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Do Good Fences Make Good Neighbors?

What History Teaches Us about Strategic Barriers and International Security

By: Brent L. Sterling

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Do Good Fences Make Good Neighbors?

What History Teaches Us about Strategic Barriers and International Security

By: Brent L. Sterling

A number of nations, conspicuously Israel and the United States, have been increasingly attracted to the use of strategic barriers to promote national defense. In Do Good Fences Make Good Neighbors?, defense analyst Brent Sterling examines the historical use of strategic defenses such as walls or fortifications to evaluate their effectiveness and consider their implications for modern security. Sterling studies six famous defenses spanning 2,500 years, representing both democratic and authoritarian regimes: the Long Walls of Athens, Hadrian’s Wall in Roman Britain, the Ming Great Wall of China, Louis XIV’s Pré Carré, France’s Maginot Line, and Israel’s Bar Lev Line. Although many of these barriers were effective in the short term, they also affected the states that created them in terms of cost, strategic outlook, military readiness, and relations with neighbors. Sterling assesses how modern barriers against ground and air threats could influence threat perceptions, alter the military balance, and influence the builder’s subsequent policy choices. Advocates and critics of strategic defenses often bolster their arguments by selectively distorting history. Sterling emphasizes the need for an impartial examination of what past experience can teach us. His study yields nuanced lessons about strategic barriers and international security and yields findings that are relevant for security scholars and compelling to general readers.

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Georgetown University Press

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1589017277

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Russia and Eurasia 2018-2019

By: Brent Hierman

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Russia and Eurasia 2018-2019

By: Brent Hierman

Published and updated annually, Russia and Eurasia deals with the twelve independent republics that became members of the Commonwealth of Independent States following the collapse of the Soviet Union in December 1992. The text focuses strongly on recent economic and political developments with shorter sections dealing with foreign policy, the military, religion, education, and specific cultural elements that help to define each republic and differentiate one from the other. Approximately one-third of the book is devoted to Russia, but also includes sections on Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. How the Commonwealth of Independent States came into being and how it has evolved since 1992 is also discussed. The combination of factual accuracy and up-to-date detail along with its informed projections make this an outstanding resource for researchers, practitioners in international development, media professionals, government officials, potential investors and students.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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147584154X

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Russia and Eurasia 2017-2018

By: Brent Hierman

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Russia and Eurasia 2017-2018

By: Brent Hierman

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Ch'orti'-Maya Survival in Eastern Guatemala

Indigeneity in Transition

By: Brent E. Metz

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Ch'orti'-Maya Survival in Eastern Guatemala

Indigeneity in Transition

By: Brent E. Metz

Scholars and Guatemalans have characterized eastern Guatemala as "Ladino" or non-Indian. The Ch'orti' do not exhibit the obvious indigenous markers found among the Mayas of western Guatemala, Chiapas, and the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico. Few still speak Ch'orti', most no longer wear distinctive dress, and most community organizations have long been abandoned. During the colonial period, the Ch'orti' region was adjacent to relatively vibrant economic regions of Central America that included major trade routes, mines, and dye plantations. In the twentieth century Ch'orti's directly experienced U.S.-backed dictatorships, a 36-year civil war from start to finish, and Christian evangelization campaigns, all while their population has increased exponentially. These have had tremendous impacts on Ch'orti' identities and cultures. From 1991 to 1993, Brent Metz lived in three Ch'orti' Maya-speaking communities, learning the language, conducting household surveys, and interviewing informants. He found Ch'orti's to be ashamed of their indigeneity, and he was fortunate to be present and involved when many Ch'orti's joined the Maya Movement. He has continued to expand his ethnographic research of the Ch'orti' annually ever since and has witnessed how Ch'orti's are reformulating their history and identity.

