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The Unthinkable Happened:

The Fall of the World Trade Center Towers

By: Charlie Thornton

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The Unthinkable Happened:

The Fall of the World Trade Center Towers

By: Charlie Thornton

As we approach the twenty-second anniversary of the catastrophic collapse of the World Trade Center, one of the world's signature symbols of capitalism, Dr. Charles H. Thornton, a preeminent structural engineer, has written a book applying his engineering design principles from the construction of two of the world's tallest buildings: the twin Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (built 1999), and Taipei 101 in Taiwan, ROC (built 2003). Dr. Thornton has the insight and design expertise to finally set the record straight on what really happened on September 11, 2001. In the early 1960s, as David Rockefeller's sixty-story Chase Manhattan Bank Headquarters near Wall Street was nearing completion, David, together with his brother Nelson and Austin Tobin, the chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, quietly, for the most part, launched a venture into real estate. None of them really had any experience or mandate to start or accomplish this by charter. Borrowing a page from The Power Broker, Robert Caro's biography about New York's Robert Moses, this cabal of capitalists conceived an ill-fated financial and real estate venture, the World Trade Center Corporation, which was responsible for an even more ill-fated design and construction process. The new established World Trade Center Corporation, led by two political and technical rogues, Guy Tozzoli and Malcolm Levy, violated all the rules set by national and local building codes, manipulated the adoption of a New York City building code three years before it was readily accepted by the New York City real estate and construction industry, and manipulated a malleable out-of-town architect and structural engineer, both of whom at the time of design in 1962 had never designed a building higher than twenty stories. Most consequentially, the corporation bypassed the checks and balances and processes of the New York City, New York State, and State of New Jersey building codes through the improper use of a compact from the 1789 US Constitution that a bistate agency was not required to comply with the code of either state. The die was cast and set for the worst terrorist attacks on two of the most vulnerable tall buildings ever designed and constructed. This was all accomplished without the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey ever knowing whether the buildings could survive a full floor fire. And as the record shows, they did not survive one.

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Lightning In a Bottle: A Book Series On the Most Important Rock Albums In Music History Album #16 Dire Straits Love Over Gold

By: Charlie Freak

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Lightning In a Bottle: A Book Series On the Most Important Rock Albums In Music History Album #16 Dire Straits Love Over Gold

By: Charlie Freak

The Dire Strait's album, Love Over Gold, saw songwriter, lead singer & guitarist Mark Knopfler take full control over not only his band but the finished product as well, as he added the title of Producer to his credits. The result? The #16 Most Important Album of all time! From beginning to end, Knopfler created another masterpiece, to follow up Dire Strait's previous gem, Making Movies. And while Knopfler continued his new style of massive soundscapes on "Gold", lyrically he directed his genius wit towards the controlling elements of society, scathing the status quo over five, unforgettable songs that represented perhaps the finest songwriting in the history of Rock music. Knopfler took the listener on a moving journey across society's landscape pointing out how the masses were being controlled & by whom. At times the album was intense & moving, suspenseful, painfully truthful, hysterically funny, caustic & severe & painstakingly tender & honest, it was unforgettable & taught us the value of Love Over Gold!

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1387491415

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Here's where

A Guide to Illustrious St. Louis

By: Charlie Brennan

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A Guide to Illustrious St. Louis

By: Charlie Brennan

A guidebook to sites related to famous people in St. Louis, with anecdotes, interesting facts, and cross-references. Each entry is keyed to one of ten maps of the St. Louis area"--Provided by publisher.

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Missouri History Museum

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188398257X

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The Historical Report of the Arkansas Secretary of State 2008

By: Charlie Daniels

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The Historical Report of the Arkansas Secretary of State 2008

By: Charlie Daniels

Arkansas Secretary of State Charlie Daniels is proud to present the 2008 edition of the Arkansas Historical Report. Published just once each decade by order of the General Assembly, this ready reference is a unique compendium of appointed and elected officials over the state's colonial and territorial periods as well as its 172-year history. Its comprehensive listings of county, state, and federal officials make it a must-have for historians, journalists, genealogists, and other researchers. The 2008 edition also features essays by C. Fred Williams, Jay Barth, David Ware, Ann Early, and George Sabo III that provide insight into the state's history, politics, and Native American cultures. This new edition of the Historical Report includes, for the first time, an alphabetical index of state legislators. It also features a variety of historical photographs and has been substantially redesigned to create a more user-friendly reference tool.

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0615232140

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The Humanist Movement in Modern Britain

A History of Ethicists, Rationalists and Humanists

By: Callum G. Brown,David Nash,Charlie Lynch

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The Humanist Movement in Modern Britain

A History of Ethicists, Rationalists and Humanists

By: Callum G. Brown,David Nash,Charlie Lynch

Humanists have been a major force in British life since the turn of the 20th century. Here, leading historians of religious non-belief Callum Brown, David Nash, and Charlie Lynch examine how humanist organisations brought ethical reform and rationalism to the nation as it faced the moral issues of the modern world. This book provides a long overdue account of this dynamic group. Developing through the Ethical Union (1896), the Rationalist Press Association (1899), the British Humanist Association (1963) and Humanists UK (2017), Humanists sought to reduce religious privilege but increase humanitarian compassion and human rights. After pioneering legislation on blasphemy laws, dignity in dying and abortion rights, they went on to help design new laws on gay marriage, and sex and moral education. Internationally, they endeavoured to end war and world hunger. And with Humanist marriages and celebration of life through Humanist funerals, national ritual and culture have recently been transformed. Based on extensive archival and oral-history research, this is the definitive history of Humanists as an ethical force in modern Britain.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350136638

