Through their triumphs and downfalls, no major league club has had a more colorful history than the Boston Red Sox. Originally published in 1947 as part of G. P. Putnam's Sons fifteen legendary major league team histories, and aided by twenty-seven photographs of legendary players, Frederick G. Lieb's The Boston Red Sox chronicles the club's early ......
In 1952, Charles Schnee won the Best Screenplay Oscar for "The Bad and the Beautiful", the story of a Hollywood producer who is part genius, part louse. Based loosely on "Gone With the Wind" producer David O. Selznick and played by Kirk Douglas, Schnee's protagonist is producer Jonathan Shields, who desperately needs the help of three enemies from ......
The only collection of all known letters of Christopher Smart provides the best psychological explanation to date of that complex and elusive eighteenth-century poet. The significant characteristics that distinguish Smart's prose letters from his poetry, Betty Rizzo and Robert Mahony note, are that his letters were requests for assistance while ......
This book is designed to be a primary text for courses in aviation history and development and aviation in America. The seventeen chapters in The American Aviation Experience: A History range chronologically from ancient times through the Wright brothers through both world wars, culminating with the development of the U.S. space program. ......
Supplemented by recollections from the present era, Tell Us a Story is a colorful mosaic of African American autobiography and family history set in Springfield, Illinois, and in rural southern Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas from the 1920s through the 1950s. Shirley Motley Portwood shares rural, African American family and community history ......
In a writing style that may offer a glimpse of the tapestries woven on the looms of Athena and Arachne, Willis Barnstone presents a seamless tale of the first years of his life that moves as naturally from prose to poetry and back as day moves to night. Focusing on the five years Barnstone spent following his graduation from Bowdoin College ......
Stage Rigging Handbook is written in an at-a-glance outline form, yet contains in-depth information available nowhere else. This second edition includes two new parts: the first, an expanded discussion of the forces and loads on stage rigging components and the structure supporting them; the second, an examination of block and tackle rigging. The ......
"No man ever entered earth more honorably than those who died in Spain."--Ernest Hemingway In 1937, Hank Rubin, a twenty-year-old Jewish pre-med student at UCLA, volunteered for service in the International Brigades combating fascists in the Spanish Civil War. In his illustrated memoir, Rubin reflects on those events, making no apologies for his ......
The ultimate resource for sport fishing in southern Illinois Southern Illinois's many waterways teem with an incredible variety of fish species, and award-winning fisherman and journalist Colby Simms knows exactly where and how to catch them all. Within these pages, Simms shares the secrets he's gleaned from years of hard-won experience: ......
