Uncommon People - The Rise and Fall of the Rock Stars 1...
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Entertain Us - The Rise and Fall of Alternative Rock in...
The Rise and Fall of Alternative Rock in the Nineties In 19...
Dynasty - The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar
Rome was first ruled by kings, then became a republic. But i...
The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee: Evolution an...
The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee: Evolution and Hum...
The Profession of Violence - The Rise and Fall of the K...
The classic, bestselling account of the infamous Kray twins,...
Empire of the Summer Moon - Quanah Parker and the Rise ...
In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Gwynn...
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich - A History of Naz...
Shirer offers an unparalleled and thrillingly told examinati...
Concorde - The Rise and Fall of the Supersonic Airliner...
In Concorde, Jonathan Glancey tells the story of this magnif...
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs - The Untold Story o...
66 million years ago the dinosaurs were wiped from the face ...
America's Snake : The Rise and Fall of the Timber Rattl...
There s no sound quite like it; or as viscerally terrifying:...
Uncommon People - The Rise And Fall Of The Rock Stars 1955-1994
Uncommon Soldier - Brave, Compassionate and Tough, the Making of Australia's Modern Diggers
Illuminating The Australian If you read only one book related to Anzac Day.make it Uncommon Soldier. Masters has produced a fair-minded, clear-eyed study of the contemporary Australian Army. Saturday Age Chris Masters Uncommon Soldier is an uncommon book.He writes as the fine journalist that he is. Daily Telegraph A rare and in-depth analysis of the present-day Digger ...
Preserving Our Proud Heritage - The Customs and Traditions of the Australian Army
The Australian Armys customs and traditions represent the symbols and substance of much of our national character, adopted from Armys forebears and developed since 1901 to where we are today. In the form of the `Rising Sun, these traditions shape Armys institutional values and to an extent its collective personality, which provides along with serving members both past and present ...
Under the Southern Cross - The Heroics and Heartbreak of the Ashes in Australia
The enigmatic trophy that bears Test crickets historic soul is also one of international sports most emblematic. Over 140 years, the tiny terracotta Ashes urn has witnessed the rise of champions and heroes, villains and the vilified. Beyond the lush surrounds of Lords, Edgbaston, Old Trafford and The Oval lies a continent apart, where history is replaced by yarns, and polite silence...
Please Explain: The Rise; Fall and Rise Again of Pauline Hanson
In 1996; Pauline Hanson gave a speech that changed Australia. Targeting Asian and Indigenous people and foreign aid; Hanson unleashed a Pandoraâs box of division on the country. When she famously lost her federal seat in 1998; her political downfall seemed assured â but she stayed firmly in the spotlight; whether she was being locked up for electoral fraud or jiving on Dancing with ...
Manson - The Life and Times of Charles Manson
The New York Times bestselling, authoritative account of the life of Charles Manson, filled with surprising new information and previously unpublished photographs: A riveting, almost Dickensian narrative
four stars (People). More than forty years ago Charles Manson and his mostly female commune killed nine people, among them the pregnant actress Sharon Tate. It was the culmination of a crimin...
The Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid - Travels Through my Childhood
Bill Brysons first travel book opened with the immortal line, I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to. In this deeply funny and personal memoir, he travels back in time to explore the ordinary kid he once was, in the curious world of 1950s Middle America. It was a happy time, when almost everything was good for you, including DDT, cigarettes and nuclear fallout. This is a book about one boys...
The Monk and the Riddle - The Art of Creating a Life While Making a Life
What would you be willing to do for the rest of your life
? Its a question most of us consider only hypothetically-opting instead to do what we have to do to earn a living. But in the critically acclaimed bestseller The Monk and the Riddle, entrepreneurial sage Randy Komisar asks us to answer it for real. The books timeless advice-to make work pay not just in cash, but in experience, sa...
The Rise of Superman - Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance
A razor-sharp analysis of how record-breaking exploits in extreme sport are redefining the limits of being human. Right now, more people are risking their lives for their sports then ever before in history. As Thomas Pynchon once put it in Gravitys Rainbow, it is not often that Death is told so clearly to f@%* off. Over the past three decades, the bounds of the possible in action and adve...
The Net and the Butterfly - The Art and Practice of Breakthrough Thinking
The creative mode in your brain is like a butterfly. Its beautiful and erratic, hard to catch and highly valued as a result. If you want to capture it, you need a net. Enter the executive mode, the task-oriented network in your brain that help you tie your shoes, run a meeting, or pitch a client. To succeed, you need both modes to work togetheryour inner butterfly to be active and free, but yo...
