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Chicago Stories

By: James Daley

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Tales that take Chicago as their setting and works by writers associated with Chicago include stories by Saul Bellow, George Ade, Stuart Dybek, Richard Wright, Edna Ferber, W. Somerset Maugham, others.

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048680285X

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9780486802855

Listen to Soul!

Exploring a Musical Genre

By: James E. Perone

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Listen to Soul!

Exploring a Musical Genre

By: James E. Perone

Listen to Soul! Exploring a Musical Genre provides an overview of soul music for fans of the genre, with a focus on 50 must-hear singers, songs, and albums that define it. Listen to Soul! Exploring a Musical Genre provides both an overview and a critical analysis of what makes soul music in the United States. A list of 50 songs, albums, and musicians includes many of the best-known hits of the past and present as well as several important popular successes that are not necessarily on the "best-of" lists in other books. Like the other books in this series, this volume includes a background chapter followed by a chapter that contains 50 critical essays on must-hear albums, songs, and singers, approximately 1,500 words each. Chapters on the impact of soul music on popular culture and the legacy of the genre further explain the impact of these seminal compositions and musicians. This volume additionally includes a greater focus on soul music as a genre, making it a stand-out title on the topic for high school and college readers.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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144087526X

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9781440875267

100 Things Lakers Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die

By: Steve Springer,James Worthy

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100 Things Lakers Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die

By: Steve Springer,James Worthy

Now in its third edition, an essential guide for all Lakers fans, including the 2020 NBA championship! Most Los Angeles Lakers fans have taken in a game or two at the Staples Center, have seen highlights of Magic Johnson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, or remember the epic battles with the Celtics in the 1980s. But only real fans know how the Lakers acquired Hot Rod Hundley, which hobby fascinated both Chick Hearn and Elgin Baylor, or the best place to grab a bite in LA before a game. Whether you were there for the Showtime era or started watching during Kobe Bryant's prime, this is the ultimate guide for Lakers faithful. Every essential piece of Lakers knowledge and trivia, as well as must-do activities, is ranked from 1 to 100, providing an entertaining and easy-to-follow checklist for those on their way to fan superstardom.Readers will experience a vivid tour of Lakers history, featuring LeBron James, Anthony Davis, and the team's 2020 championship season.

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Triumph Books

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1641256583

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9781641256582

Criminal Justice and Criminology

Terms, Concepts, and Cases

By: James F. Anderson,Laronistine Dyson,Adam Langsam,Willie Jr Brooks

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Criminal Justice and Criminology

Terms, Concepts, and Cases

By: James F. Anderson,Laronistine Dyson,Adam Langsam,Willie Jr Brooks

This dictionary contains criminal justice terms, criminological concepts, and over 100 cases decided by courts in the federal system, including the United States Supreme Court. These cases address aspects of criminal procedures, as well as individual rights in the U.S. Constitution related to the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments. Using professional terms in an easy-to-read format, this book will provide the reader with a clear understanding of past and present concepts, terms, and case laws that are related to criminal justice and criminology. It serves as a perfect text for criminal justice and criminology programs at the undergraduate and graduate level. It can also be used as a supplemental adoption for these programs since most texts are written in an esoteric manner.

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University Press of America

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0761836497

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9780761836490

Presbyterian and Reformed Churches

A Global History

By: James E. McGoldrick

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Presbyterian and Reformed Churches

A Global History

By: James E. McGoldrick

In 1905, Westminster Press published History of the Presbyterian Churches of the World by church historian Richard Clark Reed (1851–1925). Reed’s book, intended as a textbook for college and seminary students, covered the history of churches that subscribed to Presbyterian polity from the New Testament era to the beginning of the twentieth century. Based on Reed’s original work as well as an unpublished manuscript by Presbyterian historian Thomas Hugh Spence Jr. (1899–1986), Presbyterian and Reformed Churches: A Global History picks up the story of Presbyterian and Reformed churches where the earlier works left off. In this volume, James McGoldrick revises and updates Reed’s and Spence’s original, historically relevant works, continuing the survey to the twenty-first century. Each chapter traces the history of Presbyterian and Reformed churches in individual nations and regions around the globe. The author covers the major events, leaders, and institutions influencing Presbyterian and Reformed church history in a readable style that is ideally suited for classroom study as well as for independent reading. A list of suggested additional readings concludes each chapter. Nations/regions covered: Switzerland, France, the Netherlands, and other European nations Scotland, Ireland, England, and Wales United States Mexico and Central America Caribbean Basin South America Africa Middle East India Indochina and Southeast Asia China Korea, Japan, and lesser Pacific Islands

