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Darkest Italy

The Nation and Stereotypes of the Mezzogiorno, 1860-1900

By: J. Dickie

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Darkest Italy

The Nation and Stereotypes of the Mezzogiorno, 1860-1900

By: J. Dickie

Stereotypical representations of the Mezzogiorno are a persistent feature of Italian culture at all levels. John Dickie analyzes these stereotypes in the post Unification period, when the Mezzogiornio was widely seen as barbaric, violent or irrational, an "Africa" on the European continent.

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Springer

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0312299524

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9780312299521

Fracture

By: Gordon Dickie

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Fracture

By: Gordon Dickie

There is a grain of truth to every Aspen legend which subtly augments the unique mystique of this adulated mountain Mecca. Aspen is a collection of the notable and the notorious, the famous and the infamous, and those who live by chicanery while socially conscious tycoons surreptitiously ogle each others jets. Extremes of habitation range from the sumptuous castles to the humble abodes yet all residents zealously imbibe the elixir of a blissful nirvana in a Cinderella setting. It is a perennial stage for mind boggling incidents of movie stars shooting disenchanted lovers, gonzo journalists shooting themselves, physicists grappling with sub atomic particles while writing cookbooks and divorced Red Mountain piranhas disciplining their wayward houseboys. Everyone has their favorite reminiscence which they have deliciously nourished and disseminated. There are many tall tales, hyperbolical exaggerations, mesmerizing myths, macho posturing; all heavily embellished during the many years of amusing, audacious spectacles and overflowing buckets of Red Onion frothy libations. Recently, this electrifying recollection of a lamentable Aspen episode was guilefully coaxed out of a reluctant, aging powder hound by his spellbound audience in the desolation of the Canadian Bugaboos after a memorable heli-skiing day caressing the crystalline fluff. Whether this story is fact, fiction or fantasy, a discreet mention of it in hushed tones still raises a few gray eyebrows of those from previous generations.

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1463497148

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9781463497149

From Popping Out To Moving Out : A Guide To Growing Up Good (Black)

By: Dr. Dickie (Richard) Marks

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From Popping Out To Moving Out : A Guide To Growing Up Good (Black)

By: Dr. Dickie (Richard) Marks

While the texts are virtually identical, there are two differently illustrated versions of "A Guide To Growing Up Good." Acting on the advice of many reviewers of all races, it was felt that readers of color might better relate to characters with whom they most often interact in their own immediate family circles. For that reason, the version with the "Black" suffix when ordering, and with a small letter "B" in the lower right hand corner of the cover, shows the main narrator, their family, and the majority of others with key roles in their lives, as primarily people of color. By contrast, in the version without the "Black" suffix, the main actors are White, or light skinned. This is meant to make clear the critical message that character, decency, and universal truths of love, goodness, and importance of family are absolutely color blind. That self evident fact having been made about the messenger, let's get to the book itself, and its unique way of delivering its message. Suddenly I’m rudely evicted from Mommy’s moist, dark, but totally protective care. Strangers with blue masks are oohing and aahing. Then they spank me! I can’t talk, but I sure can see what’s going on. Attacking a defenseless little creature. Wow! Then time goes on. I tell you about every bump in the pot-holed road of life as I grow up. Like how I feel when Mommy is having another baby. When bribed to use the potty. When schoolmates make fun of kids who look different. When my body starts to change. When one of my best friends gets cancer. When I learn to drive. Or, scariest of all, when high school days are over, and the time has come to leave the loving nest in which I had been shielded by my family since that first spank. Some milestones are light and cutesy; others really touching and emotional. But such is life......