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Cheatgrass

Fire and Forage on the Range

By: James A. Young,Charlie D. Clements

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Cheatgrass

Fire and Forage on the Range

By: James A. Young,Charlie D. Clements

Cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) is an exotic species that appeared in North America in the late nineteenth century and has since become a dominant plant in the arid and semiarid rangelands between the Sierra Nevadas, Cascades, and Rocky Mountains. It is the first grass to appear after the region's long, cold winters and thus has become an important forage plant for livestock and wildlife. Cheatgrass is also a major environmental hazard in the sagebrush plant communities where it has established itself, providing highly combustible fuel for the wildfires that have ravaged so much of the Great Basin since the mid-twentieth century. Cheatgrass is the first comprehensive study of this highly invasive plant that has changed the ecology of millions of acres of western rangeland. Authors Young and Clements have researched the biology and impact of cheatgrass for four decades. Their book addresses the subject from several perspectives: the history of the invasion; the origins and biology of cheatgrass; its genetic variations, breeding systems, and patterns of distribution; its impact on grazing management; and the role it plays, both positive and negative, in the lives of high desert wildlife.

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University of Nevada Press

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0874177855

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Lightning In a Bottle: A Book Series On the Most Important Rock Albums In Music History Album #53 Joni Mitchell the Hissing of Summer Lawns

By: Charlie Freak

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Lightning In a Bottle: A Book Series On the Most Important Rock Albums In Music History Album #53 Joni Mitchell the Hissing of Summer Lawns

By: Charlie Freak

The Hissing of Summer Lawns was a landmark album for Joni Mitchell as it followed up her biggest selling album (& one of the best ever released), Court & Spark. Mitchell could have chosen to play it safe & release Court & Spark part 2, but she didn't. She challenged her fan base with her growing appreciation of complex rhythms, Jazzy chords & a style of musical progression that reflected rhetorical questions. Her lyrics were no longer easy to decode personal confessions but convoluted essays that observed the human condition. Mitchell began to write about characters that portrayed the most controversial aspects of our controlled society, demonstrating that when we allow others to think for us, we are victims in life; whereas, when we take control of our thoughts we begin to experience true freedom, often for the first time. All of the questions that Mitchell asked on Hissing led her to the brilliant conclusion, Shadows & Light, that all life is DUALITY, "this & that" & not "this or that"! An incredible book!

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1387491423

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Design/Build with Jersey Devil

A Handbook for Education and Practice

By: Charlie Hailey

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Design/Build with Jersey Devil

A Handbook for Education and Practice

By: Charlie Hailey

Steve Badanes, Jim Adamson, and John Ringel believe an architect's job does not stop at designing a building, but that it extends to constructing it as well. Now working into their fifth decade, Jersey Devil, the loose-knit group they founded in 1972, bands together under this design/build ethos that an architect's place is just as much on the job site as it is at the drawing board. The trio pioneered design/build practice and their influence has spawned more than one hundred design/build programs. Jersey Devil's process and expertise are unpacked in this Architecture Brief, providing students and teachers with a toolkit for design/build education. Through stories, didactic commentary, and sample exercises, the Design/Build complements nuts-and-bolts content with Jersey Devil's philosophy and perspective, allowing the book to impart practical instruction while acting as a valuable guide for navigating the elusive challenges of design/build. Themes touch on socially responsible architecture, intuition and intentionality, detailing and fostering craftsmanship, group work and collaboration, off-the-shelf components and nonstandard applications, educational reform, ethos and risk, good life and play, the politics of building, and university-community relations.

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Chronicle Books

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1616895187

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Lewis Carroll Among His Books

A Descriptive Catalogue of the Private Library of Charles L. Dodgson

By: Charlie Lovett

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Lewis Carroll Among His Books

A Descriptive Catalogue of the Private Library of Charles L. Dodgson

By: Charlie Lovett

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--known better by his pseudonym, Lewis Carroll--was a 19th century English logician, mathematician, photographer, and novelist. He is especially remembered for his children's tale Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking Glass. By the time of Dodgson's death in 1898, Alice (the integration of the two volumes) had become the most popular children's book in England. By the time of his centenary in 1932, it was perhaps the most famous in the world. This book presents a complete catalogue of Dodgson's personal library, with attention to every book the author is known to have owned or read. Alphabetized entries fully describe each book, its edition, its contents, its importance, and any particular relevance it might have had to Dodgson. The library not only provides a plethora of fodder for further study on Dodgson, but also reflects the Victorian world of the second half of the 19th century, a time of unprecedented investigation, experimentation, invention, and imagination. Dodgson's volumes represent a vast array of academic interests from Victorian England and beyond, including homeopathic medicine, spiritualism, astrology, evolution, women's rights, children's literature, linguistics, theology, eugenics, and many others. The catalogue is designed for scholars seeking insight into the mind of Charles Dodgson through his books.

