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That St. Louis Thing, Vol. 2: An American Story of Roots, Rhythm and Race

By: Bruce R. Olson

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That St. Louis Thing, Vol. 2: An American Story of Roots, Rhythm and Race

By: Bruce R. Olson

That St. Louis Thing is an American story of music, race relations and baseball. Here is over 100 years of the cityOs famed musical development -- blues, jazz and rock -- placed in the context of its civil rights movement and its political and ecomomic power. Here, too, are the cityOs people brought alive from its foundation to the racial conflicts in Ferguson in 2014. The panorama of the city presents an often overlooked gem, music that goes far beyond famed artists such as Scott Joplin, Miles Davis and Tina Turner. The city is also the scene of a historic civil rights movement that remained important from its early beginnings into the twenty-first century. And here, too, are the sounds of the crack of the bat during a century-long love affair with baseball.

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Lulu.com

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1483457990

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9781483457994

Living Forms

Romantics and the Monumental Figure

By: Bruce Haley

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Living Forms

Romantics and the Monumental Figure

By: Bruce Haley

Based on years of archival research in various British and American libraries, Living Forms examines the early nineteenth century's fascination with representations of the human form, particularly those from the past, which, having no adequate verbal explanatory text, are vulnerable to having their meanings erased by time. The author explores a variety of such representations and responses to them, including Coleridge's Shakespeare lectures, Hazlitt's essays on portraits, Keats's poems on mythic and sculpted figures, meditations by Byron's Childe Harold on the monuments of Italy, Felicia Hemans's verses on monuments to and by women, and Shelley's poems and letters on figures from Italy, Egypt, and other antique lands. Haley argues that in what has been called the "museum age," Romantics sought aesthetically to frame these figures as "living forms," mental images capable of realization in alternate modes or forms.

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State University of New York Press

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0791487679

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9780791487679

The Story Is True, Second Edition, Revised and Expanded

The Art and Meaning of Telling Stories

By: Bruce Jackson

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The Story Is True, Second Edition, Revised and Expanded

The Art and Meaning of Telling Stories

By: Bruce Jackson

In The Story Is True, folklorist, filmmaker, and professor of English Bruce Jackson explores the ways we use the stories that become a central part of our public and private lives. Describing and explaining how stories are made and used, Jackson examines how stories narrate and bring meaning to our lives. Jackson writes about his family and friends, acquaintances, and experiences, focusing on more than a dozen personal stories. From oral histories to public stories—such as what happened when Bob Dylan "went electric" at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival—Jackson gets at how the "truth" is constantly shifting depending on the perspective, memory, and social meaning that is ascribed to various events—both real and imaginary. The book is ideal for students and writers of oral history and storytelling but goes beyond those topics to encompass how we interpret and understand the real-life "stories" that we encounter in our daily experience. This edition includes new sections on how stories are related to historical facts and new chapters on contemporary films (expanding the discussion of visual storytelling) and on conspiracy narratives and Trump's Big Lie. Fresh examples tie together new material with the existing stories.

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State University of New York Press

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1438490380

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Dracula FAQ

All That's Left to Know About the Count from Transylvania

By: Bruce Scivally

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Dracula FAQ

All That's Left to Know About the Count from Transylvania

By: Bruce Scivally

Dracula FAQ unearths little-known facts about both the historical and literary Dracula. The 15th-century warlord Vlad III, known as Vlad the Impaler and Dracula (son of the Dragon), became a legendary figure in his native Wallachia. Four hundred years later, Irish author Bram Stoker appropriated Dracula's name for a vampire novel he spent seven years researching and writing. Considered one of the great classics of Gothic literature, Dracula went on to inspire numerous stage plays, musicals, movies, and TV adaptations – with actors as diverse as Bela Lugosi, John Carradine, Christopher Lee, Jack Palance, Frank Langella, Louis Jourdan, Gary Oldman, and Gerard Butler taking on the role of the vampire king. And with Dracula proving the popularity of vampires, other bloodsuckers rose from their graves to terrify book, movie, and TV audiences – from Barnabas Collins of Dark Shadows to The Night Stalker to the vampires of True Blood on the small screen, and Interview with the Vampire and Twilight on the big screen. More recently, Dracula has been resurrected for a TV series starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers and a feature film starring Luke Evans. Dracula FAQ covers all of these and more, including the amazing stories of real-life vampires!

