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Bahama Burnout: A Mick Sever Mystery

Bahama Burnout: A Mick Sever Mystery

Don Bruns

Sent to get the inside story on the opening of the new Highland Studio, Mick finds this is hardly the Phoenix-rising-out-of-the-ashes story he expected.
Last of the Giants: The True Story of Guns N' Roses

Last of the Giants: The True Story of Guns N' Roses

Mick Wall

And this is where Mick Wall first met them, and became part of their inner circle, before famously being denounced by name by Axl Rose in the song 'Get in the Ring'. But this book isn't about settling old scores.
AC/DC: Hell Ain't a Bad Place to Be

AC/DC: Hell Ain't a Bad Place to Be

Mick Wall

Mick Wall penetrates the closed world of Aussie rock legends AC/DC. AC/DC moved to Britain from Sydney in 1975, and soon set up a residency at London's Marquee Club.
The Blackwater Lightship: A Novel

The Blackwater Lightship: A Novel

Colm Toibin

She watched Mick Joyce going into the garden, finding Manus and lifting him on his shoulders, making him laugh and shout; Cathal and his friend followed them as they moved around the garden. She remembered that each time Mick had ...
Metallica: Enter Night: The Biography

Metallica: Enter Night: The Biography

Mick Wall

Mick Wall moves on from Led Zeppelin to produce a definitive doorstop on Metallica.
The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney

The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney

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In District and Circle, Heaney remembers the dead Mick Joyce ('Out of your element'; 'To Mick Joyce in Heaven', DC 8) as he remembered the casualty of the Troubles who would not honour the tribal demarcations, but in this recent memory ...
The Ashgate Research Companion to Popular Musicology

The Ashgate Research Companion to Popular Musicology

Derek B. Scott

103–24); Roy Orbison: seePeter Lehman, Roy Orbison:The Invention of an Alternative Rock Masculinity (Philadelphia, 2003); Mick Jagger: see Sheila Whiteley, 'Little Red Rooster v.The HonkyTonk Woman: Mick Jagger, Sexuality, Style ...
Not Impossible: The Art and Joy of Doing What Couldn't Be Done

Not Impossible: The Art and Joy of Doing What Couldn't Be Done

Mick Ebeling

In the process he discovered that he could, indeed, change the world—and this fascinating new book shows how you can, too.
Cheated

Cheated

Patrick Jones

Mick, Brody and Aaron spend most of their free time drinking and commiserating about the raw deal they have in life.
St. Barts Breakdown:

St. Barts Breakdown:

Don Bruns

Rock and roll journalist Mick Sever is back with a new assignment: interview music legend Danny Murtz.
Music to Die for

Music to Die for

Mick Mercer

Packed with discographical information, web addresses, line-ups, and often contributions from the bands themselves, this is the first edition of a book that will be turned to again and again and will undoubtedly appear in new editions as ...
The Wrestling

The Wrestling

Simon Garfield

This is a book about Kendo Nagasaki, Mick McManus, Les Kellett, Klondyke Kate and Dr Death - men and women who used to fight each other every night for pride and money.
The Lammas Field

The Lammas Field

Catherine Fisher

Each year the Lammas Fair draws musicians and story-tellers to the grounds of the 17th-century house where Mick's father is manager.
The Manx Norton

The Manx Norton

Mick Walker

This revised edition of the definitive history contains additional material and traces the design, development, the leading riders and tuners. It presents a superb collection of photographs, many previously unpublished.
Evolutionary Playwork

Evolutionary Playwork

Bob Hughes

Throughout this book, Hughes has included his fellow practitioner Mick Conway’s vivid observations of children at play to bring the facts and arguments in the text to life.
Hours of Gladness

Hours of Gladness

Thomas Fleming

It is 1984. Irish Americans, preoccupied with a loss of political power in the cities, have little sympathy for Ireland and the IRA. This is especially true of Mick O'Day, an ex-marine whose moral failure in Vietnam haunts him still.
Malaria

Malaria

Mick Isle

Recounts the history and effects of malaria, describes how the disease spreads, and offers information about diagnosis, treatment, and the threat of malaria in the modern world.
The Ethics of Tourism Development

The Ethics of Tourism Development

Mick Smith

Drawing upon a variety of important philosophical traditions, this book develops an original perspective on the relations between ethical, economic and aesthetic values in a tourism context.
Everything You Need to Know about Colds and Flu

Everything You Need to Know about Colds and Flu

Mick Isle

Explains what both colds and flu are, how to avoid them, and how to get over an illness as quickly and painlessly as possible.
Fashioning Gothic Bodies

Fashioning Gothic Bodies

Catherine Spooner

The circumstances preceding her eventual departure from The Sisters of Mercy underscore this point; according to Mick Mercer: 'Having felt her contribution, already spread over four years perhaps merited more than the paltry £300 a month ...
Goth: Undead Subculture

Goth: Undead Subculture

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This is clearly demonstrated by the testimonies of individual goths interviewed in Mick Mercer's Gothic Rock (1991). An interviewee named Hemlock states, "Whilst some people see us and say we're all the same because we all wear black, ...
The Alternative View of A BOXERS RECORD: A story of ...

The Alternative View of A BOXERS RECORD: A story of ...

Jim McMillan

Dave had lost twenty four of thirty and was from the same camp as Mick Joyce. He was obviously a 'fight anyone for money' type but quite experienced. Would Karl's aggression and power be enough? I asked Tommy to find someone else.
A Timeline of the Supreme Court

A Timeline of the Supreme Court

Mick Isle

Provides a chronological look at the history of the United States Supreme Court, the judges who have made their mark there, and the cases which have been important in each century.

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