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Your Time Will Come: Jack Yerman and His Incredible Journey to the 1960 Olympics

By: Bruce Hamilton Yerman

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Your Time Will Come: Jack Yerman and His Incredible Journey to the 1960 Olympics

By: Bruce Hamilton Yerman

Jack Yerman's incredible journey to the 1960 Olympics and his gold medal victory is a story of personal triumph intertwined with significant events of the Twentieth Century. This is the inspiring story of a boy who overcomes adversity to become a world class athlete, who is a true champion in character and on the track. Some may read this book and question, "How could so much happen to one person?" Be assured - these stories are true.

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Lulu.com

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1300514906

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Riding the Wind of God

A Personal History of the Youth Revival Movement

By: Bruce McIver

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Riding the Wind of God

A Personal History of the Youth Revival Movement

By: Bruce McIver

During the 1940s, in the wake of the Depression and in the midst of WWII, a small group of students at Baylor University began to pray for spiritual revival. They were not evangelists with a program, but ordinary students with a heartfelt concern for renewal in America. Beginning with a single miraculous revival in Waco, Texas, a movement began among students from other campuses and in other cities -- Houston, Fort Worth, Dallas, Memphis, Birmingham, Atlanta, even Honolulu. Riding The Wind Of God tells the remarkable story of the Youth Revival Movement. These stories, written for the first time, reflect God's power at work in surprising places in an extraordinary time.

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Smyth & Helwys Publishing, Inc.

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1573123730

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9781573123730

Ball State University

An Interpretive History

By: Anthony O. Edmonds,E. Bruce Geelhoed

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Ball State University

An Interpretive History

By: Anthony O. Edmonds,E. Bruce Geelhoed

This is a narrative and interpretive history of a major institution of higher education. In it, the authors want to avoid the pitfalls of too many other "college histories," which are sometimes either painfully detailed encyclopaedic catalogues of "one damn thing after another" or panegyrics praising one damn president or construction project after another. Obviously, they want to tell an interesting story, focusing on the people who inhabited the institution, from powerful presidents like John R. Emens to boisterous students like David Letterman, whose fame as a late-night talk show host makes his name a household word. And they trace the history of the institution and its people from the local business people who pushed to establish higher education in a small Midwestern city in the late-19th century to a 21st-century president who spent most of his life in the South.But this is not simply a series of stories. The authors emphasise two crucial themes that run throughout Ball State's history. First, more than most American colleges and universities, Ball State has had extraordinarily close ties with the community of Muncie, especially its elite. From the fact that it was named after a local industrialist, to vital community participation in its latest fundraising campaign, Ball State and Muncie-East Central Indiana are inextricably linked.Second, in many ways Ball State is a "representative," even paradigmatic American university. Targeting mainly students from its region, Ball State has had virtually open admission standards for most of its history. It has lived what we call the "Jacksonian" vision of access to education. It has also followed a trajectory similar to many other American universities as it moved from normal school to teachers' college to comprehensive university. Indeed, the authors argue, it is the Ball States of America that best define this nation's "genius" in higher education, separating this country's system of higher education from those of other countries. Ball State University, then, is both distinctive and representative - a fascinating case study in educational history.

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Indiana University Press

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0253340179

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9780253340177

The Liberal Arts Tradition

A Documentary History

By: Bruce A. Kimball

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The Liberal Arts Tradition

A Documentary History

By: Bruce A. Kimball

Ranging from Plato in antiquity to Martha Nussbaum in the present era, the authors of the seventy readings included in The Liberal Arts Tradition present significant and exemplary views addressing liberal arts education over the course of its history, particularly in the United States. Most of the documents are newly translated or no longer available in print. Arranged chronologically, each selection is accompanied by an informative introduction and extensive explanatory notes discussing its place within the liberal arts tradition. Based upon the author's twenty-five years of experience leading seminars concerning the history of liberal education, this collection presents a uniquely comprehensive and salient set of documents, while incorporating the neglected portrayal and discussion of women within the history of the liberal arts.

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University Press of America

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076185133X

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9780761851332

Rock Song Index

The 7500 Most Important Songs for the Rock and Roll Era

By: Bruce Pollock

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Rock Song Index

The 7500 Most Important Songs for the Rock and Roll Era

By: Bruce Pollock

The Rock Song Index, Second Edition, is a new version of a well-received index to the classic songs of the rock canon, from the late '40s through the end of the 20th century. The study of the history of rock music has exploded over the last decade; all college music departments offer a basic rock-history course, covering the classic artists and their songs.

