Bob Laroche's Books

Holy Terror

Andy Warhol Close Up

By: Bob Colacello

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In the 1960s, Andy Warhol’s paintings redefined modern art. His films provoked heated controversy, and his Factory was a hangout for the avant-garde. In the 1970s, after Valerie Solanas’s attempt on his life, Warhol become more entrepreneurial, aligning himself with the rich and famous. Bob Colacello, the editor of Warhol’s Interview magazine, spent that decade by Andy’s side as employee, collaborator, wingman, and confidante. In these pages, Colacello takes us there with Andy: into the Factory office, into Studio 54, into wild celebrity-studded parties, and into the early-morning phone calls where the mysterious artist was at his most honest and vulnerable. Colacello gives us, as no one else can, a riveting portrait of this extraordinary man: brilliant, controlling, shy, insecure, and immeasurably influential. When Holy Terror was first published in 1990, it was hailed as the best of the Warhol accounts. Now, some two decades later, this portrayal retains its hold on readers—as does Andy’s timeless power to fascinate, galvanize, and move us.

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Vintage

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0804169861

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The 66 Kid

By: Bob Boze Bell

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The 66 Kid

By: Bob Boze Bell

It's the most famous highway in the world - find out, or remember, why. Tens of thousands of travelers from around the world spend millions of dollars every year trying to recapture the aura of a simpler time. When gasoline can top $4 a gallon and Route 66 is, in many ways, a shell of its former glory, what keeps them coming? Author Bob Boze Bell, a lifelong resident of Kingman, Arizona (one of the quintessential Route 66 towns), has accumulated a unique sense of the Mother Road's history, not to mention friendships with folks from Kingman and other Route 66 communities. In The 66 Kid--part autobiography, part narrative history, part oral history - Bell offers a highly illustrated account of the world's most famous highway full of the author's personal observations and recollections, and exciting first-person accounts from people who lived, worked, and played along the road. Bell digs deep into the roots of the Route 66, offering insights into the people who made it run: from the neon-lit motels to the greasy-spoon diners, and even the shady roadside attractions. Illustrated with period postcards and photos, as well as the author's own maps and art created for this project, The 66 Kid proves that you can still get your kicks on Route 66.

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Voyageur Press

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1627883800

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9781627883801

The Business Environment 7e

By: Adrian Palmer,Bob Hartley

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The Business Environment 7e

By: Adrian Palmer,Bob Hartley

The seventh edition of The Business Environment has been perfectly tailored to cover the core topics that will be studied on an introductory Business Environment module. This fully updated new edition provides comprehensive coverage of the varying factors that make up the business environment, with a particular focus on how these factors impact business organisations and the decisions organisations make.Key Features:Up-to-date coverageThe business environment continues to evolve, and this new edition takes on board recent issues including: The after-effects of the ‘credit crunch’ The emerging economic power of China, India and Brazil Data security and privacy Business ethics Cultural identity Climate change Real life examplesNew opening vignettes introduce the main topic and show the business environment in real life. In addition, the book contains a wealth of shorter and longer case studies featuring companies such as Google, Amazon and Virgin Trains.PedagogyClearly written and user friendly, the book boasts a full range of learning tools which include: Learning Objectives, Thinking Around the Subject boxes, Review Questions, and Activities.

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McGraw Hill

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0077141385

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9780077141387

Standard Catalog of Vintage Baseball Cards

By: Bob Lemke

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Standard Catalog of Vintage Baseball Cards

By: Bob Lemke

This is the most comprehensive and respected vintage baseball card price guide on the market--considered to be the "bible" of the hobby. The Standard Catalog of Baseball Cards (2012), 21st Edition, contains thousands of card values covering cards from approximately 5,000 sets released between 1863-1981. In the 21st Edition, you'll find more than 5,000 photos, explanations for each set, unique features, size, and many additional details. Detailed pricing information and values are included. The Standard Catalog of Baseball Cards has been, and continues to be, a core title produced by Krause Publication…going on 21 years! If you collect baseball cards, this is a must-have annually!

