Charles Garcia: 14 books

Miley Cyrus is a popular American actress and singer. Her father is country music star Billy Ray Cyrus. Miley enrolled in the Armstrong Acting School of Toronto when she was nine and was soon cast in small roles, varying from television shows like Doc to the 2003 Tim Burton movie Big Fish. Miley eventually...

Avril Lavigne is a Canadian singer/songwriter. At just 17 years old (2002), Lavigne broke onto the music scene with her debut album Let Go.   Since her professional debut she has sold more than 30 million albums and over 50 million singles worldwide, making her the youngest female...

Evanescence is an American rock band founded in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1995 by singer/pianist Amy Lee and guitarist Ben Moody. After recording independent albums, the band released their first full-length album, Fallen, on Wind-up Records in 2003.   Fallen sold more than 17...

Lita Ford is an American musician and songwriter. When she was eleven, and when she was sixteen, she was invited to join the group, The Runaways. “The Runaways” made up of teenage girls. However, by the late 70s, interpersonal issues between the group members, and problems with the band's management,...

Katy Perry is an American singer-songwriter and musician. Perry was brought up in a strict Christian home, listening only to Christian music.   Perry's first record was an unsuccessful self-titled gospel album released in 2001. Perry released her first internet single "Ur...

Will Ferrell is an American comedian, actor, and writer. Ferrell is best known for his many comic movies and his years as a sketch comedy artist on Saturday Night Live.   Ferrell became interested in acting during his high school year's, creating comic voices for the school's...

Miley Cyrus became a TV star at the age of 13 as the title character in the Disney Channel series Hannah Montana. After a series of auditions that began when she was 11, Cyrus landed the lead role of Hannah Montana, a teen pop star who leads a double life as an average schoolgirl. The show was a hit...

Alice Cooper is an American rock singer, songwriter, and musician. He has been called "The Godfather of Shock Rock". Furnier moved to Phoenix, Arizona and formed his band. Their first success came with the hit "I'm Eighteen" in 1971.   In 1972 perhaps the band's...

Jerry Garcia (1942-1995) is an American icon. The guitarist and de facto leader of the Grateful Dead was a gregarious talker, keenly engaged with the new world exploding around him. In 1972, Garcia was visited by Charles Reich, a Yale law professor, and Jann Wenner, the founder of Rolling Stone. Garcia...

Considered one of the nation's most competitive and prestigious fellowships, the White House Fellowship program has produced an impressive roster of American leaders. The men and women of this select group spend an entire year working alongside top decision makers inside the nexus of global power....

Discussions of key ethical dilemmas in mental health care, including consent, trauma and violence, addiction, confidentiality, and therapeutic boundaries. This book discusses some of the most critical ethical issues in mental health care today, including the moral dimensions of addiction, patient...

Ce troisième numéro de la collection Cabaret de curiosités se penche sur la notion de storytelling appliquée aux arts de la scène. Inédit de Rodrigo García ; textes et entretiens de Hughes Jallon, Christian Salmon, Béatrice Picon-Vallin, Gunnar B. Kvaran, Benjamin Dupé, Charles Pennequin...

Plan and Implement Hadoop Virtualization for Maximum Performance, Scalability, and Business Agility   Enterprises running Hadoop must absorb rapid changes in big data ecosystems, frameworks, products, and workloads. Virtualized approaches can offer important advantages in speed, flexibility,...

This book provides the tools to understand the issues related to bio-based concretes using lime as binder. Themes covered include specific properties of lignocellulosic aggregates (density, porosity, size distribution, water absorption, microstructure, soluble components under alkaline conditions),...