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Aesthetics & Alienation

By: Gary Tedman

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A complete and original theory of aesthetics based on Marx and Althusser in the modernist Marxist anti-humanist tradition (Brecht, Althusser, Benjamin, Adorno). The main concepts that arise from this work are: the aesthetic level of practice, aesthetic state apparatuses, aesthetic interpellation, and pseudo dialectics, all of which are used to understand the role of aesthetic experience and its place in everyday life. - In the space long thought as necessary to fill spanning the gap between Marx and Freud, the author proposes that aesthetics can be located and defined in a concrete way. We are therefore looking at a domain involving and implicating feelings, affections, dispositions, sensibilities and sensuality, as well as their social role in art, tradition, ritual, and taboo. With the classic Marxist concepts of base and superstructure divided into levels, economic, ideological, and political, the aesthetic level of practice is the area that has traditionally been mostly either missing or mislocated and, especially perhaps, misrepresented for political reasons. The importance of this level is that it fuels and supports the media, or as Althusser described it the 'traffic' (or mediation) between base and superstructure, although for Althusser this was ideological traffic. Here, this is also defined as aesthetic. From this vantage point, we begin to be able to see aesthetic state apparatuses, analyse how they function, both in the past, historically (for example firstly in art history), and today, in the contemporary political context, to grasp the role that art and feelings, along with affective alienation, plays in our culture as a complete and, in fact, cyclical reciprocating system. ,

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1780993021

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Origins of Impressionism

By: Gary Tinterow,Henri Loyrette

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Origins of Impressionism

By: Gary Tinterow,Henri Loyrette

This handsome publication, which accompanies a major exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, is a lively and engaging account of the artistic scene in Paris in the 1860s, the years that witnessed the beginnings of Impressionism. For the first time the interactions and relationships among the group of painters who became known as the Impressionists are examined without the overworn art historical polarities commonly evoked: academic versus avant-garde, classicist versus romantic, realist versus impressionist. A host of strong personalities contributed to this history, and their style evolved into a new way of looking at the world. These artists wanted above all to give an impression of truth and to have an impact on or even to shock the public. And they wanted to measure up to or surpass their elders. This complex and rich environment is presented here - the grand old men and the young turks encounter each other, the Salon pontificates, and the new generation moves fitfully ahead, benignly but always with determination." "Origins of Impressionism gives a day-by-day, year-by-year study of the genesis of an epoch-making style." "Bibliographies and provenances are provided for each of the almost two hundred works in the exhibition, and there is an illustrated chronology. With more than two hundred superb colorplates, this informative survey is an essential work for both the general reader and the scholar."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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0870997173

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The Last Pass

Cousy, Russell, the Celtics, and What Matters in the End

By: Gary M. Pomerantz

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The Last Pass

Cousy, Russell, the Celtics, and What Matters in the End

By: Gary M. Pomerantz

The New York Times bestseller Out of the greatest dynasty in American professional sports history, a Boston Celtics team led by Bill Russell and Bob Cousy, comes an intimate story of race, mortality, and regret About to turn ninety, Bob Cousy, the Hall of Fame Boston Celtics captain who led the team to its first six championships on an unparalleled run, has much to look back on in contentment. But he has one last piece of unfinished business. The last pass he hopes to throw is to close the circle with his great partner on those Celtic teams, fellow Hall of Famer Bill Russell. These teammates were basketball's Ruth and Gehrig, and Cooz, as everyone calls him, was famously ahead of his time as an NBA player in terms of race and civil rights. But as the decades passed, Cousy blamed himself for not having done enough, for not having understood the depth of prejudice Russell faced as an African-American star in a city with a fraught history regarding race. Cousy wishes he had defended Russell publicly, and that he had told him privately that he had his back. At this late hour, he confided to acclaimed historian Gary Pomerantz over the course of many interviews, he would like to make amends. At the heart of the story The Last Pass tells is the relationship between these two iconic athletes. The book is also in a way Bob Cousy's last testament on his complex and fascinating life. As a sports story alone it has few parallels: An poor kid whose immigrant French parents suffered a dysfunctional marriage, the young Cousy escaped to the New York City playgrounds, where he became an urban legend known as the Houdini of the Hardwood. The legend exploded nationally in 1950, his first year as a Celtic: he would be an all-star all 13 of his NBA seasons. But even as Cousy's on-court imagination and daring brought new attention to the pro game, the Celtics struggled until Coach Red Auerbach landed Russell in 1956. Cooz and Russ fit beautifully together on the court, and the Celtics dynasty was born. To Boston's white sportswriters it was Cousy's team, not Russell's, and as the civil rights movement took flight, and Russell became more publicly involved in it, there were some ugly repercussions in the community, more hurtful to Russell than Cousy feels he understood at the time. The Last Pass situates the Celtics dynasty against the full dramatic canvas of American life in the 50s and 60s. It is an enthralling portrait of the heart of this legendary team that throws open a window onto the wider world at a time of wrenching social change. Ultimately it is a book about the legacy of a life: what matters to us in the end, long after the arena lights have been turned off and we are alone with our memories. On August 22, 2019, Bob Cousy was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom

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The Columbia History of American Television

