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  100 20th-Century Shops

  Society Twentieth Century

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  A showcase of Britain's most architecturally significant shops throughout the twentieth century and beyond.
  100 20th-Century Shops is a fascinating insight into the heritage of Britain's changing high street and the diverse architectural styles of the 20th century. Entries in this book showcase 100 often instantly recognisable shops from across the country, from throughout the 20th century and stretching into the 21st, capturing the changing architectural styles of our beloved and rapidly disappearing retail environment.
  As the UK's retail landscape faces an existential crisis, now is an appropriate time to review and celebrate the architecture of our high streets. From Tudor-revival department stores and futuristic supermarkets to Art Deco shop fronts and post-war Festival style markets, the 100 shops featured here evoke a variety of design styles and traces the history and evolution of our cherished high street. 
  The book also contains essays by respected writers Elain Harwood, Lynn Pearson, Matthew Whitfield, Kathryn A. Morrison and Bronwen Edwards on the design, development and decline of the high street over the last 100 years within a social and political context. This compelling book provides a glimpse into the wonderful shops that Britain has to offer and is a must-have for all fans of design history, architecture and retail.

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  End Days

  Deborah Zoe Laufer

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  In Deborah Zoe Laufer's End Days, a suburban family is undergoing a spiritual crisis following the September 11th attacks. Sylvia Stein has turned to Christianity to save her disaffected husband Arthur and her rebellious teenage daughter Rachel. But as Sylvia races around preparing for the Rapture, Rachel is learning that there are more things in Heaven and Earth than are dreamt of in her philosophy. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring: Josh Clark as Jesus and Stephen HawkingShannon Cochran as Sylvia SteinDane DeHaan as Nelson SteinbergArye Gross as Arthur SteinKenneth Houston as the BullyKate Rylie as Rachel SteinDirected by Michael Hacket. Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood in 2010.End Days is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series featuring science-themed plays. Major funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to enhance public understanding of science and technology in the modern world.

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  The Pop Art Tradition -...

  Eric Shanes

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  This book offers a radically new perspective on the so-called ‘Pop Art’ creative dynamic that has been around since the 1950s. It does so by enhancing the term ‘Pop Art’ which has always been recognised as a misnomer, for it obscures far more than it clarifies. Instead, the book connects all the art in question to mass-culture which has always provided its core inspiration. Above all, the book suggests that this Mass-Culture Art has created a new Modernist tradition which is still flourishing. The book traces that tradition down the forty and more years since Pop/Mass-Culture Art first came into being in the 1950s, and locates it within its larger historical context. 
  Naturally the book discusses the major contributors to the Pop/Mass-Culture Art tradition right down to the present, in the process including a number of artists who have never previously been connected with so-called ‘Pop Art’ but who have always been primarily interested in mass-culture, and who are therefore partially or totally connected with Pop/Mass-Culture Art. The book reproduces in colour and discusses in great detail over 150 of the key works of the Pop/Mass-Culture Art tradition. Often this involves the close reading of images whose meaning has largely escaped understanding previously. The result is a book that qualitatively is fully on a level with Eric Shanes’s other best-selling and award-winning writings.

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  Sustaining Hope in Impossible Times

  Paul Loeb

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  Paul Loeb has gathered the stories of activists and visionaries, people who have faced enormous challenges and worked against seemingly insurmountable odds and found their efforts answered, sometimes in unexpected ways. When things look bleakest, Mr. Loeb explains, they've found that "there's something deeper that's more sustaining, that exists above and beyond any particular reasons for optimism."

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  Inception Decoded: Trivia...

  Filmic Life

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  INCEPTION DECODED: TRIVIA, CURIOUS FACTS AND BEHIND THE SCENES SECRETS - OF THE FILM DIRECTED BY CHRISTOPHER NOLAN 
    
  WRITTEN BY: FILMIC LIFE 
  Do you think you know everything about INCEPTION? 
  Do you want to know more than 100 curious facts and secrets of Christopher Nolan's film? 
  This book is full of information about one of the best movies of the year 2010.You will find details of the behind the scenes that you will REALLY love. Youcan test your knowledge about this movie here. 
  ★★ HERE SOMEEXAMPLES ★★ 
  "The names of the main characters are Dom, Robert,Eames, Arthur, Mal, Saito, Peter, Ariadne and Yusuf. By taking the first letterof each of them the phrase DREAMS PAY is formed." 
  "Kate Winslet did not manage to relate to the character of Mal, so she rejected the role." 
    
  "It was the only film in its year that was nominated for an Oscar for Best Visual Effects as well as Best Film." 
    
  "Originally James Franco was going toplay the role of Arthur, but could not accept it because he had no space in his agenda." 
    
  "Many scenes in the film are often cutoff when Cobb's left hand appears, in order to emphasize that the character only uses his wedding ring in dream scenes or in real-life flashbacks." 
  AND MUCH MORE! 
  So, if you want to relive the memories of this great movie or just want to be entertained and learn more about it, do not hesitate to purchase this audiobook!

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  Robert Plant - A Life

  Paul Rees

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  This biography of the solo artist and legendary lead singer of Led Zeppelin “informs and entertains . . . leav[ing] few stones in Plant’s life unturned.” —Mojo magazine 
   
  Robert Plant by Paul Rees is the definitive biography of Led Zeppelin's legendary frontman. As lead singer for one of the biggest and most influential rock bands of all time—whose song “Stairway to Heaven” has been played more times on American radio than any other track—Robert Plant defined what it means to be a rock god. 
   
  Over the course of his twenty-year career, British music journalist and editor Paul Rees has interviewed such greats as Sir Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, Madonna, Bono, and AC/DC. Rees now offers a full portrait of Robert Plant for the first time, exploring the forces that shaped him, the ravaging highs and lows of the Zeppelin years—including his relationship with Jimmy Page and John Bonham—and his life as a solo artist today. 
   
  Illustrated with more than two dozen photographs, Robert Plant: A LIfe is the never-before-told story of a gifted, complicated music icon who changed the face of rock 'n' roll. 
   
  “Anyone seeking insight into Robert Plant as a man and musician will find it here.” —Q Magazine 
   
  “Particularly enlightening on Plant’s formative pre-Zep years in the Midlands, A Life puts the singer’s eclectic career into clear context.” —Dave Lewis, Tight But Loose magazine

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