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Penguin

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1440223823

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9781440223822

Bob Wolff's Complete Guide to Sportscasting

How to Make It in Sportscasting With or Without Talent

By: Bob Wolff

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Bob Wolff's Complete Guide to Sportscasting

How to Make It in Sportscasting With or Without Talent

By: Bob Wolff

How many sportscasters working today can say that they’ve interviewed both Babe Ruth and Derek Jeter? The answer is one, and his name is Bob Wolff. Having called everything from the World Series to the Westminster Kennel Club Show on both TV and radio, Wolff is uniquely qualified to write a comprehensive guide to the art of sportscasting. And in Bob Wolff ’s Complete Guide to Sportscasting, he pours forth sixty-plus years of experience and wisdom behind the microphone to create the definitive volume on the subject, a book that will be devoured by aspiring sportscasters for generations. Part how-to, part memoir, it’s a book that breaks down the sportscasting profession from all angles to present a step-by-step playbook for success. As Wolff explains in his introduction, it doesn’t take great talent to become a sportscaster. After all, it’s the athletes who provide the stories. The sportscaster’s job is to add information and identification, sometimes entertainment, and aim at enhancing the viewing or listening pleasure for our electronic friends at the other end. It’s nice work if you can get it, and nobody has ever enjoyed this work more than Bob Wolff. Read this book to find out why and how you, too, can do the same.

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Simon and Schuster

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1626367418

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9781626367418

Frantic Frank Lane

Baseball's Ultimate Wheeler-Dealer

By: Bob Vanderberg

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Frantic Frank Lane

Baseball's Ultimate Wheeler-Dealer

By: Bob Vanderberg

The book follows the colorful career of Frank Lane, who as baseball's busiest general manager during the 1950s made the deals that turned the Chicago White Sox, St. Louis Cardinals and Cleveland Indians from losers into pennant contenders almost overnight. He also worked--or tried to--as general manager of the Kansas City A's (Lane lasted eight months in 1961 under first-year owner Charlie Finley) and for the Milwaukee Brewers, where his boss was Bud Selig. He is best known for having traded 1959 American League home run champion Rocky Colavito to Detroit for the AL's 1959 batting champ, Harvey Kuenn, and for trading Indians manager Joe Gordon to Detroit for Tigers manager Jimmy Dykes. During his brief absence from baseball (1962-1964), he signed on as general manager of the National Basketball Association's second-year expansion team, the Chicago Zephyrs. He became a "superscout" for the Baltimore Orioles for several years and, after leaving Milwaukee, had the same job with the Texas Rangers and, finally, the California Angels. He completed well over 500 major- and minor-league transactions in his career. Joe Garagiola put it best: "They used to say that the toughest job on any club Frank Lane was running belonged to the guy who had to take the team picture.

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McFarland

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1476600376

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9781476600376

Footnotes from the World's Greatest Bookstores

True Tales and Lost Moments from Book Buyers, Booksellers, and Book Lovers

By: Bob Eckstein

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Footnotes from the World's Greatest Bookstores

True Tales and Lost Moments from Book Buyers, Booksellers, and Book Lovers

By: Bob Eckstein

A New York Times Bestseller From the beloved New Yorker cartoonist comes a collection of paintings and stories from some of the world’s most cherished bookstores. This collection of 75 evocative paintings and colorful anecdotes invites you into the heart and soul of every community: the local bookshop, each with its own quirks, charms, and legendary stories. The book features an incredible roster of great bookstores from across the globe and stories from writers, thinkers and artists of our time, including David Bowie, Tom Wolfe, Jonathan Lethem, Roz Chast, Deepak Chopra, Bob Odenkirk, Philip Glass, Jonathan Ames, Terry Gross, Mark Maron, Neil Gaiman, Ann Patchett, Chris Ware, Molly Crabapple, Amitav Ghosh, Alice Munro, Dave Eggers, and many more. Page by page, Eckstein perfectly captures our lifelong love affair with books, bookstores, and book-sellers that is at once heartfelt, bittersweet, and cheerfully confessional.

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Clarkson Potter

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0553459279

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9780553459272

Single Season Sitcoms, 1948-1979

A Complete Guide

By: Bob Leszczak

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Single Season Sitcoms, 1948-1979

A Complete Guide

By: Bob Leszczak

This book finally casts a spotlight on some short-lived and almost forgotten sitcoms--those which aired for only one single season. Many books have already been written about situation comedies that enjoyed long and storied runs on television but this volume focuses upon the others. Overflowing with fresh facts, interviews, photographs, and stories, nearly 300 short-lived sitcoms over a 32 year span are presented A-to-Z, whether network or syndicated, prime time or Saturday morning.

