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Rent a Wreck Trilogy - The Complete Scripts

By: Gary Winstanley

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Rent a Wreck Trilogy - The Complete Scripts

By: Gary Winstanley

The Rent a Wreck Trilogy was produced between 1996 & 1998. They were a series of animated films based on a taxi office in Wigan. Here are the complete scripts to all three classic movies. - Rent a Wreck: The Movie - Rent a Wreck 21/2 The Smell of Beamo's Bullshit - Rent a Wreck 3: The Road to Hell This book also contains storyline origins and original character background stories. Also featuring lots of stills from the films & the story of the Rent a Wreck Reunion of 2013 with photo illustrations. WARNING: This book contains adult humour throughout. Not recommended for the easily offended.

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1291771700

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The Changing Geography of International Business

By: Gary Cook,Jennifer Johns

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The Changing Geography of International Business

By: Gary Cook,Jennifer Johns

Presents papers which grapple with some of the most important developments and challenges in International Business, both for the firms who must fashion strategy within a rapidly changing world economic order and researchers who seek to explain the nature of these shifts and how firms respond.

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1137277505

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An Early Grave

Love, Deceit, and Suspicious Death in the American Desert

By: Gary C. King

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An Early Grave

Love, Deceit, and Suspicious Death in the American Desert

By: Gary C. King

On September 17, 1998, police found Las Vegas gambling magnate Ted Binion lying dead on the floor of his palatial home, an empty bos of Xanax beside him. The police had been called by Binion's live-in lover, Sandra Murphy, 23, a California girl who had been working in a Vegas strip club when Binion had first met her. At first it seemed it was a fatal drug overdose that killed the handsome multi-millionaire. But was it? A few days later, Binion's "friend" Rick Tabish was arrested for trying to break into a vault where the eccentric millionaire had stored seven million dollars' worth of silver bars and coins. Family members hired ex-homicide detective-turned-private investigator Tom Dillar to start digging into the case. Dillard turned over the evidence he collected to Las Vegas police. What they found led to Binion's death being ruled a homicide and Murphy and Tabish's arrest for murder. The state said they were greedy lovers who'd conspired to kill Binion before they could strike Murphy out of his will, while the defense claimed that his vengeful family was trying to railroad Murphy to keep her from inheriting her fair share of the estate. The two sides collided in court, amid lurid charges and countercharges of physical abuse, drug use and illicit passion, in what became the Southwest's Murder Trial of the Century!

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1429996846

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Machines of Youth

America’s Car Obsession

By: Gary S. Cross

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Machines of Youth

America’s Car Obsession

By: Gary S. Cross

For American teenagers, getting a driver’s license has long been a watershed moment, separating teens from their childish pasts as they accelerate toward the sweet, sweet freedom of their futures. With driver’s license in hand, teens are on the road to buying and driving(and maybe even crashing) their first car, a machine which is home to many a teenage ritual—being picked up for a first date, “parking” at a scenic overlook, or blasting the radio with a gaggle of friends in tow. So important is this car ride into adulthood that automobile culture has become a stand-in, a shortcut to what millions of Americans remember about their coming of age. Machines of Youth traces the rise, and more recently the fall, of car culture among American teens. In this book, Gary S. Cross details how an automobile obsession drove teen peer culture from the 1920s to the 1980s, seducing budding adults with privacy, freedom, mobility, and spontaneity. Cross shows how the automobile redefined relationships between parents and teenage children, becoming a rite of passage, producing new courtship rituals, and fueling the growth of numerous car subcultures. Yet for teenagers today the lure of the automobile as a transition to adulthood is in decline.Tinkerers are now sidelined by the advent of digital engine technology and premolded body construction, while the attention of teenagers has been captured by iPhones, video games, and other digital technology. And adults have become less tolerant of teens on the road, restricting both cruising and access to drivers’ licenses. Cars are certainly not going out of style, Cross acknowledges, but how upcoming generations use them may be changing. He finds that while vibrant enthusiasm for them lives on, cars may no longer be at the center of how American youth define themselves. But, for generations of Americans, the modern teen experience was inextricably linked to this particularly American icon.