By: Gary Edgerton

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The Columbia History of American Television

By: Gary Edgerton

Television is a form of media without equal. It has revolutionized the way we learn about and communicate with the world and has reinvented the way we experience ourselves and others. More than just cheap entertainment, TV is an undeniable component of our culture and contains many clues to who we are, what we value, and where we might be headed in the future. Media historian Gary R. Edgerton follows the technological developments and increasing cultural relevance of TV from its prehistory (before 1947) to the Network Era (1948-1975) and the Cable Era (1976-1994). He begins with the laying of the first telegraph line in 1844, which gave rise to the idea that images and sounds could be transmitted over long distances. He then considers the remodeling of television's look and purpose during World War II; the gender, racial, and ethnic components of its early broadcasts and audiences; its transformation of postwar America; and its function in the political life of the country. He talks of the birth of prime time and cable, the influence of innovators like Sylvester "Pat" Weaver, Roone Arledge, and Ted Turner, as well as television's entrance into the international market, describing the ascent of such programs as Dallas and The Cosby Show, and the impact these exports have had on transmitting American culture abroad. Edgerton concludes with a discerning look at our current Digital Era (1995-present) and the new forms of instantaneous communication that continue to change America's social, political, and economic landscape. Richly researched and engaging, Edgerton's history tracks television's growth into a convergent technology, a global industry, a social catalyst, a viable art form, and a complex and dynamic reflection of the American mind and character. It took only ten years for television to penetrate thirty-five million households, and by 1983, the average home kept their set on for more than seven hours a day. The Columbia History of American Television illuminates our complex relationship with this singular medium and provides historical and critical knowledge for understanding TV as a technology, an industry, an art form, and an institutional force.

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Tobacco Valley

By: Gary Montgomery,Tobacco Valley Board of History

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Tobacco Valley

By: Gary Montgomery,Tobacco Valley Board of History

The Tobacco Valley, in Montanaas far northwest corner, was so named by explorer David Thompson in 1808 upon finding the resident natives using a form of wild tobacco. The Kutenai Indians were the primary inhabitants until late in the 19th century when cattlemen found the isolated valley. By 1890, several ranching families moved cattle overland to fatten on pasture that heretofore knew only the track of a Kutenai Indian pony. Eureka came into being when the Great Northern Railroad was built through in 1904. With what seemed like limitless timber, a lumber mill was operating by 1906. The railroad brought in workers and entrepreneurs, hauling lumber out. Early on it was thought that farming might supplement the timber-based economy, but hopeful homesteaders soon learned that the Tobacco Valley would never deliver on the promise of fruits and vegetables. Harvesting timber would define the Tobacco Valley for decades to come.

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0738570885

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An Improbable Pairing

By: Gary Dickson

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An Improbable Pairing

By: Gary Dickson

It began as a simple flirtation . . . In September of 1963, Scott Stoddard, an American graduate student, is traveling to Switzerland, when he meets the Countess de Rovere, a French divorcee; he is smitten, and she is intrigued. What begins as a little coquetry soon becomes a serious love affair, much to the consternation of the Countess’s ex-husband and mother, not to mention the Countess’s friends of European high society. A meeting of equals poses problems enough, but what about one between two people who seem to have so many differences? And when a man of traditional attitudes couples with an independent and self-confident woman, something’s got to give. It won’t be the countess. As their liaison transcends an affair that cannot be dismissed, they all agree that something must be done. An Improbable Pairing is a historical romance that chronicles the enduring themes of a young man’s coming of age and the rebellious love of the mismatched. This pas de deux, set in the golden years of 1960s Paris, Geneva, Gstaad, and Cannes, provides an insider’s peek into the worlds of haute couture, three-star gourmet restaurants, and lavish hotel suites—the domains of rank and privilege. But society’s privileged resist when an interloper threatens to upset their cozy structure.

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1626345805

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The Cultural Dimension of Global Business

By: Gary P. Ferraro,Elizabeth K. Briody

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The Cultural Dimension of Global Business

By: Gary P. Ferraro,Elizabeth K. Briody

Now in its eighth edition, The Cultural Dimension of Global Business continues to provide an essential foundation for understanding the impact of culture on global business and global business on culture. The highly experienced authors demonstrate how the theory and insights of cultural anthropology can positively influence the conduct of global business, examining a range of issues that individuals and organizations face as they work globally and across cultures. The cross-cultural scenarios presented in each chapter allow students of business, management, and anthropology alike to explore cultural difference while gaining valuable practice in thinking through a variety of complex and thorny cultural issues. The fully updated eighth edition offers: • an expanded focus on organizational activities, with two new chapters that provide greater insight into organizational culture and change, and customer engagement; • fresh case study material with a range of examples drawn from around the world; • further resources via a companion website, including a fully updated Instructor’s Manual and new interactive quiz questions for students.

