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Small-Town Heroes

Images of Minor League Baseball

By: Hank Davis

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Small-Town Heroes

Images of Minor League Baseball

By: Hank Davis

In 1993 successful psychologist and journalist Hank Davis undertook an epic journey exploring the atmosphere and culture of both minor league baseball and the small towns that embrace it. Davis shows us the warmth, quirkiness, and desperate energy of minor league ball, from encounters with future stars to those who would never make it to the ?show?; from the kids selling Cracker Jacks outside the park to the aging coaches who persevere out of sheer love for the game. As Davis says, ?the minor leagues are full of stories,? and he tells some of the best of them here. A new afterword by the author dis-cusses where the minor league players are now.

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If This Goes Wrong . . .

By: Hank Davis

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If This Goes Wrong . . .

By: Hank Davis

WHAT COULD GO WRONG . . . ? Progress! It’s wonderful—though it sometimes has unexpected and undesirable side effects. Read the long warning list of possible side effects on a medicine bottle’s label sometime . . . the part in really tinyprint. But surely the benefits of modern technology outweigh the drawbacks. Until they don’t. Remember how increasingly deadly weapons, from the machine gun to the H-bomb, were supposed to make war too horrific to even be contemplated? Didn’t happen. The cell phone has made it possible to phone from almost anywhere—too bad if you wanted to be out of reach. And civilization is so big and complicated, that a breakdown of any part can have disastrous consequences. Modern transportation makes it possible to get anywhere in a hurry, though traffic jams and overextended airports may slow the hurry part to a crawl. And it also can ensure that a new disease can go all over the planet in a few days. Then, there’s the sheer complexity of society itself, from interminable waits at the DMV to trying to get tech help on the phone (“Your call is important to us . . .”). And that’s just the present day. What new technologies, new ways of organizing (or disorganizing) society, new confused and confusing government bureaucracies, new ways for small disgruntled groups to wreak havoc, and worse, will the future bring? Will privacy keep eroding? Could computers and robots take over? Maybe they wouldn’t want to. And if the pace of modern life is driving you batty, just wait to see what’s on the horizon. Exploring such scary, yet fascinating, possibilities are such masters of science fiction as Robert A. Heinlein, Sarah A. Hoyt, Fritz Leiber, Gordon R. Dickson, Lester del Rey, Christopher Anvil, Fredric Brown, and more, writers who have seen the future—and it may not work . . . At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). Praise for previous anthologies edited by Hank Davis In Space No One Can Hear You Scream “. . . the 13 tales in this collection blend sf with horror to demonstrate the resiliency of both genres . . . offers strong tales by the genre’s best storytellers.” —Library Journal “. . . first-rate science fiction, demonstrating how short stories can still entertain.” —Galveston County Daily News A Cosmic Christmas 2 You “This creative and sprightly Christmas science fiction anthology spins in some surprising directions . . . A satisfying read for cold winter evenings . . . a great stocking stuffer for SF fans.” —Publishers Weekly As Time Goes By “As Time Goes By . . . does an excellent job of exploring not only romance through time travel—relationships enabled or imperiled by voyaging through time—but the intrinsic romance of time travel itself . . . The range of styles and approaches is as wide as the authors' sensibilities and periods might suggest . . . full of entertaining and poignant stories . . .” —Alvaro Zinos-Amaro, IntergalacticMedicineShow.com

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Baen Books

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1625795572

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Her Perfect Life

By: Hank Phillippi Ryan

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Her Perfect Life

By: Hank Phillippi Ryan

The next thrilling standalone novel by USA Today bestselling author Hank Phillippi Ryan. Everyone knows Lily Atwood—and that may be her biggest problem. The beloved television reporter has it all—fame, fortune, Emmys, an adorable seven-year-old daughter, and the hashtag her loving fans created: #PerfectLily. To keep it, all she has to do is protect one life-changing secret. Her own. Lily has an anonymous source who feeds her story tips—but suddenly, the source begins telling Lily inside information about her own life. How does he—or she—know the truth? Lily understands that no one reveals a secret unless they have a reason. Now she’s terrified someone is determined to destroy her world—and with it, everyone and everything she holds dear. How much will she risk to keep her perfect life? At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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Forge Books

