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Mariah Carey

Her Story

By: Chris Nickson

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Mariah Carey

Her Story

By: Chris Nickson

Biography of pop music star Mariah Carey and the Cinderella story of her rise from being the daughter of a poor, single mother to having five number one singles on the music charts.

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0312131216

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Mariah Carey Revisited

The Unauthorized Biography

By: Chris Nickson

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Mariah Carey Revisited

The Unauthorized Biography

By: Chris Nickson

A biography of pop singer Mariah Carey, providing information about her life and career, recent world tours, collaborations, and the "Butterfly" album.

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0312195125

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9780312195120

Can't Buy Me Love

By: Chris Kenry

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In his bawdy and uproarious debut novel, Chris Kenry takes readers on a rollicking ride with an irreverent, resilient jack of all trades--and master of the naughtiest one. . . Buffed, Bereaved. . .And Broke Thanks to his wealthy, doting lover, Jack Thompson's biggest daily challenges are the Stairmaster® and deciding whether to read this week's issue of People before or after Entertainment Weekly. That changes with his smitten benefactor's sudden demise--and a decade-old will that naturally doesn't include Jack. Unceremoniously tossed out of their shared home with little more than his rollerblades, Jack wonders who will support him in the style to which he's become accustomed. He certainly can't. . .or can he? To Jack's dismay, his half-hearted stints as a terminally bored office temp and disastrously clumsy waiter barely cover the minimum payments on his maxed out credit cards, let alone sprees at Neiman Marcus and Sunday brunches with the boys. What's a homeless and unemployed shopaholic to do? Perhaps nothing more than what comes naturally. After all, with his perfect pecs and sculpted abs, he's one of the most sought-after guys in town. . . Though he stumbles into his newfound career running Harden Up, a male escort service, purely by accident, it doesn't take long for Jack to reap the financial rewards of all those workouts. Soon business is booming, especially after he teams up with dark and decadent fellow hustler Ray, who shares his resourceful spirit--among other things. Now they're making more money than they ever imagined--and falling for each other in the process. With everything going his way at last, Jack can't help wondering. . .can a pair of entrepreneurial escorts really live happily ever after in suburban Denver? "A rollicking debut. . .the author's talent for catchy, catty dialogue and innovative (and often quite humorous) sexual interplay buoys his storyline. . .Kenry shows promise with this first effort and his moxie shines through. . .a satisfying confection." --Publishers Weekly Former milkman, UPS driver, and teacher of English conversation to throngs of adoring Japanese housewives, Chris Kenry currently lives and paints houses in Denver.

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Kensington Books

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0758290802

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9780758290809

Shakespeare and the Countess

By: Chris Laoutaris

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Shakespeare and the Countess

By: Chris Laoutaris

In November 1596, a countess signed a document that would nearly destroy the career of William Shakespeare. Who was this woman who played such an instrumental, yet little known, role in Shakespeare's life? Never far from controversy when she was alive—she sparked numerous riots and indulged in acts of bribery, breaking-and-entering, and kidnapping—Lady Elizabeth Russell has been edited out of public memory, yet the chain of events she set in motion would make Shakespeare the legendary figure we all know today. Lady Elizabeth Russell’s extraordinary life made her one of the most formidable women of the Renaissance. The daughter of King Edward VI’s tutor, she blazed a trail across Elizabethan England as an intellectual and radical Protestant. And, in November 1596, she became the leader of a movement aimed at destroying the career of William Shakespeare—a plot that resulted in the closure of the Blackfriars Theatre but the construction, instead, of the Globe. Providing new pieces to this puzzle, Chris Laoutaris's rousing history reveals for the first time this startling battle against Shakespeare and the Lord Chamberlain's Men.

