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Standing in the Shadows of Motown

The Life and Music of Legendary Bassist James Jamerson

By: James Jamerson

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Standing in the Shadows of Motown

The Life and Music of Legendary Bassist James Jamerson

By: James Jamerson

(Guitar Book). Bassist James Jamerson was the embodiment of the Motown spirit and groove the invisible entity whose playing inspired thousands. His tumultuous life and musical brilliance are explored in depth through hundreds of interviews, 49 transcribed musical scores, two hours of recorded all-star performances, and more than 50 rarely seen photos in this stellar tribute to behind-the-scenes Motown. Features a 120-minute CD! Allan Slutsky's 2002 documentary of the same name is the winner of the New York Film Critics "Best Documentary of the Year" award!

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0881888826

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Standing in the Shadows of Motown

The Life and Music of Legendary Bassist James Jamerson

By: James Jamerson

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The Life and Music of Legendary Bassist James Jamerson

By: James Jamerson

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Paint the Dragon

By: James N. Gabor

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Paint the Dragon

By: James N. Gabor

Early Twenty-First Century Shanghai China all the world is watching, as fate would have it some things are as they were in the late 1800s, , but with a modern twist. US Marshals, International Business Deals, a staging for the Coming New World Order in one of the Orients Busiest Sea Ports, , , add in time to enjoy a fine Shanghai-nighters hot spot Lisa Sannder a young 20-something cocky attorney from the Mid-West USA, is on the ride of her life, complete with a college dont wanna grow-up life style, , , 'cept for now shes making Big-Bucks, laying her life on the line Enter best friend Susan Wilamsen, , , on an unplanned venture with Lisa into the unknown on the far side of our planet Susan a green corporate attorney haven one goal in mind; live the life of excitement with travel being her drive, , , but all is pushed to the limit when a new opportunity emerges from Lisas hire Nothing is as it seems and all involved including you the reader are drawn into this off-the-wall creation where your senses are kinda assaulted by a quirky cast of world travelers, , , as well as local inhabitants. Lisa and Susan grew-up as kids in Wisconsin with a grade school pact decide'n to make an adventurous life style their goal, , , now the rest is as they say H I S T O R Y . . . So come along let a whim' be your guide and maybe, just maybe, you might enjoy a little entertainment, , , learn a tad about the Chinese and maybe even pick up on a wee bit of French. . . Or Latin No Time To Loose'' Ah Yes and Good Ole Rock n'' Roll

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1463422571

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How the Fender Bass Changed the World

By Jim Roberts

By: Jim Roberts,James H. Roberts

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How the Fender Bass Changed the World

By Jim Roberts

By: Jim Roberts,James H. Roberts

Introduced in 1951, the Fender Precision Bass completely transformed the sound of popular music by the early ’60s. This is the first book to show you how and why. This richly illustrated history reveals the true colors of the Fender electric bass - as a powerful agent of change in popular music and popular culture. It tells the story of technological and artistic evolution, of basses and players--and of their profound influence on the world around them. Celebrating the instrument’s 50th anniversary, this book salutes the revolutionary impact of the bass in the hands of James Jamerson, Jack Bruce, Paul McCartney, Carol Kaye, John Entwistle, Jaco Pastorius, Sting, and other bass visionaries and virtuosos past and present.

