Published by Brand: Overlook Hardcover, 2011
ISBN 10: 1590206371 ISBN 13: 9781590206379
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Reprint. In this thoroughly engaging book, Natalie Haynes brings her scholarship and wit to the most fascinating true stories of the ancient world. The Ancient Guide to Modern Life not only reveals the origins of our culture in areas including philosophy, politics, language, and art, it also draws illuminating connections between antiquity and our present time, to demonstrate that the Greeks and Romans were not so different from ourselves: is Bart Simpson the successor to Aristophanes? Do the Beckhams have parallel lives with The Satiricon's Trimalchio? Along the way Haynes debunks myths (gladiators didn't salute the emperor before their deaths, and the last words of Julius Caesar weren't "et tu, brute?") from Athens to Zeno's paradox, this irresistible guide shows how the history and wisdom of the ancient world can inform and enrich our lives today.
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Published by Brand: Overlook Hardcover, 2009
ISBN 10: 1590202694 ISBN 13: 9781590202692
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Hardcover. Condition: used. 1. Jeremy Coller, a pioneer in the world of private equity, argues that there are three basic personality types in the arena of invention. The Principal, Broker, and Consultant each display certain traits that dictate the potential for success, but few people have the full package. Failure results when an individual who excels in one area of competence attempts to become all things. In Splendidly Unreasonable Inventors, Coller focuses on the individual rather the invention and explores the ways in which he or she did or did not succeed in bringing their vision to fruition. On one level, the book is a collection of fascinating stories packed with quirky, often humorous nuggets of information. On another level, these stories provide an unconventional look at the processes and personalities that created products that changed the world, including: Jonas Salk and the polio vaccine; King Gillette and the safety razor; Alfred Nobel and dynamite; Sam Colt and the revolver; Rudolph Diesel and the diesel engine.
Published by Brand: Overlook Hardcover, 2005
ISBN 10: 1585677205 ISBN 13: 9781585677207
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1. The settlement of Tasmania by Europeans began two hundred years ago. Nicholas Shakespeare first went there, having heard of the islands exceptional beauty, because it was famously remote. He soon decided that this was where he wanted to live. Only later did he discover a cache of letters written by an ancestor as corrupt as he was colorful: Anthony Fenn Kemp, the so-called Father of Tasmania. On his mothers side, too, Shakespeare found he had unknown Tasmanian relations; a pair of spinsters who had never left their farm except once, in 1947, to buy shoes. Their journal recounted a saga beginning in Northern England in the 1890s with a dashing but profligate ancestor who, having played tennis with the Kaiser, ended his life in disgrace in the Tasmanian bush. In this fascinating history of two turbulent centuries in an apparently idyllic place, Shakespeare effortlessly weaves the history of the island with his multiple stories, a cast of unlikely characters from Errol Flynn to the King of Iceland, a village full of Chatwins, and, inevitably, a family of Shakespeares.
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Published by Brand: Overlook Hardcover, 2005
ISBN 10: 1585676292 ISBN 13: 9781585676293
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Hardcover. Condition: used. First Edition. An analysis of globalization by the prize-winning author of The Unconscious Civilization and Voltaire's Bastards cites indicators that globalism trends are coming to an end, demonstrating how nationalism is making an unexpected recovery.