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1617136379

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9781617136375

A Moralist in and Out of Parliament

John Stuart Mill at Westminster, 1865-1868

By: Bruce L. Kinzer,Ann Provost Robson,John Mercel Robson,John M. Robson

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A Moralist in and Out of Parliament

John Stuart Mill at Westminster, 1865-1868

By: Bruce L. Kinzer,Ann Provost Robson,John Mercel Robson,John M. Robson

This detailed study places the political and personal beliefs and behaviour of Britain's leading philosopher in the context of the crucial changes resulting from the growing democratization of society and culture in Britain.

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University of Toronto Press

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080205949X

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9780802059499

The Fourth Discontinuity

The Co-evolution of Humans and Machines

By: Bruce Mazlish

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The Fourth Discontinuity

The Co-evolution of Humans and Machines

By: Bruce Mazlish

Discusses the relationship between humans and machines, pondering the implications of humans becoming more mechanical and of computer robots being programmed to think. He describes early Greek and Chinese automatons and discusses ideas of previous centuries and of individuals on this subject.

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Yale University Press

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0300065124

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9780300065121

The First Love Story

A Journey Through the Tangled Lives of Adam and Eve

By: Bruce Feiler

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The First Love Story

A Journey Through the Tangled Lives of Adam and Eve

By: Bruce Feiler

From the New York Times bestselling author of Walking the Bible and Abraham comes a revelatory journey across four continents and 4,000 years exploring how Adam and Eve introduced the idea of love into the world, and how they continue to shape our deepest feelings about relationships, family, and togetherness. Since antiquity, one story has stood at the center of every conversation about men and women. One couple has been the battleground for human relationships and sexual identity. That couple is Adam and Eve. Yet instead of celebrating them, history has blamed them for bringing sin, deceit, and death into the world. In this fresh retelling of their story, New York Times columnist and PBS host Bruce Feiler travels from the Garden of Eden in Iraq to the Sistine Chapel in Rome, from John Milton’s London to Mae West’s Hollywood, discovering how Adam and Eve should be hailed as exemplars of a long-term, healthy, resilient relationship. At a time of discord and fear over the strength of our social fabric, Feiler shows how history’s first couple can again be role models for unity, forgiveness, and love. Containing all the humor, insight, and wisdom that have endeared Bruce Feiler to readers around the world, The First Love Story is an unforgettable journey that restores Adam and Eve to their rightful place as central figures in our culture's imagination and reminds us that even our most familiar stories still have the ability to surprise, inspire, and guide us today.

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0698409957

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9780698409958

Paranoid Schizophrenia

My Label, My Life

By: Bruce Venter

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Paranoid Schizophrenia

My Label, My Life

By: Bruce Venter

When I was diagnosed Paranoid Schizophrenic it I felt as though a lightning bolt had struck me. It shattered my world. I was put into a mental asylum. I was labeled. I was shunned. My friends fell away. I was walled by a screen of prejudice and fear from the general public. Was this to be a life sentence? Was there a way to escape from the straitjacket of serious mental illness? This is my story, the story of how I learned to survive. Is it success? You be the judge".

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1477238018

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More Generals in Gray

By: Bruce S. Allardice

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More Generals in Gray

By: Bruce S. Allardice

In this masterpiece of research, a splendid supplement to Ezra J. Warner's Generals in Gray, Bruce S. Allardice brings to light a neglected class of officers: the Confederacy's "other" generals -- men who attained their rank outside the usual avenue of appointment by President Jefferson Davis and who had been virtually forgotten as a consequence. Explaining that the process of becoming a general was fraught with politics, lobbying, intrigue, accident, mismanagement, and chance, Allardice identifies six main categories of legitimate claimants to the rank of Confederate General -- two more than historians have traditionally recognized. He presents a substantial biographical sketch of 137 generals not found in Warner's original and a short bibliography of each. For the vast majority, his is the first treatment ever published.

