The 2014–15 season will be etched in the memories of Duke fans forever. The Blue Devils won the program's fifth national championship and Coach Mike Krzyzewski collected his unprecedented 1,000th career win. Freshmen Jahlil Okafor, Tyus Jones, and Justise Winslow led Duke to a 28–3 regular season record, including seven wins over ranked teams. Here Comes Duke is the official championship book commemorating the Blue Devils' amazing journey. Featuring more than 100 exclusive photographs from Duke Athletics and expert analysis from the Herald-Sun, fans will relive this unforgettable season, from early wins over Michigan State and Wisconsin to midseason struggles against NC State, Miami, and Notre Dame to the final seconds in Indianapolis. This commemorative book also includes a foreword by senior Quinn Cook and feature stories on Krzyzewski, Cook, Okafor, Jones, Winslow, Grayson Allen, and more.
75 drinks, potions, concoctions, and offerings for your next haunted housewarming or Samhain soirée. The author and the illustrator behind the best-selling Necronomnomnom have summoned another glorious grimoire—this time featuring cursed cocktails. These boozy and punny recipes pay homage to Lovecraftian horror themes and monsters with titles such as the King in Jell-O, Pink FlaMi-Go, and Sunken Island Iced Tea. Further libations include the Hell Residente, Moscow Ghoul, the Root Beer of All Evil, and the Bloodbath & Beyond. The book provides “Virgin Sacrifices” for the coachman designated to drive everyone back from the séance, or for anyone not wanting to imbibe the devil’s water. There are 75 delicious and malicious recipes, each gorgeously illustrated, mercilessly tested, and hilariously written. Recipes appear in the form of cryptic rhymes and arcane rituals but are always easy (and fun) to follow. Bibulous and ridiculous, Lovecraft Cocktails will bring delight and fright for Halloween, the holidays, and beyond.
This book takes us briefly back in time for the beginning of AI and immerses us in a near future that will change everything. Find out what happens in this hidden universe of collaborating AI bots. Join the journey that takes us from Artificial Intelligence to Synthetic Collaborative Intelligence.
A Lovecraft-inspired cookbook with recipes to whet your appetite and threaten your sanity Reading about the slime- covered, non- Euclidean ruins of the sunken city of R’lyeh or the squamous, tentacled deity who slumbers there would make anyone hungry. Starting with the puns and working from there, authors Mike Slater and Thomas Roache have summoned forth 50 funny, bizarre, and horrible dishes such as: • The Deep Fried Deep One • Nog Sothoth • Cthus-Koos • The Great Old Buns • The Gin and Miskatonic Like H. P. Lovecraft’s Necronomicon, the legendary and forbidden book of the dead that is “alien to all sane and balanced readers,” this cookbook contains many dark (but still delicious) secrets within its pages. The book comes infested with sanity- melting and mouth- watering illustrations, as well as annotations full of crazed discoveries and desperate warnings about the recipes that brave readers will undertake.
The Star: The public saw her as a gifted child star: the youngest actor to win an Oscar for her role as Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker and the youngest actor to have a prime-time television series bearing her own name. The Nightmare: What the public did not see was Anna Marie Duke, a young girl whose life changed forever at age seven when tyrannical mangers stripped her of nearly all that was familiar, beginning with her name. She was deprived of family and friends. Her every word was programmed, her every action monitored and criticized. She was fed liquor and prescription drugs, taught to lie to get work, and relentlessly drilled to win roles. The Legend: Out of this nightmare emerged Patty Duke, a show business legend still searching for the child, Anna. She won three Emmy Awards and divorced three husbands. A starring role in Valley of the Dolls nearly ruined her career. She was notorious for wild spending sprees, turbulent liaisons, and an uncontrollable temper. Until a long hidden illness was diagnosed, and her amazing recovery recovery began. The Triumph: Call Me Anna is an American success story that grew out of a bizarre and desperate struggle for survival. A harrowing, ultimately triumphant story told by Patty Duke herself—wife, mother, political activist, President of the Screen Actors Guild, and at last, a happy, fulfilled woman whose miracle is her own life.