Published by Brand: Overlook Hardcover, 2003
ISBN 10: 1585674028 ISBN 13: 9781585674022
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1. The Spartans is a compelling narrative that explores the culture and civilization of the most famous "warrior people": the Spartans of ancient Greece, by the world's leading expert in the field. Sparta has often been described as the original Utopia--a remarkably evolved society whose warrior heroes were forbidden any other trade, profession, or business. As a people, the Spartans were the living exemplars of such core values as duty, discipline, the nobility of arms in a cause worth dying for, sacrificing the individual for the greater good of the community (illustrated by their role in the battle of Thermopylae), and the triumph of will over seemingly insuperable obstacles--qualities that today are frequently believed to signify the ultimate heroism. Paul Cartledge is the distinguished scholar and historian who has long been seen as the leading international authority on ancient Sparta. He traces the evolution of Spartan society--the culture and the people, as well as the tremendous influence they had on their world and even ours. He details throughout the narrative the lives of such illustrious and myth-making figures as Lycurgus, King Leonidas, Helen of Troy (and Sparta), and Lysander, and explains how the Spartans, although they placed a high value on masculine ideals, nevertheless allowed women an unusually dominant and powerful role--unlike Athenian culture with which the Spartans are so often compared. In resurrecting the ancient culture and society of the Spartans, Cartledge delves deep into ancient texts and archeological sources and complements his text with illustrations that depict original Spartan artifacts and drawings, as well as examples of representational paintings from the Renaissance onwards--including J.L. David's famously brooding "Leonidas." This illuminating volume that ties in with the PBS television series of the same name, airing in the summer of 2003. Booklist called Cartledge's The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization, a companion to the PBS series, "superb," while The International History Review called Cartledge's The Cambridge Illustrated History of Ancient Greece "an original and insightful work."
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Published by Brand: Overlook Hardcover, 1999
ISBN 10: 0879517204 ISBN 13: 9780879517205
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Hardcover. Condition: used.
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Published by Brand: Overlook Hardcover, 2000
ISBN 10: 1585670308 ISBN 13: 9781585670307
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1. Offers an inside account of the international network of crime rings, including the Sicilian Mafiosi and the Chinese Triads, pinpointing the factors that led to global crime cartels and noting how the internet has changed the face of crime. 30,000 first printing. Tour.
Published by Brand: Overlook Hardcover, 2005
ISBN 10: 158567690X ISBN 13: 9781585676903
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Yet Alexander Cruden is remembered today not so much for his mighty work as for the widespread belief that he was mad. Born in Scotland in 1699, Cruden spent much of his life in and out of asylums. In fact, just weeks after completing his Concordance, he.
Published by Brand: Overlook Hardcover, 2013
ISBN 10: 1468306626 ISBN 13: 9781468306620
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1. How does your dog remember where it buried its bone but you can't find your keys? And do we really only use ten percent of our brains? In A Very Short Tour of the Mind, Michael C. Corballis answers these questions and more. The human mind is arguably the most complex organ in the universe. Modern computers might be faster, and whales might have larger brains, but neither can match the sheer intellect or capacity for creativity that we humans enjoy. In this gem of a book, Corballis introduces us to what we've learned about the intricacies of the human brain over the last fifty years. Leading us through behavioral experiments and neuroscience, cognitive theory and Darwinian evolution with his trademark wit and wisdom, Corballis punctures a few hot-air balloons; "Unleash the creativity of your right brain!") and explains just what we know--and don't know--about our own minds.
Published by Brand: Overlook Hardcover, 2007
ISBN 10: 158567897X ISBN 13: 9781585678976
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Hardcover. Condition: used. First Edition. Hiding her gambling addiction in her outside persona as a pious Muslim mother of four who is coping with the loss of a son to AIDS, Abeeda finds herself sinking into an increasingly shadowy world of deception, danger, and painful memories.
Published by Brand: Overlook Hardcover, 2001
ISBN 10: 1585671894 ISBN 13: 9781585671892
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. A challenging new novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright imagines a future in which the internet crashes and the past must be reconstructed from the memories of Ginger, wife of ex-President Woodrow Wilson.
Published by Brand: Overlook Hardcover, 2005
ISBN 10: 1585676802 ISBN 13: 9781585676804
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Working with Ippolito's letters and ledgers, recently uncovered in an archive in Modena, Italy, Mary Hollingsworth has pieced together a fascinating and undeniably titillating tale of this Renaissance cardinal and his road to power and wealth in sixteenth.
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Published by Brand: Overlook Hardcover, 2003
ISBN 10: 1585674699 ISBN 13: 9781585674695
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. A republication of a long-unavailable earlier work follows the personal vendetta of cryptographer Charlie Heller against those responsible for murdering his fiance, an endeavor that pits him against the CIA and takes him behind the Iron Curtain. 12,500 first printing.
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Published by Brand: Overlook Hardcover, 2006
ISBN 10: 1585675660 ISBN 13: 9781585675661
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. In 480 BC, a huge Persian army, led by the inimitable King Xerxes, entered the mountain pass of Thermopylae as it marched on Greece, intending to conquer the land with little difficulty. But the Greeks-led by King Leonidas and a small army of Spartans-took the battle to the Persians at Thermopylae, and halted their advance-almost. It is one of historys most acclaimed battles, one of civilizations greatest last stands. And in Thermopylae, renowned classical historian Paul Cartledge looks anew this history-altering moment and, most impressively, shows how its repercussions have bearing on us even today. The invasion of Europe by Xerxes and his army redefined culture, kingdom, and class. The valiant efforts of a few thousand Greek warriors, facing a huge onrushing Persian army at the narrow pass at Thermopylae, changed the way generations to come would think about combat, courage, and death.
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Published by Brand: Overlook Hardcover, 1998
ISBN 10: 0879518383 ISBN 13: 9780879518387
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Collected letters reveal the literary family's authentic voices, detailing the siblings self-absorbed childhood years of struggle to earn a living, and the effects of literary success.
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Published by Brand: Overlook Hardcover, 1993
ISBN 10: 0879514833 ISBN 13: 9780879514839
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Editiion. Book by D'Avila-Latourrette, Victor-Antoine.
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Published by Brand: Overlook Hardcover, 2008
ISBN 10: 159020073X ISBN 13: 9781590200735
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1. Contributors range from Tacitus, Mary, Queen of Scots, and Oliver Cromwell to Adam Smith, David Livingstone, and Billy Connolly. These include not only historic moments from Bannockburn to the opening of the new parliament in 1999 but also testimonies like that of the eight year- old factory worker who was dangled by his ear out of a third-floor window for making a mistake; the survivors of the 1746 Battle of Culloden, who wished perhaps that they had died on the field; the breakthrough moment for John Logie Baird, inventor of television; and, the genesis of great works of literature recorded by Conan Doyle, Stevenson, and the editor of Encyclopaedia Britannica. From the battlefield to the sports field, this is living, accessible history told by crofters, criminals, servants, housewives, poets, journalists, nurses, politicians, prisoners, comedians, sportsmen, and many more.
Published by Brand: Overlook Hardcover, 2011
ISBN 10: 1590201841 ISBN 13: 9781590201848
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Hardcover. Condition: used. NASCAR's 60-year history is rich with varied lore about heroic racers, incredible races, and love of family. There are profiles of true NASCAR stars: Bill France; Bobby and Davey Allison; Dale Earnhardt and Dale Earnhardt, Jr.; Tony Stewart; Richard, Kyle, and Adam Petty, among other legends of the speedway. TV Guide motorsports reporter Edelstein's painstaking journalistic work, combined with his encyclopedic knowledge and love of the sport, make NASCAR Legends an essential book for anyone drawn to the roaring magic of the track.
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Published by Brand: Overlook Hardcover, 1999
ISBN 10: 0879516682 ISBN 13: 9780879516680
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Ali and Nino, two lovers from vastly different backgrounds, grow up together in carefree innocence in Baku on the Caspian Sea. Here, where Eastern and Occidental collide, they are inevitably drawn into the events of the First World War and the Russian Revolution. Torn apart by the turmoil, Ali joins the defense of Azerbajan from the onslaught of the Red Army, and Nino flees to the safety of Paris with their child, not knowing whether they will ever see each other again. A sweeping tale, as romantic and gripping as Gone with the Wind or Dr. Zhivago, it portrays, against a gloriously exotic backdrop, the enduring love between childhood friends divided by their separate cultures.
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Published by Brand: Overlook Hardcover, 2010
ISBN 10: 1590204085 ISBN 13: 9781590204085
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Serrailler has just wrapped up a particularly exhausting and difficult case and is on sabbatical on a far-flung Scottish island when he is called back to Lafferton by the Chief Constable. Two local prostitutes have been found strangled. When the wife of the St. Michael's Cathedral Dean goes missing and then another respectable woman is taken on her way to work, the townspeople grow angry and afraid. Serrailler is in the greatest danger of his life.