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0879306300

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Earl Hamner

From Walton's Mountain to Tomorrow : a Biography

By: James E. Person (Jr.),James E. Person

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Earl Hamner

From Walton's Mountain to Tomorrow : a Biography

By: James E. Person (Jr.),James E. Person

Since Spencer's Mountain I have followed Earl Hamner's career with much interest and much satisfaction, having picked a winner." --Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird Earl Hamner, one of America's best-loved storytellers, has never been the subject of a full-length study. Earl Hamner: From Walton's Mountain to Tomorrow fills that gap. A native Virginian, Hamner once said, "Even though families are said to be shattered these days, and God is said to be dead, if people can revisit the scenes and places where these values did exist, possibly they can come to believe in them again, or . . . to adapt some kind of belief in God, or faith in the family unit, or just getting home again." This vision of what makes for a whole life permeates all of Hamner's work. It is present in the novel Spencer's Mountain, upon which The Waltons was loosely based, and in his screenplays, such as the work he is perhaps most proud of, Charlotte's Web. It is even present in such unlikely places as the eight scripts he contributed to the classic television series The Twilight Zone and the tales of cold-blooded betrayal and boundless ambition depicted on Falcon Crest. In Earl Hamner: From Walton's Mountain to Tomorrow, readers will discover the integrated nature of his career, finding that there is no real conflict between the warm folksiness of The Waltons, the offbeat fantasies of his Twilight Zone scripts, the unscrupulous ethics displayed on Falcon Crest, and the myriad other novels and scripts he has written and TV programs he has produced. Instead, readers will find that there is a pervasive theme running throughout Hamner's work, that of a man forever taking a backward glance at his roots for direction in finding what makes life worthwhile. Upon learning that this book was being written, Hamner told one of his friends, "I can't imagine anyone wanting to read a book about me, much less write one about me." Readers of this book will find Hamner's doubts indeed misplaced. They will also discover a delightful individual who has enjoyed a long, accomplished career as a storyteller laboring for a worthy goal: that posterity may know of an age and a people whose legacy has not, through silence, been permitted to pass away as if a dream.

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Cumberland House Publishing

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1581824556

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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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Glow

The Autobiography of Rick James

By: Rick James,David Ritz

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Glow

The Autobiography of Rick James

By: Rick James,David Ritz

Hitmaker, singer, innovator, producer, award-winning pioneer in the fusion of funk groove and rock, the late Rick James collaborated with go-to music biographer David Ritz, in this wildly entertaining and profound expression of a rock star's life and soul"--

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Simon and Schuster

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1476764158

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The Long Road Home and Other Short Stories from the Silences in the Gospel of Mark

And Other Short Stories from the Silences in the Gospel of Mark

By: James S. Lowry

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The Long Road Home and Other Short Stories from the Silences in the Gospel of Mark

And Other Short Stories from the Silences in the Gospel of Mark

By: James S. Lowry

Borrowing from the ancient rabbinic use of midrash as a means of opening Scripture to students, James Lowry has chosen six texts from among those in which he believes Mark deliberately left silences. The author is convinced Mark hoped his readers would be encouraged to raise a variety of possibilities as to what the evangelist left unsaid. Beginning with Mark choosing not to name the temptations of Jesus (Mark 1:12-13) and concluding with Mark choosing to conclude his narrative with the women leaving the tomb of Jesus in stunned silence (Mark 16:8), Lowry spins short stories that suggest several alternative ideas as to how the biblical narrative might have played. In half of the tales, Lowry enters the text and adds fictitious material to Mark's narrative. In the other half, his stories are set in the small textile town of Great Falls, South Carolina, where the author grew up in the 1950s. The hope is these stories will encourage readers of Mark and groups of his readers to raise other possibilities.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1620324008

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The Dramaturgy of Performing Science

New Work in Interdisciplinary Contexts

By: Jules Odendahl-James

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The Dramaturgy of Performing Science

New Work in Interdisciplinary Contexts

By: Jules Odendahl-James

This is a concise survey of new play projects that bring together the worlds of science and performance, and the benefits that dramaturgical praxis can bring to both disciplines. Three approaches common to both performance and science – collaboration, experimentation, and interpretation – are reflected in a series of case studies that demonstrate the ways in which dramaturgical tools can inform the wider public about scientific knowledge and practice, provide a truly reciprocal model of co-operation in collaboration that happens early on in the research process, and inspire the creation of new dramatic forms that enact, rather than translate, the dynamics of scientific research. Part of the Routledge Focus on Dramaturgy series, this is a vital account of collaborative work for scholars and practitioners of theatre and performance, as well as readers across the sciences.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040110819