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1250258839

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Heaven's Crooked Finger

An Earl Marcus Mystery

By: Hank Early

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Heaven's Crooked Finger

An Earl Marcus Mystery

By: Hank Early

NEXT GENERATION INDIE BOOK AWARD WINNER An eerie and intense Southern Gothic, this “twisty, page-turning” mystery transports readers to a secretive community in the Georgia mountains (Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts) Earl Marcus thought he had left the mountains of Georgia behind forever, and with them, the painful memories of a childhood spent under the fundamentalist rule of his father RJ’s church—a church built on fear, penance, and the twisting, writhing mass of snakes. But then an ominous photo of RJ is delivered to Earl’s home. The photograph is dated long after his father’s burial, and there’s no doubt that the man in the picture is very much alive. As Earl returns to Church of the Holy Flame searching for the truth, faithful followers insist that his father has risen to a holy place high in the mountains. Nobody will talk about the teenage girls who go missing, only to return with strange tattoo-like marks on their skin. Rumors swirl about an old well that sits atop one of the mountains, a place of unimaginable power and secrets. Earl doesn’t know what to believe, but he has long been haunted by his father, forever lurking in the shadows of his life. Desperate to leave his sinful Holy Flame childhood in the past, Earl digs up deeply buried secrets to discover the truth before time runs out and he’s the one put underground in Heaven’s Crooked Finger, Hank Early’s thrilling series debut.

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Crooked Lane Books

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1683313925

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Drive Time

By: Hank Phillippi Ryan

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Drive Time

By: Hank Phillippi Ryan

Investigative reporter Charlotte McNally is an expert at keeping things confidential, but suddenly everyone has a secret—and it turns out it is possible to know too much. Her latest scoop—an exposé of a dangerous car scam, complete with stakeouts, high-speed chases and hidden-camera footage—is ratings gold. But soon that leads her to a brand-new and diabolical scheme. Charlie's personal and professional lives are on a collision course, too. Her fiancé is privy to information about threats at an elite private school that have turned deadly. Charlie has never counted on happy endings. But now, just as she's finally starting to believe in second chances, she realizes revenge, extortion and murder may leave her alone again—or even dead….

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MIRA

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1426847645

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Arlo Guthrie

The Warner/Reprise Years

By: Hank Reineke

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Arlo Guthrie

The Warner/Reprise Years

By: Hank Reineke

Arlo Guthrie revisits Guthrie's fifteen-year ride as a recording artist. With a look at Guthrie's life and times before and after this prolific period of his career, this biography is a goldmine of information on the Guthrie family's legacy to American music, the counterculture of the 1960s, and the record industry of the 1970s.

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Scarecrow Press

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0810883317

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Pop Icons and Business Legends

History of Commerce and Heritage of Culture

By: Hank Moore

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Pop Icons and Business Legends

History of Commerce and Heritage of Culture

By: Hank Moore

A unique and fresh perspective on how to achieve business success based on the careers of modern history’s greatest pop figures. Stroll through the past and discover the fusion of pop culture and business. From Walt Disney to Bill Gates, from Burt Bacharach to Howard Hughes, from Steven Spielberg to John D. Rockefeller, and from Col. Harland Sanders to Steve Jobs, this is the comprehensive study of pop icons, historical innovations, and business pioneers. In Pop Icons and Business Legends, legendary business advisor and former presidential speech writer Hank Moore embraces the past as a roadmap to the future. This is history, cultural enlightenment, and business innovation, all rolled in one, plus a dynamic panorama of non-profit and humanitarian contributions to society. “How can one person with so much insight into cultural history and nostalgia be such a visionary of business and organizations? Hank Moore is one of the few who understands the connection.” —Dick Clark, TV icon “Hank Moore's Business Tree™ is the most original business model of the last 50 years.” —Peter Drucker, business visionary

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Morgan James Publishing

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163047844X

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Manual J - Residential Load Calculation

8th Edition, Full

By: Hank Rutkowski

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Manual J - Residential Load Calculation

8th Edition, Full

By: Hank Rutkowski

Manual J 8th Edition is the national ANSI-recognized standard for producing HVAC equipment sizing loads for single-family detached homes, small multi-unit structures, condominiums, town houses, and manufactured homes. This new version incorporates the complete Abridged Edition of Manual J. The manual provides quick supplemental details as well as supporting reference tables and appendices. A proper load calculation, performed in accordance with the Manual J 8th Edition procedure, is required by national building codes and most state and local jurisdictions.

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1892765357

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Monky Business II

Back in the Sandals Again!

By: Gregg Opelka,Todd Mueller,Hank Boland

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Monky Business II

Back in the Sandals Again!

By: Gregg Opelka,Todd Mueller,Hank Boland

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Dramatic Publishing

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1583422315

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Chemical Warfare During the Vietnam War

Riot Control Agents in Combat

By: D. Hank Ellison

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Chemical Warfare During the Vietnam War

Riot Control Agents in Combat

By: D. Hank Ellison

Chemical Warfare during the Vietnam War documents the use of antipersonnel chemical weapons throughout the Vietnam War, and explores their effectiveness under the wide variety of circumstances in which they were employed. The short, readable account follows the US program as it progressed from a focus on the humanitarian aspects of non-lethal chemicals to their use as a means of increasing and enhancing the destructiveness of traditional weapons. It also presents the efforts of the North Vietnamese to both counter US chemical operations and to develop a chemical capability of their own. This largely overlooked facet of the Vietnam War provides an opportunity for students and scholars to examine many of the potential issues surrounding the use of non-lethal chemical agents in modern military operations, and serves as a backdrop to discussion of broader issues associated with chemical warfare, including the power of public perception. Chemical Warfare during the Vietnam War is a comprehensive and thoroughly fascinating examination of riot-control agents during the Vietnam War.

