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Like One of the Family

Conversations from a Domestic's Life

By: Alice Childress

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Like One of the Family

Conversations from a Domestic's Life

By: Alice Childress

Recommended by Entertainment Weekly The hilarious, uncompromising novel about African American domestic workers—from a trailblazer in Black women’s literature and now featuring a foreword by Roxane Gay First published in Paul Robeson’s newspaper, Freedom, and composed of a series of conversations between Mildred, a black domestic, and her friend Marge, Like One of the Family is a wry, incisive portrait of working women in Harlem in the 1950s. Rippling with satire and humor, Mildred’s outspoken accounts vividly capture her white employers’ complacency and condescension—and their startled reactions to a maid who speaks her mind and refuses to exchange dignity for pay. Upon publication the book sparked a critique of working conditions, laying the groundwork for the contemporary domestic worker movement. Although she was critically praised, Childress’s uncompromising politics and unflinching depictions of racism, classism, and sexism relegated her to the fringe of American literature. Like One of the Family has been long overlooked, but this new edition, featuring a foreword by best-selling author Roxane Gay, will introduce Childress to a new generation.

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Beacon Press

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0807050741

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9780807050743

Under the Cover

The Creation, Production, and Reception of a Novel

By: Clayton Childress

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Under the Cover

The Creation, Production, and Reception of a Novel

By: Clayton Childress

Under the Cover follows the life trajectory of a single work of fiction from its initial inspiration to its reception by reviewers and readers. The subject is Jarrettsville, a historical novel by Cornelia Nixon, which was published in 2009 and based on an actual murder committed by an ancestor of Nixon's in the postbellum South. Clayton Childress takes you behind the scenes to examine how Jarrettsville was shepherded across three interdependent fields—authoring, publishing, and reading—and how it was transformed by its journey. Along the way, he covers all aspects of the life of a book, including the author's creative process, the role of the literary agent, how editors decide which books to acquire, how publishers build lists and distinguish themselves from other publishers, how they sell a book to stores and publicize it, and how authors choose their next projects. Childress looks at how books get selected for the front tables in bookstores, why reviewers and readers can draw such different meanings from the same novel, and how book groups across the country make sense of a novel and what it means to them. Drawing on original survey data, in-depth interviews, and groundbreaking ethnographic fieldwork, Under the Cover reveals how decisions are made, inequalities are reproduced, and novels are built to travel in the creation, production, and consumption of culture.

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Princeton University Press

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0691191875

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9780691191874

Johannes Gutenberg and the Printing Press

By: Diana Childress

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Johannes Gutenberg and the Printing Press

By: Diana Childress

Can one invention really change the world? Before the mid-fifteenth century, books were printed by hand, making them rare and expensive. Reading and learning remained a privilege of the wealthy—until Johannes Gutenberg developed a machine called the printing press. Gutenberg, a German metalworker, began in the 1440s by making movable type—small metal letters that were arranged to form words and sentences, replacing handwritten letters. Movable type fit into frames on the printing press, and the press then produced many copies of the same page. As movable type and the printing press made book production much faster and less expensive, reading material of all kinds became available to a far wider audience. In Gutenberg’s time, Europe was already on the brink of a new age—an explosion of world exploration, scientific discoveries, and political and religious changes. Gutenberg’s printing press helped propel Europe into the modern era, and his legacy remains in the thousands of books and newspapers printed each year to keep us informed, entertained, and connected. Indeed, Gutenberg’s development of the printing press became one of history’s pivotal moments.

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Twenty-First Century Books

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0761340246

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9780761340249

Media/Society

Technology, Industries, Content, and Users

By: David Croteau,William Hoynes,Clayton Childress

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Media/Society

Technology, Industries, Content, and Users

By: David Croteau,William Hoynes,Clayton Childress

Media/Society: Technology, Industries, Content, and Users helps students understand the relationship between media and society and gets them to think critically about recent media developments.

