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Jeanne Carmen

MY WILD, WILD LIFE as a New York Pin Up Queen

By: Brandon James

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Jeanne Carmen

MY WILD, WILD LIFE as a New York Pin Up Queen

By: Brandon James

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Jeanne Carmen

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0595409067

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Whispers in the Night

By: Brandon Massey

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Whatever you do, don’t turn off the lights… Cross the threshold into one man’s tortured mind, haunted by the mocking voices of his youth. Quench your insatiable thirst for terror at a bar where the drinks are abominable and the patrons never leave. Relive the harrowing Middle Passage that brought millions of African slaves to America—but this time with a spellbinding twist. Meet the malevolent entities that feed on human misery in the midst of a hurricane’s wrath. Endure a sweltering summer on a swamp inhabited by predatory spirits. From pulsating ecstasy to unspeakable tragedy, submit to the irresistible pull of the unknown in nineteen stories that will illuminate the horrors within—and without… Anthony Beal * Michael Boatman * Maurice Broaddus * Chesya Burke * Christopher Chambers * Lexi Davis * B. Gordon Doyle * Tananarive Due * Dameon Edwards * Robert Fleming * Rickey Windell George * L.R. Giles * Lawana James-Holland * Tish Jackson * Tenea Johnson * Brandon Massey * Terence Taylor * Randy Walker * Wrath James White PRAISE FOR WHISPERS IN THE NIGHT “Massey has another slam dunk with his third Dark Dreams anthology…excellent series. —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

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Kensington Books

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1617736090

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9781617736094

Good for Nothing

By: Brandon Graham

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Good for Nothing

By: Brandon Graham

Enchanted by Good For Nothing..." --Stephen Fry "This book could be the lovechild of Bill Bryson and Martin Amis.... But at its heart is a very serious point. It is about the tsunami of destruction that has hit Middle America since the financial crisis." --Daily Mail Flip Mellis believes his recent past would be best described as: a man with his feet planted on terra firma. As a husband and father, he was a consistent breadwinner. As a business professional, he was a go-getter. For twenty years, he did all that was expected of him, if not much more. But a job loss in his middle years, in the midst of a national economic crisis, has knocked Flip squarely on his big, soft ass, where he has been wallowing for nearly a year. Over the course of one hectic week, replete with a cast of colorful characters, Flip is forced by circumstances of his own invention to finally get his life headed in the right direction. Like a pudgy, irritable toddler, he carefully tests his balance and lurches forward, stumbling around absurd obstacles and grasping for any solid purchase. Ultimately a spark of human resilience locked deep within his core begins to spread. The question becomes: will Flip's best efforts be enough to lead him safely to redemption or will they merely lead to a futile, purely graceless, and quixotic crash?

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Simon and Schuster

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150720163X

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9781507201633

Phantom of the Library

By: Brandon Terrell

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Phantom of the Library

By: Brandon Terrell

Pendleton Library is proud to host an exhibit of original manuscripts by the famous horror author Gordon Price. But when a shadowy figure appears and the lights go out, the priceless manuscripts disappear! Did a spooky ghost really steal the scripts, or is something else going on? It's up to the Snoops, Inc., team to solve the case! Will the kid detectives find the clues and discover the truth behind the mysterious phantom of the library? Featuring a diverse cast of inner-city youth, this Snoops, Inc. mystery will be sure to keep struggling readers turning the page to find out!

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Capstone

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1496550641

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Blue Collar

By: Jayna Locke,Kelly DeLong,Melvin Sterne,Melissa Juchniewicz,Brandon Jackson,Joelle Ballonzoli,Mark Tochen,Mike Holland,Keith Moore,John Unger,Leod Reilly,Micah Weiss,Travis Stephens,Danielle Potter,Jasmine Marshall Armstrong,Ellen Perry,David Such

