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Georges Auric

A Life in Music and Politics

By: Colin Roust

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Georges Auric

A Life in Music and Politics

By: Colin Roust

Jean Cocteau, Erik Satie, Moulin Rouge - the names popularly associated with film composer Georges Auric's career conjure visions of a distant and glamorous early twentieth-century Parisian art world. Auric wrote well over 100 film scores, including the soundtrack for Roman Holiday, and was notably affiliated with Les Six, a group of French composers reacting to the musical establishment of the 1920s. But Auric's life and work spanned far beyond this limited sphere. A lifelong involvement in politics - from his leftism during the Popular Front years of the 1930s to his significant role in the French Communist Party's musical resistance of the 1940s - heavily influenced his sound and aesthetic. His advocacy on behalf of his fellow musicians led him into the fight for fair copyright laws, initially in France and then worldwide. And over the course of a seven-decade-long career, Auric took on roles as diverse as music critic, opera director, and arts administrator, revealing a deep involvement in his country's musical life that makes the label of "composer" seem inadequate. The first English-language biography of Auric, Georges Auric: A Life in Music and Politics rethinks the conventional ideas of what it means to be a composer. Drawing from an astonishing three dozen untapped archives, including the private archives of Auric's widow, author Colin Roust presents a picture of Auric that is as multifaceted as the man's career. Using Auric's life as a lens, Roust reveals the transforming role of music - and the composer - in twentieth-century society.

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Oxford University Press

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Georges Auric

A Life in Music and Politics

By: Colin Roust

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A Life in Music and Politics

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MacKenzie's Ten Thousand Receipts

In all the Useful and Domestic Arts: constituting a complete and practical Library

By: Colin MacKenzie

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MacKenzie's Ten Thousand Receipts

In all the Useful and Domestic Arts: constituting a complete and practical Library

By: Colin MacKenzie

Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.

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3752522143

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Tough Justice

By: Colin Bainbridge

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Tough Justice

By: Colin Bainbridge

Burt Lowell has been living as a recluse in an abandoned ghost town but someone puts a price on his head, and he wants to find out who, and why. Confronted by a gang of gunslicks, the trail leads to Rickard, a scheming ranch owner, but there is a more sinister figure behind him, the elusive railroad boss, Mossman. Riding for the rival Long Rail brand, Lowell sets off on a trail drive to Shoshone Flats where Mossman has opened a branch line. But where is he? The search for the truth becomes a quest for revenge. Somewhere down the tracks Lowell must find and confront Mossman on his own ground if he is to arrive at a final resolution

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Robert Hale Ltd

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0719823145

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Long Rider

By: Colin Bainbridge

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Long Rider

By: Colin Bainbridge

Wes Stretton has ridden a long way to gain vengeance on Yoakum, who he holds responsible for killing his friend. The trail takes him to the town of Buckstrap where he meets the enigmatic Lana Flushing and walks straight into a range war between rival ranches: the Bar Seven and the Sawtooth. But someone knows of his arrival and is out to bushwhack him. Then the foreman of the Sawtooth is shot. But was Stretton the intended target? And was Yoakum responsible?

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Robert Hale Ltd

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071982446X

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Hoofbeats West

By: Colin Bainbridge

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Hoofbeats West

By: Colin Bainbridge

When Jess Caird, owner of the White Sage range, finds one of his cowhands murdered and his barn set on fire, he sets out with two old-timers to bring the culprit to justice. Evidence points to Grote, a notorious gunslinger and killer, and the trail leads Caird and his companions to the town of Sand Ridge. There they encounter big-time business man, Dugmore, who has set up his Pony Express operation, where Caird's nephew is in employment. Jess can't work out newcomer Dugmore - is he a shrewd businessman or something more sinister? Is there a connection between Dugmore and Grote? Caird and his side-kicks battle their way through constant peril as they fight to reveal the truth.