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McFarland

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1476609411

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The 1928 New York Yankees

The Return of Murderers' Row

By: Charlie Gentile

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The 1928 New York Yankees

The Return of Murderers' Row

By: Charlie Gentile

The 1927 New York Yankees are often considered one of the best Yankee teams of all time—perhaps one of the best major league teams ever. Yet often overlooked is the Yankee team that followed. The 1928 Yankees started the season on track to meet and even surpass the records and accomplishments of the season before. Many players from the 1927 “Murderers’ Row” were still there, including Bob Meusel, Earle Combs, Mark Koenig, Tony Lazzeri, Lou Gehrig, and Babe Ruth. The 1928 New York Yankees: The Return of Murderers’ Row tells the story of this underrated squad that endured a roller-coaster season of ups and downs to ultimately win the World Series. The baseball world, frustrated by the Yankees’ dominance the previous year, rejoiced when the team stumbled badly during the 1928 preseason. Their elation turned to gloom when the Yankees charged out of the gates to start the regular season on top of the standings. In spite of holding a commanding fourteen game edge over the second place Philadelphia Athletics midway through the season, the Yankees saw their lead disappear with just three weeks remaining. Manager Miller Huggins pulled together his patchwork pitching staff and banged-up regulars and reserves to mount a nail-biting fight to the finish. Highlighted by numerous images of the key players for the Yankees, this detailed and thoroughly researched book provides an intimate look into a season to remember. The 1928 New York Yankees includes a discussion of the best teams in baseball leading up to the 1928 season, along with historical background on the country’s condition in the 1920s. From the Yankees’ preseason trip to Florida through their dominance, collapse, and subsequent rise, this bookwill entertain and educate all fans and historians of the national pastime.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442235993

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9781442235991

French Blockbusters

Cultural Politics of a Transnational Cinema

By: Charlie Michael

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French Blockbusters

Cultural Politics of a Transnational Cinema

By: Charlie Michael

The digitised spectacles conjured by a word like `blockbuster' may create a certain cognitive dissonance with received ideas about French cinema - long celebrated as a model for philosophical, economic and aesthetic resistance to globalised popular culture. While the Gallic `cultural exception' remains a forceful current to this day, this book shows how the onslaught of Hollywood mega-franchises and new media platforms since the 1980s has also provoked an overtly commercialised response from French producers eager to redefine the stakes and scope of their own traditions. Cutting across a swath of recent French-produced cinema, French Blockbusters offers the first book-length consideration of the theoretical implications, historical impact and cultural consequences of recent popular films that are rapidly changing what it means to make - or to see - a `French' film today. From English-language action vehicles like Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (Besson, 2017) to revisionist historical films like Of Gods and Men (Beauvois, 2011) and crowd-pleasing comedies like Intouchables (Toledano & Nakache, 2011), the variously filiated `local blockbusters' from contemporary France brim with the seeds of cultural contradiction, but also with the energy of a forceful counter-history

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Edinburgh University Press

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1474424244

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9781474424240

Rilke

The Life of the Work

By: Charlie Louth

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Rilke

The Life of the Work

By: Charlie Louth

The life of Rilke’s work is in its words, and this book attends closely to the life unfolding in Rilke’s words over the course of his career. What is a poem, and how does it act upon us as we read? What does reading involve? These are questions of the greatest interest to Rilke, who addresses them in several poems and for whom the experience of reading affords an interaction with the world—a recalibration of our ways of attending to it—which sets it apart from other kinds of experience. Rilke’s work is often approached in periods—he is the author of the New Poems, or of Malte, or of the Duino Elegies, or of the Sonnets to Orpheus—as if its different phases had little to do with one another, but in fact his writing is a concentrated and evolving exploration of the possibilities of poetic language, a working of the life of words into precise and exacting forms in dialogue with the texture of the world. The Life of the Work traces that trajectory in a series of close readings that do not neglect the lesser-known, uncollected verse and the poems in French, as well as Rilke’s activity as a translator of Michelangelo, Shakespeare, Barrett Browning, Mallarmé, and Valéry, among many others. These encounters were part of Rilke’s engagement with the world, his way of extending the reach of his language to get it ever closer to the ungraspable movements, the risk and promise, of life itself. One of his best-known poems ends with the words ‘You must change your life’, an injunction that animates the whole of his work.

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Oxford University Press

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0192542699

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Ain't No Rag

Freedom, Family, and the Flag

By: Charlie Daniels

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Ain't No Rag

Freedom, Family, and the Flag

By: Charlie Daniels

The award-winning musician expresses his opinions on major issues facing America, including his feelings towards the "Hollywood elite", anti-war crowds, and what freedom, family, and the American flag represent for him.

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0895260735

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Lightning In a Bottle: A Book Series On the Most Important Rock Albums In Music History Album # 42 Dan Fogelberg Phoenix

By: Charlie Freak

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Lightning In a Bottle: A Book Series On the Most Important Rock Albums In Music History Album # 42 Dan Fogelberg Phoenix

By: Charlie Freak

Most Rock critics & historians have somehow labelled Dan Fogelberg as a Soft-Rock specialist & a crafter of fine melodies & Love Ballads. However, this is so far from the truth! His music ROCKS & defines him as one of the most brilliant songwriters, guitarists & producers in the history of Rock & Roll. Fogelberg's discography ranks amongst the very best ever assembled, at the same level as say, Steely Dan, Joni Mitchell & Stevie Wonder. However, with his albums Phoenix & The Innocent Age, Fogelberg created two absolute masterpieces that represent pure genius! On the Phoenix album, Fogelberg conceived an eternal song cycle crafted around the ancient Sanskrit word, Samsara, the true Cycle of Life (Birth, Life, Death & Re-birth). Thus, the title track, Phoenix, became the physical representation of this eternal journey through our Life Cycle. On the album, Fogelberg wove these important lyrics to his brilliant music seamlessly, as each was an extension of the other! Every fan of his music will cherish this book!

