Bob Gilliland's Books

Speed

The Life of a Test Pilot and Birth of an American Icon

By: Gilliland|Keith Dunnavant Bob Gilliland (Dunnavant),Keith Dunnavant

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Speed

The Life of a Test Pilot and Birth of an American Icon

By: Gilliland|Keith Dunnavant Bob Gilliland (Dunnavant),Keith Dunnavant

On December 22, 1964, at a small, closely guarded airstrip in the desert town of Palmdale, California, Lockheed test pilot Bob Gilliland stepped into a strange-looking aircraft and roared into aviation history. Developed at the super-secret Skunk Works, the SR-71 Blackbird was a technological marvel. In fact, more than a half century later, the Mach 3-plus titanium wonder, designed by Clarence L. "Kelly" Johnson, remains the world's fastest jet. It took a test pilot with the right combination of intelligence, skill, and nerve to make the first flight of the SR-71, and the thirty-eight-year-old Gilliland had spent much of his life pushing the edge. In Speed one of America's greatest test pilots collaborates with acclaimed journalist Keith Dunnavant to tell his remarkable story: How he was pushed to excel by his demanding father. How a lucky envelope at the U.S. Naval Academy altered the trajectory of his life. How he talked his way into U.S. Air Force fighters at the dawn of the jet age, despite being told he was too tall. How he made the conscious decision to trade the security of the business world for the dangerous life of an experimental test pilot, including time at the clandestine base Area 51, working on the Central Intelligence Agency's Oxcart program. The narrative focuses most intently on Gilliland's years as the chief test pilot of the SR-71, as he played a leading role in the development of the entire fleet of spy planes while surviving several emergencies that very nearly ended in disaster. Waging the Cold War at 85,000 feet, the SR-71 became an unrivaled intelligence-gathering asset for the U.S. Air Force, invulnerable to enemy defenses for a quarter century. Gilliland's work with the SR-71 defined him, especially after the Cold War, when many of the secrets began to be revealed and the plane emerged from the shadows--not just as a tangible museum artifact but as an icon that burrowed deep into the national consciousness. Like the Blackbird itself, Speed is a story animated by the power of ambition and risk-taking during the heady days of the American Century.

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U of Nebraska Press

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1640124675

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Speed

The Life of a Test Pilot and Birth of an American Icon

By: Bob Gilliland,Keith Dunnavant

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Speed

The Life of a Test Pilot and Birth of an American Icon

By: Bob Gilliland,Keith Dunnavant

Speed depicts the life of Bob Gilliland, an accomplished pilot and principle test pilot for the SR-71 Blackbird, and his journey with this record-breaking aircraft that helped win the Cold War.

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U of Nebraska Press

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1640122680

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Texas Rangers

Lives, Legend, and Legacy

By: Bob Alexander,Donaly E. Brice

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Texas Rangers

Lives, Legend, and Legacy

By: Bob Alexander,Donaly E. Brice

Authors Bob Alexander and Donaly E. Brice grappled with several issues when deciding how to relate a general history of the Texas Rangers. Should emphasis be placed on their frontier defense against Indians, or focus more on their role as guardians of the peace and statewide law enforcers? What about the tumultuous Mexican Revolution period, 1910-1920? And how to deal with myths and legends such as One Riot, One Ranger? Texas Rangers: Lives, Legend, and Legacy is the authors’ answer to these questions, a one-volume history of the Texas Rangers. The authors begin with the earliest Rangers in the pre-Republic years in 1823 and take the story up through the Republic, Mexican War, and Civil War. Then, with the advent of the Frontier Battalion, the authors focus in detail on each company A through F, relating what was happening within each company concurrently. Thereafter, Alexander and Brice tell the famous episodes of the Rangers that forged their legend, and bring the story up through the twentieth century to the present day in the final chapters.

