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Civil War Comes Home

The Battle of Williamsburg

By: Jake McKenzie

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Civil War Comes Home

The Battle of Williamsburg

By: Jake McKenzie

Highly Recommended by Dr. J. Hindman, School of Education, College of William & Mary What was it like living in a small sleepy Southern town when the war suddenly arrived on the doorstep 150 years ago? Th ese are the stories of residents from various walks of life, and the struggles they face as the Unions Peninsula Campaign deploys forces to Fort Monroe, engages just east of Williamsburg, then continues, On to Richmond! as their battle cry went. For example, -William & Mary students, like Th omas Barlow, face life-changing decisions: to return home, or enlist with his classmates? Some of them would become heroes, but many more casualties. -Slaves, like W.B. Nelson, must decide as well: should he remain with his master or runaway? While some remain, many become contrabands, and later freedmen, and colored troops. -Politicians, like Benjamin Butler of Boston, are given the rank of Major General despite the lack of any military experience, while General George B. McClellan, who despised President Lincoln and Washington politics, later runs for national offi ce. Neither transformation is particularly successful. -Williamsburg residents, like shopkeeper William W. Vest and family must decide between fl eeing as refugees, or staying, like William Peachy, lawyer, to endure Federal occupation. -Williamsburgs women, like Letitia Tyler Semple, lead efforts to improve soldier medical care, opening their homes to thousands of wounded. Others, like Mary Payne, persevere to be at her husbands bedside, while Miss Margaret Durfey falls in love with her patient.

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147722890X

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Gone at Midnight

The Tragic True Story Behind the Unsolved Internet Sensation

By: Jake Anderson

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Gone at Midnight

The Tragic True Story Behind the Unsolved Internet Sensation

By: Jake Anderson

A missing young woman. A Los Angeles hotel with a haunting history. A perplexing real-life mystery. With stunning new insights and impeccable research, investigative journalist Jake Anderson explores the case that captivated a nation and inspired the Netflix series Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel! Exclusive interviews and photos included. Twenty-one-year-old student Elisa Lam was last heard from on January 31, 2013, after she checked into downtown L.A.’s Cecil Hotel—a 600-room building with a nine-decade history of scandal and tragedy. The next day, Elisa vanished. More than a week later, guests’ complaints of poor water quality led to a grim discovery: Elisa’s nude body floating in a rooftop water tank. The only clue was a disturbing elevator video of Elisa, uploaded to YouTube in a plea for public assistance. As the video went viral, journalist Jake Anderson set out to uncover the facts. In Gone at Midnight he chronicles eye-opening discoveries about who Elisa Lam really was and what—or whom—she was running from, offering stunning new insights into one of the most chilling and obsessively followed true crime cases of the century. “Outstanding . . . What really happened to Lam may never be known, but true crime buffs won’t want to miss this gripping search for the truth.” –Publishers Weekly STARRED REVIEW “Extremely detailed and featuring new evidence. . . . Anderson’s thorough research and passionate writing make a fascinating read.” --Booklist “Gone at Midnight is the type of true crime book that you stay up all night reading.” --New York Journal of Books A Fortune magazine“Most Anticipated Books of the Year” Selection A Goodreads Featured Release An Oxygen Best True Crime Book of the Year

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Citadel Press

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0806540079

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9780806540078

The Authorized Ender Companion

By: Orson Scott Card,Jake Black

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The Authorized Ender Companion

By: Orson Scott Card,Jake Black

The Authorized Ender Companion is a complete and in-depth encyclopedia of all the persons, places, things and events in Orson Scott Card's Ender Universe. Written by Jake Black under the editorial supervision of Card himself, The Authorized Ender Companion will be an invaluable resource for readers of the series. If you ever wondered where Ender went after he left Earth, before he arrived at Lusitania, you'll find the answer here. If you ever wondered how the battle room worked, you'll find the answer here. If you forgot the names of the people were who discovered the descolada, the answer is here. The history of Gloriously Bright's world? Here. The Authorized Ender Companion contains all that and more. There are character biographies, time-lines, colony histories, and family trees. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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Tor Books

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1429963484

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9781429963480

Down & Dirty

The Plot to Steal the Presidency

By: Jake Tapper

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Down & Dirty

The Plot to Steal the Presidency

By: Jake Tapper

Acclaimed journalist Jake Tapper explains what actually happened, who got away with what and how both sides, Democrats and Republicans, plotted to steal the presidency in 2000.

