David Chester's Books

Trying to Find Chinatown

The Selected Plays

By: David Henry Hwang

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Trying to Find Chinatown

The Selected Plays

By: David Henry Hwang

A major collection by the preeminent Asian-American playwright.

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Theatre Communications Grou

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1559361727

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9781559361729

The Sea Hag, Second Edition

By: David Drake

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Now with a new afterword by David Drake! FROM PALACE . . . Dennis flees the crystal walls of Emath when he learns the truth behind the city his father rules. TO WILDERNESS . . . The jungle enfolds him, tests his sword arm with monsters and his courage with nightmares more terrible than any monster. FROM LOVE . . . Sword and spirit can win Dennis a princess-- TO BLACKEST WIZARDRY . . . But he can overcome the final evil only at the risk of all he has become--and his soul besides. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

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Baen Publishing Enterprises

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1625790759

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The Beaumont Twins

The Roots and Branches of Power in the Twelfth Century

By: David Crouch

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The Beaumont Twins

The Roots and Branches of Power in the Twelfth Century

By: David Crouch

This book combines a study of Waleran of Meulan and Robert of Leicester with an exploration of the exercise of power in twelfth-century Normandy and England.

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Cambridge University Press

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052109013X

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9780521090131

America Noir

Underground Writers and Filmmakers of the Postwar Era

By: David Cochran

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America Noir

Underground Writers and Filmmakers of the Postwar Era

By: David Cochran

In America Noir David Cochran details how ten writers and filmmakers challenged the social pieties prevalent during the Cold War, such as the superiority of the American democracy, the benevolence of free enterprise, and the sanctity of the suburban family. Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone featured victims of vast, faceless, bureaucratic powers. Jim Thompson's noir thrillers, such as The Grifters, portrayed the ravages of capitalism on those at the bottom of the social ladder. Patricia Highsmith, in The Talented Mr. Ripley, placed an amoral con man in an international setting, implicitly questioning America's fitness as leader of the free world. Charles Willeford's pulp novels, such as Wild Wives and Woman Chaser, depicted the family as a hotbed of violence and chaos. These artists pioneered a detached, ironic sensibility that radically juxtaposed cultural references and blurred the distinctions between “high” and “low” art. Their refusal to surrender to the pressures for political conformity and their unflinching portrayal of the underside of American life paved the way for the emergence of a 1960s counterculture that forever changed the way America views itself.

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Smithsonian Institution

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1588345505

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9781588345509

From Street Smart to School Smart

The Unmaking of the Sisters of the Streets

By: David P. Sortino

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From Street Smart to School Smart

The Unmaking of the Sisters of the Streets

By: David P. Sortino

This story about 17-year-old Jewels Odom and 13 other ex-teen prostitutes gives Jewels and her 13 "sisters" a pulpit to speak to other lost girls looking for an escape from what they call the “streets of hell.” What separates Jewels from her “street sisters” is her ability to survive and succeed -- actually going to college to return as a teacher at juvie. This story ends with a mixture of successes and failures, but as always, Jewels is the one who has the final say when she tries to connect with Maya Angelou, the famous poet, to be the graduation speaker.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1475861125

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9781475861129

Orchestral Music

A Handbook

By: David Daniels

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Orchestral Music

A Handbook

By: David Daniels

Also Available: Orchestral Music Online This fourth edition of the highly acclaimed, classic sourcebook for planning orchestral programs and organizing rehearsals has been expanded and revised to feature 42% more compositions over the third edition, with clearer entries and a more useful system of appendixes. Compositions cover the standard repertoire for American orchestra. Features from the previous edition that have changed and new additions include: · Larger physical format (8.5 x 11 vs. 5.5 x 8.5) · Expanded to 6400 entries and almost 900 composers (only 4200 in 3rd Ed.) · Merged with the American Symphony Orchestra League's OLIS (Orchestra Library Information Service) · Enhanced specific information on woodwind & brass doublings · Lists of required percussion equipment for many works · New, more intuitive format for instrumentation · More contents notes and durations of individual movements · Composers' citizenship, birth and death dates and places, integrated into the listings · Listings of useful websites for orchestra professionals

