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Jim Bridger

By: J. Cecil Alter

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On March 20, 1822, the Missouri Republican published a notice addressed “to enterprising young men” in the St. Louis area. “The subscriber,” it said “wishes to engage one hundred young men to ascend the Missouri River to its source, there to be employed for one, two, or three years. For particulars enquire of Major Andrew Henry… or of the subscriber near St. Louise.” The “subscriber” was General William H. Ashley, and among the “enterprising young men” who embarked with Major Henry less than a month later was eighteen-year-old James Bridger, former blacksmith’s apprentice. So began the Ashley-Henry fur empire and the long, colorful career of Jim Bridger. In the years that followed, Jim Bridger became a master mountain man, an expert trapper, and a guide without equal. He came to know the Rocky Mountain region and its inhabitants as a farmer knows his fields and flocks. Indeed, J. Cecil Alter tells us, “he was among the first white men to use the Indian trail over South Pass; he was first to taste the waters of the Great Salt lake, first to report a two-ocean stream, foremost in describing the Yellowstone Park phenomena, and the only man to run the Big Horn River rapid on a raft; and he originally selected the Crow Creek-Sherman-Dale Creek route the Laramie Mountains and Bridger’s Pass over the Continental Divide, which were adopted by the Union pacific Railroad.” Such knowledge, together with extraordinary skill and uncanny luck, preserved Jim Bridger in a country where nearly half of his mountain companions met violent death. It also gave rise to a brood of impossible tales about Old Gabe and his adventures-tales which he himself may unwittingly have helped along with his droll humor. Based on Mr. Alter’s original biography of 1925 (a facsimile edition of which, with addenda, appeared in 1950) and a wealth of new facts gleaned from many years of careful research, Jim Bridger is the authentic story of the Old Scout’s life. Only those events in which Bridger took part are included; improbable and uncorroborated stories, however interesting, have been omitted.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806186410

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9780806186412

To Find My Soul

By: Cecil Cost

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To Find My Soul

By: Cecil Cost

To Find My Soul is a family saga following Walter Knight and his family from his childhood during the depression through his old age as head of a wealthy Chicago family. Ever increasing prosperity increased Walter's dependence on wealth and decreased his dependence on God for security. His restless anxiety and stress frove him to go back to the rural community of his youth to search for the peace and joy he once knew there.

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214

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iUniverse

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0595131980

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9780595131983

Violence and Social Orders

A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History

By: Douglass Cecil North,John Joseph Wallis,Barry R. Weingast

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Violence and Social Orders

A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History

By: Douglass Cecil North,John Joseph Wallis,Barry R. Weingast

This book integrates the problem of violence into a larger framework, showing how economic and political behavior are closely linked.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521761735

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9780521761734

Brief Tales From The Bench

By: Henry Cecil

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Brief Tales From The Bench

By: Henry Cecil

What does it feel like to be a Judge? Read these stories and you can almost feel you are looking at proceedings from the lofty position of the Bench. With a collection of eccentric and amusing characters, Henry Cecil brings to life trials in a County Court and exposes the complex and contradictory workings of the English legal system.

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135

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House of Stratus

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0755129326

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9780755129324

Intelligibility in World Englishes

Theory and Application

By: Cecil L. Nelson

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Intelligibility in World Englishes

Theory and Application

By: Cecil L. Nelson

This comprehensive treatment of intelligibility in world Englishes provides an overview of the definitions and scopes of intelligibility, comprehensibility and interpretability, and addresses key topics within this paradigm.

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153

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Routledge

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1136837280

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9781136837289

World Englishes in Asian Contexts

By: Yamuna Kachru,Cecil L. Nelson

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World Englishes in Asian Contexts

By: Yamuna Kachru,Cecil L. Nelson

This is the first English-language book to focus on the electric rice cooker and the impact it has had on the lives of Asian people. This account of the rice cooker's globalization aims to move away from Japan-centric perspectives on how "Made in Japan" products made it big in the global marketplace, instead choosing to emphasize the collaborative approach adopted by one Japanese manufacturing giant and a Hong Kong entrepreneur. The book also highlights the role Hong Kong, as a free port, played in the rice cooker's globalization and describes how the city facilitated the transnational flow of Japanese appliances to Southeast Asia, China, and North America. Based on over 40 interviews conducted with key figures at both National/Panasonic and Shun Hing Group, it provides a fascinating insight into the process by which the National rice cooker was first localized and then globalized. Interspersed throughout are personal accounts by individuals in Japan and Hong Kong for whom owning a rice cooker meant far more than just a convenient way of cooking rice. The book includes over 60 images, among them advertisements dating back to the 1950s that illustrate how Japanese appliances contributed to the advent of a modern lifestyle in Hong Kong. This account of the rice cooker's odyssey from Japan to Hong Kong and beyond is intended for a general audience as well as for readers with an interest in the empirical study of globalization, intercultural communication, Hong Kong social history, and Japanese business in Asia.