Innovation - People, Process, and their Prototypes. With over 15 illustrations, this book shares the different innovative personalities that consistently deliver tangible products. It also discusses briefly how you can equip these personlities to build sustainable innovative solutions through a custom process that bridges Imagination to Application. Are you an Innovation Goat? Take the quiz at www.areyouagoat.com
Harry Delaney is back on the Horn of Africa, smuggling guns and falling in love while partying it up on a Nairobi R&R. When Kari, his latest love interest, ends up in his desert camp, she saves a squad of his men during a shootout. The episode only serves to convince Harry she is the one. A DC-3 flight into Djibouti drops Harry and his crew into the middle of a revolution. Will it be a harbinger of things to come, or will Harry and his ragtag band of brothers conquer all and make good their escape? Hawaiian shirts, a night of dancing and drinking, and explosions will all play a part in putting Harry on the warpath to revenge. Number 2 in the series, following Dead Reckoning.
...Filled with top notch, amazing characters from start to finish " DSJM Reviews "A master work of sinister philosophical horror" Lisa Lee, Bibliophilia Templum Officer Mark Adams is fed up with God, his wife and the legal constraints of his job. He longs for a life he can enjoy and to see true justice meted out. Chad Bigleby is a lawyer thrown into a deadly moral quagmire, forced to decide whether he will abide by man's laws or make his own. Each man is being driven to the edge of his limits. Both men are on a collision course. All because something wicked has arrived in Pleasant Grove, something ancient and obsessed with vengeance, eager to punish the souls of men for their sins. How LOW will they go to get what they desire most? And what will it cost them in the end? Hell only knows...
For courses in Principles of Macroeconomics and Intermediate Macroeconomics. This text introduces students to the fundamental tools and techniques available in Microsoft Excel(tm) spreadsheet software. It presents applications that pertain to specific macroeconomic topics enabling students to enhance their macroeconomic analysis skills, while becoming proficient at Excel software. Students will learn through experience by following directions and creating example worksheets within each chapter. This book contains over 70 assignments pertaining to macroeconomics topics such as national income, aggregate demand, aggregate supply, fiscal policy, monetary policy, federal reserve system, inflation, classical economics, Keynesian economics, and international trade.
Cannibals, cultists, clowns and killers, things that go bump in the night and sacrificial rituals. Whether you like your horror freshly cut-up and still dripping blood, or stalking through the shadows, ready to jump out and grab you, you'll find what you're looking for inside. A macabre collection from some of the greatest up-and-coming horror authors, guaranteed to keep you glancing over your shoulder. If you don't lock your doors at night, you will after reading this. Enjoy, if you dare.
A memoir reveals Patty Duke's traumatic and bizarre upbringing, her Academy Award-winning acting career, her headline-making behavior with drugs, drinking, and promiscuity, and her triumphant struggle to a responsible adulthood
Harry Delaney is back on the Horn of Africa, smuggling guns and falling in love while partying it up on a Nairobi R&R. When Kari, his latest love interest, ends up in his desert camp, she saves a squad of his men during a shootout. The episode only serves to convince Harry she is the one. A DC-3 flight into Djibouti drops Harry and his crew into the middle of a revolution. Will it be a harbinger of things to come, or will Harry and his ragtag band of brothers conquer all and make good their escape? Hawaiian shirts, a night of dancing and drinking, and explosions will all play a part in putting Harry on the warpath to revenge. Number 2 in the series, following Dead Reckoning.
His choice of wife… Taryn had no doubts that when Mike O'Malley looked at her, he was seeing another woman: the mysterious, beautiful Crystal—his former fiancée, who'd broken his heart. Everyone said Taryn was the spitting image of her…. Was that the reason Mike was taking such a personal interest in Taryn? He claimed he wasn't interested in marrying anyone—but there was no denying the powerful attraction between them. Could it be that, despite his claims, Mike had marriage on his mind—and, if so, would he ever look into Taryn's eyes and see only her? "Ms. Duke captivates readers with…intense passion, a strong emotional conflict and endearing characters." —Romantic Times
Tennessee Coal Mining, Railroading & Logging in Cumberland, Fentress, Overton & Putnam is a fascinating look back at life in the early 1900s in four counties of the northern Cumberland Plateau area of Tennessee. Featured inside is a wealth of old photographs--more than 200 in the book's 120 oversize glossy pages--maps, and descriptions. Emphasis is placed primarily on the coal camps such as Wilder in Fentress County, with great detail concerning the railroads that served the coal mining communities.