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University of North Texas Press

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157441691X

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Single Season Sitcoms of the 1990s

A Complete Guide

By: Bob Leszczak

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Single Season Sitcoms of the 1990s

A Complete Guide

By: Bob Leszczak

During the "Must See TV" 1990s, Americans enjoyed such immensely popular sitcoms as Friends, Seinfeld, Home Improvement and The Drew Carey Show. Shows that did not make the ratings cut numbered in the hundreds--the emergence of new networks and cable channels airing original programming resulted in a vast increase in short-lived sitcoms over the previous decade. Some of these "flops" were actually quite good and deserved a better fate. The author revisits them--along with the "dramedies" of the day--with detailed entries providing production and broadcast information, along with critical analyses, and recollections by cast and crew members. A subsection highlights sitcoms that returned for an abbreviated second season. Dozens of cast and crew photographs are included.

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McFarland

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1476670773

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9781476670775

Fulton

By: Mona Robinson Mills and Bob Franks

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Fulton

By: Mona Robinson Mills and Bob Franks

Fulton is one of the oldest cities in northern Mississippi. Established on May 11, 1837, by an act of the Mississippi legislature, the city is the northernmost town on the Tombigbee River, located less than 10 miles south of that river's headwaters. Fulton was settled by hardy pioneers seeking new opportunities in the newly available lands of Mississippi's Chickasaw Cession. From its first days, Fulton was the center of commercial activity in Itawamba County, as well as the home to county government. During the Civil War and Reconstruction, the town declined, until a period of new growth and activity took place during the early 20th century. At that time, the timber industry became a lucrative venture, and the Mississippian Railway was established, connecting Fulton to the Frisco Railroad in Amory, 20 miles to the south. Fulton is now home to Itawamba Community College and is adjacent to the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, one of the largest inland waterways in the nation.

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Arcadia Publishing

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146712379X

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9781467123792

Whiskey River Ranger

The Old West Life of Baz Outlaw

By: Bob Alexander

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Whiskey River Ranger

The Old West Life of Baz Outlaw

By: Bob Alexander

Captain Frank Jones, a famed nineteenth-century Texas Ranger, said of his company-s top sergeant, Baz Outlaw (1854-1894), "A man of unusual courage and coolness and in a close place is worth two or three ordinary men." Another old-time Texas Ranger declared that Baz Outlaw "was one of the worst and most dangerous" because "he never knew what fear was." But not all thought so highly of him. In Whiskey River Ranger, Bob Alexander tells for the first time the full story of this troubled Texas Ranger and his losing battle with alcoholism. In his career Baz Outlaw wore a badge as a Texas Ranger and also as a Deputy U.S. Marshal. He could be a fearless and crackerjack lawman, as well as an unmanageable manic. Although Baz Outlaw's badge-wearing career was sometimes heroically creditable, at other times his self-induced nightmarish imbroglios teased and tested Texas Ranger management's resoluteness. Baz Outlaw's true-life story is jam-packed with fellows owning well-known names, including Texas Rangers, city marshals, sheriffs, and steely-eyed mean-spirited miscreants. Baz Outlaw's tale is complete with horseback chases, explosive train robberies, vigilante justice (or injustice), nighttime ambushes and bushwhacking, and episodes of scorching six-shooter finality. Baz met his end in a brothel brawl at the hands of John Selman, the same gunfighter who killed John Wesley Hardin.

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University of North Texas Press

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1574416316

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Six-Shooters and Shifting Sands

The Wild West Life of Texas Ranger Captain Frank Jones

By: Bob Alexander

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Six-Shooters and Shifting Sands

The Wild West Life of Texas Ranger Captain Frank Jones

By: Bob Alexander

Many well-read students, historians, and loyal aficionados of Texas Ranger lore know the name of Texas Ranger Captain Frank Jones (1856-1893), who died on the Texas-Mexico border in a shootout with Mexican rustlers. In Six-Shooters and Shifting Sands, Bob Alexander has now penned the first full-length biography of this important nineteenth-century Texas Ranger. At an early age Frank Jones, a native Texan, would become a Frontier Battalion era Ranger. His enlistment with the Rangers coincided with their transition from Indian fighters to lawmen. While serving in the Frontier Battalion officers' corps of Company D, Frank Jones supervised three of the four "great" captains of that era: J.A. Brooks, John H. Rogers, and John R. Hughes. Besides Austin Ira Aten and his younger brothers Calvin Grant Aten and Edwin Dunlap Aten, Captain Jones also managed law enforcement activities of numerous other noteworthy Rangers, such as Philip Cuney "P.C." Baird, Benjamin Dennis Lindsey, Bazzell Lamar "Baz" Outlaw, J. Walter Durbin, Jim King, Frank Schmid, and Charley Fusselman, to name just a few. Frank Jones' law enforcing life was anything but boring. Not only would he find himself dodging bullets and returning fire, but those Rangers under his supervision would also experience gunplay. Of all the Texas Ranger companies, Company D contributed the highest number of on-duty deaths within Texas Ranger ranks.

