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#11 The Little Trojan That Could

The Chris Limahelu story

By: Ben David Duncan

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#11 The Little Trojan That Could

The Chris Limahelu story

By: Ben David Duncan

An exciting story of the immigration struggles of an Indonesian family. Fleeing their home country, they spent ten years in Dutch immigrant camps. After receiving permission they came to America, with a dream of freedom! One family member took that dream and reached the impossible! Young Chris made his way, through countless obstacles, to establish his name in U.S.C. football lore. This pint-sized nobody, etched his name into Trojan and Rose Bowl history! Few gave him a chance to succeed in a game of giants. He wouldn't be denied! Earlier, he met a young coach from Oklahoma. Although Chris and "Coach D" came from totally different backgrounds, they teamed to develop a new kicking style in California high school football. The rest is history! The kid, with a big heart, taught us to "reach for the stars!" Chris Limahelu will always be: "#11 - The Little Trojan That Could!

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Covenant Books, Inc.

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ISBN 10

1643006649

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9781643006642

Theatre World

By: John Willis,Ben Hodges

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Theatre World

By: John Willis,Ben Hodges

Scenes from the plays and portraits of leading actors accompany a statistical record of the current season

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420

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Hal Leonard Corporation

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155783685X

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9781557836854

Common Precedents

The Presentness of the Past in Victorian Law and Fiction

By: Ayelet Ben-Yishai

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Common Precedents

The Presentness of the Past in Victorian Law and Fiction

By: Ayelet Ben-Yishai

Reading major novels by George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, and Wilkie Collins, Common Precedents shows that precedential reasoning enjoyed widespread cultural significance in the nineteenth-century as a means of preserving a sense of common history, values, and interests in the face of a new heterogeneous society. Enabling the recognition of the new and its assimilation as part of a continuous past, Ayelet Ben-Yishai argues that the binding force of precedent also functions as the binding element of an always shifting commonality, pulling it together in the face of rupture and dispersion. By appearing to bring the past seamlessly into the present, the form of legal precedent became vital to the preservation of a sense of commonality and continuity crucial to the common law and Victorian legal culture. But the impact of precedent extended beyond legal practices and institutions to the culture at large, and especially to its fiction. Ben-Yishai argues that understanding the structure of precedent also explains fictional form: how fictionality works, its epistemology, and the ways in which its commonalities are socially constructed, maintained, and reified.

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Oxford University Press

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019023685X

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9780190236854

The Joy of Basketball

An Encyclopedia of the Modern Game

By: Ben Detrick,Andrew Kuo

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The Joy of Basketball

An Encyclopedia of the Modern Game

By: Ben Detrick,Andrew Kuo

A vibrant, unconventional, highly opinionated guide to the triumphs, joys, struggles, and heartbreaks of the modern era of the game, for every obsessive basketball fan who loves to hate hot takes The Joy of Basketball celebrates the meteoric rise of basketball over the last quarter century by ignoring the bland, traditionalist binary of wins or losses. Instead, the book's focus is on everything else. Using text, charts, and illustrations that upend conventional jock wisdom, the book details the most incredible players in history, draft flops, long-limbed oddballs, superteams, the international talent wave, brawls, scandals, the rapid evolution of contemporary gameplay, coaching, fashion, crime, positional erosion, tragic tales, memes, and the sacred Kardashian Blessing. Bouncing between witty graphics and keen sociopolitical observations, The Joy of Basketball is a subversive sports manifesto camouflaged as a colorful reference book for your coffee table.

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753

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Abrams

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1647003008

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9781647003005

Cult Sci-Fi Movies

By: Ben Hudson

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Cult Sci-Fi Movies

By: Ben Hudson

Welcome to a world where reality and imagination collide, where robots roam freely alongside humans, and where spaceships travel through the vast expanse of the universe. In this book, we will explore the fascinating world of science fiction films, delving into the futuristic worlds, advanced technologies, and otherworldly creatures that have captivated audiences for generations. So sit back, grab your popcorn, and get ready to embark on a thrilling journey through the realms of science fiction cinema.

