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Quest of the Folk

Antimodernism and Cultural Selection in Twentieth-Century Nova Scotia

By: Ian McKay

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Quest of the Folk

Antimodernism and Cultural Selection in Twentieth-Century Nova Scotia

By: Ian McKay

Ian McKay shows how the tourism industry & cultural producers have manipulated the cultural identity of Nova Scotia to project traditional folk values. He offers analysis of the infusion of folk ideology into the art & literature of the region, & the use of the idea of the 'simple life' in tourism promotion.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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077357543X

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9780773575431

Quest of the Folk, CLS Edition

Antimodernism and Cultural Selection in Twentieth-Century Nova Scotia

By: Ian McKay

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Quest of the Folk, CLS Edition

Antimodernism and Cultural Selection in Twentieth-Century Nova Scotia

By: Ian McKay

The popular conception of Nova Scotians as a pure, simple, idyllic people is false, argues Ian McKay. In The Quest of the Folk he shows how the province's tourism industry and cultural producers manipulated and refashioned the cultural identity of the region and its people to project traditional folk values. McKay offers an in-depth analysis of the infusion of a folk ideology into the art and literature of the region and the use of the idea of the "Simple Life" in tourism promotion. He examines how Nova Scotia's cultural history was rewritten to erase evidence of an urban, capitalist society, class and ethnic differences, and women's emancipation. In doing so he sheds new light on the roles of Helen Creighton, the Maritime region's most famous folklorist, and Mary Black, an influential handicrafts revivalist, in creating this false identity.

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0773583300

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9780773583306

Canadian Pacific Ships

The History of a Company and its Ships

By: Ian Collard

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Canadian Pacific Ships

The History of a Company and its Ships

By: Ian Collard

In 1873 a company was formed to construct the first railway across Canada. It soon branched out into shipping, chartering ships from the Cunard Line for service between Vancouver, Yokohama, Shanghai and Hong Kong. In 1889 Canadian Pacific would be awarded the mail contract for the service across the Pacific and, by 1903, they would purchase Elder Dempster & Company and begin sailing from Liverpool to Quebec and Montreal. They obtained control of the Atlantic, rail and Pacific routes, and later interest in the Canadian–Australasian Line, becoming 'the world's greatest transportation system', bridging two oceans and linking four continents. Canada's largest operator of Atlantic and Pacific steamships until after the Second World War, CP Ships boasted such names as Empress of Britain, Empress of Ireland and Empress of Canada. This new history of the shipping side of Canadian Pacific includes a wealth of illustrations and a detailed fleet list that will enthral maritime enthusiasts.

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The History Press

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1803990791

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9781803990798

Medical Emergency

Major-General 'Ginger' Burston and the Army Medical Service in WW II

By: Ian Howie-Willis

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Medical Emergency

Major-General 'Ginger' Burston and the Army Medical Service in WW II

By: Ian Howie-Willis

Major-General `Ginger' Burston led the Army Medical Service throughout the Pacific campaigns. This pivotal book explains how Burston and his medical team kept Allied troops healthy in primitive and hostile conditions and during the greatest medical emergency of World War II - the struggle against malaria. By keeping the soldiers healthy, and particularly by reducing malaria infection rates from 100 to less than one case per 1000 troops per week, the Army Medical Service assured an Allied victory over Japan. A Medical Emergency tells this remarkable story for the first time. In engrossing detail and using contemporary accounts, veteran historian Ian Howie-Willis brings to life the struggle of `Ginger' Burston and his Medical Service to fight a deadly opponent that decimated the ranks of friend and foe alike. Their victory was key to the ultimate Allied success.

