A compilation of boxing-related commentary, criticism, reportage & analysis. It dissects the triumphs, defeats & mistakes of the major figures in boxing from including Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, Manny Pacquiao, Oscar De La Hoya & dozens more. ...

Mann Ablaze first published in 1991 & traced the history of the Isle of Man Fire Service from its first beginnings in 1803 with the Sun Fire Office up until the formation of the Isle of Man Fire & Rescue Service in 1988. This edition revises the early history & brings the history up to date &

Includes:: photographs of appliances & fires.

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The author draws upon 30 years of motorcycle industry experience, an exhaustive review of motorcycle literature from 1950 to the present, & interviews with more than a hundred of Dick Mann's friends, colleagues, & competitors to tell his remarkable, i ...

It's difficult to imagine what Manhattan would have looked like to its explorers
- before the skyscrapers, the crowded sidewalks
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Andrew Mc Carthy plays a department store window dresser. One night, whilst working on a window, one of the mannequins comes to life & is in fact a woman (Kim Catrall) from ancient Egypt. This woman then inspires him to create the most amazing window displays (and fall in love with her), prompting a rival store to find out where the ideas are coming from. The theme tune by Starship ' Noting's Gonna Stop Us Now' was nominated for an Oscar. ...

Two popular 1980s comedy movies starring Andrew Mc Carthy. In ' Mannequin' (1987), Mc Carthy plays a department store window dresser. One night, whilst working on a window, one of the mannequins comes to life & reveals itself to be a woman (Kim Catrall) from ancient Egypt. This woman then inspires him to create the most amazing window displays (and fall in love with her), prompting a rival store to find out where the window dresser's ideas are coming from. In ' Class' (1983), fresh-faced country boy Jonathan (Mc Carthy) arrives by scholarship to study among the super-elite at a posh preparatory school. His roommate is the devilishly arrogant Skip (Rob Lowe) who, upon learning of Jonathan's inexperience in worldy matters, decides to make it his mission to educate his new comrade in the ways of women. When Jonathan is dispatched to Chicago, he winds up having a brief fling with Ellen (Jacqueline Bisset), a beautiful older woman who ends the nascent affair upon learning that Jonathan is only 17-years-old. However, when Jonathan finishes the semester & is invited to badboy Skip's family home for Christmas, he discovers that Ellen is Skip's mother &, to complicate matters even further, Ellen wants Jonathan back. ...

Offers an analysis of masking in this carnival-loving city. The author explores the world view of maskers, both during & outside of carnival, & reconstructs their logic: covering the face in public was a uniquely Venetian response to one of the most rigid class hierarchies in European history. ...