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Human Resource Management

People, Data, and Analytics

By: Talya Bauer,Berrin Erdogan,David Caughlin,Donald Truxillo

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Human Resource Management

People, Data, and Analytics

By: Talya Bauer,Berrin Erdogan,David Caughlin,Donald Truxillo

Human resources is rapidly evolving into a data-rich field but with big data comes big decisions. The best companies understand how to use data to make strategic workforce decisions and gain significant competitive advantage. Human Resource Management: People, Data, and Analytics, Second Edition introduces students to the fundamentals of talent management with integrated coverage of analytics in every chapter. Features tied to SHRM competencies and data exercises give students hands-on opportunities to practice the analytical and decision-making skills they need to excel in today’s job market. Whether your students are future managers or future HR professionals, they will learn best practices for managing talent across the lifecycle in the changing workplace. This title is accompanied by a complete teaching and learning package. Contact your Sage representative to request a demo. Learning Platform / Courseware Sage Vantage is an intuitive learning platform that integrates quality Sage textbook content with assignable multimedia activities and auto-graded assessments to drive student engagement and ensure accountability. Unparalleled in its ease of use and built for dynamic teaching and learning, Vantage offers customizable LMS integration and best-in-class support. It’s a learning platform you, and your students, will actually love. Learn more. Assignable Video with Assessment Assignable video (available in Sage Vantage) is tied to learning objectives and curated exclusively for this text to bring concepts to life. Watch a sample video now. LMS Cartridge: Import this title’s instructor resources into your school’s learning management system (LMS) and save time. Don’t use an LMS? You can still access all of the same online resources for this title via the password-protected Instructor Resource Site. Learn more.

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1071876864

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Punk Slash! Musicals

Tracking Slip-Sync on Film

By: David Laderman

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Punk Slash! Musicals

Tracking Slip-Sync on Film

By: David Laderman

Punk Slash! Musicals is the first book to deal extensively with punk narrative films, specifically British and American punk rock musicals produced from roughly 1978 to 1986. Films such as Jubilee, Breaking Glass, Times Square, Smithereens, Starstruck, and Sid and Nancy represent a convergence between independent, subversive cinema and formulaic classical Hollywood and pop musical genres. Guiding this project is the concept of "slip-sync." Riffing on the commonplace lip-sync phenomenon, "slip-sync" refers to moments in the films when the punk performer "slips" out of sync with the performance spectacle, and sometimes the sound track itself, engendering a provocative moment of tension. This tension frequently serves to illustrate other thematic and narrative conflicts, central among these being the punk negotiation between authenticity and inauthenticity. Laderman emphasizes the strong female lead performer at the center of most of these films, as well as each film's engagement with gender and race issues. Additionally, he situates his analyses in relation to the broader cultural and political context of the neo-conservatism and new electronic audio-visual technologies of the 1980s, showing how punk's revolution against the mainstream actually depends upon a certain ironic embrace of pop culture.

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University of Texas Press

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0292777914

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The Union

By: Peter David Perry

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The Union

By: Peter David Perry

Chris Vincent is the union’s trusted computer software vendor who has been drawn into a trap between the union and the FBI. He has discovered the union’s secret conspiracies and how organized labor attains power and how their computers are used to move millions of dollars into the hands of crooked labor leaders, politicians, and the Mafia. Covert meetings in dark rooms and secret places with special dinners at famous restaurants tease the readers appetite. Marco Richards, on his first and most important field assignment, is the FBI analyst who must hack into the union’s computer and find evidence of their illicit schemes. Does he abide by lawful FBI procedures, or does he follow the rogue policies of his superiors? Both are on a collision course and must find the courage to choose between who they really are or what they may become. A story of crime, deception and a search for personal values and discovery as each battle between loyalty and betrayal. Each must find a way to save their career and restore their self-respect. The novel takes some unexpected turns as the choices made by others influence the outcome towards an exciting and surprising conclusion.

