Rootes Maestros
Author | : Graham Robson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2008-11-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781903088463 |
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Author | : Graham Robson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2008-11-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781903088463 |
Author | : Geoff Carverhill |
Publisher | : The Crowood Press |
Total Pages | : 580 |
Release | : 2018-11-23 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 1785004808 |
The Rootes Story - The Making of a Global Automotive Empire traces the meteoric rise of the two Rootes brothers, William and Reginald, development of one of Britain's most important motor vehicle manufacturers. The Rootes Group acquired some of the most famous names in the British motor industry: Hillman, Humber, Sunbeam and Singer cars, as well as Commer and Karrier commercial vehicles. Over the years, some of the models built by Rootes would become household names: the Hillman Minx, Humber Super Snipe, Sunbeam Alpine, Singer Gazelle, Commer Superpoise and Karrier Bantam. In its heyday in the late 1950s, Rootes was the fourth largest manufacturer of cars and trucks in Britain, exporting to over 180 countries worldwide, becoming a global automotive empire. In this book, the people and various companies involved with Rootes are profiled, as are the cars and commercial vehicles built by them, with specifications of principal models. Personal insight from employees is given along with valuable contributions from the Rootes family themselves. This book celebrates the heyday of a truly global automotive empire and one of the most important British vehicle manufacturers of the twentieth century. This is the first book written about Rootes to be sanctioned by the Rootes family. Will be of great interest to owners and enthusiasts of Rootes cars, and those with an interest in British automotive and industrial history. Superbly illustrated with 52 colour and 361 black & white photographs.
Author | : John Gardner |
Publisher | : Pan Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 754 |
Release | : 2013-04-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1447238915 |
Louis Passau is America’s greatest living orchestral conductor, a legendary, world-acclaimed artist whose ninetieth birthday will be marked by a glittering celebratory concert at New York’s Lincoln Center. But a double shadow hangs over the event: Passau has recently been accused of spying for Hitler and, worse, the British Secret Intelligence Service have now linked his name to KGB clandestine operations in the USA during the Cold War. The Maestro agrees to be interrogated, but only after the concert. British Intelligence call in Big Herbie Kruger to question the Maestro, and thanks to the once-famous agent-runner Passau survives an assassination attempt in his moment of glory. Still a target, he now insists on dealing only with Kruger, who desperately seeks a safe-house to conduct the debriefing. As he grapples with the elusive truth about the conductor – from the man’s first memories of his Bavarian village, to his adventures as a young immigrant in New York, his experiences in Capone’s Chicago and his ruthless rise to fame and fortune – Herbie Kruger finds himself ensnared in the Maestro’s dangerous secrets and deceits.
Author | : Bob Woodward |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 2012-12-11 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1471104710 |
Who is responsible? From the President to the Federal Reserve Chairman, Alan Greenspan to Wall Street to the role of the emerging technologies, Woodward uses his exhaustive investigative technique to reveal the ideas and politics that have changed the lives of millions of people and established the United States as the world's preeminent power. He shows why America has found itself in this exalted position. How it might have been different and when and why it might end.
Author | : Tim Wynne-Jones |
Publisher | : Groundwood Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 1996-03-01 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 1554980232 |
Burl Crow hasn't had many breaks in his young life. His father is a manipulative lout with a dangerous temper; his mother, worn down by years of abuse, now resorts to her little helpers to get her through the days. Then he meets Nathaniel Orlando Gow, the Maestro, and in just one day, this eccentric genius changes Burl's life forever.
Author | : James O. Gump |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2021-07 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1496226054 |
Maestro is the first full-length biography on André Tchelistcheff (1901–94) that details the events of his life leading to his career as an expert winemaker, consultant, and mentor and how his wisdom helped revitalize a severely-damaged Napa Valley wine industry.
Author | : Elizabeth Coldwell |
Publisher | : Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD) |
Total Pages | : 69 |
Release | : 2014-02-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1781849404 |
She admires his dominance on stage, but does Jax have the courage to let this gorgeous young opera singer dominate her in the bedroom? Opera is Jaclyn &‘Jax' Wiltshire's great passion, and she loves her job as chief costume designer for the prestigious London Opera Company. However, at 40 she's still single, and she can't help but envy her best friend Helen's happy home life with her husband and children. Jaclyn's world is turned on its head when world-renowned tenor Kieran Vale arrives at the opera house. The company's artistic director sees the chance to stage a production he hopes will be talked about for years, with a scene that requires Kieran to strip naked on stage. The handsome, demanding Kieran is very comfortable in his own skin, and when Jax begins to fit him for costumes, she realises what a great body he has, and how attracted she is to him. Kieran enjoys flirting with her. Their teasing develops into something more intimate as she begins to realise he has a distinctly dominant side. But she can't really believe that a man eleven years her junior could be seriously interested in her? Kieran makes it clear to Jax he needs a woman who will submit to him. With a fiery leading lady who has the hots for Kieran waiting in the wings, can Jax find the courage to let her guard down and allow this gorgeous Dom to make her his?
Author | : Norman Lebrecht |
Publisher | : Citadel Press |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780806520889 |
Nearly ten years after its original publication, The Maestro Myth continues to enthrall readers with its insightful look into the lives and careers of the world's most celebrated conductors. Now updated and including two new chapters, this volume portrays the politics and inflated economics surrounding the podiums of today's international classical music scene, and the obstacles faced by blacks, women, and gays. From Richard Strauss to Herbert von Karajan to Leonard Bernstein to Simon Rattle, The Maesto Myth examines the world of classical music and the mounting crisis in a profession where genuine talent grows ever scarcer. It is a must-have resource for music aficiionados as well as anyone interested in the behind-the-scenes lives of these music masters. Book jacket.
Author | : John K. Sherman |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 405 |
Release | : 1952-01-01 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0816658692 |
Music and Maestros was first published in 1952. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Music lovers all over the United States as well as in other countries have heard the music of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra under the direction of such noted conductors as Dimitri Mitropoulos and Eugene Ormandy. Now they can enjoy the story behind those concerts, records, and radio broadcasts through this intimate history of the men and music that have made the orchestra famous. The story begins with the lively musical activities of a frontier town, the antecedents of the symphony orchestra that took shape at the turn of the century. From the early years of the organization under the batons of Emil Oberhoffer and Henri Verbrugghen, the chronicle rises to the period of the great contemporaries, Ormandy, Mitropoulos, and Antal Dorati. There is a wealth of detail on the career of Mitropoulos, the renowned New York Philharmonic conductor who reached his present stature during his leadership of the Minneapolis orchestra.The extensive concert tours that have earned for the Minneapolis symphony the nickname of "orchestra on wheels" are recalled in anecdotes that will evoke many a chuckle and plenty of amazement. Accounts of early recording sessions offer fascinating sidelights on this aspect of musical history. A complete list of the works performed by the orchestra during the past fifty years provides a significant record of changing trends in musical tastes. A roster of al the players who have been members of the orchestra is given, and the reference section also includes a complete list of out-of-town engagements and a list of the orchestra's recordings which are available.
Author | : Robert duRosier |
Publisher | : Trafford Publishing |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2008-12-30 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 142518443X |
The Maestro and Marianne is the true story of a son's thirty-year journey to discover his biological mother and father. An emotional book filled with hope, love and loss, tragedy and triumph.