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1387491490

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Doctor Who: Thirteen Doctors 13 Stories

By: Naomi Alderman,Malorie Blackman,Holly Black,Neil Gaiman,Derek Landy,Charlie Higson,Alex Scarrow,Richelle Mead,Patrick Ness,Philip Reeve,Marcus Sedgwick,Michael Scott,Eoin Colfer

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Doctor Who: Thirteen Doctors 13 Stories

By: Naomi Alderman,Malorie Blackman,Holly Black,Neil Gaiman,Derek Landy,Charlie Higson,Alex Scarrow,Richelle Mead,Patrick Ness,Philip Reeve,Marcus Sedgwick,Michael Scott,Eoin Colfer

A new version of this much-loved anthology, with a brand-new story featuring the brand-new Thirteenth Doctor from literary sensation Naomi Alderman! Twelve wonderful tales of adventure, science, magic, monsters and time travel - featuring all twelve Doctors - are waiting for you in this very special Doctor Who book. And now they're joined by a very exciting, and very exclusive, new tale - written by Naomi Alderman, author of The Power - that will star the Thirteenth Doctor, as she battles to save the universe with her three close and trusted friends. Other authors featured are: Eoin Colfer, Michael Scott, Marcus Sedgwick, Philip Reeve, Patrick Ness, Richelle Mead, Malorie Blackman, Alex Scarrow, Charlie Higson, Derek Landy, Neil Gaiman, and Holly Black.

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Penguin UK

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0241356180

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9780241356180

Lightning In a Bottle: A Book Series On the Most Important Rock Albums In Music History Album #17 Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention We're Only In It for the Money

By: Charlie Freak

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Lightning In a Bottle: A Book Series On the Most Important Rock Albums In Music History Album #17 Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention We're Only In It for the Money

By: Charlie Freak

Book #17 in the series, Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention, We're Only in for the Money. Our reality has become dominated by Corporations that spread Lies & Mediocrity, while destroying excellence in music. Frank Zappa created a MASTERPIECE that was the antithesis of what music has become today. Zappa laid society bare with a wildly funny, entertaining, thought-provoking & subversive album that screamed TRUTH! With Corporations in complete control of our governments & the CIA unchecked by any authority, other than its own, the world that Frank Zappa wrote about on this album in 1968 could easily be mistaken for today. This book examines what was at the very heart of Zappa's message on We're Only in it for the Money & proceeds to tie it together with what is happening across the Earth today. The same small group that was running the United States in 1968, that hijacked the rebellion of America's youth by replacing the Freaks with LSD-laced Phoney Hippies out of San Francisco, are STILL IN POWER TODAY!

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1387593234

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Team Habits

How Small Actions Lead to Extraordinary Results

By: Charlie Gilkey

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Team Habits

How Small Actions Lead to Extraordinary Results

By: Charlie Gilkey

DISCOVER SMALL, TEAM-BASED CHANGES THAT HAVE COMPANY-WIDE RESULTS. The teams we work in amplify our individual efforts, yet we constantly struggle to accomplish what is possible. You can see all the problems in a typical weekly meeting. No planning. Missing goals. Muddled communication. We think just bringing our personal hopes and desires will be enough. It’s not. The groups we work in need collective habits as much as individuals need better personal habits. Determining team habits for things like planning, decision-making, and prioritization produce reliability and ease for everyone. Team habits create better work and let people work better together. In Team Habits, Charlie Gilkey explains how the revolution in personal habits has an even greater potential when applied to teams. With practical exercises, a Team Habits Quiz to evaluate areas for improvement, and a guide to create a team habits roadmap, Team Habits will help you transform your group so team members can flourish and thrive. If changing the smallest habit can yield powerful results for an individual, then just imagine what it can do for your team.

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0306828359

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Lightning In a Bottle: A Book Series On the Most Important Rock Albums In Music History Album #83 the Guess Who Share the Land

By: Charlie Freak

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Lightning In a Bottle: A Book Series On the Most Important Rock Albums In Music History Album #83 the Guess Who Share the Land

By: Charlie Freak

For far too long the Guess Who have been "written off", especially in America, as nothing more than a prolific singles band, but it does not come near to telling the whole truth. Two of their outstanding albums have found their way into this Book Series, including American Woman & this stunning achievement, Share the Land. Every single song is of the finest quality, with many becoming Rock Classics. The music ranges from straight-ahead Rock & Roll, to the Blues, Jazz, R&B and even Country, plus the lyrics were written in the aftermath of the Massacre at Kent State University. Here, Burton Cummings was at his very best laying out most of the ways in which the Status Quo has us trapped into living our lives for the benefit of society and not ourselves...all the while looking up towards God and wondering why? This book digs deep into both the music & lyrics and helps the reader to understand why this brilliant collection of songs is so very important for humanity, especially today in this upside down world!

