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The Perils of Command

A John Pearce Adventure

By: David Donachie

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The Perils of Command

A John Pearce Adventure

By: David Donachie

John Pearce, having negotiated the highly questionable sale of the two French prizes taken in The Devil to Pay, has left HMS Flirt, as well as the crew and the wounded Henry Digby, in Brindisi and is now headed for Naples to see his lover. In an uncomfortable journey he seeks to work out a way to best both Admiral Sir William Hotham and Captain Ralph Barclay, men who are his sworn enemies. All his calculations are thrown into turmoil when he discovers that Emily is pregnant which, while it is a cause for joy, is also a reason to worry; she is still married to Ralph Barclay and by the laws of the time he can claim the child as his own.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1493061607

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Their Greatest Victory

24 Athletes Who Overcame Disease, Disability and Injury

By: David L. Porter

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Their Greatest Victory

24 Athletes Who Overcame Disease, Disability and Injury

By: David L. Porter

This book profiles 24 athletes who overcame seemingly insurmountable medical odds to attain athletic success. Each profile describes the athlete's problem, the medical issues he or she faced, how success was achieved despite the setback, and the personal qualities that helped the athlete to prevail. Part I features 15 athletes who dealt with diseases and physical disabilities, including Babe Didrikson Zaharias (cancer), Ron Santo (diabetes), Gail Devers (Graves' disease), Alonzo Mourning (kidney disease), Wilma Rudolph (polio), Scott Hamilton (a pancreatic disorder in childhood) and Jimmy Abbott (born with one hand). Part II highlights nine athletes who dealt with near-fatal or life-changing accidents and injuries, including Bill Toomey, Three-Finger Brown, Greg LeMond, Lou Brissie and Tommy John.

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McFarland

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0786473053

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9780786473052

Blue State Blues

By: David Slavitt

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Blue State Blues

By: David Slavitt

A political neophyte challenges the status quo or How a Cranky Conservative Launched a Campaign and Found Himself the Liberal Candidate (and Still Lost)

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Wesleyan University Press

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0819568066

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Winning the White House, 2004

Region by Region, Vote by Vote

By: David M. Rankin

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Winning the White House, 2004

Region by Region, Vote by Vote

By: David M. Rankin

What does it take to win the White House? This book helps students understand both the issues and how and why people vote for one candidate. After discussing the dynamics of the primary campaigns, the authors examine three broad sets of issues that play a key role in voting: foreign policy, domestic policies, and the culture wars. This sets the foundations for an examination of regional similarities and differences in voting patterns, as the varying salience and valence of issues-whether general or specific-is explored across and within regions. Special attention is paid to battleground states. Drawing on concepts from political science, this book advances students' understanding both of the field and the phenomenon.

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Palgrave Macmillan

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1403968802

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The Cornett-Whitley Gang

Violence Unleashed in Texas

By: David Johnson

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The Cornett-Whitley Gang

Violence Unleashed in Texas

By: David Johnson

During the late 1880s, the Cornett-Whitley gang rose on the Texas scene with a daring train robbery at McNeil Station, only miles from the capital of Texas. In the frenzy that followed the robbery, the media castigated both lawmen and government officials, at times lauded the outlaws, and indulged in trial by media. At Flatonia the gang tortured the passengers and indulged in an orgy of violence that earned them international recognition and infamy. The damage that the gang caused is incalculable, including the destruction, temporarily, of a Texas Ranger company. The gang tarnished reputations, shed light on what news media was becoming, and claimed lives. As a whole the gang was psychopathic, sadistic, and murderous, prone to violence. They had no loyalty to one another and no redeeming qualities. But the legacy of the gang is not all evil. Private enterprises, such as Wells Fargo, the railroads, and numerous banks, joined forces with law enforcement to combat them. Lawmen from cities and counties joined forces with federal marshals and the Texas Rangers to further cement what would become the “brotherhood of the badge.” These efforts succeeded in tracking down and killing or capturing a good number of the gang members. Readers of the Old West and true crime stories will appreciate this sordid tale of outlawry and the lawmen who put a stop to it. Those who study the media and “fake news” will appreciate the parallels from the 1880s to today.

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University of North Texas Press

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1574417789

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9781574417784

Why Acting Matters

By: David Thomson

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Why Acting Matters

By: David Thomson

Does acting matter? David Thomson, one of our most respected and insightful writers on movies and theater, answers this question with intelligence and wit. In this fresh and thought-provoking essay, Thomson tackles this most elusive of subjects, examining the allure of the performing arts for both the artist and the audience member while addressing the paradoxes inherent in acting itself. He reflects on the casting process, on stage versus film acting, and on the cult of celebrity. The art and considerable craft of such gifted artists as Meryl Streep, Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Daniel Day-Lewis, and others are scrupulously appraised here, as are notions of “good” and “bad” acting. Thomson’s exploration is at once a meditation on and a celebration of a unique and much beloved, often misunderstood, and occasionally derided art form. He argues that acting not only “matters” but is essential and inescapable, as well as dangerous, chronic, transformative, and exhilarating, be it on the theatrical stage, on the movie screen, or as part of our everyday lives.

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Yale University Press

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0300213697

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9780300213690

Winnie Lightner

Tomboy of the Talkies

By: David L. Lightner

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Winnie Lightner

Tomboy of the Talkies

By: David L. Lightner

Winnie Lightner (1899–1971) stood out as the first great female comedian of the talkies. Blessed with a superb singing voice and a gift for making wisecracks and rubber faces, she rose to stardom in vaudeville and on Broadway. Then, at the dawn of the sound era, she became the first person in motion picture history to have her spoken words, the lyrics to a song, censored. In Winnie Lightner: Tomboy of the Talkies, David L. Lightner shows how Winnie Lightner's hilarious performance in the 1929 musical comedy Gold Diggers of Broadway made her an overnight sensation. She went on to star in seven other Warner Bros. features. In the best of them, she was the comic epitome of a strident feminist, dominating men and gleefully spurning conventional gender norms and moral values. So tough was she, the studio billed her as “the tomboy of the talkies.” When the Great Depression rendered moviegoers hostile toward feminism, Warner Bros. tried to craft a new image of her as glamorous and sexy. Executives assigned her contradictory roles in which she was empowered in the workplace but submissive to her male partner at home. The new persona flopped at the box office, and Lightner's stardom ended. In four final movies, she played supporting roles as the loudmouthed roommate and best friend of actresses Loretta Young, Joan Crawford, and Mona Barrie. Following her retirement in 1934, Lightner faded into obscurity. Many of her films were damaged or even lost entirely. At long last, this biography gives Winnie Lightner the recognition she deserves as a notable figure in film history, in women's history, and in the history of show business.

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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149680984X

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The Devil to Pay

By: David Donachie

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The Devil to Pay

By: David Donachie

Faced with a ship in need of repair, enemy attacks and the threat of wily Admiral Hotham, John Pearce is sailing into danger. Meanwhile Ralph Barclay is on his way to the Mediterranean. Thinking his wife still with Pearce and that he can repair his marriage by rescuing her, he sails in pursuit, Hotham half-hoping he suffers the same fate as the admiral has in store for Pearce. Can John Pearce fight to first save himself and his charges from captivity and then to be free from the enemy? It is a battle that will require all of his wits.

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Allison & Busby

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0749016582

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A Divided Command

By: David Donachie

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A Divided Command

By: David Donachie

Unbeknown to John Pearce, the private letter he is delivering on behalf of the prime minister carries the dismissal of the very man he is sailing to see. Politics intervene in matters of the sea and the need for a government majority to pursue the war with France means John Pearce must step down as Britain's best sailor, regretfully relinquishing the position to the incompetent Admiral Hotham. Hotham is equally less than pleased about John Pearce, as he is the one person who knows the truth about his dishonest and wicked naval career. Pearce knows Hotham will try and destroy him any way he can to keep from being exposed, so he must navigate the dangerous waters whilst trying to return to Emily Barclay, the woman he loves.