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Routledge

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113682720X

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Wrongs of Passage

Fraternities, Sororities, Hazing, and Binge Drinking

By: Hank Nuwer

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Wrongs of Passage

Fraternities, Sororities, Hazing, and Binge Drinking

By: Hank Nuwer

Explores the problems of hazing and binge drinking at fraternities and sororities on American college campuses, telling the stories of some of the young people who have been seriously injured or died as a result of such behaviors; and offers a list of recommendations for reform.

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Indiana University Press

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025321498X

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The General Who Wore Six Stars

The Inside Story of John C. H. Lee

By: Hank H. Cox

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The General Who Wore Six Stars

The Inside Story of John C. H. Lee

By: Hank H. Cox

Published in cooperation with the Historic Chattahoochee Commission"--title page.

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U of Nebraska Press

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1612349633

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The Big Picture of Business, Book 2

Comprehensive Reference for Business Success

By: Hank Moore

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The Big Picture of Business, Book 2

Comprehensive Reference for Business Success

By: Hank Moore

The Big Picture of Business, Book 2 offers a creative approach to strategy development and planning for companies in today’s turbulent business environment that prepares them for an unknowable tomorrow. Each year, one-third of the US Gross National Product goes toward cleaning up problems, damages, and other high costs caused by companies that failed to take proper actions. Look no further than the cost of the current financial crisis for an example. The costs of band-aid surgery for their problems and make-good work cost businesses six times that of proper planning, oversight, and accountability. In addition, 92 percent of all problems in organizations stem from poor management decisions. In The Big Picture of Business, Book 2, Hank Moore takes a fresh look at change and growth, utilizing full-scope planning as a means of navigating through uncertain waters toward richer success, based on his trademarked approach to growing and strengthening businesses that has been tested by his actual work in guiding corporations over three decades. Hank shows readers how to master change and, in doing so, ready companies to face the future.

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Morgan James Publishing

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1642793523

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The Big Picture of Business, Book 4

Innovation, Motivation and Strategy Meet Tomorrow

By: Hank Moore

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The Big Picture of Business, Book 4

Innovation, Motivation and Strategy Meet Tomorrow

By: Hank Moore

The Big Picture of Business, Book 4 offers a creative approach to strategy development and planning for companies in today’s turbulent business environment that prepares them for an unknowable tomorrow. Each year, one-third of the U.S. Gross National Product goes toward cleaning up problems, damages and other high costs caused by companies that failed to take proper actions. Look no further than the cost of the current financial crisis for an example. The costs of band-aid surgery for their problems and make-good work cost business six times that of proper planning, oversight and accountability. 92% of all problems in organizations stem from poor management decisions. The Big Picture of Business, Book 4 takes a fresh look at change and growth, utilizing full-scope planning as a means of navigating through uncertain waters toward richer success. It is based upon Hank Moore’s trademarked approach to growing and strengthening businesses, tested by his actual work in guiding corporations over three decades. Moore shows how to master change and readies companies to face the future.

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1631956388

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The Merchant of Dennis the Menace

The Autobiography of Hank Ketcham

By: Hank Ketcham

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The Merchant of Dennis the Menace

The Autobiography of Hank Ketcham

By: Hank Ketcham

In this engaging memoir, the Dennis the Menace creator charmingly tells his own colorful story, with copious illustrations of his artistic development, a behind-the-scenes section, and his hand-picked favorite strips. Hank Ketcham, the self-styled "Merchant of Dennis," passed away in 2001 at the age of 81, but not before writing this engaging memoir. In this volume, the Dennis the Menace creator charmingly tells his own colorful story, starting when he was about "five-ana-half" and first picked up the "magic pencil." A child of the Great Depression from Seattle, Ketcham abandoned college for Hollywood, to pursue a dream of making drawings for Walt Disney films. Initially rebuffed at Disney, he persisted in huffing and puffing at the Mouse Factory door (all the while drawing "Andy Pandas, rabbits, squirrels, and monkeys" at Walter Lantz studio) until finally he was let inside to labor happily on Pinocchio, Bambi, Fantasia and a host of Donald Duck shorts. World War II intervened, but Photographer's Mate Ketcham was, nevertheless, able to resume his artistic career in the Navy, where, in Washington, D.C., he created cartoons for the War Bond program. Following the war, Ketcham developed into a successful freelancer, placing cartoons in The New Yorker, Saturday Evening Post and Collier's. Then one fateful day, his harried wife screamed at him that his son Dennis was amenace! That, of course, sparked an idea that subsequently was sold to a newspaper syndicate in the fall of 1950. Within a year, Dennis the Menace was up to a hundred daily subscribers-a figure that climbed steadily. The Merchant of Dennis the Menace not only traces the humorous adventures of Hank Ketcham-with copious illustrations of his artistic development from a kid with an early knack for copying cartoon characters to a mature and masterful artist of everyday life in the Mitchell and Wilson households-it also offers a special insight into the life and times of the half-pint "Menace." In one unique section, Ketcham takes us behind the scenes of Dennis and provides complete backgrounds for all the major characters, including their genealogies. We are also treated to official model sheets, in-depth analysis of each character's personality and motivations, and an exclusive peek at the private sketches that Ketcham referred to of rooms in the Wilson and Mitchell homes, their backyards, and the neighborhood. To top it all off, the book includes a dozen of Ketcham's hand-picked, all-time favorite strips.

