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Illusions of Progress

Business, Poverty, and Liberalism in the American Century

By: Brent Cebul

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Illusions of Progress

Business, Poverty, and Liberalism in the American Century

By: Brent Cebul

Today, the word "neoliberal" is used to describe an epochal shift toward market-oriented governance begun in the 1970s. Yet the roots of many of neoliberalism's policy tools can be traced to the ideas and practices of mid-twentieth-century liberalism. In Illusions of Progress, Brent Cebul chronicles the rise of what he terms "supply-side liberalism," a powerful and enduring orientation toward politics and the economy, race and poverty, that united local chambers of commerce, liberal policymakers and economists, and urban and rural economic planners. Beginning in the late 1930s, New Dealers tied expansive aspirations for social and, later, racial progress to a variety of economic development initiatives. In communities across the country, otherwise conservative business elites administered liberal public works, urban redevelopment, and housing programs. But by binding national visions of progress to the local interests of capital, liberals often entrenched the very inequalities of power and opportunity they imagined their programs solving. When President Lyndon Johnson launched the War on Poverty--which prioritized direct partnerships with poor and racially marginalized citizens--businesspeople, Republicans, and soon, a rising generation of New Democrats sought to rein in its seeming excesses by reinventing and redeploying many of the policy tools and commitments pioneered on liberalism's supply side: public-private partnerships, market-oriented solutions, fiscal "realism," and, above all, subsidies for business-led growth now promised to blunt, and perhaps ultimately replace, programs for poor and marginalized Americans. In this wide-ranging book, Brent Cebul illuminates the often-overlooked structures of governance, markets, and public debt through which America's warring political ideologies have been expressed and transformed. From Washington, D.C. to the declining Rustbelt and emerging Sunbelt and back again, Illusions of Progress reveals the centrality of public and private forms of profit that have defined the enduring boundaries of American politics, opportunity, and inequality-- in an era of liberal ascendance and an age of neoliberal retrenchment.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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1512823821

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Justice for Ourselves

Black Virginians Claim Their Freedom after Slavery

By: John G. Deal,Marianne E. Julienne,Brent Tarter

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Justice for Ourselves

Black Virginians Claim Their Freedom after Slavery

By: John G. Deal,Marianne E. Julienne,Brent Tarter

A new look at the Black Virginians who defined and realized their freedom after the collapse of slavery “Verily, the work does not end with the abolition of slavery,” wrote Frederick Douglass in 1862, “but only begins.” The Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment altered a legal status; to make freedom a reality represented a different challenge altogether. Justice for Ourselves tells the stories of remarkable Black men and women in post–Civil War Virginia who persevered in the face of overwhelming barriers to seek their freedom and create a new world for themselves and future generations. Drawing on the life stories of individuals from all regions of the state—political leaders, teachers, ministers, journalists, and entrepreneurs—Justice for Ourselves recounts their quests to attain full American citizenship and economic independence before the onset of Jim Crow repression. Centering Black voices, this book includes tales of opportunities seized and opportunities lost and will reshape the narrative of Black history and the history of Virginia in the second half of the nineteenth century.

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University of Virginia Press

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0813951380

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Mack Sennett's Fun Factory

A History and Filmography of His Studio and His Keystone and Mack Sennett Comedies, with Biographies of Players and Personnel

By: Brent E. Walker

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Mack Sennett's Fun Factory

A History and Filmography of His Studio and His Keystone and Mack Sennett Comedies, with Biographies of Players and Personnel

By: Brent E. Walker

This is a comprehensive career study and filmography of Mack Sennett, cofounder of Keystone Studios, home of the Keystone Kops and other vehicles that showcased his innovative slapstick comedy. The filmography covers the more than 1,000 films Sennett produced, directed, wrote or appeared in between 1908 and 1955, including casts, credits, synopses, production and release dates, locations, cross-references of remade stories and gags, footage excerpted in compilations, identification of prints existing in archives, and other information. The book, featuring 280 photographs, also contains biographies of several hundred performers and technical personnel connected with Sennett.

