The Life and Death of ACT UP/LA. Anti-AIDS Activism in Los Angeles from the 1980s to the 2000s, Hardback - ***

The book traces the history of ACT UP/LA, whose members battled government and institutional neglect of the AIDS crisis during the 1980s and 1990s....

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A memorial to one of the greatest coaches in college football history written by the man who knew him better than anyone: his oldest son and coachi...

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These essays share intimate stories of life and Indigenous resistance in the Amazon rainforest during an age of raging wildfires, mass migration, p...

Sellers has long been acknowledged as one of the screen's greatest comic actors. In this biography, Roger Lewis draws on over 300 interviews with S...

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A groundbreaking chronicle of the birth--and death--of a pair of jeans, that exposes the fractures in our global supply chains, and our relationshi...

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The true story of one of the biggest financial scandals in recent history reaches very different conclusions to the standard narrative.Publisher: B...

The Life and Death of Theodore of Stoudios collects three important works promoting the influential Constantinople monastery of Stoudios and the me...

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In this extraordinary investigation based on extensive documentary research and dozens of interviews with the key players, Brian Brivati sets out t...

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A new account of the tragic life and troubled times of Henry VI, who inherited the crowns of both England and France and lost both, in the course o...

First English translation of a Greek novella first published in 1920 by the Corfiot author Konstantinos Theotokis. A tragi-comedy of Corfiot villag...

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Dingo Bold is a thought-provoking exploration of the relationship between people and dingoes. At its heart is Rowena Lennox's encounter with a ding...

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Reducere. Broken Harts: The Life and Death of Owen Hart, Paperback

Of all the screen juveniles groomed for stardom by Warner Brothers in the 1930s, few were touted as highly by Hal Wallis and Jack Warner as Ross Al...

Rudolph Valentino was the silver-screen legend who for ever changed America's idea of the leading man: a frightened young fellow who became the cin...

Reducere. In 1823, Hugh Glass did the unthinkable: he wrestled a grizzly bear...and won. But that is only the beginning of the remarkable tale--Glass, badly ...

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