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The Writer's Idea Book 10th Anniversary Edition

How to Develop Great Ideas for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Screenplays

By: Jack Heffron

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The Writer's Idea Book 10th Anniversary Edition

How to Develop Great Ideas for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Screenplays

By: Jack Heffron

Where do you get your ideas? It’s a question that plagues every writer. And once you’ve got an idea, what then? Ideas without a plan, without a purpose, are no more than pleasant thoughts. So how do you come up with those ideas, and how do you turn them into writing that will engage your reader? The Writer’s Idea Book is here to help you find the answers. Utilizing more than 400 prompts and exercises, you’ll generate intriguing ideas and plumb their possibilities to turn them into something amazing. This indispensable guide will help you: • Develop good writing habits that foster creativity • Explore your own life for writing material • Draw inspiration from the world around you • Find form for your ideas, develop them into a piece of writing, and make them better Let The Writer’s Idea Book give you the insight and self-awareness to create and refine ideas that demand to be transformed into greater works, the kind of compelling, absorbing writing that will have other writers asking "where do you get your ideas?

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1599633868

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Coral Castle

The Mystery of Ed Leedskalnin and His American Stonehenge

By: Rusty McClure,Jack Heffron

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Coral Castle

The Mystery of Ed Leedskalnin and His American Stonehenge

By: Rusty McClure,Jack Heffron

The story of the Coral Castle in Homestead, Florida, and its creator, Edward Leedskalnin.

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144

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Ternary Publishing LLC

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098421321X

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9780984213214

New Jack

Memoir of a Pro Wrestling Extremist

By: New Jack,,Jason Norman

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New Jack

Memoir of a Pro Wrestling Extremist

By: New Jack,,Jason Norman

You may have cheered him. You may have booed him out of the building. But until now, you've never really known "The Most Dangerous Man in Wrestling." For the first time, Jerome "New Jack" Young opens up about his rise to stardom in Extreme Championship Wrestling. From his crazed dives off balconies and scaffolds to his bloody weapons matches that trampled the line between reality and entertainment, this candid memoir reveals the man behind the infamy, with new disclosures about the Mass Transit incident, the brutal beat-down of Gypsy Joe, and the stabbing of a fellow wrestler in Florida. Beyond the gimmicks that united white supremacists and the NAACP against him, New Jack discusses his violent youth that nearly led him to a life of crime, his career as a bounty hunter, a near-fatal drug addiction, the last months of ECW, and his place in wrestling history.

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McFarland

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1476638306

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9781476638300

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

Small Town Girl

And Other Stories About Ordinary People Who Led Extraordinary Lives

By: Jack K. Paquette

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Small Town Girl

And Other Stories About Ordinary People Who Led Extraordinary Lives

By: Jack K. Paquette

The stories of more than two dozen ordinary people who led extraordinary lives are told here with honesty and wit by a historian who has been writing about northwest Ohios history for more than 60 years. Some of the people chronicled in the book were famous in their day, but are virtually forgotten today. Others gained a measure of renown for their unusual lifestyles only after their deaths. And still others are receiving well-deserved recognition for the first time in these pages. Among those featured in the book are nationally known figures, like Teresa Brewer, Art Tatum, Joe E. Brown, Millie Benson, Brand Whitlock, Peter Navarre, Rose La Rose, Ed Libbey, Mike Owens and Edmund Osthaus, as well as highly-accomplished, but lesser known folks, such as Richard and Anna Mott, Grant Johnson, Doc and Ella Stewart, Ed Russell, Clyde and Carrie Tingley, Dr. Ernst and Therese Gottschalk, Mother Adelaide Sandusky, Jibby Jibilian, Jorgen Faldt Larsen, Colonel Christopher McLean, C. J. Hurrle and Marjorie Whiteman.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1483656462

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9781483656465

The Local Boys

Hometown Players for the Cincinnati Reds

By: Joe Heffron,Jack Heffron

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The Local Boys

Hometown Players for the Cincinnati Reds

By: Joe Heffron,Jack Heffron

This book features the stories of Reds players from the Greater Cincinnati area spanning nearly 150 years.