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Simon and Schuster

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160598793X

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9781605987934

Inky Stevens, For Whom the School-Bell Tolls

By: Chris Martin

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Inky Stevens, For Whom the School-Bell Tolls

By: Chris Martin

Inky’s back in his latest enthralling whodunit! Blinkton-on-Sea is gripped by the fiercest winter in its history. But the weather is not the town’s most pressing problem. When a battered Citroën slides through its backstreets late one night, a sequence of events begins to unfold which culminates in a sinister battle of good versus evil. When a mystery figure sabotages a crucial Maths exam by setting off Blinkton School’s fire alarm, a desperate hunt is on to find the culprit. Inky Stevens, rising to the challenge, finds himself drawn into a mystery which extends far beyond the school-gates. Blinkton, he discovers, is harbouring a deadly secret, one which will bring the Great School Detective face to face with his most deadly adversary. His latest mission threatens not only to destroy Inky, but also the very existence of the isolated seaside town. Praise for ‘Inky Stevens the Case of the Caretaker’s Keys’ Cleverly Crafted. The story is set against a background that all teenage readers will identify with. It’s well paced and contains enough red herrings to keep the reader desperate to turn the page. Geoffrey M. Step aside J.K.Rowling. A brilliant read with clever plot twists throughout and appealing and engaging characters. This tale of mystery and subterfuge keeps the reader guessing right up to its explosive end. A ‘must-read’ for mystery fans of all ages! Seventynil. Brilliant Read. Brought loads of memories flooding back. You can tell the writer really understands what makes school kids and their teachers tick. A brilliant mystery that twists and turns right up to its conclusion. Can’t wait for the next one! Elaine D.

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Paragon Publishing

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1782224262

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9781782224266

Death of a Pieman

By: Chris French

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Death of a Pieman

By: Chris French

Ted always wanted to be a policeman and ever since he was a child he voraciously read detective novels. He was always struck by how stupid the policemen were made out to be. His career path was not dynamic. Until he met his wife he seemed to make slow progress on his cases and failed to make the decisive breakthrough. He was good at passing the exams to get considered for promotion and he interviewed well, but he lacked the big case to propel him to the attention of the really senior police officers. So the years passed by. Then he met Clare and now he looked at each case with a certainty that she could help him when he got bogged down. She was his best kept secret.

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Lulu.com

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1326254898

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9781326254896

The Civic Organization and the Digital Citizen

Communicating Engagement in a Networked Age

By: Chris Wells

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The Civic Organization and the Digital Citizen

Communicating Engagement in a Networked Age

By: Chris Wells

Digital media are reshaping citizens' connections to politics. Many claim that new media de-institutionalize political action. But where does that leave civic engagement, long structured through stable, bureaucratic organizations? This book examines what the relationship between young citizens and civic groups looks like on the Web and in social media.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0190203625

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9780190203627

Death Row All Stars

A Story of Baseball, Corruption, and Murder

By: Chris Enss,Howard Kazanjian

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Death Row All Stars

A Story of Baseball, Corruption, and Murder

By: Chris Enss,Howard Kazanjian

It was the golden age of baseball, and all over the country teams gathered on town fields in front of throngs of fans to compete for local glory. In Rawlins, Wyoming, residents lined up for tickets to see slugger Joseph Seng and the rest of the Wyoming Penitentiary Death Row All Stars as they took on all comers in baseball games with considerably more at stake. Teams came from Reno, Nevada; Klamath Falls, Oregon; Bodie, California; and throughout the west to take on the murderers who made up the line-up. This is a fun and wildly dramatic and suspenseful look at the game of baseball and at the thrilling events that unfolded at a prison in the wide-open Wyoming frontier in pursuit of wins on the diamond.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1493014188

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9781493014187

Baseball History eBook Gift Set

By: Jonathan Weeks,Chris Enss,Howard Kazanjian

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Baseball History eBook Gift Set

By: Jonathan Weeks,Chris Enss,Howard Kazanjian

This three-in-one holiday gift set is the perfect gift for any baseball fan this season. Each with its own unique story, these books will thrill any fan of America’s favorite pastime. The set includes class tales (At the Old Ballgame: Stories From Baseball's Golden Era), scandals (Mudville Madness: Fabulous Feats, Belligerent Behavior, and Erratic Episodes on the Diamond), and a unique portrait of baseball’s early days (Death Row All Stars: A Story of Baseball, Corruption, and Murder). That’s three strikes for this set!

