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Care Takers

By: Billy Cowan

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Award-winning playwright Billy Cowan explores the issue of classroom bullying and how teachers deal with it. Rachael Lawson, a new teacher at Newall South High School, believes Jamie Harrow is being bullied because he’s gay. She wants to help but Mrs Rutter, the Deputy Head, thinks it will sort itself out. Is the Deputy Head speaking from experience or is there something more unsavoury about her uncaring attitude? A battle royale occurs between youthful idealism and the system that evolves to choke it.

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Aurora Metro Publications Ltd.

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1911501178

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9781911501176

The Life and Times of Tell and Minnie Maynard and the Fifteen Children

By: Billy Randall Maynard

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The Life and Times of Tell and Minnie Maynard and the Fifteen Children

By: Billy Randall Maynard

The title of the book sums it up fairly well with a couple of exceptions. “The Life and Times of Tell and Minnie Maynard and “the Fifteen Children” is several stories , using testimonials, written letters, and history to weave a wonderful narrative about some of the “last pioneers” on Brushy Creek of Pike Conty, Ky. See how they spent their days amidst the rolling hills of the countryside. There was a two-story house. There was a farm of 380 acres. A little church stood beside their home. A family cemetery began to grow from family members who left us too soon. This is the true story of a large family. This is my heritage. I felt compelled to tell their stories as they struggled to survive in this rugged territory. Wow - what a story it is! Meet the Maynards!

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AuthorHouse

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1665554851

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9781665554855

Potters Camp

By: Billy Hall

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Potters Camp

By: Billy Hall

This novel takes place in a mining camp near Bessemer, Alabama in the early 1930's. The Author was a pre-teen at the time and lived in the community known as Potters Camp. The houses in the camp belonged to The Company and were rented to the miners. Potters was primitive, even by standards of the day. There was no electricity and no indoor plumbing. These people were very poor. But they were hard working, strong, proud, and for the most part they were God fearing. The miners worked long dangerous hours in the mines for little pay. They traded at the company store and with the few local merchants, most often on credit, and often their pay envelopes failed to cover what they owed on payday. They and their families supplemented their meager wages by raising vegetables, keeping livestock, and the women made most of the families' clothes. At this time there was struggle and conflict over efforts to unionize the miners. The Author carried her memories of Potters into the early 1960's when she put them on paper in the form of this novel. The manuscript went unseen until the children found it while cleaning out the home place after it had been sold, several years after her death.

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1481726226

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9781481726221

Amos, Obadiah, Jonah

An Exegetical and Theological Exposition of Holy Scripture

By: Billy K. Smith,Frank Page

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Amos, Obadiah, Jonah

An Exegetical and Theological Exposition of Holy Scripture

By: Billy K. Smith,Frank Page

THE NEW AMERICAN COMMENTARY is for the minister or Bible student who wants to understand and expound the Scriptures. Notable features include:* commentary based on THE NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION;* the NIV text printed in the body of the commentary;* sound scholarly methodology that reflects capable research in the original languages;* interpretation that emphasizes the theological unity of each book and of Scripture as a whole;* readable and applicable exposition.

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B&H Publishing Group

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1433672642

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9781433672644

Down in New Orleans

Reflections from a Drowned City

By: Billy Sothern

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Down in New Orleans

Reflections from a Drowned City

By: Billy Sothern

Post-Katrina New Orleans hasn't been an easy place to live, it hasn't been an easy place to be in love, it hasn't been an easy place to take care of yourself or see the bright side of things." So reflects Billy Sothern in this riveting and unforgettable insider's chronicle of the epic 2005 disaster and the year that followed. Sothern, a death penalty lawyer who with his wife, photographer Nikki Page, arrived in the Crescent City four years ahead of Katrina, delivers a haunting, personal, and quintessentially American story. Writing with an idealist's passion, a journalist's eye for detail, and a lawyer's attention to injustice, Sothern recounts their struggle to come to terms with the enormity of the apocalyptic scenario they managed to live through. He guides the reader on a journey through post-Katrina New Orleans and an array of indelible images: prisoners abandoned in their cells with waters rising, a longtime New Orleans resident of Middle Eastern descent unfairly imprisoned in the days following the hurricane, trailer-bound New Orleanians struggling to make ends meet but celebrating with abandon during Mardi Gras, Latino construction workers living in their trucks. As a lawyer-activist who has devoted his life to procuring justice for some of society's most disenfranchised citizens, Sothern offers a powerful vision of what Katrina has meant to New Orleans and what it still means to the nation at large.

