The singer and drummer of the Band details, in this book, the history of one of the most influential groups of the 1960s. While their music evoked a Southern mythology with their beautifully crafted, image-rich songs, only their Arkansan drummer, Levon Helm, was the genuine article. This updated edition of his life story includes a new epilogue that covers the last dozen years of his life. From the cotton fields to Woodstock and from seeing Sonny Boy Williamson and Elvis Presley to playing...

Going far beyond the standard imagery of Rasta—ganja, reggae, and dreadlocks—this cultural history offers an uncensored vision of a movement with complex roots and the exceptional journey of a man who taught an enslaved people how to be proud and impose their culture on the world. In the 1920s Leonard Percival Howell and the First Rastas had a revelation concerning the divinity of Haile Selassie, king of Ethiopia, that established the vision for the most popular mystical movement of the 20...

The Really Real Mother Goose reexamines some of the best-known nursery rhymes, pointing out the true lessons to be learned.

"The Kid" tells us about the planet Apex, and how it became extremely polarized over the years until it looked a lot like our planet Earth does today – so polarized that nuclear war eventually made the planet's surface uninhabitable and forced its humanoid population underground where they went through drastic changes to their bodies, including losing the ability to feel any emotions. The nuclear war also caused Apex to change positions in our galaxy, winding up in the constellation of Zet...

The gold-standard biography of the band Led Zeppelin—revised and updated with new material for fans of the band and this beloved rock classic.“One of the most notorious rock biographies ever written.” —Chicago TribuneThe members of Led Zeppelin are major deities in the pantheon of rock gods. The first and heaviest of the heavy metal monsters, they violently shook the foundations of rock music and took no prisoners on the road. Thei...

The gold-standard biography of the band Led Zeppelin—revised and updated with new material for fans of the band and this beloved rock classic.“One of the most notorious rock biographies ever written.” —Chicago TribuneThe members of Led Zeppelin are major deities in the pantheon of rock gods. The first and heaviest of the heavy metal monsters, they violently shook the foundations of rock music and took no prisoners on the road. Thei...

Initial remote sensing survey at Tlachtga, Co. Meath in 2011–12 highlighted the presence of multiple, partially overlapping phases of enclosure at the site. Three subsequent seasons of excavation provided critical interpretive evidence, with over 15,000 fragments of animal bone, human remains, charred plant material, evidence of metalworking, and a hoard of Anglo-Saxon silver coins dating to the late 10th century AD.The main activity at the site spans four broad periods and two mai...

Stevie Nicks is a legend of rock, but her energy and magnetism sparked new interest in this icon. At 68, she's one of the most glamorous creatures rock has known, and the rare woman who's a real rock ‘n' roller.Gold Dust Woman gives "the gold standard of rock biographers" (The Boston Globe) his ideal topic: Nicks' work and life are equally sexy and interesting, and Davis delves deeply into each, unearthing fresh details from new, intimate interviews and interpreti...

There is a war on truth and the liars are winning. Truthteller is an essential guide to how governments and corporations cover up murder, corruption and catastrophe. It’s for teachers, students and concerned citizens who want to know the facts not fake news.

Philip Cummings hated change, but when his high-flying job at the Bank of England takes him to Russia he’s caught up in the chaos, turmoil, violence and vengeance of the Bolshevik Revolution. Philip must survive double-cross and cold-blooded murder if he’s to bring the beautiful Countess Sophie Tagleva, her wounded brother, a chest full of the Tsar’s jewels and secret papers out of Russia, and free them from the clutches of all the fighting factions swirling around them.An exciting...

The secret from the Second World War they don’t want you to know...Michael Tagleva is the eldest son and heir to one of the wealthiest banking families in Europe. When visiting Germany he is welcomed as a distinguished guest by the Nazis, but not everything is as it seems and Michael soon finds himself in a labyrinth of deceit and double-cross that spreads from Berlin to Paris and London and intended to destroy his family and lose the British Empire the war.In this thrillin...

"Explores the first phase of General William Tecumseh Sherman's Atlanta Campaign in the summer of 1864 . . . Clear and concise" ( The Civil War Monitor).Poised on the edge of Georgia for the first time in the war, Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman, newly elevated to command the Union's western armies, eyed Atlanta covetously—the South's last great untouched prize. "Get into the interior of the enemy's country as far as you can, inflicting all the damage you can...