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Finish Your First Novel

A No-Bull Guide to Actually Completing Your First Draft

By: Char Anna

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Finish Your First Novel

A No-Bull Guide to Actually Completing Your First Draft

By: Char Anna

Jumpstart Your Creative FLOW, Banish Writer’s Block and (Finally) Write Your Dream Novel Whether a story has just popped into your brain or you’ve been dreaming about it for years, it’s easier than ever to power through your first manuscript with this must-have guide from writing coach Char Anna. Char ditches the fluff and shares tried-and-true methods that will arm you with all the knowledge you need to jump feet first into putting your story to paper. Through her engaging techniques and strategies, you’ll learn how to outline like a pro; craft interesting, complex characters that your readers will root for (or against!); avoid plot holes, pacing issues and other common pitfalls that can trip up new writers; write effective dialogue and so much more! No matter if you’re writing a contemporary thriller, a historical romance or an epic fantasy, Char’s instruction and hands-on exercises will take you from a novel newbie to a seasoned fiction writer in no time at all.

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Page Street Publishing

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1645677966

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9781645677963

San Antonio

A Tricentennial History

By: Char Miller

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San Antonio

A Tricentennial History

By: Char Miller

This is the first general history of San Antonio, Texas, the seventh largest city in the nation. Its past is complex and ranges across 300 years, from the community’s origins as a tiny Spanish frontier town to its contemporary status as a vital American mega-city. Site of some of the most violent struggles between warring empires and people—historians believe San Antonio may be the most fought-over city in U.S. history—it is perhaps most celebrated for the iconic 1836 Battle of the Alamo. The city is also home to four beautifully restored Spanish missions, which in 2015 UNESCO designated a World Heritage Site and have become integral to San Antonio’s robust tourist economy along with the fabled River Walk. This study weaves together a series of environmental, social, political, and cultural pressures that have shaped life in the Alamo City over the last three centuries. Residents have long fought to protect and utilize water and other resources even as they have struggled to achieve equal rights and build a more open and democratic society. Activists from all sectors of this multicultural city have believed deeply in its promise even though they have had to push hard to secure and expand its potential. Their efforts were every bit as intense in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as they have been in the twenty-first. Written for a general audience, but with a scholarly attention to detail and nuance, San Antonio: A Tricentennial History immerses readers in the city’s fascinating and fraught past.

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Texas A&M University Press

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1625110510

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Roxborough

By: Flo Tonelli,Char Nauman

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Roxborough

By: Flo Tonelli,Char Nauman

Paleo-Indians hunted Ice Age mammoths and ancestral bison in what is now Roxborough, Colorado. In 1820, Stephen A. Long's expedition traveled west across the plains into America's western frontier and camped along the South Platte River where water rushed into the Platte Valley from Rocky Mountain peaks. They discovered an area described by their geologist as "a range of naked and almost perpendicular rocks . . . resembling a vast wall, parallel to the base of the mountain . . . the whole scenery truly picturesque and romantic." During the next 200 years, Roxborough has been home to Native Americans, mountain men, homesteaders, farmers, miners, dam builders, ranchers, railroad men, cowboys, and rocket scientists. Families live in sight of hogback formations, soaring red rocks, foothills, and mountains. Thousands arrive each year to hike trails in Roxborough State Park, Waterton Canyon, Colorado Trail, and Highline Canal. Roxborough's history, geologic wonders, and wilderness is a story of those whose eyes reached toward the stars.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439656568

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Alexandria's Freedmen's Cemetery: A Legacy of Freedom

By: Char McCargo Bah, Edited by Mumini M. Bah

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Alexandria's Freedmen's Cemetery: A Legacy of Freedom

By: Char McCargo Bah, Edited by Mumini M. Bah

At the beginning of the Civil War, Federal troops secured Alexandria as Union territory. Former slaves, called contrabands, poured in to obtain protection from their former masters. Due to overcrowding, mortality rates were high. Authorities seized an undeveloped parcel of land on South Washington Street, and by March 1864, it had been opened as a cemetery for African Americans. Between 1864 and 1868, more than 1,700 contrabands and freedmen were buried there. For nearly eighty years, the cemetery lay undisturbed and was eventually forgotten. Rediscovered in 1996, it has now been preserved as a monument to the courage and sacrifice of those buried within. Author and researcher Char McCargo Bah recounts the stories of those men and women and the search for their descendants."-- back cover.

