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The Silent Season of a Hero

The Sports Writing of Gay Talese

By: Gay Talese

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The Silent Season of a Hero

The Sports Writing of Gay Talese

By: Gay Talese

Chronicles the writing of the legendary sports journalist, from his first high school job, to becoming the sports reporter for the New York Times, including his pieces on Joe Louis, Muhammad Ali's visit to Fidel Castro and never-before-published articles. Original.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0802777538

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The Gay Talese Reader

Portraits and Encounters

By: Gay Talese

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The Gay Talese Reader

Portraits and Encounters

By: Gay Talese

As a young reporter for The New York Times, in 1961 Gay Talese published his first book, New York-A Serendipiter's Journey, a series of vignettes and essays that began, "New York is a city of things unnoticed. It is a city with cats sleeping under parked cars, two stone armadillos crawling up St. Patrick's Cathedral, and thousands of ants creeping on top of the Empire State Building." Attention to detail and observation of the unnoticed is the hallmark of Gay Talese's writing, and The Gay Talese Reader brings together the best of his essays and classic profiles. This collection opens with "New York Is a City of Things Unnoticed," and includes "Silent Season of a Hero" (about Joe DiMaggio), "Ali in Havana," and "Looking for Hemingway" as well as several other favorite pieces. It also features a previously unpublished article on the infamous case of Lorena and John Wayne Bobbitt, and concludes with the autobiographical pieces that are among Talese's finest writings. These works give insight into the progression of a writer at the pinnacle of his craft. Whether he is detailing the unseen and sometimes quirky world of New York City or profiling Ol' Blue Eyes in "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold," Talese captures his subjects-be they famous, infamous, or merely unusual-in his own inimitable, elegant fashion. The essays and profiles collected in The Gay Talese Reader are works of art, each carefully crafted to create a portrait of an unforgettable individual, place or moment.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0802719155

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9780802719157

Symbolic Blackness and Ethnic Difference in Early Christian Literature

BLACKENED BY THEIR SINS: Early Christian Ethno-Political Rhetorics about Egyptians, Ethiopians, Blacks and Blackness

By: Gay L Byron

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Symbolic Blackness and Ethnic Difference in Early Christian Literature

BLACKENED BY THEIR SINS: Early Christian Ethno-Political Rhetorics about Egyptians, Ethiopians, Blacks and Blackness

By: Gay L Byron

There has been growing interest in recent years in the presence and image of blacks and blackness in classical antiquity. However this pioneering and much needed work is the first to survey and theorise the black as seen by early Christian writers.

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Routledge

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1134544014

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Slam Speeches

By: Katie Redford,Madelyn Smedley,Joanna Gay, Ambreen Razia,Debra Baker,Lauren Douglin,Steph Lacey,Meg Mortell

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Slam Speeches

By: Katie Redford,Madelyn Smedley,Joanna Gay, Ambreen Razia,Debra Baker,Lauren Douglin,Steph Lacey,Meg Mortell

A versatile collection of monologues written by 8 writer / performers who all share one thing in common; they've all successfully written and performed their pieces at TriForce's Monologue Slam. Due to the writers being from a variety of different backgrounds, there are a vast range of perspectives for performers to explore. Between them, as both writers and performers, they have a wealth of TV, film and theatre experience and are passionate about writing monologues that not only connect with a performer but with a diverse audience too. Whether you're auditioning for Monologue Slam, drama school or for any other showcasing opportunities, this book offers a mix of heart-warming, witty and gripping speeches for you to get your teeth into.