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University of North Texas Press

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1574415921

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9781574415926

Riding Lucifer's Line

Ranger Deaths Along the Texas-Mexico Border

By: Bob Alexander

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Riding Lucifer's Line

Ranger Deaths Along the Texas-Mexico Border

By: Bob Alexander

The Texas-Mexico border is trouble. Haphazardly splashing across the meandering Rio Grande into Mexico is--or at least can be--risky business, hazardous to one's health and well-being. Kirby W. Dendy, the Chief of Texas Rangers, corroborates the sobering reality: "As their predecessors for over one hundred forty years before them did, today's Texas Rangers continue to battle violence and transnational criminals along the Texas-Mexico border." In Riding Lucifer's Line, Bob Alexander, in his characteristic storytelling style, surveys the personal tragedies of twenty-five Texas Rangers who made the ultimate sacrifice as they scouted and enforced laws throughout borderland counties adjacent to the Rio Grande. The timeframe commences in 1874 with formation of the Frontier Battalion, which is when the Texas Rangers were actually institutionalized as a law enforcing entity, and concludes with the last known Texas Ranger death along the border in 1921. Alexander also discusses the transition of the Rangers in two introductory sections: "The Frontier Battalion Era, 1874-1901" and "The Ranger Force Era, 1901-1935," wherein he follows Texas Rangers moving from an epochal narrative of the Old West to more modern, technological times. Written absent a preprogrammed agenda, Riding Lucifer's Line is legitimate history. Adhering to facts, the author is not hesitant to challenge and shatter stale Texas Ranger mythology. Likewise, Alexander confronts head-on many of those critical Texas Ranger histories relying on innuendo and gossip and anecdotal accounts, at the expense of sustainable evidence--writings often plagued with a deficiency of rational thinking and common sense. Riding Lucifer's Line is illustrated with sixty remarkable old-time photographs. Relying heavily on archived Texas Ranger documents, the lively text is authenticated with more than one thousand comprehensive endnotes.

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University of North Texas Press

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1574414992

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9781574414998

Youth And Social Policy

Youth Citizenship And Young Careers

By: Bob Coles

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Youth And Social Policy

Youth Citizenship And Young Careers

By: Bob Coles

This book is intended as a key text for advanced undergraduates in social policy, social work, and youth/community work. It can also be used as a supplementary text for sociology of education/work/stratification, criminology, education, and personal reference for researchers and practitioners.

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Routledge

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113536737X

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9781135367374

Towards a Competent Workforce

By: Bob Mansfield,Lindsay Mitchell

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Towards a Competent Workforce

By: Bob Mansfield,Lindsay Mitchell

For over a decade the UK has been engaged in a radical reform of its vocational education and training. This book contains the first comprehensive description of Functional Analysis, the method developed to define occupational standards and National Vocational Qualifications. It also discusses changes in contemporary work patterns, arguing that a new model of occupational competence is needed - the Job Competence Model. The text is in four parts covering strategy, models, and methodologies and how to apply them in practice. Both authors have both been closely associated with the methods and models described in the book and their personal insights add enormously to the value of the material.

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Gower Publishing, Ltd.

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0566076993

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9780566076992

Old Riot, New Ranger

Captain Jack Dean, Texas Ranger and U.S. Marshal

By: Bob Alexander

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Old Riot, New Ranger

Captain Jack Dean, Texas Ranger and U.S. Marshal

By: Bob Alexander

Award-winning author Bob Alexander presents a biography of 20th-century Ranger Captain Jack Dean, who holds the distinction of being one of only five men to serve in both the Officer’s Corps of the Rangers and also as a President-appointed United States Marshal. Jack Dean’s service in Texas Ranger history occurred at a time when the institution was undergoing a philosophical revamping and restructuring, all hastened by America’s Civil Rights Movement, landmark decisions handed down by the United States Supreme Court, zooming advances in forensic technology, and focused efforts designed to diversify and professionalize the Rangers. His job choice caused him to circulate in the duplicitous underworld of dishonesty and criminality where twisted self-interest overrode compliance with societal norms. His biography is packed with true-crime calamities: double murders, single murders, negligent homicides, suicides, jailbreaks, manhunts, armed robberies and home invasions, kidnappings, public corruption, sexual assaults, illicit gambling, car-theft rings, dope smuggling, and arms trafficking.

