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Starting a NASCAR team is hard work. Starting a NASCAR team as an African American is even harder. These are just a few of the lessons learned by Leonard T. Miller during his decade and a half of running an auto racing program. Fueled by more than the desire to win, Miller made it his goal to create opportunities for black drivers in the vastly white, Southern world of NASCAR. Racing While Black chronicles the travails of selling marketing pla...

From James Andrew Miller, the New York Times bestselling author of Those Guys Have All the Fun, comes the unvarnished, comprehensive, and astonishing history of HBO, told for the first time through the disruptors who led its epic rise to prestige and changed the way we watch TV forever ...

The first complete and never-before revealed history of ESPN is a wild, smart, effervescent look at the triumph, genius, ego, and rise of an empire unlike any television has ever seen.

An introduction to ethical issues with examples from real life police work. For students of criminology and ethics and all levels of police officers.

World Music: A Global Journey, Fifth Edition, explores the diversity of musical expression around the world, taking students across the globe to experience cultural traditions that challenge the ear, the mind, and the spirit. It surveys world music within a systematic study of the world¿s major cultures.

In 1938, Edgar Madison is suffering a financial crisis. He hires the McEachin brothers to stage a fake robbery of the mill's shaky captive bank. After the robbery, he has the McEachins killed. Buddy Tate, four-year-old son of Tommy, is a secret, uncomprehending witness as Madison's Security Patrol slaughter and bury the McEachins. By 1971, Buddy is a thirty-seven-year-old derelict. While sleeping under a bridge in Texas, he is attacked by ...

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The alternate self is a persistent theme of modern culture. From Robert Frost to Sharon Olds, Virginia Woolf to Ian McEwan, poets and novelists-and readers-are fascinated by paths not taken. In an elegant and provocative rumination, Andrew H. Miller lingers with other selves, listening to what they have to say about our stories and our lives.

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When Captain John Lacroix returns home from Spain, wounded, unconscious, and alone, he believes that he has seen the worst of what men may do. It is 1809, and in England's wars against Napoleon, the Battle of Corruna stands out as a humiliation. Slowly regaining his health, Lacroix journeys to Scotland with the intent of forgetting the horrors. Unbeknownst to him, however, something else has followed him back from the war.

A 12-year collection of weekly church mails from a pastor to his congregation

It's time for new policies based on changing U.S. interests.U.S. policy in the Middle East has had very few successes in recent years. It is time for a different approach. But is the new approach of the Trump administration-military disengagement coupled with unquestioning support for a few regional leaders-in Israel, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia-the way forward?In this edited volume, noted experts on the region lay out a better long-term strategy ...

Powerful, brave and inspiring stories of war at the front and at home - from ordinary people.This remarkable book gives first-hand accounts of the war experiences of working-class men and women from Castlemilk, Glasgow. The stories are from the front and at home.

Following a showdown with the devil, would God really limit his grace to his people? The kind folk at Clapham Community Church are about to find out...