Summer of Deliverance is a powerful and moving memoir of anger, love, and reconciliation between a son and his father. Hailed as a literary genius of his generation, James Dickey created his art and lived his life with a ferocious passion.

From prehistory and the discovery of fire to modern cuisines and celebrity chefs, this book uses a global, multicultural approach to explain how major historical events have affected and defined culinary traditions in different societies ...

In The Music of James Bond, author Jon Burlingame throws open studio and courtroom doors alike to reveal the full and extraordinary history of the sounds of James Bond, spicing the story with a wealth of fascinating and previously ...

Books in this series show how early explorers found and settled Florida and the Caribbean. They tell the tales of early pioneers, both foreign and domestic.

In order to illuminate these transformations in African American urban life, this book brings together urban history; contemporary social, cultural, and policy research; and comparative perspectives on race, ethnicity, and nationality ...

The present book is the first comprehensive survey of the field from a literary perspective to appear for forty years.

Offering a broad perspective on the Hollywood dad, looking at important Hollywood fathers and discussing films from many genres, this book adopts a multi-faceted theoretical approach, making use of psychoanalysis, sociology and masculinity ...

Likely to become the standard history of Kenton's orchestra, this book will be enjoyed by any reader interested in the history of big-band jazz. Annotation ♭2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

This is a richly detailed, well-written life of a critical figure in the history of Los Angeles and the modern American West. It is an important contribution."—William Deverell, author of Railroad Crossing: Californians and the Railroad