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But Wait! There's More! (Maybe)

By: E. Crea Donald E. Creamer &. James Baar,James Baar

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But Wait! There's More! (Maybe)

By: E. Crea Donald E. Creamer &. James Baar,James Baar

But Wait! There's More! (maybe) is the story of how the great and glamorous American Advertising Magic Show became a $500 billion global business, doomed itself in an ocean of corporate funny money and now struggles amid mounting chaos to be born anew in the Internet-driven media revolution of the 21st Century. The authors, both veterans of Adland's Golden Age, describe and illuminate this important business evolution through the colorful history of the creation, growth and destruction of the world's seventh largest advertising agency from its amusing on-the-cuff founding through the mega-agency pig-out of the last 20 years. But Wait!, populated with a wide swath of habitués of the advertising and corporate world, tells through a fast moving narrative and a series of contemporary Conversations in famous and not-so famous Adland watering holes about what went well (great advertising), what went wrong (business judgment), and what went (advertising competence); addresses a major business upheaval that is profoundly affecting business, government and the core nature of mass communication; makes clear the need for a new business model, and explores eight possibilities (some good, some not). There are also "Lessons for the Model Ad Agency CEO" should any survive. Conclusion: Madison Avenue can be great again. (maybe)

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Omegacom, Inc.

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1436330920

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9781436330923

The Limbo Chronicles

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By: James L. Whitmer

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The Limbo Chronicles

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By: James L. Whitmer

Contained herein is an account of mans struggle between good and evil, and how, on a daily basis, strange and inexplicable events oftentimes blend together resulting in unforeseen outcomes. This compilation of short stories from the confines of Limbo will lead the reader on the path to determine outcomes that seldom seem logical, but, nonetheless, manifest themselves in unique and singular ways. On ones journey through Limbo there are many twists and turns, and now, dear reader, begin your journey and see if you can predict the final accounting of the dilemmas presented.

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iUniverse

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1491750383

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9781491750384

The Indigenous Black People of Monroe, Louisiana and the Surrounding Cities, Towns, and Villages

A 100 Year Documentary

By: James O. McHenry ED.D

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The Indigenous Black People of Monroe, Louisiana and the Surrounding Cities, Towns, and Villages

A 100 Year Documentary

By: James O. McHenry ED.D

This book is for those Louisiana slaves (and all the American slaves) whose labor was forced without regard to their humanity, even further, with unrestrained disrespect for their existence. This book is a tribute to the indigenous (originated in or native to the region) Black people of Northeast Louisiana, those folk who were reared in the rural areas, villages, and small towns; who worked on the farms and plantations; sharecropped; cleared all the land; tended all the livestock; planted and harvested all the crops; cooked for, babysat, and cleaned the homes of White folk; and endured the hardships of it all. This is a tribute to those laborers and professionals who strived for better lives for themselves and their families; the people who remained in Monroe, those who migrated to Monroe to make it a fine place to call home, and those who returned to the warmth of Monroe to live; and also, to those who left the area and moved on to other parts of the United States and world. I want to thank them all for trusting me with their stories.

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740

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Xlibris Corporation

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1453588604

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9781453588604

Darkness in the Bliss-Out

A Reconsideration of the Films of Steven Spielberg

By: James Kendrick

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Darkness in the Bliss-Out

A Reconsideration of the Films of Steven Spielberg

By: James Kendrick

While there has been a significant outpouring of scholarship on Steven Spielberg over the past decade, his films are still frequently discussed as being paternalistic, escapist, and reliant on uncomplicated emotions and complicated special effects. Even those who view his work favorably often see it as essentially optimistic, reassuring, and conservative. James Kendrick takes an alternate view of Spielberg's cinema and proposes that his films-even the most popular ones that seem to trade in easy answers and comforting, reassuring notions of cohesion and narrative resolution-are significantly darker and more emotionally and ideologically complex than they are routinely given credit for. Darkness in the Bliss-Out demonstrates, through close analysis of a wide range of Spielberg's films, that they are only reassuring on the surface, and that their depths embody a complex and sometimes contradictory view of the human condition.

