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Bill Stern’s Favorite Baseball Stories

By: Bill Stern

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Bill Stern’s Favorite Baseball Stories

By: Bill Stern

AT BAT—WITH BILL STERN Baseball is a game rooted deep in the heart of America. I’ve loved it ever since I was a kid old enough to yell: “Take Me Out to the Ball Game!” As long as I can remember, I’ve been hearing stories of baseball...fascinating tales of fabulous heroes from a land where the sun always shines and men never grow old...curious legends that grew stranger with age...yarns that have been handed down with the years as treasured lore. As I grew older, and fate cast me in the rôle of a radio sports reporter and storyteller, I’ve been fortunate to meet many of the heroes, old and new—Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson, Connie Mack, Grover Cleveland Alexander, Tris Speaker, Leo Durocher, Ted Williams, Bobby Feller and Joe DiMaggio, to name but a handful who have paraded before my microphone. And each in his way has enriched my collection of diamond stories. Of the countless stories I’ve heard from baseball men, I’ve treasured a number to hold, keep and remember. However, a storyteller who has been sharing his most interesting stories with millions of people finds it difficult to be miserly. Hence, I’ve chosen my favorites and offer them in print to all my fans for a generous dose of the romance, the glamour, the color, the thrills, the drama, the comedy, and the nostalgia that are all part of this game called baseball. Maybe I’ll score with some and get shut out on others but here they are just as I treasure them in my sports memory book—my favorite baseball stories.

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Pickle Partners Publishing

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1787204774

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Arts, Inc.

How Greed and Neglect Have Destroyed Our Cultural Rights

By: Bill Ivey

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Arts, Inc.

How Greed and Neglect Have Destroyed Our Cultural Rights

By: Bill Ivey

“Bill Ivey has written a thoughtful and thought-provoking book on the state of the arts in America today. He tracks our loss of heritage and risk-taking and comments cogently on the past culture wars. His discussion of the corporate hijacking of intellectual property is highly articulate and should be read by everyone.”—Jane Alexander “You don't have to agree with all his conclusions to recognize that Bill Ivey's Arts, Inc. is an important book. It's a must-read for all those interested in American art and culture and the public interest in preserving access to our heritage for everyone, and as it contributes to the arts of today and tomorrow.”—Frank Hodsoll “Arts, Inc. is the first comprehensive effort to explore the role and potential of a coordinated vision for art, culture, and expression in American public life. Through strands of personal and professional memoir, policy analysis, for-profit and nonprofit industry insights, and personal conviction, Bill Ivey defines a new canvas for more productive and inclusive conversations on the expressive life of our nation and its citizens.”—Andrew Taylor, Bolz Center for Arts Administration, University of Wisconsin-Madison “Very few observers of the contemporary U.S. and global arts worlds have Bill Ivey's capacity for first-hand examples of how trade representatives, artists, music executives, corporate attorneys, elected officials, non-profit executives and many other participants influence the course of the arts, and in particular, the public's access to the arts. Arts, Inc. is an important work because it asserts, in a very thoughtful and urgent manner, that Americans have a right to a better expressive life.”—John Kreidler, retired Executive Director, Cultural Initiatives Silicon Valley "At a time when international polls show doubts about America, our art and culture are a crucial resource for our soft power. Bill Ivey does a wonderful job of explaining the importance of art as a public issue. "—Joseph S. Nye, Jr., author of Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics “A profoundly important diagnosis by perhaps America's best-qualified critic of the harm to our culture caused by overregulation and inadequate support. Ivey has given us a rich and beautifully written warning about the culture we're losing, and a powerful and historically compelling image of a culture that could be.”—Lawrence Lessig, Stanford Law School "Walt Whitman was democracy's eloquent poet who understood that democracy is not just a form of government but a way of life rooted in culture. Bill Ivey is culture's eloquent advocate who knows that as democracy needs the arts, the arts need the advocacy of government. His manifesto Arts, Inc. is a passionate attack on the commercialization of culture and a plea for a cultural bill of rights that will restore to all Americans their right to a heritage, to creative expression and to a creative life. This is not just a vital book about the arts, but a vital book about democracy." —Benjamin R. Barber, author of Jihad vs. McWorld and Consumed.