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SAGE Publications

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1071819313

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9781071819319

The Ultimate New Mom's Cookbook

A Complete Food and Nutrition Resource for Expectant Mothers, Babies and Toddlers

By: Aurora Satler,Allison Childress

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The Ultimate New Mom's Cookbook

A Complete Food and Nutrition Resource for Expectant Mothers, Babies and Toddlers

By: Aurora Satler,Allison Childress

This cookbook is every mother's must-have guide for healthy and easy recipes for pregnancy through the baby's first year. As a mom, Aurora Satler knows how important proper nutrition is for a healthy pregnancy, but could never find the right book for her needs...so she wrote one. From therapeutic dishes to cure morning sickness, to nourishing dishes to eat during breastfeeding, and everything in between, Aurora and licensed dietitian Dr. Allison Childress have compiled all you need to know for a healthy mom and baby. Aurora and Dr. Allison's recipes include nutritious snacks and meals for breastfeeding mothers. These double-duty recipes can provide delicious Butternut Squash Puree for your baby and Butternut Squash Mac & Cheese for the rest of the family. There are also full-family meals, like Friday Night Roast Rosemary Chicken and Sinfully Succulent Skirt Steak and Mango Salad, when baby is ready to join the family at the table. With over 80 recipes--each with a full-color photo--this book has everything you need to start healthy and stay healthy during pregnancy, baby's first year and beyond.

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1624145663

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9781624145667

Practical Reasoning in Bioethics

By: James F. Childress

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Practical Reasoning in Bioethics

By: James F. Childress

This is a valuable clarification, re-statement and defence of principlism as an approach to applied ethics. It is strongly recommended to many teachers of bioethics..." -- Journal of the American Medical Association "Childress' book deserves careful study by all concerned with the ethical aspect of contemporary biomedical challenges." -- Science Books & Films "An ideal supplement for a graduate seminar on bioethics or for upper-division undergraduates needing more information in this area." -- Choice In these revised and updated essays, renowned ethicist James F. Childress highlights the role of imagination in practical reasoning through various metaphors and analogies. His discussion of ethical problems contributes to a better understanding of the scope and strength of different moral principles, such as justice, beneficence, and respect for autonomy. At the same time, Childress demonstrates the major role of metaphorical, analogical, and symbolic reasoning in biomedical ethics, largely in conjunction with, rather than in opposition to, principled reasoning.

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Indiana University Press

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0253112869

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9780253112866

Principles of Biomedical Ethics

By: Tom L. Beauchamp,James F. Childress

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Principles of Biomedical Ethics

By: Tom L. Beauchamp,James F. Childress

For many years this has been a leading textbook of bioethics. It established the framework of principles within the field. This is a very thorough revision with a new chapter on methods and moral justification.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195143310

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9780195143317

Washington County, Mississippi

By: Russell S. Hall,Princella W. Nowell,Stacy Childress

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Washington County, Mississippi

By: Russell S. Hall,Princella W. Nowell,Stacy Childress

Washington County, located on the Mississippi River in the heart of the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta, is the culture that cotton built. Founded by hearty pioneers willing to risk even their lives for the unexcelled wealth that the "white gold" of cotton promised, the county was literally carved out of a swampy, cane-covered wilderness where the brave were as likely to reap an early grave as elaborate grandeur. This collection of more than two hundred photographs from the late nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth depicts the unique and pervasive dichotomies that the struggle to weave the "Cotton Kingdom" produced, especially the twin threads of prosperity and poverty. Here men struck it rich in an unprecedented short time, but here they lost it just as quickly. While high cotton bought white men opulent homes and the leisure to produce literary classics, simultaneously it bought the black man little more than a shotgun shack and the pain that birthed the blues. Witness the challenges presented to the mule by the machine and to the isolation of the county's way of life by international war and the infusion of industry. Despite the divisions, this collection also illustrates the common, commendable effort by the citizens of one American county in the South to clear their land, cultivate their fields, build their homes, pave their streets, construct their highways, lay their railroads, and protect it all from flood, fever, and fire with an unfaltering faith in the future.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738506559