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LSU Press

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0807155756

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Life Is in the Transitions

Mastering Change at Any Age

By: Bruce Feiler

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Life Is in the Transitions

Mastering Change at Any Age

By: Bruce Feiler

A New York Times bestseller! A pioneering and timely study of how to navigate life's biggest transitions with meaning, purpose, and skill Bruce Feiler, author of the New York Times bestsellers The Secrets of Happy Families and Council of Dads, has long explored the stories that give our lives meaning. Galvanized by a personal crisis, he spent the last few years crisscrossing the country, collecting hundreds of life stories in all fifty states from Americans who’d been through major life changes—from losing jobs to losing loved ones; from changing careers to changing relationships; from getting sober to getting healthy to simply looking for a fresh start. He then spent a year coding these stories, identifying patterns and takeaways that can help all of us survive and thrive in times of change. What Feiler discovered was a world in which transitions are becoming more plentiful and mastering the skills to manage them is more urgent for all of us. The idea that we’ll have one job, one relationship, one source of happiness is hopelessly outdated. We all feel unnerved by this upheaval. We’re concerned that our lives are not what we expected, that we’ve veered off course, living life out of order. But we’re not alone. Life Is in the Transitions introduces the fresh, illuminating vision of the nonlinear life, in which each of us faces dozens of disruptors. One in ten of those becomes what Feiler calls a lifequake, a massive change that leads to a life transition. The average length of these transitions is five years. The upshot: We all spend half our lives in this unsettled state. You or someone you know is going through one now. The most exciting thing Feiler identified is a powerful new tool kit for navigating these pivotal times. Drawing on his extraordinary trove of insights, he lays out specific strategies each of us can use to reimagine and rebuild our lives, often stronger than before. From a master storyteller with an essential message, Life Is in the Transitions can move readers of any age to think deeply about times of change and how to transform them into periods of creativity and growth.

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1101980516

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9781101980514

Waterfalls of the White Mountains: 30 Hikes to 100 Waterfalls (3rd Edition)

By: Bruce R. Bolnick,Daniel Bolnick,Kyle van der Laan

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Waterfalls of the White Mountains: 30 Hikes to 100 Waterfalls (3rd Edition)

By: Bruce R. Bolnick,Daniel Bolnick,Kyle van der Laan

Explore the scenic splendor of the White Mountains of New Hampshire with this guide to the Region’s Waterfalls The White Mountains of New Hampshire are home to many gushing, cascading waterfalls waiting to be discovered. This completely revised and updated edition of Waterfalls of the White Mountains outlines hiking trails ideal for observing the more than 100 waterfalls in the region, no matter experience level or ability. Each hike opens with the trail at a glance overview—including the distance, difficulty, altitude gain, and directions to the starting point. Helpful tips and suggestions are offered throughout, like the best times of year for each hike, best vantage points for viewing the falls, great swimming holes for cooling down, and uncrowded scenic treasures that are perfect for a woodland picnic. Also featuring labeled maps and fascinating short essays on local history and lore, Waterfalls of the White Mountains guides readers through their next excursion to the White Mountains of New Hampshire.