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Routledge

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1135462968

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9781135462963

One Town, One Team

By: Bruce Bertrand

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One Town, One Team

By: Bruce Bertrand

When third-year football coach Sherm Blaser walked into his first team meeting for the upcoming season he asked the team what their team goal should be for the upcoming season. The first hand that went up was that of senior defensive lineman Benten Hall, who suggested a winning season would be an appropriate team goal. A winning season might not seem like a lofty goal, but it is certainly a practical one. The previous year the Kavemen did go 5-4 but finished sixth in conference play and did not make the playoffs. Benten's sophmore and freshman years those varsity teams went a combined 7-12. In fact, since Benten and his fellow seniors on the team started the first grade eleven years ago the Kuna football teams have a combined record of forty-three wins and sixty-two losses. The football program has not won a conference championship since 1998 and has won just one playoff game this century! Blaser was not seen as the savior of this program when he was hired two years before. Before coming to Kuna his record was 15- 21 at two previous schools. In his two previous years on the Kuna campus, his record was only 8-10. So how could this team, led by this coach, make it all the way to the state championship game? Fortunately for me, my son Ryan, who was starting his fourth season as part of Sherm Blaser's coaching staff and was living with me as he was finishing his master's program in psychology, so I had a front-row seat to this amazing season.

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AuthorHouse

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1728378311

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9781728378312

Goodbye

In Search of Gordon Jenkins

By: Bruce Jenkins

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Goodbye

In Search of Gordon Jenkins

By: Bruce Jenkins

Goodbye combines biography with a son's discovery of his father. Gordon Jenkins, one of America's most significant musical figures throughout his 50-year career, collaborated with many of the major talents in postwar pop and jazz. Modest by nature, he rarely spoke of his accomplishments, and there was much to discover when, on account of his father's death in 1984, Bruce Jenkins began his research. Paralleling the story of Gordon Jenkins's personal life is a veritable history of popular music, featuring luminaries from Irving Berlin to Billie Holiday. This richly anecdotal biography relates a wealth of heretofore untold stories of his encounters with icons like Sinatra, who was uncharacteristically awestruck by him, and Judy Garland, whom only Jenkins could convince to go onstage when she was crippled with anxiety. A concluding chapter documents Jenkins's slow, difficult death from ALS, leaving readers with an unforgettable image of a legend dying with dignity and unexpected good humor.

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Frog Books

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1583941266

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9781583941263

If You Like the Beatles...

Here Are Over 200 Bands, Films, Records and Other Oddities That You Will Love

By: Bruce Pollock

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If You Like the Beatles...

Here Are Over 200 Bands, Films, Records and Other Oddities That You Will Love

By: Bruce Pollock

The Beatles came up in the rock and-and-roll era, when Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and Elvis Presley defined cool. Their early shows were big beat bacchanals, the Brit interpretation of that crazy American sound. But it wasn't long before they were absorbing and creating more and more music – from folk to experimental, to psychedelia and hard rock, quite literally changing music forever and influencing hundreds of great bands in the process. This is the first book for music lovers that begins with the simple premise, “If you like the Beatles . . ., ” and takes off from there, digging into their influences and everything that came after them, opening up new doors for listeners looking for no-risk discs to expand their collection. Beginning with the Beatles' lesser-known roots in rockabilly and Tin Pan Alley, and working through American R&B, the British Invasion, California folk, and the Summer of Love, and to the great pop and rock bands of the '80s, '90s, and the 21st century, this is a must-have for anyone who likes the Beatles, which is...everyone.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1617130737

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9781617130731

Michigan

Champions of the West

By: Bruce Madej

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Michigan

Champions of the West

By: Bruce Madej

Year in and year out, the Wolverines have placed championship banner upon banner atop their record collection. The Wolverines have 47 national team championships, 281 Big Ten titles, more than 1,600 first team All-Americans, nearly 1,300 individual Big Ten champions, and the list goes on. While many schools note periods of success, the U-M has made winning a way of life, emerging from the battles victorious more than 10,000 times. This great tradition has been filled with notable names and spectacular performances.

