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“I Don’T Know, but I’Ve Been Told”

By: Ben Benfield

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“I Don’T Know, but I’Ve Been Told”

By: Ben Benfield

For some time, I had been planning to write my memoirs to share with my four grandchildren, Rebecca, Allison, Baker, and Emery. I wanted them to have a glimpse into what my life was like as I went through the ages they are now. Though our family was not blessed with monetary wealth, it was blessed with an abundance of love, fun, and adventures shared in a large family, long-time friendships, and life in a small town in Tennessee. Many unexpected and unique opportunities have touched my life through the years and I have shared some of them in the pages of this book. To sum it up, The Good Lord has smiled on me all of my life and overlooked my foolishness. He has been and still is particularly kind to me.

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151447428X

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9781514474280

At Risk

Natural Hazards, People's Vulnerability and Disasters

By: Piers Blaikie,Terry Cannon,Ian Davis,Ben Wisner

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At Risk

Natural Hazards, People's Vulnerability and Disasters

By: Piers Blaikie,Terry Cannon,Ian Davis,Ben Wisner

The term 'natural disaster' is often used to refer to natural events such as earthquakes, hurricanes or floods. However, the phrase 'natural disaster' suggests an uncritical acceptance of a deeply engrained ideological and cultural myth. At Risk questions this myth and argues that extreme natural events are not disasters until a vulnerable group of people is exposed. The updated new edition confronts a further ten years of ever more expensive and deadly disasters and discusses disaster not as an aberration, but as a signal failure of mainstream 'development'. Two analytical models are provided as tools for understanding vulnerability. One links remote and distant 'root causes' to 'unsafe conditions' in a 'progression of vulnerability'. The other uses the concepts of 'access' and 'livelihood' to understand why some households are more vulnerable than others. Examining key natural events and incorporating strategies to create a safer world, this revised edition is an important resource for those involved in the fields of environment and development studies.

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492

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Routledge

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1134528612

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9781134528615

Inchbald, Hawthorne and the Romantic Moral Romance

Little Histories and Neutral Territories

By: Ben P Robertson

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Inchbald, Hawthorne and the Romantic Moral Romance

Little Histories and Neutral Territories

By: Ben P Robertson

Explores the connections between British and American Romanticism, focusing on the novels of Elizabeth Inchbald (1753-1821) and Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-64). This study argues that Inchbald and Hawthorne are representative of a larger British/American cultural confluence during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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342

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Routledge

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1317316207

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9781317316206

Southern Discomfort

By: Ben Witherington

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Southern Discomfort

By: Ben Witherington

Southern Discomfort tells the story of Masey Bumgarner, recently widowed, who returns from her summer vacation to discover that her town, Pineville, North Carolina, has decided to pave a four-lane highway through her front yard . . . without her permission or even sufficient advance notice. After consultation with her pastor, she decides to contest the location of this project in court. Along the way, her lawyer and his detective discover all sorts of shady dealings. Southern Discomfort chronicles the graft and corruption that is revealed in the court case--and the desperate acts of the proponents of the highway to keep the project on course. Along the way, there is a murder, a romance, and finally a wedding, in addition to the resolution of the court case.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1498291023

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9781498291026

The Making of Victorian Values

Decency and Dissent in Britain: 1789-1837

By: Ben Wilson

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The Making of Victorian Values

Decency and Dissent in Britain: 1789-1837

By: Ben Wilson

Ben Wilson's The Making of Victorian Values is the history of an era rather like our own-a time when dissenters and rebels were hemmed in by conformists and hardheaded authoritarians, a time when a nation on the eve of global domination fretted about its future. It was, however, a period when those who argued that a British empire would be a disaster for liberty were eventually squashed by imperialists, just as those who railed against mindless materialism were in the end rolled over by industrialists and the promoters of luxury goods. The Making of Victorian Values reveals an era when people were obsessed with the need to appear authentic, and yet forever had doubts about who was and who wasn't-concerns familiar to the "me" age we know so well. Wilson begins with the libertine spirit inspired by Byron, Shelley, and the Romantics; he ends with the rise and eventual victory of stolid middle-class values. The result is a radical tour de force, a brilliant reworking of the pre-Victorian age. Once portrayed by Paul Johnson in his bestselling The Birth of the Modern as the years when virtue finally trumped corruption, Wilson reveals a far more compelling story-and a more engrossing and scandalous one, too. It is a story about hypochondriacs and cranks, killjoys and dandies, rakes and priests, advocates of free-speech and those against it-people who were made awe struck by Britain's emerging role as the economic and political powerhouse of the world, but who were also deeply anxious about the responsibilities a vast empire might require. Wilson is heir to the great radical historians of the twentieth century, E. J. Hobsbawm and E. P. Thompson, among them. He brushes aside scholarly politesse and refuses to join in unnecessary academic point-settling, and his invigorating literary abilities will win many admirers who would otherwise know this history only through the works of nineteenth-century fiction.

