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The Golden Age of Speedway

By: Philip Dalling

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The post-war era was British speedway's golden age. Ten million spectators passed through the turnstiles of a record number of tracks at the sport's peak. With league gates as high as 80,000, speedway offered a colourful means of escape from the grim austerity of the times. A determinedly clean image, with no betting and rival fans mingling on the terraces, made speedway the family night out of choice. The sport thrived despite punitive taxation and Government threats to close down the speedways as a threat to industrial productivity. A three-division National League stretched from Exeter to Edinburgh and the World Championship Final attracted a capacity audience to Wembley. Test matches against Australia provided yet another international dimension. Even at the height of its popularity, speedway was a sporting edifice built on unstable foundations, which crumbled alarmingly as the 1950s dawned and Britain's economic and social recovery brought competing attractions like television.

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The History Press

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0752494619

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9780752494616

Levant

Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean

By: Philip Mansel

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Levant

Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean

By: Philip Mansel

Not so long ago, in certain cities on the shores of the eastern Mediterranean, Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived and flourished side by side. What can the histories of these cities tell us? Levant is a book of cities. It describes three former centers of great wealth, pleasure, and freedom—Smyrna, Alexandria, and Beirut—cities of the Levant region along the eastern coast of the Mediterranean. In these key ports at the crossroads of East and West, against all expectations, cosmopolitanism and nationalism flourished simultaneously. People freely switched identities and languages, released from the prisons of religion and nationality. Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived and worshipped as neighbors.Distinguished historian Philip Mansel is the first to recount the colorful, contradictory histories of Smyrna, Alexandria, and Beirut in the modern age. He begins in the early days of the French alliance with the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth century and continues through the cities' mid-twentieth-century fates: Smyrna burned; Alexandria Egyptianized; Beirut lacerated by civil war.Mansel looks back to discern what these remarkable Levantine cities were like, how they differed from other cities, why they shone forth as cultural beacons. He also embarks on a quest: to discover whether, as often claimed, these cities were truly cosmopolitan, possessing the elixir of coexistence between Muslims, Christians, and Jews for which the world yearns. Or, below the glittering surface, were they volcanoes waiting to erupt, as the catastrophes of the twentieth century suggest? In the pages of the past, Mansel finds important messages for the fractured world of today.

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497

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Yale University Press

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0300176228

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9780300176223

Solute Movement in the Rhizosphere

By: Philip Bernard Tinker,Peter Hague Nye

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Solute Movement in the Rhizosphere

By: Philip Bernard Tinker,Peter Hague Nye

This is a completely revised edition of the previously titled Solute Movement in the Soil-Root System . It describes in detail how plant nutrients and other solutes move in the soil in response to plant uptake, and it provides a basis for understanding processes in the root zone so that they can be modeled realistically in order to predict the effects of variations in natural conditions or our own practices.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195124928

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9780195124927

Alban and St Albans: Roman and Medieval Architecture, Art and Archaeology: v. 24

Roman and Medieval Architecture, Art and Archaeology

By: Philip Lindley,Martin Heing

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Alban and St Albans: Roman and Medieval Architecture, Art and Archaeology: v. 24

Roman and Medieval Architecture, Art and Archaeology

By: Philip Lindley,Martin Heing

This is a collection of eighteen papers presented at a conference that was held at the Hatfield Campus of the University of Hertfordshire with 122 members and guests from the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Germany and Norway were present. The papers are on the research on various aspects of the art and architecture of the abbey, at St Albans and provides an ideal forum for bringing together many aspects of the abbey’s history.

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383

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Taylor & Francis

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1040281818

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9781040281819

Paris Between Empires

Monarchy and Revolution 1814-1852

By: Philip Mansel

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Paris Between Empires

Monarchy and Revolution 1814-1852

By: Philip Mansel

In this social history of Europe's most famous city during its golden age, Mansel tells the story of the political turbulence, dynamic intrigue, violence in the streets, and the societal wars that took place in upper-class salons. 32 page photo insert.

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Macmillan

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0312308574

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9780312308575

No Mercy

The Host of America's Most Wanted Hunts the Worst Criminals of Our Time - In Shattering True Crime Cases

By: John Walsh,Philip Lerman

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The Host of America's Most Wanted Hunts the Worst Criminals of Our Time - In Shattering True Crime Cases

By: John Walsh,Philip Lerman

Describes many of the most dramatic cases from "America's Most Wanted.

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Pocket Star

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0671019945

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9780671019945

The Golden Age of Speedway

By: Philip Dalling,Reg Pearman

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The Golden Age of Speedway

By: Philip Dalling,Reg Pearman

The post-war era was British speedway’s golden age. Ten million spectators passed through the turnstiles of a record number of tracks at the sport’s peak. With league gates as high as 80,000, speedway offered a colourful means of escape from the grim austerity of the times.A determinedly clean image, with no betting and rival fans mingling on the terraces, made speedway the family night out of choice. The sport thrived despite punitive taxation and Government threats to close down the speedways as a threat to industrial productivity.A three-division National League stretched from Exeter to Edinburgh and the World Championship Final attracted a capacity audience to Wembley. Test matches against Australia provided yet another international dimension.Even at the height of its popularity, speedway was a sporting edifice built on unstable foundations, which crumbled alarmingly as the 1950s dawned and Britain’s economic and social recovery brought competing attractions like television.

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The History Press

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0752494619

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The Golden Age of Speedway

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Solute Movement in the Rhizosphere

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Alban and St Albans: Roman and Medieval Architecture, Art and Archaeology: v. 24

Alban and St Albans: Roman and Medieval Architecture, Art and Archaeology: v. 24

Paris Between Empires

Paris Between Empires

No Mercy

No Mercy

The Golden Age of Speedway

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