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Archway Publishing

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The Age of Ruth and Landis

The Economics of Baseball During the Roaring Twenties

By: David George Surdam

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The Age of Ruth and Landis

The Economics of Baseball During the Roaring Twenties

By: David George Surdam

As the 1919 World Series scandal simmered throughout the 1920 season, tight pennant races drove attendance to new peaks and presaged a decade of general prosperity for baseball. Babe Ruth shattered his own home-run record and, buoyed by a booming economy, professional sports enjoyed what sportswriters termed a "Golden Age of Sports." Throughout the tumultuous 1920s, Major League Baseball remained a mixture of competition and cooperation. Teams could improve by player trades, buying Minor League stars, or signing untried youths. Players and owners had their usual contentious relationship, with owners maintaining considerable control over their players. Owners adjusted the game so that the 1920s witnessed a surge in slugging and a diminution in base stealing, and they provided a better ballpark experience by both improving their stadiums and minimizing disruptions by rowdy fans. However, they hesitated to adapt to new technologies such as radio, electrical lighting, and air travel. The Major Leagues remained an enclave for white people, while African Americans toiled in the newly established Negro Leagues, where salaries and profits were skimpy. By analyzing the economic and financial aspects of Major League Baseball, The Age of Ruth and Landis shows how baseball during the 1920s experienced both strife and prosperity, innovation and conservatism. With figures such as the incomparable Babe Ruth, Kenesaw Mountain Landis, Rogers Hornsby, Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson, Tris Speaker, and Eddie Collins, the decade featured an exciting brand of livelier baseball, new stadiums, and overall stability.

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U of Nebraska Press

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Supersurvivors

The Surprising Link between Suffering and Success

By: David B Feldman,Lee Daniel Kravetz

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Supersurvivors

The Surprising Link between Suffering and Success

By: David B Feldman,Lee Daniel Kravetz

A supersurvivor is a person who has dramatically transformed his or her life after surviving a trauma, accomplishing amazing things or transforming the world for the better. When tragedy befalls, many people succumb to trauma and suffer many psychological setbacks such as posttraumatic stress disorder. Many are able to move past the trauma and return to normal life. Some, however, are able to bounce back stronger and tougher than before. This rare species is called the supersurvivor. The scope of suffering may vary, but most people face troubles small or big in their day-to-day lives. Supersurvivors offers astonishing stories of the indomitable human spirit which will put your own life and how you live it into perspective.

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Random House India

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8184006934

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Without Honor

By: David Hagberg

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Without Honor

By: David Hagberg

Former CIA agent Kirk McGarvey is living in Lausanne with his girlfriend when a couple of top operatives from "the Company" show up. They desperately need his help as the Russians are up to something and it seems there may be a mole in the upper levels of the United States government. And McGarvey is the only man who can find him... WITHOUT HONOR At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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Tor Books

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Fundamentals of Human Resource Management

People, Data, and Analytics

By: Talya Bauer,Berrin Erdogan,David Caughlin,Donald Truxillo

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Fundamentals of Human Resource Management

People, Data, and Analytics

By: Talya Bauer,Berrin Erdogan,David Caughlin,Donald Truxillo

Fundamentals of Human Resource Management: People, Data, and Analytics provides a current, succinct, and interesting introduction to the world of HRM with a special emphasis on how data can help managers make better decisions about the people in their organizations. Authors Talya Bauer, Berrin Erdogan, David Caughlin, and Donald Truxillo use cutting-edge case studies and contemporary examples to illustrate key concepts and trends. A variety of exercises give students hands-on opportunities to practice their problem-solving, ethical decision-making, and data literacy skills. Non-HR majors and HR majors alike will learn best practices for managing talent in today’s ever-evolving workplace.

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1544397259

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Monolith

'Short Stories for Tall People De-Boxing

By: Roy-David Woodward

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Monolith

'Short Stories for Tall People De-Boxing

By: Roy-David Woodward

Monolith presents six highly unusual short stories by a former Hollywood writer who was approved by famous Cecil B. DeMille. Marvelous House of Infinite Joy is a fictional love story based on fact. It tells the tale of Olympic gold medalist husband and wife Jami and Clint OConnell, exploring her death from cancer, her status as she demands to return to Clint, and her heaven. Martine Salvatore tells the tale of a bitter private investigator and a martial arts pro team, with millionaire Ranch Meadows who just buried his murdered parents. A fortune of graphite deposits on Ranchs property reeks of deadly involvement. Martine and Ranch travel worldwide, dodging death and trying not to fall in bed. Immortality: The I Word explores what the Bible, Talmud, Koran, Sumerian codices, and science labs have in common. It considers contradictions in the Genesis story of the Garden of Eden and in E.din of Sumeria. A jealous alien fooled Moses using True Sources high tech? This is a robust reach into blasphemy or reality, revising reincarnation proofs along the way. Sunrise shares inspirations to make your dayand probably your life. In All Together Now: Together Now Lemuria and Atlantis go down, and seismologists come back to alert us. The ridiculed Planet X becomes clarified despite NASAs denials and air brushing games. A disaster that hits every 3,600 years is on course now, hidden by our suns glare. Roy explores the writers enigma, something that he ran from for years. There were details prophesied about him by Irish, Scottish, and British prophets, as well as Nostradamus. Today millions say such a president must bring compassion back to government. Is this that man?

