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Comfort Quilts From The Heart

12 Quick Projects to Take Care of Others

By: Jake Finch

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Comfort Quilts From The Heart

12 Quick Projects to Take Care of Others

By: Jake Finch

Thoughtful, Useful Gifts for Those Needing a Helping Hand. Give the gift of love with 12 helpful quilts and practical sewing projects for anyone needing an extra caring touch. Make quilts fast with super-simple piecing and helpful quilting shortcuts-many are easy enough for absolute beginners. Great projects for guilds and quilting circles to make for worthy causes. Includes a how-to guide for making charity quilts in small and large groups, and a list of organizations that accept donated quilts. Whether you make these projects for a loved one or someone you've never met, you'll give the irreplaceable gift of loving care. Projects include quilts for babies in intensive care units; handy projects for wheelchair and walker users; quilts for adults and children bedridden at home or in the hospital; and therapeutic quilts for stroke, Alzheimer's and other patients with brain impairments.

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C&T Publishing Inc

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1617450006

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9781617450006

Slocum 305: Slocum at Whiskey Lake

By: Jake Logan

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Slocum 305: Slocum at Whiskey Lake

By: Jake Logan

Guns blaze and passions burn when a manhunt turns plum loco! All Slocum had to do was track down a mouth-breather named Randall, so’s he could sign some legal papers—and he’d wind up with a thousand bucks in his pocket. But when the trail leads him to a dead end in the boomtown of Woodchip, Slocum finds himself striking a deal with the devilishly tempting proprietor of impropriety at the Fancy Lady Saloon. If he stiff-arms the local sheriff who wants to shut down her sin factory, she’ll deliver Randall. But Woodchip is full of lead-happy hombres—and it will take all of Slocum’s six-gun skill to keep from getting shredded…

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Penguin

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110116610X

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9781101166109

Blood On The Stone

By: Jake Lynch

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Blood On The Stone

By: Jake Lynch

March 1681. Oxford is hosting the English Parliament under the ‘merry monarch’, King Charles II. As politicians and their hangers-on converge on the divided city, an MP is found murdered, triggering tensions that threaten mayhem on the streets. Luke Sandys, Chief Officer of the Oxford Bailiffs, must solve the crime and thwart the plot. On his side is the respect for evidence and logic he absorbed in his student days, as a follower of the new science. On the other, a group of political conspirators are stirring up sectarian hatreds in their scheme to overthrow the Crown. Struggling to protect all he holds dear, Luke leans heavily on his cavalry officer brother, his friends, and his faithful deputy, Robshaw. But he has a secret, which may be clouding his judgement. At the moment of truth, will he choose love or duty?

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Unbound Publishing

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1783527900

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9781783527908

Slocum #399

Slocum and the Meddler

By: Jake Logan

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Slocum #399

Slocum and the Meddler

By: Jake Logan

Slocum’s framed but he won’t be hanged. Slocum’s having trouble sleeping in Abilene. The town’s overrun with rowdy, drunken cowboys, but what’s really got him wide awake is Mac, the man who just shot open his hotel room door accusing him of stealing his wife, Martha. Before Slocum can reach his gun, Mac’s dead on the floor, and the marshal is arresting Slocum for murder. Although his name is cleared, Slocum must flee Abilene and an angry mob bent on putting a rope around his neck. When he reaches the saloon in the dying town of Gantt, he discovers a bounty hunter on his trail—and an angry woman with a shotgun, saying he killed her husband. What’s worse is that her name isn’t Martha…and her husband wasn’t Mac. Now Slocum must solve two murders, or someone will make sure he never sleeps again…

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Penguin

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1101580496

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9781101580493

The Lost Subways of North America

A Cartographic Guide to the Past, Present, and What Might Have Been

By: Jake Berman

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The Lost Subways of North America