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138749144X

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Laramie

By: Charlie Petersen,Laramie Plains Museum

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Laramie

By: Charlie Petersen,Laramie Plains Museum

While it was still part of Dakota Territory, the town of Laramie was founded in 1868 with the arrival of the Union Pacific Railroad. Laramies placement on the high plains at an elevation of 7,200 feet has not made for an easy existence, but the hardy ranching families and cowboys, with their cattle hunkered down against the winds and snow, survived in spite of their harsh surroundings and even thrived in this unique eastern Wyoming town. This is the place where the infamous Jack McCall hid from the authorities, where Teddy Roosevelt rode the range, and where Butch Cassidy was held at the Wyoming Territorial Prison. From its early, rowdy days as an end-of-the-tracks tent town on the railroad, with gambling halls and an active nightlife, through the growing-up years of mills, quarries, and local wartime heroes, to the establishment of Wyomings only state university, Laramies remarkable story is told here through historic photographs.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439618453

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Reason and Restitution

A Theory of Unjust Enrichment

By: Charlie Webb

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Reason and Restitution

A Theory of Unjust Enrichment

By: Charlie Webb

In law, gains, like losses, don't always lie where they fall. That there exists a body of law dealing with liability for gains is now settled and the circumstances in which the law requires defendants to give up their gains are well documented in the work of unjust enrichment lawyers. The same cannot be said, however, of the reasons for ordering restitution of such gains. It is often suggested that unjust enrichment's existence can be demonstrated without inquiry into these reasons, into the principles of justice it represents and invokes. Yet while we can indeed show that there exists a body of claims dealing with the recovery of mistaken payments and the like without going on to inquire into their rationale, the same cannot be said for unjust enrichment's existence as a distinct ground of such claims. For if unjust enrichment exists as a body of like cases and claims, truly independent of contract and tort, then it does so by virtue of the distinct reasons it identifies and to which these claims respond. Reason and Restitution offers an analysis of the reasons which support and shape claims in unjust enrichment and how these reasons bear on the law's application and development. The identity of these reasons matters since it establishes how, and to what extent, unjust enrichment really is independent of contract and tort, giving us a clearer understanding of unjust enrichment's relationship to these and other concepts and categories. But, more importantly, it matters to those charged with the practical tasks of deciding cases and making laws, for it is these reasons alone which can direct how judges and legislators ought respond to these claims.

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Oxford University Press

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0199653208

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9780199653201

The Political Economy of the Small Firm

By: Charlie Dannreuther,Lew Perren

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The Political Economy of the Small Firm

By: Charlie Dannreuther,Lew Perren

Fusing theories from political science, management and linguistics, Dannreuther and Perren assert that the idea of the small firm is an important discursive resource used by political actors to legitimise their actions, influence their citizens and help sustain regimes of accumulation. On top of this, the authors also empirically test their claims against 200 years of UK parliamentary debate, from the Industrial Revolution to the Blair government.

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Psychology Press

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0415198569

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Modernising Social Policy

Unravelling New Labour's Welfare Reforms

By: Tom Burdon,Charlie Cooper,Steph Petrie

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Modernising Social Policy

Unravelling New Labour's Welfare Reforms

By: Tom Burdon,Charlie Cooper,Steph Petrie

This title was first published in 2000: The 1997 election marked the prospect of a new era in social welfare - the possibility of establishing a third phase in the post-war history of the welfare state (the first being the creation of the Keynesian welfare state, the second the Thatcher/Major neo-liberal reforms). The key aim of this book is to critically explore the options for the future of welfare under New Labour. The welfare state that the government inherited from the Conservatives is widely believed to be in a critical condition. At the same time, there is evidence of widening social inequality in Britain which existing social policy measures fail to address. Whilst acknowledging that future welfare strategies are likely to operate within a market paradigm, the key argument of this book is that welfare providers should operate within a more accountable and democratic environment where service-users have the right to participate in decision-making processes affecting their welfare - regardless of the ability to pay. The book concludes that the dominant discourse shaping social policy in Britain must be recognized and should not be accepted uncritically and that there are very real economic (as well as social) benefits from taking measures to address social disadvantage.

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Bitter Rehearsal

British and American Planning for a Post-War West Indies

By: Charlie Whitham

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Bitter Rehearsal

British and American Planning for a Post-War West Indies

By: Charlie Whitham

Promoted as a means for rectifying the problems of a region in extreme need, the Anglo-American Caribbean Commission (AACC) only exposed and exacerbated the underlying antagonisms between Britain and the United States over the economic and political structure of the post-war world. This study places the AACC, formed in 1942, within the context of the Anglo-American wartime special relationship, and examines the political, economic, and security motives at the heart of this unique and little-known collaboration. It exposes the determination of the United States to use exigencies of war to impose its post-war plans upon Britain, and the tenacity of the British to defend even the smallest and least regarded of its possessions regardless of local and international opposition. The AACC was a battleground of conflicting British and American visions of a new West Indies, and it would thus serve as a rehearsal for key debates that would emerge at the end of the war. For the United States, the AACC was a vehicle for promoting America's broad postwar ambitions in the West Indies; for Britain, it was simply part of the price that had to be paid for American assistance in the war effort. Debates within the AACC over the future of West Indian sugar, the regulation of tariffs and trade, constitutional reform and the expansion of civil aviation mirrored wider British and American differences.

