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Simple Excellence

Organizing and Aligning the Management Team in a Lean Transformation

By: Adam Zak,Bill Waddell

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Simple Excellence

Organizing and Aligning the Management Team in a Lean Transformation

By: Adam Zak,Bill Waddell

Detailing the role of senior management in achieving a successful transformation to organizational excellence, Simple Excellence: Organizing and Aligning the Management Team in a Lean Transformation charts a course of simplification through the complexity often associated with managing performance improvement initiatives. It spells out the roles of key individuals on the management team—including those from sales and marketing, human resources, purchasing/supply chain, information technology, finance, and engineering. Maintaining a focus on the big picture, this book explains what value streams are and how to use them to structure your business so that all stakeholders are aligned with what matters most. It reduces constraint management to its most practical terms and lays out a sound approach to accounting that enables everyone to spend money where it adds value and stop spending where it doesn’t. Drive your management team with dedicated allegience to the concept of value enhancement Propel your organization to higher performance through the employment of Lean culture and decision-making principles Enact management structures needed to put new ways of thinking into play Focus on the bottom line with the right performance metrics Written by respected authorities with extensive experience helping leading organizations achieve Lean transformation, the text includes case studies from high-profile organizations recognized for operational excellence. Addressing human resources management practices, it explains how to manage the day-to-day operations and pricing factory capabilities for the greatest possible profits. It also discusses the ongoing process of strategic planning to help you move away from annual goal setting, toward a dynamic process of engaging the entire company in the effort to provide your customers with an improved sense of value.

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CRC Press

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1439838461

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Nemesis

By: Bill Napier

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Nemesis

By: Bill Napier

Five days to save the world. A shocking CIA report confirms Russia has deflected an asteroid on to a collision course with the United States. An elite team of the world’s top astronomers have five days to identify the asteroid – codename Nemesis – and stop it. If they fail, the President will retaliate with a massive nuclear strike. But with time running out, British asteroid expert Oliver Webb discovers that its course was once predicted in an obscure seventeenth-century manuscript, the only copy of which has gone mysteriously missing... Nemesis is an ingenious and utterly gripping thriller, perfect for fans of Dan Brown, Scott Mariani and Andy McDermott. Praise for Nemesis 'The most exciting book I have ever read' Arthur C. Clarke ‘Outrageously exciting' Literary Review ‘Excellent’ New Scientist

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Canelo + ORM

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1788630408

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Common Whites

Class and Culture in Antebellum North Carolina

By: Bill Cecil-Fronsman

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Common Whites

Class and Culture in Antebellum North Carolina

By: Bill Cecil-Fronsman

Class and culture in Antebellum North Carolina have been largely forgotten. In the past few years, several important studies have examined common whites in individual counties or groups of counties, but they have focused on family life, the economy, or other specific features of the common-white life. C ommon Whites: Class and Culture in Antebellum North Carolina is the first comprehensive examination of these nonslaveholders and small slaveholders in over forty years. Using North Carolina as a case in point, Bill Cecil-Fronsman has sketched a broad portrait of the world made by this group. Drawing on travelers' accounts, newspapers, folksongs and folktales, quantitative analysis of census reports, and, above all, the common whites' own words, he has woven the individual threads of their culture into an in-depth analysis of their world and their responses to it. This work focuses on the issues of class and culture. Here, Cecil-Fronsman explores why the common whites accepted the slave system even though it worked to their disadvantage. He demonstrates how the market economy of the outside world played a negligible role in their lives and how their unique traditional attitudes toward family and community evolved. Finally, he recounts how, although most common whites supported the Confederate cause during the Civil War, many of the old loyalties broke down during the war years. The common whites, though they outnumbered the slaves and the elites, make up the least studied group in the Old South. This book takes us beyond the stereotypes and misconceptions to a better understanding of a group of people virtually ignored by traditional history.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813162394