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Blue Collar

A hand-picked set of stories, Blue Collar, is a fascinating compilation of real stories, experiences, and inspiring wisdom from a diverse group of writers from around the world. The stories offer genuine insight into the lives of people who work with their hands - often called "blue-collar" workers. Readers will find inspiration in the words of these authors, who share their triumphs and struggles in an honest and authentic way. Here’s a sample of the stories you will find: · A Knee in the Tailbone - Kelly DeLong. · All-New - Jayna Locke. · Delivering the Mail with Elvis - Danielle Potter. · Lost and Found - Jasmine Marshall Armstrong · Today I go to Bear Mountain - Micah E. Weiss · Warehouse Worker - Kelly DeLong · Whip it on me - Jim Leo Reilly And much more! This collection is perfect for anyone who wants to understand the human experience through the eyes of the Blue Collar worker. The stories within depict the strength, courage, and resilience of those who work with their hands—the hardworking men and women who make our economy run. This richly woven tapestry offers readers a unique insight into the human experience and provides motivation and encouragement to all who read it. You’ll be grateful for reading this book.A hand-picked set of stories, Blue Collar, is a fascinating compilation of real stories, experiences, and inspiring wisdom from a diverse group of writers from around the world. The stories offer genuine insight into the lives of people who work with their hands - often called "blue-collar" workers. Readers will find inspiration in the words of these authors, who share their triumphs and struggles in an honest and authentic way. Here’s a sample of the stories you will find: · A Knee in the Tailbone - Kelly DeLong. · All-New - Jayna Locke. · Delivering the Mail with Elvis - Danielle Potter. · Lost and Found - Jasmine Marshall Armstrong · Today I go to Bear Mountain - Micah E. Weiss · Warehouse Worker - Kelly DeLong · Whip it on me - Jim Leo Reilly And much more! This collection is perfect for anyone who wants to understand the human experience through the eyes of the Blue Collar worker. The stories within depict the strength, courage, and resilience of those who work with their hands—the hardworking men and women who make our economy run. This richly woven tapestry offers readers a unique insight into the human experience and provides motivation and encouragement to all who read it. You’ll be grateful for reading this book.

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Akshay Sonthalia

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9394020969

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The Bold and Cold

A History of 25 Classic Climbs in the Canadian Rockies

By: Brandon Pullan

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The Bold and Cold

A History of 25 Classic Climbs in the Canadian Rockies

By: Brandon Pullan

Recounts the stories of mountaineers who undertook climbing expeditions in the Canadian Rockies.

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Rocky Mountain Books Ltd

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1771601159

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Raid and Reconciliation

Pancho Villa, Modernization, and Violence in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

By: Brandon Morgan

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Raid and Reconciliation

Pancho Villa, Modernization, and Violence in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

By: Brandon Morgan

Around the turn of the twentieth century, the formation of the U.S.-Mexico border through the rise of capitalism brought new forms of violence, this time codified in law, land surveys, and capitalist land and resource regimes—the markers of modernity and progress that were the hallmarks of Gilded Age America and Porfirian Mexico. Military units, settlers, and boosters dispossessed Southern Apache peoples of their homelands and attempted to erase the histories of Mexican colonists in the Lower Mimbres Valley region. As a result, people of multiple racial and national identities came together to forge new border communities. In Raid and Reconciliation Brandon Morgan examines the story of Pancho Villa’s 1916 raid on Columbus, New Mexico—an event that has been referenced in various histories of the border and the Mexican Revolution but not contextualized on its own—and shows that violence was integral to the modern capitalist development that shaped the border. Raid and Reconciliation provides new insights into the Mexican Revolution and sheds light on the connections between violence and modernization. Lessons from this border story resonate in today’s debates over migration, race, and what it means to be an American.

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U of Nebraska Press

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1496240030

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Blood on the Tracks

A History of Railway Crime in Britain

By: David Brandon,Alan Brooke

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Blood on the Tracks

A History of Railway Crime in Britain

By: David Brandon,Alan Brooke

Blood on the Tracks provides a murky and intriguing account of criminal activity on Britain’s railways, from its beginnings in the early nineteenth century right up to the present day. Covering all varieties of crime, from the opportunistic such as fare evasion and robberies, through the more inventive including murders, suicide on the line and railway staff ‘cooking the books’, to more recent terrorist attacks, the changing nature of criminal activity on the railways can be traced through time. This fascinating book also covers the appearance of railway crime in film and literature, including the work of Agatha Christie and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, as the advent of the railways indeed provided a new range of locations in which to set deceitful deeds – waiting rooms, carriages and tunnels to name just a few.