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Doubleheaders

A Major League History

By: Charlie Bevis

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Doubleheaders

A Major League History

By: Charlie Bevis

Award-winning author Charlie Bevis explores the long history of the major league doubleheader from its beginnings in the late 19th century up to the present day. Emphasizing its significance within baseball and popular culture, Bevis describes the twin bill's role in holiday celebrations, its one-time identity as Sunday sporting event, and the part it played in baseball's survival during the Depression and World War Two.

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McFarland

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Inside Out

Train your mind and your nerve like a champion

By: Charlie Unwin

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Inside Out

Train your mind and your nerve like a champion

By: Charlie Unwin

Brilliantly illustrates how your mind really can triumph over matter." Frankie Dettori MBE, Champion Jockey In any high-pressure environment, from special operations to the operating theatre, you can divide people into two groups - those whose performance is controlled from the outside in and those who control their performance from the inside out. Inside Out is about your ability to achieve incredible things on the outside by paying attention to what's on the inside. In his first ever book, Charlie Unwin shares unparalleled insight into the minds and inner workings of the world's most accomplished performers, including double Olympic champions, special forces soldiers, fighter pilots, surgeons, barristers, chefs, musicians and financial traders. Combining his unique experience as a performance psychologist with a blend of cutting-edge science and conventional wisdom, Charlie takes you on a journey through the three dimensions that shape your inner world - the Thinking Dimension, the Feeling Dimension and the Intuitive Dimension. In doing so, he turns the complexities of neuroscience, stress adaptation and cognitive performance into simple and effective training principles that you can use in your everyday quest for excellence. Inside Out will give you the confidence to do more and go further with what you already have. "Anyone interested in exploring their own performance potential is going to benefit immensely from this book." DS, former SAS Squadron Commander

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The Sound of the City

The Rise of Rock and Roll

By: Charlie Gillett

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The Sound of the City

The Rise of Rock and Roll

By: Charlie Gillett

Charlie Gillett, a British journalist, loves the music, and his passion is evident throughout The Sound of the City. Yet the greatest strength of the book is the way Gillett tracks the resistance of the music industry to early rock-and-roll, which was followed (needless to say) by a frantic rush to engulf and devour it. When first published The Sound of the City was hailed as having 'never been bettered as the definitive history of rock' (Guardian). Now the classic history of rock and roll, has been revised and updated with over 75 historic archive photos. The text has been substantially revised to include newly discovered information and it is now 'the one essential work about the history of rock n' roll' (Jon Landau in Rolling Stone).

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0285640240

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Rabbi Sam

By: Charlie Varon

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Rabbi Sam

By: Charlie Varon

RABBI SAM tells the story of a zealot who wants to reinvent Judaism and who will stop at nothing to do it. Sam Isaac, a high-powered New York tax attorney-turned-rabbi, takes up his first pulpit at a suburban congregation in northern California. Some people are thrilled by his vision of a 21st-century American Judaism. Others don't trust him, and a power struggle ensues, splitting the congregation. Rabbi Sam is both a fiercely spiritual man and a fearless political animal working overtime to round up the votes that he hopes will save his job. Suspenseful, moving, and funny, RABBI SAM bursts with ideas about religion, science, and how human institutions deal with change.

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Hidden History of Arlington County

By: Charlie Clark

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Hidden History of Arlington County

By: Charlie Clark

For over two centuries, Arlington County has been a steadfast center for government institutions and a vibrant part of the Washington, D.C., community. Many notable figures made their home in the area, like Supreme Court chief justice Warren Burger, General George "Blood 'n' Guts" Patton and a beauty queen who almost married crooner Dean Martin. The drama of Virginia's first school integration unfolded in Arlington beginning in the late 1950s. In the 1960s, two motorcycle gangs clashed in public at a suburban shopping center. Local author, historian and "Our Man in Arlington" Charlie Clark uncovers the vivid, and hidden, history of a capital community.

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1439661596

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Purshia

The Wild And Bitter Roses

By: James A. Young,Charlie D. Clements

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Purshia

The Wild And Bitter Roses

By: James A. Young,Charlie D. Clements

A useful and complete summary of all the scientific information available on one of the most significant plant species in the western and intermountain regions. Among the plant species of the great Basin rangeland, the Purshia—ancient members of the rose family evolved to survive the aridity and temperature extremes of this harsh region—are one of the most important. This book-length study of this key plant species provides a comprehensive examination of the biology and ecology of the species and region.

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University of Nevada Press

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0874175860

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Joe Frisco

Comic, Jazz Dancer, and Railbird

By: Ed Lowry,Charlie Foy

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Joe Frisco

Comic, Jazz Dancer, and Railbird

By: Ed Lowry,Charlie Foy

This biography of vaudeville comedian Joe Frisco captures the world of show business in its transition from the heyday of vaudeville through film and radio to the early years of television. As Paul M. Levitt tells us, Joe Frisco in his day was so famous for his jazz dance that F. Scott Fitzgerald mentions him when describing one of Gatsby’s parties: "Suddenly one of these gypsies in trembling opal seizes a cocktail out of the air, dumps it down for courage and moving her hands like Frisco dances out alone on the canvas platform." Seeking to reintroduce this spontaneous and original wit to us, Levitt transforms the manuscript left by Frisco’s fellow entertainers Ed Lowry and Charlie Foy into a book as entertaining as the great comic himself. It follows Frisco’s career from his beginnings in Chicago on the midwestern circuit, through his New York heyday in vaudeville theatres and nightclubs, to his final years in Los Angeles when first film and then television came to dominate show business. Lowry and Foy, both vaudeville insiders, describe Frisco’s world, with its hotels, theatres, restaurants, clubs, racetracks, and, not least, its famous people—Flo Ziegfeld, W. C. Fields, Walter Winchell, George Jessel, Bing Crosby (who contributed the foreword to this book), even William Randolph Hearst. Ed Lowry bought a mail-order course at fourteen, taught himself to dance, and launched a half-century career in theatre. Charlie Foy, the second child in the family troupe known as "Eddie Foy and the Seven Little Foys," shared an apartment and the stage with Joe Frisco for several years.