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Arizona

By: Bill Weir

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Arizona

By: Bill Weir

The National Geographic Traveler guidebooks are in tune with the growing trend toward experiential travel. Each book provides inspiring photography, insider tips, and expert advice for a more authentic, enriching experience of the destination. These books serve a readership of active, discerning travelers, and supply information, historical context, and cultural interpretation not available online. From the Grand Canyon to its desert landscapes, the American Southwest has always held an irresistible appeal for visitors from all over the world who want to experience the fascination of its untamed nature. Its boundless territory makes it perfect for road trip adventures where visitors will discover scenery and nature that make the journey as enjoyable as the destination. So that they can make the best of their time in Arizona, the author, Bill Weir, who has written more than 16 books about the state, offers visitors itineraries that lead to the most significant destinations and reveal the must-see features hidden at every stop. With the advice of authors, photographers and National Geographic experts, the guide provides the curious visitor with an essential, competent view of the aspects of modern life, the history and the culture of the Grand Canyon State as well as walks and guided tours both on and off the beaten path.

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Edizioni WhiteStar

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8854419451

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Crusoe's Books

Readers in the Empire of Print, 1800-1918

By: Bill Bell

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Crusoe's Books

Readers in the Empire of Print, 1800-1918

By: Bill Bell

This is a book about readers on the move in the age of Victorian empire. It examines the libraries and reading habits of five reading constituencies from the long nineteenth century: shipboard emigrants, Australian convicts, Scottish settlers, polar explorers, and troops in the First World War. What was the role of reading in extreme circumstances? How were new meanings made under strange skies? How was reading connected with mobile communities in an age of expansion? Uncovering a vast range of sources from the period, from diaries, periodicals, and literary culture, Bill Bell reveals some remarkable and unanticipated insights into the way that reading operated within and upon the British Empire for over a century.

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Oxford University Press

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0192647504

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Outrageous Advertising That's Outrageously Successful

Created for the 99% of Small Business Owners Who Are Dissatisfied with the Results They Get from their Current Advertising

By: Bill Glazer

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Outrageous Advertising That's Outrageously Successful

Created for the 99% of Small Business Owners Who Are Dissatisfied with the Results They Get from their Current Advertising

By: Bill Glazer

The legendary marketing consultant shares the secret to getting the most out of your advertising—by being outrageous—in this classic small business guide. When a sprinkler malfunctioned at his Baltimore menswear store, Bill Glazer could have done the normal thing and sold the wet merchandise to a Jobber—a business that buys damaged goods in bulk. Instead, he did something OUTRAGEOUS: he created an out-of-the-box ad campaign that resulted in far better returns. And it was easy. In this classic guide to small business advertising, Bill teaches readers the secrets to advertising that actually works. Rich with examples and stories showing exactly how to implement a successful OUTRAGEOUS program, this book cracks the code on getting noticed in ways that increase your sales!

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Morgan James Publishing

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0982379390

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9780982379394

POWER

How J.D. Power III Became the Auto Industry’s Adviser, Confessor, and Eyewitness to History

By: Sarah Morgans,Bill Thorness

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POWER

How J.D. Power III Became the Auto Industry’s Adviser, Confessor, and Eyewitness to History

By: Sarah Morgans,Bill Thorness

Presents the life and accomplishments of the market research executive whose persistence in getting auto executives to listen to customer concerns raised standards in the industry for automobile quality and safety and customer satisfaction.

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Greenleaf Book Group

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0981833675

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The Dates

By: Bill Reamer

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The Dates

By: Bill Reamer

It was an unusual happening for sure, a random confluence of a group of people, all apparently unrelated, brought together by a common inconveniencedisrupted air travel. The end result resembled a modern day Canterbury Tales, in which I find myself in the role of the storyteller-- the narrator. Actually, that is just one of the results. In reality, there were many results that provided a poignant glimpse into death, eternity, and most importantly life. It all started on a late October day back in 1967 and the story spans over 10 years. And the ending? Well, the final ending, the final outcome, really has a lot to do with you! In fact, it has everything to do with you!

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1467049239

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National Geographic Traveler: Arizona, 6th Edition

By: Bill Weir

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National Geographic Traveler: Arizona, 6th Edition

By: Bill Weir

A guide to Arizona, providing information designed to help travelers have a more authentic, cultural experience in the southwestern state.

