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In this title contemporary black American culture is chronicled through essays on music, film, sports, publishing, politics and city life, both uptown and down. This edition includes essays on the Hughes brothers, Tupac Shakur, the business of hip-hop and Latrell Sprewell.

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The stone bridge on the southern flank of the Antietam battlefield became one of the Civil War's most powerful symbols of courage and sacrifice. The actions, units and personalities of this crucial sector of the battlefield are described in detail, accompanied by a full description of the bridge area as it was in 1862 and as it is today.

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A highly-acclaimed account of Julius Caesar's decade-long campaign against the Celts of Germany, Gaul and Britain.

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"The terror film, with puzzling, disturbing, multivalent images, often leads us into regions that are strange, disorienting, yet somehow familiar; and for all the crude and melodramatic and morally qu"

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Reissued to coincide with the paperback publication of the definitive Bing biography by Gary Giddins, here is "a collection of anecdotes and reminiscences that is as warm and witty as any Crosby performance. [Bing] could have surely become a full-time writer had his schedule not been taken up with being one of the great entertainers of the century." -Will Friedwald

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Here, the authors help parents to interpret the very first cries, smiles and cooing of an infant, and show how to respond in the most appropriate and effective way to this early communication. They deal with such topics as colic, whining and tantrums.

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This is the second 1886 edition of Dodge's classic study of the battle of Chancellorsville, first published in 1881. It is marked by Dodge's unsparing analysis and astute interpretations, which have retained their value and vigour for over a century.

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Stand-up comedian Robert Schimmel's edgy, hilarious, and poignant musings on his battle with cancer

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The public called him Scarface; the FBI called him Public Enemy Number One; his associates called him Snorky. But Capone is the name most remember. And John Kobler's Capone is the definitive biography

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The definitive biography of the great composer, arranger, and bandleader

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In this collection of essays, Gene Lees brings together candid interviews with Jazz's greatest musicians and his own thoughts on the issue of racism, past and present, in jazz.

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Celebrating the Duke offers readers a perceptive, panoramic survey of jazz as revealed, in illuminating detail, through the lives and music of its heroes and heroines, including Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, Jimmie Lunceford, Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Albert Ayler, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, and a rich cache of writings on "America's greatest composer," the Duke himself.

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"General Abner Doubleday (1819--1893) is best known as the man who "invented" baseball, but his admirable service on behalf of the Union earned him a reputation as a solid commander and patriot. He saw"

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A wide-ranging, multi-faceted collection of profiles, commentary, and reportage tracing the career of the most popular athlete in the world today--Tiger Woods

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"Chicago has always had a reputation as a "wide open town" with a high tolerance for gangsters, illegal liquor, and crooked politicians. It has also been the home for countless black musicians and the"

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First time in paperback: The acclaimed biography of Chopin focusing on his 18 years in Paris at the center of a dazzling circle that included Hugo, Balzac, Stendhal, Delacroix, List, Berlioz, and George Sand.

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The never-before-told story of the grid that ate Manhattan

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"In this unique examination of Civil War leadership, W. J. Wood looks at the tactical and strategic problems that threatened to overwhelm untried Civil War generals and the pragmatic strategies, born o"

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Writings on city landscapes.

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"In 1933 Irving Berlin wrote to composer-lyricist Cole Porter, "I am mad about Night and Day." Millions of others throughout the world have been "mad about" that Porter gem, as well as dozens of others"

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"Always elusive, constantly moving, incessantly changing, John Coltrane stood astride the jazz world of the late '50s and '60s. He was a giant of the saxophone and a major composer. His music influence"

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