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Sports Publishing LLC

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1571671153

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Fiske Guide to Getting Into the Right College

By: Edward B. Fiske,Bruce Hammond

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Fiske Guide to Getting Into the Right College

By: Edward B. Fiske,Bruce Hammond

The #1 getting-into-college guide! Packed with honest and comprehensive explanations from cover to cover, Fiske Guide to Getting into the Right College is a student's ultimate tool for understanding the college admissions process. Fiske and Hammond, two of the nation's top education experts, take students on a guided tour of how to find the right college, how to get in, and how to pay for it, all along giving great advice and encouraging students to keep a level head. Interactive tools - Fiske's exclusive Sizing Yourself Up survey asks probing questions to help select a college based on a student's individual personality and interests - The comprehensive college-finder features useful cross sections of the nation's schools, such as best-kept secrets, excellent small colleges, nonconformist colleges, Catholic colleges, colleges with innovative curriculums, colleges by course of study, and much more Learn how to - Understand financial aid and ?et as much as you can - Tour a campus and conduct a good admissions interview - Get compelling recommendations and write winning essays - Work with a high school counselor - Cut through all the college propaganda - Understand the "category" admissions offices place students in and build an application to highlight these strengths - Get off a waiting list and get accepted - Use the Internet in the application process

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140220230X

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African Americans on the Great Plains

An Anthology

By: Bruce A. Glasrud

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African Americans on the Great Plains

An Anthology

By: Bruce A. Glasrud

Until recently, histories of the American West gave little evidence of the presence--let alone importance--of African Americans in the unfolding of the western frontier. There might have been a mention of Estevan, slavery, or the Dred Scott decision, but the rich and varied experience of African Americans on the Great Plains went largely unnoted. This book, the first of its kind, supplies that critical missing chapter in American history.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803226896

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Things I've Said, But Probably Shouldn't Have

An Unrepentant Memoir

By: Bruce Dern,Christopher Fryer,Robert Crane

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Things I've Said, But Probably Shouldn't Have

An Unrepentant Memoir

By: Bruce Dern,Christopher Fryer,Robert Crane

Bruce Dern has worked with practically every iconic actor and director in the last 50 years, and he's not afraid to say what he thinks about all of them. In this uniquely funny memoir, he looks back over his amazing career, telling one memorable story after another.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470106379

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9780470106372

Building My Life

By: David Bruce Smith,Peter Muller

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Building My Life

By: David Bruce Smith,Peter Muller

Charles E. Smith recounts his life, entrepreneurial success in real estate development and philanthropic achievements in Washington, DC.

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David Bruce Smith

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0985047720

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9780985047726

Bipolar, Epileptic Papa and Businessman

By: Bruce Bowman

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Bipolar, Epileptic Papa and Businessman

By: Bruce Bowman

Bipolar, Epileptic Papa and Businessman By: Bruce Bowman Having very little insight into the lives of his grandparents and parents before his birth, Bruce Bowman has written an account of his life in an effort to share his experiences with his wife of forty-eight years, three children, and ten grandchildren. Bipolar, Epileptic Papa and Businessman is that account. It begins with an overview of his family history. Born in 1948 along with his twin sister Bonnie, the two joined their other three sisters, Pat and Pam also twins, at three years old, and Julie the eldest at 6. Bruce decided at an early age he was all boy and was very independent of his four sisters. He sheds highlights on his youth and as he grows and becomes more independent. Things were quite different in the fifties and sixties and this book is interlaced with nostalgia during his life. Shortly after marriage, he was diagnosed with transient epileptic amnesia and later went through recurring bouts of bipolar depression. The depression was especially tough while running his business on Maui.

