This edition of The Little Black Songbook presents the complete lyrics and chords to over eighty Solid Gold Hits! This handy chord songbook is perfect for any aspiring guitarist, ideal for group singalongs, a spot of busking or simply to begin playing and explore the complex, irresistible songwriting on show. This little book includes: - Arnold Layne [Pink Floyd] - Beach Baby [The First Class] - Besame Mucho (Kiss Me Much) [Julie London] - Blue Moon Of Kentucky [Elvis Presley] - Catch The Wind [Donovan] - Georgia on My Mind [Ray Charles] - The Great Pretender [Freddie Mercury] - I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow [Soggy Bottom Boys] - It's Oh So Quiet [Bjork] - Long Tall Sally [Little Richard] - Me Against The Music [Britney Spears feat. Madonna] - Miss The Mississippi And You [Jimmie Rodgers] - Peggy Sue [Buddy Holly] - Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps [Doris Day] - Run To You [Whitney Houston] - Rock Your Baby [George McCrae] - Satisfied Mind [Jeff Buckley] - Single Ladies [Beyoncé] - Statesboro Blues [Blind Willie McTell] - Sway (Quien Sera) [Dean Martin] - The Universal Soldier [Glen Campbell] - Yes Sir, I Can Boogie [Baccara] - You Are My Sunshine [Johnny Cash] And many more!
The city states of the Lowlands have lived in peace for decades, bastions of civilization, prosperity and sophistication, protected by treaties, trade and a belief in the reasonable nature of their neighbors. But meanwhile, in far-off corners, the Wasp Empire has been devouring city after city with its highly trained armies, its machines, it killing Art . . . And now its hunger for conquest and war has become insatiable. Only the aging Stenwold Maker, spymaster, artificer and statesman, can see that the long days of peace are over. It falls upon his shoulders to open the eyes of his people, before a black-and-gold tide sweeps down over the Lowlands and burns away everything in its path. But first he must stop himself from becoming the Empire's latest victim.
The instant New York Times bestseller and companion book to the PBS series. “Absolutely brilliant . . . A necessary and moving work.” —Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., author of Begin Again “Engaging. . . . In Gates’s telling, the Black church shines bright even as the nation itself moves uncertainly through the gloaming, seeking justice on earth—as it is in heaven.” —Jon Meacham, New York Times Book Review From the New York Times bestselling author of Stony the Road and The Black Box, and one of our most important voices on the African American experience, comes a powerful new history of the Black church as a foundation of Black life and a driving force in the larger freedom struggle in America. For the young Henry Louis Gates, Jr., growing up in a small, residentially segregated West Virginia town, the church was a center of gravity—an intimate place where voices rose up in song and neighbors gathered to celebrate life's blessings and offer comfort amid its trials and tribulations. In this tender and expansive reckoning with the meaning of the Black Church in America, Gates takes us on a journey spanning more than five centuries, from the intersection of Christianity and the transatlantic slave trade to today’s political landscape. At road’s end, and after Gates’s distinctive meditation on the churches of his childhood, we emerge with a new understanding of the importance of African American religion to the larger national narrative—as a center of resistance to slavery and white supremacy, as a magnet for political mobilization, as an incubator of musical and oratorical talent that would transform the culture, and as a crucible for working through the Black community’s most critical personal and social issues. In a country that has historically afforded its citizens from the African diaspora tragically few safe spaces, the Black Church has always been more than a sanctuary. This fact was never lost on white supremacists: from the earliest days of slavery, when enslaved people were allowed to worship at all, their meetinghouses were subject to surveillance and destruction. Long after slavery’s formal eradication, church burnings and bombings by anti-Black racists continued, a hallmark of the violent effort to suppress the African American struggle for equality. The past often isn’t even past—Dylann Roof committed his slaughter in the Mother Emanuel AME Church 193 years after it was first burned down by white citizens of Charleston, South Carolina, following a thwarted slave rebellion. But as Gates brilliantly shows, the Black church has never been only one thing. Its story lies at the heart of the Black political struggle, and it has produced many of the Black community’s most notable leaders. At the same time, some churches and denominations have eschewed political engagement and exemplified practices of exclusion and intolerance that have caused polarization and pain. Those tensions remain today, as a rising generation demands freedom and dignity for all within and beyond their communities, regardless of race, sex, or gender. Still, as a source of faith and refuge, spiritual sustenance and struggle against society’s darkest forces, the Black Church has been central, as this enthralling history makes vividly clear.