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1452514348

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School To Work

Research On Programs In The United States

By: David Stern,Neal Finkelstein,James Stone,John Latting,Carolyn Dornsife

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School To Work

Research On Programs In The United States

By: David Stern,Neal Finkelstein,James Stone,John Latting,Carolyn Dornsife

An in-depth investigation into career-related programmes in American secondary schools and two-year further education colleges is given in this book. In addition to reviewing evidence on the effectiveness of vocational coursework, the authors analyse programmes involving students who study and work simultaneously, including co-operative education, youth apprenticeship and school-based enterprise.; Chapters deal with the problems encountered in the school-to-work transition: the preparation necessary not only for this transition but for changes encountered when jobs end abruptly, and issues covered include combining school-based and work-based learning and teaching and linking secondary with post- secondary education. Research on programmes involving students simultaneously working and at school, including non-school-supervised employment is also covered, as is co-operative education, which places students in jobs related to their fields of study. The traditional elements of post-school education and training are discussed together with an investigation into newer approaches including career academics and career magnet schools and programmes bridging secondary and post secondary education. Additionally, selected studies of programmes for out- of-school youth are reviewed.; To conclude, the authors consider new school-to-work systems and whether specially designed programmes for the "non-college-bound" students would be stigmatised as second best, or if an alternative programme could maintain an option for students to attend four year colleges and universities, the latter making the design and operation of school-to-work systems more difficult. Of interest to administrators, teachers, policy makers, analysts and employers, the findings in this book will shed light on the viability of new school-to- work initiatives currently being implemented in the UK, Europe and USA.

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Contemplating Dis/Ability in Schools and Society

A Life in Education

By: David J. Connor

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Contemplating Dis/Ability in Schools and Society

A Life in Education

By: David J. Connor

This book chronicles the professional life of a career-long, inclusive educator in New York City through eight different stages in special and general education. Developing a new approach to research as part of qualitative methodology, David J. Connor merges the academic genre of autoethnography with memoir to create a narrative that engages the reader through stories of personal experiences within the professional world that politicized him as an educator. After each chapter’s narrative, a systematic analytic commentary follows that focuses on: teaching and learning in schools and universities; the influence of educational laws; specific models of disability and how influence educators and educational researchers; and educational structures and systems—including their impact on social, political, and cultural experiences of people with disabilities. This autoethnographic memoir documents, over three decades, the relationship between special and general education, the growth of the inclusion movement, and the challenge of special education as a discrete academic field. As part of a national group of critical special educators, Connor describes the growth of counter-theory through the inception and subsequent growth of DSE as a viable academic field, and the importance of rethinking human differences in new ways.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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149856822X

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The Great New York Sports Debate

Two New York Sportswriters Go Head-to-Head on the 50 Most Heated Questions

By: Roger Rubin,David Lennon

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The Great New York Sports Debate

Two New York Sportswriters Go Head-to-Head on the 50 Most Heated Questions

By: Roger Rubin,David Lennon

Two top authorities slug it out over the fifty hottest debates in New York sports New Yorkers are notoriously opinionated, and nothing spurs their argumentative side quite like sports. David Lennon of Newsday and Roger Rubin of The New York Daily News—two New York sportswriters, add gasoline to the fire with The Great New York Sports Debate, a raucous and spirited examination of the fifty most contentious issues in New York athletics. Longtime friends and rivals, Lennon and Rubin engage in heated debate on a wide range of topics, including: • Is George Steinbrenner good or evil? • Which athlete is the biggest villain in New York? • New York’s greatest quarterback: Namath or Simms? • Can a New Yorker like “both teams”? Touching on every aspect of New York sports—including baseball, basketball, boxing, and the New York Marathon—The Great New York Sports Debate is guaranteed to spark lively discussion among sports fans everywhere.

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1101213310

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Eastern Air Lines

A History, 1926-1991

By: David Lee Russell

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Eastern Air Lines

A History, 1926-1991

By: David Lee Russell

Eastern Air Lines began in 1926 when aviation pioneer Harold Pitcairn started the first carrier air mail route from New York to Atlanta under his company, Pitcairn Aviation. Clement Keys of National Air Transport bought the company in 1929, changed the name to Eastern Air Transport and began passenger service the next year on daily round trips between New York and Richmond. The growing airline was purchased by General Motors and became Eastern Air Lines in 1934. World War I flying ace Edward V. Rickenbacker purchased the airline four years later and led it to become by the 1950s the most profitable airline in the United States. Former astronaut Frank Borman became president of Eastern in 1975 and tried to manage the airline through deregulation, labor union conflict, and heavy debt, ending with the sale of Eastern to Frank Lorenzo and Texas Air in 1986. The airline entered bankruptcy in March 1989 and ended service in less than two years. This detailed history follows Eastern from start to finish, studying such corporate decision-making as aircraft purchases and route expansions, as well as the personalities that shaped the airline throughout its history.