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1315411008

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Perfect - Volume 1

Four Comics in One Featuring the Sixties Super Spy

By: Barnaby Eaton-Jones,Robin Grenville Evans,Gary Andrews

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Perfect - Volume 1

Four Comics in One Featuring the Sixties Super Spy

By: Barnaby Eaton-Jones,Robin Grenville Evans,Gary Andrews

Perfect: a swinging sixties spy with the appeal of The Avengers' Mrs Peel but the clumsy cluelessness of Inspector Clouseau - she may be called Perfect but she's far from it! Perfect: Volume 1 contains four gloriously original tales with a similar surreal 1960s flavour to shows such as The Man From U.N.C.L.E. and The Prisoner. With each of the four humorous stories included in every volume illustrated by a different artist (and written by a different author) the reader can experience Perfect's crazy world of espionage from a multitude of perspectives. In Volume 1 these artists are Simon A Brett, Gary Andrews, Jessica Martin and Robin Grenville Evans. Throughout this issue we find our heroine owning the catwalk, chasing balls, tripping out with a frog and meeting a near-perfect doppelganger... Whether you're a fan of sixties style, sexy spies, silly slapstick and serious sub-plots or are just sick of all the superhero comics out there, this is the Perfect series for you!

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1789828899

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Breaking Bad Habits

By: Suzanne LeVert,Gary R. McClain

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Breaking Bad Habits

By: Suzanne LeVert,Gary R. McClain

Offers advice on and strategies for breaking such bad habits as smoking, alcohol, lying, teeth grinding, over-spending, compulsive cleaning, and chronic procrastination.

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0028639863

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Raising Girls

By: Gary J. Weisenberger,Kathy Sherwin,Deborah S. Romaine

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Raising Girls

By: Gary J. Weisenberger,Kathy Sherwin,Deborah S. Romaine

Teaches parents of young girls what they need to know from birth to college, including advice and information on school, discipline, puberty, friends, boys, and other essential topics.

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1592578810

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Corporate Reputation and Competitiveness

By: Rosa Chun,Rui Da Silva,Gary Davies,Stuart Roper

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Corporate Reputation and Competitiveness

By: Rosa Chun,Rui Da Silva,Gary Davies,Stuart Roper

This unique book written by four world leaders in reputation research, presents the latest cutting-edge thinking on organizational improvement. It covers media management, crisis management, the use of logos and other aspects of corporate identity, and argues the case for reputation management as a way of overseeing long-term organizational strategy. It presents a new approach to managing reputation, one that relies on surveying customers and employees on their view of the corporate character and in harmonizing the values of both. This approach has been trialled in a number of organizations and here the authors demonstrate how improving reputation, merely by learning more about what a company is already doing, is worth some five per cent sales growth. The book is a vital, up to date resource for specialists in corporate communication, public relations, marketing, HRM, and business strategy as well as for all senior management. Highly illustrated with over eighty diagrams and tables, it includes up to the minute illustrative case studies and interviews with leading authorities in the field.

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Routledge

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1136863281

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9781136863288

ERISA and Health Insurance Subrogation in all 50 States - 5th Edition

By: Gary L. Wickert

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ERISA and Health Insurance Subrogation in all 50 States - 5th Edition

By: Gary L. Wickert

ERISA and Health Insurance Subrogation In All 50 States is the most complete and thorough treatise covering the complex subject of ERISA and health insurance subrogation ever published. NEW TO THE FIFTH EDITION! • Updated To Include All The Newest Case Law! • Updated To Include Medicaid Subrogation and Preemption of FEHBA ! • New Plan Language Recommendations! • Complete Health Insurance Subrogation Laws In All 50 States • Covers The Application of ERISA In Every Federal Circuit The Fifth Edition of ERISA and Health Insurance Subrogation In All 50 States has been completely revised, edited, and reorganized. This was partly to reflect the new direction recent case decisions have taken regarding health insurance subrogation as well as the crystallization of formerly uncertain and nebulous areas of the law which have now received some clarity. An entirely new chapter entitled, “What Constitutes Other Appropriate Equitable Relief?” has been added and replaces the old Chapter 9, which merely dealt with Knudson and Sereboff. The new edition introduces new state court decisions addressing the issue of causation and whether and when a subrogated Plan seeking reimbursement must prove that the medical benefits it seeks to recover were causally related to the original negligence of the tortfeasor. An entirely new section was added concerning the subrogation and reimbursement rights of Medicare Advantage Plans, a statutorily-authorized Plan which provides the same benefits an individual is entitled to recover under Medicare. This includes recent case law which detrimentally affects the rights of such Plans to subrogate. Also added to the new edition is additional law and explanation regarding Medicaid subrogation, including the differentiation between “cost avoidance” and “pay and chase” when it comes to procedures for paying Medicaid claims. Significant improvements have been made to suggested Plan language which maximizes a Plan’s subrogation and reimbursement rights. The suggested language stems from recent decisions and developments in ERISA and health insurance subrogation from around the country since the last edition. The new edition has been completely reworked both in substance and organization. Recent case law has necessitated consolidation of several portions of the book and elimination or editing of others. A new section entitled “Liability of Plaintiff’s Counsel” has been added, which provides a clearer exposition on the laws applicable and remedies available when plaintiff’s attorneys and Plan beneficiaries settle their third-party cases and fail to reimburse the Plan. Also new to the book are recently-passed anti-subrogation measures such as Louisiana’s Senate Bill 169, § 1881, which states that no health insurer shall seek reimbursement from automobile Med Pay coverage without first obtaining the written consent of the insured. The new edition also goes into much greater detail on the procedures for and law underlying the practice of removal of cases from state court to federal court, and the possibility of remand back to state court. This includes the Federal Courts Jurisdiction and Venue Clarification Act of 2011, effective Jan. 6, 2012, which amended federal removal, venue, and citizenship determination statutes in very significant ways. The new edition also delves into, for the first time, the role which the federal Anti-Injunction Act plays when beneficiaries sue in state court to enforce the terms of an ERISA Plan, while the Plan files suit in federal court seeking an injunction against the state court action. New case law and discussion on preemption of FEHBA subrogation and reimbursement claims have been added to Chapter 10 in the wake of new decisions regarding same.