Made in the USA - The Rise and Retreat of American Manufacturing
An argument that Americas economy needs a strong and innovative manufacturing sector and the jobs it creates. Theres no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.-Bill Gates In Made in the USA, Vaclav Smil powerfully rebuts the notion that manufacturing is a relic of predigital history and that the loss of American manufacturing is a desirable evolutionary step toward a...
Dynasty - The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar
Rome was first ruled by kings, then became a republic. But in the end, after conquering the world, the Republic collapsed. Rome was drowned in blood. So terrible were the civil wars that the Roman people finally came to welcome the rule of an autocrat who could give them peace. Augustus, their new master called himself: The Divinely Favoured One. The lurid glamour of the dynasty founded b...
The Fender Telecaster - The Life and Times of the Electric Guitar That Changed the World
An in-depth history and celebration of over six decades of the Tele, now available in paperback.The Fender Telecaster is a working-class hero and the ultimate blue-collar guitar. It wasnt meant to be elegant, pretty, or sophisticated. Designed to be a utilitarian musical instrument, it has lived up to that destiny. In the hands of players from Muddy Waters to James Burton, Bruce Springsteen to J...
The Life and Love of the Sea
Combining images from worlds leading marine and nature photographers and the latest in underwater photography techniques, The Life & Love of the Sea is a breathtaking visual tour of the oceans many facets. Readers will experience the land meeting the sea with images of dramatic coastlines, barrier reefs and island chains, and the breathtaking power of the ocean through a stunning collection of...
Madame de Villeneuve's the Story of the Beauty and the Beast - The Original Classic French Fairytale
Think you know the story of Beauty and the Beast? Think again! This book contains the original tale by Madame de Villeneuve, first published in 1740, and although the classic elements of Beauty giving up her freedom to live with the Beast, during which time she begins to see beyond his grotesque appearance, are present, there is a wealth of rich back story to how the Prince became cursed and r...
The Complete Book of Classic Chevrolet Muscle Cars - 1955-1974
Chevrolet didnt invent the overhead-valve pushrod V-8 engine, but without question Ed Cole and company perfected it. And General Motors Bowtie division wasnt the first to put the engine design in a production car, but it was the first to put the engine design in an affordable production car and make it available to the average driver. No other automobile in history so clearly demarcates a be...
Walls Come Tumbling Down - The Music and Politics of Rock Against Racism, 2 Tone and Red Wedge
An oral history from the acclaimed writer of Isle of Noises Walls Come Tumbling Down charts the pivotal period between 1976 and 1992 that saw politics and pop music come together for the first time in Britains musical history; musicians and their fans suddenly became instigators of social change, and the political persuasion of musicians was as important as the songs they sang. Through the ...
The Rise and Fall of a Domestic Diva
The queen of the black-hearted soap opera is back! Welcome to the upwardly mobile Prendergast Road
On Prendergast Road, deep in Nappy Valley, among olive trees in terracotta, lower fuel emissions, Lithuanian prostitutes, teenage drug dealers, stalkers and soaring house prices, five desperate women wait
The progeny of the IVF generation is ready to start school and only one of them is destined t...
Walls Come Tumbling Down - The Music and Politics of Rock Against Racism, 2 Tone and Red Wedge
Walls Come Tumbling Down charts the pivotal period between 1976 and 1992 that saw politics and pop music come together for the first time in Britains musical history; musicians and their fans suddenly became instigators of social change, and the political persuasion of musicians was as important as the songs they sang. Through the voices of campaigners, musicians, artists and politicians, Da...
Runnin' with the Devil - A Backstage Pass to the Wild Times, Loud Rock, and the Down and Dirty Truth Behind the Making o...
Beginning in 1978, Van Halens rise was one of the most thrilling the rock world had ever seen-their mythos an epic party with a sweaty, sexy, finger-tapping guitar solo as an encore. During this infamous run of success, debauchery, and drama, few people were closer to the band than their manager, Noel Monk. A man whod worked with some of rocks biggest and most notorious names, Monk spent sev...
Brainstorm - the power and purpose of the teenage brain
In this groundbreaking book, the bestselling author of Parenting from the Inside Out and The Whole-Brain Child shows parents how to turn one of the most challenging developmental periods in their childrens lives into one of the most rewarding. Between the ages of 12 and 24, the brain changes in important and often maddening ways. Its no wonder that many parents approach their childs adolesc...
The Wrath and the Dawn - The Wrath and the Dawn Book 1
A #1 New York Times bestseller and a sumptuous, epic tale inspired by A Thousand and One Nights.A riveting Game of Thrones meets Arabian Nights love story US WeeklyEvery dawn brings horror to a different family in a land ruled by a killer. Khalid, the eighteen-year-old Caliph of Khorasan, takes a new bride each night only to have her executed at sunrise. So it is a terrible surprise when si...