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Curfew

By: James Dean Perkins

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Curfew

By: James Dean Perkins

In the small harbor town of Crescent City, California, a young boy lies a wake. Ignoring all the warnings his parents had ever given him, he ventures into the backyard after dark and comes face to face with an evil incarnate. What starts out as a mother's worst nightmare throws the small town into chaos. Peter Swann, a detective specialized in missing children, and his partner Clark Williams, are called in to investigate. With the aid of a local Police Officer, a teenage girl, and a tribal medicine woman, they learn a terrible truth. They learn what it is that makes people afraid of the dark. They learn that we are not alone. Evil walks among us in human form. Sometimes, there is something in the dark that isn't there in the light. In a showdown between Good and Evil, Peter races against time to find a weakness in this new nemesis. Would there be any hope, for mankind? Will he be successful? At what cost? Who will be left standing when man comes up against an evil so abominable as to defy description? Who will survive the Curfew?

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0759670099

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The Narrow Corridor

States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty

By: Daron Acemoglu,James A. Robinson

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The Narrow Corridor

States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty

By: Daron Acemoglu,James A. Robinson

How does history end? -- The Red Queen -- Will to power -- Economics outside the corridor -- Allegory of good government -- The European scissors -- Mandate of Heaven -- Broken Red Queen -- Devil in the details -- What's the matter with Ferguson? -- The paper leviathan -- Wahhab's children -- Red Queen out of control -- Into the corridor -- Living with the leviathan.

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Penguin Books

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0735224382

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Integrating Narrative Medicine and Evidence-based Medicine

The Everyday Social Practice of Healing

By: James P. Meza,Daniel S. Passerman

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Integrating Narrative Medicine and Evidence-based Medicine

The Everyday Social Practice of Healing

By: James P. Meza,Daniel S. Passerman

Scientific, evidence-based medicine is increasingly seen as fundamental to providing effective healthcare, but narrative-based medicine sheds light on social and interpersonal aspects of the practitioner-patient interaction which can also greatly affect healthcare outcomes. The philosophies underlying these two approaches seem to contrast, yet those who can integrate both into their practice are among the most successful medical professionals. Integrating Narrative Medicine and Evidence-based Medicine provides answers to the key question of how medical practitioners can best put both approaches into practice. It anticipates a future where evidence-based practice will be expected of all medical professionals, but contends that the integration of a narrative-based approach will also be crucial, presenting a unique perspective on structuring the patient-professional encounter for optimum results. It develops a cultural analysis and socio-cultural theory of the science of healing, and describes an efficient method by which medical practitioners can find and use medical research at the point of care with current technology and skills. This addresses the need for translational science - moving research into practice - identified by the National Institutes of Health. This book will be essential reading for educators of medical students and postgraduate trainees, behavioral scientists, psychologists, social scientists working in medical settings, and health managers and administrators. Medical students and postgraduate trainees will also find it useful in their learning.

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Radcliffe Publishing

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1846193508

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What We Blacks Need To Do Part 2

By: James Jerome Hankins

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What We Blacks Need To Do Part 2

By: James Jerome Hankins

This book was written for all readers from eight to 128 years young, located in all fifty states, D.C and beyond. I took microscopic looks at many of the problems we face every day and/or seasons. Those in education, religion, family, jobs, discrimination, and politics. Many of us, good people, know our strong and weak habits and are trying hard to change our negatives to positives. Please consider a few suggestions in this book that my parents taught me and I believe will help you. This truncated Black encyclopedia will help them start or become a big part of their home library that will last for years!!!

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FriesenPress

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1039127460

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New Book of Rock Lists

By: Dave Marsh,James Bernard

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New Book of Rock Lists

By: Dave Marsh,James Bernard

Dave Marsh has been an editor and columnist at Creem and Rolling Stone. His books include Born to Run, Behind Blue Eyes: The Story of the Who, Glory Days, and Louie Louie. This virtual Methusaleh of rock critics currently serves as a music critic at Playboy and as editor of Rock and Rap Confidential.