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176

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Arcadia Publishing

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1467140015

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9781467140010

On the Edge

Water, Immigration, and Politics in the Southwest

By: Char Miller

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On the Edge

Water, Immigration, and Politics in the Southwest

By: Char Miller

On the Edge grew out of a lifetime spent living and traveling across the American Southwest, from San Antonio to Los Angeles. Char Miller examines this borderland region through a native's eyes and contemplates its considerable conflicts. Internal to the various US states and Mexico's northern tier, there are struggles over water, debates over undocumented immigrants, the criminalizing of the border, and the region's evolution into a no-man's land. The book investigates how we live on this contested land --how we make our place in its oft-arid terrain; an ecosystem that burns easily and floods often and defies our efforts to nestle in its foothills, canyons, and washes. Exploring the challenges in the Southwest of learning how to live within this complex natural system while grasping its historical and environmental frameworks. Understanding these framing devices is critical to reaching the political accommodations necessary to build a more generous society, a more habitable landscape, and a more just community, whatever our documented status or species.

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Trinity University Press

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159534148X

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9781595341488

Yoga Vade Mecum

Health Outcomes of Yoga Intervention

By: Sudhanva Char

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Yoga Vade Mecum

Health Outcomes of Yoga Intervention

By: Sudhanva Char

Yoga is a stress management champ with ancient biotech techniques for slowing aging by kindling mental and physical fitness. Yoga has remedies for ailments and for providing the prophylactics. It promotes objectivity and happiness. YVM tables the evidence for these claims by way of clinical research highlights.

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Notion Press

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1638505888

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9781638505884

Natural Consequences: Intimate Essays for a Planet in Peril

By: Char Miller

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Natural Consequences: Intimate Essays for a Planet in Peril

By: Char Miller

Drought and fires, floods and rising tides: These and other climate-driven forces are compelling us to examine our role as inhabitants of our imperiled planet. In over forty vitally important essays and vignettes, Natural Consequences is Char Miller’s literary tour de force that illuminates the historical background of how we got here, what we need to do now, and how we can thrive into the future. Professor of Environmental Analysis and History, and author of books, articles, and essays, Char Miller’s narratives are not only expansive in scope, but also intimate and personal. Living in Southern California, he walks us through the environmental touchstones of his backyard, through his neighborhood, into the widely varied ecospheres of California, and then the world beyond. The essays encourage readers to look for themselves at the meaning behind environmental disasters and injustices, but also examine the tiniest details that can be encountered simply by taking a walk. As Char Miller wanders, we see the world anew through his eyes and words. And we are better for it.

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Chin Music Press

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163405038X

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9781634050388

On The Border

An Environmental History Of San Antonio

By: Char Miller

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On The Border

An Environmental History Of San Antonio

By: Char Miller

Over the past 300 years, settlement patterns, geography, and climate have greatly affected the ecology of the south Texas landscape. Drawing on a variety of interests and perspectives, the contributors to On the Border probe these evolving relationships in and around San Antonio, the country's ninth-largest city.Spanish, Mexican, and American settlers required open expanses of land for agriculture and ranching, displacing indigenous inhabitants. The high poverty traditionally felt by many residents, combined with San Antonio's environment, has contributed to the development of the city's unusually complex public health dilemmas. The national drive to preserve historic landmarks and landscapes has been complicated by the blight of homogenous urban sprawl. But no issue has been more contentious than that of water, particularly in a city entirely dependent on a single aquifer in a region of little rain. Managing these environmental concerns is the chief problem facing the city in the new century.

