Gamble With The Devil

The Ten Faces of Innovation eBooks & eLearning

Posted by tarantoga at July 24, 2013

Tom Kelley, "The Ten Faces of Innovation: IDEO's Strategies for Defeating the Devil's Advocate and Driving Creativity Throughout Your Organization"
ISBN: 0385512074 | 2005 | EPUB/MOBI | 288 pages | 6 MB/7 MB

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The Shanghai Gesture (1941) Movies

Posted by Someonelse at Aug. 1, 2011

A young woman, Poppy, out for excitement in Shanghai, enters a gambling house owned by "Mother" Gin Sling, a dragon-lady who worked herself up from poverty to buy the casino. Sir Guy Charteris, wealthy entrepreneur, has purchased a large area of Shanghai, forcing Gin Sling to vacate by the coming Chinese New Year. Under orders from Gin Sling, who has found out Poppy is Charteris' daughter, the smarmy Doctor Omar leads Poppy deeper and deeper into an addiction to gambling and alcohol. Gin Sling, realizing that Charteris was her long-ago husband who she thinks abandoned her, plans her revenge by inviting Charteris to a Chinese New Year dinner party to expose his past indiscretions. Charteris, however, has a suprise of his own to spring on Gin Sling.

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The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978) [30th Anniversary Collector's Edition] [Re-UP] Movies

Posted by Someonelse at Aug. 13, 2015

Based on a novel by Thomas Keneally, which was in turn inspired by actual events, this drama is a shocking indictment of the racism inflicted on the indigenous people of Australia. Jimmie (Tommy Lewis) is a half-white, half-aborigine young man raised by a Methodist minister. Feeling outcast among the aborigines, Jimmie moves to the city and gets a job working for a white family. When a white serving girl at the estate becomes pregnant, everyone is convinced that Jimmie is the father; to spare the girl's honor, Jimmie marries her and is allowed to live with her on the estate….

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Ry Cooder - Election Special (2012) Music

Posted by Designol at April 25, 2025

Election Special is the fifteenth studio album by Ry Cooder. After his 2011 album Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down, Cooder continued writing topical and storyline-inspired songs. Displeased with the Republican Party and its financial supporters, he also wanted to write an album that would address listeners during the United States presidential election of 2012, which he believed to be a critical event in the country's history. Election Special is an American roots and blues rock album of protest songs with music characterized by upbeat melodies, simple instrumentation, and sparse arrangements. Cooder played all of the instruments, including bass, guitar, and mandolin, with the exception of drums by his son Joachim. A deeply political album, it expands on the socio-political musings and current event topics of Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down with forthright, satirical lyrics and song-form vignettes. Cooder's songwriting exhibits liberal and populist sentiments and draws on older musical sources such as broadside ballads and country blues.

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«The Animals after Midnight: A Darby Holland Crime Novel» by Jeff Johnson Audiobooks

Posted by Gelsomino at Sept. 22, 2019

«The Animals after Midnight: A Darby Holland Crime Novel» by Jeff Johnson
English | ISBN: 9781982665029 | MP3@64 kbps | 8h 24m | 231.0 MB

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Ry Cooder - Election Special (2012) {Nonesuch} Music

Posted by Hungry Mind at Sept. 9, 2012

Ry Cooder - Election Special (2012) {Nonesuch}
EAC Rip | WV (image+.cue+log) - 230 MB | Full Scans PNG - 91 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.98) - 89 MB
Genre: rock, blues | RAR 5% Rec. | Label: Perro Verde / Nonesuch Records | CAT # 7559-79616-3 | 2012

The risk in writing political songs, especially about specific issues and historical periods, is that over time, those that are run of the mill become dated. Not everyone can write timeless tunes like Woody Guthrie, Sam Cooke, John Lennon, and Bob Marley. Given the content of Election Special, Ry Cooder knew the risks going in and welcomed them. Using American traditional musics – raw blues, folk, and roots rock – Cooder's songs express what he considers to be, as both an artist and a pissed-off citizen, the high-stakes historical gamble of the 2012 presidential and congressional contest.

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VA - Mojo Presents: You Gotta Move! The Rock & Soul Sounds Of Muscle Shoals, Alabama (2021) Music

Posted by delpotro at Aug. 24, 2024

THIS MONTH’S COVERMOUNT CD tips the wink to Sticky Fingers, and celebrates the R&B and roots nuggets spawned by little old Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Stars: Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, Gregg Allman, Bettye Lavette, Drive-By Truckers, Jason Isbell and more!

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«Devil's Gamble» by Michele Arris eBooks & eLearning

Posted by Gelsomino at Sept. 20, 2019

«Devil's Gamble» by Michele Arris
English | ISBN: 9781507207048 | EPUB | 0.4 MB

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Lucero - 1372 Overton Park (2009) Music

Posted by v3122 at Feb. 11, 2016

Lucero - 1372 Overton Park (2009)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
Universal Republic, B0013413-02 | ~ 318 or 110 Mb | Scans(jpg) -> 41 Mb
Alternative Rock / Grunge / Stoner Rock

1372 Overton Park might be Lucero's major-label debut, but the Memphis-based band retains all of their rough-and-tumble indie charms. Gruff-voiced frontman Ben Nichols still sings about people with dead-end lives: the type of characters whose "heroes are the losing kind." But Nichols definitely finds ways to make these troubled souls compelling…

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VA - Chains And Black Exhaust (2002) Music

Posted by Rtax at May 21, 2024

VA - Chains And Black Exhaust (2002)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 318 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 122 MB
52:58 | Psychedelic, Funk | Label: Memphix

Aged rock critic Richard Meltzer once said that writing about music is much harder today than it was in the 60s. He said that back then, there probably weren't 20 great bands in the world, so it was much easier to cover the scene comprehensively. I'd say he was reducing the issue a tad (especially in light of sets like Nuggets), but there is a kernel of wisdom in his observation. In 1967, Jimi Hendrix almost single-handedly rallied troupes from rock, pop, blues, jazz and soul on both sides of the Atlantic with his psychedelic call to arms, Are You Experienced?. In one fell swoop, he united the sounds of acts ranging from James Brown to The Beatles, and proved that young black men had as much a claim to rock's budding authenticity as any English mop tops. This could never happen again, as ironically, people like Hendrix contributed to a splintering of scenes and sounds that made common threads almost impossible to find (or wind) thereafter.

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