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University of North Texas Press

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1574417401

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9781574417401

Single Season Sitcoms of the 1980s

A Complete Guide

By: Bob Leszczak

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Single Season Sitcoms of the 1980s

A Complete Guide

By: Bob Leszczak

As the cable TV industry exploded in the 1980s, offering viewers dozens of channels, an unprecedented number of series were produced. For every successful sitcom--The Golden Girls, Family Ties, Newhart--there were flops such as Take Five with George Segal, Annie McGuire with Mary Tyler Moore, One Big Family with Danny Thomas and Life with Lucy starring Lucille Ball, proving that a big name does not a hit show make. Other short-lived series were springboards for future stars, like Day by Day (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), The Duck Factory (Jim Carrey), Raising Miranda (Bryan Cranston) and Square Pegs (Sarah Jessica Parker). This book unearths many single-season sitcoms of the '80s, providing behind-the-scenes stories from cast members, guest stars, writers, producers and directors.

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McFarland

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0786499583

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Textbook of Malignant Haematology

By: Laurent Degos,David C Linch,Bob Löwenberg

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Textbook of Malignant Haematology

By: Laurent Degos,David C Linch,Bob Löwenberg

This textbook provides a concise overview of malignant haematology, including reviews of cell and molecular biology, and implications for new trends in treatment.

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CRC Press

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1853173223

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9781853173226

A Parent/Teacher Guide to Children's Books on Peace and Tolerance

By: Bob Blumenthal

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A Parent/Teacher Guide to Children's Books on Peace and Tolerance

By: Bob Blumenthal

How do you teach children to value peace and appreciate diversity? One way is to provide them with books with themes that promote these ideas. The Parent / Teacher Guide to Children's Books on Peace and Tolerance offers readers a wide variety of award-winning titles along with annotations and grade level recommendations. The book is divided into the following sections: Preschool - grade three Grades 4 - 6 Middle school, and High school. Each section has over 100 listings. Topics include civil rights, the Holocaust, slavery, Native Americans, bullying, war, child abuse, bigotry, cooperation, acceptance, apartheid, family relationships, Arab/Israeli conflict, controlling anger, the Civil War, the Vietnam War, WWII, gays and lesbians, and other social issues. Many of these books are the recipients of the following awards and honors: Newbery Award, School Library Journal (starred review), Caldecott Award, Boston Globe Horn Book Award, American Library Association Notable Book, Jane Addams Children's Book Award, American Bookseller - Pick of the List, Kirkus Reviews (starred review), Publishers Weekly (starred review), Booklist (starred review), Coretta Scott King Award, VOYA Top Picks, National Book Award, and the Michael L. Printz Award. This guide is an excellent resource for parents who would like their children to become peace-loving, accepting adults. Teachers who are looking for books to supplement their curriculum will find the suggested titles to be among the best written works in the designated areas. For example, one would be hard pressed to find a better written book on the Holocaust for middle and high school students than I Have Lived One Thousand Years. The author has done a great service by providing parents and teachers with a list of books that cannot be found anywhere else.

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Trafford Publishing

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1412042593

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9781412042598

Birdville School; A Portrait of Small-Town America in the 20th Century

By: Bob Barrage

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Birdville School; A Portrait of Small-Town America in the 20th Century