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Scarecrow Press

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146166425X

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9781461664253

The Three Coffin Caper

By: David Bruce

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The Three Coffin Caper

By: David Bruce

It was seven o'clock in the evening on Tuesday August 14, 1945. This was a special day because this was Victory in Japan Day. People were dancing in the streets. Women were kissing strangers, sailors and soldiers in Times Square. World War II was finally over. The boys would be coming home. Parents were estatic. With a little luck, their boys would make it home in one piece. The word of the day was relief. People left work early. Tears of joy were common. Hitler and his minions would not be taking up residence in America after all. The world held new promise. Then suddenly, without warning, bombs exploded in southern California. People were injured and some killed. Who was responcible? Was it fifth columnists? Was it a mad bomber? Was the war really over? Chester Brantley was a private eye living in Orange, California. He was injured by one of the bombs. The shoe shine man in his office building was killed by the same blast. Brantley is pulled into the mystery. He follows a trail of suspicious deaths, murders, kidnappings, and chase scenes to solve The Three Coffin Caper.

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AuthorHouse

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147729077X

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Remote Feed

Stories

By: David Gilbert

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Remote Feed

Stories

By: David Gilbert

David Gilbert's dark and daring collection of stories was admitted by critics and readers alike when first published in 1998. Gilbert's stories stretch from war-torn Bosnia to a college sorority house to kill-or-be-killed Hollywood. Gilbert's bold prose and perceptive wit paint a devastating picture of normal life on the brink of desperation and paranoia. His insights into the minor tragedies, disappointments, and desires that shape us reflect a deep understanding of human nature and a genuine compassion for his characters. Filled with startling twists, piercing irony, and layers of meaning, the world Gilbert creates in Remote Feed is a complex one-often hilarious, sometimes frightening, but always fascinating. A New York Times Notable Book "Gilbert's dead-on mimicry of conversational rhythms makes even the most ludicrous exchanges sound plausible, and he applies physical details sparingly and potently...wickedly funny."-New York Times Book Review "Hilarious and unnerving."-Vanity Fair "These stories are funny and thoroughly entertaining."-Washington Post "One is mesmerized by Gilbert's daring and absolute persuasiveness."-Time Out "Gilbert is wonderful. I hope readers flock to these vivid tales."-Jay Parini "Gilbert's strange takes and wonderful dark humor intrude upon the familiar until his own singular vision prevails-he doesn't let anyone get away with anything."-Amy Hempel

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1596917903

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Researching British Probates, 1354-1858: Northern England

By: David H. Pratt

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Researching British Probates, 1354-1858: Northern England

By: David H. Pratt

Researching British Probates is a guide to the over 20,000 microfilm rolls of British wills and related documents in the Family History Library of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Housed in Salt Lake City, Utah, the collection is available through 1,700 branch libraries across the country and worldwide. Few depositories in Britain itself can compete with the collection's comprehensiveness: the microfilm spans six centuries and brings together bonds, wills, property inventories, guardianship papers and other documents that lie scattered throughout England. Now, by using this work, social historians and genealogists can obtain the exact rolls of microfilm they need.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0842024204

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Nova Scotia

By: David Orkin

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Nova Scotia

By: David Orkin

Virtually surrounded by the sea, the ocean's salty waters pulse through Nova Scotia's historic veins. Nova Scotia's rich folklore is steeped in sea-related superstitions together with fables, myths, Scottish legends and ghost stories. Here fishermen have cast their nets for centuries and the abundance of contemporary seafood restaurants and historic lighthouses breathe life into their traditions. It includes detailed sections on topics such as wildlife, history, culture, sights and cuisine. Resident in the province David Orkin's insider knowledge provides in-depth insight into the best B & Bs, wineries, beaches, remote villages and top spots to see moose and seals while cycling and walking. Interviews with locals bring the destination to life. For everyone from the first time visitor to the most seasoned traveller, this guide delves deeper than any other guide to reveal the best of this fascinating province both on and off the beaten track.