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0786471859

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Capital of the World

A Portrait of New York City in the Roaring Twenties

By: David Wallace

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Capital of the World

A Portrait of New York City in the Roaring Twenties

By: David Wallace

A portrait of NewYork City in the roaring twenties.

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Jimmy Durante

His Show Business Career, with an Annotated Filmography and Discography

By: David Bakish

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Jimmy Durante

His Show Business Career, with an Annotated Filmography and Discography

By: David Bakish

From his humble beginnings as a Coney Island piano player, Jimmy Durante was one of America's best-loved entertainers for nearly seven decades. Known for his distinctive "schnozzle" and raspy voice, the multitalented performer became a stage, screen and recording star. Every aspect of Jimmy Durante's career is covered here: his early vaudeville and Broadway days; the 38 movies he made; his radio appearances; the mixture of new and old material he brought to television in the late 1950s; and his work as a singer and composer.

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The Hit

By: David Baldacci

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The Hit

By: David Baldacci

Master assassin Will Robie must track down a deadly rogue agent, but the attacks conceal a larger threat that could send shockwaves through the U. S. government and around the world in this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller. Will Robie is a master of killing. A highly skilled assassin, Robie is the man the U.S. government calls on to eliminate the worst of the worst--enemies of the state, monsters committed to harming untold numbers of innocent victims. No one else can match Robie's talents as a hitman...no one, except Jessica Reel. A fellow assassin, equally professional and dangerous, Reel is every bit as lethal as Robie. And now, she's gone rogue, turning her gun sights on other members of their agency. To stop one of their own, the government looks again to Will Robie. His mission: bring in Reel, dead or alive. Only a killer can catch another killer, they tell him. But as Robie pursues Reel, he quickly finds that there is more to her betrayal than meets the eye. Her attacks on the agency conceal a larger threat, a threat that could send shockwaves through the U.S. government and around the world.

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Grand Central Publishing

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1455521280

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Airport Competition

The European Experience

By: Peter Forsyth,David Gillen,Jurgen Muller,Hans-Martin Niemeier

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Airport Competition

The European Experience

By: Peter Forsyth,David Gillen,Jurgen Muller,Hans-Martin Niemeier

The break-up of BAA and the blocked takeover of Bratislava airport by the competing Vienna airport have brought the issue of airport competition to the top of the agenda for air transport policy in Europe. Airport Competition reviews the current state of the debate and asks whether airport competition is strong enough to effectively limit market power. It provides evidence on how travellers chose an airport, thereby altering its competitive position, and on how airports compete in different regions and markets. The book also discusses the main policy implications of mergers and subsidies.

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Routledge

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131718288X

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Swing Changes

Big-band Jazz in New Deal America

By: David Ware Stowe

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Swing Changes

Big-band Jazz in New Deal America

By: David Ware Stowe

Drawing on memoirs, oral histories, newspapers, magazines, recordings, photographs, literature, and films, Stowe looks at New Deal America through its music and shows us how the contradictions and tensions within swing--over race, politics, its own cultural status, the role of women--mirrored those played out in the larger society.

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Harvard University Press

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0674858263

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Rescue Warriors

The U.S. Coast Guard, America's Forgotten Heroes

By: David Helvarg

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Rescue Warriors

The U.S. Coast Guard, America's Forgotten Heroes

By: David Helvarg

The Extraordinary Story Of The U.S. Coast Guard Since its founding more than two hundred years ago, the United States Coast Guard has rescued over a million people. On any given day, "Coasties" respond to 125 distress calls and save over a dozen lives. Yet despite having more than 50,000 active-duty and reserve members on every ocean and on our nation's coasts, great lakes, and rivers, most of us know very little about this often neglected but crucial branch of the military. In Rescue Warriors, award-winning journalist David Helvarg brings us into the daily lives of Coasties, filled with a salty maritime mix of altruism and adrenaline, as well as dozens of death-defying rescues at sea and on hurricane-ravaged shores. Helvarg spent two years with the men and women of the Coast Guard, from the halls of their academy in New London, Connecticut, to the frigid, storm-tossed waters of Alaska's Bering Sea, to the northern Persian Gulf, where they currently guard Iraqi oil terminals. The result is a masterpiece of adventure reporting---the definitive book on America's "forgotten heroes.