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UNM Press

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082633881X

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Those Among Us

By: Brent Owens

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Those Among Us

By: Brent Owens

A nuclear fusion accident has done away with the ice on the Earth's Poles, and suddenly the world is a little smaller. What happens when Heaven has left its post, Hell is invaded, and the one being with care for the planet's inhabitants is a scarred angel? One must travel through time and space for these answers. This story follows the character of Apple and the battle over her offspring, in a time when Good and Evil are things of the past anchored to the bottom of the ocean, and remaining unreachable above the water on the horizon is Truth. Will the greed of Humanity be enough to save the crumbling planet? Will humans learn from their past? European conflicts, disease, and the Flood have brought India to its knees, but what will the devil, Akuma, do there with the shard of hope he holds in his hands? Witness the survival of a group of humans Flashback 1914 to experience history like never before, to the most important 30 seconds of all time. Follow German Paratroopers desperately holding off Russians in the year 2060. See what the afterlife may bring, how destiny is decided, and what conflicts occur without our knowing...hopefully, this book with leave you satisfied -- with more questions than answers.

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Brent Owens

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1645701190

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Islam in the African-American Experience

By: Richard Brent Turner

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Islam in the African-American Experience

By: Richard Brent Turner

The involvement of African Americans with Islam reaches back to the earliest days of the African presence in North America. This book explores these roots in the Middle East, West Africa and antebellum America.

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Indiana University Press

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0253343232

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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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Bermuda

Celebrating 400 Years of History

By: Brent Fortenberry

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Bermuda

Celebrating 400 Years of History

By: Brent Fortenberry

This special issue ofPost-Medieval Archaeology, guest edited by Brent Fortenberry (Boston University) and Marley Brown III (The College of William and Mary), celebrates archaeology in Bermuda on the eve of the island's 400th anniversary. The volume presents the diverse nature of contemporary archaeological research on Bermuda, drawing together a wide array of scholars from the disciplines of archaeology, history, material culture studies, heritage and architectural history. The volume seeks to bring about a greater awareness of the island's archaeology and to explore its place within the historic and contemporary Atlantic world.

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Routledge

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1351192698

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Pre-Incident Indicators of Terrorist Incidents

The Identification of Behavioral, Geographic and Temporal Patterns of Preparatory Conduct

By: Brent L. Smith

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Pre-Incident Indicators of Terrorist Incidents

The Identification of Behavioral, Geographic and Temporal Patterns of Preparatory Conduct

By: Brent L. Smith

This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication. Explores whether sufficient data exists to examine the temporal and spatial relationships that existed in terrorist group planning, and if so, could patterns of preparatory conduct be identified? About one-half of the terrorists resided, planned, and prepared for terrorism relatively close to their eventual target. The terrorist groups existed for 1,205 days from the first planning meeting to the date of the actual/planned terrorist incident. The planning process for specific acts began 2-3 months prior to the terrorist incident. This study examined selected terrorist groups/incidents in the U.S. from 1980-2002. It provides for the potential to identify patterns of conduct that might lead to intervention prior to the commission of the actual terrorist incidents. Illustrations.

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DIANE Publishing

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1437930611

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The Legacy of Earth

By: Brent Nichols

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The Legacy of Earth

By: Brent Nichols

It has been two thousand years since mankind first began interstellar space travel. In that time, our species has developed unimaginable technological power. We've cured every illness, fixed every disability, and even stopped aging itself. We've abolished war, automated labor, and removed every barrier preventing individuals from pursuing their passions. In this age of abundance few things challenge modern humans. They have access to everything they could ever want in life except a sense of what to do with it. One man, grappling with this issue, adventures across the universe in search of answers.

