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Lost in the Cold War

The Story of Jack Downey, America’s Longest-Held POW

By: John T. Downey,Thomas Christensen,Jack Downey

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Lost in the Cold War

The Story of Jack Downey, America’s Longest-Held POW

By: John T. Downey,Thomas Christensen,Jack Downey

In 1952, John T. “Jack” Downey, a twenty-three-year-old CIA officer from Connecticut, was shot down over Manchuria during the Korean War. The pilots died in the crash, but Downey and his partner Richard “Dick” Fecteau were captured by the Chinese. For the next twenty years, they were harshly interrogated, put through show trials, held in solitary confinement, placed in reeducation camps, and toured around China as political pawns. Other prisoners of war came and went, but Downey and Fecteau’s release hinged on the United States acknowledging their status as CIA assets. Not until Nixon’s visit to China did Sino-American relations thaw enough to secure Fecteau’s release in 1971 and Downey’s in 1973. Lost in the Cold War is the never-before-told story of Downey’s decades as a prisoner of war and the efforts to bring him home. Downey’s lively and gripping memoir—written in secret late in life—interweaves horrors and deprivation with humor and the absurdities of captivity. He recounts his prison experiences: fearful interrogations, pantomime communications with his guards, a 3,000-page overstuffed confession designed to confuse his captors, and posing for “show” photographs for propaganda purposes. Through the eyes of his captors and during his tours around China, Downey watched the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, and the drastic transformations of the Mao era. In interspersed chapters, Thomas J. Christensen, an expert on Sino-American relations, explores the international politics of the Cold War and tells the story of how Downey and Fecteau’s families, the CIA, the U.S. State Department, and successive presidential administrations worked to secure their release.

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0231552955

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Lost in the Cold War

The Story of Jack Downey, America’s Longest-Held POW

By: John T. Downey,Thomas Christensen,Jack Downey

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The Story of Jack Downey, America’s Longest-Held POW

By: John T. Downey,Thomas Christensen,Jack Downey

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Money Code Space

Hidden Power in Bitcoin, Blockchain, and Decentralisation

By: Jack Parkin

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Money Code Space

Hidden Power in Bitcoin, Blockchain, and Decentralisation

By: Jack Parkin

Following the catastrophic events of the 2008 global financial crisis, an anonymous hacker released Bitcoin to claw back power from commercial and central banks. It quickly garnered an enthusiastic following who sought to forge a stable and democratic global economy--a world free from hierarchy and control. In their eyes, Bitcoin's underlying architecture, blockchain, hailed the dawn of decentralisation. Money Code Space shatters these emancipatory claims. In their place, Jack Parkin constructs a new framework for revealing the geographies of power that lie behind blockchain networks. Drawing on first-hand experience in cryptocurrency communities and start-up companies from Silicon Valley to London, Parkin untangles the complex web of culture, politics, and economics that truly drive decentralisation.

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Oxford University Press

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019751510X

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Rough Beasts

The Monstrous in Irish Fiction, 1800-2000

By: Jack Fennell

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Rough Beasts

The Monstrous in Irish Fiction, 1800-2000

By: Jack Fennell

This book looks at Irish Gothic and horror texts, in both English and Irish, from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth. Each selected work is considered in its historical context, to illustrate the historiographical role of horror and monstrosity in Irish fiction.

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1789620341

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The Turing Guide

By: B. Jack Copeland,Jonathan Bowen,Mark Sprevak,Robin Wilson

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The Turing Guide

By: B. Jack Copeland,Jonathan Bowen,Mark Sprevak,Robin Wilson

Alan Turing has long proved a subject of fascination, but following the centenary of his birth in 2012, the code-breaker, computer pioneer, mathematician (and much more) has become even more celebrated with much media coverage, and several meetings, conferences and books raising public awareness of Turing's life and work. This volume will bring together contributions from some of the leading experts on Alan Turing to create a comprehensive guide to Turing that will serve as a useful resource for researchers in the area as well as the increasingly interested general reader. The book will cover aspects of Turing's life and the wide range of his intellectual activities, including mathematics, code-breaking, computer science, logic, artificial intelligence and mathematical biology, as well as his subsequent influence.