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Simon and Schuster

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0671787004

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A Chance to Make Good

African Americans 1900-1929

By: James R. Grossman

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A Chance to Make Good

African Americans 1900-1929

By: James R. Grossman

Many people think of the first three decades of the 20th century as the formative years of Jim Crow, or legal segregation, a time when African Americans shared in the aspirations and expectations of their fellow citizens, but who did so as a people with a unique set of barriers to overcome. In the South, segregation had become a way of life. In the North, opportunities for work were hard to come by in the face of a less overt racism. Yet, even in the face of such discrimination, a new generation of African Americans left an indelible mark on the nation and its affairs. Luminaries such as Booker T. Washington, Mary Church Terrell, and Marcus Garvey inspired and led thousands of black men and women as they obliterated, removed, tiptoed around, climbed over, and even passed through these barriers. This is the story of sharecropper Minnie Savage, NAACP founder W. E. B. Du Bois, and countless others who lived in this time of hope and age of despair. It was also a time of movement. By the second decade of the 20th century, cotton cultivation still employed more black Southerners than any other single activity. Encouraged by recruiting efforts and the desire to leave the stifling racial climate in Southern communities, approximately 1.5 million African Americans left the rural South during what came to be known as the Great Migration. Scores settled in New York's Harlem and Chicago's South Side. But thousands also moved to Detroit, Gary, Cleveland, Milwaukee, and St. Paul, as well as Philadelphia, Camden, Newark, and Boston. James Grossman's A Chance to Make Good is peopled by the ordinary and the famous, the migrants and those who stayed behind. Documenting the efforts of individuals and communities to claim a place for themselves in America, it narrates the powerful story of black aspirations, frustration, and determination in the years from 1900 to 1929.

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Oxford University Press

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0190282258

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Health Care Needs Assessment

The Epidemiologically Based Needs Assessment Reviews, v. 2, First Series

By: Andrew Stevens,James Raftery,Jonathan Mant,Sue Simpson

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Health Care Needs Assessment

The Epidemiologically Based Needs Assessment Reviews, v. 2, First Series

By: Andrew Stevens,James Raftery,Jonathan Mant,Sue Simpson

This new resource in the series provides vital perspectives across entire new disease and service areas not previously covered in other volumes. The books of the first and second series are well established as the key sources of data on needs assessment. Together, they describe the central role and aim of health care needs assessment in the National Health Service. The epidemiological approach to needs assessment is explained thoroughly, and is then applied to the effectiveness and availability of services. This definitive guide is ideal for all those involved in commissioning health care. It is invaluable for public health professionals, epidemiology and public health academics, and students of public health and epidemiology. Key reviews of the First Series: "An excellent balanced account...the definitive resource" - "Journal of the Association for Quality in Healthcare". "Excellent...it should be delved into deeply" - "Pharmaceutical Times". "This excellent work moves us closer to implementing a market in health care" - "British Medical Journal".

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CRC Press

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1315347423

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The Art of Music Production

The Theory and Practice

By: Richard James Burgess

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The Art of Music Production

The Theory and Practice

By: Richard James Burgess

In this book, veteran music producer Richard James Burgess gives readers the tools they need to understand the complex field of music production. He defines the many roles that fall to the music producer by focusing first on the underlying theory of music production, before offering a second section of practical aspects of the job.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199921741

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Understanding Surveillance Technologies

Spy Devices, Privacy, History & Applications, Second Edition

By: J.K. Petersen,Cawood James S.,Corcoran James S.,Michael H. Ph.D.

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Understanding Surveillance Technologies

Spy Devices, Privacy, History & Applications, Second Edition

By: J.K. Petersen,Cawood James S.,Corcoran James S.,Michael H. Ph.D.

