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Occupying Iraq

A History of the Coalition Provisional Authority

By: James Dobbins,Seth G. Jones,Benjamin Runkle,Siddharth Mohandas

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Occupying Iraq

A History of the Coalition Provisional Authority

By: James Dobbins,Seth G. Jones,Benjamin Runkle,Siddharth Mohandas

Focuses on the activities of the Coalition Provisional Authority during the first year of the occupation of Iraq. Based on interviews and nearly 100,000 never-before-released documents from CPA archives, the book recounts and evaluates the efforts of the United States and its coalition partners to restore public services, counter a burgeoning insurgency, and create the basis for representative government.

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411

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Rand Corporation

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0833047248

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9780833047243

Bad Clowns

By: Benjamin Radford

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Bad Clowns

By: Benjamin Radford

Bad clowns—those malicious misfits of the midway who terrorize, haunt, and threaten us—have long been a cultural icon. This book describes the history of bad clowns, why clowns go bad, and why many people fear them. Going beyond familiar clowns such as the Joker, Krusty, John Wayne Gacy, and Stephen King’s Pennywise, it also features bizarre, lesser-known stories of weird clown antics including Bozo obscenity, Ronald McDonald haters, killer clowns, phantom-clown abductors, evil-clown panics, sex clowns, carnival clowns, troll clowns, and much more. Bad Clowns blends humor, investigation, and scholarship to reveal what is behind the clown’s dark smile.

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217

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UNM Press

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0826356672

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9780826356673

Hell On A Hill Top

America's Last Major Battle In Vietnam

By: Benjamin L. Harrison

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Hell On A Hill Top

America's Last Major Battle In Vietnam

By: Benjamin L. Harrison

HELL ON A HILL TOP-for four months in 1970, Hell raged on the hill tops of Ripcord, 805, 902 and 1000, all just east of the A Shau Valley. HELL ON A HILL TOP Instead of backing away from the fight, the North Vietnamese mortar, recoilless rifle, heavy machine gun, sapper and regular infantry attacks increased. The last offensive around Ripcord was starting to look like the last stand. Unwilling to keep American soldiers at high risk at this stage of the war; Ripcord was evacuated on 23 July. The battle went unnoticed for 30 years until Keith Nolan's book, RIPCORD, was published. As powerful and gripping as was the story of great leadership and courageous fighting by our soldiers, the magnitude of the enemy force still remained unknown. The author, the 3rd Brigade commander during the siege and evacuation, made trips to Vietnam in 2001 and 2004 and interviewed the 324B Division Commander whose first-ever division sole mission, was to destroy Firebase Ripcord. The full story is now told.

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298

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iUniverse

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0595327303

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9780595327300

John Woo's Seven Brothers Graphic Novel, Vol. 2: The Blood That Runs

By: Benjamin Raab,Deric A. Huges

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John Woo's Seven Brothers Graphic Novel, Vol. 2: The Blood That Runs

By: Benjamin Raab,Deric A. Huges

Created by acclaimed filmmaker John Woo, (Mission Impossible 2; Face-Off; Red Cliff). The second volume in the Seven Brothers series. First, they were strangers. Individuals from all across the globe linked by an unlikely destiny and an unknown blood tie. Now, they're a family. And like all families, they've got their issues. So when a mysterious figure from a past Rachel Kai thought she put behind her comes gunning for all their blood, the 7 Brothers must join forces once again to save the life of one of their own! Written by Benjamin Raab and Deric A. Hughes (writers on the television show, Warehouse 13), and with pencils by Edison George (Silver Scorpion, Eternity Kill), this next chapter in the saga of an unlikely band of brothers charts a bold new course for these heroes that promises to thrill fans both old and new! "If you're a fan of action movies in general, I think you'll like this." - Indy Comic Review "There's a lot of potential in this book, especially with the brothers hailing from all over the world, that could make this the hard-core, uncompromising flipside to NBC's Heroes." - Variety "This series has it all and is a must read for any comic fan." - Comic Fever

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287

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Liquid Comics

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193582936X

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9781935829362

The Greatest Comic Book of All Time

Symbolic Capital and the Field of American Comic Books

By: Bart Beaty,Benjamin Woo

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The Greatest Comic Book of All Time

Symbolic Capital and the Field of American Comic Books

By: Bart Beaty,Benjamin Woo

Bart Beaty and Benjamin Woo work to historicize why it is that certain works or creators have come to define the notion of a "quality comic book," while other works and creators have been left at the fringes of critical analysis.