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Oxford University Press

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0198747829

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Psychology and the Poetics of Growth

Figurative Language in Psychology, Psychotherapy, and Education

By: Howard R. Pollio,Jack M. Barlow,Harold J. Fine,Marilyn R. Pollio

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Psychology and the Poetics of Growth

Figurative Language in Psychology, Psychotherapy, and Education

By: Howard R. Pollio,Jack M. Barlow,Harold J. Fine,Marilyn R. Pollio

In this volume, originally published in 1977, the authors describe the relevance of figurative language for the psychology of language and present a methodological approach best described as naturalistic in orientation. The first section presents the idea of figurative language in terms of linguistic, aesthetic, and philosophical background. Also included is a description of empirical techniques used to assess figurative language and findings from an analysis of widely differing spoken and written contexts. The second section of this volume deals with the occurrence and significance of figurative language within the specific context of psychotherapy. The use of such language is shown to be crucial in patient insight. The third section deals with children, their understanding and use of figurative expressions, specifically within the school. Here is a volume that was an outstanding addition to the literature at the time and still a valuable resource today.

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Taylor & Francis

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100099600X

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Inventing American Tradition

From the Mayflower to Cinco de Mayo

By: Jack David Eller

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Inventing American Tradition

From the Mayflower to Cinco de Mayo

By: Jack David Eller

What really happened on the first Thanksgiving? How did a British drinking song become the US national anthem? And what makes Superman so darned American? Every tradition, even the noblest and most cherished, has a history, none more so than in the United States—a nation born with relative indifference, if not hostility, to the past. Most Americans would be surprised to learn just how recent (and controversial) the origins of their traditions are, as well as how those origins are often related to such divisive forces as the trauma of the Civil War or fears for American identity stemming from immigration and socialism. In pithy, entertaining chapters, Inventing American Tradition explores a set of beloved traditions spanning political symbols, holidays, lifestyles, and fictional characters—everything from the anthem to the American flag, blue jeans, and Mickey Mouse. Shedding light on the individuals who created these traditions and their motivations for promoting them, Jack David Eller reveals the murky, conflicted, confused, and contradictory history of emblems and institutions we very often take to be the bedrock of America. What emerges from this sideways take on our most celebrated Americanisms is the realization that all traditions are invented by particular people at particular times for particular reasons, and that the process of “traditioning” is forever ongoing—especially in the land of the free.

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Reaktion Books

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1789140358

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The Ultimate Donor

Replacing Your Sick Heart with the Heart of Christ

By: Jack Anderson

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The Ultimate Donor

Replacing Your Sick Heart with the Heart of Christ

By: Jack Anderson

Using heart transplantation as a metaphor, The Ultimate Donor illustrates what God has done for humanity through the death of Jesus. The paths of becoming a follower of Christ and a heart transplant recipient are similar. As with heart transplant recipients, followers of Christ experience times of diagnosis (knowledge of their sick heart), transplantation (replacing their sick heart with the heart of Christ) and living the post-transplant life (the disciplined life with their new heart). Every heart transplant demands the death of a donor. Fortunately, there is an Ultimate Donor.

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WestBow Press

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9798385009121

The Letters of Jack London

Vol. 1: 1896-1905; Vol. 2: 1906-1912; Vol. 3: 1913-1916, Deluxe set, in slip case

By: Jack London

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The Letters of Jack London

Vol. 1: 1896-1905; Vol. 2: 1906-1912; Vol. 3: 1913-1916, Deluxe set, in slip case

By: Jack London

The standard edition of the remarkable American short story writer's letters. Published in 1988

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Stanford University Press

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0804715076

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9780804715072

The Missing Chapter Lee Harvey Oswald In The Far East

By: Jack R. Swike

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The Missing Chapter Lee Harvey Oswald In The Far East

By: Jack R. Swike

Before Lee Harvey Oswald became linked to the JFK assassination, he was a mediocre U.S. Marine assigned to a radar squadron in Atsugi, Japan. Swike, a former Marine Corps Intelligence Officer stationed in Japan, spent over two decades researching Oswald's activities overseas, unraveling a chapter of Oswald's life that had quite simply been overlooked.

