Howard: 4650 books
61 Minutes in Munich
Liverpool FC's First Black Footballer
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
In April 1981, Howard Gayle was summoned from the substitutes' bench and sent on to play for Liverpool in the second leg of a European Cup semi-final at German champions Bayern Munich. The previous October, by filling the same role at Manchester City, he became the first black footballer in Liverpool's...
by John Howard Reid
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
British DVD suppliers have now released around 700 classic films. This book details some of Britain’s best. Over 400 movies in all are described in either minute detail or in summary form! And the quality (or lack of same) in the DVD transfer is fearlessly indicated. The author's emphasis is on...
Why I Wasn't There
A Soldier's Memoir of World War Ii Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2006
Howard Pierson joined the US Army Air Corps to defend America against the intended exterminators of Europes Jews. However, he flunked navigation school and then repaired heavy-bomber machine guns. After the peace, he edited a GI newspaper in Germany, reported on trials of war criminals, and helped...
Launching a Startup in the Digital Age
You Get What You Work For, Not What You Wish For
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Howard Tullman has successfully founded more than a dozen high-tech businesses in his 50 year career and created more than $1 billion in investor value as well as thousands of new jobs.
Tullman is the CEO of 1871 in Chicago where digital startups get their start. He is also the General...
Once Upon a City
Greensboro, North Carolina’S Second Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
If you love Greensboro, this book is for you. It is a twentieth-century history of our city that was researched and written over a five-year period by Howard Covington Jr., who is a splendid storyteller who makes our leaders, our crises, our successes, our disappointments, our accomplishments all...
Portraits in Jazz
80 Profiles of Jazz Legends, Renegades and Revolutionaries
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Howard Reich has reported on jazz for the Chicago Tribune for almost four decades, and in this time he has met musicians both celebrated and obscure. From his exclusive interviews with Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Lena Horne, and Ella Fitzgerald, to profiles of the early masters like Louis Armstrong,...
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
Cassius Clay vs. the United States of America
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2012
Now an HBO film! Catch the premiere this fall.
In 1966 Muhammad Ali announced his intention to refuse induction into the United States Army as a conscientious objector. This set off a five-year battle that would strip him of his world heavyweight title, bar him from boxing, and nearly send...
by Lynn Howard
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
A creative/hands-on program using music concepts proven successful! Popular with students, incorporating an amount of outlining, notetaking, and portfolio building, also. An approach to listening which will be popular with middle school teachers! Teaching suggestions and ideas to fill a trimester...
The View from the O-Line
Football According to NFL Offensive Linemen and an Uncommon Coach
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
The View from the O-Line is an NFL narrative that has yet to be told, about men who game-in and game-out take grueling physical punishment without the expectation of fame and media attention. These are the men who make up the offensive line.
Howard Mudd spent more than forty years in the NFL,...
by Howard Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011
Hockey Player For Life is a story about a 13 year old can't miss hockey player who misses. The story deals with his rising up after falling down and the subsequent mistakes he makes. The main character, Tom, is his hockey team's best player and he gets invited to be on a all star team in...
"Do You Know...?"
The Jazz Repertoire in Action
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Every night, somewhere in the world, three or four musicians will climb on stage together. Whether the gig is at a jazz club, a bar, or a bar mitzvah, the performance never begins with a note, but with a question. The trumpet player might turn to the bassist and ask, “Do you know ‘Body and Soul’?”—and...
Shylock Is My Name
William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice Retold: A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Man Booker Prize-winner Howard Jacobson brings his singular brilliance to this modern re-imagining of one of Shakespeare’s most unforgettable characters: Shylock
Winter, a cemetery, Shylock. In this provocative and profound interpretation of The Merchant of Venice, Shylock is juxtaposed against...
Down the Highway
The Life of Bob Dylan
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
The acclaimed biography—now updated and revised. “Many writers have tried to probe [Dylan’s] life, but never has it been done so well, so captivatingly” (The Boston Globe).
Howard Sounes’s Down the Highway broke news about Dylan’s fiercely guarded personal life and set the standard...
by John Howard Reid
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
The musicals detailed in this large-format book of 260 pages, range from best-loved movies like "An American in Paris", "The Great Caruso" and "South Pacific"; through personal favorites like "The Band Wagon", "Calamity Jane", "Deep In My Heart",...