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National Geographic Traveler

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8854415111

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Historical Dictionary of Cycling

By: Jeroen Heijmans,Bill Mallon

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Historical Dictionary of Cycling

By: Jeroen Heijmans,Bill Mallon

The nearly 150-year-old sport of cycling had its first competition in France in 1868. Soon afterward, the need arose for purpose-built cycling tracks because of poor road conditions at the time. Racing on blocked off pieces of street or grass soon evolvedinto racing on special tracks called velodromes. This development marked the split into what are still the two main forms of cycling competition: road racing and track racing. Initially, track cycling was more popular in terms of public attention and money to be earned by racers, but this gradually changed in favor of road racing, which has been the most popular form of cycling since at least the end of World War II. The Historical Dictionary of Cycling takes a closer look at the sport, as well asdiscussing the use of bicycles as a means of fitness, touring, and commuting. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, photos, a bibliography, and over 500 cross-referenced dictionary entries on cycling's two main disciplines—road and track—as well as brief overviews of the other forms of cycling. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about cycling.

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Scarecrow Press

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0810871750

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Forgotten Founder, Drunken Prophet

The Life of Luther Martin

By: Bill Kauffman

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Forgotten Founder, Drunken Prophet

The Life of Luther Martin

By: Bill Kauffman

The Anti-Federalist Luther Martin of Maryland is known to us—if he is known at all—as the wild man of the Constitutional Convention: a verbose, frequently drunken radical who annoyed the hell out of James Madison, George Washington, Gouverneur Morris, and the other giants responsible for the creation of the Constitution in Philadelphia that summer of 1787. In Bill Kauffman's rollicking account of his turbulent life and times, Martin is still something of a fitfully charming reprobate, but he is also a prophetic voice, warning his heedless contemporaries and his amnesiac posterity that the Constitution, whatever its devisers' intentions, would come to be used as a blueprint for centralized government and a militaristic foreign policy. In Martin's view, the Constitution was the tool of a counterrevolution aimed at reducing the states to ciphers and at fortifying a national government whose powers to tax and coerce would be frightening. Martin delivered the most forceful and sustained attack on the Constitution ever levied—a critique that modern readers might find jarringly relevant. And Martin's post-convention career, though clouded by drink and scandal, found him as defense counsel in two of the great trials of the age: the Senate trial of the impeached Supreme Court justice Samuel Chase and the treason trial of his friend Aaron Burr. Kauffman's Luther Martin is a brilliant and passionate polemicist, a stubborn and admirable defender of a decentralized republic who fights for the principles of 1776 all the way to the last ditch and last drop. In remembering this forgotten founder, we remember also the principles that once animated many of the earliest—and many later—American patriots.

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Simon and Schuster

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1684516730

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Texas Cemeteries

The Resting Places of Famous, Infamous, and Just Plain Interesting Texans

By: Bill Harvey

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Texas Cemeteries

The Resting Places of Famous, Infamous, and Just Plain Interesting Texans

By: Bill Harvey

Winner, Journalistic Achievement Award, Texas Historical Foundation, 2004 From the simplest slab of weathered stone to the most imposing mausoleum, every marker in a Texas cemetery bears witness to a life that—in ways small or large—helped shape the history and culture of the state. Telling the stories of some of these significant lives is the purpose of this book. Within its pages, you'll meet not only the heroes of the Texas Revolution, for example, but also one of the great African American cowboys of the traildriving era (Bose Ikard) and the first woman in Texas elected to statewide office (Annie Webb Blanton). Visiting cemeteries from every era and all regions of the state, Bill Harvey recounts the histories of famous, infamous, and just plain interesting Texans who lie at rest in Texas cemeteries. The book is organized alphabetically by city for easy reference. For each city, Harvey lists one or more cemeteries, giving their location and history, if significant. At the heart of the book are his profiles of the noteworthy people buried in each cemetery. They include not only famous but also lesser-known and even unknown Texans who made important contributions to the state in the arts, sports, business, military service, politics—truly every area of communal life. For those who want to visit these resting places, Harvey also includes tips on finding cemeteries, locating gravesites, and taking good photographs. Spend time with him in the graveyards of Texas, and you'll soon appreciate what fascinating stories the silent stones can tell.