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1578233291

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Desire, Violence, and Divinity in Modern Southern Fiction

Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'Connor, Cormac McCarthy, Walker Percy

By: Gary M. Ciuba

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Desire, Violence, and Divinity in Modern Southern Fiction

Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'Connor, Cormac McCarthy, Walker Percy

By: Gary M. Ciuba

In this groundbreaking study, Gary M. Ciuba examines how four of the South's most probing writers of twentieth-century fiction -- Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'Connor, Cormac McCarthy, and Walker Percy -- expose the roots of violence in southern culture. Ciuba draws on the paradigm of mimetic violence developed by cultural and literary critic René Girard, who maintains that individual human nature is shaped by the desire to imitate a model. Mimetic desire may lead in turn to rivalry, cruelty, and ultimately community-sanctioned -- and sometimes ritually sanctified -- victimization of those deemed outcasts. Ciuba offers an impressively broad intellectual discussion that gives universal cultural meaning to the southern experience of desire, violence, and divinity with which these four authors wrestled and out of which they wrote. In a comprehensive analysis of Porter's semiautobiographical Miranda stories, Ciuba focuses on the prescribed role of women that Miranda imitates and ultimately escapes. O'Connor's The Violent Bear It Away reveals three characters whose scandalous animosity caused by religious rivalry leads to the unbearable stumbling block of violence. McCarthy's protagonist in Child of God, Lester Ballard, appears as the culmination of a long tradition of the sacred violence of southern religion, twisted into his own bloody faith. And Percy's The Thanatos Syndrome brings Ciuba's discussion back to the victim, in Tom Moore's renunciation of a society in which scapegoating threatens to become the foundation of a new social regime. From nostalgia for the old order to visions of a utopian tomorrow, these authors have imagined the interrelationship of desire, antagonism, and religion throughout southern history. Ciuba's insights offer new ways of reading Porter, O'Connor, McCarthy, and Percy as well as their contemporaries who inhabited the same culture of violence -- violence desired, dreaded, denied, and deified.

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LSU Press

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0807138657

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Talking Art

The Culture of Practice and the Practice of Culture in MFA Education

By: Gary Alan Fine

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Talking Art

The Culture of Practice and the Practice of Culture in MFA Education

By: Gary Alan Fine

In Talking Art, acclaimed ethnographer Gary Alan Fine gives us an eye-opening look at the contemporary university-based master’s-level art program. Through an in-depth analysis of the practice of the critique and other aspects of the curriculum, Fine reveals how MFA programs have shifted the goal of creating art away from beauty and toward theory. Contemporary visual art, Fine argues, is no longer a calling or a passion—it’s a discipline, with an academic culture that requires its practitioners to be verbally skilled in the presentation of their intentions. Talking Art offers a remarkable and disconcerting view into the crucial role that universities play in creating that culture.

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University of Chicago Press

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022656021X

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The Greening of Pharmaceutical Engineering, Practice, Analysis, and Methodology

By: M. R. Islam,Jaan S. Islam,Gary M. Zatzman,M. Safiur Rahman,M. A. H. Mughal

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The Greening of Pharmaceutical Engineering, Practice, Analysis, and Methodology

By: M. R. Islam,Jaan S. Islam,Gary M. Zatzman,M. Safiur Rahman,M. A. H. Mughal

The pharmaceutical industry is one of the most important industriesin the world, offering new medicines, vaccines, and cures to aglobal population. It is a massive industry, worthy of a deepand thorough examination of its processes and chemistry, with aview toward sustainability. The authors describe what is andisn't truly sustainable, offering a new approach and a newdefinition of the sustainability of pharmaceutical and chemicalengineering and the science behind it. This is a cutting-edgework, aimed at engineers, scientists, researchers, chemists, andstudents.

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1119184223

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Rent Boy

By: Gary Indiana

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Rent Boy

By: Gary Indiana

A noir tour-de-force set in a world of hustlers from "one of America's darkest and funniest chroniclers." (The Guardian)

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Simon and Schuster

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1946022535

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The Secret Language of Birthdays: Teen Edition

By: Alicia Thompson,Joost Elffers,Gary Goldschneider

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The Secret Language of Birthdays: Teen Edition

By: Alicia Thompson,Joost Elffers,Gary Goldschneider

A teen version of the wildly popular adult book The Secret Language of Birthdays, this book provides astrological insight into the character of people born on each of the 365 days in the calendar year. It is the perfect gift item for birthday parties and sleepovers. This smart book is jam-packed with completely new content, including illustrations and unbelievably fun extras, with tips on everything from Best Accessory (Box of tissues for when your drama queen BFF starts crying!) and Best Pet (Puggle!) to the Best Date idea (hot air balloon ride). The teen version is colorful, dynamic, and totally addictive.