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Clerisy Press

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1578605539

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9781578605538

Growing Up Fast, Poor, Cold, and Hungry

A First-Hand Account of Life During the Great Depression

By: John "Jack" Gargan

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Growing Up Fast, Poor, Cold, and Hungry

A First-Hand Account of Life During the Great Depression

By: John "Jack" Gargan

The title He Who Climbs a Tree and Hollers is a line taken from the little ditty "He who has a thing to sell and goes and whispers in a well is not as apt to get the dollars as he who climbs a tree and hollers." This is the incredible life story of John J. "Jack" Gargan, an ordinary guy who led an extraordinary life of adventure, involvement, and accomplishment. His long and productive life required four volumes to chronicle. It begins with a childhood of poverty and hardship during the Great Depression of the 1930s and culminates at age eighty-six with him and his young Thai wife in a daring flight for life from sadistic Thai gangsters. They fled with only the clothes on their backs, a small stash of silver coins, and a cocked and loaded .32 Colt revolver at their feet! In between volumes I and IV are involvements in business and politics, bringing him national and international fame and fortune. He counts such familiar icons as Ross Perot, Donald Trump, Jesse Ventura, Joan Rivers, and Jeb Bush among his circle of friends and acquaintances. It's been said that every person will have fifteen minutes of fame in their lifetime, but how many ordinary folks do you know of who can account for more than a dozen incidents of celebrity? These range from local to statewide, to national, to at least five worldwide celebrity experiences. Exposures range from being Time magazine's "Hero of the Week" to inclusion in his high school hall of fame to founding the world's largest and premier professional association for financial consultants. This is a rags-to-riches-and-back-to-rags-again story like none other you have ever heard of!

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Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

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1640280936

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9781640280939

Problems in General Surgery

By: Jack Pickleman

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Problems in General Surgery

By: Jack Pickleman

All around us, in this age of consumerism, are expressions of public expectations regarding the quality of medical care. Among the responses of the medical profession to this growing public demand has been a cre scendo of interest in continuing education. Continuing education is not a new concern for the physician. Most major professional organizations were founded to increase the exchange of information among members. But something new is in the wind. Both inside and outside the profes sion, the question is becoming more and more insistent: What does at tendance at meetings or exposure to other types of prepared materials have to do with the quality of care that is provided? Recertification, reexamination, and peer review of outcomes of practice-subjects only recently unmentionable-have become common issues before specialty boards, legislatures, hospital boards, insurance carriers, and even medical societies. As of October of 1979, all 22 of the member boards of the American Board of Medical Specialties had made commitments to the principle of periodic recertification of their members. Most boards have explicitly acknowledged that the cognitive skills measured in the objective examination do not assure clinical competence. An assumption behind information-assessing recertification efforts is that, though mastery of the current knowledge upon which clinical decisions should be made does not guarantee competent practice, the lack of it probably impairs competent practice.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1475717555

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9781475717556

Being Political

Leadership and Democracy in the Pacific Islands

By: Jack Corbett

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Being Political

Leadership and Democracy in the Pacific Islands

By: Jack Corbett

Politicians everywhere tend to attract cynicism and inspire disillusionment. They are supposed to epitomize the promise of democratic government and yet invariably find themselves cast as the enemy of every virtue that system seeks to uphold. In the Pacific, "politician" has become a byword for corruption, graft, and misconduct. This was not always the case—the independence generation is still remembered as strong leaders—but today's leaders are commonly associated with malaise and despair. Once heroes of self-determination, politicians are now the targets of donor attempts to institute "good governance," while Fiji's 2006 coup was partly justified on the grounds that they needed "cleaning up." But who are these much-maligned figures? How did they come to arrive in politics? What is it like to be a politician? Why do they enter, stay, and leave? Drawing on more than 110 interviews and other published sources, including autobiographies and biographies, Being Political provides a collective portrait of the region's political elite. This is an insider account of political life in the Pacific as seen through the eyes of those who have done the job. We learn that politics is a messy, unpredictable, and, at times, dirty business that nonetheless inspires service and sacrifice. We come to understand how being a politician has changed since independence and consider what this means for how we think about issues of corruption and misconduct. We find that politics is deeply embedded in the lives of individuals, families, and communities; an account that belies the common characterization of democracy in the Pacific as a "façade" or "foreign flower." Ultimately, this is a sympathetic counter-narrative to the populist critique. We come to know politicians as people with hopes and fears, pains and pleasures, vices and virtues. A reminder that politicians are human—neither saints nor sinners—is timely given the wave of cynicism and disaffection. As such, this book is a must read for all those who believe in the promise of representative government.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824854586

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Defenseless: The Political Sabotage of Pearl Harbor

Command Failure at Pearl Harbor

By: Jack Lambert Norman Polmar

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Defenseless: The Political Sabotage of Pearl Harbor