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Univ of California Press

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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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Powering the Lean Enterprise

How to Streamline Operations, Improve Quality, and Gain Customer Loyalty

By: Bill Artzberger

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Powering the Lean Enterprise

How to Streamline Operations, Improve Quality, and Gain Customer Loyalty

By: Bill Artzberger

The goal of Lean is to identify and eliminate nonessential and non-value-adding steps in business processes to streamline operations, improve quality, and gain customer loyalty. Implementation of Lean technologies for many prestigious Fortune 500 companies as well as smaller companies has netted larger profit margins, higher-quality products and services, improved employee engagement, increased customer satisfaction, and lower operating costs. The return on investment regarding Lean initiatives has been stellar. This book introduces basic Lean rules and principles in a variety of simulated case studies drawn from the author’s professional experiences as a Lean coach, trainer, and manager. In each instance, the author presents a different scenario for implementing Lean technologies. In this book, you will learn about: – Lean thinking – Lean mindset – The 4 Lean rules and 5 Lean principles – The Lean transformation roadmap – Lean leadership – Five common Lean pitfalls and how to avoid them – Kaizen workshops – Daily improvements and Kata

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CRC Press

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1040131336

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The Adlard Coles Book of the International Certificate of Competence

By: Bill Anderson

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The Adlard Coles Book of the International Certificate of Competence

By: Bill Anderson

This book aims to help yachtsmen and motorboaters pass the ICC test - essential for anyone wanting to take their yacht or motorboat to the inland waterways of Europe and to many European coastal waters too. Now completely revised and updated for the third edition, Bill Anderson explains the syllabus in detail, provides revision notes on all the subjects in the test, and includes a set of self-test questions and answers at each stage to help readers take the ICC test with confidence. 'Well presented, well illustrated and clearly written... a concise and handy guide that will fulfil all the candidate's requirements.' Nautical Magazine

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A&C Black

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1472906799

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Reeds Crew Handbook

By: Bill Johnson

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Reeds Crew Handbook

By: Bill Johnson

The Reeds Skipper's Handbook, now in its 6th edition, has been a bestseller since first publication 20 years ago. Now for the first time, here is the Reeds Crew Handbook for skippers to hand to new and aspiring crew. It will give them all the essential knowledge they need to undertake the tasks traditionally handled by crew aboard any size of yacht, including: - Steering (both with a tiller and a wheel) - Raising, dropping and reefing a sail - Boat handling (using tide, wind, etc) - Handling lines (throwing, coiling, lassoing, etc) - Tying up a boat on a pontoon and against a quay wall - Attaching bow and stern lines and springs - Handling an anchor - Using the radio - Basic first aid - Essential knots Presented in bite-sized topics in a very accessible and undaunting fashion, and packed with colour illustrations to guide crew through each task, the Reeds Crew Handbook will be a useful primer for new crew before going to sea, and a handy pocket-sized aide-memoire for experienced crew when under sail.

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1408159139

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I Celebrate Myself

The Somewhat Private Life of Allen Ginsberg

By: Bill Morgan

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I Celebrate Myself

The Somewhat Private Life of Allen Ginsberg

By: Bill Morgan

In the first biography of Ginsberg since his death in 1997 and the only one to cover the entire span of his life, Ginsberg's archivist Bill Morgan draws on his deep knowledge of Ginsberg's largely unpublished private journals to give readers an unparalleled and finely detailed portrait of one of America's most famous poets. Morgan sheds new light on some of the pivotal aspects of Ginsberg's life, including the poet's associations with other members of the Beat Generation, his complex relationship with his lifelong partner, Peter Orlovsky, his involvement with Tibetan Buddhism, and above all his genius for living.

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014311249X

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Draft Climate Change Bill

Vol. 1: Report, together with formal minutes

By: Great Britain: Parliament: Joint Committee on the Draft Climate Change Bill

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Draft Climate Change Bill

Vol. 1: Report, together with formal minutes

By: Great Britain: Parliament: Joint Committee on the Draft Climate Change Bill

The Committee warmly welcome the introduction of the Climate Change Bill and find it heartening that the UK is taking a lead on this issue. The aim of the Bill is to reduce the net UK carbon account by at least 60% from the 1990 baseline by 2050, although this may not be enough; the Government have emphasised that this is a minimum target. However shipping and aviation are excluded from the carbon budgets and this could be a weakness. The Committee have concerns about the legal enforceability of targets and budgets and propose a system of annual milestones and a compliance mechanism. To recognise the importance of the Bill they think that the legal duty should be placed on the Prime Minister rather than then Secretary of State. The draft Bill is the first of what is likely to be a series of measures. In particular the Committee think that adaptation policies need to be addressed, along with the role of local government.

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Cities, Housing and Profits

Flat Break-Up and the Decline of Private Renting

By: Chris Hamnett,Bill Randolph

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Cities, Housing and Profits

Flat Break-Up and the Decline of Private Renting

By: Chris Hamnett,Bill Randolph

Originally published in 1988, this book documents and explains the emergence of flat ‘break-ups’ – the sale of individual owner occupation of blocks of flats which were previously privately rented and which played a major role in the transformation of the private housing market in London since the 1960s. The book shows that the flat break-up market in London was not a unique phenomenon but one of the most geographically concentrated manifestations of the trend for sales from private renting to owner occupation which has been established in the UK since the 1920s. The interrelationship between the causes of the decline of the privately rented sector in Britain and the features specific to the flat market comprises the second theme of the book.