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Brent Nichols

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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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The Gravity of Up

Unlocking Your Potential So No One Can Hold You Down

By: Brent Yates

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The Gravity of Up

Unlocking Your Potential So No One Can Hold You Down

By: Brent Yates

In The Gravity of Up, Brent Yates helps others reject the negative mind-sets that are holding them down to live healthy, happy lives. Your life is designed to be the ultimate adventure. What holds you back from realizing that potential right now? What is pushing you down instead of pulling you up? Moving up might feel like something too daunting to achieve, but the good news is that up is a direction not a destination. Today is the day you begin moving forward as author Brent Yates shows you how to unshackle and propel yourself into a more abundant life. From the outside, Brent Yates had it all—money, success, a beautiful wife and family—but inside, he was dying. One by one, everything that he valued was taken from him until he was suicidal and crippled with a mysterious malady that no doctor could identify. Instead of giving up, he decided to pinpoint what wasn’t working in his life and embark on a quest to discover happiness. By implementing a holistic approach, Brent found the three pillars of a healthy life to be rooted in the spiritual, mental, and physical. You might be battling with some of the same issues that Brent had—depression, loneliness, and feeling life was without purpose—or maybe you simply feel stuck right now. The Gravity of Up is a blueprint to lose the old, negative thoughts and embrace a new world-altering mindset. Now, happy and healthy, Brent is living proof that the formula works and is eager to help you move up!

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Simon and Schuster

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1637630077

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Cognitive Psychology and Tourism

By: Noel Scott,Brent Moyle,Ana Cláudia Campos,Liubov Skavronskaya,Biqiang Liu

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Cognitive Psychology and Tourism

By: Noel Scott,Brent Moyle,Ana Cláudia Campos,Liubov Skavronskaya,Biqiang Liu

Compiled from 10 years of research, with chapters contributed by experts in the field, we demonstrate how tourism will benefit from applying a new paradigm found in mainstream psychology, termed here the ‘Cognitive Wave’.

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Emerald Group Publishing

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180262581X

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Remembering Kent Island

Stories from the Chesapeake

By: Brent Lewis

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Remembering Kent Island

Stories from the Chesapeake

By: Brent Lewis

Settled by William Claiborne and fought for by the Calverts, Kent Island is a land of charming beauty and unfailing hospitality. Local author Brent Lewis regales his readers with tales of industrious watermen, floating theatres, legendary pirates, bootleggers and ghostly haunts. Meet Islanders such as the feisty Margaret Brent, who petitioned for voting rights in 1648, and tenacious Senator James Kirwan, who saved the island from becoming a weapons testing ground. With a warm style, Lewis pays homage to a way of life that is fast slipping beneath the waters of the Chesapeake Bay.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1614233020

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The St. Lucia Island Club

A John Le Brun Novel, Book 5

By: Brent Monahan

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The St. Lucia Island Club

A John Le Brun Novel, Book 5

By: Brent Monahan

When retired Southern sheriff-turned-New York City detective John Le Brun and his wife, Lordis, set sail in 1910 for a long-awaited honeymoon on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia, they expect to find relaxation in paradise. However, they soon discover they’ve been lured to the island in part to tout its attributes as a burgeoning vacation retreat to wealthy investors back home. Instead of finding tranquility among the tropical isle’s quaint villages and sandy beaches, they encounter a land teeming with racial, social, and economic tension. The brutal murders of a local plantation owner’s family find John putting his renowned detective skills to use, with Lordis readily playing assistant. Once again, the shrewd detective must capitalize on his “outsider” status to stay several steps ahead of the locals, many of whom seem to harbor dark motives. Is the culprit one of the white landowners the exclusive St. Lucia Island Club counts among its membership; the descendants of former African slaves said to inhabit the island’s inland jungles; or someone else entirely? As the body count rises, John and Lordis race to uncover St. Lucia’s deepest mysteries, including secret identities, long-held rivalries, and who stands to profit most from the island’s future. The St. Lucia Island Club paints a vivid portrait of the Caribbean island’s scenic beauty and complicated history at the turn of the twentieth century.

