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A Line in the River
Khartoum, City of Memory
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
'A travelogue and memoir to rank alongside anything by Chatwin or Thubron' Jim Crace
'A most absorbing and rewarding book' Michael Palin
In 1956, Sudan gained independence from Britain. On the brink of a promising future, it instead descended into civil war and conflict. When the 1989...
by Rachel Matthews
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Regional newspapers around the globe are fighting to survive in the face of challenges to their economic model, due to the constant influx of new technology. At the same time, while studies of the national press have created a continuous narrative on the newspaper, the history of the regional press...
Show Me the Money!
How to Make Money through Sports Marketing
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
How do football clubs make their money? How do clubs become global brands, and their stars recognised throughout the world? Show Me The Money is a fascinating sports marketing handbook that uses football to show how money can be made by a club, a tournament, a federation or individual athlete.
Author...
How to Avoid Being Killed in a War Zone
The Essential Survival Guide for Dangerous Places
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
Whether you're a war correspondent or an aid worker, a tourist worried about an increasingly hostile world or an armchair traveler concerned that your own backyard is fast becoming a war zone, How to Avoid Being Killed in a War Zone will help you survive some of the world's most volatile environments.
Well-traveled...
Thieves of Baghdad
One Marine's Passion to Recover the World's Greatest Stolen Treasures
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2008
Thieves of Baghdad is a riveting account of Colonel Matthew Bogdanos and his team's extraordinary efforts to recover over 5,000 priceless antiquities stolen from the Iraqi National Museum after the fall of Baghdad. A mixture of police procedural, treasure hunt, war-time thriller, and cold-eyed assessment...
Caught in the Middle
America's Heartland in the Age of Globalism
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2010
The Midwest has always been the heart of America-both its economic bellwether and the repository of its national identity. Now, in a new, globalized age, the Midwest is challenged as never before. With an influx of immigrant workers and an outpouring of manufacturing jobs, the region that defines...
The Lottery Wars
Long Odds, Fast Money, and the Battle Over an American Institution
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Despite the infinitesimal odds, more than half of Americans admit to occasionally playing the lottery. We wait on long lines and give up our coffee breaks. We scratch tickets, win, and spend the winnings on more scratch tickets. We play our "lucky" numbers, week in and week out.
In...
by Bloomsbury Publishing
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
Following its bestselling edition of Bradshaw's Handbook 1863, Old House brings you this fascinating guide to Europe's rail network on the very brink of the First World War. Published in 1913, it is divided into three sections: timetables for services covering the continent, short guides to each city...
by Marc Weidenbaum
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Extravagantly opaque, willfully vaporous - Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works Volume II, released by the estimable British label Warp Records in 1994, rejuvenated ambient music for the Internet Age that was just dawning. In the United States, it was Richard D. James's first full length on Sire Records...
Runaway Dream
Born to Run and Bruce Springsteen's American Vision
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
To millions of listeners, Bruce Springsteen's Born to Run is much more than a rock-and-roll album-it's a poetic explosion of freedom and frustration. It confirmed Springsteen's status as a quintessential American performer: the rocker who, more than any other, gives voice to our hopes, fears, and...
The Soiling of Old Glory
The Story of a Photograph That Shocked America
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Boston, April 5, 1976. As the city simmered with racial tension over forced school busing, newsman Stanley Forman photographed a white protester outside City Hall assaulting an African American attorney with the American flag. The photo shocked Boston, made front pages across the U.S. and won a Pulitzer...
by George Grella
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
It was 1969, and Miles Davis, prince of cool, was on the edge of being left behind by a dynamic generation of young musicians, an important handful of whom had been in his band. Rock music was flying off in every direction, just as America itself seemed about to split at its seams. Following the circumscribed...
When Genres Collide
Down Beat, Rolling Stone, and the Struggle between Jazz and Rock
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
When Genres Collide is a provocative history that rethinks the relationship between jazz and rock through the lens of the two oldest surviving and most influential American popular music periodicals: Down Beat and Rolling Stone. Writing in 1955, Duke Ellington argued that the new music called rock...
Comedy at the Edge
How Stand-up in the 1970s Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
When Lenny Bruce overdosed in 1966, he left behind an impressive legacy of edgy, politically charged comedy. Four short years later, a new breed of comic, inspired by Bruce's artistic fearlessness, made telling jokes an art form, forever putting to rest the stereotype of the one-liner borscht belt...