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The Life and Legend of James Watt

Collaboration, Natural Philosophy, and the Improvement of the Steam Engine

By: David Philip Miller

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The Life and Legend of James Watt

Collaboration, Natural Philosophy, and the Improvement of the Steam Engine

By: David Philip Miller

The Life and Legend of James Wattoffers a deeper understanding of the work and character of the great eighteenth-century engineer. Stripping away layers of legend built over generations, David Philip Miller finds behind the heroic engineer a conflicted man often diffident about his achievements but also ruthless in protecting his inventions and ideas, and determined in pursuit of money and fame. A skilled and creative engineer, Watt was also a compulsive experimentalist drawn to natural philosophical inquiry, and a chemistry of heat underlay much of his work, including his steam engineering. But Watt pursued the business of natural philosophy in a way characteristic of his roots in the Scottish “improving” tradition that was in tension with Enlightenment sensibilities. As Miller demonstrates, Watt’s accomplishments relied heavily on collaborations, not always acknowledged, with business partners, employees, philosophical friends, and, not least, his wives, children, and wider family. The legend created in his later years and “afterlife” claimed too much of nineteenth-century technology for Watt, but that legend was, and remains, a powerful cultural force.

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University of Pittsburgh Press

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0822986795

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Tea, Love and War

By: Consultant Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon Honorary Consultant and Senior Clinical Lecturer David Mitchell,David Mitchell

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Tea, Love and War

By: Consultant Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon Honorary Consultant and Senior Clinical Lecturer David Mitchell,David Mitchell

The range of the book: from wartime England to colonial Assam; from sapper training in India to jungle warfare in Malaya – Tea, Love and War tells the unique true story of the child of an exploited village woman gaining recognition and acceptance in suburban England. It is split into three parts: Stuart and Mary’s story, David’s story, and Ann’s story.Stuart, working on a tea estate in the jungles of Assam, fathers a child by a teenage native woman. Stuart’s letters to his family in pre-war England vividly describe his life as a planter in colonial India but conceal his secret love life. When war breaks out, Stuart joins the Indian army, trains as a sapper and is posted to Malaya, blowing bridges in the desperate rearguard action against the Japanese invasion. Back in wartime England, his sister Mary marries Stuart’s best friend, Arthur, who decides to train as an army officer. Mary, now a young mother pregnant with her second child, tells of the year’s delay in hearing news of her brother’s death at the fall of Singapore. Before the child is born, she learns that Arthur has been killed in action in Italy. The story switches to a jungle village in Assam where a small Anglo-Indian child named Ann fights her way through poverty and discrimination, always seeking the identity of her father and his family.Tea, Love and War is a gripping true story, narrated by Mary through her son David. “Much of the text is taken from the many exercise books that she filled with her memories, and whilst my investigations have expanded and updated her story, the history of the relevant elements of the Second World War, the Blitz and public perception of the Malayan campaign leading to the fall of Singapore are more eloquently seen from her individual viewpoint.” The book will appeal to fans of autobiographies, history and social history – Anglo-Indian culture and exploitation of women in India are key themes in the text – and has been inspired by Wild Swans.

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1780880898

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9781780880891

Treason of the Heart

From Thomas Paine to Kim Philby

By: David Pryce-Jones

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Treason of the Heart

From Thomas Paine to Kim Philby

By: David Pryce-Jones

Treason of the Heart is an account of British people who took up foreign causes. Not mercenaries, then, but ideologues. Almost all were what today we would call radicals or activists, who thought they knew better than whichever bunch of backward or oppressed people it was that they had come to save. Usually they were applying to others what they saw as the benefits of their culture, and so obviously meritorious was their culture that they were prepared to be violent in imposing it. Some genuinely hated their own country, however, and saw themselves promoting abroad the values their own retrograde government was blocking. The book deals with those like Thomas Paine who saw American independence as the surest means to hurt England; the many who hoped to spread the French revolution and then have Napoleon conquer England; historic characters like Lord Byron and Lawrence of Arabia who fought for the causes that brought them glory; finally those who took up Communism or Nazism. Treason of the Heart is nothing less than the tale of intellectuals deluded about the effect of what they are doing and therefore with immediate reference to today's world.

