Steve Olson Knihy

Historická monografie a kulturní kritika vývoje punk rocku od legendárního zpěváka a skladatele Bad Religion. Kniha je vhledem do historie kapely a punkového hnutí od člověka, který scéně dominoval více než 40 let. Graffin podrobně zkoumá paradoxní prvky, které žánr punku definují – vliv popu, snaha o zlepšení společnosti, sjednocující síla hudby. Analytický přístup však nijak nesráží vyznění knihy jako pocty duchu punku, který „není mrtev“, ale je stále schopen zpochybňovat konvence, vyvracet mýty a zbavovat okovů indoktrinace. Greg Graffin je zpěvákem, skladatelem a jediným stálým členem Bad Religion, nedávno popisované jako „nejvýznamnější americká punková kapela“. Od svého založení v Los Angeles v roce 1980 Bad Religion vyprodukovali 18 studiových alb, stali se dlouhotrvající globální turistickou velmocí a vytvořili trvalé dědictví jako jedna z nejvlivnějších punkrockových kapel všech dob.

Greg Graffin, Frontmann von Bad Religion und Evolutionsbiologe, verbindet in "War Darwin ein Punk?" Kunst und Wissenschaft. Er reflektiert über seine Jugend und die Entdeckung des Sinns des Lebens durch die Evolution. Das Buch bietet neue Perspektiven zur Debatte über Atheismus und die Existenz Gottes.

Steve Olson erzählt die letzten 150 000 Jahre Menschheitsgeschichte anhand der Informationen, die sich aus unserer DNA ergeben. Seine packende Schilderung räumt mit jedem Rassismus auf. Denn: Die Gene aller Menschen gehen auf eine Urmutter zurück.

“Take one man who rejects authority and religion, and leads a punk band. Take another man who wonders whether vertebrates arose in rivers or in the ocean, is fascinated by evolution, creativity, and Ice Age animals. Put them together, what do you get? Greg Graffin, and this uniquely fascinating book.” —Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs, and SteelAnarchy Evolution is a provocative look at the collision between religion and science, by an author with unique authority: UCLA lecturer in Paleontology, and founding member of Bad Religion, Greg Graffin. Alongside science writer Steve Olson (whose Mapping Human History was a National Book Award finalist), Graffin delivers a powerful discussion sure to strike a chord with readers of Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion or Christopher Hitchens God Is Not Great. In this passionate polemic, Graffin argues that art and science have a deep connection. He describes his own coming-of-age as an artist and the formation of his naturalist worldview over the past three decades. Anarchy Evolution sheds new light on the long-standing debate on religion and the human condition. It is a book for anyone who has ever wondered if God really exists.

A thrilling narrative of scientific triumph, decades of secrecy and the unimaginable destruction wrought by the creation of the atomic bomb

In Population Wars, Greg Graffin points to where the mainstream view of evolutionary theory has led us astray. That misunderstanding has allowed us to justify wars on every level, whether against bacterial colonies or human societies, even when other, less violent solutions may be available.

Greg Olson, author of David Lynch: Beautiful Dark, the essential book on Lynch's life and art, has resided in the Twin Peaks region of the Northwest for decades, and David Lynch spent youthful years in the Northwest; both of their fathers were woodsmen. Lynch believes that the world hums with spirituality, and over a thirty-year span Lynch and Mark Frost created forty-eight hours of Twin Peaks TV and film, hypnotic cinematic music immersed in the depths and divine heights of human nature, an artistic song of the forest, America, the world, the cosmos. David Lynch is an international icon of visionary artistic innovation, humanistic thought and philanthropy, and spiritual exploration, and Twin Peaks: The Return is his magnum opus, a mytho-poetic summation of his deepest beliefs and concerns. Author Olson, in his characteristically intimate and personal way, traces the Twin Peaks currents of Lynch's emotional-visceral storytelling, themes, imagery and sound: the way the artist and viewer share an electrified circuit of mystery and understanding.