Dick: 1595 books
How to Read More
Simple Steps to a Life-Long Habit of Enjoyable & Rewarding Reading
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
It doesnt take days or weeks or months to read a book. It takes hours. READ MORE explains how. Most people readily admit that reading books is beneficial, and wish they could read a bit more, and in some cases, a lot more. But most people also have what seem like perfectly valid excuses for not reading,...
How to Become a Load-test Mechanic
How to Become a Load-test Mechanic
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
This publication will teach you the basics of how to become a Load-test Mechanic. With step by step guides and instructions, you will not only have a better understanding, but gain valuable knowledge of how to become a Load-test Mechanic
Bottleneckers
Gaming the Government for Power and Private Profit
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
Bottlenecker (n): a person who advocates for the creation or perpetuation of government regulation, particularly an occupational license, to restrict entry into his or her occupation, thereby accruing an economic advantage without providing a benefit to consumers.The Left, Right, and Center all hate...
by Dick Weissman
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2004
Blues: The Basics offers a concise introduction to a century of the blues. Organized chronologically, it focuses on the major eras in the growth and development of this popular musical style. Material includes:
a definition of the blues and the major genres within it
key artists such as Ma...
by Dick Schoof
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
The sky darkened as in the middle of a summer thunderstorm. Millions of birds had taken to the air after the first shell had landed on the tiny island of Lava Rock of Tori-shima. Yes, the sky darkened from gooney birds and terns that were nesting on the rocky prominence you could hardly call an island....
Cut `n' Mix
Culture, Identity and Caribbean Music
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
First published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Choices and Consequences
What to Do When a Teenager Uses Alcohol/Drugs
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2010
Choices and Consequences describes the step-by-step process of intervention to stop a teenager's harmful involvement with chemicals.
Alcohol and other drug use among teenagers is epidemic.Children as young as grade-school age are experimenting with mood-altering substances.One out of every...
by Dick DuRose
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Nearly everyone is familiar with Amelia Earhart. But very few know the story of another woman aviator, who, until now has remained little more than than a footnote in aviation history - that is, until now. Shooting Star tells the story of Mildred Doran, who, in 1927 set her sights on becoming the...
by Dick Porter
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
Based upon work and materials compiled for the acclaimed and now much sought after 2007 Cramps biography A Short History of Rock'n'Roll Psychosis, Journey To The Centre Of The Cramps goes far beyond being a revised and updated edition: Completely overhauled, rewritten and vastly expanded, it now represents...
The Rise of the Crooners
Gene Austin, Russ Columbo, Bing Crosby, Nick Lucas, Johnny Marvin and Rudy Vallee
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2001
Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, and Rudy Vallee—these cultural icons whose fame spanned all the important mass media, also played a vital role in the origin and development of the crooning tradition.
Crooning represented one of the most important musical styles of the twentieth...
Banjo on the Mountain
Wade Mainer's First Hundred Years
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2010
Wade Mainer (b. 1907) is believed to be the longest-lived country entertainer ever. His banjo lessons began in childhood and he played informally into his adult years, when he joined his brother, fiddler J. E. Mainer (1898-1971), in Mainer's Mountaineers. Music became their ticket out of the cotton...
by Pamela Peters, Anne Caudill, Amanda Dick
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
The Scribner House stands proudly on the banks of the Ohio River, a testament to the community it has seen through two centuries. Joel, Nathaniel and Abner Scribner founded New Albany when they arrived by flatboat from Pennsylvania in the early nineteenth century. Those pioneers built a thriving town--the...
That Was Entertainment
The Golden Age of the MGM Musical
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
That Was Entertainment: The Golden Age of the MGM Musical traces the development of the MGM musical from The Broadway Melody (1929) through its heyday in the 1940s and 1950s and its decline in the 1960s, culminating in the notorious 1970 MGM auction when Judy Garland's ruby slippers from The Wizard...