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Wildcatters

The True Story of How Conspiracy, Greed, and the IRS Almost Destroyed a Legendary Texas Oil Family

By: Charles Moncrief

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Wildcatters

The True Story of How Conspiracy, Greed, and the IRS Almost Destroyed a Legendary Texas Oil Family

By: Charles Moncrief

This true story of greed, corruption, and scandal follows one of the most famous oil families in Texas. Moncrief reveals how petty office politics in his family's business led to a frame-up, explores the effects from the subsequent IRS raid, and details the years-long trial that ended with the Moncrief family absolved of all charges.

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233

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Simon and Schuster

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1621570959

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9781621570950

Joyce Cary

The Comedy of Freedom

By: Charles G. Hoffmann

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Joyce Cary

The Comedy of Freedom

By: Charles G. Hoffmann

Joyce Cary (1888-1957) read law at Oxford University, worked with the Red Cross the Balkan Wars, and served in Nigeria and Cameroon during World War I. In 1920, Cary moved to Oxford, where he began writing short stories and novels. His first four novels, set in Africa, drew heavily from his experiences in Nigeria. Mister Johnson, published in 1939, is generally regarded as his greatest novel. Charley Is My Darling (1940), about displaced young people at the start of World War II, found a wide readership, and A House of Children (1941) won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for best novel. Cary also wrote a trilogy about an artist named Gulley Jimson; Herself Surprised (1941), To Be a Pilgrim (1942) and The Horse's Mouth (1944), and, in the 1950s, a second trilogy: Prisoner of Grace, Except the Lord, and Not Honour More.

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221

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University of Pittsburgh Pre

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0822974037

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9780822974031

The Metric System

By: Charles Davies

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The Metric System

By: Charles Davies

Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.

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386

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3368145525

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9783368145521

Proposition 13 – America’s Second Great Tax Revolt

A Forty Year Struggle for Library Survival

By: Charles I. Guarria

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Proposition 13 – America’s Second Great Tax Revolt

A Forty Year Struggle for Library Survival

By: Charles I. Guarria

California’s controversial property tax law, Proposition 13, is considered one of the most significant tax revolts in American history. Libraries, facing decreased funding, were pushed to reset priorities, rethink operations, and learn a new activism. Their struggle left many lessons from which the library community can learn.

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127

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Emerald Group Publishing

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1787690172

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9781787690172

Don't Start Me Talking

Subculture, Situationism and the Sixties

By: Charles Radcliffe

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Don't Start Me Talking

Subculture, Situationism and the Sixties

By: Charles Radcliffe

In his seminal socio history of Punk, “England’s Dreaming”, Jon Savage makes the bald assertion that “Charles Radcliffe laid the foundation for the next twenty years of sub-cultural theory”, referring in particular to his 1966 piece “the Seeds of Social Destruction’ that appeared in the first of two issues of Radcliffe’s co authored, insurrectionary street-zine, ‘Heatwave’ . Teddy Boys, Ton Up Kids, Mods and Rockers, Beats, Ban the Bombers,The Ravers ( jazz heads) : Radcliffe argued that the bank holiday bust ups, the demos, the riots, the sex drugs n rock n’ roll, these were all part of a “youth revolt... (that ) has left a permanent mark on this society, has challenged assumptions and status, and been prepared to vomit its’ disgust in the streets. The youth revolt has not always been comfortable, valid, to the point or helpful. It has however made its first stumbling political gestures with an immediacy that revolutionaries should not deny, but envy.” Radcliffe joined the International Situationists within the year, alongside (English founder ) Chris Gray, but by the time 1968 had ended, and youthful revolt had fed into wide pockets of political turmoil globally, Radcliffe had started to drift towards other poles of late 60s’s counterculture. He ended the 60’s in long hair and loon pants, banged up in a Belgian prison on hash smuggling charges. This epic ( 900 + pages) book follows Radcliffes’ trials and tribulations from public school beginnings, into the 60’s underground and the Mr Nice style large scale hash smuggling years (his friend, Howard Marks, pops up throughout) , on to prison, divorce, remarriage and beyond. It offers up important first hand perspectives on 60’s / 70’s counterculture, and an intimate portrait of a man who seemed to face the slings and arrows that fortune threw at him with a never ending supply of equanimity. And high grade hash.

