Includes selections from the author's eleven books published since 1975
A compilation of fifty-four essays, cultural rants, reviews, and more from the late rock critic includes excerpts from Bangs's autobiographical writings, a discussion of the Hell's Angels and the shooting of Andy Warhol, and incisive reviews of Black Sabbath, Anne Murray, Bob Dylan, and the Rolling [...]
The Routledge Reader on the Sociology of Music offers the first collection of source readings and new essays on the latest thinking in the sociology of music. Interest in music sociology has increased dramatically over the past decade, yet there is no anthology of essential and introductory readings[...]
From the moment John Varley burst onto the scene in 1974, his short fiction was like nothing anyone else was writing. His stories won every award the science fiction field had to offer, many times over. His first collection, "The Persistence of Vision," published in 1978, was the most important coll[...]
Thoroughly revised and updated, "The Globalization Reader, Fourth Edition "offers a provocative assessment of globalization by reviewing the current debates and ongoing research on the topic, providing readers with the most comprehensive introduction to globalization available today.Fully revised an[...]
The material collected here is a treasure trove, a fine retrospective and a comprehensive guide to the work of Ireland's greatest living novelist, John Banville. Selections are drawn from all of his novels, up to and including 2012's Ancient Light; each piece standing alone, short-story-like, but al[...]
The best of Bukowski's novels, stories, and poems, this collection reads like an autobiography, relating the extraordinary story of his life and offering a sometimes harrowing, invariably exhilarating reading experience. A must for this counterculture idol's legion of fans.[...]
Follows the thread of the potato's story through the tapestry of human history, from its origins and evolution to its mysterious arrival in Europe, where it became a crucial part of gastronomic and social fabric.[...]
Drawing on many years of African experience, John Reader has written a book of startling grandeur and scope that recreates the great panorama of African history, from the primeval cataclysms that formed the continent to the political upheavals facing much of the continent today. Reader tells the ext[...]
Featuring a stunning gallery of portraits by the world's finest poets, essayists, and fiction writers--including Walt Whitman, Stephen Crane, Jos Mart , Maxim Gorky, Federico Garc a Lorca, Isaac Bashevis Singer, E. E. Cummings, Djuna Barnes, Colson Whitehead, Robert Olen Butler, and Katie Roiphe--t[...]
'I have read all of Alfred's articles with enormous interest and enjoyment...[He] had such a profound insight into the music of other composers, and ...he found in it so many regular features that were hidden from others' - Mstislav Rostropovich, in the Preface. The compositions of Alfred Schnittke [...]
The potato--humble, lumpy, bland, familiar--is a decidedly unglamorous staple of the dinner table. Or is it? John Reader's narrative on the role of the potato in world history suggests we may be underestimating this remarkable tuber. From domestication in Peru 8,000 years ago to its status today as [...]
The Norton Reader has introduced millions of writing students to the essay as a genre. First published in 1965, it is still the best-selling thematic reader and the only thematic reader that also supports a genre-based approach. The Thirteenth Edition introduces a new generation of editors, almost 5[...]
This essential reference for all students of architecture, design and the built environment provides a convenient single source for all the key texts in the recent literature on architecture and technology. The book contains over fifty carefully selected essays, manifestoes, reflections and theories[...]
This resource is a much-needed support to the few textbooks in the field and offers an excellent introduction and overview to the established principles and new thinking in cultural heritage management . Leading experts in the field from Europe, North America and Australia, bring together recent and[...]
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Young sports fans will love this reader packed with the most current info on their favorite NBA stars Written in simple text with basic vocabulary words, future basketball players will be able to read this one on their own
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A study of the theoretical background and the theological foundations of pastoral theology for graduate and undergraduate students. The text comprises an introductory section giving a critical overview of pastoral theology, and goes on to provide selections from classic readings and newly commission[...]
This carefully--structured reader presents a survey of the whole body of Williamsa existing work, providing existing readers with a new perspective on his writings, and new readers with the opportunity to explore his ideas in depth.[...]
"Awe-inspiring . . . a masterly synthesis."
--The New York Times Book Review
"Deeply penetrating, intensely thought-provoking and thoroughly informed . . . one of the most important general surveys of Africa that has been produced in the last decade." --The Washington Post