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Fantagraphics Books

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1560977140

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9781560977148

Dirty Little Secrets of the Record Business

Why So Much Music You Hear Sucks

By: Hank Bordowitz

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Dirty Little Secrets of the Record Business

Why So Much Music You Hear Sucks

By: Hank Bordowitz

For disgruntled music fans wondering why music played on the radio is not only worse now than in the past but also not nearly as revelatory as it once was, this book presents a detailed discussion of how the record business fouled its own livelihood. This insightful dissection covers numerous aspects of the industry's failures and shortcomings, including why stockholders play an important role, how radio went from an art to a science and what was lost in that change, how the record companies alienated their core audience, why file sharing might not be the bogeyman that the record industry would have people think, technology's effects on what and how music is heard, and dozens of other reasons that add up to the record industry's current financial and artistic woes. With eye-opening observations culled from extensive interviews, this expose offers insights into how this multi-billion-dollar industry is run and why it's losing so much money.

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Chicago Review Press

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1569763917

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Power Stars to Light the Business Flame

The visionaries and you

By: Hank Moore

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Power Stars to Light the Business Flame

The visionaries and you

By: Hank Moore

Power Stars to Light the Business Flame fulfills the need for a comprehensive resource that opens up the mind and heart, pinpoints what it takes to make it and offers wisdom that is abstracted from the readers' cultural upbringings. This visionary book covers leadership, business psychology, team-building, quality management, empowerment, community stewardship and marketplace development. This is a compendium book, following through the Business Tree model and qualifying to carry the endorsement by Peter Drucker. The first half contains quotes and extrapolations into business culture from 100 of history's biggest names, including Thomas Jefferson, William Shakespeare, Yogi Berra, Albert Einstein, John F. Kennedy, Bob Dylan, Thomas Payne, Franklin Roosevelt, John Steinbeck, Proverbs, Winston Churchill, Henry Kissinger, etc. Quotes would be broad-based, for maximum appeal. This is a book containing inspirational quotes, arranged in 50 business headings. Each cluster of quotes is followed by narratives of each business dynamic, how they contribute to the whole of the enterprise and how they apply to lasting success.

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Di Angelo Publications

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0985085347

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9780985085346

Prince of Stories

The Many Worlds of Neil Gaiman

By: Hank Wagner,Christopher Golden,Stephen R. Bissette

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Prince of Stories

The Many Worlds of Neil Gaiman

By: Hank Wagner,Christopher Golden,Stephen R. Bissette

Over the past twenty years, Neil Gaiman has developed into the premier fantasist of his generation, achieving that rarest of combinations—unrivaled critical respect and extraordinary commercial success. From the landmark comic book series The Sandman to novels such as the New York Times bestselling American Gods and Anansi Boys, from children's literature like Coraline to screenplays for such films as Beowulf, Gaiman work has garnered him an enthusiastic and fiercely loyal, global following. To comic book fans, he is Zeus in the pantheon of creative gods, having changed that industry forever. For discerning readers, he bridges the vast gap that traditionally divides lovers of "literary" and "genre" fiction. Gaiman is truly a pop culture phenomenon, an artist with a magic touch whose work has won almost universal acclaim. Now, for the first time ever, Prince of Stories chronicles the history and impact of the complete works of Neil Gaiman in film, fiction, music, comic books, and beyond. Containing hours of exclusive interviews with Gaiman and conversations with his collaborators, as well as wonderful nuggets of his work such as the beginning of an unpublished novel, a rare comic and never-before-seen essay, this is a treasure trove of all things Gaiman. In addition to providing in depth information and commentary on Gaiman's myriad works, the book also includes rare photographs, book covers, artwork, and related trivia and minutiae, making it both an insightful introduction to his work, and a true "must-have" for his ever growing legion of fans.