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Bradt Travel Guides

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1841624543

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9781841624549

Daniels' Orchestral Music

By: David Daniels,David W. Oertel,David A. Rahbee

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Daniels' Orchestral Music

By: David Daniels,David W. Oertel,David A. Rahbee

Daniels’ Orchestral Music is the gold standard for all orchestral professionals—from conductors, librarians, programmers, students, administrators, and publishers, to even instructors—seeking to research and plan an orchestral program, whether for a single concert or a full season. This sixth edition, celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the original edition, has the largest increase in entries for a new edition of Orchestral Music: 65% more works (roughly 14,050 total) and 85% more composers (2,202 total) compared to the fifth edition. Composition details are gleaned from personal inspection of scores by orchestral conductors, making it a reliable one-stop resource for repertoire. Users will find all the familiar and useful features of the fifth edition as well as significant updates and corrections. Works are organized alphabetically by composer and title, containing information on duration, instrumentation, date of composition, publication, movements, and special accommodations if any. Individual appendices make it easy to browse works with chorus, solo voices, or solo instruments. Other appendices list orchestral works by instrumentation and duration, as well as works intended for youth concerts. Also included are significant anniversaries of composers, composer groups for thematic programming, a title index, an introduction to Nieweg charts, essential bibliography, internet sources, institutions and organizations, and a directory of publishers necessary for the orchestra professional. This trusted work used around the globe is a must-have for orchestral professionals, whether conductors or orchestra librarians, administrators involved in artistic planning, music students considering orchestral conducting, authors of program notes, publishers and music dealers, and instructors of conducting.

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1442275219

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The Pleasures and Treasures of Britain

A Discerning Traveller's Companion

By: David Kemp

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The Pleasures and Treasures of Britain

A Discerning Traveller's Companion

By: David Kemp

Is a famous queen of Britain really bured beneath platform 10 at King's Cross station in London? What is the telephone number of the National Theatre? what is the best place to eat in Worcester? Where is the National Bagpipe Museum? (Hint: not in Scotland) Was Pointius Pilate born in Pitlochry? The answers to these questions and literally thousands more are to be found in David Kemp's fascinating guidebook, The Pleasures and Treasures of Britain. Nowhere else will the discerning traveller find so much diverse and essential information about British culture gathered together in one volume. With the author as your witty and knowledgeable guide, take a tour through nearly fifty cities, from Penzance to Perth, from London to Cardiff and Belfast. Each city section begins with a concise, readable history and a guided walk around the town, planned to take in as many of the significant local sights as can comfortably be included. Next are exhaustive listings, including telephone numbers and addresses, of everything a culturally curious visitor might want to seek out: theatre, art galleries, museums, antique markets, antiquarian and other bookstores, restaurants, lcoal fairs and festivals and more. Finally, under the headings of Artistic Associations and Ephemera, each section concludes with an entertaining collection of local lore, gossip, legend and anecdote.

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Dundurn

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1550021591

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9781550021592

People of the Wachusett

Greater New England in History and Memory, 1630–1860

By: David P. Jaffee

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People of the Wachusett

Greater New England in History and Memory, 1630–1860

By: David P. Jaffee

Nashaway became Lancaster, Wachusett became Princeton, and all of Nipmuck County became the county of Worcester. Town by town, New England grew—Watertown, Sudbury, Turkey Hills, Fitchburg, Westminster, Walpole—and with each new community the myth of America flourished. In People of the Wachusett the history of the New England town becomes the cultural history of America's first frontier. Integral to this history are the firsthand narratives of town founders and citizens, English, French, and Native American, whose accounts of trading and warring, relocating and putting down roots proved essential to the building of these communities. Town plans, local records, broadside ballads, vernacular house forms and furniture, festivals—all come into play in this innovative book, giving a rich picture of early Americans creating towns and crafting historical memory. Beginning with the Wachusett, in northern Worcester County, Massachusetts, David Jaffee traces the founding of towns through inland New England and Nova Scotia, from the mid-seventeenth century through the Revolutionary Era. His history of New England's settlement is one in which the replication of towns across the landscape is inextricable from the creation of a regional and national culture, with stories about colonization giving shape and meaning to New England life.

