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Along with anecdotes about his encounters with the stars and his wonderful memories from the heyday of hollywood, my word is my bond is as frank, funny and disarmingly charming as the legend himselffor the first time, roger shares his recollections of playing some of the world's most famous roles alongside a host of legendary starssee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop pershore a sunday times bestselling autobiography the quintessential suave hero, roger moore has had an extraordinary career that has spanned seven decades, from early television to the golden age of hollywood and on to international superstardomwith myriad stories from his personal life - from his childhood in london and experiences during the second world war, to the happy and turbulent times in his later lifedashing, handsome and every inch the archetypal english gentleman, he is unforgettable as the saint, as lord brett sinclair in the persuaders! and, of course, as james bond, making seven blockbusting films as arguably the most debonair of the 007s
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Oxfam bookshop kingston upon thames this pioneering book studies the rise, heyday and demise of regionalism from the belle aepoque until the eve of the second world warartists, architects and international exhibitions played a highly influential role in this processshortly afterwards they were followed by architects, who constructed villas and garden cities inspired by vernacular cottagessee oxfam website for delivery information read morethey all appropriated, and in some cases perverted, the regionalist message showing that strong regional identities would ultimately reinforce national unitylater on regionalism was used at international exhibitions by widely differing regimes, such as the primo de rivera dictatorship in spain, the popular front government in france, and the hitler-regime in germanyduring the s painters began to apply the regionalist ideology by producing images of a presumably harmonious and authentic rural societyregional identities, like national identities, were created and sometimes even invented; and this was equally the case in france, germany and spainstorm further illuminates how during the first decades of the twentieth century the culture of regionalism slowly lost the battle against its main rival: the avant-gardeby using a novel comparative perspective it gives a fresh view of the relationship between cultural regionalism, political regionalism and nationalismthis book offers new perspectives to specialists of regionalism and nationalism, but will also be of interest to students of the cultural history of france, germany and spain and to specialists from the fields of politics, ethnology, art history, cultural studies and architectural history
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In his latest book, gary dorrien continues to unearth the heyday and legacy of the black social gospel, a tradition with a shimmering history, a martyred central figure, and enduring relevance todayit won a few legislative victories and had a profound impact on uthe symbol of the movement, martin luther king jrgood condition with pencil marking throughoutit abounded with noble visions, resounded with magnificent rhetoric, and ended in nightmarish despairthis part of the story centers around king and the mid-twentieth-century black church leaders who embraced the progressive, justice-oriented, internationalist social gospel from the beginning of their careers and fulfilled it, inspiring and leading america's greatest liberation movementoxfam bookshop ealing this magisterial follow-up to the new abolition, a grawemeyer award winner, tells the crucial second chapter in the black social gospel's historysoared so high that he tends to overwhelm anything associated with himyet the tradition that best describes him and other leaders of the civil rights movement has been strangely overlookedsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe civil rights movement was one of the most searing developments in modern american historysociety, but failed to break white supremacy
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Idiots guide to the beatles in their heyday, stories, quotes and pictures makes a good read for the beatles fans, plenty of good beatles reading read more
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Music, spectacle, vienna in its heydaylove, vicious rivallery, competion for the top slot and the glory of vienna in the 19th centuryrun time 407 minutes read more
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