Da Capo Press
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A Cure for Gravity: A Musical Pilgrimage
$21.99 Add to cart“Part memoir, part discourse on the art of music. . . . This is an intelligent, thoughtful look into the mind of an artist.”–New York Times Book Review
Since the release of his first best-selling al- Author: Jackson, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: August 30 2005
- ISBN10: 0306810018
- Language: English
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Backbeat: Earl Palmer’s Story
$19.99 Add to cartThere he is, drumming on “Tutti Frutti,” “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’,” and thousands of other songs. As a studio player in New Orleans and Los Angeles from the 1940s through the 1970s, Earl Palme… [more below]
- Author: Scherman, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: February 07 2005
- ISBN10: 030680980X
- Language: English
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Swords Around a Throne: Napoleon’s Grande Armée
$32.99 Add to cartThis authoritative, comprehensive, and enthralling book describes and analyzes Napoleon’s most powerful weapon–the Grande Armée which at its peak numbered over a million soldiers. Elting examines ev
- Author: Elting, John R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: March 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0306807572
- Language: English
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Bird Lives!: The High Life and Hard Times of Charlie (Yardbird) Parker
$24.99 Add to cart“The best biography of any jazz musician that we have. Bird Lives! will stand for a long time as a major source of information and illumination not only of the great musician with whom it deals but of… [more below]
- Author: Russell, Ross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 22 1996
- ISBN10: 0306806797
- Language: English
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In This Corner . . . !: Forty-Two World Champions Tell Their Stories
$24.99 Add to cartHere is Jake LaMotta discussing his career as a hoodlum; Floyd Patterson on growing up in the ghetto; Gunboat Smith on the Jack Johnson era; Jack Dempsey on the Willard fight and the Tunney “long coun… [more below]
- Author: Heller, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: October 04 2005
- ISBN10: 0306806037
- Language: English
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White Devil: A True Story of War, Savagery, and Vengeance in Colonial America
$19.99 Add to cart“A fast-moving tale of courage, cruelty, hardship, and savagery.”–Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
In North America’s first major conflict, known today as the French and Indian War, France and England–both i- Author: Brumwell, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 07 2006
- ISBN10: 0306814730
- Language: English
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The Stones of Venice
$17.99 Add to cart“It is in Venice, and in Venice only, that effectual blows can be struck at this pestilent art of the Renaissance. Destroy its claims to admiration there, and it can assert them nowhere else.” This wa… [more below]
- Author: Ruskin, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: July 10 2003
- ISBN10: 030681286X
- Language: English
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Franz Kafka: A Biography
$21.99 Add to cart“[This] biography is the primary source of our knowledge of Kafka’s personal life and character, and is invaluable to anyone at all interested in the mind of the Czech genius.”–Alfred Kazin, New York… [more below]
- Author: Brod, Max
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: January 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0306806703
- Language: English
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The Few: The American Knights of the Air Who Risked Everything to Fight in the Battle of Britain
$21.99 Add to cartFrom the author of national bestsellers The Bedford Boys and The Longest Winter comes “a rousing tale of little-known heroes” (Booklist).
The Few tells the dramatic and unforgettable story of eight you… [more below]- Author: Kershaw, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: August 28 2007
- ISBN10: 0306815729
- Language: English
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Death Dealer: The Memoirs of the SS Kommandant at Auschwitz
$21.99 Add to cartSS Kommandant Rudolph H ss (1900-1947) was history’s greatest mass murderer, personally supervising the extermination of approximately two million people, mostly Jews, at the death camp in Auschwitz, … [more below]
- Author: Hoss, Rudolph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 414
- Publish Date: March 22 1996
- ISBN10: 0306806983
- Language: English
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Official Truth, 101 Proof: The Inside Story of Pantera
$19.99 Add to cartFew heavy metal acts survived the turmoil of the early 1990s music scene. Pantera was different. Instead of humoring the market, the band instead demanded that the audience come to them by releasing a… [more below]
- Author: Brown, Rex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 25 2014
- ISBN10: 0306822881
- Language: English
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Dog Company: The Boys of Pointe Du Hoc — The Rangers Who Accomplished D-Day’s Toughest Mission and Led the Way Across Europe
$21.99 Add to cartAn epic World War II story of valor, sacrifice, and the Rangers who led the way to victory in Europe
It is said that the right man in the right place at the right time can make the difference between- Author: O’Donnell, Patrick K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 05 2013
- ISBN10: 0306822644
- Language: English
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Mama Makes Up Her Mind: And Other Dangers of Southern Living
$18.99 Add to cartWelcome to the unique world of Bailey White. Her aunt Belle may take you to see her bellowing pet alligator. Her uncle Jimbuddy may appall you with his knack for losing pieces of himself. Most of all,… [more below]
- Author: White, Bailey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 24 2009
- ISBN10: 0306818027
- Language: English
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The Dark Side of the Screen: Film Noir
$21.99 Add to cartFoster Hirsch’s Dark Side of the Screen is by far the most thorough and entertaining study of the themes, visual motifs, character types, actors, directors, and films in this genre ever published. Fro… [more below]
- Author: Hirsch, Foster
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 25 2008
- ISBN10: 0306817721
- Language: English
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The Art of War
$19.99 Add to cartThe classic Renaissance study of military combat.
In medieval warfare, such seemingly elementary conventions as army organization, staff services, hierarchy of command, and codes of military law were- Author: Machiavelli, Niccol?
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 05 2001
- ISBN10: 030681076X
- Language: English
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Robert Maxwell, Israel’s Superspy: The Life and Murder of a Media Mogul
$24.99 Add to cartRobert Maxwell — ruthless, volatile, defiant; a man of gargantuan appetites, for food, wine, women, power, money — unabashedly bared his ambition to the world, as he strove to build a publishing emp… [more below]
- Author: Thomas, Gordon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: December 16 2003
- ISBN10: 0786712953
- Language: English
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Digging Up Mother: A Love Story
$15.99 Add to cartDoug Stanhope is one of the most critically acclaimed and stridently unrepentant comedians of his generation. What will surprise some is that he owes so much of his dark and sometimes uncomfortably ho… [more below]
- Author: Stanhope, Doug
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 09 2017
- ISBN10: 0306825384
- Language: English
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Small Town Talk: Bob Dylan, the Band, Van Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Friends in the Wild Years of Woodstock
$21.99 Add to cartThink “Woodstock” and the mind turns to the seminal 1969 festival that crowned a seismic decade of sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll. But the town of Woodstock, New York, the original planned venue of the… [more below]
- Author: Hoskyns, Barney
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0306825341
- Language: English
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Bond of Union: Building the Erie Canal and the American Empire
$24.99 Add to cartIn this elegantly written and far-reaching narrative, acclaimed author Gerard Koeppel tells the astonishing story of the creation of the Erie Canal and the memorable characters who turned a visionary … [more below]
- Author: Koeppel, Gerard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 09 2010
- ISBN10: 0306818620
- Language: English