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Univ of California Press

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0520933842

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9780520933842

Twilight

By: Billy Dee Williams,Elizabeth Atkins Bowman

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Twilight

By: Billy Dee Williams,Elizabeth Atkins Bowman

Judge Simone Thompson presides over the most high-profile case of her career: the child custody case of movie sex symbol D. Anthony Whittaker. As both become consumed by an irresistible passion to each other, the potential for scandal--and murder--is incalculable.

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Macmillan

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0765345072

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9780765345073

Cracker's Mule

By: Billy Moore

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Cracker's Mule

By: Billy Moore

During the polio scare of the 1950s, a boy's parents send him for the summer from his small-towm Florida home to the refuge of his grandparents' farm in rural Alabama. He settles into country life with Papa and Bigmother. The locals nickname him Cracker, after the term for Florida cowboys. One day he and Papa go to a livestock auction and Papa lets him buy a small mule. The mule turns out to be blind and Cracker must suffer ridicule while caring for the animal he comes to love. Over the summer Cracker teaches the mule to respond to his voice and together they learn to plow. The summer passes with lazy days of fishing in the local creek mixed with frightening episodes involving poisonous snakes. In this idyllic setting, Cracker makes the transition from boy to young man.

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NewSouth Books

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1588381056

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9781588381057

Sick Money

The Truth About the Global Pharmaceutical Industry

By: Billy Kenber

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Sick Money

The Truth About the Global Pharmaceutical Industry

By: Billy Kenber

THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY IS BROKEN From the American hedge fund manager who drastically hiked the price of an AIDS pill to the children’s cancer drugs left intentionally to expire in a Spanish warehouse, the signs of this dysfunction are all around. A system built to drive innovation and improve patient care has been distorted to maximise profits. In Sick Money, the investigative journalist who exposed a billion-pound British price-hiking scandal goes inside the global battle over high drug prices. From secret deals to patients forced to turn to the black market, Billy Kenber reveals how medicines have become nothing more than financial assets. He offers a diagnosis of an industry in crisis - and a prescription for how it could be fixed.

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Canongate Books

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1838850279

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9781838850272

Drones, Artificial Intelligence, & the Coming Human Annihilation

By: Billy Crone

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Drones, Artificial Intelligence, & the Coming Human Annihilation

By: Billy Crone

Imagine a world full of drones of all shapes and sizes that are everywhere in the air, on the land, the sea, or even under the sea, including Terminator robots. Now ponder an existence where these same drones monitor and control everything spying on our every move. Stir in an actual movement going on right now in the scientific community to create a super highly advanced Artificial Intelligence to control it all on a global scale and you now have what is contained within this book: Drones, Artificial Intelligence, & the Coming Human Annihilation. This macabre dark scenario might seem like some futuristic science fiction story or even a bit far-fetched. Yet, what you are about to discover in the pages of this book is the spine-chilling truth that this wild shocking reality is actually being developed right now before our very eyes. This book, Drones, Artificial Intelligence, & the Coming Human Annihilation, will to enlighten you to the hardcore facts concerning this dangerous emerging technology.

