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Shadow Clock

By: Brian A. Massey

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In this story of redemptive suffering, Sheriff's Detective Cade Ribault goes up against a case that breaks his heart and a crippling illness that threatens to kill him. Shadows of corruption gather as surely as darkness falls on the face of a sundial, and Cade is running out of time. Set in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Shadow Clock brings the elements of Greek tragedy to the Grand Strand. The novel is at once a steamy Southern noir, a detective thriller, and a portrait of a wounded man's quest to survive in a murderous world.

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iUniverse

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0595221483

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9780595221486

Inside the Ku Klux Klan

The Rise and Fall of a Grand Dragon

By: Brian Tackett

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Inside the Ku Klux Klan

The Rise and Fall of a Grand Dragon

By: Brian Tackett

This story tells about the events which led up to the burning of the Barren River Baptist Church in Bowling Green Kentucky in the early morning hours of December 6, 1991 ... The history of the Klan is discussed as well as the secret symbolysm [sic], meetings, and ceremonies.--P. [4] of cover.

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138

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AuthorHouse

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1449028969

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9781449028961

History of 1 Field Squadron Group, Royal Australian Engineers, Svn, 1965–1972

By: Brian Florence

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History of 1 Field Squadron Group, Royal Australian Engineers, Svn, 1965–1972

By: Brian Florence

Past Vietnam War histories have tended to record the sappers’ work as peripheral. This book attempts to highlight the skill, ingenuity, and courage they displayed throughout the entire war. It chronicles their experiences—both good and bad—that are based around their operations, with an emphasis on the personal experiences of those involved.

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493

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Xlibris Corporation

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1524519219

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9781524519216

Seventy Years of Farm Tractors 1930-2000

By: Brian Bell

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Seventy Years of Farm Tractors 1930-2000

By: Brian Bell

By the end of the twentieth century there were some half-million tractors on British farms - more machines than people to drive them. Brian Bell's encyclopaedic book traces the evolution of the farm tractor from the days of starting handle and pan seat to current 4-wheel drive machines with air-conditioned cabs and computer management systems. He deals in particular with developments of the classic period from the 1950s to the 1990s. The book is arranged alphabetically by manufacturer from Allis-Chalmers to Zetor, one hundred marques in total. These are all machines to be found on British farms irrespective of their country of manufacture. Brian runs concisely through the histories of the companies and their major models, illustrated with a wealth of photographs and extracts from sales literature. He adds some special features on items such as hydraulic systems and cold-starting aids. He includes a glossary and full index. This book replaces the author's earlier, successful, Fifty Years of Farm Tractors. Many of the photographs are new and the text has been brought up to date to include developments of the early twenty-first century.

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677

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Fox Chapel Publishing

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1913618021

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9781913618025

The Battle of the Fields

Rural Community and Authority in Britain During the Second World War

By: Brian Short

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The Battle of the Fields

Rural Community and Authority in Britain During the Second World War

By: Brian Short

This book will appeal not only to historians and geographers, but to many who maintain a deep interest in the British countryside and its past, and to those who continue to share a fascination for the Second World War, in particular the 'home front'. The Battle of the Fields tells the story of rural community and authority in Britain during the Second World War by looking at the County War Agricultural Executive Committees. From 1939 they were imbued with powers to transform British farming to combat the loss of food imports caused by German naval activity and initial European mainland successes. Their powers were sweeping and draconian. When fully exercised against recalcitrant farmers, dispossession in part or whole could and did result. This book includes the most detailed analysis of these dispossessions including the tragic case of Ray Walden, the Hampshire farmer who was killed by police after refusing to leave hisfarmhouse in 1940. The committees were deemed successful by Whitehall as harbingers of modernity: mechanization, draining, artificial fertilizers, reclamation of heaths, marshes and woodlands. We now deplore some of these changes but Britain did not starve, in large part thanks to their efforts. This book will appeal not only to historians and geographers, but to many who maintain a deep interest in the British countryside and its past, and tothose who continue to share a fascination for the Second World War, in particular the "home front". It will also demonstrate to all who are anxious about food security in the modern age how this question was dealt with 70 years ago. BRIAN SHORT is Emeritus Professor of Historical Geography at the University of Sussex, and formerly Dean of School and Head of the Department of Geography.

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Boydell & Brewer Ltd

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1843839377

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9781843839378

Zimbabwe Calling

By: Lt. Col. Brian J. Knightley, O.F.

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Zimbabwe Calling

By: Lt. Col. Brian J. Knightley, O.F.

• The fascinating experiences of a Salvation Army missionary family at a unique time in Zimbabwe’s history • Of particular interest to missionaries who have been or are serving in Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe Calling is the story of a Missionary family in Zimbabwe, at the time Independence was granted. It covers the four Salvation Army missionary appointments held by Brian Knightley and his wife during this time. Each gives a closer insight into the cultural differences they encountered during their time spent there. Their first appointment was in charge of a mainly white church in the capital, Harare. Realising that his training and talent for teaching could be better used in a rural African mission, a request was made and granted for them to go to work in a black African school where Brian was made Superintendent-in-charge. This led to what was a challenging but fulfilling appointment at the Bradley Institute, fifty miles from the nearest white community, on a campus with a fifteen-foot python and where the students had recently rioted violently against the administration. A few years previously it had been closed because freedom fighters had been regular visitors... Zimbabwe Calling is a compelling account of the unpredictable life of a missionary, as well as an insight into the customs, traditions and superstitions that still govern the lives of many Zimbabweans.