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Dorrance Publishing

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9798886041521

Murder Cum Laude

By: Bruce Zortman

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Murder Cum Laude

By: Bruce Zortman

The next bubble to burst will be the education bubble. Make no mistake about it, education is big business and, like other big businesses, it is in big trouble. -Professor Mark C. Taylor, Columbia University, New York Times, Opinion, July 12, 2009. A young, salt-of-the-earth family is caught up in a cyclone of greed, after Dennis Winecoop accepts a position at Washington, D.C.'s Utopia University. Believing he was hired to advise graduate students in history, Professor Winecoop finds he is teaching a full schedule of Murder 101. The first lesson, it seems, occurred just days before he was hired, when his predecessor was found grotesquely murdered in his bath. The intrigues of multiple murders are the catalysts that drive this dynamic and compelling tale to a shocking conclusion. The events and characters of Murder Cum Laude reveal the ugly reality of Washington politics and one man's aggressive efforts to uncover the truth. A graduate of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, author Bruce Zortman served as a top secret courier during the Korean Conflict. He was awarded a one-year Taussig Fellowship to the Free University in Berlin. As an NDEA Fellow, he earned his PhD with distinction from UCLA. His 25 years as a professional educator include positions at Santa Monica College and American University in Washington, D.C. He is the author of Hitler's Theater (1985), an acting textbook, scholarly articles and several produced plays. Presently, he is Commodore of the Tucson Sailing Club. Publisher's website: http: //www.strategicpublishinggroup.com/title/MurderCumLaude.htm

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Strategic Book Publishing

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1609110137

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9781609110130

Breaking Up is Hard to Do

By: Bruce Hart,Carole Hart

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Breaking Up is Hard to Do

By: Bruce Hart,Carole Hart

Two stories about 2 young couples who fall in love, have affairs, and then break up.

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Avon Books

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0380899701

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9780380899708

Bruce Dern

A Memoir

By: Bruce Dern

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Bruce Dern

A Memoir

By: Bruce Dern

One of Hollywood's biggest personalities, Bruce Dern is not afraid to say what he thinks. He has left an indelible mark on numerous projects, from critically acclaimed films to made-for-TV movies and television series. His notable credits include The Great Gatsby (1974), The 'Burbs (1989), Monster (2003), Django Unchained (2012), and Nebraska (2013), for which he won the Best Actor award at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. He also earned Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actor in Coming Home (1978) and for Best Actor in Nebraska (2013). In Bruce Dern: A Memoir, Christopher Fryer and Robert Crane help the outspoken star frame the fascinating tale of his life in Hollywood. Dern details the challenges he faced as an artist in a cutthroat business, his struggle against typecasting, and his thoughts on and relationships with other big names in the industry, including Elia Kazan, Alfred Hitchcock, Jack Nicholson, Paul Newman, Bob Dylan, Matt Damon, Jane Fonda, John Wayne, and Tom Hanks. He also explores the impact of his fame on his family and discusses his unique relationship with his daughter, actress Laura Dern. Edgy and uncensored, this memoir takes readers on a wild ride, offering an insider's view of the last fifty years in Hollywood.

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University Press of Kentucky

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081314714X

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9780813147147

Essential Skills for Historians

A Practical Guide to Researching the Past

By: J. Laurence Hare,Jack Wells,Bruce E. Baker

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Essential Skills for Historians

A Practical Guide to Researching the Past

By: J. Laurence Hare,Jack Wells,Bruce E. Baker

Essential Skills for Historians helps undergraduate students make the transition from general university study to a more in-depth study of history, and to gain the skills and techniques they need to conduct an independent research project or embark on a career as a professional historian. The book begins with an examination of the historical discipline and its relevance to contemporary culture. It then guides readers through the steps of developing a research project, using two sample projects that illustrate the connections between core proficiencies such as critical thinking and effective time management, and professional proficiencies such as source criticism and historical interpretation. By following these source projects as they develop, the book also highlights the importance of sound historical practice and a critical understanding of the past in contemporary society. Finally, the book discusses the outcomes of historical research and reveals the wide array of possibilities for careers built upon the skills gained from studying history. Covering key topics such as research strategies, reading sources, effective writing and professional ethics – and with useful features such as glossaries, guidelines for student projects, hands-on exercises, further reading and a companion website containing extra resources – Essential Skills for Historians equips aspiring historians with everything they need to succeed whilst also demonstrating the value of history in the wider world.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350005460

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9781350005464

Brothers, Sing On!

My Half-Century Around the World with the Penn Glee Club

By: Bruce Montgomery

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Brothers, Sing On!

