Product Description: Spiraling work stress, junk food overload, and makeover madness all make staying healthy seem a taller order than ever before. "The Rough Guide to Men's Health" provides you with everything you need to know to ensure your lifestyle isn't at war with your health...read more

Product Description: Think you know all about sport? Think again. "The Rough Guide to Cult Sport" takes the armchair sports fan on a beguiling world tour exploring the maverick, the bizarre and the deliriously obscure parts of the sporting universe. It recalls the players, games and moments in all sports which have excited the greatest passions from the dawn of the Olympics to the present day...read more

Product Description: Jamaica is a small country in the Caribbean, 146 miles wide and populated by fewer than three million people. Nevertheless, it has exerted a more powerful hold on international popular music than any nation besides England and America...read more

The first comprehensive biography of the influential funk artist retraces Clinton's early career in the 1960s and reveals how the black power movement--as well as the Beatles, Frank Zappa, James Brown, and the Supremes--shaped his music.

Product Description: The Rough Guide to Running will propel you ahead of the pack with a power brew of reliable guidance and inspirational tips. The guide includes the basics from good running technique, goal setting and motivation to schedules, preparation and how to deal with injuries and strains...read more

Product Description: Bob Marley recorded the songs for Exodus in London during the months of January and February of 1977 after an assassination attempt that had left him with some minor injuries. The album was released on June third that year and immediately unleashed an avalanche of praise that elevated him to almost legendary heights from which he has yet to descend...read more

Written with the full support and cooperation of the master of funk, this insightful chronicle of the founder of psychedelic funk and a seminal influence on rap and hip hop highlights his onstage antics, drug addiction, and financial troubles as well as his legendary music making.

Containing more than twelve thousand artists from every genre, this comprehensive musical reference furnishes valuable information on each musical form, as well as profiles of musicians, an instrument glossary, a detailed bibliography, and a tutorial on the fundamentals of reading music.

A richly illustrated overview of the origins and history of Jamaican music follows the evolution of reggae from the late 1950s through its dramatic success as a musical and cultural force, profiling the musicians, performers, producers, and others who have transformed four decades of Jamaican music. Original.

Product Description: Reggae is Jamaica's only indigenous music, and although the island has a population half the size of London it is the world's third-largest exporter of music. This book details the history of reggae both in Jamaica and in its two other main centres, New York and London, and selects the best buys on CD, covering about 200 acts and over 500 albums...read more

Product Description: Incorporating outstanding figures such as James Brown, Marvin Gaye, Otis Redding and Stevie Wonder, and also the lesser-known but highly-influential Archie Bell or Eddie Harris, this is a guide to some of the best soul music available on CD...read more