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LeBron James vs. the NBA

The Case for the NBA's Greatest Player

By: Brendan Bowers,Ryan Jones

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LeBron James vs. the NBA

The Case for the NBA's Greatest Player

By: Brendan Bowers,Ryan Jones

Showcasing one of professional basketball's best players, this book spotlights the life and career of hardcourt superstar LeBron James. More than just a biography, it relates James' story while also establishing his prominent place in NBA history. By examining his skills and statistics in a variety of categories and comparing him to other NBA legends—including Magic Johnson, Bill Russell, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Michael Jordan, and more—the guide makes a strong case for James as basketball's greatest. Along the way, his best and most memorable moments are revisited, from his days as a high school stand-out in Akron, to his first stint with the Cavaliers, to "The Decision" to join the Miami Heat, and the show-stopping performance in the 2016 Finals to bring an NBA title back to Cleveland. LeBron James vs. The NBA is certain to stir up lively debate and is a must-have for Cavs fans and basketball buffs alike.

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Triumph Books

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1633199207

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9781633199200

Cleveland Is King

The Cleveland Cavaliers' Historic 2016 Championship Season

By: Brendan Bowers

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Cleveland Is King

The Cleveland Cavaliers' Historic 2016 Championship Season

By: Brendan Bowers

All In. The moment that LeBron James declared his return to the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2014, there was no doubt the franchise was all in on ending the city of Cleveland's over half-century drought without a major sports championship. From the mid-season coaching change to a 3-1 NBA Finals deficit, the Cavs were determined to overcome any obstacle to capture the first NBA title in franchise history. Unlike in 2015 when they were decimated by injuries, they stayed largely healthy in the 2016 playoffs and torched the Pistons, Hawks, and Raptors on their way to a Finals rematch versus Stephen Curry and the record-breaking Warriors. Packed with unmatched analysis and dynamic color photography, Cleveland Is King takes fans through the Cavaliers historic and improbable journey, from Tyronn Lue taking over as coach during the season, to LeBron shaping the team in his image, to the team rallying from the brink of elimination in dramatic fashion to steal the championship in Oakland. This commemorative edition also includes in-depth profiles of King James, Finals hero Kyrie Irving, big man Kevin Love, and more key players in the Cleveland's extraordinary championship run.

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Triumph Books

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1633197166

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9781633197169

Blood Red Lines

How Nativism Fuels the Right

By: Brendan O’Connor

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Blood Red Lines

How Nativism Fuels the Right

By: Brendan O’Connor

An engaging and reflective look at how austerity and the billionaire class paved the way for Trump's presidency, the rise of the "alt-right," and the caging of migrants children and adults in detention centers across the country. For all of the energy that the far right has demonstrated-and for all of the support that they receive from institutional conservatives in the GOP and affiliated organizations-the United States is experiencing an upsurge in left-wing social movements unlike any other in the past half-century, with roots not in the Democratic Party but Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter. Drawing on his original reporting as well as archival research, O'Connor investigates how the capitalist class and the radical right mobilize racism to defend their interests, while focusing on one of the most pressing issues of our time: immigration.

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Haymarket Books

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1642593818

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9781642593815

Gin, Jesus, and Jim Crow

Prohibition and the Transformation of Racial and Religious Politics in the South

By: Brendan J. J. Payne

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Gin, Jesus, and Jim Crow

Prohibition and the Transformation of Racial and Religious Politics in the South

By: Brendan J. J. Payne

In Gin, Jesus, and Jim Crow, Brendan J. J. Payne reveals how prohibition helped realign the racial and religious order in the South by linking restrictions on alcohol with political preaching and the disfranchisement of Black voters. While both sides invoked Christianity, prohibitionists redefined churches’ doctrines, practices, and political engagement. White prohibitionists initially courted Black voters in the 1880s but soon dismissed them as hopelessly wet and sought to disfranchise them, stoking fears of drunken Black men defiling white women in their efforts to reframe alcohol restriction as a means of racial control. Later, as the alcohol industry grew desperate, it turned to Black voters, many of whom joined the brewers to preserve their voting rights and maintain personal liberties. Tracking southern debates about alcohol from the 1880s through the 1930s, Payne shows that prohibition only retreated from the region once the racial and religious order it helped enshrine had been secured.