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9780738506555

A Hitchhiker's Guide To Armageddon

By: David Hatcher Childress

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A Hitchhiker's Guide To Armageddon

By: David Hatcher Childress

With wit and humor, popular Lost Cities author David Hatcher Childress takes us around the world and back in his trippy finalÃ© to the Lost Cities series. He’s off on an adventure in search of the apocalypse and end times. Childress hits the road from the fortress of Megiddo, the legendary citadel in northern Israel where Armageddon is prophesied to start. Hitchhiking around the world, Childress takes us from one adventure to another, to ancient cities in the deserts and the legends of worlds before our own. Childress muses on the rise and fall of civilizations, and the forces that have shaped mankind over the millennia, including wars, invasions and cataclysms. He discusses the ancient Armageddons of the past, and chronicles recent Middle East developments and their ominous undertones. In the meantime, he becomes a cargo cult god on a remote island off New Guinea, gets dragged into the Kennedy Assassination by one of the “conspirators,â€ investigates a strange power operating out of the Altai Mountains of Mongolia, and discovers how the Knights Templar and their off-shoots have driven the world toward an epic battle centered around Jerusalem and the Middle East.

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SCB Distributors

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1935487507

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9781935487500

BIGFOOT NATION

The History of Sasquatch in North America

By: David Childress

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BIGFOOT NATION

The History of Sasquatch in North America

By: David Childress

Childress takes a deep look at Bigfoot Nation—the seemingly real world of bigfoot around us in the United States and Canada. Whether real or imagined, that bigfoot has made his way into the American psyche cannot be denied. He appears in television commercials, movies, and on roadside billboards. In fact, bigfoot is everywhere, with actors portraying him in variously believable performances and it has become the popular notion that bigfoot is both dangerous and horny. Indeed, bigfoot is out there stalking lover’s lanes and is even more lonely than those frightened teenagers that he sometimes interrupts. Bigfoot, tall and strong as he is, makes a poor leading man in the movies with his awkward personality and typically anti-social behavior. He doesn’t care a skunk’s gland how many movies or commercials are made about him without any royalties whatsoever being paid. To him, Bigfoot Nation is all about style, a lifestyle—shall we say—that keeps bigfoot on the fringes of society, gently creeping into our dreams. Join David on a wild ride from the very first bigfoot reports in the 1800s to right now. Chapters include: 1800 to 1899: The Wildmen of the Frontier; The Oldest Bigfoot Photo; 1900 to 1940: The Pre-War Years; 1950 to 1990: The Post-War Years; The Skunk Apes of Swamp Nation; Bigfoot in the Southwest; 2000 to 2020: Post-Millennial Bigfoot, more. Includes 16-pages of color photos that document Bigfoot Nation!

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SCB Distributors

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1948803011

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9781948803014

Public Bioethics

Principles and Problems

By: James F. Childress

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Public Bioethics

Principles and Problems

By: James F. Childress

This book collects the most influential essays and articles by renowned ethicist James F. Childress, along with several new pieces. It focuses on 'public bioethics' - bioethics as they relate to the shaping of public policy and public culture. The book is divided into four sections, which address issues of autonomy and paternalism, the role of religious convictions and conscientious refusals in health care, ethical practices in organ transplantation, and the general terrain of public health ethics.