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The Countryman Press

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1682683168

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9781682683163

There's Mel, There's Woody, and There's You

My Life in the Slow Lane

By: Bruce Kimmel

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There's Mel, There's Woody, and There's You

My Life in the Slow Lane

By: Bruce Kimmel

Bruce Kimmel has managed to eke out a career in one form of show business or another for over forty years. A successful Grammy-nominated record producer, Kimmel began his show business journey as an actor, in a time when being a young up-and-coming thespian was fun, thrilling, and when anything seemed possible. It was a different world for a young actor in the 1970s, and Kimmel's journey is paved with laughs, tears, success, and an amazing cast of players. At twenty-seven, he wrote, co-directed, and starred in a film that would become a major cult success, the First Nudie Musical. He did TV pilots, guest shots, series, plays. He met and worked with incredible people. It was the kind of time we will never see again. And then things changed. The nature of the business changed. And the path to dealing with those changes—getting older, trying to survive in an ever increasingly negative and cutthroat world—becomes a story of reinvention and rebirth. Through it all, Kimmel tells his tale with wit, candor, affection, and self-effacing honesty. Enjoy being the fly on the wall as Kimmel hangs out with Elsa Lanchester, Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy; goes to Groucho's house and plays the piano for him; works with Shirley Jones, David Cassidy, Susan Dey on the Partridge Family. We observe his long friendship with Cindy Williams, watch as he works with screen legends Patricia Neal, Jean Simmons, Leslie Nielsen, Patrick Macnee, Bud Cort, and Geraldine Fitzgerald, and as he hangs out with Hugh Hefner at the Playboy mansion., Bruce Kimmel's showbiz tales are loaded with laughs, wide-eyed wonder, and heart.

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1452011176

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9781452011172

Girls to the Rescue Book #5

Tales of Clever, Courageous Girls from Around the World

By: Bruce Lansky

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Girls to the Rescue Book #5

Tales of Clever, Courageous Girls from Around the World

By: Bruce Lansky

In most heroic tales, a helpless young lady waits around for a prince to rescue her. But the spunky girls in this entertaining series are much too busy saving the day to await Prince Charming. These adaptations and original stories from around the world inspire readers to become a new kind of heroine. If you enjoy the stories in this book, look for more fun adventures in the other books in the series. In most heroic tales, a helpless young lady waits around for a prince to rescue her. But the spunky girls in this entertaining series are much too busy saving the day to await Prince Charming. These adaptations and original stories from around the world inspire readers to become a new kind of heroine. If you enjoy the stories in this book, look for more fun adventures in the other books in the series. This fifth book in the series contains the following short stories: "Tulia!" (an original story), "Dingo Trouble" (an original story), "Railroad Through and Through" (an original story), "Gabrielle and the Polar Bears" (an original story), "Tricking the Wolves" (an original story), "To Catch a Cat" (an original story), "Rachel's War" (an original story), "Anna's Mystery (an original story), "The Clever Daughter" (an original story), and "Like Father, Like Daughter" (adapted from a Yiddish folktale).

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Simon and Schuster

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1442424818

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Kritzer Time

By: Bruce Kimmel

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Kritzer Time

By: Bruce Kimmel

Benjamin Kritzer is thirteen and ready to take on the world. But is the world ready for Benjamin Kritzer? In Benjamin Kritzer and Kritzerland, Benjamin has gone from adolescence to young adulthood, managing to survive his Martian family, Bad Men, a broken heart, a broken friendship and a multitude of adventures and cliffhangers in the unending serial known as his life. Now, in Kritzer Time, Benjamin must navigate the treacherous terrain of his teenage years, in a world that’s changing as fast as he is. But it’s when Benjamin meets Samantha Gilman, a girl as unique and special as he is, a girl who becomes part of his world, and a girl who will impact his life in ways that he can’t possibly imagine, that Kritzer Time reveals its true heart and soul. Kritzer Time is a time machine back to the wonderful world of Los Angeles in the early 1960s, and a heartfelt, warm, hilarious and touching story of a young boy becoming a young man.

