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Stuffed

An Insider's Look at Who's (Really) Making America Fat

By: Hank Cardello,Doug Garr

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An Insider's Look at Who's (Really) Making America Fat

By: Hank Cardello,Doug Garr

A food industry insider blows the whistle on American food corporations, discussing how the board room decisions and slick marketing machines of restaurant chains and food packagers have spurred the obesity epidemic and created the nation's most serious health crisis.

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0061363863

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Stuffed

An Insider's Look at Who's (Really) Making America Fat

By: Hank Cardello,Doug Garr

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An Insider's Look at Who's (Really) Making America Fat

By: Hank Cardello,Doug Garr

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The Bird

The Life and Legacy of Mark Fidrych

By: Doug Wilson

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The Bird

The Life and Legacy of Mark Fidrych

By: Doug Wilson

The first biography of the eccentric pitcher, rookie All-Star starter, 70s pop icon, and first athlete on the cover of Rolling Stone Mark Fidrych exploded onto the scene in the summer of 1976 with the Detroit Tigers, capturing the hearts of Americans from coast to coast. Lanky with a curly mop, a nickname born of his resemblance to Sesame Street's Big Bird would only hint at the large personality that was about to take baseball in a new direction. Known for wildly endearing antics such as throwing back balls that "had hits in them," manicuring the mound of any cleat marks, talking to himself (and the ball for that matter), and shaking hands with just about everyone from groundskeepers to cops after games, The Bird infused each game with the fun, All-American spirit of 1970s baseball. A two-time All-Star player, Fidrych won nineteen games, along with the Rookie of the Year Award, becoming one of the biggest individual drawing cards baseball has ever seen. Recreating the magic of an unforgettable era of baseball, The Bird shows how Fidrych was the player that brought a smile to your face, becoming a crossover pop culture icon and household name. Through meticulous research and interviews, Doug Wilson vividly recounts Fidrych's struggles and final shining moments in the Minors, the tragic injury that signaled the beginning of the end of his career, through to his sudden death in 2009. The Bird gives readers a long overdue look into the life of the refreshing rookie the likes of which baseball had never seen before, and has never seen since.

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Macmillan

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1250021146

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9781250021144

The 1976 Cincinnati Reds

Last Hurrah for the Big Red Machine

By: Doug Feldmann

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The 1976 Cincinnati Reds

Last Hurrah for the Big Red Machine

By: Doug Feldmann

The era of free agency in Major League Baseball ensured that it would be difficult to keep star teams together year after year. The 1976 Cincinnati Reds were one of the last to be considered a "dynasty," and this book documents the season of one of the greatest teams in baseball history. During the pursuit of a second-straight world championship in 1976, the "Big Red Machine" was fueled by all-time hits leader Pete Rose, slugger George Foster, and all-stars Johnny Bench and Joe Morgan, as well as a balanced pitching staff that had seven players notching double-digit win totals. The 102-win regular season ended with a World Series sweep of the New York Yankees.

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McFarland

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0786452722

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9780786452729

Film and Television Locations

A State-by-State Guidebook to Moviemaking Sites, Excluding Los Angeles

By: Doug Gelbert

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Film and Television Locations

A State-by-State Guidebook to Moviemaking Sites, Excluding Los Angeles

By: Doug Gelbert

It is often said that the greater Los Angeles area is the largest movie set in the world. Film and television series filming sites are, however, located all over the United States. This guidebook documents over 1500 locations where 1,106 movies and 48 television series have been filmed. Arranged by state and then alphabetically by movie title, each entry includes the year of release, the two main stars, a plot line and a description of the location. Filming sites located in Los Angeles are excluded. All sites are accessible to the public. The indexes make it possible to quickly locate a favorite star, favorite movie or favorite location.

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McFarland

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1476605556

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9781476605555

Saturday Night

A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live

By: Doug Hill

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Saturday Night

A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live

By: Doug Hill

“ It reads like a thriller, and may be the best book ever written about television.” Associated Press“ A chilling real-life cliffhanger.” Washington Post“ An anthropological masterpiece.” Vanity FairSaturday Night is the intimate, original history of Saturday Night Live, from its beginnings as an outlaw program produced by an unruly band of renegades from the comedy underground to a TV institution that made stars of John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, Gilda Radner, Jane Curtin, Laraine Newman, Garrett Morris, Joe Piscopo and Eddie Murphy.This is the book that revealed to the world what really happened behind the scenes during the first ten years of this groundbreaking program, from the battles SNL fought with NBC to the battles fought within the show itself. It's all here— the love affairs, betrayals, rivalries, drug problems, overnight successes, and bitter failures, mixed with the creation of some of the most outrageous and original comedy ever.This reissue features nearly fifty photographs of cast, crew and sketches.Doug Hill and Jeff Weingrad covered television for a wide variety of popular and professional organizations and publications, including The Associated Press, The New York Times, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, TV Guide, Broadcasting/Cablecasting, and Advertising Age.

