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The Far Land

200 Years of Murder, Mania and Mutiny in the South Pacific

By: Brandon Presser

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The Far Land

200 Years of Murder, Mania and Mutiny in the South Pacific

By: Brandon Presser

The Far Land swells in the cause and effect of actions of passion. Brandon Presser's fascinating narrative of the relentless consequences of the Bounty mutineers asks: were they brave or damned? They lived so very troubled ever after. You can't make this stuff up!' TOM HANKS ' The Far Land hits a lot of my pleasure centers: remote islands, then-and-now non-fiction, historical mysteries and forthright travelogues. The first night I started reading, I dreamed about Pitcairn Island.' MAGGIE SHIPSTEAD, 2021 Booker Prize shortlisted and 2022 Women's Prize for Fiction shortlisted author of Great Circle A THRILLING TALE OF POWER, OBSESSION AND BETRAYAL AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD In 1808, an American merchant ship happened upon an uncharted island in the South Pacific and unwittingly solved the biggest nautical mystery of the era: the whereabouts of a band of fugitives who, after seizing their vessel, had disappeared into the night with their Tahitian companions. Seven generations later, the island is still inhabited by descendants of the original mutineers, marooned like modern castaways. In 2018, Brandon Presser went to live among its families; two clans bound by circumstance and secrets. There, he pieced together Pitcairn's full story: an operatic saga that holds all visitors in its mortal clutch - even the author. Told through vivid historical and personal narrative, The Far Land goes beyond the infamous mutiny on the Bounty, offering an unprecedented glimpse at life on the fringes of civilization, and how, perhaps, it's not so different from our own.

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Icon Books

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1785788930

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9781785788932

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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1476627010

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9781476627014

Death Weavers

By: Brandon Mull

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Death Weavers

By: Brandon Mull

Includes an excerpt from Fablehaven Adventure book 1: Dragonwatch.

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Simon and Schuster

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1442497106

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States of Union

Family and Change in the American Constitutional Order

By: Mark E. Brandon

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States of Union

Family and Change in the American Constitutional Order

By: Mark E. Brandon

In two canonical decisions of the 1920s—Meyer v. Nebraska and Pierce v. Society of Sisters—the Supreme Court announced that family (including certain relations within it) was an institution falling under the Constitution’s protective umbrella. Since then, proponents of “family values” have claimed that a timeless form of family—nuclear and biological—is crucial to the constitutional order. Mark Brandon’s new book, however, challenges these claims. Brandon addresses debates currently roiling America—the regulation of procreation, the roles of women, the education of children, divorce, sexuality, and the meanings of marriage. He also takes on claims of scholars who attribute modern change in family law to mid-twentieth-century Supreme Court decisions upholding privacy. He shows that the “constitutional” law of family has much deeper roots. Offering glimpses into American households across time, Brandon looks at the legal and constitutional norms that have aimed to govern those households and the lives within them. He argues that, well prior to the 1960s, the nature of families in America had been continually changing—especially during western expansion, but also in the founding era. He further contends that the monogamous nuclear family was codified only at the end of the nineteenth century as a response to Mormon polygamy, communal experiments, and Native American households. Brandon discusses the evolution of familial jurisprudence as applied to disputes over property, inheritance, work, reproduction, the status of women and children, the regulation of sex, and the legal limits to and constitutional significance of marriage. He shows how the Supreme Court’s famous decisions in the latter part of the twentieth century were largely responses to societal change, and he cites a wide range of cases that offer fresh insight into the ways the legal system responded to various forms of family life. More than a historical overview, the book also considers the development of same-sex marriage as a political and legal issue in our time. States of Union is a groundbreaking volume that explains how family came to be “in” the Constitution, what it has meant for family to be constitutionally significant, and what the implications of that significance are for the constitutional order and for families.

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University Press of Kansas

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0700619232

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9780700619238

Brotherhood University

Black Men's Friendships and the Transition to Adulthood

By: Brandon A. Jackson

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Brotherhood University

Black Men's Friendships and the Transition to Adulthood

By: Brandon A. Jackson

How do young Black men navigate the transition to adulthood in an era of labor market precarity, an increasing emphasis on personal independence, and gendered racism? In Brotherhood University, Brandon A. Jackson utilizes longitudinal qualitative data to examine the role of emotions and social support among a group of young Black men as they navigate a “structural double bind” as college students and into early adulthood. While prevailing stereotypes portray young Black men as emotionally aloof, Jackson finds that the men invested in an emotion culture characterized by vulnerability, loyalty, and trust, which created a system of mutual social support, or brotherhood, among the group as they navigated college, prepared for the labor market, and experienced romantic relationships. Ten years later, as they managed the early stages of their careers and considered marriage and child-rearing, the men continued to depend on the emotional vulnerability and close relationships they forged in their college years.