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Olcan Press

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1916000622

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9781916000629

History Of Imperial College London, 1907-2007, The: Higher Education And Research In Science, Technology And Medicine

By: Hannah Gay

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History Of Imperial College London, 1907-2007, The: Higher Education And Research In Science, Technology And Medicine

By: Hannah Gay

This is the first major history of Imperial College London. The book tells the story of a new type of institution that came into being in 1907 with the federation of three older colleges. Imperial College was founded by the state for advanced university-level training in science and technology, and for the promotion of research in support of industry throughout the British Empire. True to its name the college built a wide number of Imperial links and was an outward looking institution from the start. Today, in the post-colonial world, it retains its outward-looking stance, both in its many international research connections, and with staff and students from around the world. Connections to industry and the state remain important. The College is one of Britain's premier research and teaching institutions, including now medicine alongside science and engineering. This book is an in-depth study of Imperial College; it covers both governance and academic activity within the larger context of political, economic and socio-cultural life in twentieth-century Britain./a

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World Scientific

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1908979445

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9781908979445

The Art of Ancient Egypt

By: Gay Robins

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The Art of Ancient Egypt

By: Gay Robins

An illustrated history of over 3,000 years of Egyptian artwork arranged chronologically from the early dynastic period to the Ptolemaic period.

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Harvard University Press

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0674030656

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9780674030657

A Reader's Guide to the Novels of Louise Erdrich

By: Peter G. Beidler,Gay Barton

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A Reader's Guide to the Novels of Louise Erdrich

By: Peter G. Beidler,Gay Barton

A revised and expanded, comprehensive guide to the novels of Native American author Louise Erdrich from Love Medicine to The Painted Drum. Includes chronologies, genealogical charts, complete dictionary of characters, map and geographical details about settings, and a glossary of all the Ojibwe words and phrases used in the novels"--Provided by publisher.

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University of Missouri Press

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0826216714

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9780826216717

Freud

A Life for Our Time

By: Peter Gay

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Freud

A Life for Our Time

By: Peter Gay

A biography and study of the psychoanalyst's career, family, personal life, and professional struggles.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393318265

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9780393318265

The Cultivation of Hatred: The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud

By: Peter Gay

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The Cultivation of Hatred: The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud

By: Peter Gay

With the same sweep, authority, and originality that marked his best-selling Freud: A Life for Our Time, Peter Gay here takes us on a remarkable journey through middle-class Victorian culture. Gay's search through middle-class Victorian culture, illuminated by lively portraits of such daunting figures as Bismarck, Darwin and his acolytes, George Eliot, and the great satirists Daumier and Wilhelm Busch, covers a vast terrain: the relations between men and women, wit, demagoguery, and much more. We discover the multiple ways in which the nineteenth century at once restrained aggressive behavior and licensed it. Aggression split the social universe into insiders and outsiders. "By gathering up communities of insiders," Professor Gay writes, the Victorians "discovered--only too often invented--a world of strangers beyond the pale, of individuals and classes, races and nations it was perfectly proper to debate, patronize, ridicule, bully, exploit, or exterminate." The aggressions so channeled or bottled could not be contained forever. Ultimately, they exploded in the First World War.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393243451

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9780393243451

DeSoto Parish

By: Emilia Gay Griffith Means,Liz Chrysler

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DeSoto Parish

By: Emilia Gay Griffith Means,Liz Chrysler

Located in northwestern Louisiana, DeSoto Parish exemplifies the evolution of the Southern frontier. The parish was an early Louisiana meeting ground of Frenchmen from Natchitoches, who settled along Bayou Pierre and traded with the native Caddo Indians. In the 1840s, subsistence agriculture, cattle, and moderate trade were joined by the agriculture of the cotton kingdom with its flood of new settlers, who built small farms and sizable plantations. In the late 19th century, the economy diversified as the whistle of the railroad echoed against the roar of the lumber mills. Inhabiting new station-stop towns, DeSoto Parish residents built schools, filled churches, and settled their disputes in a fine new courthouse in the parish seat of Mansfield. Comings and goings, frozen by the flash of a camera, are presented in Images of America: DeSoto Parish.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738587230

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9780738587233

Freud: A Life for Our Time

By: Peter Gay

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Freud: A Life for Our Time

By: Peter Gay

A national bestseller "A magisterial contribution to the history of ideas. A fresh, illuminating perspective on one of the pivotal figures of our time." —J. Anthony Lukas "[This] remarkable biography… briskly traces the story of Freud's life and education, deftly weaving the familiar narrative with a style that makes it seem fresh and lively." —Chicago Tribune

