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George Best and 21 Others - Colin Shindler - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=R6LFGH8D4DYC
In the spring of 1964 more than 50,000 people turned out to watch the two-legged semi-final of the FA Youth Cup between Manchester City and Manchester United. It was a time of great hope and excitement: a new era was to be ushered in, with the virtues of…
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Rocket Man: Robert H. Goddard and the Birth of the Space Age - David A. Clary - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=1I5rAwAAQBAJ
More famous in his day than Einstein or Edison, the troubled, solitary genius Robert H. Goddard (1882-1945) was the American father of rocketry and space flight, launching the world's first liquid-fuel rockets and the first powered vehicles to break the…
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The Battle of Crécy: A Casebook - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=cuLfsgEACAAJ&pg=PA415#v=onepage
This book explores the emergence and development of terraforming in science fiction from H.G. Wells's The War of the Worlds (1898) to James Cameron's blockbuster Avatar (2009). Terraforming is the process of making other worlds habitable for human life.…
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Empire of Difference: The Ottomans in Comparative Perspective - Karen Barkey - Google Books
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This book is a comparative study of imperial organization and longevity that assesses Ottoman successes as well as failures against those of other empires with similar characteristics. Barkey examines the Ottoman Empire's social organization and mechanisms…
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Sidewinder: Creative Missile Development at China Lake - Ron Westrum - Google Books
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In the mid-1950s a small group of overworked, underpaid scientists and engineers, working on a remote base in the Mojave Desert, developed a weapon no one had asked for but that everyone was looking for. Sidewinder is the story of how that unorthodox team…
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Parenting Culture Studies - Ellie Lee, Jennie Bristow, Charlotte Faircloth, Jan Macvarish - Google Books
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Why have the minutiae of how parents raise their children become routine sources of public debate and policy making? This book provides in-depth answers to these features drawing on a wide range of sources from sociology, history, anthropology and…
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War and Independence In Spanish America - Anthony McFarlane - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=TdZtAQAAQBAJ
During the period from 1808 to 1826, the Spanish empire was convulsed by wars throughout its dominions in Iberia and the Americas. The conflicts began in Spain, where Napoleon’s invasion triggered a war of national resistance. The collapse of the Spanish…
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Himmler's Diary 1945: A Calendar of Events Leading to Suicide - Stephen Tyas, Peter Witte - Google Books
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Himmler's Diary 1945: A Calendar of Events Leading to Suicide is an exceptional work with unpublished diary entries made by Himmler that shows in detail how The Third Reich fell to ruin in its final bloody year. Reichsfuhrer-SS Heinrich Himmler was…
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Trailblazers: The Tragic Lives of Gram Parsons, Nick Drake & Jeff Buckley - David Bret - Google Books
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Parsons, Drake and Buckley were three young musicians who died before they had made their mark on the musical world, yet left behind them a legacy that was as rich as it was beautiful. Ex-preacher Parsons was outrageous, outspoken but impeccably polite.…
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Two Last Festivals 2014 | Facebook
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Damn time flies. It feels like it was a week ago we wereplanning the summer shows with the guys at our little rehearsal garage and nowit’s already the l