The strong religious undercurrent in Berry's work, surfaces in this gathering of Sunday meditations, most of them set in regular verse forms: quatrain, couplet, sonnet, terza rima, and some more intricate. Contemplating on the cycle of life, Berry sees all living things as expressions of the holy light conjured from darkness in the primal act of creation. "The darkness, too, is holy, the resting place and wellspring of light and life," he says as...

Wendell Berry is a writer of great clarity and sureness. His love of language and his care for its music are matched only by his fidelity to the subjects he has written of during his first twenty-five years of work : land and nature, the family and community, tradition as the groundwork for life and culture. His graceful elegies sit easily alongside lyrics of humor and biting satire. Husbandman and husband, philosopher and Mad Farmer, he writes of...

"Memoir of Dean Torrence, who was one half of the popular 1960s singing duo "Jan & Dean. He and Jan Berry were famous for their 'surf music,' performing hit songs that included 'Surf City,' 'Little Old Lady from Pasadena,' and 'Dead Man's Curve'"--

The story of the Battle of the Hundred in the Hand, otherwise known as the Fetterman Massacre of 1866, which was an important victory for the Lakota. This account is told through the eyes of Cloud, a dedicated and able warrior who fought alongside a young Crazy Horse during one of the coldest winters, as well as the white soldiers who mistake Cloud's redheaded wife for a captive.

"Best known for his song "Super Freak," hitmaker, singer, innovator, producer, award-winning pioneer in the fusion of funk groove and rock, the late Rick James collaborated with music biographer David Ritz in this posthumously published, wildly entertaining, and profound expression of a rock star's life and soul. He was the nephew of Temptations singer Melvin Franklin; a boy who watched and listened, mesmerized from underneath cocktail tables at the...

"Starting with Elvis Presley and the teensploitation films of the '50s and '60s, in Rock on Film award-winning author and former Rolling Stone editor Fred Goodman takes readers on a wide-ranging journey through film and pop history. Along the way, he measures the transformative impact of the mid-'60s landmarks A Hard Day's Night and Don't Look Back and how they seeded an almost unbelievably broad genre of films made by increasingly ambitious musicians...

"From 'The Book of Kells' to Boccaccio's 'Decameron', from the 'Vienna Genesis' to Dante's 'Divine Comedy': to open 'Codices illustres' is to open the door into a precious, private world. Now in a revised format, this radiant book brings you face-to-face with 167 of the most exquisite and important manuscripts of the medieval age.0Presented in brilliant large-format reproductions, these paradigms of miniature painting and illumination from the 4th...