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1493017055

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9781493017058

Skin Like Silver

By: Chris Nickson

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Skin Like Silver

By: Chris Nickson

The third intriguing historical mystery to feature Detective Inspector Tom Harper Leeds, England. October, 1891. An unclaimed parcel at the Central Post Office is discovered to contain the decomposing body of a baby boy. It’s a gruesome case for DI Tom Harper. Then a fire during the night destroys half the railway station. The next day a woman’s body is found in the rubble. But Catherine Carr didn’t die in the blaze: she’d been stabbed to death – and Harper has to find her killer. The estranged wife of a wealthy industrialist, Catherine had been involved with the Leeds Suffragist Society, demanding votes for women, the same organization for which Harper’s wife Annabelle has just become a speaker. Were Catherine’s politics the cause of her death? Or is the husband she abandoned behind it? But when her brother escapes from the asylum and steals a shotgun, Harper has to race to find the answers.

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Severn House Publishers Ltd

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1780107366

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9781780107363

Otorhinolaryngology- Head & Neck Surgery

Two Volume Set

By: Chris de Souza

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Otorhinolaryngology- Head & Neck Surgery

Two Volume Set

By: Chris de Souza

Otorhinolaryngology- Head & Neck Surgery is the latest edition of this comprehensive two-volume guide to all the sub-specialties of otorhinolaryngology, including brand new chapters and the most recent developments in the field. New topics in this edition include laryngopharyngeal reflux, trauma and stenosis of the larynx, and laryngeal cancer, bringing the text firmly up to date. Illustrated in full colour across 2000 pages, this vast two-volume set is an ideal source of reference for otorhinolaryngoloy practitioners and residents.

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Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers

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9351524612

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9789351524618

Baseball State by State

Major and Negro League Players, Ballparks, Museums and Historical Sites

By: Chris Jensen

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Baseball State by State

Major and Negro League Players, Ballparks, Museums and Historical Sites

By: Chris Jensen

Offering a fresh approach to the familiar concept of all-time baseball teams, this exhaustive work ranks more than 2,500 players by state of birth and includes both major league and Negro League athletes. Each chapter covers one state and opens with the all-time team, naming a top selection for each position followed by honorable mentions. Also included are all-time stat leaders in nine categories--games, hits, average, RBI, home runs, stolen bases, pitching wins, strikeouts and saves--a brief overview of the state's baseball history, notable player achievements, historic baseball places to see, potential future stars, a comprehensive list of player nicknames, and the state's all-time best player.

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McFarland

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0786468955

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9780786468959

Shakespeare's Book

The Story Behind the First Folio and the Making of Shakespeare

By: Chris Laoutaris

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Shakespeare's Book

The Story Behind the First Folio and the Making of Shakespeare

By: Chris Laoutaris

The never-before-told story of how the makers of The First Folio created Shakespeare as we know him today. 2023 marks the 400-year anniversary of the publication of Mr William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, known today simply as the First Folio. It is difficult to imagine a world without The Tempest, Twelfth Night, Antony and Cleopatra, The Winter’s Tale, and Macbeth, but these are just some of the plays that were only preserved thanks to the astounding labor of love that was the first collected edition of Shakespeare’s plays. When the First Folio hit the bookstalls in 1623, nearly eight years after the dramatist’s death, it provided eighteen previously unpublished plays, and significantly revised versions of close to a dozen other dramatic works, many of which may not have survived without the efforts of those who backed, financed, curated, and crafted what is arguably one of the most important conservation projects in literary history. Without the First Folio Shakespeare is unlikely to have acquired the towering international stature he now enjoys across the arts, the pedagogical arena, and popular culture. Its lasting impact on English national heritage, as well as its circulation across cultures, languages, and media, makes the First Folio the world’s most influential secular book. But who were the personalities behind the project and did Shakespeare himself play a role in its inception Shakespeare’s Book: The Story Behind the First Folio and the Making of Shakespeare charts, for the first time, the manufacture of the First Folio against a turbulent backdrop of seismic political events and international tensions which intersected with the lives of its creators and which left their indelible marks on this ambitious publication-project. This story uncovers the friendships, bonds, social ties, and professional networks that facilitated the production of Shakespeare’s book—as well as the personal challenges, tragedies and dangers that threw obstacles in the path of its chief backers. It reveals how Shakespeare himself, before his death, may have influenced the ways in which his own public identity would come to be enshrined in the First Folio, shaping his legacy to future generations and determining how the world would remember him: "not of an age, but for all time." Shakespeare’s Book tells the true story of how the makers of the First Folio created “Shakespeare” as we know him today.