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Man in the Water

A McKenzie Novel

By: David Housewright

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Man in the Water

A McKenzie Novel

By: David Housewright

When his wife finds the body of an Army veteran in the lake, it is inevitable that former cop, now unofficial P.I. Rushmore McKenzie will get enmeshed in a complicated case of possible murder. It all starts with the body in the water—on what should be the first boat day of the season, McKenzie’s wife Nina finds a dead Army vet. As the dock owner and the insurance companies claim that it was suicide, despite the deceased, E.J. Woods, having no obvious reason to kill himself, his widow starts acting suspiciously. McKenzie finds himself pulled into the fight when Naveah, the victim’s daughter, convinced her father was murdered, asks him to investigate. Further complicating the situation are uncooperative boaters, allegations of PTSD, and the simple fact that there was no reason for E.J. to be in the water. McKenzie’s investigation unearths not only the petty squabbles surrounding the lake and its dock, but details of her father’s past that Naveah is perhaps better off not knowing. With Nina haunted by dreams of the body and the legal fight over cause of death becoming increasingly nasty, McKenzie may be the only one interested in finding justice for E.J.— and uncovering the truth before another person dies.

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Minotaur Books

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1250863619

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The New Abs Diet for Women

The Six-Week Plan to Flatten Your Stomach and Keep You Lean for Life

By: David Zinczenko,Ted Spiker

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The New Abs Diet for Women

The Six-Week Plan to Flatten Your Stomach and Keep You Lean for Life

By: David Zinczenko,Ted Spiker

The New York Times bestseller is back, featuring new research, plus new exercises and nutrition plans to help you achieve even faster weight loss Women's Health has loaded this new edition with more useful tips, body-sculpting exercises, and delicious new recipes using the Abs Diet Power 12 Foods, which are scientifically proven to burn fat, build muscle, fight heart disease, and boost the immune system. The New Abs Diet for Women also contains bonus workouts that target the legs and butt, moves that incorporate yoga and Pilates, and new interval workouts that burn off pregnancy weight.

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Rodale Books

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1609610172

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Skilled Interpersonal Communication

Research, Theory, and Practice

By: Owen Hargie,David Dickson

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Skilled Interpersonal Communication

Research, Theory, and Practice

By: Owen Hargie,David Dickson

This textbook on communication is directly relevant to a multiplicity of research areas and professions. This revised edition has been expanded to include further research as well as a new chapter on negotiating.

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Psychology Press

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0415227194

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Knights of the Golden Circle

Secret Empire, Southern Secession, Civil War

By: David C. Keehn

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Knights of the Golden Circle

Secret Empire, Southern Secession, Civil War

By: David C. Keehn

In 1860, during their first attempt to create the Golden Circle, several thousand Knights assembled in southern Texas to "colonize" the northern Mexico. Due to insufficient resources and organizational shortfalls, however, that filibuster failed. Later, the Knights shifted their focus and began pushing for disunion, spearheading prosecession rallies, and intimidating Unionists in the South. They appointed regional military commanders from the ranks of the South's major political and military figures, including men such as Elkanah Greer of Texas, Paul J. Semmes of Georgia, Robert C. Tyler of Maryland, and Virginius D. Groner of Virginia. Followers also established allies with the South's rabidly prosecession "fire-eaters," which included individuals such as Barnwell Rhett, Louis Wigfall, Henry Wise, and William Yancy.

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LSU Press

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0807150053

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The Abs Diet Eat Right Every Time Guide

By: David Zinczenko,Ted Spiker

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The Abs Diet Eat Right Every Time Guide

By: David Zinczenko,Ted Spiker

Recommends a high-fiber, high-protein diet based on eating such readily available low-fat foods as nuts, beans, vegetables, eggs, instant oatmeal, turkey, olive oil, peanut butter, and whole grains to attain and keep a healthy weight.

