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The Only Plane in the Sky

An Oral History of 9/11

By: Garrett M. Graff

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The Only Plane in the Sky

An Oral History of 9/11

By: Garrett M. Graff

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “This is history at its most immediate and moving…A marvelous and memorable book.” —Jon Meacham “Remarkable…A priceless civic gift…On page after page, a reader will encounter words that startle, or make him angry, or heartbroken.” —The Wall Street Journal “Had me turning each page with my heart in my throat…There’s been a lot written about 9/11, but nothing like this. I urge you to read it.” —Katie Couric The first comprehensive oral history of September 11, 2001—a panoramic narrative woven from voices on the front lines of an unprecedented national trauma. Over the past eighteen years, monumental literature has been published about 9/11, from Lawrence Wright’s The Looming Tower to The 9/11 Commission Report. But one perspective has been missing up to this point—a 360-degree account of the day told through firsthand. Now, in The Only Plane in the Sky, Garrett Graff tells the story of the day as it was lived—in the words of those who lived it. Drawing on never-before-published transcripts, declassified documents, original interviews, and oral histories from nearly five hundred government officials, first responders, witnesses, survivors, friends, and family members, he paints the most vivid and human portrait of the September 11 attacks yet. Beginning in the predawn hours of airports in the Northeast, we meet the ticket agents who unknowingly usher terrorists onto their flights, and the flight attendants inside the hijacked planes. In New York, first responders confront a scene of unimaginable horror at the Twin Towers. From a secret bunker under the White House, officials watch for incoming planes on radar. Aboard unarmed fighter jets in the air, pilots make a pact to fly into a hijacked airliner if necessary to bring it down. In the skies above Pennsylvania, civilians aboard United 93 make the ultimate sacrifice in their place. Then, as the day moves forward and flights are grounded nationwide, Air Force One circles the country alone, its passengers isolated and afraid. More than simply a collection of eyewitness testimonies, The Only Plane in the Sky is the historic narrative of how ordinary people grappled with extraordinary events in real time: the father and son caught on different ends of the impact zone; the firefighter searching for his wife who works at the World Trade Center; the operator of in-flight telephone calls who promises to share a passenger’s last words with his family; the beloved FDNY chaplain who bravely performs last rites for the dying, losing his own life when the Towers collapse; and the generals at the Pentagon who break down and weep when they are barred from trying to rescue their colleagues. At once a powerful tribute to the courage of everyday Americans and an essential addition to the literature of 9/11, The Only Plane in the Sky weaves together the unforgettable personal experiences of the men and women who found themselves caught at the center of an unprecedented human drama. The result is a unique, profound, and searing exploration of humanity on a day that changed the course of history, and all of our lives.

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Simon and Schuster

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Black Cat Weekly #2

By: Jeff Cohen,Frank Lovell Nelson,Hal Charles,Hugh Walpole,Leslie Ford,David Brin,Reginald Bretnor,Robert F. Young,Randall Garrett,Robert Silverberg,Geoff St. Reynard

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Black Cat Weekly #2

By: Jeff Cohen,Frank Lovell Nelson,Hal Charles,Hugh Walpole,Leslie Ford,David Brin,Reginald Bretnor,Robert F. Young,Randall Garrett,Robert Silverberg,Geoff St. Reynard

The second issue of Black Cat Weekly presents more tales of the mysterious and fantastic—four mystery shorts, a mystery novel, four science fiction stories, and a fantasy novel, by some of the greatest writers of all time. Here are: IT’S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD GIRL! by Jeff Cohen [Barb Goffman Presents - mystery short story] THE MYSTERY OF THE TRUST BUILDER, by Frank Lovell Nelson [Serial story - 2 of 12] ALWAYS READ THE FINE PRINT, by Hal Charles [Solve it yourself mystery!] THE TWISTED INN, by Hugh Walpole [mystery short story] FALSE TO ANY MAN, by Leslie Ford [mystery novel] THE TELL, by David Brin [Paul Di Filippo Presents - sci-fi short story] MRS. PIGAFETTA SWIMS WELL, by Reginald Bretnor [sci-fi short story] THIRTY DAYS HATH SEPTEMBER, by Robert F. Young [sci-fi short story] THE ALIEN DIES AT DAWN, by Randall Garrett and Robert Silverberg [sci-fi short story] THE ENCHANTED CRUSADE, by Geoff St. Reynard [fantasy novel]

