R&L Q1 2021

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group is a leading independent publisher with offices in Maryland, New York City, Toronto and London. Sales and Marketing outside of the US and Canada is handled by the London team.

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Baby Hats to Crochet 10 Fun Designs for Newborn to 12 Months

By Kristi Simpson

January 2021 32 pages Paperback 9780811739474 ÂŁ7.95 / $9.95

BABY HATS TO CROCHET

From pom-pom hats and beanies with flowers to adorable animals like an elephant, puppy, owl, giraffe, and others, there is a hat for every baby in this book. Each pattern includes clear instructions and photo illustrations of any special stitches used. Skill levels are given to make it easy to decide which patterns to make.

Kristi Simpson is the author of many crochet design publications, including the popular Sweet & Simple Baby Crochet. By using a mix of stitches creatively, she designs patterns that are accessible for beginners and interesting for more advanced crocheters. Known for her fresh and modern style, Kristi's patterns have been published in magazines, books, catalogs, and online venues.

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Geometric Knit Blankets 30 Innovative and Fun-to-Knit Designs

By Margaret Holzmann

February 2021 200 pages Paperback 9780811738682 ÂŁ21.95 / $27.95

Tired of those same old ripple afghans, cable and lace blankets? Then express your colorful side with 30 Blankets to Knit. The patterns in this book are inspired by quilts, tile, and other geometric designs. Every blanket is a unique statement of your style or focal point for your room, and all are for the Intermediate knitter or Confident Beginner. Knit them as shown or choose colors you love best or that work with your decor.

Margaret Holzmann is a knit designer who likes to design and knit the BIG things: blankets, throws, and sweaters. She uses these larger items as a canvas for color work, shapes, and texture. She excels at construction techniques, the geometry of knitting, and color theory. After a 30+ year career as an engineer, she is now a full-time knit designer, and her patterns have appeared in many knitting publications.

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Innovative Weaving on the Frame Loom

By Noreen Crone-Findlay

January 2021 200 pages Paperback 9780811738729 ÂŁ17.95 / $22.95

INNOVATIVE WEAVING ON THE FRAME LOOM

A comprehensive guide to the frame loom, this book introduces the weaver to the basics of frame loom weaving and also more advanced techniques. Learn how to weave tapestries for wall hangings or handbags, lace for scarves and market bags, geometric shapes for alpacas and dolls, modules to sew together to make larger items, and so much more.

Noreen Crone-Findlay is a fiber artist, author, designer, weaver, YouTube video-tutorial diva with 13,000 subscribers, loom designer, workshop facilitator, crocheter, doll maker, and knitter. Over the last 35+ years, her designs have appeared in many magazines. She lives in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and maintains an active website and blog, www.tottietalkscrafts.com, and is active on Facebook, Etsy, Twitter, Instagram, and Pinterest.

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Atomic Bomb Island Tinian, the Last Stage of the Manhattan Project, and the Dropping of the Atomic Bombs on Japan in World War II

ATOMIC BOMB ISLAND

By Don A. Farrell

January 2021 464 pages Hardback 9780811739610 ÂŁ31.00 / $39.95

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Mariana Islands historian Don Farrell presents a thoroughly researched, beautifully illustrated mosaic of the final phase of the Manhattan Project, from the Battle of Tinian and the USS Indianapolis to Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Don A. Farrell has been researching the history of the Mariana Islands for forty years and has written ten previous books on the subject. Don is a graduate of Cal State Fullerton, a U.S. Air Force veteran, a former high school teacher, and former chief of staff to the speaker of the Guam legislature. From 2011 to 2017, he served on the board of directors of the Humanities Council of the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands; during that time, he spent four years as chairman of the Commonwealth’s Historic Preservation Board. Don is the Marianas historian for Stephen Ambrose Historical Tours and regularly participates in its World War II tours of the Pacific and in symposia in the United States. He has lived in the Marianas since 1977 and currently resides on the island of Tinian.