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0199798486

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9780199798483

The Adjunct Underclass

How America’s Colleges Betrayed Their Faculty, Their Students, and Their Mission

By: Herb Childress

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The Adjunct Underclass

How America’s Colleges Betrayed Their Faculty, Their Students, and Their Mission

By: Herb Childress

Class ends. Students pack up and head back to their dorms. The professor, meanwhile, goes to her car . . . to catch a little sleep, and then eat a cheeseburger in her lap before driving across the city to a different university to teach another, wholly different class. All for a paycheck that, once prep and grading are factored in, barely reaches minimum wage. Welcome to the life of the mind in the gig economy. Over the past few decades, the job of college professor has been utterly transformed—for the worse. America’s colleges and universities were designed to serve students and create knowledge through the teaching, research, and stability that come with the longevity of tenured faculty, but higher education today is dominated by adjuncts. In 1975, only thirty percent of faculty held temporary or part-time positions. By 2011, as universities faced both a decrease in public support and ballooning administrative costs, that number topped fifty percent. Now, some surveys suggest that as many as seventy percent of American professors are working course-to-course, with few benefits, little to no security, and extremely low pay. In The Adjunct Underclass, Herb Childress draws on his own firsthand experience and that of other adjuncts to tell the story of how higher education reached this sorry state. Pinpointing numerous forces within and beyond higher ed that have driven this shift, he shows us the damage wrought by contingency, not only on the adjunct faculty themselves, but also on students, the permanent faculty and administration, and the nation. How can we say that we value higher education when we treat educators like desperate day laborers? Measured but passionate, rooted in facts but sure to shock, The Adjunct Underclass reveals the conflicting values, strangled resources, and competing goals that have fundamentally changed our idea of what college should be. This book is a call to arms for anyone who believes that strong colleges are vital to society.

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University of Chicago Press

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022649683X

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9780226496832

The Bigfoot Files

The Reality of Bigfoot in North America

By: David Childress

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The Bigfoot Files

The Reality of Bigfoot in North America

By: David Childress

Does a giant hairy apelike creature roam the forests and swamps of North America? If so, this huge creature has managed to keep pretty well hidden, but is seen from time to time. Bigfoot is seen lurking in the shadows of strip malls in the Pacific Northwest and photographed walking across a stream or hiding behind a tree. He is watching hikers as they move through the forest and occasionally kidnaps children or murders solitary people who are in the woods. Childress gives us the latest bigfoot sightings and photos and looks at how the hairy giant has crept into the American psyche as time goes on. Childress starts at the beginning, telling the story behind an apparent bigfoot photo from the 1800s, and the tale of how the creature got its name in the 1950s. Bigfoot is present throughout the country, and Childress relates stories of sightings Back East, in the American Southwest, California and Pacific Northwest. He discusses bigfoot that make lots of noise, and presents photos throughout, including a special eight-page color photo section.

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SCB Distributors

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1948803593

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9781948803595

George H. W. Bush

By: Diana Childress

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George H. W. Bush

By: Diana Childress

Presents the life of the forty-first president of the United States, relating his childhood, career, political background, and reaction to events that occurred during his presidency.

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Twenty-First Century Books

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0822515105

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9780822515104

Landscapes of Betrayal, Landscapes of Joy

Curtisville in the Lives of its Teenagers

By: Herb Childress

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Landscapes of Betrayal, Landscapes of Joy

Curtisville in the Lives of its Teenagers

By: Herb Childress

Landscapes of Betrayal, Landscapes of Joy provides a rare glimpse into the world of teenagers, from beach parties to bedrooms, from the math class to the midnight movies. In this fascinating ethnography, Herb Childress demonstrates how our buildings and landscapes (and the institutions that shape them) systematically shortchange our kids, eliminating opportunities for challenge and growth and encouraging their passivity. After examining the places to which the kids were devoted, where they worked hardest, and where they were at their best, Childress offers ideas for change.

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State University of New York Press

