Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars
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In the 1940s and 50s, when the newly minted Jet Propulsion Laboratory needed quick-thinking...
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Rhythm & Blues in New Orleans
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Rhythm and Blues in New Orleans is a comprehensive history documenting the rise and development of a...
The Custard Corpses
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A delicious 1940s mystery. Birmingham, England, UK, 1943. While the whine of the air raid...
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The Distant Dead
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LONDON, 1940 Several neighbours heard the scream of the woman in the bombed-out house. One told the...
Country Music - Topic
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Country music, also known as country and western, and hillbilly music, is a genre of popular music...
Sombreros and Motorcycles in a Newer South: The Politics of Aesthetics in South Carolina's Tourism Industry
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In 1949, Alan Schafer opened South of the Border, a beer stand located on bucolic farmland in Dillon...
West End Girls
Barbara Tate and Johannes Buhrmann
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A vivid and compelling memoir recounting the real lives, loves and friendship of 1940s Soho and its...
Radio Astronomer: John Bolton and a New Window on the Universe
Peter Robertson, Ron Ekers and Ken Kellerman
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The leading Australian astronomer of his generation, John Bolton (1922-93), was born in Sheffield...
Blues All Day Long: The Jimmy Rogers Story
Wayne Everett Goins and Kim Wilson
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A member of Muddy Waters' legendary late 1940s-1950s band, Jimmy Rogers pioneered a blues guitar...
No. 13 Herbert Road: Tales of Growing Up in Small Heath, Birmingham
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No.13 Herbert Road is an engaging autobiographical account of a young boy growing up in the back...