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Whispers in the Dark

By: Billy Van

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Hush . . . don't make a sound . . . not the slightest peep . . . hold your breath . . . the dark can be a dangerous place. If you listen closely, you can hear the whispers. They say, "Once you pick up this book you'll never want to put it down. Billy Van has given birth to a modern masterpiece of terror . . . a compendium . . . a trove. He challenges every fear known to man, and writing it was not easy. Ghosts, ghouls, vampires, werewolves, sycophants, serial killers, demonic entities . . . the list goes on and on." Prepare yourself . . . just don't read these macabre and grotesque tales in the dark. Don't say I didn't warn you.

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1365702340

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9781365702341

Figure Eights

By: Billy Van

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Figure Eights

By: Billy Van

Fear has a new name. It wears no disguise. Prepare yourself to enter a world where the dead reanimate and souls disintegrate -- the bowels of pure terror. Werewolves, mummies, vampires, ghosts, and serial killers take advantage of their victims. Each yarn has a twisted end, thus, given the name, Figure Eights.

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1304946169

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9781304946164

My Life in Loyalism

By: Billy Hutchinson,Gareth Mulvenna

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My Life in Loyalism

By: Billy Hutchinson,Gareth Mulvenna

Growing up in the Shankill area of Belfast and living through the sectarian turmoil of the late 1960s, Billy Hutchinson joined the UVF in the early 1970s. In 1974, at the age of just 19, he was sentenced to life in prison, and it was in the cages of Long Kesh that he first came under the influence of loyalist icon Gusty Spence. Hutchinson spent much of the 1980s as overall Commanding Officer of UVF/Red Hand Commando prisoners, and upon his release, became involved with the recently established Progressive Unionist Party. As an authentic link between the UVF and the PUP, he was at the forefront of negotiations that led to the Belfast Agreement and was the UVF’s point of contact during the weapons decommissioning programme. Written with candour and honesty, this is a lively first-hand account of an extraordinary life and reveals previously hidden episodes of both the Northern Ireland Troubles and the high-profile negotiations that led to the Belfast Agreement of 1998. rom Tartan gang member to leading loyalist paramilitary, and from progressive unionist politician to respected Belfast City Councillor, My Life in Loyalism is Billy Hutchinson’s remarkable story.

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Merrion Press

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1785373471

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9781785373473

Apartheid Spies and the Revolutionary Underground

By: Billy Keniston

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Apartheid Spies and the Revolutionary Underground

By: Billy Keniston

On 28 June 1984 a parcel bomb sent by the apartheid security police exploded in an apartment building in Lubango, Angola, killing 36-year-old Jeanette Schoon and her six-year-old daughter Katryn. The Schoons were members of the revolutionary underground, exiled from South Africa and committed to both the African National Congress and to socialism. What many political activists had feared or suspected at the time was confirmed during the 1990s Truth and Reconciliation Commission: the bomb targeting the Schoons was sent by Craig Williamson, an apartheid spy and high-ranking member of the South African security service. Apartheid Spies and the Revolutionary Underground is the first book-length account of the assassination of Jeanette and Katryn Schoon. Jeanette Curtis Schoon and Craig Williamson first met in 1973 on the Wits University campus. Jeanette was a passionate student radical and part of a network of white radicals fighting apartheid. Williamson had successfully infiltrated the student movement and rose within its ranks. He held positions of trust, first within the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) and then, after pretending to ‘flee’ the country, as an office-bearer of the International Universities Exchange Fund in Sweden, which helped fund many South Africans in exile. The book uncovers how the lives of a group of white radicals intersected with and were impacted by the undercover security police and their operations both within and outside of South Africa. Intensifying political oppression caused many young radicals to flee South Africa in 1976; many of them, like Jeanette and her partner Marius Schoon, joined the African National Congress in exile. Williamson and the Schoons’ paths, and those of their comrades, continued to cross: he was a guest in their homes, a supplier of funds for their projects, a witness for the prosecution in political trials and, ultimately, the hand that directed targeted assassinations. Williamson received amnesty for his role in the Schoons’ murder, among other crimes. For the friends and family of the Schoons – and for all those seeking social justice – this was an unacceptable outcome and Williamson continues to walk a free man. This book attempts to show the limits of the TRC process to render healing from South Africa’s apartheid past. That justice has not been served to the Schoons remains a tragedy in this story of the struggle against apartheid.