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393072347

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9780393072341

Reading Freud

Explorations & Entertainments

By: Peter Gay,Sterling Professor of History Peter Gay

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Reading Freud

Explorations & Entertainments

By: Peter Gay,Sterling Professor of History Peter Gay

Essays discuss Freud's interest in Shakespeare, his choices for the names of his six children, his love of science, and his ambivalent feelings toward his father.

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Yale University Press

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0300046812

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9780300046816

The Unquiet Dead

By: Gay Longworth

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The Unquiet Dead

By: Gay Longworth

Under the thumb of a new woman supervisor who is even more demanding than her previous boss, rebellious Detective Chief Inspector Jessie Driver investigates the discovery of a dead body in the pool of a long-abandoned public gym.

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Macmillan

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0312310633

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9780312310639

The History of Imperial College London, 1907-2007

Higher Education and Research in Science, Technology, and Medicine

By: Hannah Gay

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The History of Imperial College London, 1907-2007

Higher Education and Research in Science, Technology, and Medicine

By: Hannah Gay

This is the first major history of Imperial College London. The book tells the story of a new type of institution that came into being in 1907 with the federation of three older colleges. Imperial College was founded by the state for advanced university-level training in science and technology, and for the promotion of research in support of industry throughout the British Empire. True to its name the college built a wide number of Imperial links and was an outward looking institution from the start. Today, in the post-colonial world, it retains its outward-looking stance, both in its many international research connections, and with staff and students from around the world. Connections to industry and the state remain important. The College is one of BritainOCOs premier research and teaching institutions, including now medicine alongside science and engineering. This book is an in-depth study of Imperial College; it covers both governance and academic activity within the larger context of political, economic and socio-cultural life in twentieth-century Britain.

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Imperial College Press

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1860948189

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9781860948183

Your Big Leap Year

A Year to Manifest Your Next-Level Life...Starting Today!

By: Gay Hendricks, PH.D.

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Your Big Leap Year

A Year to Manifest Your Next-Level Life...Starting Today!

By: Gay Hendricks, PH.D.

A 366-day guidebook to maximizing wealth, love, and creativity from New York Times bestselling author Gay Hendricks. What if a year from now you could be experiencing more happiness, health and wealth? Learn how to take the big leap – one little leap a day. Gay Hendricks' bestselling book The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level has sold over 350,000 copies since its original publication. That book outlined the idea of going beyond the reader's happiness ceiling, and into experiencing the joys of life in ever-growing ways. Now comes Hendricks' companion book, Your Big Leap Year, which breaks the larger goals explored in Hendricks’ bestseller into smaller daily steps, helping readers move into immediate action and stop delaying their dreams. This 366-day (to accommodate leap years!) guidebook takes readers on a journey to leave good behind in pursuit of extraordinary. For everyone who wants to break through their self-imposed limits and reach new degrees of success in any area of life, Your Big Leap Year is the perfect book to empower readers to live their greatest lives, at last!

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St. Martin's Essentials

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1250292808

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9781250292803

Banners Over Terre D'Or

By: Gay Weeks Neale

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Banners Over Terre D'Or

By: Gay Weeks Neale

A twelve-year-old boy whose father's castle has fallen to an enemy returns in disguise as a kitchen boy in hopes of saving both castle and inhabitants.

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John F. Blair, Publisher

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089587024X

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9780895870247

Graham Kennedy and Others Revealed

By: Henry Gay

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Graham Kennedy and Others Revealed

By: Henry Gay

HENRY GAY shares a few of the letters Graham Kennedy wrote to him during their 50 year friendship which began in 1951 but, as so much has been written about the King of Australian Television , Henry decided to reveal a few odd things about other people who crossed his path and a little bit of history about working in radio when it was called wireless.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1493131486

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9781493131488

Chattanooga's Forest Hills Cemetery

By: Gay Morgan Moore

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Chattanooga's Forest Hills Cemetery

By: Gay Morgan Moore

Within 20 years of the end of the Civil War, Chattanooga was becoming the "Dynamo of Dixie." Entrepreneurs and capital from the North were welcomed to the city. New railroads made the area a transportation hub. Fortunes were made in finance, industry, and tourism. Located at the foot of Lookout Mountain, St. Elmo was Chattanooga's first suburb. The founder of the then-independent town, A. M. Johnson and other community leaders chartered the Forest Hills Cemetery in the late 1870s. Many Chattanooga-area families obtained sites within the cemetery, now on the National Register of Historic Places. A rarity for the Reconstruction South, these families included a number of African Americans. From the famous to the infamous, from the remembered to the nearly forgotten, Images of America: Chattanooga's Forest Hills Cemetery highlights a number of Chattanoogans interred in this picturesque historic cemetery.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738586943

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9780738586946

Performing Anti-Slavery

Activist Women on Antebellum Stages

By: Gay Gibson Cima

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Performing Anti-Slavery

Activist Women on Antebellum Stages

By: Gay Gibson Cima

In Performing Anti-Slavery, Gay Gibson Cima reimagines the connection between the self and the other within activist performance, providing fascinating new insights into women's nineteenth-century reform efforts, revising the history of abolition, and illuminating an affective repertoire that haunts both present-day theatrical stages and anti-trafficking organizations. Cima argues that black and white American women in the nineteenth-century abolitionist movement transformed mainstream performance practices into successful activism. In family circles, literary associations, religious gatherings, and transatlantic anti-slavery societies, women debated activist performance strategies across racial and religious differences: they staged abolitionist dialogues, recited anti-slavery poems, gave speeches, shared narratives, and published essays. Drawing on liberal religious traditions as well as the Eastern notion of transmigration, Elizabeth Chandler, Sarah Forten, Maria W. Stewart, Sarah Douglass, Lucretia Mott, Ellen Craft and others forged activist pathways that reverberate to this day.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139917242

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9781139917247

Fame and Obscurity

By: Gay Talese

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Fame and Obscurity

By: Gay Talese

Fascinating . . . Poignant." The Wall Street Journal In this extraordinary work of insight and interviews, bestselling author Gay Talese shares with us the lives of those we don't know and those we might wish we did: Frank Sinatra, Joe DiMaggio, Manhattan mobsters, Bowery bums, and many others -- fascinating men and women who define our country's spirit and lead us to an understanding of ourselves as a nation.

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034546723X

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9780345467232

Apocryphal and Literary Influences on Galway Diasporic History

By: Gay Lynch

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Apocryphal and Literary Influences on Galway Diasporic History

By: Gay Lynch

Apocryphal and Literary Influences on Galway Diasporic History establishes that apocryphal stories, in all their transformations, contribute to collective memory. Common characteristics frame their analysis: irreducible and enduring elements, often embedded in archetypal drama; lack of historical verification; establishment in collective memory; revivals after periods of dormancy; subjection to political and economic manipulation; implicit speculation; and literary transformations. This book contextualises Unsettled, an Australian novel about a convict play, derived from the Irish apocryphal story of The Magistrate of Galway, and documents previously unpublished primary material, including apocryphal stories passed through generations of descendents of settlers, Martin and Maria Lynch, and The Hibernian Father, a play by Irish convict, Edward Geoghegan. It puts forward new hypotheses: that the Irish hero Cuchulain may have provided a template for the archetypal and apocryphal story of the Magistrate of Galway; that disgraced Trinity College medical student and aspiring writer, Edward Geoghegan, enacted and recounted the same father-son archetypal conflict when he was transported to Botany Bay in 1839, and wrote the The Hibernian Father based on the Magistrate of Galway; that working-class Irish families were marginalised in South-east South Australian historical records; that oral apocryphal Lynch stories may be true; that Kate Grenville’s The Secret River (2006) offers an alternative history of the Hawkesbury River settlement, by some definitions apocryphal. The mystery of Geoghegan’s disappearance is solved, and knowledge about his life increased. French theorist Gerard Genette’s notion, advanced in Palimpsests: Literature in the Second Degree (1997), of all novels being transtextual, provides a model for the analysis of relationships between these key apocryphal texts.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1443826103