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The Greatest POW Escape Stories Ever Told

By Keith Warren Lloyd

February 2021 272 pages Paperback 9781493049943 ÂŁ14.95 / $19.95

A gripping collection that showcases twelve of the most famous prisoner of war escapes in the history of modern warfare. Although these stories feature escapees of different nationalities, ideologies and allegiances, the reader will be captured by the common traits shared by all of these brave soldiers: loyalty to country and cause, tenacity, resourcefulness, and an abundant amount of courage.

Keith Warren Lloyd is an author and historian, a professional firefighter, and a U.S. Navy veteran. His most recent book, for The Lyons Press, The Great Desert Escape tells the true story of 25 German sailors who tunneled their way out of the Papago Park Prisoner of War Camp in Phoenix, Arizona in 1944. His first novel, Cape Hatteras, about a shipwrecked German U-boat officer landing on America's East Coast, was published in 2008. His biography of Medal of Honor recipient Frank Luke Jr., Above and Beyond was published in 2015. He has published two other historical novels. He lives in Arizona.

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Soldiers of Barbarossa Combat, Genocide, and Everyday Experiences on the Eastern Front, June–December 1941 Edited by Craig W.H. Luther and David Stahel

January 2021 440 pages Hardback 9780811738798 £31.00 / $39.95

Operation Barbarossa—Germans versus Soviets in a no-holds-barred battle for the soul of Europe—speaks to what it meant to be a soldier in World War II. Drawing from thousands of soldiers’ accounts, letters, and diaries, historians David Stahel and Craig Luther tell the story of Barbarossa but also the story of men at war in the twentieth century.

David Stahel is the world’s leading authority on the first six months on the Eastern Front of World War II. He teaches European history at the University of New South Wales in Canberra, Australia. His previous books include Operation Barbarossa and Germany’s Defeat in the East (Cambridge University Press, 2009), Kiev 1941: Hitler’s Battle for Supremacy in the East (Cambridge University Press, 2012), and Operation Typhoon: Hitler’s March on Moscow, October 1941 (Cambridge University Press, 2013). His fellow historians have called Stahel’s work “remarkable” – “brilliant” – “impressive” – “refreshing” – “the best kind of revisionism” – “must read.” He lives in Australia.

Craig Luther is a former Fulbright Scholar and a retired U.S. Air Force historian. He is author of The First Day on the Eastern Front: German Invades the Soviet Union, June 22, 1941 (Stackpole, 2018) and Barbarossa Unleashed: The German Blitzkrieg through Central Russia to the Gates of Moscow (Schiffer, 2014). He lives near Bakersfield, California.

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Target: America Hitler's Plan To Attack The United States

By James Duffy

February 2021 208 pages

Details the Third Reich’s shocking plans for worldwide offensives using secret weapons, including Hitler’s plan to bring World War II to the American homeland.

Paperback 9780762772926 £9.95 / $14.95

James P. Duffy is the author more than fifteen books, most on military history, including Hitler’s Secret Pirate Fleet: The Deadliest Ships of World War II and Target Hitler: The Plots to Kill Adolf Hitler.

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Women Who Spied

By A. A. Hoehling

February 2021 248 pages Paperback 9780819184863 ÂŁ12.95 / $16.95

From the Biblical days of Delilah to modern times there have been women who ventured at their peril as spies into the conflicts of armed men. Recounted in this fascinating history are dramatic incidents of feminine espionage in the United States and abroad from the time of the American Revolution to the present day. Learn about Lydia Darragh who alerted General Washington to the British plans for surprise attack on Valley Forge.

Who was the agent in New York during World War II who used a doll repair shop to communicate with Japan? And who was the only woman in England to win the George Cross?

A. A. Hoehling's accounts of the exploits of these intrepid women transform history into the highest adventure.

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1957 The Year That Launched the American Future

By Eric Burns

January 2021 304 pages Hardback 9781538139950 £20.95 / $27.00

From Sputnik and the beginning of the space race to Little Richard and the underappreciated influence of rock n’ roll in bringing blacks and whites closer together, to President Eisenhower’s Interstate Highway Act, which forever changed the landscape, 1957 represents the year when all of the energy and anxiety that had followed the end of World War II exploded.

