Nelson: 2764 books
Sound Unbound
Sampling Digital Music and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2008
The role of sound and digital media in an information-based society: artists—from Steve Reich and Pierre Boulez to Chuck D and Moby—describe their work.
If Rhythm Science was about the flow of things, Sound Unbound is about the remix—how music, art, and literature have blurred the lines...
by Lori Nelson SPIELMAN
Language: French
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Language: French
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Qu'avez-vous fait de vos rêves de jeunesse ?
Qu'avez-vous fait de vos rêves de jeunesse ?
À la mort de sa mère, Brett Bohlinger pense qu'elle va hériter de l'empire de cosmétique familial.
Mais, à sa grande surprise, elle ne reçoit qu'un vieux papier jauni et chiffonné : la...
by Nelson George
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
"Ex-bodyguard D Hunter travels from Brooklyn to Los Angeles to investigate the circumstances surrounding his grandfather's murder in the fourth entry in this series by critic and journalist George...read this for its passionate and unresolved argument about the still-beating heart of R&B."
--Kirkus...
Practice as Research in the Arts
Principles, Protocols, Pedagogies, Resistances
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2013
At the performance turn, this book takes a fresh 'how to' approach to Practice as Research, arguing that old prejudices should be abandoned and a PaR methodology fully accepted in the academy. Nelson and his contributors address the questions students, professional practitioner-researchers, regulators and examiners have posed in this domain.
by Florence Scovel Shinn, Napoleon Hill, James Allen
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
This is the fifth in our important Prosperity series. Now, together for the first time, are ten more of the most important books ever written on the subject of Wealth and Success. We’ve gathered another 1,000+ pages of the best advice and instruction that you’ll ever receive on how to become successful,...
by Sean Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2006
Court and Spark is Joni Mitchell's most overt attempt at making a hit record, full of glossy production, catchy choruses, and even guest stars from every stratum of rock culture, high (Robbie Robertson) and low (Cheech and Chong). The record was a smash, reaching number two on the charts in March...
War Against All Puerto Ricans
Revolution and Terror in America's Colony
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
The powerful, untold story of the 1950 revolution in Puerto Rico and the long history of U.S. intervention on the island, that the New York Times says "could not be more timely."
In 1950, after over fifty years of military occupation and colonial rule, the Nationalist Party of Puerto...
The Silence and the Scorpion
The Coup Against Chavez and the Making of Modern Venezuela
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
The definitive account of the 2002 Venezuelan coup, offering a deeply reported look at the roots of the current crisis.
On April 11, 2002, nearly a million Venezuelans marched on the presidential palace to demand the resignation of Hugo Chávez. The opposition represented a cross-section of...
Interpreters with Lewis and Clark
The Story of Sacagawea and Toussaint Charbonneau
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2003
When interpreter Toussaint Charbonneau, a French Canadian fur trader living among the Hidatsas, and his Shoshone Indian wife, Sacagawea, joined the Lewis and Clark expedition in 1804, they headed into country largely unknown to them, as it was to Thomas Jefferson's hand-picked explorers. There is little...
Advance and Destroy
Patton as Commander in the Bulge
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2011
In the winter of 1944--1945, Hitler sought to divide Allied forces in the heavily forested Ardennes region of Luxembourg and Belgium. He deployed more than 400,000 troops in one of the last major German offensives of the war, which became known as the Battle of the Bulge, in a desperate attempt to...
by Kirk Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2011
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Cry Havoc!
The Crooked Road to Civil War, 1861
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A "compact, engrossing narrative"* that vividly reimagines the events that led to the outbreak of the Civil War
What separates historian Nelson D. Lankford's engaging examination of the causes of the Civil War from other books on the subject is its willingness to consider the alternative...
Red Orchestra
The Story of the Berlin Underground and the Circle of Friends Who Resisted Hitle r
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2009
In this unforgettable book, distinguished author Anne Nelson shares one of the most shocking and inspiring–and least chronicled–stories of domestic resistance to the Nazi regime. The Rote Kapelle, or Red Orchestra, was the Gestapo’s name for an intrepid band of German artists, intellectuals,...
by Ken Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
This book about World War I is brought to you by the makers of the popular children's educational website Ducksters. Inside the book, you will learn about the events and battles of World War I. You will read about what caused the war, the countries involved, and how the war shaped the world....