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  Man Bites Dog - Hot Dog Culture...

  Bruce Kraig, Patty Carroll

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  Whether you call them franks, wieners, or red hots, hot dogs are as American as apple pie, but how did these little links become icons of American culture? Man Bites Dog explores the transformation of hot dogs from unassuming street fare to paradigms of regional expression, social mobility, and democracy. World-renowned hot dog scholar Bruce Kraig investigates the history, people, décor, and venues that make up hot dog culture and what it says about our country.  These humble sausages cross ethnic and regional boundaries and have provided the means for plucky entrepreneurs to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Hot dogs, and the ways we enjoy them, are part of the American dream. Man Bites Dog celebrates the power of the hot dog through a historical survey and profiles of notable hot dog purveyors. Loaded with stunning color photos by Patty Carroll, descriptions of neighborhood venues and flashy pushcarts from New York to Los Angeles, and recipes for cooking up hot dog heaven at home, this book is the u

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  Anna Pavlova

  Vera Krasovskaya

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  Episodes from life and work of the great ballerina Anna Pavlova.

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  Oasis: What's The Story?: Life...

  Iain Robertson

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  *THE MUST-LISTEN BOOK FOR THE OASIS REUNION TOUR*'Deserves to stay on the bestseller lists for a long time to come' - Caitlin Moran'Brilliant' - NMEOasis were a band like bands used to be. Hard-drinking and substance abusing. If they liked you, they loved you. If they didn't, you had to be prepared for confrontation. Iain Robertson is used to tough jobs - after retiring from the Parachute Regiment, he took on jobs guarding George Harrison, Gary Moore and Johnny Rotten. But keeping Oasis on the rails after debut album Definitely Maybe ignited their rise toward global superstardom would be the toughest gig of them all. Oasis would explode into public consciousness and have the world at their feet in the wake of their epic first album and a huge world tour. Iain was side-by-side as their road manager and minder, twenty-four hours a day, eight days a week, as they took on the world and won. No one was closer. Now updated with new unpublished material to celebrate the thirty year anniversary of Definitely Maybe and ahead of their upcoming reunion tour, this story is the defining chronicle of life on tour with Oasis.

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  Ghost Rider - Travels on the...

  Neil Peart

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  Within a ten-month period, Neil Peart lost both his 19-year-old daughter, Selena, and his wife, Jackie. Faced with overwhelming sadness and isolated from the world in his home on the lake, Peart was left without direction. This memoir tells of the sense of personal devastation that led him on a 55,000-mile journey by motorcycle across much of North America, down through Mexico to Belize, and back again. 
  Peart’s journey of self-exile and exploration chronicle his personal odyssey and include stories of reuniting with friends and family, grieving, and reminiscing. He recorded with dazzling artistry, the enormous range of his travel adventures, from the mountains to the seas, from the deserts to the Arctic ice, and the memorable people who contributed to his healing. 
  Ghost Rider is a brilliantly written, and ultimately triumphant narrative memoir from a gifted writer and the drummer and lyricist of the legendary rock band Rush.

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  50 Masterpieces you have to read...

  George Eliot, Charles Dickens,...

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  This book contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure!
  Novels
  Alcott, Louisa May: Little Women
  Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice
  Austen, Jane: Emma
  Balzac, Honoré de: Father Goriot
  Barbusse, Henri: The Inferno
  Brontë, Anne: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
  Brontë, Charlotte: Jane Eyre
  Brontë, Emily: Wuthering Heights
  Burroughs, Edgar Rice: Tarzan of the Apes
  Butler, Samuel: The Way of All Flesh
  Carroll, Lewis: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
  Cather, Willa: My Ántonia
  Cervantes, Miguel de: Don Quixote
  Chopin, Kate: The Awakening
  Cleland, John: Fanny Hill
  Collins, Wilkie: The Moonstone
  Conrad, Joseph: Heart of Darkness
  Conrad, Joseph: Nostromo
  Cooper, James Fenimore: The Last of the Mohicans
  Crane, Stephen: The Red Badge of Courage
  Cummings, E. E.: The Enormous Room
  Defoe, Daniel: Robinson Crusoe
  Defoe, Daniel: Moll Flanders
  Dickens, Charles: Bleak House
  Dickens, Charles: Great Expectations
  Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: Crime and Punishment
  Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: The Idiot
  Doyle, Arthur Conan: The Hound of the Baskervilles
  Dreiser, Theodore: Sister Carrie
  Dumas, Alexandre: The Three Musketeers
  Dumas, Alexandre: The Count of Monte Cristo
  Eliot, George: Middlemarch
  Fielding, Henry: Tom Jones
  Flaubert, Gustave: Madame Bovary
  Flaubert, Gustave: Sentimental Education
  Ford, Ford Madox: The Good Soldier
  Forster, E. M.: A Room With a View
  Forster, E. M.: Howards End
  Gaskell, Elizabeth: North and South
  Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von: The Sorrows of Young Werther
  Gogol, Nikolai: Dead Souls
  Gorky, Maxim: The Mother
  Haggard, H. Rider: King Solomon's Mines
  Hardy, Thomas: Tess of the D'Urbervilles
  Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The Scarlet Letter
  Homer: The Odyssey
  Hugo, Victor: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
  Hugo, Victor: Les Misérables
  Huxley, Aldous: Crome Yellow
  James, Henry: The Portrait of a Lady

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  Passion for Compasses - Medieval...

  Klug Sonja Ulrike

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  How medieval architects drew cathedral building plans
  The architectural history of the Middle Ages is full of surprises. It is difficult for us to imagine today that relatively few construction plans have been found for the impressive churches and cathedrals of the Romanesque and Gothic periods. Where did most of the drawings go? Have the plans been destroyed in Europe or lost over time? Or were they not made at all? 
  Although hardly any architectural drawings exist, there were numerous compasses. What were they used for and how? Was it possible to design complex buildings such as churches and cathedrals without blueprints? 
  The author takes her readers on an exciting cultural and historical journey through time. 
  She looks at the spread of papyrus, parchment and paper and traces the ability to write and calculate in Europe. She also looks at the construction process in historical illustrations and draws comparisons with Arabic architecture. Last but not least, she shows what types of compasses existed and how the drawing skills of master builders developed up to the Renaissance. 
  The insights into the history of architecture lead to surprising findings: The architects of the Middle Ages thought and planned very differently than we imagine today.

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