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Xlibris Corporation

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1664182608

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9781664182608

The Craft

How the Freemasons Made the Modern World

By: John Dickie

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The Craft

How the Freemasons Made the Modern World

By: John Dickie

Insiders call it the Craft. Discover the fascinating true story of one of the most influential and misunderstood secret brotherhoods in modern society. Founded in London in 1717 as a way of binding men in fellowship, Freemasonry proved so addictive that within two decades it had spread across the globe. Masonic influence became pervasive. Under George Washington, the Craft became a creed for the new American nation. Masonic networks held the British empire together. Under Napoleon, the Craft became a tool of authoritarianism and then a cover for revolutionary conspiracy. Both the Mormon Church and the Sicilian mafia owe their origins to Freemasonry. Yet the Masons were as feared as they were influential. In the eyes of the Catholic Church, Freemasonry has always been a den of devil-worshippers. For Hitler, Mussolini and Franco, the Lodges spread the diseases of pacifism, socialism and Jewish influence, so had to be crushed. Freemasonry's story yokes together Winston Churchill and Walt Disney; Wolfgang Mozart and Shaquille O'Neal; Benjamin Franklin and Buzz Aldrin; Rudyard Kipling and 'Buffalo Bill' Cody; Duke Ellington and the Duke of Wellington. John Dickie's The Craft is an enthralling exploration of a the world's most famous and misunderstood secret brotherhood, a movement that not only helped to forge modern society, but has substantial contemporary influence, with 400,000 members in Britain, over a million in the USA, and around six million across the world.

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PublicAffairs

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1541724674

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9781541724679

The Meaning of Everyday Occupation

By: Betty Risteen Hasselkus,Virginia Dickie

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The Meaning of Everyday Occupation

By: Betty Risteen Hasselkus,Virginia Dickie

Newly updated to address emerging directions in occupational therapy and occupational science, The Meaning of Everyday Occupation, Third Edition encourages occupational therapy personnel—students, educators, researchers, and practitioners—to recognize humans as occupational beings and to understand the meaning and significance of everyday occupation in day-to-day life. Written by award-winning and internationally known authors Drs. Betty Risteen Hasselkus and Virginia Allen Dickie, the Third Edition explores the concept of meaning as it relates to occupation in daily life. Each chapter is augmented by the authors’ personal reflections, narratives from occupational therapists in practice, and quotations from participants in the authors’ occupational research, creating a text in which the concepts and theories of occupation and occupational therapy come alive for the reader. Themes in the Third Edition include: Meaning in everyday life and its occupations Space and place as sources of meaning Culture in everyday occupation and in the context of therapy Well-being and development through everyday occupation Occupation as connection Disability and occupation Occupation and the human spirit Everyday creativity Emphasizing occupation as experience, the comprehensive Third Edition champions the contributions of meaning to a client-centered approach to practice. This brings forward a new understanding of how to therapeutically affect the systems in which we all live and work. The everyday occupation of our lives is often overlooked. By increasing the visibility of everyday occupation, The Meaning of Everyday Occupation, Third Edition offers readers the opportunity for personal reflection on day-to-day occupational patterns. By recognizing and acknowledging these patterns in their own lives, occupational therapy personnel can better understand how day-to-day occupation and disruption of that occupation affects the lives of clients.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040142184

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9781040142189

Cruelty and Laughter

Forgotten Comic Literature and the Unsentimental Eighteenth Century

By: Simon Dickie

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Cruelty and Laughter

Forgotten Comic Literature and the Unsentimental Eighteenth Century

By: Simon Dickie

A rollicking review of popular culture in 18th century Britain, this text turns away from sentimental and polite literature to focus instead on the jestbooks, farces, comic periodicals, variety shows and minor comic novels that portray a society in which no subject was taboo and political correctness unimagined.

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University of Chicago Press

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022614254X

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9780226142548

Foreign Investment and Government Policy in the Third World

By: Robert B. Dickie,Thomas A. Layman

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Foreign Investment and Government Policy in the Third World

By: Robert B. Dickie,Thomas A. Layman

A broad look at the Third World and the role of foreign enterprises in the development process. It merges theory with practical examples of the interaction between multi-national enterprises and LDC governments and also analyzes developing country policies toward foreign economic presence.