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Snotboards

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1438225733

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9781438225739

Going for Gold

The History of Newmont Mining Corporation

By: Jack H. Morris

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Going for Gold

The History of Newmont Mining Corporation

By: Jack H. Morris

Details how Newmont Mining revolutionized the gold mining industry and remains the second largest gold miner in the world Jack H. Morris asserts that Newmont is the link between early gold mining and today’s technology-driven industry. We learn how the company’s founder and several early leaders grew up in gold camps and how, in 1917, the company helped finance South Africa’s largest gold company and later owned famous gold mines in California and Colorado. In the 1960s the company developed the process to capture “invisible gold” from small distributions of the metal in large quantities of rock, thereby opening up the rich gold field at Carlin, Nevada. Modern gold mining has all the excitement and historic significance of the metal’s colorful past. Instead of panning for ready nuggets, today’s corporate miners must face heavy odds by extracting value from ores containing as little as one-hundredth of an ounce per ton. In often-remote locations, where the capital cost of a new mine can top $2 billion, 250-ton trucks crawl from half mile deep pits and ascend, beetle-like, loaded with ore for extraction of the minute quantities of gold locked inside. Morris had unique access to company records and the cooperation of more than 80 executives and employees of the firm, but the company exercised no control over content. The author tells a story of discovery and scientific breakthrough; strong-willed, flamboyant leaders like founder Boyce Thompson; corporate raiders such as T. Boone Pickens and Jimmy Goldsmith; shakedowns by the Indonesian government and monumental battles with the French over the richest mine in Peru; and learning to operate in the present environmental regulatory climate. This is a fascinating story of the metal that has ignited passions for centuries and now sells for over $1,000 an ounce.

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University of Alabama Press

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0817316779

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9780817316778

The Archeology of the New Testament

The Mediterranean World of the Early Christian Apostles

By: Jack Finegan

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The Archeology of the New Testament

The Mediterranean World of the Early Christian Apostles

By: Jack Finegan

This book provides an introduction to the Mediterranean world in which the early Christian apostles moved. Drawing on the geographic setting and available archaeological materials to create a sense of the contemporary environment, the book traces the 15,000 mile travels of Paul, whose world was also the world of Peter, John, and many other early Christians. The author presents a complete chronology for the major apostles based on his integration of existing histories, literary accounts, and archaeological information with new discoveries and new theories on dating New Testament events and documents. The text is lavishly illustrated and as fascinating now as when originally published in 1981.

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Routledge

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1317605055

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Social Studies for the Twenty-first Century

Methods and Materials for Teaching in Middle and Secondary Schools, 3rd Edition

By: Jack Zevin

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Social Studies for the Twenty-first Century

Methods and Materials for Teaching in Middle and Secondary Schools, 3rd Edition

By: Jack Zevin

Revised and updated second edition offers an overall framework to guide teaching in setting objectives, devising lessons, and choosing classroom strategies, as well as assistance in constructing tests.

