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University of Memphis

University of Memphis

University of Memphis

Beverly Bond, Janann Sherman, and Frances Wright Breland

Arcadia Publishing
128 pages
$21.99

“The 100-year transformation of the University of Memphis from a small teacher-training school to a major metropolitan research university is chronicled in Campus History Series: University of Memphis.”

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Art of Songwriting

The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Art of Songwriting

The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Art of Songwriting

Casey Kelly and David Hodge

Alpha
240 pages
$19.95

“Beginning songwriters can hit the right note by starting out with the basics in this guide, including: How to create melodies, how to create many different harmonies, techniques using deliberate rhythm and stylistic changes, how to enable one’s songwriting to grow and evolve, how to deal with songwriter’s block, the best places to upload one’s work for maximum exposure and opportunities.”

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Onward Southern Soldiers: Religion and the Army of Tennessee in the Civil War

Onward Southern Soldiers: Religion and the Army of Tennessee in the Civil War

Onward Southern Soldiers: Religion and the Army of Tennessee in the Civil War

Traci Nichols-Belt and Gordon T. Belt

The History Press
128 pages
$19.99

“Using primary source material such as diaries, letters, journals and sermons of the Army of Tennessee, Traci Nichols-Belt, along with Gordon T. Belt, presents the history of the vital role of the army’s religious practices.”

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Murfreessboro in the Civil War

Murfreessboro in the Civil War

Murfreessboro in the Civil War

Michael R. Bradley and Shirley Farris Jones

The History Press
128 pages
$19.99

“As combat escalated, the bloody Battle of Stones River and the Nashville Campaign brought more destruction. Yet at war’s end, the resilient locals remained and rebuilt their town from the rubble. Authors and Civil War historians Michael Bradley and Shirley Farris Jones track the tumult of the proceedings to recount the compelling story of Murfreesboro during the Civil War.”

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Transforming Places: Lessons from Appalachia

Transforming Places: Lessons from Appalachia

Transforming Places: Lessons from Appalachia

Edited by Stephen L. Fisher and Barbara Ellen Smith

University of Illinois Press
336 pages
$30

“I cannot recall a book that has excited me more than Transforming Places. This work is a major step forward in the study of social change, our understanding of ‘free spaces,’ and local resistance – how people get power and how they can use it to get more.”

— Richard A. Couto, editor of Political and Civic Leadership: A Reference Handbook

Murfreesboro: Then and Now

Murfreesboro: Then and Now

Murfreesboro: Then and Now

Bill Shacklett and John Lodl

Arcadia Publishing
96 pages
$21.99

“Years ago Shacklett’s Photography founder Richard Shacklett began collecting pictures. Some were his own work; others were found or brought in to his shop. He amassed more than 30,000 images he considered of significance. His children, who now run the Shacklett’s business, turned the collection over to the Rutherford County Archives, where Lodl is director…From these images, 82 were chosen to be published for the book. Then Lodl and Shacklett painstakingly re-shot the photos as the city looks today from the same locations and angles, and even time of day, as the originals. Those additional 82 photos were paired up to create the meat of Murfreesboro: Then and Now.

— Gordon Belt, The Posterity Project

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