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Geoffrey C. Ward,Ken Burns
Based on the film series by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick.
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Ken Stewart
Are you a project manager fed up with the 'slog of war'-the relentless battle against daily bureaucratic red tape, monotonous meetings better suited to emails, and the Herculean effort required…
Ken And Beth Spilger
"It's a miracle anyone survived!-I've never seen an airplane so devastated." In 1980, Ken Spilger was the sole survivor of a small plan crash. He experienced serious third degree burns…
Ken Mennell
In days of old, when King Arthur reigned over Britain, the kingdom was defended from evil magic wielders by Merlin and his young apprentice, Kelpie. The sixty-year-old series is collected…
G. Edgerton
This text examines the work of Ken Burns - the innovative producer- director - as a television auteur, a programming influence within the industry, and a popular historian.
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This is the first book-length study to critically examine the work of Ken Burns, the innovative producer-director as a television auteur, a pivotal programming influence within the industry, and a…
David Blistein,Ken Burns
David’s Inferno combines intensely personal reminiscences of a two-year nervous breakdown with contemporary insights on how manic-depression manifests and how it is diagnosed and treated.
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Mark Greenberg
A celebration of President Obama’s presidency, featuring stunning images by photographers from the White House and beyond. Looking back at Barack Obama’s journey, from his remarkable victory to his final…
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Dayton Duncan,Ken Burns
The rich and colorful story of America’s most popular music and the singers and songwriters who captivated, entertained, and consoled listeners throughout the 20th century–based on the upcoming eight-part film…
This evocative and lavishly illustrated narrative–the companion volume to the 12-hour PBS series–delves into the history of the park idea, from the first sighting by white men in 1851 through…
Ralph Lauren,Ken Burns
Embodying a chic casualness and ease that is uniquely American, the iconic Polo shirt has become a cool cultural symbol, worn by everyone from movie stars and presidents to athletes…
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Dayton Duncan, Ken Burns
"Based on a documentary film by Ken Burns"--Title page.
Ernest Hemingway
Featured in Hemingway, a film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick on PBS. –Cover.
Cappy McGarr
In The Man Who Made Mark Twain Famous, Cappy McGarr shares how he became an Emmy-nominated founder/executive producer of the Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, and got…
This text looks into the historical detail of this music genre. It gives background on early New Orleans music, and the developments of swing and bebop. Essays highlight elements of…
Walpole Historical Society
Walpole, a picturesque New England town on the banks of the Connecticut River, is older than the nation itself. Founded in 1752 by Colonial charter from New Hampshire’s royal governor…
A comprehensive look at the Vietnam War –
Now in paperback–the bestselling companion volume to the acclaimed PBS television series on America’s celebrated contribution to music. Jazz takes readers from late-19th-century New Orleans to late-20th-century Europe, from ragtime…
Enriched by maps and hundreds of photographs, the companion volume to the forthcoming PBS series, The War is the story of World War II captured in the hearts, minds, words…
Ken Burns
From one of our most treasured filmmakers, a pictorial history of America-a stunning and moving collection of Ken Burns’s favorite photographs –
Geoffrey C. Ward,Ric Burns,Ken Burns
This magnificent pictorial history portrays the Civil War as never before, from the events leading to the firing of the first shot at Fort Sumter, through the battles at Shiloh…
This huge, magnificent pictorial history portrays the Civil War as never before, from the political events leading to the firing of the first shot as Fort Sumter to the surrender…
John Musgrave
A Marine’s searing and intimate memoir about surviving Vietnam and its aftermath –
Ken Evans
Formally-innovative, comic, surreal and deeply poignant - Evans’s poetry is a restless delight as he tackles almost anything: lost invoices, hearing aids, fruit flies, migration, bin lorries, road signs and…
Marty Stuart,Ken Burns,Katie Blount
Marty Stuart has worked with the legends of country music, from Lester Flatt and Johnny Cash to his successful collaboration with Travis Tritt and his return to American roots music…
Paul J. Bauer,Mark Dawidziak
The first biography of the vagabond and hard-boiled writer who rocked Hollywood during the Roaring Twenties.
Frederick Law Olmsted
When Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan visited Yosemite National Park, they both called out Fredrick Law Olmsted as a major influence and inspiration for their documentary film, The National Parks…
Paul J Bauer, Mark Dawidziak
Jim Tully describes the hardscrabble life of an Irish American storyteller, from his immigrant roots, rural childhood, and life as a hobo riding the rails to the emergent dream factory…
Geoffrey C Ward,Ken Burns
The magnificent, bestselling companion volume to the 2007 PBS series: the American experience of World War II told through a brilliant weave of story and picture.
David Conrads,Buck O'neil
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US National Park Service
Go behind the scenes at the National Park Service to see how maps are used to manage and sustain our national parks in Mapping America’s National Parks: Preserving Our Natural…
Explores Jackie Robinson's compelling and complicated legacy
Before the United States Supreme Court ruled against segregation in public schools, and before Rosa Parks refused to surrender her bus seat in…
42 Today is an exploration of Jackie Robinson and his legacy –
Ken Butigan
An account of how the Nevada Desert Experience-the nonviolent protest against nuclear testing that has been ongoing since the 1980s-has created a unique spiritual practice combining religious ritual and political…