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Little, Brown

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0759523185

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A Tale of 12 Kitchens

Family Cooking in Four Countries

By: Jake Tilson

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A Tale of 12 Kitchens

Family Cooking in Four Countries

By: Jake Tilson

A culinary journey in search of the finest examples of family cookery in the U.S., France, Italy, and Britain describes the author's cooking adventures and includes more than seventy-five recipes from such disparate locales as Southern California, New York's Lower East Side, Tuscany, the Algerian quarter in Paris, and Scotland.

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Artisan Books

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1579653200

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Horses to Follow

2019 Flat Season

By: Jake Colclough

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Horses to Follow

2019 Flat Season

By: Jake Colclough

Welcome to the guide for 2019. It contains fifty horses that are coming into their three-year-old seasons—colts or fillies, potential classic winners or useful handicappers in the making. The aim of the guide is to supply us with as many winners in the 2019 season as possible. To aid our search for winners, we look back into the horses’ juvenile campaigns and analyse their runs as well as a potential rating to pinpoint target races months in advance as well as have a small insight to a few of the stables. Last year, we were blessed with a thrilling crop of three-year-old champion fillies. Alpha Centauri swept to save the mile division for Mrs. John Harrington and the Niarchos family, the multigroup 1 winning fillies Sea of Class, and Laurens for William Haggas and Karl Burke respectively. And the St. Leger runner-up Lah Ti Dah from that beautifully bred family of Oaks winner Dar Re Mi, trained by John Gosden. The difficult agenda we have on our hands is that out of that crop of high class three-year-olds, only two of them raced as juveniles. Sea of Class was a late foal, and Lah Ti Dar wasn’t given her debut until April at Newmarket. However, I believe we have seen enough to give us a proper insight to the British Classics of 2019. Now, why three-year-olds? This is the most exciting year in a horses’ racing career as their potential is unknown, and an improving horse can be very valuable to keep onside—for example, the crop of fillies. If you backed each and every one of their runs to a ten-pound stake you would be £495.90 better off for it. Last season at this stage we had already seen the Guineas winner (8/1, Saxon Warrior) and the Derby winner (Masar), and that is more than enough for me, and hopefully, you to delve into this year’s crop. The guide will include some of the top performers from the juvenile season, but generally, any racing watcher could throw a list together of highly rated horses together. So my aim—on top of the superstars—is to give us a group of three-year-olds that will come on from their two-year-old campaigns and hopefully finish off a better rating come the end of the year than the mark they started on, which should give us a nice crop of winners for the coming 2019 flat season.

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1728381878

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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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The Schenley Experiment

A Social History of Pittsburgh’s First Public High School

By: Jake Oresick

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The Schenley Experiment

A Social History of Pittsburgh’s First Public High School

By: Jake Oresick

The Schenley Experiment is the story of Pittsburgh’s first public high school, a social incubator in a largely segregated city that was highly—even improbably—successful throughout its 156-year existence. Established in 1855 as Central High School and reorganized in 1916, Schenley High School was a model of innovative public education and an ongoing experiment in diversity. Its graduates include Andy Warhol, actor Bill Nunn, and jazz virtuoso Earl Hines, and its prestigious academic program (and pensions) lured such teachers as future Pulitzer Prize winner Willa Cather. The subject of investment as well as destructive neglect, the school reflects the history of the city of Pittsburgh and provides a study in both the best and worst of urban public education practices there and across the Rust Belt. Integrated decades before Brown v. Board of Education, Schenley succumbed to default segregation during the “white flight” of the 1970s; it rose again to prominence in the late 1980s, when parents camped out in six-day-long lines to enroll their children in visionary superintendent Richard C. Wallace’s reinvigorated school. Although the historic triangular building was a cornerstone of its North Oakland neighborhood and a showpiece for the city of Pittsburgh, officials closed the school in 2008, citing over $50 million in necessary renovations—a controversial event that captured national attention. Schenley alumnus Jake Oresick tells this story through interviews, historical documents, and hundreds of first-person accounts drawn from a community indelibly tied to the school. A memorable, important work of local and educational history, his book is a case study of desegregation, magnet education, and the changing nature and legacies of America’s oldest public schools.