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University of Texas Press

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0292779348

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9780292779341

National Geographic Traveler - Arizona

By: Bill Weir

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National Geographic Traveler - Arizona

By: Bill Weir

A guide to Arizona, providing information designed to help travelers have a more authentic, cultural experience in the southwestern state.

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The Pursuit of Happiness in a More Perfect Union

Creating an American Economy of Equal Opportunity

By: Robert G. Bill

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The Pursuit of Happiness in a More Perfect Union

Creating an American Economy of Equal Opportunity

By: Robert G. Bill

The conflict between conservatives and liberals over public economic policy appears to have become a permanent feature of the American political landscape. Conservatives seek economic solutions with the market as virtually the sole organizing economic principle, invoking individualism inspired by the Declaration of Independences right to the pursuit of happiness. Liberals look to an important economic role for a federal government established by the Constitution to promote the general welfare. In addition to the disagreement among the political class, there is also no agreement among economists, with no model reliably predicting the economic crises of recent decades. Under these circumstances, the author believes individualism and the concern for the common good may only be reconciled through policies which promote equality of opportunity or, as Abraham Lincoln expressed it, equal privileges in the race of life, with all its desirable human aspirations. The reconciliation of individualism and the common good is developed through reviews of the meaning of liberty, happiness, and their economic implications. The historical performance of the American economy is described in the context of the evolution of American federal government from one of limited economic scope, supporting laissez-faire capitalism, to the current mixed government. The more expansive role of government is described in terms of taxation policy and spending, including concerns over the national debt and its significance. With this background, the general reader is invited to follow the authors path to a policy of equality of opportunity with specific proposals for an end to poverty, assistance to children, assistance to postsecondary education and training, and commitments to social and medical security. A specific taxation policy is proposed to fund these programs while maintaining a prudent and manageable national debt. Associated with these proposals are reforms to make the federal government more representative of the people.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1524550434

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Missouri Roadsides

The Traveler's Companion

By: Bill Earngey

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Missouri Roadsides

The Traveler's Companion

By: Bill Earngey

A collection of the linguist's articles on English in Science and Technology (EST) written between 1978 and 1994 and published in different countries. The primary areas of her research are represented here: lexicology and phraseology, text linguistics, stylistics, and diachronic LSP studies. Emphasizing an integrated approach to genre analysis, the articles are unique for the extensive text corpora and the resulting genre profiles. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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University of Missouri Press

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082621021X

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9780826210210

Environmental Ecology

The Ecological Effects of Pollution, Disturbance, and Other Stresses

By: Bill Freedman

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Environmental Ecology

The Ecological Effects of Pollution, Disturbance, and Other Stresses

By: Bill Freedman

Thoroughly revised and significantly expanded, the Second Edition of Environmental Ecology provides new case studies and in-depth treatment of the effects of pollution and other disturbances on our oceans, lakes, forests, and air. New chapters on biological resources and ecological applications have been added, including material on environmental economics, import assessments, ecological monitoring, and environmental ethics. Extensive indexes, a glossary, and a bibliography are included.

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Elsevier

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0080505775

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Encyclopedia of Western Gunfighters

By: Bill O'Neal

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Encyclopedia of Western Gunfighters

By: Bill O'Neal

Sifting factual information from among the lies, legends, and tall tales, the lives and battles of gunfighters on both sides of the law are presented in a who's who of the violent West

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806123354

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America's Fiscal Constitution

Its Triumph and Collapse

By: Bill White

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America's Fiscal Constitution