A Cartographic Guide to the Past, Present, and What Might Have Been

By: Jake Berman

A visual exploration of the transit histories of twenty-three US and Canadian cities. Every driver in North America shares one miserable, soul-sucking universal experience—being stuck in traffic. But things weren’t always like this. Why is it that the mass transit systems of most cities in the United States and Canada are now utterly inadequate? The Lost Subways of North America offers a new way to consider this eternal question, with a strikingly visual—and fun—journey through past, present, and unbuilt urban transit. Using meticulous archival research, cartographer and artist Jake Berman has successfully plotted maps of old train networks covering twenty-three North American metropolises, ranging from New York City’s Civil War–era plan for a steam-powered subway under Fifth Avenue to the ultramodern automated Vancouver SkyTrain and the thousand-mile electric railway system of pre–World War II Los Angeles. He takes us through colorful maps of old, often forgotten streetcar lines, lost ideas for never-built transit, and modern rail systems—drawing us into the captivating transit histories of US and Canadian cities. Berman combines vintage styling with modern printing technology to create a sweeping visual history of North American public transit and urban development. With more than one hundred original maps, accompanied by essays on each city’s urban development, this book presents a fascinating look at North American rapid transit systems.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226829804

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9780226829807

Origins of a Story

202 true inspirations behind the world's greatest literature

By: Jake Grogan

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Origins of a Story

202 true inspirations behind the world's greatest literature

By: Jake Grogan

For readers and writers alike, Origins of a Story is the inspiring collection of 202 amazing true stories behind the inspiration for the world's greatest literature! Did you know Lennie from Of Mice and Men was based on a real person? Or how about that Charlotte's Web was based on an actual spider and her egg that E. B. White would carry from Maine to New York on business trips? Origins of a Story profiles 202 famous literary masterpieces and explores how each story got its start. Spanning works from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first, this book is the first of its kind. Get glimpses of the reality behind these fictional stories, and learn about the individual creative process for each writer. Origins of a Story will not only leave you with a different perspective into your favorite works of fiction, but it will also have you inspired to take your everyday life and craft it into a literary masterpiece!

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Cider Mill Press

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1604337516

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9781604337518

Little Book of Cheese Jokes

By: Jake Harris

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Little Book of Cheese Jokes

By: Jake Harris

Which cheese should you use to hide a horse? Mascarpone. Which Welsh cheese must you always eat with caution? Caerphilly. Why did the one-legged clown leave the cheese circus? Because he couldn't get his Stilton. Whether you're in need of a pungent pun or a holey howler, this book offers a full smorgasbord—from the downright immature to the truly vintage.

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Summersdale Publishers LTD

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1783726938

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9781783726936

Gridiron Trailblazer

By: Jake Maddox,Vivian Michael

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Gridiron Trailblazer

By: Jake Maddox,Vivian Michael

Eighth-grade Audrey, hopes to ease the pain of moving by joining the school football team, but faces the challenge of proving her skills and gaining acceptance from teammates, all while uncovering the reasons behind their hostility toward her new friend, star receiver Ryan.

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1669074331

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You’re Paid What You’re Worth

By: Jake Rosenfeld

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You’re Paid What You’re Worth

By: Jake Rosenfeld

A myth-busting book challenges the idea that we’re paid according to objective criteria and places power and social conflict at the heart of economic analysis. Your pay depends on your productivity and occupation. If you earn roughly the same as others in your job, with the precise level determined by your performance, then you’re paid market value. And who can question something as objective and impersonal as the market? That, at least, is how many of us tend to think. But according to Jake Rosenfeld, we need to think again. Job performance and occupational characteristics do play a role in determining pay, but judgments of productivity and value are also highly subjective. What makes a lawyer more valuable than a teacher? How do you measure the output of a police officer, a professor, or a reporter? Why, in the past few decades, did CEOs suddenly become hundreds of times more valuable than their employees? The answers lie not in objective criteria but in battles over interests and ideals. In this contest four dynamics are paramount: power, inertia, mimicry, and demands for equity. Power struggles legitimize pay for particular jobs, and organizational inertia makes that pay seem natural. Mimicry encourages employers to do what peers are doing. And workers are on the lookout for practices that seem unfair. Rosenfeld shows us how these dynamics play out in real-world settings, drawing on cutting-edge economics, original survey data, and a journalistic eye for compelling stories and revealing details. At a time when unions and bargaining power are declining and inequality is rising, You’re Paid What You’re Worth is a crucial resource for understanding that most basic of social questions: Who gets what and why?

