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  Get Down Here Quick and Mix...

  Pete Hammond

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  Telling the story of the 'mixmaster' Pete Hammond's incredible 40 year career in music production,
  Get Down Here and Mix Yourself a Hit lifts the lid on life behind the hits and the unique contribution made by Pete to countless hit records, many of which came to define the Stock Aitken and Waterman era and the unforgettable sound of pop music in the 80's From the early days freezing his butt off in the van doing gigs around Europe, to collecting countless gold and platinum dis for his production and mixing skills for PWL, Simon Cowell and many other major labels and artists, Pete will take you on an unforgettable journey from struggling musician to award-winning record remixer and all points in between. With the immortal words of Pete Waterman which make the title of this book Pete did indeed 'get down there' and the hits flowed and flowed. Pete Hammond, an invaluable contributor to British pop music history.

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  Gangland New York - The Places...

  Anthony M. DeStefano

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  From the Bowery Boys and the Five Points Gang through the rise of the Jewish "Kosher Nostra" and the ascendance of the Italian Mafia, mobsters have played a major role in the city's history, lurking just around the corner or inside that nondescript building. Bill "the Butcher" Poole, Paul Kelly, Monk Eastman, "Lucky" Luciano, Carlo Gambino, Meyer Lansky, Mickey Spillane, John Gotti—each held sway over New York neighborhoods that nurtured them and gave them power. As families and factions fought for control, the city became a backdrop for crime scenes, the rackets spreading after World War II to docks, airports, food markets, and garment districts. The streets of Brooklyn, swamps of Staten Island, and vacant lots near LaGuardia Airport hosted assassinations and hasty burials for the unlucky. The bloodlettings, arrests, and trials became front-page fodder for tabloids that thrived on covering Mulberry Street. Chinese, Russian, and Greek mobsters rose to prominence and wrought bloody havoc as well. 
  Each of Gangland New York's five sections—one for each borough—traces criminal activities and area exploits from the nineteenth century to now. Everyone knows about Umberto’s Clam House in Little Italy, but now you can find Scarpato's restaurant in Coney Island, where Joe Masseria was killed by henchmen of Salvatore Maranzano, who in turn died in a Park Avenue office building at the hands of "Lucky" Luciano a few months later. From the Bronx to Brighton Beach, from New Springville to Ozone Park, here is a comprehensive, on-the-ground guide to mob life in the Rotten Apple.

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  Great Harry

  Carolly Erickson

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  A reissue of the classic 1980 biography of England’s King Henry VIII. 
   
  “This historical biography reads like the liveliest fiction. Erickson’s portraits of Henry VIII, Catherine of Aragon, Cardinal Wolsey, Thomas Cromwell, and Anne Boleyn are carefully drawn-and utterly fascinating.” —Chicago Tribune 
   
  St. Martin’s Griffin is proud to reissue acclaimed biographer Carolly Erickson’s lives of the Tudor monarchs. 
   
  In this full-scale popular biography of Henry VIII, Carolly Erickson re-creates the extravagant life and times of one of history’s most complex and fascinating men. 
   
  Based on voluminous records of the period, the story of Henry’s life covers his troubled youth, his triumphant early reign, and his agonizing old age. 
   
  Against the lively backdrop of the Tudor world, with all its splendors and squalors, Carolly Erickson gives us an unforgettable and human portrait of Henry VIII. 
   
  “An admirable biography, graphic, judicious, carefully researched, skillfully constructed, and full of those telling details that are an essential ingredient of the narrator’s art.” —The New York Times Book Review

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  Whatever It Takes - Life Lessons...

  Stephen Stohn, Christopher Ward

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  This book will change the way you think about success.
  		 
  Producer of television’s iconic Degrassi franchise Stephen Stohn tells stories from behind the scenes and of making it in the music and television world in this star-studded, rock ’n’ roll trip through a Canadian show business explosion. Stohn, who has been at the heart of the entertainment industry for over forty years, shares a lifetime of experience and unique insights into how dreams are turned into reality.
  		 
  “Whatever It Takes” — both a mantra and Degrassi’s theme song — has been heard millions of times all over the world. It embodies a philosophy of struggle and self-belief leading to accomplishment, as well as the story of an exploring mind, an adventurous pursuit of experience, ringing failures, and the willingness to see things in a different way.

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  A Lion Where There Were Lambs -...

  Bill Erxleben

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  The true story of a crusading lawyer willing to risk his career and reputation in some of the most famous cases in Pacific Northwest history. 
   
  Referred to by a political commentator as "Front Page Bill" for his headline making exploits, Bill Erxleben was an anti-corruption federal prosecutor, consumer protection and environmental champion. He would take on vested interests and the federal bureaucracy and win national acclaim for his zealous commitment to the public interest. 
   
  Politicians and industry representatives upset with his outspoken manner and vigorous enfrocement of the law, called for his dismissal three times, including several requests that went all the way to the White House and Congress. Erxleben discloses new details about some of the most famous, headline-breaking legal cases in the Pacific Northwest. 
   
  This fascinating story is packed with regional history, national intrigue, and lessons from the past that directly apply to today's current events.

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  The Beatles & Friends

  Geoffrey Giuliano

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  In this rare collection on the phenomena of Beatlemania here is an inside look on the lives of George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono, and those in Beatles select circle. If you think you know everything about the Beatles, think again, because here is the true story of the Fab Four from one half of the unstoppable juggernaut that was the Beatles.

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