Understanding Surveillance Technologies demystifies spy devices and describes how technology is used to observe and record intimate details of people‘s lives often without their knowledge or consent. From historical origins to current applications, it explains how satellites, pinhole cameras, cell phone and credit card logs, DNA kits, tiny m

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084938320X

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9780849383205

Loyal Snakes

By: Rosa James

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Loyal Snakes

By: Rosa James

Loyal Snakes is a novel display how loyalty is tested when a person’s needs are not met. Although fiction some of the stories may be your reality. Every person’s life experiences are the key to their insecurities and fuel their determination to survive even if it means to sacrifice everyone around them including themselves. You will see the wrath, gluttony, greed, sloth, envy, pride and how can take you to high levels but ultimately bring you down. What will be each person’s fate? Will some find their virtue before it is too late. You will witness perseverance, sacrifice, love, hate, betrayal, and death. Who has your back when it all falls and who will be lurking when you get to the top praying for your downfall? Continue reading to find out how Roxanne, Kay’Ron, Zak, Larry, Marvin, Priest, Sarah, and Jay fight to defy the odds while trying to maintain loyalty to each other.

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1665512970

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Congress and Its Members

By: Roger H. Davidson,Walter J. Oleszek,Frances E. Lee,Eric Schickler,James M. Curry

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Congress and Its Members

By: Roger H. Davidson,Walter J. Oleszek,Frances E. Lee,Eric Schickler,James M. Curry

The Gold Standard for Congress Courses for Over Thirty Years Congress and Its Members offers comprehensive coverage of the U.S. Congress and the legislative process by examining the tension between Congress as a lawmaking institution and as a collection of politicians constantly seeking re-election. The highly anticipated Eighteenth Edition considers the 2020 elections, the final years of the Trump administration, and first 100 days of the Biden Administration while discussing the agenda of the new Congress, White House–Capitol Hill relations, party and committee leadership changes, judicial appointments, and partisan polarization, in addition to covering changes to budgeting, campaign finance, lobbying, public attitudes about Congress, reapportionment, rules, and procedures. Always balancing great scholarship with currency, this bestseller features lively case material along with relevant data, charts, exhibits, maps, and photos. New and updated material for the 18th edition includes: Analysis of the 2020 congressional elections, including increased nationalization, regional shifts, and member turnover Data on the diversity of the new Congress in terms of race, ethnicity, gender, and professional background Explanation of recent Supreme Court rulings on partisan gerrymandering Overview of the post-2020 census reapportionment of House seats and prospects for partisan gerrymandering Effects of the 2020 coronavirus pandemic on congressional campaigns, election administration, congressional rules and procedures, lobbying, and federal budget politics. The post-2020 politics of organizing a 50-50 Senate and prospects of Senate filibuster reform Congress’s return to earmarks and other adjustments to congressional rules and procedures The Biden administration’s approach to trade and diplomacy and its effects on congressional politics Coverage of the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol and what it says about Congress′s relationship with the public and its role in American democracy Updated data on public opinion of Congress and Congress′s productivity as a lawmaking institution A new concluding chapter reflecting on Congress’s institutional strengths and weaknesses Fresh examples and illustrations in every chapter relating concepts to recent events and contemporary members