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Harvard University Press

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067491659X

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9780674916593

The Ghoul of Windydown Vale

By: Jake Burt

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The Ghoul of Windydown Vale

By: Jake Burt

A thrilling middle-grade mystery, The Ghoul of Windydown Vale is from the author of Cleo Porter and the Body Electric. “Don't miss this book! It takes you to another world—and then terrifies you with surprise after surprise. Great ghoulish fun!” —R. L. Stine, author of Goosebumps and Fear Street In this action-packed mystery from award-winning author Jake Burt, Copper Inskeep holds Windydown Vale's deepest and darkest secret: he is the ghoul that haunts the Vale, donning a gruesome costume to scare travelers and townsfolk away from the dangers of the surrounding swamps. When a terrified girl claims she and her father were attacked by a creature - one that could not have been Copper - it threatens not just Copper's secret, but the fate of all Windydown.

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Feiwel & Friends

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1250236584

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Superman and Wonder Woman Plus Collectibles

By: James Hill,James Andrews,Neal Bailey,Jake Black,Matthew Manning

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Superman and Wonder Woman Plus Collectibles

By: James Hill,James Andrews,Neal Bailey,Jake Black,Matthew Manning

Illustated guidbook featuring the stories of Superman and Wonder Woman, from their origins to their toughest conflicts, packaged with five inch tall vinyl figurines! Featuring classic tales, timelines, and iconic comic book covers, plus an account of their friendship, romance, and collaboration in the ongoing war against global super villains. The guide comes complete with two five inch 1:14 scale figurines of Superman and Wonder Woman, sculpted in an iconic pose. The figurines are made of vibrantly coloured vinyl and are produced in association with DC. In just over 75 years, Superman and Wonder Woman have risen to become two of the most recognizable faces in fantasy. He was rocketed to Earth from the dying world of Krypton and given superpowers by our yellow sun. She was gifted qualities by the Greek Gods, stronger than Hercules, wiser than Athena... Wonder Woman and Superman always seemed to have a special understanding. They are both, by far, the most physically powerful heroes on Earth. And they are both outsiders. This understanding has resulted in a close friendship between the two, and has sometimes evolved into something more. Celebrating not only the rich creative history of these two icons, but the work of the writers and artists that have breathed life into them, this guide features work from such immortal talents as Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, John Byrne and Jim Lee.

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Eaglemoss

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1858755751

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Hawai'i

By: Jake Goldberg,Joyce Hart

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Hawai'i

By: Jake Goldberg,Joyce Hart

This book provides comprehensive information on the geography, history, wildlife, governmental structure, economy, cultural diversity, peoples, religions, and landmarks of Hawaii.

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Marshall Cavendish

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0761423494

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9780761423492

The Disney Revolt

The Great Labor War of Animation's Golden Age

By: Jake S. Friedman

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The Disney Revolt

The Great Labor War of Animation's Golden Age

By: Jake S. Friedman

An essential piece of Disney history has been largely unreported for eighty years. Soon after the birth of Mickey Mouse, one animator raised the Disney Studio far beyond Walt's expectations. That animator also led a union war that almost destroyed it. Art Babbitt animated for the Disney studio throughout the 1930s and through 1941, years in which he and Walt were jointly driven to elevate animation as an art form, up through Snow White, Pinocchio, and Fantasia. But as America prepared for World War II, labor unions spread across Hollywood. Disney fought the unions while Babbitt embraced them. Soon, angry Disney cartoon characters graced picket signs as hundreds of animation artists went out on strike. Adding fuel to the fire was Willie Bioff, one of Al Capone's wiseguys who was seizing control of Hollywood workers and vied for the animators' union. Using never-before-seen research from previously lost records, including conversation transcriptions from within the studio walls, author and historian Jake S. Friedman reveals the details behind the labor dispute that changed animation and Hollywood forever. The Disney Revolt is an American story of industry and of the underdog, the golden age of animated cartoons at the world's most famous studio.