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Simon and Schuster

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1639363270

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9781639363278

Playing for Time

The Death Row All Stars

By: Chris Enss

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Playing for Time

The Death Row All Stars

By: Chris Enss

For Joseph Seng and the other death row inmates in the line-up for the Wyoming State Penitentiary All Stars, baseball was literally a game of life or death. Based on primary source documents, some unearthed at the old prison itself, Playing for Time recreates the compelling story of this team of hardened criminals who excelled at a civilized game to become amateur sports heroes, and of the key player who led them to many victories. It is soon to be a major Hollywood motion picture.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738533084

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9780738533087

Combat Over the Trenches

Oswald Watt, Aviation Pioneer

By: Chris Clarke

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Combat Over the Trenches

Oswald Watt, Aviation Pioneer

By: Chris Clarke

Father of the Flying Corps' and 'Father of Australian Aviation' were two of the unofficial titles conferred on Oswald ("Toby") Watt when he died in tragic circumstances shortly after the end of the First World War. He had become the Australian Army's first qualified pilot in 1911, but spent the first 18 months of the war with the French Air Service, the Aronautique Militaire, before arranging a transfer to the Australian Imperial Force. Already an experienced combat pilot, he rose quickly through the ranks of the Australian Flying Corps, becoming a squadron leader and leading his unit at the battle of Cambrai, then commander of No 1 Training Wing with the senior AFC rank of lieutenant colonel.These were elements in a colorful and at times a romantic career long existing interest and attention - not just during Watt's lifetime but in the interval since his death nearly a century ago. His name had been rarely out of Australian newspapers for more than a decade before the war, reflecting his wealthy lifestyle and extensive and influential social and political connections. But this focus has enveloped Watt's story with an array of false and misleading elements verging on mythology. For the first time, this book attempts to establish the true story of Watt's life and achievements, and provide a proper basis for evaluating his place in Australian history.

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Casemate Publishers

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1526715031

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9781526715036

The Eye Test

A Case for Human Creativity in the Age of Analytics

By: Chris Jones

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The Eye Test

A Case for Human Creativity in the Age of Analytics

By: Chris Jones

In a world increasingly ruled by numbers and algorithms, award-winning journalist Chris Jones makes a compelling case for a more personal approach to analytical thinking. THE EYE TEST is a necessary course correction, a call for a more balanced, personal approach to problem-solving. Award-winning journalist Chris Jones makes the case for the human element—for what smart, practiced, devoted people can bring to situations that have proved resistant to analytics. Jones shares what he’s learned from an army of extraordinary talents, including some of the best doctors, executives, athletes, meteorologists, magicians, designers, astrophysicists, and detectives in the world. There are lessons in their mastery. Of course, there is a place for numbers in decision-making. No baseball player should be judged by his jawline. But the analytics revolution sparked by Michael Lewis’s Moneyball now threatens to replace one kind of absurdity with another. We have developed a blind faith in the machine, the way a driver overly reliant on his GPS might be led off the edge of a cliff. Not all statistical analysis is sound. Algorithms aren’t infallible, and spreadsheets aren’t testaments. Trust in them too much, and they risk becoming instruments of destruction rather than understanding. Worse, data’s supremacy in our daily lives has led to a dangerous strain of anti-expertise: the belief that every problem is a math problem, and anyone given access to the right information will find the right answer. That taste doesn’t matter, experience doesn’t matter, creativity doesn’t matter. That we can’t believe our eyes, no matter how much they’ve seen. THE EYE TEST serves as a reminder that if beauty is less of a virtue in the age of analytics, a good eye still is. This book is a celebration of our greatest beholders—and an absorbing, inspiring guide for how you might become one, too.

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Twelve

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1538730685

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9781538730683

College Made Whole

Integrative Learning for a Divided World

By: Chris W. Gallagher

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College Made Whole

Integrative Learning for a Divided World

By: Chris W. Gallagher

Lucidly written and packed with practical recommendations and real student stories, College Made Whole will challenge higher education professionals and policy makers, as well as anyone with a stake in the future of US higher education—which is to say, all of us who inhabit this fragile planet.

