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This guy also wrote a book about why he sued Taylor Swift for not being his girlfriend. I'm conflicted because I don't want to give this dude money but I really, really want to read his trash book.
https://www.amazon.com/Why-Sued-Taylor-Swift-Frivolous/dp/069297010X
This is a good, long book about the origins and discovery of some of the newer, more confusing diseases. The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance The title is more clickbait-y than the actual work.
Of course! It’s a book by Lin-Manuel Miranda (writer of the play and the guy who plays Hamilton). It’s basically the book of the play but with more info and facts.
I don’t know where you’re from so I went with the USA but you can most likely find it on the amazon of your country as well:
What's helped me is Hamilton the Podcast and LMM's book Hamilton the Revolution (which I now am seeing that I paid a lot more for at my local bookstore than it is on Amazon. Trying here!)
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/hamilton-the-podcast/id1087073710?mt=2
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The book I believe is already written but when they had a falling out, it was doomed on release. Release date was originally March 2016 then got pushed back to 2017. Amazon shows a release of 12/31/2035. Flip-Side is the title.
This is the one I have and it's still retailing for $45-60 CAD. Worth every penny tho.
> the book is called "Hamilton the revolution" by Lin Manuel Miranda
The book is $23.69...
> i forgot too say we cant watch the play as i currently cant afford disney+. And even if we could, my daughter would still want the book
A month costs $8, can't your daughter get that with her birthday money if you can't?
Buddy. YTA. That book is 23.99 dollars on Amazon for a hard cover book.
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Massive YTA. Persy jackson lighting thief is 20 dollars on Amazon.
"Expensive" give me a break.
Coursera has some free statistics courses as well. They’re fast paced and skip over some stuff but it can help guide them with side research. I have the Humongous Book of Statistics: https://www.amazon.com/Humongous-Book-Statistics-Problems-Books/dp/1592578659/ref=mp_s_a_1_16?crid=2CW6P82RP6I7O&keywords=statistics+practice+workbook&qid=1652071796&sprefix=statistics+practice%2Caps%2C140&sr=8-16 Having a paper copy is helpful.
I also got a coursehero subscription which can be cheating and some info can be wrong but I found it helpful just looking over different students’ methods and conclusions.
Also recommend Khan Academy. And any free textbook on Bookdown.
That is absolutely going to happen. The depth and nuance on this show. Soon, it’ll be listed here for great minds to ponder:
https://www.amazon.com/Popular-Culture-and-Philosophy-125-book-series/dp/B0897GS1YK
He literally hoped that AIDS (which was initially called GRID) would kill the "undesirables." It wasn't until it started to affect the "normal" folks that he gave the CDC funding. Previously he had directed the CDC to focus on Legionnaires disease.
It's not a cheap book but if you ever want an amazing read there's a chapter in this book just on the botched response to HIV. It's got so much more then just that as well. Learned a lot about Lassa fever. Anyway, amazing book and really showed me the absolute fuck ups in handling the HIV epidemic. Unsurprisingly, there was quite a bit of racism involved as well. And btw, The Band Plays On is not very accurate.
Well then you're in for a treat if you haven't dug into any of Sam Shepard's plays. Check out this collection: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.amazon.com/Sam-Shepard-Starving-Turista-Tongues/dp/0553346113&ved=2ahUKEwiqlLWB_rP0AhVvlmoFHRmPCUAQFnoECAcQAQ&usg=AOvVaw2FJQgGjRaBZGggUfCnDpWo
I really like Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn. It has pages here and there "for the partner" and my husband has read it alongside me. He found all the books out there geared towards dads to be immature and idiotic. This is up to date and covers all the stages without being too much of any one thing, i.e. a pregnancy book, a labor partner book, or a newborn book.
If you are a newbie and a fan of stuff, there's a series called "Pop Culture and Philosophy" that starts with some pretty famous properties and discusses some ideas related to those.
> and they’re covered in mouse droppings.
Viruses: you've heard of Hanta Virus
https://www.cdc.gov/hantavirus/index.html
This book from about 1995 predicted Coronavirus:
https://www.amazon.com/Coming-Plague-Emerging-Diseases-Balance/dp/0140250913
It starts with a mouse born virus that makes a whole bunch of CDC scientists Dog Sick--thankfully they did not bring it back to USA back then, and that is only because they were scientists who knew that would be bad. Really bad.
