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Winning Your Election the Wellstone Way

A Comprehensive Guide for Candidates and Campaign Workers

By: Jeff Blodgett,Bill Lofy,Ben Goldfarb,Erik Peterson

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Winning Your Election the Wellstone Way

A Comprehensive Guide for Candidates and Campaign Workers

By: Jeff Blodgett,Bill Lofy,Ben Goldfarb,Erik Peterson

As the 2008 presidential race dominates political discussion and media coverage worldwide, thousands of lesser-known local contests are being hard-fought in our neighborhoods, cities, and states. Winning Your Election the Wellstone Way is based on the work of Wellstone Action, a leading-edge progressive training center that has instructed thousands of political activists, campaign managers, and volunteers, of whom more than two hundred have gone on to run for office and win. Jeff Blodgett and Bill Lofy analyze the crucial lessons learned from many successful (and several losing) campaigns and demystifies what it takes to run for—and win—a political seat. This companion guide to Politics the Wellstone Way, the best-selling introduction to political action, features the in-depth knowledge that campaigns need to take energy and engagement to the next level—getting elected. With detailed and informative examples from progressive campaigns at every level throughout the United States, Winning Your Election the Wellstone Way combines grassroots organizing with political strategy, articulating a bold populist agenda. If you have ever considered volunteering for a political candidate, working for a campaign, or even running for public office yourself, Winning Your Election the Wellstone Way is the key resource you need to devise a sophisticated, progressive, and successful strategy and, ultimately, affect people’s lives for the better.

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U of Minnesota Press

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1452929874

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Contested Waters

A Social History of Swimming Pools in America

By: Jeff Wiltse

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Contested Waters

A Social History of Swimming Pools in America

By: Jeff Wiltse

From nineteenth-century public baths to today's private backyard havens, swimming pools have long been a provocative symbol of American life. In this social and cultural history of swimming pools in the United States, Jeff Wiltse relates how, over the years, pools have served as asylums for the urban poor, leisure resorts for the masses, and private clubs for middle-class suburbanites. As sites of race riots, shrinking swimsuits, and conspicuous leisure, swimming pools reflect many of the tensions and transformations that have given rise to modern America.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807888982

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9780807888988

The Vagabonds

The Story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison's Ten-Year Road Trip

By: Jeff Guinn

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The Vagabonds

The Story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison's Ten-Year Road Trip

By: Jeff Guinn

A “fascinating slice of rarely considered American history” (Booklist)—the story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison—whose annual summer sojourns introduced the road trip to our culture and made the automobile an essential part of modern life. In 1914 Henry Ford and naturalist John Burroughs visited Thomas Edison in Florida and toured the Everglades. The following year Ford, Edison, and tire maker Harvey Firestone joined together on a summer camping trip and decided to call themselves the Vagabonds. They would continue their summer road trips until 1925, when they announced that their fame made it too difficult for them to carry on. Although the Vagabonds traveled with an entourage of chefs, butlers, and others, this elite fraternity also had a serious purpose: to examine the conditions of America’s roadways and improve the practicality of automobile travel. Cars were unreliable and the roads were even worse. But newspaper coverage of these trips was extensive, and as cars and roads improved, the summer trip by automobile soon became a desired element of American life. The Vagabonds is “a portrait of America’s burgeoning love affair with the automobile” (NPR) but it also sheds light on the important relationship between the older Edison and the younger Ford, who once worked for the famous inventor. The road trips made the automobile ubiquitous and magnified Ford’s reputation, even as Edison’s diminished. The automobile would transform the American landscape, the American economy, and the American way of life and Guinn brings this seminal moment in history to vivid life.

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320

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Simon & Schuster

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1501159313

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9781501159312

The Body at the Back of the Bus

The Second Lena Cohen Conroy Mystery

By: Jeff Laffel

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The Body at the Back of the Bus

The Second Lena Cohen Conroy Mystery

By: Jeff Laffel

When THE BODY UNDER THE BLEACHERS, the first Lena Cohen Conroy was published a number of years ago, there were so many positive comments about it that I thought Lena and her pals at Cromwell High School needed a sequel Here it is at last as Lena takes her A.P. English class to Broadway on what turns into a fatal field trip. Lena loves her students, they love her and it is my fondest wish that you will love all of them.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1796047449