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McFarland

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0786457074

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Founding Leadership

Lessons on Business & Personal Leadership From the Men Who Brought You the American Revolution

By: Brent Taylor

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Founding Leadership

Lessons on Business & Personal Leadership From the Men Who Brought You the American Revolution

By: Brent Taylor

What would Washington (or Jefferson or Hamilton) do? Practical leadership lessons from the eighteenth century that you can use today. To many, the leaders of the American Revolution are distant men of myth—stoic, heroic, and unknowable. People take for granted that these men were brilliant, but rarely ask why. What distinguished them from their fellow citizens, both then and now? What can they teach about leadership, and about realizing both career and personal goals? Founding Leadership reveals the human side of these “marble men,” examining the words, deeds, and personal qualities that allowed Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Hamilton, and others to achieve their utopian aims. Historian Brent Taylor demonstrates that effective leadership requires more than perseverance and a laundry list of how-to steps. It requires leaders to conceive visions greater than themselves, then communicate those visions in ways that inspire, persuade, and motivate others. In examining historical episodes both famous and obscure, Taylor uncovers the light and dark sides of power, including the motivations behind Benedict Arnold’s infamous betrayal. Through these fascinating studies, you can become more attuned to America’s past and—most importantly—to your own leadership potential.

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Morgan James Publishing

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1642792055

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Marriages of Bute and Warren Counties, North Carolina 1764-1868

By: Brent H. Holcomb

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Marriages of Bute and Warren Counties, North Carolina 1764-1868

By: Brent H. Holcomb

Bute County was discontinued in 1779. Franklin and Warren counties were formed from the area of Bute County.

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806313013

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Working with Challenging Youth

Lessons Learned Along the Way

By: Brent Richardson

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Working with Challenging Youth

Lessons Learned Along the Way

By: Brent Richardson

Stressing the importance of self-awareness, genuineness, and empathy in effective counselors, this book will be a practical, reader-friendly guide through the pitfalls and problems that arise when working with challenging populations. Building on a solid theoretical base in Reality Therapy, Humanistic Philosophy, Solution-Focused therapy, MRI Brief Problem-focused therapy, and Systems theory, the book identifies specific considerations and strategies for counselors.

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Routledge

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1135057850

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Rising Above

365 Daily Meditations for Becoming and Overcoming

By: Brent N. Bozeman

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Rising Above

365 Daily Meditations for Becoming and Overcoming

By: Brent N. Bozeman

Dr. Brent Bozeman shares his writings with the world about things he learned the hard way. The thoughts and ideas contained in these meditations were originally intended for his two sons, and they are sometimes intense, with raw passion and vulnerability. Written from the perspective of his own struggles with addiction, shame, and a real doubt of Gods love, he reminds us all that falling down is not the end of our story but the beginning of grace. This book offers 365 personal meditations intended to challenge your mind and inspire hope. By surrendering to the relentless love of God, you too can rise above.

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WestBow Press

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1973624966

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Middletown Apocalypse

By: Brent Abell,Shawn Chesser,Mike Evans,Joe McKinney,John O'Brien,Armand Rosamilia,Eric A. Shelman,Heath Stallcup,Mark Tufo,Jack Wallen,Jay Wilburn

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Middletown Apocalypse

By: Brent Abell,Shawn Chesser,Mike Evans,Joe McKinney,John O'Brien,Armand Rosamilia,Eric A. Shelman,Heath Stallcup,Mark Tufo,Jack Wallen,Jay Wilburn

What happens when you give eleven of the best modern-day apocalyptic writers the same idea for a story and allow their twisted imaginations to go wild? Middletown Apocalypse... that's what. Set in America's heartland, these stories begin with chemistry student Charlie Noble and wind their way through the infected landscape of middletown America. Abel, Chesser, Evans, McKinney, O'Brien, Rosamilia, Shelman, Stallcup, Tufo, Wallen, Wilburn. Are you ready this?

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1680160540

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Texas Compound

By: Wes Brent

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Texas Compound

By: Wes Brent

The penal system’s escalating growth is costing more and more money to support as time goes by. This book is both fact and fiction that will ease the dollar support and return the convict back into a competitive member of society. With an approximately two billion dollar budget in 1997 to keep incarcerated one hundred forty thousand inmates with a capacity of one hundred forty seven thousand beds, it is apparent that new facilities need to be provided. The cost and growth goes on. Let’s return these convicts to society better suited to fit in for less money. A system must be provided to let the inmate step back into society equal to his non-incarcerated peers. The fiction and facts between these two covers may be a way to achieve that goal.

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iUniverse

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0595166105

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Where Did the Eastern Mayas Go?

The Historical, Relational, and Contingent Interplay of Ch’orti’ Indigeneity

By: Brent E. Metz

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Where Did the Eastern Mayas Go?

