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Travelin' Man
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 194

Travelin' Man

Seger fans and readers interested in music and biography will enjoy the one of a kind story in Travelin’ Man.

The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 448

The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece

A major new history of classical Greece—how it rose, how it fell, and what we can learn from it Lord Byron described Greece as great, fallen, and immortal, a characterization more apt than he knew. Through most of its long history, Greece was poor. But in the classical era, Greece was densely populated and highly urbanized. Many surprisingly healthy Greeks lived in remarkably big houses and worked for high wages at specialized occupations. Middle-class spending drove sustained economic growth and classical wealth produced a stunning cultural efflorescence lasting hundreds of years. Why did Greece reach such heights in the classical period—and why only then? And how, after "the Greek mira...

Grit, Noise, and Revolution
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 413

Grit, Noise, and Revolution

A narrative history of the birth of rock 'n' roll in Detroit

The Death of Caesar
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 352

The Death of Caesar

A professor of history and classics describes the actual events of March 15, 44 BC, when Julius Caesar was murdered during the Roman civil wars, and comparies them to those outlined by William Shakespeare in his famous play.--Publisher's description.

Focus On: 100 Most Popular American Male Guitarists
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1711

Focus On: 100 Most Popular American Male Guitarists

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Going Back to T-Town
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 239

Going Back to T-Town

Countless young people in the Midwest, South, and Southwest went to dances and stage shows in the early to mid-twentieth century to hear a territory band play. Territory bands traveled from town to town, performing jazz and swing music, and Tulsa-based musician Ernie Fields (1904–97) led one of the best. In Going Back to T-Town, Ernie’s daughter, Carmen Fields, tells a story of success, disappointment, and perseverance, extending from the early jazz era to the 1960s. This is an enlightening account of how this talented musician and businessman navigated the hurdles of racial segregation during the Jim Crow era. Because few territory bands made recordings, their contributions to the devel...

Annual Report
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 260

Annual Report

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1980
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Greeks and the Rational
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 487

The Greeks and the Rational

Tracing practical reason from its origins to its modern and contemporary permutations The Greek discovery of practical reason, as the skilled performance of strategic thinking in public and private affairs, was an intellectual breakthrough that remains both a feature of and a bug in our modern world. Countering arguments that rational choice-making is a contingent product of modernity, The Greeks and the Rational traces the long history of theorizing rationality back to ancient Greece. In this book, Josiah Ober explores how ancient Greek sophists, historians, and philosophers developed sophisticated and systematic ideas about practical reason. At the same time, they recognized its limits—that not every decision can be reduced to mechanistic calculations of optimal outcomes. Ober finds contemporary echoes of this tradition in the application of game theory to political science, economics, and business management. The Greeks and the Rational offers a striking revisionist history with widespread implications for the study of ancient Greek civilization, the history of thought, and human rationality itself.

Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 876

Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1994
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Reconstructing Illness
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 316

Reconstructing Illness

Serious illness and mortality, those most universal, unavoidable, and frightening of human experiences, are the focus of this pioneering study which has been hailed as a telling and provocative commentary on our times. As modern medicine has become more scientific and dispassionate, a new literary genre has emerged: pathography, the personal narrative concerning illness, treatment, and sometimes death. Hawkins's sensitive reading of numerous pathographies highlights the assumptions, attitudes, and myths that people bring to the medical encounter. One factor emerges again and again in these case studies: the tendency in contemporary medical practice to focus primarily not on the needs of the ...