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God Awful Acres

By: Doug Downie

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Two brothers who have drifted apart, living on two different continents, meet in South Africa for a road trip and hoped for renewal of their relationship. Things turn out in the most unexpected way however.

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193

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Lulu.com

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1105039722

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9781105039720

Cat Came Back and Other Stories

By: Doug Downie

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Cat Came Back and Other Stories

By: Doug Downie

A collection of short, short stories and a novella about everyday life and the search for meaning. Influences are Charles Bukowski, John Fante, Knut Hamsun, Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Ernest Hemingway.

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232

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Lulu.com

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ISBN 10

1105029069

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9781105029066

Stockboy

By: Doug Downie

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Stockboy

By: Doug Downie

A collection of short stories that is novelistic in that there is a timeline, a main character, interconnections among stories. It follows Jack Dugan through a series of mostly demeaning jobs over a 25 year period. The stories are mostly quite short, and eschew the climax and resolution of standard story-telling - they play out the way real life plays out.

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182

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1105052214

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9781105052217

Neighbors

By: Doug Downie

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Neighbors

By: Doug Downie

Neighbors contains short humorous sketches of characters in a quirky neighborhood in a northern California city. Included in the book are a whimsical fictional piece, a memoir of an old friend, and an essay on fishing and aging.

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0359937535

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9780359937530

Two Trains Running

By: Doug Downie

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Two Trains Running

By: Doug Downie

The story of two very different, yet deceptively similar men, whose lives on two continents run in parallel but reverse paths, before ultimately meeting on the southern tip of Africa.

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175

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110503514X

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9781105035142

Ragged but Right

Black Traveling Shows, "Coon Songs," and the Dark Pathway to Blues and Jazz

By: Lynn Abbott,Doug Seroff

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Ragged but Right

Black Traveling Shows, "Coon Songs," and the Dark Pathway to Blues and Jazz

By: Lynn Abbott,Doug Seroff

The commercial explosion of ragtime in the early twentieth century created previously unimagined opportunities for black performers. However, every prospect was mitigated by systemic racism. The biggest hits of the ragtime era weren't Scott Joplin's stately piano rags. “Coon songs,” with their ugly name, defined ragtime for the masses, and played a transitional role in the commercial ascendancy of blues and jazz. In Ragged but Right, Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff investigate black musical comedy productions, sideshow bands, and itinerant tented minstrel shows. Ragtime history is crowned by the “big shows,” the stunning musical comedy successes of Williams and Walker, Bob Cole, and Ernest Hogan. Under the big tent of Tolliver's Smart Set, Ma Rainey, Clara Smith, and others were converted from “coon shouters” to “blues singers.” Throughout the ragtime era and into the era of blues and jazz, circuses and Wild West shows exploited the popular demand for black music and culture, yet segregated and subordinated black performers to the sideshow tent. Not to be confused with their nineteenth-century white predecessors, black, tented minstrel shows such as the Rabbit's Foot and Silas Green from New Orleans provided blues and jazz-heavy vernacular entertainment that black southern audiences identified with and took pride in.

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470

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1604731486

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9781604731484

From Yahweh to Yahoo!

The Religious Roots of the Secular Press

By: Doug Underwood

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From Yahweh to Yahoo!

The Religious Roots of the Secular Press

By: Doug Underwood

Presenting religion as journalism's silent partner, From Yahweh to Yahoo!provides a fresh and surprising view of the religious impulses at work in contemporary newsrooms. Focusing on how the history of religion in the United States entwines with the growth of the media, Doug Underwood argues that American journalists draw from the nation's moral and religious heritage and operate, in important ways, as personifications of the old religious virtues. Underwood traces religion's influence on mass communication from the biblical prophets to the Protestant Reformation, from the muckraker and Social Gospel campaigns of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to the modern age of mass media. While forces have pushed journalists away from identifying themselves with religion, they still approach such secular topics as science, technology, and psychology in reverential ways. Underwood thoughtful analysis covers the press's formulaic coverage of spiritual experience, its failure to cover new and non-Christian religions in America, and the complicity of the mainstream media in launching the religious broadcasting movement.

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370

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University of Illinois Press

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0252092686

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9780252092688

When MBAs Rule the Newsroom

By: Doug Underwood

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When MBAs Rule the Newsroom

By: Doug Underwood

Writing with anger but with a deep affection for the trade, he examines the growing economic pressures within the industry, the roots of the managerial revolution, and the impact of marketplace journalism on the operation of the newsroom and employee morale.

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290

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Columbia University Press

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0231080492

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9780231080491

Heart and Spirit Reborn

A Fan's Journal of the 2010-2011 Toronto Maple Leafs

By: Doug Magwood

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Heart and Spirit Reborn

A Fan's Journal of the 2010-2011 Toronto Maple Leafs

By: Doug Magwood

The Toronto Maple Leafs did NOT make the Stanley Cup playoffs in 2010-2011. Still, the author saw something special beginning to emerge as the season unfolded. After a successful start in October, a series of events saw the team plunge to the bottom of the standings, Then circumstances slowly changed, and the Maple Leafs steadily regained standing until time finally ran out, and the playoffs eluded them. The season concludes with what the author sees as a rebirth of hope for coming hockey seasons in Toronto. This book follows the Maple Leafs from the day they named a new Captain for the club until the team's quest for the playoffs comes to an end. Every game is reported upon. Events are analyzed. The contributions of all players are critiqued and evaluated. Problems are pointed out, and possible solutions are put forward. Readers who follow the fortunes of the Toronto Maple Leaf franchise should enjoy reading the story of this past season, and comparing their perspectives of the team with those of the author.

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340

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Trafford Publishing

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1426978944

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9781426978944

Scottish Sea Kayaking

Fifty Great Sea Kayak Voyages

By: Doug Cooper,George Reid

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Scottish Sea Kayaking

Fifty Great Sea Kayak Voyages

By: Doug Cooper,George Reid

A selection of fifty great sea voyages around the mainland of Scotland and the Western Isles.At last, here it is . Scotland's first guidebook for sea kayakers wishing to explore its amazing coastline and magical islands. It brings together a selection of fifty great sea voyages around the mainland of Scotland, from the Mull of Galloway in the SW to St Abb's Head on the east coast, as well as voyages in the Western Isles, ranging from day trips to three day journeys. Illustrated with superb colour photographs and useful maps throughout, it is a practical guide to help you select and plan trips. It will provide inspiration for future voyages and a souvenir of journeys undertaken. As well as providing essential information on where to start and finish, distances, times and tidal information, the book does much to stimulate and inform our interest in the environment we are passing through. It is full of facts and anecdotes about local history, geology, scenery, seabirds and sea mammals. A fascinating read and an inspirational book.

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280

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Pesda Press

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ISBN 10

0954706129

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9780954706128

Neighbors

By: Doug Downie

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Neighbors

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0359937535

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Book's by Doug Downie

God Awful Acres

God Awful Acres

Cat Came Back and Other Stories

Cat Came Back and Other Stories

Stockboy

Stockboy

Neighbors

Neighbors

Two Trains Running

Two Trains Running

Ragged but Right

Ragged but Right

From Yahweh to Yahoo!

From Yahweh to Yahoo!

When MBAs Rule the Newsroom

When MBAs Rule the Newsroom

Heart and Spirit Reborn

Heart and Spirit Reborn

Scottish Sea Kayaking

Scottish Sea Kayaking

Neighbors

Neighbors

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