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Wildside Press LLC

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1479462586

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Betty Garrett and Other Songs

A Life on Stage and Screen

By: Betty Garrett

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Betty Garrett and Other Songs

A Life on Stage and Screen

By: Betty Garrett

Betty Garrett's memoir is a tale of grace under pressure. It's a lovely, moving song of survival."—Studs Terkel

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Madison Books

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1461710316

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The Wretched Life of Priscilla Wolcott

Volume One: Widow Wonderland

By: Cheryl Garrison Garrett

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The Wretched Life of Priscilla Wolcott

Volume One: Widow Wonderland

By: Cheryl Garrison Garrett

The Wretched Life of Priscilla Wolcott Volume 1: Widow Wonderland is the story of Priscilla Wolcott, a sixty-six-year-old woman who faces the challenges that rise up following the sudden death of her husband, Jared. Her faith is tested as she learns how to grieve, be alone, deal with family members, find a church home, and be more outgoing. Shaped by a team of unusual characters, she discovers the supernatural healing power of forgiveness, and the importance of being still, listening, and waiting for God. Through this process, she realizes how much she is loved and discovers that she, too, is capable of loving.

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Covenant Books, Inc.

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1685261485

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Retrievals

By: Garrett Caples

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Retrievals

By: Garrett Caples

Ten years of poet and critic Garrett Caples's writing on neglected figures of art and poetry.

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Wave Books

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1933517980

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Brain & Behavior

An Introduction to Behavioral Neuroscience

By: Bob Garrett,Gerald Hough

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Brain & Behavior

An Introduction to Behavioral Neuroscience

By: Bob Garrett,Gerald Hough

Ignite your students’ excitement about behavioral neuroscience with Brain & Behavior: An Introduction to Behavioral Neuroscience, Fifth Edition by best-selling author Bob Garrett and new co-author Gerald Hough. Garrett and Hough make the field accessible by inviting students to explore key theories and scientific discoveries using detailed illustrations and immersive examples as their guide. Spotlights on case studies, current events, and research findings help students make connections between the material and their own lives. A study guide, revised artwork, new animations, and an interactive eBook stimulate deep learning and critical thinking. A Complete Teaching & Learning Package Contact your rep to request a demo, answer your questions, and find the perfect combination of tools and resources below to fit your unique course needs. SAGE Premium Video Stories of Brain & Behavior and Figures Brought to Life videos bring concepts to life through original animations and easy-to-follow narrations. Watch a sample. Interactive eBook Your students save when you bundle the print version with the Interactive eBook (Bundle ISBN: 978-1-5443-1607-9), which includes access to SAGE Premium Video and other multimedia tools. Learn more. SAGE coursepacks SAGE coursepacks makes it easy to import our quality instructor and student resource content into your school’s learning management system (LMS). Intuitive and simple to use, SAGE coursepacks allows you to customize course content to meet your students’ needs. Learn more. SAGE edge This companion website offers both instructors and students a robust online environment with an impressive array of teaching and learning resources. Learn more. Study Guide The completely revised Study Guide offers students even more opportunities to practice and master the material. Bundle it with the core text for only $5 more! Learn more.

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1506349196

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Legacy of the Blues: a Century of Athletics at the W

A Century of Athletics at the W

By: Garrett,Burdeshaw,Spearman,Wells

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Legacy of the Blues: a Century of Athletics at the W

A Century of Athletics at the W

By: Garrett,Burdeshaw,Spearman,Wells

Mississippi University for Women was a pioneer in the Southeast Region as well as the State of Mississippi in encouraging, promoting, and sponsoring intercollegiate athletics for women. The programs were always of the highest quality and conducted with integrity. The students and coaches involved were dedicated and committed to their respective sport. Loss of the Physical Education Assembly Building, destroyed by a tornado in 2002, and the subsequent decision (2003) by the university to cease participation in intercollegiate athletics prompted the writing of this book. Physical resources and historical records had been destroyed. Concern that the knowledge of this program would be lost along with its signifi cance to the university alumnae, and womens sport history, challenged five retired Health and Kinesiology faculty members to write this book. They knew that their collective knowledge and experiences were invaluable in recording a century of athletic competition at the W. These women promoted the educational model of sport believing that the opportunity to participate in sports brings both value and pleasure to the quality of life.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1469164205