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Chicago Review Press

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164160722X

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9781641607223

Slocum Giant 2004

Slocum in the Secret Service

By: Jake Logan

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Slocum in the Secret Service

By: Jake Logan

Slocum tracks a trio of merciless marauders! While John Slocum has taken his share of less-than-legitimate jobs in the past, he’s never signed on for a stone-cold killing. Until now. Slocum’s been recruited by an old friend to work for the Secret Service on a mission that is as personal as it is dangerous. The brutal Carthage brothers have escaped from prison—and the U.S. government wants them shot on sight. Slocum almost died the last time he squared off against them. But this time, he’s not going to hold back in the name of the law. And justice isn’t going to be handed down by any judge—it’s going to come in a hail of hot lead from the righteous guns of John Slocum…

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1101166223

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Slocum 428

Slocum and the Big Timber Terror

By: Jake Logan

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Slocum 428

Slocum and the Big Timber Terror

By: Jake Logan

There’s something evil in the woods... Caught in a snowstorm in the Cascade Range, Slocum tries to bed down in the heavy Oregon woods. But when he finds himself in the crosshairs of a pair of inhuman glowing eyes—accompanied by a terrifying screech and an unbearable stench—he realizes that he is most certainly not alone. He’s just run into a legendary local nightmare, one that is about to unleash a bloody storm…

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0515154911

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9780515154917

Songs to Birds

By: Jake Page

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Songs to Birds

By: Jake Page

Some 20 light and witty essays by New Mexico-based naturalist Page in which his observations of birds and their behavior leads to ponderings on the meaning of life, the nature of humanity, and other deep subjects. Some of the material has appeared previously in The Smithsonian, National Geographic, The Washington Post, and other periodicals. No index or bibliography. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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David R. Godine Publisher

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156792042X

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Dinner with Mobutu

A Chronicle of My Life and Times

By: Jake Smith

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Dinner with Mobutu

A Chronicle of My Life and Times

By: Jake Smith

Oil field worker, soldier, Washington bureaucrat, professor, farmer, builder, academic dean, and international consultant. These are some of Jake Smith's job titles chronicled in this memoir. Dining with dictators is just one small episode in an eclectic career. This book documents Smith's life and times --- from a small town in rural Louisiana to presidential palaces in Africa; from struggles to survive on a Tennessee farm to struggles in academia, where the stakes are small, but the fights are vicious. Dinner with Mobutu covers Smith's 40-year fascination with Africa --- from student to scholar to political consultant.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1413499430

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9781413499438

Backfield Blow

By: Jake Maddox

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Backfield Blow

By: Jake Maddox

During a football game star running back Harris Weathers takes a jarring hit and narrowly escapes injury, but after several days he is still rattled, leaving him with a tough decision--quit football or find a way to stay safe while playing the game he loves.

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1663921865

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Slocum 333

Slocum and the Land-Grabbers

By: Jake Logan

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Slocum 333

Slocum and the Land-Grabbers

By: Jake Logan

Some things you pay for with blood… All Slocum wanted in Charlotte’s Town was a little rest. But local ranchers are mysteriously disappearing…or being murdered. Thornton Real Estate ends up owning their land, and the sheriff doesn’t do a thing about it. Myrtle Gilligan, publisher of the Charlotte’s Town Beacon, wants to put Jobe Thornton and his sheriff-for-hire out of business, but her evidence is weak. So she needs help to prove that it’s not nice to kill someone for their land—especially when John Slocum’s around to demand payment in blood…

