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Apart from the dangers of passive smoking, there are other risks to people who are around people who smoke. Tobacco companies used to advertise cigarettes and other tobacco products everywhere. In the 1960's, many movies showed the hero and ... [... more]
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Han Shaogong
From the daring imagination of one of China's greatest living novelists comes a work of startling power and originality-the story of a young man "displaced" to a small village in rural China during the 1960s. Told in the format of a dictionary, [... more]
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Oscar Gilbert
By 1960, following Korea, tanks and their crews had proved themselves to be a fundamental part of the Marine Corps' combined arms team. When the Marines were ordered to Vietnam in 1965, they took their tanks with them. This book explores this ... [... more]
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Steve Davies
From the late 1960s until the end of the Cold War, the United States Air Force acquired and flew Russian-made MiG jets, culminating in a secret squadron dedicated to exposing American fighter pilots to enemy technology and tactics. Red Eagles ... [... more]
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Craig Wolff
Descended from West African kings and healers, raised in the turbulence of Guinea in the 1960s, Kadiatou Diallo was married off at the age of thirteen and bore her first child when she was sixteen. Twenty-three years later, that child-a gentle, ... [... more]
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Graham McLaren
Ceramics of the 1960s Ceramics of the 1950s Studio Glass 1960-2000 Graham McLaren [... more]
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Emmett Grogan
Ringolevio is a classic American story of self-invention by one of the more mysterious and alluring figures to emerge in the 1960s. Emmett Grogan grew up on New York City's mean streets, getting hooked on heroin before he was in his teens, ... [... more]
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J.W.N. Sullivan
J.W.N. Sullivan Beethoven Written by J.W.N. Sullivan ISBN: 9780394701004 February 12, 1960 [... more]
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Edward W. Said
Edward W. Said was born in Jerusalem, raised in Jerusalem and Cairo, and educated in the United States, where he attended Princeton (B.A. 1957) and Harvard (M.A. 1960; Ph.D. 1964). In 1963, he began teaching at Columbia University, where he was ... [... more]
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Pauline Maier
Pauline Maier was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. She received her B.A. from Radcliffe College in 1960, was a Fulbright Scholar at the London School of Economics in 1960-61, and took her Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1968. She has taught at ... [... more]
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Dan Rattiner
DAN RATTINER is an award-winning writer and the editor and publisher of Dan's Papers, the free newspaper he founded in 1960 when he was twenty years old. He lives on Long Island, New York. Long before the Hamptons became famous for its posh ... [... more]
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Jack L. Chalker
Jack L. Chalker was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on December 17, 1944. While still in high school, he began writing for the amateur science-fiction press, and in 1960 he launched the Hugo-nominated amateur magazine Mirage. A year later he founded ... [... more]
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