Gary Bailey's Books

Stanford

Home of Champions

By: Gary Migdol

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Migdol has included easy-to-read stories about legendary football coaches Pop Warner and Bill Walsh; the exploits of the Vow Boys, the Thunderchickens, and the Immortal 21; basketball great Hank Luisetti; golfing phenom Tiger Woods; the world's greatest athlete, Ernie Nevers; Heisman Trophy winner Jim Plunkett; the thrills generated by such Olympic champions as Bob Mathias, Pablo Morales, and Janet Evans; and the unforgettable moments made possible by such Cardinal greats as John Elway, Jennifer Azzi, Kim Oden, Paul Carey, Frankie Albert, and many more. Also included is a listing of Stanford University letter winners and Olympic champions.

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Sports Publishing LLC

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1571671161

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9781571671165

Improvising Improvisation

From Out of Philosophy, Music, Dance, and Literature

By: Gary Peters

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Improvising Improvisation

From Out of Philosophy, Music, Dance, and Literature

By: Gary Peters

There is an ever-increasing number of books on improvisation, ones that richly recount experiences in the heat of the creative moment, theorize on the essence of improvisation, and offer convincing arguments for improvisation’s impact across a wide range of human activity. This book is nothing like that. In a provocative and at times moving experiment, Gary Peters takes a different approach, turning the philosophy of improvisation upside-down and inside-out. Guided by Kant, Hegel, Heidegger, and especially Deleuze—and exploring a range of artists from Hendrix to Borges—Peters illuminates new fundamentals about what, as an experience, improvisation truly is. As he shows, improvisation isn’t so much a genre, idiom, style, or technique—it’s a predicament we are thrown into, one we find ourselves in. The predicament, he shows, is a complex entwinement of choice and decision. The performativity of choice during improvisation may happen “in the moment,” but it is already determined by an a priori mode of decision. In this way, improvisation happens both within and around the actual moment, negotiating a simultaneous past, present, and future. Examining these and other often ignored dimensions of spontaneous creativity, Peters proposes a consistently challenging and rigorously argued new perspective on improvisation across an extraordinary range of disciplines.

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University of Chicago Press

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022645276X

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9780226452760

Power of 3

By: Gary Wayne

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Power of 3

By: Gary Wayne

FROM THAT FIRST STEP Since first stepping into this world of Imperealisity, it has been one learning situation after another. As my friends, Steve and Bailey joined me with all of our pets, we have walked in to some extraordinary and astounding events. Many of the events we have been involved with in this world have shown us we are definitely not in Walla Walla anymore. Thank goodness we have found strengths and powers to face some of the obstacles and some of the creatures in our travels. As we gathered new members for our team of adventurers, we have found the times between earth and this planet to be totally different. What seems to be months here in reality at home are only days. We have found many new friends, saved a good number of people from slavery, met one god, and saved another. We have stood before a king and queen, faced monsters and beasts, helped build up a town that was destroyed by a T-Rex. Yes, I did say a dinosaur. We really had to think about that one and finally decided our home planet was hit by asteroids and meteors and this one never was. In our travels so far, we have learned Steve, Bailey and I have been talked about for centuries, as we now understand we are at the heart of a centuries-old prophecy. We understand our home on planet earth is where we need to return to soon. The three of us still have classes to take at Walla Walla High school. I have been getting the feeling that might become an adventure in itself. But for now, let the adventures continue in Book Four of this series, as you will see how the power of three is only the beginning of many great things. JOIN US AS WE TRAVEL FURTHER INTO THE WESTERN REGION OF THE DENARIAN LANDS.

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1796049603

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The Captain and The Candles

By: Gary Pool

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The Captain and The Candles

By: Gary Pool

Captain James Lang was a highly educated son of the southern aristocracy, and Mexican War veteran turned soldier of fortune. He has a clear-cut, well defined existence until an unusual assignment to southwest Iowa turned his martial life upside down. Captain Lang found himself embroiled in the clandestine, often violent, world of the Underground Railroad and the Kansas Border Wars.This was an unfamiliar world of devout, but naïve abolitionists mingled with spies, liars, cowards, and killers. His task being to divine the good from the evil, the radical from the righteous.Impartiality or complete avoidance of local politics would have been simple enough if not for his chance meeting of Jessanne Gates, wife of the local minister and head of the area's abolitionist movement.James Lang, the man, was instantly enamored by the beautiful Jessanne, who reciprocated the emotion. Captain Lang, the soldier, become tormented by his engrained duty to his native state and southern way of life, his own subjugation of a whole race of people, and the only woman he would ever love.