Eric Burns is a former correspondent for NBC News and the Today show. For ten years, he was the host of Fox News Watch, and he won an Emmy for media criticism. He is the author of several books, including 1920: The Year That Made the Decade Roar, Infamous Scribblers, The Spirits of America, and The Smoke of the Gods, the latter two of which were named "Best of the Best" by the American Library Association. He resides in Norwalk, Connecticut.

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Freedom on Trial The First Post-Civil War Battle Over Civil Rights and Voter Suppression

By Scott Farris

January 2021 392 pages Hardback 9781493046355 £21.95 / $27.95

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For President Ulysses S. Grant and blacks in the South following the Civil War, the conflict did not end with the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox in April 1865, but continued with the Ku Klux Klan’s terror campaign against blacks during Reconstruction. Grant not only authorized the U.S. Army to put down these insurrections through the use of force, but also sought to have the perpetrators of Klan violence vigorously prosecuted. In what would be a test of the boundaries of the recently enacted fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the Constitution, the prosecution, led by Amos T. Ackerman, specifically sought to accurately catalogue the atrocities committed by this Army in disguise. Although only sixty-five Klansmen were ultimately found guilty and punished, many of their followers informed on them and promptly fled to the West to escape reprisals or prosecution themselves, thus sending the Klan into voluntary exile for the next fifty years. One of those exiles was the author’s great-grandfather John Farris, who left his long-standing home in York, South Carolina one Fall morning and allegedly rode 800 miles to lose himself in the Ozark Mountains.

This story, as well as that of thousands of others, is what led the author back to the trials that dismantled the Klan.

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TR's Last War Theodore Roosevelt, the Great War, and a Journey of Triumph and Tragedy

By David Pietrusza

January 2021 424 pages Paperback 9781493049127 £14.95 / $19.95 Hardback 9781493028870 £27.00 / $34.95

TR's Last War is a riveting new account of Theodore Roosevelt’s impassioned crusade for military preparedness as America fitfully stumbles into World War I, spectacularly punctuated by his unique tongue-lashings of the vacillating Woodrow Wilson, his rousing advocacy of a masculine, pro-Allied “Americanism,” a death-defying compulsion for personal front-line combat, a tentative rapprochement with GOP power brokers—and perhaps even another presidential campaign.

David Pietrusza’s books include 1932: The Rise of Hitler and FDR--Two Tales of Politics, Betrayal, and Unlikely Destiny; 1920: The Year of Six Presidents; Rothstein: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series; 1948: Harry Truman’s Improbable Victory and the Year that Transformed America’s Role in the World; and 1960: LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon: The Epic Campaign that Forged Three Presidencies. Rothstein was a finalist for an Edgar Award, and 1920 was honored as by Kirkus as among their “Books of the Year.” Pietrusza has appeared on Good Morning America, Morning Joe, The Voice of America, The History Channel, ESPN, NPR, and CSPAN. He has spoken at The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, The National Baseball Hall of Fame, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, and various universities and festivals. He lives in upstate New York. Visit http://davidpietrusza.com.

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How to Write Songs on Guitar A Guitar-Playing and Songwriting Course 3rd Edition

By Rikky Rooksby

January 2021 288 pages Paperback 9780879309428 ÂŁ18.95 / $24.99

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This is a book for songwriters, guitarists, and people who write songs on the guitar. It explains songwriting technique, providing information on all aspects of song creation and construction.

Rikky Rooksby is a guitar teacher, songwriter/composer, and writer on popular music.

He is the author of How to Write Songs on Guitar (2000, revised edition 2009), Inside Classic Rock Tracks (2001), Riffs (2002, revised edition 2010), The Songwriting Sourcebook (2003, revised edition 2011), Chord Master (2004, revised edition 2016), Melody (2004), Songwriting Secrets: Bruce Springsteen (2005), How to Write Songs on Keyboards (2005), Lyrics (2006), Arranging Songs (2007), How to Write Songs in Altered Guitar Tunings (2010), and Songs and Solos (2014). He has also written fourteen Fastforward guitar tutors and arranged over three dozen chord songbooks, including The Complete Beatles. He has written entries on rock musicians for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, and published interviews, reviews, and transcriptions in many UK music magazines.