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268

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Springer

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134909157X

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9781349091577

The Penguin Book of Modern Tibetan Essays

By: Tenzin Dickie

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The Penguin Book of Modern Tibetan Essays

By: Tenzin Dickie

The Penguin Book of Modern Tibetan Essays is a groundbreaking anthology of modern Tibetan non-fiction. This unprecedented collection celebrates the art of the modern Tibetan essay and comprises some of the best Tibetan writers working today in Tibetan, English and Chinese. There are essays on lost friends, stolen inheritances, prison notes and secret journeys from-and to-Tibet, but there are also essays on food, the Dalai Lama's Gar dancer, love letters, lotteries and the Prince of Tibet. The collection offers a profound commentary not just on the Tibetan nation and Tibetan exile, but also on the romance, comedy and tragedy of modern Tibetan life. For this anthology, editor and translator Tenzin Dickie has commissioned and collected 28 essays from 22 Tibetan writers, including Woeser, Jamyang Norbu, Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, Pema Bhum and Lhashamgyal. This book of personal essays by Tibetan writers is a landmark addition to contemporary Tibetan letters as well as a significant contribution to global literature.

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Penguin Random House India Private Limited

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9357080902

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9789357080903

BrewDog

Craft Beer for the People

By: Richard Taylor,James Watt,Martin Dickie

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BrewDog

Craft Beer for the People

By: Richard Taylor,James Watt,Martin Dickie

BrewDog's first beer book is a brilliant intro to the world of craft beer. It includes a look at what makes craft beer great and how it's made, explains how to understand different beer styles, how to cook with beer and match beers and food, right through to how to brew your own at home. It's not just about BrewDog's beers either - plenty of other excellent breweries and their beers from around the world are featured. This book is both a window into the BrewDog world and a repository of essential craft beer information. Designed in the highly individual style of the brand, the book also includes quirky features such as spaces to place your drop of beer once you've ticked a particular beer off your 'to-drink' list and pull-out beer mats.

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Mitchell Beazley

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1784723215

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9781784723217

Listen to the Animals

By: E. Gordon Dickie M.D

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Listen to the Animals

By: E. Gordon Dickie M.D

Dr. Dickie is a graduate of Stanford University and McGill Medical School. After an ObGyn residency he was stationed at a large U.S. Army Hospital in Southern Germany and drove throughout Europe which elicited a keen enthusiasm for his extensive world travels. During his medical practice in Hawaii he was also the Medical Director of the Hawaii Cancer Laboratory. Dr. Dickie has written several books, screenplays and medical articles and was the first to ski the face of the 14,000 foot volcano Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawaii. He now divides his time between winters in Aspen, Colorado, spring and fall in Carmel, California, and summers at his Island in Ontario, Canada. As an avid and voracious consumer on every conceivable subject he has amassed an immense collection of authoritative books in his personal library in Carmel. For the past several years he has been the CEO of the FIES Brain Research Institute.

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1463497164

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9781463497163

Blood Brotherhoods

A History of ItalyÕs Three Mafias

By: John Dickie

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Blood Brotherhoods

A History of ItalyÕs Three Mafias

By: John Dickie

MAFIA. CAMORRA. ’NDRANGHETA. The Sicilian mafia, known as Cosa Nostra, is far from being Italy’s only dangerous criminal fraternity. The country hosts two other major mafias: the camorra from Naples; and, from the poor and isolated region of Calabria, the mysterious ’ndrangheta, which has now risen to become the most powerful mob group active today. Since they emerged, the mafias have all corrupted Italy’s institutions, drastically curtailed the life-chances of its citizens, evaded justice, and set up their own self-interested meddling as an alternative to the courts. Yet each of these brotherhoods has its own methods, its own dark rituals, its own style of ferocity. Each is uniquely adapted to corrupt and exploit its own specific environment, as it collaborates with, learns from, and goes to war with the other mafias. Today, the shadow of organized crime hangs over a country racked by debt, political paralysis, and widespread corruption. The ’ndrangheta controls much of Europe’s wholesale cocaine trade and, by some estimates, 3 percent of Italy’s total GDP. Blood Brotherhoods traces the origins of this national malaise back to Italy’s roots as a united country in the nineteenth century, and shows how political violence incubated underworld sects among the lemon groves of Palermo, the fetid slums of Naples, and the harsh mountain villages of Calabria. Blood Brotherhoods is a book of breathtaking ambition, tracing for the first time the interlocking story of all three mafias from their origins to the present day. John Dickie is recognized in Italy as one of the foremost historians of organized crime. In these pages, he blends archival detective work, passionate narrative, and shrewd analysis to bring a unique criminal ecosystem—and the three terrifying criminal brotherhoods that have evolved within it—to life on the page.

