Author: William C. StrackPublisher:
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Category : Astronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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The N-body Code - A General Fortran Code for Solution of Problems in Space Mechanics by Numerical Methods
Author: William C. StrackPublisher:
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Category : Astronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
N-71, Scotts Bluff Gering Urban Arterial
Author: The Russian Operation
Author: John J. MarescaPublisher: Ibidem Press
ISBN: 9783838213620
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Joey Torino is an American diplomat sent to find a colleague who has gone missing in the high mountains of the Caucasus, where a local rebellion is being suppressed by Russian military forces. Torino doesn't hesitate to plunge into the middle of the conflict. But he finds a complex situation from which there is no easy way out.
N-reactor Conversion Design Criteria Process and Control, Secondary Cooling System
Author: N-15 and US-6 Between Dorchester and Milford
Author: Creation Revisited
Author: Peter William AtkinsPublisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
ISBN: 9780140174250
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
Na Motu, Or, Reef-rovings in the South Seas
Author: Edward T. PerkinsPublisher:
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Category : Oceania
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
The Colonel
Author: Alanna NashPublisher: Aurum Press
ISBN: 178131201X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Almost the only indisputable fact about Colonel Tom Parker is that he was the manager of the greatest performer in popular music: Elvis Presley. His real name wasn’t Tom Parker †“ indeed, he wasn’t an American at all, but a Dutch immigrant called Andreas van Kujik. And he certainly wasn’t a proper military colonel: he purchased his title from a man in Louisiana. But while the Colonel has long been acknowledged as something of a charlatan, this book is the first to reveal the extraordinary extent of the secrets he concealed, and the consequences for the career, and ultimately the life, of the star he managed. As Alanna Nash’ prodigious research has discovered, the Colonel left Holland most probably because, at the age of twenty, he bludgeoned a woman to death. Entering the US illegally, he then enlisted in the army as ‘Tom Parker’. But, with supreme irony for someone later styling himself as Colonel, Parker’s military career ended in desertion, and discharge after a psychiatrist had certified him as a psychopath. He then became a fairground barker, working sideshows with a zeal for small-scale huckstering and the casual scam that never left him. And by the height of Elvis’s success, Parker had become a pathological gambler who, at the same time as he was taking, amazingly, a full 50% of Presley’s earnings, frittered away all his wealth in the casinos of Las Vegas. As Nash shows, therefore, the often baffling trajectory of Elvis Presley’s career makes perfect sense once the secret imperatives of the Colonel’s life are known. Parker never booked Presley for a tour of Europe because of the dark secret that ensured he himself could never return there. Even at his most famous, Elvis was still being booked to play out-of-the-way towns in North Carolina †“ because the former fairground barker (who shamelessly negotiated as such even with top record company and film executives) knew them from his days on the circus circuit. And Elvis was trapped playing years of arduous seasons in Las Vegas †“ two shows nightly, seven days a week, until boredom and despair brought on the excessive drug use that killed him †“ because for Parker he was “an open chit†? whose huge earnings prevented his manager’s losses at the gambling tables being called in. Alanna Nash knew Parker towards the end of his life, and has now uncovered the whole story, improbable, shocking, and never less than compelling, of how this larger-than-life man made, and then unmade, popular music’s first and greatest superstar.
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