"A virtual soul music origin story" from the Grammy and Emmy Award–winning producer, director, and writer ( Rolling Stone , 20 Best Music Books).The story of Stax Records unfolds like a Greek tragedy. A white brother and sister build a record company that becomes a monument to racial harmony in 1960s segregated south Memphis. Their success is startling, and Stax soon defines an international sound. Then, after losses both ...

Powerful Brand Positioning Harnesses Key Building BlocksBrand Positioning with Power: Maximizing Your Marketing Impact is a new take on Al Ries and Jack Trout’s original positioning concept. The book delivers measurable results because it:Is remarkably easy to useUses a proven, systematic positioning processLeverages exciting, practical real-world examplesYou’ll see how the three ess...

* 25th anniversary edition features all new photos and layout, an updated text featuring more diverse voices, a new foreword, afterword and updated buying recommendations from the author, and a new introduction to come from a prominent young star. First published by Faber and Faber in 1995, it was bought by Simon and Schuster immediately after Faber, and terminated by S&S only at the author’s request. It’s been published twice in the UK by Secker and Warburg. Worldwide sales approach 50,00...

Robert Gordon gathers together his most important essays on the Old Testament and on the ancient versions, adding an introduction which gives background comment and reflections on each essay. The Old Testament essays are divided into three groups: The Narrative Tradition', 'Prophecy from East to West', and 'Across, Behind and Beyond the Text'. The essays on the ancient versions are divided into two sections: 'The Text and the Versions' and 'The Targums, Chiefly to the Prophets'.

How America's high standard of living came to be and why future growth is under threatIn the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric lighting, indoor plumbing, motor vehicles, air travel, and television transformed households and workplaces. But has that era of unprecedented growth come to an end? Weaving together a vivid narrative, historical anecdotes, and economic anal...

A child of former residential school parents Leanne Trudeau leaves the Reserve to complete secondary school and college graduating with degrees in journalism and business administration. Attending Reserve social activities on weekends she becomes romantically involved with a police officer training reserve community police recruits. An unplanned pregnancy leads to marrying the officer then moving for their son to obtain a private school education.Turning unreasonably jealous and un...

Sometimes, we have no idea of what we truly need until it appears: Against the backdrop of the Windy City, Keith McCallum finds himself enamored with the beautiful, serene breeze that is Alana Taylor, who also eagerly looks forward to the fortunate coincidence of their daily rendezvous in the McGregor building lobby. Even under the cloak of secrecy and cautious hesitation, their mutual admiration does not go unnoticed by their friends and colleagues, many possessing ulterior motives of the...

“A biography that crackles with as much energy as the great bluesman’s songs.” —Ted Drozdowski, Boston PhoenixThe epic, rollicking, up-and-down life of Muddy Waters—who went from Mississippi farmhand to musical legend, invented electric blues, and created the template for the rock-and- roll band and its wild lifestyle—is chronicled with rare vividness in Robert Gordon’s widely praised biography.

Few histories are as harrowing to document as exterminatory violence visited upon an entire social group, and the reduction of survivors to utter abjection – especially if the victims are one of humanity’s ancestral cultures. Gordon accomplishes this task as regards Namibias Bushman population withanalytical rigour, singular depth of scholarship, and deep-felt compassion. This extensively updated version of two path-breaking predecessors (1992 and 2000) introduces much new material...

Bob Teather entered RCMP Basic Recruit Training in 1967 with no idea of what he was getting into. Along with 31 other confused young men, he found himself in Regina, Saskatchewan, as a lowly member of Troop 18. Bald, intimidated, and soon to be bruised, Bob began a six-month ordeal that he candidly recalls in this engaging book. Corporal Teather's story brings you close to six recruits from across the country—Prairie Dog, André, Lumchuck, Francois, weird Harold Burl and Teather himself, a ...

Discover John Kander and Fred Ebb, the most artistically and commercially successful musical theatre writing team since Rodgers and Hammerstein, in a brand new way.Identifying the theatrical approach that renders their musical dramaturgy unique, this book explores their importance within, and contribution to, musical theatre history. Through their biggest hits, Cabaret (1966) and Chicago (1975), Kander and Ebb have been performed on the stage more...

Sometimes, we have no idea of what we truly need until it appears: Against the backdrop of the Windy City, Keith McCallum finds himself enamored with the beautiful, serene breeze that is Alana Taylor, who also eagerly looks forward to the fortunate coincidence of their daily rendezvous in the McGregor building lobby. Even under the cloak of secrecy and cautious hesitation, their mutual admiration does not go unnoticed by their friends and colleagues, many possessing ulterior motives of the...