Dale Thompson's Books

Gateway to the West

By: Mrs. Dale Bowers

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This edition of Gateway to the West has been excerpted from the original numbers, consolidated, and reprinted in two volumes, with added Publisher's Note, Tables of Contents, and indexes, by Genealogical Publishing Co., SInc., Baltimore, MD.

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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Dale Morgan on the Mormons

Collected Works, Part 2, 1949–1970

By: Dale Morgan

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Dale Morgan on the Mormons

Collected Works, Part 2, 1949–1970

By: Dale Morgan

Dale L. Morgan (1914–1971) remains one of the most respected historians of the American West—and his broad and influential career one of the least understood. Among today’s scholars his reputation rests largely on his studies of the fur trade and overland trails, yet throughout his life, Morgan’s perennial goal was to complete a history of the Latter Day Saints. In this volume—the second of a two-part set—Morgan’s writings on the Mormons finally receive the attention and analysis they merit. Dale Morgan on the Mormons is a far-reaching compilation of the historian’s published and unpublished writings. Edited and annotated by Morgan scholar Richard L. Saunders, the collection includes not only essays but also book reviews and bibliographic studies, many published here for the first time. At the heart of this second volume is a newly corrected presentation of Morgan’s unfinished magnum opus, “The Mormons.” Also included are a number of forgotten treasures, including Morgan’s still-definitive article on the Emmett Company, which headed west from Nauvoo in 1844 as the first party of westering Latter Day Saints; his privately distributed bibliography of the lesser Mormon churches; and the historian’s last published reflections on the Mormon experience. Throughout, Saunders provides informative introductions that place each of the writings or groups of writings into biographical and historical context.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806146710

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Women of Ideas

And What Men Have Done to Them: From Aphra Behn to Adrienne Rich

By: Dale Spender

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Women of Ideas

And What Men Have Done to Them: From Aphra Behn to Adrienne Rich

By: Dale Spender

Originally published in 1982, with characteristic energy, humour and learning Dale Spender traces three hundred years of women’s ideas. She uncovers not only the ways and words of women, but the methods of men. While men control knowledge, she argues, they are in a position to take women’s ideas. If they like them, they use them; if they don’t, they lose them. Every fifty years women are required to reinvent the wheel, for every generation of women is initiated into a world in which women’s traditions have been denied and buried. Providing convincing evidence that women’s absence from the record as creative intellectual beings is not women’s fault, but men’s, Dale Spender claims at least 150 women from the past and suggests how such erasure can be avoided in the future. Given that men take what they want from women’s ideas, Dale Spender advocates that women withdraw their labour, that they go on a knowledge strike, for if women cannot control the knowledge they produce, at least they can ensure that it cannot be used as evidence against them. Exposing the inadequacies of much modern (male) scholarship, the author provides the readers with the opportunity to share in her own discoveries, excitement, and ‘mistakes’ in the process of researching and writing this book. The result is that Women of Ideas: And What Men Have Done to Them is an ambitious and provocative book which will be used as a reference for many years to come, and which is also, from beginning to end, a stimulating read.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040166040

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Wildlife Study Design

By: Michael L. Morrison,William M. Block,M. Dale Strickland,Bret A. Collier,Markus J. Peterson

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Wildlife Study Design

By: Michael L. Morrison,William M. Block,M. Dale Strickland,Bret A. Collier,Markus J. Peterson

We developed the first edition of this book because we perceived a need for a compilation on study design with application to studies of the ecology, conser- tion, and management of wildlife. We felt that the need for coverage of study design in one source was strong, and although a few books and monographs existed on some of the topics that we covered, no single work attempted to synthesize the many facets of wildlife study design. We decided to develop this second edition because our original goal – synthesis of study design – remains strong, and because we each gathered a substantial body of new material with which we could update and expand each chapter. Several of us also used the first edition as the basis for workshops and graduate teaching, which provided us with many valuable suggestions from readers on how to improve the text. In particular, Morrison received a detailed review from the graduate s- dents in his “Wildlife Study Design” course at Texas A&M University. We also paid heed to the reviews of the first edition that appeared in the literature.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0387755276

