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Rally Point

Five Tasks to Unite the Country and Revitalize the American Dream

By: Chris Gibson

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Rally Point

Five Tasks to Unite the Country and Revitalize the American Dream

By: Chris Gibson

A smart and surprising political inventory for how America can reunite and revitalize in a time of crisis. Written by an admired leader of the Republican party, Rally Point: Five Tasks to Unite the Country and Revitalize the American Dream looks past the 2016 election, past the finger pointing and conventional political thinking, to focus on clear, primary principles that conservatives must debate and defend to protect the future of America. Raised in a working-class family in upstate New York, the first in his family to go to college, paid for in part by his service in the National Guard, Chris Gibson rose from Private to Colonel in the Army, including combat command in the storied 82nd Airborne Division. RALLY POINT is his story: what he's learned from the "School of Hard Knocks" and how he's applied those precious life lessons during his service in Iraq and in Congress. Drawn from a deep appreciation of history and American exceptionalism, Gibson provides incisive and frank analysis of the current political environment, including President Trump, and provides a roadmap based on time-tested Founding principles to help unite our country and revitalize the American Dream. RALLY POINT is a thoughtful, compelling, enjoyable read - a must for serious-minded Americans looking for answers in this challenging political environment.

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Twelve

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1538760576

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9781538760574

Memoirs of a Fat Bastard

How I lost my gut and gained a life

By: Chris Gibson

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Memoirs of a Fat Bastard

How I lost my gut and gained a life

By: Chris Gibson

Chris Gibson, is one fat, drunk, angry bastard. He's tried every diet: Atkins, South Beach, Pritikin... Problem is he still can't get his pants on in the morning. And he got none of the genes of his movie star brother Mel. In his early 40s with a job he hates and a lifestyle that is killing him, Chris is having more than a mid-life crisis. He's having a life and death crisis... Memoirs of a Fat Bastard is a bittersweet account of how a middle-aged man on the road to destruction turned his life and health around on his own terms. It's a telling and frequently hilarious story of the ways in which some men can lose their way, and the way back to finding meaning and happiness amid the competing pressures of being provider, family man, and all-round good Aussie bloke.

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305

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Macmillan Publishers Aus.

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174262149X

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9781742621494

Big Bob Gibson's BBQ Book

Recipes and Secrets from a Legendary Barbecue Joint: A Cookbook

By: Chris Lilly

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Big Bob Gibson's BBQ Book

Recipes and Secrets from a Legendary Barbecue Joint: A Cookbook

By: Chris Lilly

Winners of the World Championship BBQ Cook-Off for six years in a row and with hundreds of other contest ribbons as well, nobody does barbecue better than Big Bob Gibson Bar-B-Q in Decatur, Alabama. Chris Lilly, executive chef of Big Bob Gibson Bar-B-Q and great-grandson-in-law of Big Bob himself, now passes on the family secrets in this quintessential guide to barbecue. From dry rubs to glazes and from sauces to slathers, Lilly gives the lowdown on Big Bob Gibson Bar-B-Q's award-winning seasonings and combinations. You’ll learn the unique flavors of different woods and you’ll get insider tips on creating the right heat—be it in a charcoal grill, home oven, or backyard ground pit. Then, get the scoop on pulled pork, smoked beef brisket, pit-fired poultry, and, of course, ribs. Complete the feast with sides like red-skin potato salad and black-eyed peas. And surely you’ll want to save room for Lilly’s dessert recipes such as Big Mama’s Pound Cake. Loaded with succulent photographs, easy-to-follow instructions, and colorful stories, Big Bob Gibson’s BBQ Book honors the legacy of Big Bob Gibson—and of great barbeque.

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258

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Clarkson Potter

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030788581X

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9780307885814

The Church's Starfish

By: Chris Gibson

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The Church's Starfish

By: Chris Gibson

After a string of commercial disappointments, in 1986 Australian rock band The Church were simultaneously dropped by Warner Brothers in the US and EMI in Australasia. The future looked bleak. Seemingly from nowhere, their next record, Starfish, became an unlikely global hit. Its alluring and pensive lead single, 'Under the Milky Way', stood in stark contrast to the synth pop and hair metal dominating the 1980s. A high watermark of intelligent rock, Starfish musically anticipated alternative revolutions to come. Yet in making Starfish, The Church struggled with their internal contradictions. Seeking both commercial and artistic success, they were seduced by fame and drugs but cynical towards the music industry. Domiciled in Australia but with a European literary worldview, they relocated to Los Angeles to record under strained circumstances in the heart of the West Coast hit machine. This book traces the story of Starfish, its background, composition, production and reception. To the task, Gibson brings an unusual perspective as both a musician and a geographer. Drawing upon four decades of media coverage as well as fresh interviews between the author and band members, this book delves into the mysteries of this mercurial classic, tracing both its slippery cultural geography and its sumptuous songcraft. Situating Starfish in time and space, Gibson transports the reader to a key album and moment in popular music history when the structure and politics of the record industry was set to forever change.

