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The Music of James Bond

By: Jon Burlingame

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The Music of James Bond

By: Jon Burlingame

Chronicles all the behind-the-scenes stories of every song and score written for the James Bond films and draws from new interviews with many of the songwriters and composers.

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Oxford University Press

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019986330X

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9780199863303

The Confederate Culture and Its Weakenesses

How Culture Contributed to the Confederate Defeat

By: Jon P. Alston

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The Confederate Culture and Its Weakenesses

How Culture Contributed to the Confederate Defeat

By: Jon P. Alston

SOUTHERN CULTURE CONTAINED ELEMENTS THAT PROVED DYSFUNCTIONAL TO WINNING A PRE-MODERN WAR FOR SECESSION. SOUTHERN CAVALIERS WERE OFTEN MORE CONCERNED WITH THEIR OWN AMBITIONS AND SEARCH FOR HONOR AND POPULARITY. ROBERT E. LEE LOST THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG BECAUSE JEB STUART WAS MORE CONCERNED WITH HIS HONOR THAN WITH FOLLOWING ORDERS. OTHER GENERALS REFUSED TO COOPERATE AND REFUSED TO PREVENT THE UNION CAPTURE OF NEW ORLEANS AND VICKSBURG.

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267

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iUniverse

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1663251509

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9781663251503

And There Was Light

Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle

By: Jon Meacham

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Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle

By: Jon Meacham

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer Jon Meacham chronicles the life of Abraham Lincoln, charting how—and why—he confronted secession, threats to democracy, and the tragedy of slavery to expand the possibilities of America. “Meacham has given us the Lincoln for our time.”—Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Winner of the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize • Longlisted for the Biographers International Plutarch Award • One of the Best Books of the Year: The Christian Science Monitor, Kirkus Reviews A president who governed a divided country has much to teach us in a twenty-first-century moment of polarization and political crisis. Hated and hailed, excoriated and revered, Abraham Lincoln was at the pinnacle of American power when implacable secessionists gave no quarter in a clash of visions bound up with money, race, identity, and faith. In him we can see the possibilities of the presidency as well as its limitations. At once familiar and elusive, Lincoln tends to be seen as the greatest of American presidents—a remote icon—or as a politician driven more by calculation than by conviction. This illuminating new portrait gives us a very human Lincoln—an imperfect man whose moral antislavery commitment, essential to the story of justice in America, began as he grew up in an antislavery Baptist community; who insisted that slavery was a moral evil; and who sought, as he put it, to do right as God gave him to see the right. This book tells the story of Lincoln from his birth on the Kentucky frontier in 1809 to his leadership during the Civil War to his tragic assassination in 1865: his rise, his self-education, his loves, his bouts of depression, his political failures, his deepening faith, and his persistent conviction that slavery must end. In a nation shaped by the courage of the enslaved of the era and by the brave witness of Black Americans, Lincoln’s story illustrates the ways and means of politics in a democracy, the roots and durability of racism, and the capacity of conscience to shape events.

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Random House Trade Paperbacks

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0553393987

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9780553393989

Growing Civil Society

From Nonprofit Sector to Third Space

By: Jon Van Til

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Growing Civil Society

From Nonprofit Sector to Third Space

By: Jon Van Til

The third space is not independent from society's major institutions, but exists in dynamic interdependence with them, linking individuals in their home bases of family and community to the larger governmental and economic structures within which all citizens, workers, and consumers learn to seek their way in modern society."--BOOK JACKET.

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270

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Indiana University Press

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0253337151

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9780253337153

The Soul of America

The Battle for Our Better Angels

By: Jon Meacham

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The Soul of America

The Battle for Our Better Angels

By: Jon Meacham

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical times in our history when hope overcame division and fear. “Gripping and inspiring, The Soul of America is Jon Meacham’s declaration of his faith in America.”—Newsday ONE OF OPRAH’S “BOOKS THAT HELP ME THROUGH” • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, The Christian Science Monitor, Southern Living Our current climate of partisan fury is not new, and in The Soul of America Meacham shows us how what Abraham Lincoln called the “better angels of our nature” have repeatedly won the day. Painting surprising portraits of Lincoln and other presidents, including Ulysses S. Grant, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, and Lyndon B. Johnson, and illuminating the courage of such influential citizen activists as Martin Luther King, Jr., early suffragettes Alice Paul and Carrie Chapman Catt, civil rights pioneers Rosa Parks and John Lewis, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, and Army-McCarthy hearings lawyer Joseph N. Welch, Meacham brings vividly to life turning points in American history. He writes about the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the birth of the Lost Cause; the backlash against immigrants in the First World War and the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s; the fight for women’s rights; the demagoguery of Huey Long and Father Coughlin and the isolationist work of America First in the years before World War II; the anti-Communist witch-hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy; and Lyndon Johnson’s crusade against Jim Crow. Each of these dramatic hours in our national life have been shaped by the contest to lead the country to look forward rather than back, to assert hope over fear—a struggle that continues even now. While the American story has not always—or even often—been heroic, we have been sustained by a belief in progress even in the gloomiest of times. In this inspiring book, Meacham reassures us, “The good news is that we have come through such darkness before”—as, time and again, Lincoln’s better angels have found a way to prevail.