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Macmillan

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142998953X

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FDR, Dewey, and the Election of 1944

By: David M. Jordan

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FDR, Dewey, and the Election of 1944

By: David M. Jordan

“A lucid, highly engrossing account of a fateful but little chronicled episode in American presidential politics . . . featuring a large cast of personalities.” —Richard Kluger, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Simple Justice Although the presidential election of 1944 placed FDR in the White House for an unprecedented fourth term, historical memory of the election itself has been overshadowed by the war, Roosevelt’s health and his death the following April, Truman’s ascendancy, and the decision to drop the atomic bomb. Today most people assume that FDR’s reelection was assured. Yet, as David M. Jordan’s engrossing account reveals, neither the outcome of the campaign nor even the choice of candidates was assured. Just a week before Election Day, pollster George Gallup thought a small shift in votes in a few key states would award the election to Thomas E. Dewey. Though the Democrats urged voters not to “change horses in midstream,” the Republicans countered that the war would be won “quicker with Dewey and Bricker.” With its insider tales and accounts of party politics and campaigning for votes in the shadow of war and an uncertain future, FDR, Dewey, and the Election of 1944 “deserves a place alongside Theodore White’s histories of how high and low character, fierce ambition, and dumb luck play their part in the nation’s choice of its chief executive” (Richard Kluger). “Jordan tells the story of the 1944 presidential election, and he tells it very well . . . a clearly written, well-researched narrative.” —Journal of American History

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Indiana University Press

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Eddie Rickenbacker

An American Hero in the Twentieth Century

By: W. David Lewis

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Eddie Rickenbacker

An American Hero in the Twentieth Century

By: W. David Lewis

David Lewis has written the definitive biography of America's ace of aces.

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JHU Press

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0801882443

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Stone Babies

By: David Hellerstein

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Stone Babies

By: David Hellerstein

Synopsis of Stone Babies A young doctor in New York City, Dr. Jay Sones has just finished training as an obstetrician and infertility specialist. For over a decade he has been working at Manhattan Medical Center, located on Manhattan's Upper East Side, first as a medical student, then as an obstetrics resident, then as an Infertility Fellow, treating women with fertility problems and doing ground-breaking research with his mentor, the world-renowned Dr. Leon Witt. After years of sleepless nights in which Jay has delivered innumerable babies and treated almost every type of difficult pregnancy, he has become an expert obstetrician-gynecologist. In several years of Infertility Fellowship, working with the temperamental and brilliant Dr. Witt, Jay has survived a different kind of apprenticeship, becoming a medical scientist who can participate in the amazing advances of infertility research. After years of sacrifices--financial and emotional--Jay is ready for the rewards of "real life." He prepares to open up a private practice in Manhattan in partnership with his friend and colleague from the hospital, Dr. Alli Daniel. For a while it looks like life will be perfect--an Upper East Side practice, the opportunity to continue doing research with Dr. Witt. And, most of all, some time for a personal life, for love and romance, with his sometimes-girlfriend, Janine Stern. Janine, who is elegant and intriguing and quite successful (she runs a large consulting firm), has her eye on Jay's future, though he is content to remain in the present--dinners at elegant restaurants, nights at her East End Avenue penthouse, leisurely Sunday brunches together after running the Reservoir in Central Park, not to mention occasional romantic weekend in her Connecticut country house. * Just as Jay's new life begins, though, disaster strikes. One weekend afternoon, while working in the research lab at Manhattan Medical Center, Jay's partner, Dr. Alli Daniel, is assaulted and nearly killed. Then Jay's application for Admitting Privileges at Manhattan Medical Center (which will allow him to deliver babies and treat patients there) is denied. And out of nowhere, he is caught up in a vicious malpractice suit. To make ends meet, Dr. Sones takes jobs in New Yorks dreaded outer boroughs. There is The Lamb, a beleaguered hospital in the South Bronx, and Brooklyn Womans Care, or BWC, a storefront clinic in the slums of Brooklyn. At The Lamb, he delivers baby after baby, enduring brownouts and shootouts, and squalid operating rooms and thirteen-year-old mothers having their second or third babies. And in Brooklyn, Jay sees a different side of urban medicine, working in the front lines in what can only euphemistically be described as a "clinic" but is really the private preserve for Eddie Polito, better known for his prior professions of refuse removal and stolen car redistribution. Nonetheless, The Lamb and BWC pay the bills. And when your fancy Park Avenue practice is bleeding money, and when your lawyer is running a $250 per hour meter with no end of billable hours in sight, cash is king. And so Jay Sones's dreams of a glamorous medical existence rapidly fade into oblivion. There is more, though: As he runs from one patient to the next, and from the squalor of urban poverty to the glamorous world of his wealthy girlfriend, Jay's suspicions grow that the three disastrous events are related--that there is a connection between Alli's attack and the malpractice suit and the way in which his privileges were denied at Manhattan Medical Center. Then things get nasty. Jay becomes persona non grata at Manhattan Medical Center, banished from even setting foot in the Infertility Center. Dr. Witt turns from chilly politeness to open hostility. And then Jay himself is sucker-punched, unexpectedly caught up in the inc

