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    The mob offers the young mayor of Fort Lee, New Jersey, a $500,000 bribe to rezone land adjacent to the George Washington Bridge. Risking his life, the mayor pretends to go along with the plan but wears a wire. His efforts lead to the convictions of seven people. ... Read more

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  • Rachmaninoff and His World

    Edited by Philip Ross Bullock ...
    Series series The Bard Music Festival
    A biography of composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, published in collaboration with the Bard Music Festival.One of the most popular classical composers of all time, Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943) has often been dismissed by critics as a conservative, nostalgic holdover of the nineteenth century and a composer fundamentally hostile to musical modernism. The original essays collected here show how he was ... Read more

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  • Unworking

    The Reinvention of the Modern Office

    Over the past hundred years, the office has been integral to the development of modern society. It has shaped the architecture of our cities, the behaviour of our organizations and the everyday movements of millions of people. In 2020, however, the global pandemic brought our attendance in the office to an abrupt halt and triggered a complete re-evaluation of the purpose of the workplace. This ... Read more

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  • Tomorrow’s Communities

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    It is increasingly recognised that instead of relying on top-down commands or leaving individuals to their own devices, communities should be given a role in tackling challenges exacerbated by global crises.Written by a team of leading experts with in-depth knowledge and on-the-ground experience, this book sets out why and how people’s lives can be positively transformed through diverse forms of ... Read more

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  • The Yankee Present

    Thomas Hanner Lyle, like so many other southerners, finds himself embroiled in a war that will change his life forever. As a Confederate soldier, he fights in battle while trying to retain his humanity and not damn his soul. During in-between times, he tries to find the beauty in life beneath the shade of cottonwoods by breezy riverbeds. An incident in battle ushers Thomas from the rank of private ... Read more

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  • Pyotr Tchaikovsky

    Series Book 68 - Critical Lives
    When Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky died of cholera in 1893, he was Russia’s most celebrated composer. Drawing extensively on Tchaikovsky’s uncensored letters and diaries, this richly documented biography explores the composer’s life in the artistic culture of nineteenth-century Russian society, revealing how he became a figure of international renown.Tchaikovsky was gifted with a prodigious work ethic ... Read more

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  • Blue Heron

    by Philip Ross ...
    She had been missing for fourteen years...Sarah Kleinhagen. Her involvement with student anti-war activists in the 1970s and their bombing of an Air Force SAC base had forced her underground. Not even the FBI could locate her.Now James Marley needed to find her and bring her back to the child she'd had fourteen years ago... a child who desperately needed her. All he had to go on was a picture ... Read more

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  • The Yankee Present

    Thomas Hanner Lyle, like so many other southerners, finds himself embroiled in a war that will change his life forever. As a Confederate soldier, he fights in battle while trying to retain his humanity and not damn his soul. During in-between times, he tries to find the beauty in life beneath the shade of cottonwoods by breezy riverbeds.An incident in battle ushers Thomas from the rank of private ... Read more

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  • Blue Heron

    by Philip Ross ...
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  • Tchaikovsky: His Life and Music

    Tchaikovsky is one of the most popular composers who ever lived. He is also one of the most misunderstood, as both man and musician, and looks destined to remain among the most controversial. Widely misrepresented as an emotional voluptuary and typecast as a crazy Russian genius, he was, in fact, a highly disciplined and masterly craftsman of pronounced classical leanings, and a man whose volatile ... Read more

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