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Bankers in the Ivory Tower

The Troubling Rise of Financiers in US Higher Education

By: Charlie Eaton

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Bankers in the Ivory Tower

The Troubling Rise of Financiers in US Higher Education

By: Charlie Eaton

Universities and the social circuitry of finance -- Our new financial oligarchy -- Bankers to the rescue : the political turn to student debt -- The top : how universities became hedge funds -- The bottom : a Wall Street takeover of for-profit colleges -- The middle : a hidden squeeze on public universities -- Reimagining (higher education) finance from below -- Methodological appendix : a comparative, qualitative, and quantitative study of elites.

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Unsolved Texas Mysteries

By: Wallace O. Chariton,Kevin Young,Charlie Eckhardt

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Unsolved Texas Mysteries

By: Wallace O. Chariton,Kevin Young,Charlie Eckhardt

What happened to the documents captured in the Alamo? Does a ghost actually haunt the state capitol in Austin? Was John Wilkes Booth killed or did he escape and flee to Central Texas? The authors present the known facts and circumstances of these and other mysteries.

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1461625424

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Babe & the Kid

The Legendary Story of Babe Ruth and Johnny Sylvester

By: Charlie Poekel

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Babe & the Kid

The Legendary Story of Babe Ruth and Johnny Sylvester

By: Charlie Poekel

The most famous home run in baseball history: “The go-to book for an accurate portrayal of the story” (Sports Collectors Digest). On the eve of game four of the 1926 World Series, Babe Ruth heard that a young New Jersey boy, Johnny Sylvester, was laid up with a deadly illness. Ruth autographed a ball for Johnny, inscribing it, “I’ll knock a homer for you in Wednesday’s game—Babe Ruth.” The rest was history. Ruth delivered on his promise, and Johnny made a miraculous recovery. In Babe & the Kid, author Charlie Poekel traces the story behind the sensational headlines, and follows Johnny’s remarkable life in the aftermath of Ruth’s incredible feat. Includes photos!

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161423096X

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Bicycling Through Time

The Farren Collection

By: Paul & Charlie Farren

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Bicycling Through Time

The Farren Collection

By: Paul & Charlie Farren

0 0 1 111 636 The Images Publishing Group 5 1 746 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Cambria; mso-ansi-language:EN-US;} Paul Farren claims he and his wife Charlie have around 85 percent of the pre-1900 bicycles in Australia – all under one roof in a Melbourne warehouse-cum-museum. Thirty years of hunting them down and collecting has resulted in one of the most impressive early bike collections in the world. It includes 160 pre-1900 bicycles, including hobby horses, boneshakers and Penny Farthings, as well as early 20th-century models. The collection charts the development of the bicycle, which foreshadows the invention of the motor car in many surprising ways. It also shows wider social change and the role the bicycle has played in female emancipation, war and its progression from plaything of the wealthy to utilitarian mode of transport of the masses.

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1864705191

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Silent Women

Pioneers of Cinema

By: Kevin Brownlow,Shelley Stamp,Bryony Dixon,Karen Day,Maria Giese,Tania Field,Francesca Stephens,Ellen Cheshire,K. Charlie Oughton,Patricia di Risio,Pieter Aquilia,Julie K Allen,Aimee Dixon Anthony

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Silent Women

Pioneers of Cinema

By: Kevin Brownlow,Shelley Stamp,Bryony Dixon,Karen Day,Maria Giese,Tania Field,Francesca Stephens,Ellen Cheshire,K. Charlie Oughton,Patricia di Risio,Pieter Aquilia,Julie K Allen,Aimee Dixon Anthony