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Penguin

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1101165472

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9781101165478

Land Healer

How Farming Can Save Britain’s Countryside

By: Jake Fiennes

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Land Healer

How Farming Can Save Britain’s Countryside

By: Jake Fiennes

Jake Fiennes is changing the face of farming in Britain... a revolutionising force' Isabella Tree Our relationship with our land is broken: we must heal it. Jake Fiennes is on a mission to change the face of the English countryside. As Conservation Manager at Holkham in Norfolk, one of the country's largest historic country estates, his radical habitat restoration and agricultural work has nurtured its species and risen its crop yields - bringing back wetlands, hedgerows, birds and butterflies over 25,000 acres of land. But this isn't rewilding - there is no 'wild' in Britain anymore. Mass farming, crop science and industrial chemicals have destroyed the majority of our natural landscape and wildlife over the last century. Land Healer is the story of Fiennes's ambition to bring back our flora and fauna - by reclaiming our traditions and trialling new experiments which could restore our symbiosis with our land, and save our shared future. Following the farming year and the natural cycle of the seasons, Land Healer chronicles a life of conservation lived at the edges, and is a manifesto for rethinking our relationship with the natural world before it's too late.

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Random House

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1473532957

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9781473532953

The Golden Oriole

By: Paul Mason,Jake Allsop

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The Golden Oriole

By: Paul Mason,Jake Allsop

An authoritative yet highly readable monograph on one of Britain's rarest yet most spectacular breeding birds, the Golden Oriole. One of Britain's rarest breeding birds, the Golden Oriole is also one of its most charismatic. Females are a vivid green, while the males of this species are a stunning yellow and black, with an extraordinary and unforgettable song. A long-distance migrant, the orioles return to breed in early May at just a few sites, almost all of which are in Suffolk. Jake Allsop and Paul Mason's The Golden Oriole looks in detail at the biology of this spectacular species, with sections on breeding biology, feeding ecology, evolution, population dynamics, mimicry, migration and conservation, as well as a discussion of the biology of other species in the genus. A colour section showcases this photogenic species to full effect, complemented by high-quality black-and-white illustrations throughout. The fascinating history of the bird's distribution is also covered extensively, stemming from the authors' first-hand experience of the battle to help the species retain a toehold in Britain. The Golden Oriole is a much-admired bird, sought by serious and casual birders alike for the beauty of its plumage and song, as well as for its rarity, and this book brings the biology of this elusive species to light.

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A&C Black

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1408108968

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9781408108963

Teen Dog #8

By: Jake Lawrence

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Teen Dog #8

By: Jake Lawrence

Final issue! Appropriately, it's summer vacation time in this final issue! Man, this year has really flown by. Time to get together with your friends and enjoy the summer while it lasts, 'cause the future is always out there waiting for you.

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BOOM! Studios

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1681595443

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Worth Writing About

Exploring Memoir with Adolescents

By: Jake Wizner

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Worth Writing About

Exploring Memoir with Adolescents

By: Jake Wizner

Who am I? This is the question that many adolescents ask during the turbulent middle and high school years. In Worth Writing About: Exploring Memoir with Adolescents, Jake Wizner addresses how searching for the answer to this question leads his students to reflection, to reading, and ultimately to deeper, more meaningful writing. Wizner, a 20-year teaching veteran, believes that a well-designed memoir unit not only aligns with the Common Core State Standards but also forges community in the classroom, encourages kids to read nonfiction, and works wonders with students who struggle with their writing'sor with their lives.Worth Writing About addresses the most common challenges teachers face when teaching memoir writing: How do you help students who say that nothing interesting has happened in their lives? How do you help students balance what is meaningful with what is too personal to share? How do you help students overcome the I don't remember syndrome?Wizner delves into the craft of writing, from using mentor texts to crafting leads and memorable endings. He uses student models from his own classroom to show the deep, important work his students produce during the memoir unit. By writing about themselves and how they view the world around them, students discover more about themselves and how they want to move forward in the future.

