Timothy: 2930 books
It's Just the Normal Noises
Marcus, Guralnick, No Depression, and the Mystery of Americana Music
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Roots rock, Americana, alt country: what are they and why do they matter? Americans have been trying to answer these questions for as long as the music bearing these labels has existed. Music can function as an escape from the outside world or as an explanation of that world. Listeners who identify...
Funky Nassau
Roots, Routes, and Representation in Bahamian Popular Music
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
This book examines the role music has played in the formation of the political and national identity of the Bahamas. Timothy Rommen analyzes Bahamian musical life as it has been influenced and shaped by the islands’ location between the United States and the rest of the Caribbean; tourism; and Bahamian...
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...
by Timothy Rodgers
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2017
In these letters I try to find closure in with those I have lost along the way in life. All 13 of those who have letters addressed to them are still alive as far as I know.
These are here because I would never get the chance to say any of it otherwise.
Singing in Czech
A Guide to Czech Lyric Diction and Vocal Repertoire
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
Timothy Cheek’s revised edition of Singing in Czech: A Guide to Czech Lyric Diction and Vocal Repertoire, with its accompanying audio accessible online, builds on the original pioneering work of 2001 that set “a new and very welcome high standard for teaching lyric diction,” according to Notes:...
The Cure For Everything
Untangling Twisted Messages about Health, Fitness, and Happiness
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
In this era of health-science research, rarely a day goes by without a public pronouncement of some exciting health-enhancing discovery: a new diet, a new fitness routine, a new drug or alternative therapy, the miracles achieved by genetic mapping. And we are told—by the media, health-care experts,...
Sharpie Art Workshop
Techniques and Ideas for Transforming Your World
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Bold and sharp, brilliant and vivid, Sharpie markers can be found in art, office, and stationery supply stores, drugstores, mass-market and crafts chains - almost anywhere writing utensils are sold. Sharpies can be used on virtually any surface, from the traditional (paper and canvas) to the unexpected...
by Timothy Sprinkle
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
It’s time to put the Valley in your rearview mirror. Destination: New Startup America. Next stop: Las Vegas.In this companion eBook to Screw the Valley, Timothy Sprinkle highlights Las Vegas, one of seven cities that offers superior landscapes for tech startups.With brand new, city-specific content,...
Citizen Hollywood
How the Collaboration between LA and DC Revolutionized American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
To most Americans, Hollywood activism consists of self-obsessed movie stars promoting their pet causes, whether defending marijuana legalization or Second Amendment rights. There's some truth in that stereotype, and in this book you'll find the close personal friends of Fidel Castro, the wannabe cowboys,...
Black Earth
The Holocaust as History and Warning
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
A brilliant, haunting, and profoundly original portrait of the defining tragedy of our time.
In this epic history of extermination and survival, Timothy Snyder presents a new explanation of the great atrocity of the twentieth century, and reveals the risks that we face in the twenty-first....
by May, Timothy
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2007
The Mongol armies that established the largest land empire in history, stretching across Asia and into eastern Europe, are imperfectly understood. Often they are viewed as screaming throngs of horsemen who swept over opponents by sheer force of numbers rather than as disciplined regiments that carried...
by Timothy May
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
The Mongol Empire can be seen as marking the beginning of the modern age, and of globalization as well. While communications between the extremes of Eurasia existed prior to the Mongols, they were infrequent and often through intermediaries. As this new book by Timothy May shows, the rise of the Mongol...
George H. W. Bush
The American Presidents Series: The 41st President, 1989-1993
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2007
The judicious statesman who won victories abroad but suffered defeat at home, whose wisdom and demeanor served America well at a critical time
George Bush was a throwback to a different era. A patrician figure not known for eloquence, Bush dismissed ideology as "the vision thing."...
Champion Hill
Decisive Battle for Vicksburg
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2004
The Mississippi battle between Grant’s and Pemberton’s forces that sealed Vicksburg’s fate.
The Battle of Champion Hill was the decisive land engagement of the Vicksburg Campaign. The fighting on May 16, 1863, took place just twenty miles east of the river city, where the advance of Gen....