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McFarland

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0786493054

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9780786493050

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

Standard Catalog of Baseball Cards

By: Bob Lemke

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Standard Catalog of Baseball Cards

By: Bob Lemke

This pioneer catalog of baseball card collecting delivers the premium quality collectors have come to expect, providing an emphasis on vintage cards and collectibles through the the 1980s as well as complete checklists for more than 12,500 sets.

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0873499913

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Never Tell an Infantryman to Have a Nice Day

A History Book

By: Robert ''Bob'' Reid

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Never Tell an Infantryman to Have a Nice Day

A History Book

By: Robert ''Bob'' Reid

Tells the experiences of the author in World War II. Includes his combat experiences in the 84th Infantry Division Company H, 335th Regiment in Europe.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1453555374

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9781453555378

Exploring Trade Union Identities

Union Identity, Niche Identity and the Problem of Organizing the Unorganized

By: Smale, Bob

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Exploring Trade Union Identities

Union Identity, Niche Identity and the Problem of Organizing the Unorganized

By: Smale, Bob

The world of work has changed and so have trade unions with mergers, rebrandings and new unions being formed. The question is, how positioned are the unions to organize the unorganized? With more than three quarters of UK workers unrepresented and the growth of precarious employment and the gig economy this topical new book by Bob Smale reports up-to-date research on union identities and what he terms ‘niche unionism’, while raising critical questions for the future.

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Policy Press

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1529204089

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9781529204087

The Death of Rocketry

By: Joel Dickinson,Bob Cook

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The Death of Rocketry

By: Joel Dickinson,Bob Cook

The story of the first successful reactionless space drive and how it uncovered the greatest loophole in modern physics. Learn about Bob Cook, a legendary pioneer in the inertial propulsion field who invented and patented the Cook Coriolis (CC) drive and the Cook Inertial Propulsion (CIP) engine. This new 2012 edition updates the original 1980 publication, up to the current CID Engine Project of Bob's son, Rob, Jr. By Joel Dickinson with Bob Cook Updated and Edited by Rob Cook, Jr.

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Lulu.com

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0988975203

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9780988975200

Evocative Coaching

Transforming Schools One Conversation at a Time

By: Bob Tschannen-Moran,Megan Tschannen-Moran

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Evocative Coaching

Transforming Schools One Conversation at a Time

By: Bob Tschannen-Moran,Megan Tschannen-Moran

There?s a lot of conversation about how to make schools better. Unfortunately, the nature of those conversations often makes things worse. Evocative Coaching: Transforming Schools One Conversation at a Time maps out a way to change that. By taking a teacher-centered, no-fault, strengths-based approach to performance improvement, the Evocative Coaching model generates the motivation and movement that enables teachers and schools to achieve desired outcomes and enhance quality of life. Viewed as a dynamic dance, the model is choreographed in four steps ? Story, Empathy, Inquiry, Design ? which are each laid out in its own chapter with powerful illustrative materials and end-of-chapter discussion questions to prompt further reflection. Bringing together the best research and wisdom in educational leadership and professional coaching, authors Bob and Megan Tschannen-Moran have developed a simple yet profound way of facilitating new conversations in schools through Story Listening, Expressing Empathy, Appreciative Inquiry, and Design Thinking. It?s an iterative process that moves beyond old ways of thinking, doing, and being. It?s an inspirational process that reinvigorates the passion for making schools better, one conversation at a time. This happens when coaches: give teachers our full, undivided attention; accept and meet teachers where they are right now, without making them wrong; ask and trust teachers to take charge of their own learning and growth; make sure teachers are talking more than we are; enable teachers to appreciate the positive value of their own experiences; harness the strengths teachers have to meet challenges and overcome obstacles; reframe difficulties and challenges as opportunities to learn and grow; invite teachers to discover possibilities and find answers for themselves; dialogue with teachers regarding their higher purpose for teaching; uncover teachers? natural impulse to engage with colleagues and students; assist teachers to draw up a personal blueprint for professional mastery; support teachers in brainstorming and trying new ways of doing things; maintain an upbeat, energetic, and positive attitude at all times; collaborate with teachers to design and conduct appropriate learning experiments; enable teachers to build supportive environments and teams; use humor to lighten the load; and inspire and challenge teachers to go beyond what they would do alone. Each chapter provides a research-based theory to support the strategies presented, and includes specific suggestions and anecdotes. The Evocative Coaching model makes coaching enjoyable by getting people to focus on what they do best, and it invites larger, more integral conversations so that people talk about their work in the context of other things they care about. Resting on strong, evidence-based practices, the Evocative Coaching model offers educators the help they need to meet the challenges of increased accountability and expectations. This model can also be used effectively by coaches and leaders in other organizational contexts. Table of Contents: Chapter 1: What Is Evocative Coaching? Chapter 2: Coaching Presence Loop I: The No-Fault Turn Chapter 3: Story Listening Chapter 4: Expressing Empathy Loop II: The Strengths-Building Turn Chapter 5: Appreciative Inquiry Chapter 6: Design Thinking Chapter 7: Aligning Environments Chapter 8: Coaching Conversations Chapter 9: The Reflective Coach To learn more about Evocative Coaching and to sign up for the Evocative Coach Training Program, visit www.SchoolTransformation.com.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470630922