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Gary Pool

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0615563309

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9780615563305

War Stories

False Atrocity Tales, Swift Boaters, and Winter SoldiersùWhat Really Happened in Vietnam

By: Gary Kulik

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War Stories

False Atrocity Tales, Swift Boaters, and Winter SoldiersùWhat Really Happened in Vietnam

By: Gary Kulik

War stories are mostly innocent fables and understood as such by both the teller and the hearer. However, they have long been used for political and national purposes, and those about the war in Vietnam were no exception, as painfully evidenced in the 2004 presidential campaign. John Kerry campaigned as a war hero. His opponents cast him as a liar and a traitor and their war story prevailed. ""War Stories"" delves into the myths associated with the Vietnam veteran s experience and looks at them through the war stories they told and continue to tell. Kulik conducts an extremely thorough review of the Vietnam literature and interviews participants wherever possible, poking holes in the war myths of people throughout the political spectrum. War Stories discusses how returning Vietnam vets were treated and delves into the myths that atrocities were commonplace, that all veterans of that war suffer from PTSD, and that all are guilt ridden. Kulik s research and analysis of such stories lies at the heart of this book s originality and provides a new perspective on the Vietnam War for scholars, students, and general readers. His purpose in exposing such stories is not to deny or minimize American war crimes in Vietnam but to cut through the cant of false stories so that we retain our outrage at those that are true. As we are faced with future war stories from Iraq and Afghanistan and their likely exploitation, the moral stance and the lessons learned in this book will be especially important.

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Potomac Books, Inc.

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1597976377

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9781597976374

The Mechanics of Wonder

The Creation of the Idea of Science Fiction

By: Gary Westfahl

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The Mechanics of Wonder

The Creation of the Idea of Science Fiction

By: Gary Westfahl

This is a sustained argument about the idea of science fiction by a renowned critic. Overturning many received opinions, it is both controversial and stimulating Much of the controversy arises from Westfahl's resurrection of Hugo Gernsback - for decades a largely derided figure - as the true creator of science fiction. Following an initial demolition of earlier critics, Westfahl argues for Gernsback's importance. His argument is fully documented, showing a much greater familiarity with early American science fiction, particularly magazine fiction, than previous academic critics or historians. After his initial chapters on Gernsback, he examines the way in which the Gernsback tradition was adopted and modified by later magazine editors and early critics. This involves a re-evaluation of the importance of John W. Campbell to the history of science fiction as well as a very interesting critique of Robert Heinlein's Beyond the Horizon, one the seminal texts of American science fiction. In conclusion, Westfahl uses the theories of Gernsback and Campbell to develop a descriptive definition of science fiction and he explores the ramifications of that definition. The Mechanics of Wonder will arouse debate and force the questioning of presuppositions. No other book so closely examines the origins and development of the idea of science fiction, and it will stand among a small number of crucial texts with which every science fiction scholar or prospective science fiction scholar will have to read.

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0853235635

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9780853235637

Final Days

By: Gary Gibson

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Final Days

By: Gary Gibson

But this new mode of transportation comes at a price and there are risks. Saul Dumont knows this better than anyone. He’s still trying to cope with the loss of the wormhole link to the Galileo system, which has stranded him on Earth far from his wife and child for the past several years. Only weeks away from the link with Galileo finally being re-established, he stumbles across a conspiracy to suppress the discovery of a second, alien network of wormholes which lead billions of years in the future. A covert expedition is sent to what is named Site 17 to investigate, but when an accident occurs and one of the expedition, Mitchell Stone, disappears – they realise that they are dealing with something far beyond their understanding. When a second expedition travels via the wormholes to Earth in the near future of 2245 they discover a devastated, lifeless solar system - all except for one man, Mitchell Stone, recovered from an experimental cryogenics facility in the ruins of a lunar city. Stone may be the only surviving witness to the coming destruction of the Earth. But why is he the only survivor – and once he’s brought back to the present, is there any way he and Saul can prevent the destruction that’s coming?