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How to Be a #10 Parent

By: Dr. Jerry E. Garrett

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How to Be a #10 Parent

By: Dr. Jerry E. Garrett

Thirteen chapters inform parents about what is really important in parenting children and teenagers today. Each chapter is written in an easy to understand format, and is filled with ideas and articulation about the best things you can do as a parent in the quest to be the best parent you can possibly be. Each chapter concludes with a Chapter Summary and a list of Chapter Tips for Parents. Dr. Garrett reminds us to be aware when things do not go so well as a parent, but also to make note of the experiences that are successful. In addition to several other ideas, this book contains Dr. Garretts recommended method for teaching children and youth to tell the truth. The book is filled with information on topics that are on the minds of parents today. How To Be A #10 Parent helps parents by strengthening their resources in dealing with real problems that arise in parenting youngsters on a daily basis.

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1449005217

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My Life Is in God's Hands

The Autobiogragphy of Shereice Garrett

By: Shereice Garrett

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My Life Is in God's Hands

The Autobiogragphy of Shereice Garrett

By: Shereice Garrett

Life is forever changing, always evolving. So when one thinks about their own life, many things come to mind. Among things we are more likely to dream about are our goals and aspirations for our life. However, one must not forget about having fun, as well. What happens when you are thrown that unfortunate curve ball that changes your life forever? Do you throw it back? Do you keep it as a souvenir? What do you do? "My Life Is In God's Hands" tells the story of a courageous Black woman who was thrown many curve balls in life. She did not give up. Instead she used her faith in God to guide her thru life's byways and highways. Her experiences taught her, she was safe and tucked away in the mercy and blessed hands of God. Even when her life flashed before her eyes more than once, even when she had to learn to walk again more than twice, she held on to God's unchanging hands, trusting and believing that although her earthly vessel tried to leave, her spirit would always remain intact and be safe in the hands of God.

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Trafford Publishing

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1466915323

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Black Dolls

A Comprehensive Guide to Celebrating, Collecting, and Experiencing the Passion

By: Debbie Behan Garrett

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Black Dolls

A Comprehensive Guide to Celebrating, Collecting, and Experiencing the Passion

By: Debbie Behan Garrett

Collectors and non-collectors will experience the passion for collecting dolls in Ms. Garrett's second, FULL COLOR, black-doll reference book, which is a comprehensive celebration with up-to-date values of over 1000 vintage-to-modern black dolls. Doll genres celebrated, referenced, and valued include early dolls and memorabilia, cloth, fashion, manufactured, artist, one-of-a-kind, celebrity, and paper dolls. `A to Z Tips on Collecting,¿ `Doll Creativity,¿ and loads of `Added Extras¿ will entertain, enlighten, excite, and encourage the most discriminating collector. Readers will experience five years of the author's continuous and extensive doll research combined with nearly 20 years of doll-collecting experience. Black Dolls: A Comprehensive Guide to Celebrating, Collecting, and Experiencing the Passion, is an informative, must-have reference for any doll collector¿s library.

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Debbie Behan Garrett

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0615242022

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9780615242026

Betram Grey's SECOND NOTEBOOK

By: Kevin Garrett

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Betram Grey's SECOND NOTEBOOK

By: Kevin Garrett

Betram Grey's Second Notebook By: Kevin Garrett A guard, in a world of perfect people, stands watch over one imperfect man, imprisoned in a steel cage, but is his prisoner a Monster who wants to destroy the world, or is he a Savior who wants to keep the world from destroying itself with too much kindness? Is it possible that the game of chess was meant not as a contest of war between its opponents, but instead, as a game of peace, designed to promote happiness and joy between the participants of the game? Is there baseball in Heaven, and if there is, are the rules still the same? A man envies a robot for its immortality and its beautiful design, and a robot envies a man for being what he is, doomed to the certainty of death and decay, and yet imbued with a hope for something more. The entire adult population of the Earth awakens one day to find that they have all become millionaires. The money is real enough, but as they soon discover, it is sometimes a good idea to “look a gift horse” squarely in the mouth before accepting it. In this second companion novel to To The Faithless and The Unbelieving BERTRAM GREY, Kevin Garrett resurrects the second spiral notebook of short stories that Bertram Grey burned in his uncle’s fireplace, and offers a conclusion to the story of Bertram Grey and his Uncle Jacob.

