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Legendary Locals of Bay City

By: Ron Bloomfield

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Who would have thought a city would one day stand where there was nothing but swamp, with long grass--where there was scarcely an opening in the woods, and in which the wolves made plenty of howling. This observation was made by Leon Trombley, one of the first to try to settle in this part of the Michigan "frontier" in the early 1800s. His nephews, Mader and Joseph, would soon follow and ultimately become noted among the area's first permanent residents. The residents of Bay City have always aspired to be legendary, whether by design, accident, or sheer determination. Annie Edson Taylor, the area schoolteacher turned daredevil who would ride her Bay City-built barrel over Niagara Falls (and survive!), is only one among a large group of local legends that includes Olympic champions, community leaders, artists, musicians, scholars, philosophers, and historians.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1467100196

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9781467100199

Australia's Sporting Success

The Inside Story

By: John Bloomfield

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Australia's Sporting Success

The Inside Story

By: John Bloomfield

The extraordinary performances of Australian athletes, and the awareness of the system that fostered them, came to the world's attention during the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000. Bloomfield traces the development of Australian sport from the early 19th century to the modern day institutions that drive our sporting success.

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UNSW Press

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0868405825

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9780868405827

Michael Bloomfield - If You Love These Blues

An Oral History

By: Jan Mark Wolkin,Bill Keenom,Michael Bloomfield

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Michael Bloomfield - If You Love These Blues

An Oral History

By: Jan Mark Wolkin,Bill Keenom,Michael Bloomfield

(Book). Guitarist Michael Bloomfield shot to stardom in the '60s with The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Bob Dylan, The Electric Flag and on Al Kooper's "Super Session." His story is told in the words of his brother, musicians such as B.B. King, producer Paul Rothchild and dozens of others including Bloomfield himself. Features a foreword by Carlos Santana, and audio of unreleased early studio tracks. "(This book) is a look inside the psyche of a musical innovator who deserves a posthumous Nobel Prize and a statue on Rush Street in Chicago. If you love his blues, you'll love this book." Al Kooper

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Backbeat Books

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1617131687

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9781617131684

Moral Reality

By: Paul Bloomfield

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Moral Reality

By: Paul Bloomfield

We typically assume that the standard for what is beautiful lies in the eye of the beholder. Yet this is not the case when we consider morality; what we deem morally good is not usually a matter of opinion. Such thoughts push us toward being realists about moral properties, but a cogent theory of moral realism has long been an elusive philosophical goal. Paul Bloomfield here offers a rigorous defense of moral realism, developing an ontology for morality that models the property of being morally good on the property of being physically healthy. The model is assembled systematically; it first presents the metaphysics of healthiness and goodness, then explains our epistemic access to properties such as these, adds a complementary analysis of the semantics and syntax of moral discourse, and finishes with a discussion of how we become motivated to act morally. Bloomfield closely attends to the traditional challenges facing moral realism, and the discussion nimbly ranges from modern medical theory to ancient theories of virtue, and from animal navigation to the nature of normativity. Maintaining a highly readable style throughout, Moral Reality yields one of the most compelling theories of moral realism to date and will appeal to philosophers working on issues in metaphysics or moral philosophy.

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Oxford University Press

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0198031378

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9780198031376

The East Florida Expeditions of Clarence Bloomfield Moore

By: Clarence Bloomfield Moore

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The East Florida Expeditions of Clarence Bloomfield Moore

By: Clarence Bloomfield Moore

Clarence B. Moore (1852-1936), a wealthy Philadelphia socialite, paper company heir, and photographer, made the archaeology of the Southeast his passion beginning in the 1870s. This volume collects 17 of Moore's publications on East Florida, works originally published between 1892 and 1903. These invaluable and copiously illustrated works amply document the results of Moore's numerous archaeological expeditions along Florida's eastern Coasline from the Georgia border to Late Okeechobee between 1891 and 1895 and focus primarily on sites along the St. Johns River and its tributaries.