The Little Black Songbook Of Acoustic Songs For Ukulele is a bumper songbook, packed to the brim with chords for over 70 acoustic songs from the biggest names in rock and pop. Each song has been carefully arranged for Voice and Ukulele, in the same key as the original recordings, with complete lyrics and a handy chord-box reference sheet. This little book includes: - A Day In The Life [The Beatles] - American Pie [Don McLean] - Angie [The Rolling Stones] - Army Dreamers [Kate Bush] - Babylon [David Gray] - Blue Jeans [Lana Del Rey] - Boulder To Birmingham [Emmylou Harris] - Chasing Cars [Snow Patrol] - Come On Eileen [Dexy's Midnight Runners] - Cosmic Dancer [T. Rex] - Dog Days Are Over [Florence + The Machine] - End Of A Century [Blur] - Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall [Coldplay] - Everyday [Buddy Holly] - First We Take Manhattan [Leonard Cohen] - Get Lucky [Daft Punk] - Go Your Own Way [Fleetwood Mac] - God Only Knows [The Beach Boys] - Ho Hey [The Lumineers] - I Say A Little Prayer [Franklin, Aretha] And many more!
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There are universal laws of selling that determine whether you succeed, or don’t succeed — whether you earn enough to enjoy the lifestyle you want or struggle to make ends meet. When you align the wind with your sails, you move effortlessly across the water. When your sails are out of alignment, you flounder and go nowhere. If you align your thinking and actions with these powerful laws of selling, you will be more effective and efficient. You will encounter less friction, require less energy, and get bigger results faster. Here's a sampling of Jeffrey’s 21.5 Laws of Selling: • Deliver Value First • Ask Before Telling • Communicate in Terms of Them • Become Your Own Brand • Earn Referrals and Testimonials without Asking • Create Loyal Customers These 21.5 Laws are the rock foundation of selling. They may be invisible but they are undeniable — and unbreakable. If you're just getting started in selling, you will find the Laws invaluable. Whether or not you learn them and follow them will make or break your career. If you’ve been in sales for a while, you will find yourself saying, "I haven’t been doing that." "I knew that! How did forget?" When we break the Laws we pay the price. Our sales suffer. Our bank account takes a hit. It’s an effort to get out of bed and make a sales call, to do our best work — work that is aligned with the Laws. Use Jeffrey’s Laws of Selling to recharge your enthusiasm and redirect your actions back to what really works.
A new edition of the classic New York Times bestseller edited by Toni Morrison, offering an encyclopedic look at the black experience in America from 1619 through the 1940s with the original cover restored. “I am so pleased the book is alive again. I still think there is no other work that tells and visualizes a story of such misery with seriousness, humor, grace and triumph.”—Toni Morrison Seventeenth-century sketches of Africans as they appeared to marauding European traders. Nineteenth-century slave auction notices. Twentieth-century sheet music for work songs and freedom chants. Photographs of war heroes, regal in uniform. Antebellum reward posters for capturing runaway slaves. An 1856 article titled “A Visit to the Slave Mother Who Killed Her Child.” In 1974, Middleton A. Harris and Toni Morrison led a team of gifted, passionate collectors in compiling these images and nearly five hundred others into one sensational narrative of the black experience in America—The Black Book. Now in a newly restored hardcover edition, The Black Book remains a breathtaking testament to the legendary wisdom, strength, and perseverance of black men and women intent on freedom. Prominent collectors Morris Levitt, Roger Furman, and Ernest Smith joined Harris and Morrison (then a Random House editor, ultimately a two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning Nobel Laureate) to spend months studying, laughing at, and crying over these materials—transcripts from fugitive slaves’ trials and proclamations by Frederick Douglass and celebrated abolitionists, as well as chilling images of cross burnings and lynchings, patents registered by black inventors throughout the early twentieth century, and vibrant posters from “Black Hollywood” films of the 1930s and 1940s. Indeed, it was an article she found while researching this project that provided the inspiration for Morrison’s masterpiece, Beloved. A labor of love and a vital link to the richness and diversity of African American history and culture, The Black Book honors the past, reminding us where our nation has been, and gives flight to our hopes for what is yet to come. Beautifully and faithfully presented and featuring a foreword and original poem by Toni Morrison, The Black Book remains a timeless landmark work.
