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A New Day in Mississippi

The Corruption in Our Government, and What We Can Do About It in 2011

By: James Broadwater

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A New Day in Mississippi

The Corruption in Our Government, and What We Can Do About It in 2011

By: James Broadwater

When James Broadwater went to work in Mississippi's state government in 2004, he soon found that what he thought was a good place to be employed turned out to be a network of "good ol' boys" who were committed to the status quo of corruption, waste, fraud, abuse, harassment, and persecution, which went all the way to the Governor's Mansion. For six and a half years he risked his job by filing complaints up the chain of command within the agency and charges with a dozen state and federal agencies. He found out that no one would do anything, including the media, so now he is taking his case to the court of public opinion through this book, and running for Governor in 2011! About the Author: James Broadwater and his family own a small business in the Jackson, Mississippi metro area. He is an ordained Southern Baptist minister, former state employee, and veteran of the Mississippi Army National Guard. Mr. Broadwater is a candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor of Mississippi in the August 2, 2011 Primary. Publisher's website: http: //www.strategicpublishinggroup.com/title/ANewDayInMississippi.html

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The Fighting Fifteenth Alabama Infantry

A Civil War History and Roster

By: James P. Faust

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The Fighting Fifteenth Alabama Infantry

A Civil War History and Roster

By: James P. Faust

At the start of the Civil War, volunteers from six counties in southeastern Alabama formed the 15th Alabama Infantry Regiment. As part of Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia--and briefly serving with Braxton Bragg's Army of Tennessee--the 15th Alabama was one of the Confederacy's most active regiments and fought in many of the war's key battles. Based on firsthand accounts, this volume chronicles the regiment's experiences from its organization in July 1861 through its surrender at Appomattox. Detailed firsthand accounts are given of the 15th's action at Shenandoah, Gettysburg, Chickamauga and Spotsylvania, along with intimate descriptions of camp life. Service records of each member are provided, including enlistment, hometown, battle wounds and, where applicable, cause of death.

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McFarland

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0786496126

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Secret Worthing

By: James Henry,Colin Walton

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Secret Worthing

By: James Henry,Colin Walton

A look around a typical seaside resort revealing its quirky history and roots. Written to inform, educate and amuse, Secret Worthing reveals the town's lesser-known anecdotes and buildings.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445651416

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Against the Grain

Colonel Henry M. Lazelle and the U.S. Army

By: James Carson

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Against the Grain

Colonel Henry M. Lazelle and the U.S. Army

By: James Carson

Henry Martyn Lazelle (1832-1917), born in Enfield, Massachusetts, the son of a farmer, orphaned at the age of four, and raised by a succession of relatives and family friends, was the only cadet in the history of the U.S. Military Academy to be suspended and sent back a year (for poor grades and bad behavior) and eventually return as Commandant of the Corps of Cadets. After graduating from West Point in 1855, he scouted with Kit Carson, was wounded by Apaches, and spent nearly a year as a "paroled" prisoner-of-war at the outbreak of the Civil War. Exchanged for a Confederate officer, he took command of a Union cavalry regiment, chasing Mosby's Rangers throughout northern Virginia. The early days of Reconstruction brought him to the Carolinas. Later he represented the U.S. at British Army maneuvers in India and commanded units and posts in the Far West and the Dakotas during the relocation and ravaging of the American Indian nations. Due in part to an ingrained disposition to question the status quo, Lazelle's service as a commander and senior staff officer was punctuated at times with contention and controversy. In charge of the official records of the Civil War in Washington, he was accused of falsifying records, exonerated, but dismissed short of tour. As Commandant of Cadets at West Point, he was a key figure during the infamous court martial of Johnson Whittaker, one of West Point's first African American cadets. Again, he was relieved of duty after a bureaucratic battle with the Academy’s Superintendent. Lazelle retired in 1894 as Colonel of the 18th U.S. Infantry at Fort Bliss, Texas, where his Army career had begun 38 years earlier. Along the way, he authored articles on military strategy and tactics, took up spiritualism, and published two books on the relationship between science and theology.