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Penn State Press

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0271079754

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The Routledge Encyclopedia of Second Language Acquisition

By: Peter Jake Robinson

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The Routledge Encyclopedia of Second Language Acquisition

By: Peter Jake Robinson

The Routledge Encyclopedia of Second Language Acquisition offers a user-friendly, authoritative survey of terms and constructs that are important to understanding research in second language acquisition (SLA) and its applications. The Encyclopedia is designed for use as a reference tool by students, researchers, teachers and professionals with an interest in SLA. The Encyclopedia has the following features: * 252 alphabetized entries written in an accessible style, including cross references to other related entries in the Encyclopedia and suggestions for further reading * Among these, 9 survey entries that cover the foundational areas of SLA in detail: Development in SLA, Discourse and Pragmatics in SLA, Individual Differences in SLA, Instructed SLA, Language and the Lexicon in SLA, Measuring and Researching SLA, Psycholingustics of SLA, Social and Sociocultural Approaches to SLA, Theoretical Constructs in SLA. * The rest of the entries cover all the major subdisciplines, methodologies and concepts of SLA, from "Accommodation" to the "ZISA project." Written by an international team of specialists, the Routledge Encyclopedia of Second Language Acquisition is an invaluable resource for students and researchers with an academic interest in SLA.

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0415877512

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Countering Coercion in Maritime Asia

The Theory and Practice of Gray Zone Deterrence

By: Michael Green,Kathleen Hicks,Zack Cooper,John Schaus,Jake Douglas

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Countering Coercion in Maritime Asia

The Theory and Practice of Gray Zone Deterrence

By: Michael Green,Kathleen Hicks,Zack Cooper,John Schaus,Jake Douglas

In the past decade, tensions in Asia have risen as Beijing has become more assertive in maritime disputes with its neighbors and the United States. Although taking place below the threshold of direct military confrontation, China’s assertiveness frequently involves coercive elements that put at risk existing rules and norms; physical control of disputed waters and territory; and the credibility of U.S. security commitments. Regional leaders have expressed increasing alarm that such “gray zone” coercion threatens to destabilize the region by increasing the risk of conflict and undermining the rules-based order. Yet, the United States and its allies and partners have struggled to develop effective counters to China’s maritime coercion. This study reviews deterrence literature and nine case studies of coercion to develop recommendations for how the United States and its allies and partners could counter gray zone activity.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442279982

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9781442279988

Aid State

Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, and the Battle to Control Haiti

By: Jake Johnston

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Aid State

Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, and the Battle to Control Haiti

By: Jake Johnston

Haiti’s state is near-collapse: armed groups have overrun the country, many government officials have fled after the 2021 assassination of President Moise and not a single elected leader holds office, refugees desperately set out on boats to reach the US and Latin America, and the economy reels from the after-effects of disasters, both man-made and natural, that destroyed much of Haiti’s infrastructure and institutions. How did a nation founded on liberation—a people that successfully revolted against their colonizers and enslavers—come to such a precipice? In Aid State, Jake Johnston, a researcher and writer at the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, DC, reveals how long-standing US and European capitalist goals ensnared and re-enslaved Haiti under the guise of helping it. To the global West, Haiti has always been a place where labor is cheap, politicians are compliant, and profits are to be made. Over the course of nearly 100 years, the US has sought to control Haiti and its people with occupying police, military, and euphemistically-called peacekeeping forces, as well as hand-picked leaders meant to quell uprisings and protect corporate interests. Earthquakes and hurricanes only further devastated a state already decimated by the aid industrial complex. Based on years of on-the-ground reporting in Haiti and interviews with politicians in the US and Haiti, independent aid contractors, UN officials, and Haitians who struggle for their lives, homes, and families, Aid State is a conscience-searing book of witness.

