Music Is My Life is the first comprehensive analysis of Louis Armstrong's autobiographical writings (including his books, essays, and letters) and their relation to his musical and visual performances.
Dameronia is the first authoritative biography of Tadd Dameron, an important and widely influential figure in jazz history as one of the most significant composers and arrangers of jazz, swing, bebop, and big band.
In his boisterous and entertaining memoir, Nigel Dick recounts his wild ride from record company motorcycle messenger to a leading music video director.
Appearing on the eighth series of Big Brother in 2007, Victoria Beckham lookalike Chanelle Hayes quickly became a national talking point thanks to her tears, tantrums and explosive relationship with fellow housemate Ziggy Lichman.
This book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of important works of military science fiction from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and their implications for how we think about armed conflict and the future of war.
2026 IPPY Book Awards Bronze Medal Winner for BiographyThe riveting story of how one woman rose from simple beginnings to become one of the most sought-after miniaturists of the Gilded Age.
A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: THE TIMES/SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN, TELEGRAPH, TLS, FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST, NEW STATESMAN, LONDON STANDARD AND WASHINGTON POST'Absolutely mesmerising.
This comprehensive book examines the theoretical underpinnings of free speech and provides crucial insights into the contemporary resurgence of debates over its importance.
This comprehensive book examines the theoretical underpinnings of free speech and provides crucial insights into the contemporary resurgence of debates over its importance.
Das vielgelobte Standardwerk auf dem neuesten StandDer Beitrag des Saxophonisten John Coltrane zur Entwicklung des Jazz war der bislang letzte Riesenschritt in der Jazzgeschichte – die (Über-)Dehnung der Funktionsharmonik und deren Überwindung.
Die vielgelobte Autobiographie des Deutschrock-StarsHeinz Rudolf Kunze erinnert sich an sein Leben und seine Musik, an seine Familie und seine Weggefahrten.
This analytical study explores the calculated rise of Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson, dissecting his 25 year journey through the lens of strategic conflict and narrative dominance.
"e;This entertaining, fast-paced biography"e; of the legendary singer-songwriter "e;will thrill fans of Little Richard and early rock and roll"e; (Publishers Weekly).
The life of the legendary drummer and singer is explored through extensive research and personal interviews with family, friends, and fellow musicians.
Thomas Nast (18401902), the founding father of American political cartooning, is perhaps best known for his cartoons portraying political parties as the Democratic donkey and the Republican elephant.
In 1942 Pauli Murray, a young black woman from North Carolina studying law at Howard University, visited a constitutional law class taught by Caroline Ware, one of the nations leading historians.
In an in-depth community study of women in the civil rights movement, Christina Greene examines how several generations of black and white women, low-income as well as more affluent, shaped the struggle for black freedom in Durham, North Carolina.
The first major study of slavery in the maritime South, The Watermans Song chronicles the world of slave and free black fishermen, pilots, rivermen, sailors, ferrymen, and other laborers who, from the colonial era through Reconstruction, plied the vast inland waters of North Carolina from the Outer Banks to the upper reaches of tidewater rivers.
On a summer day in 1846 two years before the Seneca Falls convention that launched the movement for womans rights in the United States six women in rural upstate New York sat down to write a petition to their states constitutional convention, demanding equal, and civil and political rights with men.
Out on Assignment illuminates the lives and writings of a lost world of women who wrote for major metropolitan newspapers at the start of the twentieth century.
A landmark work of womens history originally published in 1967, Gerda Lerners best-selling biography of Sarah and Angelina Grimk explores the lives and ideas of the only southern women to become antislavery agents in the North and pioneers for womens rights.
A musician, documentarian, scholar, and one of the founding members of the influential folk revival group the New Lost City Ramblers, Mike Seeger (19332009) spent more than fifty years collecting, performing, and commemorating the culture and folk music of white and black southerners, which he called music from the true vine.
In 1996, Democratic president Bill Clinton and the Republican-controlled Congress ended welfare as we know it and trumpeted workfare as a dramatic break from the past.
Shedding new light on contemporary campaigns to encourage marriage among welfare recipients and to prosecute deadbeat dads, Wives without Husbands traces the efforts of Progressive reformers to make runaway husbands support their families.
A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: THE TIMES/SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN, TELEGRAPH, TLS, FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST, NEW STATESMAN, LONDON STANDARD AND WASHINGTON POST'Absolutely mesmerising.
For too long, Native American people in the United States have been stereotyped as vestiges of the past, invisible citizens in their own land obliged to remind others, ';We are still here!