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1135687765

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9781135687762

The Politics of Purity

Harvey Washington Wiley and the Origins of Federal Food Policy

By: Clayton Anderson Coppin,Jack C. High

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The Politics of Purity

Harvey Washington Wiley and the Origins of Federal Food Policy

By: Clayton Anderson Coppin,Jack C. High

Spearheaded by Harvey Washington Wiley, the Pure Food and Drugs Act of 1906 launched the federal regulation of food and drugs in the United States. Wiley is often lauded as a champion of public interest for bringing about a law that required healthful ingredients and honest labeling. Clayton Coppin and Jack High demonstrate, however, that Wiley was in fact surreptitiously allied with business firms that would benefit from regulation and moreover, that the law would help him build his government agency, the Federal Bureau of Chemistry. Coppin and High discuss such issues as Wiley's efforts to assign the law's enforcement to his own bureau. They go on to expose the selectivity of Wiley's enforcement of the law, in which he manipulated commercial competition in order to reward firms that supported him and penalize those that opposed him. By examining the history of the law's movement, the authors show that, rather than acting in the public interest, Wiley used the Pure Food and Drugs Act to further his own power and success. Finally, they analyze government regulation itself as the outcome of two distinct competitive processes, one that takes place in the market, the other in the polity. The book will interest scholars concerned with government regulation, including those in economics, political science, history, and business. Clayton Coppin is a management consultant and historian, Koch Industries, Wichita. Jack High is Professor of Economics, George Mason University.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472027255

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9780472027255

Tomorrow, It's Only a Vision

The Journey Continues

By: Jack Walker

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Tomorrow, It's Only a Vision

The Journey Continues

By: Jack Walker

This continuing saga of Jack Walker’s fascinating life story takes the reader inside the Chicago labor movement and civil rights street activity during the tumultuous 1960s and 1970s and the anti-Vietnam War protests. The reader will be with Walker as he associates with labor leaders, some honest and some not. Politicians and judges on the take. He introduces two mafia “juice men” who shared their daily experiences with him and two other mobsters who ran a call girl ring. His working relationship with most all the Black leaders in Chicago gives some insight into Black rage of the time. His years as a civil rights investigator will introduce a small-town mayor who claimed his school district would never integrate Whites with Negroes and a Minnesota town that went silent on why the Native American students were pulled out and returned to the reservation. His legal defenses before administrative law judges and arbitrators left landmark precedents for federal government workers. Readers will experience his ten years as a practicing alcoholic and his up-and-down life recovering to go on and become a successful real estate operator, only to lose it all in bankruptcy and foreclosure, then recover to go on living one day at a time.

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Page Publishing Inc

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1662443900

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9781662443909

Psychological Anthropology for the 21st Century

By: Jack David Eller

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Psychological Anthropology for the 21st Century

By: Jack David Eller

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to psychological anthropology, covering both the early history and contemporary state of the field. Eller discusses the major themes, theories, figures and publications, and provides a detailed survey of the essential and enduring relationship between anthropology and psychology. The volume charts the development, celebrates the accomplishments, critiques the inadequacies, and considers the future of a field that has made great contributions to the overall discipline of anthropology. The chapters feature rich ethnographic examples and boxes for more in-depth discussion as well as summaries and questions to support teaching and learning. This is essential reading for all students new to the study of psychological anthropology.

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042995140X

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9780429951404

Prayers, Petitions, and Protests

The Catholic Church and the Ontario Schools Crisis in the Windsor Border Region, 1910-1928

By: Jack D. Cecillon

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Prayers, Petitions, and Protests

The Catholic Church and the Ontario Schools Crisis in the Windsor Border Region, 1910-1928

By: Jack D. Cecillon

In 1912, the Ontario Conservative government issued the controversial Regulation 17 in an attempt to improve the quality of English-language teaching in the province, while effectively restricting French-language instruction within bilingual schools. Prayers, Petitions, and Protests explores popular reaction to the policy in the Windsor border area and the radical opposition of the Catholic hierarchy to bilingual schooling. Jack Cecillon presents a comprehensive study of divisions that were created or exacerbated within the local francophone communities, as well as the pivotal role played by the bishop of London, Michael Francis Fallon, who strongly opposed bilingual education within his diocese. Also instrumental was the Catholic Church's desperation to stave off challenges to the province's separate schools system, which was met with aggressive resistance from congregations of French-speaking Catholics. This dispute was of such grave concern to church officials that the Pope had to intervene twice to manage the conflict between the warring Irish- and French-Canadian factions. Although much of the province effectively resisted the school reforms, what emerged in Windsor was very different. Prayers, Petitions, and Protests uncovers a conflict within the church where priests and laypeople challenged the hierarchy, disobeyed orders, and stirred public resistance.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773588876

