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Soundtrack of my life
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Soundtrack of my lifeSoundtrack of my life

In The Soundtrack of My Life, music legend Clive Davis recounts an extraordinary five-decade career in the music business, while also telling a remarkable personal story of triumphs, disappointments, and encounters with some of the greatest musical artists of our time, from Bob Dylan and Paul Simon to Whitney Houston and Alicia Keys. 

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Tags: music, Soundtrack, greatest, encounters, disappointments, musical, artists
Lyric Encounters: Essays on American Poetry From Lazarus and Frost to Ortiz Cofer and Alexie
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Lyric Encounters: Essays on American Poetry From Lazarus and Frost to Ortiz Cofer and Alexie

A new survey of twentieth-century U.S. poetry that places a special emphasis on poets who have put lyric poetry in dialogue with other forms of creative expression, including modern art, the novel, jazz, memoir, and letters.
 
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Tags: poetry, Encounters, Essays, Lyric, letters
Mostly Mississippi: A Very Damp Adventure (Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage)
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Mostly Mississippi: A Very Damp Adventure (Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage)

In 1925, Harold Speakman and his new wife, Frances "Russell" Lindsay Speakman, journeyed down the entire Mississippi River, from the headwaters in Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico, on a twenty-foot houseboat. A classic American travel narrative that captures the soul of the river, Mostly Mississippi features lyrical descriptions of encounters with archetypal characters, landscapes, and experiences.
 
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Anglo-Chinese Encounters since 1800: War, Trade, Science and Governance
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Anglo-Chinese Encounters since 1800: War, Trade, Science and Governance

Wang Gungwu's study of the relationship between China and the Chinese with imperial Britain examines the possibilities, as well as the limits of their encounters. Beyond the clichés of opium, fighting, and the diplomatic skills needed to fend off rivals and enemies, Gungwu probes areas of more intimate encounters, not least of which is the beginning of a broader English-speaking future between the two countries.
 
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Tags: between, Gungwu, encounters, which, beginning
Shakespeare's Cross-Cultural Encounters
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Shakespeare's Cross-Cultural EncountersShakespeare's Cross-Cultural Encounters

A study of tragedies, comedies, romances, and histories, this book examines the dynamic interplay of three concepts—gender, text, and habitat—as metaphors for cross-cultural definition. De Sousa argues that by refashioning stage aliens such as Jews, Moors, Amazons, and gypsies, Shakespeare interrogates a Eurocentric perspective and the caricatures cultures create of one another. Writing in an accessible, compelling style, de Sousa recovers a wealth of information on race and gender relations in early modern Europe.
 
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Tags: Sousa, gender, Shakespeare, another, Writing, Encounters, Cross-Cultural