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1101188790

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From Hollywood to Calvary

One Man's Religious Journey

By: Russell Gary Heikkila

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From Hollywood to Calvary

One Man's Religious Journey

By: Russell Gary Heikkila

From Hope Street in Hollywood to Mission Street in Gardner was an unforgettable journey! Through it all, author Russell Gary Heikkila learned the most significant fact of his life. No matter how far a man may go from God, the Father is always waiting with open arms to welcome him back.

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WestBow Press

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1449767818

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How I Stole Johnny Depp's Alien Girlfriend

By: Gary Ghislain

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How I Stole Johnny Depp's Alien Girlfriend

By: Gary Ghislain

David Gershwin's summer is about to take a turn for the weird. When his dad's new patient Zelda tells him shes from outer space and on a quest to take Johnny Depp back to her planet, he knows he should run away screaming. But with one look from her mean, green eyes, David's hooked, and soon he's leaping across rooftops, running from police, and stealing cars just to stay by her side. He might not be a typical hero, but David's going to get the girl even if it takes him to the ends of the earth—or beyond.

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1452108455

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Workshop of the Second Self

By: Gary Wolf

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Workshop of the Second Self

By: Gary Wolf

The year is 2030. The place is Centerville, a typical city. Clifton Pembroke is a young professional with a promising career in the field of "disability advocacy." He helps people raise their disability profile-a single index that encompasses every variety of injustice and disadvantage that may befall an individual. Raising one's disability profile can bring a host of benefits, including subsidies and preferential treatment. But some people are no longer satisfied with these benefits. They assert that their very birth was an injustice, that a fundamental travesty has occurred, that in fact they should have been a different person. They even know who that other person is, and they intend to receive their just compensation-by obtaining the legal right to seize the other's identity. Clifton becomes entangled in ethical dilemmas that run to the core of what it means to be human. In choosing sides, he must make difficult, even dangerous decisions. In his search for answers, he gropes in the darkness until he meets the people who are building the workshop of the second self.

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0595404960

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Dry Lab

By: Gary Blackburn

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Dry Lab

By: Gary Blackburn

Dry Lab is a rather unconventional mystery novel. The setting, a biomedical research institute, as well as elements of the plot, and many of the characters are broadly drawn from my career in science. The term “dry lab” is one chemists use to describe a fraudulent experiment -- one in which no actual chemistry is done (hence the word "dry"). Rather, the data are fabricated to achieve the desired result. Instances of dry-labbing by the murder victim create a second layer of suspense as the hows and whys of his fraud are gradually uncovered. The characters include Dr. Jack Spivey, universally despised virologist and research con man; Rob Hastings, Spivey ́s insecure and ethics-ridden postdoctoral fellow; Wendy Rich, travel agent by day, animal rights activist and computer hacker by night; Eve Dash, Spivey ́s mistress and former call girl; and Vince Rubino, vending machine supplier and occasional self-induced psychopath. The action begins with Spivey ́s murder. Hastings is ordered by the Institute Director to put his former boss ́s scientific house in order, and discovers a rich legacy of laboratory larceny. As Spivey ́s academic heir, Hastings inherits the dead man ́s enemies, including the animal rights activists implicated in his murder. Computer sabotage, rodent venereal disease, toxic Twinkies and a purloined AIDS drug all figure in the plot, along with blackmail, murder, and romantic intrigue. ---The Science in Dry Lab--- The science supporting key elements of Dry Lab’s plot is both accurate and plausible, although, of course, not always practicable. The death of Jack Spivey, for example, results from administration of a monoamine oxidase inhibitor anti-depressant, a class of drugs known to cause hypertensive crisis in patients with a history of high blood pressure. This and the later attempted murder of Rob Hastings by induced anaphylactic shock both involve the use of a targeted toxin -- a substance harmless to anyone without specific susceptibility to its biological effects. Spivey’s pet project, sponsored by Thanopest Inc., to drive native rat populations into extinction using a genetically engineered rat virus reminiscent of HIV has a similar basis in real science. The effectiveness of the anti-AIDS drug Spivey sold to his acquaintance, Terry Detweiler, is a bit more of a reach, but there is precedent for anti-cancer drugs acting against viruses like HIV. AZT is one such example. The science discussed in the brainstorming session between Hastings, the Mexican scientist who discovered the drug, and Detweiler, who is also a scientist, is again plausible and internally consistent. And, finally, Rob’s rescue during his anaphylactic episode through sexual arousal should also work. Under such circumstances, a twenty-something male would release a sizable burst of adrenaline, which would most certainly help counteract the effects of the allergen.