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Reformation Heritage Books

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1601783493

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9781601783493

Fairbairn’s Crests of the Families of Great Britain and Ireland

By: James Fairbairn

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Fairbairn’s Crests of the Families of Great Britain and Ireland

By: James Fairbairn

In two volumes. Volume I: 601 pages including a 522 page index of family names, in alphabetical order, describing the crest of every name listed and where to find an illustration in the volume of plates; a glossary of heraldic terms and other words; and nearly seventy pages of family mottoes with translations of those in Latin, French or other foreign languages. Volume II: contains 130 plates, each depicting 15 family crests in b&w and a further 18 plates illustrating regalia, insignia, crowns, flags, monograms, arms of principal cities etc. also in b&w. There is a key to all the plates which, in the case of the crests, shows which families have which crest.

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Andrews UK Limited

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1781502455

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9781781502457

Geography and Geographers

Anglo-American human geography since 1945

By: Ron Johnston,James D. Sidaway

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Geography and Geographers

Anglo-American human geography since 1945

By: Ron Johnston,James D. Sidaway

Geography and Geographers continues to be the most comprehensive and up-to-date overview of human geography available. It provides a survey of the major debates, key thinkers and schools of thought in the English-speaking world, setting them within the context of economic, social, cultural, political and intellectual changes. It is essential reading for all undergraduate geography students. It draws on a wide reading of the geographical literature and addresses the ways geography and its history are understood and the debates among geographers regarding what the discipline should study and how. This extensively updated seventh edition offers a thoroughly contemporary perspective on human geography for new and more experienced students alike.

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Routledge

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1134065949

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9781134065943

Wall Street People

True Stories of the Great Barons of Finance

By: Charles D. Ellis,James R. Vertin

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Wall Street People

True Stories of the Great Barons of Finance

By: Charles D. Ellis,James R. Vertin

Writing with James R. Vertin, author Charles D. Ellis presents brief profiles of 85 Wall Street leaders who contributed to the growth of the world's major financial marketplace. The authors divide these individuals - all men, which tells a tale right there - into four slightly arbitrary groups: masters of investing, movers and shakers, business builders, and wisemen and rascals. The collection is drawn from the other writers' pieces about these men, and includes occasional articles the featured financiers wrote themselves. Apart from a few brief notes about some patterns that the author observed, these excerpts from various sources stand alone, with no overarching theme or exposition. getAbstract keenly feels the lack of a few analytical essays that might have pulled the collection together and integrated it thematically, but even so, this serves as a useful research tool and an interesting introduction to a unique confluence of powerful men.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0471274283

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9780471274285

Operations Management

The Art & Science of Making Things Happen : what the Business Schools Don't Teach You to Survive and Flourish

By: James Cooke

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Operations Management

The Art & Science of Making Things Happen : what the Business Schools Don't Teach You to Survive and Flourish

By: James Cooke

Putting management theory into practice faces some major challenges. This edition sets out the hard-learned experience of a senior Scotland Yard officer and presents many important messages for new managers, enabling them to survive and eventually flourish while guiding more experienced Directors to secure the holy grail of truly exceptional performance.

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Ecademy Press

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1908746637

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9781908746634

The Settlement of America

An Encyclopedia of Westward Expansion from Jamestown to the Closing of the Frontier

By: James A. Crutchfield,Candy Moutlon,Terry Del Bene

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The Settlement of America

An Encyclopedia of Westward Expansion from Jamestown to the Closing of the Frontier

By: James A. Crutchfield,Candy Moutlon,Terry Del Bene

First Published in 2015. This encyclopaedic collection includes Volumes 1 (A-L) and 2 (M-Z) as well as essays on the settlement of America. It can be argued that the westward expansion occurred only one week after the English landfall at Jamestown, Virginia, on May 14, 1607. Beginning on May 21, Captain John Smith, one of the colonization company’s leaders, and twenty-one companions made their way northwest up the James River for some 50 or 60 miles (80 or 96 km).

