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16 produkter
Baseball and the Blame Game
Scapegoating in the Major Leagues
Häftad, 2007
502 kr
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Most baseball fans know what links Fred Merkle, Fred Snodgrass, Mickey Owen and Bill Buckner. It's a pantheon of public failure. They would be harder put to say what links Eric Byrnes, Tony Fernandez, and Babe Ruth, though these players made misplays every bit as egregious.In this smart, highly …
Hitchcock and the Censors
Inbunden, 2019
858 kr
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Throughout his career, Alfred Hitchcock had to deal with a wide variety of censors attuned to the slightest suggestion of sexual innuendo, undue violence, toilet humor, religious disrespect, and all forms of indecency, real or imagined. From 1934 to 1968, the Motion Picture Production Code Office …
Contrary Blues, The
Ljudbok, 2003
372 kr
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Not much happens in Contrary, West Virginia -- a sleepy town with failing coal mines, a few local moonshine stills, and an urgent need for revenue. A Federal grant for a nonexistent bus system seemed to be just the ticket.
Highway Robbery
Ljudbok, 2008
364 kr
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When road construction by West Virginia's highway department uncovers human remains near the small town of Barkley, everyone involved stops dead in their tracks.
Dismal Mountain
Ljudbok, 2009
364 kr
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With her land threatened by the construction of a shopping mall, Lizzie parks herself at the edge of her property, shotgun in her lap, vowing to do whatever it takes to stop the dump trucks; then, suddenly, a truck driver is dead. Did Aunt Lizzie really shoot him?
Drybone Hollow
Ljudbok, 2009
364 kr
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A local dam breaks, sending a black ribbon of coal sludge cascading miles and miles through the hollows across the region. It turns out that Owen knows the owner of the coal mine.What's more, the owner knows that finding out why things fail is Owen's speciality, and he hires him on the spot to …
Stonewall Jackson's Elbow
Ljudbok, 2009
364 kr
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After the death of J. Burton Caldwell, president of the First National Bank of Contrary, West Virginia, federal bank examiners find three-quarters of a billion dollars missing.
