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  • Cyclone Country
    Chrystopher J. Spicer
    The storm has become a universal trope in the literature of crisis, revelation and transformation. It can function as a trope of place, of apocalypse and epiphany, of cultural mythos and story, and of people and spirituality. This book explores the connections between people, place and environment through the image of cyclones within fiction and poetry from the Australian ...
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    72,12 €

  • Hazardous Air Pollutant Handbook
    Chester W. Spicer / Sydney M. Gordon / Thomas J. Kelly
    Hazardous Air Pollutant Handbook: Measurements, Properties, and Fate in Ambient Air provides a comprehensive review of the 188 compounds and compound classes designated as Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAPs) by the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990, with a specific focus on their potential presence in ambient air. The relevant chemical and physical properties of the compounds are di...
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    58,41 €

  • Clark Gable, in Pictures
    Chrystopher J. Spicer
    From the very beginning of Clark Gable’s screen career, the life of the glamorous film star came under the scrutiny of the camera. While audiences are familiar with the public Gable as seen through the studio lens, the private Gable as seen in photos taken by members of the public, friends, and family is much less known. This collection of candid photographs, many of them ...
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    43,90 €

  • The Flying Adventures of Jessie Keith 'Chubbie' Miller
    Chrystopher J. Spicer
    Pioneer aviatrix Jessie 'Chubbie' Miller made a significant contribution to aviation history. The first woman to fly from England to her native Australia (as co-pilot with her close friend Captain Bill Lancaster), she was also the first woman to fly more than 8000 miles, to cross the equator in the air and to traverse the Australian continent north to south. Moving to Amer...
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    42,67 €

  • Intervention in the Modern UK Brewing Industry
    C. Thurman / J. Spicer / J. Walters
    This is the story of the radical intervention carried out by the Thatcher administration in response to 1986-89 Monopolies and Mergers Commission inquiry into brewing. It describes the creation of big brewers, the official investigations into what many saw as an uncompetitive structure and the damaging consequences for consumers and licensees. ...
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    47,62 €

  • Fall Girl
    Chrystopher J. Spicer / Martha Crawford Cantarini
    Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, acclaimed horse trainer and show rider Martha Crawford Cantarini was among the busiest of Hollywood’s elite corps of female stunt riders. She was the regular stunt double for such actresses as Eleanor Parker, Anne Baxter and Shirley MacLaine, appearing in films ranging from Elvis Presley’s debut feature Love Me Tender to the epic Western The B...
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    28,28 €

  • Clark Gable
    Chrystopher J. Spicer
    'Clark Gable is a man de-classed. You can’t guess in any way where he came from or what he was.' Frank Taylor, producer of Gable’s last film, The Misfits (1961), said this of the man who, to many people, will forever be Southern gentleman Rhett Butler of Gone with the Wind. This work tells Gable’s life story, from his birth in 1901 in Cadiz, Ohio, to his death in 1960 in Hol...
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    51,78 €