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141405419X

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Printer's Devil

Mark Twain and the American Publishing Revolution

By: Bruce Michelson

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Printer's Devil

Mark Twain and the American Publishing Revolution

By: Bruce Michelson

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0520247590

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9780520247598

Peggy Webling and the Story behind Frankenstein

The Making of a Hollywood Monster

By: Peggy Webling,Dorian Gieseler Greenbaum,Bruce Graver

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Peggy Webling and the Story behind Frankenstein

The Making of a Hollywood Monster

By: Peggy Webling,Dorian Gieseler Greenbaum,Bruce Graver

The 1931 Universal Pictures film adaptation of Frankenstein directed by James Whale and starring Boris Karloff as the now iconic Monster claims in its credits to be 'Adapted from the play by Peggy Webling'. Webling's play sought to humanize the creature, was the first stage adaptation to position Frankenstein and his creation as doppelgängers, and offered a feminist perspective on scientific efforts to create life without women, ideas that suffuse today's perceptions of Frankenstein's monster. The original play script exists in several different versions, only two of which have ever been consulted by scholars; no version has ever been published. Nor have scholars had access to Webling's private papers and correspondence, preserved in a family archive, so that the evolution of Frankenstein from book to stage to screen has never been fully charted. In Peggy Webling and the Story behind Frankenstein, Dorian Gieseler Greenbaum (Webling's great grandniece) and Bruce Graver present the full texts of Webling's unpublished play for the first time. A vital critical edition, this book includes: - the 1927 British Library Frankenstein script used for the first production of the play in Preston, Lancashire - the 1928 Frankenstein script in the Library of Congress, used for productions in UK provincial theatres from autumn 1928 till 1930 - the 1930 Frankenstein Prompt Script for the London production and later provincial performances, held by the Westminster Archive, London - Webling's private correspondence including negotiations with theatre managers and Universal Pictures, family letters about the writing and production process, and selected contracts - Text of the chapter 'Frankenstein' from Webling's unpublished literary memoir, The Story of a Pen for additional context - Biography of Webling that bears directly on the sensibilities and skills she brought to the writing of her play - History of how the play came to be written and produced - The relationship of Webling's play to earlier stage and film adaptations - An exploration of playwright and screenwriter John L. Balderston's changes to Webling's play and Whale's borrowings from it in the 1931 film Offering a new perspective on the genesis of the Frankenstein movie, this critical exploration makes available a unique and necessary 'missing link' in the novel's otherwise well-documented transmedia cultural history.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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135037167X

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9781350371675

The Displacements

A Novel

By: Bruce Holsinger

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The Displacements

A Novel

By: Bruce Holsinger

“Hypnotic.” – New York Times “Cinematic.” – USA Today "I gripped the covers of this book as though it might be blown from my hands. . .powerful." - Ron Charles, The Washington Post "A full-throttle page turner."– Miranda Cowley Heller, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Paper Palace An adrenaline-fueled story of lives upended and transformed by an unprecedented catastrophe To all appearances, the Larsen-Hall family has everything: healthy children, a stable marriage, a lucrative career for Brantley, and the means for Daphne to pursue her art full-time. Their deluxe new Miami life has just clicked into place when Luna—the world’s first category 6 hurricane—upends everything they have taken for granted. When the storm makes landfall, it triggers a descent of another sort. Their home destroyed, two of its members missing, and finances abruptly cut off, the family finds everything they assumed about their lives now up for grabs. Swept into a mass rush of evacuees from across the American South, they are transported hundreds of miles to a FEMA megashelter where their new community includes an insurance-agent-turned-drug dealer, a group of vulnerable children, and a dedicated relief worker trying to keep the peace. Will “normal” ever return? A suspenseful read plotted on a vast national tapestry, The Displacements thrillingly explores what happens when privilege is lost and resilience is tested in a swiftly changing world.

