Ronald: 2667 books
Boston Against Busing
Race, Class, and Ethnicity in the 1960s and 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Perhaps the most spectacular reaction to court-ordered busing in the 1970s occurred in Boston, where there was intense and protracted protest. Ron Formisano explores the sources of white opposition to school desegregation. Racism was a key factor, Formisano argues, but racial prejudice alone cannot...
by Ronald Coleman
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2003
The Author examines the current state of the Canadian Forces, after what he describes as four decades of malignant neglect, and concludes that it is not capable of executing the roles and tasks assigned under the government's policy as outlined in the Defence White Paper 1994. Furthermore, he examines...
New Brunswick
An Illustrated History
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
Originally the land of the Maliseet, Mi'kmaq, and Passamaquoddy, New Brunswick has a colourful and significant history. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the province was settled by marsh workers and farmers from northwestern France and thousands of Loyalist refugees from a newly independent...
Born to Run
Origins of the Political Career
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2003
What makes young aspiring politicians take the leap and enter the electoral arena? Born to Run tells the stories of nine young politicians from all walks of life who enter races at the state and local levels in Wisconsin, Oklahoma, Georgia, Nebraska, and Maine. Across the board, Gaddie finds a great...
Folk City
New York and the American Folk Music Revival
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
From Washington Square Park and the Gaslight Café to WNYC Radio and Folkways Records, New York City's cultural, artistic, and commercial assets helped to shape a distinctively urban breeding ground for the folk music revival of the 1950s and 60s. Folk City explores New York's central role in fueling...
by Ronald Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Folk Music: The Basics gives a brief introduction to British and American folk music. Drawing upon the most recent and relevant scholarship, it will focus on comparing and contrasting the historical nature of the three aspects of understanding folk music: traditional, local performers; professional...
by James C. Olson, Ronald C. Naugle, John J. Montag
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
History of Nebraska was originally created to mark the territorial centennial of Nebraska and then revised to coincide with the statehood centennial. This one-volume history quickly became the standard text for the college student and reference for the general reader, unmatched for generations as...
by Ronald Kessler
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
New York Times bestselling author reveals the FBI’s most closely guarded secrets, with an insider look at the bureau’s inner workings and intelligence investigations.
Based on inside access and hundreds of interviews with federal agents, the book presents an unprecedented, authoritative...
Mrs Zigzag
The Extraordinary Life of a Secret Agent's Wife
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
When Betty Farmer married double agent Eddie Chapman, Agent Zigzag, she knew her life would never be ordinary. Yet even before her marriage to Eddie, her life involved incendiary bombs, serial killers, film roles and love affairs with flying aces. After her marriage, she coped with Eddie’s mistresses,...
Segregating Sound
Inventing Folk and Pop Music in the Age of Jim Crow
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2010
In Segregating Sound, Karl Hagstrom Miller argues that the categories that we have inherited to think and talk about southern music bear little relation to the ways that southerners long played and heard music. Focusing on the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth, Miller chronicles how...
Beyond Exoticism
Western Music and the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2007
In Beyond Exoticism, Timothy D. Taylor considers how western cultures’ understandings of racial, ethnic, and cultural differences have been incorporated into music from early operas to contemporary television advertisements, arguing that the commonly used term “exoticism” glosses over such differences...
Myth, Meaning and Performance
Toward a New Cultural Sociology of the Arts
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
The cultural and performative turns in social theory have enlivened sociology. For the first time these new developments are fully integrated into new approaches to the sociology of the arts in this important new book. Building on the established research into art worlds, what is interesting for the...
by Ronald Ritter & Sussan Evermore
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2018
Whitney Houston is one of the best-selling musical artists of all times. Her career, personal life and marriage to the high profile singer Bobby Brown is well documented. This amazing talent sadly passed away on February 9th, 2012 at the young age of forty eight, her lifestyle and better judgement...
by Ronald Ritter & Sussan Evermore
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2019
Michael Jackson is undoubtedly one of the most recognizable and iconic figures of the twentieth century. A musical genius of song, sound and dance with each period of his life identifiable by its own creative ground breaking style. If you were on planet earth from the early sixties to the late nineties...