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University of Alabama Press

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0817309500

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9780817309503

The One I'll Always Remember

Caring for America's Wounded Warriors

By: Gary L. Bloomfield

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The One I'll Always Remember

Caring for America's Wounded Warriors

By: Gary L. Bloomfield

The One I'll Always Remember puts the reader on the front lines and in the operating rooms to experience the dramatic impact on the military care providers who have told their stories. The reader will feel the emotional and psychological trauma of extended combat surgeries, and learn the coping skills, such as avoiding knowing a patient's name or too much personal information, including whether he’s married or has children. These medical personnel save more than 95 percent of all the wounded warriors who come to the field hospitals, yet it's those few who don't make it which haunt them for years--and sometimes forever. The guilt of not being able to save everyone, and of asking if they could have done more. Not knowing their names, but still seeing their faces in haunting memories, even decades later.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1493038621

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9781493038626

Language

By: Leonard Bloomfield

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Language

By: Leonard Bloomfield

The book presents the fundamentals of linguistics and the historical survey of languages to the reader without any complication and obscurity. It is a valuable book for students and scholars of linguistics. The author has followed the traditional order of presentation. He begins with the survey of languages of the world, proceeds with the study of phonetic structure, grammatical forms, syntax and morphology, each being the indispensable preliminary to the study of the ensuing one. The book is divided into 38 chapters which gives a detailed and thorough knowledge of the subject on all important issues, such as analogic and semantic changes, cultural, intimate and dialect borrowings and scores of other points related to the subjects. Of these, Chapter 24 - Semantic Change and Chapter 25 - Cultural Borrowings are much palatable. It is in these chapters that the reader can get right away from the mechanics of language and follow the play of human mind. The book is documented with notes, bibliography, table of phonetic symbols and index.

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Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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8120811968

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9788120811966

Marketing Schools, Marketing Cities

Who Wins and Who Loses When Schools Become Urban Amenities

By: Maia Bloomfield Cucchiara

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Marketing Schools, Marketing Cities

Who Wins and Who Loses When Schools Become Urban Amenities

By: Maia Bloomfield Cucchiara

Not merely institutions of learning, schools have increasingly become a sign of a neighbourhood's vitality, and city planners have ever more explicitly promoted 'good schools' as a means of attracting more affluent families to urban areas, a dynamic process that the author critically examines in this book. Focusing on Philadelphia's Center City Schools Initiative, she shows how education policy makes overt attempts to prevent, or at least slow, middle-class flight to the suburbs. By asking what happens when affluent parents become 'valued customers', the book uncovers a problematic relationship between public institutions and private markets, where the former are used to leverage the latter to effect urban transformations.

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University of Chicago Press

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022601665X

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9780226016658

Our City

Migrants and the Making of Modern Birmingham

By: Jon Bloomfield

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Our City

Migrants and the Making of Modern Birmingham

By: Jon Bloomfield

Indispensable . . . Speaks of hope and courage' Observer 'An ode to openness, offering a refreshing alternative to those accounts that treat migrants as faceless statistics' David Lammy MP 'A highly informed and eloquent account of life in a modern British city during a period of globalisation, austerity and mass migration' Patrick Cockburn, Independent Race and migration are the most prominent and divisive issues in British politics today. As Brexit and the dangers of Islamist extremism are being used to reassert a closed British identity, these stories – of fifty migrants, first and second generations; men and women; from thirteen different countries from Ireland to India, Pakistan to Poland, the Caribbean to Somalia – highlight the variety of migrant experience and offer an antidote to the fear-mongering of the tabloid press. This positive story of integration is all too rarely told, and it offers a firm defence of the principles of equality and increased diversity. Our City shows why mixed, open societies are the way forward for twenty-first-century cities, and how migrants help modern Britain not only survive but prosper.

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1783527188

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9781783527182

The BBC at the Watershed

By: Ken Bloomfield

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The BBC at the Watershed

By: Ken Bloomfield

In the wake of the attempted assassination of Sir Kenneth Bloomfield, then head of the civil service in Northern Ireland, on September 11, 1988, Margaret Thatcher issued a gag order and broadcasting ban in order to prevent Gerry Adams and the IRA from carrying out plans to warn all other civil service “collaborators” that they were under threat. Though he did not advocate the ban, that moment unexpectedly marked Kenneth Bloomfield’s first major role in the contemporary history of the BBC—an organization for which he would eventually serve in several positions, including as chair of the Northern Ireland Broadcasting Council from 1991 to 1999. This fascinating account of Bloomfield’s tenure at the BBC captures a period of uncertainty and change, accompanied by Bloomfield’s own rich remembrances of the entire period—a volume not to be missed by anyone with an interest in popular media and political history. “Sir Kenneth is regarded as ‘the ideal BBC governor’—being meticulous, bright and genuinely interested in broadcasting.”—Jane Robbins, Independent