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The History Press

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0752462296

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9780752462295

Curiosities of London

Historical Walks Around the Capital

By: David Brandon,Alan Brooke

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Curiosities of London

Historical Walks Around the Capital

By: David Brandon,Alan Brooke

An informative and entertaining walking guide, encountering the oddities, curiosities and unknown history of some of London's most well-known and less-visited areas.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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144564844X

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The South Downs

By: Peter Brandon

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The South Downs

By: Peter Brandon

The South Downs has throughout history been a focus of English popular culture. With chalkland, their river valleys and scarp-foot the Downs have been shaped for over millennia by successive generations of farmers, ranging from Europe's oldest inhabitants right up until the 21st century. "... possibly the most important book to have been written on the South Downs in the last half-century ... The South Downs have found their perfect biographer." Downs Country.

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The History Press

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0750998350

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9780750998352

Encyclopedia of Cold War Politics

By: Brandon Toropov

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Encyclopedia of Cold War Politics

By: Brandon Toropov

There are many reference works on the cold war, including The Cold War Encyclopedia (1996) and the recent Historical Dictionary of the Cold War (2000). These works put a crucial period of the twentieth century into perspective. They share an international focus, driven in part by the global nature of the cold war, the events that defined it, and the people who fought it. This new encyclopedia takes a different tack, focusing almost exclusively on American domestic events and issues and touching on international themes only when they are relevant to the U.S. scene.More than 700 entries are arranged alphabetically, beginning with Acheson, Dean, secretary of state from 1949 to 1953, and ending with Yippies, an anti-establishment DEGREESB radical element of the hippie movement. In between are entries on presidents and their opponents, civil rights groups and leaders, phrases, and definitions. The length of each entry (ranging from 100-2,500 words) reflects the importance of the subject or the depth of coverage needed. Acheson's boss, Harry Truman, earns just over four columns, while Truman's opponent in the infamous 1948 general election, Thomas Dewey, barely rates one column.Each entry is factual and concise. The entry on Martin Luther King Jr. mentions his early life and education, his adherence to Gandhi's policy of nonviolence, the March on Washington, and his assassination in Tennessee, avoiding the various controversies surrounding both King's life and death. Sometimes the generally objective tone of the work is missing, as when, for example, it defines com munism as paradoxical and self-defeating. Black-and-white photographs enhance the text, and the index is detailed.This volume is a worthy addition to the cold war reference shelf. Its coverage of people, places, and events that might be ignored in works with a more international perspective makes it a good starting point for anyone interested in an American focus. Recommended for high-school, public, and academic libraries. RBB. Copyright (r) American Library Association. All rights r

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Infobase Publishing

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1438130236

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9781438130231

Remaking the Democratic Party

Lyndon B. Johnson as a Native-Son Presidential Candidate

By: Hanes Walton,Pearl K. Ford Dowe,Josephine Allen,Brandon Walton

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Remaking the Democratic Party

Lyndon B. Johnson as a Native-Son Presidential Candidate

By: Hanes Walton,Pearl K. Ford Dowe,Josephine Allen,Brandon Walton

A continuation of Hanes Walton Jr.’s work on Southern Democratic presidents, Remaking the Democratic Party analyzes the congressional and presidential elections of Lyndon Baines Johnson. This study builds upon the general theory of the native-son phenomenon to demonstrate that a Southern native-son can win the presidency without the localism evident in the elections of Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter. Although ridiculed by contemporaries for his apparent lack of control over formal party politics and the national committee, Johnson excelled at leading the Democratic Party’s policy agenda. While a senator and as president, Johnson advocated for—and secured—liberal social welfare and civil rights legislation, forcing the party to break with its Southern tradition of elitism, conservatism, and white supremacy. In a way, Johnson set the terms for the continuing partisan battle because, by countering the Democrats’ new ideology, the Republican Party also underwent a transformation.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472122118

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9780472122110

I'll Be Home for Christmas Movies

The Deck the Hallmark Podcast's Guide to Your Holiday TV Obsession

By: Brandon Gray,Daniel Thompson,Daniel Pandolph,Alonso Duralde

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I'll Be Home for Christmas Movies