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0593189728

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25,000+ Baby Names

By: Bruce Lansky

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25,000+ Baby Names

By: Bruce Lansky

Select the perfect name for your new baby! Not sure what to name your child? Torn between a traditional family name and an up-and-coming name? Or maybe you don't even know where to start? Let 25,000+ Baby Names be your guide to finding the right name! This book lets you easily scan boys' and girls' names and includes features like: guidelines for naming your baby, popular names from around the world, origins, meanings, famous namesakes, and interesting name trivia. Sample Girl's Name (including: name, origin, meaning, cross-referencing, and variations/nicknames): "Katherine * (Greek) pure. See also Carey, Catherine, Ekaterina, Kara, Karen, Kari, Kasia, Katerina, Yekaterina. Ekatrinna, Kasienka, Kasin, Kat, Katchen, Kathann, Kathanne, Kathereen, Katheren, Katheren, Katherenne, Katherin, Katherina, Katheryn, Katheryne, Kathyrine, Katina, Katlaina, Katoka, Katreeka." Sample Boy's Name (including: name, origin, meaning, famous namesake, and variations/nicknames): "Noah * (Hebrew) peaceful, restful. Bible: the patriarch who built the ark to survive the Flood. Noak, Noi.

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Da Capo Press

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1451630387

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The Very Best Baby Name Book

60,000+ Baby Names, Lists of Most Popular Names, Creative Lists of Names, and Fascinating Facts about Names.

By: Bruce Lansky

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The Very Best Baby Name Book

60,000+ Baby Names, Lists of Most Popular Names, Creative Lists of Names, and Fascinating Facts about Names.

By: Bruce Lansky

Identifies first names for boys and girls and reveals their origins and meanings, in addition to featuring popularity rankings for names from around the world, stereotypes of commonly used names, and thematic lists.

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Simon and Schuster

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145168083X

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9781451680836

On Potato Mountain

A Chilcotin Mystery

By: Bruce Fraser

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On Potato Mountain

A Chilcotin Mystery

By: Bruce Fraser

The people of the Chilcotin, their history, legends and pride, inspire this closely woven and captivating mystery and lead to its surprising conclusion...

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Granville Island Publishing

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1894694872

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Baby Name Trend Report

Insight from the top-selling baby name author

By: Bruce Lansky

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Baby Name Trend Report

Insight from the top-selling baby name author

By: Bruce Lansky

When you’re pregnant, picking the right name for your baby is a major concern. The purpose of this trend report is to give you a closer and more analytical look at the popular names that come to your attention as you consider which to choose for your baby. Including: What’s Hot, What’s Not: The Latest Popularity Trends; The Top 100 Girls’ and 100 Boys’ Names with meanings and variations; Changes to The Top 100; The Most Popular Names for Twins; The most recent Social Security data When you’re pregnant, picking the right name for your baby is a major concern. The purpose of this trend report is to give you a closer and more analytical look at the popular names that come to your attention as you consider which to choose for your baby. This report will show you: — Which names are hot and which are not — Which types of names (biblical names, place names, nature names, trade names, and so on) are currently in favor — Which sets of names for twins are currently in — Which sounds (such as Aiden/Jaden/Braden; Haley/Kaylee/Bailey) are increasing or decreasing in popularity — Which variant spellings of popular names (such as Caitlin/Caitlyn/Katelyn; Aiden/Aidan) are rising or falling in popularity This introduction to current naming trends will improve your critical thinking and judgment about the names you’re currently considering—so you can do a better job picking the right name for you and your baby. This trend report is excerpted from 100,000+ Baby Names. If you find it helpful, you’ll find even more of Bruce Lansky’s advice and information in his best-selling baby-name book.