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St. Martin's Press

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1250284686

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The Mythology of Native North America

By: David Adams Leeming,Jake Page

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The Mythology of Native North America

By: David Adams Leeming,Jake Page

Recounts more than seventy Native American myths from a variety of cultures, covering gods, creation, and heroes and heroines, and discusses each myth within its own context, its relationship to other myths, and its place within world mythology.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806132396

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In the Hands of the Great Spirit

The 20,000-Year History of American Indians

By: Jake Page

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In the Hands of the Great Spirit

The 20,000-Year History of American Indians

By: Jake Page

Unprecedented, dramatic, persuasive: the first complete, one-volume history of the American Indians to explain the 20,000-year history from their point of view.

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Simon and Schuster

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0684855771

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9780684855776

Beachin'

By: Jake Owen

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Beachin'

By: Jake Owen

(Piano Vocal). This sheet music features an arrangement for piano and voice with guitar chord frames, with the melody presented in the right hand of the piano part as well as in the vocal line.

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1540018016

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The Laundromat (previously published as SECRECY WORLD)

Inside the Panama Papers, Illicit Money Networks, and the Global Elite

By: Jake Bernstein

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The Laundromat (previously published as SECRECY WORLD)

Inside the Panama Papers, Illicit Money Networks, and the Global Elite

By: Jake Bernstein

Secrecy World is the inspiration for the Major Motion Picture The Laundromat from Director Steven Soderbergh, Starring Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman, and Antonio Banderas A two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist takes us inside the world revealed by the Panama Papers, a landscape of illicit money, political corruption, and fraud on a global scale. A hidden circulatory system flows beneath the surface of global finance, carrying trillions of dollars from drug trafficking, tax evasion, bribery, and other illegal enterprises. This network masks the identities of the individuals who benefit from these activities, aided by bankers, lawyers, and auditors who get paid to look the other way. In Secrecy World, the Pulitzer Prize winning investigative reporter Jake Bernstein explores this shadow economy and how it evolved, drawing on millions of leaked documents from the files of the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca—a trove now known as the Panama Papers—as well as other journalistic and government investigations. Bernstein shows how shell companies operate, how they allow the superwealthy and celebrities to escape taxes, and how they provide cover for illicit activities on a massive scale by crime bosses and corrupt politicians across the globe. Bernstein traveled to the Caribbean, Latin America, Europe, and within the United States to uncover how these strands fit together—who is involved, how they operate, and the real-world impact. He recounts how Mossack Fonseca was exposed and what lies ahead for the corporations, banks, law firms, individuals, and governments that are implicated. Secrecy World offers a disturbing and sobering view of how the world really works and raises critical questions about financial and legal institutions we may once have trusted.

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Henry Holt and Company

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125012669X

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School Environment in Africa and Asia Pacific

By: Princewill I. Egwuasi Ph.D,Jake M. Laguador Ph.D,Ngozika A. Oleforo Ph.D,Stella Nwosu Ph.D,Rania R. Khalil Ph.D,Sudhanshu K. Sultania

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School Environment in Africa and Asia Pacific

By: Princewill I. Egwuasi Ph.D,Jake M. Laguador Ph.D,Ngozika A. Oleforo Ph.D,Stella Nwosu Ph.D,Rania R. Khalil Ph.D,Sudhanshu K. Sultania

This publication of School Environment in Africa and Asia Pacific is a continuation of our maiden and second publications, School Environment in Nigeria and the Philippines, published in February 2015, and School Environment in Nigeria, Ghana, and the Philippines, published in March 2017. The philosophy being that since there is a shift from globalization to internationalization and to cross-border education, there is the urgent need to revisit some topical issues in our school environment toward the realization of an internationalized, qualitative, and cross-border teaching and learning, using information and communication technology. It is therefore, based on this, that the Dakar framework for action (UNESCO, 2000) stipulates the use of ICT as one of the major strategies to attain education-for-all (EFA) goals.