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University of North Texas Press

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1574416111

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Inlaws and Outlaws

By: Kathleen James

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Inlaws and Outlaws

By: Kathleen James

In Australia in 1971-72, there were 10,000 adoptions. In NSW in 1969, roughly 2,000 young women, most of them unmarried, gave up their children for adoption. Helen Armstrong, aged 17, fell pregnant that year and was persuaded to have her baby son Simon adopted out. This theme is closely based on Kathleen James’ own story. Helen still carries a buried grief. Birth mothers had no contact with their children, and only minimal initial information was ever provided. Years later when Helen is divorced and beginning a new phase of life, with a 19-year-old son Nick, she hopes for a reunion with Simon when he turns 21. At this time Helen falls in love with single parent Marco Lucini, and the family secrets of both the Armstrongs and the Lucinis gradually come to light. Helen learns a lot about her beloved Uncle Mick (a gambler and a ‘ladies’ man,’) who together with her Auntie Vera ran the Armstrong’s Family Hotel in Katoomba back in the 1930s. Finding out about Mick’s all too human failings and his troubled past helps her to come to terms with her own. Marco also learns how complicated families can be, when he discovers a whole new family of ‘outlaws’ in Italy, (‘outlaws’ being those parenting or born outside of marriage). The story takes us from a Sydney waterway to the NSW South Coast and Blue Mountains, and to Parma and Venice in Italy. The three narrators: Helen, Marco and Mick span two generations, in alternating chapters, giving the reader three different points of view. In its extensive exploration of adoption this novel gives a voice to the many women who, under the influence of others, gave up their babies and feel silenced by a sense of loss and shame. ‘Kathleen James deals with the issues of adoption with grace, sensitivity and sincere compassion. This is a wonderful read and personally it touched me on so many levels…. To bring to others the dilemma that is adoption with such understanding is a huge achievement.’ Penelope Wise, representative of the Adoptive Parents Association (APA) on the NSW Standing Committee on Adoption from 1977 to 1990.

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Australian Self Publishing Group

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1925346234

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Chasing Mosby, Killing Booth

The 16th New York Volunteer Cavalry

By: James Carson

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Chasing Mosby, Killing Booth

The 16th New York Volunteer Cavalry

By: James Carson

Near the end of the Civil War, Army Chief of Staff Henry W. Halleck described the 16th New York Volunteer Cavalry as "cowed and useless" after they were "cut up" by Confederate Colonel John Mosby's Rangers. The following April the New Yorkers made their place in history when 26 men led by Lieutenant Edward P. Doherty captured and killed John Wilkes Booth. An amalgam of three partially formed regiments, the 16th was plagued by early desertions, poor leadership and a near mutiny as its First Battalion prepared to march to northern Virginia to bolster the outer defenses of Washington in October 1863. The regiment spent most of the remainder of the war chasing Mosby's cavalry. They won a few tactical victories but were mainly confounded by the Confederate guerrillas. Drawing on personal letters, diaries and memoirs by men of the 16th, and the recollections of Mosby's men, this deeply researched history provides fresh perspective on Mosby's exploits and the hunt for Booth.

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1476663297

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Atlas of Yellowstone

By: W. Andrew Marcus,James E. Meacham,Ann W. Rodman

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Atlas of Yellowstone

By: W. Andrew Marcus,James E. Meacham,Ann W. Rodman

“Atlas of Yellowstone shows that good things happen when top-notch cartography, tasteful design, solid research, and compelling geography come together. The atlas will delight professional and armchair readers alike. Its treasure trove of maps explore wide-ranging topics—from geology to wildlife to people and the land. Better still, these well-orchestrated elements reveal a bigger idea: the place we call the Greater Yellowstone.” —Tom Patterson, former president, North American Cartographic Information Society “An extremely attractive, first-rate volume that is sure to become a fundamental resource for scholars and anyone who loves Yellowstone.”—Richard Marston, Kansas State University "While much has been written on the Yellowstone region, nothing compares to this volume in scope or presentation. This will become the standard reference and starting point for anyone interested in the history of Yellowstone."—Anthony Barnosky, author of Heatstroke: Nature in an Age of Global Warming