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161

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501387022

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9781501387029

Cultural Studies Review

By: Chris Healy and Stephen Muecke (eds)

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Cultural Studies Review

By: Chris Healy and Stephen Muecke (eds)

The October 2008 Cultural Studies Review is a special issue focusing on cultures of panic, particularly recent examples of moral panic arising from issues of race, gender and sexuality. The diverse essays deal with 'men of Middle Eastern appearance', the trial of Private Kovko, the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the use of Ritalin, concerns around children and sexuality in Australia, and arts funding in the United States during the 'culture wars'. The moral panic has centrally to do with the behaviour of crowds, particularly the virtual crowds created by the mass media. It's a mechanism of expulsion, and thus at the same time of group solidarity. It's also a particularly powerful genre of the tabloid media: in its identification and shaming of deviant social groups it rigidly defines and reinforces moral norms, and is complicit with political strategies of consolidation and othering which create and depend on a sense of horror at refugees who wilfully throw their children overboard or push in to the front of the 'queue', at paedophiles grooming children over the internet, at drug-crazed criminals and bingeing teenagers... The challenge is to move beyond the realisation that moral panics are not rationally constructed to an analysis of the passional bases of the social order, and to an understanding of how our politics might deal with this without itself falling into the contagion of panic. The diverse collection of essays gathered together in this edition takes up that challenge.

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227

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Melbourne Univ. Publishing

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052285527X

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9780522855272

All Ten: The Ultimate Bowling Feat

By: Chris Overson

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All Ten: The Ultimate Bowling Feat

By: Chris Overson

For a bowler, taking all ten wickets in an innings is the ultimate statistical feat. It is also a very rare one: in nearly 60,000 first-class matches it has been achieved only 81 times. Surprisingly, although books have been written about Hedley Verity’s world record ten for 10 in 1932 and Jim Laker’s all-ten in the 1956 Old Trafford Test, nobody has ever written a book describing every all-ten. Until now. All Ten chronicles each all-ten, from Edmund Hinkly’s at Lord’s in 1848 to Zulfiqar Babar’s at Multan over a century and a half later. All-tens have been taken at many different venues, from famous Test match grounds to outgrounds on which first-class cricket is no longer played. Some were taken by great bowlers such as Colin Blythe and Clarrie Grimmett, some by less well-known ones including Harry Pickett of Essex and Tom Graveney’s brother Ken. Some bowlers were at the beginning of their careers, some were nearing the end. You will read about them all here and their very special feat, and maybe wonder why the bowlers at the other end didn’t strike even once, why many of the greatest bowlers of all-time never took an all-ten, and why all-tens have become much rarer in the last half century.

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Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians

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1908165898

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9781908165893

Life of Pie

Nag Pie: (Fifty More Shades of Nagging)

By: Chris Gibson

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Life of Pie

Nag Pie: (Fifty More Shades of Nagging)

By: Chris Gibson

In this second book about 'nagging' Chris Gibson again looks at the funny side of relationships and embarks on a journey through life, where whatever a woman says it is usually translated by a man into a slice of 'nag pie' or simply as good old fashioned 'nagging'. Following on from the hit satirical eBook and paperback, 'Fifty Shades of Nagging', 'Life of Pie' is three times longer and is packed with more analysis of the tongue in cheek nonsense that men and women engage in, while attempting to communicate. The never ending saga that starts when a daughter learns the art of 'nagging' at a tender age and then, as a grown woman, a refinement of her skills with a natural talent embedded in her DNA this perfected over the course of her life. Each chapter considers the specific 'nagging' that happens at a particular time of life, from teenage years, finding a partner, marriage, homemaking, mid life and eventually to the silver surf nagging phase of life as a grandmother. Also, back by popular demand is a section about ageing mothers. There are also chapters on break up's and a new condition dreamt up by the author, 'post traumatic nag disorder', is considered as well as the impact of mobile phones and social media and a look at how a vacation can generate some lovely little comments. In this second book Chris Gibson also looks at the funny side from a woman's perspective and has even included a final chapter that considers the obvious shortcomings of the male species, in what is more like a 'Life of Bragging'.