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1546257985

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Understories

The Political Life of Forests in Northern New Mexico

By: Jake Kosek

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Understories

The Political Life of Forests in Northern New Mexico

By: Jake Kosek

A lively, engaging ethnography that demonstrates how a volatile politics of race, class, and nation animates the infamously violent struggles over forests in the U.S. Southwest.

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Duke University Press

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0822338475

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9780822338475

Lying in the Middle

Musical Theater and Belief at the Heart of America

By: Jake Johnson

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Lying in the Middle

Musical Theater and Belief at the Heart of America

By: Jake Johnson

The local and regional shows staged throughout America use musical theater’s inherent power of deception to cultivate worldviews opposed to mainstream ideas. Jake Johnson reveals how musical theater between the coasts inhabits the middle spaces between professional and amateur, urban and rural, fact and fiction, fantasy and reality, and truth and falsehood. The homegrown musical provides a space to engage belief and religion—imagining a better world while creating opportunities to expand what is possible in the current one. Whether it is the Oklahoma Senior Follies or a Mormon splinter group’s production of The Sound of Music, such productions give people a chance to jolt themselves out of today’s post-truth malaise and move toward a world more in line with their desires for justice, reconciliation, and community. Vibrant and strikingly original, Lying in the Middle discovers some of the most potent musical theater taking place in the hoping, beating hearts of Americans.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252052854

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9780252052859

Blueberry Hill

By: Jake Jones

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Blueberry Hill

By: Jake Jones

Growing up during Americas worst economic depression brought unique challenges. This book tells of life before many of the things we take for granted today were available, e.g. refrigerators, television sets, clothes washers and dryers, bath tubs, enough to eat, and clothes that werent hand-me-downs. It was a time when playing baseball with buddies was time consuming and didnt cost anything. One bat, one baseball, a few gloves and no parents to watch was all a bunch of youngsters needed to play for hours. Times were tough, but they were great!

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Xlibris Corporation

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1477177493

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TV-a-Go-Go

Rock on TV from American Bandstand to American Idol

By: Jake Austen

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TV-a-Go-Go

Rock on TV from American Bandstand to American Idol

By: Jake Austen

From Elvis and a hound dog wearing matching tuxedos and the comic adventures of artificially produced bands to elaborate music videos and contrived reality-show contests, television--as this critical look brilliantly shows--has done a superb job of presenting the energy of rock in a fabulously entertaining but patently "fake" manner. The dichotomy of "fake" and "real" music as it is portrayed on television is presented in detail through many generations of rock music: the Monkees shared the charts with the Beatles, Tupac and Slayer fans voted for corny American Idols, and shows like" Shindig! "and "Soul Train "somehow captured the unhinged energy of rock far more effectively than most long-haired guitar-smashing acts. Also shown is how TV has often delighted in breaking the rules while still mostly playing by them: Bo Diddley defied Ed Sullivan and sang rock and roll after he had been told not to, the Chipmunks' subversive antics prepared kids for punk rock, and things got out of hand when" Saturday Night Live "invited punk kids to attend a taping of the band Fear. Every aspect of the idiosyncratic history of rock and TV and their peculiar relationship is covered, including cartoon rock, music programming for African American audiences, punk on television, Michael Jackson's life on TV, and the tortured history of MTV and its progeny.