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Univ of California Press

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0520271556

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Stormy Weather

The Life of Lena Horne

By: James Gavin

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Stormy Weather

The Life of Lena Horne

By: James Gavin

At long last, the first serious biography of entertainment legend Lena Horne -- the celebrated star of film, stage, and music who became one of the first African-American icons. At the 2001 Academy Awards, Halle Berry thanked Lena Horne for paving the way for her to become the first black recipient of a Best Actress Oscar. Though limited, mostly to guest singing appearances in splashy Hollywood musicals, "the beautiful Lena Horne," as she was often called, became a pioneering star for African Americans in the 1940s and fifties. Now James Gavin, author of Deep in a Dream: The Long Night of Chet Baker, draws on a wealth of unmined material and hundreds of interviews -- one of them with Horne herself -- to give us the defining portrait of an American icon. Gavin has gotten closer than any other writer to the celebrity who has lived in reclusion since 1998. Incorporating insights from the likes of Ruby Dee, Tony Bennett, Diahann Carroll, Arthur Laurents, and several of Horne's fellow chorines from Harlem's Cotton Club, Stormy Weather offers a fascinating portrait of a complex, even tragic Horne -- a stunning talent who inspired such giants of showbiz as Barbra Streisand, Eartha Kitt, and Aretha Franklin, but whose frustrations with racism, and with tumultuous, root-less childhood, left wounds too deep to heal. The woman who emerged was as angry as she was luminous. From the Cotton Club's glory days and the back lots of Hollywood's biggest studios to the glitzy but bigoted hotels of Las Vegas's heyday, this behind-the-scenes look at an American icon is as much a story of the limits of the American dream as it is a masterful, ground-breaking biography.

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Simon and Schuster

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1439164258

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Sussex War Heroes

The Untold Story of our Second World War Survivors

By: Ben James

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Sussex War Heroes

The Untold Story of our Second World War Survivors

By: Ben James

A generation of ordinary young men and women were thrust into the most extraordinary of situations when the Second World War was declared. Sussex is full of war heroes, but soon they will be gone – along with their stories.This is not a book about Victoria Cross winners or the celebrities of days gone by, but the untold accounts of everyday heroes who ‘did their bit’. It is about former train engineer Bob Morrell, who was beaten, starved and tortured in the brutal Japanese prisoner camps. It is about ex-pub landlord John Akehurst, who gave the Germans the run-around Northern Europe after being shot down. And it is about Shindy Perez and her remarkable escape from the gas chambers of Auschwitz.As this important period passes from living memory into history, this is likely to be the last time that these personal tales are told, tales which should never be forgotten.

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The History Press

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0750968559

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Seasons of Grace

Reflections from the Christian Year

By: James F. Kay

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Seasons of Grace

Reflections from the Christian Year

By: James F. Kay

Seasons of Grace' is a fitting title for this collection of brief sermons. Readers will find within it homilies that, while sometimes challenging, are never merely moralistic and are always contemporary and encouraging - applications of grace to seasons of our lives as well as a tracing of gracious themes through seasons of the Christian year. James Kay gives us clearly structured pieces presented in a vigorous, colloquial style and marked by arresting turns of phrase. These sermons will stimulate the imaginations of preachers and enrich the devotional lives of parishioners. Marguerite Shuster, Fuller Theological Seminary These sermons are a preacher's delight. Not only do they reveal the integrity of a systematic theologian, the insight of a liturgical scholar, and the craft of a homiletics professor, but they are first and foremost pastoral proclamation. James Kay's sensitivity to text and context makes this real preaching to real congregations - authentic proclamations of the Word. There is no stained-glass language here, just the clear radiance of the Word shining into everyday lives, bringing the light, hope, and life of the gospel. Organized around the Christian year, these sermons will appeal to lectionary preachers as well as those who value the freedom of selecting their own texts on a weekly basis. Even more, they will be a wonderful devotional resource for pastor and parishioner alike. Fred R. Anderson, Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York With the newspaper in one hand and the Bible in the other, with the daily cries of God's children in one ear and the Word of God made flesh in the other, with the particular needs of parishioners on his heart and the mercy of a tender God in his head, James Kay proclaims the gospel with clarity, directness, and strength. This is no general proclamation but rather a word of healing and help that addresses real people's lives, a word that joins reader to congregation in one body of faith and hope and love. Cynthia A. Jarvis, Nassau Presbyterian Church, Princeton James F. Kay is assistant professor of homiletics at Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey. He is the author of 'Christus Praesens: A Reconsideration of Rudolf Bultmann's Christology'.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1597521213

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Worthing Pubs

By: David Muggleton,Colin Walton,James Henry

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Worthing Pubs

By: David Muggleton,Colin Walton,James Henry

A fascinating tour of Worthing's pub scene, charting the town's taverns, alehouses and watering holes, from past centuries to more recent times.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445688034