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Simon and Schuster

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1921941626

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9781921941627

Betrayals

By: Ian Callinan

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Betrayals

By: Ian Callinan

Betrayals plots the destinies of three people of very different backgrounds and personalities as they live their lives in Ipswich, Brisbane, Canberra, Vietnam, Oxford, Moscow and, ultimately, Bucharest. Each is profoundly affected by, and has an important role in the machinations of the great powers in the Cold War. It is a novel of an epoch, a story of high hope, despair, and happiness. A cavalcade of characters pass through its pages, each playing an unwitting role written by others but inevitably linking the protagonists Cecily Towne, Tim Fallon, and the Romanian, Rulokov, in a net of intrigue from which they cannot extricate themselves. This is Ian Callinans seventh novel. To his diverse collection, he now adds a riveting and sensitive account of the worlds of academe, high communist bureaucracy, and espionage.

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Boolarong Press

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1921555874

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Region 6

What if the Allies had lost?

By: Ian James Krender

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Region 6

What if the Allies had lost?

By: Ian James Krender

Introducing Region 6, a dystopian thriller interwoven with a love story between two repressed gay men from either side of the political divide. Set between 1983 and 1993 in a post-war Britain that has unconditionally surrendered to the Nazis and is now known as Region 6, the population is divided. On one side: the British collaborators, who, alongside German expatriates, have prospered under the occupation. On the other: the less fortunate, those with inferior bloodlines for instance, who endure a harsh existence working in sweatshops or on state farms. Against this broken backdrop, the story follows the lives of two characters from different social backgrounds – Thomas Jordan and Stephen Talbot. Thomas was born into a working-class family in the East End, categorised as a low-risk inferior bloodline, due to distant Jewish heritage. Thomas eventually becomes a key figure in the resistance movement. Meanwhile, Stephen, a recent join to the Gestapo, is assigned to a mission to cross London’s dividing wall to seduce Thomas, whom the Gestapo believe is a closeted homosexual. It is hoped this will allow Stephen access to information held by Thomas and the resistance about a possible US-led invasion of Great Britain. Stephen succeeds in his task, but when his Gestapo superiors order him to kill Thomas, he is torn – should he remain loyal to the regime or will love conquer all?

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1789017351

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Sultry Climates

Travel And Sex

By: Ian Littlewood

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Sultry Climates

Travel And Sex

By: Ian Littlewood

Here, said the reviewer for Salon.com, is a book that is "lively and accessible and erudite...the perfect companion for anyone who wouldn't be caught dead with an airport paperback-though I wouldn't want to wager which one provides more juice." Historically, the sexual motives of travel have rarely been spelled out in travel guides and brochures. Sultry Climates is an alternative history of tourism, made up of precisely the details that usually go unmentioned. As Ian Littlewood demonstrates with dazzling elegance and wit, if we want to make sense of the celebrated "Grand Tour" of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, for example, it's as important to take account of travelers' visits to Dresden streetwalkers and Venetian courtesans as it is to reckon with their visits to the Dresden picture gallery and the Doge's Palace. From Byron in Greece to Isherwood in Germany, from American expatriates on the Left Bank to Orton in Morocco and right up to the present day, what emerges from these experiences is a continuing motif of tourism, previously neglected or ignored-"a breathless book, a Grand Tour in and of itself" (Los Angeles Times).

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Da Capo Press

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0786743840

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9780786743841

Rock Odyssey

A Chronicle of the Sixties

By: Ian Whitcomb

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Rock Odyssey

A Chronicle of the Sixties

By: Ian Whitcomb

(Limelight). In 1965, Ian Whitcomb's novelty rocker "You Turn Me On" was number eight on the national charts, along with entries from the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Beach Boys. In 1966 he was nowheresville a certified rock 'n' roll flash in the pan. It is, then, with a survivor's humor that he tells both his and rock's story from its beginnings in the late fifties to 1969, the year of Woodstock and psychedelic dreams of universal peace and love. Here is the saga of the British Invasion, the genesis of folk rock, the blooming of Flower Power, the Summer of Love and the inner workings of the pop music biz, brought to life by a true insider who is also an uninhibitedly acute observer.