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Penguin

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1101218088

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9781101218082

Post-War Leicester

By: Ben Beazley

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Post-War Leicester

By: Ben Beazley

In the thirty years following the end of the Second World War Leicester underwent some of the most dramatic changes in its history. Along with the rest of Britain it saw the austerity of the late 1940s and '50s, the shortages and rationing, followed by the boom period of the '60s, when full employment brought an interlude of prosperity. During these postwar decades sweeping changes were made to the physical structure of Leicester: areas of bomb damage and slum housing were cleared from the old city centre, and an intensive building programme in both the public and private sectors resulted in people moving out to new housing estates on the edges of the city. Ben Beazley vividly describes the story of everyday life in Leicester during this period. Illustrated with more than 120 photographs, maps and plans, Postwar Leicester will capture the imagination of anyone who knows the city today, and will rekindle memories for those who lived through the years of redevelopment and change.

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409

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The History Press

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0750954329

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9780750954327

Leicester Murders

By: Ben Beazley

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Leicester Murders

By: Ben Beazley

Contained within the pages of this book are the stories behind some of the most notorious murders in Leicester's history. From the brutal murder of John Paas in 1832, whose killer became the last man in England to be gibbeted, and the poisoning of a seventy-year-old widow by two young men, to the failure to convict Archie Johnson of the murder of Annie Jennings in 1912 due to the inability to identify blood groups at that time, this is a collection of the most dramatic and interesting criminal cases that have taken place in Leicester between the mid-1800s and 1950s. Ben Beazley was a policeman for almost thirty years. His experience and understanding of the criminal justice system give authority to his unbiased assessment and analysis of the cases in this book. His carefully researched, well-illustrated and enthralling text will appeal to anyone interested in the shadier side of Leicester's history.

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The History Press

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0752484230

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9780752484235

Towards a New Map of Africa

By: Ben Wisner

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Towards a New Map of Africa

By: Ben Wisner

The big, era-defining questions and, at last, the subtle, tenable answers, teased out without clich? or compromise. A vital volume at a critical moment.' Dr Augustus Casely-Hayford, Director, Africa '05 'This book dispels the myth of a uniformly hopeless, hungry continent. It shows just how'extraordinarily diverse Africa is'and how much it'has changed in the last 20 years.'Full of fresh thinking on'problems that face Africa and new African approaches to development.' Richard Dowden, Director, Royal African Society This ground-breaking book, with a foreword by former President of Ireland (1990?1997) and UN Human Rights Commissioner (1997?2002) Mary Robinson, uniquely distils the complex issues surrounding Africa at the beginning of the 21st century. African and Western scholars provide a fascinating 'map' for the reader to navigate between issues such as urban and rural livelihoods, the potential of fresh water fishing, health, the HIV/AIDS crisis, conflict and efforts at peacemaking. Also included are critical assessments of Africa's role in the global economy, the growth of regional economic cooperation within Africa, the influence of ethnicity on the continent's politics, the evolution of its political institutions, and the impact of Africa's legal systems on its development. A substantial introductory essay by the editors measures the distance Africa has travelled and the lessons it has learned since Africa in Crisis, the classic Earthscan book, was published in 1985. Ben Wisner is visiting research fellow at DESTIN, London School of Economics and at Benfield Hazard Research Centre, University College London, and visiting professor of environmental studies, Oberlin College, USA. Camilla Toulmin is Director of the International Institute for Environment and Development. Rutendo Chitiga is a freelance writer and editor, and has a postgraduate degree in environment and development.

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Earthscan

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1849773394

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9781849773393

Barney Hall's Tales From Trackside

By: Barney Hall,Ben White

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Barney Hall's Tales From Trackside

By: Barney Hall,Ben White

Barney Hall has been covering NASCAR racing since 1958. He was working in turn-three and had a birds-eye view of the finish between Cale Yarborough and Donnie Allison when they had the fistfight at Daytona in 1979. He was close friends with David Pearson in the '70s and spent a lot of time flying with him. He also witnessed the unforgettable '76 Daytona finish between Richard Petty and Pearson. In Barney Hall's Tales from the Trackside, he reflects on many memorable stories, including Bill Elliott winning the Winston Million in 1985. At that time, it was unheard of for a stock car driver to win a million dollars.