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University of Chicago Press

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022634178X

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Introduction to Spirituality (Foundations for Spirit-Filled Christianity)

Cultivating a Lifestyle of Faithfulness

By: Gary Tyra

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Introduction to Spirituality (Foundations for Spirit-Filled Christianity)

Cultivating a Lifestyle of Faithfulness

By: Gary Tyra

This introduction explores Christian spirituality as a pursuit of the global church today. It encourages students to adopt a lifestyle spirituality, which involves relational intimacy with the triune God. Gary Tyra is well known for his work in the field of Christian spirituality and has years of experience in the classroom and in the church. In this book, Tyra encourages us to adopt a Pauline lifestyle spirituality, whereby we keep in step with the Holy Spirit so that we might experience an ongoing mentoring relationship with the Son in order to faithfully and fruitfully engage in the mission of the Father. Keeping in step with the spirit unfolds in a "lifestyle spirituality," a collection of convictions, commitments, and customs that constitute the disciple's lifelong journey with the triune God. This book is part of a new series that reflects the changing face of global Christianity. Series volumes are written by leading Pentecostal/Charismatic scholars who highlight themes of interest to Pentecostal/Charismatic students; however, the books are respectful, appreciative, and inclusive of a variety of church families and traditions. Series editors are Jerry Ireland, Paul W. Lewis, and Frank D. Macchia.

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Baker Books

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1493441795

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Prostitution in the Eastern Mediterranean World

The Economics of Sex in the Late Antique and Medieval Middle East

By: Gary Leiser

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Prostitution in the Eastern Mediterranean World

The Economics of Sex in the Late Antique and Medieval Middle East

By: Gary Leiser

This groundbreaking book challenges many stereotypical views about the historical practice of prostitution. Based on twenty years' research, and organized by region, it charts the history of sex for sale in those chief centres of the late antique and medieval East, whether in Arabia, Egypt, Syria or Anatolia. Ranging extensively from 300 CE to 1500 (or from the reign of Theodosius to the early Ottoman period), Gary Leiser meticulously examines the available sources and argues for a reappraisal of the so-called oldest profession. He suggests that it was never prohibited; that there was remarkable continuity between Christian and Muslim rule; and that prostitution was institutionalized as a 'service industry' at various times. Indicating that sex work in the East had its own distinctive character and meanings (for example, that it was taxed from the time of Caligula onwards and that prostitutes were expected to retain tax receipts), the book brings continually fresh insights to a controversial subject.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1786720868

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A Guide to Blood and Marrow Transplantation

By: H. Joachim Deeg,Hans-Georg Klingemann,Gordon L. Phillips,Gary Van Zant

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A Guide to Blood and Marrow Transplantation

By: H. Joachim Deeg,Hans-Georg Klingemann,Gordon L. Phillips,Gary Van Zant

An up-to-date overview of blood and marrow transplantations, the book discusses in detail Indication to transplantation and pre-transplant considerations. An outlook on the latest developments and their future aspects is included, while problems and pre- and post-transplant complications are fully explored.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642182488

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The Ofsted Murders

By: Gary Sargent

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The Ofsted Murders

By: Gary Sargent

Something odd is happening after dark in Britain's schools...Ofsted, the schools' Inspectorate, are deeply worried. To lose one inspector in the line of duty might be considered a misfortune, but to have four inspectors lured into school after hours, dispatched, and left in outlandish poses before a cryptic message scrawled on the blackboard - that just looks like carelessness.Helen Haversham, Year 1 teacher at Hornby Infants School, is also worried. Both Ofsted and Christmas are coming. Her displays are up, her paperwork is done, and she has read the Head's memo explicitly forbidding ritual homicide, and yet something doesn't seem quite right...Who has been making midnight visits to the school?What has so unhinged the leader of the Ofsted team?How can she stop the class guinea pig from going on another dirty protest?If Helen can't answer these questions by Friday story time, then the school's end of term carol concert and Nativity is going to come to a truly unforgettable climax...