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Johns Hopkins University Press

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1421432625

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9781421432625

The Whole Message of the Bible in 16 Words

By: Chris Bruno

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The Whole Message of the Bible in 16 Words

By: Chris Bruno

16 Key Words. 1 Overarching Message. At the heart of the Bible is one overarching message: God saving his people through their promised Messiah. This accessible introduction to the main point of the Bible traces the development of sixteen key themes— creation, covenant, kingdom, temple, judgment, and more—from Genesis to Revelation, showing how both the Old and New Testaments come together to declare a single unified message. A concise primer to biblical theology, this book helps readers trace God's unfolding plan of redemption throughout the Bible.

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Crossway

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1433553651

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9781433553653

South African Essays on 'Universal' Shakespeare

By: Chris Thurman

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South African Essays on 'Universal' Shakespeare

By: Chris Thurman

South African Essays on ’Universal’ Shakespeare collects new scholarship and extant (but previously unpublished) material, reflecting the changing nature of Shakespeare studies across various ’generation gaps’. Each essay, in exploring the nuances of Shakespearean production and reception across time and space, is inflected by a South African connection. In some cases, this is simply because of the author’s nationality or institutional affiliation; in others, there is a direct engagement with what Shakespeare means, or has meant, in South Africa. By investigating the universality of Shakespeare from both implicitly and explicitly ’southern’ perspectives, the book presents new possibilities for considering (and reassessing) shifting manifestations of Shakespeare’s work in major Shakespearean ’centres’ such as Britain and the United States, as well as across the global North and South.

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Routledge

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1317052331

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9781317052333

The Legacy of Jonathan Edwards in the Theology of Andrew Fuller

By: Chris Chun

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The Legacy of Jonathan Edwards in the Theology of Andrew Fuller

By: Chris Chun

This book focuses on the legacy of Jonathan Edwards on the Particular Baptists by way of apprehending theories held by their congregations during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In particular, special attention is directed to the Edwardsean legacy as manifested in the theology of Andrew Fuller. The monograph positions itself between Edwards and Fuller in the transatlantic, early modern period and attempts by the two theologians to express a coherent understanding of traditional dogma within the context of the Enlightenment. The scope of the research traces Fuller’s theological indebtedness by way of historical reconstruction, textual expositions, and theological and philosophical implications of the following works: Freedom of the Will, Religious Affections, Humble Attempt, and Justification by Faith Alone et al.

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BRILL

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9004227857

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9789004227859

Old Town Road

By: Chris Molanphy

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Old Town Road

By: Chris Molanphy

In Old Town Road, Chris Molanphy considers Lil Nas X’s debut single as pop artifact, chart phenomenon, and cultural watershed. “Old Town Road” was more than a massive hit, with the most weeks at No. 1 in Billboard Hot 100 history. It is also a prism through which to track the evolution of popular music consumption and the ways race influences how the music industry categorizes songs and artists. By both lionizing and satirizing genre tropes—it’s a country song built from an alternative rock sample, a hip-hop song in which nobody raps, a comical song that transcends novelty, and a queer anthem—Lil Nas X troubles the very idea of genre. Ultimately, Molanphy shows how “Old Town Road” channeled decades of Americana to point the way toward our cultural future.

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Duke University Press

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1478027649

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Free Exercise

Religion, the First Amendment, and the Making of America

By: Christopher Beneke,Professor of History and Associate Dean for the First Year Experience and the Bentley Core Christopher Beneke

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Free Exercise

Religion, the First Amendment, and the Making of America

By: Christopher Beneke,Professor of History and Associate Dean for the First Year Experience and the Bentley Core Christopher Beneke

Free Exercise is an innovative contribution to both United States constitutional history and the history of religious toleration in the United States. It traces the routes by which Americans arrived at the First Amendment's religious clauses, the cultural currents that shaped their meaning, and the consequences that flowed from them.

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Oxford University Press

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0197767028

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9780197767023

Alternative Media

By: Chris Atton

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Alternative Media

By: Chris Atton

Drawing examples from the UK and the US, this volume offers an introduction to alternative media. It includes radical media as well as newer cultural forms such as zines, fanzines, and personal Web sites.

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SAGE

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0761967710

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What is Journalism?

The Art and Politics of a Rupture

By: Chris Nash

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What is Journalism?