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I'm Gonna Say It Now The Writings of Phil Ochs

By Phil Ochs Edited by David Cohen

January 2021 344 pages

A comprehensive look at another side of the famous topical songwriter Phil Ochs, showcasing his prose and poetry from across the full span of his life.

Hardback 9781493051472 £22.95 / $29.95

Phil Ochs was born in El Paso, Texas, in 1940. After attending Staunton Military Academy, Ochs became political while a journalism major at Ohio State University.

Forsaking his college degree, Ochs moved to New York City in 1962 to join the burgeoning folk scene. Most well known as a topical singer-songwriter, Ochs was also an anti–Vietnam War and civil rights activist, performing at countless rallies, benefits and marches (authoring the seminal anti-war song “I Ain’t Marching Anymore”). Ochs recorded three albums for Elektra Records before moving westward to Los Angeles and A&M Records. Ochs died, by his own hand, in Far Rockaway, Queens, in 1976.

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Tumult!

The Incredible Life and Music of Tina Turner

TUMULT!

By Donald Brackett

January 2021 248 pages Paperback 9781493055067 ÂŁ18.95 / $24.95

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The narrative of Tumult! The Incredible Life and Music of Tina Turner is an extended exploration of the magical transformation of shy country girl Anna Mae Bullock into the boisterous force of nature we know today as Tina Turner.

Donald Brackett is a Vancouver-based culture journalist who writes about music, art, and films, as well as curating film programs for Cinematheque. He is the author of two other books with Backbeat Books: on Amy Winehouse (2016) and Sharon Jones (2018). He has also written a book on the history of the blues/pop band Fleetwood Mac and is currently working on a book about the controversial pop artist and activist Yoko Ono.

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The Cure FAQ All That’s Left to Know About the Most Heartbreakingly Excellent Rock Band the World Has Ever Known

By Christian Gerard

February 2021 408 pages Paperback 9781617137075 £18.95 / $24.95

The Cure FAQ is a complete analysis of the band’s forty-plus year career, delving into each one of their albums with fresh commentary and insight.

Music writer Christian Gerard has been listening to the Cure for over thirty years.

Originally from Morgantown, West Virginia, Gerard spent many years in the Washington, DC, area before moving to Minneapolis in 2018. A diehard music geek, he has written for publications and sites like NBC Washington, The Washington Blade, Metro Weekly, and PopMatters, among others.

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Depeche Mode FAQ All That's Left to Know About the World's Finest Synth-Pop Band

By Michael Christopher

February 2021 288 pages Paperback 9781617137297 ÂŁ18.95 / $24.95

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Depeche Mode FAQ will appeal to both casual and diehard fans of the band. It’s an enlightening and informative account of the forty-year history of the leading synth-pop act. The book provides the reader with a handy reference guide while digging deep into what has made Depeche Mode so enduring.

Michael Christopher is a writer and music journalist. A senior writer for the online music magazine Vanyaland, where he was a founding member and later managing editor, he contributes regularly to Ultimate Classic Rock, Loudwire, and LA Weekly. He also has a music and lifestyle column in The Daily Times, a newspaper in the Philadelphia metro region. His work has appeared in The Boston Phoenix, Boston Magazine, Rockpile, and Diffuser. He lives in Boston, building a respectable vinyl collection.

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Radiohead FAQ All That's Left to Know About the World's Most Famous Cult Band

By Dan Caffrey

February 2021 408 pages

A comprehensive look—and once dubious and loving—at one of the most important rock 'n' roll bands since the Beatles.

Paperback 9781617137129 £18.95 / $24.95

Dan Caffrey is a playwright, pop-culture critic, and musician based in Austin, Texas. He has written for Consequence of Sound, The A.V. Club, Pitchfork, and Vox, among other publications. He records music with Maxwell J. Shults under the name Methodist Hospital. Their debut, Giants, was hailed as one of the best albums of 2018 by Dean of American Rock Critics and frequent Radiohead detractor Robert Christgau.

