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A detailed account of labor corruption in the 1930s and the zealous journalist who railed against it

The story of the night club impresario whose wildly successful interracial club, Cafe Society, changed the American artistic landscape forever

An inclusive narrative of golf's history and popularity in the United States

Eric Saylor is an associate professor of musicology at Drake University. He coedited Blackness in Opera and The Sea in the British Musical Imagination.

Looking past the rhetoric to expose the forces that shaped Shawnee nationalism

A succinct rendition of Dubofsky's history of the IWW, this edition brings the essence of the colorful story of the Industrial Workers of the World.

A century of developing health culture in McLean County, Illinois

Provocative insights into Beauvoir's philosophical and personal development during wartime

An exhaustive reference detailing the mirth and music of country music humorists and comedians

An authoritative history of the trailblazers of the independent rock 'n' roll record industry

Traces the monumental battle waged by civil rights organizations and by local people to establish basic human rights for all citizens of Mississippi

Documents the lives, careers, and music of three British composers, William Selby of London and Boston (1738-98), Rayner Taylor of London and Philadelphia (1745-1825), and George K Jackson of St Andrews, New York, and Boston (1757-1822) who emigrated from England in mid-career and became leaders in the musical life of the American Federal era.

A beautifully told and unique recollection of life as the child of immigrant Jews in the Bronx and as the child of deaf parents

A critical analysis of an exceptional American director

Preserving and honoring the intellectual voice that spoke with the urgency, generosity, and grace of the best of humanity

Divided into three sections, this edition explores the societal context of land use planning and proposes a model for understanding and reconciling the divergent priorities among competing stakeholders. It explains how to build planning support systems to assess conditions, evaluate policy choices, create visions, and compare scenarios.

The ins and outs of the marketing of food

An introductory analysis of Korean American religious practices and community

A sourcebook of the chronology and range of Nietzsche's reading

Gives an account of how Nazi anthropologists justified racism, developed practical applications of racist theory, and eventually participated in every phase of the Holocaust. This book shows the range of anti-human activity from within the confines of a particular discipline.

The most complete history of birth control ever written.

How and why Americans chose baseball over its early rival, cricket, as the national pastime

Addresses black women's negotiation of race and gender in African American music. This work explores the ways African American women musicians of the twentieth century have negotiated feminisms, engaged in social activism, and worked within - or sometimes independent of - a male-dominated music industry.

An inspired new translation of the work of one of the world's greatest fabulists

Illuminating the cinematic career of a male pop icon

The biography of a giant in the history of blues music