Product Description: The newly updated tour of New England's best roadside seafoodLobster Shacks is a fun, road-trip-style guide to the 75 or so best shacks in New England, starting in Connecticut and heading north and east through Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine...read more

Product Description: Music, magic and myth are elements essential to the identities of New Orleans musicians. The city's singular contributions to popular music around the world have been unrivaled; performing this music authentically requires collective improvisation, taking performers on sonorous sojourns in unanticipated, 'magical' moments; and membership in the city's musical community entails participation in the myth of New Orleans, breathing new life into its storied traditions...read more

Product Description: New England is the birthplace of the American diner, and this book brings together the best of them and shares with you their best recipes for comfort food, New England style. Celebrate the food, culture, and funky architecture of these scrappy culinary icons with recipes, color photos, interviews with owners, and heartwarming stories from a broad array of customers...read more

Product Description: In Russian politics reliable information is scarce, formal relations are of relatively little significance, and things are seldom what they seem. Applying an original theory of political language to narratives taken from interviews with 34 of Russia's leading political figures, Michael Urban explores the ways in which political actors construct themselves with words...read more

Product Description: Die Frage nach dem Verhaltnis zwischen den Einzelnen und dem Sozialen ist spatestens seit der Erfindung der Soziologie im 19. Jahrhundert Thema einer Vielzahl theoretischer Klarungs- und Beschreibungsansatze. In immer wieder neuen Varianten wurde versucht, dieses Verhaltnis zu begreifen als die Relation von Teil und Ganzem, von Individuum und Gesellschaft, von psychischen und sozialen oder von subjektiven und objektiven Strukturen - um nur die wichti- ten der zumeist binar strukturierten Begrifflichkeiten anzusprechen, die zur Theoretisierung dieses Zusammenhangs genutzt wurden...read more

Product Description: Michael Urban chronicles the advent of blues music in Russia and explores the significance of the genre in the turbulent, postcommunist society. Russians, he explains, have taken a music originating in the "low" culture of the American South and transformed it into an object of "high" culture, fashioning a social identity that distinguishes blues adherents from both the discredited Soviet past and the vulgar consumerism associated with the country's Westernization...read more

Teaches users how to work with the FreeBSD operating system, explaining how to do common tasks, such as setting up a basic Web server, and how to work with the graphical user environment. (view table of contents)