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LSU Press

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0807177695

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9780807177693

TRACKS - June 2022

The Magazine commemorating the Long Range Desert Group

By: Kuno Gross,Ian Chard,Erik Ahlström,Bob Amos-Jones,Tarek el Mahdy,Jack Valenti,Charlie Down,Brendan O'Carroll,Meg Kennedy Shaw,Sam Watson

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TRACKS - June 2022

The Magazine commemorating the Long Range Desert Group

By: Kuno Gross,Ian Chard,Erik Ahlström,Bob Amos-Jones,Tarek el Mahdy,Jack Valenti,Charlie Down,Brendan O'Carroll,Meg Kennedy Shaw,Sam Watson

Most probably the readers of this magazine have never heard of the original TRACKS. I was in the very same situation until by the end of 2020, when NZ LRDG-historian Brendan OCarroll has provided me with a hardly readable copy of the June 1941 issue of TRACKS. I was immediately fascinated by these windows into the past and just thought: "We should revive TRACKS! " The editor of the original Tracks was, that time 20 years old, TA Sgt. N.A Moore, a clerk attached to LRDG Group HQ. The June 1941 issue was created by him when the LRDG HQ was located at Kufra. There he got the idea to create a "house paper" for the unit. He recalled in a letter which was published in the 1991 Newsletter of the LRDG Association, that there were only a very limited number of people who were willing to contribute and that this first edition was mainly launched thanks to the contribution of Lieut. Col. Bagnold and Captain Kennedy Shaw. And indeed, the June 1941 remained the single and only issue of Tracks - it was never published again.... until today! After TRACKS 2021, TRACKS 2022 is now the second isue of the "re-vived" magazine.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3755716232

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9783755716235

Religious Conversion: An African Perspective

By: Carmody, Brendan

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Religious Conversion: An African Perspective

By: Carmody, Brendan

Religious Conversion: An African Perspective includes a selection of key texts which are not easily accessible elsewhere. Most of the chapters discuss the long-standing thesis of Robin Horton who argues that religious change results from social transformation. The contributors provide different perspectives on what remains an ongoing provocative, though inconclusive debate. The book has chapters on conversion in Africa from such authorities as Robin Horton, Humphrey Fisher, and Richard Gray. It also contains chapters on Zambia by Elizaebeth Colson, Brendan Carmody, Austin Cheyeka, Felix Phiri and W Van Binsbergen. This collection of chapters provides an introduction to the discussion surrounding the query: Did the Christian and Muslim messages bring something fundamentally new to the African religious horizon? What has indigenisation meant? What is the role of traditional religion?

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Gadsden Publishers

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998224096X

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9789982240963

Exiles and Islanders

The Irish Settlers of Prince Edward Island

By: Brendan O'Grady

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Exiles and Islanders

The Irish Settlers of Prince Edward Island

By: Brendan O'Grady

The first comprehensive account of the Irish settlers of Prince Edward Island.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773527230

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9780773527232

DTrace

Dynamic Tracing in Oracle Solaris, Mac OS X, and FreeBSD

By: Brendan Gregg,Jim Mauro

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DTrace

Dynamic Tracing in Oracle Solaris, Mac OS X, and FreeBSD

By: Brendan Gregg,Jim Mauro

The Oracle Solaris DTrace feature revolutionizes the way you debug operating systems and applications. Using DTrace, you can dynamically instrument software and quickly answer virtually any question about its behavior. Now, for the first time, there's a comprehensive, authoritative guide to making the most of DTrace in any supported UNIX environment--from Oracle Solaris to OpenSolaris, Mac OS X, and FreeBSD. Written by key contributors to the DTrace community, DTrace teaches by example, presenting scores of commands and easy-to-adapt, downloadable D scripts. These concise examples generate answers to real and useful questions, and serve as a starting point for building more complex scripts. Using them, you can start making practical use of DTrace immediately, whether you're an administrator, developer, analyst, architect, or support professional. The authors fully explain the goals, techniques, and output associated with each script or command. Drawing on their extensive experience, they provide strategy suggestions, checklists, and functional diagrams, as well as a chapter of advanced tips and tricks. You'll learn how to Write effective scripts using DTrace's D language Use DTrace to thoroughly understand system performance Expose functional areas of the operating system, including I/O, filesystems, and protocols Use DTrace in the application and database development process Identify and fix security problems with DTrace Analyze the operating system kernel Integrate DTrace into source code Extend DTrace with other tools This book will help you make the most of DTrace to solve problems more quickly and efficiently, and build systems that work faster and more reliably.