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Lulu.com

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099947829X

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9780999478295

War’S a Racket Too

By: Billy Ray Wilson

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War’S a Racket Too

By: Billy Ray Wilson

Marine General Butlers enlightenment to the American people back in the 1930s was discarded just as the many publications, Internet, and books regarding the September 11, 2001 aerial attack on the United States of America. After General Butler, President Dwight David Eisenhower told the nation of the continuous dangers of the military-industrial complex; however, individuals like former Vice President Richard Cheney took us to war in Afghanistan and Iraq under the false threat of international terrorism. On or about September 20, 2016, a National Geographic documentary reported the questioning of President Saddam Hussein by a designated Federal Bureau of Investigations agent. From the interview, we learned President Hussein did not have any weapons of mass destruction nor was there an association with the religious zealot Osama bin Laden. Moreover, an Internet report, allegedly written by a minister of the British Government, cited a Pentagon PDAS stand policy for US Air Defense aircraft; whereas, allowing the hijacked airliners to proceed to their targets. Lastly, the Royal Saudi Government was not complicit in the 9/11 attack but individuals in our own government for the sale of military logistics and removing Saddam Hussein from power, at the behest of Israel. President George W. Bush is on tape confirming how Israel demanded the removal of Saddam Hussein and the 1998 Congress passed the 1998 Iraq Liberation Act to assure said action. Billy Ray Wilson, MSGT, USAF (retired)

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1524642541

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9781524642549

Connecting Your Students with the World

Tools and Projects to Make Global Collaboration Come Alive, K-8

By: Billy Krakower,Jerry Blumengarten

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Connecting Your Students with the World

Tools and Projects to Make Global Collaboration Come Alive, K-8

By: Billy Krakower,Jerry Blumengarten

Make the most of today’s technology to give your students a more interactive, authentic learning experience! Connecting Your Students with the World shows you how to use web tools to get K–8 students in touch with other classrooms worldwide. This book is a valuable resource to help you find and communicate with other teachers and classrooms and even design your own collaborative online projects. You’ll find out how to: Conduct videoconferencing calls to put your students in touch with classrooms around the world; Embark on Virtual Field Trips; Plan themed projects for every season, including fun holiday activities; And more! The book includes detailed instructions for each activity and connections to the Common Core, ISTE, and Next Generation Science Standards, so you can ensure that you are meeting your state’s requirements as you prepare your students to become engaged, informed, and global citizens. Additionally, a comprehensive list of online resources is available as a free download from the Routledge website at www.routledge.com/9781138902961.

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Routledge

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1317449142

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9781317449140

Three Body Dynamics and Its Applications to Exoplanets

By: Zdzislaw Musielak,Billy Quarles

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Three Body Dynamics and Its Applications to Exoplanets

By: Zdzislaw Musielak,Billy Quarles

This brief book provides an overview of the gravitational orbital evolution of few-body systems, in particular those consisting of three bodies. The authors present the historical context that begins with the origin of the problem as defined by Newton, which was followed up by Euler, Lagrange, Laplace, and many others. Additionally, they consider the modern works from the 20th and 21st centuries that describe the development of powerful analytical methods by Poincare and others. The development of numerical tools, including modern symplectic methods, are presented as they pertain to the identification of short-term chaos and long term integrations of the orbits of many astronomical architectures such as stellar triples, planets in binaries, and single stars that host multiple exoplanets. The book includes some of the latest discoveries from the Kepler and now K2 missions, as well as applications to exoplanets discovered via the radial velocity method. Specifically, the authors give a unique perspective in relation to the discovery of planets in binary star systems and the current search for extrasolar moons.

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Springer

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3319582267

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9783319582269

The "lower Sort"

Philadelphia's Laboring People, 1750-1800

By: Billy Gordon Smith

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The "lower Sort"

Philadelphia's Laboring People, 1750-1800

By: Billy Gordon Smith

This book recreates the daily lives of laboring men and women in America's premier urban center during the second half of the eighteenth century. Billy G. Smith demonstrates how the "lower sort" (as they were called by their contemporaries) struggled to carve out meaningful lives during an era of vast change stretching from the Seven Years' War, through the turbulent events surrounding the American Revolution and the U.S. Constitution, into the first decade of the new nation.