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Dorrance Publishing

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1638678219

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9781638678212

Rich Dad's Advisors®: The ABC's of Writing Winning Business Plans

How to Prepare a Business Plan That Others Will Want to Read -- and Invest In

By: Garrett Sutton

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Rich Dad's Advisors®: The ABC's of Writing Winning Business Plans

How to Prepare a Business Plan That Others Will Want to Read -- and Invest In

By: Garrett Sutton

Rich Dad Said, "Business and investing are team sports." -Robert T. Kiyosaki, Author of the New York Times bestseller Rich Dad Poor Dad and the Rich DadTM series "Robert's rich dad said, 'The first step to raising money is a great business plan! It needs to be a page-turner that hooks and holds potential investors' attention by selling them on the potential return on their investment, how quickly they'll get their initial investment back, and what the exit strategy is.' The ABC's of Writing Winning Business Plans reveals the strategies for preparing winning plans for both business and real estate ventures. Clearly written and featuring real life illustrative stories, The ABC's of Writing Winning Business Plans provides the necessary information to prepare a winning plan." -Garrett Sutton, Esq. Rich Dad's Advisor and author of the bestseller Own Your Own Corporation. The ABC's of Writing Winning Business Plans illustrates how to: * Focus your vision for the business * Format your plan to impress * Use your business plan as a tool * Deal with competition * Attract the funding you need * Identify strengths and weaknesses * Draft a plan for real estate * Understand your financials.

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Business Plus

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0446550477

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The Threat Matrix

Inside Robert Mueller's FBI and the War on Global Terror

By: Garrett M. Graff

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The Threat Matrix

Inside Robert Mueller's FBI and the War on Global Terror

By: Garrett M. Graff

An intimate look at Robert Mueller, the sixth Director of the FBI, who oversaw the investigation into ties between President Trump's campaign and Russian officials. Covering more than 30 years of history, from the 1980s through Obama's presidency, The Threat Matrix explores the transformation of the FBI from a domestic law enforcement agency, handling bank robberies and local crimes, into an international intelligence agency -- with more than 500 agents operating in more than 60 countries overseas -- fighting extremist terrorism, cyber crimes, and, for the first time, American suicide bombers. Based on access to never-before-seen task forces and FBI bases from Budapest, Hungary, to Quantico, Virginia, this book profiles the visionary agents who risked their lives to bring down criminals and terrorists both here in the U.S. and thousands of miles away long before the rest of the country was paying attention to terrorism. Given unprecedented access, thousands of pages of once secret documents, and hundreds of interviews, Garrett M. Graff takes us inside the FBI and its attempt to protect America from the Munich Olympics in 1972 to the attempted Times Square bombing in 2010. It also tells the inside story of the FBI's behind-the-scenes fights with the CIA, the Department of Justice, and five White Houses over how to combat terrorism, balance civil liberties, and preserve security. The book also offers a never-before-seen intimate look at FBI Director Robert Mueller, the most important director since Hoover himself. Brilliantly reported and suspensefully told, The Threat Matrix peers into the darkest corners of this secret war and will change your view of the FBI forever.

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Little, Brown

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031612088X

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9780316120883

Autopsy of a Crime Lab

Exposing the Flaws in Forensics

By: Brandon Garrett

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Autopsy of a Crime Lab

Exposing the Flaws in Forensics

By: Brandon Garrett

This book exposes the dangerously imperfect forensic evidence that we rely on for criminal convictions. "That's not my fingerprint, your honor," said the defendant, after FBI experts reported a "100-percent identification." The FBI was wrong. It is shocking how often they are. Autopsy of a Crime Lab is the first book to catalog the sources of error and the faulty science behind a range of well-known forensic evidence, from fingerprints and firearms to forensic algorithms. In this devastating forensic takedown, noted legal expert Brandon L. Garrett poses the questions that should be asked in courtrooms every day: Where are the studies that validate the basic premises of widely accepted techniques such as fingerprinting? How can experts testify with 100-percent certainty about a fingerprint, when there is no such thing as a 100 percent match? Where is the quality control at the crime scenes and in the laboratories? Should we so readily adopt powerful new technologies like facial recognition software and rapid DNA machines? And why have judges been so reluctant to consider the weaknesses of so many long-accepted methods? Taking us into the lives of the wrongfully convicted or nearly convicted, into crime labs rocked by scandal, and onto the front lines of promising reform efforts driven by professionals and researchers alike, Autopsy of a Crime Lab illustrates the persistence and perniciousness of shaky science and its well-meaning practitioners.