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Marijuana

A Reference Handbook

By: David E. Newton

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Marijuana

A Reference Handbook

By: David E. Newton

This single-volume resource provides sound, up-to-date information and authoritative resources for research on the controversial topics of the use of marijuana for medical and recreational purposes and the effects of marijuana use on society. The use of marijuana has consistently been a highly controversial, polarizing, and emotional topic, so much so that social, cultural, and religious factors have largely influenced public opinion, legislation, and law enforcement's treatment of marijuana use. At the same time, much of the scientific information about the plant has largely been ignored in the policies and practices of the United States over the past 100 years. Marijuana: A Reference Handbook provides detailed coverage of the history and background of marijuana use in society, with special emphasis on the present day in the United States. It outlines the development of federal and state legislation with respect to marijuana use over the last century, focusing on changes that are taking place in the second decade of the 21st century, and examines the pros and cons of the use of marijuana for a variety of purposes. The book presents readers with unbiased, research-based information about the effects, benefits, and risks of marijuana use. Readers will also learn about the role of hemp across human history and about very recent legislative action on the use of marijuana for both recreational purposes and medical use.

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Labor and the Constitution

Labor and Property, Privacy, Discrimination and International Relations

By: David L. Gregory

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Labor and the Constitution

Labor and Property, Privacy, Discrimination and International Relations

By: David L. Gregory

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Helmholtz

A Life in Science

By: David Cahan

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Helmholtz

A Life in Science

By: David Cahan

Hermann von Helmholtz was a towering figure of nineteenth-century scientific and intellectual life. Best known for his achievements in physiology and physics, he also contributed to other disciplines such as ophthalmology, psychology, mathematics, chemical thermodynamics, and meteorology. With Helmholtz: A Life in Science, David Cahan has written a definitive biography, one that brings to light the dynamic relationship between Helmholtz’s private life, his professional pursuits, and the larger world in which he lived. ? Utilizing all of Helmholtz’s scientific and philosophical writings, as well as previously unknown letters, this book reveals the forces that drove his life—a passion to unite the sciences, vigilant attention to the sources and methods of knowledge, and a deep appreciation of the ways in which the arts and sciences could benefit each other. By placing the overall structure and development of his scientific work and philosophy within the greater context of nineteenth-century Germany, Helmholtz also serves as cultural biography of the construction of the scientific community: its laboratories, institutes, journals, disciplinary organizations, and national and international meetings. Helmholtz’s life is a shining example of what can happen when the sciences and the humanities become interwoven in the life of one highly motivated, energetic, and gifted person.

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University of Chicago Press

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022654916X

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Play Dead

By: David Rosenfelt

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Play Dead

By: David Rosenfelt

In this imaginative legal thriller for dog lovers, an attorney tries to free an innocent man by convincing an incredulous jury to take the testimony a golden retriever seriously. Few can rival attorney Andy Carpenter's affection for golden retrievers, especially his own beloved Tara. After he astonishes a New Jersey courtroom by successfully appealing another retriever's death sentence, Andy discovers that this gentle dog is a key witness to a murder that took place five years earlier. It will take all the tricks Andy's fertile mind can conceive to get to the bottom of a remarkable chain of impersonations and murder -- and hopefully save not only a dog's life but also his own in the process.

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Grand Central Publishing

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0446544280

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The Broadway Song Companion

An Annotated Guide to Musical Theatre Literature by Voice Type and Song Style

By: David P. DeVenney

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The Broadway Song Companion

An Annotated Guide to Musical Theatre Literature by Voice Type and Song Style

By: David P. DeVenney

The Broadway Song Companion is the first complete guide and access point to the vast literature of the Broadway musical for the solo performer. Designed with the working actor in mind, the volume lists every song from over 210 Broadway shows, giving the name of the character(s) who sing(s) the song, its exact vocal range, and categorizing each by song style (uptempo, narrative ballad, swing ballad, moderate character piece, etc.). A number of indexes to the volume list titles of songs, first lines, composer's and lyricist's names, and each song by voice type. For instance, a soprano looking for a ballad to sing will find every song in that category in the index. All solos, duets, and trios are indexed in this manner, with quartets and larger ensembles listed by voice type. Furthermore, the instant breakdowns (how many lead characters, who sings what song, and the range requirements of each character) will be a valuable resource to directors and producers.