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163

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Springer

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1137531622

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9781137531629

The American Blockbuster

Movies That Defined Their Generations

By: Benjamin Crace

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The American Blockbuster

Movies That Defined Their Generations

By: Benjamin Crace

Providing an indispensable resource for students and general readers, this book serves as an entry point for a conversation on America's favorite pastime, focusing in on generational differences and the evolution of American identity. In an age marked by tension and division, Americans of all ages and backgrounds have turned to film to escape the pressures of everyday life. Yet, beyond escapism, popular cinema is both a mirror and microscope for our collective psyche. Examining the films that have made billions of dollars through a new lens reveals that popular culture is a vital source for understanding what it means to be an American. This book is divided into four sections, each associated with a different generation. Featuring such era-defining hits as Jaws, Back to the Future, Avatar, and The Avengers, each section presents detailed film analyses that showcase the consistency of certain American values throughout generations as well as the constant renegotiation of others. Ideal for any cinephile, The American Blockbuster demonstrates how complex and meaningful even the summer blockbuster can be.

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296

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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ISBN 13

9798216184188

Octopus's Garden

How Railroads and Citrus Transformed Southern California

By: Benjamin T. Jenkins

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Octopus's Garden

How Railroads and Citrus Transformed Southern California

By: Benjamin T. Jenkins

As Southern California recovered from the collapse of the cattle industry in the 1860s, the arrival of railroads—attacked by newspapers as the greedy “octopus”—and the expansion of citrus agriculture transformed the struggling region into a vast, idealized, and prosperous garden. New groves of the latest citrus varieties and new towns like Riverside quickly grew directly along the tracks of transcontinental railroads. The influx of capital, industrial technology, and workers, especially people of color, energized Southern California and tied it more closely to the economy and culture of the United States than ever before. Benjamin Jenkins’s Octopus’s Garden argues that citrus agriculture and railroads together shaped the economy, landscape, labor systems, and popular image of Southern California. Orange and lemon growing boomed in the 1870s and 1880s while railroads linked the region to markets across North America and ended centuries of geographic isolation for the West Coast. Railroads competed over the shipment of citrus fruits from multiple counties engulfed by the orange empire, resulting in an extensive rail network that generated lucrative returns for grove owners and railroad businessmen in Southern California from the 1890s to the 1950s. While investment from white Americans, particularly wealthy New Englanders, formed the financial backbone of the Octopus’s Garden, citrus and railroads would not have thrived in Southern California without the labor of people of color. Many workers of color took advantage of the commercial developments offered by railroads and citrus to economically advance their families and communities; however, these people also suffered greatly under the constant realities of bodily harm, low wages, and political and social exclusion. Promoters of the railroads and citrus cooperatives touted California as paradise for white Americans and minimized the roles of non-white laborers by stereotyping them in advertisements and publications. These practices fostered conceptions of California’s racial hierarchy by praising privileged whites and maligning the workers who made them prosper. The Octopus’s Garden continues to shape Southern Californians’ understanding of their past. In bringing together multiple storylines, Jenkins provides a complex and fresh perspective on the impact of citrus agriculturalists and railroad companies in Southern Californian history.

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376

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University Press of Kansas

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0700634711

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9780700634712

Movie Song Catalog

Performers and Supporting Crew for the Songs Sung in 1460 Musical and Nonmusical Films, 1928-1988

By: Ruth Benjamin,Arthur Rosenblatt

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Movie Song Catalog

Performers and Supporting Crew for the Songs Sung in 1460 Musical and Nonmusical Films, 1928-1988

By: Ruth Benjamin,Arthur Rosenblatt

This is an exhaustive reference volume to the thousands of songs, songwriters and performers in 1,460 American and British films (musical and nonmusical) since the advent of the talkie in 1928. Listed alphabetically by film title, each entry provides full production information on the movie, including the country of origin, year of release, running time, director, musical director, musical score, studio, producer, orchestra or bands featured, music backup, vocalist, (dubber who sang on the soundtrack), and performers. Each song title in the main entry is followed by the name of the performer, lyricist, composer, and, when appropriate, arranger.

