![]() I discovered that the female workforce produced nearly 25,000 instruments during the war. ![]() The remaining seasoned craftsmen repaired some instruments but, because of their limited numbers and wartime restrictions on the use of raw materials, were unable to construct new musical instruments. The younger members of its workforce had left to serve the military War effort. Prior to my discovery of these women, Gibson had claimed in Wartime advertisements and in a 1973 company history authored by its WWII personnel director that it ceased producing guitars during the War. ![]() The book revolves around the interviews of a dozen women who appeared in the Gibson Guitar Company’s 1944 workforce photograph. Kalamazoo Gals: A Story of Extraordinary Women & Gibson’s ‘Banner’ Guitars of WWII by John Thomas is a book that came out in 2013. Not just guns, aircraft and cars, guitars as well. This page is a companion to my book, 'Kalamazoo Gals: A Story of Extraordinary Women and Gibsons Banner' Guitars of. I have never thought about before but of course everything was built by women during the war. ![]()
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Find out why the Earth's atmosphere is the world's next battleground why the fight for the Pacific is just beginning and why Europe's next refugee crisis is closer than it thinks. ![]() In this revelatory new book, Marshall takes us into ten regions that are set to shape global politics and power. Since then, the geography hasn't changed, but the world has. Tim Marshall's global bestseller Prisoners of Geography showed how every nation's choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. If you want to understand what's happening in the world, look at a map. 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In the proud populist tradition of Howard Zinn (whose A People’s History of the United States provides a foundation for this book), a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and a renowned cartoonist combine their talents for an illumination of the American underbelly, as the exploitation of a perpetual (and growing) underclass makes the “sacrifice zones” of global capitalism seem like Dante’s circles of hell. An unabashedly polemic, angry manifesto that is certain to open eyes, intensify outrage and incite argument about corporate greed. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2014, Cisco’s translation of Julio Cortázar’s short story “Headache” was published at Tor.com. That sense of unease here is more subtle but no less present–a welcoming and disorienting ride that’s at once escapist, satirical, and brutally self-aware. This is relative: the novel is close to 800 pages in length, and if its setting seems to be somewhat similar to our own world, Cisco periodically jolts the reader out of any sense of complacency. Animal Money, his latest novel, may well be the most accessible work of his that I’ve read. Previously, I’d taken in Celebrant and The Narrator, both of which blended elements that wouldn’t be out of place in more traditional fantasy stories with unsettling narrative elements–hints that the setting might be a dream or a hallucination a juxtaposition of the sense of wonder that often comes with the fantastical with a growing unease a halting sense that something is very, very wrong. Animal Money is the third of Cisco’s novels that I’ve read. 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Tina Fey is one of the world's greatest comic writers and performers. ![]() ![]() Miri simultaneously begins to feel distanced from Peder as he devotes himself to his apprenticeship and she to her studies. Meanwhile, Miri begins school at the Queen's Castle, where she meets a boy named Timon. Upon arrival, they witness an attempt on the king's life by a man representing "the shoeless." Katar, now Mount Eskel's delegate, asks Miri to investigate into this revolution that the shoeless have begun because of their hunger and the king's greed. Peder also comes along, as he has been offered an apprenticeship with a stone carver in Asland. ![]() There, she is reunited with her best friend Britta, the princess-to-be. Miri once again leaves Mount Eskel, this time traveling to Asland, the capital city of Danland. It has been published in English, German, Russian, and Chinese. ![]() It continues the story of Miri Larendaughter as she visits the capital city of Asland to attend the Queen's Castle academy and the royal wedding. ![]() ![]() It is the sequel to Princess Academy, the first book in the series, and is followed by Princess Academy: The Forgotten Sisters. Princess Academy: Palace of Stone is a fantasy novel by Shannon Hale published in 2012 by Bloomsbury USA. Princess Academy: Palace of Stone, Bloomsbury ![]() ![]() ![]() “The Anatomy Lesson,” set in the 19th century, is an ingenious take-off of “Pickman’s Model.” “To Skin a Corpse” transmutes the central idea of “Herbert West-Reanimator” into a gritty 1930s hard-boiled idiom. A similar setting is used in “Archons,” which features a denouement both horrific and poignant. Other stories play imaginative riffs on other Lovecraftian ideas. Chief among these, perhaps, is “In the Shadow of Swords,” strikingly set in Iraq, where American soldiers during the Iraq War encounter entities far more baleful than the terrorists of the Taliban. This volume gathers the many provocative tales he has written over the past decade or more, including several novellas that lavishly expand upon core Lovecraftian themes and motifs. ![]() Rapture of the Deep and Other Lovecraftian Tales, by Cody Goodfellow: Cody Goodfellow has emerged as one of the most dynamic writers of neo-Lovecraftian fiction in recent years. ![]() ![]() ![]() With these tumultuous events as inspiration, Jane's breathtaking first novel adapts her story for a truly epic romance that captures the hope and the heartbreak that have made the television drama so beloved. 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