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Turner Publishing Company

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1681620448

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U.S. Naval Power in the 21st Century

A New Strategy for Facing the Chinese and Russian Threat

By: Brent D. Sadler

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U.S. Naval Power in the 21st Century

A New Strategy for Facing the Chinese and Russian Threat

By: Brent D. Sadler

This nation‘s Cold War and Global War on Terror defense structures need an update. U.S. Naval Power in the 21st Century provides such a framework for the changed world we live in, offering a detailed roadmap that shows how the United States can field a war-winning fleet that can also compete aggressively in peacetime against dangerous competitors unlike any the nation has faced before. Brent Sadler presents a compelling new strategy and organizing approach that he calls naval statecraft, which acknowledges the centrality and importance of the maritime domain. While similar in scale and scope to Cold War containment strategies against the Soviets, naval statecraft is much more. It must be to challenge China‘s involvement in global supply chains, which gives that country significant financial heft and influence around the world. Unlike what existed during of the Cold War, however, Sadler provides a unique vision for competing with China and Russia. Rather than simply calling for better coordinated U.S. diplomacy, military operations, and economic statecraft, Sadler argues for integrating the levers of national power coherently and in a sustainable way. This is no small feat, and his approach is informed by a long career rich in working with various agencies of government, foreign militaries (including hostile ones), and our allies. It is an approach imminently appropriate to our times but comes with a realization that the nation is not ready for the competition it faces from China and Russia. The book is a valuable contribution to the national debate over how best to respond to China‘s rise and Russia‘s antagonisms.

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Naval Institute Press

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1682478114

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9781682478110

Redemption

A Story of Angels and Demons Book Two

By: Brent Jackson

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Redemption

A Story of Angels and Demons Book Two

By: Brent Jackson

Lucifer has infiltrated the world with his precious Nephilim. Seeking to disrupt, destroy, and prevent the birth of the Messiah, the Prince of Darkness declares war upon the Kingdom of God and his angelic warriors, including Archangel Michael and the mighty Defender, Daniel, born of man and raised by angels. Redemption tells the story of God's great mercy and forgiveness placed upon the life of Rapha, the immortal giant, son of the mysterious angel, Hagan, as he tries to leave his life of evil and destruction behind. The Lord is not finished working through Rapha as his purpose has yet to be fulfilled. What is this purpose? What does God desire from him? Breathtaking in scope, spanning across history, Redemption: A Story of Angels and Demons offers a mesmerizing account of the great battle between good and evil, holy and unholy, light and darkness. Michael, Daniel, Rapha, and others must unite to defend and protect the family of Joseph and Mary as they struggle against the forces of evil. Darkness seems to be prevailing. Lucifer must not succeed. The story of love, honor, and ultimate redemption continues in the second installment of the Defender series. Battle lines have been drawn. Swords have been lifted. Battles will be fought. The spiritual world of angels and demons merges with the human world of Nephilim, giants, and mankind, all leading to the pivotal moment of the birth, death, and resurrection of a Savior. Which side will be victorious in the clash of God's angels against the demons of Lucifer?

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Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

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9798890430403

The Changing Blue Ridge Mountains

Essays on Journeys Past and Present

By: Brent Martin

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The Changing Blue Ridge Mountains