Its Triumph and Collapse

By: Bill White

What would Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Lincoln, the Roosevelts, Truman, and Eisenhower have done about today's federal debt crisis? America's Fiscal Constitution tells the remarkable story of fiscal heroes who imposed clear limits on the use of federal debt, limits that for two centuries were part of an unwritten constitution. Those national leaders borrowed only for extraordinary purposes and relied on well-defined budget practices to balance federal spending and revenues. That traditional fiscal constitution collapsed in 2001. Afterward -- for the first time in history -- federal elected officials cut taxes during war, funded permanent new programs entirely with debt, grew dependent on foreign creditors, and claimed that the economy could not thrive without routine federal borrowing. For most of the nation's history, conservatives fought to restrain the growth of government by insisting that new programs be paid for with taxation, while progressives sought to preserve opportunities for people on the way up by balancing budgets. Virtually all mainstream politicians recognized that excessive debt could jeopardize private investment and national independence. With original scholarship and the benefit of experience in finance and public service, Bill White dispels common budget myths and distills practical lessons from the nation's five previous spikes in debt. America's Fiscal Constitution offers an objective and hopeful guide for people trying to make sense of the nation's current, most severe, debt crisis and its impact on their lives and our future.

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PublicAffairs

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1610393449

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Their Town

The Mafia, the Media and the Party Machine

By: Bill Freeman,Marsha Aileen Hewitt

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Their Town

The Mafia, the Media and the Party Machine

By: Bill Freeman,Marsha Aileen Hewitt

This book is a classic of its kind -- a no-holds-barred portrait of Hamilton civic life in the 1970s. The focus is on power -- and the powerful. On the surface, power was wielded by the city's businessman-mayor, a business-oriented city council, and a Liberal Party machine fronted by prominent cabinet minister John Munro. Behind the scenes Bill Freeman and Marsha Hewitt found a fascinating set of characters and organizations. They offer a history of organized crime in Hamilton from its rum-running heyday of Rocco Perri to Johnny Papalia and his associates in the 1970s. Freeman and Hewitt provide a critical analysis of The Hamilton Spectator's often unquestioning support of the business agenda for the city, which produced the ruinous demolition of the downtown core and its replacement with Jackson Square. They also examine the labour movement's role in civic life. A chapter on the John Munro political machine, written by Henry Jacek, shows how politics is integrated into the power structure of the city. The book tells the story of key development projects of the 1960s and 1970s that were supposed to transform the central city. The account of the notorious contracts for dredging Hamilton Harbour is compelling reading. The authors look closely at the winners and losers in these projects. Today, Hamiltonians can make their own judgments about the long-term impact of these projects on their city.

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James Lorimer & Company

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1459409469

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The Book of Basketball

The NBA According to The Sports Guy

By: Bill Simmons

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The Book of Basketball

The NBA According to The Sports Guy

By: Bill Simmons

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The NBA according to The Sports Guy—now updated with fresh takes on LeBron, the Celtics, and more! Foreword by Malcom Gladwell • “The work of a true fan . . . it might just represent the next phase of sports commentary.”—The Atlantic Bill Simmons, the wildly opinionated and thoroughly entertaining basketball addict known to millions as ESPN’s The Sports Guy, has written the definitive book on the past, present, and future of the NBA. From the age-old question of who actually won the rivalry between Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain to the one about which team was truly the best of all time, Simmons opens—and then closes, once and for all—every major pro basketball debate. Then he takes it further by completely reevaluating not only how NBA Hall of Fame inductees should be chosen but how the institution must be reshaped from the ground up, the result being the Pyramid: Simmons’s one-of-a-kind five-level shrine to the ninety-six greatest players in the history of pro basketball. And ultimately he takes fans to the heart of it all, as he uses a conversation with one NBA great to uncover that coveted thing: The Secret of Basketball. Comprehensive, authoritative, controversial, hilarious, and impossible to put down (even for Celtic-haters), The Book of Basketball offers every hardwood fan a courtside seat beside the game’s finest, funniest, and fiercest chronicler.

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0345520106

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Penthouse and Pavement

How to Survive in Football Without Sucking Up to the Old Firm

By: Bill Leckie

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How to Survive in Football Without Sucking Up to the Old Firm

By: Bill Leckie

Penthouse and Pavement is not a book for glory-hunters. It is a book about pain. It's about the anguish of watching your team lose 9-2 in the very first game you ever saw, about the horrible inevitability of defeat that so many feel so often. It's about despair, dismay and black, frightening, deathly gloom. But it's also about hope. About dreams. And about dreams which sometimes, just sometimes, come true. Like the once-in-a-lifetime ecstasy of winning the Cup or a league. And as anyone who's had that moment-of-a-lifetime knows, the joy is even greater because you've known the pain. For Bill Leckie, who has followed St Mirren since 1964, it all became worthwhile when they won the Scottish Cup in 1987. This book is about these clubs and the people who love them. It's about the kind of fan who doesn't go to games expecting to win . . . or, worse, demanding it. This book is about being willing to accept a lifetime of frustration in return for one day of utter wonderment.