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Histria Books

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1592115470

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9781592115471

Make Work Better

Revolutionizing How Great Bosses Lead, Give Feedback, and Empower Employees

By: Doug Dennerline,Jamie Aitken

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Make Work Better

Revolutionizing How Great Bosses Lead, Give Feedback, and Empower Employees

By: Doug Dennerline,Jamie Aitken

It’s time to make performance management work. We’ve moved on from antiquated tools like typewriters or checkbooks, but bosses still rely on the same annual performance review process to manage employees the same way they did 70 years ago. It fails our modern hybrid workplaces and it doesn’t improve performance, especially for today’s millennial and Gen-Z workforce. It succeeds only in lowering employee engagement, undermining trust in management, decreasing transparency, and increasing turnover. There must be a way to make work better for all of us. There is. Make Work Better shows HR, leaders, and middle managers the modern path to better employee performance, amplified engagement and company culture, and more empowered people. Readers will learn how to: Make goals and OKRs more useful, more often for everyone Eliminate ratings and implement a promotion process that reflects reality and retains employees Make check-ins more productive at better intervals for managers and reports Teach everyone to better deliver and receive more effective structured and unstructured feedback Make recognition count, and create formal development paths for high performers Use data to make the right people decisions and eliminate bias Structure your organization to maximize the impact of HR and People Operations Featuring front line insights from adopters of the process at Google, Intuit, Vertiv, Pepsico, and other leading organizations, Make Work Better gives readers everything they need to improve their organization from wherever they sit.

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Simon and Schuster

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151077579X

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9781510775794

The Georgia Straight

A 50th Anniversary Celebration

By: Doug Sarti,Dan McLeod

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The Georgia Straight

A 50th Anniversary Celebration

By: Doug Sarti,Dan McLeod

This highly illustrated and beautifully produced coffee-table book brings together over 100 of the Georgia Straight's iconic covers, along with short essays, insider details and contributor reflections, putting each of these issues of the publication into its historical context. For 50 years the Georgia Straight has served as the voice of reason during a number of turbulent times. With fearless tenacity, the Straight has always taken the good fight to the powers that be, whether they come in the form of big business, city hall, the provincial legislature, parliament or just plain human folly. While known for hard-hitting journalism and pointed prose, the Straight has also always been a purposely visual publication. With eye-catching design strongly reflecting the times - from '60s psychedelia to new-millennium computer graphics - the newspaper has charted a course through both artistic trends and meaningful writing. Together in one place for the first time, this collection of Straight covers spans five decades of newsworthy figures, events, issues and pop culture. A visual time capsule of sorts, it's a significant graphic chronicle of both the counterculture and recent Vancouver history - after all, if it was important, entertaining or inspiring, the Straight covered it. With work from a multitude of artists using various media and contrasting styles, this collection illustrates - literally - how the Straight was able to seize the moral high ground in the culture wars and turn civil disobedience into an art form. Along with a sense of history, there's a strongly ingrained emotional component to these old Straight covers: they've lost none of their power to evoke an impassioned response. Some are beautiful, some are funny, some will shock and some will enrage. But they'll all make you feel something.

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Rocky Mountain Books Ltd

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1771602538

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9781771602532

Match Race Mayhem

Drag Racing's Grudges, Rivalries and Big-Money Showdowns

By: Doug Boyce

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Match Race Mayhem

Drag Racing's Grudges, Rivalries and Big-Money Showdowns

By: Doug Boyce

Drag racing is a very regulated sport. In the history of the NHRA, IHRA, and other sanctioning bodies, many classes existed in an effort to make sure the cars racing against each other are as equal as possible. It is a noble, if not futile, pursuit. You have two cars facing off that have very similar statistics in terms of weight, transmission type, fuel type, estimated horsepower, and all other sorts of measurables. The byproduct is that often the races that were "fair" were not the races that the fans wanted to see. During the golden age of drag racing, fans didn't care as much about class racing as much as they wanted to see scores settled, rivalries battled, and interesting match-ups. There were the manufacturer rivalries, Ford versus Chevy, Chevy versus Mopar, Mopar versus Ford, as well as numerous driver rivalries. Match races were also a great way to feature wildly popular cars that no longer had a class in which to compete, yet the fans still wanted to see them. So popular and intense were these races that many track promoters didn't bother to promote class racing at all. Instead, they used the match races as headliners, similar to the marquee at your local arena or a billboard in Las Vegas, all resulting in putting more fans in the stands. And the drivers loved it too. Although the prize money for national events was fairly average for the day, the extra appearance fees and prize money to lure the most popular match racers to events increased the driver's take exponentially. Many of the most popular pro drivers quit class racing altogether just to go match racing. Veteran drag race author Doug Boyce tells the tale of the history of match racing through the cars, the drivers, the events, the classes, the rivalries, and everything else that was fun about match racing during the golden era. It's all here, complemented by wonderful vintage photography provided by fans and professionals in attendance. If you are a fan of any class of drag racing, from any era, Match Race Mayhem is a fun addition to your racing library. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial}

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CarTech Inc

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1613253052

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9781613253052

Videos that Teach Two

By: Doug Fields,Eddie James

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Videos that Teach Two

By: Doug Fields,Eddie James

Contains 75 more clips from recent movies you can use to illustrate topics you teach on all the time--with summaries of the movie and the clip, start-stop times, Scripture references for Bible study, and discussion-starting questions to provoke discussions on subjects that matter to today's adolescents.