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9780470630921

Stupid Windows Tricks

By: Bob LeVitus

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Stupid Windows Tricks

By: Bob LeVitus

Finally, Windows users can join their PC and Macintosh compatriots in whiling away the hours Stupid Windows Tricks. With equally ridiculous programs, Windows users can transform an ordinary computer into a comedian, prankster, and friend.

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Addison Wesley Publishing Company

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0201608405

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9780201608403

The Unofficial Guide? to Paris

By: David Applefield,Bob Sehlinger

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The Unofficial Guide? to Paris

By: David Applefield,Bob Sehlinger

From the publishers of The Unofficial Guide® to Walt Disney World® "A Tourist's Best Friend!" —Chicago Sun-Times "Indispensable" —The New York Times The Top 10 Ways The Unofficial Guide® to Paris Can Help You Have the Perfect Trip: Information that's candid, critical, and totally objective Honest advice that allows you to feel safe and comfortable in the City of Light, despite the language barrier Insider tips on finding the most charming hotels—plus which rooms offer the best views More than 60 restaurants reviewed in detail and ranked for quality and value A complete guide to Paris's cultural and historic sights—with helpful hints for making the most of your time Information to help you save money, including how to exchange currency and not lose Expert advice on how to get around the city, so you can look and feel like a local The inside story on shopping—where to get the best for less All the details on how to enjoy Paris with your kids Everything you need to plan the Paris vacation that's right for you Get the unbiased truth on hundreds of hotels, restaurants, attractions, and more in The Unofficial Guide® to Paris—the resource that helps you save money, save time, and make your trip the best it can be. Find us online at www.frommers.com

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Wiley

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0028630955

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9780028630953

More to Life Than Having it All

By: Bob Welch

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More to Life Than Having it All

By: Bob Welch

By the end of the day, it can feel like a moral victory to have a measurable pulse! From his front-row seat as an award-winning journalist, Bob Welch offers insight on how we can shed cultural values for eternal ones.

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Eugene, OR : Harvest House Publishers

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0890818924

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9780890818923

Stupid PC Tricks

By: Bob LeVitus,Ed Tittel

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Stupid PC Tricks

By: Bob LeVitus,Ed Tittel

This unique book/disk package offers an amazing collection of zany and hilarious software for the IBM PC or compatible--withinstallation instructions and suggestions for how to best entertain and annoy co-workers and friends.

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Addison Wesley Publishing Company

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0201577593

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9780201577594

Garage Sale and Flea Market Annual

By: Sharon Huxford,Bob Huxford

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Garage Sale and Flea Market Annual

By: Sharon Huxford,Bob Huxford

Packed with descriptions and current values for items readily available at flea markets or garage sales, this book contains listings for 25,000 collectables representing virtually every collectable category on today's market: old books, ornaments, toys, cookie jars, and movie memorabilia. 750 photos.