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St. Martin's Press

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1429961783

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Science Left Behind

Feel-Good Fallacies and the Rise of the Anti-Scientific Left

By: Alex Berezow,Hank Campbell

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Science Left Behind

Feel-Good Fallacies and the Rise of the Anti-Scientific Left

By: Alex Berezow,Hank Campbell

To listen to most pundits and political writers, evolution, stem cells, and climate change are the only scientific issues worth mentioning -- and the only people who are anti-science are conservatives. Yet those on the left have numerous fallacies of their own. Aversion to clean energy programs, basic biological research, and even life-saving vaccines come naturally to many progressives. These are positions supported by little more than junk-science and paranoid thinking. Now for the first time, science writers Dr. Alex B. Berezow and Hank Campbell have drawn open the curtain on the left's fear of science. As Science Left Behind reveals, vague inclinations about the wholesomeness of all things natural, the unhealthiness of the unnatural, and many other seductive fallacies have led to an epidemic of misinformation. The results: public health crises, damaging and misguided policies, and worst of all, a new culture war over basic scientific facts -- in which the left is just as culpable as the right.

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PublicAffairs

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1610391659

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In the Valley of the Devil

An Earl Marcus Mystery

By: Hank Early

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In the Valley of the Devil

An Earl Marcus Mystery

By: Hank Early

Private investigator Earl Marcus thought he’d conquered his demons after vanquishing the malevolent spirit of his fundamentalist preacher father—but now, he must face something much more terrifying than the devil he knew. Earl Marcus found new hope after confronting the unspeakable evil unleashed by his father’s fundamentalist Church of the Holy Flame. Now plying his trade as a private investigator in the North Georgia mountains, he’s drawn once again into a dark abyss of depravity, and murder. Tasked with what seems like a routine job, Earl stumbles into a mysterious cornfield where an old mountain legend appears to have awakened. Just as he begins to hear rumors of a place in the woods behind a dark cornfield where a killer collects human skulls, his partner Mary Hawkins vanishes. As the litany of terror grows, the poisoned spirits of Earl’s past return to claim their final victims. And on an old train trestle over a swift-running river at the edge of a cornfield Earl will confront his worst fears. Time is running out for Mary—and unless Earl can wrest her from the control of a secretive cabal comprised of some of the area’s most elite—and wealthiest—citizens, she could be lost to him forever in In the Valley of the Devil, the second harrowing installment of the Earl Marcus mysteries by Hank Early.

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Crooked Lane Books

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1683315936

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The Race Beat

The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

By: Gene Roberts,Hank Klibanoff

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The Race Beat

The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

By: Gene Roberts,Hank Klibanoff

An unprecedented examination of how news stories, editorials and photographs in the American press—and the journalists responsible for them—profoundly changed the nation’s thinking about civil rights in the South during the 1950s and ‘60s. Roberts and Klibanoff draw on private correspondence, notes from secret meetings, unpublished articles, and interviews to show how a dedicated cadre of newsmen—black and white—revealed to a nation its most shameful shortcomings that compelled its citizens to act. Meticulously researched and vividly rendered, The Race Beat is an extraordinary account of one of the most calamitous periods in our nation’s history, as told by those who covered it.

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Vintage

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0679735658

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The Big Picture of Business

Business Strategies and Legends: Encyclopedic Knowledge Bank

By: Hank Moore

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The Big Picture of Business

Business Strategies and Legends: Encyclopedic Knowledge Bank

By: Hank Moore

The first business overview book series from the Big Picture overview perspective. The Big Picture of Business, Book 3 offers a creative approach to strategy development and planning for companies in today’s turbulent business environment that prepares them for an unknowable tomorrow. Each year, one-third of the U.S. Gross National Product goes toward cleaning up problems, damages and other high costs caused by companies that failed to take proper actions. Look no further than the cost of the current financial crisis for an example. The costs of band-aid surgery for their problems and make-good work cost business six times that of proper planning, oversight and accountability. 92% of all problems in organizations stem from poor management decisions. The Big Picture of Business, Book 3 takes a fresh look at change and growth, utilizing full-scope planning as a means of navigating through uncertain waters toward richer success. It is based upon Hank Moore’s trademarked approach to growing and strengthening businesses, tested by his actual work in guiding corporations over three decades. Within The Big Picture of Business, Book 3, Hank shows how to master change and ready companies to face the future.

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Morgan James Publishing

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1642798142

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Pop Music Legends

Compendium of Recorded Music

By: Hank Moore

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Pop Music Legends

Compendium of Recorded Music

By: Hank Moore

“Music affects every person. It is the soundtrack of our happiness, zest for achievement and relationships to others. Music brings great ideas and feelings. It soothes the soul. It creates and sustains memories.” – Hank Moore Pop Music Legends covers change and growth of the music recording industry. It is based on the Hank Moore’s involvement in music over the years, interviews with hundreds of music stars and his knowledge of pop culture. It is the only book that encompasses a full-scope music perspective and is designed to have high appeal mass appeal, historical, entertainment and is applicable to a broad audience.

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1631959662

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The Casual Mentor

A Lifetime of Mentoring Concepts and Practices

By: Hank Hoppin

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The Casual Mentor

A Lifetime of Mentoring Concepts and Practices

By: Hank Hoppin

Hank Hoppin never fully appreciated it as it was happening, but he reaped the rewards of mentorship throughout his life. His father died when Hank was twelve years old, and his mother began mentoring himreminding him that Dad would not be happy, if still alive, to witness the boys misbehavior. She also kept him busy with a paper route to teach him the value of hard work. Once he entered the professional ranks, he was mentored by others and enjoyed twenty-five years of success as district manager at one of Americas leading pharmaceutical companies. He traces what he learned about mentoring in this memoir. Learn how to: adapt mentoring practices to help people of all ages; create and develop a mentoring program; modify mentoring approaches to fit different leadership styles; incorporate storytelling into mentoring. Filled with case studies and inspirational quotes, youll also learn ten advantages to a casual mentoring relationship, the top ten key attributes of the most influential corporate mentors, five undeniable benefits of highly functional teams, and the top five advantages of informal partnerships. Get your team on the right track and enhance business operations with the revealing insights in The Casual Mentor.

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Ween's Chocolate and Cheese

By: Hank Shteamer

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Ween's Chocolate and Cheese

By: Hank Shteamer

An in-depth study of a pivotal moment in Ween's development, as they became one of the world's most endearing, and enduring, cult bands.

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0826431178

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Hank Reinhardt's The Book of Swords

By: Hank Reinhardt

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Hank Reinhardt's The Book of Swords

By: Hank Reinhardt

The sword is the most revered of all of man's weapons. Although the club is older, the knife more universal, and the firearm much more efficient, it is to the sword that most decoration, myth, mysticism and reverence has been given. The katana has been called "The Soul of the Samurai," the Vikings lavished love, care and attached wonderful names to their weapons. The sword has been the symbol of Justice, of Vengeance, and of Mercy. No one artifact has so captured the imagination as has the sword. As our society has grown more and more advanced, and more reliant on technology, there has been an increased interest in the weapons of the past. The romance of the sword is very much alive¾but movies, books and fiction of all types have romanticized the past, and particularly the sword, beyond all recognition of the real thing. Drawing on information from grave excavations, illustrations of battle scenes, and many classical and medieval literary sources, this book discusses how contemporaries showed swords were used. Building on Oakeshott and other authoritative writers on the subject, this volume, representing ten years of writing and a lifetime of experience, will add to the body of knowledge of the history of swords by illustrating not only the beauty of the form of the sword, but also their beauty of function. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

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1618247336

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Trust Me

A Novel

By: Hank Phillippi Ryan

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Trust Me

A Novel

By: Hank Phillippi Ryan

Trust Me is the chilling standalone novel of psychological suspense and manipulation that award-winning author and renowned investigative reporter Hank Phillippi Ryan was born to write. CAN YOU SPOT THE LIAR? An accused killer insists she's innocent of a heinous murder. A grieving journalist surfaces from the wreckage of her shattered life. Their unlikely alliance leads to a dangerous cat and mouse game that will leave you breathless. Who can you trust when you can't trust yourself? "Grief and deception are at the helm of Hank Phillippi Ryan’s latest thriller, Trust Me, in which a crime writer and an accused criminal’s lives collide, as they come to discover that no one can be trusted, not even oneself. The tension mounts at a blistering pace, while Ryan dazzles on page, weaving a sinister story that readers won’t be able to put down. A must read!"--New York Times bestselling author Mary Kubica At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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DIY City

The Collective Power of Small Actions

By: Hank Dittmar

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DIY City

The Collective Power of Small Actions

By: Hank Dittmar

Some utopian plans have shaped our cities —from England’s New Towns and Garden Cities to the Haussmann plan for Paris and the L’Enfant plan for Washington, DC. But these grand plans are the exception, and seldom turn out as envisioned by the utopian planner. Inviting city neighborhoods are more often works of improvisation on a small scale. This type of bottom-up development gives cities both their character and the ability to respond to sudden change. Hank Dittmar, urban planner, friend of artists and creatives, sometime rancher, “high priest of town planning” to the Prince of Wales, believed in letting small things happen. Dittmar concluded that big plans were often the problem. Looking at the global cities of the world, he saw a crisis of success, with gentrification and global capital driving up home prices in some cities, while others decayed for lack of investment. In DIY City, Dittmar explains why individual initiative, small-scale business, and small development matter, using lively stories from his own experience and examples from recent history, such as the revival of Camden Lock in London and the nascent rebirth of Detroit. DIY City, Dittmar’s last original work, captures the lessons he learned throughout the course of his varied career—from transit-oriented development to Lean Urbanism—that can be replicated to create cities where people can flourish. DIY City is a timely response to the challenges many cities face today, with a short supply of affordable housing, continued gentrification, and offshore investment. Dittmar’s answer to this crisis is to make Do-It-Yourself the norm rather than the exception by removing the barriers to small-scale building and local business. The message of DIY City can offer hope to anyone who cares about cities.