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Sports Publishing LLC

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1596700076

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“I Don’T Know, but I’Ve Been Told”

By: Ben Benfield

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Better Resumes in 3 Easy Steps

By: Ben T. Field,Paul K. Wright

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Better Resumes in 3 Easy Steps

By: Ben T. Field,Paul K. Wright

This practical and concise guide is a must-have for anyone looking for a first job right out of high school or college, reentering the job market, or changing careers. It employs a three step approach -- compile, analyze, and organize -- that directs readers step-by-step through the entire process of self assessment, resume and portfolio development, and putting together a cover letter that will land a job.

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South Western Educational Publishing

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0766815633

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Better Job Search in 3 Easy Steps

By: Ben T. Field,Paul K. Wright

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Better Job Search in 3 Easy Steps

By: Ben T. Field,Paul K. Wright

This practical and concise guide is a must-have for anyone looking for a first job right out of high school or college, reentering the job market, or changing careers. It offers a comprehensive plan for success with three easy steps: getting the job, keeping the job, and handling stress on the job. Information on SCANS workplace skills and proficiencies is provided to help the reader be more successful in getting the job and prospering on the job. Activities help the readers identify their skills and strengths, while up-to-date statistics, facts, and tips allow them to learn and improve their job skills. This guide includes many sources of helpful job success information, including organizations, publications, and Web sites. Written by experts in the job-training field, this material has been tested with students and professionals alike, with positive results.

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0766815641

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The Fields of Britannia

Continuity and Change in the Late Roman and Early Medieval Landscape

By: Stephen Rippon,Chris Smart (Archaeologist),Ben Pears

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The Fields of Britannia

Continuity and Change in the Late Roman and Early Medieval Landscape

By: Stephen Rippon,Chris Smart (Archaeologist),Ben Pears

It has long been recognized that the landscape of Britain is one of the 'richest historical records we possess', but just how old is it? The Fields of Britannia is the first book to explore how far the countryside of Roman Britain has survived in use through to the present day, shaping the character of our modern countryside. Commencing with a discussion of the differing views of what happened to the landscape at the end of Roman Britain, the volume then brings together the results from hundreds of archaeological excavations and palaeoenvironmental investigations in order to map patterns of land-use across Roman and early medieval Britain. In compiling such extensive data, the volume is able to reconstruct regional variations in Romano-British and early medieval land-use using pollen, animal bones, and charred cereal grains to demonstrate that agricultural regimes varied considerably and were heavily influenced by underlying geology. We are shown that, in the fifth and sixth centuries, there was a shift away from intensive farming but very few areas of the landscape were abandoned completely. What is revealed is a surprising degree of continuity: the Roman Empire may have collapsed, but British farmers carried on regardless, and the result is that now, across large parts of Britain, many of these Roman field systems are still in use.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199645825

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9780199645824

Schott's Almanac 2007

By: Ben Schott

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Schott's Almanac 2007

By: Ben Schott

Schott's Almanac redefines the traditional almanac to present a record of the year just past and is designed to be read, not merely consulted. Practical and entertaining, it tells the real stories of 2006, from the winner of American Idol to the Supreme Court nominations (including how different justices have voted), from baseball and football statistics to the founder of amazon.com's new private rocketship factory. In an age when information is plentiful but selection is rare, Schott's Almanac offers both the essential facts and the lucid, provocative analysis. It is comprehensive, innovative, endlessly engaging – in short, indispensable.

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Bloomsbury USA

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1596911719

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9781596911710

Brickyard 400

Five Years of NASCAR at Indy

By: Al Pearce,Ben White

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Brickyard 400

Five Years of NASCAR at Indy

By: Al Pearce,Ben White

All of the race action from 1994 through 1998 is covered in intimate detail, with flag-to-flag race reports and data on the races as well as profiles and stats on the drivers fortunate and skilled enough to make the starting line-up.

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Motorbooks International

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0760305978

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9780760305973

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“I Don’T Know, but I’Ve Been Told”

“I Don’T Know, but I’Ve Been Told”

At Risk

At Risk

Inchbald, Hawthorne and the Romantic Moral Romance

Inchbald, Hawthorne and the Romantic Moral Romance

Southern Discomfort

Southern Discomfort

The Making of Victorian Values

The Making of Victorian Values

Post-War Leicester

Post-War Leicester

Leicester Murders

Leicester Murders

Towards a New Map of Africa

Towards a New Map of Africa

Barney Hall's Tales From Trackside

Barney Hall's Tales From Trackside

“I Don’T Know, but I’Ve Been Told”

“I Don’T Know, but I’Ve Been Told”

Better Resumes in 3 Easy Steps

Better Resumes in 3 Easy Steps

Better Job Search in 3 Easy Steps

Better Job Search in 3 Easy Steps

The Fields of Britannia

The Fields of Britannia

Schott's Almanac 2007

Schott's Almanac 2007

Brickyard 400

Brickyard 400

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