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The Dedalus Book of the 1960s

Turn Off Your Mind

By: Gary Lachman

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Turn Off Your Mind

By: Gary Lachman

It is the 60s – yes it is magic, sex, drugs and rock and roll. In The Dedalus Book of the 1960s: Turn Off Your Mind, Gary Lachman uncovers the Love Generation's roots in occultism and explores the dark side of the Age of Aquarius. His provocative revision of the 1960s counterculture links Flower Power to mystical fascism, and follows the magical current that enveloped luminaries like the Beatles, Timothy Leary and the Rolling Stones, and darker stars like Charles Manson, Anton LaVey, and the Process Church of the Final Judgment. Acclaimed by satanists and fundamentalist Christians alike, this edition includes a revised text incorporating new material on the 'suicide cult' surrounding Carlos Castaneda; the hippy serial killer Charles Sobhraj; the strange case of Ira Einhorn, 'the Unicorn'; the CIA and ESP; the new millennialism and more. From H.P. Lovecraft to the Hell’s Angels, find out how the Morning of the Magicians became the Night of the Living Dead.

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1909232017

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Lee and His Army in Confederate History

By: Gary W. Gallagher

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Lee and His Army in Confederate History

By: Gary W. Gallagher

Was Robert E. Lee a gifted soldier whose only weaknesses lay in the depth of his loyalty to his troops, affection for his lieutenants, and dedication to the cause of the Confederacy? Or was he an ineffective leader and poor tactician whose reputation was drastically inflated by early biographers and Lost Cause apologists? These divergent characterizations represent the poles between which scholarly and popular opinion on Lee has swung over time. Now, in eight essays, Gary Gallagher offers his own refined thinking on Lee, exploring the relationship between Lee's operations and Confederate morale, the quality of his generalship, and the question of how best to handle his legacy in light of the many distortions that grew out of Lost Cause historiography. Using a host of contemporary sources, Gallagher demonstrates the remarkable faith that soldiers and citizens maintained in Lee's leadership even after his army's fortunes had begun to erode. Gallagher also engages aspects of the Lee myth with an eye toward how admirers have insisted that their hero's faults as a general represented exaggerations of his personal virtues. Finally, Gallagher considers whether it is useful--or desirable--to separate legitimate Lost Cause arguments from the transparently false ones relating to slavery and secession.

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Manet/Velázquez

The French Taste for Spanish Painting

By: Gary Tinterow,Geneviève Lacambre,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Musée d'Orsay

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The French Taste for Spanish Painting

By: Gary Tinterow,Geneviève Lacambre,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Musée d'Orsay

Here approximately two hundred works by French and Spanish artists chart the development of this cultural influence and map a fascinating shift in the paradigm of painting, from Idealism to Realism, from Italy to Spain, from Renaissance to Baroque. Above all, these images demonstrate how direct contact with Spanish painting fired the imagination of nineteenth-century French artists and brought about the triumph of Realism in the 1860s, and with it a foundation for modern art."--BOOK JACKET.

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1588390403

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English for the Australian Curriculum Book 1

By: Brenton Doecke,Pam Macintyre,Graham Parr,Natalie Bellis,Scot Bulfin,Kelli McGraw,Lisa McNeice,Karen Moni,Gary Simmons

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English for the Australian Curriculum Book 1

By: Brenton Doecke,Pam Macintyre,Graham Parr,Natalie Bellis,Scot Bulfin,Kelli McGraw,Lisa McNeice,Karen Moni,Gary Simmons

English for the Australian Curriculum Book 1 privileges student experience, creative engagement with texts, moments of reflection and deep thinking. Drawing on an inquiry model of learning, it provides opportunities for students to write and create their own texts. Written for the Australian Curriculum, English for the Australian Curriculum Book 1 provides a fully balanced and integrated approach to the study of language, literature and literacy. It actively engages students with texts at a variety of levels: • Develops language skills at word, sentence and text level, with activities in reading, writing, viewing, creating, listening and speaking • Encourages student writing across a variety of contexts, for a variety of purposes and for a variety of audiences • Underlines the importance of visual literacy • Provides opportunities for students to create their own multimodal texts

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Cambridge University Press

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1107648629

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Monsieur D'Eon Is a Woman

A Tale of Political Intrigue and Sexual Masquerade

By: Gary Kates

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Monsieur D'Eon Is a Woman

A Tale of Political Intrigue and Sexual Masquerade

By: Gary Kates

A fascinating book. Monsieur d'Eon Is a Woman is instructive and a delight to read all at the same time."—Quentin Crisp Born in 1728, French aristocrat Charles d'Eon de Beaumont had served his country as a diplomat, soldier, and spy for fifteen years when rumors that he was a woman began to circulate in the courts of Europe. D'Eon denied nothing and was finally compelled by Louis XVI to give up male attire and live as a woman, something d'Eon did without complaint for the next three decades. Although celebrated as one of the century's most remarkable women, d'Eon was revealed, after his death in 1810, to have been unambiguously male. Gary Kates's acclaimed biography of d'Eon recreates eighteenth-century European society in brilliant detail and offers a compelling portrait of an individual who challenged its conventions about gender and identity.

