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The Courage of Composers and the Tyranny of Taste
Reflections on New Music
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Bálint András Varga is perhaps the world's most respected interviewer of living composers. For The Courage of Composers and the Tyranny of Taste: Reflections on New Music, Varga has confronted thirty-three composers with quotations carefully chosen to elicit their thoughts about an issue that is...
by David B. Hinton
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2000
After considerable controversy over the bold appraisal of Riefenstahl in his first two editions, Hinton continues to celebrate the life and films of this brilliant woman in the absence of the repetitious clichés that so often accompany a discussion of such a controversial filmmaker.
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The Memoirs of the Rt. Hon. Lester B. Pearson, Volume Two: 1948-1957
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
One of Canada’s most dynamic prime ministers, Lester B. Pearson lived a life which took him from a childhood in rural Ontario to the apex of international politics. In the second volume of his memoirs, he provides a first-person account of the busy and challenging decade that followed his entry...
The Cultural Politics of Slam Poetry
Race, Identity, and the Performance of Popular Verse in America
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
"For a lucid and thorough 'real-world' analysis of the movement from the ground-up--including its history, aesthetics, and culture, there is surely no better place to start than Somers-Willett's trailblazing book."
--- Jerome Sala, Pleiades
"Finally, a clear, accurate, and thoroughly...
With the Old Breed
At Peleliu and Okinawa
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
“Eugene Sledge became more than a legend with his memoir, With The Old Breed. He became a chronicler, a historian, a storyteller who turns the extremes of the war in the Pacific—the terror, the camaraderie, the banal and the extraordinary—into terms we mortals can grasp.”—Tom Hanks
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by Odie B. Faulk
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 1993
The surrender of the great Apache leader Geronimo to U.S Army Lieutenant Charles B. Gatewood in August of 1886 brought to an end a struggle that had begun in the early years of the century, and had figured prominently in the western campaign of the Civil War. The words addressed by Gatewood to Geronimo...
How to Read the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence
A Simple Guide to Understanding the United States Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
Have you ever wanted to read the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence and really understand what they’re saying?
Learn how they impact your life; your rights and freedoms? How the branches of government were formed, and why?
You’re not alone. Millions of Americans want...
by Maj. Seth W. B. Folsom, USMC
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2006
****Winner of the 2007 Military Writers Society of America's Gold Medal Award for Best Memoir****The Highway War is the compelling Iraq War memoir of then-Capt. Seth Folsom, commanding officer of Delta Company, First Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, U.S. Marine Corps. Mounted in eight-wheeled...
Scipio Africanus
Greater Than Napoleon
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2004
From one of the most brilliant military historians of our time, this is the classic biography of Rome's greatest general and the victor over Rome's greatest enemy, Hannibal
Scipio Africanus (236-183 B.C.) was one of the most exciting and dynamic leaders in history. As commander, he never lost...
by John B. Firth
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2017
When Julius Cæsar died, there were two men who could have succeeded him: Antonius and Augustus.
For a while it seemed as though both could rule together, but when Antonius started his affair with Cleopatra, his hold on the reigns of Rome grew weaker and allowed Augustus to take control.
A...
The Politically Correct University
Problems, Scope, and Reforms
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
The Politically Correct University shows how the universities' quest for 'diversity' has produced in too many departments a stifling uniformity of thought. Required reading for those who want American universities to eschew political correctness." — Michael Barone, resident fellow, American Enterprise Institute
by Ida B. Wells
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
A shocking and powerful account of lynching written by activist, journalist, and former slave Ida B. Wells
In the postbellum American South, lynching was a frightfully common occurrence, perpetrated so frequently that most Southern politicians and leaders turned a blind eye to the practice....
The Great Raid on Cabanatuan
Rescuing the Doomed Ghosts of Bataan and Corregidor
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2008
From the critically acclaimed author whom The Wall Street Journal called "a first-class historian," here is a riveting account of one of the most spectacular rescue operations in history. On January 30, 1945, American troops staged a successful raid on Cabanatuan, a notorious Japanese POW...
The Last Plantagenet
The Pageant of England, Vol. 4
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
There are periods in history when things are seen dimly as through a veil. Such were the years from 1377 to 1485. During this time the Chronicles were silent and the sources of information few. And yet these were eventful years, filled with important, strange, colorful and sometimes mystifying events....