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Gangsters of Harlem
The Gritty Underworld of New York's Most Famous Neighborhood
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2007
For the first time in paperback, author Ron Chepesiuk chronicles the little known history of organized crime in Harlem. African American organized crime has had as significant an impact on its constituent community as Italian, Jewish, and Irish organized crime has had on theirs. Gangsters are every bit...
Sound Unbound
Sampling Digital Music and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2008
The role of sound and digital media in an information-based society: artists—from Steve Reich and Pierre Boulez to Chuck D and Moby—describe their work.
If Rhythm Science was about the flow of things, Sound Unbound is about the remix—how music, art, and literature have blurred the lines...
The Guitar Behind: John Winter, Rolling Stone magazine, Bob Johnston, Carl Perkins, Bill Donovan, Johnny Cash, Tennessee Three, the Carter Family, Ron Cornelius
Chapter Eight: Cash In – Cash Out
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Chapter Eight, The Guitar Behind Dylan & Cohen
Introduction:
For many years, over, and over, people have told me that I should write a book about my life experiences in the music industry. Never gave that much thought until, at a point in time, the concept of individual...
by Ron Moody
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Actor Ron Moody has enthralled generations with his masterly performance as Fagin in both the stage and film versions of Oliver! - one of the great classics of British theatre and cinema. Now, in this highly original, idiosyncratic and often very funny memoir, he looks back on those early days, describing...
by Ron Rash
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
Ron Rash, PEN/Faulkner finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Serena and The Cove, has been called "a gorgeous writer" (Richard Price) with a "reputation for writerly miracles" (Janet Maslin, The New York Times), and is been heralded as "one of our very finest novelists"...
First in! The Airborne Pathfinders
A History of the 21st Independent Parachute Company, 1942-1946
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
They were volunteers to a man. These were the airborne troops who dropped into enemy territory ahead of any others, pinpointing the Drop Zone by means of a radio marker. They would then prepare the ground for the main forces that would follow. Once they had marked out the Drop Zones, they then had...
by Ron Zuccaro
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
I’m Ron Zuccaro, a.k.a. Ron Martinelli, and this is my story. The challenging times of my life. The Vietnam War and how a truck ran out of control and ran me through the brick wall of a cleaners and how surgeons told me I wouldn’t walk again. How I opened a gambling casino to help with my financial...
Seriously Not All Right
Five Wars in Ten Years
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
For more than a decade, Ron Capps, serving as both a senior military intelligence officer and as a Foreign Service officer for the U.S. Department of State, was witness to war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and genocide. From government atrocities in Kosovo, to the brutal cruelties perpetrated in several...
by Ron Celano
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Second Edition - How many ways are there to swing a golf club? Golf magazine writers and TV commentators certainly don't have a shortage of golf swings to analyze. So, I suppose we will never know the answer. This all creates a certain amount of confusion for the average golfer who is trying to improve...
Murder Under the Oaks
Bouchercon Anthology 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Winner of the 2016 Anthony Award for Best Anthology or Collection!
MWA Grand Master Margaret Maron, Edgar Award winner Tom Franklin, and New York Times bestselling novelist Ron Rash headline a new anthology of 21 tales spanning from traditional detective stories to comic capers to darkest noir...
Holy Spirit for Healing
Merging Ancient Wisdom With Modern Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2001
In the Christian tradition, we have been taught to believe that only Jesus or very great saints had the power to heal. Yet the Book of Acts in the New Testament is the story of divine energy working through ordinary people. At Pentecost, the Holy Spirit transformed the disciples of Jesus and taught them...
Black in the White House
Life Inside George W. Bush's West Wing
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2009
Take an exclusive look inside the Oval Office?from an unlikely perspective. As a black conservative, Ron Christie has often taken the road less traveled. And now, he carries readers along with him on his unique, illuminating journey through the hallowed halls of the West Wing and into the sacred chamber...
by Ron Donovan
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2011
It was an upward climb for Sam whose grandmother said he was not worth much. In spite of an upward climb with obstacles all along the way, Sam made things happen in his life. Good friends came along to help him through the tough places. Walk with Sam and his hard luck family as they struggle with...
One Percent Doctrine
Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2006
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author Ron Suskind takes you deep inside America's real battles with violent, unrelenting terrorists -- a game of kill-or-be-killed, from the Oval Office to the streets of Karachi.
You may think you know what the "war on terror" is.
But to know...