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JHU Press

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0801867312

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Gone but Not Forsaken

By: Gary M. Williams

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Gone but Not Forsaken

By: Gary M. Williams

Gone but Not Forsaken is the second of a historical fiction trilogy set in America and Europe from 1918–1945. It chronicles post World War I through the end of World War II. In America, it portrays initial abundance, including modern industrialism, where Gilded Age mansions were replaced by soaring skyscrapers through the roaring twenties into the stock market crash and Great Depression. It parallels the birth of Hollywood glitz amidst the storm of the country’s depravation, carried through the bombing of Pearl Harbor and World War II. In Europe, it chronicles the birth of Nazism, the Holocaust, and the rise and fall of the Third Reich. American victory is heralded in the end once again. The novel continues to chronicle the stories of the Champions, the Wagners and the Sterns, along with the intertwining of their lives. It will be followed by book three of the trilogy, spanning 1945–2000.

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Austin Macauley Publishers

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1638298998

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How to Create Your Own High Paying Job

37 Tips for Reaching Your Career Goals

By: Gary S. Goodman

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How to Create Your Own High Paying Job

37 Tips for Reaching Your Career Goals

By: Gary S. Goodman

Are you unemployed? Or, are you overworked, underpaid, and stuck in a lifeless job, reporting to someone who doesn't seem to be doing much better than you are? You're not alone. Corporations once needed large inflows of middle managers and the formally educated. Many of these posts have disappeared or have been displaced by outsourcing, offshoring, international competition, and by technology. There is a widespread and growing under-employment problem facing almost every society. Many are working at jobs that do not require the experience and schooling they possess. In the United States up to 44% are under-employed; in Canada this number is 40%.Though there has been some job growth over the past few years, these jobs are mostly lower-paid without a solid ladder to success. In this original and groundbreaking book, you'll learn how to develop your own highly compensated career opportunities. Specifically, you'll learn new and exciting ways to:Identify your marketable skills and attributes Translate your strengths into in-demand occupational titles Express your capabilities in results that are highly sought after by today's organizations Market yourself in several ways:As an employee, consultant, coach, vendor, and contract associate Get paid what you're worth, and far more through enhanced negotiation skills Develop new, highly paid occupational titles that put you into a class by yourself Learn to overcome the hurdles and barriers of the traditional job market Use advertised job listings as springboards to better jobs Reach top executives presenting yourself and your capabilities at the highest possible levels, and more

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HBG

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1469036185

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Global Value Chains and Development

Redefining the Contours of 21st Century Capitalism

By: Gary Gereffi

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Global Value Chains and Development

Redefining the Contours of 21st Century Capitalism

By: Gary Gereffi

Studies conceptual foundations of GVC analysis, twin pillars of 'governance' and 'upgrading', and detailed cases of emerging economies.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108471943

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Domestic Surveillance and Social Control in Britain and France during World War I

By: Gary Edward Girod

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Domestic Surveillance and Social Control in Britain and France during World War I

By: Gary Edward Girod

Domestic Surveillance and Social Control in Britain and France during World War I examines the rapid development and expansion of agencies and governmental power to monitor and control the homefront in Britain and France during World War I. It documents the rapid shift in focus from the feared but unimportant threat of German espionage toward homegrown radicals. The book utilizes a vast array of documents generated during the war by top-level government committees, intelligence agencies, and police services as it demonstrates the emergence of mass domestic surveillance. Detailing how events and ideas in one country impacted the other, the book argues that Britain and France developed remarkably similar intelligence agencies and policies due to their shared experiences before, during, and after the war. This book will appeal to students and scholars alike, though its moderate length and chronological approach make it accessible to a wider audience. Additionally, it will fit a number of courses, including studies of the state, intelligence studies, and modern European history courses.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040012965

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The Intellectual Handyman on Art

A Compilation of Essays by Gary R. Peterson

By: Gary R. Peterson

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The Intellectual Handyman on Art

A Compilation of Essays by Gary R. Peterson

By: Gary R. Peterson

The Intellectual Handyman On Art is a compilation of Gary Peterson essays pertaining to the arts and sciences, mostly. Being an author, artist, and musician, Peterson has the tools to construct elaborate mental scenarios whether he's waxing analytic about art aesthetics or just tinkering with wordplay. He can turn a phrase with a pipe wrench or warp your perspective with a french curve. His essays are tributes to critical thinking, each one crafted like a top-forty pop song with the rigor of a doctoral thesis. These ruminations provide high-grade literary nourishment for your left brain, supplemented with enough humor, passion and warm fuzzy sentiment to tickle your right cortex as well. And illustrations aplenty. You don't need a PhD to enjoy these philosophical anecdotes, but it couldn't hurt. You can read The Intellectual Handyman On Art at the beach, bus stop, or in the staid ambience of your estate library, all with the same result: edutainment of the first order.

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1462056881

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The Life of Mark Twain

The Early Years, 1835-1871

By: Gary Scharnhorst

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The Life of Mark Twain

The Early Years, 1835-1871

By: Gary Scharnhorst

This book begins the first multi-volume biography of Samuel Clemens to appear in over a century. In the succeeding years, Clemens biographers have either tailored their narratives to fit the parameters of a single volume or focused on a particular period or aspect of Clemens’s life, because the whole of that epic life cannot be compressed into a single volume. In The Life of Mark Twain, Gary Scharnhorst has chosen to write a complete biography plotted from beginning to end, from a single point of view, on an expansive canvas. With dozens of Mark Twain biographies available, what is left unsaid? On average, a hundred Clemens letters and a couple of Clemens interviews surface every year. Scharnhorst has located documents relevant to Clemens’s life in Missouri, along the Mississippi River, and in the West, including some which have been presumed lost. Over three volumes, Scharnhorst elucidates the life of arguably the greatest American writer and reveals the alchemy of his gifted imagination.