Essays on Journeys Past and Present

By: Brent Martin

Explore this section of the Appalachians in these essays examining its history, its wilderness, and what change means for its future. In the eighteenth century, naturalist and artist William Bartram traveled in the Blue Ridge Mountains and spent time documenting both plant life and the customs of the Middle Town Cherokees. Since that time, men and women like Bartram have journeyed through Western North Carolina’s wildest and most remote places and written about their experiences. The essays in this volume compare the present day to those historical journeys and explore the idea of wilderness and what change means for the future of the people and the species who live in the mountains. Join local writer and guide Brent Martin on a journey through this incredible landscape. “With unflinching candor, Brent Martin celebrates the heartbreaking beauty of Appalachia. He wrings out every sensory and emotional detail in these passionate, probing essays that explore the wild within. These aren’t lyrical paeans to nature; they are gritty, gutsy journeys into the rugged, remote landscapes of the human heart. Immersed in mountain tradition, culture, and community, he wanders deep and alone into the wild to find what remains. Martin’s powerful, masterful writing shines with real, hard-earned hope.” —Will Harlan, author of the New York Times bestseller Untamed: The Wildest Woman in America “If you love the Southern Appalachians and Wendell Berry and Annie Dillard and Gary Snyder, read this beautifully written and deeply thought-provoking book.” —Charles Frazier, author of the New York Times bestseller Cold Mountain “A thoughtful and thought-provoking collection of essays from one of Appalachia’s staunchest proponents of wilderness and one of its most devoted writers. Brent Martin is a preeminent naturalist and a scholar of the history of his place. This book is deeply personal, highly instructive, far-reaching.” —Janisse Ray, author of Ecology of a Cracker Childhood “A loving a troubling portrait of the southern Appalachians—the rich history and complexity of ecosystems alongside the damage we’ve wrought on them.” —Catherine Reid, author of Falling into Place: An Intimate Geography of Home

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439667144

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The Jekyl Island Club

By: Brent Monahan

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The Jekyl Island Club

By: Brent Monahan

Many are wondering if the "richest of the rich can literally get away with murder" as local sheriff John Le Brun investigates the shooting death of one of the members of the exclusive club which includies the Vanderbilts, Goulds, Rockefellers, Morgans, and Pulitzers.

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Macmillan

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0312276982

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9780312276980

The Burning White

By: Brent Weeks

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The Burning White

By: Brent Weeks

In this stunning conclusion to the epic New York Times bestselling Lightbringer series, kingdoms clash as Kip struggles to escape his family's shadow in order to protect the land and people he loves. Gavin Guile, once the most powerful man the world had ever seen, has been laid low. He's lost his magic, and now he is on a suicide mission. Failure will condemn the woman he loves. Success will condemn his entire empire. As the White King springs his great traps and the Chromeria itself is threatened by treason and siege, Kip Guile must gather his forces, rally his allies, and scramble to return for one impossible final stand. The long-awaited epic conclusion of Brent Weeks's New York Times bestselling Lightbringer series. Lightbringer The Black Prism The Blinding Knife The Broken Eye The Blood MirrorThe Burning White For more from Brent Weeks, check out: Night Angel The Way of Shadows Shadow's Edge Beyond the Shadows The Night Angel Trilogy: 10th Anniversary EditionNight Angel: The Complete Trilogy (omnibus)Perfect Shadow: A Night Angel Novella The Way of Shadows: The Graphic Novel

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Orbit

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0316251283

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Wrath of the Apprentice

By: Brent Snyder

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Wrath of the Apprentice

By: Brent Snyder

Tyr'Ynyn is back in the spotlight as she and her two best friends are on a mission to defeat the sorcerer that has been giving them trouble for so long. Kaistam Laq and his assassins are up to their old tricks and are causing chaos in the land. It is up to the healers to put an end to his tyranny. Along the way, Tyr and her friends suffer losses that may bring them to their knees. Varanus the wyvern is always there to lend a helping hand and keep their spirits up when they need him the most. In the end, will it be enough to defeat the sorcerer?

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Fulton Books, Inc.

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Night Angel: The Complete Trilogy

By: Brent Weeks

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Night Angel: The Complete Trilogy

By: Brent Weeks

The omnibus edition of New York Times bestselling author Brent Weeks' blockbuster NIGHT ANGEL TRILOGY. With over one million copies in print, Brent Weeks has become one of the fastest selling new fantasy authors of all time. For Durzo Blint, assassination is an art - and he is the city's most accomplished artist. For Azoth, survival is just the beginning. He was raised on the streets and knows an opportunity when he sees one - even when the risks are as high as working for someone like Durzo Blint. Azoth must learn to navigate the assassins' world of dangerous politics and strange magics - and become the perfect killer. THE NIGHT ANGEL TRILOGY, one of the most popular epic fantasy series in recent years, is compiled into one volume for the first time. Included in this omnibus edition are: The Way of Shadows, Shadow's Edge, and Beyond the Shadows.