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1409242145

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Keep the Needle Peaking

By: Gary Corry,Red Neckerson

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Keep the Needle Peaking

By: Gary Corry,Red Neckerson

Before Jeff Foxworthy, Gary Corrys alter ego Red Neckerson was already a household word in Atlanta. Soon Neckerson was telling radio audiences to jist ask themselves from coast to coast. Borrowing from the Barbara Mandrell song, Gary was redneck before it was cool. The reason behind the success of Red Neckerson is no less than Garys skills as a humorist. Anyone can do a redneck voice; not every redneck voice is wildly hilarious. When not in character as Neckerson, Garys sharp wit and word crafting helped boost the ratings of several morning jocks. In an earlier era, Gary would have been rubbing elbows with Stan Freberg, Jack Benny, and bob and Ray. Besides all that, Gary was a damn fine air personality and program director. The story of his radio career is fascinating. He is a good man and I am fortunate to have him as my friend. John Long President,The Georgia Radio Museum and Hall of Fame

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1450247008

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Intelligence Collection

How to Plan and Execute Intelligence Collection in Complex Environments

By: Wayne Michael Hall,Gary Citrenbaum

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Intelligence Collection

How to Plan and Execute Intelligence Collection in Complex Environments

By: Wayne Michael Hall,Gary Citrenbaum

This book examines the theoretical and conceptual foundation of effective modern intelligence collection—the strategies required to support intelligence analysis of the modern, complex operational environments of today's military conflicts or competitive civilian situations such as business. Just as the old rules of conventional warfare and intelligence analysis do not apply fully in the 21st-century environment, neither does the traditional methodology of collecting intelligence on these elusive, adapting foes operating as complex adaptive systems (CAS)—adversaries that excel in today's complex contexts. Intelligence Collection: How To Plan and Execute Intelligence Collection In Complex Environments proposes substantive improvements in the way the U.S. national security system collects intelligence and supports intelligence analysis. The work draws on the groundbreaking work of a diverge group of theorists ranging from Carl von Clausewitz and Sun Tzu to M. Mitchell Waldrop, General David Petraeus, and Orson Scott Card, communicating a unifying theory and ontology of thought for how America's intelligence collection professionals must learn to collect data as our country faces elusive, determined, and smart adversaries in nonlinear, dynamic environments. The new ideas presented will help the nation's intelligence collection specialists to amass a formidable, cumulative intelligence power, regardless of the level of war or the type of operational environment.

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White Zombie

Anatomy of a Horror Film

By: Gary D. Rhodes

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White Zombie

Anatomy of a Horror Film

By: Gary D. Rhodes

The 1932 horror film White Zombie starring Bela Lugosi has received controversial attention from film reviewers and scholars--but it is unarguably a cult classic worthy of study. This book analyzes the film text from nearly every possible viewpoint, using both academic and popular film theories. Also supplied is an extensive intellectual history of the predecessor works to White Zombie, as well as information on the significance it carried for subsequent books and films, its theatrical release around the country, its modern cultural influence, and the attempts to restore the film to its original state. Other noteworthy features of this work include an in-depth biography of White Zombie director Victor Halperin, the first complete study of his life and career, and 244 images and photographs.

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McFarland

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1476604916

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9781476604916

Shipmates

The Men of LCS 52 in World War II

By: Gary Burns

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Shipmates

The Men of LCS 52 in World War II

By: Gary Burns

In late 1944, 78 U.S. Navy sailors and officers climbed aboard a ship just 150 feet long and 23 feet wide, and headed toward the sound of gunfire. One of a class of gunboats known as "mighty midgets," LCS 52 carried an arsenal equal to ships twice its size. Yet its shallow draft enabled it to maneuver to within a few hundred feet of any beach. Packed inside the tiny craft, the diverse crew were farmers, students, cooks and teachers. They ranged from age 17 to middle-aged--a few had seen combat in the Atlantic and the Pacific. This book tells the story of the ship's extensive service in World War II's Pacific Theater. Most of the crew survived the war, as did LCS 52 itself, serving in the U.S. Navy and Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force until 1958, when it was decommissioned and used for artillery practice. A roll call of crew members is included, with biographical information when available.