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156

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Alliebooks.CompanyUK

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1909429066

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9781909429062

Top Ten Pitchers

By: Chris W. Sehnert

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Top Ten Pitchers

By: Chris W. Sehnert

Profiles the lives and careers of top ten baseball pitchers.

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Abdo & Daughters

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1562397982

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9781562397982

The Guitar

Tracing the Grain Back to the Tree

By: Chris Gibson,Andrew Warren

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The Guitar

Tracing the Grain Back to the Tree

By: Chris Gibson,Andrew Warren

Guitars inspire cult-like devotion: an aficionado can tell you precisely when and where their favorite instrument was made, the wood it is made from, and that wood’s unique effect on the instrument’s sound. In The Guitar, Chris Gibson and Andrew Warren follow that fascination around the globe as they trace guitars all the way back to the tree. The authors take us to guitar factories, port cities, log booms, remote sawmills, Indigenous lands, and distant rainforests, on a quest for behind-the-scenes stories and insights into how guitars are made, where the much-cherished guitar timbers ultimately come from, and the people and skills that craft those timbers along the way. Gibson and Warren interview hundreds of people to give us a first-hand account of the ins and outs of production methods, timber milling, and forest custodianship in diverse corners of the world, including the Pacific Northwest, Madagascar, Spain, Brazil, Germany, Japan, China, Hawaii, and Australia. They unlock surprising insights into longer arcs of world history: on the human exploitation of nature, colonialism, industrial capitalism, cultural tensions, and seismic upheavals. But the authors also strike a hopeful note, offering a parable of wider resonance—of the incredible but underappreciated skill and care that goes into growing forests and felling trees, milling timber, and making enchanting musical instruments, set against the human tendency to reform our use (and abuse) of natural resources only when it may be too late. The Guitar promises to resonate with anyone who has ever fallen in love with a guitar.

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291

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University of Chicago Press

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022676401X

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9780226764016

Chill Factor

By: Chris Rogers

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Chill Factor

By: Chris Rogers

Former prosecutor Dixie Flanagan is at the bank and finds herself in the middle of a holdup, watching in disbelief as her sweet neighbor, Edna Pine, makes off with three bags of loot. When Edna dies in a shoot-out with cops, she's branded a granny bandit. Wracked with guilt for not trying to stop Edna, Dixie is soon on the trail of a master manipulator who has set in motion a devastating plot.

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418

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Bantam

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0553580736

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9780553580730

Railway Directory 2008

Statistics, People, Maps, Suppliers

By: Railway Gazette International,Chris Bushell,Chris Jackson

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Railway Directory 2008

Statistics, People, Maps, Suppliers

By: Railway Gazette International,Chris Bushell,Chris Jackson

Providing an overview of global railway networks and services, 'Railway Directory 2008' outlines current issues and provides accurate data on all of the world's major networks.

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716

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Nicholson

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0955774004

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9780955774003

The Encyclopaedia of Australia's Battles

By: Chris Clark

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The Encyclopaedia of Australia's Battles

By: Chris Clark

This definitive encyclopaedia describes all the major battles in which Australians have fought over more than 200 years up-dated to include Australia's involvements in the Middle East and Afghanistan.

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321

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Allen & Unwin

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1741769981

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9781741769982

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Elementary. Students' book

By: Brian Abbs,Ingrid Freebairn,Chris Barker

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Elementary. Students' book

By: Brian Abbs,Ingrid Freebairn,Chris Barker

Uses real life situations and language as well as photostories, projects, games and pop songs to teach English.

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132

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Addison Wesley Longman

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0582259002

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9780582259003

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Rally Point

Rally Point

Memoirs of a Fat Bastard

Memoirs of a Fat Bastard

Big Bob Gibson's BBQ Book

Big Bob Gibson's BBQ Book

The Church's Starfish

The Church's Starfish

Cultural Studies Review

Cultural Studies Review

All Ten: The Ultimate Bowling Feat

All Ten: The Ultimate Bowling Feat

Life of Pie

Life of Pie

Top Ten Pitchers

Top Ten Pitchers

The Guitar

The Guitar

Chill Factor

Chill Factor

Railway Directory 2008

Railway Directory 2008

The Encyclopaedia of Australia's Battles

The Encyclopaedia of Australia's Battles

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