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023076102X

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9780230761025

A Hanging in Nacogdoches

Murder, Race, Politics, and Polemics in Texas's Oldest Town, 1870–1916

By: Gary B. Borders

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A Hanging in Nacogdoches

Murder, Race, Politics, and Polemics in Texas's Oldest Town, 1870–1916

By: Gary B. Borders

This historical study examines a “legal lynching” in 1902 Texas, shedding light on race relations, political culture, and economic conditions of the time. On October 17, 1902, in Nacogdoches, Texas, a black man named James Buchanan was tried without representation, condemned, and executed for the murder of a white family—all within three hours. Two white men played pivotal roles in these events: the editor of the Nacogdoches Sentinel, Bill Haltom, a prominent Democrat who condemned lynching but defended lynch mobs; and A. J. Spradley, a Populist sheriff who managed to keep the mob from burning Buchanan alive, only to escort him to the gallows. Each man’s story illuminates part of the path toward the terrible parody of justice at the heart of A Hanging in Nacogdoches. The turn of the twentieth century was a time of dramatic change for the people of East Texas. Frightened by the Populist Party's attempts to unite poor blacks and whites in a struggle for economic justice, white Democrats defended their power base by exploiting racial tensions in a battle that ultimately resulted in complete disenfranchisement for the black population. In telling the story of a single lynching, Gary Borders dramatically illustrates the way politics and race combined to bring horrific violence to small southern towns like Nacogdoches.

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029279598X

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Harbor & Home

Furniture of Southeastern Massachusetts, 1710-1850

By: Brock Jobe,Jack O'Brien,Gary R. Sullivan

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Harbor & Home

Furniture of Southeastern Massachusetts, 1710-1850

By: Brock Jobe,Jack O'Brien,Gary R. Sullivan

Presented for the first time, the richly illustrated findings of the Southeastern Massachusetts Furniture project at Winterthur Museum

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0912724684

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Ethics and the Orator

The Ciceronian Tradition of Political Morality

By: Gary Remer

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Ethics and the Orator

The Ciceronian Tradition of Political Morality

By: Gary Remer

Prologue: Quintilian and John of Salisbury in the Ciceronian tradition -- Rhetoric, emotional manipulation, and morality: the contemporary relevance of Cicero vis-a-vis Aristotle -- Political morality, conventional morality, and decorum in Cicero -- Rhetoric as a balancing of ends: Cicero and Machiavelli -- Justus Lipsius, morally acceptable deceit, and prudence in the Ciceronian tradition -- The classical orator as political representative: Cicero and the modern concept of representation -- Deliberative democracy and rhetoric: Cicero, oratory, and conversation

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022643916X

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9780226439167

Imperealisity

The New World

By: Gary Wayne

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Imperealisity

The New World

By: Gary Wayne

Marty, Steve, and Bailey are three teenagers who have been friends since childhood, living in southeastern Washington state, where their families have lived forever. Marty, who aces school with little studying, is fascinated by every kind of living creature. Steve is kind and caring, always ready to help someone in need. Bailey, with whom Marty is in love, has a power that allows her to occasionally see the futurebut neither of her friends has any idea how far her visions of the future will take them. The teens and their families live on the edge of a beautiful national forest, and it is in this forest that they will find their destinies. As they encounter a mysterious unknown world, they discover things about themselves, raise questions about their pasts and futures, and work to overcome challenges as they help the people they meet along the way. The three young people learn that they are at the heart of a centuries-old prophecy that speaks of outlanders who will heal these lands, protect their people, and set right what has gone wrong. In this fantasy novel, three teenagers travel into a fantastical new place, where their adventures reveal their roles in a prophesy that will change their lives forever.

