Kosmos Prepares For The Path To A Magnificent FutureKosmos sets you up for a revolutionary but fun course of study that simultaneously solves two of the most prickly issues: unhappiness and the destruction of the natural environment. Who knew getting "glad" and getting "green" could be accomplished together at the same time and in such an effective and rewarding way?Readers will be made ready for an enjoyable course of study-the Heartwood P...

Association of Recorded Sound Collections Awards for ExcellenceBest Research in Record Labels–Certificate of Merit (2012)The Starday Story: The House That Country Music Built is the first book entirely dedicated to one of the most influential music labels of the twentieth century. In addition to creating the largest bluegrass catalogue throughout the 1950s and '60s, Starday was also known for its legendary rockabilly catalogue, an e...

Logos Keeps Readers From Fighting Against The Flow Of LifeLogos sets you up to have uncommon integrity. It helps you be successful in the world by giving you an understanding of how to go with the flow of universal principles.By living so much of our lives indoors, away from natural processes, we have largely forgotten that our abiding, abundant, and authentic happiness is tied to a lovely and sustainable environment. As a result, we are ...

Egos Helps You Put Your Own Stamp On The FutureEgos helps you become the change you seek for the world. It helps you maintain your own inherent and unique gifts as you work on causes, especially environmental sustainability and protecting the beauty of nature.Egos will help you identify and anchor your individual self so you can put your own unique stamp on the future. This third book in the Heartwood Path series will hel...

Ethos Prepares Readers To Be Respected In Their CommunitiesEthos helps you develop the personal traits that are revered in your community. Such traits include: honesty, responsibility, fairness, and respect. Without incorporating these traits into your character, without being kind or contributing to your community, one will not be able to have a happy life and a regenerated natural environment. The achievement of such characteristics is the purp...

Ecos Reawakens The Bond With Nature That Leads To Happiness And Ecological ReformEcos helps you expand your sense of self so that you no longer feel separate from nature. By widening your relationships, one psychologically gathers up forgotten extra-human parts of oneself.This reawakening makes you feel responsible for all natural beings. No longer isolated in a human case, one naturally seeks to protect "others" as a form of self preserv...

The Starday Story: The House That Country Music Built is the first book entirely dedicated to one of the most influential music labels of the twentieth century. In addition to creating the largest bluegrass catalogue throughout the 1950s and '60s, Starday was also known for its legendary rockabilly catalogue, an extensive Texas honky-tonk outpouring, classic gospel and sacred recordings, and as a Nashville independent powerhouse studio and label.Written with label presiden...

The national bestseller celebrated as "the ultimate Johnny Cash biography . . . Rock writer great Robert Hilburn goes deep." -- Rolling StoneIn this, the definitive biography of an American legend, Robert Hilburn conveys the unvarnished truth about a musical superstar. Johnny Cash's extraordinary career stretched from his days at Sun Records with Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis to the remarkable creative last hurrah, at age 69, that resulted in the brave...

Readers will get an inside look at the personal stories behind their favorite country songs as songwriters get up close and personal with exclusive stories about how and why they wrote them.Songs tell a story, and now many of country music’s most famous singers and songwriters are sharing more of the story! These artists reveal the inspiration, influence, and background, and when and why they wrote their most famous songs, in Chicken Soup for the Soul: Country ...

A "compulsively readable" history of how Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and Kris Kristofferson redefined country music ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).Outlaw delves into the country music scene of the late '60s and early '70s, when three rebels—Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and Kris Kristofferson found themselves in Music City writing songs and vying for record deals. Channeling the unrest of the times, all three Country Music Hall of Famer...

The Grand Ole Opry has been home to the greatest legends of country music for over eighty years, and in that time it has seen some of conutry music's most dramatic stories unfold.We'll hear of the great love stories ranging from Johnny Cash and June Carter in the 1960s to Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood, who married in 2005. We'll get the truth of the tragedies that led to the loss of three stars all in the same month, starting the rumor of the "Opry Curse." We'll learn how after b...

The story of Motown Records and how it changed the course of American music, as told by its founder—"an African American culture hero of historic stature" ( The New York Times).Berry Gordy Jr., who once considered becoming a boxer, started a record company with a family loan of $800 in 1959. Gordy's company, Motown Records, went on to create some of the most popular music of all time. By the time he sold the company nearly thirty years later, it was worth ...