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Chicago Review Press

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1569762414

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9781569762417

Lucky, Lucky Me

By: Jake Jones

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Lucky, Lucky Me

By: Jake Jones

In this book, Jake talks about his more than eighty years of life experiences. He takes the reader from Americas great economy depression of the 1930s through an up-close and personal view of three American wars to a life of relative abundance in this century. His twenty-eight years of flying in the air force took him to beautiful places like Stavanger, Norway, cold places like Thule AFB Greenland, hot places like Sattahip, Thailand, and dry places like the San Joaquin Valley in California. He describes the details of losing fellow crew members in four different plane crashes and the personal hardship on their families. His most memorable events of his military career were in the 1960s when on three occasions he was involved in the work and decision making of President John F. Kennedy. He vividly remembers seeing and being close to President Kennedy just four weeks before he was assassinated.

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1514427524

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9781514427521

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

I've Seen a Lot of Famous People Naked, and They've Got Nothing on You!

Business Secrets from the Ultimate Street-smart Entrepreneur

By: Jake Steinfeld

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I've Seen a Lot of Famous People Naked, and They've Got Nothing on You!

Business Secrets from the Ultimate Street-smart Entrepreneur

By: Jake Steinfeld

Jake Steinfeld has seen a lot of big-name celebrities naked - that is, "stripped" of the trappings of fame and fortune. He has learned what makes successful people tick and he has used that knowledge to turn a personal training business into a premiere fitness product brand, a 24-hour fitness television network, a professional sports league and instant recognition everywhere he goes. This book is "Business by Jake.

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Amacom Books

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0814429106

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9780814429105

Slocum 354

Slocum and the Schuylkill Butchers

By: Jake Logan

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Slocum 354

Slocum and the Schuylkill Butchers

By: Jake Logan

Slocum’s up against some really sharp characters… Between the Civil War and his travels on the frontier, John Slocum has seen his share of brutality. But nothing could have prepared him for witnessing the mutilation of a posse at the hands of more than two dozen knife- and cleaver-wielding killers. They’re known as the Schuylkill Butchers. They’ve been rustling cattle, robbing stagecoaches, and massacring the residents of Sharpesville, Montana. And now Slocum’s going to show them a slice of life they’ll never forget…

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Penguin

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1440635137

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9781440635137

Disgraceland

Musicians Getting Away with Murder and Behaving Very Badly

By: Jake Brennan

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Disgraceland

Musicians Getting Away with Murder and Behaving Very Badly

By: Jake Brennan

From the creator of the popular rock 'n' roll true crime podcast, Disgraceland comes an off-kilter, hysterical, at times macabre book inspired by true stories from the highly entertaining underbelly of music history. You may know Jerry Lee Lewis married his thirteen-year-old cousin but did you know he shot his bass player in the chest with a shotgun or that a couple of his wives died under extremely mysterious circumstances? Or that Sam Cooke was shot dead in a seedy motel after barging into the manager's office naked to attack her? Maybe not. Would it change your view of him if you knew that, or would your love for his music triumph? Real rock stars do truly insane thing and invite truly insane things to happen to them; murder, drug trafficking, rape, cannibalism and the occult. We allow this behavior. We are complicit because a rock star behaving badly is what's expected. It's baked into the cake. Deep down, way down, past all of our self-righteous notions of justice and right and wrong, when it comes down to it, we want our rock stars to be bad. We know the music industry is full of demons, ones that drove Elvis Presley, Phil Spector, Sid Vicious and that consumed the Norwegian Black Metal scene. We want to believe in the myths because they're so damn entertaining. Disgraceland is a collection of the best of these stories about some of the music world's most beloved stars and their crimes. It will mix all-new, untold stories with expanded stories from the first two seasons of the Disgraceland podcast. Using figures we already recognize, Disgraceland shines a light into the dark corners of their fame revealing the fine line that separates heroes and villains as well as the danger Americans seek out in their news cycles, tabloids, reality shows and soap operas. At the center of this collection of stories is the ever-fascinating music industry--a glittery stage populated by gangsters, drug dealers, pimps, groupies with violence, scandal and pure unadulterated rock 'n' roll entertainment.

