Land of Our Fathers
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"I can't believe we're arguing over a Blue Riband" "I can't believe we're stuck down a mine." "Yet...
Tin Pan Alley: the Rise of Elton John
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This book details Sir Elton's formative years: from training as a classical pianist at the Royal...
The Men Who Stare at Goats
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In 1979 a secret unit was established by the most gifted minds within the US Army. Defying all known...
A Regicide
Alain Robbe-Grillet and John Calder
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Set in an unspecified island kingdom, A Regicide tells the story of the statistician Boris who,...
Regional Demographic Development
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Originally published in 1979. This volume brings together the work of distinguished demographers,...
The Blindfold Horse: Memories of a Persian Childhood
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Long before the momentous Iranian Revolution of 1979, which placed the country under strict...
Discovering Scarfolk
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"Scarfolk is a town in north-west England that did not progress beyond 1979. The entire decade of...
The Raincoats' the Raincoats
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"Rather than listening to them, I feel like I'm listening in on them," Kurt Cobain once wrote of the...
The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe
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In 1979 Elizabeth Eisenstein provided the first full-scale treatment of the fifteenth-century...
Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan, 1979-89
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As former ambassador to Moscow, Rodric Braithwaite brings unique insights to the Soviet war in...