The story of one African American family fighting to stay together and strong in the face of brutal racist attacks, illness, poverty, and betrayal in the Deep South of the 1930s.

The "vivid story of a black family whose warm ties to each other and their land give them the strength to defy rural Southern racism during the Depression"--Booklist, starred review).

In the post-9/11 era, media technologies have become increasingly intertwined with vertical power as airwaves, airports, air space, and orbit have been commandeered to support national security and defense. In this book, Lisa Parks develops the concept of vertical mediation to explore how audiovisual cultures enact and infer power relations far beyond the screen. Focusing on TV...(展开全部)

I'm a man. Well, maybe so, but were you also aware that you're the progeny of ancient Greek concepts of music, myth and hero, even as you strut around your bedroom in your y-fronts, snarling into your hairbrush, pretending to be Iggy Pop? Rock taps into the all-important idea of the "authentic" and into our Western grammar of hoping and dreaming. But what exactly of what, asks ...(展开全部)

格雷尔·马库斯 Greil Marcus，美国当代著名乐评人、文化研究者、作家。著有《聆听大门》、《神秘列车》、《老美国志异》、《唇迹》等畅销不衰的音乐文化书籍，并为美国诸多报刊杂志撰写专栏。近年来，他先后在普林斯顿大学、明尼苏达大学和纽约大学等多所院校任教。 译者 金晓宇 ，1972年生于天津，自由译者，从事英语、日语翻译十余年。译作包括《写作人生》《嘻哈这门生意》《剧院里最好的座位》《船热》《诱惑者》等。现居杭州。

马库斯，美国著名文化批评家、乐评人格雷尔•马库斯（Greil Marcus），著有《祸不单行》、《死者猫王》、《唇迹》、《神秘列车》、《老美国志异》等畅销不衰的音乐文化作品，专栏文章见于美国众多报刊杂志，如《纽约客》、《纽约时代》等。

Catch a train to the heart of rock ’n’ roll with this essential study of the quintessential American art form. First published in 1975, Greil Marcus’s Mystery Train remains a benchmark study of rock ’n’ roll and a classic in the field of music criticism. Focusing on six key artists—Robert Johnson, Harmonica Frank, Randy Newman, the Band, Sly Stone, and Elvis Presley—Marcus ex...(展开全部)

Acknowledgments Hollywood is a town of fabulators. The people who dwell there create fictions for a living, fictions that refuse tidily to confine themselves to the screen, but spill over into the daily lives of the men and women who regard themselves as stars in the movies of their own lives. Although this book tells readers altogether more than they may wish to know about the...(展开全部)

Unrivalled in the way it makes the teaching of statistics compelling and accessible to even the most anxious of students, the only statistics textbook you and your students will ever need just got better! Andy Field's comprehensive and bestselling Discovering Statistics Using SPSS 4th Edition takes students from introductory statistical concepts through very advanced concepts, ...(展开全部)