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Beautiful War
Studies in a Dreadful Fascination
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
*A probing and holistic meditation on the key question: Why do we continue to make art, and thus beauty, out of war?
Beautiful War: Studies in a Dreadful Fascination* is a wide-ranging exploration of armed conflict as depicted in art that illustrates the constant presence of war in our everyday...
Amusing the Million
Coney Island at the Turn of the Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Coney Island: the name still resonates with a sense of racy Brooklyn excitement, the echo of beach-front popular entertainment before World War I. Amusing the Million examines the historical context in which Coney Island made its reputation as an amusement park and shows how America's changing social...
Top 40 Democracy
The Rival Mainstreams of American Music
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
If you drive into any American city with the car stereo blasting, you’ll undoubtedly find radio stations representing R&B/hip-hop, country, Top 40, adult contemporary, rock, and Latin, each playing hit after hit within that musical format. American music has created an array of rival mainstreams,...
Resting Places
The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed.
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
In its third edition, this massive reference work lists the final resting places of more than 14,000 people from a wide range of fields, including politics, the military, the arts, crime, sports and popular culture. Many entries are new to this edition. Each listing provides birth and death dates,...
Disney Discourse
Producing the Magic Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Hirohito and his Mickey Mouse watch, Goofy and Donald as our "Goodwill Ambassadors:" Disney Discourse is an interdisciplinary examination of the founder and his empire. These essays use an interdisciplinary approach to read through Disney's domestic cultural production "innocent" national icons, as...
American Remakes of British Television
Transformations and Mistranslations
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
Ever since Norman Lear remade the BBC series Till Death Us Do Part into All in the Family, American remakes of British television shows have become part of the American cultural fabric. Indeed, some of the programs currently said to exemplify American tastes and attitudes, from reality programs like...
K-punk
The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
A comprehensive collection of the writings of Mark Fisher (1968-2017), whose work defined critical writing for a generation.
This comprehensive collection brings together the work of acclaimed blogger, writer, political activist and lecturer Mark Fisher (aka k-punk). Covering the period 2004...
by Wise Publications
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2006
It's Easy to Play Carpenters is a fabulous collection of simplified, easy-to-read arrangements of 20 popular Carpenters songs for Piano - Perfect for the beginner pianist looking to bolster their repertoire and improve their playing.
Song List:
- (They Long To Be) Close To You
- An Old...
by Wise Publications
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 1989
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 1989
It's Easy to Play ABBA is a fabulous collection of simplified, easy-to-read arrangements of 15 popular ABBA songs for Piano - Perfect for the beginner pianist looking to bolster their repertoire and improve their playing.
Song List:
- Arrival
- Dancing Queen
- Fernando
- Hasta Manana
-...
by Wise Publications
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Easiest 5-Finger Piano Collection: Chart Hits Now contains 15 popular chart hits, suitable for the beginner pianist.
Covering One Direction, Little Mix, Rhianna and more, this is the perfect book for aspiring pianist looking to improve their playing while learning fun, contemporary pieces.
Songlist:
-...
by Lucille Barilla
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Five Seconds of Summer is the hottest and most popular rock/pop/punk bands in the world. Created during a time when boy bands ruled the airwaves, Luke Hemmings, Michael Clifford, Ashton Irwin and Calum Hood have topped the charts since 2014 when their first hit single "She Looks So Perfect"...
by Isabella Alston
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
The French poster, born of a basic utilitarian purpose, has developed with age into an admired and collected art form. Vintage posters command high prices at auction and curators specialize in their restoration. The earliest art-worthy posters appeared on the streets of Paris designed by French-born...
Women of Blaxploitation
How the Black Action Film Heroine Changed American Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
With the Civil Rights movement of the sixties fresh in their perspective, movie producers of the early 1970s began to make films aimed toward the underserved African American audience. Over the next five years or so, a number of cheaply made, so-called blaxploitation movies featured African American...
The 10 Cent War
Comic Books, Propaganda, and World War II
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Contributions by Derek T. Buescher, Travis L. Cox, Trischa Goodnow, Jon Judy, John R. Katsion, James J. Kimble, Christina M. Knopf, Steven E. Martin, Brad Palmer, Elliott Sawyer, Deborah Clark Vance, David E. Wilt, and Zou Yizheng
One of the most overlooked aspects of the Allied war effort...