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Located on the Coteau des Prairies, the community initially named Medary began drawing settlers in the 1850s. Driven away in 1858 by an American Indian uprising, settlers began returning in 1869, and by 1879 Brookings had become a permanent settlement. This was followed two years later with the...
Nestled in the over-the-mountain suburbia of Birmingham, Mountain Brook was originally hunting grounds for Creek, Choctaw, Cherokee, and Chickasaw Indians. First settled in the 1820s in the area called Shades Valley, it was not until 1926 that Robert Jemison Jr. began developing Mountain Brook...
A spirited dive into the life and career of a performer, writer, and director who dominated twentieth-century American comedy Mel Brooks, born Melvin Kaminsky in Brooklyn in 1926, is one of the great comic voices of the twentieth century. Having won almost every entertainment award there is, Brooks...
Brook Benton was a magnificent singer who could handle anything from blues, jazz and soul to country, pop and standards. His version of Tony Joe White’s ‘Rainy Night in Georgia’ — an international smash in 1970 — remains a timeless classic. The biography by Herwig Gradischnig is based on an album...
Since 1818, Brooks Brothers, America’s oldest clothing brand, has grown into a global sartorial institution that has influenced American style through its iconic fashions, which conjure intimate memories of pivotal life events – from your first navy blazer as a child to stepping into a bespoke suit...
When Rupert Brooke died in the Aegean in 1915 on his way to Gallipoli, he was instantly canonised as the heroic soldier-poet and martyr to the cause of British honour, and his sonnet ‘If I should die – ‘ became the emblem of patriotic youth. Ever since, he has been regarded as a war poet, but the...
Albert Brooks: Interviews brings together fourteen profiles of and conversations with Brooks (b. 1947), in which he contemplates, expounds upon, and hilariously jokes about the connections between his show business upbringing, an ambivalence about the film industry, the nature of fame and success,...
Born to be the centre of attention, Mel Brooks grew up learning the ropes of entertainment in the Catskills during its biggest days. He later emerged as a skilled comedy writer by literally muscling his way into television in the late 1940s. Brooks would be involved with some of the most notorious...
Kenn Brooks
This is a well-researched and highly-illustrated biography of one of the most influential educational leaders of the 20th century.
While other chefs paid dues on restaurant lines and at cooking schools, Brooks Headley was in the back of a tour van as a drummer in much-loved punk bands that never made a dime. Now executive pastry chef at New York’s Del Posto restaurant, Headley creates unorthodox recipes that echo his...
(P/V/G Composer Collection). The great comedy filmmaker Mel Brooks wrote a song for his first movie, The Producers (1967). “It was the first real song I had ever written and I did it in a day.” He would continue to write songs for The Twelve Chairs, Blazing Saddles, High Anxiety, To Be or Not to...
BarCharts’ best-selling quick reference to biology has been updated and expanded in this latest edition. With updated content and an additional panel of information, this popular guide is not only an essential companion for students in introductory biology courses but also a must-have refresher for...
If I should die, think only this of me:That there’s some corner of a foreign fieldThat is for ever England.From The Soldier to Anthem for Doomed Youth Rupert Brooke and Wilfred Owen are two of the best-loved poets from the heroic lost generation of the First World War. Brooke’s work was well-known...
(PVG Personality). 18 of the finest from this superstar country duo: Boot Scootin' Boogie * Brand New Man * Hard Workin' Man * He's Got You * How Long Gone * I Can't Get Over You * Little Miss Honky Tonk * Lost and Found * A Man This Lonely * My Maria * My Next Broken Heart * Neon Moon * She's Not...
“The Brooke-Rose Omnibus” brings together four unexpected novels: “Out”, a science-fiction vision of a world surviving catastrophe; “Such”, in which a three-minute heart massage is developed into a poetic and funny narrative; “Between”, a glittering experience of the multiplicity of language; and...
From penury to plenty, and back again. Or was it? Tales of an independent craftsman, in, of and about his times. ?Still producing furniture for those who choose, the author, having remarried in 2002, lives with his wife and son in London. Away from its centre, but close enough to still enjoy. show...
Punishment is a critical introduction to the philosophy of punishment offering a clear and refreshing approach that will benefit readers of all backgrounds and interests in a new expanded second edition.
Wall Street Journal Bestseller CNN news anchor Brooke Baldwin explores the phenomenon of “huddling,” when women lean on one another-in politics, Hollywood, activism, the arts, sports, and everyday friendships-to provide each other support, empowerment, inspiration, and the strength to solve...
Military historian Victor Brooks argues that the year1943 marked a significant shift in the World War II balance of power from the Axis to Allied forces. Brooks presents a global narrative of the American experience of war during the year, ranging from the tiny blood-drenched island of Tarawa to...