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Cornell University Press

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0801481635

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9780801481635

Three Men of Destiny

By: Billy Kennedy

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Three Men of Destiny

By: Billy Kennedy

Looks at the Scots-Irish roots of Andrew Jackson, Sam Houston, and Davy Crockett, and offers information on their lives and times.

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Ambassador International

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1932307966

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9781932307962

Deep Time Dreaming

Uncovering Ancient Australia

By: Billy Griffiths

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Deep Time Dreaming

Uncovering Ancient Australia

By: Billy Griffiths

People would have known about Australia before they saw it. Smoke billowing above the sea spoke of a land that lay beyond the horizon. A dense cloud of migrating birds may have pointed the way. But the first Australians were voyaging into the unknown. Soon after Billy Griffiths joins his first archaeological dig as camp manager and cook, he is hooked. Equipped with a historian’s inquiring mind, he embarks on a journey through time, seeking to understand the extraordinary deep history of the Australian continent. Deep Time Dreaming is the passionate product of that journey. It investigates a twin revolution: the reassertion of Aboriginal identity in the second half of the twentieth century, and the uncovering of the traces of ancient Australia. It explores what it means to live in a place of great antiquity, with its complex questions of ownership and belonging. It is about a slow shift in national consciousness: the deep time dreaming that has changed the way many of us relate to this continent and its enduring, dynamic human history. John Mulvaney Book Award: Winner Ernest Scott Prize: Winner NSW Premier's Literary Awards: Winner - Book of the Year NSW Premier's Literary Awards: Winner - Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards: Highly Commended Queensland Literary Awards: Shortlisted Prime Minister's Literary Awards: Shortlisted Educational Publishing Awards: Shortlisted Australian Book Industry Awards: Longlisted CHASS Book Prize: Longlisted ‘What a revelatory work! If you wish to hear the voice of our continent's history before the written word, Deep Time Dreaming is a must read. The freshest, most important book about our past in years.’ —Tim Flannery ‘Once every generation a book comes along that marks the emergence of a powerful new literary voice and shifts our understanding of the nation’s past. Billy Griffiths’ Deep Time Dreaming is one such book. Deeply researched, creatively conceived and beautifully written, it charts the expansion of archaeological knowledge in Australia for the first time. No other book has managed to convey the mystery and intricacy of Indigenous antiquity in quite the same way. Read it: it will change the way you see Australian history.’ —Mark McKenna, historian ‘Billy Griffiths’ Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering Ancient Australia is a remarkable book, and one destined, I believe, to become a modern classic of Australian history writing. Written in vivid, evocative prose, this book will grip both the expert and the general reader alike.’ —Iain McCalman, author of The Reef: A Passionate History: The Great Barrier Reef from Captain Cook to Climate Change

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Black Inc.

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1743820380

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9781743820384

Global Civil Society 2011

Globality and the Absence of Justice

By: H. Seckinelgin,Billy Wong

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Global Civil Society 2011

Globality and the Absence of Justice

By: H. Seckinelgin,Billy Wong

Global Civil Society 2011 combines activist and academic accounts of contemporary struggles to promote, negotiate and deliver justice in a global frame without a central authority. In their engagement with cultural diversity and their networked communication the contributors rethink and remake justice beyond the confines of the nation state.

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0230303803

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9780230303805

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

TVparty!

Television's Untold Tales

By: Billy Ingram

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TVparty!

Television's Untold Tales

By: Billy Ingram

Why watch TV when you can read about it? Featuring more than 600 previously unpublished photos, TVparty! offers fascinating, untold stories from TV's golden age.

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Bonus Books, Inc.