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9780773588875

Young Citizens of the World

Teaching Elementary Social Studies through Civic Engagement

By: Marilynne Boyle-Baise,Jack Zevin

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Young Citizens of the World

Teaching Elementary Social Studies through Civic Engagement

By: Marilynne Boyle-Baise,Jack Zevin

Young Citizens of the World takes a clear stance: Social studies is about citizenship education that is informed, deliberative, and activist—citizenship not only as a noun, something one studies, but as a verb, something one DOES. Its holistic, multicultural approach is based on this clear curricular and pedagogical purpose. Straightforward, engaging, and highly interactive, the book encourages students (and their teachers) to become informed, think it through, and take action. Each chapter is written as a civic engagement which is teacher-ready for use in elementary classrooms. A set of six teaching strategies that are constructive, inquiry-driven, dramatic, and deliberative bring the curricular framework to life through intensive, integrated meaningful studies of special places, important people, and significant times. Readers are invited to rehearse the projects in their social studies education courses and then to reinterpret them for their classrooms. The projects are supported by important resources for teaching, including supportive children’s literature, links to internet sites, and visual sources and by a Companion Website that enhances and extends the text.

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Routledge

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1135019371

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9781135019372

Handbook of Psychology, Assessment Psychology

By: Irving B. Weiner,John R. Graham,Jack A. Naglieri

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Handbook of Psychology, Assessment Psychology

By: Irving B. Weiner,John R. Graham,Jack A. Naglieri

Psychology is of interest to academics from many fields, as well as to the thousands of academic and clinical psychologists and general public who can't help but be interested in learning more about why humans think and behave as they do. This award-winning twelve-volume reference covers every aspect of the ever-fascinating discipline of psychology and represents the most current knowledge in the field. This ten-year revision now covers discoveries based in neuroscience, clinical psychology's new interest in evidence-based practice and mindfulness, and new findings in social, developmental, and forensic psychology.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470891270

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9780470891278

Plunkett's Health Care Industry Almanac

By: Jack W. Plunkett

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Plunkett's Health Care Industry Almanac

By: Jack W. Plunkett

This acclaimed and popular text is the only complete market research guide to the American health care industry--a tool for strategic planning, competitive intelligence, employment searches or financial research. Covers national health expenditures, technologies, patient populations, research, Medicare, Medicaid, managed care. Contains trends, statistical tables and an in-depth glossary. Features in-depth profiles of the 500 major firms in all health industry sectors.

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Plunkett Research, Ltd.

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1593921322

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9781593921323

Sherlock - The Television Companion

By: Jack Barrett

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Sherlock - The Television Companion

By: Jack Barrett

The game is on! Sherlock - The Television Companion is the ultimate guide to the cult BBC television series starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes.

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BookRix

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3748775776

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9783748775775

Eco-Mathematics Education

K-8 Lesson Plans for Ecological and Social Change

By: Nataly Chesky,Jack Milgram

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Eco-Mathematics Education

K-8 Lesson Plans for Ecological and Social Change

By: Nataly Chesky,Jack Milgram

Eco-Mathematics Education strives to show how everyone can experience the embedded connection between mathematics and the natural world. The authors’ sincere hope is that by doing so, we can radically change the way we come to understand mathematics, as well as humanity’s place in the ecosystem. The book hopes to accomplish this by providing in-depth lesson plans and resources for educators and anyone interested in teaching and learning mathematics through an ecological aesthetic perspective. All lessons are based on the inquiry method of teaching, aligned to standards, incorporate art projects inspired by famous artists, and utilize recycled and/or natural materials as much as possible.

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BRILL

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9004466800

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9789004466807

Irish Science Fiction

By: Jack Fennell

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Irish Science Fiction

By: Jack Fennell

An innovative examination of Irish science fiction from the 1850s to the present day, covering material written both in Irish and in English. Considering science fiction novels and short stories in their historical context, it analyses a body of literature that has largely been ignored by Irish literature researchers.