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244

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1441112502

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9781441112507

In Their Own Voices

Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories

By: Rita James Simon,Rhonda M. Roorda

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In Their Own Voices

Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories

By: Rita James Simon,Rhonda M. Roorda

Nearly forty years after researchers first sought to determine the effects, if any, on children adopted by families whose racial or ethnic background differed from their own, the debate over transracial adoption continues. In this collection of interviews conducted with black and biracial young adults who were adopted by white parents, the authors present the personal stories of two dozen individuals who hail from a wide range of religious, economic, political, and professional backgrounds. How does the experience affect their racial and social identities, their choice of friends and marital partners, and their lifestyles? In addition to interviews, the book includes overviews of both the history and current legal status of transracial adoption.

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Columbia University Press

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0231118295

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9780231118293

Side by Side in Eternity

The Lives Behind Adjacent American Military Graves

By: James Robert McNeal,J. Eric Smith

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Side by Side in Eternity

The Lives Behind Adjacent American Military Graves

By: James Robert McNeal,J. Eric Smith

Every gravestone in every graveyard can frame a story far more complex than the dates engraved upon it. It's common for spouses to be memorialized together as a final affirmation of the commitments made in life, or for bereaved parents to be buried with children who tragically preceded them in death. Close proximity burials of seemingly unrelated figures can similarly reveal the tales of people who otherwise walked together in life, by choice or by chance. For example, the Confederate burial of Union Col. Robert Gould Shaw was certainly meant as a dishonor as Shaw was buried in an unmarked, low-lying coastal trench alongside the fallen African American members of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment he had commanded at Fort Wagner. After the war, however, the men's remains were recovered and reinterred--meaningfully, still together--at the newly commissioned Beaufort National Cemetery. This book explores a dozen unique examples of such side-by-side burials over the course of U.S. history. It begins by describing each of the protagonists' final chapters, before spooling out the tales and significance of their actual journeys to such interwoven endpoints. The evolution of funerary practices and observances in the United States is interspersed throughout, with a special focus on military honors and burials.

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241

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McFarland

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1476648506

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9781476648507

The Freckleton, England, Air Disaster

The B-24 Crash That Killed 38 Preschoolers and 23 Adults, August 23, 1944

By: James R. Hedtke

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The Freckleton, England, Air Disaster

The B-24 Crash That Killed 38 Preschoolers and 23 Adults, August 23, 1944

By: James R. Hedtke

The Freckleton catastrophe of August 23, 1944, occurred when an American B-24 Liberator crashed into the small village of Freckleton in northwest England. The plane was on a test flight when it encountered a rare and severe summer thunderstorm. Air traffic control at the American air base Warton recalled the bomber back to the base. When the pilot attempted to abort the landing because of poor visibility and high winds, a downdraft caught the plane and it crashed into the adjacent village of Freckleton. As the B-24 tumbled through the village, destroying three houses and a snack bar, flames erupted from wreckage and engulfed Holy Trinity grade school. Before the fire could be brought under control, the holocaust destroyed an entire generation of children in this village of fewer than 1,000 inhabitants. The village would never be the same. In a compelling account of sorrow, loss, hope and finally rebirth, the book looks at the history of the village, the establishment of the base at Warton, the crash, the funeral of the 61 victims, the official British inquest and the American investigation into the cause of the crash. The lives of the survivors, the servicemen and the villagers are followed through 2012.

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217

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McFarland

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1476613621

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9781476613628

The Murder of King James I

By: Alastair James Bellany,Thomas Cogswell

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The Murder of King James I

By: Alastair James Bellany,Thomas Cogswell

A year after the death of James I in 1625, a sensational pamphlet accused the Duke of Buckingham of murdering the king. It was an allegation that would haunt English politics for nearly forty years. In this exhaustively researched new book, two leading scholars of the era, Alastair Bellany and Thomas Cogswell, uncover the untold story of how a secret history of courtly poisoning shaped and reflected the political conflicts that would eventually plunge the British Isles into civil war and revolution. Illuminating many hitherto obscure aspects of early modern political culture, this eagerly anticipated work is both a fascinating story of political intrigue and a major exploration of the forces that destroyed the Stuart monarchy.