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Routledge

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1000300439

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9781000300437

Getting Stronger

Weight Training for Sports

By: Bill Pearl

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Getting Stronger

Weight Training for Sports

By: Bill Pearl

Strength training for 21 sports ; General conditioning ; Body building.

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Shelter Publications, Inc.

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9780936070384

Manoeuvring

At Close Quarters Under Power

By: Bill Johnson

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Manoeuvring

At Close Quarters Under Power

By: Bill Johnson

This is a unique, practical, hands-on guide to boat manoeuvring. Manoeuvring a yacht under engine at close quarters in a marine of close to other (expensive!) boats can be a daunting prospect for the inexperienced skipper - but it has to be done in order to take your boat off a pontoon to go sailing, and to berth her after a day on the water. Throw in fast flowing tides, and wind which might blow from the bow or beam or stern, and the exercise becomes even more of a lottery - even for the experienced boat handler. Here at last is a well organised visual guide to coping in every possible combination of wind and tide. Laid out in a very clear fashion, with one manoeuvre per page and in a handy wiro format, this is the ideal teach yourself guide, and the perfect on-board aide memoire. It will be a godsend to every nervous helmsman, and a good talking point for crew!

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A&C Black

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1408159414

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Back Door to Byzantium

To the Black Sea by the Great Rivers of Europe

By: Bill Cooper,Laurel Cooper

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Back Door to Byzantium

To the Black Sea by the Great Rivers of Europe

By: Bill Cooper,Laurel Cooper

This eagerly awaited conclusion to the Watersteps trilogy is the story of the Cooper's voyage from the North Sea, across flooded France, down the Rhine and on the Danube to the Black Sea.

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Sheridan House, Inc.

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1574090437

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9781574090437

Amped

A Soldier's Race for Gold in the Shadow of War

By: Kortney Clemons,Bill Briggs

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Amped

A Soldier's Race for Gold in the Shadow of War

By: Kortney Clemons,Bill Briggs

When above-the-knee amputeeswalk, we generate seven to nine times the force of our body weight right into the point where the prosthesis meets our residual leg. For me, that's almost 1,500 pounds slamming into that socket." For any amputee, learning to walk with a prosthetic leg is a painful, grueling ordeal. Soon after army medic Kortney Clemons, who lost his right leg to a roadside bomb in Baghdad, began the process, he had more than walking in mind. He wanted to run, and run fast. Barely three years after the awful attack that changed his life forever, he aimed to join the elite corps of international athletes vying for gold in the 2008 Paralympics in Beijing. His account of his recovery from this catastrophic wound and his drive to become the first Iraq veteran to win Paralympic gold is one of the most remarkable, inspiring, and compelling stories in the history of sports.

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Turner Publishing Company

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0470378808

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Jazz in the 1970s

Diverging Streams

By: Bill Shoemaker

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Jazz in the 1970s

Diverging Streams

By: Bill Shoemaker

Breaking through pervasive misconceptions, Jazz in the 1970s explores a pivotal decade in jazz history. Many consider the 1970s to be the fusion decade, but Bill Shoemaker pushes back against this stereotype with a bold perspective that examines both the diverse musical innovations and cultural developments that elevated jazz internationally. He traces events that redefined jazz’s role in the broadband arts movement as well as the changing social and political landscape. Shoemaker immerses readers in the cultural transformation of jazz through: official recognition with events like Jimmy Carter’s White House Jazz Picnic and the release of The Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz; the market validation of avant-garde musicians by major record labels and the concurrent spike in artist-operated record labels and performance spaces; the artistic influence and economic impact of jazz festivals internationally; the emergence of government and foundation grant support for jazz in the United States and Europe; and the role of media in articulating a fast-changing scene. Shoemaker details the lives and work of well-known innovators (such as Art Ensemble of Chicago, Anthony Braxton and Sam Rivers) as well as barrier-breaking artists based in Europe (such as Derek Bailey, Peter Brötzmann and Chris McGregor) giving both longtime fans and newcomers insights into the moments and personae that shaped a vibrant decade in jazz.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442242108

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Knack Kayaking for Everyone

Selecting Gear, Learning Strokes, and Planning Trips

By: Bill Burnham,Mary Burnham

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Knack Kayaking for Everyone

Selecting Gear, Learning Strokes, and Planning Trips

By: Bill Burnham,Mary Burnham

Knack Kayaking for Everyone is the most visually driven and yet informative guide to every aspect of an aquatic sport whose popularity has skyrocketed in recent years. The first chapters comprise an idea-packed buying guide to kayak design, kayak features, accessories, and gear. The book then presents step-by-step information on transporting, launching and landing, basic and advanced strokes, techniques, navigation, rescues, and expedition planning. In addition, it fully explores recreational (flatwater) kayaking, whitewater kayaking, and sea kayaking, providing instructions for each. Ideas for fun and games and special paddlers (children, the elderly, the handicapped) are also included, as are chapters on weather and first aid.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0762762586