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TELL THE TRUTH

By: Dale DeLillo

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TELL THE TRUTH

By: Dale DeLillo

John Corfinio wants to believe in the truth, justice, and fair play that is the very cornerstone of the court system, but his heartbreaking journey is littered with frustration and periods of incarceration in his continuous struggle for the right to establish a relationship with his only child. In spite of his best efforts to follow court-mandated procedures and rulings, he finds that the demands are not equally applied to both parents and that the leanings employed by the system are definitively lopsided in favor of his ex-wife. Every attempt to act in accordance with the demands of the court is met with repeated refusals until Corfinio finally reaches his breaking point and holds an entire courtroom hostage. He forces everyone to admit well-covered and long-buried truths about the faults of the system and the manipulations of those involved, which led to this critical impasse. In his doomed quest, he sadly discovers that it's not the truth that matters but, rather, who can manipulate the truth to their advantage that will win the day. Finding both unlikely allies and dangerous adversaries, the clock is ticking fast as he races toward a devastating truth that is correct and corrupt.

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Fulton Books, Inc.

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Wingless Flight

The Lifting Body Story

By: R. Dale Reed,Darlene Lister

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Wingless Flight

The Lifting Body Story

By: R. Dale Reed,Darlene Lister

Most lifting bodies, or "flying bathtubs" as they were called, were so ugly only an engineer could love them, and yet, what an elegant way to keep wings from burning off in supersonic flight between earth and orbit. Working in their spare time (because they couldn't initially get official permission), Dale Reed and his team of engineers demonstrated the potential of the design that led to the Space Shuttle. Wingless Flight takes us behind the scenes with just the right blend of technical information and fascinating detail (the crash of M2-F2 found new life as the opening credit for TV's "The Six Million Dollar Man"). The flying bathtub, itself, is finding new life as the proposed escape-pod for the Space Station.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813185637

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Sutter's Cross

By: W. Dale Cramer

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Sutter's Cross

By: W. Dale Cramer

Men and women of all ages will warm to Cramer's elegant prose and Southern charm. William Faulkner once insisted that great stories must capture the "old universal truths...love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice." Sutter's Cross delivers the truth in grand style. Sutter's Cross is a resort town in the southern Appalachians, where people live in comfortable homes, have comfortable portfolios, and wear comfortable clothes. They expect their lives, their weather, even their God, to be cooperative and predictable--until a stranger calling himself "Harley" shows up in the buffet line at the church's annual spring picnic looking like a wreck and wearing stolen jeans. Can God use an outcast to change a town?

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Baker Books

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1441205411

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Philosophy in the Age of Science and Capital

By: Gregory Dale Adamson

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Philosophy in the Age of Science and Capital

By: Gregory Dale Adamson

Based on an original synthesis of the work of Marx and Bergson, the key theorists of capitalism and creativity, the book presents an astonishing analysis of contemporary science and capital. Exploring in particular genetics, evolutionary theory, commodification and class consciousness, Philosophy in the Age of Science and Capital injects life back into contemporary politics, ethics and aesthetics.

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A&C Black

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0826460321

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Eighteenth-Century Western Cree and Their Neighbours

By: Dale R. Russell

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Eighteenth-Century Western Cree and Their Neighbours

By: Dale R. Russell

A re-examination of the hypothesis of a historic migration of the Western Cree resulting from the introduction of the fur trade.

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University of Ottawa Press

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1772821357

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Dorothy L. Sayers

The Centenary Celebration

By: Alzina Stone Dale

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Dorothy L. Sayers

The Centenary Celebration

By: Alzina Stone Dale

1993 marked the 100th birthday of Dorothy L. Sayers and in her honor Dale gathered a baker's dozen of the finest and most popular mystery writers from the United States and United Kingdom who discuss the way Sayers taught them their trade. The collection was nominated for Malice Domestic's non-fiction Agatha Award.

