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Comedy-Horror Films

A Chronological History, 1914-2008

By: Bruce G. Hallenbeck

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Comedy-Horror Films

A Chronological History, 1914-2008

By: Bruce G. Hallenbeck

Fun and fright have long been partners in the cinema, dating back to the silent film era and progressing to the Scary Movie franchise and other recent releases. This guide takes a comprehensive look at the comedy-horror movie genre, from the earliest stabs at melding horror and hilarity during the nascent days of silent film, to its full-fledged development with The Bat in 1926, to the Abbott and Costello films pitting the comedy duo against Frankenstein's Monster, the Mummy and other Universal Studio monsters, continuing to such recent cult hits as Shaun of the Dead and Black Sheep. Selected short films such as Tim Burton's Frankenweenie are also covered. Photos and promotional posters, interviews with actors and a filmography are included.

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0786453788

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Monsters of New Jersey

Mysterious Creatures in the Garden State

By: Loren Coleman,Bruce G. Hallenbeck

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Monsters of New Jersey

Mysterious Creatures in the Garden State

By: Loren Coleman,Bruce G. Hallenbeck

• Stories of the best known of the Garden State's cryptid population • From the bustling cities and Down the Shore to the creepy Pine Barrens • Research from the world's leading cryptozoologist • Extensive section on the state's most infamous creature, the Jersey Devil • Also includes Big Red Eye of the Great Swamp in Somerset County, Hoboken Monkey-Man, Lake Hopatcong Monster, Cape May Sea Serpent, the Wooo-wooo, and the Lizardman of Great Meadows

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Stackpole Books

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081174194X

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9780811741941

Blazing Saddles Meets Young Frankenstein

The 50th Anniversary of the Year of Mel Brooks

By: Bruce G. Hallenbeck

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Blazing Saddles Meets Young Frankenstein

The 50th Anniversary of the Year of Mel Brooks

By: Bruce G. Hallenbeck

1974 was a busy year for Mel Brooks. Although still recovering after a series of failed projects threatened his career, he pulled off a one-two punch that saw the release of two of the most beloved American comedies ever made: Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein. Although both films are well-known, the stories beyond the making of each movie are less so. How did they come to be, and how did the era’s culture and politics not only permit them to be made, but help them to become enduring comedy classics? With their riotous parodies of Westerns and classic horror movies, Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein were not only hilarious. They played with charged social and cultural themes in an inimitable way, raising the bar for modern comedies even as they reshaped the two genres they were sending up. Blazing Saddles Meets Young Frankenstein: The 50th Anniversary of the Year of Mel Brooks explores in depth the zeitgeist and cinematic alchemy that led to 1974 becoming “the year of Mel Brooks.”

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1493078011

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9781493078011

Blazing Saddles Meets Young Frankenstein

The 50th Anniversary of the Year of Mel Brooks

By: Bruce G. Hallenbeck

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The 50th Anniversary of the Year of Mel Brooks

By: Bruce G. Hallenbeck

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1493078011

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Black Sheep One

The Life of Gregory Pappy Boyington

By: Bruce Gamble

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Black Sheep One

The Life of Gregory Pappy Boyington

By: Bruce Gamble

Black Sheep One is the first biography of legendary warrior and World War II hero Gregory Boyington. In 1936, Boyington became an aviation cadet and earned the “wings of gold” of a naval aviator. After only a short period on active duty, however, he was “encouraged” to resign from the Marine Corps due to his unconventional behavior. Remarkably, this inauspicious beginning was just the prologue to a heroic career as an American fighter pilot and innovative combat leader. With the onset of World War II, when skilled pilots were in demand, he became the commander of an ad hoc squadron of flying leathernecks. Led by Medal of Honor winner Boyington, the legendary Black Sheep set a blistering pace of aerial victories against the enemy. Though many have observed that when the shooting stops, combat heroes typically just fade away, nothing could be further from the truth for Boyington. Blessed with inveterate luck, the stubbornly independent Boyington lived a life that went beyond what even the most imaginative might expect. Exhaustively researched and richly detailed, here is the complete story of this American original.

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Presidio Press

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0307514536

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9780307514530

Dominie Everardus Bogardus: His decendants and why Tribeca should be mine!

By: James Bruce Battles

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Dominie Everardus Bogardus: His decendants and why Tribeca should be mine!