My Half-Century Around the World with the Penn Glee Club

By: Bruce Montgomery

In 1862, a group of undergraduates at the University of Pennsylvania put the University's colors of red and blue in their buttonholes and gave the first performance of the University of Pennsylvania Glee Club. Ninety-four years later, in 1956, Bruce Montgomery became the Glee Club's director and brought the Club to new heights of musicianship and international acclaim. In his forty-four-year tenure, "Monty" made the Glee Club the premier musical voice of the University and brought Penn and the spirit of Philadelphia to audiences around the world. The Glee Club has performed on five continents in thirty countries and countless times in Philadelphia. In Brothers, Sing On! Monty shares his stories and experiences. From an impromptu photo op on a Wisconsin highway during a blizzard in 1977 to singing for U.S. presidents, this exhilarating memoir is filled with the Glee Club's farflung adventures. Backstage anecdotes let the reader step behind the scenes of such performances at home, abroad, and on worldwide television. A reflection of Monty's boundless energy and flair for showmanship, this volume also includes stories of the students with whom the Glee Club director worked in other clubs—the Penn Singers, the Marching Band, the Penn Players, and the Mask & Wig Club, to name a few. Throughout his memoir, Montgomery reflects fondly on the development of the Glee Club. It is a testament to his immeasurable contribution to its success and renown.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812238567

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Exploring the Practice of Statistics

By: David S. Moore,George P. McCabe,Bruce A. Craig

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Exploring the Practice of Statistics

By: David S. Moore,George P. McCabe,Bruce A. Craig

Exploring the Practice of Statistics adapts the successful approach to data analysis of Moore, McCabe, and Craig’s best-selling Introduction to the Practice of Statistics to new organization that is streamlined for a one-semester course. Exploring the Practice of Statistics introduces data collection early and covers tests of proportions before tests of means. An engaging new opening chapter motivates students by presenting an overview of major statistical ideas in the context of contemporary applications. Part Reviews offer a large set of exercises that ask students to choose from and work with related concepts presented in several chapters. With an emphasis on real data and sound pedagogy, Exploring the Practice of Statistics is an exciting new option for instructors.

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Macmillan Higher Education

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1464140197

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9781464140198

BLOW

How a Small-Town Boy Made $100 Million with the Medellin Cocaine Cartel And Lost It All

By: Bruce Porter

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How a Small-Town Boy Made $100 Million with the Medellin Cocaine Cartel And Lost It All

By: Bruce Porter

BLOW is the unlikely story of George Jung's roller coaster ride from middle-class high school football hero to the heart of Pablo Escobar's Medellin cartel-- the largest importer of the United States cocaine supply in the 1980s. Jung's early business of flying marijuana into the United States from the mountains of Mexico took a dramatic turn when he met Carlos Lehder, a young Colombian car thief with connections to the then newly born cocaine operation in his native land. Together they created a new model for selling cocaine, turning a drug used primarily by the entertainment elite into a massive and unimaginably lucrative enterprise-- one whose earnings, if legal, would have ranked the cocaine business as the sixth largest private enterprise in the Fortune 500. The ride came to a screeching halt when DEA agents and Florida police busted Jung with three hundred kilos of coke, effectively unraveling his fortune. But George wasn't about to go down alone. He planned to bring down with him one of the biggest cartel figures ever caught. With a riveting insider account of the lurid world of international drug smuggling and a super-charged drama of one man's meteoric rise and desperate fall, Bruce Porter chronicles Jung's life using unprecedented eyewitness sources in this critically acclaimed true crime classic.

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St. Martin's Griffin

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1466876247

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9781466876248

Makers

A History of American Studio Craft

By: Janet Koplos,Bruce Metcalf

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Makers

A History of American Studio Craft

By: Janet Koplos,Bruce Metcalf

Here is the first comprehensive survey of modern craft in the United States. Makers follows the development of studio craft--objects in fiber, clay, glass, wood, and metal--from its roots in nineteenth-century reform movements to the rich diversity of expression at the end of the twentieth century. More than four hundred illustrations complement this chronological exploration of the American craft tradition. Keeping as their main focus the objects and the makers, Janet Koplos and Bruce Metcalf offer a detailed analysis of seminal works and discussions of education, institutional support, and the philosophical underpinnings of craft. In a vivid and accessible narrative, they highlight the value of physical skill, examine craft as a force for moral reform, and consider the role of craft as an aesthetic alternative. Exploring craft's relationship to fine arts and design, Koplos and Metcalf foster a critical understanding of the field and help explain craft's place in contemporary culture. Makers will be an indispensable volume for craftspeople, curators, collectors, critics, historians, students, and anyone who is interested in American craft.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807895830

