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Seven Dirty Words: The Life and Crimes of George Carlin - James Sullivan - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=IWYmZd1T3HkC&printsec=frontcover&dq=seven+dirty+words&hl=de&sa=X&ei=22lBVYvhJIffOOXAgdAE&ved=0C
In Seven Dirty Words, journalist and cultural critic James Sullivan tells the story of Alternative America from the 1950s to the present, from the singular vantage point of George Carlin, the Catholic boy for whom nothing was sacred. A critical biography,…
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Ninety Degrees North: The Quest for the North Pole - Fergus Fleming - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=qIikAUYyRcUC&printsec=frontcover&dq=fleming+fergus+ninety&hl=de&ei=ABnOTvGdD8bbsgbenLS3DA&sa=X&o
In the nineteenth century, theories about the North Pole ran rampant. Was it an open sea? Was it a portal to new worlds within the globe? Or was it just a wilderness of ice? When Sir John Franklin disappeared in the Arctic in 1845, explorers decided it was…
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Tramp: The Life of Charlie Chaplin - Joyce Milton - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=Q8LM2FvSF70C
Charlie Chaplin made an amazing seventy-one films by the time he was only thirty-three years old. He was not only known as the world’s first international movie star, but as a comedian, film director, and a man ripe with scandal, accused of plagiarism,…
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Black Angel: The Life of Arshile Gorky - Nouritza Matossian - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=SkkjCQAAQBAJ&pg=PR14&dq=Douglas+John+Connah&hl=de&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjDnLLyu9LZAhVFzaQKHSlxCYo4ChC
In this first full-scale biography of the artist Robert Hughes called "a kind of Bridge of Sighs between Surrealism and America," Nouritza Matossian charts the life of Arshile Gorky, one of the most mysterious of major twentieth-century artists.…
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Deceptions of World War II - William B. Breuer - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=ZDZ1f44NvJcC&pg=PA134
Critical acclaim for William B. Breuer"A first-class historian."-The Wall Street JournalTop Secret Tales of World War II"A book for rainy days and long solitary nights by the fire. If there were a genre for cozy nonfiction, this would be the…
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D.H. Lawrence: The Life of an Outsider - John Worthen - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=jrEycEbOH3AC&pg=PA351#v=onepage
"Quoting extensively from rarely seen letters and drawing on a wealth of original research, John Worthen tells Lawrence's story from the inside for the first time: following him from his awkward and intense youth in a Midlands colliery town; through his…
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A Byzantine Journey - John Ash - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=eQCKEk1GXlYC&pg=PA111&dq=ayazin&as_brr=3
A high point of civilization and artistic accomplishment, the Byzantine Empire has also been the object of great misunderstanding and prejudice. This is a portrayal of its cultural history, focusing on its surreal landscapes and fantastic monuments. The…
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Autopsy For An Empire: The Seven Leaders Who Built the Soviet Regime - Dmitri Volkogonov - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=q6V80unMR1MC
The late Dmitri Volkogonov emerged in the last decade of his life as the preeminent Russian historian of this century. His crowning achievement is the account of the seven General Secretaries of the Soviet Empire in Autopsy for an Empire, a book that tells…
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The Tales of the Heike - Burton Watson, Haruo Shirane - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=PyMIqTUzzLIC&pg=PA15#v=onepage
Originally written in the mid-thirteenth century, The Tales of the Heike chronicles the epic Genpei war, a civil conflict that marked the end of the power of the Heike clan and changed the course of Japanese history. Featuring a vivid cast of characters,…
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Sounds Like Teen Spirit: Stolen Melodies, Ripped-Off Riffs, and the Secret ... - Timothy English - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?hl=de&lr=&id=j0ZU_SZR9FQC&oi=fnd&pg=PA3&dq
"A fun read that'll have you replaying the songs in your mind and on your stereo." -Chicago Tribune Have you ever listened to a new song and felt as if you'd heard it before? It's not your imagination. Melodies are "borrowed," consciously or…