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Scarecrow Press

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0585040192

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How They Met

True Stories of the Power of Serendipity in Finding Lasting Love

By: David Friedman

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How They Met

True Stories of the Power of Serendipity in Finding Lasting Love

By: David Friedman

Find hope with this collection of true stories of lasting romance The surprising beginnings of true love: You never know when it might happen: love might be right around the corner, down the block, or across the aisle from you on your next flight. Stories of how people met are endlessly fascinating and they remind us that we all need to be ready for anything, including meeting the love of your life when you least expect it. Healing stories of serendipitous romance: After a bad break up, composer and beloved songwriter David Friedman embarked on a decade-long journey collecting couple’s stories of “how they met” as a therapeutic project. What Friedman learned was utterly surprising―there was always an element of serendipity, planning had nothing to do with it. Along the way, what started out as a path to moving forward became a mission to better understand matters of the heart. Romantic biographies and real-life relationships: In this study of true romance, Friedman talks to people from every walk of life, from devout churchgoers to same sex couples to celebrities. Among others, How They Metshares the moving stories of how Lucie Arnaz met her famous mate, Lawrence Luckinbill, and the unexpected story of Kathie Lee and Frank Gifford’s friendship turning to romance. How They Met gives readers: • Real life stories that will give hope to even the most heart broken • A truly diverse set of stories that shows the universality of true love • A close-up look at the romances and relationships of famous couples This collection of true stories will have you believing that love will find YOU – perhaps when you least expect it!

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Mango Media Inc.

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1633536785

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The Mafia's Greatest Hits

By: David H. Jacobs

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The Mafia's Greatest Hits

By: David H. Jacobs

Joey Gallo - killed in Umberto's Clam House, Little Italy, 1975; Abe Reles, the Murder Inc. stoolpigeon who was tossed out of a hotel window in Coney Island in 1941; Albert Anastasa, cut down in a barber's chair in 1957; Carmine Galante, killed in a hail of bullets as he finished lunch in a Brooklyn restaurant in 1977; Joe 'the Boss' Massiera, whacked in a Coney Island restaurant in 1933 - all are celebrated episodes of big-time gangland executions, told in the breezy, vividly direct tone of a sportswriter covering a ball game. With an introduction by Henry Hill.

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Citadel Press

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0806527579

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A Kirk McGarvey Collection, Volume I

Without Honor, Countdown, Crossfire, Critical Mass

By: David Hagberg

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A Kirk McGarvey Collection, Volume I

Without Honor, Countdown, Crossfire, Critical Mass

By: David Hagberg

This first volume of the Kirk McGarvey Collection discounted ebundle includes: Without Honor, Countdown, Crossfire, Critical Mass David Hagberg's New York Times bestselling Kirk McGarvey books are action-packed thrillers CIA agent Kirk McGarvey as he fights terrorism, espionage, and all the biggest threats to the United States. “David Hagberg is the pros’ pro, the plot master we all wish we were.” --Stephen Coonts Forge books by David Hagberg Kirk McGarvey Adventures Without Honor Countdown Crossfire Critical Mass High Flight Assassin White House Joshua’s Hammer The Kill Zone Castro’s Daughter Soldier of God Allah’s Scorpion Dance with the Dragon The Expediter The Cabal Abyss Blood Pact Retribution The Fourth Horse man End Game Tower Down Other novels Desert Fire Eden’s Gate By Dawn’s Early Light Burned At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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Tor Books

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125030556X

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The Gentile Witness

By: Samuel David

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The Gentile Witness

By: Samuel David

What if there is no pre-tribulation Rapture? How will the witnesses use the world's media to get God's final message across to the world?