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249

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epubli

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3759825842

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9783759825841

Shakespeare's Words

A Glossary and Language Companion

By: Ben Crystal,David Crystal

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Shakespeare's Words

A Glossary and Language Companion

By: Ben Crystal,David Crystal

A vital resource for scholars, students and actors, this book contains glosses and quotes for over 14,000 words that could be misunderstood by or are unknown to a modern audience. Displayed panels look at such areas of Shakespeare's language as greetings, swear-words and terms of address. Plot summaries are included for all Shakespeare's plays and on the facing page is a unique diagramatic representation of the relationships within each play.

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Penguin UK

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0141941529

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9780141941523

The Dyslexia Empowerment Plan

A Blueprint for Renewing Your Child's Confidence and Love of Learning

By: Ben Foss

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The Dyslexia Empowerment Plan

A Blueprint for Renewing Your Child's Confidence and Love of Learning

By: Ben Foss

Finally, a groundbreaking book that reveals what your dyslexic child is experiencing—and what you can do so that he or she will thrive More than thirty million people in the United States are dyslexic—a brain-based genetic trait, often labeled as a “learning disability” or “learning difference,” that makes interpreting text and reading difficult. Yet even though children with dyslexia may have trouble reading, they don’t have any problems learning; dyslexia has nothing to do with a lack of intellect. While other books tell you what dyslexia is, this book tells you what to do. Dyslexics’ innate skills, which may include verbal, social, spatial, kinesthetic, visual, mathematical, or musical abilities, are their unique key to acquiring knowledge. Figuring out where their individual strengths lie, and then harnessing these skills, offers an entrée into learning and excelling. And by keeping the focus on learning, not on standard reading the same way everyone else does, a child with dyslexia can and will develop the self-confidence to flourish in the classroom and beyond. After years of battling with a school system that did not understand his dyslexia and the shame that accompanied it, renowned activist and entrepreneur Ben Foss is not only open about his dyslexia, he is proud of it. In The Dyslexia Empowerment Plan he shares his personal triumphs and failures so that you can learn from his experiences, and provides a three-step approach for success: • Identify your child’s profile: By mapping your child’s strengths and weaknesses and assisting her to better understand who she is, you can help your child move away from shame and feelings of inadequacy and move toward creating a powerful program for learning. • Help your child help himself: Coach your child to become his own best advocate by developing resiliency, confidence, and self-awareness, and focusing on achievable goals in areas that matter most to him. • Create community: Dyslexic children are not broken, but too often the system designed to educate them is. Dare to change your school so that your child has the resources to thrive. Understanding your rights and finding allies will make you and your child feel connected and no longer alone. Packed with practical ideas and strategies dyslexic children need for excelling in school and in life, this empowering guide provides the framework for charting a future for your child that is bright with hope and unlimited potential. Praise for The Dyslexia Empowerment Plan “A passionate and well-articulated guide . . . This extremely practical and motivational book will be welcomed by parents of dyslexic children.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Accessible and reassuring.”—Library Journal “This step-by-step guide will become a go-to resource for parents.”—James H. Wendorf, executive director, National Center for Learning Disabilities “I study dyslexia in the lab and am a parent of a wonderful daughter who fits this profile. Ben Foss’s book should be considered essential to any collection on the subject. It was extremely useful, especially for a mom.”—Maria Luisa Gorno Tempini, M.D., Ph.D., professor of neurology, UCSF, Memory and Aging Center “As someone with a learning profile that made school tough, and as a parent, I know kids need the right support. Ben Foss knows how to get access to education because he’s been through it. I was thrilled to read this book. It offers a wise collection of insights that are both practical and touching.”—James Gandolfini, actor, The Sopranos

