Books written by Peter Townsend
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Pearl Harbor Jazz: Change in Popular Music in the Early 1940s
Fats Waller was the first jazz artist to have his talents presented in Carnegie Hall in 1942. Waller was a composer of numerous popular songs, a brilliant pianist in the Harlem style, and a powerful and distinctive singer.
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Poverty in the United Kingdom: A Survey of Household Resources and Standards of Living
... 1979 ISBN : 0-520-03871-1 ( cloth ) ISBN : 0-520-03976-9 ( paper ) Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 78-66023 Set in Monotype Times Printed in Great Britain by Hazell Watson & Viney Ltd , Aylesbury , Bucks Contents Preface 17 ...
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Old People in Three Industrial Societies
29 See, for example, M. F. Lowenthal, op. cit.; E. Shanas, op. cit.; Ian M. Richardson, Age and Need: A Study of Older People in East Scotland (Edinburgh: Livingstone, 1964); and Peter Townsend and Dorothy Wedderburn, The Aged in the ...
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Child Poverty in the Developing World
This is the largest, most accurate survey sample of children ever assembled.
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Jazz in American Culture
In this book for the nonspecialist Peter Townsend shows how during an entire century jazz has appeared in a wide diversity of times and places and in many different cultural settings.
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The Dark Side of Technology
... at the negative side of technological progress, then this should also include the loss of pleasure and enjoyment as a result of technology. The hugely impressive steam trains, mechanized farm equipment, and fairground rides from the ...
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Breadline Europe: The Measurement of Poverty
Since 1990, the World Bank, most of the other international agencies and an increasing number of governments have committed themselves to the eradication of poverty. But the basis of their...
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Pearl Harbor Jazz: Change in Popular Music in the Early 1940s
as a global description of life in the big bands gives bebop revolt an artistic and also a moral justification . In this view , bebop was a positive or , as it was ... Feather's Inside Jazz ( called Inside Bebop 138 Disorder at the Border.
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Duel of Eagles
Former RAF ace chronicles the growth of the Royal Air Force and the Luftwaffe and their decisive engagements during the Battle of Britain in 1940.
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Small Business and the Law
No matter how small your business , you need to delegate someone else to take care of production . This allows you , the business owner , time to focus on all the other things the business needs in order to prosper .
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The Last Emperor: Decline and Fall of the British Empire
The Last Emperor: Decline and Fall of the British Empire
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Duel of Eagles: The Struggle for the Skies from the First World War to the Battle of Britain
Former RAF ace chronicles the growth of the Royal Air Force and the Luftwaffe and their decisive engagements during the Battle of Britain in 1940.
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The House Built on Sand
What does it take to radically alter the course of someone's life?
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Stamp Duty Land Tax U a Guide to the New Law and Practice
The book also, in a practical step-by-step manner, examples the differences from the old regime and fully explains the new legislation regarding leases.
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Pearl Harbor Jazz: Changes in Popular Music in the Early 1940s
Pearl Harbor Jazz: Change in Popular Music in the Early 1940s by Peter Townsend. This book is a study of a crucial period in the life of American jazz and popular music.
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Jazz in American Culture
A persuasive appreciation of what jazz is and of how it has permeated and enriched the culture of America
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Eyes, Ears, Nose & Tails: Ocean Pops
These wonderfully illustrated books are full of fun!
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Duel of Eagles
Discusses the evolution of the Royal Air Force and the Luftwaffe from their World War I dogfights to their climactic encounter during the Battle of Britain
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Duel of Eagles
Former RAF ace chronicles the growth of the Royal Air Force and the Luftwaffe and their decisive engagements during the Battle of Britain in 1940.
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The Girl in the White Ship
The story of a Chinese/Vietnamese girl who became separated from her parents and marooned on a reef in the South China Sea when they fled Vietnam in 1978 after the...