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9781443826105

High Notes

Selected Writings of Gay Talese

By: Gay Talese

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High Notes

Selected Writings of Gay Talese

By: Gay Talese

A selection of classic high points in the illustrious career of Gay Talese. “[High Notes] reminds us of the indefatigable reporting skills and inventive use of language that made Talese a paragon of the New Journalism.” -New York Times Book Review Admired by generations of reporters, Gay Talese has for more than six decades enriched American journalism with an unmatched ability to inhabit the worlds of his subjects. From the article that germinated into Thy Neighbor's Wife, to indelible portraits of Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, and Lady Gaga, High Notes selects the highlights of Talese's signature mode, “the art of hanging out.” It's a bold testament to enduring literary craftsmanship and unparalleled cultural observation from "the most important nonfiction writer of his generation" (David Halberstam).

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1632867478

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9781632867476

Financial Markets and Foreign Direct Investment in Greater China

By: Hung-Gay Fung,Yahong Zhang

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Financial Markets and Foreign Direct Investment in Greater China

By: Hung-Gay Fung,Yahong Zhang

Based on rigorous state-of-the-art research techniques, this book deals with critical issues regarding China's financial markets and foreign direct investment -- key components of China's economic transformation.

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Routledge

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1315499207

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9781315499208

Activity-Centered Design

An Ecological Approach to Designing Smart Tools and Usable Systems

By: Geraldine Gay,Helene Hembrooke

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Activity-Centered Design

An Ecological Approach to Designing Smart Tools and Usable Systems

By: Geraldine Gay,Helene Hembrooke

An examination of the shift to context-based human-computer interaction design practice, illuminated by the concepts of Activity Theory and related methods. The shift in the practice of human-computer interaction (HCI) Design from user-centered to context-based design marks a significant change in focus. With context-based design, designers start not with a preconceived idea of what users should do, but with an understanding of what users actually do. Context-based design focuses on the situation in which the technology will be used—the activities relating to it and their social contexts. Designers must also realize that introduction of the technology itself changes the situation; in order to design workable systems, the design process must become flexible and adaptive. In Activity-Centered Design, Geri Gay and Helene Hembrooke argue that it is time to develop new models for HCI design that support not only research and development but also investigations into the context and motivation of user behavior.Gay and Hembrooke examine the ongoing interaction of computer systems use, design practice, and design evaluation, using the concepts of activity theory and related methods as a theoretical framework. Among the topics they discuss are the reciprocal relationship between the tool and the task, how activities shape the requirements of particular tools and how the application of the tools begins to reshape the activity; differing needs and expectations of participants when new technology is introduced, examining in particular the integration of wireless handheld devices into museums and learning environments; and the effect of the layout of the computing space on movement, function, and social interaction. Gay and Hembrooke then apply their findings on the use of technology in everyday contexts to inform future HCI design practice.

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MIT Press

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026226286X

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9780262262866

Creating Literacy-Rich Schools for Adolescents

ASCD

By: Gay Ivey,Douglas Fisher

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Creating Literacy-Rich Schools for Adolescents