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iUniverse

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0595340776

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Lou Henry Hoover

A Prototype for First Ladies

By: Dale C. Mayer

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Lou Henry Hoover

A Prototype for First Ladies

By: Dale C. Mayer

The first ever biography of Herbert Hoover's First Lady.

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Nova Publishers

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In the Snare of the Fowler

Lured by the Charms of Small Town Life

By: Dale W. Patterson

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In the Snare of the Fowler

Lured by the Charms of Small Town Life

By: Dale W. Patterson

City folk pass through one stop light towns often not understanding their charms. They shudder to think of ever living in such a hick address, away from the glitter, glamour, and sophistication of the American metropolitan sprawl. Surprisingly, while rural America is an endangered species, the people that dwell there face many of the same joys and heartaches as city folk. Only the context is changed. In the Snare of the Fowler is a reminiscence of life beyond the stoplight. The stories of the people-at Little League games, Easter Sunrise Services, funerals, high school graduations, county fairs-shed endearing light on life in our small towns. A city-dweller tells these remembrances when by a great surprise he became a parish pastor in just such a town. Rather than being horrified by the tiny dot on the map, he fell in love with the people, and the life in a one-stoplight town.

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0595896936

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Karl Polanyi

A Life on the Left

By: Gareth Dale

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Karl Polanyi

A Life on the Left

By: Gareth Dale

Karl Polanyi (1886–1964) was one of the twentieth century's most original interpreters of the market economy. His penetrating analysis of globalization's disruptions and the Great Depression's underlying causes still serves as an effective counterargument to free market fundamentalism. This biography shows how the major personal and historical events of his life transformed him from a bourgeois radical into a Christian socialist but also informed his ambivalent stance on social democracy, communism, the New Deal, and the shifting intellectual scene of postwar America. The book begins with Polanyi's childhood in the Habsburg Empire and his involvement with the Great War and Hungary's postwar revolution. It connects Polanyi's idealistic radicalism to the political promise and intellectual ferment of Red Vienna and the horror of fascism. The narrative revisits Polanyi's oeuvre in English, German, and Hungarian, includes exhaustive research in five archives, and features interviews with Polanyi's daughter, students, and colleagues, clarifying the contradictory aspects of the thinker's work. These personal accounts also shed light on Polanyi's connections to scholars, Christians, atheists, journalists, hot and cold warriors, and socialists of all stripes. Karl Polanyi: A Life on the Left engages with Polanyi's biography as a reflection and condensation of extraordinary times. It highlights the historical ruptures, tensions, and upheavals that the thinker sought to capture and comprehend and, in telling his story, engages with the intellectual and political history of a turbulent epoch.

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Columbia University Press

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0231541481

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9780231541480

John Waters FAQ

All That's Left to Know About the Provocateur of Bad Taste

By: Dale Sherman

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John Waters FAQ

All That's Left to Know About the Provocateur of Bad Taste

By: Dale Sherman

For more than 50 years John Waters has been staging a coup against the good taste of the American public. From the ultimate gross-out in Pink Flamingos to the amazing general-audience rating of his biggest hit Hairspray, Waters has been subverting viewers' expectations with comedies that stretch past the boundaries of even today's jaded audiences. A provocateur of bad taste in a glorious way, Waters started out as an outsider with a camera and a small circle of fellow delinquents. In tearing down icons of the silver screen, Waters would create his own that are used still by others in movies and television. And that's only part of the tale. John Waters FAQ looks at how a nice boy from the right side of the tracks would end up becoming a demon of society and the influences that drove his ambition in moviemaking. Also featured are biographical information of the Dreamlanders -- the actors and crew members who would join Waters on his adventures in filmland over the years, including Waters's best-remembered find Divine. Beyond chapters dedicated to the making of each of his films -- from Hag in a Black Leather Jacket to his most recent A Dirty Shame -- there are those covering his career as a writer and artist. Also reviewed are his acting career in other people's television shows and movies over the years, Water's interest in music, and projects that never were to be. John Waters FAQ covers it all in the career of a man who started out with a dream of becoming an underground filmmaker and became so much more.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1493050869