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LifeRich Publishing

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1489715568

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9781489715562

The Return

Book Two of the Imperealisity Series

By: Gary Wayne

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The Return

Book Two of the Imperealisity Series

By: Gary Wayne

Walking up and looking over the edge of the hill, what I viewed looked like prisoners with guards around them. As I tried to observe everything, suddenly, what I saw almost gave me a scare of which I have never had before in my life. Turning and sliding down the wall of rocks behind me, I sat down. Steve stood, looked over the edge of the hill viewing the guards, and then noticed the same thing I had seen. Suddenly he was sliding down and sitting next to me on the ground. Bailey looked at both of us, with our faces pale and blank, then stood up, and took in the view. Steve asked, “Marty, what is that thing?” “You’re asking the wrong person, Steve,” I replied. “No. I am asking you,” Steve said. “You mean the thing with big, pointed ears and red eyes?” “Yes, that is what I mean,” Steve said. Bailey slid down beside us and shook her head, asking, “Isn’t he dead?” Ziggy looked over the edge and commented, “That is the ugliest dog I have ever seen.” New adventures and marvelous new characters await the readers in this second book of the series of Imperealisity. It’s a time of unusual pets, wizards, dragons, and little people. It’s time for those new adventures to begin.

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1984545299

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Hear My Eyes

By: Gary Todd

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Hear My Eyes

By: Gary Todd

Hear My Eyes is a story of a young man growing up in Harlem, New York City as an only child, being raised by a single father. The Author provides an intimate revelation of young man struggling to find the right combination for his life’s journey. His father is a strict Caribbean man who governs his household with an iron fist of rules and regulations that stifle his son’s potential, causing emotional and psychological scars. The effects of those scars are manifested primarily during his college years and process. The tumultuous relationship with his dad, leads to an estranged relationship with his mother and siblings. His need to reconcile with his family leads to some unhealthy roads to where he tries to find the best way towards peace and balance.

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1663213674

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Imperealisity "The Digs"

Book Five in the Imperealisity Fantasy Series

By: Gary Wayne

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Imperealisity "The Digs"

Book Five in the Imperealisity Fantasy Series

By: Gary Wayne

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1669815145

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Breaking White Supremacy

Martin Luther King Jr. and the Black Social Gospel

By: Gary J. Dorrien

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Breaking White Supremacy

Martin Luther King Jr. and the Black Social Gospel

By: Gary J. Dorrien

This magisterial follow-up to The New Abolition, a Grawemeyer Award winner, tells the crucial second chapter in the black social gospel's history. The civil rights movement was one of the most searing developments in modern American history. It abounded with noble visions, resounded with magnificent rhetoric, and ended in nightmarish despair. It won a few legislative victories and had a profound impact on U.S. society, but failed to break white supremacy. The symbol of the movement, Martin Luther King Jr., soared so high that he tends to overwhelm anything associated with him. Yet the tradition that best describes him and other leaders of the civil rights movement has been strangely overlooked. In his latest book, Gary Dorrien continues to unearth the heyday and legacy of the black social gospel, a tradition with a shimmering history, a martyred central figure, and enduring relevance today. This part of the story centers around King and the mid-twentieth-century black church leaders who embraced the progressive, justice-oriented, internationalist social gospel from the beginning of their careers and fulfilled it, inspiring and leading America's greatest liberation movement.

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Yale University Press

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0300205619

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9780300205619

The Potentate of Walking Horse

By: Gary Lendennie

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The Potentate of Walking Horse

By: Gary Lendennie

A good natured cowboy, blessed by what he thinks is divine intervention, is drawn from Reno to a small town in Arkansas. On the way, he confronts a Cherokee elder who is conducting a sacred ceremony on hallowed ground. Despite their differences they travel together toward a common destiny. One morning they see a small town in the distance. The town is a 100-year experiment, established by extraterrestrials, and the experiment is about to end. Moonshinners, cannibals, crooked politicians and greed play a role in the inevitable showdown with The Potentate of Walking Horse.

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1469144336

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Thriller 2: Stories You Just Can't Put Down

Through a Veil Darkly\Ghost Writer\A Calculated Risk\Remaking\The Weapon\Can You Help Me Out Here?

By: Kathleen Antrim,Gary Braver,Sean Chercover,Blake Crouch,Jeffery Deaver,Robert Ferrigno

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Thriller 2: Stories You Just Can't Put Down

Through a Veil Darkly\Ghost Writer\A Calculated Risk\Remaking\The Weapon\Can You Help Me Out Here?

