Music has been a constant in human history, an intermingling of voice and instrument that for all its local variation and increasing sophistication nevertheless endured in more or less the same form for centuries. Then came recording--and music was forever transformed. Soundbreak...
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Shows how history becomes biography and the integral role of Mexico's leaders in the events of the nineteenth century, explores the seven presidents of the revolutionary era of 1910-1940, and examines the nation's modern presidency.
A beloved, bestselling classic of humorous and nostalgic Americana--the book that inspired the equally classic Yuletide film. The holiday film A Christmas Story , first released in 1983, has become a bona fide Christmas perennial, gaining in stature and fame with each succeedi...
"Three political leaders presided over the reshaping of the North American continent during the fiery 1860s. Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln were both born in Kentucky, Davis in June 1808 and Lincoln the following February. John A. Macdonald was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in ...
A beloved, bestselling classic of humorous and nostalgic Americana-the book that inspired the equally classic Yuletide film. The holiday film A Christmas Story , first released in 1983, has become a bona fide Christmas perennial, gaining in stature and fame with each succeedin...
Harrison Shepherd nació en Estados Unidos, pero cuando aún era un niño tuvo que irse a México. Acabó trabajando en la cocina de la casa de Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo. Fue en esa casa donde Shepherd conoció a Leon Trotsky. De vuelta a Norteamérica, se dedica a la escritu...
Gwyneth Shepherd's sophisticated, beautiful cousin Charlotte has been prepared her entire life for traveling through time. But unexpectedly, it is Gwyneth who in the middle of class takes a sudden spin to a different era! Gwyneth must now unearth the mystery of why her mother wou...
"The Johns Committee, a real, if lesser-known, McCarthy-esque group active in Florida, hovers over this tense, character-driven novel set in 1958...Watson ably evokes a sense of the McCarthy era's regional impact in this thought-provoking story." - Publishers Weekly "[Watson] ...