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R. L. Paget
The Cocktail Book: A Sideboard Manual for Gentlemen
2015 Reprint of 1913 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Published during the cocktail's heyday in Great Britain, this small volume-The Cocktail Book: A Sideboard for Gentlemen-demonstrates what every good private valet to any of London...
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Lady Colin Campbell
Rogue Royal
Rogue Royal is The New York Times and Sunday Times best selling writer Lady Colin Campbell's second published novel. Inspired by the antics of many of the household names who have been a part of the social set on both sides of the Atlantic. Royal Rogue takes the reader behind the scenes to what life...
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Ralph Oppenheim
The Unhappiest Boy in America: A Novel
During the heyday of the Great American Soapbox Derby upwards of 100,000 people used to flock annually to Akron, Ohio, along with movie stars and the world’s press to watch children coast down a hill in small, motorless racers. The Soapbox Derby used to be big; big enough to attract big money and ...
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Bill Mesce Jr
Overkill: The Rise and Fall of Thriller Cinema
The work examines the evolution of the thriller from the heyday of the Hollywood mogul era in the 1930s when it was primarily bottom-of-the-bill fodder, through its maturity in the World War II years and noir-breeding 1950s, its commercial and critical ascendancy in the 1960s and 1970s, and finally ...
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Jr. Cassidy, Frank
Gold Mine in the Sky: A Personal History of the Log Cabin Mine
The Log Cabin Mine was once the largest gold-producing mine in California. It was state-of-the-art and could both extract and process the gold from the quartz ore far beneath the surface. Now, all that remains of the once bountiful mine are decaying buildings, equipment ravaged by time and vandals, ...
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Dr Bob East
Terror Truncated: The Decline of the Abu Sayyaf Group from the Crucial Year 2002
The task of researching the material for this book proved more arduous than originally anticipated. The Abu Sayyaf Group was generally misunderstood in their formation, goals, ideology – if any – and structure. Consequently, it became necessary to chronologically trace all the crimes attributed ...
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Glenn Yago
Junk Bonds: How High Yield Securities Restructured Corporate America
Junk bonds burst into the nation's headlines as the fastest growing and most controversial financial instruments of the 1980s. Branded with an unflattering nickname, these high yield securities were tarnished in the public eye by waves of negative publicity. Critics cast the financiers and entrepren...
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Cece Bell
I Yam a Donkey! (A Yam and Donkey Book)
Even frustrated grammarians will giggle at the who’s-on-first routine that begins with a donkey’s excited announcement, “I yam a donkey!” Unfortunately the donkey’s audience happens to be a yam, and one who is particular about sloppy pronunciation and poor grammar. An escalating series of ...
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Lajos Egri
The Art Of Dramatic Writing: Its Basis in the Creative Interpretation of Human Motives
Learn the basic techniques every successful playwright knows! Amid the hundreds of "how-to" books out there, there have been very few which attempted to analyze the mysteries of play construction. Lajos Egri's classic, The Art of Dramatic Writing, does just that, with instruction that can be appli...
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Mark Spector
The Battle of Alberta: The Historic Rivalry Between the Edmonton Oilers and the Calgary Flames
An up-close look at the rivalry between the Calgary Flames and the Edmonton Oilers, told from the perspective of those that were there. Sports writer and on-air personality Mark Spector pays tribute to the province's hockey heyday with a unique blend of humour and homage.      "I hated every...
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Kurt Andersen
Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the acclaimed author of Evil Geniuses comes an electrifying, provocative history of American delusion—“an important book for understanding America in the age of Trump” (Walter Isaacson, author of Elon Musk ). “A frighteningly convincing and sometimes...
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Jo Ann Cavallo
The Sicilian Puppet Theater of Agrippino Manteo (1884-1947): The Paladins of France in America (Anthem World Epic and Romance, 1)
Joint winner of The Literary Encyclopedia book prize 2024, category ‘Literatures written in languages other than English' - Winner of the Nancy Staub Publications Award 2024 - Winner of the AATI Book Award 2024 for Literary, Critical Theory, and Cultural Studies - Sicilian puppet theater is a uniq...
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Todd Glass
The Todd Glass Situation: A Bunch of Lies about My Personal Life and a Bunch of True Stories about My 30-Year Career in Stand-Up Comedy
A “triumphant” ( The New York Times ) memoir from beloved comedian Todd Glass about his decision at age forty-eight to finally live openly as a gay man, and the support from his illustrious collection of comedy pals. As Todd Glass tells it, growing up in a Philadelphia suburb in the 1970s was ...
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Percy Fitzgerald
The Savoy Opera and the Savoyards
The Savoy Opera and the Savoyards by Percy Fitzgerald This scarce antiquarian book is a fascinating revelation of the inner workings of London's famous Savoy Theatre during its heyday in the late 19th century. Written by renowned theatre historian Percy Fitzgerald, The Savoy Opera and the Savoyards ...
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Howard Pollack
Marc Blitzstein: His Life, His Work, His World
A composer and lyricist of enormous innovation and influence, Marc Blitzstein remains one of the most versatile and fascinating figures in the history of American music, his creative output running the gamut from films scores and Broadway operas to art songs and chamber pieces. A prominent leftist a...
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James Harvey Young
The Toadstool Millionaires: A Social History of Patent Medicines in America before Federal Regulation (Princeton Legacy Library)
Contents: Preface. Acknowledgments. Part One: Early Days. Part Two: Heyday. Part Three: Themes. Part Four: Legislation. Part Five: Epilogue. Index. Originally published in 1961. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-prin...
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James Patrick Graham
Inverted Heart
Inverted Heart takes place in Smithton, Illinois, a small Midwestern town whose heyday has passed. The story follows Mike Burke, a young man who finds himself sitting in the backseat of a police cruiser on his way to the County Jail. During the trip, the police car passes scenes and locales that rem...
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Andrew Kaza
High Contrast: A Story of Basketball, Race and Politics in Oregon 1972
On March 25th, 1972, the largest crowd to ever witness a live indoor sporting event in the state of Oregon crammed into Portland’s Memorial Coliseum. The occasion? The High Contrast of the Oregon High School Boys Basketball Championship for large (AAA) high schools. But this was not just another...
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András Bálint Kovács
Screening Modernism: European Art Cinema, 1950-1980 (Cinema and Modernity)
Casting fresh light on the renowned productions of auteurs like Antonioni, Fellini, and Bresson and drawing out from the shadows a range of important but lesser-known works, Screening Modernism is the first comprehensive study of European art cinema’s postwar heyday. Spanning from the 1950s to ...
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Charles H. McNutt
Cahokia in Context: Hegemony and Diaspora (Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series)
At its height between AD 1050 and 1275, the city of Cahokia was the largest settlement of the Mississippian culture, acting as an important trade center and pilgrimage site. While the influence of Cahokian culture on the development of monumental architecture, maize-based subsistence practices, and ...
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