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Robert Hale Ltd

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0719823099

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Interim Measures in International Arbitration

By: Lawrence W. Newma,Colin Ong

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Interim Measures in International Arbitration

By: Lawrence W. Newma,Colin Ong

The first edition of Interim Measures in International Arbitration edited by Lawrence Newman and Dr. Colin Ong, is most auspicious in its timing. The editors have compiled a shrewd and very practical questionnaire and they have gathered together a formidable group of some of the most reputed and talented practising arbitration lawyers, academics and arbitrators from 43 leading jurisdictions to inform the reader about the essential elements of the different interim measures which are available as part of the arbitral process in a very large number of different national jurisdictions. This book, thus, combines the best elements of a focused legal textbook with the essential practicalities of a practitioners' procedural handbook. This should be a standard travelling-companion of international arbitrators and counsel as well as many international lawyers--not just those who are arbitration specialists.

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Juris Publishing, Inc.

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193751840X

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Shattered Dreams

The Lost and Canceled Space Missions

By: Colin Burgess

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Shattered Dreams

The Lost and Canceled Space Missions

By: Colin Burgess

Shattered Dreams delves into the personal stories and recollections of several men and women who were in line to fly a specific or future space mission but lost that opportunity due to personal reasons, mission cancellations, or even tragedies. While some of the subjects are familiar names in spaceflight history, the accounts of others are told here for the first time. Colin Burgess features spaceflight candidates from the United States, Russia, Indonesia, Australia, and Great Britain. Shattered Dreams brings to new life such episodes and upheavals in spaceflight history as the saga of the three Apollo missions that were cancelled due to budgetary constraints and never flew; NASA astronaut Patricia Hilliard Robertson, who died of burn injuries after her airplane crashed before she had a chance to fly into space; and a female cosmonaut who might have become the first journalist to fly in space. Another NASA astronaut was preparing to fly an Apollo mission before he was diagnosed with a disqualifying illness. There is also the amazing story of the pilot who could have bailed out of his damaged aircraft but held off while heroically avoiding a populated area and later applied to NASA to fulfill his cherished dream of becoming an astronaut despite having lost both legs in the accident. These are the incredibly human stories of competitive realists fired with an unquenchable passion. Their accounts reveal in their own words—and those of others close to them—how their shared ambition would go awry through personal accidents, illness, the Challenger disaster, death, or other circumstances.

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U of Nebraska Press

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1496206754

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Manhattan Night

A Novel

By: Colin Harrison

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Manhattan Night

A Novel

By: Colin Harrison

New York reporter Porter Wren, a happily married man, is seduced by a beautiful woman with disastrous consequences for his family and career. The lady has a body and is privy to secrets, and he can have both if he promises to find a video tape.

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Macmillan

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1250119421

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Union

The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood

By: Colin Woodard

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Union

The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood

By: Colin Woodard

A Christian Science Monitor best book of 2020 "Relentlessly accessible. . . . This is that rare history that tells what influential thinkers failed to think, what famous writers left unwritten." --Jill Leovy, The American Scholar By the bestselling author of American Nations, the story of how the myth of U.S. national unity was created and fought over in the nineteenth century--a myth that continues to affect us today Union tells the story of the struggle to create a national myth for the United States, one that could hold its rival regional cultures together and forge an American nationhood. On one hand, a small group of individuals--historians, political leaders, and novelists--fashioned and promoted the idea of America as nation that had a God-given mission to lead humanity toward freedom, equality, and self-government. But this emerging narrative was swiftly contested by another set of intellectuals and firebrands who argued that the United States was instead the homeland of the allegedly superior "Anglo-Saxon" race, upon whom divine and Darwinian favor shined. Colin Woodard tells the story of the genesis and epic confrontations between these visions of our nation's path and purpose through the lives of the key figures who created them, a cast of characters whose personal quirks and virtues, gifts and demons shaped the destiny of millions.

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Penguin

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0525560173

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9780525560173

Sports Talk

By: Colin McNairn

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Sports Talk

By: Colin McNairn

It's game on in uncovering the many sports-inspired terms, expressions, sayings and images that populate our everyday language! That's the challenge that this book takes on, using a playbook for each sport. It kicks off with an opening run through the game of football, then it's out of the gate with wire-to-wire coverage of horse racing. After going for the fences and covering all the bases in the sport of baseball, the ball is kept rolling, despite many a sticky wicket, through the long-running game of cricket. A blow-by-blow account of the sweet science of boxing is followed by play-by-play accounts of 35 more sports that have been added to the roster. At the finish line, the top three sports, are scored on their relative contributions to everyday language, and declared win, place and show. The discussion is enlivened by lots of sports humour and anecdotes along with quotations from sports personalities some of which may sound quite familiar, much like déjà vu all over again....

