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The Gulf: The Making of An American Sea

By: Jack E. Davis

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The Gulf: The Making of An American Sea

By: Jack E. Davis

Winner • Pulitzer Prize for History Winner • Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction Finalist • National Book Critics Circle Award (Nonfiction) A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Washington Post, NPR, Library Journal, and gCaptain Booklist Editors’ Choice (History) Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence In this “cri de coeur about the Gulf’s environmental ruin” (New York Times), “Davis has written a beautiful homage to a neglected sea” (front page, New York Times Book Review). Hailed as a “nonfiction epic . . . in the tradition of Jared Diamond’s best-seller Collapse, and Simon Winchester’s Atlantic” (Dallas Morning News), Jack E. Davis’s The Gulf is “by turns informative, lyrical, inspiring and chilling for anyone who cares about the future of ‘America’s Sea’ ” (Wall Street Journal). Illuminating America’s political and economic relationship with the environment from the age of the conquistadors to the present, Davis demonstrates how the Gulf’s fruitful ecosystems and exceptional beauty empowered a growing nation. Filled with vivid, untold stories from the sportfish that launched Gulfside vacationing to Hollywood’s role in the country’s first offshore oil wells, this “vast and welltold story shows how we made the Gulf . . . [into] a ‘national sacrifice zone’ ” (Bill McKibben). The first and only study of its kind, The Gulf offers “a unique and illuminating history of the American Southern coast and sea as it should be written” (Edward O. Wilson).

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Liveright Publishing

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0871408678

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Race Against Time

Culture and Separation in Natchez Since 1930

By: Jack E. Davis

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Race Against Time

Culture and Separation in Natchez Since 1930

By: Jack E. Davis

While many studies of race relations have focused on the black experience, Race against Time strives to unravel the emotional and cultural foundations of race in the white mind. Jack E. Davis combed primary documents in Natchez, Mississippi, and absorbed the town's oral history to understand white racial attitudes there over the past seven decades, a period rich in social change, strife, and reconciliation. What he found in this community that cultivates for profit a romantic view of the Old South challenges conventional assumptions about racial prejudice. Davis engagingly and effortlessly weaves between nineteenth and twentieth centuries, white observations and black, to describe patterns of social interaction in Natchez in the workplace, education, politics, religion, and daily life. It was not, he discovers, false notions of biological differences reinforced by class and economic conflict that lay at the heart of the town's racial divide but rather the perception of a black/white cultural divergence -- in values in education, work, and family. White culture was deemed superior, a presumption manifested through a hierarchy of old-family elite and other white citizens. Since 1930, Natchez has developed a major tourist industry, downsized sharecropping, expanded its manufacturing sector, and participated in the struggles for civil rights, school desegregation, and black political empowerment. Yet the collective white perception of a mythic past has continued, reinforced through the sum of Natchez's public history -- social memory, school textbooks, breathtaking antebellum mansions, and world-famous Pilgrimage. In Race against Time, Davis sensitively lays bare the need for shared control of the town's history and the acknowledgment of intercultural dependence to effect true racial equality. Building upon the 1941 classic Deep South: A Social Anthropological Study of Caste and Class, Davis brings tremendous passion and insight to the demanding issue of race as he fathoms the contours of Natchez's distinctive racial dynamics in recent decades.

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LSU Press

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0807130273

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The Bald Eagle: The Improbable Journey of America's Bird

By: Jack E. Davis

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The Bald Eagle: The Improbable Journey of America's Bird

By: Jack E. Davis

Best Books of the Month: Wall Street Journal, Kirkus Reviews From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Gulf, a sweeping cultural and natural history of the bald eagle in America. The bald eagle is regal but fearless, a bird you’re not inclined to argue with. For centuries, Americans have celebrated it as “majestic” and “noble,” yet savaged the living bird behind their national symbol as a malicious predator of livestock and, falsely, a snatcher of babies. Taking us from before the nation’s founding through inconceivable resurgences of this enduring all-American species, Jack E. Davis contrasts the age when native peoples lived beside it peacefully with that when others, whether through hunting bounties or DDT pesticides, twice pushed Haliaeetus leucocephalus to the brink of extinction. Filled with spectacular stories of Founding Fathers, rapacious hunters, heroic bird rescuers, and the lives of bald eagles themselves—monogamous creatures, considered among the animal world’s finest parents—The Bald Eagle is a much-awaited cultural and natural history that demonstrates how this bird’s wondrous journey may provide inspiration today, as we grapple with environmental peril on a larger scale.