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Partial Hegemony

Oil Politics and International Order

By: Jeff D. Colgan

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Partial Hegemony

Oil Politics and International Order

By: Jeff D. Colgan

The global history of oil politics, from World War I to the present, can teach us much about world politics, climate change, and international order in the twenty-first century. When and why does international order change? The largest peaceful transfer of wealth across borders in all of human history began with the oil crisis of 1973. OPEC countries turned the tables on the most powerful businesses on the planet, quadrupling the price of oil and shifting the global distribution of profits. It represented a huge shift in international order. Yet, the textbook explanation for how world politics works-that the most powerful country sets up and sustains the rules of international order after winning a major war-doesn't fit these events, or plenty of others. Instead of thinking of "the" international order as a single thing, Jeff Colgan explains how it operates in parts, and often changes in peacetime. Partial Hegemony offers lessons for leaders and analysts seeking to design new international governing arrangements to manage an array of pressing concerns ranging from US-China rivalry to climate change, and from nuclear proliferation to peacekeeping. A major contribution to international relations theory, this book promises to reshape our understanding of the forces driving change in world politics.

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Oxford University Press

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0197546404

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Functional Data Analysis with R

By: Ciprian M. Crainiceanu,Jeff Goldsmith,Andrew Leroux,Erjia Cui

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Functional Data Analysis with R

By: Ciprian M. Crainiceanu,Jeff Goldsmith,Andrew Leroux,Erjia Cui

Emerging technologies generate data sets of increased size and complexity that require new or updated statistical inferential methods and scalable, reproducible software. These data sets often involve measurements of a continuous underlying process, and benefit from a functional data perspective. Functional Data Analysis with R presents many ideas for handling functional data including dimension reduction techniques, smoothing, functional regression, structured decompositions of curves, and clustering. The idea is for the reader to be able to immediately reproduce the results in the book, implement these methods, and potentially design new methods and software that may be inspired by these approaches. Features: Functional regression models receive a modern treatment that allows extensions to many practical scenarios and development of state-of-the-art software. The connection between functional regression, penalized smoothing, and mixed effects models is used as the cornerstone for inference. Multilevel, longitudinal, and structured functional data are discussed with emphasis on emerging functional data structures. Methods for clustering functional data before and after smoothing are discussed. Multiple new functional data sets with dense and sparse sampling designs from various application areas are presented, including the NHANES linked accelerometry and mortality data, COVID-19 mortality data, CD4 counts data, and the CONTENT child growth study. Step-by-step software implementations are included, along with a supplementary website (www.FunctionalDataAnalysis.com) featuring software, data, and tutorials. More than 100 plots for visualization of functional data are presented. Functional Data Analysis with R is primarily aimed at undergraduate, master's, and PhD students, as well as data scientists and researchers working on functional data analysis. The book can be read at different levels and combines state-of-the-art software, methods, and inference. It can be used for self-learning, teaching, and research, and will particularly appeal to anyone who is interested in practical methods for hands-on, problem-forward functional data analysis. The reader should have some basic coding experience, but expertise in R is not required.

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CRC Press

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1003856306

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Judging Social Rights

By: Jeff King

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Judging Social Rights

By: Jeff King

Jeff King argues in favour of constitutionalising social rights, and presents an incrementalist approach to judicial enforcement.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107008026

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9781107008021

Atmospheric Microbial Aerosols

Theory and Applications

By: Bruce Lighthart,Alan Jeff Mohr

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Atmospheric Microbial Aerosols

Theory and Applications

By: Bruce Lighthart,Alan Jeff Mohr

A bioaerosol is a colloidal suspension of liquid droplets or solid particles in air whose components contain or have attached to them one or more microorganisms. Bioaerosols are an exciting and vital object of study because the attached microbes play a critical role in human, animal and environmental health. In an era of genetically engineered microorganisms and the application of biopesticides, bioaerosols are increasingly an environmental problem, both indoors and outdoors, and can affect entire ecosystems. Atmospheric Microbial Aerosols examines naturally occuring bioaerosols, as well as bioaerosols generated by human activity. Included in this volume is a complete array of topics concerned with outdoor microbial bioaerosols ranging from the physical and chemical to the meteorological and microbial. It will be of great interest as a starting point for researchers interested in outdoor microbial bioaerosols as well as for those interested in atmospheric dispersion models, new equipment, and government regulations.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1468464388

