Kirby: 517 books

It's a brand new Sarah Vaughan world. 'Sarah Lois Vaughan' (March 27, 1924 – April 3, 1990) was an American jazz vocalist, depicted by Jazz commentator/music commentator Scott Yanow as experiencing one of the most wondrous vocals of the 20th era.[ Allmusic.com] This book is your ultimate resource for...

See the little girl clutching the Teddy Bear? Take an excursion into her childhood to see how she was affected when her parents divorced.

The experience of meaningful coincidences is universal. They are reported by people of every culture, every belief system, and every time period. Synchronicity examines the evidence for the human influence on the meaningfulness of events, and the way the modern computational model of the mind predicts...

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In an increasingly globalized world, place matters more than ever. Nowhere is that more true than in Appalachian studies -- a field which brings scholars, activists, artists, and citizens together around a region to contest misappropriations of resources and power and combat stereotypes of isolation...

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Interestingly, most Americans today—even professional political commentators—misinterpret or misunderstand what the Bill of Rights' intended meaning and purposes were. Culturally ingrained myths about the Bill of Rights have helped to define what it means to be an "American" but also limited the...

In 1989, the prominent organisational culture scholar, Stephen Ott, lamented what he saw as the failure of the organisational culture perspective to have the kind of lasting influence — whether empirical, or in terms of its contribution to practice — that had been hoped for. In attempting to explain...

A fully revised and updated third edition of the most established and innovative historical analysis of the Continental Army and its role in the formation of the new republic. Written by two experts in the field of early U.S. history Includes fully updated coverage of the military, political,...

Most leaders in the Department of Defense (DoD) agree that family resilience is an important construct, yet DoD does not have a standard definition. The authors of this report review existing definitions of family resilience and offer a candidate definition for DoD use. They also review models of...

Napoleon’s invasion of the Iberian Peninsula brought Spain, Portugal, and Britain into a close, if sometimes uneasy alliance. When an expeditionary force led by General Sir Arthur Wellesley, later the 1st Duke of Wellington, disembarked in Portugal in August 1808, the British Army had been at war...

Joe phoned Gramma and insisted Arlene have her own phone. "We're living in the Twentieth Century," he declared. Gramma thought that was extravagant. She offered to relay messages but Joe wouldn't hear of it. He paid for installation in the saddle room. "That's big money," Gramma...

Laura took my arm and I escorted her through a foyer of potted palms and paintings of whale hunts off Lahaina. There was also a painting of Captain Cook’s arrival on the Big Island—outrigger canoes in Kealakekua Bay surrounded the HMS Discovery. A band sang “I Heard It Through the Grapevine”...