Introduces us to the rich history and flourishing culture of the "golden age of Islam" in the eighth and ninth centuries.
An invaluable resource, a trove of lore for anyone interested in The Velvet Underground, their roots, and legacy.
"In the childhood of every human being and at the dawn of human history there is an amazing and, until now, unexplained leap from simple genetically programmed behavior to language, symbolic thinking,"
The first biography of the musician Elliott Smith, whose heartbreaking songs were rendered all the more haunting by his tragic death
The definitive biography of legendary punk band the Clash, and the first to draw on original interviews with the band
An in-depth look at the creation of one of Bob Dylan's most celebrated albums, Blood on the Tracks.
"This is the story of the amazing and uncommon life of George Bent-a "halfbreed" born to a prominent white trader and his Indian wife-whose lifetime spanned one of the most exciting epochs in our natio"
A significant postwar memoir written by one of Germany's best field commanders and a brilliant panzer tank general.
A fabulous book...one of the better volumes written on the battle in many years.-Civil War News
An impressively accessible narrative depicting the three-day battle for the pass at Thermopylae (the Hot Gates)- a critical contest in Xerxes's massive invasion of... Læs mere
A handy, everyman's guide to the unique and specialized combat skills that characterize today's U.S. armed forces
A fully illustrated account, replete with detailed maps, of one of Robert E. Lee's greatest Civil War successes.