NO!
It is funny, but I enjoyed the Hamilton Revolution book more than the film. The insight of Miranda’s brain and thoughts made the story more compelling as his life was put into parts of lyrics.
Not only is it more important to listen to the songs first, but there is more emotion, thought, and precision in the recorded music (found in spotify and youtube) than the actual film. This is because, obviously, it was live recorded. The movement and pauses create a different sense of storyline that has to match what you are seeing, though, the music by itself creates such imagery in your head.
As my film production professor always says, there is a reason why silent films no longer exist and radio still does. Sound is the most important part of a film, a film could be horrible but if the sound is amazing, it is capable of winning awards.
Listening to the musical by itself through spotify, as I do every single day lol, gives you the same effect as watching the film. In fact, you lose key moments watching the film since the lyrics are carefully written to stand on its own. Hence, the reason they released the recorded music FIRST.
The musical film has the same style as Daft Punk’s Discovery Album.
Every song covers a part of the story, just that in Hamilton, the lyrics stand alone compared to Daft Punk’s songs.
Nevertheless, the film is good, but not as good as the best thing you can own if you like Hamilton,
...do you remember the guy who used to get posted on here all the time who said that because he has a disability it should be considered a hate crime for any woman to refuse to date him?
He also tried to sue Taylor Swift for not writing a song with him. And then he wrote a book about it.
I mostly read modern stuff so I can benefit from the lessons in how to write dialogue.
Some of my fave playwrights are Sam Shepard, Patrick Shanley, Harold Pinter, David Mamet of course..
The play collection I'm reading now is "Outstanding Short Plays" (from Dramatist Play Service).
There's just so much good stuff, (it would be like recommending one movie to watch) I'd just go to the bookstore and go to the drama section flip through stuff and read a page here and there and see what speaks to you.
This is one of my fave books I gotta say though:
Assuming this is true (big grain of salt, though I'd love for it to happen), I wonder if the booklet will include any of the text from that book he wrote about her that never wound up being published.
If you check out the comments on the song on http://genius.com/7860613 you'll see Lin confirms the homage and the call to JRB.
If you like this, check out the rest of the stuff for Hamilton on Genius. It really is amazing. Or check out https://www.amazon.com/Hamilton-Revolution-Lin-Manuel-Miranda/dp/1478913649 and get all of Lin's thoughts on the songs.
I saw it a few months ago and avoided the soundtrack altogether and understood everything fine. However, my dad didn't think he'd be able to follow so I got him the Hamilton book and he read it as if it were a play. He loved doing that because the songs and melodies were still a mystery, but he knew the plot.
I'm looking forward to my birthday (May 22nd) just because I'm asking for the Hamiltome as a present, and I'm really excited to get it.
I'm also looking forward to the new seasons of America's Got Talent and Project Runway this summer.
Oh, and I'm really looking forward to the Tony Awards, and hoping that Hamilton wins most of them, since they definitely deserve it! (And I can't wait to see what James Corden is like as the host, too.)
I think everyone in this thread would be well served to read Laurie Garrett's "The Coming Plague" and Robert Preston's "The Hot Zone".
Prenatal yoga helped me the most. You learn lots of laboring positions and even do labor practice in class (i.e., getting yourself into an extremely uncomfortable position like sitting on your toes and practicing breathing through it). I had a natural birth and used a bunch of the different yoga poses I learned during labor, and I also used them as a way to get my baby in position before birth (which I credit with giving me a short labor.)
The other thing that really helped me was Penny Simpkin's book, Pregnancy, Childbirth and the Newborn It has a lot of information about labor and different natural pain relief techniques. I had bookmarked the crap out of this book and made my partner read it a couple of times.
I, too, am surprised by the lack of availability of this play. If it's not in a school or public library, the compilation is available for a reasonable price at Amazon.
The Coming Plague by Laurie Garrett
It's my favorite non-fiction book and it pushed me into being pre-med in college. Obviously not about the Cold War (although some of it takes places during then) but it's really well researched and fascinating.