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Zondervan

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0310238188

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9780310238188

Hank Aaron: Groundbreaking Baseball Slugger

Groundbreaking Baseball Slugger

By: Doug Williams

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Hank Aaron: Groundbreaking Baseball Slugger

Groundbreaking Baseball Slugger

By: Doug Williams

This title introduces Hank Aaron who has had a great influence on his sport and in his society. Career highlights, battles along the way, and humanitarian contributions are discussed. Aaron's legacy is told through informative sidebars, captivating photos, and engaging text. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. SportsZone is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

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ABDO Publishing Company

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1629681431

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9781629681436

IBM Redux

Lou Gerstner and the Business Turnaround of the Decade

By: Doug Garr

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IBM Redux

Lou Gerstner and the Business Turnaround of the Decade

By: Doug Garr

Focusing on Lou Gerstner, who rescued IBM from a death spiral and guided it back to being a vital corporation, Garr offers the inside story of one of the greatest comebacks in business history. A new Introduction by the author follows IBM into the 21st century, and lays out the challenges it faces.

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Harper Collins

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0887309445

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9780887309441

Man-Wolf

The Complete Collection

By: Gerry Conway,Marv Wolfman,Doug Moench,Tony Isabella,David Anthony Kraft

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Man-Wolf

The Complete Collection

By: Gerry Conway,Marv Wolfman,Doug Moench,Tony Isabella,David Anthony Kraft

Collects Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #124-125, 189-190; Giant-Size Super-Heroes #1; Creatures on the Loose #30-37; Marvel Premiere #45-46; Marvel Team-Up (1972) #36-37; Savage She-Hulk #13-14; material from Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man Annual #3. When J. Jonah Jameson's astronaut son, John Jameson, brings a strange red gemstone back from the moon, he finds himself transformed into the macabre Man-Wolf! Becoming a lycanthropic creature on the loose, the Man-Wolf battles Spider-Man, Morbius, Kraven the Hunter and more - while investigator Simon Stroud comes ever closer to the Man-Wolf's true identity! Jameson soon discovers the truth behind the gem - but does his destiny lie in Other Realm wielding the sword of the Stargod? Or will the parasitic stone mean his destruction? Man-Wolf takes on Frankenstein's monster, She-Hulk and more - but can Spider-Man save him from a fate worse than death?

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Marvel Entertainment

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130251623X

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9781302516239

Videos for Kids

The Essential, Indispensable Parent's Guide to Children's Movies on Video

By: Doug Atkinson,Fiona Zippan

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Videos for Kids

The Essential, Indispensable Parent's Guide to Children's Movies on Video

By: Doug Atkinson,Fiona Zippan

Not merely a one-paragraph synopsis of the film, Videos for Kids includes a complete description of the action as well as warnings to "Stop", "Caution", and "Go". The authors have viewed every film listed in the book for violent content, questions that may arise from young viewers, themes, and more. Illustrations.

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Prima Lifestyles

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1559586354

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9781559586351

Louisville Slugger Presents Batting Around

A Comprehensive Collection of Hitting Achievements, Anecdotes, and Analyses

By: Doug Myers

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Louisville Slugger Presents Batting Around

A Comprehensive Collection of Hitting Achievements, Anecdotes, and Analyses

By: Doug Myers

Batting Around is a comprehensive history of more than a century's worth of major-league hitting in a lively narrative, not just a listing of names, dates, and numbers. This collection of greatest hits includes such topics as the 25 best hitters ever, the mammoth home runs, and the evolution of the bat. No sport is more suited to statistics and to the telling of stories, and this book offers both in an irresistible combination. -- The major leagues are in the middle of a golden age for hitters, and this is the first book of its kind dedicated entirely to hitting -- Baseball fans love to recite statistics and argue about the superiority of hitters. This book presents the names, dates, and numbers in an informative and entertaining manner -- Batting Around, backed by the prestigious Louisville Slugger "RM" brand name, makes a great gift for the rabid baseball fan

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NTC Business Books

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0809225190

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9780809225194

Essential Cubs

Chicago Cubs Facts, Feats, and Firsts-- from the Batter's Box to the Bullpen to the Bleachers

By: Doug Myers

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Essential Cubs

Chicago Cubs Facts, Feats, and Firsts-- from the Batter's Box to the Bullpen to the Bleachers

By: Doug Myers

This informative and entertaining review of more than 100 years of Chicago Cubs baseball is a grand slam for any Cubs fan. Myers covers the most memorable moments, greatest performances, and oddest quirks in the team's history.

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