ASCD

By: Gay Ivey,Douglas Fisher

We know that literacy is the key to learning in school, yet millions of middle and high school students lack the literacy skills they need to succeed. What can educators do? In Creating Literacy-Rich Schools for Adolescents, authors Gay Ivey and Douglas Fisher make a compelling case that all teachers--across the content areas--have a role to play in students' development of literacy, which they define as reading, writing, speaking, listening, and viewing. Rather than focusing solely on reading instruction and the cliché that says "all teachers are teachers of reading," they urge teachers to incorporate rich literacy-based learning experiences into their classrooms, with the goal of helping students to learn and think across the curriculum. With research-based findings, engaging examples, and extensive lists of resources, Ivey and Fisher encourage readers to * Reexamine the materials, experiences, and expectations of the English/language arts classroom; * Use strategies to improve literacy in all the content areas and seek alternatives to the traditional textbook; * Make independent reading an important part of students' ongoing literacy development; * Design and use interventions that really work for struggling students; and * Consider the schoolwide elements--professional development, peer coaching, leadership, and assessment--that should be in place to support teachers and students. Essential questions provide the focus for each chapter, and Quality Indicators for Secondary Literacy help readers gauge where they are on the continuum of providing a meaningful literacy experience for students. Creating Literacy-Rich Schools for Adolescents will inspire educators to take up this challenge in their own school with new confidence that the work is worthwhile and achievable. Note: This product listing is for the Adobe Acrobat (PDF) version of the book.

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ASCD

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1416618384

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9781416618386

Shifts

Beyond the Visible

By: Ninna Gay

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Shifts

Beyond the Visible

By: Ninna Gay

This unique, creative book embraces life in its luminous nature, wonder and beauty. It combines extraordinary photographs with a transformational journey in prose and poetry that supports balance, health and evolution. It is a 'MUST' for anyone who wishes to create positive change and co-create a new world. This innovative book promotes healing, transformation and creativity. It also investigates how the work and teaching of the shaman as wisdom keeper and Earth caretaker, spiritual guide and traditional healer can inspire us all for the creation of a new world. Ninna sources from the old to the new what is it that supports us in our growth and quest for love, joy, peace and balance for body, mind and spirit. SHIFTS: Beyond the Visible is the combination of Ninna Gay's journey and investigations as an energy medicine practitioner, author and photographer. Interested readers and media professionals can visit www.shiftsbeyondthevisible.com for more information.

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AuthorHouse

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1449063403

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9781449063405

The Jews of Germany

A Historical Portrait

By: Ruth Gay

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The Jews of Germany

A Historical Portrait

By: Ruth Gay

This unique book provides a panoramic overview of a now extinct culture: the 1500-year history of the Jews in Germany. Through texts, pictures, and contemporary accounts, it follows the German Jews from their first settlements on the Rhine in the fourth century to the destruction of the community in World War II. Using both voices and images of the past, the book reveals how the German Jews looked, how they lived, what they thought about, and what others thought of them. Ruth Gay's text, interwoven with passages from memoirs, letters, newspapers, and many other contemporary sources, shows how the German Jews organized their communities, created a new language (Yiddish), and built their special culture--all this under circumstances sometimes friendly, but often murderously hostile. The book explores the internal debates that agitated the community from medieval to modern times and analyzes how German Jewry emerged into the modern world. The earliest document in the book is a fourth-century decree by the Roman emperor Constantine permitting Jews to hold office in Cologne. Among the last are poignant letters from Betty Scholem in Berlin, writing during the Nazi years to her son Gershom in Palestine. In between are accounts of a ninth-century Jewish merchant appointed by Charlemagne to a diplomatic mission to Baghdad, a thirteenth-century Jewish minnesinger, a seventeenth-century pogrom in Frankfurt in which gentiles helped to save their Jewish neighbors, and the nineteenth-century innovation of department stores, palaces of consumerism. The book tells a story--moving, terrifying, and exhilarating--that must be remembered.

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Yale University Press

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0300060521

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9780300060522

American Painters on Technique

The Colonial Period to 1860

By: Lance Mayer,Gay Myers

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American Painters on Technique

The Colonial Period to 1860

By: Lance Mayer,Gay Myers

A study of an important but anonymous part of the history of American art: the materials and techniques used by American painters. Based on research including artists' recipe books, letters, journals, and painting manuals, it includes topics such as the quest for the 'secrets' of the Old Masters; the application of 'toning' layers; and more.