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338

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Ballantine Books

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0345541251

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9780345541253

Blood and Soil

Modern Genocide 1500-2000

By: Ben Kiernan

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Blood and Soil

Modern Genocide 1500-2000

By: Ben Kiernan

For thirty years Benedict Kiernan has been deeply involved in the study of genocide and crimes against humanity. He has played a key role in unearthing confidential documentation of the atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge. His writings have transformed our understanding not only of twentieth-century Cambodia but also of the historical phenomenon of genocide. This new bookandmdash;the first global history of genocide and extermination from ancient timesandmdash;is among his most important achievements. Kiernan examines outbreaks of mass violence from the classical era to the present, focusing on worldwide colonial exterminations and twentieth-century case studies including the Armenian genocide, the Nazi Holocaust, Stalin's mass murders, and the Cambodian and Rwandan genocides. He identifies connections, patterns, and features that in nearly every case gave early warning of the catastrophe to come: racism or religious prejudice, territorial expansionism, and cults of antiquity and agrarianism. The ideologies that have motivated perpetrators of mass killings in the past persist in our new century, says Kiernan. He urges that we heed the rich historical evidence with its telltale signs for predicting and preventing future genocides.

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736

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Melbourne Univ. Publishing

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ISBN 10

052285477X

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9780522854770

Democracy and Diversity

Political Engineering in the Asia-Pacific

By: Ben Reilly,Benjamin Reilly

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Democracy and Diversity

Political Engineering in the Asia-Pacific

By: Ben Reilly,Benjamin Reilly

A study of the way in which the democratizing states of Asia and the Pacific have managed political change, with particular focus on innovative reforms to democratic institutions such as electoral systems, political parties and executive governments

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Oxford University Press

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0199238707

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9780199238705

Matthew's Autograph

By: Lewis Ben Smith

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Matthew's Autograph

By: Lewis Ben Smith

What if our Gospels . . .aren't Gospel? It was supposed to be a simple bit of salvage archeology for Father Duncan MacDonald, the Vatican archeologist: Explore an empty cave uncovered in the Negev Desert by an Israeli construction crew for archeological significance. But then a false wall in the back of the cave reveals a basalt ossuary, inscribed with the name of “Matthew Levi, Beloved Scribe of His Lord.” Behind the ossuary . . . an ancient tomb with a human skeleton and a sealed jar. Finding the undisturbed tomb of one of the Apostles of Jesus leads the Israeli government to call in Duncan’s companions, who had discovered the Testimonium of Pontius Pilate three years earlier. When the three archeologists arrive in Tel Aviv, they discover an amazing document inside the tomb: the end of Matthew’s Gospel, written in the Apostle’s own hand! Excitement turns to pandemonium when they translate the scroll and find the text varies drastically from every copy of the Book of Matthew in existence. Have the New Testament Gospels been altered since they were written? Has this tomb really lain undisturbed for two thousand years? Is this ancient manuscript really Matthew's autograph?

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eLectio Publishing

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1632131765

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9781632131768

Ben Love

My Life in Texas Commerce

By: Ben F. Love

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Ben Love

My Life in Texas Commerce

By: Ben F. Love

In a city known for powerful business leaders, Ben Love towers as one of the most influential. Serving as CEO of Texas Commerce Bancshares in the 1980s, during the collapse of the Texas banking industry, Love had an inside view of the debacle. His story, told here in detail for the first time, provides an insightful perspective on the Texas banking industry’s evolution after World War II, its decline, and its subsequent recovery. It also offers a glimpse into of the kind of character that creates men of power. Love grew up with his family during the Great Depression. Their farm outside Paris, Texas, taught him hard lessons about opportunity and financial security lessons that would serve him well in the future. After Americas entry into war in 1941, Love flew 8th Air Force B-17 combat missions over Europe, then settled in Houston with his business degree in the late 1940s. His entrance into the world of banking began as a member of the board of directors for River Oaks Bank & Trust. Houston was rapidly growing into a metropolis, and he accepted an offer to leave River Oaks to join Texas Commerce Bank in 1967. As president of Texas Commerce Bank (TCB) in 1969 and CEO in 197289, Love cultivated change from single banks to holding companies, garnering a national reputation for his banking organization. In 1984, Texas Commerce was the twenty-first-largest bank in the country. Under his competent management, TCB was the only Big Five Texas bank to survive the economic downturn. One reason for its continued success lies with Loves successful merger in 1987 with the Chemical Bank of New York, now J. P. Morgan Chase. When he retired at the close of the decade, he turned his formidable energies to full-time civic and humanitarian work. Ben F. Love’s memoir is one of only a few available in financial literature and history. Not only does it reveal an inside look at the evolution of banking in Texas, but it will serve as an instructional guide to future business leaders and managers. The final chapter summarizes the experiences and lessons sprinkled throughout eighty years of a powerful and productive life.