The Historical, Relational, and Contingent Interplay of Ch’orti’ Indigeneity

By: Brent E. Metz

Copublished with the Institute for Mesoamerican Studies, University of Albany In Where Did the Eastern Mayas Go? Brent E. Metz explores the complicated issue of who is Indigenous by focusing on the sociohistorical transformations over the past two millennia of the population currently known as the Ch’orti’ Maya. Epigraphers agree that the language of elite writers in Classic Maya civilization was Proto-Ch’olan, the precursor of the Maya languages Ch’orti’, Ch’olti’, Ch’ol, and Chontal. When the Spanish invaded in the early 1500s, the eastern half of this area was dominated by people speaking various dialects of Ch’olti’ and closely related Apay (Ch’orti’), but by the end of the colonial period (1524–1821) only a few pockets of Ch’orti’ speakers remained. From 2003 to 2018 Metz partnered with Indigenous leaders to conduct a historical and ethnographic survey of Ch’orti’ Maya identity in what was once the eastern side of the Classic period lowland Maya region and colonial period Ch’orti’-speaking region of eastern Guatemala, western Honduras, and northwestern El Salvador. Today only 15,000 Ch’orti’ speakers remain, concentrated in two municipalities in eastern Guatemala, but since the 1990s nearly 100,000 impoverished farmers have identified as Ch’orti’ in thirteen Guatemalan and Honduran municipalities, with signs of Indigenous revitalization in several Salvadoran municipalities as well. Indigenous movements have raised the ethnic consciousness of many non-Ch’orti’-speaking semi-subsistence farmers, or campesinos. The region’s inhabitants employ diverse measures to assess identity, referencing language, history, traditions, rurality, “blood,” lineage, discrimination, and more. Where Did the Eastern Mayas Go? approaches Indigenous identity as being grounded in historical processes, contemporary politics, and distinctive senses of place. The book is an engaged, activist ethnography not on but, rather, in collaboration with a marginalized population that will be of interest to scholars of the eastern lowland Maya region, indigeneity generally, and ethnographic experimentation.

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University Press of Colorado

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1646422627

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Setting Priorities for HIV/AIDS Interventions

A Cost-Benefit Approach

By: Robert J. Brent

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Setting Priorities for HIV/AIDS Interventions

A Cost-Benefit Approach

By: Robert J. Brent

Professor Brent s book is a superlative addition to the HIV/AIDS policy literature. Both non-specialists and specialists in policy evaluation will benefit from the lucid exposition of cost benefit analysis (CBA) methods applied to the most critical and far-reaching problem that challenges social institutions and individual behavior. Essentially, Professor Brent has taken his vast experience in cost benefit analysis, and on the ground African research, to apply CBA in a compelling and insightful manner. This book re-examines HIV/AIDS policy in Sub-Saharan countries where the devastation is an infection tsunami. . . Finding what actually works may be difficult, but Professor Brent argues persuasively that using a CBA framework is the best approach. William S. Cartwright, George Mason University, US HIV/AIDS is much too complex a phenomenon to be understood only by reference to common sense and ethical codes. This book presents the cost benefit analysis (CBA) framework in a well-researched and accessible manner to ensure that the most important considerations are recognized and incorporated. This book argues that HIV/AIDS policies need to be evidence based and that CBA is the best way to assemble and summarize the evidence. The work explains why CBA is needed and highlights a number of myths, misinformation and counterintuitive results in the field, and critiques the Millennium Development Goals approach. It also presents HIV/AIDS as a hunger issue in sub-Saharan Africa and as a sexual transmission problem in the US. The roles of nutrition, income, education, religion, agricultural policy, concurrency and sexual networks are all examined. Robert Brent explains the main cost benefit methods and applications, including threshold analysis, willingness to pay, cost minimization, cost-effectiveness, human capital theory and the value of a statistical life. Applications cover female education, possible vaccines, condoms, and various forms of treatment. He concludes by explaining how CBA incorporates social considerations such as equity. With timely and controversial discussions, this book will be read with interest by AIDS activists, NGO members, policy-makers and public officials, as well as being accessible to non-economists interested in the subject of HIV/AIDS.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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184980513X

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The Good Grief Devotional

52 Weeks toward Hope

By: Brent D. Christianson

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The Good Grief Devotional

52 Weeks toward Hope

By: Brent D. Christianson

A companion to the bestselling book Good Grief, these wise and honest meditations are for anyone on the journey through grief and loss. Whether you are struggling with your own loss or walking with a friend or family member who is grieving, you know the journey is not smooth or straightforward. The Good Grief Devotional offers wise, honest companionship to those who are struggling with a divorce, the loss of a job, the death of a loved one, or another major life transition. Pastor Brent D. Christianson's fifty-two devotions follow the ten stages of grief outlined in Granger Westberg's helpful bestseller Good Grief. First published in 1968, Good Grief has helped millions of people find comfort and validation for their grief, a deeper understanding of their feelings, and helpful ways to live with loss while moving toward a new reality. Each section of the book begins with a reflection on a particular stage of the grief process and then considers what that stage means for our self-understanding and relationships with everything around us, including creation and God. Each devotion ends with questions to think about and discuss with another person, healing actions to consider, and a prayer. The Good Grief Devotional provides inviting, pastoral care, helps us face the reality of loss, and points toward hope. You will return to this collection of meditations year after year as you progress through your journey.