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9780807895832

Forgotten Prophet

The Life of Randolph Bourne

By: Bruce Clayton

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Forgotten Prophet

The Life of Randolph Bourne

By: Bruce Clayton

Rarely has an individual's life been so inseparable from his writing as was Randolph Bourne's. His work reveals not only his political viewpoints but also his humanistic personality and the tumultuous era during which he lived. Forgotten Prophet carefully examines the intellect and personality of the "born essayist" who saw clearly both his century's potential for harmony and the danger that it faced from the lingering tides of nineteenth-century European nationalism. Disfigured and hunchbacked, Bourne reacted to his disability not with bitterness or self-pity, but rather with an exuberant love for beauty and a compassion for humanity that created in him a longing for a truly cosmopolitan society--a "trans-national America" that would draw its strength from ethnic diversity and political pluralism. Nearly alone among American intellectuals, Bourne actively denounced involvement in World War I. He foresaw that, beyond the horrible cost in young lives, the war would bring in its wake the spiritual impoverishment of the nation and the disillusionment of its youth; it would strangle reform and social tolerance, exacerbate racism and nativism, and plant the seeds for further international instability. Although derided and largely ignored at the time they were written, Bourne's fearful predictions would all too quickly be confirmed in the dissolute frenzy of the jazz age, the turmoil of the 1930s, and the social chaos that brought about the rise of fascism in Europe and, soon, an even more destructive war. Bourne did not live to witness this terrifying unfolding of events. His career as a social critic was brief but prolific. When he died in 1918 at the age of thirty-two, a victim of the flu epidemic, he had completed three books and more than a hundred essays. His first book, Youth and Life, is considered by some to be the original manifesto of the counterculture. From his earliest years as a writer, Bourne was identified as a voice for youth, idealism, and progress in human relations. Forgotten Prophet characterizes Bourne not just as a foreseer of this century's bloodshed but, equally important, as an apostle of hope--a champion of what was best, most truthful in the arts, in politics, and in the conduct of our daily lives.

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University of Missouri Press

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0826211798

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9780826211798

The Honesties of Love

By: Bruce Kellner

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The Honesties of Love

By: Bruce Kellner

In this comedy of bad manners, the ill-matched parents of too-young newly-weds Billy and Ann Richardson politely collide in a series of encounters guaranteed to insure catastrophe, when a wry college professor, a glamorous real estate agent, a randy plumber, and a frustrated housewife politely face off on some social and sexual battlefields. The confrontations may begin politely, but they are guaranteed to end in chaos when a husband and a wife - not each other's - find themselves embroiled in an affair that proves to be equally passionate and ridiculous. What begins as a test between social classes ends in a series of sexual confrontations. Billy and Ann find themselves forced to grow up in a hurry to begin to accept their parents as people who are just as vulnerable as everybody else. -- Far from the pastoral romance of "Winter Ridge" (published by Mon-dial in 2008) and the grim landscape of "The Prettiest Girls in Euphoria, Kansas" (Mondial, 2010), Bruce Kellner's novel "The Honesties of Love" turns a baleful eye on the minefield of marriage.

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Mondial

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1595692304

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9781595692306

Encyclopedia of Multicultural Education

By: Bruce Mitchell,Robert E. Salsbury

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Encyclopedia of Multicultural Education

By: Bruce Mitchell,Robert E. Salsbury

In the study of multicultural education, there are key names, places, concepts, and legal actions which provide a foundation for the field. This reference includes more than 400 entries from a broad range of topics related to multicultural education, which the authors define as education geared toward reducing bias, ensuring equity, and promoting understanding of the self and others. Each item in the encyclopedia has been chosen for its value in illuminating one or more particular concerns in the field. Each entry not only helps to identify and place in an historical perspective a concept, place, person, event, or legal action, but also links that topic to an important aspect of multicultural education. While the encyclopedia provides coverage of numerous terms from the social sciences and discusses various court decisions and historical events, it also includes entries for notable persons from a wide range of cultural groups. These persons exemplify the achievements and diversity of America's many cultures and are often discussed within a multicultural curriculum. In addition, the volume provides entries for cultural and ethnic groups. These entries discuss the educational needs and experiences of the group. Thus there are entries for such groups as African-Americans, Anglo-Americans, Asian-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, and Jewish-Americans; for organizations, such as the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith; for several Native American people; for persons, such as George Washington Carver, Geronimo, and Jesse Jackson; and for numerous terms and concepts, such as busing, institutional racism, gender equity, quota systems, and reverse discrimination. Entries provide bibliographic information, and the volume concludes with a selected, general bibliography.