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Published by Brand: Overlook Hardcover, 2001
ISBN 10: 1585671924 ISBN 13: 9781585671922
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Hardcover. Condition: used. 1. Late in the morning of May 27th, 1941, the German battleship Bismarck was sunk by an overwhelming British armada in a fierce battle that lasted ninety minutes. Admiral Gnther Ltjens, Captain Ernst Lindemann and 2,206 men of her crew were lost; only 115 survived.Five days earlier, at 5:00 p.m. on May 22nd, an RAF reconnaissance plane flying low off the coast of Norway spotted four large warships in the sea below. At 32,000 tons apiece, the sight of the battle cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau was shocking enough; even more so was the sight of the 42,000-ton sister ships the pride of the German navyBismarck and Tirpitz, ships shrouded in myth, awesome and mysterious behemoth's of destruction. Their purpose in these waters was obvious and chilling: the German navy was sending this powerful four- battleship task force to seize control of the North Atlantic sea lanes. What was at stake in the late spring of 1941 was nothing less than the survival of a free Britain. With almost all of Europe under Hitler's thumb, and the United States still frustratingly neutral, Britain alone was left to fight Germany. The only hope lay in the convoy route across the North Atlantic to the United Statesthe "arsenal of democracy"and the promise of its vast industrial might and agricultural bounty. The fate of Britain and the United Statesthe fate of the free worldhung in the balance as the German flotilla made for the open seas. All knew that the destruction of the Bismarck would be a dramatic turning point in the war.Noted historians Bercuson and Herwig have uncovered much new information on the Bismarck, including a close examination of the wreck itself, discovered on the ocean floor only in 1989. In addition, hitherto closed British and United States diplomatic files have been opened, revealing secret diplomatic maneuverings between Churchill and Roosevelt. This new information has allowed them to tell the full story of the Bismarck for the first time, from the key strategic decisions of the national leaders, to the gripping hour-by-hour account of the battle. This is history of the best sort, at once vivid and authoritativethe definitive account of one of the most dramatic and momentous events of the Second World War.
Published by Brand: Overlook Hardcover, 1984
ISBN 10: 0879512040 ISBN 13: 9780879512040
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. A philosophical guide to Japanese flower arrangement highlights the innovative flower arranging techniques of the Sogetsu School.
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Published by Brand: Overlook Hardcover, 1999
ISBN 10: 0879519398 ISBN 13: 9780879519391
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. A survey of the relationship between Britain and Europe, drawing from recently available material and in-depth interviews, discusses the role of figures from Churchill to Tony Blair in changing perspectives of this important and often difficult association. 12,000 first printing.
Published by Brand: Overlook Hardcover, 2009
ISBN 10: 1590202287 ISBN 13: 9781590202289
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. From Publishers WeeklyBritish travel writer Bennett informs and endears in his quixotic quest to trace the provenance of his underpants in order to learn something about the commercial and industrial processes on which [his] easy existence depends. Despite his publisher's misgivings, the author travels to the outskirts of Shanghai, posing as an underwear buyer and scheming his way into factories and showrooms to piece together the (increasingly) mysterious origins of his underpants. He heads toward the cotton factories, where few Westerners venture and the population is ethnically closer to Afghan than Chinese, and sober accounts vie with marvelously silly escapades around Bangkok and rural Thailand in search of rubber trees (or more specifically, the origins of his elastic waistband). Bennett's education in the world of global commerce sparkles with humor and sharp observations on modern China's competing strains of enduring Confucianism, vestigial communism and the government's ruthless economic ambitions. (July)Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.Product DescriptionAbout the AuthorJoe Bennett was educated at Brighton College and Cambridge University. After teaching English in a variety of countries he became a newspaper columnist and a writer of travel books. He lives in New Zealand.