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NYU Press

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1776149041

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9781776149049

Lines of Distinction

By: Billy Van

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Lines of Distinction

By: Billy Van

Between the soul's eye and the mind's eye there exists a center point. It is divided into two sections: Good and Evil. The only way to determine each element and classify their distinction is to cross a line. However, once crossed, the mind and soul connects causing confinement to the element chosen. These elements are the lines of distinction.

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1312115920

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9781312115927

Ultimate Hendrix

An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Live Concerts and Sessions

By: John McDermott,Eddie Kramer,Billy Cox

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Ultimate Hendrix

An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Live Concerts and Sessions

By: John McDermott,Eddie Kramer,Billy Cox

Guitar legend Jimi Hendrix packed so much into so few years, leaping forward musically with each innovation. Hendrix expert John McDermott chronicles each of Jimi's revolutionary recording sessions, enlisting the help of Hendrix's friend and bandmade Billy Cox, and sound engineer and photographer Eddie Kramer. This beautifully designed, illustrated volume will also include vivid new descriptions of every single live Hendrix concert from 1963 to 1970.

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Hal Leonard Corporation

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0879309385

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9780879309381

Rockabilly

A Forty-year Journey

By: Billy Poore

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Rockabilly

A Forty-year Journey

By: Billy Poore

...a great reference guide, detailing artists, chart activity, career milestones, tours and recent activity.

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Hal Leonard Corporation

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0793591422

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9780793591428

Skydog

The Duane Allman Story

By: Randy Poe,Billy F. Gibbons

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Skydog

The Duane Allman Story

By: Randy Poe,Billy F. Gibbons

Revised and expanded, with a new afterword by the author, this is the definitive biography of Duane Allman, one of the most revered guitarists of his generation. Skydog reveals the complete story of the legendary guitarist: his childhood and musical awakening; his struggling first bands; his hard-won mastery of the slide guitar; his emergence as a successful session musician; his creation of the Allman Brothers Band; his tragic death at age 24; and his thriving musical legacy.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1617805181

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9781617805189

Until the Lion Speaks

By: Billy Moore

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Until the Lion Speaks

By: Billy Moore

The tale of the hunt will always glorify the hunter until the lion speaks" is an African proverb. The premise of the proverb explains how people will glorify a story or create a narrative about someone that isn't necessarily accurate or even make themselves look good. This is done only to create an attitude within people toward other people that they want to paint a negative point of view of.This book was written to complicate the narrative of the story that sensationalized the confrontation of Ben Wilson and Billy Moore. Billy not only addressed just the confrontation on that unfortunate day but also set out to outline his pedigree, his upbringing, his experience in prison, and the work he had been doing since his release.Until the Lion Speaks tells of the social landscape that defined Chicago in the eighties. Anyone who reads this book from Chicago growing up at that time will feel Chicago in every line. In fact, Billy Moore has made the city of Chicago as a separate character in Until the Lion Speaks! This is a comeback story, a story of redemption and reconciliation. Hopefully, the lessons that can be learned from Until the Lion Speaks will help young men develop the emotional skills to successfully get past those moments. When confronted with unfortunate circumstances, the lessons in this book can help them make better decisions so they can walk away to hopefully live their best lives!

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Page Publishing Inc

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1662429010

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9781662429019

Chase Darkness with Me

How One True-Crime Writer Started Solving Murders

By: Billy Jensen

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Chase Darkness with Me

How One True-Crime Writer Started Solving Murders

By: Billy Jensen

***With an exclusive behind-the-scenes conversation between Billy Jensen and retired detective Paul Holes on the Golden State Killer, their favorite cold cases, and more*** Have you ever wanted to solve a murder? Gather the clues the police overlooked? Put together the pieces? Identify the suspect? Journalist Billy Jensen spent fifteen years investigating unsolved murders, fighting for the families of victims. Every story he wrote had one thing in common—they didn't have an ending. The killer was still out there. But after the sudden death of a friend, crime writer and author of I'll Be Gone in the Dark, Michelle McNamara, Billy became fed up. Following a dark night, he came up with a plan. A plan to investigate past the point when the cops had given up. A plan to solve the murders himself. You'll ride shotgun as Billy identifies the Halloween Mask Murderer, finds a missing girl in the California Redwoods, and investigates the only other murder in New York City on 9/11. You'll hear intimate details of the hunts for two of the most terrifying serial killers in history: his friend Michelle McNamara's pursuit of the Golden State Killer and his own quest to find the murderer of the Allenstown Four. And Billy gives you the tools—and the rules—to help solve murders yourself. Gripping, complex, unforgettable, Chase Darkness with Me is an examination of the evil forces that walk among us, illustrating a novel way to catch those killers, and a true-crime narrative unlike any you've read before.