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353

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Texas A&M University Press

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1603440496

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9781603440493

The Case for Scottish Independence

A History of Nationalist Political Thought in Modern Scotland

By: Ben Jackson

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The Case for Scottish Independence

A History of Nationalist Political Thought in Modern Scotland

By: Ben Jackson

Traces the development of the ideology of modern Scottish nationalism from the 1960s to the independence referendum in 2014.

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223

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Cambridge University Press

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110883535X

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9781108835350

Making Up Our Mind

What School Choice Is Really About

By: Sigal R. Ben-Porath,Michael C. Johanek

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Making Up Our Mind

What School Choice Is Really About

By: Sigal R. Ben-Porath,Michael C. Johanek

If free market advocates had total control over education policy, would the shared public system of education collapse? Would school choice revitalize schooling with its innovative force? With proliferating charters and voucher schemes, would the United States finally make a dramatic break with its past and expand parental choice? Those are not only the wrong questions—they’re the wrong premises, argue philosopher Sigal R. Ben-Porath and historian Michael C. Johanek in Making Up Our Mind. Market-driven school choices aren’t new. They predate the republic, and for generations parents have chosen to educate their children through an evolving mix of publicly supported, private, charitable, and entrepreneurial enterprises. The question is not whether to have school choice. It is how we will regulate who has which choices in our mixed market for schooling—and what we, as a nation, hope to accomplish with that mix of choices. Looking beyond the simplistic divide between those who oppose government intervention and those who support public education, the authors make the case for a structured landscape of choice in schooling, one that protects the interests of children and of society, while also identifying key shared values on which a broadly acceptable policy could rest.

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University of Chicago Press

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022661977X

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9780226619774

Crisis and the US Avant-Garde

By: Ben Hickman

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Crisis and the US Avant-Garde

By: Ben Hickman

Crisis and the US Avant-Garde examines the politics of poetry through the lens of crisis. A timely commentary on the role poetic culture might play in political struggle going forward into our own various contemporary crises.

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Edinburgh University Press

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0748682872

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9780748682874

Fellowship and Food in the Kingdom

Eschatological Meals and Scenes of Utopian Abundance in the New Testament

By: Peter-Ben Smit

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Fellowship and Food in the Kingdom

Eschatological Meals and Scenes of Utopian Abundance in the New Testament

By: Peter-Ben Smit

Revised version of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universit'at Bern, 2001.

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Mohr Siebeck

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3161492714

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9783161492716

Cooking Under the Influence

Food to Drink to

By: Ben Canaider,Greg Duncan Powell

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Cooking Under the Influence

Food to Drink to

By: Ben Canaider,Greg Duncan Powell

Ben Canaider and Greg Duncan Powell have teamed up to write a straightforward and unpretentious food and wine book. Demonstrating their knowledge of and affection for wine and cooking, they match over 100 recipes with wines that range from the rugged reds to sublime French Champagne. There is also plenty of practical advice on how to make the most of any occasion, whether it is a hot date or a weeknight dinner on a budget.

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Allen & Unwin

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1740453700

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9781740453707

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#11 The Little Trojan That Could

#11 The Little Trojan That Could

Theatre World

Theatre World

Common Precedents

Common Precedents

The Joy of Basketball

The Joy of Basketball

Cult Sci-Fi Movies

Cult Sci-Fi Movies

Shakespeare's Words

Shakespeare's Words

The Dyslexia Empowerment Plan

The Dyslexia Empowerment Plan

Blood and Soil

Blood and Soil

Democracy and Diversity

Democracy and Diversity

Matthew's Autograph

Matthew's Autograph

Ben Love

Ben Love

The Case for Scottish Independence

The Case for Scottish Independence

Making Up Our Mind

Making Up Our Mind

Crisis and the US Avant-Garde

Crisis and the US Avant-Garde

Fellowship and Food in the Kingdom

Fellowship and Food in the Kingdom

Cooking Under the Influence

Cooking Under the Influence

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