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Random House

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1780573987

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Where the Water Goes Around

Beloved Detroit

By: Bill Wylie-Kellermann

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Where the Water Goes Around

Beloved Detroit

By: Bill Wylie-Kellermann

Where the Water Goes Around is a biblical and political reading of Detroit over the course of three decades by an activist pastor. Detroit is a place where one can take the temperature of the world. Think on the rise of Fordism and auto-love, the Arsenal of Democracy, the practice of the sit-down strike, or the invention of the expressway and suburban mall. Consider more recently the rebellion of 1967, the deindustrialization of a union town, the assault on democracy in this black-majority city, the structural adjustments of municipal bankruptcy, and now a struggle for water as a human right. Bill Wylie-Kellermann tells the story of working out his "place-based vocation" with a simultaneous commitment to gospel nonviolence. He evokes the place Anishinabe peoples tread lightly the banks of Wawiatanong, "where the waters go round." One narrative thread walks a procession through the streets, a contemporary "stations of the cross," to the locations of crucifixion today. It names the occupying principalities and their outposts on the ground. Another tells the story of resurrection in struggle and human community. Herein are public disruptions, liturgical direct actions, and courtroom trials. In resistance and risk, this book proclaims gospel in context.

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1498296505

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Reducing Reoffending

By: Fergus McNeill,Bill Whyte

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Reducing Reoffending

By: Fergus McNeill,Bill Whyte

Reducing Reoffending provides a critical overview of social work and community justice in Scotland, taking full account of recent developments. The book is divided into three comprehensive sections. Part one of the book provides a critical analysis of the challenge of reducing reoffending in Scotland and locates this challenge within its historical context. Part one also reviews the available evidence about when, how and why people stop offending; about desistance from crime. This analysis exposes not only the complexities of desistance processes, but also the many difficulties that offenders face in making the related transition. Part two of the book provides an account of the legal contexts of criminal justice social work services in Scotland analysing both the role that social work plays in the sentencing process and its role in supervising offenders in the community. The final part the book addresses questions of how the practice of supervision might be best developed so as to support desistance and reduce reoffending, though the books final conclusion is that reducing reoffending requires a much broader commitment to promoting and realising justice in the community.

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Routledge

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1134042701

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Listening to the Future

The Time of Progressive Rock, 1968-1978

By: Bill Martin

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Listening to the Future

The Time of Progressive Rock, 1968-1978

By: Bill Martin

In Listening to the Future, Bill Martin sets the scene for the emergence of progressive rock and examines the most important groups, from the famous to the obscure. He also surveys the pathbreaking albums and provides resources for readers to explore the music further. "Written with the insights of an academic, the authority of a musicologist, and—best of all—the passion of a true fan. Martin charts topographic oceans, courts crimson kings, does some brain salad surgery, and generally rocks out in 7/8 time." —Jim DeRogatis Sun-Times music critic

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Open Court

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0812699440

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Inside the Rise of HBO

A Personal History of the Company That Transformed Television

By: Bill Mesce, Jr.

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Inside the Rise of HBO

A Personal History of the Company That Transformed Television

By: Bill Mesce, Jr.

There are two ages in the history of television: before HBO and after HBO. Before the launch of Home Box Office in 1972, the industry had changed little since the birth of broadcast network television in the late 1940s. The arrival of the premium cable channel began a revolution in the business and programming of TV. For the generation that has grown up with the vast array of viewing choices available today, it is almost inconceivable that our ever-expanding media universe began with a few hours of unimpressive programming on a single cable channel. Written by an insider, this is the story of HBO's reconfiguration of television and the company's continual reinvention of itself in a competitive and dynamic industry.

