It started with this ad, placed by Joel Rosenman and John Roberts as a way to find interesting work after college. It led Rosenman and Roberts to stage a gathering that changed the face of popular culture: the Woodstock Music and Art Fair in August 1969. Woodstock is rightly remembered as the pivotal event that united a generation, but the behind-the-scenes story is less utopian -- and absolutely fascinating. Rosenman and Roberts describe their shock as they realized, after a long struggle to find a site and placate area residents, that the festival was attracting a crowd ten times larger than expected, stalling traffic for miles around, and forcing thousands of ticket holders to be turned away. The instant city of Woodstock created mind-boggling logistical and medical help, a death, births, bad drugs -- and waking up their local banker in the middle of the night to get $15,000 for The Who and the Grateful Dead, who refused to go onstage without cash in their pockets. By the time Jimi Hendrix played "The Star-Spangled Banner" at 6:30 Monday Morning, there were "only" 25,000 people left, but Rosenman and Roberts faced a sea of mud and trash, irate neighbors, bad press ("Nightmare in the Catskills"), staggering debts, and some seventy separate legal proceedings against them. But the ultimate impact of that weekend was far greater -- and far more triumphal for all involved. Young Men With Unlimited Capital is both an amazing and humorous story, and one that chronicles a defining event of 1960's America.

Young Men with Unlimited Capital: The Inside Story of the Legendary Woodstock Festival Told By The Two People Who Paid for It

Business & Money

Joel Rosenman

Robert Pilpel

John-Roberts

Management & Leadership

Harcourt, Brace. Jovanovich

A guide to C# programming within the Microsoft .NET framework demonstrates the creation of realistic Internet-based applications, furthering the trend towards the development of "people-oriented" programs.

Applied .NET: Developing People-Oriented Software Using C#

Computers & Technology

George Shepherd

Ronan Sorensen

Russ Williams

Programming

Addison-Wesley

Team That Wouldn't Die: Story of the Busby Babes

Science & Math

Astronomy & Space Science

Mayflower

Warship: No. 14

Conway Maritime Press Ltd.

Publisher: Conway Maritime PressDate of Publication: 2001Binding: hardcover. oblong quarto, 254pp. Edition: revised ed. Description: most of this book is given over to scaled drawings and plans of ship & fittings. NOTE: Front panel of dust wrapper claims the "Revised Edition" is "Complete with 1/256 scale Fold-out plan, but none is listed nor found within the book- HOWEVER THE LARGE SCALE PLAN IS PRESENT! Those clever bookmakers have printed the plan on the Reverse of the Dust Wrapper.

The Battleship Dreadnought (Anatomy of the Ship)

History

Europe

London: Conwat Maritime Press, 2001

The Essex class fleet aircraft carriers are famous for their effectiveness and reliability as warships and for the great size of the construction programmes of which they formed a part. Intrepid (CV11) was one of 24 such vessels built during and after World War II, the largest class of fleet carriers ever constructed. Carrying 90 aircraft each, they formed the main air strength and striking power of the US Pacific Fleet against the Japanese during 1943-45. This text provides full documentation of this ship. Line drawings covering both the conventional type of plan and explanatory views are provided, with fully descriptive keys. These are supported by technical details and a record of the ship's service history.

The Aircraft Carrier Intrepid (Anatomy of the Ship)

Conway Maritime Press

Details the design, construction, weaponry, equipment, and service records of British battleships of the Second World War, furnishing technical information on ships damaged and lost

British Battleships of World War Two: The Development and Technical History of the Royal Navy's Battleships and Battlecruisers from 1911 to 1946

Alan Raven

Military

Arms_and_Armour_Press

Presents the full story of the design & construction of British Cruisers that served in WWII. In all, 121 cruisers are described & illustrated, following the authors acclaimed pattern of their book. "British Battleships of WWII", w/ 400+ photos & 60+ sets of detailed plans.

British Cruisers of World War Two

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

Arms_Armour_Press

From authors' Preface: "Readers of this, our companion volume to British Battleships of World War II, may suppose that the form of this work, and the degree of reasearch it has required, will have followed the same lines, and while this is true to a certain extent, it should be borne in mind that, in its general scope, the history of the cruiser is considerably more complicated than that of the battleship. With cruisers there is a greater degree of overlapping of classes, and a wide variety of influences determined their numbers and characteristics, particularly during the 1930s. It has proven virtually impossible to treat all of the Second World War within the confines of a single chapter, because the events thereof do not lend themselves to a neat and logical exposition. In fact, even with three chapters devoted to the period from 1939 to 1945, an irreducible amount of duplication has proved unavoidable. A further problem has been lack of space. It must be remembered that in this book are described a total of 121 cruisers actually built, as against the mere 21 battleships of the previous work. From a strictly historical viewpoint, the story should start in the Victorian era, but because the most popular and - as yet - most familiar period of naval history is that from 1939 to 1945, it was decided to cover ships from the Arethusa class of 1912 up to the last of the conventional, all-gun cruisers, the Tiger Class of the late 1950s....We have made every effort to ensure that the text be complemented by the visual material and, to this end, have striven to find unusual and hitherto unpublished photographs. All the plans have been drawn using the official 'as fitted' drawings, or design and sketch plans as a foundation. In many cases, the plans depict configurations for which there are no directly dated official sets, and we hope that this will enhance the value of the book." Hardcover, 9.75x10 inches, 444 pages, illustrated throughout with B&amp;W drawings, photos.

Technology

Naval_Institute_Press

The Fighter Pilot's Handbook

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Motorbooks Intl

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