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1594862389

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A Sea of Troubles

A John Pearce Adventure

By: David Donachie

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A Sea of Troubles

A John Pearce Adventure

By: David Donachie

1794: In the wake of the Glorious First of June, Lieutenant John Pearce has pressing matters to attend to. He must undertake an urgent commission from Lord Hood, track down midshipman Toby Burns, and placate Emily Barclay. Meanwhile smugglers whose ship Pearce inadvertently stole are on his tail. And it is not only John Pearce who has his fair share of trouble. The triumphant Channel Fleet returns, but the battle is already the subject of controversy—and Ralph Barclay is accused of holding back from the action. Pearce turns the table on his enemies and sets off for the Mediterranean with Emily Barclay. He can only hope that his troubles will end along with his mission. But are they only just beginning?

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1493070657

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Reputation, Celebrity and Defamation Law

By: David Rolph

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Reputation, Celebrity and Defamation Law

By: David Rolph

Taking Robert Post's seminal article 'The Social Foundations of Reputation and the Constitution' as a starting point, this volume examines how the concept of reputation changes to reflect social, political, economic, cultural and technological developments. It suggests that the value of a good reputation is not immutable and analyzes the history and doctrines of defamation law in the US and the UK. A selection of Australian case studies illustrates different concepts of defamation law and offers insights into their specific nature. Drawing on approaches to celebrity in media and cultural studies, the author conceptualizes reputation as a media construct and explains how reputation as celebrity is of great contemporary relevance at this point in the history of defamation law.

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Routledge

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1317065778

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Epitaph for a Tramp and Epitaph for a Dead Beat

The Harry Fannin Detective Novels

By: David Markson

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Epitaph for a Tramp and Epitaph for a Dead Beat

The Harry Fannin Detective Novels

By: David Markson

Before achieving critical acclaim as a novelist, David Markson paid the rent by writing several crime novels, including two featuring the private detective Harry Fannin. Together here in one volume, these works are now available to a new generation of readers. In Epitaph for a Tramp, Fannin isn't called out to investigate a murder — it happens on his doorstop. In the sweltering heat of a New York August night, he answers the buzzer at his door to find his promiscuous ex–wife dying from a knife wound. To find her killer, Fannin plies his trade with classic hard–boiled aplomb. In the second novel, Epitaph for a Dead Beat, Fannin finds himself knee–deep in murder among the beatniks and bohemians of the early 1960s, where blood seems to flow as readily as cheap Chianti. Intricately plotted and rife with wisecracks, David Markson offers suspenseful and literary crime novels.

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Catapult

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1593761341

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The Quantum Spy

By: David Ignatius

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The Quantum Spy

By: David Ignatius

Who will rule the world? A nail-biting technothriller from a bestselling master. A quantum computer is the digital equivalent of a nuclear bomb; whoever possesses one will be able to attain global dominance. The question is, who will get there first? A top-secret quantum research lab is compromised by a suspected Chinese informant. CIA officer Harris Chang leads the mole hunt, pursuing his target from the towering cityscape of Singapore to the mountains of Mexico and beyond. The investigation is obsessive, destructive, and uncertain... In order to win, Chang must question everything he knows. Grounded in a real-world technological arms race, The Quantum Spy presents a sophisticated game of cat and mouse cloaked in an exhilarating and visionary thriller. Perfect for fans of Tom Clancy, Stephen Coonts and David Baldacci.

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Canelo

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1788630580

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New City Upon a Hill

A History of Columbia, Maryland

By: Joseph Rocco Mitchell,David L. Stebenne

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New City Upon a Hill

A History of Columbia, Maryland

By: Joseph Rocco Mitchell,David L. Stebenne

Published in anticipation of Columbias fortieth anniversary in 2007, this book showcases the history of one of the nations leading new towns. Built from the brilliant plan developed by visionary designer James Rouse, Columbias innovative design is the foundation for a unique community that has thrived for decades and flourishes today.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1614230994

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Bound in Blood

By: David Thomas Lord

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Bound in Blood

By: David Thomas Lord

As a vampire, art critic Jean-Luc "Jack" Courbet kills each man he meets after their sexual encounter, but when an enemy arrives, he confronts his past and those who want him destroyed with the help of his new love, actor Claude Halloran.