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The War for Late Night

When Leno Went Early and Television Went Crazy

By: Bill Carter

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The War for Late Night

When Leno Went Early and Television Went Crazy

By: Bill Carter

Bill Carter, executive producer of CNN’s docuseries The Story of Late Night and host of the Behind the Desk: Story of Late Night podcast, details the chaotic transition of The Tonight Show from host Jay Leno to Conan O’Brien—and back again. In 2010, NBC’s CEO Jeff Zucker, had it all worked out when he moved Jay Leno from behind the desk at The Tonight Show, and handed the reins over to Conan O'Brien. But his decision was a spectacular failure. Ratings plummeted, affiliates were enraged—and when Zucker tried to put everything back the way it was, that plan backfired as well. No one is more uniquely suited to document the story of a late-night travesty than veteran media reporter and bestselling author, Bill Carter. In candid detail, he charts the vortex that sucked in not just Leno and O'Brien—but also Letterman, Stewart, Fallon, Kimmel, and Ferguson—as frantic agents and network executives tried to manage a tectonic shift in television’s most beloved institution.

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Penguin

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0452297494

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China Inside Out

10 Irreversible Trends Reshaping China and its Relationship with the World

By: Bill Dodson

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China Inside Out

10 Irreversible Trends Reshaping China and its Relationship with the World

By: Bill Dodson

An in-depth look at the forces and trends changing China and its place in the world China has dominated the news for nearly a decade and will continue to grab headlines as it moves inexorably toward becoming the world's largest economy. It already has the largest middle class in the world; the most Internet users; the largest army; and is the world's largest polluter. Yet all this growth causes problems as China adapts to the laws of other lands in which it has investments; learns how to meet international guidelines and safety standards for its products; stretches its resources to the limit; and struggles to maintain stability and control over an increasingly restive population. China Inside Out explores the social and economic forces unleashed by China's relentless drive to modernization. Bill Dodson presents the stories of average Chinese workers, along with interviews with experts interlaced with his own experiences. The end result is an insider's view of the forces reshaping China as it takes an increasingly prominent role in the new world order. Looks at the trends reshaping China and reveals how China's place in the world is evolving Written by an industry analyst, advisor, and business manager in China, who is also a columnist for the China Economic Review Explains important changes for investors and business leaders interested in China For business leaders, investors, and China watchers, China Inside Out offers a truly in-depth examination of China's changing role in the world.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470826460

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From the Log of True Grace

By: Bill Gerritsen

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From the Log of True Grace

By: Bill Gerritsen

In 1979 Bill and Penny purchased a 38 ft sailboat. It took a year to get built and finally delivered. After sailing around the Southern California islands for a year, Penny suggested that they quit their jobs, take their sons JJ (15), and Dan (11) out of school and go sailing. And so, began a two-year adventure. Down the coast of Mexico, exploration of Cocos Island, several months in Costa Rica and Panama. One of the highlights was crossing the Panama Canal. After spending a short time in the western Caribbean, they returned to the Pacific side and after stopping at Cocos Island once more, headed for home. Spending time in a relatively confined space was not easy. The schooling was especially delicate. Fights and arguments were a nearly daily occurrence. However, each of us stood our required watches and could be counted on when tough conditions happened.

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Page Publishing Inc

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1662404182

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Canby's Legion

By: Bill Baldwin

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Canby's Legion

By: Bill Baldwin

Commander Gordon Canby and Kapitan Nikolai Kobir - space warriors on either side of a military victory - each wind up on the losing end of the resulting peace. As the victors sink farther and farther into a miasma of corruption, the two old enemies find themselves struggling for their very existence, and Gordon Canby discovers that when you fight for traitors, your enemies may be your only friends.

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On a Sea of Glass

The Life & Loss of the RMS Titanic

By: Tad Fitch,J. Kent Layton,Bill Wormstedt

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On a Sea of Glass

The Life & Loss of the RMS Titanic

By: Tad Fitch,J. Kent Layton,Bill Wormstedt

A sumptuously illustrated history of the Titanic, her sinking and its aftermath.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445614391

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Being Lucky Can Be the Death of You

By: Bill Taylor

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Being Lucky Can Be the Death of You

By: Bill Taylor

This is a story about William Murdock. The time frame spans a thirty year period that starts in the mid forties and ends in the mid seventies. It takes Murdock from his childhood to adulthood and chronicles the adventures he encounters. His adventure starts with the accidental killing of an elderly man on the island of Jamaica. With no passport he leaves the island by boat and is stopped by a Cuban gun boat. He is arrested as a spy and sentenced to ten years on a work farm. He meets Joseph Cruse, a rich cattle baron who befriends him. Cruse takes Murdock to Columbia to help uncover a plot that is trying to discredit him and steal his fortune. They get involved with modern day cattle rustlers and a mercinary army. An all out war ensues so they can protect what they have which includes their lives. This is an action packed novel that will hold your interest to the very end.