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Oxford University Press

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1781381194

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9781781381199

Plunkett's Health Care Industry Almanac 2006

The Only Complete Reference to the Health Care Industry

By: Jack W. Plunbett

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Plunkett's Health Care Industry Almanac 2006

The Only Complete Reference to the Health Care Industry

By: Jack W. Plunbett

Plunketts Health Care Industry Almanac is the only complete reference to the American Health Care Industry and its leading corporations. Whatever your purpose for researching the health care field, youll find this massive reference book to be a valuable guide. No other source provides this books easy-to-understand comparisons of national health expenditures, emerging technologies, patient populations, hospitals, clinics, corporations, research, Medicare, Medicaid, managed care, and many other areas of vital importance. Included in the market research sections are dozens of statistical tables covering every aspect of the industry, from Medicare expenditures to hospital utilization, from insured and uninsured populations to revenues to health care expenditures as a percent of GDP. A special area covers vital statistics and health status of the U.S. population. The corporate analysis section features in-depth profiles of the 500 major for-profit firms (which we call The Health Care 500) within the many industry sectors that make up the health care system, from the leading companies in pharmaceuticals to the major managed care companies. Details for each corporation include executives by title, phone, fax, website, address, growth plans, divisions, subsidiaries, brand names, competitive advantage and financial results. Purchasers of either the book or PDF version can receive a free copy of the company profiles database on CD-ROM, enabling key word search and export of key information, addresses, phone numbers and executive names with titles for every company profiled.

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1593920466

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9781593920463

Plunkett's Biotech & Genetics Industry Almanac 2008: Biotech & Genetics Industry Market Research, Statistics, Trends & Leading Companies

By: Jack W. Plunkett

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Plunkett's Biotech & Genetics Industry Almanac 2008: Biotech & Genetics Industry Market Research, Statistics, Trends & Leading Companies

By: Jack W. Plunkett

A market research guide to the business of biotech, genetics, proteomics and related services. It offers tools for strategic planning, competitive intelligence, employment searches, or financial research. It features profiles of nearly 400 leading biotech companies and includes chapters on trends.

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1593920873

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9781593920876

Lands Where My Fathers Died

By: Jack Stewart

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Lands Where My Fathers Died

By: Jack Stewart

The Stewart family has been the subject of history, chronicles, dramas, operas, and novels for hundreds of years. Lands Where My Fathers Died meticulously recreates that history from 1230 A.D., when the first family member used STEWART as his surname, to the present. Here are the High Stewards, founders and benefactors of Paisley Abbey, the Cradle of the Stewarts, the royal Stewart kings and queens, accounts of the Stewarts of medieval Glasgow, through the Protestant Revolution until exiled into Ireland. When Hugh Stewart gets on a ship in Belfast and arrives in Pennsylvania in 1735 there are new stories of pioneers, frontiersmen, Indians, farmers and merchants, wars and crimes, births and deaths. Each generation gives equal accounts of both the male progenitors and their wives who became Stewarts by marriage. Throughout this book celebrates family life, the fathers and mothers who are the forebears of today's generation of Stewarts.

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Lulu.com

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1300279818

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9781300279815

Plunkett's Energy Industry Almanac 2009

Energy Industry Market Research, Statistics, Trends and Leading Companies

By: Jack W. Plunkett

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Plunkett's Energy Industry Almanac 2009

Energy Industry Market Research, Statistics, Trends and Leading Companies

By: Jack W. Plunkett

The energy industry is boiling over with changes. This title offers a reference tool to the energy industry that covers various things from major oil companies to independents, utilities, pipelines, coal, LNG, oil field services, and refiners. It includes over a dozen statistical tables and profiles of The Energy 500 Firms.