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1631495267

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The Gulf: The Making of An American Sea

By: Jack E. Davis

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The Voicemail

By: Jack E. Davis

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The Voicemail

By: Jack E. Davis

After listening to a brutal murder on her phone's voicemail, schoolteacher Samantha Harris sets out to discover who's responsible for the crime. Unfortunately, while trying to solve one murder, she inadvertently uncovers another. Now, pulled into the center of her normally quiet town's latest murder, Samantha begins to see her enigmatic friends as cold-blooded murderers. Armed with only a 15lbs dachshund by her side, Samantha is determined to uncover the truth. But when a new mysterious stranger blows into town, they bring up a few skeletons from this not so quiet town's past... from both the dead and the living.

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Jack E. Davis

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1667892126

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An Everglades Providence

Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American Environmental Century

By: Jack E. Davis

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An Everglades Providence

Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American Environmental Century

By: Jack E. Davis

Profiles the suffragist, feminist, and environmentalist who fought for the preservation and protection of the Everglades and won the battle that turned it into a national wilderness area.

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University of Georgia Press

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082033071X

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9780820330716

Zack Files 05: Dr. Jekyll, Orthodontist

By: Dan Greenburg,Jack E. Davis

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Zack Files 05: Dr. Jekyll, Orthodontist

By: Dan Greenburg,Jack E. Davis

Zack isn't thrilled about having to get a tooth pulled, but a trip to the orthodontist proves a lot hairier than he ever expected. Nice old Dr. Silver has been replaced by the fang- toothed Dr. Jekyll, a mouthwash-guzzling mad scientist whose secret experiments have gone ker-plewy!

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0448413388

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Zack Files 04: Zap! I'm a Mind Reader

By: Dan Greenburg,Jack E. Davis

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Zack Files 04: Zap! I'm a Mind Reader

By: Dan Greenburg,Jack E. Davis

Who'd have thought mind reading could be such a pain? I mean, I expected to discover everyone's silly secrets. But someone is planning something very strange--and it's no joke!

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0448412632

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Zack Files 02: Through the Medicine Cabinet

By: Dan Greenburg,Jack E. Davis

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Zack Files 02: Through the Medicine Cabinet

By: Dan Greenburg,Jack E. Davis

One minute I was looking for my retainer in the bathroom. The next, I was staring at a boy who looked just like me. And I don't mean my reflection! What's going on here?

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0448412624

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The Adventures of Archie Featherspoon

By: Cathy Stefanec-Ogren,Cathy Stefanec Ogren,Jack E. Davis

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The Adventures of Archie Featherspoon

By: Cathy Stefanec-Ogren,Cathy Stefanec Ogren,Jack E. Davis

A young boy with a knack for creating unusual inventions when he should be helping his mother on the farm finds a use for them when he is made sheriff of a town in Texas and must get rid of a gang of no-good bullies.

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Simon and Schuster

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0689843593

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9780689843594

Plunkett's Energy Industry Almanac 2007

Energy Industry Market Research, Statistics, Trends and Leading Companies

By: Jack W. Plunkett

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Plunkett's Energy Industry Almanac 2007

Energy Industry Market Research, Statistics, Trends and Leading Companies

By: Jack W. Plunkett

One CD-ROM disc in pocket.

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Plunkett Research, Ltd.

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1593920601

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9781593920609

Zack Files 06: I'm out of My Body...Please Leave a Message

By: Dan Greenburg,Jack E. Davis

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Zack Files 06: I'm out of My Body...Please Leave a Message

By: Dan Greenburg,Jack E. Davis

When Zack's friend Spencer brings a 60's-style hippie book on astral travel to a sleepover, Zack learns the ins and outs of out-of-body travel in a snap. Getting out of their bodies seems awfully easy for the boys. The problem is, how do they get back in?!

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0448413396

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The Next Boom (E-book)

What You Absolutely, Positively Have to Know about the World Between Now And 2025

By: Jack W. Plunkett

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The Next Boom (E-book)

What You Absolutely, Positively Have to Know about the World Between Now And 2025

By: Jack W. Plunkett

Plunkett demonstrates that we are on the verge of a period of major economic growth, and presents a panorama of carefully documented developments in areas including energy, health care, education, demographics, global trade, evolving consumer habits, technologies and the rapidly-growing global middle class."[Source inconnue].

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1608799018

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Zack Files 01: My Great-grandpa's in the Litter Box

By: Dan Greenburg,Jack E. Davis

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Zack Files 01: My Great-grandpa's in the Litter Box

By: Dan Greenburg,Jack E. Davis

What I wanted was a cute little kitten. Instead, I got a tough tomcat that talks. And that's not all! He says he's my Great-Grandpa Julius and he needs my help. And messy litter box or not, family is family!

