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Undependently Yours: Imagining A World Beyond The Red Carpet

By: Bryan Konefsky

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Undependently Yours: Imagining A World Beyond The Red Carpet

By: Bryan Konefsky

Film festivals have had varied and complex histories starting with Benito Mussolini's invention of the form in Venice in 1932. Since then (and too often) festivals are thought of only in terms of the Hollywood film industry. This text is a celebration of all things un-dependently cinematic. The essays contained in this volume explore the cultural value of alternative film festivals from a wide range of perspectives and experiences. Contributors to this book include Gene Youngblood, Sasha Waters Freyer, Roger Beebe, Michael Betancourt, Charles Lum, Caryn Cline, Alexie Dmitriev, Clint Enns, Leslie Supnet, Chip Lord, Ben Popp, Kristen Lauth Shaeffer, Tina Wasserman, Gerry Fialka, Kamila Kuc, Steve Polta, Bryan Konefsky, Caroline Koebel, and Bart Weiss.

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Lulu.com

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1329005139

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9781329005136

Tears of a Dragon

By: Bryan Davis

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Tears of a Dragon

By: Bryan Davis

“Bryan Davis writes with the scope of Tolkien, the focus of Lewis, the grandeur of Verne, and most of all the heart of Christ.” —Jeremiah F., reader Billy and Bonnie won the battle but how will they win the war? Billy and Bonnie’s hard-won victory in Circles of Seven came at a great cost as a vicious evil was unleashed on the earth. With Billy’s father missing, Billy and Bonnie must lead the dragons into war against the demonic beings known as Watchers. But in order to win the war, an ultimate sacrifice must be made, and Billy and Bonnie will be forced to make the greatest decision of their lives—a choice that will change their world forever. The fourth and final installment in the Dragons in our Midst series will leave you cheering, crying, and wishing for more adventures with these two friends.

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Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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1496451775

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9781496451774

Tales from Townsville

By: Candace Bryan

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Tales from Townsville

By: Candace Bryan

A collection of three Powerpuff Girls stories in which Blossom tries to resist the hypnotizing power of high fashion, Bubbles cares for a peculiar pet while also trying to save the day, and Buttercup tries to knock out evil for good with her ultra-rad science fair project.

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0451533003

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Dragons in Our Midst 4-Pack: Raising Dragons / The Candlestone / Circles of Seven / Tears of a Dragon

By: Bryan Davis

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Dragons in Our Midst 4-Pack: Raising Dragons / The Candlestone / Circles of Seven / Tears of a Dragon

By: Bryan Davis

The Dragons in Our Midst series is a modern-day Arthurian adventure following a boy with fire breath and a girl with dragon wings as they battle against a thousand-year-old dragon slayer. Readers will be drawn to the hair-raising adventure with relevant themes like trusting friends, compassion, forgiveness, loyalty to family, faith, and light triumphing over darkness. This complete set includes the four books in the Dragons in Our Midst series: Raising Dragons: Outcasts Billy and Bonnie must come together to preserve a thousand-year-old secret legacy. Thrust into an evil war they didn’t even know existed; the teens’ newly formed friendship will be tested as they battle a blood thirsty dragon slayer who wields a powerful, medieval weapon. This unlikely pair will try to save their dragon heritage before it’s destroyed forever. The Candlestone: Billy and Bonnie learn to use their unique strengths as they battle powerful enemies wielding the candlestone, an ancient gemstone weapon used against dragons. Circles of Seven: Billy and Bonnie discover seven evil circles in a multidimensional world. Tears of a Dragon: Billy and Bonnie will be forced to make the greatest decision of their lives—a choice that will change their world forever. Dive into a world filled with knights, dragons, fair maidens in a war against good and evil.

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Tyndale House Publishers

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1496473213

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9781496473219

Reconceiving Decision-Making in Democratic Politics

Attention, Choice, and Public Policy

By: Bryan D. Jones

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Reconceiving Decision-Making in Democratic Politics

Attention, Choice, and Public Policy

By: Bryan D. Jones

Why are there often sudden abrupt changes in public opinion on political issues? Or total reversals in congressional support for specific legislation? Jones aims to answer these questions by connecting insights from cognitive science and rational-choice theory to political life.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226406504

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9780226406503

Toronto's Poor

A Rebellious History

By: Bryan D. Palmer,Gaétan Héroux

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Toronto's Poor

A Rebellious History

By: Bryan D. Palmer,Gaétan Héroux

Toronto’s Poor reveals the long and too often forgotten history of poor people’s resistance. It details how people without housing, people living in poverty, and unemployed people have struggled to survive and secure food and shelter in the wake of the many panics, downturns, recessions, and depressions that punctuate the years from the 1830s to the present. Written by a historian of the working class and a poor people’s activist, this is a rebellious book that links past and present in an almost two-hundred year story of struggle and resistance. It is about men, women, and children relegated to lives of desperation by an uncaring system, and how they have refused to be defeated. In that refusal, and in winning better conditions for themselves, Toronto’s poor create the possibility of a new kind of society, one ordered not by acquisition and individual advance, but by appreciations of collective rights and responsibilities.

