This forcefully argued book offers a provocative picture of the political, intellectual, and economic forces that have shaped the history of the United States, offering an extensive and in-depth critique of laissez-faire doctrine and a novel reformulation of the work of American System writers, Gibson traces America's rise to global supremacy.
Professor Gibson peels away layers of the JFK assassination conspiracy and cover-up. An effectively researched and probing analysis of America's most important solved murder.
This month, as Sir Elton John celebrates his seventieth birthday, Backbeat Books is thrilled to announce the release of Donald Gibson's Elton John FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the Rocket Man. An exploration of Sir Elton's accolades alone could span several volumes: in a career spanning nearly five decades, he has sold over 250 million records worldwide, appeared in nearly 4 000 live performances, been inducted into both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and received multiple awards and nominations from the Academy, GRAMMYs, Oscars, and Tonys. How can one possibly hope to examine the life and times of this peerless singer-songwriter, the most successful solo artist Great Britain has ever produced and the third-most successful artist overall in American music history? Why, with Backbeat's acclaimed FAQ format, of course! Like every other volume in the FAQ series, Elton John FAQ is overflowing with enlightening data, compact histories, rare photographs and period ephemera, all organized into chapters equally suitable for a straight-through read or random perusal. Gibson touches on every major episode from Sir Elton's life, from his humble, and at times disheartening, childhood in the North London suburb of Pinner to his serendipitous meeting with lyricist Bernie Taupin, with whom he'd form a songwriting partnership that would ultimately rank alongside Lennon and McCartney in its success, and beyond. Scrutinizing the highs and lows of a life crammed with musical phases and sartorial changes, the book underscores not only the renowned musician's talents, but the truth behind tales that are familiar only to diehard fans.
Relationships at work tend to be interdependent, competitive, hierarchical, overexposed, and compulsory. Keeping the interests of yourself, your boss, your peers, your subordinates, your vendors, and your customers in alignment all the time is impossible. Meanwhile, you must also contend with competitors and unpredictable markets. Thus, for most people, work involves a constant juggling of-and wrestling with-competing interests. Whether the stakes are pecuniary, psychological, or both, they are always on the line in every interaction at work. While the workplace is an environment more likely t.
The communication potential of contemporary mass media is immense. It can communicate with us about the entire world and it can stimulate and inspire us with entertainment. The realisation of this potential has been frustrated by interrelated networks of people who have controlled major media over the last century. Those interests see media as a means to control and manipulate people rather than as a means to inform and inspire people. The approach in this book moves beyond the abstractions and systems approaches often used in criticisms of media to an analysis focused on the concrete groups that dominate media. These groups do constitute a system, but one that must be understood in its terms of all of its historical features -- economic, political, and social.
I heard it said once that 'principles are taught, but miracles must be caught.' Through my personal journey and miraculous healing from a twelve-year battle with Crohn's disease, God showed me that miracles have a unique way of accelerating principles. I wonder if that is the reason David wrote, "'For a day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere'" (Psalm 84:10, ESV). Could David have known that a day in the presence of the Lord would accelerate his process and the principles the Lord was teaching him? "Hope is a journey, a process, that is often best seen through the eyes of another's story. As you read these pages you will explore the process of hope and find some truths for your personal journey." -- Donald Gibson
Since the advent of autism as a diagnosed condition in the 1940s, the importance of music in the lives of autistic people has been widely observed and studied. Articles on musical savants, extraordinary feats of musical memory, unusually high rates of absolute or perfect pitch, and the effectiveness of music-based therapies abound in the autism literature. Meanwhile, music scholars and historians have posited autism-centered explanatory models to account for the unique musical artistry of everyone from Béla Bartók and Glenn Gould to Blind Tom Wiggins. Given the great deal of attention paid to music and autism, it is surprising to discover that autistic people have rarely been asked to account for how they themselves make and experience music or why it matters to them that they do. In Speaking for Ourselves, renowned ethnomusicologist Michael Bakan does just that, engaging in deep conversations--some spanning the course of years--with ten fascinating and very different individuals who share two basic things in common: an autism spectrum diagnosis and a life in which music plays a central part. These conversations offer profound insights into the intricacies and intersections of music, autism, neurodiversity, and life in general, not from an autistic point of view, but rather from many different autistic points of view. They invite readers to partake of a rich tapestry of words, ideas, images, and musical sounds that speak to both the diversity of autistic experience and the common humanity we all share.
Psychotherapy is profoundly indebted to Carl Jung, who among others, discovered the mappings of soul psychology. Carl Jung and Soul Psychology is a fascinating exploration of the identity and unifying work of soul psychology. The editors have met a monumental challenge in enlisting the scope of wisdom represented in this unique book.
Meet Don Gibson, a depression-era Iowa farm boy who found his way into the world of ideas and politics. He worked his way through college, participated in the Civil Rights movement and Vietnam War protests, and became involved in electoral politics. A tireless advocate of critical thinking, he took up arms in the culture wars of the 1980s and 1990s, serving in the National Endowment for the Humanities from 1977 to 1997. A posthumous memoir.
We all get into relationships with missing pieces. Missing pieces that we need to have before bringing someone else into our lives. Those missing pieces can be from not having someone teaching us the proper way relationships work, from having troubles in past relationships that we never healed from, and growing up in toxic family environments. Those things lead us to two incomplete people getting together looking for the other one to complete them, when we both are missing critical pieces of our own. That is where the cover comes from. It is from our logo The Imperfect Coupl3. We are imperfect because of all those missing pieces. We are two imperfect people joining together. This book is the ultimate marriage preparation book for singles, engaged, and married couples. All unmarried people need it before marriage. Married people need it to take their marriage to a deeper level. I hear a lot of women say women were always taught how to to be women but no one teaches men to be men. Or preachers always telling women how to be wives, but not telling men how to be husbands. Well this book changes all that. This book gives men tools that were never available to us. This book changes everything you thought you knew about marriage. These are the things that allowed my marriage to continue. These things are the reason my wife and I are not in the 50 percent divorce rate. This book guides readers to the missing pieces it takes to make a marriage last forever. This book will inspire readers to search for their purpose in life while teaching the true purpose of marriage. Readers are encouraged to date with purpose and acquire the tools needed before becoming a wife or husband.
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