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Marshal Royal

Author : Marshal Royal
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441180699
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Marshal Royal written by Marshal Royal and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2001-09-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marsgal Royal was a core member of the Count Basei Orchestra for twenty years during its resurgence in the 1950s and 1960s. Before that, he was a pioneer of jazz on the West Coast, playing with many bands in and around Los Angeles. A child prodigy of both the violin and saxophone, Royal was literally born on the road as his musician parents made their way West. Royal shares his experiences with Les Hite's band at Sebastian's New Cotton Club, where 's Orchestra after a wartime career in U.S. Navy bands. After leaving Hampton, Royal made countless recordings as a freelancer before joining Basie, where he was responsible for rehearsing the Orchestra. Later, he became internationally known as a soloist while continuing his prolific recording career. His brother, Ernie, who was a star trumpeter in the bands of Woody Herman and Stan Kenton, is also profiled. Claire P. Gordon is the editor of Rex Stewart's memoir, Boy Meets Horn, and of Stewart's other collections of writings. She lives on the West Coast and has a long-term interest in the oral history of jazz.

Great Survivors

Author : Peter Conradi
Publisher : Alma Books
ISBN 13 : 0714545406
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (145 download)

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Download or read book Great Survivors written by Peter Conradi and published by Alma Books. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this riveting and extensively researched account, Peter Conradi - the celebrated author of The King's Speech - offers an uncompromising portrayal of Europe's royals and reveals the scandals, excesses, conflicts and interests hidden behind the pomp of ceremonial garb and the grandeur of official functions. At a time when Western society appears to be demanding more equality and democracy, people's fascination with monarchies shows no signs of waning.Taking the reader on a journey between past and present, into a world populated by great celebrities such as Wallis Simpson, Grace Kelly and Princess Diana, as well as lesser-known and slightly murkier aristocratic figures, The Great Survivors analyses the reasons behind this apparent paradox by looking at the history of the main European dynasties - including the Windsors and their predecessors - and providing a glimpse into their world, their lives and their secrets.

Popular Mechanics

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Popular Mechanics written by and published by . This book was released on 1990-05 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular Mechanics inspires, instructs and influences readers to help them master the modern world. Whether it’s practical DIY home-improvement tips, gadgets and digital technology, information on the newest cars or the latest breakthroughs in science -- PM is the ultimate guide to our high-tech lifestyle.

Eyewitness at Dieppe

Author : Ross Reyburn
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 1399060015
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Eyewitness at Dieppe written by Ross Reyburn and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2022-10-20 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In August 1942, Allied forces mounted an attack on the German-held port of Dieppe; titled Operation Jubilee, it represented a rehearsal for invasion. The amphibious attack saw over 6,000 infantrymen, predominantly Canadian, put ashore, tasked with destroying German structures and gathering intelligence. The doomed raid was an abject failure, and became Canada’s worst military disaster. Eyewitness at Dieppe is a long-overdue reissue of New Zealand-born writer Wallace Reyburn’s dramatic account of the raid. He was with the first soldiers clambering ashore, and aboard the last ship returning to England after six hours of carnage. Awarded an OBE as the only war correspondent to witness the street fighting first-hand, Reyburn was fortunate not be numbered among Dieppe’s dead, suffering just a minor wound inflicted by mortar shell fragments. His book, Rehearsal for Invasion was a wartime bestseller. Accompanied by freelance journalist Ross Reyburn’s new foreword on his father’s account, this new edition tells us more about Wallace’s intriguing life and details the shortcomings of his father’s book, dictated by wartime censorship corrected in the post-war years through a withering condemnation of raid’s mastermind Lord Mountbatten.

Royal Survivor

Author : Stephen Coote
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312238339
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (383 download)

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Download or read book Royal Survivor written by Stephen Coote and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2001-03-20 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant biography of the monarch who restored the crown to England.

Public Piers Plowman

Author : C. David Benson
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271046204
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book Public Piers Plowman written by C. David Benson and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Public Piers Plowman is divided into two parts. The first is an extended essay on what Benson calls the "Langland myth." He traces the evolution of Piers scholarship and demonstrates the limitations of treating Piers as a direct expression of the poet's experience and intellectual views." "In the second part Benson offers an alternative history for the poem. Benson approaches it from a broader public context, using representative examples from vernacular writing, parish art, and civic practices. He argues that Piers reached a wide contemporary audience because, far from being an account only of the author's own life and opinions, it was securely rooted in the common culture of its time and place."--Jacket.