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Lulu.com

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0557752876

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New York's New Edge

Contemporary Art, the High Line, and Urban Megaprojects on the Far West Side

By: David Halle,Elisabeth Tiso

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New York's New Edge

Contemporary Art, the High Line, and Urban Megaprojects on the Far West Side

By: David Halle,Elisabeth Tiso

The story of New York’s west side no longer stars the Sharks and the Jets. Instead it’s a story of urban transformation, cultural shifts, and an expanding contemporary art scene. The Chelsea Gallery District has become New York’s most dominant neighborhood for contemporary art, and the streets of the west side are filled with gallery owners, art collectors, and tourists. Developments like the High Line, historical preservation projects like the Gansevoort Market, the Chelsea galleries, and plans for megaprojects like the Hudson Yards Development have redefined what is now being called the “Far West Side” of Manhattan. David Halle and Elisabeth Tiso offer a deep analysis of the transforming district in New York’s New Edge, and the result is a new understanding of how we perceive and interpret culture and the city in New York’s gallery district. From individual interviews with gallery owners to the behind-the-scenes politics of preservation initiatives and megaprojects, the book provides an in-depth account of the developments, obstacles, successes, and failures of the area and the factors that have contributed to them.

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University of Chicago Press

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022603254X

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Weed: The User's Guide

A 21st Century Handbook for Enjoying Marijuana

By: David Schmader

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Weed: The User's Guide

A 21st Century Handbook for Enjoying Marijuana

By: David Schmader

This well-baked and hilarious guide to the brave new world of marijuana is “required reading for longtime potheads and new users alike (Dan Savage)”. “This fun and insightful book is the perfect owner’s manual.” —Rick Steves The United States is in the midst of a weed renaissance. Recreational marijuana is greenlit in a growing number of states, with medical marijuana legal in many more. The Stranger writer and performer David Schmader is your witty and well-baked tour guide to this brave new world of legal marijuana. Here, you’ll learn: • Which presidents were potheads • Hemp vs. cannabis • Dealing with dealers • What is the difference between a blunt and a spliff • How to make an apple into a pipe • How to clean a bong • How to make the world's best pot brownies • What to do if you are high and you don't like it • How to maximize your high with food (chilled grapes and a cheese platter, or $10 worth of whatever you want from 7-Eleven), entertainment (from abstract expressionism to buddy comedies) and nature (dog parks are a stoner's paradise). Packed with history, ways to enjoy, recipes, safety and legality tips, and medical-use information, this little manual is the perfect addition to your stash!

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Sasquatch Books

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1632170434

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Clean Break

A Novel

By: David Klein

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Clean Break

A Novel

By: David Klein

A riveting tale of psychological suspense about a woman who finds herself in an impossible situation Lured by the hope of a better life for herself and her son, Celeste Vanek must deal with the emotional and physical resistance of her compulsive gambler husband when she asks for a divorce. Though she hopes she is on the verge of making a clean break, her husband demands his family back, and things get violent. Jake Atwood, who witnesses the shocking scene between Celeste and her husband, struggles with his own emotional and ethical issues while attempting to help Celeste escape her marriage. At the same time, Jake is involved with Sara, a married and childless police detective who has a private agenda to pursue when a crime is committed that links all of these characters together and changes their lives forever. With heart-pounding suspense and brilliant psychological insight, CLEAN BREAK will leave readers breathless.

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Crown

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0307590259

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Angels in Mourning

By: David Wind

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Angels in Mourning

By: David Wind

Can a Hard-Boiled P.I. survive in today's world? Can a dead man tell a tale? Early one morning, investigator Gabe Storm is summoned to an apartment by the NYPD. Storm learns his best friend, Scotty Granger, a Broadway playwright, is dead. Police suggest Granger died in a botched burglary attempt. Unwilling to accept the NYPD's take on the murder, Storm pursues the illusive killer into the underbelly of Broadway’s high finance, the dangerous world of pimps and gangsters and through the halls of the U.S. Senate where he learns how even a dead man cannot keep a secret. Angels In Mourning Received Book of the Month Award for April 2009 from thebookawards.com TAGS: Mystery, Thrillers & Suspense, Organized Crime, Hard-Boiled, Noir, Literature & Fiction, crime fiction, Literary, Action & Adventure, Mystery, Police Procedural, Private, Investigators, Abducted Children, Missing Children, New York Police, Mafia, FBI, Police

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DMW

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1507073968

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9781507073964

Labor Embattled

History, Power, Rights

By: David Brody

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Labor Embattled

History, Power, Rights

By: David Brody

Explores recent developments affecting American workers in light of labor's past. Of special concern is the erosion of the rights of workers under the modern labor law, which Brody argues is rooted in the original formulation of the Wagner Act. Brody explains how the ideals of free labor, free speech, freedom of association, and freedom of contract have been interpreted and canonized in ways that unfailingly reduce the capacity for workers' collective action while silently removing impediments to employers coercion of workers. He combines legal and labor history to reveal how laws designed to undergird workers' rights now essentially hamstring them. [Publisher web site].

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0252030044

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