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Hal Leonard Corporation

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0879101822

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9780879101824

Math Hysteria

Fun and games with mathematics

By: Ian Stewart

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Math Hysteria

Fun and games with mathematics

By: Ian Stewart

Welcome to Ian Stewart's strange and magical world of mathematics! In Math Hysteria, Professor Stewart presents us with a wealth of magical puzzles, each one spun around an amazing tale: Counting the Cattle of the Sun; The Great Drain Robbery; and Preposterous Piratical Predicaments; to name but a few. Along the way, we also meet many curious characters: in short, these stories are engaging, challenging, and lots of fun!

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OUP Oxford

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0191647454

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The Coldest War

By: Ian Tregillis

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The Coldest War

By: Ian Tregillis

A precarious balance of power maintains the peace between Britain and the USSR. For decades, Britain's warlocks have been all that stands between the British Empire and the Soviet Union. Now each wizard's death is another blow to Britain's national security.

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Macmillan

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0765321513

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Performing in Comedy

A Student's Guide

By: Ian Wilkie

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Performing in Comedy

A Student's Guide

By: Ian Wilkie

Ian Wilkie contends that comic acting is a distinct art form, and as such demands a unique skillset. By exploring the ways in which performance choices and improvised moments can work in conjunction with texts themselves, Performing in Comedy offers an indispensable practical tool for enhancing comic performance. This volume is a must-read for any actors, directors or students who work with comic texts. Wilkie synthesises theories and principles of comedy with practical tips, and re-evaluates the ways in which these ideas can be used by the performer. Most importantly, these skills – timing, focus, awareness – are teachable rather than being innate talents. Exercises, interviews and guides to further resources enhance this comprehensive exploration of comic acting.

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Routledge

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1317429281

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One Piece At A Time

A DCI Peter Carter Novel

By: Ian Yates

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One Piece At A Time

A DCI Peter Carter Novel

By: Ian Yates

Women are dying on the streets of London and Detective Chief Inspector Peter Carter, as head of the Metropolitan Police Serious Crime and Homicide Unit, is under pressure to find the killer in this fast paced thriller. With his partner, JD, they must act quickly to avoid a very personal tragedy striking at the heart of their investigative team and possibly letting a killer walk free. With opposition growing from within his own department, DCI Carter faces challenges that will test him to the very core in this taut page turner.

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Ian Yates

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1493750224

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Extremophile

By: Ian Green

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Extremophile

By: Ian Green

Charlie and Parker are punks by night, biohackers by day, living in the stuttering decay of near-future climate-collapse London. They pay for the beer they don't steal with money from their sketchy astronomy site Zodiac Code, while Charlie's bio-bespoke augments equip the criminals, punks, and eco-warriors of London. They have to deal with disgruntled clients, scene kids who don't dig their band, and a city that's run by corporates and criminals. Their world is split into three factions: Green – who are still trying to save the world; Blue – who try to profit while they can, and Black – who see no hope left. When a group of extremist Green activists hire them for a series of jobs ranging from robbery to murder, Charlie – who struggles to feel anything except Black – wants to walk away. But Parker still believes they can make a difference, and urges her to accept. As they enter an escalating biological arms race against faceless corporations, amoral biohackers, and criminal cyberpunks, Charlie will have to choose what she believes in. Is there still hope, and does she have a right to grab it?

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1804545821

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9781804545829

Rattling Spears

A History of Indigenous Australian Art

By: Ian McLean

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Rattling Spears

A History of Indigenous Australian Art

By: Ian McLean

Large, bold, and colorful, indigenous Australian art—sometimes known as Aboriginal art—has made an indelible impression on the contemporary art scene. But it is controversial, dividing the artists, purveyors, and collectors from those who smell a scam. Whether the artists are victims or victors, there is no denying the impact of their work in the media, on art collectors and the art world at large, and on our global imagination. How did Australian art become the most successful indigenous form in the world? How did its artists escape the ethnographic and souvenir markets to become players in an art market to which they had historically been denied access? Beautifully illustrated, this full stunning account not only offers a comprehensive introduction to this rich artistic tradition, but also makes us question everything we have been taught about contemporary art.