The Art and Politics of a Rupture

By: Chris Nash

This book argues that journalism should treat itself as an academic discipline on a par with history, geography and sociology, and as an art form in its own right. Time, space, social relations and imagination are intrinsic to journalism. Chris Nash takes the major flaws attributed to journalism by its critics—a crude empiricism driven by an un-reflexive ‘news sense’; a narrow focus on a de-contextualised, transient present; and a too intimate familiarity with powerful sources—and treats them as methodological challenges. Drawing on the conceptual frameworks of Pierre Bourdieu, David Harvey, Henri Lefebvre, Michel-Rolph Trouillot and Gaye Tuchman, he explores the ways in which rigorous journalism practice can be theorised to meet these challenges. The argument proceeds through detailed case studies of work by two leading iconoclasts—the artist Hans Haacke and the 20th century journalist I.F. Stone. This deeply provocative and original study concludes that the academic understanding of journalism is fifty years behind its practice, and that it is long past time for scholars and practitioners to think about journalism as a disciplinary research practice. Drawing on an award-winning professional career and over three decades teaching journalism practice and theory, Chris Nash makes these ideas accessible to a broad readership among scholars, graduate students and thoughtful journalists looking for ways to expand the intellectual range of their work.

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Springer

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1137399341

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A Violent History of Benevolence

Interlocking Oppression in the Moral Economies of Social Working

By: Chris Chapman,A.J. Withers

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A Violent History of Benevolence

Interlocking Oppression in the Moral Economies of Social Working

By: Chris Chapman,A.J. Withers

A Violent History of Benevolence traces how normative histories of liberalism, progress, and social work enact and obscure systemic violences. Chris Chapman and A.J. Withers explore how normative social work history is structured in such a way that contemporary social workers can know many details about social work’s violences, without ever imagining that they may also be complicit in these violences. Framings of social work history actively create present-day political and ethical irresponsibility, even among those who imagine themselves to be anti-oppressive, liberal, or radical. The authors document many histories usually left out of social work discourse, including communities of Black social workers (who, among other things, never removed children from their homes involuntarily), the role of early social workers in advancing eugenics and mass confinement, and the resonant emergence of colonial education, psychiatry, and the penitentiary in the same decade. Ultimately, A Violent History of Benevolence aims to invite contemporary social workers and others to reflect on the complex nature of contemporary social work, and specifically on the present-day structural violences that social work enacts in the name of benevolence.

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1442625090

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Voice and Speech for Musical Theatre

A Practical Guide

By: Chris Palmer

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Voice and Speech for Musical Theatre

A Practical Guide

By: Chris Palmer

Voice and Speech for Musical Theatre is the first book to combine traditional actor vocal training with musical theatre training, offering support and guidance for performers seeking to train their spoken voice specifically for singing and performing in musical theatre. Performers in musical theatre are working harder than ever. The shifting and extreme nature of the modern musical theatre repertoire requires performers capable of mastering musicianship, singing and dancing while at the same time providing convincing and clear performances as actors. Voice and Speech for Musical Theatre will help train musical theatre performers in the longer modes of voice needed to create convincing and moving performances. Ideal for the triple-threat performer, Voice and Speech for Musical Theatre features exercises for performers, tips for teachers and online video resources, allowing for a focused and outcome-oriented training of vocal techniques for musical theatre performers.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350011231

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Dambusters: The Forging of a Legend

617 Squadron in World War II

By: Chris Ward,Andy Lee,Andreas Wachtel

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Dambusters: The Forging of a Legend

617 Squadron in World War II

By: Chris Ward,Andy Lee,Andreas Wachtel

617 Squadron of 5 Group RAF Bomber Command was without doubt the most famous RAF Squadron in World War II. It was formed to carry out the precision low-level attack on the Mohne, Eder and Sorpe Dams, using Barnes Wallaces newly developed rotating mine, now commonly referred to as The Bouncing Bomb. The raid was a tremendous success, although at great cost to the squadron, and proved to be a great moral booster for the war-weary British public. Guy Gibson VC was tasked with organizing the formation and training of the new squadron and the Dambusters have been national heroes ever since. Although several books have previously been written on this epic adventure, this is a new look at their first raid and then the long and envious history of 617 until the end of the war. This new version of the Dams raid within the book, pays particular attention to timings, as it is easy to overlook the fact, that this was a complex three-phase operation, spanning 8 hours and 47 minutes, with action occurring simultaneously at widely dispersed locations. It also attempts to settle finally the circumstances of the losses, by examining the testimony of eyewitnesses on both sides, and presenting arguments to help readers decide for themselves what actually happened where previous accounts are contradictory or at variance. In the later war years 617 suffered greatly during an attack on the Dortmund-Ems Canal but recovered and their list of priority special targets then included the German missile research plant at Peenemunde, Hamburg, the U boat pens at La Pallice and the sinking of the battleship Tirpitz. The legendary Leonard Cheshire VC led the Squadron for much of that period. This newly researched account of 617s wartime record contains many first-hand accounts from squadron members and also German and Dutch witnesses who were present at some of the most spectacular raids and have explained many of the mysterious losses of the Squadrons aircraft.Lengthy appendices contain a Roll of Honour, Commanders, Airfields and aircraft, Operational statistics and Aircraft Histories.