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ReadHowYouWant.com

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1459614542

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9781459614543

Towards Sustainable Road Transport

By: Ronald M. Dell,Patrick T. Moseley,David A. J. Rand

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Towards Sustainable Road Transport

By: Ronald M. Dell,Patrick T. Moseley,David A. J. Rand

Increasing pressure on global reserves of petroleum at a time of growing demand for personal transport in developing countries, together with concerns over atmospheric pollution and carbon dioxide emissions, are leading to a requirement for more sustainable forms of road transport. Major improvements in the efficiency of all types of road vehicles are called for, along with the use of fuels derived from alternative sources, or entirely new fuels. Towards Sustainable Road Transport first describes the evolution of vehicle designs and propulsion technologies over the past two centuries, before looking forward to possible new forms of energy to substitute for petroleum. The book also discusses the political and socio-economic drivers for change, investigates barriers to their broad implementation, and outlines the state-of-the-art of candidate power sources, advanced vehicle design, and associated infrastructure. The comprehensive technical informationsupplied by an expert author team ensures that Towards Sustainable Road Transport will provide readers with a clear understanding of the ongoing progress in this field and the challenges still to be faced. - Drivers of technological change in road transport and the infrastructure requirements - Discussion of alternative fuels for internal combustion engines and fuel conversion technologies - Detailed exploration of current and emerging options for vehicle propulsion, with emphasis on hybrid/battery electric traction, hydrogen, and fuel cells - Comparative analysis of vehicle design requirements, primary power source efficiency, and energy storagesystems

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Academic Press

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0124046916

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Global West, American Frontier

Travel, Empire, and Exceptionalism from Manifest Destiny to the Great Depression

By: David M. Wrobel

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Global West, American Frontier

Travel, Empire, and Exceptionalism from Manifest Destiny to the Great Depression

By: David M. Wrobel

This thoughtful examination of a century of travel writing about the American West overturns a variety of popular and academic stereotypes. Looking at both European and American travelers’ accounts of the West, from de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America to William Least Heat-Moon’s Blue Highways, David Wrobel offers a counter narrative to the nation’s romantic entanglement with its western past and suggests the importance of some long-overlooked authors, lively and perceptive witnesses to our history who deserve new attention. Prior to the professionalization of academic disciplines, the reading public gained much of its knowledge about the world from travel writing. Travel writers found a wide and respectful audience for their reports on history, geography, and the natural world, in addition to reporting on aboriginal cultures before the advent of anthropology as a discipline. Although in recent decades western historians have paid little attention to travel writing, Wrobel demonstrates that this genre in fact offers an important and rich understanding of the American West—one that extends and complicates a simple reading of the West that promotes the notions of Manifest Destiny or American exceptionalism. Wrobel finds counterpoints to the mythic West of the nineteenth century in such varied accounts as George Catlin’s Adventures of the Ojibbeway and Ioway Indians in England, France, and Belgium (1852), Richard Francis Burton’s The City of the Saints (1861), and Mark Twain’s Following the Equator (1897), reminders of the messy and contradictory world that people navigated in the past much as they do in the present. His book is a testament to the instructive ways in which the best travel writers have represented the West.

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UNM Press

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0826353711

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A Cornish Inheritance

The Harveys of Chacewater

By: David Gore

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A Cornish Inheritance

The Harveys of Chacewater

By: David Gore

Samuel Harvey was born in Kenwyn, Cornwall in about 1688. He married Temperance Williams in about 1690 in St. Agnes. They had four children. Descendants and relatives lived in Cornwall, London, Australia and elsewhere.

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0953091201

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Fields Virology: DNA Viruses

By: Peter M. Howley,David M. Knipe,Jeffrey L. Cohen,Blossom A. Damania

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Fields Virology: DNA Viruses

By: Peter M. Howley,David M. Knipe,Jeffrey L. Cohen,Blossom A. Damania

Bundled with the eBook, which will be updated regularly as new information about each virus is available, this text serves as the authoritative, up-to-date reference book for virologists, infectious disease specialists, microbiologists, and physicians, as well as medical students pursuing a career in infectious diseases.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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197511258X

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9781975112585

The History of Museums Vol 4

By: David Murray

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The History of Museums Vol 4

By: David Murray

Museums and collecting is now a major area of cultural studies. This selected group of key texts opens the investigation and appreciation of museum history. Edward Edwards, chief pioneer of municipal public libraries, chronicles the founders and early donors to the British Museum. Greenwood and Murray provide informative pictures of the early history of the museum movement. Sir William Flower, Director of the British Museum (Natural History), takes a pioneering philosophical approach to the sphere of natural history in relation to museums. Similarly, Acland and Ruskin discuss and explore the relationships of art and architecture to museums.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040130011

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9781040130018

Walking in Penwith

By: David Chapman

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Walking in Penwith

By: David Chapman

This guide offers 12 walks in the far West of Cornwall, chosen to show the diversity of the region.