By: Bob Barrage

Birdville School opened in 1922 on the corner of two dirt roads at the edge of a fallow farm. Over the next 67 school years it witnessed, and influenced, the unfolding story of the town that grew up around it, amid flood, brushfire, blizzard, tornado, and earthquake; poverty and prosperity; war, peace, and cold war; and even the collapse of the earth beneath its foundations. Its auditorium and cafeteria hosted PTA meetings, plays, movies, concerts, basketball tournaments, holiday parties, Girl Scout and Boy Scout meetings, polio vaccination clinics, and war-time rationing registrations and scrap-collection drives. Local sand-lot softball, baseball, and football teams competed in the same surrounding fields that swarmed with gleeful children at recess, and that echoed with the roar of low-flying aircrafts snagging mailbags on their tail hooks. Among its staff were thespians, musicians, firemen, outdoorsmen, and athletes, including a singer who performed in the Coolidge White House, a candidate for the state legislature, an army medic, and a ball player who faced off against the Homestead Grays and the Pittsburgh Pirates. By the time classes concluded for the last time in 1989, thousands of children - including the author - had benefitted from the care, instruction, and example of the Birdville School family. This book is a feeble tribute to those who made us who we are.

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Lulu.com

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1732956103

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9781732956100

Etowah County

By: Bob Scarboro,Mike Goodson

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Etowah County

By: Bob Scarboro,Mike Goodson

Drawing from, among other sources, the collection of famed photographer Adolph Lebourg, a French immigrant who traveled to Alabama with a circus, Scarboro and Goodson combine wonderful images with insightful text to provide a unique look at the countys heritage. Especially evident in Lebourgs photographs is a passion for motorcycles, providing a great point of interest for many of the books images. Etowah County includes such points of interest as the Kyle Home, which once stood on the present site of the Etowah County Courthouse, the home of Alabama Power Company founder W.P. Lay, and several of the countys early movie theaters. Many local businesses and industries are highlighted in the early years of their existence. Also included are glimpses of such local events as parades, sporting events, and the beautiful Nocallula Falls. Whether one is a longtime resident familiar with all the area has to offer, or a newcomer eager to learn more of the countys heritage, Etowah County is a wonderful look at days gone by.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439612595

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9781439612590

Destination Mexico

Planning a Cruise to Mexico

By: Carolyn Mehaffy,Bob Mehaffy

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Destination Mexico

Planning a Cruise to Mexico

By: Carolyn Mehaffy,Bob Mehaffy

Destination Mexico tells everything you need to know about getting yourself and your boat ready for a cruise of weeks or months in Mexican waters. For the practical, hands-on pleasure boat skipper, whether power or sail, you'll find advice on clothing and provisions, recreational and galley equipment, toiletries and medical aids. The authors, veterans of Mexican cruising, guide you through the intricacies of government paperwork, insurance, even crew selection and buddy boats. The second half comprises an alphabetical listing of equipment you are likely to need including electrical, mechanical and navigational gear.

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Paradise Cay Publications

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0939837412

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9780939837410

Johnny Wilson

First Hawaiian Democrat

By: Bob Krauss

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Johnny Wilson

First Hawaiian Democrat

By: Bob Krauss

Entrepreneur, impresario, engineer: Johnny Wilson was all of these, in addition to being one of Hawai'i's most formidable politicians. This is the first biography of John Henry Wilson, whose career spanned the first half of the twentieth century and the wide gulf between Hawaiian monarchy and Hawai'i statehood. Born in 1871, the son of Queen Liliuokalani's marshal, the part-Hawaiian, part-Tahitian, part-Scot, part-Irish road contractor cum music promoter ran for his first political office at age forty-seven, as a reluctant senatorial candidate for the Democratic party - at the time known as "the party of the unwashed." Wilson lost the race but went on to win many others, serving as Democratic national committeeman for three decades and as mayor of Honolulu for fourteen years between 1920 and 1954." "Many facets of Wilson's life dramatize that colorful transition period in Hawai'i's history. As the son of a royal official, Wilson harbored his own ideas about the revolt that overthrew the monarchy. His diaries provide important historical information about early Hawaiian music and dance. The dreams and accomplishments of this early union sympathizer and founder of Hawai'i's Democratic party constitute a unique political history of the territory almost in its entirety. In his familiar, engaging style, veteran newspaper reporter Bob Krauss has recorded the legend of Johnny Wilson.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824815777

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Country Music Records

A Discography, 1921-1942

By: Tony Russell,Bob Pinson,Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum (Nashville, Tenn.)

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Country Music Records

A Discography, 1921-1942

By: Tony Russell,Bob Pinson,Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum (Nashville, Tenn.)

