Harley-Davidson


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Explore the legend of this classic American machine. Informative book packed with eye-catching color photos follows the Harley Davidson motorcycle through every phase of its life, from its beginnings in 1903 to the present. Details race and custom bikes, as well as 4-wheelers and 3-cylinders. 80 pages.




George Strait


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Here is a comprehensive look at one of the biggest stars in the hard-driving, often heartbreaking world of country music. A chronicle of Strait's journey from playing Texas honkytonks to his big break in 1981, when he released Strait Country, to his stunning success just four albums later, when he debuted at number 1 on Billboard's country music chart. The white-stetsoned Strait is one of America's top concert attractions, and the Country Music Association named him Entertainer of the Year. Told with all the warmth, honesty, grit, and passion of the legendary artist himself, this is the story of the man behind the superstar myth -- of the family that shaped his youth, of his relationship with his wife, Norma, and of the tragic auto accident that killed his teenage daughter . . . and changed his life forever. Sure to be a revelation and an inspiration to his millions of fans.




Bo Diddley


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This book explores the very humblest of beginnings and, at times, heart-rending tale of a poor black boy's struggle to free himself from the shackles of the ghetto and make it to the top. Bo Diddley: Living Legend offers a fascinating insight not only into the life and times of one of rock's first superstars, but also into the soulless and frequently brutal machinations of the popular music industry.




Battlestar Galactica 6


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The famous military leader, Commander Cain, suddenly appears to lead the Galactica in the battle against the Cylon forces, but doubts about his capabilities and sanity begin to grow




Captain America


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When a top-secret orbital research station is dragged from the sky by an unknown alien force, Steve Rogers finds himself caught between two global superpowers on the brink of war! But how does it involve Volkov - a decorated Russian officer he last saw in World War II, who disappeared on an ill-fated lunar mission over forty years ago? As the Russian army mobilizes to lock down the station's remote Siberian crash site, Captain America's mission is to find the survivors and bring them back alive - or silence them forever. Impossible odds in hostile territory are all in a day's work for Cap, but even he is unprepared for the horror that awaits them all in the icy wilderness. Because something has survived. Something alien. And it is awake! COLLECTING: CAPTAIN AMERICA: LIVING LEGEND 1-4




Captain America: Evolutions of a Living Legend


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The star-spangled costume of Captain America has been a timeless symbol of hope and freedom since his days fighting Nazism overseas and McCarthyism at home. This historical retrospective of Steve Rogers' various uniforms and super-hero mantles is a showcase of America's ever-evolving sociopolitical landscape. From his early days fighting in overt patriotic garb as Captain America during World War II through his adoption of the predominately black uniform and title of the Captain at a time when he became a symbol of resisting absolute government control, Rogers has always worn his allegiance openly. Time and again, Steve has returned to Captain America's red-white-and-blue iconography, proving that the symbolic clothing of the Sentinel of Liberty stands for a higher ideal than any one person or government can achieve. COLLECTING: CAPTAIN AMERICA (1968) 180, 337, 438, 451; CAPTAIN AMERICA (1996) 3; SECRET AVENGERS (2010) 1; CAPTAIN AMERICA (2012) 1; CAPTAIN AMERICA: STEVE ROGERS 1; CAPTAIN AMERICA (2017) 695; MATERIAL FROM CAPTAIN AMERICA COMICS 1-2




Living Legends of Sports Set


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The exceptional athletes treated in these biographies are living symbols of excellence and celebrity for readers of all ages. Each book relates the masterful skills and physical abilities of a different sports legend who, through hard work, discipline, focus, and achievement, has reached the pinnacle of his or her sport. The tale of each figure's rise to superstardom, from childhood and early training through their breakthrough, major victories, and personal challenges, will captivate readers and inspire them to pursue their own dreams. Features include: High-interest subjects engage even reluctant readers. Explores character building, highlighting each figure's accomplishments on the field and off, including charity work and family life. Special back matter features include a timeline of pivotal moments in each figure's life and profiles of other living legends of sports.




Elvis After Elvis


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'For a dead man, Elvis Presley is awfully noisy. His body may have failed him in 1977, but today his spirit, his image, and his myths do more than live on: they flourish, they thrive, they multiply.' Why is Elvis Presley so ubiquitous a presence in US culture? Why does he continue to enjoy a cultural prominence that would be the envy of the most heavily publicized living celebrities? In Elvis after Elvis Gil Rodman traces the myriad manifestations of The King in popular and not-so-popular culture. He asks why Elvis continues to defy our expectations of how dead stars are supposed to behave: Elvis not only refuses to go away, he keeps showing up in places where he seemingly doesn't belong. Rodman draws upon an extensive and eclectic body of Elvis 'sightings', from Elvis's appearances at the heart of the 1992 Presidential campaign to the debate over his worthiness as a subject for a postage stamp, and from Elvis's central role in furious debates about racism and the appropriation of African-American music to the world of Elvis impersonators and the importance of Graceland as a place of pilgrimage for Elvis fans and followers. Rodman shows how Elvis has become inseparable from many of the defining myths of US culture, enmeshed with the American dream and the very idea of the 'United States', caught up in debates about race, gender and sexuality and in the wars over what constitutes a national culture.




Music Makers


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Music cannot be captured on paper.What one can attempt to convey through words and pictures,however,is the soul or the essence of music.This book is an imaginatively designed,hugely informative volume on contemporary Indian music,which takes shape through encounters with its livinglegends.Bhimsen Joshi, Gangubai Hangal,Amjad Ali Khan, Shiv Kumar Sharma, Hariprasad Chaurasia these are but a very few of the names which appear in this book.




Craig Monson


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Every bodybuilding fan knows about the "Golden Age" of the sport. But, there is a forgotten legend from that fabled time. An OG of street and stage, Craig Monson outweighed Arnold by 40 pounds, dwarfed Lee Haney and had superior aesthetics. A mass-monster with Michelangelo-like symmetry, Monson was that rare mixture of form and functional strength. Now his story AND his workouts can be told, shared, and understood. Born in the Jim Crow South, Craig was taken by his mother on a Greyhound bus exodus to the land of sun-kissed beaches and Hollywood dreams. A world away from the Pacific Ocean, Craig came of age in Los Angeles' inner city. In this urban environment, Monson found street heroes and became one himself by founding the notorious gang "The Avenues" (a forerunner to the infamous Crip gang). Realities of life in South Central Los Angeles eventually landed Craig in some of the most feared penitentiaries. Inside of the system, Monson built his body into a mountain of muscle and, upon his release, set his sights on bodybuilding glory. Training across the Southland and putting on spectacles of strength at the renowned Muscle Beach, Craig became the biggest and strongest bodybuilder of the 1980s. Learn about his mythic journey from urban streets to the bodybuilding stage! Follow the exact training programs utilized by the legendary Craig Monson!