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1476666873

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9781476666877

Double Tap

A Sam Mccloud Novel

By: Gary J. Crawford

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Double Tap

A Sam Mccloud Novel

By: Gary J. Crawford

The author of Immaculate Deception has penned another riveting, action-packed tale of treachery and murder. Private investigator Sam Mac McCloud has been enlisted by his police lieutenant friend, Danny Kelly, to investigate the spousal abuse of an employee and her husbands connection to a Modesto gang. In the meantime, Emily Campbell hires McCloud to find her husband so that she may file for a divorce. McCloud and his cousin, Sven Swede Anderson, the owner of the Downtown Athletic Club, travel to Portland, Oregon, to serve the divorce papers and become involved in another murder. A professional assassin appears to be the murderous culprit, and the two cases become entwined in a confusing trail of what appears to be strange coincidences. McCloud must traverse a suspenseful, sinister world of spousal abuse, gang violence, bank robbery, and murder before the cases are solved.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1483674924

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Hachi Nana Go

An American Fighting Ship

By: Gary T. O'Neil

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Hachi Nana Go

An American Fighting Ship

By: Gary T. O'Neil

This complete 28 year history of a commissioned Navy Destroyer (USS Henry W. Tucker DD-875) was a member of the "Asiatic Squadron. The Title HACHI NANA GO is Japanese for the hull number 875. Stationed in Yokosuka and visiting many ports of call, the crew would hear the familiar "Hey Hachi Nana Go" from Bar owners and shop keepers as they would go into town on Liberty.

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Gary O'Neil

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1934379646

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Learning to Listen: The Jazz Journey of Gary Burton

An Autobiography

By: Gary Burton

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Learning to Listen: The Jazz Journey of Gary Burton

An Autobiography

By: Gary Burton

(Berklee Press). In "Learning to Listen," Gary Burton shares his 50 years of experiences at the top of the jazz scene. A seven-time Grammy Award-winner, Burton made his first recordings at age 17, has toured and recorded with a who's who of famous jazz names, and is one of only a few openly gay musicians in jazz. Burton is a true innovator, both as a performer and an educator. His autobiography is one of the most personal and insightful jazz books ever written.

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Hal Leonard Corporation

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1480354643

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National 4 & 5 Modern Studies: Democracy in Scotland and the UK, Second Edition

By: Frank Cooney,Gary Hughes,David Sheerin

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National 4 & 5 Modern Studies: Democracy in Scotland and the UK, Second Edition

By: Frank Cooney,Gary Hughes,David Sheerin

Exam Board: SQA Level: National 5 Subject: Modern Studies First Teaching: September 2017 First Exam: Summer 2018 This second edition comprehensively covers the changes made to course content and prepare students to cope with the increased emphasis on knowledge and understanding in the new National 5 exam. - Analyses what it means to live in a democracy - Defines representation in the Scottish and UK Parliaments - Explains voting systems and election campaigns in the UK

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Hodder Gibson

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1510428593

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A Guide to Popular Music Reference Books

An Annotated Bibliography

By: Gary Haggerty

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A Guide to Popular Music Reference Books

An Annotated Bibliography

By: Gary Haggerty

A guide to locating information on popular music and the people who create it, this volume is designed as a desk reference—to locate answers to specific questions and to direct library users to key resources. More than 400 comprehensive titles are carefully annotated, describing content, scope, and special features. The focus is on the musical styles that have developed measurable commercial success through recordings and live performance. Along with academic titles, many important titles from the popular press are included, as well as selected electronic resources. A necessary reference tool for any library, scholar, student, and popular music buff. The work covers bibliographies, indexes, discographies, dictionaries and encyclopedias, biographical resources, directories, almanacs, yearbooks, and guidebooks on styles that include jazz, swing, Tin Pan Alley, country, gospel, blues, rhythm and blues, soul, rockabilly, rock, heavy metal, musical theater, and film music. Its extensive appendices feature discographies and bibliographies of individual artists and ensembles. A detailed index combining authors, titles, and subjects makes cross-referencing easy. The entries are modeled after the immensely useful The Guide to Reference Books.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313387710