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Simon and Schuster

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1451679718

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100,000+ Baby Names

The most helpful, complete, & up-to-date name book

By: Bruce Lansky

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100,000+ Baby Names

The most helpful, complete, & up-to-date name book

By: Bruce Lansky

The most helpful, complete, and yearly up-to-date name book What's new about names? The new edition of 100,000+ Baby Names by Bruce Lansky features the most up-to-date lists of names, trends, advice, and fascinating facts about names, including: Hundreds of newly popular names and variations The latest list of top 100 names for boys and girls The latest naming trends: what's hot and what's not The most rapidly rising and falling top 1,000 names Updated lists of names to consider, including names of newly famous people and fictional characters The most popular gender-neutral names and their rates of use (more for boys, more for girls, or 50/50) New (and classic) celebrity baby names And our list of names from around the world keeps growing! Here you'll find more than 100,000 names--complete with origins, meanings, variations, and famous namesakes. You'll find names from major linguistic and ethnic groups of origin, including English (19,000 names), Latin (11,000 names), Greek (11,000 names), American (11,000 names), Hebrew (9,000 names), Hispanic (9,000 names), French (8,000 names), Irish (7,000 names), and German (6,000 names)--plus thousands of Scottish, Welsh, Italian, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Scandinavian, Polish, Native American, Hawaiian, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Australian/Aboriginal, African, and Hindi names. The list features unique spellings of popular names that are catching on, plus newly popular names and variations not listed in other books and websites.

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Da Capo Lifelong Books

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0306922983

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9780306922985

Creating Stories That Connect

A Pastor's Guide to Storytelling

By: D. Bruce Seymour

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Creating Stories That Connect

A Pastor's Guide to Storytelling

By: D. Bruce Seymour

This innovative book helps pastors and teachers enhance their teaching with original, audience appropriate stories--the way Jesus did! Bruce Seymour explains how such stories work, when to use them, and how to create them.

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Kregel Academic

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0825494435

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9780825494437

Clinical Management of Binocular Vision

Heterophoric, Accommodative, and Eye Movement Disorders

By: Mitchell Scheiman,Bruce Wick

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Clinical Management of Binocular Vision

Heterophoric, Accommodative, and Eye Movement Disorders

By: Mitchell Scheiman,Bruce Wick

This fourth edition of Clinical Management of Binocular Vision uses the past five years of research studies and literature to provide an accurate look at today’s diagnosis and treatment of binocular vision. Written with an emphasis on proper evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment, each condition is covered in-depth and includes background information, symptoms, case analysis, and management options. This edition also includes the latest information on new vision therapy equipment. Easy to read and understand, this book is ideal for faculty when designing courses, students studying these topics for the first time, or established practitioners looking for a practical, easy-to-use reference on accommodative, ocular motility, and nonstrabismic vision anomalies.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1469832828

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Jolly Good Detecting

Humor in English Crime Fiction of the Golden Age

By: Bruce Shaw

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Jolly Good Detecting

Humor in English Crime Fiction of the Golden Age

By: Bruce Shaw

This book is an appreciation of selected authors who make extensive use of humor in English detective/crime fiction. Works using humor as an amelioration of the serious have their heyday in the Golden Age of crime writing but they belong also to a long tradition. There is an identifiable lineage of humorous writing in crime fiction that ranges from mild wit to outright farce, burlesque, even slapstick. A mix of entertainment with instruction is a tradition in English letters. English crime fiction writers of the era circa 1913 to 1940 were raised in the mainstream literary tradition but turned their skills to detective fiction. And they are the humorists of the genre. This book is not an exhaustive study but an introduction into the best produced by the most capable and enjoyable authors. What the humorists seek is to surprise the reader by overturning their expectations using a repertoire of stylistic conceits and motifs (recurring incidents, devices, references). Humor has a liberating effect but is concerned too with "comic contrast" through ugliness and caricature. In crime fiction one effect is intellectual pleasure at solving (or attempting to solve) a puzzle. Another is entertainment but with serious undertones.

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McFarland

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1476613966

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Light

A Radiant History from Creation to the Quantum Age

By: Bruce Watson

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Light

A Radiant History from Creation to the Quantum Age

By: Bruce Watson

Light begins at Stonehenge, where crowds cheer a solstice sunrise. After sampling myths explaining First Light, the story moves on to early philosophers' queries, then through the centuries, from Buddhist temples to Biblical scripture, when light was the soul of the divine. Battling darkness and despair, Gothic architects crafted radiant cathedrals while Dante dreamed a "heaven of pure light." Later, following Leonardo's advice, Renaissance artists learned to capture light on canvas. During the Scientific Revolution, Galileo gathered light in his telescope, Descartes measured the rainbow, and Newton used prisms to solidify the science of optics. But even after Newton, light was an enigma. Particle or wave? Did it flow through an invisible "ether"? Through the age of Edison and into the age of lasers, Light reveals how light sparked new wonders--relativity, quantum electrodynamics, fiber optics, and more. Although lasers now perform everyday miracles, light retains its eternal allure. "For the rest of my life," Einstein said, "I will reflect on what light is." Light explores and celebrates such curiosity.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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162040561X