The Deck the Hallmark Podcast's Guide to Your Holiday TV Obsession

By: Brandon Gray,Daniel Thompson,Daniel Pandolph,Alonso Duralde

I'll Be Home for Christmas Movies is the unofficial fan guide to Hallmark holiday movies, from the creators of the wildly popular Deck the Hallmark podcast. Hosts and best friends Brandon Gray, Daniel "Panda" Pandolph, and Dan Thompson share reviews that make you feel like you're watching these holiday favorites with your best buds, discussing warm Christmas feelings and absolutely bonkers plot twists with equal enthusiasm. And thanks to original interviews with the movies' stars and creators, fans will find out insider information on the making of the movies and learn answers to pressing questions: Why do the lead characters keep coming down with amnesia? Why do so many female stock brokers and lawyers find themselves forced to plan parties? And do all of the stories take place within something called the "Kennyverse"? To complete the perfect Christmas package, the book is also chock-full of ideas for hosting your own holiday movie-watching party, complete with delicious recipes. Featuring dozens of full-color photos throughout, I'll Be Home for Christmas Movies is as cozy and sparkly as the movies themselves.

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Running Press Adult

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0762499338

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9780762499335

Playing for a Winner

How Baseball Teams' Success Raises Players' Reputations

By: Brandon Isleib

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Playing for a Winner

How Baseball Teams' Success Raises Players' Reputations

By: Brandon Isleib

He never felt like a Hall of Famer." "You can't argue with championships." "If he was so good, why were his teams so bad?" On talk shows and in sports bars, statements like these are often made about both underrated and overrated players. It's generally accepted that being in a bigger market or on a winning team can cause a player to be overrated, while the opposite can leave them underrated. Examining pennant races to show how much attention a team receives and which teams are getting the most attention provides a context to this familiar commentary. This book studies the effects of the sports media spotlight (and its absence) on the fortunes of teams in pennant races and Hall of Fame inductees. Along the way, the author brings to light accomplished players most non-fans have probably never heard of.

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McFarland

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1476665389

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9781476665382

Dissection Photography

Cadavers, Abjection, and the Formation of Identity

By: Brandon Zimmerman

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Dissection Photography

Cadavers, Abjection, and the Formation of Identity

By: Brandon Zimmerman

Contemporary audiences are often shocked to learn that in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, medical students around the world posed for photographic portraits with their cadavers; a genre known as dissection photography. Featuring previously unseen images, stories, and anecdotes, this book explores the visual culture of death within the gross anatomy lab through the tradition of dissection photography, examining its historical aspects from both photographic and medical perspectives. The author pays particular attention to the use of dissection photographs as an expression of student identity, and as an evolving transgressive ritual intricately connected to, and eventually superseding, the act of dissection itself.

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Policy Press

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1529222206

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Playing Real

Mimesis, Media, and Mischief

By: Lindsay Brandon Hunter

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Playing Real

Mimesis, Media, and Mischief

By: Lindsay Brandon Hunter

Playing Real: Mimesis, Media, and Mischief explores the integration and interaction of mimetic theatricality and representational media in twentieth- and twenty‐first-century performance. It brings together carefully chosen sites of performance—including live broadcasts of theatrical productions, reality television, and alternate-reality gaming—in which mediatization and mimesis compete and collude to represent the real to audiences. Lindsay Brandon Hunter reads such performances as forcing confrontation between notions of authenticity, sincerity, and spontaneity and their various others: the fake, the feigned, the staged, or the rehearsed. Each site examined in Playing Real purports to show audiences something real—real theater, real housewives, real alternative scenarios—which is simultaneously visible as overtly constructed, adulterated by artifice and artificiality. The integration of mediatization and theatricality in these performances, Hunter argues, exploits the proclivities of both to conjure the real even as they risk corrupting the perception of authenticity by imbricating it with artifice and overt manipulation. Although the performances analyzed obscure boundaries separating actual from virtual, genuine from artificial, and truth from fiction, Hunter rejects the notion that these productions imperil the “real.” She insists on uncertainty as a fertile site for productive and pleasurable mischief—including relationships to realness and authenticity among both audience and participants.

