Often it is said of contemporary music that it’s the soundtrack of our lives. If so, Drumming Armageddon is a poetic rendering of that soundtrack: Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, Folk, The Blues—they’re the genres comprising it, and they all are present in this collection. The poems pay homage to the artists—Dylan, Clapton, Lennon, Crow, The Beatles, Elvis—and track the poet’s personal musical biography: his experiences and memories the music both relates to and marks. The poems, like the music,...

“Drew may have lived many years among the Yanks, but his Mississippi roots are having their say, shining through in every irreverent/reverent syllable. Once you pick this book up, you won’t be putting it down any time soon!”—Nancy WhiteTHE DOWN AND DIRTY REDNECK HUNGERS FOR THE ONE THAT GOT AWAYI’ve always been afraid of burning to death,but with you I was like a tree in October,on fire with a shitload of leaves justbefore the north wind ripped them loos...

Just as an orchard grower, when harvesting its fruit, discards the tart, the bitter, the overripe, and the stunted, so, too, any poet tries to judiciously rejected less-than-sterling poems when assembling his Selected. Pastoral Habits is a Selected of carefully chosen poems from fifty years and five volumes of poetic harvests. If “pastoral” connotes good shepherding, or good harvesting, then George Drew’s collection with, like various varieties of fruit, includes poems about Miche...

Just Like Oz, a book consisting of eighteen essays, some short and some long, mostly examines the work of “wizard poets,” some well-known and even iconic, a few unknown to the wider literary community. George Drew’s purpose is to take a deep critical dive into the art of poetry by analyzing the work of those wizard poets and, in doing so, praising them and their shimmering art. For those poets, Drew shows us, the poetic flood flowered. For readers, these essays provide a kind of y...

Ein emotionaler Blick auf einen ungewöhnlichen Menschen und eine ungewöhnliche Beziehung. Heinrich George (1893 – 1946) war einer der bekanntesten Schauspieler in der Weimarer Republik und stieg zum populären Filmstar der NS-Zeit auf. 1930 begegnete er Berta Drews am Staatstheater Berlin, eine Begegnung, die ihrer beider Leben entscheidend prägen sollte. Seine Briefe aus dem sowjetischen Internierungslager Sachsenhausen sind ein ganz persönliches Zeugnis und werfen ein neues Licht auf dies...

Drew loved being active, but his favorite thing to do was dance! He would dance by himself, dance with friends, and dance with family members. Drew enjoyed doing different types of dancing and always had fun with it!

A professional genealogist reveals how to get past brick walls in research and unearth hard-to-find ancestors Advanced Genealogy Research Techniques uses up-to-date and highly organized methods and techniques to show you how to find the elusive details to round out your genealogy research. You’ll get past the brick walls that have stumped you and see how to move beyond basic types of genealogy resources. The book covers a variety of software programs and specialized geneal...

Break through brick walls in your genealogical researchLearn how to use innovative methods to unearth hard-to-find ancestors. Advanced Genealogy Research Techniques shows you, step by step, how to uncover elusive details by taking advantage of specialized tools and software programs and using proven best practices for breaking through the brick walls that have hindered your progress.You’ll get professional advice on formulating a research strategy, understanding ...

Analyzing Intelligence, now in a revised and extensively updated second edition, assesses the state of the profession of intelligence analysis from the practitioner's point of view. The contributors—most of whom have held senior positions in the US intelligence community—review the evolution of the field, the rise of new challenges, pitfalls in analysis, and the lessons from new training and techniques designed to deal with 21st century national security problems. This second edition updat...

Wer sich mit der Geistesgeschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland beschäftigt, stößt immer wieder auf seinen Namen. Ob als Autor literarischer Texte oder von Kinderbüchern, ob als Wissenschaftler und Institutsgründer, als Initiator von Projekten wie der Wehrmachtsausstellung oder als Mäzen – überall setzt Jan Philipp Reemtsma Zeichen, die unübersehbar sind. Entsprechend viel gibt es über ihn zu sagen, von ihm zu kommentieren und für weitere Überlegungen und Analysen nutzbar zu machen. Über...

In the last ten years, there has been a resurgence of interest in repression and violence within states. Paths to State Repression improves our understanding of why states use political repression, highlighting its relationship to dissent and mass protest. The authors draw upon a wide variety of political-economic contexts, methodological approaches, and geographic locales, including Cuba, Nicaragua, Peru, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Israel, Eastern Europe, and Africa. This book is inva...

True Genius is the definitive family-backed account of his remarkable career published to coincide with what would have been his 75th birthday. The games, the goals, the glory. This is the untold story.Written by celebrated Manchester United author Wayne Barton, this biography goes into unparalleled depth to tell the complete story for the first time of how the lad from Cregagh, Northern Ireland, became the game's first superstar. Barton has trawled the archives and spoken to a hos...