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Author House

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1468552015

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The Dam Builders

By: Bill Gulick

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The Dam Builders

By: Bill Gulick

This is the fourth and final volume in the "Roll on Columbia" series that follows the course of the ecological destruction in the Pacific Northwest's vital watershed.

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UNM Press

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0826334865

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What Now Skipper?

Test Your Navigation and Seamanship Skills and Learn from Expert Answers

By: Bill Anderson,Chris Beeson

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What Now Skipper?

Test Your Navigation and Seamanship Skills and Learn from Expert Answers

By: Bill Anderson,Chris Beeson

Following in the Yachting Monthly paperback series (Confessions, Further Confessions, etc) this book is based on a popular run of articles over the last eight years in Yachting Monthly, in which navigational and seamanship problems are posed and the highly respected author (former RYA Training Manager Bill Anderson) gives his opinion on the best way to resolve them. And if there are several options, he airs them all. The question and answer format is an ideal way for readers to absorb, in a very practical way, good seamanship lessons arising from a whole range of boating problems which have all occurred in real life. This accessible paperback is entertaining, non-preachy and non-textbook, and the invaluable advice is helped along with lively colour photos, maps and diagrams.

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A&C Black

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1408197863

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Champions Masterworks Vol. 1

By: Tony Isabella,Bill Mantlo,Chris Claremont,Jim Shooter

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Champions Masterworks Vol. 1

By: Tony Isabella,Bill Mantlo,Chris Claremont,Jim Shooter

Join the Black Widow, Hercules, Ghost Rider, Iceman and Angel as they form an all-new super-team: the Champions! This massive Masterworks collects the Champions' complete adventures in a single volume! Every issue, every highlight, every page as the lives of these Marvel icons play out together. Their struggles will reveal the origin of the man who created the Black Widow, pit them against the combined might of Magneto and Doctor Doom; unleash the Crimson Dynamo and Titanium Man on Los Angeles; team them with the Stranger in the fight for an Infinity Gem; and bring fan-favorite artist John Byrne aboard for some of his greatest early work, including stories featuring the Sentinels and Brotherhood of Evil Mutants! Collecting CHAMPIONS #1-17, IRON MAN ANNUAL #4, AVENGERS (1963) #163, SUPER-VILLAIN TEAM-UP #14 and SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN (1976) #17-18.

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Marvel Entertainment

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1302484370

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Dangerous Waters

By: Bill Eidson

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Dangerous Waters

By: Bill Eidson

Riley Burke has it all: a successful advertising agency, a beautiful house, a trim sailboat, and a gorgeous wife. But no longer sure of his wife’s love, he begins an affair, the first in their ten-year marriage. As Riley and his would-be lover wait on the dock in Newport Harbor for the launch to his boat, a young man nearby is attacked by a brutal thug. When Riley intervenes, he finds himself inextricably drawn into a chain of events that will change his life forever; he finds himself, suddenly, in dangerous waters. Following a chilling, bewildering trail of deception and murder, he confronts the devastation brought about by his own betrayal and forms a terrible plan for justice. If only he can just stay one step ahead of the police and the killer. If only he can stay one step ahead of his friends. But he soon learns the price to save the tattered remains of all that he loves may cost him everything—including his life.

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Open Road Media

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1497605342

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A Perfect Harvest

By: Bill Fitzhugh

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A Perfect Harvest

By: Bill Fitzhugh

Given a terminal diagnosis (actually two of them) thirty-five year old Miguel Padilla decides he must accomplish something meaningful before death. He seizes on the idea of donating a kidney to save someone’s life. Then he decides: why stop there? Why not donate... everything? Why not indeed? Reviews of the Transplant Tetralogy series “His wit and style are as compelling as his tightly wound thriller plots, and his thoughts on the world we live in are fascinating and, often, spot on ... An awe-inspiring feat.” Washington Post “Fitzhugh’s stuff is unique. It’s also alarmingly accurate. That’s what makes it so good.” Clarion-Ledger “Bill Fitzhugh just gets better and better.” Christopher Moore “A thrilling tale of science run amok ... laugh-out-loud send-ups of the madness of modern life.” Booklist “Fast, funny, deft action ... You have to experience it, hanging on tight and keeping those pages turning.” New Orleans Times-Picayune “Where Bill Fitzhugh earned his Ph.D. in street smarts is a mystery. The wicked sense of humor he must have been born with.” Dallas Morning News “Genuinely funny ... his satiric eye spares no one.” Publishers Weekly