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369

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McFarland

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0786487690

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9780786487691

A Diplomatic History of US Immigration during the 20th Century

Policy, Law, and National Identity

By: Benjamin Montoya

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A Diplomatic History of US Immigration during the 20th Century

Policy, Law, and National Identity

By: Benjamin Montoya

This timely book explores immigration into the United States and the effect it has had on national identity, domestic politics and foreign relations from the 1920s to 2006. Comparing the immigration experiences of Chinese, Japanese, Mexicans, Cubans, Central Americans and Vietnamese, this book highlights how the US viewed each group throughout the American century, the various factors that have shaped US immigration, and the ways in which these debates influenced relations with the wider world. Using a comparative approach, Montoya offers an insight into the themes that have surrounded immigration, its role in forming a national identity and the ways in which changing historical contexts have shaped and re-shaped conversations about immigrants in the United States. This account helps us better understand the implications and importance of immigration throughout the American century, and informs present-day debates surrounding the issue.

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249

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350158259

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9781350158252

Escaping the Dark, Gray City

Fear and Hope in Progressive-Era Conservation

By: Benjamin Heber Johnson

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Escaping the Dark, Gray City

Fear and Hope in Progressive-Era Conservation

By: Benjamin Heber Johnson

A compelling and long-overdue exploration of the Progressive-era conservation movement, and its lasting effects on American culture, politics, and contemporary environmentalism The turn of the twentieth century caught America at a crossroads, shaking the dust from a bygone era and hurtling toward the promises of modernity. Factories, railroads, banks, and oil fields—all reshaped the American landscape and people. In the gulf between growing wealth and the ills of an urbanizing nation, the spirit of Progressivism emerged. Promising a return to democracy and a check on concentrated wealth, Progressives confronted this changing relationship to the environment—not only in the countryside but also in dense industrial cities and leafy suburbs. Drawing on extensive work in urban history and Progressive politics, Benjamin Heber Johnson weaves together environmental history, material culture, and politics to reveal the successes and failures of the conservation movement and its lasting legacy. By following the efforts of a broad range of people and groups—women’s clubs, labor advocates, architects, and politicians—Johnson shows how conservation embodied the ideals of Progressivism, ultimately becoming one of its most important legacies.

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320

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Yale University Press

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0300227760

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9780300227765

After the War

Nation-Building from FDR to George W. Bush

By: James Dobbins,Michele A. Poole,Austin Long,Benjamin Runkle

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After the War

Nation-Building from FDR to George W. Bush

By: James Dobbins,Michele A. Poole,Austin Long,Benjamin Runkle

From the post-World War II era through the Cold War, post-Cold War era, and current war on terrorism, this volume assesses how U.S. presidential decisionmaking style and administrative structure can work in favor of, as well as against, the nation-building goals of the U.S. government and military and those of its coalition partners and allies.

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189

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Rand Corporation

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0833045563

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9780833045560

Kaplan and Sadock's Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry

By: Benjamin J. Sadock,Virginia A. Sadock,Pedro Ruiz

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Kaplan and Sadock's Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry

By: Benjamin J. Sadock,Virginia A. Sadock,Pedro Ruiz

50th Anniversary Edition The cornerstone text in the field for 50 years, Kaplan & Sadock's Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry has consistently kept pace with the rapid growth of research and knowledge in neural science, as well as biological and psychological science. This two-volume Tenth Edition shares the expertise of over 600 renowned contributors who cover the full range of psychiatry and mental health, including neural science, genetics, neuropsychiatry, psychopharmacology, and other key areas. It remains the gold standard of reference for all those who work with the mentally ill, including psychiatrists and other physicians, psychologists, psychiatric social workers, psychiatric nurses, and other mental health professionals.

