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Beneath the Underdog
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Bass player extraordinaire Charles Mingus, who died in 1979, is one of the essential composers in...
Captain Marvel: The Death of Captain Marvel
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Collects Captain Marvel (1968) #34, Marvel Spotlight (1979) #1-2 And Marvel Graphic Novel #1: The...
The New Shostakovich
Book
Who was Dmitri Shostakovich? The USSR's official figurehead composer and son of the revolution that...
Simply Thrilled: The Preposterous Story of Postcard Records
Book
They had just a few hundred pounds, one band missing a drummer, a sock drawer for an office, more...
So Much Things to Say: The Oral History of Bob Marley
Roger Steffens and Linton Kwesi Johnson
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Roger Steffens toured with Marley for two weeks of his final tour of California in 1979 and the...
Look at You Now: One Girl's Journey from Shame to Strength
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In 1979, Liz Pryor, a good girl from a privileged Chicago family, discovered that she was pregnant....
Monsters of the Ivy League
Steve Radlauer, Ellis Weiner and Randy Jones
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If, like most Americans, you think an Ivy League diploma paves the way to Nobel Prizes, Wall Street...
Drunk Tank Pink: The Subconscious Forces That Shape How We Think, Feel, and Behave
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'Drunk Tank Pink' is a particular shade of pink. In 1979 psychologists discovered that it has an...
Hinault
Philippe Brunel, Bernard Hinault and Ruben Van Gucht
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The life of Bernard Hinault - the French former cyclist who won the Tour de France five times - is...