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Kensington Books

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1575667649

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Much Labouring

The Texts and Authors of Yeats's First Modernist Books

By: David Holdeman

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Much Labouring

The Texts and Authors of Yeats's First Modernist Books

By: David Holdeman

Explores Yeats's engagement with issues of gender and class.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472108514

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9780472108510

Kingdom of Play

What Ball-bouncing Octopuses, Belly-flopping Monkeys, and Mud-sliding Elephants Reveal about Life Itself

By: David Toomey

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Kingdom of Play

What Ball-bouncing Octopuses, Belly-flopping Monkeys, and Mud-sliding Elephants Reveal about Life Itself

By: David Toomey

For readers of Inside of a Dog and The Soul of an Octopus, a fascinating, charming, and revelatory look at the science behind why animals play that shows how life—at its most fundamental level—is playful. In Kingdom of Play, critically acclaimed science writer David Toomey takes us on a fast-paced and entertaining tour of playful animals and the scientists who study them. From octopuses on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef to meerkats in the Kalahari Desert to brown bears on Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, we follow adventurous researchers as they design and conduct experiments seeking answers to new, intriguing questions: When did play first appear in animals? How does play develop the brain, and how did it evolve? Are the songs and aerial acrobatics of birds the beginning of avian culture? Is fairness in dog play the foundation of canine ethics? And does play direct and possibly accelerate evolution? Monkeys belly-flop, dolphins tail-walk, elephants mud-slide, crows dive-bomb, and octopuses bounce balls. These activities are various, but all are play, and as Toomey explains, animal play can be seen as a distinct behavior—one that is ongoing and open-ended, purposeless and provisional—rather like natural selection. Through a close examination of both natural selection and play, Toomey argues that life itself is fundamentally playful. A globe-spanning journey and a scientific detective story filled with lively animal anecdotes, Kingdom of Play is an illuminating—and yes, playful—look at a little-known aspect of the animal kingdom.

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Simon and Schuster

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1982154489

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9781982154486

Arab Women in Arab News

Old Stereotypes and New Media

By: Amal Al-Malki,David Kaufer,Suguru Ishizaki,Kira Dreher

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Arab Women in Arab News

Old Stereotypes and New Media

By: Amal Al-Malki,David Kaufer,Suguru Ishizaki,Kira Dreher

This book addresses east-west understandings of Arab women as portrayed through translated media. The vast majority of media studies on Arab women are western-based. They study the effect of western stereotypes in western media depictions of Arab women. There is a vast scholarly literature tracing western stereotypes of Arab women from medieval times to the present. From 1800, the dominant western stereotype of Arab women depicts them as passive and oppressed. Thirty years of social science media research in the west has shown that media images of Arab women reinforce this two hundred year old stereotype. Much of this research has studied silent "image bites" of Arab women, where women are pictured in veils and their own voices are replaced by western captions or voice-overs. This book sets out to answer this question. To answer it, we contracted with a global news translation service from the Middle East to collect and translate a sample of 22 months of new summaries from 103 Arab media sources belonging to 22 Arab countries. Filtering the summaries that contained one or more female keywords (e.g., woman, mother, aunt, sister, she) yielded 2, 061 summaries between September 2005 and June of 2007. Using the 2,061 summaries as input data, a coding scheme was developed for "active" and "passive" female behaviors based on verb-phrase analysis and conventions of English-language news-reporting.

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A&C Black

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1780931247

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Weird Life: The Search for Life That Is Very, Very Different from Our Own

By: David Toomey

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Weird Life: The Search for Life That Is Very, Very Different from Our Own