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Univ of California Press

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0520389654

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9780520389656

Powell and Pressburger’s War

The Art of Propaganda, 1939-1946

By: Greg M. Colón Semenza,Garrett A. Sullivan Jr.

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Powell and Pressburger’s War

The Art of Propaganda, 1939-1946

By: Greg M. Colón Semenza,Garrett A. Sullivan Jr.

A focused study on Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's cinematic contributions to the war effort, arguing for the centrality of propaganda to their work as film artists. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger are widely hailed as two of the greatest filmmakers in British cinema history. The release of their first movie, The Spy in Black, barely preceded the beginning of World War Two, and a number of their early masterworks, including The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, A Canterbury Tale, and A Matter of Life and Death, were produced in the service of the war effort. Through exploring the relationship between art and propaganda, this book shows that Powell and Pressburger saw no contradiction between their aesthetic ambitions and their cinematic war work: propaganda imperatives were highly conducive to their objectives as both commercial cinema practitioners and artists. Drawing on production materials from the archives of the British Film Institute, this book charts three phases in Powell and Pressburger's wartime career: from first-time collaborators who strive to reconcile popular cinematic forms with developing notions of what constitutes effective propaganda; to accomplished, and sometimes controversial, propagandists whose movies center upon Britain's relations with its enemies and allies; to filmmakers whose responsiveness to the propaganda requirements of the late war is matched by a focus, shared by the Ministry of Information, on what the post-war future would bring.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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Shadows of Empire

The Indian Nobility of Cusco, 1750-1825

By: David T. Garrett

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Shadows of Empire

The Indian Nobility of Cusco, 1750-1825

By: David T. Garrett

This book traces the history of the late colonial Andean elite and their privilege and authority.

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Cambridge University Press

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052184634X

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9780521846349

Victims of Justice Revisited

Completely Updated and Revised

By: Thomas Frisbie,Randy Garrett

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Victims of Justice Revisited

Completely Updated and Revised

By: Thomas Frisbie,Randy Garrett

The kidnapping of Jeanine Nicarico from her quiet suburban home in Naperville, Illinois, and her brutal slaying sparked a public demand for justice. But as events unfolded in the authorities' long battle to execute Cruz and bring the other men to justice, evidence emerged that the defendants were innocent - and that the death penalty process in America was deeply flawed. This case began a chain reaction that led to a moratorium on the death penalty in Illinois and the clearing out of death row when George Ryan, then governor of Illinois, granted clemency to all those awaiting execution.".

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Northwestern University Press

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0810122367

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9780810122369

Study Guide to Accompany Garrett & Hough's Brain & Behavior: An Introduction to Behavioral Neuroscience

By: Bob Garrett,Gerald Hough

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Study Guide to Accompany Garrett & Hough's Brain & Behavior: An Introduction to Behavioral Neuroscience

By: Bob Garrett,Gerald Hough

Revised to accompany Bob Garrett’s best seller, Brain & Behaviour: An Introduction to Biological Psychology, this fully updated Student Study Guide provides additional opportunities for student practice and self-evaluation.

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SAGE Publications

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1506392482

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The Right Kind of White

A Memoir

By: Garrett Bucks

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The Right Kind of White

A Memoir

By: Garrett Bucks

A revelatory memoir that earnestly reckons with whiteness. As the product of progressive parents and a liberal upbringing, Garrett Bucks prided himself on the pursuit of being a “good white person.” The kind of white person who treats their privilege as a responsibility and not a burden; the kind of white person who people of color see as the peak example of racial allyship; the kind of white person who other white people might model their own aspirations of being “better” after. But it’s Bucks obsession with “goodness” that prevents him from building meaningful relationships, particularly those who look like him. The Right Kind of White charts Garrett’s intellectual and emotional odyssey in his pursuit of this ideal whiteness, the price of its admission, and the work he’s doing to bridge the divide from those he once sought distance from.

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Simon and Schuster

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1982197226

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9781982197223

Prohibition in Washington, D.C.

How Dry We Weren't

By: Garrett Peck

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Prohibition in Washington, D.C.