More than twenty years in the making, Country Music Records documents all country music recording sessions from 1921 through 1942. With primary research based on files and session logs from record companies, interviews with surviving musicians, as well as the 200,000 recordings archived at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum's Frist Library and Archives, this notable work is the first compendium to accurately report the key details behind all the recording sessions of country music during the pre-World War II era. This discography documents--in alphabetical order by artist--every commercial country music recording, including unreleased sides, and indicates, as completely as possible, the musicians playing at every session, as well as instrumentation. This massive undertaking encompasses 2,500 artists, 5,000 session musicians, and 10,000 songs. Summary histories of each key record company are also provided, along with a bibliography. The discography includes indexes to all song titles and musicians listed.

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New York : Oxford University Press

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0195139895

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9780195139891

Christians Meeting Hindus

An Analysis and Theological Critique of the Hindu-Christian Encounter in India

By: Bob Robinson

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Christians Meeting Hindus

An Analysis and Theological Critique of the Hindu-Christian Encounter in India

By: Bob Robinson

With rare exceptions, serious intentional, reflective and sustained interfaith encounter is a novel and recent enterprise. This book looks in detail at one such encounter--the intentional recent Hindu-Christian dialog in India--and asks why and how the practice of dialog came to replace previous attitudes of confrontation and monologue (especially on the part of Christians). Part I sets the encounter in its global context. Part II offers a comprehensive and critical analysis of the actual encounter. Part III draws on aspects of the Christian tradition as it critically examines the ways in which the dialog has been justified in Christological categories. A final chapter discusses the future of the encounter. Unlike many other works in the area of interfaith studies, this work combines both descriptive detail of the actual encounter and critical theological analysis of the strengths and weakness of the dialog model.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1610975960

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9781610975964

Teaching Literature to Adolescents

By: Richard Beach,Deborah Appleman,Bob Fecho,Rob Simon

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Teaching Literature to Adolescents

By: Richard Beach,Deborah Appleman,Bob Fecho,Rob Simon

This popular textbook introduces prospective and practicing English teachers to current methods of teaching literature in middle and high school classrooms. It underscores the value of providing students with a range of different critical approaches and tools for interpreting texts and the need to organize literature instruction around topics and issues of interest to them. Throughout the textbook, readers are encouraged to raise and explore inquiry-based questions in response to authentic dilemmas and issues they face in the critical literature classroom. New in this edition, the text shows how these approaches to fostering responses to literature also work as rich tools to address the Common Core English Language Arts Standards. Each chapter is organized around specific questions that English educators often hear in working with pre-service teachers. Suggested pedagogical methods are modelled by inviting readers to interact with the book through critical-inquiry methods for responding to texts. Readers are engaged in considering authentic dilemmas and issues facing literature teachers through inquiry-based responses to authentic case narratives. A Companion Website [http://teachingliterature.pbworks.com] provides resources and enrichment activities, inviting teachers to consider important issues in the context of their current or future classrooms.

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Routledge

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1317486889

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9781317486886

An Anthology of Visual Double Stars

By: Bob Argyle,Mike Swan,Andrew James

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An Anthology of Visual Double Stars

By: Bob Argyle,Mike Swan,Andrew James

Modern telescopes of even modest aperture can show thousands of double stars. Many are faint and unremarkable but hundreds are worth searching out. Veteran double-star observer Bob Argyle and his co-authors take a close-up look at their selection of 175 of the night sky's most interesting double and multiple stars. The history of each system is laid out from the original discovery to what we know at the present time about the stars. Wide-field finder charts are presented for each system along with plots of the apparent orbits and predicted future positions for the orbital systems. Recent measurements of each system are included which will help you to decide whether they can be seen in your telescope, as well as giving advice on the aperture needed. Double star observers of all levels of experience will treasure the level of detail in this guide to these jewels of the night sky.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108601707