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Grigs!: A Beauuutiful Life

By: Bill Grigsby

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Grigs!: A Beauuutiful Life

By: Bill Grigsby

It has, most definitely, been A Beauuutiful Life for Bill Grigsby, a Kansas City icon and Grand Master of Ceremony. No one can paint a more illustrious image of Midwestern sports and its famous and not-so-famous participants than the man affectionately known as Grigs. From humble beginnings during the Depression through his war years as a code breaker to his development as a colorful broadcaster in Major League Baseball and the National Football League, Bill Grigsby is the supreme storyteller who crosses the generational timeline. He was there when Mickey Mantle took his first professional swing, when a brash entrepreneur by the name of Charlie Finley bought the AA’s, and when a reserved dreamer named Lamar Hunt came to Kansas City. Along the way his path has crossed with a virtual Who’s Who of several Halls of Fame: George Brett, Lenny Dawson, Tom Watson, Whitey Herzog, Joe Montana, Dan Devine, Dick the Bruiser, Phog Allen, Marcus Allen, George Toma, Roy Williams, Hank Stram, and even Baby Doe, the women’s world champion midget wrestler from South Africa. Even Grigs himself is in two Halls—the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame and the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics. Grigs has had not one single full-time job during his life, but more than 40, from fertilizer salesman to federal deputy to big-league broadcaster. His loyalty and longevity, though, are legend. He was there for the beginning of the Kansas City Sportshow, now more than a half-century old, and the Kansas City Chiefs, who came to town in the 1960s. To this day he remains a vital part of both organizations. No one, in fact, has longer tenure as an NFL broadcaster than Grigs, who first began to imagine himself as a sportscaster during the 1930s in Lawrence, Kansas. Bill Grigsby grew up in a desperate time, but it forged a man who, along with Fran, his wife of more than 50 years, created a beautiful family and A Beauuutiful Life. Skyhorse Publishing, along with our Arcade, Good Books, Sports Publishing, and Yucca imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs. Our list includes biographies on well-known historical figures like Benjamin Franklin, Nelson Mandela, and Alexander Graham Bell, as well as villains from history, such as Heinrich Himmler, John Wayne Gacy, and O. J. Simpson. We have also published survivor stories of World War II, memoirs about overcoming adversity, first-hand tales of adventure, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

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Simon and Schuster

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1613215878

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Sell Up and Sail

By: Bill Cooper

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Sell Up and Sail

By: Bill Cooper

Format 6 x 9 Illus. 8 pp color section, 40 b&w photos - New edition of an international bestseller - An inspiration for many blue water cruisers - Fully updated with new material

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It's All Your Fault!

12 Tips for Managing People who Blame Others for Everything

By: Bill Eddy,William A. Eddy

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It's All Your Fault!

12 Tips for Managing People who Blame Others for Everything

By: Bill Eddy,William A. Eddy

Provides answers for keeping everyday problems in the workplace, family or neighborhood from becoming "high-conflict" disputes.

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1936268027

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Merchants of Virtue

Herman Miller and the Making of a Sustainable Company

By: Bill Birchard

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Merchants of Virtue

Herman Miller and the Making of a Sustainable Company

By: Bill Birchard

Merchants of Virtue is about a band of people who determined to make their company a good global citizen. Herman Miller has been looking at some of the critical questions of our time—for the past 35 years. Is sustainable business sustainable? In an age where sustainability is key to future success, businesses must incorporate new strategies towards sustainability in order to give them the competitive edge. But, can employees in global companies make great products, take care of the environment, benefit society, and make good money—all at the same time? The answer, as in so many stories of people working together, comes down to a principle of management. At Herman Miller, sustainability triumphs because people commit and recommit themselves to the guiding light of company values and in turn changed the world of business. Here author Bill Birchard goes deep inside the organization to find out how Herman Miller has been accomplishing this goal—from the individuals who have become passionate about this topic—to the designers who incorporate ideas of sustainability into every product they create. Birchard shares not only the stories—but the details of how every this remarkable effort has been accomplished.

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Macmillan

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0230337678

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Solidarity Divided

The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path Toward Social Justice

By: Bill Fletcher,Fernando Gapasin

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Solidarity Divided

The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path Toward Social Justice

By: Bill Fletcher,Fernando Gapasin

The US trade union movement finds itself on a global battlefield filled with landmines and littered with the bodies of various social movements and struggles. Candid, incisive, and accessible, this text is a critical examination of labour's crisis and a plan for a bold way forward into the 21st century.