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Routledge

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131745460X

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9781317454601

Kentucky Rising

Democracy, Slavery, and Culture from the Early Republic to the Civil War

By: James Ramage,Andrea S. Watkins

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Kentucky Rising

Democracy, Slavery, and Culture from the Early Republic to the Civil War

By: James Ramage,Andrea S. Watkins

Drawing on primary and secondary sources, this book offers a new synthesis of the sixty years before the Civil War. James A. Ramage and Andrea S. Watkins explore this crucial but often overlooked period, finding that the early years of statehood were an era of great optimism and progress. Ramage and Watkins demonstrate that the eyes of the nation often focused on Kentucky, which was perceived as a leader among the states before the Civil War.--From publisher's description.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813134404

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9780813134406

Hispanic Arizona, 1536–1856

By: James E. Officer

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Hispanic Arizona, 1536–1856

By: James E. Officer

The history of the American West has usually been seen from the perspective of American expansion. Drawing on previously unexplored primary sources, James E. Officer has now produced a major work that traces the Hispanic roots of southern Arizona and northern Sonora—one which presents the Spanish and Mexican rather than Anglo point of view. Officer records the Hispanic presence from the earliest efforts at colonization on Spain’s northwestern frontier through the Spanish and Mexican years of rule, thus providing a unique reference on Southwestern history. The heart of the work centers on the early nineteenth century. It explores subjects such as the constant threat posed by hostile Apaches, government intrigue and revolution in Sonora and the provincias internas, and patterns of land ownership in villages such as Tucson and Tubac. Also covered are the origins of land grants in present-day southern Arizona and the invasion of southern Arizona by American “49ers” as seen from the Mexican point of view. Officer traces kinship ties of several elite families who ruled the frontier province over many generations—men and women whose descendants remain influential in Sonora and Arizona today.

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University of Arizona Press

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0816533490

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A Law Dictionary of Words, Terms, Abbreviations, and Phrases which are Peculiar to the Law and of Those which Have a Peculiar Meaning in the Law, Containing Latin Phrases and Maxims, with Their Translations and a Table of the Names of the Reports and Their Abbreviations

By: James Arthur Ballentine

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A Law Dictionary of Words, Terms, Abbreviations, and Phrases which are Peculiar to the Law and of Those which Have a Peculiar Meaning in the Law, Containing Latin Phrases and Maxims, with Their Translations and a Table of the Names of the Reports and Their Abbreviations

By: James Arthur Ballentine

Along with those of Black and Anderson, Ballentine's is one of the most important American dictionaries of the modern era. Originally published: Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, [1916]. [vi], 632 pp. Reprint of the uncommon first edition. Containing over 18,000 entries and a 97-page index of American and English law and equity reports, it is renowned for its concision and accuracy. Immediately popular, it went through three editions by 1969 and served as the basis of Ballentine's College Law Dictionary (first edition, 1931) and the Self-Pronouncing Law Dictionary (1948). The 1916 edition retains its value as a handy but thorough one-volume reference. JAMES A. BALLENTINE was Assistant Professor of Law at the University of California and Dean of the San Francisco Law School.

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The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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1584774908

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9781584774907

The Oxford Companion to American Literature

By: James D. Hart,Phillip Leininger

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The Oxford Companion to American Literature

By: James D. Hart,Phillip Leininger

For more than half a century, James D. Hart's The Oxford Companion to American Literature has been an unparalleled guide to America's literary culture, providing one of the finest resources to this country's rich history of great writers. Now this acclaimed work has been completely revised and updated to reflect current developments in the world of American letters.For the sixth edition, editors James D. Hart and Phillip Leininger have updated the Companion in light of what has happened in American literature since 1982. To this end, they have revised the entries on such established authors as Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer, and Joyce Carol Oates, and they have added more than 180 new entries on novelists (T. Coraghessan Boyle, Tim O'Brien, Louise Erdrich, Don De Lillo), poets (Rita Dove, Weldon Kees), playwrights (Wendy Wasserstein, August Wilson), popular writers (Stephen King, Louis L'Amour), historians (James M. McPherson, David Herbert Donald, William Manchester), naturalists (Aldo Leopold, Edward Abbey), and literary critics (Camille Paglia, Richard Ellmann). In addition, the Companion boasts more women's, African-American, and ethnic voices, with new entries on such luminaries as Charlotte Perkins Gilman, M.F.K. Fisher, William Least Heat-Moon, Ursula Le Guin, and Oscar Hijuelos, among many others.These additions represent only some of the revisions for the new edition. Of course, the basic qualities of the Companion that readers have grown to know and love over the years are as superb as ever. With over 5,000 total entries, The Oxford Companion to American Literature reflects a dynamic balance between past and contemporary literature, surveying virtually every aspect of our national literature, from the Pulitzer Prize to pulp fiction, and from Walt Whitman to William F. Buckley, Jr. There are over 2,000 biographical profiles of important American authors (with information regarding their styles, subjects, and major works) and influential foreign writers as well as other figures who have been important in the nation's social and cultural history. There are more than 1,100 full summaries of important American novels, stories, essays, poems (with verse form noted), plays, biographies and autobiographies, tracts, narratives, and histories. The new edition provides historical background and astute commentary on literary schools and movements, literary awards, magazines, newspapers, and a wide variety of other matters directly related to writing in America. Finally, the book is thoroughly cross-referenced and features an extensive and fully updated index of literary and social history.Ranging from Captain John Smith to John Updike, and from Anne Bradstreet to Anne Rice, the sixth edition of The Oxford Companion to American Literature is up to date, accurate, and comprehensive, a delight for both the casual browser and the serious student.