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1566251842

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9781566251846

The Final Countdown Tribulation Rising Vol.2 Modern Technology

By: Billy Crone

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The Final Countdown Tribulation Rising Vol.2 Modern Technology

By: Billy Crone

It's something we use every single day and don't even think about. Yet our very quality of life is determined by it and younger generations are totally enthralled with it. In fact, we are not only immersed in it twenty-four hours a day 7 days a week, but we have become completely dependent upon it for just about every aspect of our daily lives. It's called Modern Technology and little do people realize that it's a major mega sign that we are living in the last days. Therefore, this book, The Final Countdown: Tribulation Rising Vol.2 Modern Technology seeks to equip you the reader with the multitude of prophetic signs concerning the rise of Modern Technology and its Biblical ramifications showing us just how close the Return of Jesus Christ truly is. Such amazing prophetic signs you'll discover are: The Increase of Global Travel, Mark of the Beast Tech, Global Communication, Big Brother Tech, Global Distribution, Holograms & 3-D Printing, Cashless Society and Restless Society.

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Lulu.com

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1948766396

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9781948766395

Remembering North Carolina Tobacco

By: Billy Yeargin

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Remembering North Carolina Tobacco

By: Billy Yeargin

North Carolina's tobacco heritage comes to life in this volume of stories and remembrances from traditional tobacco farmers and cultivators. When early settlers struggled to grow anything at all in North Carolina's sandy soil, tobacco was a boon that became a way of life. The lives of many North Carolinians continue to revolve around the growth cycle of the tobacco plant, from laying-by to cropping and curing. In this collection of nostalgic memories, tobacco historian Bill Yeargin and others reminisce about the frustrations of slugs and tar, the cropping of dew-drenched leaves, the aching beauty of a tobacco bloom and the ultimate connection of man with earth—a connection that is slowly fading with each new generation.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1625843739

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9781625843739

Going the Other Way

An Intimate Memoir of Life in and Out of Major League Baseball

By: Billy Bean

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Going the Other Way

An Intimate Memoir of Life in and Out of Major League Baseball

By: Billy Bean

Published in 2014 with a new preface by the author. Originally published in hardcover in 2003 by Marlowe & Company.

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The Experiment

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1615192638

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9781615192632

Sad But True

By: Billy Bond

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Sad But True

By: Billy Bond

Entrepreneur, Sebastian Farrar's life is turned upside down when his father is murdered. Suddenly propelled into a world of corruption, deceit and betrayal, he is deceived by the woman he loves.

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Trafford Publishing

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1425180876

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9781425180874

Adobe Walls

The History and Archaeology of the 1874 Trading Post

By: T. Lindsay Baker,Billy R. Harrison

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Adobe Walls

The History and Archaeology of the 1874 Trading Post

By: T. Lindsay Baker,Billy R. Harrison

In the spring of 1874 a handful of men and one women set out for the Texas Panhandle to seek their fortunes in the great buffalo hunt. Moving south to follow the herds, they intended to establish a trading post to serve the hunter, or "hide men." At a place called Adobe Walls they dug blocks from the sod and built their center of operations After operating for only a few months, the post was attacked one sultry June morning by angry members of several Plains Indian tribes, whose physical and cultural survival depending on the great bison herd that were rapidly shrinking before the white men's guns. Initially defeated, that attacking Indians retreated. But the defenders also retreated leaving the deserted post to be burned by Indians intent on erasing all traces of the white man's presence. Nonetheless, tracing did remain, and in the ashes and dirt were buried minute details of the hide men's lives and the battle that so suddenly changed them. A little more than a century later white men again dug into the sod at Adobe Walls. The nineteenth-century men dug for profits, but the modern hunters sere looking for the natural time capsule inadvertently left by those earlier adventurers. The authors of this book, a historian and an archeologists, have dug into the sod and into far-flung archives to sift reality form the long-romanticized story of Adobe Walls, its residents, and the Indians who so fiercely resented their presence. The full story of Adobe Walls now tells us much about the life and work of the hide men, about the dying of the Plains Indian culture, and about the march of white commerce across the frontier.