Harrison Ford has been labeled one of the top 100 stars of all time, the sexiest man alive, and the highest-grossing actor in the history of film, yet he still has the appeal of an average guy to whom the common man can relate. He has worked in more than 40 films, as well as in narration roles, documentaries, award shows, and television appearances. He has won more than two dozen awards, including the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000. This biographical and filmographic work covers Ford's personal life and career, concentrating on his efforts in the film industry. It examines in great detail more than 30 films, including American Graffiti, the several Star Wars outings, Blade Runner, The Fugitive, and Air Force One. It discusses the films' inceptions, writing, casting, sets, schedules, stunts, filming obstacles, openings, earnings, controversies, and reviews. Quotes and intimate anecdotes from the casts and crews are an added bonus. Numerous photographs, a complete film and television listing, a bibliography and index complete the work.
Sasha and Barbara decide a vacay from their families is just the ticket to revitalize their marriages. A pleasant getaway for the pair turns into an unscheduled visit to Mexico and the scene of past crimes. Their rental is destroyed and they end up in a crowbar hotel in Ensenada, where an old business partner that never forgot tracks them down. They're given a choice to work off the debt by doing some accounting for the cartel, or be shipped of to a Juarez house of ill repute where the rates and low and the outlook for a future is dicey.
In her revealing bestseller Call Me Anna, Patty Duke shared her long-kept secret: the talented, Oscar-winning actress who won our hearts on The Patty Duke Show was suffering from a serious-but-treatable-mental illness called manic depression. For nearly twenty years, until she was correctly diagnosed at age thirty-five, she careened between periods of extreme euphoria and debilitating depression, prone to delusions and panic attacks, temper tantrums, spending sprees, and suicide attempts. Now in A Brilliant Madness Patty Duke joins with medical reporter Gloria Hochman to shed light on this powerful, paradoxical, and destructive illness. From what it's like to live with manic-depressive disorder to the latest findings on its most effective treatments, this compassionate and eloquent book provides profound insight into the challenge of mental illness. And though Patty's story, which ends in a newfound happiness with her cherished family, it offers hope for all those who suffer from mood disorders and for the family, friends, and physicians who love and care for them.
Sasha and Barbara decide a vacay from their families is just the ticket to revitalize their marriages. A pleasant getaway for the pair turns into an unscheduled visit to Mexico and the scene of past crimes. Their rental is destroyed and they end up in a crowbar hotel in Ensenada, where an old business partner that never forgot tracks them down. They're given a choice to work off the debt by doing some accounting for the cartel, or be shipped of to a Juarez house of ill repute where the rates and low and the outlook for a future is dicey.
Bob the Blob is about a husky boys journey through life in the 1950s and 1960s. The setting is Dugger, a small coal mining town in southern Indiana. Bob relates funny stories about his family which include his grandparents, parents and two older brothers. Many of the towns characters are also mentioned. He tells stories about what it was like to live in Dugger and all the escapades he had with his brothers. Everything from funerals, shopping, haircuts, Friday night at the movies and family vacations are included in Bobs book. One interesting aspect of Bobs life was that his grandpa and both parents were the town doctors. Many of his tales involve being the son of Drs Joe and Betty and the grandson of Dr. Fred. Bob the Blob had his ups and downs but he always prevailed in the end!
Surfing, Jack London remarked, is “a royal sport for the natural kings of earth.” The greatest of those natural kings grant readers an audience in this glorious celebration of the world’s best surfers. Part exquisite picture book and travelogue to the top of the world, part biography and reference guidebook, Legends of Surfing profiles one hundred great surfers, men and women, from throughout the world. In life stories, and in exclusive interviews--which only the surfing icon Duke Boyd could have pulled off--stellar surfers such as Wayne Bartholomew, Tom Curren, Andy and Bruce Irons, Duke Kahanamoku, Dave Kalama, Gerry Lopez, Rob Machado, Mark Occhilupo, and Kelly Slater give us a rare firsthand look at what it’s like, in this crowded world, to “seek and find the perfect day, the perfect wave, and be alone with the surf and his thoughts.” (John Severson, Surfer magazine, 1960)
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