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Fortress Press

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1506453082

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The Sacred Romance

Drawing Closer to the Heart of God

By: Brent Curtis,John Eldredge

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The Sacred Romance

Drawing Closer to the Heart of God

By: Brent Curtis,John Eldredge

If you're feeling lost, disconnected, or longing for something more, join bestselling authors John Eldredge and Brent Curtis as they explore the greatest love of our lives: our faith. The Sacred Romance invites us to find the peace and purpose we crave by slowing down, asking questions, and deepening our relationship with God. Eldredge and Curtis believe that modern Christians have lost touch with our hearts. We've left that essential part of ourselves behind in the pursuit of efficiency, success, and the busyness of our lives. The Sacred Romance will guide you through a journey to getting to know yourself and your creator even better, asking you: What is this restlessness and emptiness I feel, sometimes after years into my Christian journey? How will my spiritual life touch the rest of my life? What is it that is set so deeply in my heart, that simply will not leave me alone? When did I stop listening to God’s leading? The Sacred Romance is a journey of the heart. It is a journey full of intimacy, adventure, and beauty, that will guide you to your fondest memories, your greatest loves, your noblest achievements, and even your deepest hurts--but the reward is worth the risk.

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Thomas Nelson

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1418509310

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Developing National Power in Space

A Theoretical Model

By: Brent Ziarnick

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Developing National Power in Space

A Theoretical Model

By: Brent Ziarnick

Exploring the nature of space programs and how nations can maximize advantages gained from space operations, this book draws from military and economic theory to describe an original model of the development and employment of a nation's ability to operate in space. Chapters discuss the implications for the history and organization of America's space program, particularly its military dimension. The rise of American naval power early in the 20th century is investigated as an historical analog to the current American situation in space, and a method is proposed for the U.S. to lead a new space age. This book's unique theory and analysis will be of interest to policy makers, planners, leaders and enthusiasts interested in America's future in space.

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McFarland

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1476617732

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50 Great American Places

Essential Historic Sites Across the U.S.

By: Brent D. Glass

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50 Great American Places

Essential Historic Sites Across the U.S.

By: Brent D. Glass

Profiles fifty sites across the United States that trace the cultural history of the country, discussing the people and events that led to each site's importance, from the National Mall in D.C. to Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.

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Simon and Schuster

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1451682034

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Soundtrack to a Movement

African American Islam, Jazz, and Black Internationalism

By: Richard Brent Turner

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Soundtrack to a Movement

African American Islam, Jazz, and Black Internationalism

By: Richard Brent Turner

Explores how jazz helped propel the rise of African American Islam during the era of global Black liberation Amid the social change and liberation of the civil rights and Black Power movements, the tenor saxophonist Archie Shepp recorded a tribute to Malcolm X’s emancipatory political consciousness. Shepp saw similarities between his revolutionary hero and John Coltrane, one of the most influential jazz musicians of the era. Later, the esteemed trumpeter Miles Davis echoed Shepp’s sentiment, recognizing that Coltrane’s music represented the very passion, rage, rebellion, and love that Malcolm X preached. Soundtrack to a Movement examines the link between the revolutionary Black Islam of the post-WWII generation and jazz music. It argues that from the late 1940s and ’50s though the 1970s, Islam rose in prominence among African Americans in part because of the embrace of the religion among jazz musicians. The book demonstrates that the values that Islam and jazz shared—Black affirmation, freedom, and self-determination—were key to the growth of African American Islamic communities, and that it was jazz musicians who led the way in shaping encounters with Islam as they developed a Black Atlantic “cool” that shaped both Black religion and jazz styles. Soundtrack to a Movement demonstrates how by expressing their values through the rejection of systemic racism, the construction of Black notions of masculinity and femininity, and the development of an African American religious internationalism, both jazz musicians and Black Muslims engaged with a global Black consciousness and interconnected resistance movements in the African diaspora and Africa.

