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Hardcover:
9780062221032, titled "The Hippest Trip in America: Soul Train and the Evolution of Culture and Style" | William Morrow & Co, March 25, 2014, cover price $27.99
Paperback:
9780062221049, titled "The Hippest Trip in America: Soul Train and the Evolution of Culture and Style" | Reprint edition (William Morrow & Co, March 24, 2015), cover price $15.99 | About this edition: An authoritative history of the groundbreaking syndicated television show that has become an icon of American pop culture, from acclaimed author and filmmaker Nelson George, âthe most accomplished black music critic of his generationâ (Washington Post Book World).
Hardcover:
9780412045813, titled "Caring for the Exercising Woman" | Chapman & Hall, April 1, 1991, cover price $79.95 | also contains Caring for the Exercising Woman | About this edition: This text introduces physicians to the problems faced by women who exercise and discusses how to best deal with those problems.
Paperback:
9781617754005 | 2 edition (Akashic Books, March 3, 2015), cover price $16.95
Hardcover:
9781617753411 | Akashic Books, February 3, 2015, cover price $24.95
Paperback:
9781617753169 | Akashic Books, February 3, 2015, cover price $15.95
CD/Spoken Word:
9781481505246 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, February 3, 2015), cover price $29.95
9781481505253 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, February 3, 2015), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: [Read by Nicole Small] Like its predecessors The Accidental Hunter and The Plot against Hip Hop, The Lost Treasures of R&B uses pop music as the backdrop for a noir-flavored big-city tale.
CD/Spoken Word:
9781481505239 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, February 3, 2015), cover price $69.00
Paperback:
9780990499640 | Sonata Books Llc, January 15, 2015, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: In the 1920s a little boy named Jack Gibson shook hands with the great Marcus Garvey.
Paperback:
9781617750243 | Akashic Books, November 1, 2011, cover price $15.95
CD/Spoken Word:
9781481500074 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, September 1, 2014), cover price $29.95
9781481500081 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, September 1, 2014), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: This rewrite of hiphop history mixes reallife figures with characters pulled from the culture's hidden world, including Jay Z, Kanye West, and Russell Simmons.
CD/Spoken Word:
9781481500067 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, September 1, 2014), cover price $69.00 | About this edition: "The Plot against Hip Hop" is a noir novel set in the world of hip-hop culture.
Hardcover:
9780306818783 | 1 edition (Da Capo Pr, June 8, 2010), cover price $24.00
Paperback:
9780306819681 | Da Capo Pr, May 24, 2011, cover price $16.00
Hardcover:
9780670020362 | Viking Pr, April 2, 2009, cover price $25.95
Paperback:
9780452296046 | Reprint edition (Plume, March 30, 2010), cover price $16.00
Paperback:
9780452289468 | Plume, April 29, 2008, cover price $17.00
Chronicles the phenomenal rise of Motown Records and profiles its famous personalities, including founder Berry Gordy, jr, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, and Smokey Robinson
Hardcover:
9780312866983, titled "Where Did Our Love Go?: The Rise and Fall of the Motown Sound" | 1 edition (St Martins Pr, February 1, 1986), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Chronicles the phenomenal rise of Motown Records and profiles its famous personalities, including founder Berry Gordy, jr, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, and Smokey Robinson
Paperback:
9780312011093 | 1 edition (St Martins Pr, August 1, 1987), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Chronicles the phenomenal rise of Motown Records and profiles its famous personalities, including founder Berry Gordy, jr, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, and Smokey Robinson
Paperback:
9780252074981 | Univ of Illinois Pr, October 2, 2007, cover price $26.95
Hardcover:
9780670032754 | Viking Pr, January 1, 2004, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: A social critic and author describes the splintering of African-American culture in the 1980s, examining the dichotomy between influential blacks and the rampant drug use and crime that ravaged once-vital black neighborhoods.
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9780143034476, titled "Post-soul Nation: The Explosive, Contradictory, Triumphant, and Tragic 1980s as Experienced by African Americans (Previously Known as Blacks and Before That Negroes)" | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, April 26, 2005), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A social critic and award-winning author of Hip Hop America describes the splintering of African-American culture in the 1980s, examining the dichotomy between influential black entertainers, athletes, politicians, and spiritual leaders and the rampant drug use and crime that ravaged once-vital black neighborhoods.