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Univ of California Press

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0520261569

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Practical Skipper

Essential notes and checklists for day and coastal skippers

By: Bill Johnson

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Practical Skipper

Essential notes and checklists for day and coastal skippers

By: Bill Johnson

When you learn how to skipper a yacht the practical courses cover a whole range of activities, from passage planning to pilotage and berthing. The way you learn about these elements on a course is usually like this: – the briefing, where the instructor prepares you for the exercise. He should explain what we're trying to achieve, how it's going to work, and what the skipper and crew need to do – the practical activity – you all have a go – the debriefing afterwards, where you discuss what happened and how it went, and take notes of what to remember. At the end of the course, you will have had a go at all the important stuff you have to do in the course of sailing the yacht, but you'll probably struggle to remember all the essential bits: the all-important briefing, and the sequence of things you have to remember. This book is the answer. Containing all the author's own briefing notes and concise explanations, it covers every activity a skipper will need to carry out. Using bullet points, handy checklists and simple diagrams, this book is a unique resource for all skippers – reassurance for new skippers that they haven't forgotten something vital, and a reminder for the more experienced. These are the notes you wish you'd written when you attended your sailing course, and had to hand when revising for your exam or refreshing your knowledge later.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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147297705X

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Port Bliss

By: Faye Passanisi,Captain Bill Allen

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Port Bliss

By: Faye Passanisi,Captain Bill Allen

Six months after her husband dies at sea, Brandy Rogers unexpectedly requests to join the crew of the Sea Quest ~ the same vessel that led her husband to his watery grave... With NO body nor any trace of him, Brandy seeks some sort of closure and relief from the pain of losing the love of her life. Mysteriously drawn to the docks, she convinces Captain Bill to let her join the crew as galley cook. But, what Brandy does not know is that this decision just sealed her fate. Captain Bill is betting it all on this one trip to save his boat and livelihood. But, when he decides to change course for the shrimping trip, the Sea Quest comes face to face with Hurricane Faye... A decade later, aging old salt Cappy Dupree has lots of stories to tell about the past that include Dave Rogers' demise and the fateful journey of the Sea Quest just six months later. ~ Whilst Cappy reveals his tales to Pastor Jackson Montgomery, shocking truths are unveiled about the lives of several men and one woman as they learn to trust God and embrace His blessings. In this captivating novel, a group of characters, both on water and land, search for answers within a sea that holds her secrets deep within her soul.

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Archway Publishing

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148086465X

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Sense of Wonder

My Life in Comic Fandom--The Whole Story

By: Bill Schelly

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Sense of Wonder

My Life in Comic Fandom--The Whole Story

By: Bill Schelly

A fascinating story of growing up as a gay fan of comic books in the 1960s, building a fifty-year career as an award-winning writer, and interacting with acclaimed comic book legends Award-winning writer Bill Schelly relates how comics and fandom saved his life in this engrossing story that begins in the burgeoning comic fandom movement of the 1960s and follows the twists and turns of a career that spanned fifty years. Schelly recounts his struggle to come out at a time when homosexuality was considered a mental illness, how the egalitarian nature of fandom offered a safe haven for those who were different, and how his need for creative expression eventually overcame all obstacles. He describes living through the AIDS epidemic, finding the love of his life, and his unorthodox route to becoming a father. He also details his personal encounters with major talents of 1960s comics, such as Steve Ditko (co-creator of Spider-Man), Jim Shooter (writer for DC and later editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics), and Julius Schwartz (legendary architect of the Silver Age of comics).

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North Atlantic Books

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Mutual Life, Limited

Islamic Banking, Alternative Currencies, Lateral Reason

By: Bill Maurer

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Mutual Life, Limited

Islamic Banking, Alternative Currencies, Lateral Reason

By: Bill Maurer

Why are people continually surprised to discover that money is "just" meaning? Mutual Life, Limited spends time among those who, in acknowledging the fictions of finance, are making money anew. It documents ongoing efforts to remake money and finance by Islamic bankers who seek to avoid interest and local currency proponents who would stand outside of national economies. It asks how alternative moneys both escape and reenact dominant forms of money and finance, and reflects critically on their broader implications for scholarship. Based on fieldwork among participants in a local currency system in Ithaca, New York, and among Islamic banking practitioners in the United States, Indonesia, and elsewhere, this book exploits the convergence between the reflexivity of monetary alternatives and social inquiry by questioning the equivalence between money and ethnography. Can money ever be adequate to the value backing it? Can social description ever be adequate to messy and contingent realities? Bill Maurer's ethnographic discovery is that ethnography as such--the holistic description of a way of life--cannot be sustained when faced with a set of practices that anticipates and incorporates it in advance. His fluently written book represents an unprecedented critique of social scientific approaches to money through an ethnographic description of specific monetary alternatives, while also speaking broadly to the very problem of anthropological knowledge in the twenty-first century.