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NYU Press

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1479806765

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Criminal Litigation and Legal Issues in Criminal Procedure

Readings and Hypothetical Exercises

By: Brent E. Newton

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Criminal Litigation and Legal Issues in Criminal Procedure

Readings and Hypothetical Exercises

By: Brent E. Newton

Criminal Litigation & Legal Issues in Criminal Procedure is designed to incorporate the substantive law of criminal procedure into a trial advocacy course. The traditional trial advocacy course is concerned almost exclusively with "skills training" (e.g., learning techniques for cross-examining a witness), but does not incorporate much, if any, substantive law. Conversely, a traditional substantive course on criminal law or criminal procedure focuses exclusively on legal principles and doctrine, but does not involve training students in courtroom advocacy skills concerning substantive law. In Criminal Litigation & Legal Issues in Criminal Procedure, author Brent Newton merges elements from these two types of courses into one and seeks to bridge the gap between them.

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Aspen Publishing

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1601564724

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The Old Testament Is Dying (Theological Explorations for the Church Catholic)

A Diagnosis and Recommended Treatment

By: Brent A. Strawn

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The Old Testament Is Dying (Theological Explorations for the Church Catholic)

A Diagnosis and Recommended Treatment

By: Brent A. Strawn

The Old Testament constitutes the majority of the Christian Bible and provides much of the language of Christian faith. However, many churches tend to neglect this crucial part of Scripture. This timely book details a number of ways the Old Testament is showing signs of decay, demise, and imminent death in the church. Brent Strawn reminds us of the Old Testament's important role in Christian faith and practice, criticizes current misunderstandings that contribute to its neglect, and offers ways to revitalize its use in the church.

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Baker Academic

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1441244832

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Ontological Security in International Relations

Self-Identity and the IR State

By: Brent J. Steele

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Ontological Security in International Relations

Self-Identity and the IR State

By: Brent J. Steele

The central assertion of this book is that states pursue social actions to serve self-identity needs, even when these actions compromise their physical existence. Three forms of social action, sometimes referred to as ‘motives’ of state behaviour (moral, humanitarian, and honour-driven) are analyzed here through an ontological security approach. Brent J. Steele develops an account of social action which interprets these behaviours as fulfilling a nation-state's drive to secure self-identity through time. The anxiety which consumes all social agents motivates them to secure their sense of being, and thus he posits that transformational possibilities exist in the ‘Self’ of a nation-state. The volume consequently both challenges and complements realist, liberal, constructivist and post-structural accounts to international politics. Using ontological security to interpret three cases - British neutrality during the American Civil War (1861-1865), Belgium’s decision to fight Germany in 1914, and NATO’s (1999) Kosovo intervention - the book concludes by discussing the importance for self-interrogation in both the study and practice of international relations. Ontological Security in International Relations will be of particular interest to students and researchers of international politics, international ethics, international relations and security studies.

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Routledge

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113598008X

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Reimagine

What the World Would Look Like If God Got His Way

By: Brent Crowe

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Reimagine

What the World Would Look Like If God Got His Way

By: Brent Crowe

Help the hopeless, open closed minds, and be more fully human in a world that increasingly devalues human life. How? By reimagining how things could and should be. When we take Jesus at his word, there are no limitations to what we can dream for the world. Reimagine—and change your world.

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Tyndale House

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161291490X

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Sing Sing 614

By: Charles Grosso,Brent Buell

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Sing Sing 614

By: Charles Grosso,Brent Buell

Sing Sing 614 represents the # of inmates executed at this historical prison. Joe Wood (cover) was the first black man executed in 1891. Learn why his electrode was switched from his right leg to his left. Meet Gordon Hamby, deemed the handsomest man on death row. Eight-hundred women wrote not to execute him. On the day of his execution Hamby told Warden Lewis E. Lawes "don't worry warden, in 24 hours I'll be back!" The trouble is, not only did Hamby come back, but he also brought everyone else from Sing Sing's death house with him, including Joe Wood. This book will entertain you.

