Herb: 151 books
by Herb Tyson
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
In-depth guidance on Word 2010 from a Microsoft MVP
Microsoft Word 2010 arrives with many changes and improvements, and this comprehensive guide from Microsoft MVP Herb Tyson is your expert, one-stop resource for it all. Master Word's new features such as a new interface and customized Ribbon,...
Don't You Believe It!
Exposing the Myths Behind Commonly Believed Fallacies
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Our cherished culturally shared beliefs stem from a variety of sources, many of which propagate old wives’ tales, myths, self-serving fantasies, innocent fallacies, or sheer nonsense. History is replete with stories of great men and events that either never happened or didn’t happen the way we...
Basketball and Life
A Collection of Sing-Song Poetry Based on Growing up in Brownsville, Brooklyn and a Six-Decades Career as Official Scorer in the Aba & Nba, Including Works on Such Players as Julius “Dr. J” Erving, Shaquille O’Neal and Michael Jordan.
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2010
Utilizing the myriad of experiences and people he has met and worked with in a six-decades career as the Official Scorer for the New Jersey Nets of the NBA, Herb Turetzky has authored a collection of poems which will make the reader feel as if he/she is actually taking part in this wonderful life,...
Baldwin's Harlem
A Biography of James Baldwin
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2008
Baldwin's Harlem is an intimate
portrait of the life and genius of one
of our most brilliant literary minds:
James Baldwin.
Perhaps no other writer is as synonymous with Harlem as James Baldwin (1924-1987). The events there that shaped his youth greatly influenced Baldwin's work, much of which...
Glorious Days and Nights
A Jazz Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Glorious Days and Nights is a personal account of the fifty-year career of jazz photographer Herb Snitzer, with a special focus on his years in New York City from 1957 to 1964. A photojournalist for Life, Look, and Fortune, Snitzer was the photo editor and later associate editor of the influential...
Jazz on My Mind
Liner Notes, Anecdotes and Conversations from the 1940s to the 2000s
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
Dr. Herb Wong (1926–2014) was an internationally recognized jazz industry leader and the author of more than 400 liner notes from the 1940s through the early 2000s. He reviewed not only the tracks on those albums but the artists and their eras as well. This book features the best of Wong’s liner...
Walking in the Woods
A Métis Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
An updated edition of Herb Belcourt’s remarkable life story with a brand-new foreword by the author.
The eldest of ten children, Belcourt grew up in a small log home near the Métis settlement of Lac Ste. Anne during the Depression. His father purchased furs from local First Nations and Métis...
To and from Gigs
Challenges, Choices, Chances, Changes
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
Herb Hicks is an artist who understands the fear behind painting a self-portrait but who also appreciates that a candid recounting of events in life can provide an emotional catharsis. It is with this theory in mind that he shares his fascinating personal experiences and insight into his views as...
Black Detroit
A People's History of Self-Determination
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
NAACP 2017 Image Award Finalist
2018 Michigan Notable Books honoree
The author of Baldwin’s Harlem looks at the evolving culture, politics, economics, and spiritual life of Detroit—a blend of memoir, love letter, history, and clear-eyed reportage that explores the city’s past,...
Marine Recruit
Tears in the Sand
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
Marine Recruit: Tears in the Sand is an epic novel of a Marine Corps boot camp (San Diego); a compelling, unabridged account of recruit training as told by the drill instructor. Author of chronicles of a marine rifleman, retired first sergeant, Herb Brewer, USMC, now brings to life this outstanding,...
Autobiography of a People
Three Centuries of African American History Told by Those Who Lived It
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
Autobiography of a People is an insightfully assembled anthology of eyewitness accounts that traces the history of the African American experience. From the Middle Passage to the Million Man March, editor Herb Boyd has culled a diverse range of voices, both famous and ordinary, to creat a unique...
Speaking in the Past Tense
Canadian Novelists on Writing Historical Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2009
“Speaking in the Past Tense participates in an expanding critical dialogue on the writing of historical fiction, providing a series of reflections on the process from the perspective of those souls intrepid enough to step onto what is, practically by definition, contested territory.”
—...
Anne of Tim Hortons: Globalization and the Reshaping of Atlantic-Canadian Literature
Globalization and the Reshaping of Atlantic-Canadian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2011
Anne of Tim Hortons: Globalization and the Reshaping of Atlantic-Canadian Literature is a study of the work of over twenty contemporary Atlantic-Canadian writers that counters the widespread impression of Atlantic Canada as a quaint and backward place. By examining their treatment of work, culture,...
by Herb Montgomery
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Herb Montgomery goes straight to the root of several moral dilemmas and sweeps aside the misperceptions of God and His character that cause us to spurn the only one who truly loves us.