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0791492540

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9780791492543

The Annotated Common Law

With 2010 Foreword and Explanatory Notes

By: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.,Steven Alan Childress

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The Annotated Common Law

With 2010 Foreword and Explanatory Notes

By: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.,Steven Alan Childress

Decoded, demythed rendition of Holmes' classic study of law and judicial development of rules. "The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience." Includes 2010 Foreword; extensive, clear annotations by a Tulane law professor woven into The Common Law; footnotes with real numbers; and original page cites. Care in detail, proofreading, notes, and formatting, unlike any version made. As lamented by Holmes' premier biographer in 2006, The Common Law "is very likely the best-known book ever written about American law. But it is a difficult, sometimes obscure book, which today's lawyers and law students find largely inaccessible." No longer. With insertions and simple definitions of the original's language and concepts, this version makes it live for college students (able to "get it," at last, with legal terms explained), plus law students, lawyers, and anyone wanting to understand his great book. No previous edition, even in print, has offered annotations. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. compiled his master work in 1881 from lectures on the origins, reasoning, and import of the common law. It jump-started legal Realism and established law as a pragmatic way to solve problems and make policy, not just a bucket of rules. It has stood the test of time as one of the most important and influential studies of law. This book is interesting for a vast audience, including historians, students, and political scientists. It is also a recommended read before law school or in the 1L year. High quality, fully linked ePub edition from Quid Pro's Legal Legends Series.

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Quid Pro Books

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1610279743

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9781610279741

An Ozark Odyssey

The Journey of a Father and Son

By: William Childress

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An Ozark Odyssey

The Journey of a Father and Son

By: William Childress

J. W. Childress loved farming but was lousy at it. His family--including his wife, children, and stepson--toiled as sharecroppers and migrant workers in fields of cotton, broomcorn, and peanuts in the Ozarks of Missouri and Oklahoma and were continually defeated by hardship and agrarian ineptitude as they struggled to stay united amid adversity. In An Ozark Odyssey: The Journey of a Father and Son, William Childress recalls the life of his late, irascible but lovable stepfather--his bad decisions, his misfit marriage, his prickly personality, and his gypsying ways that impoverished the family. Stirred to recount humorous anecdotes from a peripatetic childhood, and including tales of coming-of-age in the Korean War and his own experiences with marriage and fatherhood, Childress tells a story of family bonds, wandering and struggle, privation and joy, quarrels, hard times, and the courage to brave the familiar. In doing so, he comes to terms with his enormous affection for a man who never expressed affection, while also coming to terms with his affection for the landscapes and lifestyle that ensured poverty and hardship for his family. As Childress demonstrates through charismatic storytelling, wit, and a humor tempered by the ghosts of a hardscrabble youth, the Childress family learned that security is mostly illusion but that giving up is no solution. An Ozark Odyssey covers J. W.'s journey from age seven to his death at age eighty-two, through marriage and divorce and reconciliation, four children, extreme poverty, restlessness, bankruptcies, and at last, a little recompense. Against all odds, he died well off, leaving his children a successful Ozark ranch.

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SIU Press

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0809326396

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9780809326396

Inside the Gemstone File

By: Kenn Thomas,David Hatcher Childress

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Inside the Gemstone File

By: Kenn Thomas,David Hatcher Childress

It's the most notorious rant in the history of conspiracy theories. Consists of hundreds of letters hand written in many segments over a number of years by Bruce Roberts, the creator of synthetic rubies. According to Gemstone: Hughes Aircraft stole Roberts' rubies in 1960 for use in laser weapons research. His subsequent investigation of the theft inspired Roberts to write the Gemstone letters, tracking the secret history of the international mob and industrial espionage, and their role in political intrigue. In 1975, a 24 page chronology known as the Skeleton Key to The Gemstone File began to circulate and has now become a legendary classic of conspiracy literature.

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Adventures Unlimited Press

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0932813666

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9780932813664

Man-Made UFOs

WWII's Secret Legacy

By: Renato Vesco,David Hatcher Childress

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Man-Made UFOs

WWII's Secret Legacy

By: Renato Vesco,David Hatcher Childress

While the government wants you to think that aliens are buzzing military bases, this book presents the overwhelming evidence that most "nuts and bolts" UFOs are made on earth and piloted by earthlings. This important book reveals the secret technologies German scientists captured at the end of World War II were working on, and takes us right up to today's state-of-the-art flying machines