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Blackfeet and Buffalo

Memories of Life Among the Indians

By: James Willard Schultz

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Blackfeet and Buffalo

Memories of Life Among the Indians

By: James Willard Schultz

Memories of life among the Indians, ed. and with an introduction by K. C. Seele.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806117001

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Judging Inequality

State Supreme Courts and the Inequality Crisis

By: James L. Gibson,Michael J. Nelson

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Judging Inequality

State Supreme Courts and the Inequality Crisis

By: James L. Gibson,Michael J. Nelson

Social scientists have convincingly documented soaring levels of political, legal, economic, and social inequality in the United States. Missing from this picture of rampant inequality, however, is any attention to the significant role of state law and courts in establishing policies that either ameliorate or exacerbate inequality. In Judging Inequality, political scientists James L. Gibson and Michael J. Nelson demonstrate the influential role of the fifty state supreme courts in shaping the widespread inequalities that define America today, focusing on court-made public policy on issues ranging from educational equity and adequacy to LGBT rights to access to justice to worker’s rights. Drawing on an analysis of an original database of nearly 6,000 decisions made by over 900 judges on 50 state supreme courts over a quarter century, Judging Inequality documents two ways that state high courts have crafted policies relevant to inequality: through substantive policy decisions that fail to advance equality and by rulings favoring more privileged litigants (typically known as “upperdogs”). The authors discover that whether court-sanctioned policies lead to greater or lesser inequality depends on the ideologies of the justices serving on these high benches, the policy preferences of their constituents (the people of their state), and the institutional structures that determine who becomes a judge as well as who decides whether those individuals remain in office. Gibson and Nelson decisively reject the conventional theory that state supreme courts tend to protect underdog litigants from the wrath of majorities. Instead, the authors demonstrate that the ideological compositions of state supreme courts most often mirror the dominant political coalition in their state at a given point in time. As a result, state supreme courts are unlikely to stand as an independent force against the rise of inequality in the United States, instead making decisions compatible with the preferences of political elites already in power. At least at the state high court level, the myth of judicial independence truly is a myth. Judging Inequality offers a comprehensive examination of the powerful role that state supreme courts play in shaping public policies pertinent to inequality. This volume is a landmark contribution to scholarly work on the intersection of American jurisprudence and inequality, one that essentially rewrites the “conventional wisdom” on the role of courts in America’s democracy.

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Russell Sage Foundation

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0871545039

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Cases and Materials on Criminal Law

By: Janet Dine,James Gobert,William Wilson

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Cases and Materials on Criminal Law

By: Janet Dine,James Gobert,William Wilson

An array of carefully selected case report and academic article extracts combined with author commentary to provide a thorough and engaging assessment of criminal law provisions.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199541981

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Ships' Bilge Pumps

A History of Their Development, 1500-1900

By: Thomas James Oertling

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Ships' Bilge Pumps

A History of Their Development, 1500-1900

By: Thomas James Oertling

Beginning with early sixteenth-century documents that recorded bilge pump design and installation and ending at about 1900, when bilge pumps were being mass-produced, Oertling covers a period of radical technological change. He describes the process of making long wooden pump tubes by hand, as well as the assembly of the machine-crafted pumps that helped revolutionize ship construction and design. Also given in detail are the creation, function, and development of the three types of pumps used from about 1500 to well into the nineteenth century: the burr pump, the "suction" or common pump, and the chain pump. Of further interest is Oertling's overall examination of the nature and management of leaks in ships' hulls.

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Texas A&M University Press

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0890967229

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A New Day in Mississippi

A New Day in Mississippi

The Fighting Fifteenth Alabama Infantry

The Fighting Fifteenth Alabama Infantry

Secret Worthing

Secret Worthing

Against the Grain

Against the Grain

Inlaws and Outlaws

Inlaws and Outlaws

Chasing Mosby, Killing Booth

Chasing Mosby, Killing Booth

Atlas of Yellowstone

Atlas of Yellowstone

Stormy Weather

Stormy Weather

Sussex War Heroes

Sussex War Heroes

Seasons of Grace

Seasons of Grace

Worthing Pubs

Worthing Pubs

Blackfeet and Buffalo

Blackfeet and Buffalo

Judging Inequality

Judging Inequality

Cases and Materials on Criminal Law

Cases and Materials on Criminal Law

Ships' Bilge Pumps

Ships' Bilge Pumps

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