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From Vietnam to Hell
Interviews with Victims of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
“I broke into a house, entering from the back door. When I left, two people inside were dead. I don’t remember killing them, but I know I must have. All I can remember is the police chasing me. I thought I was in the jungle, with the Cong chasing me, trying to kill me before I could kill them.......
"Aid and Comfort"
Jane Fonda in North Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
Jane Fonda’s visit to Hanoi in July 1972 and her pro–North Vietnamese, anti–American conduct, especially her pose with an anti-aircraft gun used to shoot down American planes and her propaganda broadcasts directed toward American troops, angered many Americans. In their eyes, she was guilty...
Encyclopedia of Weird War Stories
Supernatural and Science Fiction Elements in Novels, Pulps, Comics, Film, Television, Games and Other Media
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Fictional war narratives often employ haunted battlefields, super-soldiers, time travel, the undead and other imaginative elements of science fiction and fantasy. This encyclopedia catalogs appearances of the strange and the supernatural found in the war stories of film, television, novels, short...
Paul Green's The House of Connelly
A Critical Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2014
One of Paul Green’s best plays, The House of Connelly, was the first play performed (on Broadway in 1931) by the renowned Group Theatre of New York. This book reintroduces the play, and the playwright—famous in his day, but largely forgotten now, although his outdoor symphonic drama The Lost Colony...
Tim Burton
Essays on the Films
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2015
Since his early days at Disney, Tim Burton has shown a unique talent and vision. His writing and directing credits range from big-budget features such as Batman (1989) and Batman Returns (1992), to the comically grisly The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) and Corpse Bride (2005), to the twisted fairy...
Charlie Chan at the Movies
History, Filmography, and Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2011
From his primitive nonseries beginnings through the well known Fox series of 44 films (1931–1949), here is the complete history of famous film detective Charlie Chan. The films are presented in chronological order, with full cast and credits, synopses and evaluations. Biographical details on the...
by Michael Lesher
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
This book—the first of its kind—analyzes how and why cases of child sexual abuse have been systematically concealed in Orthodox Jewish communities. The book examines many such cover-ups in detail, showing how denial, backlash against victims, and the manipulation of the secular justice system...
by Lawrence J. Epstein
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2010
Many American folk singers have tried to leave their world a better place by writing songs of social protest. Musicians like Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly, Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, and Joan Baez sang with fierce moral voices to transform what they saw as an uncaring society. But the personal tales of these...
Music in Our Lives
Why We Listen, How It Works
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Music research has entered something of a Golden Age. Technological advances and scholarly inquiry have merged in interdisciplinary studies—drawing on psychology, neuroscience, evolutionary biology, anthropology and other fields—that illuminate the musical nature of our species. This volume develops,...
Cantor William Sharlin
Musical Revolutionary of Reform Judaism
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
William Sharlin (1920–2012) was a cantor, synagogue composer, teacher and musicologist. Raised in an Orthodox household, he turned toward Universalism and the liberal Reform movement. A member of the first graduating class of the first cantorial school in America, he was a founding member of the...
Music in the Hebrew Bible
Understanding References in the Torah, Nevi'im and Ketuvim
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Music in the Hebrew Bible investigates musical citations in the Hebrew Bible and their relevance for our times. Most biblical musical references are addressed, either alone or as a grouping, and each is considered from a modern perspective. The book consists of one hundred brief essays divided into...
Don Drummond
The Genius and Tragedy of the World's Greatest Trombonist
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2013
This is a comprehensive biography of a brilliant musician who forever shaped the course of ska, reggae, and popular music worldwide, only to take the life of his lover and in so doing, destroy his career at the age of 30. In his short life Don Drummond created an enduring legacy despite poverty, class...
by James B. Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
They were almost The Pendletones—after the Pendleton wool shirts favored on chilly nights at the beach—then The Surfers, before being named The Beach Boys. But what separated them from every other teenage garage band with no musical training? They had raw talent, persistence and a wellspring of...
by David Goudsward
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
In New England today, there are megalithic stones, stone chambers and structures, carvings and petroglyphs, even an unidentified skeleton in armor that defy easy explanation. From Maine to Massachusetts, this work presents an examination of various unexplained historical remains in New England. From...