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Liverpool University Press

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1846311608

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9781846311604

Let's Read

A Linguistic Approach

By: Leonard Bloomfield,Clarence Lewis Barnhart

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Let's Read

A Linguistic Approach

By: Leonard Bloomfield,Clarence Lewis Barnhart

Let's Read is a simple and systematic way to teach basic reading. Developed by noted linguist Leonard Bloomfield, the book is based on the alphabetic spelling patterns of English. Bloomfield offered an antidote to the idea that English is a difficult language to learn to read by teaching the learner to decode the phonemic sound-letter correlations of the language in a sequential, logical progression of lessons based on its spelling patterns. The learner is first introduced to the most consistent (alphabetic) vocabulary and then to increasingly less alphabetic and less frequent spelling patterns within a vocabulary of about 5,000 words.

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Wayne State University Press

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0814311156

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How Everything Works

Making Physics Out of the Ordinary

By: Louis A. Bloomfield

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How Everything Works

Making Physics Out of the Ordinary

By: Louis A. Bloomfield

By explaining the physics behind ordinary objects, this book unravels the mysteries of how things work. Using familiar examples from everyday life and modern technology, this book explains the seemingly inexplicable phenomena we encounter all around us. As it examines everything from roller coasters to radio, musical instruments to makeup, and knuckleballs to nuclear weapons, How Everything Works provides the answers to such questions as why the sky is blue, why metal is a problem in microwave ovens, and why some clothes require dry cleaning. With fascinating and fun real-life examples that provide the answers to scores of questions, How Everything Works is nothing short of a user's manual to our everyday world.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470170662

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9780470170663

Dora Borealis

A Novel

By: Daccia Bloomfield

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Dora Borealis

A Novel

By: Daccia Bloomfield

Edison's Concrete Piano highlights sixteen great inventors, revealing the lesser known and most fascinating facts about their personalities, their wackier hobbies, their big flops and great successes. Amid misperceptions, cutting-edge technology, and outrageous characters, you'll find nuggets of wisdom that are surprisingly relevant for today's innovation age.

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ECW Press

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1554903416

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9781554903412

Archaeopoetics

Word, Image, History

By: Mandy Bloomfield

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Archaeopoetics

Word, Image, History

By: Mandy Bloomfield

Explores poetry as historical investigation, examining works by five contemporary poets whose creations represent new, materially emphatic methods of engaging with the past and producing new kinds of historical knowledge Archaeopoetics explores “archaeological poetry,” ground-breaking and experimental writing by innovative poets whose work opens up broad new avenues by which contemporary readers may approach the past, illuminating the dense web of interconnections often lost in traditional historiography. Critic Mandy Bloomfield traces the emergence of a significant historicist orientation in recent poetry, exemplified by the work of five writers: American poet Susan Howe, Korean-American artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, British poet Maggie O’Sullivan, and diasporic African Caribbean writers Kamau Brathwaite and M. NourbeSe Philip. Bloomfield sets the work of these five authors within a vigorous tradition, including earlier work by Ezra Pound and Walter Benjamin, and then shows how these five poets create poems that engender new encounters with pivotal episodes in history, such as the English regicide or Korea’s traumatized twentieth century. Exploring our shared but imperfectly understood history as well as omissions and blind spots in historiography, Bloomfield outlines the tension between the irretrievability of effaced historical evidence and the hope that poetry may reconstitute such unrecoverable histories. She posits that this tension is fertile, engendering a form of aesthetically enacted epistemological enquiry. Fascinating and seminal, Archaeopoetics pays special attention to the sensuous materiality of texts and most especially to the visual manifestations of poetry. The poems in this volume employ the visual imagery of the word itself or incorporate imagery into the poetry to propose persuasive alternatives to narrative or discursive frameworks of historical knowledge.

