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    The Curiosities, Secrets, and Unofficial History of the New York City Transit System

    This dynamic visual history of the world's largest transit system -- in all its intriguing, colorful, and even seedy glory -- is packed with fascinating facts and hundreds of compelling photographs.When the first New York subway line opened in 1904, it was the most advanced in the world and a source of enormous civic pride. Today, it is an essential function to the lives of New Yorkers and a ... Read more

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  • Fifty Years in Politics and the Law

    by John Morris ...
    The autobiography of Lord Morris of Aberavon, born to farming stock in Aberystwyth, and who went on to enjoy an illustrious career, assuming one of the highest positions in the land as Attorney General. Trained as a barrister, he went on to serve as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Power and the Ministry of Transport, Minister of State at the Ministry of Defence, Secretary of State for ... Read more

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  • Symptom of the Universe: A Horror Tribute to Black Sabbath

    A worldwide gathering of award winning horror authors have come together to craft a collection of dark fiction stories covering every album and every era of Black Sabbath. Each story is inspired by one of Black Sabbath's greatest songs from the biggest hits to the most obscure album tracks. SYMPTOM OF THE UNIVERSE: A HORROR TRIBUTE TO BLACK SABBATH is an immediate classic for rock fans and horror ... Read more

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  • King of Capital

    The Remarkable Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Steve Schwarzman and Blackstone

    The story of Steve Schwarzman, Blackstone, and a financial revolution, King of Capital is the greatest untold success story on Wall Street.In King of Capital, David Carey and John Morris show how Blackstone (and other private equity firms) transformed themselves from gamblers, hostile-takeover artists, and ‘barbarians at the gate’ into disciplined, risk-conscious investors while the financial ... Read more

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  • Music and Politics in Thirties Britain

    Raise the Standard High

    by John Morris ...
    Radical domestic politics, musical experimentation, advancing technology and the influence of migration from Europe and Britain's enrichment from it, all had their affects on a remarkable year in musical cultural life in the mid-30s. This book looks at the little-known aspect of music and politics in domestic Britain in 1934, a pivotal year in terms of political and cultural developments.Music and ... Read more

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  • Law Firm Mergers

    Lessons from Successful Strategic Combinations

    Mergers and acquisitions of law firms of all sizes have become increasingly common as competition for talent and business intensifies and leading firms dominate the market in size and profitability. Lawyers and law firm leaders contemplating the future of their firms need to understand the changing dynamics of the market, and the ways in which mergers and other combinations may or may not help ... Read more

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  • Suffering

    If God Exists, Why Doesn't He Stop It?

    by John Morris ...
    If God exists, does he care about his evolving, suffering world? Most answers are unsatisfactory. Morris's book is different: short but not superficial, strong in its science and philosophy, and realistic as a carer of a handicapped teenage grandson, still unable to walk and talk. Like Stephen Hawking and Einstein, John Morris also tries to explore the mind of God. Violence began with the Big Bang ... Read more

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  • The Condition of Catholics Under James I (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Father Gerard's Narrative of the Gunpowder Plot

    The Condition of Catholics Under James I is a pointed historical and polemical account of English Catholic life in the early Stuart period, when hopes for toleration after Elizabeth I gave way to renewed surveillance, recusancy fines, imprisonment, and suspicion after the Gunpowder Plot. Written in lucid, urgent prose, it combines documentary testimony with moral argument, situating private ... Read more

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    Martin is that most unusual of creatures - a successful banker with a conscience and sense of morality. He's shunned the trophy wife and call girls in search of Miss Right, even though he ends up spending many Saturday nights alone.On one particular Friday night he visits one of his usual haunts close to his place of work and as he drinks alone at the bar he is approached by a woman who asks if ... Read more

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  • Traveller From Tokyo

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    Written in the author's typically charming and self-effacing style, this book offers readers a fascinating insight into Japan and Japanese life at the eve of its fateful entry into the Second World War. The author tells of his struggle to teach English in a Japanese university, as well as his daily encounters with Japanese institutions and customs. Never dry or pedantic, the work is a balanced and ... Read more

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  • Transforming the Latin American Automobile Industry

    Union, Workers and the Politics of Restructuring

    This study looks at union responses to the changes in the Latin American car industry in the last 15 years. It considers the impact of the shift towards export production and regional integration, and the effect of political changes on union reponses. ... Read more

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  • The Gulf War

    Its Origins, History and Consequences

    Series series Routledge Library Editions: War and Security in the Middle East
    After a million deaths and twice that number injured, after the destruction of much of the infrastructure of Iran and Iraq, disruption of trade throughout the Gulf and the involvement of the USA and USSR, was the Gulf War a pointless exercise, a futile conflict which achieved nothing and left the combatants at the end of it all back in exactly the same position from which they started in 1980? In ... Read more

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