London Rising

Author : Leo Hollis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802716326
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book London Rising written by Leo Hollis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-05-27 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the stories of five pivotal figures in the rebuilding of London in the years after the English Civil War, the 1665 plague, and the Great Fire of 1666, in an account that offers insight into the contributions of philosopher John Locke, chronicler John Evelyn, architect Robert Hooke, developer Nicholas Barbon, and architect Christopher Wren. 30,000 first printing.

Fourth City

Author : Doran Larson
Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 : 1628950196
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book Fourth City written by Doran Larson and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At 2.26 million, incarcerated Americans not only outnumber the nation’s fourth-largest city, they make up a national constituency bound by a shared condition. Fourth City: Essays from the Prison in America presents more than seventy essays from twenty-seven states, written by incarcerated Americans chronicling their experience inside. In essays as moving as they are eloquent, the authors speak out against a national prison complex that fails so badly at the task of rehabilitation that 60% of the 650,000 Americans released each year return to prison. These essays document the authors’ efforts at self-help, the institutional resistance such efforts meet at nearly every turn, and the impact, in money and lives, that this resistance has on the public. Directly confronting the images of prisons and prisoners manufactured by popular media, so-called reality TV, and for-profit local and national news sources, Fourth City recognizes American prisoners as our primary, frontline witnesses to the dysfunction of the largest prison system on earth. Filled with deeply personal stories of coping, survival, resistance, and transformation, Fourth City should be read by every American who believes that law should achieve order in the cause of justice rather than at its cost.

The Maligned Militia

Author : Christopher L. Scott
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317024613
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Maligned Militia written by Christopher L. Scott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite its failure to unseat King James II, the Monmouth Rebellion had a profound influence upon English politics. In particular, it reignited the debate about whether the country should rely on a professional army under direct royal control or local country militias made up of part-time soldiers. King James favoured the former, and used criticism of the militia’s performance during the rebellion to support his argument. Contemporary commentators and historians alike all certainly seemed to agree that the king’s victory was won in spite of - not because of - the militia. But is this a fair judgement? Drawing upon a wealth of information gathered from personal accounts, private papers, letters, financial records, diaries and memoirs, this book revisits the events of 1685 to assess the militia’s performance in helping to defeat the so-called ’pitchfork rebellion’. Through an extensive investigation into the militia itself, its social composition, role, training, armament and leadership the study sets a benchmark for what could have been realistically expected of these part-time soldiers, and then sets this against the actual tasks that were asked of it in 1685. The results that emerge from this exercise paint a very different picture of the militia’s role in the rebellion than has hitherto been accepted by historians. Judged by these criteria, a convincing case is made that the militia was in fact an efficient military organisation according to contemporary expectations and demands made of it. Criticisms of it, it is argued, stem more from political expediency than impartial judgment. As well as being of interest to military and social historians, this book demonstrates the dangers to all historians of taking at face value contemporary comments. It shows how subtle and interlocking forces, that may at first glance appear unrelated, can work together to colour opinions of events and organisations.

Gender and Power in Shrew-Taming Narratives, 1500-1700

Author : D. Wootton
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230277489
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Gender and Power in Shrew-Taming Narratives, 1500-1700 written by D. Wootton and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores dramatic, narrative and polemical versions of the 'taming of the shrew' story, from the Middle Ages to the Restoration, in light of recent historical work on the position of early modern women in society. Its essays address shrew narratives as an extended cultural dialogue debating issues of gender and sexual politics.

Colonial America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History

Author : James Ciment
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317474163
Total Pages : 3151 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Book Synopsis Colonial America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History by : James Ciment

Download or read book Colonial America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History written by James Ciment and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 3151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No era in American history has been more fascinating to Americans, or more critical to the ultimate destiny of the United States, than the colonial era. Between the time that the first European settlers established a colony at Jamestown in 1607 through the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the outlines of America's distinctive political culture, economic system, social life, and cultural patterns had begun to emerge. Designed to complement the high school American history curriculum as well as undergraduate survey courses, "Colonial America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History" captures it all: the people, institutions, ideas, and events of the first three hundred years of American history. While it focuses on the thirteen British colonies stretching along the Atlantic, Colonial America sets this history in its larger contexts. Entries also cover Canada, the American Southwest and Mexico, and the Caribbean and Atlantic world directly impacting the history of the thirteen colonies. This encyclopedia explores the complete early history of what would become the United States, including portraits of Native American life in the immediate pre-contact period, early Spanish exploration, and the first settlements by Spanish, French, Dutch, Swedish, and English colonists. This monumental five-volume set brings America's colonial heritage vibrantly to life for today's readers. It includes: thematic essays on major issues and topics; detailed A-Z entries on hundreds of people, institutions, events, and ideas; thematic and regional chronologies; hundreds of illustrations; primary documents; and a glossary and multiple indexes.