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Northwestern University Press

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0810143070

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Sound Mapping the New Testament, Second Edition

By: Margaret E. Lee,Bernard Brandon Scott

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Sound Mapping the New Testament, Second Edition

By: Margaret E. Lee,Bernard Brandon Scott

In the ancient world, writings were read aloud, heard, and remembered. But modern exegesis assumes a silent text. According to Margaret Lee & Brandon Scott, the disjuncture between ancient and modern approaches to literature obscures the beauty and meaning in writings such as the New Testament. Further, the structure of an ancient Greek composition derives first from its sounds and not from the meaning of its words. They argue that sound analysis, analysis of the signifier and its audible dimension, is crucial to interpretation. Sound Mapping the New Testament explores writing technology in the Greco-Roman world, then turns to ancient Greek literary criticism for descriptions of grammar as a science of sound and literary composition as a woven fabric of speech. Based on these perspectives and a close analysis of writings from the four gospels, Paul, and Q, Sound Mapping the New Testament advances a theory of sound analysis that will enable modern readers to hear the New Testament afresh. The second edition reprints the first edition with a new introduction that reviews a decade of sound mapping scholarship and argues for the continued necessity of sound mapping for New Testament interpretation.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1532681747

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9781532681745

At the Edge of Existence

Liminality in Horror Cinema Since the 1970s

By: Brandon West

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At the Edge of Existence

Liminality in Horror Cinema Since the 1970s

By: Brandon West

Few scary stories begin with a disclaimer that they are fictional. Instead, they claim to be true even when they are not. Such stories blur the line between fiction and reality, pushing audiences to consider where fiction ends and reality begins. These kinds of horror stories comprise the understudied subgenre of liminal horror. As the first book on this subject, this volume surveys a variety of liminal horror films. It discusses the different variations within liminal horror's sub-genres and considers why horror films are obsessed with the natures of, and borders between, fiction and reality. After first laying out the basic traits of the horror genre in the context of liminality, this book then dives into film more specifically and how the medium is uniquely situated to explore the movement between the fictional and the real. Through lenses such as dreaming, memory, and perception, the following chapters explore the role liminal horror plays in the the human psyche's subconscious/unconscious, and the various functions of the human mind in perceiving, or misperceiving, reality.

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McFarland

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1476644195

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9781476644196

House of the Rising Sun

By: Marc Brandon

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House of the Rising Sun

By: Marc Brandon

The House of the Rising Sun, refers to the old antebellum that once stood tall and proud for many generations at the Mackenzie homestead, known by all as the Rising Sun Farms. The old house, unfolds it's mysteries with it's many years of history and resources. The life of Michael Mackenzie, the last and only heir to the clan, takes us in and out of decades with his friends and acquaintances, good times and bad, love and loss, trust and distrust, guidance and misguidance and on into another dimension with the sequel of part two...The Gift Horse. Jane Saunders who lives at the roadhouse antebellum with her mother Marge...the madame of the house of ill repute and a group of professional ladies of the evening. Hence the name soon followed in reference to the 'House...of the Rising Sun.' Michael lives at the main farmhouse with his parents, Richard and Allison and grandfather who operates a massive farm and mill, which includes rental properties...such as the house of the rising sun. Michael, with his best friend Andrew Dow, chose a career with the police force, as Richard had excelled in and assumed chief position. Although demanding, the two young cops manage to juggle law enforcement and Rising Sun Farms. This small populated community spread over a large chunk of geography is plagued with a series of accidental tragedies with life altering results. Logical explanations are plenty, as all hearsay. Accusations fly, some feel a comfort dabbling in the here after and some are content with another mishap...but how many is too many? A list of contents that follows, includes chapters, musical reference as background to the scenes, prologue and foreword to the next addition.

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Booktango

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1468944649

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Edinburgh Street Furniture

By: David Brandon

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Edinburgh Street Furniture

By: David Brandon

A beautifully illustrated study of Edinburgh street furniture in all its forms.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445628082

