Travis: 703 books
Traveling Soul
The Life of Curtis Mayfield
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Curtis Mayfield was one of the seminal vocalists and most talented guitarists of his era, and his music played a vital role in the civil rights movement: "People Get Ready" was the black anthem of the time. In Traveling Soul, Todd Mayfield tells his famously private father's story in riveting...
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,...
A London Year
365 Days of City Life in Diaries, Journals and Letters
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
A London Year is an anthology of short diary entries, one or more for each day of the year, which, taken together, provides an impressionistic portrait of life in the city from Tudor times to the twenty-first century.
This ebook edition, with its own distinct cover, has been optimised for the...
by Travis Brown
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
Getting started in investing is something that makes a lot of people nervous. They worry about the potential of losing all their money, making bad decisions, or possibly even being scammed. Another major concern is that they think they need a lot of money to get started that's why "how much money...
by Mark Tucker, Travis Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
An historical survey of jazz. This ebook is a static version of an article from Grove Music Online, a continuously updated online resource, offering comprehensive coverage of the world’s music written by leading scholars. For more information, visit www.oxfordmusiconline.com.
by Travis D. Stimeling
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Now in its sixth decade, country music studies is a thriving field of inquiry involving scholars working in the fields of American history, folklore, sociology, anthropology, musicology, ethnomusicology, cultural studies, and geography, among many others. Covering issues of historiography and practice...
Olympic Pride, American Prejudice
The Untold Story of 18 African Americans Who Defied Jim Crow and Adolf Hitler to Compete in the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2020
Discover the astonishing, inspirational, and largely unknown true story of the eighteen African American athletes who competed in the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, defying the racism of both Nazi Germany and the Jim Crow South.
Set against the turbulent backdrop of a segregated United States,...
by Travis Breeding
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Have you ever been trapped inside a room with a glass wall where you can see what is going on in the world around you while you are trapped? If so, you have lived autism. If you have not experienced this then you are about to experience this through the eyes of someone who has autism. People with...
Rendezvous By Submarine
The Story of Charles Parsons and the Guerrilla-Soldiers in the Philippines
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
During World War 2, Charles “Chick” Parsons led Filipino insurgents in hit-and-run raids on Japanese positions in Manila, spied on the enemy forces and became the eyes and ears for General MacArthur while he was preparing to retake the Philippines. Rendezvous By Submarine is the remarkable story...
by Travis Heermann
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
“A fusion of historical fiction and adventure fantasy . . . a page-turning folkloric narrative of epic proportions [in] a strange, supernatural feudal Japan” (Publishers Weekly).
Ken’ishi is just seventeen years old at the time of his parents’ mysterious death. He dreams of someday...
by Crystal Travis
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2014
Let us shatter any Jeff Chandler myths. This book is your ultimate resource for Jeff Chandler. Here you will find the most up-to-date 143 Success Facts, Information, and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Jeff Chandler's...
by Travis, Lucille
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
George Whitefield's voice was the envy of many a professional actor. He could hold a crowd's attention like no other. But although he had wanted to be an actor as a young boy George's voice was used for greater things. After coming to know the Lord Jesus Christ as his personal saviour George went...
Modernity and Epistemology in Nineteenth-Century Spain
Fringe Discourses
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
The fraught tension between science and religion has loomed large in scholarship about the nineteenth century in Spain, especially given the prominence of the Catholic Church and the discoveries made by Wallace and Darwin. The struggle for epistemological superiority between these two discourses (science...
A Friday Night Lights Companion
Love, Loss, and Football in Dillon, Texas
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
Called one of the best shows on TV by more than a dozen media publications, including Time and Entertainment Weekly, Friday Night Lights is not just one of the most critically acclaimed shows on air, it’s also one of the most watchable. Despite its focus on high school football, its masterfully...