Michael Charles: 157 books
Soul Covers
Rhythm and Blues Remakes and the Struggle for Artistic Identity (Aretha Franklin, Al Green, Phoebe Snow)
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2007
Soul Covers is an engaging look at how three very different rhythm and blues performers—Aretha Franklin, Al Green, and Phoebe Snow—used cover songs to negotiate questions of artistic, racial, and personal authenticity. Through close readings of song lyrics and the performers’ statements about...
by Edward V Fehringer, Charles A. Rockwood Jr., MD
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
Fully updated with completely updated content, exciting new authors, and commentary by national and international experts in the field, Rockwood and Matsen’s The Shoulder, 5th Edition continues its tradition of excellence as the cornerstone reference for effective management of shoulder disorders....
Harvard Classics Volume 40
English Poetry 1: Chaucer To Gray
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Contents: 1. Use Preview To See Table of Contents Inside Also available: The Complete Harvard Classics Collection (51 Volumes + The Harvard Classic Shelf Of Fiction) 50 Masterpieces You Have To Read Before You Die (Golden Deer Classics)
18 Wheels of Horror
A Trailer Full of Trucking Terrors
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
Psychotic killers, devious ghosts, alien monsters, howling storms, undead creatures, and other dark forces haunt the highways and the truckers who drive them in these 18 chilling tales. A ghostly voice on a trucker’s CB radio knows more about his life than it should… Two drivers find their cargo...
The Strong Gray Line
War-time Reflections from the West Point Class of 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
To preserve the memory of their service during the tumultuous decade since their commissioning as Army officers, members of the West Point class of 2004 have written The Strong Gray Line. This class suffered the highest casualty rate since those that graduated during the Vietnam War. In this book,...
The Work Versus Welfare Trade-off: 2018
An Analysis of the Total Level of Welfare Benefits by State
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
In 1995, the Cato Institute published a groundbreaking study, The Work Versus Welfare Trade-Off, which estimated the value of the full package of welfare benefits available to a typical recipient in each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia. It found that not only did the value of such benefits...
by Diana Allan, Rick Altman, Ariella Azoulay
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
The spirit that founded the volume and guided its development is radically inter- and transdisciplinary. Dispatches have arrived from anthropology, communications, English, film studies (including theory, history, criticism), literary studies (including theory, history, criticism), media and screen...
by Michael DeMarco, Douglas Wile, Arieh Breslow
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
The chapters in this anthology present an encompassing perspective of how some Chinese martial art styles—and most significantly taijiquan—developed and evolved along with deep rooted traditions of spirituality and the quest for health and longevity. Much in this volume deals with Daoist theories...
by Charles Foxgrover, Anne Kostick, Michael J. Pellowski
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2009
National Humor Month won't be the same with this huge, classic collection of side-splitting, groan-worthy, family-friendly jokes, puns, and riddles. Guaranteed LOLs at a time we can all use a laugh.
Between these covers are a staggering 3650 entries - at a joke a day that's 10 full years of...
by Countrysport, John Barsness, Philip Bourjaily
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2015
The stories in this anthology demonstrate why the pheasant has become America's favorite game bird. Some of the finest writers in the field take their best shots at the Ringneck, covering guns, dogs, lore, history, conservation, and even some tried and true methods for preparing your pheasant for consumption.
by Cyrus Ernesto Zirakzadeh, Zoe Trodd, Donna Kornhaber
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Though he was a recipient of both the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature, American novelist John Steinbeck (1902--1968) has frequently been censored. Even in the twenty-first century, nearly ninety years after his work first appeared in print, Steinbeck's novels, stories, and plays...
The Dysfunctional Relationships of Givers and Takers
An Analysis of Toxic Chemistries
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2011
In your relationships does it matter if you and your partner are a giver or a taker? Are there different types of givers and takers? Whats the secret to a good marriage? How can you save a rocky marriage? What is the best way to get counseling and what should you expect from counseling? What if a...
Understanding Inequality
The Intersection of Race/Ethnicity, Class, and Gender
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2007
As the age of globalization and New Media unite disparate groups of people in new ways, the continual transformation and interconnections between ethnicity, class, and gender become increasingly complex. This reader, comprised of a diverse array of sources ranging from the New York Times to the journals...
The Psychic Hold of Slavery
Legacies in American Expressive Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
What would it mean to “get over slavery”? Is such a thing possible? Is it even desirable? Should we perceive the psychic hold of slavery as a set of mental manacles that hold us back from imagining a postracist America? Or could the psychic hold of slavery be understood as a tool, helping us get...