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0399589821

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9780399589829

Sound And Vision

60 Years Of Motion Picture Soundtracks

By: Jon Burlingame

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Sound And Vision

60 Years Of Motion Picture Soundtracks

By: Jon Burlingame

An authoritative history & ref. guide to movie music, composers & song compilations. A detailed history of movie music on record & CD; up-to-date biographical sketches of soundtrack composers throughout movie history; & annotated listings of the best-selling, award-winning, or noteworthy soundtracks of the past & present -- original film scores as well as movie musicals & song-compilation scores. Jon Burlingame is a kind & knowledgeable critic of the state of the art. He chronicles those soundtracks that, by virtue of their quality, importance or popularity, should be made known to film music's ever-increasing audience. Includes an informative history of movie soundtrack recordings. Illustrations.

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0756776066

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9780756776060

Sound and Vision

Sixty Years of Motion Picture Soundtracks

By: Jon Burlingame

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Sound and Vision

Sixty Years of Motion Picture Soundtracks

By: Jon Burlingame

A reference to motion picture soundtracks. It discusses the rich history ofoundtracks, from composed film scores to movie musicals and songompilations. Divided into three parts, the book begins with an essayetailing the history of the field from its beginnings to the complexnternational business it has become, then offers an overview of many of theomposers who have written music for movies over the years, each with a briefiographical sketch and a discussion of their best work as made available onong-playing records or compact discs, and finally looks at movie musicalsnd song compilation scores that have been issued over the years. Aomprehensive bibliography is also included.

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Watson-Guptill Publications

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0823084272

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9780823084272

Marvel: Universe of Super Heroes

By: Stan Lee,Evan Narcisse,Brooks Peck,Patrick Reed

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Marvel: Universe of Super Heroes

By: Stan Lee,Evan Narcisse,Brooks Peck,Patrick Reed

The spectacular exhibition catalogue, Marvel: Universe of Super Heroes celebrates 80 years of Marvel history with original comics pages, amazing sculptures, artefacts, original commissions, panoramic hallways and interactive displays.Marvel Comics and Marvel Studio Films are not only the enduring voices of the Super Heroes themselves, but also the diverse visions of Marvel's writers, artists, actors and filmmakers.The catalogue features legendary comic creators, up-and-coming talent, editors, executives, artists, art collectors, actors and show-runners, along with articles about the history and power of YOU, the Marvel fans, with stories that stretch the mind regarding how we think about heroes, be it through personal history, fandom or fashion.Featuring interviews with and articles by some of the legends and stars in the field, such as:Iconic comic book writer and editor, Stan Lee (1922-2018).Comic book writers Kelly Sue DeConnick, Joe Quesada, G. Willow Wilson, and Chris Claremont (best known for creating Wolverine).Actor, Clark Gregg who plays the character of Phillip J. Coulson in classic Marvel films such as Iron Man 1 and 2, Thor, and The Avengers.Film, TV and comic writer, Joseph 'Jeph' Loeb best-known for his writing of TV series such as Smallville, and Heroes, as well as his book works on many major Marvel characters.Actor, James Marsters who played the role of the English vampire Spike in the cult TV series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer.Creator of Marvel's Luke Cage, Cheo Hodari Coker.

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Verlag Fur Moderne Kunst

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3903269328

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And There Was Light

Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle

By: Jon Meacham

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Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle

By: Jon Meacham

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The Music of James Bond

The Music of James Bond

The Confederate Culture and Its Weakenesses

The Confederate Culture and Its Weakenesses

And There Was Light

And There Was Light

Growing Civil Society

Growing Civil Society

The Soul of America

The Soul of America

Sound And Vision

Sound And Vision

Sound and Vision

Sound and Vision

Marvel: Universe of Super Heroes

Marvel: Universe of Super Heroes

And There Was Light

And There Was Light

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