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802

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Public Affairs

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1610394275

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9781610394277

Cosa Nostra

A History of the Sicilian Mafia

By: John Dickie

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Cosa Nostra

A History of the Sicilian Mafia

By: John Dickie

The Gold Dagger Award-winning history of the Sicilian mafia

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386

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Macmillan

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1403970424

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9781403970428

White Cap and Bails

Adventures of a much loved Umpire

By: Dickie Bird,Mr H D Bird

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White Cap and Bails

Adventures of a much loved Umpire

By: Dickie Bird,Mr H D Bird

In this anecdotal book, the unstoppable Dickie Bird takes one County Cricket Club at a time and revisits each with the aid of memorabilia, statistics, books and videos. A mass of new hilarious stories flow from Dickie as he flexes his memory: he describes the cricketers, the matches and the character of these clubs. Dickie also relives his journeys as a umpire to clubs and Test match arenas overseas and recalls the humorous times that have filled his unique career. A must have for cricket enthusiasts everywhere.

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Hodder & Stoughton

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1444717553

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9781444717556

Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future

By: Gloria Dickie

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Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future

By: Gloria Dickie

A global exploration of the eight remaining species of bears—and the dangers they face. Bears have always held a central place in our collective memory, from Indigenous folklore and Greek mythology to nineteenth-century fairytales and the modern toy shop. But as humans and bears come into ever-closer contact, our relationship nears a tipping point. Today, most of the eight remaining bear species are threatened with extinction. Some, such as the panda bear and the polar bear, are icons of the natural world; others, such as the spectacled bear and the sloth bear, are far less known. In Eight Bears, journalist Gloria Dickie embarks on a globe-trotting journey to explore each bear’s story, whisking readers from the cloud forests of the Andes to the ice floes of the Arctic; from the jungles of India to the backwoods of the Rocky Mountain West. She meets with key figures on the frontlines of modern conservation efforts—the head of a rescue center for sun and moon bears freed from bile farms, a biologist known as Papa Panda, who has led China’s panda-breeding efforts for almost four decades, a conservationist retraining a military radar system to detect and track polar bears near towns—to reveal the unparalleled challenges bears face as they contend with a rapidly changing climate and encroaching human populations. Weaving together ecology, history, mythology, and a captivating account of her travels and observations, Dickie offers a closer look at our volatile relationship with these magnificent mammals. Engrossing and deeply reported, Eight Bears delivers a clear warning for what we risk losing if we don’t learn to live alongside the animals that have shaped our cultures, geographies, and stories.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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1324005092

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9781324005094

Creative Programming Ideas for Junior High Ministry

By: Steve Dickie,Darrell Pearson

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Creative Programming Ideas for Junior High Ministry

By: Steve Dickie,Darrell Pearson

Gives ideas for Sunday school, youth meetings, small groups, camps, retreats, and service projects. Dickie and Pearson help readers to a better understanding of children, how to handle roadblocks to creative programming and how to tap into the reader's own creative abilities.

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Zondervan Publishing Company

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0310541514

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9780310541516

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Darkest Italy

Darkest Italy

Fracture

Fracture

From Popping Out To Moving Out : A Guide To Growing Up Good (Black)

From Popping Out To Moving Out : A Guide To Growing Up Good (Black)

The Craft

The Craft

The Meaning of Everyday Occupation

The Meaning of Everyday Occupation

Cruelty and Laughter

Cruelty and Laughter

Foreign Investment and Government Policy in the Third World

Foreign Investment and Government Policy in the Third World

The Penguin Book of Modern Tibetan Essays

The Penguin Book of Modern Tibetan Essays

BrewDog

BrewDog

Listen to the Animals

Listen to the Animals

Blood Brotherhoods

Blood Brotherhoods

Cosa Nostra

Cosa Nostra

White Cap and Bails

White Cap and Bails

Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future

Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future

Creative Programming Ideas for Junior High Ministry

Creative Programming Ideas for Junior High Ministry

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