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9781108601702

See the End First

3 Simple Yet Difficult Rules of Success

By: Bob Crumley

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See the End First

3 Simple Yet Difficult Rules of Success

By: Bob Crumley

Are you so wrapped up in the day-to-day tasks of working hard that you've never stopped to figure out where you want to go? Maybe you have goals for yourself, your family, your career, your business and employees, but you face challenges in realizing your dreams. Maybe you worked hard and had achieved success, but today's economy knocked you down. Can you name all fifty states or even all Ten Commandments? How can you remember 282 success principles for business or for life in general? And why should you when there are really only three simple, yet difficult rules for success? If you'd like to get started, or need to start over, on creating the life you truly want, you can do it. With profound and profoundly simple concepts, this book will point you in the right direction and provide you with a roadmap to your destination. Learn to See the End First and live the Three Simple Yet Difficult Rules of Success and you will succeed! - Deciding what you want and understanding what it looks like when you get there is the hardest work you will ever do, but it is the most important work on the journey. You must see the end first! - If we are too fearful of failure, we can go overboard on the work aspect of becoming successful. We can become workaholics or "successaholics." To be truly successful requires balance. We need to play, not just work. We need to build up those around us and not just our own personal success. - What is important in your life? In your heart? What gives you joy, when do you feel maximized, alive and energized? Take an inventory of what you spend your time doing. There you will either find your passion or you will find what holds you back. Are you living a life of quiet desperation, or are you marching toward those things you hold dear? - Sometimes you have to cut off the avenues of retreat to keep your attitude where it needs to be in that moment.

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Brain & Behavior

An Introduction to Behavioral Neuroscience

By: Bob Garrett,Gerald Hough

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Brain & Behavior

An Introduction to Behavioral Neuroscience

By: Bob Garrett,Gerald Hough

Ignite your students’ excitement about behavioral neuroscience with Brain & Behavior: An Introduction to Behavioral Neuroscience, Fifth Edition by best-selling author Bob Garrett and new co-author Gerald Hough. Garrett and Hough make the field accessible by inviting students to explore key theories and scientific discoveries using detailed illustrations and immersive examples as their guide. Spotlights on case studies, current events, and research findings help students make connections between the material and their own lives. A study guide, revised artwork, new animations, and an interactive eBook stimulate deep learning and critical thinking. A Complete Teaching & Learning Package Contact your rep to request a demo, answer your questions, and find the perfect combination of tools and resources below to fit your unique course needs. SAGE Premium Video Stories of Brain & Behavior and Figures Brought to Life videos bring concepts to life through original animations and easy-to-follow narrations. Watch a sample. Interactive eBook Your students save when you bundle the print version with the Interactive eBook (Bundle ISBN: 978-1-5443-1607-9), which includes access to SAGE Premium Video and other multimedia tools. Learn more. SAGE coursepacks SAGE coursepacks makes it easy to import our quality instructor and student resource content into your school’s learning management system (LMS). Intuitive and simple to use, SAGE coursepacks allows you to customize course content to meet your students’ needs. Learn more. SAGE edge This companion website offers both instructors and students a robust online environment with an impressive array of teaching and learning resources. Learn more. Study Guide The completely revised Study Guide offers students even more opportunities to practice and master the material. Bundle it with the core text for only $5 more! Learn more.

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I Should Be Dead

My Life Surviving Politics, TV, and Addiction

By: Bob Beckel,John David Mann

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I Should Be Dead

My Life Surviving Politics, TV, and Addiction

By: Bob Beckel,John David Mann

From Bob Beckel, the popular co-host of "The Five" on Fox News Channel, a deeply moving, redemptive memoir about his life as a political operative and diplomat, his long struggle with alcohol and drugs, and his unlikely journey to finding faith. Growing up poor in an abusive home, Bob Beckel learned to be a survivor: to avoid conflict, mask his feelings, and to lie--all skills that served him well in Washington, where he would become the youngest-ever Deputy Assistant Secretary of State and manage Walter Mondale's 1984 presidential campaign. But Beckel was living a double life. On January 20, 2001--George W. Bush's first Inauguration Day--he hit rock bottom, waking up in the psych ward. Written with captivating honesty, Beckel chronicles how his addictions nearly killed him until he found help in an unexpected ally, conservative Cal Thomas, who helped him find faith, get sober, and get his life back on track.

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Winchester Warriors

Texas Rangers of Company D, 1874-1901

By: Bob Alexander

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Winchester Warriors

Texas Rangers of Company D, 1874-1901

By: Bob Alexander

Winchester Warriors: Texas Rangers of Company Dm, 1874-1901 is Number 6 in the Frances B. Vick Series.