By: Kathleen Antrim,Gary Braver,Sean Chercover,Blake Crouch,Jeffery Deaver,Robert Ferrigno

When some of the top thriller writers in the world came together in Thriller: Stories to Keep You Up All Night, they became a part of one of the most successful short-story anthologies ever published. The highly anticipated Thriller 2: Stories You Just Can't Put Down is even bigger. From Jeffery Deaver's tale of international terrorism to Lisa Jackson's dysfunctional family in the California wine country to Ridley Pearson's horrifying serial killer, this collection has something for everyone. Twenty-three bestselling and hot new authors in the genre have submitted original stories to make up this unforgettable blockbuster.

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MIRA

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1426854676

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O.J. the Last Word

The Death of Justice

By: Gerry Spence,Gary Spence

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O.J. the Last Word

The Death of Justice

By: Gerry Spence,Gary Spence

The best-selling, no-holds-barred classic every lawyer, everyone involved in the media, & anyone interested in criminology must read if the failing justice system is to be saved.

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0312195192

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One Damn Blunder from Beginning to End

The Red River Campaign of 1864

By: Gary Dillard Joiner

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One Damn Blunder from Beginning to End

The Red River Campaign of 1864

By: Gary Dillard Joiner

In the spring of 1864, as the armies of Grant and Lee waged a highly scrutinized and celebrated battle for the state of Virginia, a no- less important, but historically obscured engagement was being conducted in the pine barrens of northern Louisiana. In a year of stellar triumphs by Union armies across the South, the Red River Campaign stands out as a colossal failure. General William Tecumseh Sherman's scathing summation describes it best, "One damn blunder from beginning to end." Taking its title from Sherman's blunt description, One Damn Blunder from Beginning to End: The Red River Campaign of 1864 is a fresh inspection of what was the Civil War's largest operation between the Union Army and Navy west of the Mississippi River. In a bold, but poorly managed effort to wrest Louisiana and Texas from Confederate control, a combined force of 40,000 Union troops and 60 naval vessels traveled up the twisting Red River in an attempt to capture the capital city of Shreveport. Gary D. Joiner provides not a recycled telling of the campaign, but a strategic and tactical overview based on a stunning new array of facts gleaned from recently discovered documents. This never-before-published information reveals that the Confederate army had laid a clever trap by engineering a drop in the water level of the Red River to try to maroon the Union naval flotilla. Only the equally amazing ingenuity of the Union troops saved the fleet from certain destruction, despite a humiliating defeat at the Battle of Mansfield. The Red River campaign had lasting implications. One Damn Blunder from Beginning to End magnifies just how devastating the diversion of so many men and so much material to this failed campaign was to the Union effort in the pivotal year of 1864. Because of the Union Army's failures, Northern plans to capture Mobile were scrapped. Military careers were made and lost. And at time when the Confederacy was teetering on the brink of oblivion, Southern morale was bolstered. Joiner puts together

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Demand Generation

A Church & Troy novel

By: Gary Elmes

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Demand Generation

A Church & Troy novel

By: Gary Elmes

A straightforward homicide inquiry; just another day at the office for Detective Inspector Bailey Troy. But her investigation is destined to uncover a murderous conspiracy of unimaginable proportions. A beautiful young woman, heiress to her father’s biotech fortune, lies dead — killed by an assassin’s bullet to the head. The obvious suspect is Isaac Church, a smart but hormonal young IT geek with a good reason to hold a grudge and a steady hand with a gun. All the evidence points to him — it’s an open-and-shut, slam-dunk case. Except that it isn’t. The inquiry quickly unravels, the clues twisting into a labyrinth of dead-ends and contradictions. Everyone, it seems, has something to hide. And for Isaac Church, the investigation could prove deadly.

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0473427125

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9780473427122

Literary New Hampshire: A History & Guide

By: Gary Crooker

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Literary New Hampshire: A History & Guide

By: Gary Crooker

New Hampshire's literary roots are long and rich, with names like Robert Frost, Celia Thaxter and Willa Cather beckoning book lovers. Travel to Cornish and discover the connections between one of the state's premier novelists, Winston Churchill, and the British statesman of the same name. Experience north country beauty in Littleton, birthplace of Eleanor Porter, who introduced a new word into the English language. Learn how Newport native Sarah Josepha Hale became one of the most influential writers of her time. Follow young black novelist Harriet Wilson from Milford and the belated recognition of her groundbreaking book. Local author Gary Crooker reveals the stories and places behind these and many more lettered luminaries.