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Between the Lines

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1771132825

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9781771132824

Love, Skip, Jump

Start Living the Adventure of Yes

By: Shelene Bryan

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Love, Skip, Jump

Start Living the Adventure of Yes

By: Shelene Bryan

Every significant event in the Bible happened because someone said yes to God. Start living the adventure of yes today! In this whimsical yet inspiring book, Shelene tells the stories of real-life paths God took her on to learn some simple truths that changed everything in her life—everything for the better. By loving how our Creator made us to love; skipping comfort and safety to help those who can never repay us; and taking a risk to jump into the epic journey God has for our lives, the reality is we are all just one yes away from changing everything. Don’t miss out on the incredible adventure God has for you. Say yes to God—love, skip, and jump your way to his plans for you!

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Thomas Nelson

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1400206170

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9781400206179

Nickels and Dimes

By: Bryan Anderson

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Nickels and Dimes

By: Bryan Anderson

These tales are true stories about American missionaries and British colonists, who were able to inspire the people in northeastern India with Anglo-American educational ideals and ideas. This is not a history in the true sense of the term but is as authentic as an historical account. This is not a collection of biographies but is as revealing. The author has kept the historical and biographical events in tact without in any way twisting the events or the characters of the historic personalities. This is not a fiction but the author has injected some fictional elements to give a better understanding of the time, the people, and the strength of the souls that he is trying to reveal.

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1587212552

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9781587212550

Successful Writing and Speaking: The Communication Collection (9 Books)

By: Harvard Business Review,Nancy Duarte,Bryan A. Garner,Holly Weeks,Jeff Weiss

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Successful Writing and Speaking: The Communication Collection (9 Books)

By: Harvard Business Review,Nancy Duarte,Bryan A. Garner,Holly Weeks,Jeff Weiss

This Harvard Business Review digital collection will give you the confidence and tools you need to write and speak successfully. It includes the HBR Guide to Persuasive Presentations, by presentation expert Nancy Duarte; the HBR Guide to Better Business Writing, by writing expert Bryan A. Garner; the HBR Guide to Negotiating, by negotiation expert Jeff Weiss; Failure to Communicate, by consultant and coach Holly Weeks; as well as HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Communication, Giving Effective Feedback, Running Meetings, How to Run a Meeting, and Managing Difficult Interactions.

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Harvard Business Review Press

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1633691950

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9781633691957

The Big Bang Theory Book of Lists

The Official Guide to Characters, Quotes, Timelines, and Memorable Moments

By: Bryan Young

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The Big Bang Theory Book of Lists

The Official Guide to Characters, Quotes, Timelines, and Memorable Moments

By: Bryan Young

Celebrate the nerdiest friend group with this ultimate fan guide packed with trivia, facts, and memories from all twelve seasons of The Big Bang Theory. With more than 100 inventive lists, charts, and timelines, The Big Bang Theory Book of Lists offers fans a creative way of looking at and celebrating the iconic and beloved early 2000s sitcom. Revisit some of your favorite moments, pairings, cameos, and geeky references (or test your super-fan knowledge) with these fun groupings exploring the variables of life in apartment 4A. Lists include: Timelines of all the characters, their romantic partnerships, vows, and weddings Analysis of Sheldon's Public Restroom Kit All of Penny’s Relationship Advice Pictorial Records for Sheldon, Leonard, Penny, Howard, Raj, Amy, and Bernadette Record of all of the guests (cameos) in the apartment Diagram of The Universe of All Women Everything that's in Bernadette's Grab Bag A break-down of all of Sheldon's geeky shirts and their references And more! Illustrated with full-color photographs and visuals from the show throughout, The Big Bang Theory Book of Lists is an officially licensed, must-have collector's item for the ultimate fan. THE BIG BANG THEORY and all related characters and elements © & ™ Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (s22)