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1788039939

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9781788039932

So Long, Bob

A Pennsylvania Farm Boy's Letters Home from the War 1941-1945

By: Brian Berkey

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So Long, Bob

A Pennsylvania Farm Boy's Letters Home from the War 1941-1945

By: Brian Berkey

In November 1941, the war that had been raging in Europe since 1939 and in China since 1937 was coming closer and closer to the United States. The US had instituted the draft in 1940 and on November 4, 1941, more than a month before the attack on Pearl Harbor, the war came home to the family of Annie and Harvey Berkey on their farm near Elton, PA. That was the day when their middle son, Bob, received his draft notice. This book presents something of their experience of the war through a compilation of the letters that his family received from Bob as well as entries from Annie's diaries and the headlines and articles from their local newspaper, the Johnstown Tribune. It is a story of how an ordinary farm family from the hills of western Pennsylvania coped with the extraordinary circumstances of being caught up in a global conflict.

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Covenant Books, Inc.

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1644683148

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9781644683149

Adopting Open Source Software

A Practical Guide

By: Brian Fitzgerald,Jay P. Kesan,Barbara Russo,Maha Shaikh,Giancarlo Succi

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Adopting Open Source Software

A Practical Guide

By: Brian Fitzgerald,Jay P. Kesan,Barbara Russo,Maha Shaikh,Giancarlo Succi

A rich case-study analysis of open source software adoption by public organizations in different countries and settings. Government agencies and public organizations often consider adopting open source software (OSS) for reasons of transparency, cost, citizen access, and greater efficiency in communication and delivering services. Adopting Open Source Software offers five richly detailed real-world case studies of OSS adoption by public organizations. The authors analyze the cases and develop an overarching, conceptual framework to clarify the various enablers and inhibitors of OSS adoption in the public sector. The book provides a useful resource for policymakers, practitioners, and academics. The five cases of OSS adoption include a hospital in Ireland; an IT consortium serving all the municipalities of the province of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy; schools and public offices in the Extremadura region of Spain; the Massachusetts state government's open standards policy in the United States; and the ICT department of the Italian Chamber of Deputies. The book provides a comparative analysis of these cases around the issues of motivation, strategies, technologies, economic and social aspects, and the implications for theory and practice.

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MIT Press

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0262297345

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9780262297349

Reconsidering Policy

Complexity, Governance and the State

By: Kate Crowley,Jenny Stewart,Adrian Kay,Brian W. Head

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Reconsidering Policy

Complexity, Governance and the State

By: Kate Crowley,Jenny Stewart,Adrian Kay,Brian W. Head

For nation-states, the contexts for developing and implementing policy have become more complex and demanding. Yet policy studies have not fully responded to the challenges and opportunities represented by these developments. Governance literature has drawn attention to a globalising and network-based policy world, but politics and the role of the state have been de-emphasised. This book addresses this imbalance by reconsidering traditional policy-analytic concepts, and re-developing and extending new ones, in a melded approach defined as systemic institutionalism. This links policy with governance and the state and suggests how real-world issues might be substantively addressed.

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Policy Press

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1447333136

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9781447333135

Pierre Berton

A Biography

By: Brian Mckillop

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Pierre Berton

A Biography

By: Brian Mckillop

The first ever biography of one of Canada’s best-known and most colourful personalities by an award-winning author. From his northern childhood on, it was clear that Pierre Berton (1920—2004) was different from his peers. Over the course of his eighty-four years, he would become the most famous Canadian media figure of his time, in newspapers, magazines, radio, television, and books — sometimes all at once. Berton dominated bookstore shelves for almost half a century, winning Governor General’s Awards for Klondike and The Last Spike, among many others, along with a dozen honorary degrees. Throughout it all, Berton was larger than life: full of verve and ideas, he approached everything he did with passion, humour, and an insatiable curiosity. He loved controversy and being the centre of attention, and provoked national debate on subjects as wide-ranging as religion and marijuana use. A major voice of Canadian nationalism at the dawn of globalization, he made Canadians take interest in their own history and become proud of it. But he had his critics too, and some considered him egocentric and mean-spirited. Now, with the same meticulous research and storytelling skill that earned him wide critical acclaim for The Spinster and the Prophet, Brian McKillop traces Pierre Berton’s remarkable life, with special emphasis on his early days and his rise to prominence. The result is a comprehensive, vivid portrait of the life and work of one of our most celebrated national figures.

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McClelland & Stewart

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1551996227

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9781551996226

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Shadow Clock

Shadow Clock

Inside the Ku Klux Klan

Inside the Ku Klux Klan

History of 1 Field Squadron Group, Royal Australian Engineers, Svn, 1965–1972

History of 1 Field Squadron Group, Royal Australian Engineers, Svn, 1965–1972

Seventy Years of Farm Tractors 1930-2000

Seventy Years of Farm Tractors 1930-2000

The Battle of the Fields

The Battle of the Fields

Zimbabwe Calling

Zimbabwe Calling

So Long, Bob

So Long, Bob

Adopting Open Source Software

Adopting Open Source Software

Reconsidering Policy

Reconsidering Policy

Pierre Berton

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