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Reaktion Books

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1780236239

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9781780236230

The Keys to the Temple

Unlocking Dion Fortune's Mystical Qabalah Through Her Occult Novels

By: Penny Billington,Ian Rees

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The Keys to the Temple

Unlocking Dion Fortune's Mystical Qabalah Through Her Occult Novels

By: Penny Billington,Ian Rees

How to use the brilliant insights from Dion Fortune's occult novels to master the art of the embodied imagination, discover your vitality, and open up to the clarity and love that arise from the root of your being. Dion Fortune's esoteric novels were written as guides to magic and inner development to be used along with her great nonfiction work, The Mystical Qabalah. This book shows how to work with her most popular fictions, exploring how the stories and characters can help you integrate the secrets of the Tree of Life and discover what Fortune called "the keys to the temple." The book contains an exploration of Fortune's writings, experiential practices, and a hands-on workbook section, you will learn to utilize the wealth of esoteric wisdom found in The Mystical Qabalah, The Goat-Foot God, The Sea Priestess, The Winged Bull, and Moon Magic. "This wonderful evocation of Dion Fortune's esoteric novels offers initiatory and practical pathways to the neophyte and reader!" - Caitlin & John Matthews, authors of The Lost Book of the Grail

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Aeon Books

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1801520313

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9781801520317

The Dead Straight Guide to The Jam

By: Rick Buckler,Ian Snowball

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The Dead Straight Guide to The Jam

By: Rick Buckler,Ian Snowball

The Jam had 18 consecutive Top 40 singles in the United Kingdom, from their debut in 1977 to their break-up in December 1982, including four number one hits. As of 2007, That’s Entertainment and Just Who Is the 5 O’Clock Hero? remained the best-selling import singles of all time in the UK. They released one live album and six studio albums, the last of which, The Gift, hit number one on the UK album charts.

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This Day In Music Books

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1787590496

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Sweet Tooth

A Novel

By: Ian McEwan

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Sweet Tooth

A Novel

By: Ian McEwan

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement, an “effortlessly seductive” novel (The New York Times) that masterfully entwines espionage and desire in an unforgettable story of intrigue, betrayal and love. Cambridge student Serena Frome's beauty and intelligence make her the ideal recruit for MI5. The year is 1972. The Cold War is far from over. England's legendary intelligence agency is determined to manipulate the cultural conversation by funding writers whose politics align with those of the government. The operation is code named "Sweet Tooth." Serena, a compulsive reader of novels, is the perfect candidate to infiltrate the literary circle of a promising young writer named Tom Haley. At first, she loves the stories. Then she begins to love the man. How long can she conceal her undercover life? To answer that question, Serena must abandon the first rule of espionage: trust no one. Don’t miss Ian McEwan’s new novel, Lessons.

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Anchor

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0385536836

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Scholarship

By: Ian John Copeland

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Scholarship

By: Ian John Copeland

The Rocks Preparatory School for Boys lived in its own world. 140 odd boys and 16 teaching staff inhabited the school, mostly isolated from the outside world not just by the boundaries but also by the society they formed for themselves. Like all communities, most conformed, but some did not. A story of friendship and loss at a 1960s boarding school. 'A delightfully gentle tale'.

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Lulu.com

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1447885651

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9781447885658

The Rolling Stones in Concert, 1962-1982

A Show-by-Show History

By: Ian M. Rusten

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The Rolling Stones in Concert, 1962-1982

A Show-by-Show History

By: Ian M. Rusten

This day-by-day chronicle of every live concert by the Rolling Stones from 1962 through 1982 traces their development from a band playing small clubs around London to the global phenomenon we know today. Comprehensive coverage of the shows includes set lists, venues, concert reviews, anecdotes and notable events in the lives of the band members. A list of the Stones' radio recordings--some of which were performed before live audiences--and television performances is included, along with never-before-published posters, programs, tickets, handbills and photographs.

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McFarland

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1476634432

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9781476634432

Letters From Lotusland

By: ian Whitcomb

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Letters From Lotusland

By: ian Whitcomb

Ian Whitcomb, One Hit Wonder British Invader of the 1960s and teen heart-throb, never went home. Instead he tried to settle down in Los Angeles County where, over the years, he produced a Grammy-winning CD, wrote songs for movies, auditioned for butler roles in TV commercials, had and lost dogs, married successfully, and continued to play his ukulele as the ship went down. Now the entire soap opera (1996--2008), roped together in hard copy with appropriate photos, can be relished as a roller coaster of self-pity, vaunting and failed ambition, jealousy, bathos and pathos, culminating in a Big Dream. In other words, this is a comedy book. Mainline Show Biz may have passed Whitcomb by but here in these precious pages he creates his own world of heroes and villains with himself as King in order to get sweet revenge through the twisted lingo of his India rubber sword.

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057803610X

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9780578036106

The Complete Annotated Gilbert & Sullivan

20th Anniversary Edition

By: Ian Bradley

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The Complete Annotated Gilbert & Sullivan

20th Anniversary Edition

By: Ian Bradley

Ian Bradley's Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan has established itself across the world as the authorized and definitive 'Bible' for all those interested in the Savoy operas. Originally published in two Penguin paperbacks in the 1980's, a single-volume comprehensive compendium, hailed widely as "easily the best annotated Gilbert & Sullivan available" (Gayden Wren, New York Times) was published by Oxford University Press in 1996. This brand new 20th anniversary edition includes Thespis, Gilbert and Sullivan's first collaboration which is now being increasingly performed, despite the loss of the vocal and orchestral scores. It also features a completely new introduction, reflecting on the state of Gilbert and Sullivan nearly 150 years after the pair began their legendary collaboration, and new annotations addressing recent performance history, newly discovered 'lost' songs and dialogue, and, for the first time, Gilbert and Sullivan references in contemporary popular culture. Scholars, performers, and fans are sure to rejoice in this indispensable companion to the Gilbert and Sullivan repertoire, newly updated for the present day.

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Oxford University Press

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0199392439

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9780199392438

Once Upon a Time

By: Ian Bell

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Once Upon a Time

By: Ian Bell

Half a century ago a youth appeared from the American hinterland and began a cultural revolution. The world is still coming to terms with what he did. How he did it—and why—has never fully been explored. In Once Upon a Time, award-winning writer Ian Bell draws together the tangled strands of the many lives of Bob Dylan in all their contradictory brilliance. For the first time, the laureate of modern America is set in his entire context: musical, historical, literary, political, and personal.Full of new insights into the legendary singer, his songs, his life and his era, this new biography reveals the artist who invented himself in order to reinvent America. Once Upon a Time is a study of a personality that has splintered and reformed, time after time, in a country forever struggling to understand itself. Dylan has become the mystery that illuminates. Here, in the first part of a major two-volume work, the mystery is explained.

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Simon and Schuster

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1639360573

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9781639360574

The Rumba of the Beast

By: Ian Jarvis

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The Rumba of the Beast

By: Ian Jarvis

A modern-day Sherlock Holmes, Bernie Quist operates as a consultant detective from Baker Avenue in York. His assistant is Watson, although this Watson is a streetwise youth from the Grimpen housing estate and he's definitely no doctor. The mismatched duo take on bizarre cases which invariably lead into the realms of the supernatural, a shadowy world that, thanks to his dark secret, Quist is all too familiar with. It's almost Christmas and the ancient streets of York are filled with twinkling lights, bustling Yuletide markets and the occasional cloudburst of dismal British sleet. A mundane investigation leads Quist and Watson to an isolated village on the wintry Northumbrian coast, where two faces from the past await: an infamous practitioner of the black arts, and someone they were hoping never to see again. What begins as an intriguing mystery soon becomes the detective's most dangerous and horrific case, with Quist discovering the terrifying secret of the Mulgrave Ritual and his life hanging precariously in the balance. The Rumba of the Beast, a festive tale of gruesome murders, black magic and ballroom dancing. A dark and very peculiar game is afoot...

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Andrews UK Limited

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1804242365

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The Indigenous Dynamic in Taiwan's Postwar Development: Religious and Historical Roots of Entrepreneurship

Religious and Historical Roots of Entrepreneurship

By: Ian Skoggard

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The Indigenous Dynamic in Taiwan's Postwar Development: Religious and Historical Roots of Entrepreneurship

Religious and Historical Roots of Entrepreneurship

By: Ian Skoggard

Using Taiwan's third largest export industry - shoe manufacturing - as a case study, this work contends that economic development can be tied to Taiwan's own cultural history as well as to the influx of foreign capital or the initiatives of the state government.

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Routledge

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1315284952

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Voices of Scottish Journalists

Recollections of 22 Scottish Journalists of Their Life and Work

By: Ian MacDougall

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Voices of Scottish Journalists

Recollections of 22 Scottish Journalists of Their Life and Work

By: Ian MacDougall

Newspaper journalism is a romantic profession. The men and women who wrote for newspapers in the twentieth century started work in a 'Hold the front page!' atmosphere: hot metal, clicking typewriters and inky fingers. In this fascinating collection, the latest in the Scottish Working People's History Trust series, Ian MacDougall has captured the memories of 22 veteran journalists from a wide range of newspapers all over Scotland, some local, some national. The earliest entrant started work in 1929, just before the Great Depression, the latest in the mid 1950s. Their accounts, like so much of oral history, describe a physical world we have almost lost sight of since the computer revolution. But it was a different social world too: it would be unusual for school leavers today to start work as 'copy-boys' running out for cigarettes or filling gluepots for their scary older colleagues. Journalists had to turn their hands to anything from flower shows to air raids, from Hess's landing near Eaglesham to royal visits; and women often had to fight their corner to get started as young reporters. As journalist Neal Ascherson says in his foreword, the book contains 'a swathe of Scottish social history': virtually all these journalists made their way from humble backgrounds, drawn by the desire for an exciting rather than a safe job - and above all one full of human interest.

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Birlinn

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0857906135

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9780857906137

The Great & Calamitous Tale of Johan Thoms

How One Man Scorched the Twentieth Century But Didn't Mean To

By: Ian Thornton

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The Great & Calamitous Tale of Johan Thoms

How One Man Scorched the Twentieth Century But Didn't Mean To

By: Ian Thornton

Johan Thoms is poised for greatness. A promising student at the University of Sarajevo, he is young, brilliant, and in love with the beautiful Lorelei Ribeiro. He can outwit chess masters, quote the Kama Sutra, and converse with dukes and drunkards alike. But he cannot drive a car in reverse. And as with so much in the life of Johan Thoms, this seemingly insignificant detail will prove to be much more than it appears. On the morning of June 28, 1914, Johan takes his place as the chauffeur to Franz Ferdinand and the royal entourage and, with one wrong turn, he forever alters the course of history. Blaming himself for the deaths of the archduke and his wife, Johan hastens from the scene, and for once his inspired mind cannot process what to do next. Guilt-ridden, he flees Sarajevo, abandoning his friends, family, and beloved in the fear that he has caused them irreparable grievance. He watches in horror as the Great War unfolds, every death settling squarely on his conscience. Turning his back on his old life, Johan does his best to fade out of memory. But the world has other plans for Johan Thoms. As each passing year burdens Johan with further guilt for his inaction, he seeks solace in his writing and in the makeshift family he has assembled around himself. With everyone from emperors to hooligans at his side, and pursued by Lorelei, Johan winds his way through Europe and the twentieth century, leaving his indelible mark on both.

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1451678509

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9781451678505

Sir Ernest Satow's Private Letters - Volume III, The Satow-Reay Correspondence (1907-1921)

By: Ian Ruxton (ed.)

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Sir Ernest Satow's Private Letters - Volume III, The Satow-Reay Correspondence (1907-1921)

By: Ian Ruxton (ed.)

This is the third volume in a series of private letters written by Sir Ernest Satow (1843-1929) to his close friends. Volume One comprises his letters to Japanologists William George Aston and Frederick Victor Dickins. Volume Two consists mainly of letters to and from John Harington Gubbins who had worked under Satow in Japan. In this third volume Satow mainly discusses international law (law of the sea in wartime, Versailles peace treaty etc.) and the current political situation in the UK and Europe, a far cry from his East Asian focus on Japan which monopolised Volume One, and was still evident in Volume Two. (Lord Reay had no experience of Japan in his distinguished career.) The expert foreword is by Dr. J.E. Hoare, formerly of H.M. Diplomatic Service and a Teaching Fellow at S.O.A.S.

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0359927955

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Photoshop 7 and Illustrator 10

Create Great Advanced Graphics

By: Vicki Loader,Dave Cross,Barry Huggins,Ian Tindale

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Photoshop 7 and Illustrator 10

Create Great Advanced Graphics

By: Vicki Loader,Dave Cross,Barry Huggins,Ian Tindale

This book will show you how to combine the power of Photoshop 7 and Illustrator 10 to take your creative and production skills to new heights. Find out the best way to use them in tandem, with a seamless workflow, for stunning results in your print and web output. The book looks at how the programs work together to help you create great graphics with practical demonstrations of projects you are likely to encounter in your work. You'll learn advanced techniques for working with layer blending modes, the latest tools and new file formats such as SVG, along with color management, animation, printing, web-publishing, and integration with other programs. This book is not for Photoshop and Illustator novices—it's called 'Advanced' because it aims to take your basic skills to the next level and teach you how to create the finest graphics you find in the world around you. The book looks at how the programs can serve each other and you: Adobe has worked hard to make these two applications function more efficiently together—this book will help you to reap the rewards of their labor. The aim of this book is to show how Photoshop 7 and illustrator 10 can work together as part of a team; this means looking at their strengths and weaknesses and how they compliment one another. Part 1 is shorter than Part 2 and contains an analysis of each application; how each one performs certain tasks and where the crossover lies. Many functions can be acheived in both and there is a certain amount of personal choice involved—we evaluate the benefits of each one and which may be suited to certain tasks: we want you to find the right balance to maintain a long and happy marriage! In Part 2, we look at the practical applications of each one through a series of projects that detail step-by-step how they may be used in conjunction with each other. The tutorials are backed up with theory and additional information to help you make an informed choice when deciding the workflow that fits you best. We hope to help you make the best use of your skills and talents, so you can go further and achieve more.

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1430251174

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Dice Men

The Origin Story of Games Workshop

By: Ian Livingstone

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Dice Men

The Origin Story of Games Workshop

By: Ian Livingstone

It never seems like the right time to start a business. The idea to start our own company first cropped up during one of our many ‘beer and a board game’ sessions after work at our flat. And when Steve began writing reviews of board games for Games & Puzzles magazine, we all got even more interested in the idea. So, one day, we did. It was January 1975. Since then, Games Workshop has grown into a cornerstone of the UK gaming industry. From the launch of Dungeons and Dragons from the back of a van, to creating the Fighting Fantasy series, co-founders Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson tell their remarkable story for the first time. An initial order of only six copies was enough for Games Workshop to secure exclusive rights to sell Dungeons and Dragons in the whole of Europe. Hobbyists themselves, Steve and Ian’s passion for the game soon spread and in 1977 they opened the first Games Workshop store. They went on to become bestselling authors and created an entirely new genre of interactive stories. Dice Men is more than just the story of an iconic shop which has changed gaming for ever, it's an insight into the birth of an industry. Games Workshop has grown from its humble beginnings to become a global company listed on the London Stock Exchange, a FTSE 250 company with a market capitalisation of more than £3.5 billion. Dice Men is the story of the rollercoaster early years.

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1800180535

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Stick It!

My Life of Sex, Drums, and Rock 'n' Roll

By: Carmine Appice,Ian Gittins,Rod Stewart

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Stick It!

My Life of Sex, Drums, and Rock 'n' Roll

By: Carmine Appice,Ian Gittins,Rod Stewart

Carmine Appice has enjoyed a jaw-dropping rock-and-roll life—and now he is telling his scarcely believable story. Appice ran with teenage gangs in Brooklyn before becoming a global rock star in the Summer of Love, managed by the Mob. He hung with Hendrix, unwittingly paid for an unknown Led Zeppelin to support him on tour, taught John Bonham to play drums (and helped Fred Astaire too), and took part in Zeppelin's infamous deflowering of a groupie with a mud shark. After enrolling in Rod Stewart's infamous Sex Police, he hung out with Kojak, accidentally shared a house with Prince, was blood brothers with Ozzy Osbourne and was fired by Sharon. He formed an all-blond hair-metal band, jammed with John McEnroe and Steven Seagal, got married five times, slept with 4,500 groupies—and, along the way, became a rock legend by single-handedly reinventing hard rock and heavy metal drumming. His memoir, Stick It!, is one of the most extraordinary and outrageous rock-and-roll books of the early twenty-first century.

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Chicago Review Press

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1613735553

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Issue of Blood

By: Ian Church

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Issue of Blood

By: Ian Church

Nick Paice is in trouble again as he finds himself embroiled in another dangerous exploit. Once more his life is on the line. Disillusioned, he'd quit his job as a top news reporter but a knock on the door of his rural retreat shatters the isolation and peace he'd sought and drags him back into the murky world of crime and corruption that he'd written about so much and thought he'd left behind.A simple mission to bring home a missing girl sucks him ever deeper into a quagmire of violence and subterfuge where he runs head on into political corruption, crooked financial deals and a doctor who's peddling death in a desperate bid to survive.It's a matter of life or death for Paice when his quest for the big story means taking on the boss of a major crime syndicate, powerful forces in the political elite and a brutal dictator. Survival means keeping one step ahead on a dangerous path that's strewn with illicit diamonds, deception and death.

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Fulmar Publishing

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1843964449

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The Road to Ruins

By: Ian Graham

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The Road to Ruins

By: Ian Graham

For anyone who ever wanted to be an archaeologist, Ian Graham could be a hero. This lively memoir chronicles Graham's career as the "last explorer" and a fierce advocate for the protection and preservation of Maya sites and monuments across Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize. It is also full of adventure and high society, for the self-deprecating Graham traveled to remote lands such as Afghanistan in wonderful company. He tells entertaining stories about his encounters with a host of notables beginning with Rudyard Kipling, a family friend from Graham's childhood.Born in 1923 into an aristocratic family descended from Oliver Cromwell, Ian Graham was educated at Winchester, Cambridge, and Trinity College, Dublin. His career in Mesoamerican archaeology can be said to have begun in 1959 when he turned south in his Rolls Royce and began traveling through the Maya lowlands photographing ruins. He has worked as an artist, cartographer, and photographer, and has mapped and documented inscriptions at hundreds of Maya sites, persevering under rugged field conditions. Graham is best known as the founding director of the Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions Program at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. He was awarded a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" in 1981, and he remained the Maya Corpus program director until his retirement in 2004. Graham's careful recordings of Maya inscriptions are often credited with making the deciphering of Maya hieroglyphics possible. But it is the romance of his work and the graceful conversational style of his writing that make this autobiography must reading not just for Mayanists but for anyone with a taste for the adventure of archaeology.

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University of New Mexico Press

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0826347541

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9780826347541

Come a Little Bit Closer

By: Ian Wilson

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Come a Little Bit Closer

By: Ian Wilson

Ian ‘Peewee’ Wilson has been singing bass doo-wop with iconic vocal group The Delltones since the 1950s and the First Wave of Australian pop. In this breezy and brilliant memoir, Peewee recalls the highs and inimitable lows of life fronting Australia’s longest-performing vocal group. Beyond the stage door he reveals the secret to his longevity: a larrikin spirit honed in his beach-bumming youth, and a wide-eyed curiosity that led him to dabble in hallucinogenic substances and chase Playboy Bunnies (not at the same time). It’s all part of Peewee’s never-ending search for the underlying meaning of it all. Come a little bit closer to the Beanpole of Bop.

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Simon and Schuster

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1922213055

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