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Prentice Hall Professional

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0137061870

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9780137061877

Economics of the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Internet, Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain

By: Nicholas Johnson,Brendan Markey-Towler

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Economics of the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Internet, Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain

By: Nicholas Johnson,Brendan Markey-Towler

This book applies cutting-edge economic analysis and social science to unpack the rich complexities and paradoxes of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The book takes the reader on a bold, refreshing, and informative tour through its technological drivers, its profound impact on human ecosystems, and its potential for sustainable human development. The overarching message to the reader is that the Fourth Industrial Revolution is not merely something to be feared or survived; rather, this dramatic collision of technologies, disciplines, and ideas presents a magnificent opportunity for a generation of new pioneers to rewrite "accepted rules" and find new avenues to empower billions of people to thrive. This book will help readers to discern the difference between disruption and transformation. The reader will come away from this book with a deeply intuitive and highly contextual understanding of the core technological advances transforming the world as we know it. Beyond this, the reader will clearly appreciate the future impacts on our economies and social structures. Most importantly, the reader will receive an insightful and actionable set of guidelines to assist them in harnessing the Fourth Industrial Revolution so that both they and their communities may flourish. The authors do not primarily seek to make prescriptions for government policy, but rather to speak directly to people about what they can do for themselves, their families, and their communities to be future-proofed and ready to adapt to life in a rapidly evolving world ecosystem.

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Routledge

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0429771703

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9780429771705

The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist

Why We Should Think Beyond Commercial Game Production

By: Brendan Keogh

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The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist

Why We Should Think Beyond Commercial Game Production

By: Brendan Keogh

The precarious reality of videogame production beyond the corporate blockbuster studios of North America. The videogame industry, we're invariably told, is a multibillion-dollar, high-tech business conducted by large corporations in certain North American, European, and East Asian cities. But most videogames today, in fact, are made by small clusters of people working on shoestring budgets, relying on existing, freely available software platforms, and hoping, often in vain, to rise to stardom—in short, people working like artists. Aiming squarely at this disconnect between perception and reality, The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist presents a much more accurate and nuanced picture of how the vast majority of videogame-makers work—a picture that reveals the diverse and precarious communities, identities, and approaches that make videogame production a significant cultural practice. Drawing on insights provided by over 400 game developers across Australia, North America, Europe, and Southeast Asia, Brendan Keogh develops a new framework for understanding videogame production as a cultural field in all its complexity. Part-time hobbyists, aspirational students, client-facing contractors, struggling independents, artist collectives, and tightly knit local scenes—all have a place within this model. But proponents of non-commercial game making don't exist in isolation; Keogh shows how they and their commercial counterparts are deeply interconnected and codependent in the field of videogame production. A cultural intervention, The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist challenges core assumptions about videogame production—ideas about creativity, professionalism, labor, diversity, education, globalization, and community. Its in-depth, complex portrayal suggests new ways of seeing, and engaging in, the videogame industry that really does exist.

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MIT Press

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0262545403

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9780262545402

Australia's Constitution after Whitlam

By: Brendan Lim

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Australia's Constitution after Whitlam

By: Brendan Lim

An original account of the 1975 constitutional crisis and its continuing relevance for informal constitutional change in contemporary Australian law.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107119464

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9781107119468

Finding Bix

The Life and Afterlife of a Jazz Legend

By: Brendan Wolfe

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Finding Bix

The Life and Afterlife of a Jazz Legend

By: Brendan Wolfe

Brendan Wolfe's Finding Bix is a personal and often surprising attempt to connect music, history, and legend. A native of Bix Beiderbecke's hometown of Davenport, Iowa, Wolfe grew up seeing Bix's iconic portrait on everything from posters to parking garages. He never heard his music, though, until cast to play a bit part in an Italian biopic filmed in Davenport. Then, after writing a newspaper review of a book about Beiderbecke, Wolfe unexpectedly received a letter from the late musician's nephew scolding him for getting a number of facts wrong. This is where Finding Bix begins: in Wolfe's good-faith attempt to get the facts right.