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Snow A History of the World's Most Fascinating Flake

By Anthony R. Wood

February 2021 272 pages Hardback 9781633885943 ÂŁ18.95 / $24.95

From "Winter Wonderland" to "Snowmageddon," we've had a long, love-hate relationship with snow. This entertaining look at snow in all its delightful and fearsome manifestations delves into science, history, economics, and popular culture to examine snow's enduring hold on the imagination.

Through profiles and anecdotes, the author discusses the reactions throughout history to snowfall. Snow, beautiful and magical, was sometimes considered one of nature's blessings. But then it was also a nuisance needing to be managed and moved, and worse, a terrifying, sometimes-crippling catastrophe to be battled. Blizzards and highvolume snowfall presented a serious obstacle to progress, travel, growth, and industry.

Readers will learn about the making and removing of snow, the psychology of winter, and the history of snow in literature, art, and popular culture. The author also summarizes the current scientific understanding of major winter weather events and what is known about the complex interplay between the jet stream and the Gulf Stream.

Despite sophisticated computer modeling, accurate forecasting is still a challenge.

Finally, the book considers the impact of global warming on snowfall and the potential for causing a water crisis in the West and major losses in the winter recreation industry.

Whether you look forward to months on the ski slopes or loathe the effects of winter on your daily commute, you'll come away from this book with a new appreciation for this amazing and important natural phenomenon.

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Masterpiece America's 50-Year-Old Love Affair with British Television Drama

By Nancy West

January 2021 264 pages Hardback 9781538134474 £25.00 / $32.00

What accounts for Masterpiece’s longevity and influence? Masterpiece offers two reasons: the power of its drama and its aspirational appeal. West delivers great stories, stories that transport, enthrall, enrich, and comfort us, while also speaking to a uniquely American belief in the possibility of self-improvement, even self-transformation, through the acquisition of “culture.”

Nancy West is professor of english at the University of Missouri. She is the author of Kodak and the Lens of Nostalgia. (2000) and Tabloid, Inc.: Crimes, News, Narratives.

(2010).West’s books have earned her appearances on PBS’ The American Experience and the BBC’s Genius of Photography as well as keynote talks at The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, the London School of Design, and The Amon Carter Museum.

She is also a regular contributor to Written By Magazine, The Atlantic, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and The Los Angeles Review of Books.

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Naked Screenwriting Twenty-two Oscar-Winning Screenwriters Bare Their Secrets to Writing

By Lew Hunter

February 2021 528 pages Paperback 9781538137956 ÂŁ31.00 / $39.95

This volume is a collection of interviews recorded in Lew Hunter's seminars with dozens of top screenwriters including Francis Ford Coppola, William Golden, Alexander Payne, Ernest Lehman, Horton Foote and Billy Wilde, shedding insights and wisdom into the art of screenwriting.

Lew Hunter is an American screenwriter, author and educator and is chairman Emeritus and Professor of Screenwriting at the UCLA Department of Film and Television.

Over half of the Oscar winning scripts over the past twenty years have been written by students of Hunter. His former students and advocates include such people as Adrienne Parks, Allison Anders, David Koepp, Mike Werb, Sacha Gervasi, Dan Pyne, David Titcher, Diane Saltzberg, Michael Colleary, Don Mancini, Kathy Stumpe, Darren Star, Alexander Payne and Tom Shadyac. Other students include Chuck Loch, Paige Macdonald, Robert Wolfe, Joel Schumacher, Megan Steinbeck, Robert Roy Poole, Lon Diamond, Laurie Hutlzer, Pamela Gray, William Missouri Downs, Robin Russin, Brad Silberling, Greg Widen, and many others. Steven Spielberg has called Hunter "the best screenwriting teacher going".