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Leaving Yourself Behind

An Inspirational Workbook for Your Gifts to the Future

By: Dale Bailey

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Leaving Yourself Behind

An Inspirational Workbook for Your Gifts to the Future

By: Dale Bailey

Overall Purpose: To share very compelling and exciting true stories about people who, regardless of the size of their incomes or their estates, or even their state of health, have found ways to pass on the joy of giving to future generations by simply leaving lasting and measurable legacies of continuing support for their communities. There are also stories in this book that seem to confirm the theory that loving your neighbor as yourself is a principle that is cherished in most religions. However, being inspired by other people¿s actions is only a portion of the purpose of this book. The real intention is to inspire action on the part of the reader. Therefore, this book also contains step-by-step instructions to establish lasting legacies for FAMILIES and for CHARITIES. Use the tested instructions, and you will be Leaving Yourself Behind. One of the great mysteries of life is finding a magic formula to make it truly meaningful for you and me and others. Some of us who have lived a long time are still looking to find ways to make a measurable and lasting difference to the communities where we live and, in some small way, help make the world a better place. With that intention the following chapters are presented to you.

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First Books

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1592997562

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What Does the Minimum Wage Do?

By: Dale Belman,Paul J. Wolfson

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What Does the Minimum Wage Do?

By: Dale Belman,Paul J. Wolfson

Belman and Wolfson perform a meta-analysis on scores of published studies on the effects of the minimum wage to determine its impacts on employment, wages, poverty, and more.

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W.E. Upjohn Institute

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0880994568

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Bands on The Hill

A Pictorial History of Bands at Florida A&M University

By: Dale A. Thomas

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Bands on The Hill

A Pictorial History of Bands at Florida A&M University

By: Dale A. Thomas

Bands on The Hill: A Pictorial History of Bands at Florida A&M University is a pictorial history of the band and instrumental music programs at Florida A&M University. Through rare and exclusive photographs, this edition features some of the early history, events, places, directors, and student musicians of the band and instrumental music programs at Florida A&M University. Under the direction and leadership of Phillip Amos von Weller, Nathaniel C. Adderley, Herman A. Spearing, Arnold W. Lee, Sr., Captain William Carey Thomas, Leander A. Kirksey, Jr., J. Richmond Johnson, William P. Foster, Julian E. White, Sylvester Young, and Shelby R. Chipman, the band and instrumental programs, since 1892, have exhibited the highest standards of musical excellence at numerous state, national, and international events to be widely regarded as one of the best among American colleges and universities.

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Harmonie Publications, LLC

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0978729951

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9780978729950

Jedediah Smith and the Opening of the West

By: Dale Lowell Morgan

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Jedediah Smith and the Opening of the West

By: Dale Lowell Morgan

In 1822, before Jedediah Smith entered the West, it was largely an unknown land, “a wilderness,” he wrote, “of two thousand miles diameter.” During his nine years as a trapper for Ashley and Henry and later for the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, “the mild and Christian young man” blazed the trail westward through South Pass; he was the first to go from the Missouri overland to California, the first to cross the length of Utah and the width of Nevada, first to travel by land up through California and Oregon, first to cross the Sierra Nevada. Before his death on the Santa Fe Trail at the hands of the Comanches, Jed Smith and his partners had drawn the map of the west on a beaver skin.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803251386

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Ultrasonics

Fundamentals, Technologies, and Applications, Third Edition

By: Dale Ensminger,Leonard J. Bond

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Ultrasonics

Fundamentals, Technologies, and Applications, Third Edition

By: Dale Ensminger,Leonard J. Bond

The book provides a unique and comprehensive treatment of the science, technology, and applications for industrial and medical ultrasonics, including low- and high-power implementations. The discussion of applications is combined with the fundamental physics, the reporting of the sensors/transducers, and systems for the full spectrum of industrial, nondestructive testing, and medical/bio-medical uses. It includes citations of numerous references and covers both mainstream and the more unusual and obscure applications of ultrasound.

