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Music Trivia Questions and Answers of the '50's, '60's and '70's. Interesting facts about your favorite pop rock artists, songs and record men including The Beatles and manager Brian Epstein, Lou Christie, Four Tops, Elvis, Sam Phillips and Sun Studio, Herman's Hermits, Sly and Family Stone and more. Take a trip down memory lane with photos, lyrics and more to stimulate the gray matter.

First published in 1937, this woodworking classic reveals a fascinating look into the social structure of a 19th-century English town and a carpenter's place in it. Encapsulating a time prior to power tools and mass production, when woodworkers made virtually everything, Walter Rose writes eloquently...

“I never wanted to be a sad poet,But that's what I always seem to get...Though sadness makes the sweetest song,It's joy unbound that my poems long...”The Torrent from My Soul reflects the thoughts, joys, sorrows, love, hopes and dreams of a young woman common to most of the young...

Sheep Hunting A to Z is a 26-point guide to successful sheep hunting. It is a book that is intended to help any sheep hunter plan, prepare and complete a successful sheep hunt. It is filled with tips and information on equipment, scouting and tactics, along with stories and experiences from the author's sheep hunts. This book is a must for anyone planning to go sheep hunting.

Complete, Unabridged Guide to Tulisa Contostavlos. Get the information you need--fast! This comprehensive guide offers a thorough view of key knowledge and detailed insight. It's all you need. Here's part of the content - you would like to know it all? Delve into this book today!..... : After Lickle...

This is the story of two lives and a marriage that span a period of great changes in the way we live. Roses family home on a small farm in East Tennessee didnt have electricity until she was in her teens. Bill was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where his father was a steelworker, when not unemployed,...

If you loved the women profiled in Good Night Stories: Rebel Girls, then you'll also be inspired by the amazing role models featured in Girls Succeed! Stories Behind the Careers of Successful Women. Fifteen contemporary women share their dreams for success when they were girls. Be empowered by the...

當未來多數工作被人工智慧所取代，我們還能拿什麼去競爭？ 打破平均值的迷思，不再害怕做有特色的自己。   ◎摩根大通推薦給企業主的年度選書 ◎「打破平均值」的觀念，讓被診斷為過動兒的中輟生成為哈佛博士；讓Google學會辨識頂尖人才，打造最強團隊；讓微軟揮別失落十年，風雲再起。震撼美國企業界、教育界的最新論述，讓你告別差不多的人生。   寶寶照著成長曲線發育才是正常。誰說的？ 先吃棉花糖的小孩沒有自制力。誰說的？ 數學好的人比較有邏輯推理能力。誰說的？ 由得分王所組成的籃球隊會奪冠。誰說的？ 以上都是「平均值」說的。 本書作者哈佛教育學院陶德‧羅斯博士，提出一個衝擊性的觀點：「平均值根本不存在現實生活裡。」然而，我們幾乎從出生開始，就不斷被標準給綁架。我們都不想平庸，卻拚了命想達到平均值，因為想比別人好，必須先跟別人一樣。   二○○三年的紐約尼克隊，耗費巨資組了NBA平均得分總數最高的夢幻球隊，卻連輸四個球季，他們是錯估了哪件事？Google找人才不靠google，而是靠＿＿＿＿＿？徵才顧問介紹一位藥劑師擔任新創產業的人資，他的理由是什麼呢？測試意志力的棉花糖實驗遇上收容所的孩子完全失準，為什麼？ 愛因斯坦說：「每個人都有自己的天分。如果你叫魚去爬樹，他終其一生只會覺得自己是笨蛋。」本書提出三大個體性原則，剖析如何善用個體性來爭取優勢，揮別平均值的潛暴力。 【各界推薦】 **◆ **蘇文鈺　成功大學資訊工程學系教授╱偏鄉兒少程式教學計畫「Program...

Falling snow. Sledding in Central Park. Awkward family visits. And of course, plenty of scrumptious food.Sam and Ana have found an oasis of happiness in their closet-sized room in Brooklyn. They’ve both been turned out into the world as teenagers, left to fend for themselves.Together...

Music Trivia from the beginnings of early Rock & Roll and Pop music. The book covers the pioneer record companies and the people behind the scene that made it all happen: Motown Records, Chess Records, Atlantic Records, and Sun Records. It also covers the Artists for these labels and how they created the genre of these early formative years on the music scene.

Add layoffs foreclosures and skyrocketing health-care costs to the inevitable crises of every life and you have todays landscape. Amid these challenges even those who thought they had solid coping skills feel that their center cannot hold as things fall apart. In her first book in many years bestselling...

Cowboy Bebop is one of the most beloved anime series of all time, and if you ask its fans why, you can expect to hear about its music. Composer Yoko Kanno created an eclectic blend of jazz, rock, lullabies, folk and funk (to list just a few) for Cowboy Bebop's many moods and environments. Cowboy Bebop's...

Travel through Fearless Puppy on American Road with our 15 year old hitchhiking runaway as he escapes a life of drug dealing in Brooklyn. This trip offers solid clues about how to leave excess fears in the dust. Follow the author's outrageous voyage through every stupid mistake (and most of the saving...

Elvis Fans Share Memories of how he influenced their lives threw his music and movies. He also touched their lives by the way he lived. Personal encounters with him were unforgettable. This book shares many of those touching stories. His legacy still influences today's fans decades after he left us.