Literary Nonfiction. Art. Film. Music. Twenty years after the murder of The Notorious B.I.G., THE MAN ON HIGH melds the creative and the critical, and questions what legacy means in the 21st century. Contemplating Biggie through the lens of both skateboarding and poetry, Jeff Alessandrelli's THE MAN ON HIGH illuminates how The Notorious B.I.G. will always be rapping in the present tense. "In an era where the imagination is bent on nostalgia, the '90s is the number one fetish object, and events like the OJ Simpson trial and the LA Riots are being rehashed in Adidas track suits and retro band merch (I'm writing this in a Sade t-shirt I bought in a suburb of St. Louis over the summer), to the extent that Kendall Jenner tried to sell t-shirts with photos of Biggie on them with no permission from his estate and played naive when she got shut down, we need the complex sincerity of THE MAN ON HIGH. This is a rare example of a black musician who helped set the tonal landscape for an entire subculture actually being given credit and proper attention and love. You'll come away craving a skateboard and some headphones, and feeling Notorious." --Harmony Holiday "A refreshingly heartfelt and multivalent treatise on influence, inspiration, and individuality, Alessandrelli's THE MAN ON HIGH waxes and melds in tribute to a true cultural icon and iconoclast, the B.I.G., along the way reconsidering the nature of the many frames that give us faith amid an era of 'mere numerical arbitrariness.'"--Blake Butler

Giorgio Vasari's classic work on the lives of Renaissance artists remains a valuable reference for art historians and enthusiasts. With detailed biographies of some of the most celebrated painters, sculptors, and architects of the 16th century, this book offers a fascinating glimpse into the world of Italian art during the Renaissance. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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A history of electricity and electronics, and how the electron at first bothered mankind, then gradually became useful, and now dominates our lives.