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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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McFarland

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1476684618

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9781476684611

Job the Silent

A Study in Historical Counterpoint

By: Bruce Zuckerman

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Job the Silent

A Study in Historical Counterpoint

By: Bruce Zuckerman

Offering an original reading of the book of Job, one of the great literary classics of biblical literature, this book develops a new analogical method for understanding how biblical texts evolve in the process of transmission. Zuckerman argues that the book of Job was intended as a parody protesting the stereotype of the traditional righteous sufferer as patient and silent. He compares the book of Job and its fate to that of a famous Yiddish short story, "Bontsye Shvayg," another covert parody whose protagonist has come to be revered as a paradigm of innocent Jewish suffering. Zuckerman uses the story to prove how a literary text becomes separated from the intention of its author, and takes on quite a different meaning for a specific community of readers.

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Oxford University Press

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0195352955

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ROAR

American Master, The Oral Biography of Roger Orr

By: Bruce Wagner

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ROAR

American Master, The Oral Biography of Roger Orr

By: Bruce Wagner

A new novel by Hollywood’s "master of satire." The myth of an epic, public life—its triumphs and tragedies—is a particularly American obsession. ROAR is a metafictional exploration of such a life and attendant fame of an extraordinary, and completely made up, man. Born in Nashville in 1940 and adopted by a wealthy San Francisco couple, Roger Orr—“Roar”—became an underground stand-up comedian with a cult following while still in his teens, segueing to an acclaimed songwriter in the Sixties. In the decades that followed, his talent spanned the worlds of entertainment, from film directing and books to fine art (paintings, sculpture). His promethean energies expanded to the world of medicine; he became a dermatologist, the first to patent cadaver skin for burn victims. A spiritual seeker who returned to India throughout his life, Roar was also a voracious lover of both men and women. The journey of Roger Orr was a premonition of the cultural earthquakes to come. It wasn’t until his 40s that Roar learned his birth mother was black and it wasn't until his early 60s when he began the hormonal treatment and surgeries that chipped away at the armor covering what he always knew was his true identity: that of a woman. Roar’s saga is best told by a cacophony of voices—family members, critics, historians, and the famous (Meryl Streep, Amanda Gorman, Dave Chappelle, Andy Warhol)—including some heard from the grave. In ROAR, Wagner brilliantly paints a vivid picture of one man, our times, and our culture's enduring obsession with fame.

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Simon and Schuster

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1956763260

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9781956763263

TVA and the Tellico Dam

A Bureaucratic Crisis

By: William Bruce Wheeler,Michael J. McDonald

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TVA and the Tellico Dam

A Bureaucratic Crisis

By: William Bruce Wheeler,Michael J. McDonald

This is a study of TVA management of Tellico Dam. Part of the ambitious New Deal project to bring modernity to Appalachia, TVA planning was far-reaching, often far-sighted, but also controversial, involving mass migration of people from their ancestral homes and threats to species, like the snail darter.

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Univ. of Tennessee Press

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1572333707

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Horror and the Horror Film

By: Bruce F. Kawin

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Horror and the Horror Film

By: Bruce F. Kawin

Horror films can be profound fables of human nature and important works of art, yet many people dismiss them out of hand. ‘Horror and the Horror Film’ conveys a mature appreciation for horror films along with a comprehensive view of their narrative strategies, their relations to reality and fantasy and their cinematic power. The volume covers the horror film and its subgenres – such as the vampire movie – from 1896 to the present. It covers the entire genre by considering every kind of monster in it, including the human.

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Anthem Press

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0857282417

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9780857282415

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