By: James Bruce Battles

Dominie Everardus Bogardus was the first permanent minister of the Dutch Reformed Church in New Amsterdam who arrived in America in 1633. He married the widow Anneke Jans who had a farm just to the north of the city walls. This land came to be called Dominie's Bouwerie. There have been land disputes over the ownership of this land since 1705. The descendants Everardus Bogardus have claimed that this land was improperly and illegally transferred to Trinity Church and should rightfully belong to them. Everardus Bogardus his wife Anneke Jans are my 9th great grandparents and like other defendants I believe in some ways that Tribeca really belongs me. In part this is a belief or maybe it would be better to call it a fantasy. This book is about the Dominie Bogardus and his descendants and who they were part of the rich Dutch history of the Hudson Valley.

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Lulu.com

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1312200073

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9781312200074

Mixed Plastics Recycling Technology

By: Bruce Hegberg

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Mixed Plastics Recycling Technology

By: Bruce Hegberg

Presents an overview of mixed plastics recycling technology. In addition, it characterizes mixed plastics wastes and describes collection methods, costs, and markets for reprocessed plastics products.

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William Andrew

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0815518382

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The Black Sheep

The Definitive History of Marine Fighting Squadron 214 in World War II

By: Bruce Gamble

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The Black Sheep

The Definitive History of Marine Fighting Squadron 214 in World War II

By: Bruce Gamble

With their renowned squadron leader Greg “Pappy” Boyington, Marine Fighting Squadron (VMF) 214 was one of the best-known and most colorful combat units of World War II. The popular television series Baa Baa Black Sheep added to their legend—while obscuring the truly remarkable combat record of the Black Sheep and Boyington. A retired naval flight officer and former historian for the Naval Aviation Museum Foundation, Bruce Gamble provides a highly readable account that serves to both correct and extend the record of this premier fighting force.

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0307416941

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Comedy-Horror Films

A Chronological History, 1914-2008

By: Bruce G. Hallenbeck

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Comedy-Horror Films

A Chronological History, 1914-2008

By: Bruce G. Hallenbeck

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0786453788

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World’s Fairs in a Southern Accent

Atlanta, Nashville, and Charleston, 1895–1902

By: Bruce G. Harvey

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World’s Fairs in a Southern Accent

Atlanta, Nashville, and Charleston, 1895–1902

By: Bruce G. Harvey

The South was no stranger to world’s fairs prior to the end of the nineteenth century. Atlanta first hosted a fair in the 1880s, as did New Orleans and Louisville, but after the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago drew comparisons to the great exhibitions of Victorian-era England, Atlanta’s leaders planned to host another grand exposition that would not only confirm Atlanta as an economic hub the equal of Chicago and New York, but usher the South into the nation’s industrial and political mainstream. Nashville and Charleston quickly followed suit with their own exhibitions. In the 1890s, the perception of the South was inextricably tied to race, and more specifically racial strife. Leaders in Atlanta, Nashville, and Charleston all sought ways to distance themselves from traditional impressions about their respective cities, which more often than not conjured images of poverty and treason in Americans barely a generation removed from the Civil War. Local business leaders used large-scale expositions to lessen this stigma while simultaneously promoting culture, industry, and economic advancement. Atlanta’s Cotton States and International Exposition presented the city as a burgeoning economic center and used a keynote speech by Booker T. Washington to gain control of the national debate on race relations. Nashville’s Tennessee Centennial and International Exposition chose to promote culture over mainstream success and marketed Nashville as a “Centennial City” replete with neoclassical architecture, drawing on its reputation as “the Athens of the south.” Charleston’s South Carolina Inter-State and West Indian Exposition followed in the footsteps of Atlanta’s exposition. Its new class of progressive leaders saw the need to reestablish the city as a major port of commerce and designed the fair around a Caribbean theme that emphasized trade and the corresponding economics that would raise Charleston from a cotton exporter to an international port of interest. Bruce G. Harvey studies each exposition beginning at the local and individual level of organization and moving upward to explore a broader regional context. He argues that southern urban leaders not only sought to revive their cities but also to reinvigorate the South in response to northern prosperity. Local businessmen struggled to manage all the elements that came with hosting a world’s fair, including raising funds, designing the fairs’ architectural elements, drafting overall plans, soliciting exhibits, and gaining the backing of political leaders. However, these businessmen had defined expectations for their expositions not only in terms of economic and local growth but also considering what an international exposition had come to represent to the community and the region in which they were hosted. Harvey juxtaposes local and regional aspects of world’s fair in the South and shows that nineteenth-century expositions had grown into American institutions in their own right.

