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Oral History and Digital Humanities
Voice, Access, and Engagement (Palgrave Studies in Oral History)
by Douglas A. Boyd, Mary A. Larson, M. Larson
Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2014 by Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN-13: 978-1-137-32201-2, ISBN: 1-137-32201-2

"Over the last two decades, much has changed in the world of oral history, as digital audio and multimedia have opened up a wide range of possibilities for presentation of material. The doors of the archives have been blown from their hinges - and "access" has come to have a completely different meaning. Oral history research no longer necessarily entails traveling from one university or museum to another, reading typewritten transcripts ..."






Crawfish Bottom(Reprint)
Recovering a Lost Kentucky Community (Kentucky Remembered)
by Douglas A. Boyd, W. Fitzhugh Brundage
Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2013 by University Press Of Kentucky
ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-4433-7, ISBN: 0-8131-4433-7

"A small neighborhood in northern Frankfort, Kentucky, Crawfish Bottom was located on fifty acres of swampy land along the Kentucky River. "Craw's" reputation for vice, violence, moral corruption, and unsanitary conditions made it a target for urban renewal projects that replaced the neighborhood with the city's Capital Plaza in the mid-1960s. Douglas A. Boyd's Crawfish Bottom: Recovering a Lost Kentucky Community traces the evolution of ..."






Palgrave Studies in Oral History Ser.
Oral History and Digital Humanities : Voice, Access, and Engagement
by Douglas A. Boyd, Mary A. Larson
Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2014 by Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN-13: 978-1-137-32200-5, ISBN: 1-137-32200-4

"Exploring the developments that have occurred in the practice of oral history since digital audio and video became viable, this book explores various groundbreaking projects in the history of digital oral history, distilling the insights of ..."






Crawfish Bottom(1st Edition)
Recovering a Lost Kentucky Community (Kentucky Remembered)
by Douglas A. Boyd, W. Fitzhugh Brundage
Hardcover, 236 Pages, Published 2011 by University Press Of Kentucky
ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-3408-6, ISBN: 0-8131-3408-0

"A small neighborhood in northern Frankfort, Kentucky, Crawfish Bottom was located on fifty acres of swampy land along the Kentucky River. "Craw's" reputation for vice, violence, moral corruption, and unsanitary conditions made it a target for urban renewal projects that replaced the neighborhood with the city's Capital Plaza in the mid-1960s. Douglas A. Boyd's Crawfish Bottom: Recovering a Lost Kentucky Community traces the evolution of ..."






Kentucky Remembered
an Oral History Ser.: Crawfish Bottom : Recovering a Lost Kentucky Community
by Douglas A. Boyd
Digital, 236 Pages, Published 2011 by University Press Of Kentucky
ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-3409-3, ISBN: 0-8131-3409-9

"They'd take your beer and keep it, the damn rascals.32 James Ellis told a story about a technique a local bootlegger used to avoid the attention of local law enforcement: Ellis: There was a tree up there on Washington Street, and they had a picture of that tree where a guy was bootlegging out of the tree. Selling, out of a tree. Wallace: You mean, he kept his stash inside? Ellis: Yeah, in that tree, yes, selling out of the tree. Th ..."






The Solitary Spy
A Political Prisoner in Cold War Berlin
by Douglas Boyd
Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2017 by The History Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-7509-6978-9, ISBN: 0-7509-6978-4

"Of the 2.3 million National Servicemen conscripted during the Cold War, 5,000 attended the secret Joint Services School for Linguists, tasked with supplying much-needed Russian speakers to the three services. The majority were in RAF uniform, as the Warsaw Pact saw air forces become the greatest danger to the West. After training, they were sent to the front lines in Germany and elsewhere to snoop on Russian aircraft in real time. Poste ..."






Community Memories
A Glimpse of African American Life in Frankfort, Kentucky (Kentucky Historical Society)
by Winona L. Fletcher, Douglas A. Boyd, Sheila Mason Burton, James E. Wallace, Mary E. Winter, Sheila Mason Butler, Kentucky Historical Society, John Hardin, George C. Wolfe
Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2003 by University Press Of Kentucky
ISBN-13: 978-0-916968-30-4, ISBN: 0-916968-30-8

"" Published by the Kentucky Historical Society and distributed by the University Press of Kentucky Winona L. Fletcher, Senior Editor Sheila Mason Burton, Associate Editor James E. Wallace, Associate Editor Mary E. Winter, Photographs Editor Douglas A. Boyd, Oral History Editor John Hardin, Consultant With a preface by George C. Wolfe Community Memories is a fascinating look into life recalled by African Americans who consider Frankfort ..."






The Solitary SpyThe Solitary Spy
A Political Prisoner in Cold War Berlin
by Douglas Boyd
Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2020 by The History Press Ltd, United Kingdom
ISBN-13: 978-0-7509-9391-3, ISBN: 0-7509-9391-X

"The Solitary Spy is a unique first-hand account of the terrifying experience of incarceration and interrogation in an East German political prison, from which Boyd eventually escaped, one step ahead of the KGB."