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1071836838

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Shakey

Neil Young's Biography

By: James McDonough

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Shakey

Neil Young's Biography

By: James McDonough

Neil Young is one of rock and roll’s most important, influential and enigmatic figures, an intensely reticent artist who has granted no writer access to his inner sanctum -- until now. In Shakey, Jimmy McDonough tells the whole story of Young’s incredible life and career: from his childhood in Canada to the founding of folk-rock pioneers Buffalo Springfield; to the bleary conglomeration of Crazy Horse and simultaneous monstrous success of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young; to the depths of the Tonight’s the Night depravity and the strange changes of the Geffen years; and Young’s unprecedented nineties “comeback” with Ragged Glory and Harvest Moon. No detail is spared -- not the sex, drugs, relationships, breakups, births, deaths, nor the variety of chameleon-like transformations that have enabled Young to remain one of the most revered musical forces of our time. Shakey (the title refers to one of Young’s many aliases) is not only a detailed chronicle of the rock era told through the life of one uncompromising artist, but the compelling human story of a lonely kid for whom music was the only outlet; a driven yet tortured figure who learned to control his epilepsy via “mind over matter”; an oddly passionate model train mogul who -- inspired by his own son’s struggle with cerebral palsy -- became a major activist in the quest to help those with the condition. Based on interviews with hundreds of Young’s associates (many speaking freely for the first time), as well as extensive exclusive interviews with Young himself, Shakey is a story told through the interwoven voices of McDonough -- biographer, critic, historian, obsessive fan -- and the ever-cantankerous (but slyly funny) Young himself, who puts his biographer through some unforgettable paces while answering the question: Is it better to burn out than to fade away?

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Vintage Canada

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0307373800

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The Story of Wake Island [Illustrated Edition]

By: James P. S. Devereux Colonel U.S.M.C.

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The Story of Wake Island [Illustrated Edition]

By: James P. S. Devereux Colonel U.S.M.C.

Includes 11 photos and 5 maps/diagrams of the Defence of Wake Island “It is Monday, 8 December 1941. On Wake Island, a tiny sprung paper-clip in the Pacific between Hawaii and Guam, Marines of the 1st Defense Battalion are starting another day of the backbreaking war preparations that have gone on for weeks. Out in the triangular lagoon formed by the islets of Peale, Wake, and Wilkes, the huge silver Pan American Airways Philippine Clipper flying boat roars off the water bound for Guam. The trans-Pacific flight will not be completed. “Word of war comes around 0700. Captain Henry S. Wilson, Army Signal Corps, on the island to support the flight ferry of B-17 Flying Fortresses from Hawaii to the Philippines, half runs, half walks toward the tent of Major James P.S. Devereux, commander of the battalion's Wake Detachment. Captain Wilson reports that Hickam Field in Hawaii has been raided. “Devereux immediately orders a "Call to Arms." He quickly assembles his officers, tells them that war has come, that the Japanese have attacked Oahu, and that Wake "could expect the same thing in a very short time” Robert Cressman. So began the epic 14 day siege of Wake Island in 1941, on one side the overwhelming numbers and firepower of the invading Japanese on the other Major Devereux and a handful of Marines aided by civilian contractors and miscellaneous personnel. In this memoir Devereux recounts how he and his men put up a resistance that stunned their Japanese foes, and provided their American countrymen with a potent positive rallying point after the attack at Pearl Habor.

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Pickle Partners Publishing

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1782895612

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Kill 'Em and Leave

Searching for James Brown and the American Soul

By: James McBride

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Kill 'Em and Leave

Searching for James Brown and the American Soul

By: James McBride

“You won’t leave this hypnotic book without feeling that James Brown is still out there, howling.”—The Boston Globe From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Lord Bird, winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction, Deacon King Kong, and Five-Carat Soul Kill ’Em and Leave is more than a book about James Brown. Brown embodied the contradictions of American life: He was an unsettling symbol of the tensions between North and South, black and white, rich and poor. After receiving a tip that promises to uncover the man behind the myth, James McBride goes in search of the “real” James Brown. McBride’s travels take him to forgotten corners of Brown’s never-before-revealed history, illuminating not only our understanding of the immensely troubled, misunderstood, and complicated Godfather of Soul, but the ways in which our cultural heritage has been shaped by Brown’s enduring legacy. Praise for Kill ’Em and Leave “A tour de force of cultural reportage.”—The Seattle Times “Thoughtful and probing.”—The New York Times Book Review “Masterly . . . powerful.”—Los Angeles Review of Books “McBride provides something lacking in most of the books about James Brown: an intimate feeling for the musician, a veracious if inchoate sense of what it was like to be touched by him. . . . It may be as close [to ‘the real James Brown’] as we’ll ever get.”—David Hajdu, The Nation “A feat of intrepid journalistic fortitude.”—USA Today “[McBride is] the biographer of James Brown we’ve all been waiting for. . . . McBride’s true subject is race and poverty in a country that doesn’t want to hear about it, unless compelled by a voice that demands to be heard.”—Boris Kachka, New York “Illuminating . . . engaging.”—The Washington Post “A gorgeously written piece of reportage that gives us glimpses of Brown’s genius and contradictions.”—O: The Oprah Magazine