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Univ. of Tennessee Press

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1621900789

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9781621900788

Hosted Horror on Television

The Films and Faces of Shock Theater, Creature Features and Chiller Theater

By: Bruce Markusen

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Hosted Horror on Television

The Films and Faces of Shock Theater, Creature Features and Chiller Theater

By: Bruce Markusen

In October 1957, Screen Gems made numerous horror movies available to local television stations around the country as part of a package of films called Shock Theater. These movies became a huge sensation with TV viewers, as did the horror hosts who introduced the films and offered insight--often humorous--into the plots, the actors, and the directors. This history of hosted horror walks readers through the best TV horror films, beginning with the 1930s black-and-white classics from Universal Studios and ending with the grislier color films of the early 1970s. It also covers and explores the horror hosts who presented them, some of whom faded into obscurity while others became iconic within the genre.

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1476643288

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Titanic or Olympic

The Truth Behind the Conspiracy

By: Steve Hall,Art Braunschweiger,Bruce Beveridge,Mark Chirnside

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Titanic or Olympic

The Truth Behind the Conspiracy

By: Steve Hall,Art Braunschweiger,Bruce Beveridge,Mark Chirnside

The Titanic is one of the most famous maritime disasters of all time, but did the Titanic really sink on the morning of 15 April 1912? Titanic's older sister, the nearly identical Olympic, was involved in a serious accident in September 1911 - an accident that may have made her a liability to her owners the White Star Line. Since 1912 rumours of a conspiracy to switch the two sisters in an elaborate insurance scam has always loomed behind the tragic story of the Titanic. Could the White Star Line have really switched the Olympic with her near identical sister in a ruse to intentionally sink their mortally damaged flagship in April 1912, in order to cash in on the insurance policy? This book addresses some of these conspiracy theories and illustrates both the questionable anomalies and hard technical facts that will prove the swtich theory to be exactly what it is - a mere legend.

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The History Press

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0752467816

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9780752467818

Native People, Native Lands

Canadian Indians, Inuit and Metis

By: Bruce Cox

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Native People, Native Lands

Canadian Indians, Inuit and Metis

By: Bruce Cox

The changing roles of native women, devices for assimilation, the re-birth of the Metis: these are among the issues examined in this collection of provocative essays which explore the link between aboriginal culture and economic patterns.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773581480

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9780773581487

American Geographics

U.S. National Narratives and the Representation of the Non-European World, 1830-1865

By: Bruce A. Harvey

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American Geographics

U.S. National Narratives and the Representation of the Non-European World, 1830-1865

By: Bruce A. Harvey

This book is the first comprehensive study of antebellum depictions of the non-European world. Harvey proposes that U.S. cultural history cannot be fully understood without considering how Americans regarded tropical America, the Holy Land, Polynesia, and Africa.

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Stanford University Press

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0804740461

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China's Reforming Churches

Mission, Polity, and Ministry in the Next Christendom

By: Bruce P. Baugus

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China's Reforming Churches

Mission, Polity, and Ministry in the Next Christendom

By: Bruce P. Baugus

This is a critical moment in the life of China’s reforming churches and the Presbyterian and Reformed mission to China. This book provides both a historical look at Presbyterianism in China and an assessment of the current state of affairs, orienting readers to church development needs and the basic outlines of Reformed Christianity in China today. While laying out the challenges and opportunities facing the church, the authors argue that assisting this reformation in China should be a central objective of the Presbyterian and Reformed mission to China in this generation. Table of Contents: Introduction: China, Church Development, and Presbyterianism - Bruce P. Baugus Part I—The History of Presbyterianism in China 1. A Brief History of the Western Presbyterian and Reformed Mission to China - Michael M. 2. Watson Hayes and the North China Theological Seminary - A. Donald MacLeod 3. A Brief History of the Korean Presbyterian Mission to China - Bruce P. Baugus & Sung-Il Steve Park Part II—Presbyterianism in China Today 4. In Their Own Words: Perceived Challenges of Christians in China - Brent Fulton 5. Why Chinese Churches Need Biblical Presbyterianism - Luke P. Y. Lu 6. “A Few Significant Ones:” A Conversation with Two of China’s Leading Reformers - Bruce P. Baugus Part III—Challenges & Opportunities for Presbyterianism in China 7. The Social Conditions of Ministry in China Today - G. Wright Doyle 8. China: a Tale of Two Churches? - Brent Fulton 9. Two Kingdoms in China: Reformed Ecclesiology and Social Ethics - David VanDrunen 10. From Dissension to Joy: Resources from Acts 15:1–35 for Global Presbyterianism - Guy Waters Part IV—Appropriating a Tradition 11. The Emergence of Legal Christian Publishing in China: An Opportunity for Reformed Christians - Phil Remmers 12. A Report on the State of Reformed Theological Education in China - Bruce P. Baugus 13. The Indigenization & Contextualization of the Reformed Faith in China - Paul Wang Conclusion: The Future of Presbyterianism in China - Bruce P. Baugus Appendices A. Robert Morrison’s Catechism - Introduced and Translated by Michael M. B. Shandong Student Protest and Appeal - Introduced by Bruce P. Baugus and Translated by Born