Command Failure at Pearl Harbor

By: Jack Lambert Norman Polmar

When these two [authors] combine their considerable experience, the reader has to pay attention. Naval Aviation NewsIn 1999, by a vote of 52 to 47, the U.S. Senate cleared the names of Admiral Husband Kimmel and Lieutenant General Walter Short of blame for leaving Pearl Harbor vulnerable to attack. According to the declaration, Kimmel and Short had performed their duties "competently and professionally," and that America's losses at Pearl were "not the result of dereliction of duty." Revisionist historians have been trying for years to portray Short and Kimmel as innocent scapegoats. However, Major General Kenneth Bergquist is among the many witnesses who went to their graves crying "foul," but not before telling their stories to historians Jack Lambert and Norman Polmar.This book combines the evidence of never-before-seen photos and documents, Lambert's taped interviews with some of the last surviving witnesses, exhaustive research of all remaining evidence, Polmar's perspective as naval warfare commentator for the History Channel, and Barry Levenson's legal experience trying cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, to finally put the case of the tragic failure of command and dereliction of duty leading up to December 7, 1941, to rest.Senator Strom Thurmond called Kimmel and Short "the final two victims of Pearl Harbor." In reality, was the last victim the truth?

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1610607147

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Zachary Taylor

Soldier, Planter, Statesman of the Old Southwest

By: K. Jack Bauer

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Zachary Taylor

Soldier, Planter, Statesman of the Old Southwest

By: K. Jack Bauer

Considering the course his life took, one might wonder how Zachary Taylor ever came to be elected the twelfth president of the United States. According to K. Jack Bauer, Taylor “was and remains an enigma.” He was a southerner who espoused many antisouthern causes, an aristocrat with a strong feeling for the common man, an energetic yet cautious and conservative soldier. Not an intellectual, Taylor showed little curiosity about the world around him. In this biography—the most comprehensive since Holman Hamilton’s two-volume work published forty years ago—Bauer offers a fresh appraisal of Taylor’s life and suggests that Taylor may have been neither so simple nor so nonpolitical as many historians have believed. Taylor’s sixteen months as president were marked by disputes over California statehood and the Texas–New Mexico boundary. Taylor vehemently opposed slavery extension and threatened to hang those southern hotheads who favored violence and secession as a means to protect their interests. He died just as he had begun a reorganization of his administration and a recasting of the Whig party. Balanced and judicious, forthright and unreverential, and based on thoroughgoing research, this book will be for many years the standard biography of Zachary Taylor.

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LSU Press

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0807118516

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9780807118511

Michigan's Civil War Citizen-General

Alpheus S. Williams

By: Jack Dempsey

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Michigan's Civil War Citizen-General

Alpheus S. Williams

By: Jack Dempsey

With vivid battlefield accounts based on extensive primary research, award-winning author Jack Dempsey's masterful biography tells the amazing story of an unsung hero. Detroit's Alpheus Starkey Williams never tired in service to his city or his country. A veteran of the Mexican-American War, he was a preeminent military figure in Michigan before the Civil War. He was key to the Lost Order, the Battle of Gettysburg, the March to the Sea and the Carolinas Campaign. His generalship at Antietam made possible the Emancipation Proclamation, and Meade and Sherman relied on his unshakable leadership. A steady hand in wartime and in peacetime, Williams was a Yale graduate, lawyer, judge, editor, municipal official, militia officer, diplomat and congressman who stood on principle over party.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439666717

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Elements of Fiction Writing - Scene & Structure

By: Jack Bickham

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Elements of Fiction Writing - Scene & Structure

By: Jack Bickham

Craft your fiction with scene-by-scene flow, logic and readability. An imprisoned man receives an unexpected caller, after which "everything changed..." And the reader is hooked. But whether or not readers will stay on for the entire wild ride will depend on how well the writer structures the story, scene by scene. This book is your game plan for success. Using dozens of examples from his own work - including Dropshot,Tiebreaker and other popular novels - Jack M. Bickham will guide you in building a sturdy framework for your novel, whatever its form or length. You'll learn how to: • "worry" your readers into following your story to the end • prolong your main character's struggle while moving the story ahead • juggle cause and effect to serve your story action As you work on crafting compelling scenes that move the reader, moment by moment, toward the story's resolution, you'll see why... • believable fiction must make more sense than real life • every scene should end in disaster • some scenes should be condensed, and others built big Whatever your story, this book can help you arrive at a happy ending in the company of satisfied readers.