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9780313387715

Nosebleeds from Washington Heights

By: Gary Alexander Azerier

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Nosebleeds from Washington Heights

By: Gary Alexander Azerier

Nosebleeds from Washington Heights reveals a number of salient episodes that took place in Washington Heights between 1940 and 1958. Written as poignant short stories, the tales are replete with what for many may be long forgotten people, places and events. For some, it will be an unforgettable passport back into those lost years filled with the kind of detail and stuff of which memories are made, which will jar and delight.

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AuthorHouse

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1463459238

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Catalogue of the Sculpture in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection from the Ptolemaic Period to the Renaissance

By: Dumbarton Oaks,Gary Vikan

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Catalogue of the Sculpture in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection from the Ptolemaic Period to the Renaissance

By: Dumbarton Oaks,Gary Vikan

These sculptures reflect the Blisses' wide-ranging tastes and extraordinary connoisseurship. About a quarter are Greco-Roman; nearly two-thirds of the rest are Late Antique, mostly limestone carvings from Early Byzantine Egypt. Sculpture from the Middle Byzantine period is very rare, making the four pieces in this collection especially significant.

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Dumbarton Oaks

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0884022129

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Deterministic Scheduling Theory

By: R. Gary Parker

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Deterministic Scheduling Theory

By: R. Gary Parker

The principal theme of this book is combinatorial scheduling. All coverage is confined to deterministic results and includes conventional models involving single and multiple processors as well as ones of the classic flow and job shop-like variety. In addition, the book discusses workforce staffing models, timetabling problems, the classroom assignment model, and even problems related to traversals in graphs. The author has included understandable descriptions of computational algorithms, demonstrations of algorithms and theorems with sample problems, and substantial lists of end-of-chapter exercises which span from relatively routine manipulation to increasingly challenging, possibly even open problems. An entire chapter is included on background material. Covered are basic concepts in computational complexity, the theory of graphs, and partial enumeration. The book should appeal to students and researchers in a host of areas including industrial engineering, operations research, computer science, and discrete mathematics.

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CRC Press

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0412996812

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Bing Crosby

A Pocketful of Dreams - The Early Years 1903 - 1940

By: Gary Giddins

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Bing Crosby

A Pocketful of Dreams - The Early Years 1903 - 1940

By: Gary Giddins

From Bing Crosby's early days in college minstrel shows and vaudeville, to his first hit recordings, from his 11 year triumph as star of America's most popular radio show, to his first success in Hollywood, Gary Giddins provides a detailed study of the rise of this American star.

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Back Bay Books

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0316091561

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Children's Peer Relations and Social Competence

A Century of Progress

By: Gary W. Ladd

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Children's Peer Relations and Social Competence

A Century of Progress

By: Gary W. Ladd

This book examines the role of peer relationships in child and adolescent development by tracking research findings from the early 1900s to the present. Dividing the research into three generations, the book describes what has been learned about children's peer relations and how children's participation in peer relationships contributes to their health, adjustment, and achievement. Gary W. Ladd reviews and interprets the investigative focus and findings of distinct research eras to highlight theoretical or empirical breakthroughs in the study of children's peer relations and social competence over the last century. He also discusses how this information is relevant to understanding and promoting children's health and development. In a final chapter, the author appraises the major discoveries that have emerged during the three research generations and analyzes recent scientific agendas and discoveries in the peer relations discipline.

