This revised and expanded Second Edition of HOW (NOT) TO WRITE A HIT SONG! - 101 COMMON MISTAKES TO AVOID IF YOU WANT SONGWRITING SUCCESS takes a close look at the essential elements consistently found in the structure, melodies, and lyrics of hit songs today.The music industry has been going through major changes in recent years, largely driven by the dominance of the music streaming companies. Streaming is now impacting the way songs are being written and recorde...

"HOW [NOT] TO WRITE SONGS IN THE STREAMING AGE - 40 MISTAKES TO AVOID IF YOU WANT TO GET MORE STREAMS" is the new book by Brian Oliver, author of three 5-star rated books: "SURPRISING RHYMING" ... "HOW [NOT] TO WRITE A HIT SONG! 101 Common Mistakes to Avoid If You Want Songwriting Success" ... and "HOW [NOT] TO WRITE GREAT LYRICS! 40 Common Mistakes to Avoid When Writing Lyrics for Your Songs"."HOW [NOT] TO WRITE SONGS IN THE STREAMING AGE" takes a close look at how music streaming...

How well do you know the Friendly Games?Sports journalist Brian Oliver brings the Commonwealth Games to life with riveting stories of the athletes who have competed over the years. He delves into the best tales of the past and interviews the key protagonists to unveil the highs and lows of this idiosyncratic sporting competition.There is the classic contest between Roger Bannister and John Landy just months after both had at last broken the four-minute mile...

"How [Not] To Write Great Lyrics! – 40 Common Mistakes to Avoid When Writing Lyrics For Your Songs" is the follow-up to Brian Oliver's highly-praised book "How [Not] To Write A Hit Song! - 101 Common Mistakes to Avoid If You Want Songwriting Success"."How [Not] To Write Great Lyrics!" takes a close look at the essential lyrical elements found in the structure of all hit songs. It highlights and analyses the most common errors made when these key components are built into a song, an...

What would YOU give to save the life of a stranger's child? That's the emotive question posed by this heartwarming novel by Brian Will Oliver. With echoes of Nicholas Sparks, GILBERT'S GIFT is a moving tale of selfless courage, a quest for forgiveness, and a Swinging Sixties first love, lost and found again.Inspired by real events, this delightful novel tells the story of sixtysomething Gilbert Shilling who, against his family's wishes, decides to donate one of his lungs in a despe...

Oliver Cromwell has been the subject of books, learned journals, less learned articles, TV and radio programmes, countless times. He has had proponents and opponents. He has been revered and reviled, but far too seldom has he been understood. Perhaps the most scholarly of recent books on the subject is that by Dr Micheál Ó Siochrú (you might find it easier to call him Michael Sugrue) who is a Senior Lecturer in History at Trinity College Dublin. He is a specialist in Seventeenth Century Ir...

A collection of 67 original recordings of speeches significant in United States and world history. Hear presidents, politicians, activists, sports figures and more in their own words as they talk about some of the most important events in the 20th century.

More spine-tingling tales of Lovecraftian horror inspired by the classic novella The Shadow Over Innsmouth**—with stories from Caitlín R. Kiernan, Ramsey Campbell, Brian Lumley, and more**Respected horror anthologist Stephen Jones edits this collection of 17 stories inspired by the 20th century’s master of horror, H.P. Lovecraft’s The Shadow Over Innsmouth, in which a young man goes to an isolated, desolate fishing village in Mass...

This book investigates the extent to which various scholarly labels are appropriate for the work of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. As Louis Menand wrote, “Holmes has been called a formalist, a positivist, a utilitarian, a realist, a historicist, a pragmatist, (not to mention a nihilist).” Each of the eight chapters investigates one label, analyzes the secondary texts that support the use of the term to characterize Holmes’s philosophy, and takes a stand on whether or not the category is approp...

♥ RAVEN AWARDS – Runner up. Man by day, wolf by night. Will enemies become lovers? ♥The Wolf:Lord Hugh de Bar has been taken prisoner by Baron Roland Chaserton, and also cursed by the evil witch, Hecuba. In the dungeons of Tavistock, Hugh’s curse is revealed that he will be man by day and shapeshift into a wolf at night. After managing to escape, he and his brother go back to Castle Babeny where he resides as lord. Hugh vows to kill his captor if it is the last thing he eve...

Noting that a traditional understanding of Paul as “convert” from Judaism has fueled false and often dangerous stereotypes of Judaism, and that the so-called “new perspective on Paul” has not completely escaped these stereotypes, František Ábel has gathered leading international scholars to test the hypotheses of the more recent “Paul within Judaism” movement. Though hardly monolithic in their approach, these scholars’ explorations of specific topics concerning Second Temple Judaism and Pa...

Dies ist die Geschichte von Elizabeth und Pedro. Ohne einander zu kennen, wenden sich beide an den angesehenen Psychiater Brian L. Weiss. Sie wollen ihre tiefen Depressionen und Beziehungsängste überwinden. In seiner Therapie versetzt der auf Reinkarnationstherapie spezialisierte Dr. Weiss die beiden in ihre jeweiligen früheren Leben. Schon bald stellt er fest, dass die Erinnerungen von Elizabeth und Pedro sich auffällig ähneln – sind die beiden Seelengefährten?Eine faszinierende F...