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Sally Rand American Sex Symbol

By William Elliott Hazelgrove

January 2021 280 pages Hardback 9781493038596 £20.95 / $26.95

She would appear in more than thirty films and be named after a Road Atlas by Cecil B Demille. A football play would be named after her. She would appear on To Tell the Truth. She would be arrested six times in one day for indecency. She would be immortalized in the final scene of The Right Stuff, cartoons, popular culture, and live on as the iconic symbol of the Chicago World’s Fair of 1933. She would pave the way for every sex symbol to follow from Marilyn Monroe to Lady Gaga. She would die penniless and in debt. In the end, Sammy Davis Jr. would write her a $10,000 check when she had nothing left. Her name was Sally Rand. Until now, there has not been a biography of Sally Rand. But you can draw a line from her to Lana Turner, Marilyn Monroe, Raquel Welch, Ann Margret, Madonna, and Lady Gaga. She broke the mold in 1933, by proclaiming the female body as something beautiful and taking it out of the strip club with her ethereal fan dance. She was a poor girl from the Ozarks who ran away with a carnival, then joined the circus, and finally made it to Hollywood where Cecil B Demille set her on the road to fame with silent movies. When the talkies came her career collapsed, and she ended up in Chicago, broke, sleeping in alleys. Two ostrich feathers in a second-hand store rescued her from obscurity.

William Elliott Hazelgrove has a Masters in History and is the best-selling author of ten novels and five narrative nonfiction books: Madame President: The Secret Presidency of Edith Wilson, Forging a President: How the West Created Teddy Roosevelt (Regnery Publishing), Al Capone and the 1933 World’s Fair (Rowman and Littlefield). He lives in Chicago, Illinois.

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What, and Give Up Showbiz?

Six Decades in the Music Business

By Fred Taylor

January 2021 264 pages Hardback 9781493051847 £21.95 / $27.95

“What, and give up showbiz?” is the punch line of a well-known joke in the entertainment world. It’s also the perfect tagline for Fred Taylor’s six decades of developing three world-class clubs and discovering, promoting, presenting, and managing many of today’s great stars. Here’s how it all happened.

Fred Taylor was born in Boston and grew up in Newton, Massachusetts. He graduated from Newton High School and Boston University. While at BU, he led his own group as a drummer. Upon graduation, he entered the family business selling Serta mattresses, where he worked for nine years. However, at night Taylor was in the music world, going to all the jazz clubs in Boston. With his first tape recorder, in 1952, he recorded Dave Brubeck’s group at George Wein’s Storyville nightclub. This led to Dave Brubeck being signed with Columbia Records. Taylor’s been working for 55 years with the greatest talents in the world of jazz, pop, and comedy.

Coauthor Richard Vacca is the author of Boston Jazz Chronicles: Faces, Places and Nightlife, 1937–1962. He has worked with Fred Taylor as a coauthor and manager of Taylor’s extensive collection of art, photos, and artifacts.

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Janet Langhart Cohen's Anne & Emmett A One-Act Play

By Anne & Emmett LLC

February 2021 72 pages

Anne & Emmett reminds us of the role that race, religion and ethnicity have played in the past and how hatred and the evil of genocide continue to stalk the world.

Paperback 9781493052554 ÂŁ12.95 / $16.95

Janet Langhart Cohen is an award-winning playwright, and journalist who grew up in a segregated housing project in Indianapolis, Indiana, and went on to enjoy a career in modeling, television, and public service as the nation's "First Lady of the Pentagon." The National Association of Women Judges presented her with "The Lady Justice Award" for artistic integrity in writing Anne & Emmett.

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Janet Langhart Cohen's Anne & Emmett A One-Act Play

By Anne & Emmett LLC

February 2021 64 pages

Anne & Emmett reminds us of the role that race, religion and ethnicity have played in the past and how hatred and the evil of genocide continue to stalk the world.

Paperback 9781493052547 ÂŁ7.95 / $9.95

Janet Langhart Cohen is an award-winning playwright, and journalist who grew up in a segregated housing project in Indianapolis, Indiana, and went on to enjoy a career in modeling, television, and public service as the nation’s "First Lady of the Pentagon." The National Association of Women Judges presented her with "The Lady Justice Award" for artistic integrity in writing Anne & Emmett.

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Great American Dog Stories Lyons Press Classic Edited by Nancy Butler and Lamar Underwood

March 2021 304 pages Paperback 9781493049141 ÂŁ11.95 / $16.00

Dogs serve us, adore us, entertain us, work for and with us, but most of all they warm our hearts. An homage to our canine companions, Great American Dog Stories presents a collection of enduring tales about man's beat friend penned by an impressive array of authors.