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1101078332

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Almanac of American Employers_2002-2003

By: Jack W. Plunkett

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Almanac of American Employers_2002-2003

By: Jack W. Plunkett

Looking for jobs and careers with top American employers? Companies that are recruiting and hiring today? Do you want employment with top salaries, benefits, stock options and advancement opportunities? The Almanac of American Employers, leads job seekers doing employment research to the 500 best, largest, most successful companies that are hiring in America. Job seekers-- from new college graduates--to top executives--to first time employees seeking companies recruiting entry level workers-rely on our complete profiles of the 500 fastest-growing, major corporate employers in America today-- companies creating the best job opportunities. This immense reference book includes hard-to-find information, such as: benefit plans, stock plans, salaries, hiring and recruiting plans, training and corporate culture, growth, new facilities, research & development, fax numbers, toll-free numbers and Internet addresses. We rate over 100 firms as "Hot Spots" for job openings and advancement opportunities for women and minorities. In addition, The Almanac of American Employers includes a jobs market trends analysis, 7 keys for research for job openings, and the outlook for specific industries and occupations. We give indexes by career type, locations, industry and much more. Whether you're a new college graduate seeking the best salaries, training and advancement opportunities, or an experienced executive doing corporate research to find companies with the best benefit plans and stock options, The Almanac of American Employers is your complete reference to today's hottest companies. Both printed book and eBook purchasers can receive a free copy of the database on CD-ROM, enabling export of employer contacts, phone numbers and addresses.

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740

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Plunkett Research

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1891775251

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9781891775253

African-American Social Leaders and Activists

By: Jack Rummel

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African-American Social Leaders and Activists

By: Jack Rummel

Whether abolitionists or slave revolt leaders

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Infobase Publishing

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143810782X

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9781438107820

Zack Files 19: The Boy Who Cried Bigfoot

By: Dan Greenburg,Jack E. Davis

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Zack Files 19: The Boy Who Cried Bigfoot

By: Dan Greenburg,Jack E. Davis

Zack's first trip to sleep-away camp gets a little hairy when legends of a mysterious creature lurking in the woods turn out to be more than just campfire tales. Is it the missing link? Yeti? Sasquatch? Bigfoot?

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1101078499

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Spartan Sports Encyclopedia

A History of the Michigan State Men's Athletic Program

By: Jack Seibold

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Spartan Sports Encyclopedia

A History of the Michigan State Men's Athletic Program

By: Jack Seibold

The complete history of Michigan State's men's athletics program is detailed for the first time, with vignettes about seasons and celebrities and a complete review of scores and statistics.

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1582612196

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9781582612195

Remington and Klein's Infectious Diseases of the Fetus and Newborn E-Book

By: Christopher B. Wilson,Victor Nizet,Yvonne Maldonado,Jack S. Remington,Jerome O. Klein

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Remington and Klein's Infectious Diseases of the Fetus and Newborn E-Book

By: Christopher B. Wilson,Victor Nizet,Yvonne Maldonado,Jack S. Remington,Jerome O. Klein

Regarded as the definitive source of information in the field, Infectious Diseases of the Fetus and Newborn Infant remains your indispensable source for authoritative, state-of-the-art answers. Edited by Drs. Wilson, Nizet, Maldonado, Remington, and Klein, this fully updated reference helps you apply the latest evidence-based recommendations in the prevention, diagnosis, and management of infections found in utero, during delivery, and in the neonatal period in both premature and term infants. - Consult this title on your favorite e-reader. - Form a definitive diagnosis and create the best treatment plans possible using evidence-based recommendations and expert guidance from world authorities. - Locate key content easily and identify clinical conditions quickly thanks to a consistent, highly user-friendly format now featuring a full-color design with hundreds of illustrations, and fresh perspectives from six new authoritative chapter lead authors. - Explore what's changing in key areas such as: - emerging problems and concepts in maternal, fetal, and neonatal infectious diseases - anticipation and recognition of infections occurring in utero, during delivery, and in the neonatal period - Stay on the cutting edge of your field with new and improved chapters including: obstetric factors associated with infections of the fetus and newborn infant; human milk; borella infections; tuberculosis; bordetella pertussis and other bordetella sp infections; herpes simplex; toxoplasmosis; pneumocystis and other less common fungal infections; and healthcare-associated infections in the nursery - Keep up with the most relevant topics in fetal/neonatal infectious disease including new antimicrobial agents, gram- negative infections and their management, and recommendations for immunization of the fetus/mother. - Overcome clinical challenges in developing countries where access to proper medical care is limited. - Expert Consult eBook version included with purchase. This enhanced eBook experience allows you to search all of the text, figures, references, and videos from the book on a variety of devices.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323340962

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9780323340960

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