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University of Missouri Press

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0826274005

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9780826274007

Consumer Behaviour

A European Perspective

By: Michael R. Solomon,Søren Askegaard,Margaret K. Hogg,Gary Bamossy

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Consumer Behaviour

A European Perspective

By: Michael R. Solomon,Søren Askegaard,Margaret K. Hogg,Gary Bamossy

La 4è de couv. indique : "Now in its seventh edition, Consumer Behaviour: A European Perspective provides the most comprehensive, lively and engaging introduction to the behaviour of consumers in Europe and around the world. The new slimline edition has 13 chapters, maintaining its breadth of coverage and making it ideal for second- and third-year undergraduates as well as Master's students. The book links consumer behaviour theory with the real-life problems faced by practitioners in many ways: Marketing opportunity, Marketing pitfalls and Multicultural dimensions boxes throughout the text illustrate the impact consumer behaviour has on marketing activities. Consumer behaviour as I see it boxes feature marketing academics talking about the relevance of consumer behaviour issues to their everyday work. Brand new Case studies about European companies and topics give deep insights into the world of consumer behaviour. New coverage of sustainable consumption, emerging technologies, social media and online behaviour is woven throughout this edition. Online materials including multiple-choice questions and links to useful websites are available on the book's website at www.pearsoned.co.uk/solomon

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Pearson UK

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1292245433

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9781292245430

The Anointed Community

The Holy Spirit in the Johannine Tradition

By: Gary M. Burge

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The Anointed Community

The Holy Spirit in the Johannine Tradition

By: Gary M. Burge

Recent research on the Johannine literature has concluded that behind these writings stands a flourishing community of Christians who lived under the tutelage of the Beloved Disciple, preserved his writings, and venerated his memory. In this book, Gary M. Burge examines one feature of this community's belief and experience: the role of the Spirit in its view both of Christ and of the Christian experience.

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0802801935

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Wilt, 1962

The Night of 100 Points and the Dawn of a New Era

By: Gary M. Pomerantz

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Wilt, 1962

The Night of 100 Points and the Dawn of a New Era

By: Gary M. Pomerantz

On the night of March 2, 1962, in Hershey, Pennsylvania, right up the street from the chocolate factory, Wilt Chamberlain, a young and striking athlete celebrated as the Big Dipper, scored one hundred points in a game against the New York Knickerbockers. As historic and revolutionary as the achievement was, it remains shrouded in myth. The game was not televised; no New York sportswriters showed up; and a fourteen-year-old local boy ran onto the court when Chamberlain scored his hundredth point, shook his hand, and then ran off with the basketball. In telling the story of this remarkable night, author Gary M. Pomerantz brings to life a lost world of American sports. In 1962, the National Basketball Association, stepchild to the college game, was searching for its identity. Its teams were mostly white, the number of black players limited by an unspoken quota. Games were played in drafty, half-filled arenas, and the players traveled on buses and trains, telling tall tales, playing cards, and sometimes reading Joyce. Into this scene stepped the unprecedented Wilt Chamberlain: strong and quick-witted, voluble and enigmatic, a seven-footer who played with a colossal will and a dancer’s grace. That strength, will, grace, and mystery were never more in focus than on March 2, 1962. Pomerantz tracked down Knicks and Philadelphia Warriors, fans, journalists, team officials, other NBA stars of the era, and basketball historians, conducting more than 250 interviews in all, to recreate in painstaking detail the game that announced the Dipper’s greatness. He brings us to Hershey, Pennsylvania, a sweet-seeming model of the gentle, homogeneous small-town America that was fast becoming anachronistic. We see the fans and players, alternately fascinated and confused by Wilt, drawn anxiously into the spectacle. Pomerantz portrays the other legendary figures in this story: the Warriors’ elegant coach Frank McGuire; the beloved, if rumpled, team owner Eddie Gottlieb; and the irreverent p.a. announcer Dave “the Zink” Zinkoff, who handed out free salamis courtside. At the heart of the book is the self-made Chamberlain, a romantic cosmopolitan who owned a nightclub in Harlem and shrugged off segregation with a bebop cool but harbored every slight deep in his psyche. March 2, 1962, presented the awesome sight of Wilt Chamberlain imposing himself on a world that would diminish him. Wilt, 1962 is not only the dramatic story of a singular basketball game but a meditation on small towns, midcentury America, and one of the most intriguing figures in the pantheon of sports heroes. Also available as a Random House AudioBook

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Crown

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0307549380

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9780307549389

An All-consuming Century

Why Commercialism Won in Modern America

By: Gary S. Cross

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An All-consuming Century

Why Commercialism Won in Modern America

By: Gary S. Cross

The victory of consumerism in America was not a foregone conclusion. The United States has traditionally been home to the most aggressive and thoughtful critics of consumption such as Puritanism and Prohibition. This work offers a history of how market forces came to dominate American life.

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0231113129

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