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1642830526

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Face Time

A Charlotte McNally Novel

By: Hank Phillippi Ryan

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Face Time

A Charlotte McNally Novel

By: Hank Phillippi Ryan

Veteran TV reporter Charlotte McNally fights for justice, journalism -- and the battle against on-air aging. She knows that despite years of experience, she's only as good as her most recent blockbuster story. The good news: she's got explosive evidence that could free an innocent woman from prison. Dorinda Keller confessed to killing her husband, but the evidence doesn't add up. Why would an innocent person confess to cold-blooded murder? The bad news: her investigation makes Charlotte -- and someone she loves -- the real killer's next target. Charlotte knows she has what it takes to get the story. Unfortunately, the more Charlotte snoops around, the more people turn up dead. Face Time by Boston Globe bestseller and Emmy-winning reporter Hank Phillippi Ryan is the second book in the award-winning, out-of-print Charlotte McNally series, now repackaged for her many new fans! At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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A Good Man?

By: Farran V. Hank Helmick

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A Good Man?

By: Farran V. Hank Helmick

The so-called fast gun slingers from the Wicked Wild West could have picked up some pointers from their peers in Pikeville and the Tug River areas of 1876 Kentucky and their West Virginia neighbors in Huntington and nearby Buff alo Creek. Young men in this era could draw a pistol and hit a fifty cent piece twice and reholster their weapon; the bystanders would swear the shooter had never moved. Their babies teethed on their pappys .44-40s and stood up for the first time pulling themselves upright on their eight-year old brothers hunting rifles. Matthew OShannon and his Cherokee blood brother Jon Ridge are dragged into a feud that leaves Matts grandfather and parents murdered. When they defend themselves, they are slandered and labeled by their neighbors as murderers and killers. To avoid the feud, Matt, his brother Byron, and his Cherokee Indian friend Jon Ridge plan to relocate in Colorado and New Mexico and breed horses. They leave by train with forty breeding horses and find themselves thrown shooting and fighting into another deadly feud with Cotton Brands clan, a notorious feuding Texan family. Its action from cover to cover with twists and turns in the plot that will delight the avid reader of Western Historical Fiction.

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1462060617

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Superior Customer Value

Strategies for Winning and Retaining Customers, Third Edition

By: Art Weinstein,D. Hank Ellison

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Superior Customer Value

Strategies for Winning and Retaining Customers, Third Edition

By: Art Weinstein,D. Hank Ellison

A customer-centric culture provides focus and direction for the organization, ensuring that exceptional value will be offered to customers this, in turn, results in enhanced market performance. Unfortunately, caught up in the daily economic and competitive pressures of running complex and fast-changing businesses, managers may lose sight of custo

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1439898405

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Houses Made of Wood and Light

The Life and Architecture of Hank Schubart

By: Michele Dunkerley,Hank Schubart,Jane Hickie

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Houses Made of Wood and Light

The Life and Architecture of Hank Schubart

By: Michele Dunkerley,Hank Schubart,Jane Hickie

American architect Hank Schubart was regarded as a genius for finding the perfect site for a house and for integrating its design into the natural setting, so that his houses appear to be as native to the forest around them as the trees and rocks. Salt Spring Island, one of the Gulf Islands in British Columbia, Canada, offered him a place to create the kind of architecture that responded to its surroundings, and Schubart-designed homes populate the island. Built of wood and glass, suffused with light, and oriented to views, they display characteristic features: random-width cedar siding, exposed beams, rusticated stonework. Over time, Schubart’s homes on Salt Spring Island came to be considered uniquely Gulf Islands homes. This inviting book offers the first introduction to the life and architecture of West Coast modernist Henry A. Schubart, Jr. (1916–1998). While still in his teens, Schubart persuaded Frank Lloyd Wright to accept him as a Taliesin Fellow, and his year’s apprenticeship in the master’s workshop taught him principles of designing in harmony with nature that he explored throughout the rest of his life. Michele Dunkerley traces Schubart’s career from his early practice in San Francisco at the noted firm Wurster, Bernardi & Emmons, to his successful firm with Howard Friedman, to his most lasting professional achievements on Salt Spring Island, where he became the de facto community architect, designing more than 230 residential, commercial, educational, and religious projects. Drawing lessons from his mentors over his decades on the island, he forged an everyday architecture with his mastery of detail and inventiveness. In doing so, he helped define how the island could grow without losing its soul. Color photographs and site plans display Schubart’s remarkable homes and other commissions.