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100075572X

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Engaging Students with Music Education

DJ decks, urban music and child-centred learning

By: Pete Dale

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Engaging Students with Music Education

DJ decks, urban music and child-centred learning

By: Pete Dale

Engaging Students with Music Education is a groundbreaking book about using DJ decks and urban music in mainstream schools to re-engage disaffected learners and develop a curriculum which better reflects overall contemporary tastes. Many young learners are ‘at risk’ of exclusion; this book argues that for such individuals, the implications of such a shift in the music curriculum could be especially positive. Drawing extensively on the author’s own wealth of teaching experience, and bridging the gap between practice and theory, this book demonstrates through case studies that DJ decks can prove extremely valuable in mainstream classroom situations across the secondary school age ranges. Addressing challenging and crucial topics, combining rigorous theoretical analysis with practical suggestions, the book addresses questions such as: Are DJ decks actually a musical instrument, and are they suitable for classroom teaching? Will Ofsted's school inspectors approve of music teaching involving DJ decks and urban music? If we bring urban music into the classroom, will this further marginalise classical music? Are DJing and MCing skills recognised within examination specifications, at least in the UK? Current teachers will find the practical advice on how to incorporate DJ decks and urban music into their classroom especially helpful, whilst educational researchers will be captivated by the critical discussion of the child-centred tradition and a theoretical approach which stretches from ‘continental’ philosophy to practice-based reflection. With an insistence that the starting point for music education should always be the interests and experiences of the learners, this book is essential reading for those music teachers and researchers interested in the benefits of non-standard music-making in the classroom.

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Taylor & Francis

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1317511840

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How to Write & Design a Professional Résumé to Get the Job

Insider Secrets You Need to Know : with Companion CD-ROM

By: Dale Mayer

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How to Write & Design a Professional Résumé to Get the Job

Insider Secrets You Need to Know : with Companion CD-ROM

By: Dale Mayer

This book/CD-ROM guide arms job seekers with advice on writing and formatting different types of resumes and surviving the interview process. It tells how to construct a resume in difficult situations such as a recent layoff, spotty work history, or criminal record, and offers tips on specialty resumes for IT professionals, self-employed job seekers, students, executives, and military personnel. Worksheets, case histories, examples, and a glossary are included. The companion CD-ROM contains about 30 real-life resumes in Microsoft Word format so that readers can edit them to fit their needs.

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Atlantic Publishing Company

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1601381344

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Reclaimative Post-Conflict Justice

Democratizing Justice in the World Tribunal on Iraq

By: Janet C. Gerson,Dale T. Snauwaert

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Reclaimative Post-Conflict Justice

Democratizing Justice in the World Tribunal on Iraq

By: Janet C. Gerson,Dale T. Snauwaert

This book presents an important contribution to our understanding of post-conflict justice as an essential element of global ethics and justice through an exploration of the World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI). The 2003 War in Iraq provoked worldwide protests and unleashed debates on the war’s illegitimacy and illegality. In response, the WTI was organized by anti-war and peace activists, international law experts, and ordinary people who claimed global citizens’ rights to investigate and document the war responsibilities of official authorities, governments, and the United Nations, as well as their violation of global public will. The WTI’s democratizing, experimental form constituted reclaimative post-conflict justice, a new conceptualization within the field of post-conflict and justice studies. This book serves as a theoretical and practical guide for all who seek to reclaim deliberative democracy as a viable foundation for revitalizing the ethical norms of a peaceful and just world order.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527571122