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McFarland

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1476622256

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9781476622255

Value Chain Struggles

Institutions and Governance in the Plantation Districts of South India

By: Jeff Neilson,Bill Pritchard

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Value Chain Struggles

Institutions and Governance in the Plantation Districts of South India

By: Jeff Neilson,Bill Pritchard

Adopting a 'global value chain' approach, Value Chain Struggles investigates the impact of new trading arrangements in the coffee and tea sectors on the lives and in the communities of growers in South India. Offers a timely analysis of the social hardships of tea and coffee producers Takes the reader into the lives of growers in Southern India who are struggling with issues of value chain restructuring Reveals the ways that the restructuring triggers a series of political and economic struggles across a range of economic, social, and environmental arenas Puts into perspective claims about the impacts of recent changes to global trading relations on rural producers in developing countries

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John Wiley & Sons

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1444355449

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9781444355444

Riding with the Blue Moth

By: Bill Hancock

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Riding with the Blue Moth

By: Bill Hancock

After the death of his son, Will, in the 2001 airplane crash that took the lives of nine additional members of the Oklahoma State basketball team and support staff, Hancock's 2,747-mile journey from the Pacific to the Atlantic became more than just a distraction. It became a pilgrimage. Photos.

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Sports Publishing LLC

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1596701048

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9781596701045

Muleshoe and More

By: Bill Bradfield,Clare Bradfield

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Muleshoe and More

By: Bill Bradfield,Clare Bradfield

This book discloses the humorous and the sometimes controversial, if not curious, circumstances surrounding the naming of more than 700 Texas towns.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0884158659

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9780884158653

DB2 Workload Manager for Linux, UNIX, and Windows

By: Whei-Jen Chen,Bill Comeau,Tomoko Ichikawa,S Sadish Kumar,Marcia Miskimen,H T Morgan,Larry Pay,Tapio Vaattanen,IBM Redbooks

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DB2 Workload Manager for Linux, UNIX, and Windows

By: Whei-Jen Chen,Bill Comeau,Tomoko Ichikawa,S Sadish Kumar,Marcia Miskimen,H T Morgan,Larry Pay,Tapio Vaattanen,IBM Redbooks

DB2 Workload Manager (WLM) introduces a significant evolution in the capabilities available to database administrators for controlling and monitoring executing work within DB2. This new WLM technology is directly incorporated into the DB2 engine infrastructure to allow handling higher volumes with minimal overhead. It is also enabled for tighter integration with external workload management products, such as those provided by AIX WLM. This IBM Redbooks publication discusses the features and functions of DB2 Workload Manager for Linux, UNIX, and Windows. It describes DB2 WLM architecture, components, and WLM-specific SQL statements. It demonstrates installation, WLM methodology for customizing the DB2 WLM environment, new workload monitoring table functions, event monitors, and stored procedures. It provides examples and scenarios using DB2 WLM to manage database activities in DSS and OLTP mixed database systems, so you learn about these advanced workload management capabilities and see how they can be used to explicitly allocate CPU priority, detect and prevent "runaway" queries, and closely monitor database activity in many different ways. Using Data Warehouse Edition Design Studio and DB2 Performance Expert with DB2 WLM is covered. Lastly, the primary differences between Workload Manager and Query Patroller are explained, along with how they interact in DB2 9.5.

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IBM Redbooks

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0738485381

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Audubon Art Prints

A Collector's Guide to Every Edition

By: Bill Steiner

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Audubon Art Prints

A Collector's Guide to Every Edition

By: Bill Steiner

This work offers buyers, sellers, and collectors an easy-to-use, one-volume source of information for these bird and quadruped prints of John James Audubon. It contains obscure references, where the author, Bill Steiner, has surveyed the contemporary market-place. Addressing one of the more complex aspects of print collection, the text clarifies the task of distinguishing the octavio prints of the successive editions of Audubon's Birds of America (1840-1871) and Quadrupeds of North America (1849-1870). It describes the publication histories of each edition since the first, offers information about printers, engravers, and subscribers, and provides practical information on price histories, accessibility, and preservation.

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