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Rocking My Life Away represents nearly twenty years of writing by one of the premier critics of popular music in America today. In these pieces from Rolling Stone, the New York Times, and other publications, Anthony DeCurtis reveals his ongoing...

In the first decades of the twentieth century, Broadway teemed with showgirls, but only the Ziegfeld Girl has survived in American popular culture-as a figure of legend, nostalgia, and camp. Featured in Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.'s renowned revues, which ran...

Experimental film and ethnographic film have long been considered separate, autonomous practices on the margins of mainstream cinema. By exploring the interplay between the two forms, Catherine Russell throws new light on both the avant-garde and visual...

This collection of essays provides the first comprehensive survey of Hollywood and independent films from the mid-sixties to the present. Deliberately eclectic and panoramic, The New American Cinema brings together thirteen leading film scholars who...

Steve Fagin is an artist whose videos incorporate, challenge, and cross over into the realm of literary and cultural studies. Talkin' with Your Mouth Full includes not only scripts of Fagin's works but critical responses to-and meditations on-a variety...

In Blutopia Graham Lock studies the music and thought of three pioneering twentieth-century musicians: Sun Ra, Duke Ellington, and Anthony Braxton. Providing an alternative to previous analyses of their work, Lock shows how these distinctive artists were...

In Castaway Yvette Christianse presents an epic yet fragmented poetic story set off the coast of Africa on the island of St. Helena: Napoleon Bonaparte's final place of exile, a port of call for the slave trade, and birthplace of the poet's grandmother...

Many parents, politicians, and activists agree that there's too much violence and not enough education on children's television. Current solutions range from the legislative (the Children's Television Act of 1990) to the technological (the V-chip)...

Stepping Left simultaneously unveils the radical roots of modern dance and recalls the excitement and energy of New York City in the 1930s. Ellen Graff explores the relationship between the modern dance movement and leftist political activism in this...

Taking aim at the mostly male bastion of art theory and criticism, Mira Schor brings a maverick perspective and provocative voice to the issues of contemporary painting, gender representation, and feminist art. Writing from her dual perspective of a...

During the middle of the twentieth century, the religiously informed communitarianism that had guided the Supreme Court's decisions regarding the relationship between church and state was partially displaced by a new secular individualist discourse. In...

During the middle of the twentieth century, the religiously informed communitarianism that had guided the Supreme Court's decisions regarding the relationship between church and state was partially displaced by a new secular individualist discourse. In...

Carefully documenting the deceptions and excesses of television news coverage of the so-called cocaine epidemic, Cracked Coverage stands as a bold indictment of the backlash politics of the Reagan coalition and its implicit racism, the mercenary outlook...

The time was the Bronze to the Iron Age, the third to first millenniums B.C. Great leaders arose from Iraq to Eygpt-- Sargon of Akkad, Gudea of Lagash, Hammurapi of Babylon, and Akhenaten of Egypt--and from these lands of the Fertile Crescent came the...

In the Name of National Security exposes the ways in which the films of Alfred Hitchcock, in conjunction with liberal intellectuals and political figures of the 1950s, fostered homophobia so as to politicize issues of gender in the United States.As...

From 1929 to the latest issue, American Literature has been the foremost journal expressing the findings of those who study our national literature. American Literature has published the best work of literary historians, critics, and bibliographers,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780811729598Author Harold W. AurandFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stackpole BooksPublisher Stackpole BooksWeight(grams) 117g

In a small and - to the untrained eye - unimpressive pond, microscopic life abounds, breeding myriad mysteries. Indeed, the mysteries ripple well beyond the pond's edge, where budding scientists stoop over their specimens, and one question in particular...

Nebraska sits at the nexus of continental bird migration and serves as a home - either permanently or seasonally - for nearly 450 species. Major migratory routes pass through the state, creating numerous opportunities to observe the great variety of...

The first five volumes of the new edition of the Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition have been widely heralded as a lasting achievement in the study of western exploration. The sixth volume begins on November 2, 1805, in the second year of...

In Praise of Harmony is the first critical and biographical study of Vogler to appear in English.Book InformationISBN 9780803221284Author Floyd K. GraveFormat HardbackPage Count 338Imprint University of Nebraska PressPublisher University of Nebraska...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780800795399Author Peter LordFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Baker Books, a division of Baker Publishing GroupPublisher Baker Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780800720698Author Michael DiMarcoFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Revell, a division of Baker Publishing GroupPublisher Baker Publishing...

Minecraft (R) is a registered trademark of Mojang Synergies / Notch Development AB. This book is not affiliated with or sponsored by Mojang Synergies / Notch Development AB. The easiest, quickest, most entertaining introduction to creating Minecraft mods...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780785805977Author Neophytou-AndreasFormat HardbackPage Count 223Imprint BooksalesPublisher Booksales

In addition to standard works, the collection includes many rare books, most of which have been preserved in vintage condition by beautiful hand-made jackets fashioned by Fishstein. The collection also includes albums of early twentieth-century post...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780760342343Author Tom CotterFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Motorbooks InternationalPublisher Motorbooks International

Pass your theory test with ease with this comprehensive guide that gives learner drivers the essential information they need to pass both the Theory Test and Practical Test first time. The guide features all the official revision theory test questions...

Take the trouble out of travel with "AA Key Guide Prague". Aimed at independent travellers wishing to select the best for their holiday, the guide helps you make the right choice with super clear mapping, colour photographs and information you...

In a parish register in Ireland, Akenson discovered a record naming an Eliza McCormack White as John's sister. Employing imaginative reconstruction, he proposes that Eliza McCormack, a transvestite prostitute who was in central Canada at the time John...

Gary Sutherland was a lapsed golfer, until he acquired his late dad's putter. After studying a crumpled golf map of Scotland, Gary decided to embark on a voyage. His target was to play 18 rounds of golf on 18 Scottish islands in honour of his dad, a...

Whether you want to cure aggressive behaviour, incessant digging and excessive barking, or simply housebreak a new puppy, this is the behavioural problem solver no dog owner should be without. This fun, positive approach to training, combined with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780687654031Author Abingdon PressFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Abingdon PressPublisher Abingdon PressWeight(grams) 159g

If you've tried every other crossword and found they all fall short, these are the puzzles for you - the most demanding, infuriating brainteasers from the pages of Britain's best-selling quality newspaper.Book InformationISBN 9780600626053Author The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780522843385Author Jules Sebastien Cesar Dumont d'UrvilleFormat HardbackPage Count 699Imprint Melbourne University PressPublisher Melbourne University Press

41 quilt projects from American Patchwork & Quilting Are you a beginner quilter looking for a place to start learning this time-honored craft? Are you a more advanced quilter looking for quick and gifty projects that you can complete in a snap? From...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780310438533Author Various AuthorsPage Count 1152Imprint ZondervanPublisher ZondervanWeight(grams) 689g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780310435150Author Zondervan PublishingPage Count 1152Imprint ZondervanPublisher ZondervanWeight(grams) 347g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780310429425Author Vickie FarrisPage Count 1536Imprint ZondervanPublisher ZondervanWeight(grams) 599g

In his extraordinary work, the Oregon painter Michael Brophy explores the intersections of history, forest ecology, and the rich tradition of landscape painting. Through images that depict the brutal and savage beauty of the altered landscapes of the...