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Adventures Unlimited Press

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1931882770

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9781931882774

The Mystery of the Olmecs

By: David Hatcher Childress

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The Mystery of the Olmecs

By: David Hatcher Childress

Lost Cities author Childress takes us deep into Mexico and Central America in search of the mysterious Olmecs, North America’s early, advanced civilization. The Olmecs, now sometimes called Proto-Mayans, were not acknowledged to have existed as a civilization until an international archeological meeting in Mexico City in 1942. Now, the Olmecs are slowly being recognized as the Mother Culture of Mesoamerica, having invented writing, the ball game and the “Mayan” Calendar. But who were the Olmecs? Where did they come from? What happened to them? How sophisticated was their culture? How far back in time did it go? Why are many Olmec statues and figurines seemingly of foreign peoples such as Africans, Europeans and Chinese? Is there a link with Atlantis? In this heavily illustrated book, join Childress in search of the lost cities of the Olmecs! Chapters include: The Mystery of the Origin of the Olmecs; The Mystery of the Olmec Destruction; The Mystery of Quizuo; The Mystery of Transoceanic Trade; The Mystery of Cranial Deformation; The Mystery of Olmec Writing; more. Heavily illustrated, includes a color photo section.

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SCB Distributors

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1935487477

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9781935487470

Augusto Pinochet's Chile, 2nd Edition

By: Diana Childress

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Augusto Pinochet's Chile, 2nd Edition

By: Diana Childress

Augusto Pinochet, commander-in-chief of Chile’s army, rose to power in 1973 when he participated in a military coup to overthrow the president, Salvador Allende. Allende was a Socialist, and the upper classes and the military feared that Socialism would lead to a takeover of the country by the Communist Soviet Union. On September 11 of that year, the military attacked the presidential palace, and Allende committed suicide. Pinochet took charge of the junta formed to rule, naming himself president. Military personnel controlled all phases of the government and industry, and the junta shut down the Congress. National police were stationed on almost every block to enforce curfews and keep order, arresting thousands of Socialists and other “enemies of the state.” Many were tortured, many were exiled or fled into exile, and many just disappeared. The secret police even assassinated opponents outside the country. Pinochet ruled the country with an iron fist for seventeen years even as he brought reforms that stabilized the economy. Increasing unrest and economic problems eventually forced him from office. He was arrested when in Great Britain a few years later and charged with murder and other crimes against humanity. Released for medical reasons, he returned to Chile. He died there in 2006, under indictment for murder and other crimes. Read this book to learn how a trusted military leader became a ruthless dictator, all in the name of protecting his country.

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Twenty-First Century Books

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1467703532

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9781467703536

Abandoned

By: Sam Childress

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Abandoned

By: Sam Childress

Abandoned is the story of Jeremy Stevens and his sister Amanda, who come home from school one day to find their parents gone and they have no where to go. Forced to live on the streets to survive, the two youngsters face the trials and hardships of life on their own. Learning to adapt and depend on each other, just as they start to fell things will turn out alright, Amanda's life is suddenly in danger and Jeremy must find a way to keep her alive and keep the two of them together. The two children face their biggest fears and cling to each other and their smallest hope as they try to survive being abandoned!

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Booktango

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1468931873

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9781468931877

The Second Season of Growth

By: Craig Childress Johnson

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The Second Season of Growth

By: Craig Childress Johnson

Advice given when buying plants or trees is "Don't expect any blooms the first year. Fruit trees may require three years." I planted a slim brown stick in my yard and got nothing the first year except a thin brown stick with a few leaves on it. During its second season of growth and beyond, that brown stick grew to 7 inches in diameter and now produces wondrous 20 foot pink clouds each spring. In an ideal world we learn lessons the first time around. So often, as with daffodils and cherry trees, we need more time to get it. Winter, incendiary summer, a few storms, and unexpected late frost toughen us, giving us confidence to face whatever life has for us. We can then bloom where we are planted. We often don't have choices about challenges life gives us, but we have free-will in deciding how to respond to them. We can embrace the One who gives Wisdom to live life abundantly. May these vignettes inspire you to find pearls of learning and wisdom to be harvested from the depths of your own life.