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The Art of Red Sonja

By: Chris Lawrence

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The Art of Red Sonja

By: Chris Lawrence

Red Sonja has been untamed for 35 years, and along the way there have been some great artists who have helped make her one of the most successful heroines. Dynamite has created this very special book featuring Red Sonja and a selection of the exceptional artists who have depicted the She-Devil! Features the "sexy" art of Alex Ross, Michael Turner, Frank Cho, Jim Lee, Steve McNiven, George Perez, John Cassaday, Michael Turner, JG Jones, Mel Rubi, Neal Adams, and so many others, including unseen sketches and illustrations.

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1606900668

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The One Year Praying in Faith DevotionalThe One Year Praying in Faith Devotional

365 Daily Bible Readings on Hearing God and Believing His Promises

By: Chris Tiegreen

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The One Year Praying in Faith DevotionalThe One Year Praying in Faith Devotional

365 Daily Bible Readings on Hearing God and Believing His Promises

By: Chris Tiegreen

The faith journey can be hard, but it doesn't have to be. Abraham, Joseph, David, Paul, and even Jesus himself--all heroes of the faith who experienced both the soaring grace of answered prayers and crushing sorrow when God seemed unwilling to respond or too far away to hear. And yet, even in the darkest times, God was working, writing an unseen story of redemption that would save the world. When we pray, how do we see beyond the immediate and into the eternal? How do we know when to keep praying and when to give up; when to consider something a promise from God and when to recognize that it was from our own imagination? Why does silence from God rarely mean no and almost always mean come closer? The One Year Praying in Faith Devotional answers these questions and many more, taking you through a 365-day journey that will help you experience a prayerful relationship with God like never before.

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1496446119

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Tip and the Gipper

When Politics Worked

By: Chris Matthews

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Tip and the Gipper

When Politics Worked

By: Chris Matthews

A exploration of the time period 1980 to 1986, when two great political opponents--President Ronald Reagan and Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill--served together for the benefit of the country.

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1451695993

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Lost English

Words And Phrases That Have Vanished From Our Language

By: Chris Roberts

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Lost English

Words And Phrases That Have Vanished From Our Language

By: Chris Roberts

Lost English illuminates all these terms and many more. It's a fantastic gift for all those interested in history and the English language and a fascinating look at times past.

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Mrs Stone & Dr Smellie

Eighteenth-century Midwives and Their Patients

By: Robert Woods,Chris Galley

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Eighteenth-century Midwives and Their Patients

By: Robert Woods,Chris Galley

A remarkable history of midwifery in the eighteenth century.

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Death of the Liberal Class

By: Chris Hedges

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Death of the Liberal Class

By: Chris Hedges

The liberal class plays a vital role in a democracy. It gives moral legitimacy to the state. It makes limited forms of dissent and incremental change possible. The liberal class posits itself as the conscience of the nation. It permits us, through its appeal to public virtues and the public good, to define ourselves as a good and noble people. Most importantly, on behalf of the power elite the liberal class serves as bulwarks against radical movements by offering a safety valve for popular frustrations and discontentment by discrediting those who talk of profound structural change. Once this class loses its social and political role then the delicate fabric of a democracy breaks down and the liberal class, along with the values it espouses, becomes an object of ridicule and hatred. The door that has been opened to proto-fascists has been opened by a bankrupt liberalism The Death of the Liberal Class examines the failure of the liberal class to confront the rise of the corporate state and the consequences of a liberalism that has become profoundly bankrupted. Hedges argues there are five pillars of the liberal establishment — the press, liberal religious institutions, labor unions, universities and the Democratic Party — and that each of these institutions, more concerned with status and privilege than justice and progress, sold out the constituents they represented. In doing so, the liberal class has become irrelevant to society at large and ultimately the corporate power elite they once served.