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1574321110

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9781574321111

The Illustrated History of the Snowman

By: Bob Eckstein

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The Illustrated History of the Snowman

By: Bob Eckstein

A thoroughly entertaining exploration, this book travels back in time to shed light on the snowman's enigmatic past -- from the present day, in which the snowman reigns as the King of Kitsch, to the Dark Ages, with the creation of the very first snowman. Eckstein's curiosity began playfully enough, but soon snowballed into a (mostly) earnest quest of chasing Frosty around the world, into museums and libraries, and seeking out the advice of leading historians and scholars. The result is a riveting history that reaches back through centuries and across cultures -- sweeping from fifteenth-century Italian snowballs to eighteenth-century Russian ice sculptures to the regrettable "white-trash years" (1975-2000). The snowman is not just part of our childhood memories, but is an integral part of our world culture, appearing -- much like a frozen Forrest Gump -- alongside dignitaries and celebrities during momentous events. Again and again, the snowman pops up in rare prints, paintings, early movies, advertising and, over the past century, in every art form imaginable. And the jolly snowman -- ostensibly as pure as the driven snow -- also harbors a dark past full of political intrigue, sex, and violence. With over two hundred illustrations, The Illustrated History of the Snowman is a truly original winter classic -- smart, surprisingly enlightening, and quite simply the coolest book ever.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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149303667X

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9781493036677

Cocoa, Florida

A History

By: Bob Harvey

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Cocoa, Florida

A History

By: Bob Harvey

Cocoa is the gateway to America's Spaceport. But before it became the tourist haven it is today, it was a small village settled by fishermen and their families. The city's location on the Indian River Lagoon made it central to early steamboat passage and breathed life into fishing and commerce. After World War II, the space age brought science and engineering to nearby Cape Canaveral. The city also has a history of baseball nearly as long as the sport itself. It was home to the Cocoa Fliers of the 1940s and hosted the Houston Colt 45s during spring training for twenty years. Join author Bob Harvey as he recounts the sunny history of one of the Space Coast's oldest cities.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1625849583

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9781625849588

Saltwater Angler's Guide to the Southeast

Fly Fishing and Light Tackle

By: Bob Newman

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Saltwater Angler's Guide to the Southeast

Fly Fishing and Light Tackle

By: Bob Newman

This is the first book in our new Saltwater Angler's Guide Series. Saltwater is the newest frontier for flyfishers, with new techniques for taking fish being created almost daily. These burgeoning fisheries are an untapped source of exciting sport for flyrodders and light tackle enthusiasts both. This guide covers over 50 species of fish in great detail: habits, habitat, seasonal movement, fishing techniques, distribution maps, and more. From the famous waters of the Outer Banks of North Carolina to the southern border of Georgia, there are detailed descriptions of every bay, river, sound, estuary, flat, and how to fish each. Tides, seasonal movements of fish, boating tactics, innovative techniques for taking fish near the surface, access points, accurate maps and map sources, guides, fly shops, accommodations, and much more are covered here for the first time ever in detail. Saltwater angling is the fastest growing segment of the market, and this guide will lead the way.

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Wilderness Adventures Press

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1885106394

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9781885106391

Huxford's Old Book

Value Guide

By: Bob Huxford,Sharon Huxford

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Huxford's Old Book

Value Guide

By: Bob Huxford,Sharon Huxford

25,000 listings of old books with current values.

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1574320572

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Adams Jobs Almanac, 1997

By: Bob Adams Publishers

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Adams Jobs Almanac, 1997

By: Bob Adams Publishers

The Adams Jobs Almanac provides an unprecedented amount of information on career opportunities and strategies. The book includes: - Names and addresses for thousands of leading employers nationwide - Information for which jobs each company commonly hires - Industry forecasts and geographical cross-references - Job outlooks for a variety of professions - Multiple extensive indexes - Advice on preparing resumes and succeeding at interviews - The latest information on online job resources With annually updated information, The Adams Jobs Almanac is the most comprehensive national career reference guide available!