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Oxford University Press

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0195065484

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9780195065480

Douglas Fairbanks and the American Century

By: John C. Tibbetts,James M. Welsh

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Douglas Fairbanks and the American Century

By: John C. Tibbetts,James M. Welsh

Douglas Fairbanks and the American Century brings to life the most popular movie star of his day, the personification of the Golden Age of Hollywood. At his peak, in the teens and 1920s, the swashbuckling adventurer embodied the new American century of speed, opportunity, and aggressive optimism. The essays and interviews in this volume bring fresh perspectives to his life and work, including analyses of films never before examined. Also published here for the first time in English is a first-hand production account of the making of Fairbanks's last silent film, The Iron Mask. Fairbanks (1883–1939) was the most vivid and strenuous exponent of the American Century, whose dominant mode after 1900 was the mass marketing of a burgeoning democratic optimism, at home and abroad. During those first decades of the twentieth century, his satiric comedy adventures shadow-boxed with the illusions of class and custom. His characters managed to combine the American easterner's experience and pretension and the westerner's promise and expansion. As the masculine personification of the Old World aristocrat and the New World self-made man—tied to tradition yet emancipated from history—he constructed a uniquely American aristocrat striding into a new age and sensibility. This is the most complete account yet written of the film career of Douglas Fairbanks, one of the first great stars of the silent American cinema and one of the original United Artists (comprising Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, and D. W. Griffith). John C. Tibbetts and James M. Welsh's text is especially rich in its coverage of the early years of the star's career from 1915 to 1920 and covers in detail several films previously considered lost.

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1626741476

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9781626741478

Conduct Unbecoming

Fifteen Military Criminals, Rogues and Victims of Justice from the Revolutionary War to Vietnam

By: Scott Baron,James Wise, Jr.

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Conduct Unbecoming

Fifteen Military Criminals, Rogues and Victims of Justice from the Revolutionary War to Vietnam

By: Scott Baron,James Wise, Jr.

Men and women who serve in the armed forces are subject to a different legal code than those they protect. Throughout American history, some have--through action or failure to act or by circumstances--found themselves facing prosecution by the United States military. One measure of a nation's sense of justice is how it treats those who surrender some of their rights to defend the rights of fellow citizens. Beginning with the first court-martial (predating the nation itself) and continuing to the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the War on Terror, this book examines the proceedings of 15 courts-martial that raised such important legal questions as: When does advocacy become treason? Who bears ultimate responsibility when troops act illegally? What are the limits in protesting injustice? The defendants include such familiar names as Paul Revere and William Calley. The authors examine such overlooked cases as the Somers Mutiny, the trial of the San Patricios and the Port Chicago Mutiny. These trials demonstrate that guaranteeing military justice--especially in the midst of armed conflict--is both a challenge and a necessity in a free society.

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McFarland

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1476623066

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9781476623061

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Chicago Stories

Chicago Stories

Listen to Soul!

Listen to Soul!

100 Things Lakers Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die

100 Things Lakers Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die

Criminal Justice and Criminology

Criminal Justice and Criminology

Presbyterian and Reformed Churches

Presbyterian and Reformed Churches

Fairbairn’s Crests of the Families of Great Britain and Ireland

Fairbairn’s Crests of the Families of Great Britain and Ireland

Geography and Geographers

Geography and Geographers

Wall Street People

Wall Street People

Operations Management

Operations Management

The Settlement of America

The Settlement of America

Kentucky Rising

Kentucky Rising

Hispanic Arizona, 1536–1856

Hispanic Arizona, 1536–1856

A Law Dictionary of Words, Terms, Abbreviations, and Phrases which are Peculiar to the Law and of Those which Have a Peculiar Meaning in the Law, Containing Latin Phrases and Maxims, with Their Translations and a Table of the Names of the Reports and Their Abbreviations

A Law Dictionary of Words, Terms, Abbreviations, and Phrases which are Peculiar to the Law and of Those which Have a Peculiar Meaning in the Law, Containing Latin Phrases and Maxims, with Their Translations and a Table of the Names of the Reports and Their Abbreviations

The Oxford Companion to American Literature

The Oxford Companion to American Literature

Douglas Fairbanks and the American Century

Douglas Fairbanks and the American Century

Conduct Unbecoming

Conduct Unbecoming

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