Statutes at Large ...: (29 v. in 32) Statutes or the United Kingdom, 1801-1806; [1807-1832

Author : Great Britain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Statutes at Large ...: (29 v. in 32) Statutes or the United Kingdom, 1801-1806; [1807-1832 written by Great Britain and published by . This book was released on 1812 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Statutes at Large, of England and of Great-Britain

Author : Great Britain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 894 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Statutes at Large, of England and of Great-Britain written by Great Britain and published by . This book was released on 1811 with total page 894 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sites of Discourse – Public and Private Spheres – Legal Culture

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004456244
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Sites of Discourse – Public and Private Spheres – Legal Culture written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-05-09 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present collection of essays grew out of a conference, held in Dresden in December 2001, exploring the relationship between the public sphere and legal culture. The conference was held in connection with the ongoing research undertaken by the Sonderforschungsbereich 537 ‘Institutionalisation and Historical Change’ and, in particular, by the project ‘Circulation of Legal Norms and Values in British Culture from 1688 to 1900’. The conference papers include essays on the theory of the public sphere from a systematic and historical point of view by Gert Melville, by Peter Uwe Hohendahl and by Jürgen Schlaeger, all of whom try to re-evaluate and/or improve upon Jürgen Habermas’ seminal contribution to the discussion of the emergence of modernism. Alastair Mann’s contribution investigates the situation in Scotland, particularly censorship and the oath of allegiance; Annette Pankratz focuses on the king’s body as a site of the public sphere; Heinz-Joachim Müllenbrock looks into the widespread ‘culture of contention’ at the beginning of the eighteenth century; and Eckhart Hellmuth considers the reform movement at the end of the century and the radical democrats’ insistence on the right to discuss the constitution. Ian Bell, who took part in the conference, suggested the inclusion of part of the first chapter of his seminal study Literature and Crime in Augustan England (1991). Beth Swan, Anna-Christina Giovanopoulos, and Christoph Houswitschka respectively analyse the ideologies of justice, the interrelation between journalism and crime, and the juridical evaluation of the crime of incest and its representation in public. Greta Olson investigates keyholes as liminal spaces between the public and the private, Juliet Wightman focuses on theatre and the bear pit, Uwe Böker examines the court room and prison as public sites of discourse, and York-Gothart Mix discusses the German emigrant culture in North America.

The Balance; Or, Episcopacy Defended: in a Calm Investigation of the Great Problem, is Dissent Good Or Evil?

Author : Internuncio (pseud.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.V/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Balance; Or, Episcopacy Defended: in a Calm Investigation of the Great Problem, is Dissent Good Or Evil? written by Internuncio (pseud.) and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Biography Book

Author : Daniel S. Burt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313017263
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Biography Book written by Daniel S. Burt and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2001-02-28 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Marilyn to Mussolini, people captivate people. A&E's Biography, best-selling autobiographies, and biographical novels testify to the popularity of the genre. But where does one begin? Collected here are descriptions and evaluations of over 10,000 biographical works, including books of fact and fiction, biographies for young readers, and documentaries and movies, all based on the lives of over 500 historical figures from scientists and writers, to political and military leaders, to artists and musicians. Each entry includes a brief profile, autobiographical and primary sources, and recommended works. Short reviews describe the pertinent biographical works and offer insight into the qualities and special features of each title, helping readers to find the best biographical material available on hundreds of fascinating individuals.

Survivors: The Animals and Plants that Time has Left Behind (Text Only)

Author : Richard Fortey
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 000744138X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Survivors: The Animals and Plants that Time has Left Behind (Text Only) written by Richard Fortey and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ebook edition does not include illustrations. An awe-inspiring journey through the eons and across the globe, in search of visible traces of evolution in the living creatures which have survived from earlier times and whose stories speak to us of seminal events in the history of life.