This book investigates the meanings and iconography of the Stampede: an invented tradition that takes over the city of Calgary for ten days every July.

The theme of work is a central and evocative one, and this collection brings its importance home.

The 1969 disclosure baseline, published in the same month that humans landed on the Moon for the first time.

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature.

Likely to become the standard history of Kenton's orchestra, this book will be enjoyed by any reader interested in the history of big-band jazz. Annotation ♭2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.

As I Lay Dying is Faulkner's harrowing account of the Bundre family's odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and mother.

This new book draws upon interviews with writers including: Seamus Heaney, Roald Dahl, Samuel Beckett, Bret Easton Ellis, John Fowles, Allen Ginsburg, Alice Walker and Gore Vidal.