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1467153788

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Punishment and Crime

The Limits of Punitive Crime Control

By: Gary Kleck,Brion Sever

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Punishment and Crime

The Limits of Punitive Crime Control

By: Gary Kleck,Brion Sever

This book summarizes and synthesizes a vast body of research on the effects of legal punishment and criminal behavior. Covering studies conducted between 1967 and 2015, Punishment and Crime evaluates the assertion that legal punishment reduces crime by investigating the impacts, both positive and negative, of legal punishment on criminal behavior, with emphasis on the effects of punitive crime control policies via the mechanisms of deterrence and incapacitation. Brion Sever and Gary Kleck, author of the renowned Point Blank: Guns and Violence in America, present a literature review on legal punishment in the United States that is unparalleled in depth and scope. This text is a must-read for students, researchers, and policymakers concerned with the fields of corrections and crime prevention.

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Routledge

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1351392239

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Rhapsody In Overdrive

By: Gary Peterson

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Rhapsody In Overdrive

By: Gary Peterson

The price of freedom is getting high. A bored and restless 15-year-old named Floyd Wolf foolishly ingests a powerful psychoactive drug called Blue Horse, but he isn't prepared for the ensuing mental chaos that permanently alters his perceptions. When the coincidental death of his mother further burdens him with a guilt complex the size of Detroit, he leaves home with his pals for California but winds up hitchhiking back across the country alone, searching for peace of mind in a world that seems to be conspiring against him. Only the vague memories of a girl and his formerly happy existence, keeps him putting one foot in front of the other despite his mental malady. In the end, Floyd's paranoia must prove to be either well founded or schizophrenic. Rhapsody In Overdrive chronicles his anguished attempt to go back home again. There's nothing funny about a bad acid flashback, but this psychological adventure story is not without comic relief.

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0595268285

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Dark Alliance: Movie Tie-In Edition

The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion

By: Gary Webb

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Dark Alliance: Movie Tie-In Edition

The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion

By: Gary Webb

Major Motion Picture based on Dark Alliance and starring Jeremy Renner, "Kill the Messenger," to be be released in Fall 2014 In August 1996, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Webb stunned the world with a series of articles in the San Jose Mercury News reporting the results of his year-long investigation into the roots of the crack cocaine epidemic in America, specifically in Los Angeles. The series, titled “Dark Alliance,” revealed that for the better part of a decade, a Bay Area drug ring sold tons of cocaine to Los Angeles street gangs and funneled millions in drug profits to the CIA-backed Nicaraguan Contras. Gary Webb pushed his investigation even further in his book, Dark Alliance: The CIA, The Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion. Drawing from then newly declassified documents, undercover DEA audio and videotapes that had never been publicly released, federal court testimony, and interviews, Webb demonstrates how our government knowingly allowed massive amounts of drugs and money to change hands at the expense of our communities. Webb’s own stranger-than-fiction experience is also woven into the book. His excoriation by the media—not because of any wrongdoing on his part, but by an insidious process of innuendo and suggestion that in effect blamed Webb for the implications of the story—had been all but predicted. Webb was warned off doing a CIA expose by a former Associated Press journalist who lost his job when, years before, he had stumbled onto the germ of the “Dark Alliance” story. And though Internal investigations by both the CIA and the Justice Department eventually vindicated Webb, he had by then been pushed out of the Mercury News and gone to work for the California State Legislature Task Force on Government Oversight. He died in 2004.

