Calling Me Home: Gram Parsons and the Roots of Country Rock
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On September 19, 1973, Gram Parsons became yet another rock-and-roll casualty in an era of excess, a...
Comin' Right at Ya: How a Jewish Yankee Hippie Went Country, or, the Often Outrageous History of Asleep at the Wheel
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A six-foot-seven-inch Jewish hippie from Philadelphia starts a Western swing band in 1970, when...
Death and Mr Pickwick
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On 31 March 1836 the publishers Chapman and Hall launched the first issue of a new monthly...
Eleanor Marx: A Life
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Unrestrained by convention, lionhearted and free, Eleanor Marx (1855-98) was an exceptional woman....
Lady Catherine and the Real Downton Abbey
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Sometimes the facts are even more extraordinary than the fiction...This book tells the story of Lady...
Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House Between the Wars
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"[A] fantastically readable and endlessly fascinating book...Delicious, occasionally fantastical,...
Lead and Disrupt: How to Solve the Innovator's Dilemma
Charles A. O'Reilly and Michael L. Tushman
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In the past few years, a number of well-known firms have failed; think of Blockbuster, Kodak, or...
Pedigree: How Elite Students Get Elite Jobs
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Americans are taught to believe that upward mobility is possible for anyone who is willing to work...
Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade
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When it comes to persuasion, success can begin before you say a word. In his global best-seller...
Car Crashes without Cars: Lessons About Simulation Technology and Organizational Change from Automotive Design
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Every workday we wrestle with cumbersome and unintuitive technologies. Our response is usually...