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Running Press Adult

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0762481196

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9780762481194

Scrapped

By: Mollie Cox Bryan

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Scrapped

By: Mollie Cox Bryan

A scrapbooking club finds one of its new members under suspicion—but is it just a witch hunt? “A great story, well told!” —Juliet Blackwell, New York Times–bestselling author of the Witchcraft mysteries The ladies of the Cumberland Scrapbook Crop are welcoming an eccentric newbie into their fold. A self-proclaimed witch, Cookie Crandall can whip up a sumptuous vegan meal and rhapsodize about runes and moon phases with equal aplomb. She becomes fast friends with her fellow scrapbookers, including freelance reporter Annie, with whom she shares shallow roots in a community of established family trees. So when Cookie becomes the prime suspect in a series of bizarre murders, the croppers get scrappy and set out to clear her name . . . Annie starts digging and discovers that the victims each had strange runic patterns carved on their bodies—a piece of evidence that points the police in Cookie’s direction. Even her friends begin to doubt her innocence when they find an ornate, spiritual scrapbook that an alleged beginner like Cookie could never have crafted. As Annie and the croppers search for answers, they’ll uncover a shockingly wicked side of their once quiet town—and a killer on the prowl for another victim . . . Praise for Scrapbook of Secrets “Crafty cozy . . . Introduces some dandy characters that will spin off well as the series unfolds.” —Library Journal “Intriguing characters, eerie happenings . . . Kept me guessing ’til the end.” —Clare O’Donohue “A font of ingenuity . . . Superb entertainment.” —Mystery Scene Includes tips and a glossary of terms for the modern scrapbooker!

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Kensington Books

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0758285965

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9780758285966

Current Therapy In Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

By: Shahrokh C. Bagheri,Bryan Bell,Husain Ali Khan

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Current Therapy In Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

By: Shahrokh C. Bagheri,Bryan Bell,Husain Ali Khan

Written by expert surgeons and educators, Current Therapy in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery covers the latest treatment strategies, surgical techniques, and potential complications in OMS. Emphasizing an evidence-based approach, it covers all 12 subspecialties of OMS, addressing topics from surgical principles to oral surgery, anesthesia, cranio-maxillofacial trauma surgery, head and neck surgery, maxillofacial reconstructive surgery, orthognathic surgery, pediatric craniofacial surgery including cleft lip and palate, temporomandibular joint disorders, facial plastic surgery including rhinoplasty and facelifts, obstructive sleep apnea, and oral and maxillofacial infections. At the end of each chapter, Pearls and Pitfalls summarize the authors' insight, recommendations, and experience on that topic. Editor Dr. Shahrokh Bagheri is a noted professor, researcher, and speaker on OMS, and he leads an expert author team including Dr. R. Bryan Bell and Dr. Husain Ali Khan to help you master and apply the latest advances in OMS. More than 1,200 full-color photos and 200 color line drawings illustrate concepts and provide visual guidance in clinical areas. Comprehensive sections and chapters represent essential topics, the newest advances, and controversial topics. Clinical coverage brings together the latest knowledge in OMS in a concise, easy-to-apply way. Resident-specific coverage describes the wide array of subspecialties and treatments available in the armamentarium of the modern OMS. A focus on complications ensures that you are knowledgeable in this important part of any therapy or surgical discipline. Expert contributors include the "best of the best," featuring leading, well-established, and respected surgeons and educators writing on their areas of specialty and providing current treatment strategies.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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1455727571

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9781455727575

Toasts and Tributes Revised and Expanded

A Gentleman's Guide to Personal Correspondence and the Noble Tradition of the Toast

By: John Bridges,Bryan Curtis

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Toasts and Tributes Revised and Expanded

A Gentleman's Guide to Personal Correspondence and the Noble Tradition of the Toast

By: John Bridges,Bryan Curtis

Toasts and Tributes helps men master these important skills with examples of more than 40 different toasts and 40 different notes. Includes examples of what to say and, perhaps more important, examples of what not to say. Perhaps he’s been asked to say a few words at his college roommate’s engagement party. Maybe he’s at a family cookout, toasting his sister’s recent law school graduation. Have his parents reached a milestone anniversary that deserves a son’s perspective? Is his professional mentor retiring after decades as a leader in his field? Throughout his adult life, a man encounters those occasions that depend on his ability to distill the emotions of the moment into a toast, a letter, or perhaps just a few words of gratitude. John Bridges and Bryan Curtis call on their trademark wit to illustrate the skill of meaningful expression and show how to avoid those clichés, awkward jokes, and rambling speeches that threaten to derail the mood of any occasion. Learn how to keep your “just a few words” as succinct as possible, which rare occasions are suitable for an e-mail, and the proper way to give a toast everyone will remember.