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Hong Kong University Press

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9622097553

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9789622097551

Response - a Course in Narrative Comprehension and Composition for Caribbean Secondary Schools

By: Cecil Gray

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Response - a Course in Narrative Comprehension and Composition for Caribbean Secondary Schools

By: Cecil Gray

Response has been a very firm favourite amongst Caribbean teachers for many years. This revised edition contains many new stories, including some by relatively new West Indian writers.

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Nelson Thornes

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017566353X

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9780175663538

Different Strokes

Serena, Venus, and the Unfinished Black Tennis Revolution

By: Cecil Harris

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Different Strokes

Serena, Venus, and the Unfinished Black Tennis Revolution

By: Cecil Harris

The days of tennis as a country club sport for the aristocracy have long passed, as have the pre-Open era days when Black players faced long odds just to be invited to the four Grand Slam events. An entire generation of sports fans has grown up seeing Venus and Serena Williams as the gold standard in American professional tennis. Although the Williams sisters have done more than any other players to make tennis accessible to a diverse population, it's not as if the tennis revolution is over. When you watch tennis next, take a close look at the umpire, the person sitting in the high chair of authority at courtside. Look at the tournament referee and the tournament director, the officials who run the tournament. In those seats of power and influence, Blacks are still woefully underrepresented. Different Strokes chronicles the rise of the Williams sisters, as well as other champions of color, closely examining how Black Americans are collectively faring in tennis, on the court and off. Despite the success of the Williams sisters and the election of former pro player Katrina Adams as the U.S. Tennis Association's first Black president, top Black players still receive racist messages via social media and sometimes in public. The reality is that while significant progress has been made in the sport, much work remains before anything resembling equality is achieved. Watch a book trailer.

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318

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U of Nebraska Press

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1496221478

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9781496221476

Facing Armageddon

The First World War Experience

By: Hugh Cecil,Peter Liddle

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Facing Armageddon

The First World War Experience

By: Hugh Cecil,Peter Liddle

Facing Armageddon is the first scholarly work on the 1914-18 War to explore, on a world-wide basis, the real nature of the participants experience. Sixty-four scholars from all over the globe deliver the fruits of recent research in what civilians and servicemen passed through, in the air, on the sea and on land.

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974

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Pen and Sword

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1473813972

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9781473813977

Registers of Broad Chalke, Co. Wilts, from 1538 to 1780

By: Cecil Gurden Moore

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Registers of Broad Chalke, Co. Wilts, from 1538 to 1780

By: Cecil Gurden Moore

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385451272

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9783385451278

Independent Witness

By: Henry Cecil

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Independent Witness

By: Henry Cecil

Mr Justice Grampion hates dangerous drivers and hands down very severe sentences. Michael Barnes, MP, is devastated to hear that Grampion will be his judge. To make matters worse, against him are a host of witnesses whose testimonies are hilarious and often contradictory.

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205

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House of Stratus

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1842320564

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9781842320563

Much In Evidence

By: Henry Cecil

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Much In Evidence

By: Henry Cecil

William Richmond is bald and lame. His home is broken into and he is beaten up. His insurance company pays up - but they are highly suspicious. It would appear that a series of bald and lame men have been making dubious insurance claims. In this hilarious trial novel we see how amazing coincidences can really happen.

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House of Stratus

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0755129415

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9780755129416

Sober As a Judge

By: Henry Cecil

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Sober As a Judge

By: Henry Cecil

Roger Thursby, the hero of 'Brothers in Law' and 'Friends at Court', continues his career as a High Court judge. He presides over a series of unusual cases, including a professional debtor and an action about a consignment of oranges which turned to juice before delivery. There is a delightful succession of eccentric witnesses as the reader views proceedings from the bench.

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House of Stratus

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1842320645

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Life and Adventures of Lewis Wetzel

By: Cecil B. Hartley

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Life and Adventures of Lewis Wetzel

By: Cecil B. Hartley

The Death Wind." This was the name Indians applied to Lewis Wetzel for whenever he made a kill, he would throw his head back and let go with an un-godly scream that would echo through the hills of the Ohio frontier. The Indians upon hearing this sound knew that one of their own had just been met his end. Lewis Wetzel, undoubtedly the best woodsman / warrior that ever lived, as responsible for the death of over 100 Indians. It mattered not to him that they were Chiefs, Warriors, women or children. He could care less if they were peaceful, allies or enemies. Only that they were Indians. Wetzel did everything in his power to prevent any peaceful settlement between Whites and Indians from taking place. He did not want peace until the last Indian was dead. History has portrayed Wetzel as both a hero and a villain. This book also contains biographical sketches of other famous frontier names such as Simon Kenton, Benjamin Logan, Samuel Brady and many others.