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Alison Hodge Publishers

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0906720761

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Welsh Slate

Archaeology and History of an Industry

By: David Gwyn

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Welsh Slate

Archaeology and History of an Industry

By: David Gwyn

Slates from quarries in Wales once went to roof the world. By the late nineteenth century as many as a third of all the roofing slates produced worldwide came from Wales, competing with quarries in France and the United States. This book traces the industry from its origins in the Roman period, its slow medieval development and then its massive expansion in the nineteenth century – as well as through its long drawn-out decline in the twentieth.

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RCAHMW

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187118455X

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David Lean

Interviews

By: David Lean

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David Lean

Interviews

By: David Lean

Interviews with the director of Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, A Passage to India, The Bridge on the River Kwai, and many other epic films

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1604732350

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9781604732351

SCARBOROUGH SNIPPETS

By: David Fowler

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SCARBOROUGH SNIPPETS

By: David Fowler

Living in the past. It's always said pejoratively, as if the past is necessarily inferior to the future, or at any rate less important; nobody's ever condemned for looking forward, only back. But the truth is that we live in the past, whether we like it or not. That's where our life takes shape. Somewhere ahead, however near or far, is the end. But behind, shrouded in clouds of forgetting, lies the beginning'. This book about Scarborough IS unashamedly about looking back from the first mention of Scarborough in 8000 BC to the present day. It is not a formal history; rather a miscellany of interesting facts culled from many sources stretching back over the years.

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Lulu.com

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1291467092

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V for Victory

By: David Boyle

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V for Victory

By: David Boyle

The history of one of the most famous, successful and cheapesr radio propaganda campaigns in history - the V for Victory campaign broadcast from London to occupied Europe

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The Real Press

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0993523951

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9780993523953

Savage Systems

Colonialism and Comparative Religion in Southern Africa

By: David Chidester

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Savage Systems

Colonialism and Comparative Religion in Southern Africa

By: David Chidester

This work examines the emergence of the concepts of religion and religions on 19th-century colonial frontiers. It analyzes the ways in which European settlers, and indigenous Africans, engaged in the comparison of alternative religious ways of life as one dimension of intercultural activity.

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University of Virginia Press

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081391664X

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9780813916644

Rough Justice

The True Story of Agent Dronkers, the Enemy Spy Captured by the British

By: David Tremain

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Rough Justice

The True Story of Agent Dronkers, the Enemy Spy Captured by the British

By: David Tremain

What made a Dutchman escape to England in 1942 ostensibly to betray his country to the Germans? This story has remained a mysterious episode of the Second World War until now.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445661594

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9781445661599

Churchill's German Spy

Revelations on Appeasement, Operation Torch and Nazi Intelligence from Double Agent Harlequin

By: David Tremain

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Churchill's German Spy

Revelations on Appeasement, Operation Torch and Nazi Intelligence from Double Agent Harlequin

By: David Tremain

Compared to many of MI5's other double agents, HARLEQUIN’s career was very short-lived, lasting only for a few months in 1943. However, during that time he provided insights into the various parties involved in the Appeasement process in 1938; the Czech crisis of 1939; the enterprises of a Franco-American businessman who hosted the Duke and Duchess of Windsor’s marriage in France; the espionage activities of an aristocratic German family; Admiral Canaris, the head of the Abwehr – many of the Abwehr’s personalities with whom he had come into contact or had known about and the agents he employed – as well as relations between the disparate organisations of the German intelligence services – the Abwehr, Gestapo, and Sicherheitsdienst (SD), the intelligence arm of the SS. Furthermore, he revealed the German Armistice Commission’s involvement in espionage and their links to the Abwehr. MI5 shared this intelligence with the FBI and the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) before HARLEQUIN requested that he be returned to American custody where he remained for the rest of the war. His effectiveness as a double agent will be examined using newly-released official files as a primary source.

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Pen and Sword History

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1399053884

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9781399053884

The Magical Worlds of Narnia

The Symbols, Myths, and Fascinating Facts Behind The Chronicles

By: David Colbert

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The Magical Worlds of Narnia

The Symbols, Myths, and Fascinating Facts Behind The Chronicles

By: David Colbert

Examines the origins and hidden meanings of the characters and plots within C.S. Lewis's Narnia series.