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1558506489

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9781558506480

Rethinking Drug Use in Sport

Why the war will never be won

By: Bob Stewart,Aaron Smith

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Rethinking Drug Use in Sport

Why the war will never be won

By: Bob Stewart,Aaron Smith

Drug free sport is an unattainable aspiration. In this critical, paradigm-shifting reappraisal of contemporary drug policy in sport, Bob Stewart and Aaron Smith argue that drug use in sport is an inexorable consequence of the nature, structure and culture of sport itself. By de-mythologising and de-moralising the assumptions that prop up current drug management controls, and re-emphasising the importance of the long-term well being and civil rights of the athlete, they offer a powerful argument for creating a legitimate space for drug use in sport. The book offers a broad ranging overview of the social and commercial pressures impelling drug use, and maps the full historical and social extent of the problem. With policy analysis at the centre of the discussion, the book explores the complete range of social, management, policy, scientific, technological and health issues around drugs in sport, highlighting the irresolvable tension between the zero-tolerance model as advanced by WADA and the harm-reduction approach adopted by drug education and treatment agencies. While there are no simple solutions, as long as drugs use is endemic in wider society the authors argue that a more nuanced and progressive approach is required in order to safeguard and protect the health, social liberty and best interests of athletes and sports people, as well as the value of sport itself.

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Routledge

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1135118477

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9781135118471

Micah

A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary

By: Bob Becking

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Micah

A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary

By: Bob Becking

A new translation and commentary on the biblical book of Micah that proposes a convincing new theory of its composition history While the biblical book of Micah is most famous for its images of peace—swords forged into to plowshares, spears turned into pruning hooks—and its passages of prophetic hope, the book is largely composed of prophecies of ruin. The historical Micah, who likely lived in the late eighth century BCE, is the first recorded prophet to predict the fateful fall of Jerusalem, and he also foretells the destruction of the regions of Samaria and Judah, in addition to the more well-known promises of Judah’s eventual restoration. Bob Becking translates the Hebrew text anew and illuminates the book’s most important elements, including its literary features, political context, and composition history. Drawing on ancient Near Eastern comparative evidence, archaeological notes, and inscriptions, Becking surveys the debates surrounding the book’s interpretation and argues that it be regarded as three separate source texts: the early first chapter; a large middle section containing a proto-apocalyptic, alternating prophetic futurology collected and molded by a later redactor; and an added section advocating for legal reform under Josiah.

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Yale University Press

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0300160194

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9780300160192

If These Walls Could Talk: Milwaukee Brewers

Stories from the Milwaukee Brewers Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box

By: Bill Schroeder,Drew Olson,Craig Counsell,Bob Uecker

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If These Walls Could Talk: Milwaukee Brewers

Stories from the Milwaukee Brewers Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box

By: Bill Schroeder,Drew Olson,Craig Counsell,Bob Uecker

Now fully revised and updated for 2023! Chronicling the Brewers from the Suds Series of 1982 to the MVP season of Christian Yelich in 2018, and from Bambi's Bombers of the late '70s to Harvey's Wallbangers of the early '80s, Bill Schroeder, a longtime Brewers color commentator and former Brewers catcher, provides insight into the Brewers inner sanctum as only he can. Read about what goes on in the equipment and training rooms, how batting practice can be chaotic, what it's like to travel with the team, and off-the-wall anecdotes, like the time Steve Sparks injured his shoulder trying to rip a phone book in half after listening to a motivational speaker.

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Triumph Books

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163727453X

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9781637274538

Real-Time Digital Signal Processing

Fundamentals, Implementations and Applications

By: Sen M. Kuo,Bob H. Lee,Wenshun Tian

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Real-Time Digital Signal Processing