How Dry We Weren't

By: Garrett Peck

Even in the city where the Eighteenth Amendment was passed, the party went on—a history of bootleggers and speakeasies in the nation’s capital. Despite the passage of the Volstead Act, it was estimated that in 1929, bootleggers brought twenty-two thousand gallons of whiskey, moonshine, and other spirits into Washington, DC’s speakeasies—every week. The bathtub gin-swilling capital dwellers made the most of Prohibition. This rollicking history brims with stories of vice—topped off with vintage cocktail recipes and garnished with a walking tour of former speakeasies. Discover an underground city ruled not by organized crime but by amateur bootleggers, where publicly teetotaling congressmen could get a stiff drink behind House office doors and the African American community of U Street was humming with a new sound called jazz. Includes photos!

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Arcadia Publishing

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1614230897

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9781614230892

The Definitive Guide to Collecting Black Dolls

By: Debbie Behan Garrett

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The Definitive Guide to Collecting Black Dolls

By: Debbie Behan Garrett

Collectors will delight in acquiring the first and only Black dolls book that is completely published in Full Color! Author Debbie Garrett has written an extensive book of reference on vintage, modern, fashion and artist Black dolls. Featured in this book are Black dolls made from cloth, bisque, celluloid, composition, rubber, wood, and hard plastic. Fashion dolls, modern artist dolls and other doll categories are covered. This long overdue, insightful book includes a price guide and tips.

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Debbie Behan Garrett

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0875886531

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How to Build a Life in the Humanities

Meditations on the Academic Work-Life Balance

By: Anthony Grafton,Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr

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How to Build a Life in the Humanities

Meditations on the Academic Work-Life Balance

By: Anthony Grafton,Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr

A follow-up to the popular Graduate Study for the 21st Century , this book seeks to expand professional development to include the personal aspects of daily lives in the humanities. How to Build a Life in the Humanities delves into pressing work-life issues such as post-tenure depression, academic life with children, aging, and adjuncting.

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Springer

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1137428899

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Color Imaging

Fundamentals and Applications

By: Erik Reinhard,Erum Arif Khan,Ahmet Oguz Akyuz,Garrett Johnson

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Color Imaging

Fundamentals and Applications

By: Erik Reinhard,Erum Arif Khan,Ahmet Oguz Akyuz,Garrett Johnson

This book provides the reader with an understanding of what color is, where color comes from, and how color can be used correctly in many different applications. The authors first treat the physics of light and its interaction with matter at the atomic level, so that the origins of color can be appreciated. The intimate relationship between energy levels, orbital states, and electromagnetic waves helps to explain why diamonds shimmer, rubies are red, and the feathers of the Blue Jay are blue. Then, color theory is explained from its origin to the current state of the art, including image capture and display as well as the practical use of color in disciplines such as computer graphics, computer vision, photography, and film.

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CRC Press

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1439865205

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9781439865200

Writing Winning Business Plans

How to Prepare a Business Plan that Investors Will Want to Read and Invest In

By: Garrett Sutton

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Writing Winning Business Plans

How to Prepare a Business Plan that Investors Will Want to Read and Invest In

By: Garrett Sutton

To win in business requires a winning business plan. To write a winning business plan requires reading Garrett Sutton’s dynamic book on the topic. Writing Winning Business Plans provides the insights and the direction on how to do it well and do it right. Rich Dad/Poor Dad author Robert Kiyosaki says, “The first step in business is a great business plan. It must be a page turner that hooks and holds a potential investor. Garrett Sutton’s Writing Winning Business Plans is THE book for key strategies on preparing winning plans for both business and real estate ventures. Crisply written and featuring real life illustrative stories, Writing Winning Business Plans discusses all the key elements for a successful plan. Topics include focusing your business vision, understanding your financials and analyzing your competition. Also covered are how to really use your business plan as a tool and how to attract funding for your new or existing businesses. As business plan competitions become more popular around the world Writing Winning Business Plans also discusses how to enter and how to win these ever more lucrative contests. In addition, how to quickly interest a potential investor, also known as the elevator pitch, is explained. And, as opportunities arise around the world, how to present your plan in various countries is explored. Writing Winning Business Plans is the complete compendium for this essential business rite of passage – preparing a winning plan.

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1937832368

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Crossing Myself

A Story of Spiritual Rebirth

By: Greg Garrett

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Crossing Myself

A Story of Spiritual Rebirth

By: Greg Garrett

This book captures the author’s efforts to find his way out of a spiral of depression – a tortuous path through mental anguish and suicide attempt(s) into the grace that brought him spiritual rebirth, sanity and a life of service to others. Crossing Myself will speak to those who have come through depression and those who still struggle with it. It can be appreciated by men and women, adults or teens for its literary style and personal insights of redemptive faith.