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Getty Publications

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1606060775

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9781606060773

Rainforests of the World

A Reference Handbook

By: Kathlyn Gay

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Rainforests of the World

A Reference Handbook

By: Kathlyn Gay

This authoritative volume examines the reasons for rainforest destruction, the effects of deforestation on indigenous plant and animal life, and the policies and actions that are currently being taken to protect rainforests. Rainforests of the World covers everything from the basic biology and chemistry of rainforests and their geographic location to problems, controversies, and solutions. A section highlights people and events like Gifford Pinchot, Lester Brown, Anita Roddick, the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, and the Kyoto Protocol. The documents provided include the Declaration of Curitiba, the Indigenous People's Declaration, and the North American Free Trade Agreement. The book includes a chronology, charts, tables, and graphs on rainforest destruction; a list of groups working to protect rainforests; an extensive annotated bibliography; and other references.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1576074250

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For Public Service

State, Office and Ethics

By: Paul Du Gay,Thomas Lopdrup-Hjorth

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For Public Service

State, Office and Ethics

By: Paul Du Gay,Thomas Lopdrup-Hjorth

This book develops a particular stance on the subject of public service. It does so in large part by indicating how early modern political concepts and theories of state, sovereignty, government, office and reason of state can shed light on current problems, failings and ethical dilemmas in politics, government and political administration. Simply put, public service is an activity involving the constitution, maintenance, projection and regulation of governmental authority. Public service therefore has a distinctive character because of the singularity of its ‘official’ object or ‘core task’ – namely, the activity of governing in an official capacity through and on behalf of a state. In pursuing this activity, public servants – civil, juridical and military – have a range of tasks to perform. It is only once the nature of those tasks is appreciated that we are able to identify the unique character of public service. The authors employ early modern political concepts and doctrines of state, sovereignty, government, office and reason of state in order to critically analyse contemporary political issues and offer solutions to problems concerning the status and conduct of public service. This book aims to remind public servants of the status of their ‘calling’ as office-holders in the service of the state, a daunting task given the rising tide of populism and the widespread prevalence of anti-statist, bureaucrat-bashing political discourse. It stresses the governmental dimension of the work of public servants as occupants of official roles in the service of the state, in order to reinforce their legitimate position in articulating public interests against the excesses of private interests and intense partisanship that continue to dominate many societies. This timely and thought-provoking book will be of great interest to those working within a range of fields in the humanities and social sciences, including political science, history, sociology, philosophy, organization studies and public administration.

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Taylor & Francis

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1317571061

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Chattanooga's St. Elmo

By: Gay Morgan Moore

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Chattanooga's St. Elmo

By: Gay Morgan Moore

During Chattanooga's post-Civil War industrial boom, A.M. Johnson subdivided land inherited by his wife, Thankful, from her industrialist father, James Whiteside. Located on the eastern side of Lookout Mountain, south of Chattanooga, Johnson named his new community St. Elmo after the title of the popular novel by Augusta Evans, who had visited the area before the war and used it as a setting for her book. By 1900, the community had grown to over 2,000 residents and was the home of wealthy industrialists, as well as small business owners and factory workers. Known as Chattanooga's first suburb, the St. Elmo neighborhood is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738594334

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9780738594330

Vocabulary in Action

Lessons from Great Literacy Teachers

By: Gay Fawcett

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Vocabulary in Action

Lessons from Great Literacy Teachers

By: Gay Fawcett

This book will take you into the classrooms of great literacy teachers from around the United States who have designed successful vocabulary instruction for their grades K-6 classrooms. Each teacher will share vocabulary routines that he or she uses on a regular basis, including his or her favorite, which you can use as-is or adapt for your own classroom. Through their stories you will be encouraged to examine your vocabulary instruction and consider what you can do to help students who have vocabulary gaps and further enrich the vocabulary of those students who don't.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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161048875X

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9781610488754

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