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659

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Yale University Press

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0300214960

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9780300214963

Black Baseball, 1858-1900

A Comprehensive Record of the Teams, Players, Managers, Owners and Umpires

By: James E. Brunson III

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Black Baseball, 1858-1900

A Comprehensive Record of the Teams, Players, Managers, Owners and Umpires

By: James E. Brunson III

This is one of the most important baseball books to be published in a long time, taking a comprehensive look at black participation in the national pastime from 1858 through 1900. It provides team rosters and team histories, player biographies, a list of umpires and games they officiated and information on team managers and team secretaries. Well known organizations like the Washington's Mutuals, Philadelphia Pythians, Chicago Uniques, St. Louis Black Stockings, Cuban Giants and Chicago Unions are documented, as well as lesser known teams like the Wilmington Mutuals, Newton Black Stockings, San Francisco Enterprise, Dallas Black Stockings, Galveston Flyaways, Louisville Brotherhoods and Helena Pastimes. Player biographies trace their connections between teams across the country. Essays frame the biographies, discussing the social and cultural events that shaped black baseball. Waiters and barbers formed the earliest organized clubs and developed local, regional and national circuits. Some players belonged to both white and colored clubs, and some umpires officiated colored, white and interracial matches. High schools nurtured young players and transformed them into powerhouse teams, like Cincinnati's Vigilant Base Ball Club. A special essay covers visual representations of black baseball and the artists who created them, including colored artists of color who were also baseballists.

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McFarland

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0786494174

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9780786494170

"They Say"

Ida B. Wells and the Reconstruction of Race

By: James West Davidson

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"They Say"

Ida B. Wells and the Reconstruction of Race

By: James West Davidson

Between 1880 and 1930, Southern mobs hanged, burned, and otherwise tortured to death at least 3,300 African Americans. And yet the rest of the nation largely ignored the horror of lynching or took it for granted, until a young schoolteacher from Tennessee raised her voice. Her name was Ida B. Wells. In "They Say," historian James West Davidson recounts the first thirty years of this passionate woman's life--as well as the story of the great struggle over the meaning of race in post-emancipation America. Davidson captures the breathtaking, often chaotic changes that swept the South as Wells grew up in Holly Springs, Mississippi: the spread of education among the free blacks, the rise of political activism, the bitter struggles for equality in the face of entrenched social custom. As Wells came of age she moved to bustling Memphis, eager to worship at the city's many churches (black and white), to take elocution lessons and perform Shakespeare at evening soirées, to court and spark with the young men taken by her beauty. But Wells' quest for fulfillment was thwarted as whites increasingly used race as a barrier separating African Americans from mainstream America. Davidson traces the crosscurrents of these cultural conflicts through Ida Wells' forceful personality. When a conductor threw her off a train for not retreating to the segregated car, she sued the railroad--and won. When she protested conditions in the segregated Memphis schools, she was fired--and took up full-time journalism. And in 1892, when an explosive lynching rocked Memphis, she embarked full-blown on the career for which she is now remembered, as an outspoken writer and lecturer against lynching. Richly researched and deftly written, "They Say" offers a gripping portrait of the young Ida B. Wells, shedding light not only on how one black American defined her own aspirations and her people's freedom, but also on the changing meaning of race in America.

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257

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Oxford University Press

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0198036329

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9780198036326

In Their Siblings' Voices

White Non-adopted Siblings Talk about Their Experiences Being Raised with Black and Biracial Brothers and Sisters

By: Rita James Simon,Rhonda M. Roorda

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In Their Siblings' Voices

White Non-adopted Siblings Talk about Their Experiences Being Raised with Black and Biracial Brothers and Sisters

By: Rita James Simon,Rhonda M. Roorda

This book provides a gateway to understanding the emotional and social adjustments that siblings of transracially adopted children make in blended families. An indispensable resource for parents who are considering or have adopted transracially, for professionals who advise adoptive parents, and for teachers of children in families formed through transracial adoption.