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Thomas Nelson

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1401604684

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9781401604684

The Wanderlust Heart

By: David Clarke Bryan

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The Wanderlust Heart

By: David Clarke Bryan

The Wanderlust Heart pretty much sums up the theme of this book of my poetry. From the themes of young love in Sweet Jenny to more mature love in A Classic Love, A Famous Woman, or the Arny poems. The hope in fatherhood as played out in One Hope; the horror of war as in A Mothers Tears, An Irish Mother, or What Justice Cannot . . .; or the theme of hell in A Pale Horse, Seek Not Hell, or Our Perished Sons. The seasons are represented. There are a number of other poems that keep to the basic wanderlust theme. My basic philosophy: What is, is. What isnt, isnt. The rest, tis and tisnt.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1503538745

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Law of Torts

By: Bryan M E McMahon,William Binchy

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Law of Torts

By: Bryan M E McMahon,William Binchy

This is the eagerly awaited new edition of Law of Torts, the complete Irish tort law reference book. For this, the contents have been extensively revised since the last edition was published in 2000. Key developments are detailed and relevant recent case law is examined. This book is essential for both legal practitioners and people studying Irish law. Recent important legislation examined in the book includes: Criminal Law (Defence and the Dwelling) Act 2011, Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2011, Defamation Act 2009, Consumer Protection Act 2007, Civil Liability and Courts Act 2004 and Personal Injuries Assessment Board Act 2003. Key developments and case law are examined in areas such as pure economic loss, limitations and purchase of financial products, vicarious liability for sexual assaults, damages, privacy, defamation, psychiatric injury, liability of public authorities, employers' liability, professional negligence, defective buildings and products and occupiers' liability. First published in 1980, Law of Torts has long been a cornerstone work in Irish law, indeed in the foreword to the first edition Judge Brian Walshe noted that the book represented a challenge to the 'unquestioned assumption that English text-books would satisfy all needs.' This new addition will only add to the book's long-established merit and value.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1780438842

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9781780438849

Arkwright Integral

The Adventures of Luther Arkwright, Heart of Empire: the Legacy of Luther Arkwright

By: Bryan Talbot

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Arkwright Integral

The Adventures of Luther Arkwright, Heart of Empire: the Legacy of Luther Arkwright

By: Bryan Talbot

An adult science-fiction epic of boundless imagination and audacious vision, The Adventures of Luther Arkwright and Heart of Empire are brought together for the first time in one essential hardcover volume, including bonus material and an afterword by Warren Ellis.

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Dark Horse Books

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1616553871

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9781616553876

Introduction to Nuclear Science

By: Jeff C. Bryan

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Introduction to Nuclear Science

By: Jeff C. Bryan

Written to provide students who have limited backgrounds in the physical sciences and math with an accessible textbook on nuclear science, this edition continues to provide a clear and complete introduction to nuclear chemistry and physics, from basic concepts to nuclear power and medical applications. Incorporating suggestions from adopting profes

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CRC Press

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1351655981

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9781351655989

Working with Children of Alcoholics

The Practitioner′s Handbook

By: Bryan E. Robinson,J. Lyn Rhoden

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Working with Children of Alcoholics

The Practitioner′s Handbook

By: Bryan E. Robinson,J. Lyn Rhoden

Working with Children of Alcoholics was originally published when the plight of children of alcoholics was just beginning to gain widespread public attention. It was the first book to provide professionals with a direct, step-by-step approach that shows them not only what to look for when working with children but what they can do to help them. Some of the critical topics covered include identifying children of alcoholics, establishing effective childrenÆs programs, treatment strategies for children of alcoholics, life and survival in an alcoholic home, the intergenerational transmission of alcoholism, the psychological adjustment of children of alcoholics, health and safety hazards, and academic and behavioral concerns. Working with Children of Alcoholics includes extensive resources such as names of helpful organizations, periodicals, therapeutic games, and curriculum materials. The book will be of interest to social workers, public health workers, psychologists, school administrators, drug and alcohol counselors, pastoral counselors, teachers, and treatment centers. It makes an excellent supplemental text for graduate and undergraduate courses in family and community, adjustment problems of children and youth, substance abuse, human services and community problems.

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SAGE Publications

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1452264945

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9781452264943

Classics Illustrated

A Cultural History, 3d ed.

By: William Bryan Jones, Jr.

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Classics Illustrated

A Cultural History, 3d ed.