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Rutgers University Press

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1978821530

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9781978821538

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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9781496240033

The Survivors

A study of homeless young newcomers to London and the responses made to them

By: D. Brandon,K. Wells,C. Francis,E. Ramsay

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The Survivors

A study of homeless young newcomers to London and the responses made to them

By: D. Brandon,K. Wells,C. Francis,E. Ramsay

First published in 1980, The Survivors is a detailed and original study of the experiences of homeless young people in central London. The book is based on in-depth interviews with 107 ‘newcomers’, who were selected at two nightshelters and a government reception centre. Their views and experiences are recorded, their backgrounds described and their reasons for coming to London examined. We learn how they coped with the interventions of both those who want to hinder and those who want to help, and how in general they survived – and sometimes even enjoyed themselves – in an extreme environment. The authors also examine the ways in which the various helping agencies view the ‘problem’. They claim that the agencies tend to present a pessimistic picture – one that understates the resilience and resourcefulness of these young people, dismisses their spirit of their adventure, and concentrates almost exclusively on the dangers, difficulties and hardships. This book will be of interest to students of sociology, urban studies, public policy and economics.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000872963

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9781000872965

Social Work with Children

By: Liz Trinder,Marian Brandon,Gillian Schofield

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Social Work with Children

By: Liz Trinder,Marian Brandon,Gillian Schofield

How can social workers enable vulnerable children to have a voice in the complex systems designed to protect them and promote their welfare? How can children be helped to make sense of complicated and disrupted lives? This core text addresses these and other challenging questions, setting out the principles and practice of social work with children and demonstrating the diversity of the work through carefully chosen case material. It will be essential reading for all social workers in training and practice involved with children.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1349140430

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Man Made God 006

By: Brandon Varnell

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Man Made God 006

By: Brandon Varnell

GAME ON! Adam’s identity IRL has been outed, and while he managed to stave off Levon’s initial assault, he can’t stay in New York City. He needs to leave before even more danger comes his way. The only place he can travel to is a city where the Pleonexia Alliance doesn’t have any power—Los Angeles, home to Daggerfall Dynasty. It isn’t just problems in the real world that are causing headaches either. The Spider Queen is leading an assault on the Sun Continent. The Guild Association has decided to deal with the situation the only way they can. By combining several teams to form a Raid Party.

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Kitsune Incorporated

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1963779983

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9781963779981

Background Noise

Perspectives on Sound Art

By: Brandon LaBelle

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Background Noise

Perspectives on Sound Art

By: Brandon LaBelle

The rise of a prominent auditory culture, reveals the degree to which sound art is lending definition to the 21st Century. And yet sound art still lacks related literature to compliment, and expand, the realm of practice. Background Noise sets out an historical overview, while at the same time shaping that history according to what sound art reveals - the dynamics of art to operate spatially, through media of reproduction and broadcast, and in relation to the intensities of communication and its contextual framework

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A&C Black

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0826418449

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9780826418449

Beaten Black and Blue

Being a Black Cop in an America Under Siege

By: Brandon Tatum

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Beaten Black and Blue

Being a Black Cop in an America Under Siege

By: Brandon Tatum

“Defund the police!” is shouted in the streets. A.C.A.B. is spray painted on precinct buildings. Countless citizens believe all police are racists. In this era of civil unrest and political divide, how do Black cops—or any cops—maintain the motivation and commitment to do their job? Former police officer, co-founder of BLEXIT, and Founder and CEO of The Officer Tatum—Brandon Tatum shares his story and the stories of other police officers in the pages of his new book, Beaten Black and Blue. Read why they joined the force, what it’s really like on the streets, and how they continue to fight the good fight. Forget what you think you know and learn the truth!

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Bombardier Books

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1642938521

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He is Here

Can an Iraq War Widow and a Breast Cancer Widower Fall in Love without Falling Apart?

By: John Brandon Keever

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He is Here

Can an Iraq War Widow and a Breast Cancer Widower Fall in Love without Falling Apart?