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0316093491

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Recreation Facility Management

Design, Development, Operations, and Utilization

By: Richard F. Mull,Brent A. Beggs,Mick Renneisen

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Recreation Facility Management

Design, Development, Operations, and Utilization

By: Richard F. Mull,Brent A. Beggs,Mick Renneisen

Recreation Facility Management: Design, Development, Operations, and Utilization presents a comprehensive introduction to the field of facility design, management, and maintenance for practicing or future recreation professionals.

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Human Kinetics

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0736070028

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9780736070027

The American West in Bronze, 1850-1925

By: Thayer Tolles,Thomas Brent Smith

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The American West in Bronze, 1850-1925

By: Thayer Tolles,Thomas Brent Smith

Themes of the American West have been enduringly popular, and 'The American West in Bronze' features sixty-five iconic bronzes that display a range of subjects, from portrayals of the noble Indian to rough-and-tumble scenes of rowdy cowboys to tributes to the pioneers who settled the lands west of the Mississippi. Fascinating texts offer a fresh look at the roles that artists played in creating interpretations of the "vanishing West"--Whether based on fact, fiction or something in-between. These artists, including Charles M. Russell and Frederic Remington, embody a range of life experiences and artistic approaches."'The American West in Bronze, 1850-1925' is the first full-scale exhibition to explore the aesthetic and cultural impulses behind the creation of statuettes with American western themes, which have been so popular with audiences then and now. Both the exhibition and this accompanying catalogue offer a fresh look at the multifaceted roles played by these sculptors in creating three-dimensional interpretations of western life, whether based on historical fact, mythologized fiction, or most often, something in-between. Examples by such archetypal representatives of the West as Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell are complemented by the work of sculptors such as James Earle Fraser and Paul Manship, who contributed to the popularity of the American bronze statuette even though their western subjects were less frequent."--Publisher's description.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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1588395057

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9781588395054

Dictionary of Upriver Halkomelem

By: Brent Douglas Galloway

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Dictionary of Upriver Halkomelem

By: Brent Douglas Galloway

An extensive dictionary (almost 1800 pages) of the Upriver dialects of Halkomelem, an Amerindian language of B.C.,giving information from almost 80 speakers gathered by the author over a period of 40 years. Entries include names and dates of citation, dialect information, phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic information, domain memberships of each alloseme, examples of use in sentences, and much cultural information.

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Univ of California Press

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0520098722

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The Largest Art

A Measured Manifesto for a Plural Urbanism

By: Brent D. Ryan

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The Largest Art

A Measured Manifesto for a Plural Urbanism

By: Brent D. Ryan

Why urban design is larger than architecture: the foundational qualities of urban design, examples and practitioners Urban design in practice is incremental, but architects imagine it as scaled-up architecture—large, ready-to-build pop-up cities. This paradox of urban design is rarely addressed; indeed, urban design as a discipline lacks a theoretical foundation. In The Largest Art, Brent Ryan argues that urban design encompasses more than architecture, and he provides a foundational theory of urban design beyond the architectural scale. In a “declaration of independence” for urban design, Ryan describes urban design as the largest of the building arts, with qualities of its own. Ryan distinguishes urban design from its sister arts by its pluralism: plural scale, ranging from an alleyway to a region; plural time, because it is deeply enmeshed in both history and the present; plural property, with many owners; plural agents, with many makers; and plural form, with a distributed quality that allows it to coexist with diverse elements of the city. Ryan looks at three well-known urban design projects through the lens of pluralism: a Brancusi sculptural ensemble in Romania, a Bronx housing project, and a formally and spatially diverse grouping of projects in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He revisits the thought of three plural urbanists working between 1960 and 1980: David Crane, Edmund Bacon, and Kevin Lynch. And he tells three design stories for the future, imaginary scenarios of plural urbanism in locations around the world. Ryan concludes his manifesto with three signal considerations urban designers must acknowledge: eternal change, inevitable incompletion, and flexible fidelity. Cities are ceaselessly active, perpetually changing. It is the urban designer's task to make art with aesthetic qualities that can survive perpetual change.

