This is the true story of Don Taylor's relationship with Bob Marley. In recording Taylor's years as Marley's manager, and his role in the handling of Bob's affairs after his death, this book fully reveals all the behind-the-scenes manipulations which have led to the many open court conflicts, highlighting the illegal activities of those who still, to this day, continue to distort Bob's achievements.
Buggin : A Brothers Tale, focuses on Jerome Mitchell, a college professor in Charlotte, NC, who finds himself one third of a triangle including Yolanda Walker and Bernard Fox; a triangle of narcissism, obsession and passion. Beginning with Jeromes divorce from his wife of 12 years, the story catapults he, Yolanda and Bernard toward a confrontation on the battlefield of love, longing and desire. Jerome struggles with understanding his place in a world hes been away from for over 12 years. Through trial and error, Jerome picks his way, never knowing how close he is to a war he cant win.
Waders of Europe, Asia and North America – the definitive guide to this sternest of field identification challenges – just got even better. This enhanced fixed-format version of the book – featuring songs and calls – is set to change birding, forever. Optimised for iPad, it features the book in crisp, clear high-resolution. Superb, fully zoomable colour plates of the highest detail lie opposite comprehensive identification text, separated into 'at rest' and 'in flight' sections, and accurate range maps. In addition, this e-book features songs, calls and other sounds from all 124 species of sandpipers, snipes, stints, godwits and their kin in the northern hemisphere. This epic collection of images and sounds represents a step change in the way birders operate. It provides a complete field-based ID solution – no birder will want to be without it.
Written by Kylix experts and respected software developers, this book provides readers with accurate, understandable, easy to use, and dependable programming approaches and solutions. It also helps readers understand the whys of Kylix and Linux as well as the hows, using carefully documented commentary. on why each approach is used. This book is ideal for experienced Delphi programmers expanding to the Linux operating system.
A guide to repairing and painting automobile bodies, using photographs and text to discuss disassembly, welding, rust removal, aluminum and fiberglass repair, painting products and equipment, color matching, and other topics.
This literary offering is a profound read for any individual who aspires to become a barber with plans to attend barber college. There are many jewels given by a licensed barber who has completed the state required clock hour mandate, all to share what one must do to begin a lucrative career as a barber.
Fully illustrated sections include how to detail for show competition, the latest in detailing technology, products and equipment, setting up an auto detailing business, and more.
Wyatt Earp's autobiography as told to John H. Flood, Jr. In the latter part of Earp's life, he worked feverishly to tell his version of his life's story. Although submitted to several publishing houses, this work never hit the bookshelves. Limited versions have been put out over the years, but now Don Taylor, the Tombstone City Historian, is making it available to everyone.
A larger-than-life narrative of the making of the classic film, marking the rise of America as a superpower, the ascent of Hollywood celebrity, and the flowering of Texas culture as mythology. Featuring James Dean, Rock Hudson, and Elizabeth Taylor, Giant is an epic film of fame and materialism, based around the discovery of oil at Spindletop and the establishment of the King Ranch of south Texas. Isolating his star cast in the wilds of West Texas, director George Stevens brought together a volatile mix of egos, insecurities, sexual proclivities, and talent. Stevens knew he was overwhelmed with Hudson’s promiscuity, Taylor’s high diva-dom, and Dean’s egotistical eccentricity. Yet he coaxed performances out of them that made cinematic history, winning Stevens the Academy Award for Best Director and garnering nine other nominations, including a nomination for Best Actor for James Dean, who died before the film was finished. In this compelling and impeccably researched narrative history of the making of the film, Don Graham chronicles the stories of Stevens, whose trauma in World War II intensified his ambition to make films that would tell the story of America; Edna Ferber, a considerable literary celebrity, who meets her match in the imposing Robert Kleberg, proprietor of the vast King Ranch; and Glenn McCarthy, an American oil tycoon; and Errol Flynn lookalike with a taste for Hollywood. Drawing on archival sources Graham’s Giant is a comprehensive depiction of the film’s production showing readers how reality became fiction and fiction became cinema.
This book, the second volume in A Linguistic History of English, describes the development of Old English from Proto-Germanic. Like Volume I, it is an internal history of the structure of English that combines traditional historical linguistics, modern syntactic theory, the study of languages in contact, and the variationist approach to language change. The first part of the book considers the development of Northwest and West Germanic, and the northern dialects of the latter, with particular reference to phonological and morphological phenomena. Later chapters present a detailed account of changes in the Old English sound system, inflectional system, and syntax. The book aims to make the findings of traditional historical linguistics accessible to scholars and students in other subdisciplines, and also to adopt approaches from contemporary theoretical linguistics in such a way that they are accessible to a wide range of historical linguists.
Ground up or section by section, this guide will show you how to restore your 1965-70 Mustang to like-new condition. Packed with dozens of identification charts and more than 450 photos and drawings. the guide covers year-by-year equipment changes and disassembly and assembly. A Mustang suppliers list is a bonus.
The true history of Tombstone's first fifty years. This work includes copies of supporting documents through out the five decades. This book is based on the primary research by Don Taylor, the Tombstone City Historian. He has included copies of letters, newspaper article, telegrams and more that he found across the country. His search took him from The Arizona State Library & Archive to The National Archives.
This incomparable anthology collects articles, interviews, fiction, and poetry from the Original Chicago Blues Annual, one of music history's most significant periodical blues publications. Founded and operated from 1989 to 1995 by African American musician and entrepreneur Lincoln T. Beauchamp Jr., OCBA gave voice to the blues community and often frankly addressed contentious issues within the blues such as race, identity, prejudice, wealth, gender, and inequity. OCBA often expressed an explicitly black perspective, but its contributors were a mix of black and white, American and international. Likewise, although OCBA's roots and main focus were in Chicago, Beauchamp's vision for the publication (and his own activities as a blues performer and promoter) embraced an international dimension, reflecting a broad diversity of blues audiences and activities in locations as farflung as Iceland, Poland, France, Italy, and South Africa. This volume includes key selections from OCBA's seven issues and features candid interviews with blues luminaries such as Koko Taylor, Eddie Boyd, Famoudou Don Moye, Big Daddy Kinsey, Lester Bowie, Junior Wells, Billy Boy Arnold, Herb Kent, Barry Dolins, and many more. Also featured are heartfelt memorials to bygone blues artists, insightful observations on the state of the blues in Chicago and beyond, and dozens of photographs of performers, promoters, and other participants in the worldwide blues scene.
A derelict park is threatened by developers and a group of young people try to rescue it by writing and performing a play. But the project soon falters: the developers hover, the cast bicker and the hot weather breaks with a violent storm. But the park exercises a strange hold over them.-Large flexible cast
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