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Featuring the words of Rev. Keith A. Gordon and designed by noted graphic artist Paul Needham, Scorched Earth: A Jason & The Scorchers Scrapbook documents the electrifying band's long journey from hard-rocking cowpunk upstarts to Americana music legends with interviews and album reviews from across the Scorchers' 30+ year history, as well as a complete Scorchers album discography, including solo works (Jason Ringenberg, Farmer Jason) and side ...

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A comprehensive study of war, population and statehood in Eastern Europe and Russia, 1918-1924.

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Britain in India, 1858-1947’ seeks to trace the last 90 years of British rule in the light of modern historical debates. The volume examines the ambiguities of British rule that followed from the post-Mutiny settlement: the tensions between an authoritarian bureaucracy and the promise of a liberal vision of the future, and between imperial interests and the growing coordination of Indian aspirations for self-rule. The volume analyses these ten...

Ronnie Lopez had his whole life planned out when he was 15 years old. He was going to be a championship wrestler, a star athlete, and a successful businessman. Then he blew his knees out, didn't get a scholarship, and found his inspiration in the classic gangster movie, Scarface.He became a powerful drug dealer in Lodine, Illinois, leading a life filled with sacks of cash, willing women, drunken parties, gun shootings and bloody stabbings.This...

Provides a revealing global overview of air pollution and its startling impact through graphical and visual representation of data.

Elections in South Asia in the 1980s and 1990s produced many surprises. Notwithstanding the initial skepticism voiced by many a western political analyst and despite interludes of dictatorships in one or two countries, democracy as a form of governance has won a general acceptance in the region. Electoral politics in the subcontinent aptly demonstrates this fact. This volume draws together studies by internationally acclaimed scholars on natio...

For those of us born after World War II, the Holocaust has been a part of our collective memory from an early age. It's hard for us to conceive how the generation before ours must have felt as they first learned that such inhumanity was possible. The authors of this book may seem like we would have little perspective to offer on these events. We are not survivors or first-hand witnesses.But my grandmother, Marion S. Coleman, was given the daun...

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Progressive rock fell out of favor with the mainstream audience decades ago, but the genre has managed to thrive and survive in the music underground, picking up steam in recent years and appealing to an entire generation of new fans searching for an honest music. PROG 2010 features album reviews and artist interviews of some of the best and brightest from the first decade of the new progressive century. Compiled by noted prog-rock critic Tomm...

In 1966, a child is found abandoned in a rocket ride on Cape Canaveral. Traumatized, she could not speak when the police found her, only a few yards from her dead mother. So first responders called her "Baby Rocket." As an adult, this child (Clementine "Lem" Dance) has no memory of this event. She only discovers her past when her adoptive father, James Walter Dance, Jr. has a fatal heart attack. Lem, a women's historian who is writing a book a...

The end of the Cold War created a fluid international situation in which many new geopolitical perspectives became possible. This book explores a rapidly emerging new geopolitical reality: the convergence of American perspectives on South Asian problems and to some extent on Central Asian problems with the perspectives of Russia and India. US-Indian and US-Russian working groups were established in 1999 and 2000 on problems of terrorism and sp...

After decades of creating treasured memorable moments, singer Melanie Safka has finally released her first book for her legions of fans. Tales from the Roadburn Café offers an intimate look behind the scenes, backstage, and on the road with one of the music industry's most beloved entertainers.

This guide is a unique resource for music lovers with a passion for travel. Europe's foremost concert halls and opera houses are presented here in a comprehensive, accessible and attractive collection.

This book provides a critical evaluation of the successes and failures of Indian government at many levels. Jayanta Kumar Ray argues that India cannot claim to have reached the attainable level of good performance. The government of India has failed to adopt or implement policies conducive to such an optimum use of available human and material resources as to replace mass poverty with mass prosperity. Accessing a variety of primary and seconda...

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