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University of Alabama Press

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0817358536

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9780817358532

Celebrating Humanity

Reflections, Insights and Hope for a United Planet

By: Jack Bloomfield

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Celebrating Humanity

Reflections, Insights and Hope for a United Planet

By: Jack Bloomfield

CELEBRATING HUMANITY We are a divided people; We are a divided planet. What would it take to see a world transformed into a place where when we see one another, our first thought is; this is my brother; this is my sister; this is a member of my family? Jack Bloomfield, author, columnist and humanitarian believes that our divided world is rooted mainly in unchallenged prejudice, ignorance and intolerance. In Celebrating Humanity, Jack shares his insights through an assortment of his columns on: The many faces of prejudice most often found in areas of race, religion, politics, social status, and sexual orientation. The importance of getting closer to those we don't know, don't understand or who we are afraid of. The need to educate ourselves when it comes to our racial, religious, cultural or sexual differences. The hope that it is possible to change and that unity and understanding among all people is possible. He suggests that we must take our own personal inventory to see where prejudice, ignorance or intolerance are alive in our own hearts and lives and do whatever it takes to root them out. Bloomfield says, "For some, it will be little more than self awareness and a commitment to change while for others it will take a much deeper study of themselves. At whatever level, we all must take a look within and when we do, healing will be possible and unity and understanding among all people can become a reality.

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iUniverse

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059548798X

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9780595487981

Applied Anatomy and Biomechanics in Sport

By: Timothy R. Ackland,Bruce Elliott,John Bloomfield

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Applied Anatomy and Biomechanics in Sport

By: Timothy R. Ackland,Bruce Elliott,John Bloomfield

Applied Anatomy and Biomechanics in Sport, Second Edition, offers a variety of information for coaches and sport scientists that can be integrated and applied to the elements of body structure, body composition, assessment, physiology, and biomechanics.

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Human Kinetics

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0736063382

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9780736063388

Venture Capital Funding

A Practical Guide to Raising Finance

By: Stephen Bloomfield

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Venture Capital Funding

A Practical Guide to Raising Finance

By: Stephen Bloomfield

The business of helping firms to become 'investment ready' has long been seen as vital to the long-term development of any economy, but the process of identifying and attracting the right kind of investor can be a difficult process for many small- and medium-sized businesses. Venture Capital Funding gives you a detailed, step-by-step guide to obtaining venture capital - from building a management team, through to the maze of due diligence procedures and necessary legal procedures. The practicalities of competing for, and winning, additional capital are broken down into key areas, such as: - the significance of the business plan; - types of investor - targeting and attracting a funder; - negotiation and initial valuations; - the due diligence process; and - the available investment vehicles. It also explores the many reasons why companies seek out additional funding, and discusses the points in the business life cycle when such injections are appropriate.

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Kogan Page Publishers

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0749455004

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9780749455002

Songs from the Public Domain

Containing a choice selection of folk-songs, part-songs, and hymns, most of which have long been in the public domain, all of which are arranged for singing in parts, generally without accompaniment

By: Benjamin Bloomfield

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Songs from the Public Domain

Containing a choice selection of folk-songs, part-songs, and hymns, most of which have long been in the public domain, all of which are arranged for singing in parts, generally without accompaniment

By: Benjamin Bloomfield

A Collection of 143 songs from the public domain, chiefly consisting of folk-songs, part-songs, hymns, and rounds, a great deal of which are not currently well known. The songs are arranged for singing in parts. More information can be obtained here: http://bbloomf.github.io/lilypond-songs/

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Benjamin Bloomfield

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1484022807

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9781484022801

Guidance - The Big Picture

By: Peter Bloomfield

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Guidance - The Big Picture

By: Peter Bloomfield

This book is aimed at all Christians wanting to make wise decisions in line with the will of God. It helpfully explains what the will of God is, and it challenges some popular wrong ideas (such as, the ""one perfect centre of God's will""). The book also challenges some common thinking about Christian guidance, for example, that God still speaks to us today via dreams, prophets, feelings, and happenings. The Bible provides all the guidance we need, but it has to be interpreted properly. The roles of prayer, reason and faith are carefully explained. This book brings great relief to those burdened with subjective forms of guidance so common today.

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Lulu.com

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1326710176

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9781326710170

Africa United

Soccer, Passion, Politics, and the First World Cup in Africa

By: Steve Bloomfield

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Africa United

Soccer, Passion, Politics, and the First World Cup in Africa

By: Steve Bloomfield

Africa United is the story of modern day Africa told through its soccer. Travelling across thirteen countries, from Cairo to the Cape, Steve Bloomfield, the former Africa Correspondent for The Independent, meets players and fans, politicians and rebel leaders, discovering the role that soccer has played in shaping the continent. This wide-ranging and incisive book investigates Africa’s love of soccer, its increasing global influence, the build-up to the 2010 World Cup itself and the social and political backdrop to the greatest show on earth.

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0062010336

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