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Lulu.com

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1365777820

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9781365777820

Lost Continents & the Hollow Earth

By: David Hatcher Childress,Richard S. Shaver

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Lost Continents & the Hollow Earth

By: David Hatcher Childress,Richard S. Shaver

This book is Childress' thorough examination of the early hollow earth stories of Richard Shaver, and the fascination that fringe fantasy subjects such as lost continents, UFOs, and the hollow earth have had on people. Shaver's rare 1948 book, I Remember Lemuria is reprinted in its entirety, and the book is packed with illustrations from Ray Palmer's Amazing Stories issues of the 1940s. Childress discusses famous hollow earth books and delves deep into whatever reality may be behind the stories of tunnels underground.

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Adventures Unlimited Press

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0932813631

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9780932813633

Georgia Bottoms

A Novel

By: Mark Childress

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Georgia Bottoms

A Novel

By: Mark Childress

Georgia Bottoms is known in her small community of Six Points, Alabama, as a beautiful, well-to-do, and devoutly Baptist Southern belle. Nobody realizes that the family fortune has long since disappeared, and a determinedly single woman like Georgia needs an alternative, and discreet, means of income. In Georgia's case it is six well-heeled lovers -- one for each day of the week, with Mondays off -- none of whom knows about the others. But when the married preacher who has been coming to call (Saturdays) decides to confess their affair in front of the whole congregation, Georgia must take drastic measures to stop him. In George Bottoms, Mark Childress proves once again his unmistakable skill for combining the hilarious and the absurd to reveal the inner workings of the rebellious human heart.

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Little, Brown

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0316121967

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9780316121965

Great Plains Regional Technical Input Report

By: Dennis Ojima,Jean Steiner,Shannon McNeeley,Karen Cozzetto,Amber Childress

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Great Plains Regional Technical Input Report

By: Dennis Ojima,Jean Steiner,Shannon McNeeley,Karen Cozzetto,Amber Childress

Great Plains : social-ecological setting (climate-environment-society) natural resources and wildlife aspects --Characteristics of agricultural system and energy resources --Climate conditions and scenarios of change across the Great Plains --Water management --Ecosystem and biodiversity conservation issues --Energy considerations --Agriculture and land management --Great Plains societal considerations : impacts and consequences, vulnerability and risk, adaptive capacity, response options --Collaborative research and management interactions in response to climate change.

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Island Press

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161091435X

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9781610914352

A.I.M. for High Ground: the Adventure in Ministry

True Stories of Leadership in Crisis and in Joy

By: Randall R. Childress

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A.I.M. for High Ground: the Adventure in Ministry

True Stories of Leadership in Crisis and in Joy

By: Randall R. Childress

The Christian life is a life of adventure. Never knowing where God will take you or what experiences He will put you through, the challenge is to stay on high ground. A.I.M. for High Ground is a collection of one pastor’s true stories of Christian leadership in crisis and in joy. These stories relate experiences you don’t ordinarily receive in Bible College. As you read each story you will be impressed that God still does remarkable things and brings remarkable people into your life resulting in remarkable lessons learned. Church leaders and church members alike will learn valuable lessons from the author’s experience.

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WestBow Press

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1973667002

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9781973667001

Mojo and String

Two Plays

By: Alice Childress

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Mojo and String

Two Plays

By: Alice Childress

THE STORIES: MOJO. Paying a surprise visit to her former husband, Irene, aware that she is ill with cancer, reveals that she must shortly go back into the hospital but wanted to see Teddy just once more first. From their random conversation it is e

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Dramatists Play Service Inc

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0822207680

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9780822207689

Wine in the Wilderness

A Comedy-drama

By: Alice Childress

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Wine in the Wilderness

A Comedy-drama

By: Alice Childress

The story of Bill Jameson, an artist in a Harlem apartment, who's working on a triptych which will represent black womanhood.

