A little monkey doesn't want to go to bed. He dances through the jungle chanting ' Can't Catch Me!' so of course all the other animals try to do just that. You have never heard such a hallooing, & hollering, not to mention wallumphing & grazumping! But the little monkey is much too quick for everyone
- except his mum!
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Hip-Hop is now a global multi-billion pound industry. It has spawned superstars all across the world. There have been tie-in clothing lines, TV stations, film companies, cosmetics lines. It even has its own sports, its own art style, its own dialect. It is an all-encompassing lifestyle.

But where did it all begin? Who created it? How did it become such a phenomenon?

Jeff Chang, an American journalist, has written the most comprehensive book on Hip-Hop to date. He introduces the major players who came up with the ideas that form the basic elements of the culture. He describes how it all began with social upheavals in Jamaica, the Bronx, the Black Belt of Long Island & South Central LA. He not only provides a history of the music, but a fascinating insight into the social background of young black America.

Stretching from the early 70s through to the present day, this is the definitive history of Hip-Hop. It will be essential reading for all DJs, B-Boys, MCs & anyone with an interest in the history of America.





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Hip-hop is now a global multi-billion pound industry. It has spawned superstars all across the world. There have been tie-in clothing lines, TV stations, film companies, cosmetics lines. It even has its own sports, its own art style, its own dialect. It is an all-encompassing lifestyle.

But where did it all begin? Who created it? How did it become such a phenomenon?

Jeff Chang, an American journalist, has written the most comprehensive book on hip-hop to date. He introduces the major players who came up with the ideas that form the basic elements of the culture. He describes how it all began with social upheavals in Jamaica, the Bronx, the Black Belt of Long Island & South Central LA. He not only provides a history of the music, but a fascinating insight into the social background of young black America.

Stretching from the early 70s through to the present day, this is the definitive history of hip-hop. It will be essential reading for all DJs, B-Boys, MCs & anyone with an interest in the history of America.





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What are the causes of cancer, & is there a cure for this most devastating of diseases? Why is it that some parts of the world show a dramatic rise in the cancer rate of those under 25? Why is bowel cancer incidence substantially higher in Scotland than in the rest of Britain? & why is the UK incidence of cancer the second highest in the world? These & other vital questions are discussed in Cancer & Leukaemia: An Alternative Approach. ...

One of the great allegorical masterpieces of world literature, Cancer Ward is both a deeply compassionate study of people facing terminal illness & a brilliant dissection of the 'cancerous' Soviet police state. Withdrawn from publication in Russia in 1964, it became, along with One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, a work that awoke the conscience of the world. As Robert Service wrote of its appeal in the Independent, ' In waging his struggle against Soviet communism, Solzhenitsyn the novelist preferred the rapier to the cudgel'. ...

' There is only heroin, there is only Candy, the three of us adrift on the endless sea of love. '



Candy



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