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University of Pittsburgh Pre

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0822970600

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9780822970606

Tatiana Proskouriakoff

Interpreting the Ancient Maya

By: Char Solomon

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Tatiana Proskouriakoff

Interpreting the Ancient Maya

By: Char Solomon

Presents a biography of the archeologist and artist, covering her archeological expeditions to study the Mayas.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806134453

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9780806134451

Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism

By: Char Miller

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Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism

By: Char Miller

Gifford Pinchot is known primarily for his work as first chief of the U. S. Forest Service and for his argument that resources should be used to provide the "greatest good for the greatest number of people." But Pinchot was a more complicated figure than has generally been recognized, and more than half a century after his death, he continues to provoke controversy. Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism, the first new biography in more than three decades, offers a fresh interpretation of the life and work of the famed conservationist and Progressive politician. In addition to considering Gifford Pinchot's role in the environmental movement, historian Char Miller sets forth an engaging description and analysis of the man -- his character, passions, and personality -- and the larger world through which he moved. Char Miller begins by describing Pinchot's early years and the often overlooked influence of his family and their aspirations for him. He examines Gifford Pinchot's post-graduate education in France and his ensuing efforts in promoting the profession of forestry in the United States and in establishing and running the Forest Service. While Pinchot's twelve years as chief forester (1898-1910) are the ones most historians and biographers focus on, Char Miller also offers an extensive examination of Pinchot's post-federal career as head of The National Conservation Association and as two-term governor of Pennsylvania. In addition, he looks at Pinchot's marriage to feminist Cornelia Bryce and discusses her role in Pinchot's political radicalization throughout the 1920s and 1930s. An epilogue explores Gifford Pinchot's final years and writings. Char Miller offers a provocative reconsideration of key events in Pinchot's life, including his relationship with friend and mentor John Muir and their famous disagreement over damming Hetch Hetchy Valley. The author brings together insights from cultural and social history and recently discovered primary sources to support a new interpretation of Pinchot -- whose activism not only helped define environmental politics in early twentieth century America but remains strikingly relevant today.

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Island Press

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1610910745

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9781610910743

Questions From Earth, Answers From Heaven

A Psychic Intuitive's Discussion of Life, Death, and What Awaits Us Beyond

By: Char Margolis,Victoria St. George

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Questions From Earth, Answers From Heaven

A Psychic Intuitive's Discussion of Life, Death, and What Awaits Us Beyond

By: Char Margolis,Victoria St. George

Psychic intuitive Char Margolis has amazed TV hosts from Larry King to Regis Philbin--and millions of viewers--with her uncanny ability to make contact with departed spirits. Now she shares her most exciting experiences in this astonishing book. But this is much more than a memoir-Char also tells you how to develop your own psychic abilities. Her inspiring advice can help you to contact a loved one's spirit, or enhance your innate ability to sense danger or protect others. She also provides easy instructions for making life-changing decisions-intuitively-about business, family, health, and love! Discover: * Why we don't have to fear death * Nineteen questions that test your intuitive abilities * Sure-fire ways to tell if a spirit is trying to contact you * Expert guidance on evaluating an intuitive or psychic message * Methods to help you communicate with loved ones, guardian angels, and spirit guides * The messages you can find in dreams and daydreams * Important facts about guarding against negative energies...and much more! LET CHAR SHOW YOU HOW TO FOLLOW YOUR INTUITION TO... ..."hone in" on missing or misplaced objects ...psychically contact people or "accidentally" run into them ...choose or change a career intuitively ...do an intuitive health check, including discerning specific conditions ...ease the pain of grief and losing a loved one ...expand your wisdom and happiness ...increase your ability to love ...prevent problems and attain goals in your life

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St. Martin's Press

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1429983906

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9781429983907

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Finish Your First Novel

Finish Your First Novel

San Antonio

San Antonio

Roxborough

Roxborough

Alexandria's Freedmen's Cemetery: A Legacy of Freedom

Alexandria's Freedmen's Cemetery: A Legacy of Freedom

On the Edge

On the Edge

Yoga Vade Mecum

Yoga Vade Mecum

Natural Consequences: Intimate Essays for a Planet in Peril

Natural Consequences: Intimate Essays for a Planet in Peril

On The Border

On The Border

Tatiana Proskouriakoff

Tatiana Proskouriakoff

Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism

Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism

Questions From Earth, Answers From Heaven

Questions From Earth, Answers From Heaven

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