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Advertising

Critical Approaches

By: Chris Wharton

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Advertising

Critical Approaches

By: Chris Wharton

Advertising: Critical Approaches explores a broad range of critical theories and perspectives to shed new light on the organisation, workings and effects of the advertising industry today. Chris Wharton presents the social, cultural and economic role of advertising across history, with chapters tracking the process of advertising from production to reception. Split into three sections covering Foundations, Frameworks and Applications, the book’s chapters explore a range of areas central to an insight into the development of modern advertising, including: advertising history cultural, critical and political economy approaches to advertising texts in advertising the reception of advertising advertising in the home and outdoor advertising consumer culture. Case studies explore the diversity in the uses of advertising throughout history, from Ostia and the Square of the Corporations in the ancient Roman world to the UK Border Agency’s ‘Go Home’ campaign and contemporary City branding throughout Europe. Assessing the impact of the works of key critical thinkers including Marx, Morris, Lyotard, Barthes, Saussure, Williams and Hall have had on our understanding of consumption and advertising’s societal impact, Advertising: Critical Approaches illuminates and enhances our understanding and engagement with one of the most vital cultural and economic forces in contemporary society.

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1135043574

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The Self-Field

Mind, Body and Environment

By: Chris Abel

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The Self-Field

Mind, Body and Environment

By: Chris Abel

In this incisive study of the biological and cultural origins of the human self, the author challenges readers to re-think ideas about the self and consciousness as being exclusive to humans. In their place, he expounds a metatheoretical approach to the self as a purposeful system of extended cognition common to animal life: the invisible medium maintaining mind, body and environment as an integrated ‘field of being’. Supported by recent research in evolutionary and developmental studies together with related discoveries in animal behaviour and the neurosciences, the author examines the factors that have shaped the evolution of the animal self across widely different species and times, through to the modern, technologically enmeshed human self; the differences between which, he contends, are relations of degree rather than absolute differences. We are, he concludes, instinctive and ‘fuzzy individuals’ clinging to fragile identities in an artificial and volatile world of humanity’s own making, but which we now struggle to control. This book, which restores the self to its fundamental place in identity formation, will be of great interest for students and academics in the fields of social, developmental and environmental psychology, together with readers from other disciplines in the humanities, especially philosophy, cultural theory and architecture.

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0429683669

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Young Duke

The Early Life of John Wayne

By: Chris Enss,Howard Kazanjian

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Young Duke

The Early Life of John Wayne

By: Chris Enss,Howard Kazanjian

By the time Stagecoach made John Wayne a silver-screen star in 1939, the thirty-one-year-old was already a veteran of more than sixty films, having twirled six-guns and foiled cattle rustlers in B Westerns for five studios. By the 1950s he was Hollywood’s most popular actor—an Academy Award nominee destined to become an American icon. Through previously unpublished photographs and revealing family anecdotes, The Young Duke offers an unflinching look at how Marion Morrison became the legend known as John Wayne—from his boyhood in Winterset, Iowa, to his days as a college football star, to his stunning box-office success in Westerns and war movies in the 1930s and 1940s. Shedding new light on Wayne’s formative years and early Hollywood roles and influences, this biography uncovers the true stories behind the screen legend’s public and private lives.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0762755938

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The One Year Hearing His Voice Devotional

365 Days of Intimate Communication With God

By: Chris Tiegreen

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The One Year Hearing His Voice Devotional

365 Days of Intimate Communication With God

By: Chris Tiegreen

This year, learn to listen for the voice of the One who loves you most. We know for sure that God speaks to His people. Throughout the pages of Scripture, He guides, instructs, corrects, inspires, encourages, and reveals. Inspired writers even call Him “the Word.” He has always been vocal, and He always will be. But what does He say to you? How does He say it? How can you know when you've heard Him? Now in a deluxe LeatherLike edition,The One Year Hearing His Voice Devotional, written by acclaimed author Chris Tiegreen, will help you discover patterns and practices you can adopt to hear God better. Listening to God is a process, a journey, and an adventure. He promises that those who seek Him will be rewarded with His presence and His voice. And the words of the living God are powerful and life-changing.

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