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Texas A&M University Press

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1585441767

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9781585441761

Winning in Both Leagues

Reflections from Baseball's Front Office

By: J. Frank Cashen,Billy Beane

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Winning in Both Leagues

Reflections from Baseball's Front Office

By: J. Frank Cashen,Billy Beane

In "Winning in Both Leagues" J. Frank Cashen looks back over his twenty-five-year career in baseball. Best known as the general manager of the New York Mets during their remaking and rise to glory in the 1980s, Cashen fills the pages with lively stories from his baseball tenure during the last half of the twentieth century. His career included a stint with the Baltimore Orioles of the late OCO60s and OCO70s, working with manager Earl Weaver and the great teams of the early OCO70s, including such players as Jim Palmer, Frank Robinson, and Brooks Robinson. Later, tapped by Mets owner Nelson Doubleday Jr. to bring the Mets to the pinnacle of Major League Baseball, Cashen, with the rise of superstars Darryl Strawberry and Dwight Gooden, led the Mets to the thrilling come-from-behind victory over the Boston Red Sox leading to the World Series championship in 1986.a "Winning in Both Leagues" also chronicles the drafting of Billy Beane, who would later be the focus of the "New York Times" bestseller "Moneyball." Cashen, who was a central figure in the fierce competition with New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, excelled at building winning ball clubs and remains one of only two general managers ever to win a World Series in both leagues.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803265441

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9780803265448

Heart of the Raincoast

A Life Story

By: Alexandra Morton,Billy Proctor

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Heart of the Raincoast

A Life Story

By: Alexandra Morton,Billy Proctor

Annotation Alexandra Morton is an internationally known whale researcher familiar to everyone interested in the west coast. Billy Proctor was born in the Broughton Archipelago, and has spent his life doing the time-honoured work of up-coast men -- fishing, hand-logging, beach-combing. One day, he realised that the coast he loved was dying around him and understood that it was time to put something back. 'Heart of the Raincoast' is the story of Billy Proctor's life, and the life of the coast he knows so well, once so rich, now so threatened.

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TouchWood Editions

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1894898265

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9781894898263

How to Turn Down a Billion Dollars

The Snapchat Story

By: Billy Gallagher

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How to Turn Down a Billion Dollars

The Snapchat Story

By: Billy Gallagher

The improbable and exhilarating story of the rise of Snapchat from a frat boy fantasy to a multi-billion dollar internet unicorn that has dramatically changed the way we communicate. In the tradition of great business narratives, this book offers the definitive account of a company whose goal is no less than to remake the future of entertainment.

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St. Martin's Press

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1250108616

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9781250108616

Government and Politics in Tennessee

By: William Lyons,John M. Scheb (II),Billy Stair

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Government and Politics in Tennessee

By: William Lyons,John M. Scheb (II),Billy Stair

Most Americans are more aware of the workings of the federal government than of their own state government. But these "laboratories of democracy" constitute perhaps the most creative and successful component of the American political experiment. Like each of the states, Tennessee state government has a distinct history and a political culture that reflects that history. This book places Tennessee's modern political institutions in the context of the history and personalities that formed them. They pay special attention to the period after 1978, when three governors left a lasting impression on the direction and culture of the state government. Separate chapters examine the legislative, executive, and judicial branches, explaining how and why Tennessee's political culture differs from other states. The book also explores the ways in which education, health care, corrections, and economic development define much of the government agenda. Additional chapters on the media, political campaigns, and local government provide a backdrop that elucidates more fully how the state government functions. The authors profile many of the personalities who have shaped the state's political agenda. Among these are longtime Senate Democratic Speaker John Wilder; his close ally, Senate Republican Leader Ben Atchley; House Speaker Jimmy Naifeh, son of a Lebanese immigrant; and Bill Snodgrass, who served as State Comptroller for forty-seven years. The book explains how each of these individuals related to three Tennessee governors, Republicans Lamar Alexander and Don Sundquist and Democrat Ned McWherter, whose administrations presided over the state's greatest period of growth and prosperity. Illustrated with photographs and tables, and featuring anecdotal sidebars that illuminate key issues, this book will become the standard text on Tennessee state government and politics for years to come. The Authors: William Lyons is a professor of political science at the University of Tennessee and coauthor of such books as American Government: Politics and Political Culture. John M. Scheb II is a professor of political science and director of the Social Science Research Institute at the University of Tennessee and coauthor of American Constitutional Law, among other books. In partnership with Dr. Lyons, he provides campaign consulting for political candidates and applied survey research for businesses and organizations. Billy Stair is director of communication and community outreach at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He served for eighteen years in the legislative and executive branches of state government, including eight years as senior policy advisor to the Governor.

