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East London Buses: 1970s-1980sThe East London bus scene in 1969 was one of contrast. This was London's industrial heartland with the River Thames bankside dominated by docks, power stations and heavy industry, including the massive Ford Motor works at Dagenham. Inland, dense inner city housing gave way...
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B. R. Ambedkar: The Man Who Gave Hope to India's DispossessedA household name throughout India, B. R. Ambedkar is one of the country's most important figures, second only to Mahatma Gandhi. He played a major role in drafting the constitution for a newly independent India and led the fight against caste-based discrimination. Ambedkar was...
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The Boxer's Story: Fighting for My Life in the Nazi CampsOnce in a while there comes along a story so powerful and so emotive that it makes you rethink your own values. This is the story of Nathan Shapow, a young Latvian, born in Riga, with nothing more on his mind than becoming a...
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British Buses and Coaches in the Late 1970sThe provincial bus operations of Britain underwent great upheavals following legislation enacted in 1969. An expanded state-owned sector had merged the Tilling and BET groups to form the National Bus Company. The great corporation fleets of the Midlands and North had been combined with...
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Enlightening the World: The Creation of the Statue of LibertyConceived in the aftermath of the American Civil War and the grief that swept France over the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the Statue of Liberty has been a potent symbol of the nation's highest ideals since it was unveiled in 1886. Dramatically situated on...
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The Speakeasies of 1932: PaperbackWhen Manhattan joints were hung out to dry, the Booze-oizie sniveled, then pirouetted on their stools to find reasonably palatable Speakeasy facsimiles. These Prohibition hangouts each had their own flavor, decorum, d cor and formula for ducking the law. Each found its own alcoholic...
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The Rag Trade: The People Who Made Our ClothesThis book is about people who worked in the rag trade in the nineteenth century - dressmakers and milliners, tailors, two shoemakers, a framework knitter, a family of corset manufacturers and a lace maker. It deals with the trades and their products, but also...
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Under a Bloodred Sky: Avigdor Hameiri's War Stories and PoetryThis book represents an anthology of Avigdor Hameiri's ten most compelling war stories and poetry. They are unique in mixing the supernatural and macabre with war, pogroms, and antisemitism, and reflect the unique complexity of the Jewish soldier's experience of the most vicious war...
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Gateway to Glorieta: A History of Las Vegas, New MexicoLas Vegas, New Mexico has been characterized as "two towns, one place," "The Town that wouldn't gamble," and "The Wildest of the Wild West." The descriptions are at least partially accurate, but they fail to capture the essence of this small city. Much has...
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Mark O. Hatfield: Oregon Statesman Volume 33In a career in public office spanning five decades, Mark Odom Hatfield (1922-2011) never lost an election. First elected to the Oregon House of Representatives in 1950, he retired from political office in 1997 after serving as Oregon state senator, secretary of state, and...
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The Nobles Emigrant TrailWilliam Nobles pioneered the Nobles Trail in 1851. It provided a shortcut between the Applegate in Nevada and the last section of the Lassen Trail in California. It became what all other trails to California would have wanted to become: shorter, more direct to...
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Creating Picturesque America: Monument to the Natural and Cultural LandscapeThe first comprehensive study of how this remarkable publication reinforced and promoted the way Americans viewed progress, nature, and their own country in the years following the Civil War.Author: Sue RaineyPublisher: Applewood BooksPublished: 01/01/2001Pages: 383Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.95lbsSize: 9.30h x 6.30w x 1.30dISBN: 9781557095343About...
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The 60s Communes: Hippies and BeyondThe greatest wave of communal living in American history crested in the tumultuous 1960s era including the early 1970s. To the fascination and amusement of more decorous citizens, hundreds of thousands of mostly young dreamers set out to build a new culture apart from...
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No Spark of Malice: The Murder of Martin BegnaudOn April 22, 1896, Martin Begnaud was brutally murdered in his general store in Scott Station, Louisiana. He was bound, gagged, blindfolded, stabbed more than fifty times, and robbed of over $5,000. Ten months later, after one of the most extensive manhunts in nineteenth-century...
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Comanche Jack Stilwell: Army Scout and PlainsmanIn 1863, the thirteen-year-old boy who would come to be called Comanche Jack was sent to the well to fetch water. Instead, he joined a wagon train bound for Santa Fe. Thus began the exploits of Simpson E. "Jack" Stilwell (1850-1903), a man generally...
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Unbuttoning America: A Biography of Peyton PlacePublished in 1956, Peyton Place became a bestseller and a literary phenomenon. A lurid and gripping story of murder, incest, female desire, and social injustice, it was consumed as avidly by readers as it was condemned by critics and the clergy. Its author, Grace...
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Hastings Mill: The Historic Times of a Vancouver CommunityIn the summer of 1865 when Captain Edward Stamp began to organize the construction of a small saw milling operation on the south shore of Burrard Inlet, he likely never realized that a future metropolis was in the making. The fledgling Stamp's Mill, later...
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Murder, Inc.: The CIA Under John F. KennedyLate in his life, former president Lyndon B. Johnson told a reporter that he didn't believe the Warren Commission's finding that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in killing President John F. Kennedy. Johnson thought Cuban president Fidel Castro was behind it. After all, Johnson...
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Homestead Steel Mill-The Final Ten Years: Uswa Local 1397 and the Fight for Union DemocracySpanning the famous Homestead steel strike of 1892 through the century-long fight for a union and union democracy, Homestead Steel Mill--the Final Ten Years is a case history on the vitality of organized labor. Written by fellow worker and musician Mike Stout, the book...
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Hard and Noble Lives: A Living Tradition of Cowboys and Ranchers in Wyoming's Hoback BasinA narrative history of the settlement of the Hoback Basin in western Wyoming, and peppered with historic photographs, Jensen's book is filled with fascinating and unusual characters whose life stories are the stories of ordinary people who did extraordinary things. They remind us how...
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