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12870

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1496389158

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9781496389152

The Raw Files: 2015

By: James Dixon,Arnold Furious,Bob Dahlstrom,Benjamin Richardson

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The Raw Files: 2015

By: James Dixon,Arnold Furious,Bob Dahlstrom,Benjamin Richardson

The team at www.historyofwrestling.co.uk are back with the latest in their series documenting every episode of WWE Monday Night Raw, year by year. We cover every angle, segment and match in detail, and offer plenty of thoughts and facts along the way. The book is written and presented in the usual HOW style, with various awards, match lists and a host of star ratings for fans to debate at will. FEATURING: Brock Lesnar verus a car, the return of the Dudley Boyz, Xavier Woods and his Trolling Trombone, #divasrevolution, Sting, The John Cena US Open Challenge, Stephanie McMahon emasculating the entire roster, the Shield reunion, Mother Nature defeats RAW, Kevin Owens mauls John Cena, Roman wins the big one, and much more! As usual, every single segment is covered in detail, with witty comment and analysis throughout. Fans of the series won't be disappointed, and once again the tome clocks in at a monster 185,000 words! It is our biggest Raw book ever! A must have have all wrestling fans.

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188

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Lulu.com

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1326529846

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9781326529840

Thrill Me

Essays on Fiction

By: Benjamin Percy

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Thrill Me

Essays on Fiction

By: Benjamin Percy

Bold new essays on how to craft a thrilling read--in any genre--from the bestselling author of The Dead Lands Anyone familiar with the meteoric rise of Benjamin Percy's career will surely have noticed a certain shift: After writing two short-story collections and a literary novel, he delivered the werewolf thriller Red Moon and the postapocalyptic epic The Dead Lands. Now, in his first book of nonfiction, Percy challenges the notion that literary and genre fiction are somehow mutually exclusive. The title essay is an ode to the kinds of books that make many readers fall in love with fiction: science fiction, fantasy, mysteries, horror, from J.R.R. Tolkien to Anne Rice, Ursula K. Le Guin to Stephen King. Percy's own academic experience banished many of these writers in the name of what is "literary" and what is "genre." Then he discovered Michael Chabon, Aimee Bender, Cormac McCarthy, Margaret Atwood, and others who employ techniques of genre fiction while remaining literary writers. In fifteen essays on the craft of fiction, Percy looks to disparate sources such as Jaws, Blood Meridian, and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo to discover how contemporary writers engage issues of plot, suspense, momentum, and the speculative, as well as character, setting, and dialogue. An urgent and entertaining missive on craft, Thrill Me brims with Percy's distinctive blend of anecdotes, advice, and close reading, all in the service of one dictum: Thrill the reader.

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185

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Graywolf Press

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1555979548

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9781555979546

Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health

By: Benjamin Frank Miller,Claire Brackman Keane

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Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health

By: Benjamin Frank Miller,Claire Brackman Keane

Alphabetical arrangement of terms and definitions or explanations, intended as authoritative vocabulary for students in the nursing and paramedical sciences. New concepts and developments emphasized, e.g., patient-centered care and patienteducation. Pronunciation indicated. Abbreviations, biographical entries, drug trade names, and eponyms are included, among other terms. Updated appendixes of miscellaneous information. Illustrations.

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W.B. Saunders Company

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0721663575

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9780721663579

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Occupying Iraq

Occupying Iraq

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Hell On A Hill Top

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John Woo's Seven Brothers Graphic Novel, Vol. 2: The Blood That Runs

John Woo's Seven Brothers Graphic Novel, Vol. 2: The Blood That Runs

The Greatest Comic Book of All Time

The Greatest Comic Book of All Time

The American Blockbuster

The American Blockbuster

Octopus's Garden

Octopus's Garden

Movie Song Catalog

Movie Song Catalog

A Diplomatic History of US Immigration during the 20th Century

A Diplomatic History of US Immigration during the 20th Century

Escaping the Dark, Gray City

Escaping the Dark, Gray City

After the War

After the War

Kaplan and Sadock's Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry

Kaplan and Sadock's Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry

The Raw Files: 2015

The Raw Files: 2015

Thrill Me

Thrill Me

Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health

Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health

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