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Bosnia Journal

An American Civilian's Accountof His Service

By: James Nelson

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Bosnia Journal

An American Civilian's Accountof His Service

By: James Nelson

James Nelson spent 1996 at HQ Russian Brigade in Bosnia where he was the main American interpreter. This is his account of what he saw, heard, and experienced.

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Infinity Publishing

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0741423219

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American Basses

An Illustrated History & Player's Guide

By: Jim Roberts,James H. Roberts

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American Basses

An Illustrated History & Player's Guide

By: Jim Roberts,James H. Roberts

Alfabetisk værk om basguitarer gennem 50 år

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Hal Leonard Corporation

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0879307218

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Maternal-Child Nursing - E-Book

By: Emily Slone McKinney,Susan Rowen James,Sharon Smith Murray,Kristine Nelson,Jean Ashwill

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Maternal-Child Nursing - E-Book

By: Emily Slone McKinney,Susan Rowen James,Sharon Smith Murray,Kristine Nelson,Jean Ashwill

- NEW! Completely updated content includes expanded information on the late preterm infant, fetal heart rate pattern identification, obesity in the pregnant woman and children, and the QSEN initiative. - UPDATED! Evidence-Based Practice boxes with newly researched topics offer the most current practice guidelines to promote quality care. - UPDATED! Online resources offer the best interactive tools to learn in the most effective way possible. - NEW! Improved consistency between maternity and pediatric sections makes it easier to switch from one area to the other for more efficient learning.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323478344

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Unscripted

The Epic Battle for a Media Empire and the Redstone Family Legacy

By: James B Stewart,Rachel Abrams

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Unscripted

The Epic Battle for a Media Empire and the Redstone Family Legacy

By: James B Stewart,Rachel Abrams

The instant New York Times bestseller • A New York Times Notable Book • Named a Best Book of the Year by The Economist • Nominated for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award "Addicted to Succession? Well, here's the real thing." - The Hollywood Reporter “Jaw-dropping . . . an epic tale of toxic wealth and greed populated by connivers and manipulators.” —The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice The shocking inside story of the struggle for power and control at Paramount Global, the multibillion-dollar entertainment empire controlled by the Redstone family, and the dysfunction, misconduct, and deceit that threatened the future of the company, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalists who first broke the news In 2016, the fate of Paramount Global’s entertainment empire hung precariously in the balance. Its founder and head, ninety-three-year-old Sumner M. Redstone, was facing a very public lawsuit brought by a former romantic companion, Manuela Herzer, which placed Sumner’s deteriorating health and questionable judgment under a harsh light. As an all-powerful media mogul, Sumner had been a demanding boss, and an even more demanding father. When his daughter, Shari, took control of the business, she faced the hostility of boards who for years had heard Sumner disparage her. Les Moonves, the CEO of CBS, schemed with his allies on the board to strip Shari of power. But while he publicly battled Shari, news began to leak of Moonves’s involvement in multiple instances of sexual misconduct, and he began working behind the scenes to try to make the stories disappear. Unscripted is an explosive and unvarnished look at the usually secret inner workings of two public companies, their boards of directors, and a wealthy, dysfunctional family in the throes of seismic changes. From the Pulitzer Prize– winning journalists James B. Stewart and Rachel Abrams, Unscripted lays bare the battle for power at any price—and the carnage that ensued.

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198487943X

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