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Taylor & Francis

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1003842682

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The Architecture of Survival

Setting and Politics in Apocalypse Films

By: Erik Trump,Jake Parcell

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The Architecture of Survival

Setting and Politics in Apocalypse Films

By: Erik Trump,Jake Parcell

The Architecture of Survival: Setting and Politics in Apocalypse Films offers a compelling exploration of how popular films and TV series from the past two decades use architectural spaces to comment on socio-political issues. The authors harness varied theoretical perspectives to demonstrate how, through set design, these works suggest that certain kinds of architecture support human development, community, and freedom, while other kinds separate us from our fellow humans and make democratic politics impossible. The clean lines of modernist design serve in films such as Contagion and Ex Machina as a metaphor for the sanitized, sterile politics that drive disaster. In The Walking Dead apocalypse survivors favor traditional architectural styles when rebuilding society, a choice that symbolically affirms their democratic principles. The massive walls and super-gentrification as seen in Elysium and Army of the Dead divide humanity, with those on one side wielding illegitimate power. Empty streetscapes intensify loneliness, alienation, and the destruction of civil norms. "Smart cities," offering a blend of high-tech surveillance and big data, erode social capital and community in Her and Transcendence. The book concludes with a somewhat hopeful glimpse into architecture’s potential to mitigate the catastrophic adverse effects of climate change, as seen in films like Zootopia.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1666908215

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9781666908213

Fame Junkies

The Hidden Truths Behind America's Favorite Addiction

By: Jake Halpern

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Fame Junkies

The Hidden Truths Behind America's Favorite Addiction

By: Jake Halpern

In this groundbreaking book, Jake Halpern embarks on a quest to explore the facinating and often dark implications of America's obsession with fame. Traveling across the country, he visits a Hollywood home for aspiring child actors and enrolls in a training program for would-be celebrity assistants. He drops by the editorial offices of US Weekly and spends time at a laboratory where monkeys give up food to stare at pictures of dominant members of their group. Whether he is interviewing Rod Stewart or the nation's leading experts on addiction, Halpern deftly uncovers the strange working of our fame obsessed psyches. By interweaving stories from his travels with new research, including original findings from his own "fame survey," Halpern explains how psychology, technology, evolution, and profit conspire to make the world of red carpets and velvet ropes so enthralling. Fame Junkies is a provocative and insightful portrait of an America that wants nothing more than to see and be seen.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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061891871X

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9780618918713

Almost Flying

By: Jake Maia Arlow

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Almost Flying

By: Jake Maia Arlow

In this Stonewall Honor book, a week-long amusement park road trip becomes a true roller coaster of emotion when Dalia realizes she has more-than-friend feelings for her new bestie. "Dalia’s journey to self-discovery is refreshingly honest, and this entire cast of characters will steal your heart.” – Maulik Pancholy, actor and Stonewall Honor-winning author of The Best At It Would-be amusement park aficionado Dalia only has two items on her summer bucket list: (1) finally ride a roller coaster and (2) figure out how to make a new best friend. But when her dad suddenly announces that he's engaged, Dalia's schemes come to a screeching halt. With Dalia's future stepsister Alexa heading back to college soon, the grown-ups want the girls to spend the last weeks of summer bonding--meaning Alexa has to cancel the amusement park road trip she's been planning for months. Luckily Dalia comes up with a new plan: If she joins Alexa on her trip and brings Rani, the new girl from her swim team, along maybe she can have the perfect summer after all. But what starts out as a week of funnel cakes and Lazy River rides goes off the rails when Dalia discovers that Alexa's girlfriend is joining the trip. And keeping Alexa's secret makes Dalia realize one of her own: She might have more-than-friend feelings for Rani.

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0593112946

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9780593112946

Understories

The Political Life of Forests in Northern New Mexico

By: Jake Kosek

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The Political Life of Forests in Northern New Mexico