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Church Publishing, Inc.

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0819233056

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Litigation in the Technology and Construction Court

By: Adam Constable QC,Lucy Garrett QC,Calum Lamont

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Litigation in the Technology and Construction Court

By: Adam Constable QC,Lucy Garrett QC,Calum Lamont

The Technology and Construction Court ("TCC") deals with legal cases that often require specialist technical expertise. This can lead to complex and sometimes lengthy proceedings. In light of the Jackson reforms and developments in cost controls in the TCC, the manner in which claims are handled is of paramount commercial importance to lawyers and lay clients alike. This book provides a practical, but intellectually informative guide to dealing with proceedings in the TCC. Looking at the different types of claims which are commonly, and not so commonly, brought in this court, it considers different potential approaches to such claims depending on the circumstances in which parties find themselves. This is a genuine practitioners’ guide, with the principal focus on expeditious, cost-effective case management. Construction practitioners at the Bar, solicitors, adjudicators, arbitrators, and in-house counsel alike, will all find it an invaluable reference for their practice.

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Taylor & Francis

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1317243986

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Hound of the Sea

Wild Man. Wild Waves. Wild Wisdom.

By: Garrett McNamara,Karen Karbo

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Hound of the Sea

Wild Man. Wild Waves. Wild Wisdom.

By: Garrett McNamara,Karen Karbo

In this thrilling and candid memoir, world record-holding and controversial Big Wave surfer Garrett McNamara--star and subject of the HBO mini-series, 100 Foot Wave--chronicles his emotional quest to ride the most formidable waves on earth. Garrett McNamara set the world record for the sport, surfing a seventy-eight-foot wave in Nazaré, Portugal in 2011, a record he smashed two years later at the same break. Propelled by the challenge and promise of bigger, more difficult waves, this adrenaline-fueled loner and polarizing figure travels the globe to ride the most dangerous swells the oceans have to offer, from calving glaciers to hurricane swells. But what motivates McNamara to go to such extremes—to risk everything for one thrilling ride? Is riding giant waves the ultimate exercise in control or surrender? Personal and emotional, readers will know GMac as never before, seeing for the first time the personal alongside the professional in an exciting, intimate look at what drives this inventive, iconoclastic man. Surfing awesome giants isn’t just thrill seeking, he explains—it’s about vanquishing fears and defeating obstacles past and present. Surfers and non-surfers alike will embrace McNamara’s story—as they have William Finnegan’s Barbarian Days—an its intimate look at the enigmatic pursuit of riding waves, big and small. Hound of the Sea is a record of perseverance, passion, and healing. Thoughtful, suspenseful, and spiritually profound, McNamara reveals the beautiful soul of surfing through the eyes of one of its most daring and devoted disciples.

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HarperCollins

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0062343610

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A Palette, Not a Portrait

Stories from the life of Nathan Garrett

By: Nathan Garrett

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A Palette, Not a Portrait

Stories from the life of Nathan Garrett

By: Nathan Garrett

This memoir starts with humorous but honest glimpses of this mostly middle class and mostly African American North Carolina family. It contains revealing stories about the author’s life at Yale from 1948 to 1952 and his unusual experiences in the military. The setting then shifts to Detroit and descriptions of involvement in the numbers racket, fighting off rivals for the hand of his wife of now 52 years and becoming the 65th African American CPA in the nation. The sections that recount his return to North Carolina in 1962 are filled with insights on black business, the civil rights and anti-poverty struggles, Historically Black Colleges, social and civic organizations and his pioneering work in public practice and in the regulation of public accountancy nationally. The concluding sections are an essay on his quest to understand God and religion and a thoughtful dialogue on love and marriage.

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iUniverse

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1450248772

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The Films of John G. Avildsen

Rocky, The Karate Kid and Other Underdogs

By: Larry Powell,Tom Garrett

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The Films of John G. Avildsen

Rocky, The Karate Kid and Other Underdogs

By: Larry Powell,Tom Garrett

The life and work of American director John G. Avildsen is thoroughly examined in this detailed filmography and critical study. Each of the most significant films made by the Oscar-winning Avildsen is given a separate chapter, including such critical successes as Joe and Save the Tiger, and box-office blockbusters Rocky and its sequels and the Karate Kid series. The authors' observations on these and other titles--some well known, others less familiar--are enhanced by extensive production notes, and by commentary from John G. Avildsen himself. Cinema historian Jean Bodon of Sam Houston State University provides a foreword.