By: David Toomey

“Weird indeed, and not a little wonderful.”—Nature In the 1980s and 1990s, in places where no one thought it possible, scientists found organisms they called extremophiles: lovers of extremes. There were bacteria in volcanic hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor, single-celled algae in Antarctic ice floes, and fungi in the cooling pools of nuclear reactors. But might there be life stranger than the most extreme extremophile? Might there be, somewhere, another kind of life entirely? In fact, scientists have hypothesized life that uses ammonia instead of water, life based not in carbon but in silicon, life driven by nuclear chemistry, and life whose very atoms are unlike those in life we know. In recent years some scientists have begun to look for the tamer versions of such life on rock surfaces in the American Southwest, in a “shadow biosphere” that might impinge on the known biosphere, and even deep within human tissue. They have also hypothesized more radical versions that might survive in Martian permafrost, in the cold ethylene lakes on Saturn’s moon Titan, and in the hydrogen-rich atmospheres of giant planets in other solar systems. And they have imagined it in places off those worlds: the exotic ices in comets, the vast spaces between the stars, and—strangest of all—parallel universes. Distilling complex science in clear and lively prose, David Toomey illuminates the research of the biological avant-garde and describes the workings of weird organisms in riveting detail. His chapters feature an unforgettable cast of brilliant scientists and cover everything from problems with our definitions of life to the possibility of intelligent weird life. With wit and understanding that will delight scientists and lay readers alike, Toomey reveals how our current knowledge of life forms may account for only a tiny fraction of what’s really out there.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393089940

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9780393089943

The Abs Diet Get Fit, Stay Fit Plan

The Exercise Program to Flatten Your Belly, Reshape Your Body, and Give You Abs for Life!

By: David Zinczenko,Ted Spiker

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The Abs Diet Get Fit, Stay Fit Plan

The Exercise Program to Flatten Your Belly, Reshape Your Body, and Give You Abs for Life!

By: David Zinczenko,Ted Spiker

Shares hundreds of exercise options for increasing metabolism, burning fat, and building muscle, in a workout reference that focuses on abdominal and large-muscle groups and outlines a thrice-weekly speed-interval routine for faster results. 125,000 first printing.

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Rodale

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1594864098

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Unlocking the Meaning of Lost

An Unauthorized Guide

By: Lynnette R. Porter,David Lavery

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Unlocking the Meaning of Lost

An Unauthorized Guide

By: Lynnette R. Porter,David Lavery

Examines the mysteries, plotlines, and characters of the popular ABC network series, "Lost," and explores the spiritual and philosophical concerns of the show.

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1402207263

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Stormchasers: The Hurricane Hunters and Their Fateful Flight Into Hurricane Janet

By: David Toomey

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Stormchasers: The Hurricane Hunters and Their Fateful Flight Into Hurricane Janet

By: David Toomey

Drawing from original navy documents and interviews with members of the squadron and relatives of the crew, "Stormchasers" reconstructs the ill-fated hurricane tracking mission of Lt. Commander Grover Windham and his 8-man crew, from preflight checks to the chilling moment of their final transmission.

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0393324486

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Communication in Small Groups

Theory, Process, Skills

By: John F. Cragan,David W. Wright,Chris R. Kasch

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Communication in Small Groups

Theory, Process, Skills

By: John F. Cragan,David W. Wright,Chris R. Kasch

This acclaimed book guides you in developing communication skills that you can use with success in every group situation. John F. Cragan and David W. Wright -- together with new coauthor Chris R. Kasch -- effectively balance theory and process with skill development. They furnish an in-depth discussion of rules and strategies for effective problem solving, managing relationships, team building, role playing, leadership, and conflict management."--Back cover.

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0534545513

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The Quantum Spy: A Thriller

By: David Ignatius

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The Quantum Spy: A Thriller

By: David Ignatius

“The Quantum Spy takes us to a whole new level of intrigue and espionage. It’s also unbelievably timely. In short: David Ignatius knows his stuff.” —Wolf Blitzer A hyper-fast quantum computer is the digital equivalent of a nuclear bomb; whoever possesses one will be able to shred any encryption and break any code in existence. The question is: who will build one first, the U.S. or China? In this gripping thriller, U.S. quantum research labs are compromised by a suspected Chinese informant, inciting a mole hunt of history-altering proportions. CIA officer Harris Chang leads the charge, pursuing his target from Singapore to Mexico and beyond. Do the leaks expose real secrets, or are they false trails meant to deceive the Chinese? The answer forces Chang to question everything he thought he knew about loyalty, morality, and the primacy of truth.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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039325416X

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9780393254167

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