Aaron: 2032 books
Montana Americana Music
Boot Stomping in Big Sky Country
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2016
Montana's relationship to Americana music is as wide and deep as the famed Missouri River that inspired countless musicians seated at its shores. From the fiddling of Pierre Cruzatte and George Gibson in the Corps of Discovery to the modern-day loner folk of Joey Running Crane and Cameron Boster,...
Enrique Granados
Poet of the Piano
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2005
Enrique Granados (1867-1916) is one of the most compelling figures of the late-Romantic period in music. During his return voyage to Spain after the premiere of his opera Goyescas at New York's Metropolitan Opera in 1916, a German submarine torpedoed the ship on which he and his wife were sailing,...
Real Country
Music and Language in Working-Class Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2004
In Lockhart, Texas, a rural working-class town just south of Austin, country music is a way of life. Conversation slips easily into song, and the songs are full of conversation. Anthropologist and musician Aaron A. Fox spent years in Lockhart making research notes, music, and friends. In Real Country,...
by Aaron Berg
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Mr. Manners: Proper Etiquette for the Modern Degenerate is a politically incorrect, satirical manual to living right while doing all the wrong things. If you ever wanted to live on the edge but are afraid of the repercussions of societal judgment, just follow Mr. Manners’ advice and learn how to...
by Aaron Burch
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2010
Ranging from lyrical commands to surreal narratives, Aaron Burch's short fictions swirl with whimsy, meditation, sadness, and hope; blur the line between real and imagined; and focus on loss of lovers, of family members, and even of one's self. From the founder and editor of the literary journal Hobart.
by James Luceno, Timothy Zahn, Michael A. Stackpole
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
The Star Wars novels have been expanding the universe of this popular epic for decades. Now ten thrilling, action-packed classics have been collected in one convenient eBook bundle, a perfect introduction to the vibrant and varied eras of Star Wars history, past and future. With a rich cast of characters...
Pittsylvania County, Virginia
A Brief History
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Queen of Virginia's tobacco-producing counties, one of the top five fossil sites in the world, home to heroes, adventurers, counterfeiters and innovators...Pittsylvania County's lush, rolling farmland has seen a host of significant events and personalities throughout its nearly three centuries. Join...
Why Confederates Fought
Family and Nation in Civil War Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2009
In the first comprehensive study of the experience of Virginia soldiers and their families in the Civil War, Aaron Sheehan-Dean captures the inner world of the rank-and-file. Utilizing new statistical evidence and first-person narratives, Sheehan-Dean explores how Virginia soldiers--even those who...
by Aaron Merritt Hills
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
From the preface: This sketch of Dr. Bresee’s life was written by request of the publishers. Why they asked me to write it I do not know. Of course I had constantly to draw upon the biography of this noble man, written by his intimate and much loved friend Rev. E. A. Girvin. That is a great book,...
Striking Back
The 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and Israel's Deadly Response
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2007
The first full account, based on access to key players who have never before spoken, of the Munich Massacre and the Israeli response–a lethal, top secret, thirty-year-long antiterrorism campaign to track down the killers.
1972. The Munich Olympics. Palestinian members of the Black September group...
Palazzos of Power
Central Stations of the Philadelphia Electric Company, 1900-1930
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
"If it isn't Electric, it isn't Modern." Such was the slogan of the Philadelphia Electric Company, developer of an unprecedented network of massive metropolitan power stations servicing greater Philadelphia at the turn of the twentieth century. These once-brilliant sentinels of civic utility...
Sting and The Police
Walking in Their Footsteps
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
During the 1980s, when pop icons like Madonna, Bruce Springsteen, Michael Jackson, and U2 reigned supreme, many regarded The Police as the biggest band in the world. Yet after only five albums—and at the peak of their popularity—The Police disbanded and Sting began a solo career that made him...
The Trouble with Pleasure
Deleuze and Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
An investigation into the strange and troublesome relationship to pleasure that defines the human being, drawing on the disparate perspectives of Deleuze and Lacan.
Is pleasure a rotten idea, mired in negativity and lack, which should be abandoned in favor of a new concept of desire? Or is...
The Disappearance of Literature
Blanchot, Agamben, and the Writers of the No
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
In this book Aaron Hillyer considers the implications of Maurice Blanchot's strange formulation: "Literature is heading to its essence, which is its disappearance." This quest leads Hillyer to stage a dialogue between the works of Blanchot and Giorgio Agamben. Despite being primary points...