History of television > The Kinks: All Day and All of the Night: Day by Day Concerts, Recordings, and Broadcasts, 1964-1997 by Doug Hinman, ISBN 087930765X

The Kinks: All Day and All of the Night: Day by Day Concerts, Recordings, and Broadcasts, 1964-1997 by Doug Hinman, ISBN 087930765X

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This book tracks every move in this great band's career. With the help of band members, the author has reconstructed The Kinks' meteoric rise to fame in the early '60s through its dissolution and revival in the '70s, stadium success in the '80s, and an apparently final breakdown in the late'90s. From this chronicle emerges the story of a band often at odds with an industry going in the opposite direction. The book also profiles Ray Davies, one of the most gifted songwriters in popular music. The book's easy-to-browse, day-by-day format details the band's entire concert history, all known recording sessions, its broadcast history, and all records issued in the U.S. and the U.K.

A History of the Arab Peoples by Albert Hourani, ISBN 0674010175

In a panoramic view encompassing 12 centuries of Arab history and culture, Hourani brilliantly illuminates the people and events that have fundamentally shaped the Arab world. Noted Islamic scholar Ruthven brings the story up to date from the mid-1980s. A History of the Arab Peoples by Albert Hourani, ISBN 0674010175
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Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody, ISBN 0385337817

Born to a poor couple who were tenant farmers on a plantation in Mississippi, Anne Moody lived through some of the most dangerous days of the pre-civil rights era in the South. The week before she began high school came the news of Emmet Till's lynching. Before then, she had "known the fear of hunger, hell, and the Devil. But now there was...the fear of being killed just because I was black." In that moment was born the passion for freedom and justice that would change her life.
An all-A student whose dream of going to college is realized when she wins a basketball scholarship, she finally dares to join the NAACP in her junior year. Through the NAACP and later through CORE and SNCC she has first-hand experience of the demonstrations and sit-ins that were the mainstay of the civil rights movement, and the arrests and jailings, the shotguns, fire hoses, police dogs, billy clubs and deadly force that were used to destroy it.
A deeply personal story but also a portrait of a turning... Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody, ISBN 0385337817
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Underground Film: A Critical History by Parker Tyler, ISBN 0306806320

A masterpiece of cinema literature, Tyler has evaluated the Underground in general and the seminal films in particular, covering the history and scope of the genre with insight and verve. "Indispensable for anyone interested in contemporary filmmaking, its history, personalities, and rationale".--Publishers Weekly. 67 film stills and frame enlargements. Underground Film: A Critical History by Parker Tyler, ISBN 0306806320
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The Aesthetics of the Japanese Lunchbox by Kenji Ekuan, ISBN 0262550350

The Makunouchi Bento, or traditional Japanese lunchbox, is a highly lacquered wooden box divided into quadrants, each of which contains different delicacies. It is also one of the most familiar images of Japan's domestic environment. When presented to the diner, the Japanese lunchbox seems straightforward enough; each of four food portions resides in its own compartment, apparently obeying a strict lunchbox geometry. So far, just food. But Kenji Ekuan reveals that a much deeper reading is possible, one that sees the lunchbox as nothing less than a key to an understanding of Japanese civilization, the spirit of form, and the aesthetic ideal in which the many are reduced to one.Ekuan reads the Japanese lunchbox as both object and metaphor. It is one of this book's many charms that he is able to see it as both simultaneously. He compares the visual pleasures of the Zen lunchbox to an aerial view of the Japanese archipelago; he invites us to savor its quadripartite structure as we savor the... The Aesthetics of the Japanese Lunchbox by Kenji Ekuan, ISBN 0262550350
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Chesapeake Steamboats: Vanished Fleet by David C. Holly, ISBN 0870334557

In eight engaging chapters, this book portrays the steamboat era (1813-1963) on the Chesapeake, which matched in glamour and excitement the steamboats' history on the Mississippi. The book begins with the building of the first steamboat on the Bay in the shadow of the bitter struggle between Stevens, Livingston, Fulton, and Latrobe, among others, over monopoly on the Delaware and Chesapeake. Some of the accepted history on the origin of the first Bay steamboat is called into question. The chapters continue with stories of the genius of early engine builders, the legends arising from dramatic steamboat disasters, spirited adventures of the Civil War (including the mystery of the "French lady spy"), the romance of steamboat excursions and resorts, the personalities of many steamboats and their masters, the Pennsylvania Railroad's near achievement of monopoly on the Bay, and the denouement when trucks and automobiles eclipsed the role of the steamboat. An appendix details the workings of early... Chesapeake Steamboats: Vanished Fleet by David C. Holly, ISBN 0870334557
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Religion and American Culture by Jerrold E. Marsden, ISBN 0155055321

RELIGION AND AMERICAN CULTURE focuses on the relationship of religion to the social and cultural dynamics of American history. Because most survey texts provide only brief coverage of this topic, Marsden's narrative is designed to explore the role of religion in American culture. Religion and American Culture by Jerrold E. Marsden, ISBN 0155055321
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On the Blanket: The Inside Story of the IRA Prisoners' Dirty Protest by Tim Pat Coogan, ISBN 0312295138

The H Block protest is one of the strangest and most controversial issues in the tragic history of Northern Ireland. Republican prisoners, convicted of grave crimes through special courts and ruthless interrogation procedures, campaigned for political status by refusing to wear prison clothes and daubing their cell with excrement.Were they properly convicted criminals, or martyrs to political injustice? In a masterpiece of investigative journalism, Coogan provides us with the only first-hand account of the protest. His investigation led deep into the social, cultural, and economic maze of Northern Ireland's history to give readers an unmatched analysis of a troubled place and its sorrowful history. On the Blanket: The Inside Story of the IRA Prisoners' Dirty Protest by Tim Pat Coogan, ISBN 0312295138
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