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Grand Central Publishing

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1538732130

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Mormons, Musical Theater, and Belonging in America

By: Jake Johnson

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Mormons, Musical Theater, and Belonging in America

By: Jake Johnson

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints adopted the vocal and theatrical traditions of American musical theater as important theological tenets. As Church membership grew, leaders saw how the genre could help define the faith and wove musical theater into many aspects of Mormon life. Jake Johnson merges the study of belonging in America with scholarship on voice and popular music to explore the surprising yet profound link between two quintessentially American institutions. Throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Mormons gravitated toward musicals as a common platform for transmitting political and theological ideas. Johnson sees Mormons using musical theater as a medium for theology of voice--a religious practice that suggests how vicariously voicing another person can bring one closer to godliness. This sounding, Johnson suggests, created new opportunities for living. Voice and the musical theater tradition provided a site for Mormons to negotiate their way into middle-class respectability. At the same time, musical theater became a unique expressive tool of Mormon culture.

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University of Illinois Press

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025205136X

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9780252051364

Jesus’ Resurrection and Apparitions

A Bayesian Analysis

By: Jake O'Connell

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Jesus’ Resurrection and Apparitions

A Bayesian Analysis

By: Jake O'Connell

Did Jesus rise physically from the dead, or did he rise as a real, non-bodily apparition, like those reported in the parapsychological literature? In this book, which is the first book-length examination of the question in over fifty years, Jake O'Connell argues in favor of the physical resurrection hypothesis. In order to do so, he employs Bayes' Theorem, a mathematical theorem which encapsulates the way humans think when they analyze the probability of a hypothesis. In addition, he provides a thorough overview of the evidence for the reality of apparitions of the dead.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1498225608

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9781498225601

The Road Goes on Forever

By: Jake Hessman

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The Road Goes on Forever

By: Jake Hessman

If you had complete freedom from all obligations, both personal and financial, and thousands of options lying ahead of you, how would you decide which one to pursue? This is the position Chris Coupland finds himself in on a frigid New Year's morning, when his relationship with Hope ends abruptly. From loss and confusion through success and reconciliation, his choices and the resulting journey may surprise you. Avoiding demons and chasing dreams, his search for Hope or even just hope will be the catalyst for the change he never knew he needed. His challenge now is to decide which path to take, and whether to take that path alone or with someone.

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iUniverse

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1450239080

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American Country Love Song

By: Jake Owen

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American Country Love Song

By: Jake Owen

(Piano Vocal). This sheet music features an arrangement for piano and voice with guitar chord frames, with the melody presented in the right hand of the piano part, as well as in the vocal line.

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Hal Leonard Corporation

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1540017133

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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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I Am Jake

By: Jake Zyrus

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I Am Jake

By: Jake Zyrus

Charice Pempengco was poised to be the next big global pop star, the most powerful names in Hollywood staunchly behind her. But she bravely turned her back on the glittering lights of Hollywood for a bigger dream—to be himself in a world that tried its best to erase him from his own story. From his turbulent childhood to the dizzying heights of Hollywood, and the fall from grace to his rebirth, Jake Zyrus delves into it all and inspires with his story of becoming.

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Anvil Publishing, Inc.

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9712735028

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School Environment and Sustainable Development Goals Beyond 2030

Fourth Edition

By: Princewill I. Egwuasi Ph.D,Jake M. Laguador Ph.D,Emad K. Hussein Ph.D,Ohene B. Apea Ph.D,Joan I. Egwuasi CNA,George N. Shava

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School Environment and Sustainable Development Goals Beyond 2030

Fourth Edition

By: Princewill I. Egwuasi Ph.D,Jake M. Laguador Ph.D,Emad K. Hussein Ph.D,Ohene B. Apea Ph.D,Joan I. Egwuasi CNA,George N. Shava

This book on School Environment and the SDGs Beyond 2030 is a continuation of our maiden, second and third publications on School Environment in Nigeria and the Philippines, published in February, 2015; School Environment in Nigeria, Ghana and the Philippines published in March, 2017; and School Environment in Africa and Asia Pacific published in July, 2018. The philosophy being that since there is a shift from globalization to internationalization and to cross-border education, there is the urgent need to revisit some topical issues in our school environment towards the realization of an internationalized, qualitative and cross-border teaching and learning, using the Sustainable Development Goals as a yardstick.

