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  • Notorious Nashville

    Scoundrels, Rogues & Outlaws

    by Brian Allison ...
    Many people know Nashville for the bright lights and nonstop music, but it also has a history that doesn't make it into the guidebooks. The first public hanging in the city took place in 1802 when Henry Beeler and Samuel Carman were executed for horse theft and larceny. The Briley and Bates families held a deadly feud in Cane Ridge near the turn of the century. Frank and Jesse James returned to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Murder & Mayhem in Nashville

    by Brian Allison ...
    From post–Civil War political feuds to Depression-era mass murder—explore the criminally fascinating secret history of Music City, USA.Nashville is known for its bold, progressive flair, but few are aware of its malevolent past. Now, historian Brian Allison sheds light on some of Nashville's darkest deeds in this compulsively readable chronicle of turn-of-the-century bad behavior.Included here are ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hidden History of Music Row

    by Brian Allison, Elizabeth Elkins, Vanessa Olivarez ...
    Series series Hidden History
    Nashville's Music Row is as complicated as the myths that surround it. And there are plenty, from an adulterous French fur trader to an adventurous antebellum widow, from the early Quonset hut recordings to record labels in glass high-rise towers and from "Your Cheatin' Heart" to "Strawberry Wine." Untangle the legendary history with never-before-seen photos of Willie Nelson, Patsy Cline, Kris ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Research Skills for Students

    by Brian Allison, Anne Hilton, Tim O'Sullivan, Alun Owen, Arthur Rothwell ...
    This fully photocopiable teaching resource provides tutors with a varied and lively range of learning activities and exercises to use with students to help equip them with the skills needed to plan for a research project in higher education. ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Student's Guide to Preparing Dissertations and Theses

    by Brian Allison, Phil Race ...
    When writing a dissertation or thesis, it is essential to produce a work that is well-structured and well-presented. Giving clear examples throughout, this book offers all the practical advice that students will need, when writing a dissertation or thesis.Part 1: Content - from the layout order of contents to the compilation of the bibliography and appendicesPart 2: Presentation and Style - the ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Tennessee State Penitentiary

    by Yoshie Lewis, Brian Allison ...
    Series series Images of America
    As Tennessee grew into a modern state, it found itself increasingly beset by crime. In 1831, the legislature approved the construction of the first penitentiary. The pen world was violent and dark, with several major riots, fires, and escape attempts throughout the years. However, the prison also gave birth to a culture of creativity born from despair, with entertainment shows often featuring the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Playing & Teaching the Saxophone

    A Modern Approach

    by Allison D. Adams, Brian R. Horner ...
    Playing & Teaching the Saxophone: A Modern Approach provides a method for teaching the saxophone that is specific enough to use as a textbook in a collegiate saxophone methods class, simple enough for a band director to use in guiding their saxophone sections, clear enough for adult beginners to teach themselves the instrument, and deep enough for professionals to use as a resource in teaching ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Racing the Storm

    Racial Implications and Lessons Learned from Hurricane Katrina

    by Terri Adams-Fuller, Meera Adya, Duke Austin, Angela P. Cole, O Jackson Cole, Allison Cotton, Brian J. Gerber, Angela Glymph, Arie Kruglanski, Michelle Miles, Monica K. Miller, Joshua B. Padilla, Susan C. Pearce, Everette B. Penn, Jennifer Reich, Julie Singer, Susan Sterett, Rebecca M. Thomas, Ganesh K. Trichur, Nicole Trujillo-Pagan, Rachael A. Woldoff ...
    On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit land and gravely affected the lives of many people in the states along the Gulf Coast. Katrina went beyond demonstrating the devastating natural effects of a hurricane by exposing the continuing significance of race relations and racial stereotyping in U.S. society.Racing the Storm serves to highlight the race-based perceptions of and responses to Katrina ... Read more

    $49.39 USD

  • The Manner Born

    Birth Rites in Cross-Cultural Perspective

    by Niles Newton, Michael Newton, Wenda R. Trevathan, James J. McKenna, Sheila Cosminsky (Rutgers University, Brian Bates, Allison Newman Turner, Elaine Jones & Margarita A. Kay, Thomas R. Forbes, Lenore Manderson, Arthur Niehoff, Natalie Meister, Cecil Slome, Ruth Benedict, Daniel G. Freedman ...
    This essential collection on maternal and child health focuses on the rites of giving birth from a cross-cultural perspective. The distinguished list of contributors describe the many customs surrounding birth through infancy, highlighting a wide range of variation in practices across cultures. They discuss attitudes and techniques in childbirth, the interaction between human evolutionary form and ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Feste's 12th

    by Brian Paul Allison ...
    Shakespeare's 12th Night as told by the beloved character, Feste the Jester. This is the modified text used in the sole enactment by the author and performance artist, Brian Paul Allison... a glorious piece of fan fiction, a brilliant twist on the story, and a lifelong aspiration. ... Read more

    $4.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Writing History with Lightning

    Cinematic Representations of Nineteenth-Century America

    by Kenneth Greenberg, William L. Andrews, Lesley J. Gordon, John David Smith, Jonathon Sarris, Catherine Clinton, John F. Marszalek, Ryan Keating, Joseph Beilein, Brian Rouleau, Donna Barbie, Allison Dorsey, Stephen Whitfield, Marcus Rediker, Nicole Etcheson, Diane Miller Sommerville, Graham Hodges, Drew Swanson, Michael Burlingame, Tom Lee, James Crisp, Kevin Waite, Jacob Lee, Matthew E. Stanley ...
    Films possess virtually unlimited power for crafting broad interpretations of American history. Nineteenth-century America has proven especially conducive to Hollywood imaginations, producing indelible images like the plight of Davy Crockett and the defenders of the Alamo, Pickett’s doomed charge at Gettysburg, the proliferation and destruction of plantation slavery in the American South, Custer’s ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Tales of the AGT

    by Brian Paul Allison ...
    This is a semi-autobiographical account of the development, history, and demise of the most sophisticated live-action role-playing game ever to hit the collective consciousness of humanity. The Adventure Game Theater was the brainchild of Brian Paul Allison and Howard Moody III. In collaboration with dozens of other highly talented individuals they pioneered the most wonderous fantasy enactments ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus