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Totally Awesome 80s

A Lexicon of the Music, Videos, Movies, TV Shows, Stars, and Trends of that Decadent Decade

By: Matthew Rettenmund

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Totally Awesome 80s

A Lexicon of the Music, Videos, Movies, TV Shows, Stars, and Trends of that Decadent Decade

By: Matthew Rettenmund

The first pop reference book to capture the spirit of the 80s experience, Totally Awesome 80s chronicles not only pop music but also the faces, places, fads, fashions, movies, television shows, toys, and videos that defined the "Greed Decade". From skinny ties to Valspeak to the birth of MTV, no 80s cultural trend is overlooked in this comprehensive tribute to all things 80s. 300 photos.

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178

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Macmillan

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0312144369

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9780312144364

Bench Bosses

The NHL's Coaching Elite

By: Matthew DiBiase

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Bench Bosses

The NHL's Coaching Elite

By: Matthew DiBiase

Bench Bosses celebrates the greatest NHL Coaches in the history of the game. Bench Bosses is filled with compelling biographical narrative, innovative analysis, historical allusion, hockey folklore, humour, heartbreak, and tragedy. By introducing a creative new method for evaluating coaching success, professional historian and hockey columnist Matthew DiBiase settles many a debate. His hard-hitting prose and cogent analysis covers key aspects of coaching and definitively identifies the greatest offensive and defensive coaches, expounds on the best penalty-killing or power-play coaches and delves into statistics to determine the nastiest squads on the ice. His unique assessment method determines his selection of the top fifty head coaches of all time. DiBiase's in-depth hockey research delivers a powerful, gripping and informative look at the game's best of the best. This seminal book tells the story behind the story of coaching success. It removes subjectivity and bias and provides a comprehensive overview of each coach's major career achievements and the contributions each has made to the game. In the writing of this book, the author personally interviewed many of the game's best known coaches and their players to get the most accurate and complete perspective of the sport and its coaching elite. Readers will enjoy hearing from such names as Scotty Bowman, Al Arbour, Jean Beliveau, Dick Irving Jr., and more.

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546

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McClelland & Stewart

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0771025092

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9780771025099

Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest

By: Matthew Restall

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Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest

By: Matthew Restall

Here is an intriguing exploration of the ways in which the history of the Spanish Conquest has been misread and passed down to become popular knowledge of these events. The book offers a fresh account of the activities of the best-known conquistadors and explorers, including Columbus, Cortés, and Pizarro. Using a wide array of sources, historian Matthew Restall highlights seven key myths, uncovering the source of the inaccuracies and exploding the fallacies and misconceptions behind each myth. This vividly written and authoritative book shows, for instance, that native Americans did not take the conquistadors for gods and that small numbers of vastly outnumbered Spaniards did not bring down great empires with stunning rapidity. We discover that Columbus was correctly seen in his lifetime--and for decades after--as a briefly fortunate but unexceptional participant in efforts involving many southern Europeans. It was only much later that Columbus was portrayed as a great man who fought against the ignorance of his age to discover the new world. Another popular misconception--that the Conquistadors worked alone--is shattered by the revelation that vast numbers of black and native allies joined them in a conflict that pitted native Americans against each other. This and other factors, not the supposed superiority of the Spaniards, made conquests possible. The Conquest, Restall shows, was more complex--and more fascinating--than conventional histories have portrayed it. Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest offers a richer and more nuanced account of a key event in the history of the Americas.

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241

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Oxford University Press

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0198036434

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9780198036432

I Put the Fear of Mexico in 'em

By: Matthew Paul Olmos

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I Put the Fear of Mexico in 'em

By: Matthew Paul Olmos

Drama / 3m, 3f / unit set"--back cover.

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Samuel French, Incorporated

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0573701997

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9780573701993

All of Us

A Celebration of BIPOC Voices

By: Alvaro Saar Rios,Diana Burbano,Leviticus Jelks (III),Hope Villanueva,Ramiz Monsef,Velina Hasu Houston,Matthew Paul Olmos,Linda Patel,Randy Reinholz,Elizabeth Wong,Christopher Oscar Peña,Michelle Tyrene Johnson

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All of Us

A Celebration of BIPOC Voices

Twelve exciting new shorts come together in one performable collection to celebrate and amplify important, too-often-unheard voices. Whether it's gathering in secret to remember when music was allowed, dealing with the fallout from a viral video or meeting a friend who's been regenerated from their arm, teen actors will find a tremendous variety of meaty, challenging (and frequently gender-flexible) roles in these plays that offer a meaningful theatrical journey for, as the title has it, All of Us."--Back cover.

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196

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1639320245

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9781639320240

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Totally Awesome 80s

Totally Awesome 80s

Bench Bosses

Bench Bosses

Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest

Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest

I Put the Fear of Mexico in 'em

I Put the Fear of Mexico in 'em

All of Us

All of Us

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