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Page Publishing Inc

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1662451512

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To Rule the Skies

General Thomas S. Power and the Rise of Strategic Air Command in the Cold War

By: Brent D Ziarnick

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To Rule the Skies

General Thomas S. Power and the Rise of Strategic Air Command in the Cold War

By: Brent D Ziarnick

To Rule the Skies: General Thomas S. Power and the Rise of Strategic Air Command in the Cold War fills a critical gap in Cold War and Air Force history by telling the story of General Thomas S. Power for the first time. Thomas Power was second only to Curtis LeMay in forming the Strategic Air Command (SAC), one of the premier combat organizations of the twentieth century, but he is rarely mentioned today. What little is written about Power describes him as LeMay's willing hatchet man--uneducated, unimaginative, autocratic, and sadistic. Based on extensive archival research, General Power seeks to overturn this appraisal. Brent D. Ziarnick covers the span of both Power's personal and professional life and challenges many of the myths of conventional knowledge about him. Denied college because his middle-class immigrant family imploded while he was still in school, Power worked in New York City construction while studying for the Flying Cadet examination at night in the New York Public Library. As a young pilot, Power participated in some of the Army Air Corps' most storied operations. In the interwar years, his family connections allowed Power to interact with American Wall Street millionaires and the British aristocracy. Confined to training combat aircrews in the United States for most of World War II, Power proved his combat leadership as a bombing wing commander by planning and leading the firebombing of Tokyo for Gen. Curtis LeMay. After the war, Power helped LeMay transform the Air Force into the aerospace force America needed during the Cold War. A master of strategic air warfare, he aided in establishing SAC as the Free World's "Big Stick" against Soviet aggression. Far from being unimaginative, Power led the incorporation of the nuclear weapon, the intercontinental ballistic missile, the airborne alert, and the Single Integrated Operational Plan into America's deterrent posture as Air Research and Development Command commander and both the vice commander and commander-in-chief of SAC. Most importantly, Power led SAC through the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. Even after retirement, Power as a New York Times bestselling author brought his message of deterrence through strength to the nation. Ziarnick points out how Power's impact may continue in the future. Power's peerless, but suppressed, vision of the Air Force and the nation in space is recounted in detail, placing Power firmly as a forgotten space visionary and role model for both the Air Force and the new Space Force. To Rule the Skies is an important contribution to the history of the Cold War and beyond.

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Naval Institute Press

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1682475883

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The Cut of His Coat

Men, Dress, and Consumer Culture in Britain, 1860–1914

By: Brent Shannon

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The Cut of His Coat

Men, Dress, and Consumer Culture in Britain, 1860–1914

By: Brent Shannon

The English middle class in the late nineteenth century enjoyed an increase in the availability and variety of material goods. With that, the visual markers of class membership and manly behavior underwent a radical change. In The Cut of His Coat: Men, Dress, and Consumer Culture in Britain, 1860–1914, Brent Shannon examines familiar novels by authors such as George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, Thomas Hughes, and H. G. Wells, as well as previously unexamined etiquette manuals, period advertisements, and fashion monthlies, to trace how new ideologies emerged as mass-produced clothes, sartorial markers, and consumer culture began to change. While Victorian literature traditionally portrayed women as having sole control of class representations through dress and manners, Shannon argues that middle-class men participated vigorously in fashion. Public displays of their newly acquired mannerisms, hairstyles, clothing, and consumer goods redefined masculinity and class status for the Victorian era and beyond. The Cut of His Coat probes the Victorian disavowal of men’s interest in fashion and shopping to recover men’s significant role in the representation of class through self-presentation and consumer practices.

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Ohio University Press

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0821442287

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Steinhoff inside SA's biggest corporate crash

By: James-Brent Styan

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Steinhoff inside SA's biggest corporate crash

By: James-Brent Styan

On 5 December 2017 the Steinhoff group was still worth R199 billion. 24 hours later more than R160 billion of this fortune was wiped out. The Steinhoff empire, that took 20 years to build into an international business giant, had crumbled overnight. Markus Jooste, Steinhoff’s flashy CEO, resigned via sms and has since been fleeing an avalanche of scandals and accusations: luxury homes for a blonde mistress, allegations of fraud, racing horses and unparalleled extravagance, a lavish, black Jaguar for an old university residence”¦ What exactly happened here? Who knew what? What is Steinhoff, who is Markus Jooste and what does it all have to do with the so called Stellenbosch mafia? Where does business tycoon Christo Wiese, Shoprite and Pepkor fit in and where is the pensioners’ money? Well-known financial writer James-Brent Styan unpacks these and other questions in this astounding tale of power and greed, of secrets and deceit, and ultimately the biggest financial breakdown in the history of South Africa. Through interviews with trustworthy sources, revelations from confidential documents and in-depth research about Steinhoff’s history, Styan uncovers what the group doesn’t want you to know. Follow the money: the story of Steinhoff, Markus Jooste and the Stellenbosch boys is a gripping financial thriller that will be told as cautionary tale or salacious scandal in both boardrooms and living rooms for decades to come.

