Music Is History combines Questlove's deep musical expertise with his curiosity about history, examining America over the past fifty years.

Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Manuel Puig.

Rob Morgan's inimitable style will help people reacquaint themselves with the hymns of the faithful. His goal is to keep these traditional hymns vital and meaningful to all generations. Don't look for a dry recounting of boring stories. These devotional-style stories show the emotion and drama behind the hymns of faith that have changed many lives throughout history -- the people whose faith led them to write these wonderful hymns and the people whose...

Presents a history of the novel around the world, from ancient times until 1600. A comprehensive history-and controversial reappraisal-of the world's most popular and innovative literary form.

An untold authentic counter-narrative blues history and the first written by an African American blues artist. All prior histories on the blues have alleged it originated on plantations in the Mississippi Delta. Not true, says author Chris Thomas King. In The Blues, King present facts to disprove such myths. This book is the first to argue the blues began as a cosmopolitan art form, not a rural one. As early as 1900, the sound of the blues was ubiquitous...