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Pacific Destiny

The Three-Century Journey to the Oregon Country

By: Dale L. Walker

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Pacific Destiny

The Three-Century Journey to the Oregon Country

By: Dale L. Walker

The Oregon Country! For a century that fabled place, lying somewhere beyond the Rocky Mountains at the farthest reaches of the continent galvanized the American people. Its riches, in furs, timber, fish, and fecund soil for farming, awakened the avarice of nations. Spain, Great Britain, Russia, and the United States all vied for this trackless Eden of the pacific littoral, and not until the 1840s did the Americans claim it once and for all. In these pages are the explorations of the fierce Scots who scaled the mountains and mapped the rivers of the Oregon country before the time of Lewis and Clark; the imperial fiefdom created for profit and Britannia by the fur-trading ventures of the Hudson's Bay Company; John Jacob Astor's ill-fated experiment on the Columbia River; the mountain men who risked their lives in Indian country in pursuit of beaver furs; and the arrival of the missionaries and pioneers of the Oregon Trail. This is the Spur Award-winning story for best historical non-fiction, told by a distinguished chronicler of nineteenth century America. A story of the clashing of empires, coveting the matchless wealth of the Pacific Northwest-the story of The Oregon Country.

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Macmillan

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0765303108

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9780765303103

Getting What You Deserve

The Adventures of Goldhawk Fights Back

By: Dale Goldhawk

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Getting What You Deserve

The Adventures of Goldhawk Fights Back

By: Dale Goldhawk

For 12 years Dale Goldhawk journeyed through the streets of Canada and into the hearts of thousands of Canadians. Written in Goldhawk’s punchy, to-the-point style, this book links his life as a journalist and advocate with those who were his clients. For the first time, he reveals the background battles and adventures he and his team had, as well as the stories of his clients and where they are today. The narrative paints a vivid picture of how working on Canada’s most original advocacy team changed their lives as journalists and Canadians.

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Dundurn

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1770701567

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Who Speaks for the President?

The White House Press Secretary from Cleveland to Clinton

By: W. Dale Nelson

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Who Speaks for the President?

The White House Press Secretary from Cleveland to Clinton

By: W. Dale Nelson

When President Warren G. Harding fell ill in 1923, Steve Early, a reporter for the Associated Press, became skeptical of the innocuous bulletins being issued by the White House. He remained at the hotel where the president was staying, and when Florence Harding called out for a doctor, Early scrambled down a fire escape to file the story. His Associated Press report was six minutes ahead of others with the news of Harding's death. A decade later, when Franklin D. Roosevelt entered the White House, Steve Early became the first person to hold the title of presidential press secretary. Mike McCurry, Jody Powell, and Marlin Fitzwater have all become familiar names. But how has the role of the White House press secretary changed over the years? We see these spokespeople at White House briefings, hear them quoted by reporters-but what do they really do? Whom do they really serve: the president, or the press? In his latest book, former Associated Press journalist and White House reporter W. Dale Nelson provides an insightful look at what has gone on behind the scenes of the White House press podium from the 1890s to the Clinton administration. Nelson draws on interviews with former press secretaries, press office records, and his own experience as a White House reporter to trace the history of the position, from its early, informal days to its present, seminal role in the Clinton administration.

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Syracuse University Press

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081560632X

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100 Miles of Baseball

Fifty Games, One Summer

By: Dale Jacobs,Heidi LM Jacobs

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100 Miles of Baseball

Fifty Games, One Summer

By: Dale Jacobs,Heidi LM Jacobs

From sandlots to major league stands, two fans set out to recapture their love of the game. For most of their lives together Dale Jacobs and Heidi LM Jacobs couldn’t imagine a spring without baseball. Their season tickets renewal package always seemed to arrive on the bleakest day of winter, offering reassurance that sunnier times were around the corner. Baseball was woven into the fabric of their lives, connecting them not only to each other but also to their families and histories. But by 2017 it was obvious something was amiss: the allure of another Sunday watching their Detroit Tigers had devolved to obligation. Not entirely sure what they were missing, they did have an idea on where it might be found: in their own backyard. Drawing a radius of one hundred miles around their home in Windsor, Ontario, Dale and Heidi set a goal of seeing fifty games at all levels of competition over the following summer. From bleachers behind high schools, to manicured university turf, to the steep concrete stands of major league parks, 100 Miles of Baseball tells the story of how two fans rediscovered their love of the game—and with it their relationships and the region they call home.

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Biblioasis

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1771963913

ISBN 13

9781771963916

Book's by Dale Thompson

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