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Sourcebooks, Inc.

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1492685860

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9781492685869

City in the Sun, City in the Snow

Miami Montreal

By: Billy Georgette

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City in the Sun, City in the Snow

Miami Montreal

By: Billy Georgette

AT FIRST GLANCE, THERE MIGHT NOT BE MUCH IN COMMON BETWEEN THESE TWO VERY DIFFERENT NORTH AMERICAN CITIES. AND WHILE THIS IS IN FACT TRUE, THE CASUAL READER MAY BE SURPRISED TO LEARN THAT BOTH LOCATIONS SHARE A STRIKINGLY SIMILIAR BACKGROUND OF EVENTS THAT MAKE THEM SOMEWHAT DIFFERENT THAN THEIR CONTINENTAL NEIGHBOURS. BEST DESCRIBED AS AFFECTIONATE PROFILING THE AUTHOR LEADS US DOWN A PATHWAY INTO A GALLERY OF IMAGES AND FACTS ABOUT THESE TWO, EXTRA EXTRA ORDINARY COMMUNITIES MIAMI AND MONTRAL

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Xlibris Corporation

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1524586994

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9781524586997

Unprotected

A Memoir

By: Billy Porter

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Unprotected

A Memoir

By: Billy Porter

From the incomparable Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award winner, a powerful and revealing autobiography about race, sexuality, art, and healing—now in paperback It’s easy to be yourself when who and what you are is in vogue. But growing up Black and gay in America has never been easy. Before Billy Porter was slaying red carpets and giving an iconic Emmy-winning performance in the celebrated TV show Pose; before he was the groundbreaking Tony and Grammy Award–winning star of Broadway’s Kinky Boots; and before he was an acclaimed recording artist, actor, playwright, director, and all-around legend, Porter was a young boy in Pittsburgh who was seen as different, who didn’t fit in. At five years old, Porter was sent to therapy to “fix” his effeminacy. He was endlessly bullied at school, sexually abused by his stepfather, and criticized at his church. Porter came of age in a world where simply being himself was a constant struggle. Billy Porter’s Unprotected is the life story of a singular artist and survivor in his own words. It is the story of a boy whose talent and courage opened doors for him, but only a crack. It is the story of a teenager discovering himself, learning his voice and his craft amid deep trauma. And it is the story of a young man whose unbreakable determination led him through countless hard times to where he is now; a proud icon who refuses to back down or hide. Porter is a multitalented, multifaceted treasure at the top of his game, and Unprotected is a resonant, inspirational story of trauma and healing, shot through with his singular voice.

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Abrams

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1683359542

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9781683359548

Billy Wilder

Interviews

By: Billy Wilder

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Billy Wilder

Interviews

By: Billy Wilder

In-depth profiles, spirited Q & A's, and on-the-set glimpses of the director at work

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1578064449

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9781578064441

Billy Vera: Harlem to Hollywood

By: Billy Vera

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Billy Vera: Harlem to Hollywood

By: Billy Vera

(Book). Although he's a showbiz lifer, Billy Vera is cut from a wholly different cloth than his peers. If an artist is measured by their devotion to their craft, Harlem to Hollywood may be the purest treatise on the subject ever produced. All the better, it's also an astounding story. Born into a white, suburban family, Vera fell for black music as a child and started down a winding performer's path that would buoy him the rest of his life. In the sixties, Vera paid his bills by songwriting (for other artists) through the day and playing mobbed up clubs at night. By 1967, as Newark burned on the other side of the Hudson, he and gospel singer Judy Clay, the first interracial duet to perform at the Apollo, tore the house down with a little ditty he wrote for himself: "Storybook Children," a commercial hit produced by Atlantic Records. Through the seventies, popular taste shifted drastically. As blue-eyed soul went out of fashion, Vera, like many other musicians, found himself scrounging for survival gigs, but one crucial difference set him apart: he abstained from the drugs and drink that fueled and eventually claimed so many of his contemporaries. As that decade sputtered to a close, a woman by the name of Dolly Parton recorded Vera's "I Really Got the Feeling" and hit number one on the charts. Riding the tide of this unexpected attention, Vera hightailed it to Los Angeles, formed a new band, Billy and the Beaters, and charted twice before the close of 1981 with songs from their eponymous album recorded live at the Roxy. Five years later, one of these minor hits, "At This Moment," was featured in several episodes of NBC's Family Ties . The song rocketed up the charts and a 42-year-old Vera found himself with his very own number one single. Nine visits to Carson and an American Bandstand appearance later, Vera tasted many other flavors of success: acting both on- and off-camera, producing records, and reissuing his own work. Today, with a star on the Hollywood Walk and Fame and a Grammy in tow, he's finally prepared to share his journey (did we mention that he's also a photographer and music historian who documented every step of career?). To sit down with Billy Vera is to take a personalized tour through nearly fifty years of entertainment history. Won't you come along for the ride?