By: John Brandon Keever

Can an Iraq War Widow and a Breast Cancer Widower Fall in Love without Falling Apart? Sara lost her husband 4 years ago in the Iraq War. Jack lost his wife to breast cancer soon after they were married. Falling in Love again is the last thing on their minds. A chance meeting while volunteering at a local mission opens possibilities either before felt possible. Their lives are further intertwined when through their work at the mission; they meet a young teenage couple expecting a baby. How do you fall in love after you’ve lost the love of your life? There is Grace in Grief. Love Abounds in He is Here. Fall in Love again in He is Here.

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Soul Searching Studios

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1517273013

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9781517273019

Meet the Neighbors: Animal Minds and Life in a More-than-Human World

By: Brandon Keim

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Meet the Neighbors: Animal Minds and Life in a More-than-Human World

By: Brandon Keim

What does the science of animal intelligence mean for how we understand and live with the wild creatures around us? Honeybees deliberate democratically. Rats reflect on the past. Snakes have friends. In recent decades, our understanding of animal cognition has exploded, making it indisputably clear that the cities and landscapes around us are filled with thinking, feeling individuals besides ourselves. But the way we relate to wild animals has yet to catch up. In Meet the Neighbors, acclaimed science journalist Brandon Keim asks: what would it mean to take the minds of other animals seriously? In this wide-ranging, wonder-filled exploration of animals’ inner lives, Keim takes us into courtrooms and wildlife hospitals, under backyard decks and into deserts, to meet anew the wild creatures who populate our communities and the philosophers, rogue pest controllers, ecologists, wildlife doctors, and others who are reimagining our relationships to them. If bats trade favors and groups of swans vote to take off by honking, should we then see them as fellow persons—even members of society? When we come to understand the depths of their pleasures and pains, the richness of their family lives and their histories, what do we owe so-called pests and predators, or animals who are sick or injured? Can thinking of nonhumans as our neighbors help chart a course to a kinder, gentler planet? As Keim suggests, the answers to these questions are central to how we understand not only the rest of the living world, but ourselves. A beguiling invitation to discover an expanded sense of community and kinship beyond our own species, Meet the Neighbors opens our eyes to the world of vibrant intelligence just outside our doors.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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1324007095

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9781324007098

Ailana

Vol. 1 Prisoners of Paradise

By: Brandon Lars Erikson

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Ailana

Vol. 1 Prisoners of Paradise

By: Brandon Lars Erikson

A planet on the verge of destruction... Ailanian CIA Director, Moke Kalapana, is a man at a desperate crossroads. His home planet is a colony of Earth which has become a prison for the poor and a paradise for the rich and Moke has seen first hand how the natives are becoming restless for change. After his Agents stumble onto a local terrorist organization, Moke learns how his greatest enemy, James Van Dien, the enigmatic leader of a galactic secret society - with the power to bring about any planet's armaggeton - is enacting a top secret plan which has the potential to lay waste to his home world. However, Moke has even bigger issues at stake. The very government he answers to maybe cooperating with this enemy, who he has vowed to defeat, and has ordered him to erradicate Ailana's narcotics cartels at the expense of his personal beliefs. Knowing full well that doing his government's actions might only aid Van Dien in his quest Moke's dangerous situation then escalates after he finds out he is being forced to share his command with a former friend from Earth -the infamous Captain Ronald James Harris- a mysterious man which he shares a dark secret with. After being backed into his final corner, Moke finds himself forced to fight those who he was supposed to follow, by turning his back on those who care for him most -and placing his trust in a gang of renegade cyborgs and unscrupulous people who the law considers terrorists and villians- so he might finally protect the innocent people of Ailana from the greatest evil they have ever encountered.

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iUniverse

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1462050301

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9781462050307

Before Evil

Young Lenin, Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Mao, and Kim

By: Brandon K. Gauthier

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Before Evil

Young Lenin, Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Mao, and Kim

By: Brandon K. Gauthier

Should we humanize the world's most inhumane leaders? Adolf Hitler. Joseph Stalin. Benito Mussolini. Mao Zedong. Kim Il Sung. Vladimir Lenin. These cruel dictators wrote their names on the pages of history in the blood of countless innocent victims. Yet they themselves were once young people searching for their place in the world, dealing with challenges many of us face—parental authority, education, romance, loss—and doing so in ways that might be uncomfortably familiar. Historian Brandon K. Gauthier has created a fascinating work—epic yet intimate, well-researched but immensely readable, clear-eyed and empathetic—looking at the lives of these six dictators, with a focus on their youths. We watch Lenin’s older brother executed at the hands of the Tsar’s police—an event that helped radicalize this overachieving high-schooler. We observe Stalin grappling with the death of his young, beautiful wife. We see Hitler’s mother mourning the loss of three young children—and determined that her first son to survive infancy would find his place in the world. The purpose isn’t to excuse or simply explain these horrible men, but rather to treat them with the empathy they themselves too often lacked. We may prefer to hold such lives at arm’s length so as to demonize them at will, but this book reminds us that these monstrous rulers were also human beings—and perhaps more relatable than we’d like.

