Download or read book Dreaming of the Redcoat Band written by Richard Gnann and published by Mascot Books. This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jody dreams of running across the Sanford Stadium field and Dad helps to make the dream come true. If your blood runs Red and Black, if you dream Bulldog dreams, this book is for you.
Download or read book Dreaming the Beatles written by Rob Sheffield and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An NPR Best Book of the Year • Winner of the Virgil Thomson Award for Outstanding Music Criticism “This is the best book about the Beatles ever written” —Mashable Rob Sheffield, the Rolling Stone columnist and bestselling author of Love Is a Mix Tape offers an entertaining, unconventional look at the most popular band in history, the Beatles, exploring what they mean today and why they still matter so intensely to a generation that has never known a world without them. Dreaming the Beatles is not another biography of the Beatles, or a song-by-song analysis of the best of John and Paul. It isn’t another exposé about how they broke up. It isn’t a history of their gigs or their gear. It is a collection of essays telling the story of what this ubiquitous band means to a generation who grew up with the Beatles music on their parents’ stereos and their faces on T-shirts. What do the Beatles mean today? Why are they more famous and beloved now than ever? And why do they still matter so much to us, nearly fifty years after they broke up? As he did in his previous books, Love is a Mix Tape, Talking to Girls About Duran Duran, and Turn Around Bright Eyes, Sheffield focuses on the emotional connections we make to music. This time, he focuses on the biggest pop culture phenomenon of all time—The Beatles. In his singular voice, he explores what the Beatles mean today, to fans who have learned to love them on their own terms and not just for the sake of nostalgia. Dreaming the Beatles tells the story of how four lads from Liverpool became the world’s biggest pop group, then broke up—but then somehow just kept getting bigger. At this point, their music doesn’t belong to the past—it belongs to right now. This book is a celebration of that music, showing why the Beatles remain the world’s favorite thing—and how they invented the future we’re all living in today.
Download or read book The Girl in the Red Coat written by Roma Ligocka and published by Delta. This book was released on 2003-11-04 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a child in German-occupied Poland, Roma Ligocka was known for the bright strawberry-red coat she wore against a tide of gathering darkness. Fifty years later, Roma, an artist living in Germany, attended a screening of Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List, and instantly knew that “the girl in the red coat”—the only splash of color in the film—was her. Thus began a harrowing journey into the past, as Roma Ligocka sought to reclaim her life and put together the pieces of a shattered childhood. The result is this remarkable memoir, a fifty-year chronicle of survival and its aftermath. With brutal honesty, Ligocka recollects a childhood at the heart of evil: the flashing black boots, the sudden executions, her mother weeping, her father vanished…then her own harrowing escape and the strange twists of fate that allowed her to live on into the haunted years after the war. Powerful, lyrical, and unique among Holocaust memoirs, The Girl in the Red Coat eloquently explores the power of evil to twist our lives long after we have survived it. It is a story for anyone who has ever known the darkness of an unbearable past—and searched for the courage to move forward into the light.
Download or read book Metal Music and the Re imagining of Masculinity Place Race and Nation written by Karl Spracklen and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Metal is a form of popular music. Popular music is a form of leisure. In the modern age, popular music has become part of popular culture, a heavily contested collection of practices and industries that construct place, belonging and power.
Download or read book Tea for Ruby written by Sarah Ferguson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-11-16 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ruby gets a princess-worthy primer on manners in this charming picture book from #1 New York Times bestselling illustrator Robin Preiss Glasser and author Sarah Ferguson, The Duchess of York. Ruby does her best to have good manners—yet no matter her efforts, she just can’t seem to succeed. But when Ruby receives a mysterious surprise invitation to tea with the Queen, she is especially determined to polish her poise. She goes from the postman to her brother to the playground to her parents, trying her hardest to have manners befitting a princess. Will she ever manage to be proper in time for tea at the palace? In this New York Times bestseller, cheerful, elegant text from Sarah Ferguson, The Duchess of York, pairs with Robin Preiss Glasser’s “exuberant illustrations, rendered in her unmistakable Fancy Nancy style (Publishers Weekly)” to create an endearing and gently instructive story about manners.
Download or read book Settler Society in the Australian Colonies written by Angela Woollacott and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1820s to the 1860s were a foundational period in Australian history, arguably at least as important as Federation. Industrialization was transforming Britain, but the southern colonies were pre-industrial, with economies driven by pastoralism, agriculture, mining, whaling and sealing, commerce, and the construction trades. Convict transportation provided the labour on which the first settlements depended before it was brought to a staggered end, first in New South Wales in 1840 and last in Western Australia in 1868. The numbers of free settlers rose dramatically, surging from the 1820s and again during the 1850s gold rushes. The convict system increasingly included assignment to private masters and mistresses, thus offering settlers the inducement of unpaid labourers as well as the availability of land on a scale that both defied and excited the British imagination. By the 1830s schemes for new kinds of colonies, based on Edward Gibbon Wakefield's systematic colonization, gained attention and support. The pivotal development of the 1840s-1850s, and the political events which form the backbone of this story were the Australian colonies' gradual attainment of representative and then responsible government. Through political struggle and negotiation, in which Australians looked to Canada for their model of political progress, settlers slowly became self-governing. But these political developments were linked to the frontier violence that shaped settlers' lives and became accepted as part of respectable manhood. With narratives of individual lives, Settler Society shows that women's exclusion from political citizenship was vigorously debated, and that settlers were well aware of their place in an empire based on racial hierarchies and threatened by revolts. Angela Woollacott particularly focuses on settlers' dependence in these decades on intertwined categories of unfree labour, including poorly-compensated Aborigines and indentured Indian and Chinese labourers, alongside convicts.