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Univ. of Tennessee Press

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1572331410

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Chancellorsville Staff Ride: Briefing Book [Illustrated Edition]

By: Ted Ballard,Billy Arthur

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Chancellorsville Staff Ride: Briefing Book [Illustrated Edition]

By: Ted Ballard,Billy Arthur

Contains more than 20 maps, diagrams and illustrations Although "Fighting Joe" Hooker skillfully executes a well-conceived plan and out-flanks his adversary, months of offensive planning are shelved as he suddenly orders his army on the defensive. Lee seizes the initiative and achieves what has often been called his most brilliant victory. How could this happen when Hooker's army outnumbers that of Lee 2 to 1 and is far superior in artillery and logistics? Answers to these and other questions concerning leadership, communications, use of terrain, and the psychology of men in battle, are often found by personal reconnaissance of the battlefield. This book offers a staff ride briefing of Chancellorsville. Since 1906 staff rides have been used to in the education of U.S. Army officers to narrow the gap between peacetime training and war.

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Pickle Partners Publishing

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1782898565

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9781782898566

Secularization in Malawi and Britain

A Compatative Inquiry

By: Billy Gama

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Secularization in Malawi and Britain

A Compatative Inquiry

By: Billy Gama

The major purpose of this book is to critically examine the applicability of manifestations and factors of secularization in Britain to Malawi. The book was guided by the key research question, "Are the manifestations and factors of secularization in Britain applicable to Malawi?" The question was supported by other follow up questions, namely, "What were the factors that contributed to the rise of secularization in Britain?" "What is the connection between Britain and Malawi?" "To what extent does secularization in Britain affect that in Malawi?" "Does Malawi have unique factors that are specific or are the same factors at work that have contributed to the process of secularization in Britain?

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African Books Collective

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9996025446

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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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Our Most Priceless Heritage

The Lasting Legacy of the Scots-Irish in America

By: Billy Kennedy

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Our Most Priceless Heritage

The Lasting Legacy of the Scots-Irish in America

By: Billy Kennedy

This comprehensive study of the Scots-Irish in America has created a much greater awareness of the accomplishments and the durability of the hardy settlers and their families who moved to the New World during the 18th century and created a civilisation out of a wilderness.

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Ambassador International

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1932307036

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9781932307030

The Blues Dream of Billy Boy Arnold

By: Billy Boy Arnold,Kim Field

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The Blues Dream of Billy Boy Arnold

By: Billy Boy Arnold,Kim Field

The frank, funny, and unforgettable autobiography of a living legend of Chicago blues. Simply put, Billy Boy Arnold is one of the last men standing from the Chicago blues scene’s raucous heyday. What’s more, unlike most artists in this electrifying melting pot, who were Southern transplants, Arnold—a harmonica master who shared stages with Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters, and Howlin’ Wolf, plus a singer and hitmaker in his own right who first recorded the standards “I Wish You Would” and “I Ain’t Got You”—was born right here and has lived nowhere else. This makes his perspective on Chicago blues, its players, and its locales all the rarer and all the more valuable. Arnold has witnessed musical generations come and go, from the decline of prewar country blues to the birth of the electric blues and the worldwide spread of rock and roll. Working here in collaboration with writer and fellow musician Kim Field, he gets it all down. The Blues Dream of Billy Boy Arnold is a remarkably clear-eyed testament to more than eighty years of musical love and creation, from Arnold’s adolescent quest to locate the legendary Sonny Boy Williamson, the story of how he named Bo Diddley Bo Diddley, and the ups and downs of his seven-decade recording career. Arnold’s tale—candidly told with humor, insight, and grit—is one that no fan of modern American music can afford to miss.

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University of Chicago Press

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022680934X

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