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Yale University Press

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0300106432

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The Early Settlement of North America

The Clovis Era

By: Gary Haynes

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The Early Settlement of North America

The Clovis Era

By: Gary Haynes

The Early Settlement of North America is an examination of the first recognisable culture in the New World: the Clovis complex. Gary Haynes begins his analysis with a discussion of the archaeology of Clovis fluted points in North America and a review of the history of the research on the topic. He presents and evaluates all the evidence that is now available on the artefacts, the human populations of the time, and the environment, and he examines the adaptation of the early human settlers in North America to the simultaneous disappearance of the mammoths and mastodonts. Haynes offers a compelling re-appraisal of our current state of knowledge about the peopling of this continent and provides a significant new contribution to the debate with his own integrated theory of Clovis, which incorporates vital new biological, ecological, behavioural and archaeological data.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521524636

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Engineers for Korea

By: Kyonghee Han,Gary Downey

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Engineers for Korea

By: Kyonghee Han,Gary Downey

“The engineer is bearer of the nation’s industrialization,” says the tower pictured on the front cover. President Park Chung-hee (1917-1979) was seeking to scale up a unified national identity through industrialization, with engineers as iconic leaders. But Park encountered huge obstacles in what he called the “second economy” of mental nationalism. Technical workers had long been subordinate to classically-trained scholar officials. Even as the country became an industrial powerhouse, the makers of engineers never found approaches to techno-national formation—engineering education and training—that Koreans would wholly embrace. This book follows the fraught attempts of engineers to identify with Korea as a whole. It is for engineers, both Korean and non-Korean, who seek to become better critical analysts of their own expertise, identities, and commitments. It is for non-engineers who encounter or are affected by Korean engineers and engineering, and want to understand and engage them. It is for researchers who serve as critical participants in the making of engineers and puzzle over the contents and effects of techno-national formation.

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Morgan & Claypool Publishers

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1627050779

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Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine #13

By: Gary Lovisi,Arthur Conan Doyle,Hal Charles,William E. Chambers

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Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine #13

By: Gary Lovisi,Arthur Conan Doyle,Hal Charles,William E. Chambers

Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine returns with its May/June 2014 issue, presenting the best in modern and classic mystery fiction! Included this time are the usual columns by Lenny Picker and Mrs Hudson, plus the following stories: Living The Lie, by Marc Bilgrey The Adventure of the Sherlock Holmes Chocolate Cards, by Gary Lovisi A Most Valuable Institution, by Dan Andriacco A Cold Place to Die, by J.P. Seewald The Shocking Affair of the Steamship Friesland, by Jack Grochot Killing Sam Clemens, by William Burton McCormick A Fresh Start, by Janice Law The Ruba Rombic Robberies, by Gary Lovisi Only the Dead, by Gordon Linzner Rationalist Femme: Punitive Justice, by William E. Chambers The Woman, by Mackenzie Clarkes Reflection of Guilt, by Laird Long The Adventure of the Nine Hole League, by William E. Chambers The Speckled Bandanna, by Hal Charles The Adventure of the Dying Detective, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle "Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine" is produced under license from Conan Doyle Estate Ltd.

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Wildside Press LLC

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1479403431

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Color Atlas of Foot and Ankle Dermatology

By: Gary L. Dockery,Mary Elizabeth Crawford

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Color Atlas of Foot and Ankle Dermatology

By: Gary L. Dockery,Mary Elizabeth Crawford

This color atlas is a practical pictorial guide to the diagnosis of skin and nail conditions of the lower extremities. It features more than 1,000 detail-revealing full-color clinical photographs of over 100 common and uncommon lesions, grouped into easy-to-follow categories. The succinct text accompanying each photograph explains the lesion's salient features and, whenever possible, provides a differential diagnosis. Therapeutic recommendations offered include new treatments for fungal nails and for scars. The opening chapter, on general principles, includes a classification with an algorithm and a problem-oriented algorithm. Subsequent chapters cover the entire gamut of disease entities--eczema; contact dermatitis; drug and toxic reactions; papulosquamous diseases; benign tumors; premalignant and malignant tumors; bacterial, viral, and fungal skin infections; infestations, parasites, and bites; developmental disorders; manifestations of internal disease; manifestations of circulatory disease; sweat and associated disorders; mechanical injuries; psychocutaneous disorders; nail disorders; and scar conditions.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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0397515197