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079937167X

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Epistrophies

Jazz and the Literary Imagination

By: Brent Hayes Edwards

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Epistrophies

Jazz and the Literary Imagination

By: Brent Hayes Edwards

In 1941 Thelonious Monk and Kenny Clarke copyrighted “Epistrophy,” one of the best-known compositions of the bebop era. The song’s title refers to a literary device—the repetition of a word or phrase at the end of successive clauses—that is echoed in the construction of the melody. Written two decades later, Amiri Baraka’s poem “Epistrophe” alludes slyly to Monk’s tune. Whether it is composers finding formal inspiration in verse or a poet invoking the sound of music, hearing across media is the source of innovation in black art. Epistrophies explores this fertile interface through case studies in jazz literature—both writings informed by music and the surprisingly large body of writing by jazz musicians themselves. From James Weldon Johnson’s vernacular transcriptions to Sun Ra’s liner note poems, from Henry Threadgill’s arresting song titles to Nathaniel Mackey’s “Song of the Andoumboulou,” there is an unending back-and-forth between music that hovers at the edge of language and writing that strives for the propulsive energy and melodic contours of music. At times this results in art that gravitates into multiple media. In Duke Ellington’s “social significance” suites, or in the striking parallels between Louis Armstrong’s inventiveness as a singer and trumpeter on the one hand and his idiosyncratic creativity as a letter writer and collagist on the other, one encounters an aesthetic that takes up both literature and music as components of a unique—and uniquely African American—sphere of art-making and performance.

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0674979028

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Corporations, Crime and Accountability

By: Brent Fisse,John Braithwaite

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Corporations, Crime and Accountability

By: Brent Fisse,John Braithwaite

Explaining why accountability for corporate crime is rarely imposed under the present law, this text proposes solutions that would help to extend responsibility to a wide range of actors. It develops an Accountability Model under which the courts and corporations work together to achieve accountability across a broad front.

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0521459230

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Great Myths of Personality

By: M. Brent Donnellan,Richard E. Lucas

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Great Myths of Personality

By: M. Brent Donnellan,Richard E. Lucas

Great Myths of Personality teaches critical thinking skills and key concepts of personality psychology through the discussion of popular myths and misconceptions. Provides a thorough look at contemporary myths and misconceptions, such as: Does birth order affect personality? Are personality tests an accurate way to measure personality? Do romantic partners need similar personalities for relationship success? Introduces concepts of personality psychology in an accessible and engaging manner Focuses on current debates and controversies in the field with references to the latest research and scientific literature

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1118521358

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Blinded by the Lyrics

Behind the Lines of Rock and Roll's Most Baffling Songs

By: Brent Mann

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Blinded by the Lyrics

Behind the Lines of Rock and Roll's Most Baffling Songs

By: Brent Mann

Explores the fascinating and surprising stories behind the most mysterious and inscrutable lyrics in rock & roll history. In Billy Joel's famous tune Piano Man, he sings: "Now Paul is a real-estate novelist, who never had time for a wife". This strange lyric cries out for an explanation. What in the world is "a real estate novelist"? Blinded By The Lyrics has the unusual answer.

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0806526955

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2020 Minor League Baseball Analyst

By: Rob Gordon,Jeremy Deloney,Brent Hershey

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2020 Minor League Baseball Analyst

By: Rob Gordon,Jeremy Deloney,Brent Hershey

The first book of its kind to fully integrate sabermetrics and scouting, the 2020 Minor League Baseball Analyst provides a distinctive brand of analysis for more than 1,000 minor league baseball players. Features include scouting reports for all players, batter skills ratings, pitch repertoires, performance trends, major league equivalents, and expected major league debuts. A complete sabermetric glossary is also included. This one-of-a-kind reference is ideally suited for baseball analysts and those who play in fantasy leagues with farm systems.

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1641254513

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Parallel Time

Growing Up in Black and White

By: Brent Staples

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Parallel Time

Growing Up in Black and White

By: Brent Staples

From Pulitzer Prize winner Brent Staples, an evocative memoir that poses universal questions: Where does the family end and the self begin? What do we owe our families, and what do we owe our dreams for ourselves? What part of the past is a gift and what part a shackle? For Brent Staples there is the added dimension of race: moving from a black world into one largely defined by whites. The oldest song among nine children, Brent grew up in a small industrial town near Philadelphia. First a scholarship to a local college and then one for graduate study at the University of Chicago pulled him out of the close family circle. While he was away, the industries that supported the town failed, and drug dealing rushed in to fill the economic void. News of arrests and premature deaths among Brent's childhood friends underscored the precariousness of his perch in a world of mostly white achievers. A younger brother became a cocaine dealer and was murdered by one of his "clients." His death propelled Brent into a reconsideration of his childhood and coming-of-age that offers vivid portraits of family and place, of values that supported and pressures that tore apart, of the appeal and pain of entering a predominantly white world, and of the strengths and vulnerabilities of the black world he grew away from.