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University of Iowa Press

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1609385063

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9781609385064

Angelica's Book and the World of Reading in Late Renaissance Italy

By: Brendan Dooley

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Angelica's Book and the World of Reading in Late Renaissance Italy

By: Brendan Dooley

Through the lens of a history of material culture mediated by an object, Angelica's Book and the World of Reading in Late Renaissance Italy investigates aspects of women's lives, culture, ideas and the history of the book in early modern Italy. Inside a badly damaged copy of Straparola's 16th-century work, Piacevoli Notti, acquired in a Florentine antique shop in 2010, an inscription is found, attributing ownership to a certain Angelica Baldachini. The discovery sets in motion a series of inquiries, deploying knowledge about calligraphy, orthography, linguistics, dialectology and the socio-psychology of writing, to reveal the person behind the name. Focusing as much on the possible owner as upon the thing owned, Angelica's Book examines the genesis of the Piacevoli Notti and its many editions, including the one in question. The intertwined stories of the book and its owner are set against the backdrop of a Renaissance world, still imperfectly understood, in which literature and reading were subject to regimes of control; and the new information throws aspects of this world into further relief, especially in regard to women's involvement with reading, books and knowledge. The inquiry yields unexpected insights concerning the logic of accidental discovery, the nature of evidence, and the mission of the humanities in a time of global crisis. Angelica's Book and the World of Reading in Late Renaissance Italy is a thought-provoking read for any scholar of early modern Europe and its culture.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1474270328

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9781474270328

Team Spirit

Life and Leadership on One of the World's Toughest Yacht Races

By: Brendan Hall

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Team Spirit

Life and Leadership on One of the World's Toughest Yacht Races

By: Brendan Hall

Team Spirit is a gripping account of a race on the edge, and a young skipper's determined journey to victory. The Clipper Round the World Yacht Race is the ultimate long distance challenge - a 35,000-mile circumnavigation of the globe, contested by amateur crews in identical racing yachts - and the winners are those who keep their focus the longest. The 2010 winner was 28-year-old Brendan Hall and his crew in Spirit of Australia. Although Brendan was the youngest and least experienced skipper in the race, the win was no accident - it was the culmination of years of training, skilled navigation and a leadership style way beyond his years.

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A&C Black

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1408158655

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9781408158654

Partnerships in Urban Property Development

By: Nigel Dubben,Brendan Williams

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Partnerships in Urban Property Development

By: Nigel Dubben,Brendan Williams

This book covers partnerships in the broadest sense, presenting a critical account of the whole range of partnerships in property development. The emphasis is on the relationship between developers and landowners, developers and funders, and the provision of public services through the use of private finance. The authors draw on their own professional experience of running property partnerships and, with carefully researched case studies, present the 'insider' view, making a potentially dry and complex subject accessible and lively. The book moves beyond a theoretical overview and, by illuminating the reality of property partnerships shows for example, exactly how the government is procuring schools, hospitals and roads. This clear and objective analysis sets property partnerships in their economic and political contexts and will be of topical interest to surveyors and developers - in both private practice and local authorities - as well as to funders. Students in surveying, estate management and real estate development will also find this a concise and authoritative guide. Contents 1 The Public and Private Sectors 2 The Property Development Process 3 Partnership Negotiations using Development Appraisal Techniques 4 The Private Finance Initiative 5 Public Private Partnerships: the Urban Experience of Dublin 6 Property Funding Partnerships 7 Development Partnerships and Landowners 8 International Trends and Public Private Partnerships 9 Economic Background and Future Trends

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John Wiley & Sons

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1405111798

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9781405111799

Cleveland Is King

The Cleveland Cavaliers' Historic 2016 Championship Season

By: Brendan Bowers

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Cleveland Is King

The Cleveland Cavaliers' Historic 2016 Championship Season

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Triumph Books

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1633197166

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LeBron James vs. the NBA

The Case for the NBA's Greatest Player

By: Brendan Bowers,Ryan Jones

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LeBron James vs. the NBA

The Case for the NBA's Greatest Player

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The Sayings of Brendan Behan

By: Brendan Behan,Aubrey Dillon-Malone

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The Sayings of Brendan Behan

By: Brendan Behan,Aubrey Dillon-Malone

This is a thematic compilation of the greatest of Brendan Behan's quotations, on everything from alcohol to literature, fame to religion, and politics to violence. He also sounds off on his favourite subject and his finest creation: Brendan Behan himself.

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Duckworth Publishing

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0715628062

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