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Cornell University Press

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1501725823

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The Dance and the Railroad ; And, Family Devotions

Two Plays

By: David Henry Hwang

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The Dance and the Railroad ; And, Family Devotions

Two Plays

By: David Henry Hwang

THE STORIES: THE DANCE AND THE RAILROAD. While his fellow workers are striking for higher pay, Lone, once an actor in China, exercises and practices alone on a mountaintop the ritual gestures used in Chinese opera. Ma, a slightly younger man, who w

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Dramatists Play Service Inc

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0822202654

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9780822202653

A Cole Family in America (1633-2003)

By: David Charles Cole

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A Cole Family in America (1633-2003)

By: David Charles Cole

Family history of various qualities have been written about the dependents of Daniel, Job and John Cole who first appear in the records of Plymouth Plantation in 1633. This detailed genealogy corrects errors discovered in previous publications and carefully documents one branch of the family leading from Daniel Cole through the first 11 generations. The text also traces family members back to England, details how they journeyed to America, confirms marital connections with several Mayflower voyagers, and follows the family as it expands and settled throughout the country. It is rich in painstakingly researched facts and includes a genealogical tree tracing the line, a full index of names, illustrations, maps and extensive bibliography. The work, researched over a 10 year period, makes use of more than 80 references listed in the bibliography. In addition to the Cole family, particulars on the Chandler, Collier, Cullen, Doane, Fuller, Hopkins, Hyde, Kimmich, Lyons, McCrimmon, Murray, Rogers, Smalley, Snow and Taylor families are found in its pages, along with facts on many other families that settled in the northeastern United States. This scholarly work will be of benefit to every genealogical researcher, serving as a valuable reference and research tool.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1465320024

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9781465320025

Explorer's Guide Philadelphia, Brandywine Valley & Bucks County: A Great Destination: Includes Lancaster County's Amish Country

By: David Langlieb

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Explorer's Guide Philadelphia, Brandywine Valley & Bucks County: A Great Destination: Includes Lancaster County's Amish Country

By: David Langlieb

Explorer's Guide Philadelphia, Brandywine Valley, and Bucks County: A Great Destination takes readers on a whirlwind tour of the many pleasures to be found in the Delaware Valley, a region famous for its rich history and natural beauty. It explores greater Philadelphia’s under-appreciated attributes, including its first rate dining scene, diverse architecture, and recreational opportunities, and includes chapters on lodging, dining, transportation, history, shopping, recreation;a section packed with practical information, such as lists of banks, hospitals, post offices, laundromats, numbers for police, fire, and rescue, and other relevant information; maps of regions and locales; and more.

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The Countryman Press

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1581579209

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Redcoat

By: David Crookes

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Redcoat

By: David Crookes

1873... A landslide at a diamond mine in Africa leaves autocratic British army major, Spencer Shackerly, badly injured and in a deep coma. He awakens to find himself a helpless cripple and his military career over. Holding Lieutenant Jeffrey Guest responsible for his plight, he is determined to have the young officer face a court martial.Jeffrey Guest has since returned to England, planning to marry his childhood sweetheart. On his wedding day he is blamed for the death of a soldier when the army attempts to arrest him. But aided by family and friends he manages to flee the country. So begins a relentless worldwide manhunt. Shackerly uses his aristocratic family's wealth and influence in high places at home and abroad to mercilessly hunt down the fugitive across the United States, Canada and Australia until eventually the hunted becomes the hunter.

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Big Indian Pty Ltd

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0980825210

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9780980825213

1919, The Year of Racial Violence

How African Americans Fought Back

By: David F. Krugler

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1919, The Year of Racial Violence

How African Americans Fought Back

By: David F. Krugler

1919, The Year of Racial Violence recounts African Americans' brave stand against a cascade of mob attacks in the United States after World War I. The emerging New Negro identity, which prized unflinching resistance to second-class citizenship, further inspired veterans and their fellow black citizens. In city after city - Washington, DC; Chicago; Charleston; and elsewhere - black men and women took up arms to repel mobs that used lynching, assaults, and other forms of violence to protect white supremacy; yet, authorities blamed blacks for the violence, leading to mass arrests and misleading news coverage. Refusing to yield, African Americans sought accuracy and fairness in the courts of public opinion and the law. This is the first account of this three-front fight - in the streets, in the press, and in the courts - against mob violence during one of the worst years of racial conflict in US history.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316195007

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9781316195000

Murder in Reverse

An Amy Bell Mystery

By: David Schwinger

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Murder in Reverse

An Amy Bell Mystery

By: David Schwinger

Mary Rackner was shot and killed while relaxing in her backyard. The police were making no progress, so Mary's good friend Christine hired smart, sexy supersleuth Amy Bell to solve the case. There were many people with a clear motive to kill Mary, who was leading an effort to make draconian curriculum changes in the private high school where she was a trustee. But was that the only possible motive? Not necessarily, as Amy soon discovered. To identify the killer, Amy would have to challenge all the basic assumptions made by the police and also by everyone else. Author David Schwinger, when not writing Amy Bell mysteries--there are now fifteen--enjoys composing songs, playing pickleball, and traveling the world with his wife, Sherryl. He first met Sherryl when she was his student in a mathematics class he taught at City College of New York. Their secret romance became the inspiration for his first Amy Bell mystery, The Teacher's Pet Murders.