By: William Bryan Jones, Jr.

In its expanded third edition, this definitive work on Classics Illustrated explores the enduring series of comic-book adaptations of literary masterpieces in even greater depth, with twice the number of color plates as in the second edition. Drawing on interviews, correspondence, fanzines, and archival research, the book covers in full detail the work of the artists, editors, scriptwriters, and publishers who contributed to the success of the "World's Finest Juvenile Publication." Many previously unpublished reproductions of original art are included, along with new chapters covering editor Meyer Kaplan, art director L.B. Cole, and artist John Parker; additional information on contributions from Black artists and scriptwriters such as Matt Baker, Ezra Jackson, George D. Lipscomb, and Lorenz Graham; and a complete issue-by-issue listing of significant international series.

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McFarland

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1476651019

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9781476651019

The Kingdom of Infinite Number

A Field Guide

By: Bryan Bunch,Bryan H. Bunch

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The Kingdom of Infinite Number

A Field Guide

By: Bryan Bunch,Bryan H. Bunch

A guide to numbers, suggesting ways of looking at individual numbers and their unique properties.

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Macmillan

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0716744473

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9780716744474

Raising Dragons

By: Bryan Davis

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Raising Dragons

By: Bryan Davis

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Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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1496451597

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9781496451590

Garner's Modern American Usage

By: Bryan A. Garner

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Garner's Modern American Usage

By: Bryan A. Garner

Painstakingly researched with copious citations from books, newspapers, and news magazines, this new edition has become the classic reference work praised by professional copy editors.

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Oxford University

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0195161912

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Barbarians at the Gate

The Fall of RJR Nabisco

By: Bryan Burrough,John Helyar

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Barbarians at the Gate

The Fall of RJR Nabisco

By: Bryan Burrough,John Helyar

#1 New York Times bestseller and arguably the best business narrative ever written, Barbarians at the Gate is the classic account of the fall of RJR Nabisco at the hands of a buyout from investment firm KKR. A book that stormed both the bestseller list and the public imagination, a book that created a genre of its own, and a book that gets at the heart of Wall Street and the '80s culture it helped define, Barbarians at the Gate is a modern classic—a masterpiece of investigatory journalism and a rollicking book of corporate derring-do and financial swordsmanship. The fight to control RJR Nabisco during October and November of 1988 was more than just the largest takeover in Wall Street history. Marked by brazen displays of ego not seen in American business for decades, it became the high point of a new gilded age and its repercussions are still being felt. The tale remains the ultimate story of greed and glory—a story and a cast of characters that determined the course of global business and redefined how deals would be done and fortunes made in the decades to come. Barbarians at the Gate is the gripping account of these two frenzied months, of deal makers and publicity flaks, of an old-line industrial powerhouse (home of such familiar products a Oreos and Camels) that became the victim of the ruthless and rapacious style of finance in the 1980s. As reporters for The Wall Street Journal, Burrough and Helyar had extensive access to all the characters in this drama. They take the reader behind the scenes at strategy meetings and society dinners, into boardrooms and bedrooms, providing an unprecedentedly detailed look at how financial operations at the highest levels are conducted but also a richly textured social history of wealth at the twilight of the Reagan era. At the center of the huge power struggle is RJR Nabisco's president, the high-living Ross Johnson. It's his secret plan to buy out the company that sets the frenzy in motion, attracting the country's leading takeover players: Henry Kravis, the legendary leveraged-buyout king of investment firm KKR, whose entry into the fray sets off an acquisitive commotion; Peter Cohen, CEO of Shearson Lehman Hutton and Johnson's partner, who needs a victory to propel his company to an unchallenged leadership in the lucrative mergers and acquisitions field; the fiercely independent Ted Forstmann, motivated as much by honor as by his rage at the corruption he sees taking over the business he cherishes; Jim Maher and his ragtag team, struggling to regain credibility for the decimated ranks at First Boston; and an army of desperate bankers, lawyers, and accountants, all drawn inexorably to the greatest prize of their careers—and one of the greatest prizes in the history of American business. Written with the bravado of a novel and researched with the diligence of a sweeping cultural history, Barbarians at the Gate is present at the front line of every battle of the campaign. Here is the unforgettable story of that takeover in all its brutality. In a new afterword specially commissioned for the story's 20th anniversary, Burrough and Helyar return to visit the heroes and villains of this epic story, tracing the fallout of the deal, charting the subsequent success and failure of those involved, and addressing the incredible impact this story—and the book itself—made on the world.

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Harper Collins

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0061804037

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