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FriesenPress

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1525501534

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The Lobster Coast

Rebels, Rusticators, and the Struggle for a Forgotten Frontier

By: Colin Woodard

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The Lobster Coast

Rebels, Rusticators, and the Struggle for a Forgotten Frontier

By: Colin Woodard

“A thorough and engaging history of Maine’s rocky coast and its tough-minded people.”—Boston Herald “[A] well-researched and well-written cultural and ecological history of stubborn perseverance.”—USA Today For more than four hundred years the people of coastal Maine have clung to their rocky, wind-swept lands, resisting outsiders’ attempts to control them while harvesting the astonishing bounty of the Gulf of Maine. Today’s independent, self-sufficient lobstermen belong to the communities imbued with a European sense of ties between land and people, but threatened by the forces of homogenization spreading up the eastern seaboard. In the tradition of William Warner’s Beautiful Swimmers, veteran journalist Colin Woodard (author of American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good) traces the history of the rugged fishing communities that dot the coast of Maine and the prized crustacean that has long provided their livelihood. Through forgotten wars and rebellions, and with a deep tradition of resistance to interference by people “from away,” Maine’s lobstermen have defended an earlier vision of America while defying the “tragedy of the commons”—the notion that people always overexploit their shared property. Instead, these icons of American individualism represent a rare example of true communal values and collaboration through grit, courage, and hard-won wisdom.

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Penguin

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0143035347

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9780143035343

Pack Rat

By: Colin Bainbridge

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Pack Rat

By: Colin Bainbridge

When Wesley Roach scalps and kills old-timer Pack Rat Dan, Jack Carson vows revenge. But to vindicate his friend he must face not only Roach but his gang of hardcase gunslicks, the local marshal and, worst of all, the notorious Canyon Kate. Riding for a rival outfit and teamed with the oddball Tombstone, it isn't until Carson is forced on the run that he comes to realise just what he is up against - especially when his boss' daughter Laura disappears. Will Carson come face to face with his target? And how much lead must fly before he does?

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Robert Hale Ltd

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0719823153

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9780719823152

Damage Time

By: Colin Harvey

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Damage Time

By: Colin Harvey

Damage Time is a rock-hard sci-fi thriller from the acclaimed author of Winter Song: no-one here gets out alive. NEW YORK IS A MESS. It's 2050 and sea-levels have swamped the coastal regions. The walls are failing, the city has been carved up between the Chinese and the Muslims, and the USA is bankrupt. Detective Peter Shah serves with the NYPD as a Memory Association Specialist - reading the last memories of murder victims. When he's accused of killing a glamorous woman in a bar, he must find the killer, save himself... and the city. File Under: Science Fiction [ A Decaying USA | Shattered Cops | Wrongful Arrest | Murderous Secrets ]

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Watkins Media Limited

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0857660659

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9780857660657

Storm of the Seven Sins

Book 5 in the Seven Sins Series

By: Emily Colin

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Storm of the Seven Sins

Book 5 in the Seven Sins Series

By: Emily Colin

In a world poisoned by revenge, love is the only salvation. Now bonded as skúma and familiar, Eva and Ari can read each other’s minds—and hearts. They’re an unbeatable warrior pair, and now that they’ve confessed their love for each other, their path forward should be clear…together. But the Executor’s disappearance has driven a wedge between them. Eva’s more determined than ever to march against the Commonwealths and put an end to the man she despises. And much as he would like to see the Executor dead, uniting the Houses comes at a price that Ari’s not willing to pay. When a strike against the Brotherhood stronghold sends the resistance into chaos, Ari and Eva find themselves on opposite sides of a deadly conflict. As Eva’s newfound powers spiral out of control, and Ari faces unexpected revelations, the rift between them widens. In a world beset by shifting loyalties and awakening magic, the two must face the possibility of a future apart if they want to survive and bring the Commonwealths down. Author's Note If Fourth Wing and Divergent had a love child, it would be this series. Can’t resist fierce girls with swords, infuriating guys with hearts of gold, a plot that twists and turns when you least expect it, and star-crossed lovers who fight to the death by each other’s sides? Then this is the series for you.