Miscellaneous:
9780743277389 | Touchstone Books, January 4, 2005, cover price $14.99
Paperback:
9780743235525 | Touchstone Books, January 4, 2005, cover price $20.95 | About this edition: Hired to deliver a ransom to the kidnappers of a rising singer, Manhattan security specialist D.
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9780571211593 | Faber & Faber, September 15, 2004, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: A collection of articles and essays about the music, history, and culture of hip-hop features a quarter century of writing by Ali Farka Toure, Kevin Powell, Harry Allen, Joan Morgan, Cheo Hodari Coker, Greg Tate, Bill Adler, Hilton Als, Danyel Smith, andothers.
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9781888451580 | Akashic Books, June 1, 2004, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Masters of the mystery genre and the best of New York's literary fiction community come together in an anthology of chilling, brilliant stories each set in a distinct neighborhood of Brooklyn, featuring contributions by Pete Hamill, Nelson George, Pearl Abraham, Chris Niles, Maggie Estep, Arthur Nersesian, Sidney Offit, and others.
Paperback:
9780711995116 | Omnibus Pr, September 1, 2003, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: This book has hardback covers.
Hardcover:
9780394552385 | 1 edition (Pantheon Books, July 1, 1988), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Examines the changing sound of rhythm and blues, from the electrifying music of such greats as Chuck Berry and Aretha Franklin to current mainstream names like Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston, and explores the reasons for this radical shift
Paperback:
9780142004081, titled "The Death of Rhythm & Blues" | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, September 1, 2003), cover price $17.00
9780452266971 | Reprint edition (Obelisk, September 1, 1989), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Examines the changing sound of rhythm and blues, from the electrifying music of such greats as Chuck Berry and Aretha Franklin to current mainstream names like Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston, and explores the reasons for this radical shift
Paperback:
9780743235518 | Touchstone Books, May 27, 2003, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Tired of his seedy underworld life, Nigel, a highly paid sex worker, dreams of a new career as an R&B vocalist, but his quest to reach his goal is undermined by Beth Ann, a beautiful, debt-ridden supermodel involved in a deadly drug ring.
Miscellaneous:
9780743255615 | Touchstone Books, May 9, 2003, cover price $9.99
Paperback:
9780815411949 | Expanded edition (Cooper Square Pub, April 1, 2002), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: An examination of African American imagery and participation in American movies includes a timeline of important African American events in film history and discusses the achievements of noted celebrities.
Hardcover:
9780609606070 | Crown Pub, October 1, 2001, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: One of the godfathers of rap music and hip-hop culture recalls his days as the co-founder of Def Jam Records--a groundbreaking recording company that worked with the Beastie Boys, Public Enemy, DMX, and other rap heavyweights.
Paperback:
9780609807156 | Reprint edition (Three Rivers Pr, September 1, 2002), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: One of the godfathers of rap music and hip-hop culture recalls his days as the co-founder of Def Jam Records--a groundbreaking recording company that worked with the Beastie Boys, Public Enemy, DMX, and other rap heavyweights.
Miscellaneous:
9780676905120 | Crown Pub, December 18, 2001, cover price $14.00
Paperback:
9780743218603 | Touchstone Books, August 1, 2001, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Is it too Late for this Professional Player to Find True Love?
9780684864617 | Touchstone Books, June 8, 2000, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: When Rodney Hampton's best friend's marriage shakes his complacent bachelor lifestyle, Rodney sets out to make one of three former girlfriends that slipped away his wife.
Hardcover:
9780060167240 | 1 edition (Harpercollins, February 1, 1993), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Essays discuss music, film, sports, publishing, politics, and city life from a Black perspective
Paperback:
9780306810275, titled "Buppies, B-Boys, Baps, and Bohos: Notes on Post-Soul Black Culture" | Da Capo Pr, July 11, 2001, cover price $16.95
9780060922016 | Perennial, February 1, 1994, cover price $11.00
Talk-show producer Dean Chance takes a bizarre odyssey into New York's sexual underworld when he becomes involved in a love triange with his girlfriend, Millie James, and Bee Cole, unaware of the manipulations of a shadowy puppeteer.
Paperback:
9780743204439, titled "Show & Tell" | Touchstone Books, May 1, 2001, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Talk-show producer Dean Chance takes a bizarre odyssey into New York's sexual underworld when he becomes involved in a love triange with his girlfriend, Millie James, and Bee Cole, unaware of the manipulations of a shadowy puppeteer.
Miscellaneous:
9780743212250 | Touchstone Books, September 10, 2001, cover price $9.99
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