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Warning Shadows: Home Alone with Classic Cinema

By: Gary Giddins

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Warning Shadows: Home Alone with Classic Cinema

By: Gary Giddins

A brilliantly insightful and witty examination of beloved and little-known films, directors, and stars by one of America’s most esteemed critics. In his illuminating new work, Gary Giddins explores the evolution of film, from the first moving pictures and peepshows to the digital era of DVDs and online video-streaming. New technologies have changed our experience of cinema forever; we have peeled away from the crowded theater to be home alone with classic cinema. Recounting the technological developments that films have undergone, Warning Shadows travels through time and across genres to explore the impact of the industry’s most famous classics and forgotten gems. Essays such as “Houdini Escapes! From the Vaults! Of the Past!,” “Edward G. Robinson, See,” and “Prestige and Pretension (Pride and Prejudice)” capture the wit and magic of classic cinema. Each chapter—ranging from the horror films of Hitchcock to the fantastical frames of Disney—provides readers with engaging analyses of influential films and the directors and actors who made them possible.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393339009

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9780393339000

A Day in a Working Life [3 volumes]

300 Trades and Professions through History [3 volumes]

By: Gary Westfahl

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A Day in a Working Life [3 volumes]

300 Trades and Professions through History [3 volumes]

By: Gary Westfahl

Ideal for high school and college students studying history through the everyday lives of men and women, this book offers intriguing information about the jobs that people have held, from ancient times to the 21st century. This unique book provides detailed studies of more than 300 occupations as they were practiced in 21 historical time periods, ranging from prehistory to the present day. Each profession is examined in a compelling essay that is specifically written to inform readers about career choices in different times and cultures, and is accompanied by a bibliography of additional sources of information, sidebars that relate historical issues to present-day concerns, as well as related historical documents. Readers of this work will learn what each profession entailed or entails on a daily basis, how one gained entry to the vocation, training methods, and typical compensation levels for the job. The book provides sufficient specific detail to convey a comprehensive understanding of the experiences, benefits, and downsides of a given profession. Selected accompanying documents further bring history to life by offering honest testimonies from people who actually worked in these occupations or interacted with those in that field.

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1610694031

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Petroleum Refining

Technology, Economics, and Markets, Sixth Edition

By: Mark J. Kaiser,Arno de Klerk,James H. Gary,Glenn E. Handwerk

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Petroleum Refining

Technology, Economics, and Markets, Sixth Edition

By: Mark J. Kaiser,Arno de Klerk,James H. Gary,Glenn E. Handwerk

For four decades, Petroleum Refining has guided thousands of readers toward a reliable understanding of the field, and through the years has become the standard text in many schools and universities around the world offering petroleum refining classes, for self-study, training, and as a reference for industry professionals. The sixth edition of this perennial bestseller continues in the tradition set by Jim Gary as the most modern and authoritative guide in the field. Updated and expanded to reflect new technologies, methods, and topics, the book includes new discussion on the business and economics of refining, cost estimation and complexity, crude origins and properties, fuel specifications, and updates on technology, process units, and catalysts. The first half of the book is written for a general audience to introduce the primary economic and market characteristics of the industry and to describe the inputs and outputs of refining. Most of this material is new to this edition and can be read independently or in parallel with the rest of the text. In the second half of the book, a technical review of the main process units of a refinery is provided, beginning with distillation and covering each of the primary conversion and treatment processes. Much of this material was reorganized, updated, and rewritten with greater emphasis on reaction chemistry and the role of catalysis in applications. Petroleum Refining: Technology, Economics, and Markets is a book written for users, the practitioners of refining, and all those who want to learn more about the field.