The first ever overview of women's contributions to the dawn of cinema looking at a variety of roles from writers and directors to film editors and critics. Why have women such as Alice Guy-Blache, the creator of narrative cinema, been written out of film history? Why have so many women working behind the scenes in film been rendered invisible and silent for so long? Silent Women, pioneers of cinema explores the incredible contribution of women at the dawn of cinema when, surprisingly, more women were employed across the board in the film industry than they are now. It also looks at how women helped to shape the content, style of acting and development of the movie business in their roles as actors, writers, editors, cinematographers, directors and producers. In addition, we describe how women engaged with and influenced the development of cinema in their roles as audience, critics, fans, reviewers, journalists and the arbiters of morality in films. And finally, we ask when the current discrimination and male domination of the industry will give way to allow more women access to the top jobs. In addition to its historical focus on women working in film during the silent film era, the term silent also refers to the silencing and eradication of the enormous contribution that women have made to the development of the motion picture industry. “The surprise of the essays collected here is their sheer volume in every corner of a business apparently better able to accommodate female talent then than now..” Danny Leigh, Financial Times, July 2016 “ It's a fascinating journey into the untold history of a largely lost era of film..” Greg Jameson, Entertainment Focus, March 2016 "This book shows how women's voices were heard and helped create the golden age of silent cinema, how those voices were almost eradicated by the male-dominated film industry, and perhaps points the way to an all-inclusive future for global cinema..” Paul Duncan, Film Historian “Inspirational and informative, Silent Women will challenge many people's ideas about the beginnings of film history. This fascinating book roams widely across the era and the diverse achievements and voices of women in the film industry. These are the stories of pioneers, trailblazers and collaborators - hugely enjoyable to read and vitally important to publish.” Pamela Hutchinson, Silent London “Every page begs the question - how on earth did these amazing women vanish from history in the first place? I defy anyone interested in cinema history not to find this valuable compendium a must-read. It's also a call to arms for more research into women's contribution and an affirmation of just how rewarding the detective work can be.” Laraine Porter, Co-Artistic Director of British Silent Film Festival “An authoritative and illuminating work, it also lends a pervasive voice to the argument that discrimination and not talent is the barrier to so few women occupying the most prominent roles within the industry." Jason Wood, Author and Visiting Professor at MMU “I was amazed to discover just how crucially they were involved from not just in front of the camera but in producing, directing, editing and much, much more. An essential read.” Neil McGlone. The Criterion Collection

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0993220703

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Walking Austin

33 Walking Tours Exploring Historical Legacies, Musical Culture, and Abundant Natural Beauty

By: Charlie Llewellin

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Walking Austin

33 Walking Tours Exploring Historical Legacies, Musical Culture, and Abundant Natural Beauty

By: Charlie Llewellin

Get to Know the Most Vibrant and Historic Neighborhoods in Austin, Texas! Grab your walking shoes, and become an urban adventurer as Charles Llewellin leads you on 33 unique walking tours in this comprehensive guidebook. Explore beautiful neighborhoods, historic locations, public art, and, of course, live music. Soak up the city’s history, culture, and outdoor beauty. Find peace and comfort as you wind along Lady Bird Lake. Take in the glorious sights atop Mount Bonnell. Browse the one-of-a-kind markets of South Congress. Walking Austin guides you to mouthwatering brisket, refreshing swimming holes, world-class museums, and some of the best views in all of Texas. Each self-guided tour includes full-color photographs, a map, and need-to-know details like distance, difficulty, parking, and public transit. Route summaries make each walk easy to follow, and a “Points of Interest” section lists the highlights of every tour. The walks’ commentaries include such topics as architecture and local trivia, plus tips on where to grab a bite, have a drink, and shop. Walking Austin provides the perfect path for a weekend or an after-work ramble. So find a route that appeals to you, and walk Austin!

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Wilderness Press

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0899979548

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Tampa Bay Music Roots

By: Charlie Souza,Keith Wilkins

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Tampa Bay Music Roots

By: Charlie Souza,Keith Wilkins

When the Peerless Quartet wrote "Way Down On Tampa Bay" in 1914, Tampa Bay's musical roots started growing. Tampa Bay is where Ray Charles created his first song, Hank Ballard wrote and recorded "The Twist," and the Rolling Stones cranked out their hit "Satisfaction." Stephen Stills attended both Plant High School and Admiral Farragut Academy, and Jim Morrison studied at St. Petersburg Junior College. Ella Fitzgerald kicked off her career on the storied Central Avenue in Ybor City. Savatage, Stranger, Diamond Grey, the Outlaws, Bleeding Hearts, Blackkout, the Arena Twins, Tampa Red, and Cheeky Monkey are all artists who have made a huge impact both locally and nationally. From its rock 'n' roll boom in the 1960s to the birth of death metal in the 1980s . . . Tampa Bay has had a rich musical history!

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143966921X

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Grizzly Heart

Living Without Fear Among the Brown Bears of Kamchatka

By: Charlie Russell

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Grizzly Heart

Living Without Fear Among the Brown Bears of Kamchatka

By: Charlie Russell

An absorbing first-hand account of living with bears, from the acclaimed author of The Spirit Bear. To many people, grizzlies are symbols of power and ferocity -- creatures to be feared and, too often, killed. But Charlie Russell, who has had a forty-year relationship with bears, holds the controversial belief that it is possible to live with and truly understand bears in the wild. And for five years now, Russell and his partner, artist and photographer Maureen Enns, have spent summers on the Kamchatka peninsula, located on the northeast coast of Russia, and home of the densest population of brown bears in the world. Grizzly Heart tells the remarkable story of how Russell and Enns have defied the preconceptions of wildlife officials and the general public by living unthreatened -- and respected -- among the grizzlies of Kamchatka. In an honest and immediate style, Russell tells of the trials and successes of their years in the field, from convincing Russian officials to allow them to study, to adopting three bear cubs left orphaned when their mother was killed by a hunter (and teaching these cubs how to survive in the wild), to raising environmental awareness through art. Through a combination of careful study and personal dedication, Russell and Enns are persuading people to reconsider the age-old image of the grizzly bear as a ferocious man-eater and perpetual threat. Through their actions, they demonstrate that it is possible to forge a mutually respectful relationship with these majestic giants, and provide compelling reasons for altering our culture. "We have been able to live beautifully with these animals, with no serious threat, because of what we've learned. Hopefully, sharing what we learn will help people -- and be a big help to our bears, too.

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