Download or read book England s Dreaming written by Jon Savage and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-03 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prince Charlie S Dirk written by Margaret W Price and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-01-14 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historical novel recounts the fortunes of an idealistic young Macdonald lad,Ian,from Glenfinnan, who fought in all the battles of the Jacobite Uprising with his menfolk,supporting Prince Charles. After the terrible Culloden defeat, he finds a silver,bejewelled dirk, at the edge of the battlefield,with the initials C.E.S. on the hilt. Convinced it belongs to Prince Charles himself,he sets out on a determined quest across the Highlands to return it to him, with the desire to go on serving him. This takes many dangerous months,following in the steps of the Prince,fleeing from his enemies. Eventually he finds him and carries out several important missions for him. As the Prince is about to set sail on the French rescue ship "L`Heureux",which is to take him to France and freedom,Ian is faced with a terrible decision.
Download or read book Body at the Melbourne Club written by David Burke and published by Wakefield Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bertram Armytage, son of a wealthy squatter, a popular sportsman who rowed for Cambridge, was the first Australian-born member of an Antarctic expedition. An expert horseman, he was given charge of the ponies in Ernest Shackleton's great 1907-1909 expedition, narrowly escaping the jaws of killer whales. In London he was decorated by royalty, but on coming home to Australia he went to his part-time city residence, the exclusive Melbourne Club, put on his dinner suit and polar medals and, at the age of 41, shot himself. This mystery-cum-biography provides a new perspective on one of Shackleton's greatest expeditions.
Download or read book Catholic World written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Potter s Bunny Tales written by Beatrix Potter and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" is a British children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter that follows mischievous and disobedient young Peter Rabbit as he is chased about the garden of Mr. McGregor. He escapes and returns home to his mother who puts him to bed after dosing him with camomile tea. "The Tale of Benjamin Bunny" is a sequel, and tells of Peter's return to Mr. McGregor's garden with his cousin Benjamin to retrieve the clothes he lost there during his previous adventure. "The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies": Benjamin Bunny and his cousin Flopsy are the parents of six young rabbits called simply The Flopsy Bunnies. The story concerns how the Flopsy Bunnies, while raiding a rubbish heap of rotting vegetables, fall asleep and are captured by Mr. McGregor who places them in a sack. "The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit" - A bad rabbit finds a good rabbit sitting on a bench eating a carrot his mother gave him. Wanting the carrot, he takes it from the good rabbit and scratches him. The good rabbit escapes and hides in a nearby hole. Meanwhile, a hunter notices the bad rabbit sitting on the bench and mistakes him for a bird. Bad rabbit loses his tail and whiskers. Beatrix Potter (1866-1943) was an English author, illustrator, natural scientist, and conservationist best known for her children's books featuring animals. Potter's books continue to sell throughout the world in many languages with her stories being retold in song, film, ballet, and animation.
Download or read book No Man s Land written by Herman Cyril McNeile and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "No Man's Land" by Herman Cyril McNeile. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book Delphi Complete Works of H C McNeile Sapper written by H. C. McNeile and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2024-05-31 with total page 7770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Famous for his pseudonym ‘Sapper’, H. C. McNeile drew on his experiences in the trenches during the First World War for his war stories and novels. His most famous creation is Bulldog Drummond, an ex-British Army Captain turned crime-fighting gentleman vigilante. McNeile’s stories are either directly about the war or feature characters whose lives have been shaped by the conflict. In later years, his work shifted into the genre of thrillers, featuring upper class Englishmen defending England from foreigners plotting against it. For the first time in publishing history, this edition presents McNeile’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to McNeile’s life and works * Concise introductions to the major texts * All the Bulldog Drummond tales, with individual contents tables * Features rare Bulldog Drummond stories appearing for the first time in digital publishing * The complete Ronald Standish and Jim Maitland books * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Rare story collections * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories * Easily locate the tales you want to read * Includes McNeile’s rare non-fiction essay on O. Henry – available in no other collection * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres CONTENTS: The Bulldog Drummond Series Bulldog Drummond (1920) The Black Gang (1922) The Third Round (1924) The Final Count (1926) The Female of the Species (1928) Temple Tower (1929) The Return of Bulldog Drummond (1932) Knock Out (1933) Bulldog Drummond at Bay (1935) Challenge (1937) Uncollected Bulldog Drummond Stories The Ronald Standish Series The Saving Clause (1927) Tiny Carteret (1930) Ronald Standish (1933) Ask for Ronald Standish (1936) The Jim Maitland Series Jim Maitland (1923) The Island of Terror (1931) Miscellaneous Stories A Novel Mufti (1919) The Short Story Collections The Lieutenant and Others (1915) Sergeant Michael Cassidy, R.E. (1915) Men, Women and Guns (1916) No Man’s Land (1917) The Human Touch (1918) The Man in Ratcatcher and Other Stories (1921) The Dinner Club (1923) Out of the Blue (1925) Word of Honour (1926) When Carruthers Laughed (1927) The Finger of Fate (1930) The Short Stories List of Short Stories in Chronological Order List of Short Stories in Alphabetical Order The Non-Fiction Introduction to ‘The Best of O. Henry’ (1930)
Download or read book John Walters written by Sapper and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the ranks of the North Sussex serves a man whose physical stature is imposing, but whose mental state is said to be inert at best. This is the story of his remarkable awakening, one hot day in May, as he serves in the trenches of the front line. Other fascinating stories follow in this convincing commentary of wartime experience.