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1593921284

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9781593921286

Between Extremes

Seeking the Political Center in the Civil War North

By: Jack Furniss

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Between Extremes

Seeking the Political Center in the Civil War North

By: Jack Furniss

Between 1861 and 1865, northern voters fortified Abraham Lincoln’s administration as it oversaw the end of the institution of slavery and an unprecedented expansion in the size and scope of the federal government. Since the United States never considered suspending the democratic process during the Civil War, these revolutionary developments—indeed the entire war effort—depended on ballots as much as bullets. Why did civilians who, at the start of the conflict, had not anticipated or desired these transformations to their society nonetheless vote to uphold them? Jack Furniss’s Between Extremes proposes an answer to this question by revealing a potent strand of centrist politics that took hold across the Union and provided the conservative rationales that allowed most northerners to accept the war’s radical outcomes.

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Plunkett's Biotech & Genetics Industry Almanac 2007: Biotech & Genetics Industry Market Research, Statistics, Trends & Leading Companies

By: Plunkett Research Ltd,Jack W. Plunkett

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Plunkett's Biotech & Genetics Industry Almanac 2007: Biotech & Genetics Industry Market Research, Statistics, Trends & Leading Companies

By: Plunkett Research Ltd,Jack W. Plunkett

Presents a market research guide to the business of biotech, genetics, proteomics and related services - a tool for strategic planning, competitive intelligence, employment searches, or financial research. This title provides profiles of over 400 biotech companies and in-depth chapters on trends.

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159392058X

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Experiment Earth

Responsible innovation in geoengineering

By: Jack Stilgoe

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Experiment Earth

Responsible innovation in geoengineering

By: Jack Stilgoe

Experiments in geoengineering – intentionally manipulating the Earth’s climate to reduce global warming – have become the focus of a vital debate about responsible science and innovation. Drawing on three years of sociological research working with scientists on one of the world’s first major geoengineering projects, this book examines the politics of experimentation. Geoengineering provides a test case for rethinking the responsibilities of scientists and asking how science can take better care of the futures that it helps bring about. This book gives students, researchers and the general reader interested in the place of science in contemporary society a compelling framework for future thinking and discussion.

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Routledge

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1317909135

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Juvenile Delinquency

A Sociological Approach

By: William E. Thompson,Jack E. Bynum

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Juvenile Delinquency

A Sociological Approach

By: William E. Thompson,Jack E. Bynum

This sophomore/junior level core text is intended for the juvenile delinquency course taught in criminal justice, criminology, and sociology departments at both four year and two year institutions. Taking a sociological approach, Juvenile Delinquency, Tenth Edition, discusses delinquency as it relates to and emerges from the youth's family, neighborhood, school, peer group, social class, and overall cultural and social environment. The author incorporates contributions from sociologists, psychologists, social workers, criminologists, and other specialists who have sought to understand, explain, control, and prevent juvenile delinquency. New to this edition: • All data on delinquents and delinquency derived from FBI Uniform Crime Reports and Juvenile Court Statistics have been updated. • Reports and analyses of contemporary school shootings and other violent youth behavior provide theoretical explanations of cause and suggest preventative measures. The etiology of this phenomenon will be expanded. • The coverage of contemporary integrative theories of juvenile delinquency, including contributions from rational choice, deterrence, and feminist theory, have been expanded. This book is accompanied by a learning package designed to enhance the experience of both instructors and students. Instructor’s Manual and Test Bank. For each chapter in the text, this valuable resource provides a chapter summary, student learning objectives, lecture outlines, and recommended classroom exercises. The Test Bank includes multiple choice, true-false, fill-in-the-blank, and essay questions. The Instructor’s Manual and Test Bank are available to adopters for download on the text’s catalog page at www.rowman.com. Respondus 4.0©. Respondus 4.0© is a powerful tool for creating and managing exams that can be printed to paper or published directly to the most popular learning management systems. Exams can be created offline or moved from one LMS to another. Respondus LE is available for free and can be used to automate the process of creating print tests. Respondus 3.5, available for purchase or via a school site license, prepares tests to be uploaded to an LMS. Click here: http://www.respondus.com/products/testbank/search.php to submit your request. Respondus StudyMate©. Respondus StudyMate© helps students master the basics of course material through learning activities, self-assessments, and games. A dozen activities – such as flash cards, crosswords and quizzes – engage students with course content in an individualized way. Students can access StudyMate activities using computers, smartphones and tablets. StudyMate also integrates seamlessly with the most popular learning management systems.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442265019

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Plunkett's Health Care Industry Almanac 2007: Health Care Industry Market Research, Statistics, Trends & Leading Companies

By: Jack W. Plunbett

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Plunkett's Health Care Industry Almanac 2007: Health Care Industry Market Research, Statistics, Trends & Leading Companies

By: Jack W. Plunbett

Contains information to understand the trends, technologies, finances, and leading companies of a specific industry.

