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Pizitz
Your Store
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2010
For nearly ninety years, Pizitz offered Birmingham residents and Alabamans across the state a one-of-a-kind shopping experience. From the Enchanted Forest that sprung up every Christmas to in-store fashion shows, visiting Pizitz wasn't just a trip to the store, it was an event. Yet Pizitz was more than...
by Tim Vicary
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by Tim Vicary. In the summer of 1910, a race began. A race to be the first man at the South Pole, in Antarctica. Robert Falcon Scott, an Englishman, left London in his ship, the Terra Nova, and began the long journey south....
Olivia
The Biography of Olivia Newton-John
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2008
Now approaching her 60th birthday, Olivia Newton-John still exudes star power and timeless glamour. She has sold 60 million records around the world, topped the charts in the US and the UK four times, and is known all over the world for her role as Sandy opposite John Travolta in Grease.
But...
The Famine Plot
England's Role in Ireland's Greatest Tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
During a Biblical seven years in the middle of the nineteenth century, Ireland experienced the worst disaster a nation could suffer. Fully a quarter of its citizens either perished from starvation or emigrated, with so many dying en route that it was said, "you can walk dry shod to America on...
by Tim Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
In the aftermath of the Great Famine of 1845-52, the Martin Estate in the West of Ireland, 200,000-acres of bog and mountain, was put up for sale. Its mortgagees, the London Law Life Insurance Society, evicted many of the tenants, and in February 1853 sent Thomas Colville Scott to conduct a survey...
Betting The House
The Inside Story of the 2017 Election
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
On 18th April 2017, Theresa May stunned Britain by announcing a snap election. With poll leads of more than 20 points over Jeremy Corbyn’s divided Labour Party, the first Tory landslide since Margaret Thatcher’s day seemed certain.
Seven weeks later, Tory dreams had turned to dust. Instead...
Midnight on the Line
The Secret Life of the U.S.-Mexico Border
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
A probing, ground-level investigation of illegal immigration and the people on both sides of the battle to secure the U.S.–Mexico border
With illegal immigration burning as a contentious issue in American politics, Reuters reporter Tim Gaynor went into the underbelly of the border and to...
by Tim Beachum
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
At this very second you are a few clicks away from owning the most exciting book to ever be written about online poker. The information in this book is literally a goldmine. It will allow anyone no matter what your current experience level may be to totally dominate at online poker. The information...
From Petipa to Balanchine
Classical Revival and the Modernisation of Ballet
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
In this rich interdisciplinary study Tim Scholl provides a provocative and timely re-evaluation of the development of ballet from the 1880s to the middle of the twentieth century. In the light of a thoughtful re-appraisal of dance classicism he locates the roots of modern ballet in the works of Marius...
Jethro Tull's Thick as a Brick and A Passion Play
Inside Two Long Songs
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
Since the 1960s, British progressive rock band Jethro Tull has pushed the technical and compositional boundaries of rock music by infusing its musical output with traditions drawn from classical, folk, jazz, and world music. The release of Thick as a Brick (1972) and A Passion Play (1973) won the...
Fever
How Rock 'n' Roll Transformed Gender in America
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
In Fever, music critic Tim Riley argues that while political and athletic role models have let us down, rock and roll has provided enduring role models for men and women. From Elvis Presley to Tina Turner to Bruce Springsteen to Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love, Riley makes a persuasive case that rock...
by Professor Tim Scholl
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
In 1999 the Maryinsky (formerly Kirov) Ballet and Theater in St. Petersburg re-created its 1890 production of Sleeping Beauty. The revival showed the classic work in its original sets and costumes and restored pantomime and choreography that had been eliminated over the past century. Nevertheless, the...
by Tim Ellis
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2016
For Parish and Richards, what begins with the discovery of a small heart carved into the forehead of a murdered young woman, turns into the search for a prolific serial killer called The Lover, and involves the Met’s Serious Crimes Investigative Team (SCIT) descending on them to lead the investigation....
Kraftwerk
from Dusseldorf to the Future With Love
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
The future of modern music began in Dusseldorf in 1970, when an avant-garde German band, the Organisation re-invented themselves as Kraftwerk and set in motion a train of events which introduced a whole new language into popular culture. By pre-dating electro, house, ambient and techno by more than...