wyszukanych pozycji: 6
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Wrigley Field: The Long Life and Contentious Times of the Friendly Confines
ISBN: 9780226134277 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In spring 1914, a new ballpark opened in Chicago. Hastily constructed after epic political maneuvering around Chicago's and organized baseball's hierarchies, the new Weeghman Park (named after its builder, fast-food magnate Charley Weeghman) was home to the Federal League's Chicago Whales. The park would soon be known as Wrigley Field, one of the most emblematic and controversial baseball stadiums in America. In Wrigley Field: The Long Life and Contentious Times of the Friendly Confines, Stuart Shea provides a detailed and fascinating chronicle of this living historic landmark....
In spring 1914, a new ballpark opened in Chicago. Hastily constructed after epic political maneuvering around Chicago's and organized baseball's hiera...
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Pink Floyd FAQ: Everything Left to Know... and More!
ISBN: 9780879309503 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. (FAQ). More than four decades since their first album, and 35 years after the release of the iconic Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd continue to inspire and mystify rock fans around the world. Pink Floyd FAQ, by pop culture author Stuart Shea, lays out the band's strange, winding history through a new series of prisms. What were the band's most memorable gigs? What are their greatest moments on record, as a group and individually? What contemporary records influenced them, and which performers follow in their wake? What was it like to be at a Pink Floyd show in 1967, in 1973, in 1980? Pink...
(FAQ). More than four decades since their first album, and 35 years after the release of the iconic Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd continue to insp...
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The 1960s' Most Wanted: The Top 10 Book of Hip Happenings, Swinging Sounds, and Out-Of-Sight Oddities
ISBN: 9781574887211 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The 1960s was a decade of contrasts. It had the Summer of Love, but it also witnessed the assassinations of three American leaders. It fulfilled President Kennedy's promise of successfully landing a man on the moon but also saw the beginning of the ultimately disastrous Vietnam War. It gave us beach tunes on one end, psychedelic songs to trip to on the other, and in between heralded the British Invasion. Now you can look back on and celebrate all the events and fads from the 1960s with Stuart Shea's trivia-laden The 1960s' Most Wanted: The Top 10 Book of Hip Happenings, Swinging Sounds,...
The 1960s was a decade of contrasts. It had the Summer of Love, but it also witnessed the assassinations of three American leaders. It fulfilled Presi...
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48,63 |
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Chicago in Quotations
ISBN: 9781851244119 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Carl Sandburg was an ardent champion of Chicago, famously issuing the challenge: "Show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and strong and cunning." For pianist Otis Spann, it was the "mother of the blues," and a beacon to "every good musician who ever left the South." But the union leader Eugene V. Debs had harsher words for the city, calling it "unfit for human habitation," and Rudyard Kipling claimed it was "inhabited by savages" and hoped never to see it again.
Whether you look upon the city with admiration, disgust, or an incongruous combination of the two,... Carl Sandburg was an ardent champion of Chicago, famously issuing the challenge: "Show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive a...
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Calling the Game: Baseball Broadcasting from 1920 to the Present
ISBN: 9781933599403 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Calling the Game: Baseball Broadcasting from 1920 to the Present is an exhaustive, meticulously researched history of bringing the national pastime out of the ballparks and into living rooms via the airwaves. Every play-by-play announcer, color commentator, and ex-ballplayer who has presented a Major League Baseball game to the public is included here. So is every broadcast deal, radio station, and TV network. In addition to chapters for each of the game's thirty franchises, a history of national broadcasting and a look at some of the game's most memorable national broadcast moments are...
Calling the Game: Baseball Broadcasting from 1920 to the Present is an exhaustive, meticulously researched history of bringing the national pastime ou...
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99,86 |
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Fab Four FAQ: Everything Left to Know about the Beatles... and More!
ISBN: 9781423421382 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 526 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. (FAQ). 40 years after the release of the iconic Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, the Beatles continue to captivate music fans of all ages. There's something always more to discuss about the Fab Four. What were their greatest live performances? Their worst moments? Stories still unknown by most music fans, trends still unseen, history still uninterpreted are all revealed in Fab Four FAQ . Pop culture authors Stuart Shea and Rob Rodriguez provide must-know fan trivia and offer obscure Beatles facts and stories in an easy-to-read, provocative format that will start as many arguments as...
(FAQ). 40 years after the release of the iconic Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, the Beatles continue to captivate music fans of all ages. There...
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72,96 |