Brainfeeder is proud to present "Resistance" - a 2018 Funk odyssey by keyboard maestro, vocalist, composer, producer, arranger and astral traveller Brandon Coleman. A regular fixture in the Kamasi Washington band, wylin' out on the keys or wielding his keytar, he is introduced onstage at gigs as "Professor Boogie" by his longtime friend and collaborator. "Resistance" - released on 14 September via Brainfeeder - represents a new chapter in the Funk...

This collection focuses on visual images as documents to be analyzed and understood in their own right, just as written documents are. Including primary sources from America in the 1600s to the present, this set features iconic photographs, paintings, cartoons, maps, and more. It pairs each visual source with in-depth scholarly analysis and commentary to help students and researchers better understand the image and place it in its historical context....

"Vividly portraying the personal and professional lives of social work luminaries from the 19th to the present century, this text links their groundbreaking contributions in social work to current CSWE core competencies. The book focuses on leaders who shaped the field across modern American history -- the Progressive Era, the Great Society, the New Deal, the Postwar period, and others--and examines their lives in the context of the social and historical...

"This encyclopedia contains more than 400 descriptive entries of important events, issues, personalities, controversies, treaties, agreements, organizations and alliances in the history of Sino-American relations, from Chinese and American perspectives. Also included are maps, a chronology, a list of acronyms, and three appendices (American chiefs on missions to China, Chinese chiefs on missions to the United States, and the correspondence of Wade-Giles...

A chronological survey of 500 great buildings, from Turkish prehistoric cave dwellings to a 21st century Tokyo store.

500 Ballparks celebrates the uniqueness of our national pastime's parks, stadiums, and fields.

This updated encyclopedia provides ready information on all aspects of capital punishment in America. It details virtually every capital punishment decision rendered by the United States Supreme Court through 2006, including more than 40 cases decided since publication of the first edition. Entries are also provided for each Supreme Court Justice who has ever rendered a capital punishment opinion. Entries on jurisdictions cite present-day death penalty...

An organic collection of the personal, professional, and family papers, 1773-2006, of Norman Buckingham Beecher (born 1923) and his wife Nancy Bartram Beecher (residents of Concord, Massachusetts), including papers and materials relating to the ancestors of each of them. Series I. Norman Buckingham Beecher papers, 1923-2006: This series includes a range of material -- especially correspondence -- on topics of particular interest to Norman Beecher...