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Pantheon

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1524747483

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Chasing Elephants

Wrestling with the Gray Areas of Life

By: Brent Crowe

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Chasing Elephants

Wrestling with the Gray Areas of Life

By: Brent Crowe

Many people know what to believe and why to hold to those beliefs. But the majority of them dont know how to do when it comes to the countless decisions we must make that the Bible doesnt specifically address. Chasing Elephants carefully examines the biblical subject of freedom in Christ. Taking into account values, priorities, accountability, and cultural issues, Author Brent Crowe extracts a set of principles to act as a theology of belief for the seemingly gray areas of life. With these principles as a guide, you will be prepared to handle the moral or ethical decisions you will face in life.

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Tyndale House

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1617472646

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Unpopular Sovereignty

Mormons and the Federal Management of Early Utah Territory

By: Brent M. Rogers

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Unpopular Sovereignty

Mormons and the Federal Management of Early Utah Territory

By: Brent M. Rogers

6. The U.S. Army and the Symbolic Conquering of Mormon Sovereignty -- 7. To 1862: The Codification of Federal Authority and the End of Popular Sovereignty in the Western Territories -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803296460

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The Practice of Diaspora

literature, translation, and the rise of Black internationalism

By: Brent Hayes EDWARDS,Brent Hayes Edwards

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The Practice of Diaspora

literature, translation, and the rise of Black internationalism

By: Brent Hayes EDWARDS,Brent Hayes Edwards

Edwards revisits black transnational culture in the 1920s and 1930s, paying particular attention to links between the intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance and their Francophone counterparts in Paris. He suggests that diaspora is less a historical condition than a set of practices through which black intellectuals pursue international alliances.

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Harvard University Press

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0674034422

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The Christian Monitors

The Church of England and the Age of Benevolence, 1680-1730

By: Brent Sirota

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The Christian Monitors

The Church of England and the Age of Benevolence, 1680-1730

By: Brent Sirota

div This original and persuasive book examines the moral and religious revival led by the Church of England before and after the Glorious Revolution, and shows how that revival laid the groundwork for a burgeoning civil society in Britain. After outlining the Church of England's key role in the increase of voluntary, charitable, and religious societies, Brent Sirota examines how these groups drove the modernization of Britain through such activities as settling immigrants throughout the empire, founding charity schools, distributing devotional literature, and evangelizing and educating merchants, seamen, and slaves throughout the British empire—all leading to what has been termed the “age of benevolence.”/DIV

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Yale University Press

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0300199279

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A Worldbuilder's Guide to Societies

Essentials for Writers, Game Developers and Dungeon Masters

By: Brent A. Stypczynski

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A Worldbuilder's Guide to Societies

Essentials for Writers, Game Developers and Dungeon Masters

By: Brent A. Stypczynski

In fantastic worlds like Gondor, Westeros, Ankh-Morpork, Waterdeep, and Hogsmeade, the societies that inhabit them play important roles in capturing the feel of their settings. Societies create characters and plots, provide space for action, and reflect history. Building vibrant and interesting societies is a core element of worldbuilding in the fantasy genres. This guide walks the reader through different aspects of societies to help construct fictional worlds with greater ease. Examples of societies built by numerous authors in the fantasy, urban/modern fantasy, and paranormal romance genres are interwoven to illustrate concepts. Throughout, this book is descriptive and suggestive rather than prescriptive, and is intended to inform as well as inspire the worldbuilder.

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McFarland

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1476651094

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A History of Religion in 51⁄2 Objects

Bringing the Spiritual to Its Senses

By: S. Brent Plate

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A History of Religion in 51⁄2 Objects

Bringing the Spiritual to Its Senses

By: S. Brent Plate

A leading scholar explores the importance of physical objects and sensory experience in the practice of religion. A History of Religion in 5½ Objects takes a fresh and much-needed approach to the study of that contentious yet vital area of human culture: religion. Arguing that religion must be understood in the first instance as deriving from rudimentary human experiences, from lived, embodied practices, S. Brent Plate asks us to put aside, for the moment, questions of belief and abstract ideas. Instead, beginning with the desirous, incomplete human body, he asks us to focus on five ordinary objects—stones, incense, drums, crosses, and bread—with which we connect in our pursuit of religious meaning and fulfillment. As Plate considers each of these objects, he explores how the world’s religious traditions have put each of them to different uses throughout the millennia. Religion, it turns out, has as much to do with our bodies as our beliefs. Maybe even more.

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0807036706

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