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MIT Press

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0262036673

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9780262036672

SelfDesign

Nurturing Genius Through Natural Learning

By: Brent Cameron,Barbara Meyer

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SelfDesign

Nurturing Genius Through Natural Learning

By: Brent Cameron,Barbara Meyer

SelfDesign, a methodology developed by Brent Cameron over the past 23 years, is much more than another take-off from traditional teaching methods. It is instead a philosophy and a practice based in the belief that children are natural learners. Cameron uses individualized strategies, specific language tools, and a focus on the positive to shift the very premise on which education is built. Through his stories of learners and families he takes the reader on a tour of a new paradigm for learning-the art and science of SelfDesign.

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Sentient Publications

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1591810442

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9781591810445

The Fecund's Melancholy Daughter

By: Brent Hayward

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The Fecund's Melancholy Daughter

By: Brent Hayward

“Beautifully written and morally ambivalent, this complex tale will appeal to readers of Gene Wolfe and China Miéville.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review The city is crumbling. Clouds over Nowy Solum have not parted in a hundred years. Gods have deserted their temples. In the last days of a dying city, the decadent chatelaine chooses a forbidden lover, separating twin outcasts and setting them on independent trajectories that might finally bring down the palace. Then, screaming from the skies, a lone god reappears and a limbless prophet is carried through South Gate, into Nowy Solum, with a message for all: Beyond the city, something ancient and monumental has come awake. “A breathtaking success of a fantasy story. Find yourself a copy, brew some strong coffee, and allow your mind to be blown.” —The Arcanist “Reading it is like waking up in the wrong bed, in the wrong apartment, under the wrong sun. The strangest part is the insidious way the strangeness of Hayward’s world becomes familiar as the story progresses . . . By turns surreal, macabre and stunningly violent, The Fecund’s Melancholy Daughter is dreamlike in its strangeness and complexity. Like a dream, it is difficult to define and difficult to shake.” —The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

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ChiZine

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192685196X

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9781926851969

Rattling the Cage

Reflections on Democratic South Africa

By: Brent Meersman

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Rattling the Cage

Reflections on Democratic South Africa

By: Brent Meersman

Most South Africans have strong views on our past and present, often based on how we have been personally affected by history, and an understanding of the challenges that face us as a country. But how well-examined and solid are these positions? Have your views been properly thought through? Are you correctly informed? Do you even have the facts straight? Rattling the Cage takes the reader on an informed tour of the South African reality: from the highs and lows, the successes and failures, FW de Klerk’s gaffes to Fees Must Fall, the Oscar Pistorius trial, the 2010 FIFA World Cup, triple BEE, global warming, the Covid-19 pandemic, gay rights in Africa, and veganism. Among the questions Meersman asks are: Do South Africans still believe in their Constitution and democracy? Why do so many young South Africans say Nelson Mandela was a sell-out and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission was a dismal failure? Is outlawing hate speech and criminalising racist behaviour really a good idea? Why do communities still burn down their schools? How did the Marikana massacre happen in the democratic era? Why are African immigrants increasingly unwelcome in South Africa? Can our media be trusted to tell us the truth? And how do we embrace climate change? History, big-picture philosophy, grassroots journalism and a novelist’s eye – animated by a genuine sense of moral indignation at the current state of the nation – come together in these essays to provide critical perspectives on and insights into South Africa’s recent past and current political, economic and social undercurrents. No matter what your views are, you are sure to find your understanding of the country deepened, challenged and sometimes changed.

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Pan Macmillan South africa

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1770107738

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