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Too Big to Jail

How Prosecutors Compromise with Corporations

By: Brandon L. Garrett

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Too Big to Jail

How Prosecutors Compromise with Corporations

By: Brandon L. Garrett

American courts routinely hand down harsh sentences to individual convicts, but a very different standard of justice applies to corporations. Too Big to Jail takes readers into a complex, compromised world of backroom deals, for an unprecedented look at what happens when criminal charges are brought against a major company in the United States. Federal prosecutors benefit from expansive statutes that allow an entire firm to be held liable for a crime by a single employee. But when prosecutors target the Goliaths of the corporate world, they find themselves at a huge disadvantage. The government that bailed out corporations considered too economically important to fail also negotiates settlements permitting giant firms to avoid the consequences of criminal convictions. Presenting detailed data from more than a decade of federal cases, Brandon Garrett reveals a pattern of negotiation and settlement in which prosecutors demand admissions of wrongdoing, impose penalties, and require structural reforms. However, those reforms are usually vaguely defined. Many companies pay no criminal fine, and even the biggest blockbuster payments are often greatly reduced. While companies must cooperate in the investigations, high-level employees tend to get off scot-free. The practical reality is that when prosecutors face Hydra-headed corporate defendants prepared to spend hundreds of millions on lawyers, such agreements may be the only way to get any result at all. Too Big to Jail describes concrete ways to improve corporate law enforcement by insisting on more stringent prosecution agreements, ongoing judicial review, and greater transparency.

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Harvard University Press

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0674744616

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9780674744615

Sharing Our Science

How to Write and Speak STEM

By: Brandon R. Brown

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Sharing Our Science

How to Write and Speak STEM

By: Brandon R. Brown

A personal, practical, and inspirational guide to written and oral STEM communications for scientists and technical professionals. In Sharing Our Science, scientist-turned-writing teacher Brandon Brown offers an eminently useful guidebook for STEM practitioners looking to communicate their technical work to either a technical or a broader audience. Professionals are increasingly required to communicate their work through blogs, podcasts, and newsletters and to submit to traditional media. After seeing his colleagues struggle to find a writing guide that tackled the unique challenges of writing and speaking about scientific topics, Brown set out to write the definitive handbook to assist STEM students, scientists, engineers, and tech workers alike. In this practical and relevant book, Brown uses his experience as a proven science communicator to cover three levels of writing: fundamental craft considerations, such as narrative tension, structure, sentences, and audience; unique scientific considerations, such as conveying numbers and utilizing metaphors; and finally, social considerations, such as public speaking and writing inside and outside of silos. In place of a reference manual, Brown’s engaging narrative guide clarifies the fundamental principles that impact all scientific communication tasks, from white papers and slide decks to Zoom meetings and emails. Sharing Our Science represents the culmination of a lifetime of writing, research, and teaching that will enrich scientists’ careers and illuminate the ways in which science is done and conveyed to the world.

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MIT Press

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0262376415

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9780262376419

Roadmap to Postgraduate Training in Pharmacy

By: P. Brandon Bookstaver,Celeste N. Rudisill- Caulder,Kelly M. Smith,April D. Quidley

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Roadmap to Postgraduate Training in Pharmacy

By: P. Brandon Bookstaver,Celeste N. Rudisill- Caulder,Kelly M. Smith,April D. Quidley

A must read for every pharmacy student Market: Pharmacy students (35,000) Experts in the field discuss residency, fellowships, and additional degrees Related McGraw-Hill Title: Freeman: The Ultimate Guide To Choosing a Medical Specialty 978-0-07-145713-2 * 0-07-145713-5 * Paperback * $35.00MD

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McGraw Hill Professional

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0071801294

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9780071801294

Planck

Driven by Vision, Broken by War

By: Brandon R. Brown

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Planck

Driven by Vision, Broken by War

By: Brandon R. Brown

Brown interweaves the voices and writings of Planck, his family, and his contemporaries--with many passages appearing in English for the first time--to create a portrait of a groundbreaking physicist working in the midst of war. Planck spent much of his adult life grappling with the identity crisis of being an influential German with ideas that ran counter to his government. During the later part of his life, he survived bombings and battlefields, surgeries and blood transfusions, all the while performing his influential work amidst a violent and crumbling Nazi bureaucracy. When his son was accused of treason related to a bombing, Planck tried to use his standing as a German 'national treasure,' and wrote direct letters to Hitler to spare his son's life. Brown tells the story of Planck's friendship with the far more outspoken Albert Einstein, and shows how his work fits within the explosion of technology and science that occurred during his life.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0190219475