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0822212617

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9780822212614

Selected Plays

By: Alice Childress

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Selected Plays

By: Alice Childress

A selection of five plays by twentieth-century author and actress Alice Childress, including "Florence," "Gold through the Trees," "Trouble in Mind," "Wedding Band : A Love/Hate Story in Black and White," and "Wine in the Wilderness.

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Northwestern University Press

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0810127512

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9780810127517

THE ROAD TO REDEMPTION

A Young Girl's Journey and Her Quest for Meaning

By: Amanda Childress

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THE ROAD TO REDEMPTION

A Young Girl's Journey and Her Quest for Meaning

By: Amanda Childress

Stella Mae Clark thought she had a wonderful life. She idolized her father, a military man who raised her to love Christ with all of her heart. She had a mother who loved her father and their example of true love gave her the sparkle in her eyes. That is until the unimaginable happens and her life is completely shattered. One decision at the age of sixteen would again turn her world completely upside down. Stella Mae makes the decision to leave her life and her family behind to seek refuge from her painful past. She desperately seeks solace, answers, and for something to fill the aching void within her heart. Just as she thinks she has settled into a new life with Christ, tragedy once again strikes and shatters any hope she had for a normal life. She abandons Christ and turns to a life of sin before it ultimately consumes her and breaks her down. Will it take nearly losing her life to find her way back to God or will her shame and regret keep holding her back? Join Stella Mae on her journey to find meaning and purpose in the midst of all her tragedy as she seeks to find the One her heart has been missing. The story of her past is one of loss, shame, heartbreak, and fear. With the help of those who see her for more than her past, she is able to become the person she always wanted to be and a new creature. It’s a story of forgiveness, self-discovery, finding love, and letting go of all control and putting it all in the hands of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Join us as we embark with Stella Mae on a heartbreaking yet redeeming journey to acceptance on a road called redemption.

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Christian Publishing House

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1949586855

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9781949586855

Marco Polo's Journey to China. 2nd Edition

By: Diana Childress

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Marco Polo's Journey to China. 2nd Edition

By: Diana Childress

Can one book really change the world? A handwritten manuscript by Marco Polo in 1288 did. Polo, son of a wealthy Italian merchant, wrote about his incredible experiences traveling to China with his father and uncle on a trade expedition, and also about his adventures as an envoy of Kublai Khan, the ruler of most of China. Polo’s book became a bestseller in Europe in the fourteenth century. It was copied over and over by hand, translated into fourteen languages, and became one of the first books to be printed after the invention of moveable type. The tales inspired others—including Christopher Columbus in the fifteenth century—to seek new sea routes for trade. Polo’s adventures—and manuscript—are one of world history’s most pivotal moments.

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Twenty-First Century Books

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1467703796

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9781467703796

Pirates and the Lost Templar Fleet

The Secret Naval War Between the Knights Templar and the Vatican

By: David Hatcher Childress

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Pirates and the Lost Templar Fleet

The Secret Naval War Between the Knights Templar and the Vatican

By: David Hatcher Childress

When the Templars were disbanded by papal order in 1307, their fleet disappeared from its base at La Rochelle. The author maintains that a portion of the fleet became the first pirates to fly the Skull and Crossbones - marauding through the Mediterranean, and later preying on the ships of the Vatican coming from the rich ports of the Americas as the Pirates of the Caribbean. Another portion of the fleet fled to the deep fiords of Scotland and came under the command of the St Clair family of Rosslyn - the founders of freemasonry. These Templars made a voyage to Canada in the year 1398, nearly 100 years before Columbus.

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Adventures Unlimited Press

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1931882185

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9781931882187

Lost Cities of North & Central America

By: David Hatcher Childress

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Lost Cities of North & Central America

By: David Hatcher Childress

Search for lost Mayan cities and books of gold, discover an ancient canal system in Arizona, climb gigantic pyramids in the Midwest, explore megalithic monuments in New England, and join the astonishing quest for the lost cities throughout North [and Central] America"--Amazon.com.

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Adventures Unlimited Press

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0932813097

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