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1593920792

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Captain America Masterworks Vol. 10

By: Jack Kirby

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Captain America Masterworks Vol. 10

By: Jack Kirby

Collects Captain America (1968) #193-200, Annual (1971) #3; material from Marvel Treasury Special: Captain America's Bicentennial Battles. Its the return of the King! In 1975, Jack King Kirby came back to Marvel and his iconic creation, Captain America, as writer, artist and editor. It was Kirby unleashed and the results were groundbreaking. Kirby created an intricate storyline that built month after month toward Americas Bicentennial and CAPTAIN AMERICA #200! The Madbomb saga featured an aristocratic cabal seeking to wrest control of the country by possessing the American peoples minds and driving them to insane outbreaks of violence. Its an Orwellian adventure done Kirby-style, and theres nothing else like it! Also featuring an out-of-this-world alien Annual escapade, and Kirbys BICENTENNIAL BATTLES an 80-page masterpiece encompassing American history from the Revolution to the Old West to both World Wars!

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Marvel Entertainment

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1302505238

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Gay and Lesbian Parenting

By: Jack Drescher,Deborah Glazer

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Gay and Lesbian Parenting

By: Jack Drescher,Deborah Glazer

Find sources of support for raising a nontraditional family in a straight world! The experience of parenting is commonly overlooked in psychological theory, and lesbians and gay men are not typically considered as parents or parents to be. Gay and Lesbian Parenting examines the psychological issues related to developing family and becoming parents for gay men and lesbians. Instead of pathologizing gay and lesbian families, it explores the emotional growth and development issues inherent in child-rearing. Traditionally, coming out as gay or lesbian meant abandoning any hope of becoming a parent or keeping your children if you already had them. But with the “gayby boom” in full swing, more and more gay and lesbian couples are having new babies, adopting children, and continuing to raise the offspring of previous heterosexual relationships. Although gay and lesbian parents still face unique challenges in building and rearing a family, as well as the usual problems heterosexual couples encounter, Gay and Lesbian Parenting unflinchingly examines these concerns and offers positive suggestions and ideas for dealing with the difficulties. This life-affirming book takes a look at the practical and emotional realities of raising children in nontraditional family structures, including: issues of kinship, shared motherhood, and possessiveness in lesbian couples legal issues entailed by the lack of marriage and legal kinship parenthood as a powerful force for personal growth and development fatherhood as a process of creating connectedness in the family, community, and place of worship original empirical research on the mental health of lesbians’children the history of the gay and lesbian movement as it relates to child-rearing Gay and Lesbian Parenting affirms the power of gay and lesbian couples to raise healthy, happy children and to change and grow through their experience of parenting. This book is also essential for mental health professionals from psychiatric nurses to psychiatrists who are working with the gay and lesbian community.

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CRC Press

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0789013509

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9780789013507

Plunkett's Companion to the Almanac of American Employers 2008

Market Research, Statistics and Trends Pertaining to America's Hottest Mid-size Employers

By: Jack W. Plunkett

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Plunkett's Companion to the Almanac of American Employers 2008

Market Research, Statistics and Trends Pertaining to America's Hottest Mid-size Employers

By: Jack W. Plunkett

Covers employers of various types from 100 to 2,500 employees in size (while the main volume covers companies of 2,500 or more employees). This book contains profiles of companies that are of vital importance to job-seekers of various types. It also enables readers to compare the growth potential and benefit plans of large employers.

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1593921071

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9781593921071

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