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1617136948

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Dust

By: Billy Goda

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Dust

By: Billy Goda

4m, 1f, with doubling / Thriller Dust is an edge-of-your-seat thriller. Martin is an executive with money and a paunch. Zeke, a gifted young man torn down by drugs, is an ex-con with street smarts and a minimum wage position. Early one morning, in the fitness center of the Essex House, a battle-of-wills begins over the most trivial of requests. As described in The New York Times review: "Verbal sparring turns angry, posturing leads to entrenched positions, and out of nothing - out of dust - a g

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Samuel French, Inc.

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0573696527

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9780573696527

Brutalism

By: Billy Reading

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Brutalism

By: Billy Reading

No style has divided opinion more than brutalism. But now, fifty years since the heyday of the style, Brutalist buildings are more popular than they have ever been. This is the perfect introduction to Britain’s Brutalist monuments.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445675536

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9781445675534

Navigating the C-124 Globemaster

In the Cockpit of America's First Strategic Heavy-Lift Aircraft

By: Billy D. Higgins

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Navigating the C-124 Globemaster

In the Cockpit of America's First Strategic Heavy-Lift Aircraft

By: Billy D. Higgins

The C-124 Globemaster--a U.S. military heavy-lift transport in service 1950 through 1974--barreling down a runway was an awesome sight. The aircraft's four 3800 hp piston engines (the largest ever mass-produced), mounted on its 174-foot wingspan, could carry a 69,000-pound payload of tanks, artillery or other cargo, or 200 fully equipped troops, at more than 300 mph. The flight crew, perched three stories above the landing gears in an unpressurized cockpit, relied, like Magellan, on celestial fixes to navigate over oceans. With a world-wide mission delivering troops and materials to such destinations as the Congo, Vietnam, Thule, Greenland and Antarctica, the Globemaster lived up to its name and was foundational to what Time magazine publisher Henry Luce termed the "American Century." Drawing on archives, Air Force bases, libraries and accident sites, and his own recollections as a navigator, the author details Cold War confrontations and consequent strategies that emerged after Douglas Aircraft Company delivered the first C-124A to the Military Air Transport Service in 1949.

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McFarland

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1476637113

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9781476637112

Football, Politics, and $13 Billion

By: Billy O'Brien

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Football, Politics, and $13 Billion

By: Billy O'Brien

Former Marine, Great Bridge High School teacher, football coach, and Delegate Billy O'Brien describes his role in creating the Virginia Lottery.

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080599985X

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9780805999853

Song of the River

By: Billy Curtis Clark

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Song of the River

By: Billy Curtis Clark

Having grown old living in his shantyboat on the Big Sandy River in eastern Kentucky, John engages in a final battle with Scrapiron Jack, the huge catfish he has been trying to catch for years.

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0945084463

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9780945084464

Riverboy

By: Billy Curtis Clark

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Riverboy

By: Billy Curtis Clark

Brad's quiet world and his friend Dan Tackett's very existence in his cabin on the Big Sandy river are threatened by a plan to build a flood wall.

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094508465X

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9780945084655

Loyal to the Land

The Legendary Parker Ranch, 750-1950, Aloha ʻĀina Paka

By: Billy Bergin

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Loyal to the Land

The Legendary Parker Ranch, 750-1950, Aloha ʻĀina Paka

By: Billy Bergin

Loyal to the Land is a sweeping history of one of the United States' largest working ranches, the Big Island of Hawaii's Parker Ranch. Dr. Bergin chronicles the ranch from its establishment on two acres purchased for ten dollars by John Palmer Parker to the years following World War II and the beginning of a new era of family ranch management under Parker’s grandson, Richard Smart. In this wide-ranging and insightful book, illustrated with more than 250 historical photos, Dr. Bergin first discusses the important Hispanic vaquero roots of ranching in Hawaii. He then relates the histories of the five foundation families, providing rich and detailed information on key members who contributed to the Ranch's success. The balance of the book examines every aspect of Parker Ranch development: management, labor, improvements and diversification of livestock, veterinary and animal care programs, and the Ranch’s role and influence on the Big Island and the state.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824826922

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9780824826925

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