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Page Publishing Inc

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9798889600527

The New Spatial Planning

Territorial Management with Soft Spaces and Fuzzy Boundaries

By: Graham Haughton,Philip Allmendinger,David Counsell,Geoff Vigar

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The New Spatial Planning

Territorial Management with Soft Spaces and Fuzzy Boundaries

By: Graham Haughton,Philip Allmendinger,David Counsell,Geoff Vigar

Spatial planning, strongly advocated by government and the profession, is intended to be more holistic, more strategic, more inclusive, more integrative and more attuned to sustainable development than previous approaches. In what the authors refer to as the New Spatial Planning, there is a fairly rapidly evolving maturity and sophistication in how strategies are developed and produced. Crucially, the authors argue that the reworked boundaries of spatial planning means that to understand it we need to look as much outside the formal system of practices of ‘planning’ as within it. Using a rich empirical resource base, this book takes a critical look at recent practices to see whether the new spatial planning is having the kinds of impacts its advocates would wish. Contributing to theoretical debates in planning, state restructuring and governance, it also outlines and critiques the contemporary practice of spatial planning. This book will have a place on the shelves of researchers and students interested in urban/regional studies, politics and planning studies.

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Routledge

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1135210780

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The English Aristocracy, 1070-1272

A Social Transformation

By: David Crouch

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The English Aristocracy, 1070-1272

A Social Transformation

By: David Crouch

William the Conqueror's victory in 1066 was the beginning of a period of major transformation for medieval English aristocrats. In this groundbreaking book, David Crouch examines for the first time the fate of the English aristocracy between the reigns of the Conqueror and Edward I. Offering an original explanation of medieval society -- one that no longer employs traditional "feudal" or "bastard feudal" models -- Crouch argues that society remade itself around the emerging principle of nobility in the generations on either side of 1200, marking the beginning of the ancien regime. The book describes the transformation in aristocrats' expectations, conduct, piety, and status; in expressions of social domination; and in the relationship with the monarchy. Synchronizing English social history with non-English scholarship, Crouch places England's experience of change within a broader European transformation and highlights England's important role in the process. With his accustomed skill, Crouch redefines a fascinating era and the noble class that emerged from it.

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Yale University Press

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0300172125

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A New Nation of Goods

The Material Culture of Early America

By: David Jaffee

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A New Nation of Goods

The Material Culture of Early America

By: David Jaffee

A New Nation of Goods highlights the significant role of provincial artisans in four crafts in the northeastern United States—chairmaking, clockmaking, portrait painting, and book publishing—to explain the shift from preindustrial society to an entirely new configuration of work, commodities, and culture.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812222008

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9780812222005

William Billings of Boston

Eighteenth-Century Composer

By: David Phares McKay,Richard Crawford

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William Billings of Boston

Eighteenth-Century Composer

By: David Phares McKay,Richard Crawford

A young girl and her grandmother find a chipping sparrow with a broken wing and nurse her back to health so that she can return to the wild.

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Princeton University Press

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0691657181

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9780691657189

The Recorder

A Research and Information Guide

By: Richard W. Griscom,David Lasocki

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The Recorder

A Research and Information Guide

By: Richard W. Griscom,David Lasocki

A Choice "Best Academic" book in its first edition, The Recorder remains an essential resource for anyone who wants to know about this instrument. This new edition is thoroughly redone, takes account of the publishing activity of the years since its first publication, and still follows the original organization.

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Routledge

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113583931X

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Ridiculous!

The Theatrical Life and Times of Charles Ludlam

By: David Kaufman

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Ridiculous!

