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  • Heathrow Airport

    Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow

    by Alan Gallop ...
    "A very nicely presented history of one of the greatest airports in the world, its challenges and its prospects . . . Highly Recommended." — FiretrenchLove it or loathe it, Heathrow is the United Kingdom's largest and most important airport by a distance. It currently serves over 190 routes to more than 80 countries. Over £100 billion of imports and exports are handled every year, making it the UK ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Six for the Tolpuddle Martyrs

    The Epic Struggle for Justice & Freedom

    by Alan Gallop ...
    In 1834 six farm laborers from the Dorset hamlet of Tolpuddle fell foul of draconian Victorian laws prohibiting assembly. Today the names of George Loveless and his brother James, Thomas Standfield and his son John, James Brine and James Hammett, who made up the Tolpuddle Martyrs, stand high on the roll of British men who have been victimized for their beliefs but stood steadfast in the face of ... Read more

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  • The Martians are Coming!

    The True Story of Orson Welles' 1938 Panic Broadcast

    by Alan Gallop ...
    It was Halloween 1938 when twenty-three year-old Orson Welles fooled America into thinking it had been invaded by aliens. The Mercury Theatre on the Air production of H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds is one of the most talked-about radio broadcasts in history. The realistic retelling of Wells' original story resulted in mass panic across America. People ran into the streets screaming that the ... Read more

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  • The Big Squeeze

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  • Interrupted Aria

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    Venice, 1731. Opera is the popular entertainment of the day. Tito Amato, mutilated as a boy to preserve his enchanting soprano voice, returns to the city of his birth with his friend Felice, a singer whose voice has failed.Disaster strikes Tito's opera premier when the singer loses one beloved friend to poison and another to unjust accusation and arrest. Alarmed that the merchant-aristocrat who ... Read more

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  • Shadowbosses

    Government Unions Control America and Rob Taxpayers Blind

    SHADOWBOSSES reads like an organized crime novel, but it's actually a true story of how labor unions are infiltrating our government and corrupting our political process. This compelling and insightful book exposes how unions have organized federal, state, and local government employees without their consent, and how government employee unions are now a threat to our workers' freedoms, our free ... Read more

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  • Larceny Games

    Sports Gambling, Game Fixing and the FBI

    by Brian Tuohy ...
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  • Mobilizing against Inequality

    Unions, Immigrant Workers, and the Crisis of Capitalism

    Series series Frank W. Pierce Memorial Lectureship and Conference Series
    Among the many challenges that global liberalization has posed for trade unions, the growth of precarious immigrant workforces lacking any collective representation stands out as both a major threat to solidarity and an organizing opportunity. Believing that collective action is critical in the struggle to lift the low wages and working conditions of immigrant workers, the contributors to ... Read more

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  • Ciara's Diary

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    The year is 1999. Connemara is braced for the new millennium. 'No Scrubs' rules the airwaves, bootleg DVDs of Cruel Intentions are thrilling crowds of sexually progressive teens, and if you're not matching combat trousers with platforms, you are nobody. In the midst of this perplexing world, a girl named Ciara, inspired by her heroes Anne Frank and Aung San Suu Kyi, begins to document her not ... Read more

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