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Badgley Publishing Company

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1449507476

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9781449507473

Watercolours

By: Cecil Leslie

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Watercolours

By: Cecil Leslie

A vibrant city of many colours still has many shadows. A young black professional, André Reed, has a series of chance encounters with the ethereally beautiful Catherine Lee. André reaches out of his hard-driving, workaholic lifestyle to a woman radically different from himself yet somehow similar and just as strong. Catherine, André learns, is food for his soul - she nurtures him, laughs with him, completes him. But even in a city filled with many different kinds of people, the same old notions about race prevail. Entwined in a knot of bigotry, Andre and Catherine must struggle for their sanity, and for each other. While André wrestles with a haunting and secret past, Catherine navigates the conflict between new-world love and old-world Chinese tradition. When a violent crime committed by an Asian triad occurs, members in Catherine ́s neighbourhood - and the entire city - cry out for justice. And Catherine might just lose André - and her family - for good.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1469106957

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9781469106953

The Life and Loves of Mr. Jiveass Nigger

By: Cecil Brown

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The Life and Loves of Mr. Jiveass Nigger

By: Cecil Brown

“If you're black you don't need to get at anything. You're already there. You can live right out of your insides.” So says the antihero of this legendary novel that reimagines the Bible’s prodigal son as a young black man in post-Civil Rights-era America. George Washington—one of his many aliases—is a classic trickster figure, a blend of con artist, deep thinker, and willing object of white women’s sexual fantasies. Fed up with life in racist America, he leaves his rural South for Denmark on a curious quest, determined to discover if there is “any mother fucker in this despiteful world who ever told himself the truth.” In Denmark he spends his days bantering with fellow black expatriates and his nights bedding a series of white women who project their desires on him. Inevitably, these worlds collide, with Washington, aka Anthony Miller, aka Paul Winthrop, aka Mr. Jiveass Nigger, increasingly alienated in a world of opportunists. A return to America after his self-imposed exile promises transformation, but is Washington too far gone? Cecil Brown brings blistering prose, unabashed eroticism, and biting satire to this controversial masterpiece that’s as timely today as when it was first published.

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244

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Frog Books

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1583942106

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9781583942109

The Evolution of the Bourbon Whiskey Industry in Kentucky

By: Sam K. Cecil

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The Evolution of the Bourbon Whiskey Industry in Kentucky

By: Sam K. Cecil

Think of Kentucky and there are several images which readily come to mind...Wildcat Basketball, blissful fields of bluegrass, crowds cheering thoroughbred horses at Churchill Downs, and yes, Bourbon. There is a sobering reality in that bourbon has made the greatest impact among those industries which best symbolize Kentucky. But why exactly is Kentucky bourbon so distinguished from the likes of Tennessee or Canadian Whiskey? Is it the limestone-filtered water or the climate in which the corn and grains are grown? Can it be attributed to some sort of secret family recipe? Essentially, it is all these things combined with a certain work ethic and pride in performance which exists within most Kentuckians. It's like something an old timer once said about people from this state...he said, "We always aim to please." This most interesting material on the makers and the methods of an international institution has something for everyone. No matter if your preferences are with Maker's Mark or Wild Turkey...Jim Beam, Evan Williams or some other of the countless varieties made for sipping, dipping, cooking or curing, this book contains the most comprehensive listing of those companies known as world leaders in the bourbon industry.

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Turner Publishing Company

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1563114860

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9781563114861

Unlawful Occasions

By: Henry Cecil

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Unlawful Occasions

By: Henry Cecil

Mrs Vernay lives in a flat above the Chambers of Brian Culsworth Q.C. Mrs Vernay receives a visit from a suspected blackmailer. She seeks advice from Mr Culsworth. A client of his is bringing an action to recover his share of a betting win. The story of these people becomes inextricably linked in a brilliant novel of suspense and humour.

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House of Stratus

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0755129512

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9780755129515

The U.S.-Japan Science and Technology Agreement: A Drama in Five Acts

A Drama in Five Acts

By: Cecil H. Uyehara

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The U.S.-Japan Science and Technology Agreement: A Drama in Five Acts

A Drama in Five Acts

By: Cecil H. Uyehara

This title was first published in 2000. An account of the 1988 US-Japan Science and Technology Agreement (88STA). The research methodology of the study is based on interviews and analysis of the relevant documents and articles augmented by an analysis of selected studies on US-Japan and science and technology relations. The author hopes to: increase the reader's understanding of the bureaucratic process and negotiations within the US and Japanese government in drafting an agreement and the interaction of the negotiators in the outcome; increase our knowledge about how the US-Japanese relationship in science and technology in the public sector is managed; throw some light on how domestic factors impact on preparing for a negotiating a new agreement between the US and Japan on science and technology; develop insights into the negotiating styles of each country; assess its role as a model agreement for negotiating similar agreements with other countries; learn some lessons for future negotiations with Japan in the science and technology area and with other countries if this Agreement is to be used as a model.

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Routledge

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1351743414

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9781351743419

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