The Right Instrument for Your Child(2nd Edition)
A Practical Guide for Parents and Teachers
by Atarah Ben-Tovim, Douglas Boyd
Hardcover, 160 Pages, Published 1990 by Orion Publishing Co
ISBN-13: 978-0-575-04871-3, ISBN: 0-575-04871-9

"Based on a system developed - after a detailed research programme - by the authors at the Ben-Tovim Children's Music Research Centre, this book is a guide to identifying the most rewarding instrument for individual children. The book contains new sections on organizing lessons and practice time."






The Right Instrument for Your Child(2nd Edition)
A Practical Guide for Parents and Teachers
by Douglas Boyd, Atarah Ben-Tovim
Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 1990 by Gollancz
ISBN-13: 978-0-575-04875-1, ISBN: 0-575-04875-1

"Based on a system developed - after a detailed research programme - by the authors at the Ben-Tovim Children's Music Research Centre, this book is a guide to identifying the most rewarding instrument for individual children. The book contains new sections on organizing lessons and practice time."






The Right Instrument for Your Child(1st Edition)
A Practical Guide to Parents and Teachers
by Atarah Ben-Tovim, Douglas Boyd
Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 1989 by Quill
ISBN-13: 978-0-688-06210-1, ISBN: 0-688-06210-5

"Surveys the various types of musical instruments and discusses how to select an instrument suited to a child's individual personality and physical characteristics"






International and Comparative Broadcasting Ser.
Broadcasting in the Arab World : A Survey of Radio and Television in the Middle East
by Douglas A. Boyd
306 Pages, Published 1982 by Temple University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-87722-237-8, ISBN: 0-87722-237-1






The Right Instrument for Your Child
A Practical Guide for Parents and Teachers
by Douglas Boyd, Atarah Ben-Tovim, Isaac Asimov
Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 1900 by Gollancz
ISBN-13: 978-0-575-03547-8, ISBN: 0-575-03547-1






Solitary Spy
A Political Prisoner in Cold War Berlin
by Douglas Boyd
224 Pages, Published 2017 by The History Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-7509-8290-0, ISBN: 0-7509-8290-X

"Later, he learned that this sentence was mild: a fellow Jehovah's Witness in Leipzig was given a show trial in Berlin and sentenced to fifteen years' imprisonment, of which six entire years were spent locked in the same cell.4 Walter Janke was the 32yearold head of the East Berlin publisher Aufbau. He was arrested in December 1956. Three years after Khrushchev had denounced Stalin's crimes at the XXth Party Congress, Janke was made ..."






Virgin and the Fool a Pbp
by Douglas Boyd
Paperback, Published 1998 by Imprint Unknown
ISBN-13: 978-0-7515-2687-5, ISBN: 0-7515-2687-8






Virgin and the Fool a Special
by Douglas Boyd
Paperback, Published 1998 by Timewarner
ISBN-13: 978-0-7515-2765-0, ISBN: 0-7515-2765-3






Porch Talk
A Conversation About Archaeology in the Texas Panhandle (Paperback)
by John R. Erickson, Douglas K. Boyd
Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 2022 by Texas Tech University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-68283-122-9, ISBN: 1-68283-122-1

"Intended for middle readers, a rancher and an archaeologist are curious about the ancient peoples who lived on the Texas Panhandle."






Lionheart(Reprint)
The True Story of England's Crusader King
by Douglas Boyd
Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2015 by The History Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-7509-6364-0, ISBN: 0-7509-6364-6

"A revealing look at the dark side of England’s most celebrated monarch  When people think of Richard the Lionheart they recall the scene at the end of every Robin Hood epic when he returns from the crusade to punish his treacherous brother John and the wicked Sheriff of Nottingham. In reality Richard detested England and the English, was deeply troubled by his own sexuality and was noted for greed, not generosity, and for murder rather ..."






The Other First World War(Reprint)
The Blood-soaked Russian Fronts 1914-1922
by Douglas Boyd
Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2017 by The History Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-7509-6405-0, ISBN: 0-7509-6405-7

"Winston Churchill called it "the unknown war." Unlike the long stalemate of the Western Front, the conflict 1914–1918 between the Russian Empire and the Central Powers was a war of movement spanning a continent. As the whole fabric of society collapsed, German money brought the Bolsheviks to power in the greatest deniable dirty trick of the 20th century, after which Russia stopped fighting, eight months before the Western Front armistic ..."






April Queen(Reprint)
Eleanor of Aquitaine
by Douglas Boyd, Alison Weir
Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2011 by The History Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-7524-5912-7, ISBN: 0-7524-5912-0

"Recreating the turbulent life of one of the most exciting women in European medieval history, this biography reveals a peculiarly "modern" queen Eleanor of Aquitaine was the only person ever to sit on the thrones of both France and England. This account of the adventures of the extraordinary mother of Richard the Lionheart and King John takes us into the heart and mind of the woman who changed the shape of Europe for 300 years by marryi ..."



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