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Tortoise Books

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1948954621

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9781948954624

Living Detroit

Environmental Activism in an Age of Urban Crisis

By: Brandon M. Ward

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Living Detroit

Environmental Activism in an Age of Urban Crisis

By: Brandon M. Ward

In Living Detroit, Brandon M. Ward argues that environmentalism in postwar Detroit responded to anxieties over the urban crisis, deindustrialization, and the fate of the city. Tying the diverse stories of environmental activism and politics together is the shared assumption environmental activism could improve their quality of life. Detroit, Michigan, was once the capital of industrial prosperity and the beacon of the American Dream. It has since endured decades of deindustrialization, population loss, and physical decay – in short, it has become the poster child for the urban crisis. This is not a place in which one would expect to discover a history of vibrant expressions of environmentalism; however, in the post-World War II era, while suburban, middle-class homeowners organized into a potent force to protect the natural settings of their communities, in the working-class industrial cities and in the inner city, Detroiters were equally driven by the impulse to conserve their neighborhoods and create a more livable city, pushing back against the forces of deindustrialization and urban crisis. Living Detroit juxtaposes two vibrant and growing fields of American history which often talk past each other: environmentalism and the urban crisis. By putting the two subjects into conversation, we gain a richer understanding of the development of environmental activism and politics after World War II and its relationship to the crisis of America’s cities. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in environmental, urban, and labor history.

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180

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Routledge

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1000468909

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9781000468908

The Final Cut: Chopper 9

By: Mark Brandon "Chopper" Read,Mark Brandon Read

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The Final Cut: Chopper 9

By: Mark Brandon "Chopper" Read,Mark Brandon Read

Only a drunk or a madman would survive – luckily, on that occasion, I was both.' Ex-convict, author and celebrity Mark Brandon 'Chopper' Read gives readers a unique insight into Australia's sordid criminal underworld. Written in Chopper's unique style and featuring his characteristic dark humour, the ninth instalment of Chopper's memoirs tells the story of the Tassie Chainsaw Massacre and explains why drinking Crown Lagers is the key to winning a serious pub brawl. The Final Cut continues the incredible story of the self-confessed executioner, who knew receiving a phone call from an old friend meant another associate was soon to be a walking corpse.

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234

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Momentum

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1743340117

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9781743340110

Background Noise, Second Edition

Perspectives on Sound Art

By: Brandon LaBelle

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Background Noise, Second Edition

Perspectives on Sound Art

By: Brandon LaBelle

Follows the development of sound as an artistic medium and illustrates how sound is put to use within modes of composition, installation, and performance"--

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1628923520

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9781628923520

Complicity in America

By: Brandon Farmer,Larry Warmack

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Complicity in America

By: Brandon Farmer,Larry Warmack

The year is 1993. The Cold War is over and the Soviet Union has fallen. Los Angeles is reliving the beating of Rodney King through his trials. South Central has become a web of deception, crime, and death. The FBI, under code name Complicity, sends its Cold War agents into cities all across America in an attempt to end the rising drug problem. Thrown in the middle is Delroy Hughes, who finds he must fight for his freedom and possibly even his survival. Inspired by a true story with rich characters and often shocking plot twists, Complicity in America, takes us on a wild search for truth in a world full of lies.

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iUniverse

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0595338607

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9780595338603

Freedom Is

Liberating Your Boundless Potential

By: Brandon Bays

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Freedom Is

Liberating Your Boundless Potential

By: Brandon Bays

“This book is written to give you a living experience of freedom.” These are the opening words of Freedom Is — and Brandon Bays gives us exactly what she promises. This is a book about freedom, freedom in the truest sense, freedom on all levels of being. Brandon doesn't merely talk about freedom; she gives us a direct experience of it. She guides us, in her sure and gentle way, into the stillness and joy that are within us. She shows us how to liberate ourselves from any emotional blocks we may have, lift away negative self-concepts, and release past limitations so that we open naturally into our own soaring magnificence. Freedom Is is filled with powerfully effective process work, user-friendly tools, meditations, contemplations, and inspiring stories that will open your heart and draw you into the sublime presence of freedom.

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New World Library

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1577317327

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9781577317326

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