Published by Brand: Overlook Hardcover, 2005
ISBN 10: 158567589X ISBN 13: 9781585675890
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1. The Mountbatten Maritime Prize-winning author of Maritime Supremacy provides a dramatic description of historical naval warfare combined with an analysis of the causes of victory, offering insight into how sea powers often prevailed over land-based empires. 17,500 first printing.
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Published by Brand: Overlook Hardcover, 1997
ISBN 10: 0879517557 ISBN 13: 9780879517557
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. This book is a mouth-watering collection of easily executed desserts suitable both for entertaining and for everyday eating. consider blackberries steeped in a glass of deep red barolo or a dish of steamy rice scented with rosewater, cardamom, and pistach.
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Published by Brand: Overlook Hardcover, 2006
ISBN 10: 1585678546 ISBN 13: 9781585678549
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition; First Printing. Minutes after the handoff, the couriers spine is neatly snapped by an impact with a passing black sedan. Meanwhile in Rome, Christopher's wife Cathy takes a famous film director as a lover to stir her husband out of the stoicism that defines his personality. These two seemingly discrete events set in motion a spiral of operational and personal intrigue that leads Christopher from meetings with an aging agent in the cafes of old Europe to a rendezvous with an operative on the front lines of the Cold War in the Congo as he secretly arranges the publication of a novel that could bring the Soviet system to its knees and races to identify the leak that compromised the messenger-and possibly his entire mission. The Secret Lovers is McCarry at his best-an exploration of the epic scope of "the great game," but also a riveting psychological portrait of a man ensnared by a profession that never failed to exert its insidious influence outside the professional boundaries that, like the facade of diplomacy that outwardly held the Cold War in check, could never contain its violence essence.
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Published by Brand: Overlook Hardcover, 2001
ISBN 10: 1585671681 ISBN 13: 9781585671687
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Us Edition. In June 1940 Britain was driven from the continent by Hitler's conquering armies. As the British stared invasion in the face, a group of unconventional warriors planned a new form of warfareand the Special Operations Executive was born. With a brief from Winston Churchill to "set Europe ablaze," this top-secret agency was given the dangerous task of coordinating subversion and sabotage against the enemy by all means necessary using disguise, deception, bribery, explosives (sometimes disguised inside objects such as a dead rat or a chianti bottle), guerrilla warfareand even assassination.The intriguing details of the men and womenmany of them civilians with no qualifications or experiencewho risked their lives to fight this secret war are recounted here. Through the personal reminiscences of these courageous individuals, Secret Agent reveals the covert world of the SOE: how the operatives were recruited; the daring operations they carried out; the radio and coding systems that kept them in touch with London; and the James Bond-style gadgets designed to help them carry out their missions. Breaking their long silence, these brave survivors finally tell their own stories in their own words. More than just a war-time thriller, Secret Agent narrates the true story of this remarkable group of people and the secret war they waged behind enemy lines.
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Published by Brand: Overlook Hardcover, 2008
ISBN 10: 1590200632 ISBN 13: 9781590200636
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Hardcover. Condition: used. 1. Evaluates media messages that promote the early maturation and sexualization of pre-adolescent girls, drawing on examples from pop culture and other sources to reveal the detrimental and restrictive definitions of sexuality in media while counseling parents and caregivers on how to raise sexually healthy young women in spite of negative influences.
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Published by Brand: Overlook Hardcover, 1995
ISBN 10: 0879516119 ISBN 13: 9780879516116
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. This subversively brilliant, one-of-a-kind rock autobiography ingeniously styled as a biography, is written by a nameless, faceless writer hired by an Orwellian entity called "the Corporation" to capture the essence of Ray Davies, lead singer and songwriter of The Kinks and one of the greatest rock and rollers of all time. The Kinks front man reveals his life and times to the young writer, often seemingly passing his stories directly into the writer's consciousness. Carnaby Street, "Top of the Pops," the Cavern Club, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who and other fixtures of the times fade in and out of this compelling narrative. Part autobiography, part social history, part psychological thriller, this elusive and daring book exposes rock stardom as the heaven, hell, and purgatory it is.
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