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Reformation Heritage Books

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1601783183

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9781601783189

The Hastings Center Guidelines for Decisions on Life-Sustaining Treatment and Care Near the End of Life

Revised and Expanded Second Edition

By: Nancy Berlinger,Bruce Jennings,Susan M. Wolf

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The Hastings Center Guidelines for Decisions on Life-Sustaining Treatment and Care Near the End of Life

Revised and Expanded Second Edition

By: Nancy Berlinger,Bruce Jennings,Susan M. Wolf

This major new work updates and significantly expands The Hastings Center's 1987 Guidelines on the Termination of Life-Sustaining Treatment and Care of the Dying. Like its predecessor, this second edition will shape the ethical and legal framework for decision-making on treatment and end-of-life care in the United States. This groundbreaking work incorporates 25 years of research and innovation in clinical care, law, and policy. It is written for physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals and is structured for easy reference in difficult clinical situations. It supports the work of clinical ethicists, ethics committee members, health lawyers, clinical educators, scholars, and policymakers. It includes extensive practical recommendations. Health care reform places a new set of challenges on decision-making and care near the end of life. The Hastings Center Guidelines are an essential resource.

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Oxford University Press

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0199974578

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9780199974573

In Darkest Alaska

Travels and Empire Along the Inside Passage

By: Robert Bruce Campbell

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In Darkest Alaska

Travels and Empire Along the Inside Passage

By: Robert Bruce Campbell

Prior to the great Klondike Gold Rush of 1897, travelers returned from Alaska's Inside Passage with fascinating accounts of its wonders. Historian Robert Campbell demonstrates how these tourists served as shock troops of the gold rush by portraying Alaska as a "Last West" ripe for American conquest.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812240219

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9780812240214

Family Measurement Techniques

Abstracts of Published Instruments, 1935-1974

By: Murray Arnold Straus,Bruce W. Brown

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Family Measurement Techniques

Abstracts of Published Instruments, 1935-1974

By: Murray Arnold Straus,Bruce W. Brown

813 measurement techniques, arranged and described under various aspects of family life, e.g., husband-wife relationships. 130 journals and pertinent books used as sources. Each entry gives test name, variables measured, length, availability, and references. Author, test title, and subject indexes.

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U of Minnesota Press

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0816607990

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Monsters of New York

Mysterious Creatures in the Empire State

By: Bruce G. Hallenbeck

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Monsters of New York

Mysterious Creatures in the Empire State

By: Bruce G. Hallenbeck

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Stackpole Books

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0811712133

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9780811712132

Neuroglia

By: Bruce R. Ransom

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Neuroglia

By: Bruce R. Ransom

Neuroglia, the third edition, is the long-awaited revision of the most highly regarded reference volume on glial cells. This indispensable edition has been completely revised, greatly enlarged, and enhanced with four-color figures throughout, all in response to the tremendous amount of new information that has accumulated since the previous edition seven years ago. Glial cells are, without doubt, the new stars in the neuroscience and neurology communities. Neglected in research for years, it is now evident that the brain only functions in a concerted action of all the cells, namely glia and neurons. Seventy one chapters comprehensively discuss virtually every aspect of normal glial cell anatomy, physiology, biochemistry and function, and consider the central roles of these cells in neurological diseases including stroke, Alzheimer disease, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, neuropathy, and psychiatric conditions. More than 20 new chapters have been added to accommodate the unprecedented growth of knowledge about the basic biology of glia and the sophisticated manner in which they partner with neurons in the course of normal brain function. Lavishly illustrated and meticulously edited, the third edition remains the most convenient and maximally useful reference available. This new edition is an essential reference for both newcomers to the field as well as established investigators. Neuroglia belongs on every neuroscientist's bookshelf and will be a great asset for educators and neurological clinicians as well.

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Oxford University Press

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0199794731

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9780199794737

The Law of Payment Bonds

By: Kevin L. Lybeck,H. Bruce Shreves

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The Law of Payment Bonds

By: Kevin L. Lybeck,H. Bruce Shreves

This publication has been prepared for use in conjunction with the mid-winter program of the Fidelity & Surety Law Committee of the Tort Insurance Practice Section of the American Bar Association, held in San Francisco, California on January 30, 1998"--P. iii.

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1570735328

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