color habitat and relief maps
• Detailed range maps for each species

This handy reference provides users with an understanding of complementary and alternative treatment options for more than 130 common disease states. A practical manual, it describes a variety of possible approaches to small animal disorders. Concentrating on nutrition, herbs, traditional Chinese medicines, and physical therapies, the authors present both tradition- and evidence-based therapies for disorders not always responsive to conventional therapies. Each monograph-style discussion of natural therapies for disorders common to specific body systems presents therapeutic rationales with the goals of treatment, alternative therapies with conventional bases, paradigmatic options, and authors' suggestions from which they've experienced success. Key references are also included at the conclusion of each chapter.

• Presents new and alternative therapies with scientific support, encouraging veterinarians explore new therapies with confidence.
• Helps veterinarians develop treatment plans - a vast improvement over large texts that simply introduce the therapies.
• Clearly explains esoteric concepts of traditional Chinese medicine in updated language.
• Practical, user-friendly pocket manual format allows for quick access in the clinical setting.
• Chapters are organized logically by body system and disorders are alphabetized within each chapter.
• Each body system chapter includes a case report that describes the history, physical examination, assessment, treatment, and outcome of a specific patient to further illustrate how to develop a treatment plan.
• Each appendix offers practical backup for designing treatment plans, from homemade diets and Chinese food therapy to oral herb doses and a valuable herb cross-reference table.

Praises one of the most astounding success stories in the history of ecological restoration--the revival of a long-lost ecosystem along the Chicago River--and gives an overview of similar projects and tips on how you can get involved in saving the planet. Reprint.