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How They Blew It: The CEOs and Entrepreneurs Behind Some of the World's Most ... - Jamie Oliver, Tony Goodwin - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=dE3BgnsaOrQC&pg=PA93&lpg=PA93&dq=Harold+Samuel,+Baron+Samuel+of+Wych+Cross&source=bl&ots=kBvi5jg
How They Blew It is a series of eye-popping tales of entrepreneurs and business leaders who went from corporate gurus to financial disaster zones in rapid and humiliating fashion. Full of surprising details and mind-blowing sums of money, it looks at the…
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American Slave Revolts and Conspiracies: A Reference Guide: A Reference Guide - Kerry Walters - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=MhGFCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA76
Hundreds of slave revolts and conspiracies occurred during the two centuries that North America engaged in slavery. None were successful, but certain campaigns were significant enough to inspire other revolts, fuel a chronic fear of uprising in…
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American Slave Revolts and Conspiracies: A Reference Guide: A Reference Guide - Kerry Walters - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=MhGFCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA78
Hundreds of slave revolts and conspiracies occurred during the two centuries that North America engaged in slavery. None were successful, but certain campaigns were significant enough to inspire other revolts, fuel a chronic fear of uprising in…
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American Slave Revolts and Conspiracies: A Reference Guide: A Reference Guide - Kerry Walters - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=MhGFCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA74
Hundreds of slave revolts and conspiracies occurred during the two centuries that North America engaged in slavery. None were successful, but certain campaigns were significant enough to inspire other revolts, fuel a chronic fear of uprising in…
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American Slave Revolts and Conspiracies: A Reference Guide: A Reference Guide - Kerry Walters - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=MhGFCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA68
Hundreds of slave revolts and conspiracies occurred during the two centuries that North America engaged in slavery. None were successful, but certain campaigns were significant enough to inspire other revolts, fuel a chronic fear of uprising in…
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Killing in the Name of Identity: A Study of Bloody Conflicts - Vamik Volkan - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=9AyeCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT124
"Why do they hate us so?" Vamik Volkan has the most compelling, humane, and universal response to the riddle of our time. In this extraordinary and timely book, Volkan explains better than anyone the relationship between large-group identities and massive…
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The Culture of Spontaneity: Improvisation and the Arts in Postwar America - Daniel Belgrad - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=Ti0jsxHJzVMC&pg=PA232&lpg=PA232&dq=Neurotica+magazine&source=bl&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Neurotic
The Culture of Spontaneity is the first comprehensive history of the postwar avant-garde, integrating such diverse moments in American culture as abstract expressionism, bebop jazz, gestalt therapy, Black Mountain College, Jungian psychology, beat poetry,…
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Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America - Benjamin L. Carp - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=upd6d3UDfTgC&redir_esc=y
This thrilling book tells the full story of the an iconic episode in American history, the Boston Tea Party-exploding myths, exploring the unique city life of eighteenth-century Boston, and setting this audacious prelude to the American Revolution in a…
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Bohemian Paris: Picasso, Modigliani, Matisse, and the Birth of Modern Art - Dan Franck - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=eHIMLGwiTvQC&pg=PA98&lpg=PA98&dq=Nu+bleu,+Souvenir+de+Biskra+leo+gertrude+stein&source=bl&ots=Li
From an acclaimed French writer, a vivid & compelling history of the most remarkable period in international culture: the birth of modernism in the cross-cultural ferment that was Paris in the early 1900s. A legendary capital of the arts, Paris hosted some…
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Dark Romance: Sexuality in the Horror Film - David J. Hogan - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=QzpoSGkslEgC&pg=PA293&dq=%22William+Girdler%22+1978&hl=de&sa=X&ei=TbcPUZH9I8jCtAbS6oDQAQ&ved=0CF
The darkly handsome man gazes deeply into her eyes. She finds him irresistible, wants to experience the passion of the moment. He grins—the movie audience can see his lengthened lateral incisors—and bends to her neck. The eroticism is horrible, and…