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McFarland

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0786490470

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9780786490479

Loopholes of Real Estate

Secrets of Successful Real Estate Investing

By: Garrett Sutton

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Loopholes of Real Estate

Secrets of Successful Real Estate Investing

By: Garrett Sutton

The Loopholes of Real Estate reveals the tax and legal strategies used by the rich for generations to acquire and benefit from real estate investments. Clearly written, The Loopholes of Real Estate shows you how to open tax loopholes for your benefit and close legal loopholes for your protection.

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RDA Press, LLC

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1937832228

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A Fractured Life

A Memoir of God's Provision and Protection

By: Jane Gillen Garrett

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A Fractured Life

A Memoir of God's Provision and Protection

By: Jane Gillen Garrett

A Fractured Life, a true story, reveals Jane's childhood of loneliness, hunger, isolation, shame, and abandonment. When her mother died instantly and unexpectedly, six-year-old Jane was left in the care of her drunken and disinterested father. Without proper guidance, this child put herself in a dangerous situation, narrowly escaping a gang rape. Without supervision, she broke laws, which could have resulted in juvenile detention. Without love, she yearned for a new mother, only to struggle with a stepmother who was mentally ill. Without fear, she lived on her own through three years of high school, while excelling academically and socially. Jane traveled difficult and hazardous roads through childhood and adolescence in her hometown of Paducah, Kentucky. Though she did not recognize it as a child, God's daily presence protected her and provided her needs, leading her to a beautiful destination in adulthood. Through her memoir, you will learn to examine your daily life, seeing God's presence in every step you take. Your eyes will be opened to powerful blessings occurring in your life--right now, today. Discussion thoughts at the end of the book are excellent resources for book clubs or Bible classes.

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Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

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1638443270

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Living with the Living Dead

The Wisdom of the Zombie Apocalypse

By: Greg Garrett

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Living with the Living Dead

The Wisdom of the Zombie Apocalypse

By: Greg Garrett

When humankind faces what it perceives as a threat to its very existence, a macabre thing happens in art, literature, and culture: corpses begin to stand up and walk around. The dead walked in the fourteenth century, when the Black Death and other catastrophes roiled Europe. They walked in images from World War I, when a generation died horribly in the trenches. They walked in art inspired by the Holocaust and by the atomic attacks on Japan. Now, in the early twenty-first century, the dead walk in stories of the zombie apocalypse, some of the most ubiquitous narratives of post-9/11 Western culture. Zombies appear in popular movies and television shows, comics and graphic novels, fiction, games, art, and in material culture including pinball machines, zombie runs, and lottery tickets. The zombie apocalypse, Greg Garrett shows us, has become an archetypal narrative for the contemporary world, in part because zombies can stand in for any of a variety of global threats, from terrorism to Ebola, from economic uncertainty to ecological destruction. But this zombie narrative also brings us emotional and spiritual comfort. These apocalyptic stories, in which the world has been turned upside down and protagonists face the prospect of an imminent and grisly death, can also offer us wisdom about living in a community, present us with real-world ethical solutions, and invite us into conversation about the value and costs of survival. We may indeed be living with the living dead these days, but through the stories we consume and the games we play, we are paradoxically learning what it means to be fully alive.

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Oxford University Press

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0190260467

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9780190260460

Transforming' Children'S Services: Social Work, Neoliberalism And The 'Modern' World

Social Work, Neoliberalism and the ‘Modern’ World

By: Garrett, Paul Michael

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Transforming' Children'S Services: Social Work, Neoliberalism And The 'Modern' World

Social Work, Neoliberalism and the ‘Modern’ World

By: Garrett, Paul Michael

This book provides an accessible overview of the 'transformation' of Children's Services in England. In doing this, it draws on social theory, critical social policy and takes account of developments in other countries. Paul Michael Garrett argues that the many changes which have taken place within, and beyond, Children's Services are related to the politics of neoliberalism which, it is maintained, lie at the core of the Change for Children programme." --Book Jacket.

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0335234259

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9780335234257

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