[PDF] Remember The 80s eBook

Author : Richard Evans
Publisher : Anova Books
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 25,13 MB
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781906032128

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Nostalgia for the music, fashion, fads and style of Generation X is booming. Richard Evans presents the best of the decade that brought us Madonna, My Little Pony, Sinclair ZX computers, Margaret Thatcher, Flock of Seagulls, Duran Duran, Legwarmers, the Walkman, breakdancing, Knight Rider, Brat Pack movies, the Rubik's cube and countless other cultural icons that changed pop culture for ever. Beautifully illustrated, this ultimate time capsule of a book features new interviews with countless 80s bands and pop acts, it also reviews each year of the 80s; what was going on in music, fashion & fads, current affairs, sport, Film & TV, etc. Real-life memories will also be dotted throughout the book - contributions will come from among the thousands of fans of the author's massively popular 80s website RememberTheEighties.com, as well as many 80s stars.

Author : Stephanie Bennett
Publisher :
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 15,39 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780836292701

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The recent hit movie The Wedding Singer. CDs collecting '80s chartbusters. All-request '80s weekends on the radio. You Know You're a Child of the '80s e-mails.In case you haven't noticed, the '80s are back! Postcards from the '80s will be comprised of 80 lists and photos that will evoke and encapsulate the totally awesome decade that was the '80s. Anyone whose life intersected with this decade will welcome this breezy and fun romp through all things '80s.

Author : Peter Gamble
Publisher : Green Umbrella Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,56 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Nineteen eighties
ISBN : 9781905009664

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Remember the 80s is a fantastic value book featuring some of the musical highlights of the 80s. The book concentrates on the music, film, sport and TV events of the 80s and also covers key news items of the decade. Packed with brilliant illustrations, this is a truly nostalgic look at the extravagant eighties.

Author : Patricia Massó
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,86 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Nineteen eighties
ISBN : 9789079761401

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This book presents household products, innovations in fashion, style, art, science and technology which influenced the lifestyle of the colourful era.

Author : David Sirota
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 48,58 MB
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0345518802

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Wall Street scandals. Fights over taxes. Racial resentments. A Lakers-Celtics championship. The Karate Kid topping the box-office charts. Bon Jovi touring the country. These words could describe our current moment—or the vaunted iconography of three decades past. In this wide-ranging and wickedly entertaining book, New York Times bestselling journalist David Sirota takes readers on a rollicking DeLorean ride back in time to reveal how so many of our present-day conflicts are rooted in the larger-than-life pop culture of the 1980s—from the “Greed is good” ethos of Gordon Gekko (and Bernie Madoff) to the “Make my day” foreign policy of Ronald Reagan (and George W. Bush) to the “transcendence” of Cliff Huxtable (and Barack Obama). Today’s mindless militarism and hypernarcissism, Sirota argues, first became the norm when an ’80s generation weaned on Rambo one-liners and “Just Do It” exhortations embraced a new religion—with comic books, cartoons, sneaker commercials, videogames, and even children’s toys serving as the key instruments of cultural indoctrination. Meanwhile, in productions such as Back to the Future, Family Ties, and The Big Chill, a campaign was launched to reimagine the 1950s as America’s lost golden age and vilify the 1960s as the source of all our troubles. That 1980s revisionism, Sirota shows, still rages today, with Barack Obama cast as the 60s hippie being assailed by Alex P. Keaton–esque Republicans who long for a return to Eisenhower-era conservatism. “The past is never dead,” William Faulkner wrote. “It’s not even past.” The 1980s—even more so. With the native dexterity only a child of the Atari Age could possess, David Sirota twists and turns this multicolored Rubik’s Cube of a decade, exposing it as a warning for our own troubled present—and possible future.

Author : Melanie Ashfield
Publisher : J M Ashfield Ltd
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 34,40 MB
Release : 2001-06-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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A humorous and nostalgic trip through a typical 80s childhood. Told through the eyes of a normal (ish) British kid from the Birmingham suburbs. A time when urban exploration on your bike was a day long adventure, a Wimpy birthday party the equivalent of a party on a celebrity yacht, Diamond White was a teenage rite of passage and people still wrote love letters and dreamed of winning the pools. Where no one did anything online and the only phones at home were landlines that probably had a lock on. 80s Kid tells the story of a different world, even though it wasn't that long ago.

Author : Alan Hollinghurst
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 21,72 MB
Release : 2008-12-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 159691808X

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Winner of the Man Booker Prize Named a Best Book of the Century by The New York Times Book Review International Bestseller From acclaimed author Alan Hollinghurst, a sweeping novel about class, sex, and money during four extraordinary years of change and tragedy. In the summer of 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: conservative Member of Parliament Gerald, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their two children, Toby-whom Nick had idolized at Oxford-and Catherine, who is highly critical of her family's assumptions and ambitions. As the boom years of the eighties unfold, Nick, an innocent in the world of politics and money, finds his life altered by the rising fortunes of this glamorous family. His two vividly contrasting love affairs, one with a young black man who works as a clerk and one with a Lebanese millionaire, dramatize the dangers and rewards of his own private pursuit of beauty, a pursuit as compelling to Nick as the desire for power and riches among his friends. Richly textured, emotionally charged, disarmingly comic, this is a major work by one of our finest writers.

Author : Gabrielle Moss
Publisher : Quirk Books
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 41,36 MB
Release : 2018-10-30
Category : Humor
ISBN : 1683690796

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For fans of vintage YA, a humorous and in-depth history of beloved teen literature from the 1980s and 1990s, full of trivia and pop culture fun. Those pink covers. That flimsy paper. The nonstop series installments that hooked readers throughout their entire adolescence. These were not the serious-issue novels of the 1970s, nor the blockbuster YA trilogies that arrived in the 2000s. Nestled in between were the girl-centric teen books of the ’80s and ’90s—short, cheap, and utterly adored. In Paperback Crush, author Gabrielle Moss explores the history of this genre with affection and humor, highlighting the best-known series along with their many diverse knockoffs. From friendship clubs and school newspapers to pesky siblings and glamorous beauty queens, these stories feature girl protagonists in all their glory. Journey back to your younger days, a time of girl power nourished by sustained silent reading. Let Paperback Crush lead you on a visual tour of nostalgia-inducing book covers from the library stacks of the past.

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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,7 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Nineteen eighties
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This book presents household products, innovations in fashion, style, art, science and technology which influenced the lifestyle of the colourful era.