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Princeton University Press

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1400840716

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Report into the Loss of the SS Titanic

A Centennial Reappraisal

By: Samuel Halpern,Cathy Akers-Jordan,George Behe,Bruce Beveridge,Mark Chirnside,Tad Fitch,Dave Gittins,Steve Hall,Lester Mitcham,Charles Weeks,Bill Wormstedt,J. Kent Layton

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Report into the Loss of the SS Titanic

A Centennial Reappraisal

By: Samuel Halpern,Cathy Akers-Jordan,George Behe,Bruce Beveridge,Mark Chirnside,Tad Fitch,Dave Gittins,Steve Hall,Lester Mitcham,Charles Weeks,Bill Wormstedt,J. Kent Layton

Report into the Loss of the SS Titanic is a complete re-evaluation of the loss of Titanic based on evidence that has come to light since the discovery of the wreck in 1985. This collective undertaking is compiled by eleven of the world’s foremost Titanic researchers – experts who have spent many years examining the wealth of information that has arisen since 1912. Following the basic layout of the 1912 Wreck Commission Report, this modern report provides fascinating insights into the ship itself, the American and British inquiries, the passengers and crew, the fateful journey and ice warnings received, the damage and sinking, rescue of survivors, the circumstances in connection with the SS Californian and SS Mount Temple, and the aftermath and ramifications that followed the disaster. The book seeks to answer controversial questions, such as whether steerage passengers were detained behind gates, and also reveals the names and aliases of all passengers and crew who sailed on Titanic’s maiden voyage. Containing the most extensively referenced chronology of the voyage ever assembled and featuring a wealth of explanatory charts and diagrams, as well as archive photographs, this comprehensive volume is the definitive ‘go-to’ reference book for this ill-fated ship.

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The History Press

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0750969415

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Tananger

By: Bill Pollack

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Tananger

By: Bill Pollack

The world's oceans have become critical. Over fishing and over dumping have raised fears that nations must take steps to protect this vast global resource. Tananger, a mature bull gray whale is part of a round up in Scammons Lagoon in Baja California. Because of an extreme shortage of fossil fuels, David Parks, a "fluker", will ride in a pod on the back of the behemoth. The whale/man team head north into storming seas. They soon encounter a pirate trawler. A rogue wave, a luxurious pleasure yacht and a container ship carrying stolen toxic chemicals are drawn to a climactic point. The evil Chang Lee, leaves his Asian headquarters to take charge of an impending disaster. A strange congregation of whales pursues the pirates to Prince William Sound and then to College Fjord, the site of some of the largest glaciers in Alaska. David, Tananger and a group of Inuit fisherman confront the pirates inside the massive Harvard Glacier. The fight in ice caverns is soon brought to a halt by a major seismic disturbance a few miles off the entrance to the Sound and the threat of a tsunami looms large as fears mount of being trapped in the narrow fjord.

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0595172369

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Partnership at Work

The Quest for Radical Organizational Change

By: Bill Roche,John Geary

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Partnership at Work

The Quest for Radical Organizational Change

By: Bill Roche,John Geary

The partnership established between the Irish Airports Authority and its trade unions in the mid-1990s was groundbreaking in promoting union and staff involvement in all aspects of company decision-making. This book charts the progress, achievements and obstacles faced by the partnership based on full access to the partners, documents, observations on how the partnership functioned and three surveys of the company's workforce.

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Routledge

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1134408412

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Ode to a Tenor Titan

The Life and Times and Music of Michael Brecker

By: Bill Milkowski

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Ode to a Tenor Titan

The Life and Times and Music of Michael Brecker

By: Bill Milkowski

After John Coltrane, there was no more revered and profoundly influential saxophonist on the planet than Michael Brecker. For those coming of age in the 1970s, during that transitional decade when the boundaries between rock and jazz had begun to blur, Brecker stood as a transcendent figure. He was their Trane. Ode to a Tenor Titan follows Michael's story from growing up in Philadelphia, finding his tenor sax voice during his brief stint at Indiana University, making his move to New York City in 1969 and taking the Big Apple by storm through the sheer power of his monstrous chops on the instrument. A commanding voice in jazz for four decades, Brecker possessed peerless technique (a byproduct of his remarkable work ethic and relentless woodshedding) and an uncanny ability to fit into every musical situation he encountered, whether it was as a ubiquitous studio musician (more than nine hundred sessions) for such pop stars as Paul Simon, James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen, Todd Rundgren, Chaka Khan, and Steely Dan; playing with seminal fusion bands like Dreams, Billy Cobham, and the Brecker Brothers; or collaborating with the likes of Frank Zappa, Charles Mingus, Pat Metheny, and Herbie Hancock. But his biggest triumphs came as a bandleader during the last twenty years of his career, when he produced some of the most challenging, inspired, and visionary modern jazz recordings of his time. A preternaturally gifted player whose facility seemed almost superhuman, he was also modest to a fault and universally beloved by fellow musicians. After coming through a dark decade of heroin addiction, he turned his life around and became a beacon for countless others to lead clean and sober lives. At the peak of his powers, he was struck down by a rare preleukemic blood disease that sidelined him for two and a half years. He got off a sick bed to make a heroic comeback with his swan song, Pilgrimage, which Pat Metheny called "one of the great codas in modern music history" and which earned him a posthumous Grammy Award in 2007. Michael Brecker was a player of tremendous heart and conviction as well a person of rare humility and kindness, and his story is one for the ages.

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1493053787

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