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When I Wished upon a Star

From Broken Homes to Mended Hearts

By: Brandon Lane Phillips,Jeremy James Miller

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When I Wished upon a Star

From Broken Homes to Mended Hearts

By: Brandon Lane Phillips,Jeremy James Miller

Growing up as a patient with congenital heart disease, Brandon Lane Phillips often felt alone. He knew no one else who had his heart condition and believed no one understood his condition. Brandon believed he would die young. Like many congenital heart patients, he wondered if he would have a long life. It is only natural to question one’s mortality when open-heart surgery is what enabled you to survive childhood. Brandon worried that his heart defect caused his parents’ divorce and questioned just how much his illness had affected his siblings since so much extra attention was devoted to him. He longed to have the type of close relationship with his father that he saw on many of his favorite TV shows. At 11 years of age, he was so desperate to find answers that he asked God to show him that He loved him. Soon after, he received a wish to meet child actor Jeremy Miller from TV’s Growing Pains. Brandon had wished to meet him because he envied his “perfect” fictional family. After one of the show’s stars told Brandon that God had a plan for his life, Brandon left the set that evening feeling that the trip had been orchestrated as an answer to his prayer. There are several God-like coincidences that occur along Brandon’s path of becoming a pediatric cardiologist. Many times when Brandon would face a life experience big enough to shake his faith, an improbable experience would occur that would remind him of his wish and God’s answer to his prayer. Throughout his career, he would encounter other patients who felt alone and had questions about their own mortality. Brandon chose medicine as his profession because he greatly admired his childhood pediatric cardiologist. And even though a need for a second open-heart surgery at the beginning of medical school threatened Brandon’s dream of becoming a physician, he would ultimately be trained by the very physicians who had cared for him. Brandon’s journey of hope found within the pages of When I Wished Upon a Star is a story of giving back and finding purpose in life through the intervention of God’s great grace and perfect timing. The other life examined in this book belongs to Jeremy Miller, child actor, celebrity wish, and the friend who played an important role in Brandon’s journey. Brandon’s life truly changed forever after having met Jeremy on the television set of Growing Pains. While Brandon was dealing with his struggles, so too was Jeremy. In When I Wished Upon a Star, Jeremy shares “secrets” from his childhood that have previously gone untold. It would be easy to say that Jeremy was a child star, and that historically, most child stars aren’t expected to have a good end. Still Jeremy’s secrets shocked Brandon and brought him to tears. They also shed light on the reason for Jeremy’s battle with alcohol. Brandon would learn that Jeremy, too, envied the life that his fictional character lived. And so when the TV show ended, Jeremy almost did too. At the time of his wish, only God could have predicted how Brandon’s life and those of the stars of his favorite TV show would intertwine in the decades to follow; no one could have foreseen that a wish made by a young boy would give both he and Jeremy hope for their future and help them find purpose in the lives they were created for by a loving God--lives that would live on despite troubles and despair. Brandon was meant to use the experiences of his childhood to help others. It is the only way to explain how his life has come full circle time and time again.

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Thomas Nelson

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159555811X

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50 Biggest Baseball Myths

By: Brandon Toropov

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50 Biggest Baseball Myths

By: Brandon Toropov

50 myths of American baseball debunked whilst providing fans with reasons to appreciate the true history of baseball.

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Citadel Press

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0806518758

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Roberta's Cookbook

By: Carlo Mirarchi,Brandon Hoy,Chris Parachini,Katherine Wheelock

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Roberta's Cookbook

By: Carlo Mirarchi,Brandon Hoy,Chris Parachini,Katherine Wheelock

The Brooklyn destination the New York Times called “one of the most extraordinary restaurants in the country”—which began as a pizza place and quickly redefined the urban food landscape—releases its highly anticipated debut cookbook. When Roberta’s opened in 2008 in a concrete bunker in Bushwick, it was a pizzeria where you could stop in for dinner and stumble out hours later, happy. It’s still a down-the-rabbit-hole kind of place but has also become a destination for groundbreaking food, a wholly original dining experience, and a rooftop garden that marked the beginning of the urban farming movement in New York City. The forces behind Roberta’s—chef Carlo Mirarchi and co-owners Brandon Hoy and Chris Parachini—share recipes, photographs, and stories meant to capture the experience of Roberta’s for those who haven’t been, and to immortalize it for those who’ve been there since the beginning.

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Clarkson Potter

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0770433723

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