Author: Ian CollardPublisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445678047
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
A fascinating portrait of the Wirral presented through a remarkable collection of historical photographs.
Birkenhead From Old Photographs
Author: Ian CollardPublisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445623234
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
A unique and charming look at the history of Birkenhead and its inhabitants, through a fascinating collection of beautiful photographs.
Wirral From Old Photographs
Author: Ian CollardPublisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445678047
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
A fascinating portrait of the Wirral presented through a remarkable collection of historical photographs.
Wallasey From Old Photographs
Author: Ian CollardPublisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445624346
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
The story of the Borough of Wallasey including New Brighton and Liscard from old photographs.
Gonville
Author: Peter BirkenheadPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439101272
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
In powerful and spirited prose, Peter Birkenhead recounts a childhood spent trying to make sense of his father, a terrifying, charismatic presence who brutalized his family physically and emotionally at the same time that he enchanted them with his passion and whimsy. An avid gun collector yet an anti-war activist, a popular economics professor and a wife-swapping nudist, a leftist and a lifelong fan of the British Empire who would occasionally don an authentic pith helmet and imitate Michael Caine’s performance as the heroic Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead in the bloody war film Zulu, he was a man who could knock his young son down the stairs one day and the next cry about putting the family’s aged dog to sleep. Such is the contradictory figure at the center of this astonishingly candid and shocking memoir. As a young adult, Birkenhead reacted to his volatile childhood by forgetting its worst moments. He adopted all the trappings of normalcy, threw himself into a career as an actor, landing parts in Broadway plays like Brighton Beach Memoirs and Broadway Bound, both by Neil Simon, and found himself often playing characters who were angry at their fathers. Yet he discovered that he was sleepwalking through life, on occasion falling into rages that reminded him of his father. Then at thirty-one, eleven years after his parents’ divorce, Birkenhead told his mother about his recurring dream of flying down the stairs of their house as a young boy. She revealed that it wasn’t a dream, but a memory from his early childhood of being carried rapidly down the stairs by his mom after his father had pointed a gun at them. The revelation about the dream sparked the painful yet necessary process of examining his childhood and of ultimately moving beyond it, forcing Birkenhead to finally confront his father in a way that released him and his family from this complicated legacy. Combining the terror and wit of Running with Scissors, the poignancy and sense of place of The Tender Bar, with the sparkling prose of Oh the Glory of It All, Gonville is light on its feet even as it deals in the darkest of family tales. A harrowing and often humorous story of a son coming to terms with his alternately charming, cruel, generous, and violent father.
The Last Resort
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Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
A revised edition of the classic book that launched Martin Parr and transformed the world of documentary photography.
Liverpool Prints and Documents
Author: Liverpool (England). Public Libraries, Museums, and Art Gallery. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Liverpool (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
The Official Index to The Times
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Category : Times (London, England)
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Murder in the Front Row
Author: Brian LewPublisher: Bazillion Points LLC
ISBN: 9781935950035
Category : Rock groups
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In the 1980s, the San Francisco Bay Area was heaven for hardcore headbangers. Shunning Hollywood hairspray and image in favor of a more dangerous street appeal, the Bay Area thrash metal scene was home toExodus,Metallica,Testament,Possessed,Death Angel,Heathen,Vio-Lence,Attitude Adjustment, Forbidden, andBlind Illusion -- and served as a second home to like-minded similar bands likeSlayer,Mercyful Fate,Anthrax,Megadeth, and more. Beginning as teenagers taking snapshots of visiting heavy metal bands during the 1970s, Brian "Umlaut" Lew and Harald "O." Oimoen documented the birth and growth of the local metal scene. Featuring hundreds of unseen live and candid color and black-and-white photographs,Murder in the Front Row captures the wild-eyed zeal and drive that madeMetallica,Slayer, andMegadeth into legends, with over 100 million combined records sold.
Torpedoed
Author: Deborah HeiligmanPublisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN: 1250187559
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
From award-winning author Deborah Heiligman comes Torpedoed, a true account of the attack and sinking of the passenger ship SS City of Benares, which was evacuating children from England during WWII. Amid the constant rain of German bombs and the escalating violence of World War II, British parents by the thousands chose to send their children out of the country: the wealthy, independently; the poor, through a government relocation program called CORB. In September 1940, passenger liner SS City of Benares set sail for Canada with one hundred children on board. When the war ships escorting the Benares departed, a German submarine torpedoed what became known as the Children's Ship. Out of tragedy, ordinary people became heroes. This is their story. This title has Common Core connections.
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