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Black Orchid Books

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1961469065

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9781961469068

Desolation Wells

By: Colin Bainbridge

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Desolation Wells

By: Colin Bainbridge

After coming to the aid of an oldster, Chet Westoe finds himself being tracked by three unknown riders. A confrontation in the town of Desolation Wells leads to a shootout, but faced with the prospect of jail, Westoe breaks free. He heads for a ranch called the Barbed S, his only clue to the mystery, but when he arrives is entangled in a whole heap of trouble from which he barely emerges with his life. The tension builds to a shattering climax as the trail leads straight to an all-out clash with the outlaw gang known as the Bronco Boys, when the truth is finally revealed.

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Robert Hale Ltd

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0719821126

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Manhattan Nocturne

By: Colin Harrison

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Manhattan Nocturne

By: Colin Harrison

Now a major motion picture, Manhattan Night, starring Adrien Brody, Campbell Scott, Yvonne Strahovski, and Linda Lavin Porter Wren is a Manhattan tabloid writer with an appetite for scandal. On the beat he sells murder, tragedy, and anything that passes for the truth. At home, he is a dedicated husband and father. But when a seductive stranger asks him to dig into the unsolved murder of her husband, he is drawn into a very nasty case of sexual obsession and blackmail--one that threatens his job, his marriage, and his life. Manhattan Nocturne is a brilliantly drawn tableau of the gritty, gaudy city, and a thrilling literary noir.

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Macmillan + ORM

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1429905255

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Blood on The Range

By: Colin Bainbridge

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Blood on The Range

By: Colin Bainbridge

Brockley Whin arrives in Blackwater with a reputation as a gunfighter, but whose side is he on in the growing struggle between the biggest ranch, the Forked Lightning, and the smaller ranches, led by Jubal Crossan of the Circle C? His former compadre, Amery Tasker, runs the Forked Lightning, but, much as old loyalties count, from the moment he rescues young Jeb Crossan and his girl from Tasker's gunslicks, Brockley has a tough choice to make. Making that choice and following it through leads him to a decisive shootout before his final face-to-face encounter with Tasker and his own past.

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Robert Hale Ltd

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0719823188

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9780719823183

Gila Monster

By: Colin Bainbridge

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Gila Monster

By: Colin Bainbridge

A stagecoach is winding its way towards the small town of Medicine Bend when it is attacked by outlaws. However the coach's passengers manage to beat them off. This unusual array of characters, the new town marshal Wade Calvin, insurance salesman Taber, and Miss Jowett, on her way to care for her relatives, thus find their lives intertwined. As the new arrivals settle in, the outlaws' vicious leader Goad 'Gila' hears news of the botched robbery from his base in a disused silver mining camp in the surrounding hills. Named after the deadly Gila lizard he keeps as a pet, Goad is brutal and unpredictable. He learns of Calvin's presence in town and believes he is the same man who once imprisoned him. Goad is determined to get his revenge. When Miss Jowett's young relatives are kidnapped, Calvin knows the race to find the outlaws is on. He must take the fight deep into the hills as he searches for Goad and his camp, and the stolen children - before it is too late.

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Robert Hale Ltd

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0719823102

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Mackenzie's Ten Thousand Reciepts

By: Colin MacKenzie

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Mackenzie's Ten Thousand Reciepts

By: Colin MacKenzie

Mackenzie's Ten Thousand Receipts, published in 1865, aimed to provide the reader with all practical household recipes. As he notes,""In truth, the present volume has been compiled under the feeling, that if all other books of Science in the world were destroyed, this single volume would be found to embody the results of the useful experience, observations, and discoveries of mankind during the past ages of the world.

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