Magic City Nights: Birmingham's Rock 'n' Roll Years
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This exploration of rock 'n' roll music and culture in Birmingham, Alabama, is based on the oral...
Masterminding Nature: The Breeding of Animals, 1750-2010
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In Masterminding Nature, Margaret Derry examines the evolution of modern animal breeding from the...
Narrow Boats
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The traditional cargo-carrying narrowboat - recently voted one of the 100 icons of England - emerged...
Preparatory Principles
Douglas G. Long, Jeremy Bentham and Philip Schofield
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Preparatory Principles is not a linear text in the conventional sense, but consists of a series of...
River Trent
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The River Trent may be connected by some with a north Staffordshire city, the centre of ceramics or...
The Savage Shore: Extraordinary Stories of Survival and Tragedy from the Early Voyages of Discovery
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For centuries before the arrival in Australia of Captain Cook and the so-called First Fleet in 1788,...
The Victorian House Explained
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From the majestic rows of gleaming white terraces in West London to the grid of red-brick houses in...
The Welsh Castles Story
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Often described as 'the land of castles' and the world's 'castle capital', Wales has an abundance of...
When Baseball Met Big Bill Haywood: The Battle for Manchester, New Hampshire, 1912-1916
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In the early 20th century, immigration, labor unrest, social reforms and government regulations...
The Day of the Triffids
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Bill Masen, bandages over his wounded eyes, misses the most spectacular meteorite shower England has...