Beyond the Crossroads: The Devil and the Blues Tradition, Paperback - Adam Gussow

Contributor(s): Author: Adam GussowThe devil is the most charismatic and important figure in the blues tradition. He's not just the music's namesak...

Reducere. Mamie Smith's pathbreaking 1920 recording of Crazy Blues set the pop music world on fire, inaugurating a new African American market for race recor...

Reducere. Mamie Smith's pathbreaking 1920 recording of Crazy Blues set the pop music world on fire, inaugurating a new African American market for race recor...

Reducere. "Scant decades ago most Westerners agreed that . . . Lifelong monogamy was ideal . . . Mothers should stay home with children . . . premarital sex ...

Reducere. From the Bahamas to Heathrow airport, to the rain soaked streets of London the dead have ceased dying.This is inconvenient for a number of reasons ...

A Buzzfeed Best Book of June! Sparks fly when a runaway heiress bargains with a devilish rogue to escape a marriage of convenience. No one would gu...

Reducere. In the early 1970s, César Alvarez enlists in the navy to escape a life of crime; while the decision saves him from the streets, it also lands him a...

Reducere. "Compulsively readable."--New York Times Book ReviewThe extraordinary new thriller from Stuart Turton, author of the bestselling murder mystery The...

Reducere. Compulsively readable.--New York Times Book ReviewNamed a Best Book of 2020 by The Guardian, Daily Mail, Financial Times, The Independent, Publishe...

Nothing much exciting rolls through Violet White's sleepy, seaside town... until River West comes along. River rents the guesthouse behind Violet's...

Reducere. The blues revival of the early 1960s brought new life to a seminal genre of American music and inspired a vast new world of singers, songwriters, a...

CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, SUNDAY TIMES, DAILY MAIL, FINANCIAL TIMES, DAILY EXPRESS AND i PAPER'Wildly inventive, Turton's tale ...

Reducere. Award NameMinnesota Book AwardAward categoryFictionWhen pop diva Sheila Lews dies under puzzling circumstances, Clarisse Dufresne is approached by ...

Reducere. What happens when the stories we've been told fail us? In ten provocative and unsettling tales, Pedro Ponce grapples with the human instinct to cre...

Reducere. An intensive study of demonology, the devil and demons. Includes the history of demonology and demons, the spiritual warfare with demons, demon obs...

The complete story of the origins and evolution of the black American blues tradition, drawing extensively on oral history interviews.

When the rains came they found the girl's face. Just her face. At least that was how it appeared... From the Richard & Judy Book Club-selected auth...

Reducere. In the early 1970s, César Alvarez enlists in the navy to escape a life of crime; while the decision saves him from the streets, it also lands him a...

Reducere. Beat the Devil Two boys are caught in the midst of a raging nighttime storm on a Sanibel Island beach. Then lightning strikes and for those boys no...

Reducere. Skip James (1902 1969) was perhaps the most creative and idiosyncratic of all blues musicians. Drawing on hundreds of hours of conversations with J...

The first book to tell the terrifying story of what it feels like to get the bends, from the perspective of a veteran cave diver who overcame the u...

This book demonstrates the significance of the Devil in a Victorian English context, using the diabolic to explore the Victorians' complex and ambi...

Reducere. Buffalo at the Crossroads is a diverse set of cutting-edge essays. Twelve authors highlight the outsized importance of Buffalo, New York, within th...

In the ancient city of Kyoto, contemporary artisans and designers are using heritage techniques and traditional clothing aesthetics to reinvent waf...

Publisher: Hohm Press, U.S.Author(s): Ed (Ed Flaherty) FlahertyNumber of pages: 200Publication date: 1999Dimensions: 228 x 155 x 15Cover type: Pape...

Reducere. Matthew Deibler, child of God, was born with a purpose. But he was a marked target of the devil.Unaware of this evil influence, Matthew fell under ...

Reducere. The common seaman and the pirate in the age of sail are romantic historical figures who occupy a special place in the popular culture of the modern...

Mysterious Frenchwoman Marguerite Hardy flees England upon receiving a strange letter. Hardy's husband asks Holmes for help, which sends Holmes and...

Essays, short stories, a few bad poems. Real life subject matter. A significant portion of the book has been published, in PG-13 form, in other pla...

Kant, Goethe, Schiller and other eighteenth-century German intellectuals loom large in the history of the humanities--both in terms of their indivi...

The true story of a retired British army officer's private Somali-hostage rescue mission.Publisher: Icon BooksAuthor(s): Colin FreemanIllustration(...

Uniquely insightful study of the key decisions taken for the conduct of the RAF's offensive during the middle period of the Second World War.Illust...

Reducere. DescriptionAmerica's first and most notorious serial killer and his diabolical killing spree during the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago. H. H. Holmes:...

Publisher: Indiana University PressAuthor(s): Aaron KamugishaNumber of pages: 280Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 151 x 229 x 21Cover type: Paperb...

Jacob M. Kohlhaas's Beyond Biology is a breakthrough in the theology of parenthood, integrating Catholic social thought and social scientific studi...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)Author(s): Turton Stuart TurtonNumber of pages: 576Publication date: 2020Dimensions: 153 x 233 x 50Cover type:...

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Publisher: Shambhala Publications IncAuthor(s): Karl BrunnholzlNumber of pages: 688Collection: The Prajnaparamita SutrasPublication date: 2012Dimen...

Publisher: Shambhala Publications IncAuthor(s): Karl BrunnholzlNumber of pages: 876Collection: The Prajnaparamita SutrasPublication date: 2011Dimen...

Reducere. A JPS bestseller, this is the definitive work of scholarship on the medieval conception of the Jew as devil--literally and figuratively. Through do...

Reducere. Jabez Stone seeks help from the lawyer Daniel Webster to get him out of the bargain he has made with the Devil.

Reducere. "What happens when the devil attacks your strength and shapes it into a weakness? J.D. "Danny" McCabe maintained a loving relationship with his wif...

Reducere. Many people experience depression at one time or another in their lives, but during the adolescent years, the vast number of physical, emotional, a...

Reducere. A first-ever book on the subject, New York City Blues: Postwar Portraits from Harlem to the Village and Beyond offers a deep dive into the blues ve...

Reducere. Two decades after the publication of The Black Book of Communism, nearly everyone is or at least should be, aware of the immense evil produced by t...