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From Patent to Profit

Secrets & Strategies for the Successful Inventor

By: Bob DeMatteis

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From Patent to Profit

Secrets & Strategies for the Successful Inventor

By: Bob DeMatteis

Having a novel idea and turning that idea into cash is not as simple as it sounds. To help innovative individuals learn to navigate around the many pitfalls of inventing, Bob DeMatteis has written From Patent to Profit, an up-to-date guide to all of the important steps involved in taking a product from the drawing board to market. Whether you are a professional inventor, a part-time dabbler, or just a clever daydreamer, From Patent to Profit can help make your dreams a reality.

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Cloning Agricultural Plants Via in Vitro Techniques

By: Bob V. Conger

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Cloning Agricultural Plants Via in Vitro Techniques

By: Bob V. Conger

The purpose of this book is to provide a reference guide on principles and practices of cloning agricultural plants via in vitro techniques for scientists, students, commercial propagators, and other individuals who are interested in plant cell and tissue culture especially its application for cloning.Plant cell and tissue culture generated much excitement during 1970‘s concerning the potential application of the technology for improving important agricultural crop plants. This originates from the demonstration of cellular totipotency, or the ability to regenerate whole plants from single cells, and the successful creation of hybrids by somatic cell fusion in some species. There are several areas of in vitro culture which have potential practical application. The most practical application is deemed as cloning or mass propagation of selected genotypes. This is evidenced by the large number of commercial firms engaged in propagating a variety of plants through tissue culture.

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The USA TODAY College Football Encyclopedia 2008-2009

A Comprehensive Modern Reference to America's Most Colorful Sport, 1953-Present

By: Bob Boyles,Paul Guido

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The USA TODAY College Football Encyclopedia 2008-2009

A Comprehensive Modern Reference to America's Most Colorful Sport, 1953-Present

By: Bob Boyles,Paul Guido

The result of 15 years of exhaustive research, this work is the definitive statistical and factual reference for everything related to college football in the past 50 years.

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The USA TODAY College Football Encyclopedia 2009-2010

By: Bob Boyles,Paul Guido

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The USA TODAY College Football Encyclopedia 2009-2010

By: Bob Boyles,Paul Guido

The most comprehensive resource on college football ever published.

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LANGE Q&A Physician Assistant Examination, Seventh Edition

By: Rachel Carlson,Albert F. Simon,Bob McMullen

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LANGE Q&A Physician Assistant Examination, Seventh Edition

By: Rachel Carlson,Albert F. Simon,Bob McMullen

The most complete question-and-answer review for the PANCE and PANRE—now fully revised and updated Lange Q&A Physician Assistant Examination is filled with over 1,300 Q&As that help you gear up for the PANCE and PANRE. All questions appear in the style you will see on the actual exam, and are accompanied by a detailed answer explanation and references. In addition, each question in this skill-sharpening guide is conveniently organized by organ system or specialty area to help you quickly zero in on areas of strength and weakness. A valuable opening chapter on test-taking skills and techniques provides score-boosting hints on how to best prepare for taking the exam. Also included with the book is access to one complete online practice test that simulates the test-taking experience. The content of Lange Q&A Physician Assistant Examination is reviewed by a team of PA students for accuracy and relevancy and is organized by organ system and specialty areas of practice. The seventh edition of this first-rate test-prep tool is thoroughly revised with 40% new Q&As. The book is also redesigned in an eye-catching 2-color layout that enhances readability and review of the material. Taken together, Lange Q&A Physician Assistant Examination has everything you need to ace the PANCE and PANRE. More than 1,300 multiple choice questions with detailed answer explanations and references you will encounter on the national certification and recertification exams Includes 40% new Q&As, 25 additional illustrations and images, and full-color dermatology images Provides authoritative coverage of internal medicine and surgery subspecialties Companion online practice test for the most thorough preparation possible

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Boston

By: Deirdre Wilson,Christine Battuz,Bob Kirner

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Boston

By: Deirdre Wilson,Christine Battuz,Bob Kirner

Whether you're a parent, an educator or a tourist, if you're caring for children between the ages of 1 and 12, this book is the perfect answer to that all-too-common question: "What's there to do today?

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