The Theatrical Life and Times of Charles Ludlam

By: David Kaufman

(Applause Books). From his first unscripted appearance on an Off-Broadway stage in the revolutionary 1960s to the frontpage news of his death from AIDS in 1987 at age 44, Charles Ludlam embodied and helped to engender the upheavals of his time. The astonishing life and legacy of this force to be reckoned with are at last revealed in RIDICULOUS! , a literary biography of an American comic genius. After founding the Ridiculous Theatrical Company in 1967, Ludlam sustained an ever-shifting troupe of bohemian players through two decades of perennially daunting circumstances by writing 29 plays plays that he starred in and directed as well. While Ludlam's work has become increasingly popular at regional theatres, on college campuses, and on stages throughout the world, his gender-bending theories and wide-ranging cultural impact have reached far beyond Bette Midler, the original cast members of Saturday Night Live and the countless other artists he influenced during his abbreviated lifetime. Like his early plays, Ludlam's life was rife with the sex, drugs and creative experimentation that characterized the freewheeling '60s and '70s. Based on a decade of research and interviews with more than 150 people who knew or worked with Ludlam including all of the major players in his troupe and seven of his lovers RIDICULOUS! recreates the dramatic life of an inimitable and subversive theatrical master with you-are-there intensity. Winner of the LAMBDA Literary Award for Biography and the Theatre Library Association Award for Outstanding Theatre Book of the Year "David Kaufman makes a persuasive case for Ludlam's being a genius ... As a record of Ludlam's life and the theatrical world in which he was both guru and grandmaster, this book is informed and passionate." Mel Gussow, The New York Times "A fascinating portrait of an authentic stage genius and the New York avant-garde scene in which he toiled with such demented and dedicated diligence." Playbill "The phenom who inspired everyone from Bette Midler and Madeline Kahn to Tony Kushner and Paul Rudnick was no box of chocolates which, as reading experiences go, makes his story all the sweeter." Vanity Fair "This is one helluva piece of work." Marilyn Stasio, Variety.com

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Hal Leonard Corporation

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155783637X

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Conversion in Luke and Paul: An Exegetical and Theological Exploration

By: David S. Morlan

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Conversion in Luke and Paul: An Exegetical and Theological Exploration

By: David S. Morlan

This study explores the conversion theologies of Luke and Paul. For Luke and Paul conversion played an important role in the early Christian experience and Morlan offers a fresh look into how they interpreted this phenomenon. Morlan traverses representative texts in the Lukan and Pauline corpus equipped with three theological questions. What is the change involved in this conversion? Why is conversion necessary? Who is responsible for conversion? Morlan presents theological and exegetical analysis of Luke 15, Acts 2, Acts 17.16-34, Romans 2 and Romans 9-11 and answers these questions, and, in turn, builds theological profiles for both Luke and Paul. These profiles provide fresh insight into the theological relationship between Luke and Paul, showing significant similarities as well as sharp contrasts between them. Similarities surface between Luke and Paul concerning the centrality of Christology in their conversion theologies. While showing a complex relationship between human and divine agency in conversion, both Luke and Paul understand successful conversion to be impossible without the intervention of an agency outside of the pre-convert.

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0567492575

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9780567492579

Archaeologies & Antiquaries: Essays by Dai Morgan Evans

By: David Morgan Evans

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Archaeologies & Antiquaries: Essays by Dai Morgan Evans

By: David Morgan Evans

This book collects and republishes 14 key academic works by Dai Morgan Evans FSA (1944–2017). Spanning early medieval studies, the management and conservation of ancient monuments, histories of antiquarianism, and the Welsh church of Llangar, the chapters have been freshly edited and published together for the first time with new illustrations.

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Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

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1803271590

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9781803271590

The Chester Cycle in Context, 1555-1575

Religion, Drama, and the Impact of Change

By: Jessica Dell,David Klausner

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The Chester Cycle in Context, 1555-1575

Religion, Drama, and the Impact of Change

By: Jessica Dell,David Klausner

The Chester Cycle in Context, 1555-1575 considers the implications of recent archival research which has profoundly changed our view of the continuation of performances of Chester's civic biblical play cycle into the reign of Elizabeth I. Scholars now view the decline and ultimate abandonment of civic religious drama as the result of a complex network of local pressures, heavily dependent upon individual civic and ecclesiastical authorities, rather than a result of a nation-wide policy of suppression, as had previously been assumed.