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570

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Bread and Circuses Publishing

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1495639460

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9781495639463

Vencedor

The Story of a Great Yacht and an Unsung Herreshoff Hero in the Golden Age of Yachting

By: Charles Axel Poekel Jr.

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Vencedor

The Story of a Great Yacht and an Unsung Herreshoff Hero in the Golden Age of Yachting

By: Charles Axel Poekel Jr.

Impeccably researched and colorfully told, Vencedor is a fascinating account of not just a racing sailboat storied for its exploits and victories, but of the man who built it: Danish American naval engineer Thorvald Julius Schougaard Poekel. Vencedor would distinguish itself in a series of highly competitive races between the United States and Canada on what has been called “the great unsalted sea”—the Great Lakes—that led to the creation of Canada’s Cup, one of the most prestigious yachting events in the world. Vencedor, a 65-foot sloop, was built by the Racine Boat Manufacturing Company, which had hired Poekel away from the renowned Herreshoff Boatyard in Bristol, Rhode Island, where he had been the chief draftsman, working alongside Nathanael Greene Herreshoff and his brother. Under this magnetic and revealing account of a bygone era and heated competition lies a mystery. During Poekel’s nine-year tenure with the Herreshoffs, the company made some of the fastest and most famous yachts in the world. Although “Capt. Nat” signed almost every construction plan alone, the name “T. Sch. Poekel” appears on several. In Vencedor, Thorvald Poekel’s great-grandson, gives credence to the theory that his ancestor really was an unsung Herreshoff hero.

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288

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1493075381

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9781493075386

Introduction To Algorithms

By: Thomas H Cormen,Charles E Leiserson,Ronald L Rivest,Clifford Stein

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Introduction To Algorithms

By: Thomas H Cormen,Charles E Leiserson,Ronald L Rivest,Clifford Stein

An extensively revised edition of a mathematically rigorous yet accessible introduction to algorithms.

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1216

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MIT Press

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0262032937

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9780262032933

Dad's Best Memories and Recollections

By: Charles J. Humber

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Dad's Best Memories and Recollections

By: Charles J. Humber

DAD'S BEST MEMORIES AND RECOLLECTIONS is Chazzz Humber's epithaph casting a very long and sentimental shadow across North America and beyond. This 230-page volume is his granite monument, well-polished! It lavishly records 125 of his best memories over a life-span of nearly eighty years. The vignettes are serenaded with more than 400 illustrations. Those discovering this volume likely will find themselves wanting to record, in their own sunset years, their personal memories and recollections. And when they do, they are apt to recall what it was like to live in their fluctuating world dominated by a variety of personalities and cascading events. Mr. Humber vividly describes what it was like, in 1945, to travel in a 1930 Model A Ford from Toronto to Boston. With lively enthusiasm, he reports what it was like to live in post-World War II Boston, to cook a lobster for a former President of the United States or to sell a pair of elevator shoes to one of Hollywood's shortest celebrities or to shine the shoes of a Derby-hatted father of a future President of the United States. It is not a remarkable achievement to reflect, to recall or to have memories that are treasured. But to tell them with literary aplomb, to recall the events that happened nearly seventy-five years ago with utmost clarity is definitely an admirable achievement and should be cherished not only by the kin who follow Mr. Humber but by those who might like to imitate what he has monumentally achieved in Dad's Best Memories and Recollections.

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230

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FriesenPress

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1460283376

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9781460283370

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Wildcatters

Wildcatters

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Joyce Cary

The Metric System

The Metric System

Proposition 13 – America’s Second Great Tax Revolt

Proposition 13 – America’s Second Great Tax Revolt

Don't Start Me Talking

Don't Start Me Talking

Vencedor

Vencedor

Introduction To Algorithms

Introduction To Algorithms

Dad's Best Memories and Recollections

Dad's Best Memories and Recollections

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