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9781468464382

Second City Television

A History and Episode Guide

By: Jeff Robbins

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Second City Television

A History and Episode Guide

By: Jeff Robbins

This work offers a complete episode guide and comprehensive history of Second City Television. The influential Canadian sketch comedy series created dozens of memorable characters (i.e. station president Guy Caballero and showbiz mogul Johnny LaRue) and featured well-known performers such as John Candy, Catherine O'Hara, and Martin Short, at the height of their comedic careers. Presenting a thorough summary and review for each of SCTV's 135 episodes, the author traces the initial appearance and evolution of some of comedy's best known television characters and sketches. Two appendices provide guides to the program's compilation shows and recently released boxed sets on DVD.

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McFarland

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0786455330

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9780786455331

Life in the Slow Lane

Fifty Backroad Tours of Ohio

By: Jeff Taylor,Jeff Traylor,Nadean D. Taylor

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Life in the Slow Lane

Fifty Backroad Tours of Ohio

By: Jeff Taylor,Jeff Traylor,Nadean D. Taylor

Life in the Slow Lane features 50 clearly mapped scenic tours through the beautiful Ohio countryside. Covered bridges,, old mills, one-room schoolhouses, pioneer cemeteries, Indian mounds, canals, round and octagonal barns, and hundreds of other historic treasures lying along these routes are plainly marked and described in detail. Ohio's natural beauty, including her prairies, forests, and wetlands, also awaits your exploration along these quiet backroads. Motorists and bicyclists, weekend wanderers and armchair explorers, campers and entire families will all delight in discovering Life in the Slow Lane"--Back cover.

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King of the Road Press

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0941467066

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9780941467063

The Three Stooges Scrapbook

By: John Howard Maurer,Jeff Lenburg,Joan Howard Maurer,Greg Lenburg,Norman Maurer

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The Three Stooges Scrapbook

By: John Howard Maurer,Jeff Lenburg,Joan Howard Maurer,Greg Lenburg,Norman Maurer

Dour-faced Moe Howard with his sugar-bowl haircut, his bald, chubby brother Curly and frizzy-haired Larry have poked, slapped, ear-yanked and nose-twisted their way into people's hearts across the world - and into film history. Their nearly 200 two-reel comedies, made between 1933 and 1958, have been translated into over 25 languages, entertained nearly six generations of fans and are seen somewhere in the world every single day. The Three Stooges Scrapbook is a historical overview of their time in showbusiness.

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Citadel Press

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0806509465

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9780806509464

How to Pay Zero Taxes, 2005

By: Jeff A. Schnepper

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How to Pay Zero Taxes, 2005

By: Jeff A. Schnepper

Includes all the latest updates and changes to the 2004 tax code Publishers Weekly called it "a can't-miss title." The New York Daily News praised it for "pushing the envelope" and taking "a consumerist approach that's helpful during all the other months before next April." Best of all, more than half a million people have consulted How to Pay Zero Taxes for solid guidance on paying less to the IRS. This fully updated 22nd edition contains: The latest tax changes More tax-saving tips than any other guide Easy, practical strategies to lower taxes this year, next year, and beyond Hundreds of legal ways to preserve pretax income and profit

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McGraw Hill

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0071465340

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9780071465342

Winning Your Election the Wellstone Way

A Comprehensive Guide for Candidates and Campaign Workers

By: Jeff Blodgett,Bill Lofy,Ben Goldfarb,Erik Peterson

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Winning Your Election the Wellstone Way

A Comprehensive Guide for Candidates and Campaign Workers

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Winning Your Election the Wellstone Way

Winning Your Election the Wellstone Way

Contested Waters

Contested Waters

The Vagabonds

The Vagabonds

The Body at the Back of the Bus

The Body at the Back of the Bus

Partial Hegemony

Partial Hegemony

Functional Data Analysis with R

Functional Data Analysis with R

Judging Social Rights

Judging Social Rights

Atmospheric Microbial Aerosols

Atmospheric Microbial Aerosols

Second City Television

Second City Television

Life in the Slow Lane

Life in the Slow Lane

The Three Stooges Scrapbook

The Three Stooges Scrapbook

How to Pay Zero Taxes, 2005

How to Pay Zero Taxes, 2005

Winning Your Election the Wellstone Way

Winning Your Election the Wellstone Way

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