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CRC Press

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146656301X

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First Friends

The Powerful, Unsung (And Unelected) People Who Shaped Our Presidents

By: Gary Ginsberg

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First Friends

The Powerful, Unsung (And Unelected) People Who Shaped Our Presidents

By: Gary Ginsberg

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! A USA TODAY "BEST BOOKS OF 2021" PICK! In the bestselling tradition of The Presidents Club and Presidential Courage, White House history as told through the stories of the best friends and closest confidants of American presidents. Here are the riveting histories of myriad presidential friendships, among them: Abraham Lincoln and Joshua Speed: They shared a bed for four years during which Speed saved his friend from a crippling depression. Two decades later the friends worked together to save the Union. Harry Truman and Eddie Jacobson: When Truman wavered on whether to recognize the state of Israel in 1948, his lifelong friend and former business partner intervened at just the right moment with just the right words to steer the president’s decision. Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Daisy Suckley: Unassuming and overlooked during her lifetime, Daisy Suckley was in reality FDR’s most trusted, constant confidant, the respite for a lonely and overworked President navigating the Great Depression and World War II John Kennedy and David Ormsby-Gore: They met as young men in pre-war London and began a conversation over the meaning of leadership. A generation later the Cuban Missile Crisis would put their ideas to test as Ormsby-Gore became the president’s unofficial, but most valued foreign policy advisor. These and other friendships—including Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, Franklin Pierce and Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Bill Clinton and Vernon Jordan—populate this fresh and provocative exploration of a series of seminal presidential friendships. Publishing history teems with books by and about Presidents, First Ladies, First Pets, and even First Chefs. Now former Clinton aide Gary Ginsberg breaks new literary ground on Pennsylvania Avenue and provides fresh insights into the lives of the men who held the most powerful political office in the world by looking at the friends on whom they relied. First Friends is an engaging, serendipitous look into the lives of Commanders-in-Chief and how their presidencies were shaped by those they held most dear.

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Twelve

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1538702940

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Cool Gray City of Love

49 Views of San Francisco

By: Gary Kamiya

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Cool Gray City of Love

49 Views of San Francisco

By: Gary Kamiya

A kaleidoscopic tribute to San Francisco by a life-long Bay Area resident and co-founder of Salon explores specific city sites including the Golden Gate Bridge and the Land's End sea cliffs while tying his visits to key historical events. By the author of Shadow Knights. 30,000 first printing.

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1620401266

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Making Americans

Children's Literature from 1930 to 1960

By: Gary D. Schmidt

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Making Americans

Children's Literature from 1930 to 1960

By: Gary D. Schmidt

American children need books that draw on their own history and circumstances, not just the classic European fairy tales. They need books that enlist them in the great democratic experiment that is the United States. These were the beliefs of many of the authors, illustrators, editors, librarians, and teachers who expanded and transformed children’s book publishing between the 1930s and the 1960s. Although some later critics have argued that the books published in this era offered a vision of a safe, secure, simple world without injustice or unhappy endings, Gary D. Schmidt shows that the progressive political agenda shared by many Americans who wrote, illustrated, published, and taught children’s books had a powerful effect. Authors like James Daugherty, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Lois Lenski, Ingri and Edgar Parin D’Aulaire, Virginia Lee Burton, Robert McCloskey, and many others addressed directly and indirectly the major social issues of a turbulent time: racism, immigration and assimilation, sexism, poverty, the Great Depression, World War II, the atomic bomb, and the threat of a global cold war. The central concern that many children’s book authors and illustrators wrestled with was the meaning of America and democracy itself, especially the tension between individual freedoms and community ties. That process produced a flood of books focused on the American experience and intent on defining it in terms of progress toward inclusivity and social justice. Again and again, children’s books addressed racial discrimination and segregation, gender roles, class differences, the fate of Native Americans, immigration and assimilation, war, and the role of the United States in the world. Fiction and nonfiction for children urged them to see these issues as theirs to understand, and in some ways, theirs to resolve. Making Americans is a study of a time when the authors and illustrators of children’s books consciously set their eyes on national and international sights, with the hope of bringing the next generation into a sense of full citizenship.

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University of Iowa Press

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1609382218

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