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1599637979

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The Writer's Idea Book 10th Anniversary Edition

How to Develop Great Ideas for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Screenplays

By: Jack Heffron

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The Writer's Idea Book 10th Anniversary Edition

How to Develop Great Ideas for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Screenplays

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Our Lady of Mount Carmel Italian Feast

By: Jack Coll,Maureen McQuaid

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Our Lady of Mount Carmel Italian Feast

By: Jack Coll,Maureen McQuaid

By 1890, Italian immigrants began settling in Bridgeport to work in the mills and factories along the Schuylkill River. With more than 5,000 residents by 1923, the need for an Italian parish was evident. Rev. John Colantonio was sent to establish the parish, and in 1924, construction began on the lower church. Shortly thereafter, Bridgeports oldest and longest-running event was created in Our Lady of Mount Carmel Feast. Since its beginning the feast has continued to be a family tradition. The vintage images in Our Lady of Mount Carmel Italian Feast feature that tradition and the thousands of visitors who have made a pilgrimage to Bridgeport each year to celebrate the feast.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738557331

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9780738557335

Plunkett's Financial Services Industry Almanac 2000-2001

By: Jack W. Plunkett

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Plunkett's Financial Services Industry Almanac 2000-2001

By: Jack W. Plunkett

Covers the entire scope of the financial services industry and contains dozens of tables and indexes. Included are complete descriptions of the largest and most successful companies in the industry, including major banks, insurance companies, credit card companies, investment bankers, and online service providers. Introductory chapters overview the industry and its various branches and discuss careers. The CD-ROM contains an abbreviated version of the Microsoft Access database program, with information on the Financial Services 500 firms profiled. Plunkett is affiliated with Plunkett Research, Ltd.

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Plunkett Research

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1891775030

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9781891775031

Corwin & Peltason's Understanding the Constitution

By: Edward Samuel Corwin,Jack Walter Peltason

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Corwin & Peltason's Understanding the Constitution

By: Edward Samuel Corwin,Jack Walter Peltason

For fifty years, Understanding the Constitution has helped students understand and interpret the document that outlines America's fundamental rules and government structures. Always current and concise, this textbook is an indispensable supplement for courses in constitutional law, judicial process, civil liberties, and introductory American government. The entire Constitution is covered in this one volume.

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Holt McDougal

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0030229332

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9780030229336

Setting

By: Jack M. Bickham

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Setting

By: Jack M. Bickham

Even if you have great characters, outstanding dialogue and a gripping plot, your story isn't complete without the appropriate setting. Setting is the unifying element in most fiction, working in concert with plot, characterization and point of view. Here you'll explore how to use setting as the basis for creating dramatic, engaging stories. Focusing on detail, language and observation, Jack Bickham's invaluable instruction will not only improve your ability to create a strong setting, but also enhance your writing skills as a whole. You'll learn:- the function of setting within the fiction writing process- how setting works with plot, characterization and point of view- the effect of setting on unity- ways to generate story ideas through setting- techniques for creating setting- how to use setting as a thematic device- methods for using setting to stimulate your reader's senses- how to incorporate factual information for texture and authenticity- exercises for improving your powers of observation- tips for recording ideas, events and descriptions using notebook entriesOver the course of his esteemed career, Jack Bickham published more than 80 novels and instructional books, including Writing Novels That Sell and the 38 Most Common Fiction Writing Mistakes (and How to Avoid Them). A former creative writing professor, he instructed thousands of writers through his classes, seminars and Writer's Digest magazine articles.

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0898799481

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9780898799484

Plunkett's Airline, Hotel and Travel Industry Almanac 2010

Airline, Hotel and Travel Industry Market Research, Statistics, Trends and Leading Companies

By: Jack W. Plunkett

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Plunkett's Airline, Hotel and Travel Industry Almanac 2010

Airline, Hotel and Travel Industry Market Research, Statistics, Trends and Leading Companies

By: Jack W. Plunkett

The data and areas of interest covered are intentionally broad, ranging from the costs and effectiveness of the airline sector, to emerging technology, to an in-depth look at the major firms (which we call "THE TRAVEL 300") within the many industry sectors that make up the travel and tourism system.

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Plunkett Research

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1593921519

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9781593921514

Plunkett's Health Care Industry Almanac

By: Jack W. Plunkett,Michelle LeGate Plunkett

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Plunkett's Health Care Industry Almanac

By: Jack W. Plunkett,Michelle LeGate Plunkett

A comprehensive guide to the health care field in America. The data and areas of interest covered are broad, including major trends, an overview of the nation's health care, an industry-by-industry outlook for the 1990s, the outlook for technology, and careers in health care. The heart of the reference is the section of individual profiles for the 500 major for-profit firms within the numerous industries that make up the health care system. For each of the companies, the data provided include ranks and ratings, contact names (with titles, addresses, and phone numbers), and details on corporate culture, financial performance, research, and growth plans, along with tables of products and services. Indexed five ways. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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0963826816

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