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1609806212

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9781609806217

The Road to Etheral

Book Three of the Imperealisity Series

By: Gary Wayne

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The Road to Etheral

Book Three of the Imperealisity Series

By: Gary Wayne

The journey has been exciting, challenging, and fun. All the things we have at home, we are doing without in this world. No phones, computers, cars, or even fast-food places, and for some reason, we really don’t miss those things. I guess when you step back in time, your feet tend to take the path of those around you. So if no one is using a phone, you don’t miss it. If others are not eating greasy, overcooked hamburgers, you don’t yearn for those either. Well, just a moment, now that I am thinking about it, maybe a good old greasy burger with tomatoes, onions, and cheese would taste pretty good, with a large order of fries and fry sauce. I bet when I get home, one of the first things I will do is go to downtown Walla Walla and find a fast-food joint. We have traveled a reasonable distance and have found our time in this world is entirely different than our world. What seems like weeks over here in this world are only a few hours back home. The three of us and our pets all seem to be gaining more strength and power. And we can’t forget about Vanessa and her sisters as they are also increasing their strengths and capabilities. I keep wondering why, as Vanessa, if her sisters and parents are from this world, or are they? We have done some amazing things in the time we have been in Imperealisity, but I get the feeling we are in for more attention-grabbing times and exciting activities in this world. As we all climb into the back of our wagon, we know we have a good week of travel ahead of us. We don’t know what’s out there in front of us. However, we do know we are here for an extraordinary purpose, and that is to fulfill a prophecy that is centuries old. We have powers and strengths that can protect and help those in this world. So as we travel to the southern region to look for what is unknown, I hope you can imagine all the things we see and do. I hope you enjoy the ride.

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1796024449

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Riding with the 19Th Texas Cavalry in the War West of the Mississippi 1862-1865

By: Gary C. Cole

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Riding with the 19Th Texas Cavalry in the War West of the Mississippi 1862-1865

By: Gary C. Cole

Riding With the 19th Texas Cavalry in the War West of the Mississippi 1862-1865 is the story of William Hardy Bennett’s Confederate military service as a Private in Co. B of the 19th Texas Cavalry Regiment during the War for Southern Independence and his experiences during Reconstruction that followed the war. He enlisted with the Mesquite Light Horse Militia in Dallas County, Texas on 8 January 1861 some one and a half months before the citizens of Texas ratified the State’s Ordinance of Secession. Some fourteen months later on 21 March 1862, he enlisted with Captain Allen Beard’s Company, Burford’s Texas Cavalry in Dallas, Texas to defend his family, Dallas County, and the State of Texas against a Yankee army determined to invade and destroy the State. Beard’s Company became Co. B of the 19th Texas Cavalry Regiment and was an important part of Colonel William Henry Parsons’ Texas Brigade that fought with distinction in the Trans-Mississippi Department. Hardy fought in some fifty engagements and was often in harm’s way, but he survived and returned to Dallas County, Texas after the war and prospered despite the economic and political problems that plagued the county during Reconstruction.

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Trafford Publishing

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1490798544

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9781490798547

Freak Show Legacies

How the Cute, Camp and Creepy Shaped Modern Popular Culture

By: Gary S. Cross

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Freak Show Legacies

How the Cute, Camp and Creepy Shaped Modern Popular Culture

By: Gary S. Cross

Society has long been fascinated with the freakish, shocking and strange. In this book Gary Cross shows how freakish elements have been embedded in modern popular culture over the course of the 20th century despite the evident disenchantment with this once widespread cultural outlet. Exploring how the spectacle of freakishness conflicted with genteel culture, he shows how the condemnation of the freak show by middle-class America led to a transformation and merging of genteel and freak culture through the cute, the camp and the creepy. Though the carnival and circus freak was marginalised by the 1960s and had largely disappeared by the 1980s, forms of freakish culture survived and today appear in reality TV, horror movies, dark comedies and the popularity of tattoos. Freak Show Legacies will focus less on the individual 'freak' as 'the other' in society, and more on the audience for the freakish and the transformation of wonder, sensibility and sensitivity that this phenomenon entailed. It will use the phenomenon of 'the freak' to understand the transformation of American popular culture across the 20th century, identify elements of 'the freak' in popular culture both past and present, and ask how it has prevailed despite its apparent unpopularity.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350145149

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9781350145146

Dwelling on the edge of the Neolithic

Investigating human behaviour through the spatial analysis of Corded Ware settlement material in the Dutch coastal wetlands (2900-2300 calBc)

By: Gary Robert Nobles

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Dwelling on the edge of the Neolithic

Investigating human behaviour through the spatial analysis of Corded Ware settlement material in the Dutch coastal wetlands (2900-2300 calBc)