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0313005249

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College

Getting in and Staying in

By: D. Bruce Lockerbie

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College

Getting in and Staying in

By: D. Bruce Lockerbie

This strongly Christian-oriented book is designed as a guide for the high school junior or senior who is seriously considering college. It begins with a detailed discussion of the decision whether or not to go, including a description of college life to give ``a deliberate dose of reality to counter some . . . of your fantasies.'' There is excellent coverage of the mechanics of selecting potential colleges, applying, taking necessary tests, accepting or being rejected, and preparing for admission (including a hard look at costs). The first six chapters are a good guide to the college selection processes. The remainder has a heavy Christian emphasis, a fact not noted in the title, introduction, or early chapters. This makes the book of most interest to students who desire that lifestyle. The final chapter is entitled ``Index of Resources'' and consists of a detailed glossary and a bibliography of related sources, including software. There is also a list called ``Organizations to Consult,'' consisting of four Christian organizations. -- Sharon L. Bostick, Univ. of Toledo Lib., Ohio -Library Journal.

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William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

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0802804241

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9780802804242

The 1976 House Majority Leadership Contest

Stepping Stone in the Transition to Conditional Party Government

By: Bruce I. Oppenheimer,Robert L. Peabody

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The 1976 House Majority Leadership Contest

Stepping Stone in the Transition to Conditional Party Government

By: Bruce I. Oppenheimer,Robert L. Peabody

In this book, Bruce I. Oppenheimer and the late Robert L. Peabody analyze the 1976 House majority leader race and present the result of their unrivaled insider access to this turning point in congressional history. This fierce contest among the Democratic leadership marked the transition of the House of Representatives into the party-dominated institution that is so familiar today. The 1976 election, in which the Democrats consolidated the gains made in 1974, led to two important changes in House Democratic leadership. After Carl Albert’s retirement, Majority Leader Thomas “Tip” O’Neill, Jr., of Massachusetts advanced unopposed to the Speakership. This led to a contest between four formidable candidates for the position of majority leader: Rules Committee Spokesman Richard Bolling of Missouri, Caucus Chairman Phillip Burton of California, Majority Whip John McFall of California, and Representative James C. Wright, Jr., of Texas. It was arguably the most competitive contest for a major leadership position in congressional history. Ultimately, it took extensive campaigning and three ballots before Wright emerged victorious. During the race, Oppenheimer and Peabody conducted lengthy interviews with the candidates and their principal supporters, resulting in their eye-opening analysis of this contest as a key stepping stone between committee government and conditional party government in the House of Representatives that continues to the present day. The authors first presented their original research on the 1976 House majority leader contest at the 1977 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association. With that original groundbreaking paper at its core, this book adds new chapters by Oppenheimer that evaluate the accuracy of the study and provide richer historical context, showing how congressional politics changed in the years after the 1976 contest. Their original study was the result of the greatest access that political scientists have ever had to a congressional leadership race, and it has enduring value for understanding our current political crisis.

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University Press of Kansas

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0700636951

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Bump Elliott, the Michigan Wolverines and Their 1964 Championship Football Season

By: E. Bruce Geelhoed

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Bump Elliott, the Michigan Wolverines and Their 1964 Championship Football Season

By: E. Bruce Geelhoed

Under the leadership of head coach Bump Elliott, the 1964 Wolverines won Michigan's first Big Ten championship since 1950 and their first Rose Bowl since 1951, and finished fourth in the national college football polls. They defeated four top-ten ranked teams: Navy, Michigan State, Ohio State, and Oregon State, their Rose Bowl opponent. The Wolverines also defeated Minnesota for the first time since 1960, and reclaimed the prized Little Brown Jug. Despite its impressive record, the 1964 team failed to attract the national attention it deserved. At the beginning of the season, few football observers expected Michigan to contend for the Big Ten championship. But by the end of the season it was clear that the Wolverines were one of America's elite teams--perhaps the best in the country. This book chronicles for the first time the exploits of Michigan's 1964 team and gives them long-overdue recognition.

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McFarland

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1476617678

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