Nancy Butler, Butler historical fiction author, has published two novellas and eleven novels, including the RITA award-winning Rake's Retreat, as well as The Quotable Lover and The Greatest Romance Stories Ever Told. A lifelong dog lover, she lives in Teaneck, New Jersey.

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China Rx Exposing the Risks of America's Dependence on China for Medicine

CHINA RX

By Rosemary Gibson and Janardan Prasad Singh

January 2021 304 pages Paperback 9781633886414 ÂŁ13.95 / $17.95 Hardback 9781633883819 ÂŁ18.95 / $25.00

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Several decades ago, penicillin, vitamin C, and many other prescription and over-thecounter products were manufactured in the United States. But with the rise of globalization, antibiotics, antidepressants, birth control pills, blood pressure medicines, cancer drugs, among many others are made in China and sold in the United States.

China's biggest impact on the US drug supply is making essential ingredients for thousands of medicines found in American homes and used in hospital intensive care units and operating rooms.

The authors convincingly argue that there are at least two major problems with this scenario. First, it is inherently risky for the United States to become dependent on any one country as a source for vital medicines, especially given the uncertainties of geopolitics. For example, if an altercation in the South China Sea causes military personnel to be wounded, doctors may rely upon medicines with essential ingredients made by the adversary. Second, lapses in safety standards and quality control in Chinese manufacturing are a risk. Citing the concerns of FDA officials and insiders within the pharmaceutical industry, the authors document incidents of illness and death caused by contaminated medications that prompted reform.

This probing book examines the implications of our reliance on China on the quality and availability of vital medicines.

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Europe by Eurail 2021 Touring Europe by Train 45th Edition

By Laverne Ferguson-Kosinski

December 2020 584 pages Paperback 9781493047772 ÂŁ18.95 / $24.95

LaVerne Ferguson-Kosinski and her late husband, George Ferguson, first coauthored this unique and comprehensive how-to guide in 1980. They also coauthored Britain by BritRail (GPP Travel). A resident of Fort Myers Beach, Florida, she has more than thirty years of experience traveling the rails in Europe.

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The First World War A Concise Global History 3rd Edition

By William Kelleher Storey

February 2021 270 pages Paperback 9781538131329 ÂŁ25.00 / $32.00

In a compact but comprehensive and clear narrative, this book explores the First World War from a genuinely global perspective. Putting a human face on the war, William Kelleher Storey takes into account individual decisions and experiences as well as environmental and technological factors, such as food, geography, manpower, and weapons.

William Kelleher Storey is professor of history at Millsaps College. His books include Guns, Race, and Power in Colonial South Africa and Writing History: A Guide for Students.

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Media Literacy in Action Questioning the Media

By Renee Hobbs

March 2021 408 pages Hardback 9781538115275 ÂŁ100.00 / $130.00

Media Literacy in Action is rooted in the theory and practice of media literacy education as developed over 30 years of research in the field. It builds upon the "best practices" and teaches all the core competencies of media literacy which include accessing, analyzing, creating, reflecting and taking action using media in a variety of forms.

Renee Hobbs is an internationally recognized authority on digital and media literacy education, a professor of communication studies and education, and the Director of the Media Education Lab at the Harrington School of Communication and Media at the University of Rhode Island. She has authored six books, among them Create to Learn: Introduction to Digital Literacy (Wiley, 2017), Exploring the Roots of Digital and Media Literacy Through Personal Narrative (Temple University Press, 2016), Copyright Clarity: How Fair Use Supports Digital Learning (Corwin, 2011) and Reading the Media: Media Literacy in High School English (Teachers College Press, 2007). She is also lead editor of the forthcoming International Encyclopedia of Media Literacy (Wiley forthcoming, 2018) Hobbs co-directs the URI Graduate Certificate in Digital Literacy and teaches courses in communication studies, education, and library and information studies. A sought-after presenter and keynote speaker, Hobbs has offered professional development to K-12 and college educators, librarians and media professionals on four continents.

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