By: Jake Kosek

Through lively, engaging narrative, Understories demonstrates how volatile politics of race, class, and nation animate the notoriously violent struggles over forests in the southwestern United States. Rather than reproduce traditional understandings of nature and environment, Jake Kosek shifts the focus toward material and symbolic “natures,” seemingly unchangeable essences central to formations of race, class, and nation that are being remade not just through conflicts over resources but also through everyday practices by Chicano activists, white environmentalists, and state officials as well as nuclear scientists, heroin addicts, and health workers. Drawing on two years of ethnographic fieldwork and extensive archival research, he shows how these contentious natures are integral both to environmental politics and the formation of racialized citizens, politicized landscapes, and modern regimes of rule. Kosek traces the histories of forest extraction and labor exploitation in northern New Mexico, where Hispano residents have forged passionate attachments to place. He describes how their sentiments of dispossession emerged through land tenure systems and federal management programs that remade forest landscapes as exclusionary sites of national and racial purity. Fusing fine-grained ethnography with insights gleaned from cultural studies and science studies, Kosek shows how the nationally beloved Smokey the Bear became a symbol of white racist colonialism for many Hispanos in the region, while Los Alamos National Laboratory, at once revered and reviled, remade regional ecologies and economies. Understories offers an innovative vision of environmental politics, one that challenges scholars as well as activists to radically rework their understandings of relations between nature, justice, and identity.

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Duke University Press

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0822388308

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The Invisible Sex

Uncovering the True Roles of Women in Prehistory

By: J. M. Adovasio,Olga Soffer,Jake Page

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The Invisible Sex

Uncovering the True Roles of Women in Prehistory

By: J. M. Adovasio,Olga Soffer,Jake Page

Shaped by cartoons and museum dioramas, our vision of Paleolithic times tends to feature fur-clad male hunters fearlessly attacking mammoths while timid women hover fearfully behind a boulder. Recent archaeological research has shown that this vision bears little relation to reality. J. M. Adovasio and Olga Soffer, two of the world's leading experts on perishable artifacts such as basketry, cordage, and weaving, present an exciting new look at prehistory. With science writer Jake Page, they argue that women invented all kinds of critical materials, including the clothing necessary for life in colder climates, the ropes used to make rafts that enabled long-distance travel by water, and nets used for communal hunting. Even more important, women played a central role in the development of language and social life—in short, in our becoming human. In this eye-opening book, a new story about women in prehistory emerges with provocative implications for our assumptions about gender today.

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Taylor & Francis

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1315418088

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9781315418087

Fast Fun & Easy Book Cover Art

Add a Quilted Fabric Touch to Binders, Scrapbooks, Journals & More

By: Jake Finch

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Fast Fun & Easy Book Cover Art

Add a Quilted Fabric Touch to Binders, Scrapbooks, Journals & More

By: Jake Finch

Transform Everyday Books From Basic to Beautiful! 5 projects — and endless variations — for making your own one-of-a-kind book covers using these innovative techniques. From super simple to elegantly elaborate — even novice sewers will get stunning results unique to fabric choice, closure selection, and embellishment techniques. With simple sewing skills and a handful of embellishments, you can make beautiful covers for everything from brag books to date books to checkbooks. Don’t put your precious pages in that boring binder! Learn to make quilted book covers for scrapbooks and journals that are special enough for what is inside. You won’t believe the gorgeous effects you can achieve with fabrics and a bit of fast2fuse® Double-Sided Fusible Stiff Interfacing! Showcase one special fabric, or try patchwork, appliqué, beads, buttons, embroidery, and a variety of clever closures. Make it quicker with fast2fuse® Double-Sided Fusible Stiff Interfacing!

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C&T Publishing Inc

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1607053330

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Finn and Jake's Official Guide to the Land of Ooo

By: Jake Black

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Finn and Jake's Official Guide to the Land of Ooo

By: Jake Black

What time is it? Adventure Time! Join Finn the Human and Jake the Dog as they explore the magical Land of Ooo and its inhabitants. Get the low-down on your favourite characters, from the Ice King to Lumpy Space Princess, check out the funnest - and the scariest - places in Ooo and get some tips on how to be awesomely heroic. Every fan's must-have official guide to the Cartoon Network #1 hit series. Let's get this party started!Collect more freaking amazing Adventure Time books from Puffin, including A Completely Awesome Activity Book and The Totally Radical Official Sticker Book.

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Puffin

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014135237X

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9780141352374

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