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University of Texas Press

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0292729421

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Counterfeit Revival

Looking For God in All the Wrong Places

By: Hank Hanegraaff

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Counterfeit Revival

Looking For God in All the Wrong Places

By: Hank Hanegraaff

Hank Hanegraaff documents the danger of looking for God in all the wrong places and goes behind the scenes into the wildly popular and bizarre world of contemporary revivalism. Hanegraaff masterfully exposes the stark contrast between these deeds of the flesh and a genuine work of the Spirit by contrasting modern "revivals" with the scriptural examples of God's movement among His people.

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1418514802

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Echoes of the Fall

An Earl Marcus Mystery

By: Hank Early

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Echoes of the Fall

An Earl Marcus Mystery

By: Hank Early

Earl Marcus has faced a litany of demons in his time, but a grisly murder sends him spiraling into a vortex of long-buried secrets. After losing a hotly contested sheriff's race to the lackey of corrupt politician Jeb Walsh, Earl Marcus has had the worst summer of his life. But worst turns deadly when a body turns up on Earl's front lawn, accompanied by a cryptic letter. Earl finds a cell phone in the victim's car and tracks it to The Harden School, an old, isolated campus surrounded by barbed wire and locked gates, and catches a sneak peek at a file labeled complaints, where he finds a familiar name: Jeb Walsh. Jeb's ex-wife Eleanor had lodged multiple complaints against the school on behalf of her son, and when he contacts Eleanor, the horrifying truth begins to emerge. Desperate to make a connection between the school and the dead man, Earl journeys into a world where nothing is sacred.

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Crooked Lane Books

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1643851829

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The Toolbox

By: Hank Leo Jr.

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The Toolbox

By: Hank Leo Jr.

When he finds the rusty toolbox in the corner of his garage, Hank Leo is reminded of his dad and the numerous times he would contribute tools to that box. From hammers and nails to tape measures and markers, Hank Sr. was not only adding to his son’s home repair kit, but to his repertoire of life management skills. The Toolbox is a wonderful collection of stories that allows the reader to reminisce about their relationships with their fathers, their families, and God. Who would have known that weekly contributions to Hank Jr.’s chest of tools would come to mean so much to him later in life? Whether hunting with his mother-in-law, trying to change a headlight on his car, or offering comfort and support to a friend, Hank finds himself taking a second and third look at the tools his father left him, learning lessons from how they have worked through the ages and how their qualities and capabilities can be applied to everyday situations.

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Dog Ear Publishing

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1457547082

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The Wrong Girl

By: Hank Phillippi Ryan

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The Wrong Girl

By: Hank Phillippi Ryan

Investigating allegations against an adoption agency that is suspected of reuniting adopted children with the wrong birth parents, Jane Ryland finds her efforts suspiciously tied to Jake Brogan's case involving a young woman's brutal murder and the disappearance of a baby.

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Macmillan

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0765332582

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The Jive 95

An Oral History of America’s Greatest Underground Rock Radio Station, KSAN San Francisco

By: Hank Rosenfeld

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The Jive 95

An Oral History of America’s Greatest Underground Rock Radio Station, KSAN San Francisco

By: Hank Rosenfeld

The Jive 95: An Oral History of America’s Greatest Underground Rock Radio Station, KSAN San Francisco is an oral history of America’s first hippie underground FM station which broadcast the countercultural consciousness of the ‘60s and ‘70s to a new generation. A communal radio band of intrepid hellraisers, pranksters, and drug-enlightened geniuses defined this psychedelic era, from the Summer of Love in Golden Gate Park, to the rebellion and bitter end of the late 1970s, which launched the Reagan Revolution. Founded in San Francisco by Tom Donahue, a 1996 inductee into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, an entire generation of Americans discovered a new musical universe among dance clubs, light shows and street fests––the original pop-ups. Almost overnight, KSAN became an audio clubhouse, where anyone could belong with friends and the cool cats and hipsters they just met. Rock gods, political stars, and literary celebrities, including Jerry Garcia, Ken Kesey, Sly Stone, and John Lennon were all interviewed by founder Tom Donahue and his cohorts, whose listeners “tuned in and turned on” to bands like Jefferson Airplane, The Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, Quicksilver, Country Joe and the Fish, Hot Tuna, The Beatles and Santana, among others. Folk journalist Hank Rosenfeld was there during those final years––writing, producing, and announcing. His warm, funny voice presents a behind-the-mic experience at KSAN, the beloved, “Jive 95,” whose delicious dose of enlightened sunshine and 33 rpm LP dreamscapes ignited a radio explosion from coast to coast. So, how did KSAN go from a liberating voice to a corporate cliché? It’s all here in Rosenfeld’s insightful, hilarious account, which includes countless exclusive interviews with iconic performers and never before available in print or audio form.

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1493070878

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