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263

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Routledge

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1317038673

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9781317038672

Ralph Compton Blood Duel

By: Ralph Compton,David Robbins

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Ralph Compton Blood Duel

By: Ralph Compton,David Robbins

In this Ralph Compton western, a gunslinger has to fight when his reputation gets spun into legend... Jeeter Frost may look like a mouse, but he’s as murderous as a lion. Now he’s got reporters on his tail wanting to know who the “Missouri Man-Killer” really is. Jeeter learns the newshounds are painting him larger than life—literally. To get to the bottom of his newfound fame, he has to tackle his one weakness and learn how to read. But what his teacher, Ernestine, gives him is more than he ever expected… Meanwhile, the one-horse town of Coffin Varnish gets the idea to make a buck off Frost’s bloodshed by putting the dead bodies on display. When visitors run dry, they invite more gunslingers to duel it out…for a fee, of course. As far as Jeeter’s concerned, all the funny business takes the shine off of Coffin Varnish—but soon he has a starring role in a show that’s deadlier than anyone bargained for… More Than Six Million Ralph Compton Books In Print!

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Penguin

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1440620210

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9781440620218

The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts

With Some Related Families of Newbury, Haverhill, Ipswich, and Hampton, and of York County, Maine

By: David Webster Hoyt

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The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts

With Some Related Families of Newbury, Haverhill, Ipswich, and Hampton, and of York County, Maine

By: David Webster Hoyt

Includes some families from Newbury, Haverhill, Ispwich, and Hampton.

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1103

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806309660

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9780806309668

Power and Passion

By: David Hitchcock

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Power and Passion

By: David Hitchcock

Cassandra Patterson is a beautiful, high school English teacher who is frustrated with the apathy of her students and disappointed with her often-absent, career-obsessed husband. Daniel Hart, high school senior, is an under-achiever with a love of literature. Their passion will wreak havoc with every aspect of their lives: morality, the law, even the destruction of their own future.

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Lulu.com

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1387188844

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9781387188840

Secrets of Central London's Squares

By: David Brandon,Alan Brooke

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Secrets of Central London's Squares

By: David Brandon,Alan Brooke

Delves into the strange, quirky and curious histories of London's famous squares.

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195

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445656655

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9781445656656

When Pitt Ruled the Gridiron

Jock Sutherland's Five-Time National Champions, 1929-1937

By: David Finoli

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When Pitt Ruled the Gridiron

Jock Sutherland's Five-Time National Champions, 1929-1937

By: David Finoli

Between 1929 and 1937, Hall of Fame coach Jock Sutherland took the championship program at the University of Pittsburgh that was built by his mentor Glenn "Pop" Warner, and won five of the nine national championships the school now claims. While a successful period, it was also controversial: Sutherland enjoyed the support of a group of wealthy boosters named the Golden Panthers, who helped him secure the services of the best players western Pennsylvania had to offer. While they made sure the players had what they needed, the school also made sure they had enough money to be comfortable. Critics accused Pitt of employing what amounted to professional athletes in a college sport. These accusations not only embarrassed the school administration, but led to the end of their dynasty and its coach. This book tells the exciting tale of their championship run, and describes how their downfall began what has since been a continual academics versus athletics tug-of-war at the school.

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McFarland

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1476617503

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9781476617503

Backroads & Byways of Pennsylvania: Drives, Day Trips & Weekend Excursions (Second Edition)

By: David Langlieb

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Backroads & Byways of Pennsylvania: Drives, Day Trips & Weekend Excursions (Second Edition)

By: David Langlieb

From Philadelphia to Pittsburgh and everywhere in between—take to the road and discover the Keystone State’s most iconic drives. In this updated edition of Backroads & Byways of Pennsylvania, David Langlieb takes readers down country roads, through lush farmland vistas, and into bustling cities and small towns. Pennsylvania’s rich history, cultural narratives, and natural beauty make for great themed driving tours. Trace the state’s Civil War stories, peek into the world of the Amish, or simply absorb the breathtaking views of the Pocono Mountains. And discover unique sites along the way: • Explore the shores of Lake Erie in Presque Isle State Park. • Enjoy picturesque Delaware River views along River Road in Bucks County. • Experience must-see concert venues like SteelStacks in Bethlehem. Whether in the east, west, or central valley, readers will find the perfect drive to suit their interests, along with helpful maps and beautiful color photography.

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The Countryman Press

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1682685896

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9781682685891

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