Deep underground, a mysterious cave of stone tablets has been discovered, and researchers are working frantically to investigate a treasury of Prehistoric American artifacts. In this collection, you will uncover the real stories of six legendary dinosaur leaders. Meet the greatest presidential heroes of ancient history: George Washingdonyx, a baryonyx who led a brave new world ; Thomas Jeffersaurus, the prehistoric pen of the revolution ; Andrew Jaxceratops, a creature from the wild frontier who won over the herd ; Abraham Lincolnator, the humble dinosaur who united the continents ; Theodore Rexevelt, a determined tyrannosaur who clawed his way to the top ; Franklin D. Rex, a savior in Prehistoric America's darkest hour. These are the legendary heroes of Jurassic Classics!

Deep underground, a mysterious cave of stone tablets has been discovered, and researchers are working frantically to investigate a treasury of Prehistoric American artifacts. In this collection, you will uncover the real stories of six legendary dinosaur leaders. Meet the greatest presidential heroes of ancient history: George Washingdonyx, a baryonyx who led a brave new world ; Thomas Jeffersaurus, the prehistoric pen of the revolution ; Andrew Jaxceratops, a creature from the wild frontier who won over the herd ; Abraham Lincolnator, the humble dinosaur who united the continents ; Theodore Rexevelt, a determined tyrannosaur who clawed his way to the top ; Franklin D. Rex, a savior in Prehistoric America's darkest hour. These are the legendary heroes of Jurassic Classics!

An essential work for rock fans and scholars, Before Elvis: The Prehistory of Rock 'n' Roll surveys the origins of rock 'n' roll from the minstrel era to the emergence of Bill Haley and Elvis Presley. Unlike other histories of rock, Before Elvis offers a far broader and deeper analysis of the influences on rock music. Dispelling common misconceptions, it examines rock's origins in hokum songs and big-band boogies as well as Delta blues, detailing the embrace by white artists of African-American styles long before rock 'n' roll appeared. This unique study ranges far and wide, highlighting not only the contributions of obscure but key precursors like Hardrock Gunter and Sam Theard but also the influence of celebrity performers like Gene Autry and Ella Fitzgerald. Too often, rock historians treat the genesis of rock 'n' roll as a bolt from the blue, an overnight revolution provoked by the bland pop music that immediately preceded it and created through the white appropriation of music till then played only by and for black audiences. In Before Elvis, Birnbaum daringly argues a more complicated history of rock's evolution from a heady mix of ragtime, boogie-woogie, swing, country music, mainstream pop, and rhythm-and-blues--a melange that influenced one another along the way, from the absorption of blues and boogies into jazz and pop to the integration of country and Caribbean music into rhythm-and-blues. Written in an easy style, Before Elvis presents a bold argument about rock's origins and required reading for fans and scholars of rock 'n' roll history.

Once upon a time there was a war . . . and a young American who thought of himself as the Quiet American and the Ugly American, and who wished to be neither, who wanted instead to be the Wise American, or the Good American, but who eventually came to witness himself as the Real American and finally as simply the Fucking American. That’s me. This is the story of Skip Sands—spy-in-training, engaged in Psychological Operations against the Vietcong—and the disasters that befall him thanks to his famous uncle, a war hero known in intelligence circles simply as the Colonel. This is also the story of the Houston brothers, Bill and James, young men who drift out of the Arizona desert into a war in which the line between disinformation and delusion has blurred away. In its vision of human folly, and its gritty, sympathetic portraits of men and women desperate for an end to their loneliness, whether in sex or death or by the grace of God, this is a story like nothing in our literature. Tree of Smoke is Denis Johnson’s first full-length novel in nine years, and his most gripping, beautiful, and powerful work to date. Tree of Smoke is the 2007 National Book Award Winner for Fiction.

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Assesses the forces that will buffet the United States and the global order through 2050.

"Famous literary figures are given dinosaur-inspired pseudonyms and prehistoric biographies as a way of introducing young readers to classic literature"--