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Stories Done
Writings on the 1960s and Its Discontents
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2008
The 1960s and 1970s represent a rare moment in our cultural history -- music was exploring unprecedented territories, literature was undergoing a radical reinvention, politics polarized the nation, and youth culture was at the zenith of its influence. There has never been, nor is there likely to be,...
Burnt Sugar Cana Quemada
Contemporary Cuban Poetry in English and Spanish
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2006
Here are the sights, sounds, and rhythms of Cuba, revealed in the evocative works of some of the finest Cuban and Cuban American poets of the twentieth century. In Burnt Sugar, bestselling translator Lori Marie Carlson and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Oscar Hijuelos have created an intimate collection...
Piano Notes
The World of the Pianist
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2002
Charles Rosen is one of the world's most talented pianists -- and one of music's most astute commentators. Known as a performer of Bach, Beethoven, Stravinsky, and Elliott Carter, he has also written highly acclaimed criticism for sophisticated students and professionals.
In Piano Notes, he...
by Emily Gould
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
Essays by former editor of Gawker.com—and the new female voice of her generation. In And the Heart Says Whatever, Emily Gould tells the truth about becoming an adult in New York City in the first decade of the twenty-first century, alongside bartenders, bounty hunters, bloggers, bohemians, socialites,...
by Mark Kemp
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Rock & roll has transformed American culture more profoundly than any other art form. During the 1960s, it defined a generation of young people as political and social idealists, helped end the Vietnam War, and ushered in the sexual revolution. In Dixie Lullaby, veteran music journalist Mark Kemp...
Forest Gate
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2010
A shattering, poetic and raw first novel set among young Somalian refugees in the slums of London -- beginning with a double suicide and ending with a rebirth.
In a community where poverty is kept close and passed from one generation to the next, two teenage boys, best friends, stand on top...
Comes the Peace
My Journey to Forgiveness
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
"I packed a blue Samsonite suitcase with my belongings -- a couple of pairs of jeans and shirts, UB40 tapes, the Swiss army knife I had stolen from my mother, my Tibetan prayer book, and a red plastic Camay soap dish I bought in Dharamsala that had become a good luck charm for me."
With these,...
A Crime So Monstrous
Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2008
To be a moral witness is perhaps the highest calling of journalism, and in this unforgettable, highly readable account of contemporary slavery, author Benjamin Skinner travels around the globe to personally tell stories that need to be told -- and heard.
As Samantha Power and Philip Gourevitch...
Who They Were
Inside the World Trade Center DNA Story: The Unprecedented Effort to Identify the Missing
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2005
In Who They Were, Dr. Robert C. Shaler, the man who directed the largest and most groundbreaking forensic DNA investigation in U.S. history, tells with poignant clarity and refreshing honesty the story behind the relentless effort to identify the 2,749 victims of the attacks on the World Trade Center.
No...
St Petersburg
A Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
The definitive cultural biography of the “Venice of the North” and its transcendent artistic and spiritual legacy, written by Russian emerge and acclaimed cultural historian, Solomon Volkov.
Long considered to be the mad dream of an imperious autocrat—the "Venice of the North," conceived...
In Heaven Everything Is Fine
The Unsolved Life of Peter Ivers and the Lost History of New Wave Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2008
On March 3, 1983, Peter Ivers was found bludgeoned to death in his loft in downtown Los Angeles, ending a short-lived but essential pop cultural moment that has been all but lost to history. For the two years leading up to his murder, Ivers had hosted the underground but increasingly popular LA-based...
by David G. Dodd
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the most popular and enduring band ever: “Even the most hardcore Deadheads will be impressed by this obsessively complete look at the Grateful Dead’s lyrics” (Publishers Weekly).
The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics is an authoritative text,...
What Went Wrong?
The Creation & Collapse of the Black-Jewish Allia
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1994
For nearly a century, blacks and Jews were allies in the struggle for civil rights and equality in America. Sometimes risking their lives, they waged battle in the courts, at lunch counters, and in the academy, advancing the cause of all minorities. Their historical partnership culminated in the landmark...
Race Rebels
Culture, Politics, And The Black Working Class
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1996
Many black strategies of daily resistance have been obscured--until now. Race rebels, argues Kelley, have created strategies of resistance, movements, and entire subcultures. Here, for the first time, everyday race rebels are given the historiographical attention they deserve, from the Jim Crow era to the present.