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Penguin

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0425205630

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9780425205631

A Privileged Journey

From Enthusiast to Professional Railwayman

By: David Maidment

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A Privileged Journey

From Enthusiast to Professional Railwayman

By: David Maidment

A Privileged Journey, Volume 1 1940–1962 is a personal and individual account of the author' youthful enthusiasm for trains and the travels he undertook in Great Britain and on the European continent as a student and management trainee of British Railways. It is illustrated by over 140 black and white photos, mostly taken by the author himself as a boy and student. The chapters cover the emergence of the young boy's interest in steam locomotives in particular, through his 'trainspotting' days to his numerous journeys in the late 1950s and early 1960s, with many accounts of locomotive performance supported by an extensive appendix of train 'logs'. Some of the chapters are much extended narratives from articles serialised in the UK enthusiast magazine, 'Steam World' over the last decade and are also based on ten hours of verbal interviews recorded by the UK National Railway Museum at York as part of their 'Oral History' archives supported by a UK National Lottery Grant.The second volume, to be published at a later date, covering the period from 1962 to the current time, will describe his continuing interest and records while pursuing his career as stationmaster, area manager, train planner, Regional operating manager and finally Head of Safety before his retirement in 1996 and subsequent career as an international railway safety consultant.

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Pen and Sword

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1473859492

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9781473859494

The BBC

A Century on Air

By: David Hendy

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The BBC

A Century on Air

By: David Hendy

The first in-depth history of the iconic radio and TV network that has shaped our past and present. Doctor Who; tennis from Wimbledon; the Beatles and the Stones; the coronation of Queen Elizabeth and the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales: for one hundred years, the British Broadcasting Corporation has been the preeminent broadcaster in the UK and around the world, a constant source of information, comfort, and entertainment through both war and peace, feast and famine. The BBC has broadcast to over two hundred countries and in more than forty languages. Its history is a broad cultural panorama of the twentieth century itself, often, although not always, delivered in a mellifluous Oxford accent. With special access to the BBC’s archives, historian David Hendy presents a dazzling portrait of a unique institution whose cultural influence is greater than any other media organization. Mixing politics, espionage, the arts, social change, and everyday life, The BBC is a vivid social history of the organization that has provided both background commentary and screen-grabbing headlines—woven so deeply into the culture and politics of the past century that almost none of us has been left untouched by it.

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PublicAffairs

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1610397053

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9781610397056

James Watt, Chemist

Understanding the Origins of the Steam Age

By: David Philip Miller

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James Watt, Chemist

Understanding the Origins of the Steam Age

By: David Philip Miller

Miller examines Watt's illustrious engineering career in light of his parallel interest in chemistry, arguing that Watt's conception of steam engineering relied upon chemical understandings.

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Routledge

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1317314050

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9781317314059

For the Love of A Cat

A Publisher's Story

By: David St. John Thomas

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For the Love of A Cat

A Publisher's Story

By: David St. John Thomas

Few people can appreciate the joy that being owned by a cat brings better than David St John Thomas - the latest in a long line of publishers and authors to pay homage to the very special cats who have entered their busy lives. This is a book for everyone who really cares about cats. Vividly written, sometimes serious, sometimes light-hearted, anyone who has fallen for a cat, however much against their better judgement, is bound to find it uplifting. While cat people are nice (Hitler couldn't stand them!), the real heroes in this book are naturally the cats themselves. A rich portfolio of feline characters - including the author's own cats - step off the page, or perhaps lie curled in seductive curves on it, so vividly that you can feel their fur and hear their purr! Rich in entertaining anecdotes and asides, For the Love of a Cat will enhance every cat owner's understanding of their feline friend and remind them again and again just how lucky they are to share their lives with this most fascinating of creatures.

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ReadHowYouWant.com

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1458777723

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9781458777720

Across Birmingham on the 29A

By: David Harvey

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Across Birmingham on the 29A

By: David Harvey

A nostalgic journey across Birmingham on the 29A.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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144561636X

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9781445616360

Black Sabbath

Memórias extravagantes de dois roadies

By: David Tangye,Graham Wright

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Black Sabbath

Memórias extravagantes de dois roadies

By: David Tangye,Graham Wright

Nada poderia ser mais diferente que o som pesado, macabro e intenso do Sabbath em ação. Na estrada com o Black Sabbath: memórias extravagantes de dois roadies, ao contrário de outros volumes sobre rock 'n' roll, não é um texto jornalístico com divagações sobre os fatos envolvidos na história do Black Sabbath. Aqui você vai ler um relato do ponto de vista de pessoas que vivenciaram o que estava acontecendo na época e vai ter a chance de ver algumas fotos surpreendentemente espontâneas. Dave Tangye e Graham Wright fizeram parte de uma equipe de técnicos dos bastidores mais conhecida como roadies do Black Sabbath e, durante muitos anos, foram as pessoas mais próximas dos músicos, tanto dentro quanto fora dos palcos.

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Editora Belas-Letras

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6555372109

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