Summary of George Orwell's 1984 is a cautionary novel about the abuses of totalitarian government. It tells the story of 39-year-old Winston Smith, a lowly bureaucrat who tries and fails to fight back against his oppressive overlords…

From their eponymous 1978 debut through their colossal 1984 album (they've sold over 75 million albums worldwide), Van Halen rewrote all the rules. Nobody rockedor partiedharder. Photographer Neil Zlozower first met the band in 1978, worked with them again on Van Halen II, and soon became their friend, hanging out in L.A. and hitting the road on tour with them. Van Halen collects more than 250 backstage, candid, and full rock-out photos of the all-powerful,...

By the end of the notorious 1984/85 miners' strike many wanted to forget their painful experiences. Forty years on people are ready to look back and talk about what happened in the UK during this defining moment of industrial action. Beverley Trounce, who worked in a pit village and whose father was a miner, has interviewed a number of the people directly affected by the strike. Her research covers the pickets, the collieries, the matter of simple...

"Tessa Hulls delves into her own family history and the intergenerational trauma caused by mental illness and political strife"--

"The classic memoir by American-born Jesuit priest Walter Ciszek, who survived fifteen years of imprisonment in the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War"--P. [4] of cover.

"This is the story of three revolutionary American musicians, the maestro jazzmen who orchestrated the chords that throb at the soul of twentieth-century America. Duke Ellington, the grandson of slaves who was christened Edward Kennedy Ellington, was a man whose story is as layered and nuanced as his name suggests and whose music transcended category. Louis Daniel Armstrong was born in a New Orleans slum so tough it was called The Battlefield and,...