Fundamentals, Implementations and Applications

By: Sen M. Kuo,Bob H. Lee,Wenshun Tian

Combines both the DSP principles and real-time implementations and applications, and now updated with the new eZdsp USB Stick, which is very low cost, portable and widely employed at many DSP labs. Real-Time Digital Signal Processing introduces fundamental digital signal processing (DSP) principles and will be updated to include the latest DSP applications, introduce new software development tools and adjust the software design process to reflect the latest advances in the field. In the 3rd edition of the book, the key aspect of hands-on experiments will be enhanced to make the DSP principles more interesting and directly interact with the real-world applications. All of the programs will be carefully updated using the most recent version of software development tools and the new TMS320VC5505 eZdsp USB Stick for real-time experiments. Due to its lower cost and portability, the new software and hardware tools are now widely used in university labs and in commercial industrial companies to replace the older and more expensive generation. The new edition will have a renewed focus on real-time applications and will offer step-by-step hands-on experiments for a complete design cycle starting from floating-point C language program to fixed-point C implementation, code optimization using INTRINSICS, and mixed C-and-assembly programming on fixed-point DSP processors. This new methodology enables readers to concentrate on learning DSP fundamentals and innovative applications by relaxing the intensive programming efforts, namely, the traditional DSP assembly coding efforts. The book is organized into two parts; Part One introduces the digital signal processing principles and theories, and Part Two focuses on practical applications. The topics for the applications are the extensions of the theories in Part One with an emphasis placed on the hands-on experiments, systematic design and implementation approaches. The applications provided in the book are carefully chosen to reflect current advances of DSP that are of most relevance for the intended readership. Combines both the DSP principles and real-time implementations and applications using the new eZdsp USB Stick, which is very low cost, portable and widely employed at many DSP labs is now used in the new edition Places renewed emphasis on C-code experiments and reduces the exercises using assembly coding; effective use of C programming, fixed-point C code and INTRINSICS will become the main focus of the new edition. Updates to application areas to reflect latest advances such as speech coding techniques used for next generation networks (NGN), audio coding with surrounding sound, wideband speech codec (ITU G.722.2 Standard), fingerprint for image processing, and biomedical signal processing examples. Contains new addition of several projects that can be used as semester projects; as well as new many new real-time experiments using TI’s binary libraries – the experiments are prepared with flexible interface and modular for readers to adapt and modify to create other useful applications from the provided basic programs. Consists of more MATLAB experiments, such as filter design, algorithm evaluation, proto-typing for C-code architecture, and simulations to aid readers to learn DSP fundamentals. Includes supplementary material of program and data files for examples, applications, and experiments hosted on a companion website. A valuable resource for Postgraduate students enrolled on DSP courses focused on DSP implementation & applications as well as Senior undergraduates studying DSP; engineers and programmers who need to learn and use DSP principles and development tools for their projects.

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Garage Sale and Flea Market Annual

Cashing in on Today's Lucrative Collectibles Market

By: Bob Huxford,Sharon Huxford

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Garage Sale and Flea Market Annual

Cashing in on Today's Lucrative Collectibles Market

By: Bob Huxford,Sharon Huxford

Packed with descriptions and current values for nearly 25,000 collectibles, representing virtually every collectible category on today's market--old books, sports cards, ornaments, toys, '50s glassware, just to name a few--this guide also provides expert advice on recognizing great buys, reselling items, or holding a successful sales.

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1574320467

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Adams Jobs Almanac 1998

By: Bob Adams Publishers,Adams Media

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Adams Jobs Almanac 1998

By: Bob Adams Publishers,Adams Media

Providing an unprecedented amount of information on career opportunities and strategies, the Adams Job Almanac is the most comprehensive national career reference guide available.

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1558507523

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Climate Change

Briefings from Southern Africa

By: Mary Scholes,Robert (Bob) Scholes,Mike Lucas

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Climate Change

Briefings from Southern Africa

By: Mary Scholes,Robert (Bob) Scholes,Mike Lucas

Climate change affects us all, but it can be a confusing business. In this book, three scientists with several decades of experience in assessing the potential effects of climate change for the southern African region share their insights. Complex issues are dealt with in plain language, without oversimplification and with attention to accuracy. The material is up-to-date as is possible in such a fast-developing field. Climate Change: Briefings from Southern Africa takes the form of 55 'frequently-asked' questions', each with a brief and clear reply. It is illustrated with colour diagrams and photographs, and examples are tailored to the regional context. The authors' introduction provides an overview of current national and international policies aimed at regulating climate change. The content is divided into four sections, which take the reader through the science of how climate system works; the projected impacts in southern Africa during the twenty-first century; what this means for the South African economy and society; and what can be done to avoid harm. The briefings can be read alone or in sequence. The year 2015 is regarded as a watershed for global climate change action if a global average temperature rise of more than two degrees abbove the pre-Industrial level is to be avoided. This book provides compelling evidence that the impact on agriculture, fisheries, water resources, human health, plants and animals as well as sea levels will be dangerous. However, the book ends on a positive note by offering advice on how the world can avoid such bleak outcomes, while allowing a good life for all. The volume is aimed at interested non-scientists, including business people, decision-makers, ordinary citizens and students

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