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Columbia University Press

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0231148518

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9780231148511

North American Wildland Plants

A Field Guide

By: James Stubbendieck,Stephan L. Hatch,Neal M. Bryan,Cheryl D. Dunn

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North American Wildland Plants

A Field Guide

By: James Stubbendieck,Stephan L. Hatch,Neal M. Bryan,Cheryl D. Dunn

North American Wildland Plants contains descriptions of the salient characteristics of the most important wildland plants of North America. This comprehensive reference assists individuals with limited botanical knowledge as well as natural resource professionals in identifying wildland plants. The two hundred species of wildland plants in this book were selected because of their abundance, desirability, or poisonous properties. Each illustration has been enhanced with labels pointing to key characteristics to facilitate the identification of unknown plants. Each plant description includes plant characteristics, an illustration of the plant with enlarged parts, and a general distribution map for North America. Each species description includes nomenclature; life span; origin; season of growth; inflorescence, flower or spikelet, or other reproductive parts; vegetative parts; and growth characteristics. Brief notes are included on habitat; livestock losses; and historic, food, and medicinal uses. This third edition contains additional refinements in the nomenclature, distribution, illustrations, and descriptions of plants.

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528

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U of Nebraska Press

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1496200934

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9781496200938

The Law Reports

Vol. 7

By: James Anstie,Arthur Charles

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The Law Reports

Vol. 7

By: James Anstie,Arthur Charles

Reprint of the original, first published in 1872.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3368160532

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9783368160531

The Harding Affair

Love and Espionage during the Great War

By: James David Robenalt

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The Harding Affair

Love and Espionage during the Great War

By: James David Robenalt

Warren Harding fell in love with his beautiful neighbor, Carrie Phillips, in the summer of 1905, almost a decade before he was elected a United States Senator and fifteen years before he became the 29th President of the United States. When the two lovers started their long-term and torrid affair, neither of them could have foreseen that their relationship would play out against one of the greatest wars in world history--the First World War. Harding would become a Senator with the power to vote for war; Mrs. Phillips and her daughter would become German agents, spying on a U. S. training camp on Long Island in the hopes of gauging for the Germans the pace of mobilization of the U. S. Army for entry into the battlefields in France. Based on over 800 pages of correspondence discovered in the 1960s but under seal ever since in the Library of Congress, The Harding Affair will tell the unknown stories of Harding as a powerful Senator and his personal and political life, including his complicated romance with Mrs. Phillips. The book will also explore the reasons for the entry of the United States into the European conflict and explain why so many Americans at the time supported Germany, even after the U. S. became involved in the spring of 1917. James David Robenalt's comprehensive study of the letters is set in a narrative that weaves in a real-life spy story with the story of Harding's not accidental rise to the presidency.

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St. Martin's Press

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0230100937

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9780230100930

Legumes of the Great Plains

An Illustrated Guide

By: James Stubbendieck,Jessica L. Milby

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Legumes of the Great Plains

An Illustrated Guide

By: James Stubbendieck,Jessica L. Milby

This comprehensive guide of legumes of the Great Plains includes an in-depth description of 114 species with illustrations and distribution maps. It includes more than one hundred similar species with a description of how each differs from the main species.

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1496224566

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9781496224569

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But Wait! There's More! (Maybe)

But Wait! There's More! (Maybe)

The Limbo Chronicles

The Limbo Chronicles

The Indigenous Black People of Monroe, Louisiana and the Surrounding Cities, Towns, and Villages

The Indigenous Black People of Monroe, Louisiana and the Surrounding Cities, Towns, and Villages

Darkness in the Bliss-Out

Darkness in the Bliss-Out

In Their Own Voices

In Their Own Voices

Side by Side in Eternity

Side by Side in Eternity

The Freckleton, England, Air Disaster

The Freckleton, England, Air Disaster

The Murder of King James I

The Murder of King James I

Black Baseball, 1858-1900

Black Baseball, 1858-1900

"They Say"

"They Say"

In Their Siblings' Voices

In Their Siblings' Voices

North American Wildland Plants

North American Wildland Plants

The Law Reports

The Law Reports

The Harding Affair

The Harding Affair

Legumes of the Great Plains

Legumes of the Great Plains

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