By: Gary Robert Nobles

This volume presents a detailed spatial analysis of the sites of Keinsmerbrug, Mienakker, and Zeewijk. These Late Neolithic settlement sites define the westernmost edge of the Corded Ware Culture (c. 2900-2300 cal BC). The people took part in a broad spectrum of activities: hunting, gathering, fishing, agriculture, animal husbandry, and artisan crafts. They maintained their regional traditions while dwelling on the edge of this Neolithic cultural group. The study depicts Neolithic households as highly mobile with sedentary and seasonal settlements. The patterns that emerge from the in-depth spatial analysis of material distributions indicate the presence of spatially bound locations for specific activities. This structuring of space further supports the identification of various dwelling structures. Neolithic monumentality is, for the first time, identified within the Dutch coastal wetlands. The biographical perspective underlines the ephemeral nature of the divide between the place of the living and the place of the ancestors.

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Barkhuis

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9492444283

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9789492444288

USGA Restoration Handbook on CD-ROM

By: Donald Harker,Kay Harker,Gary Libby,Sherry Evans,Marc Evans

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USGA Restoration Handbook on CD-ROM

By: Donald Harker,Kay Harker,Gary Libby,Sherry Evans,Marc Evans

All the techniques presented in the original reference work, now on CD-ROM. Five years after the first edition of Landscape Restoration Handbook was published, its natural landscaping and ecological restoration techniques have become standard and successful practice throughout the nation. They are now in the Landscape Restoration Handbook on CD-ROM. Naturalization: mutually beneficial for environmental protection and cost savings By outlining the proper use of naturalization techniques, the print version gave landscape professionals a viable alternative to more intensive management approaches-ensuring a greater degree of environmental protection, while reducing various maintenance costs. Now you access these benefits on CD-ROM. A comprehensive guide to natural landscaping and ecological restoration

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CRC Press

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0849322359

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9780849322358

Moonglow Avenue

Book 1 of the Moonglow Trilogy

By: Gary Pettigrew

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Moonglow Avenue

Book 1 of the Moonglow Trilogy

By: Gary Pettigrew

*** 100% of the UK profits for this book are being donated to the BBC's Children In Need charity***When Ryan and his sister Nicole meet their new neighbours Jasmine and Billy they have no idea how their lives are about to change.They discover a street they never knew existed; Moonglow Avenue, a street that can only be accessed after dark and by those with a feel for magic.Soon they find themselves fighting vampires and getting tangled up in the business of witches and werewolves. But their greatest danger lies outside of Moonglow, in the real world.When a young werewolf cub is captured by a greedy television reporter it is up to the kids to mount a rescue and make sure that no one ever finds out about the secrets of Moonglow Avenue. Moonglow Avenue is a tale of Adventure and Magic for boys and girls, ages 8-12

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Gary Pettigrew

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1478299843

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9781478299844

Through the Howling Wilderness

The 1864 Red River Campaign and Union Failure in the West

By: Gary D. Joiner

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Through the Howling Wilderness

The 1864 Red River Campaign and Union Failure in the West

By: Gary D. Joiner

Through the Howling Wilderness is replete with in-depth coverage on the geography of the region, the Congressional hearings after the Campaign, and the Confederate defenses in the Red River Valley.

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Univ. of Tennessee Press

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1572335440

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9781572335448

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

By: Gary J.R Cook,M. N Maisey,Vaseem Chengazi

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Clinical Nuclear Medicine

By: Gary J.R Cook,M. N Maisey,Vaseem Chengazi

The fourth edition of Clinical Nuclear Medicine highlights the continued growth in clinical applications for PET and other aspects of molecular imaging. With its problem-oriented clinical approach, the book presents relevant topics of current importance to the practicing clinician rather than providing a comprehensive review of all technical a

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CRC Press

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1444113577

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9781444113570

Southern Loyalists in the Civil War

The Southern Claims Commission

By: Gary B. Mills

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Southern Loyalists in the Civil War

The Southern Claims Commission

By: Gary B. Mills

The Southern Claims Commission was the agency established to process more than 20,000 claims by pro-Union Southerners for reimbursement of their losses during the Civil War. The present work is a "master index" to the case files of the Commission. The index gives, in tabular form, the name of the claimant, his county and state, the Commission number, office number and report number, and the year and the status of the claim.

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806314419

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9780806314419

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