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AuthorHouse

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1728363314

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9781728363318

100 Things Nationals Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die

By: Jake Russell

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100 Things Nationals Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die

By: Jake Russell

Revised and updated, including the 2019 World Series! 100 Things Nationals Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die is the ultimate resource guide for true fans of the Washington Nationals. Whether you're a die-hard booster from the days of the Senators or a newer supporter of Max Scherzer and Juan Soto, these are the 100 things all fans need to know and do in their lifetime. It contains every essential piece of Nationals knowledge and trivia, as well as must-do activities, and ranks them all from 1 to 100, providing an entertaining and easy-to-follow checklist as you progress on your way to fan superstardom.

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Triumph Books

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1641254696

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9781641254694

Disaster Risk

By: Irasema Alcántara-Ayala,Christopher Gomez,Ksenia Chmutina,Dewald van Niekerk,Emmanuel Raju,Victor Marchezini,Jake Rom Cadag,JC Gaillard

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Disaster Risk

By: Irasema Alcántara-Ayala,Christopher Gomez,Ksenia Chmutina,Dewald van Niekerk,Emmanuel Raju,Victor Marchezini,Jake Rom Cadag,JC Gaillard

The text offers a comprehensive and unique perspective on disaster risk associated with natural hazards. It covers a wide range of topics, reflecting the most recent debates but also older and pioneering discussions in the academic field of disaster studies as well as in the policy and practical areas of disaster risk reduction (DRR). This book will be of particular interest to undergraduate students studying geography and environmental studies/science. It will also be of relevance to students/professionals from a wide range of social and physical science disciplines, including public health and public policy, sociology, anthropology, political science and geology.

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Taylor & Francis

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131546960X

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The Prophet of Harvard Law

James Bradley Thayer and His Legal Legacy

By: Andrew Porwancher,Austin Coffey,Taylor Jipp,Jake Mazeitis

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The Prophet of Harvard Law

James Bradley Thayer and His Legal Legacy

By: Andrew Porwancher,Austin Coffey,Taylor Jipp,Jake Mazeitis

Amid the halls of Harvard Law, a professor of legend, James Bradley Thayer, shaped generations of students from 1874 to 1902. His devoted protégés included future Supreme Court justices, appellate judges, and law school deans. The legal giants of the Progressive Era—Holmes, Brandeis, and Hand, to name only a few—came under Thayer’s tutelage in their formative years. He imparted to his pupils a novel jurisprudence, attuned to modern realities, that would become known as legal realism. Thayer’s students learned to confront with candor the fallibility of the bench and the uncertainty of the law. Most of all, he instilled in them an abiding faith that appointed judges must entrust elected lawmakers to remedy their own mistakes if America’s experiment in self-government is to survive. In the eyes of his loyal disciples, Thayer was no mere professor; he was a prophet bequeathing to them sacred truths. His followers eventually came to preside over their own courtrooms and classrooms, and from these privileged perches they remade the law in Thayer’s image. Thanks to their efforts, Thayer’s insights are now commonplace truisms. The Prophet of Harvard Law draws from untouched archival sources to reveal the origins of the legal world we inhabit today. It is a story of ideas and people in equal measure. Long before judges don their robes or scholars their gowns, they are mere law students on the cusp of adulthood. At that pivotal phase, a professor can make a mark that endures forever after. Thayer’s life and legacy testify to the profound role of mentorship in shaping the course of legal history.

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University Press of Kansas

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0700633596

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Aid State

Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, and the Battle to Control Haiti

By: Jake Johnston

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Aid State

Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, and the Battle to Control Haiti

By: Jake Johnston

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St. Martin's Press

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1250284686

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9781250284686

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