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Download or read book London, Actually written by Clare Lydon and published by Custard Books. This book was released on 2018-10-22 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She had one rule. She broke it… Cleo Nightingale, star event-planner and recent member of the 'My Marriage Went Kaput' club, is dipping her toe back in the dating pool. She's armed with one steadfast rule: absolutely no dating younger women. Simple, right? Enter Becca Cramer, just out of university, footloose and fancy-free. She’s not hunting for love, but as fate would have it, she stumbles right into Cleo's carefully planned life. They share a drunken kiss. They meet again. Then all hell breaks loose… Prepare yourself for a riot of a ride featuring two weddings, a festival with more drama than EastEnders, a brother nursing a bruised ego, and a bestie who's about to drop. Book five in the much-loved London Romance series delivers yet another hilarious and heartwarming tale: a story of unexpected love, and the joy of not playing by the rules.

Download or read book London written by John Broich and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2013-05-03 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As people crowded into British cities in the nineteenth century, industrial and biological waste byproducts and then epidemic followed them. Britons died by the thousands in recurring plagues. Figures like Edwin Chadwick and John Snow pleaded for measures that could save lives and preserve the social fabric. The solution that prevailed was the novel idea that British towns must build public water supplies, replacing private companies. But the idea was not an obvious or inevitable one. Those who promoted new waterworks argued that they could use water to realize a new kind of British society—a productive social machine, a new moral community, and a modern civilization. They did not merely cite the dangers of epidemic or scarcity. Despite many debates and conflicts, this vision won out—in town after town, from Birmingham to Liverpool to Edinburgh, authorities gained new powers to execute municipal water systems. But in London local government responded to environmental pressures with a plan intended to help remake the metropolis into a collectivist society. The Conservative national government, in turn, sought to impose a water administration over the region that would achieve its own competing political and social goals. The contestants over London's water supply matched divergent strategies for administering London's water with contending visions of modern society. And the matter was never pedestrian. The struggle over these visions was joined by some of the most colorful figures of the late Victorian period, including John Burns, Lord Salisbury, Bernard Shaw, and Sidney and Beatrice Webb. As Broich demonstrates, the debate over how to supply London with water came to a head when the climate itself forced the endgame near the end of the nineteenth century. At that decisive moment, the Conservative party succeeded in dictating the relationship between water, power, and society in London for many decades to come.

Download or read book At the Piano written by Caroline Benser and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2011-10-24 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In At the Piano: Interviews with 21st-Century Pianists, Caroline Benser explores the kaleidoscopic world of twenty-first-century pianism through a series of extended interviews with eight major pianists: Leif Ove Andsnes, Jonathan Biss, Simone Dinnerstein, Marc-André Hamelin, Stephen Hough, Steven Osborne, Yevgeny Sudbin, and Yuja Wang. The pianists represented here are not only a virtuosos on their instrument, renowned for their renditions of classic works by Bach, Beethoven, Liszt, Debussy, and Bartók, they are also dedicated to advancing pianism, commissioning and performing works by living composers as well as revisiting and re-exploring musical possibilities neglected by their predecessors. Interviewees talk with Benser about such matters as their first experiences at the piano, the critical role played by their earliest teachers, the literature they play, the instruments they prefer, the meaning of musicianship to them, and the joys and difficulties of a professional career doing what they love. Teachers, students, and amateur pianists alike will learn about new and lesser-known piano literature; newly developed instruments that have extended the range of the keyboard; the phenomenal rise of pianists in such countries as China; and new research on pianists' injuries and healthy playing. At the Piano is written not only for the specialist and non-specialist pianist but also for all musicians and general music lovers.

Download or read book Go Slow written by Michael Owen and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2017-07-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been said that the records of singer and actress Julie London were purchased for their provocative, full-color cover photographs as frequently as they were for the music contained in their grooves. During the 1950s and 1960s, her piercing blue eyes, strawberry-blonde hair, and shapely figure were used to sell the world an image of cool sexuality that stoked the fevered dreams of many men. The contrast between that image and reality, the public and the private, is at the heart of Julie London's story. Through years of research, extensive interviews with family, friends, and musical associates, and access to rarely seen or heard archival material, author Michael Owen reveals the impact that her image had on the direction of her career and how it influenced the choices she made, including the decision to walk away from performing. Go Slow follows Julie London's life and career through its many stages: her transformation from 1940s movie starlet to the coolly defiant singer of the classic torch ballad "Cry Me a River" of the 1950s, and her journey from Las Vegas hotel entertainer during the rock and roll revolution of the 1960s to the no-nonsense nurse of the 1970s hit television series Emergency!

Download or read book The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer, comprising the law relative to their several duties, with all the necessary forms of commitments, convictions, orders, etc written by John Frederick ARCHBOLD and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book History of Trial by Jury written by William Forsyth and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Picture of England: Containing a Description of the Laws, Customs and Manners of England. ... By M. D'Archenholz, ... Translated from the French written by Johann Wilhelm von Archenholz and published by . This book was released on 1790 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: