Jeff Elliott's Books

Call Me Commander

A Former Intelligence Officer and the Journalists Who Uncovered His Scheme to Fleece America

By: Jeff Testerman,Daniel M. Freed

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Call Me Commander

A Former Intelligence Officer and the Journalists Who Uncovered His Scheme to Fleece America

By: Jeff Testerman,Daniel M. Freed

When Lt. Commander Bobby Thompson surfaced in Tampa in 1998, it was as if he had fallen from the sky, providing no hint of his past life. Eleven years later, St. Petersburg Times investigative reporter Jeff Testerman visited the rundown duplex Thompson used as his home and the epicenter of his sixty-thousand-member charity, the U.S. Navy Veterans Association. But something was amiss. Thompson’s charity’s addresses were just maildrops, his members nonexistent, and his past a black hole. Yet, somehow, the Commander had stood for photos with President George W. Bush, Senator John McCain, and other political luminaries. The USNVA, it turned out, was a phony charity where Thompson used pricey telemarketers, savvy lawyers, and political allies to swindle tens of millions from well-meaning donors. After Testerman’s story revealed that the nonprofit was a sham, the Commander went on the run. U.S. Marshals took up the hunt in 2011 and found themselves searching for an unnamed identity thief who they likened to a real-life Jason Bourne. When finally captured in 2012, Thompson was carrying multiple IDs and a key to a locker that held nearly $1 million in cash. But, who was he? Eventually, investigators discovered he was John Donald Cody, a Harvard Law School graduate and former U.S. Army intelligence officer who had been wanted since the 1980s on theft charges and for questioning in an espionage probe. As Cody’s decades as a fugitive came to an end, he claimed his charity was run at the behest of the Central Intelligence Agency. After reporting on the story for CNBC’s American Greed in 2014, Daniel M. Freed dug into Cody’s backstory—uncovering new information about his intelligence background and the evolution of his con. Watch a book trailer at callmecommander.net.

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U of Nebraska Press

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1640124098

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9781640124097

Dynamite and Six-shooter

The Story of Thomas E. "Black Jack" Ketchum : Facsimile of 1970 Edition

By: Jeff Burton

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Dynamite and Six-shooter

The Story of Thomas E. "Black Jack" Ketchum : Facsimile of 1970 Edition

By: Jeff Burton

Thomas E. Ketchum, better known as "Black Jack" Ketchum, and his small gang were on the run in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona for less than four years, and their career of banditry lasted for little more than two years. At his hanging in 1901 he declared, "Hurry up boys, I'm due in Hell for dinner.

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Sunstone Press

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0865345767

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9780865345768

At the Old Ballgame

Stories from Baseball's Golden Era

By: Jeff Silverman

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At the Old Ballgame

Stories from Baseball's Golden Era

By: Jeff Silverman

Before multimillion-dollar salaries, luxury boxes, and player strikes became synonymous with professional sports, there existed the belief in playing simply "for the love of the game." Nothing captures that spirit better than these twenty classic pieces about America's favorite pastime. Collected here are the writings of Ring Lardner, Zane Grey, the Giants' immortal Christy Mathewson, Grover Cleveland Alexander, Finley Peter Dunne (who for a time was America's most popular humorist after Mark Twain), Burt Standish (creator of that all-American hero, Frank Merriwell), and many more. Baseball's golden era may have long since passed, but in the pages of CLASSIC BASEBALL STORIES, you can still sit in the bleachers for a nickel. Relive the golden era of baseball with timeless classics from: Albert G. Spalding Henry Chadwick Ernest Lawrence Thayer Grantland Rice Sol White Brig. Gen. Fredrick Funston Zane Grey Candy Cummings Alfred H. Spink Burt L. Standish Lester Chadwick Finley Peter Dunne Christy Mathewson Damon Runyon Grover Cleveland Alexander Gerald Beaumont Ring Lardner Hugh Fullerton Ralph D. Blanpied Charles E. Van Loan P.G. Wodehouse

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Rowman & Littlefield

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149300722X

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9781493007226

The Rise and Decline of an Iberian Bourgeoisie

Manresa in the Later Middle Ages, 1250–1500

By: Jeff Fynn-Paul

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The Rise and Decline of an Iberian Bourgeoisie

Manresa in the Later Middle Ages, 1250–1500

By: Jeff Fynn-Paul

One of the first long-term studies of the Catalonian city of Manresa during the late medieval crisis.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107091942

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Field of Fire

The Tour de France of '87 and the Rise and Fall of ANC-Halfords

By: Jeff Connor

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Field of Fire

The Tour de France of '87 and the Rise and Fall of ANC-Halfords

By: Jeff Connor

In 1987, a British-based team competed in the Tour de France for the first time in almost two decades. The ANC-Halfords squad were decimated by the punishing pace, the manager walked out during one of the Alpine stages, five of the nine riders and some of the staff never made it to Paris, and most of the personnel went unpaid. ANC were the definitive innocents abroad and it became one of the great sporting misadventures of all time. If that wasn't bad enough for ANC, a tabloid journalist travelled with them for the full three weeks. Jeff Connor's account of the Tour, Wide-Eyed and Legless, became a classic and was later voted number one in Cycle Sport's list of the best cycling books of all time. Now, 25 years on, Connor revisits the scene of the crime, tracks down the participants and discovers exactly how their fortunes were changed, some irrevocably, by the '87 Tour. Field of Fire tells a moving tale of sporting disillusionment, heartbreak, anger - and humour.

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Random House

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1780572786

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9781780572789

Unrivaled

UConn, Tennessee, and the Twelve Years that Transcended Women’s Basketball

By: Jeff Goldberg

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Unrivaled

UConn, Tennessee, and the Twelve Years that Transcended Women’s Basketball

By: Jeff Goldberg

The story of the UConn-Tennessee rivalry, the most celebrated and most controversial in women's college basketball history"--

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803255209

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9780803255203

The Heart of Counseling

Practical Counseling Skills Through Therapeutic Relationships, 3rd ed

By: Jeff L. Cochran,Nancy H. Cochran

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The Heart of Counseling

Practical Counseling Skills Through Therapeutic Relationships, 3rd ed

By: Jeff L. Cochran,Nancy H. Cochran

Now in its third edition, The Heart of Counseling is a key resource helping students to understand the importance of therapeutic relationships and to develop the qualities that make the therapeutic relationships they build with clients the foundation of healing. In these pages, students will learn how all skills arise from, and are directly related to, the counselor’s development and how they build therapeutic relationships. Student learning ranges from therapeutic listening and empathy to structuring sessions, from explaining counseling to clients and caregivers to providing wrap-around services, and ultimately to experiencing therapeutic relationships as the foundation of professional and personal growth. Enhancing development with extensive online student and instructor materials, this new edition includes: extensive case studies and discussions on applying skills in school and agency settings specific guidance on how to translate the abstract concepts of therapeutic relationships into concrete skill sets exploration of counseling theories and tasks within and extending from core counseling skills session videos that bring each chapter to life test banks, an instructor’s guide, slides and lesson notes, syllabus, and video sessions index

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Routledge

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1000097889

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9781000097887

The Great Plains Guide to Custer

85 Forts, Fights & Other Sites

By: Jeff Barnes

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The Great Plains Guide to Custer

85 Forts, Fights & Other Sites

By: Jeff Barnes

Very comprehensive and authoritative." --Robert M. Utley, author of Cavalier in Buckskin "Jeff Barnes has really done his research. . . . Highly recommended." --James Donovan, author of A Terrible Glory Guide to forts, military posts, battlefields, and other sites that interpret George Armstrong Custer's decade of operations on the Great Plains Locations in Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, South Dakota, North Dakota, and Montana Extended section on Little Bighorn Each entry includes directions, amenities, contact information, and recommended reading

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Stackpole Books

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0811708365

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Voices from the Soviet Edge

Southern Migrants in Leningrad and Moscow

By: Jeff Sahadeo

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Voices from the Soviet Edge

Southern Migrants in Leningrad and Moscow

By: Jeff Sahadeo

Jeff Sahadeo reveals the complex and fascinating stories of migrant populations in Leningrad and Moscow. Voices from the Soviet Edge focuses on the hundreds of thousands of Uzbeks, Tajiks, Georgians, Azerbaijanis, and others who arrived toward the end of the Soviet era, seeking opportunity at the privileged heart of the USSR. Through the extensive oral histories Sahadeo has collected, he shows how the energy of these migrants, denigrated as "Blacks" by some Russians, transformed their families' lives and created inter-republican networks, altering society and community in both the center and the periphery of life in the "two capitals." Voices from the Soviet Edge connects Leningrad and Moscow to transnational trends of core-periphery movement and marks them as global cities. In examining Soviet concepts such as "friendship of peoples" alongside ethnic and national differences, Sahadeo shows how those ideas became racialized but could also be deployed to advance migrant aspirations. He exposes the Brezhnev era as a time of dynamism and opportunity, and Leningrad and Moscow not as isolated outposts of privilege but at the heart of any number of systems that linked the disparate regions of the USSR into a whole. In the 1980s, as the Soviet Union crumbled, migration increased. These later migrants were the forbears of contemporary Muslims from former Soviet spaces who now confront significant discrimination in European Russia. As Sahadeo demonstrates, the two cities benefited from 1980s' migration but also became communities where racism and exclusion coexisted with citizenship and Soviet identity.

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Cornell University Press

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1501738216

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The Politics of District Elections and Administration in Hong Kong

By: Sonny Shiu-Hing LO,Steven Chung-Fun HUNG,Jeff Hai-Chi LOO,Cody Wai-Kwok YAU

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The Politics of District Elections and Administration in Hong Kong

By: Sonny Shiu-Hing LO,Steven Chung-Fun HUNG,Jeff Hai-Chi LOO,Cody Wai-Kwok YAU

The introduction of elections to district advisory bodies during the early 1980s was expected to improve the public delivery of services. However, as time passed, electoral politics led to party politics, elite fragmentation and political struggles. Politicization and hyper-politicization in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region has brought about a fluctuating pattern between administrative recentralization, the Tsang administration’s attempts at decentralization, and the post-2019 administrative recentralization. The purpose of this book is to study the intertwining relationship between district administration and electoral politics. It also examines the political transformation of District Councils after the promulgation of the National Security Law in late June 2020. Written by experts in the field, this book is a good reference source for readers interested in district elections, politics, and administration in Hong Kong.

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City University of HK Press

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9629376555

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9789629376550

REAL MEN WORK IN THE PITS

By: Jeff Hammond

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REAL MEN WORK IN THE PITS

By: Jeff Hammond

Jeff Hammond has been around racing for a long time-almost as long as me-and he has seen a lot. He's had a lot of success down in the pits where races are won, and he has a lot of stories to tell-some good, some bad-and they are all right here, in this terrific book." -Richard Petty When you stand out there before a race, and you hear the cheering of 150,000 people, and you know that millions of other people are watching on television... well, you just can't imagine the pump. It is just something you can't get enough of. I used to tell people when the day came that I could hear the words, "Gentlemen, start your engines," and not get goose bumps, that was the day I was going to walk away. It hasn't happened yet. I'm broadcasting now, instead of crew chiefing, but I still feel that way. Still get those goose bumps. "Racing is all about chemistry. Hammond and I had it. We were always on the same page. Sometimes I was on the front page though, and he was on the back page!" -Darrell Waltrip

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Lulu.com

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1483401669

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9781483401669

Wide-Eyed and Legless

Inside the Tour de France

By: Jeff Connor

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Wide-Eyed and Legless

Inside the Tour de France

By: Jeff Connor

A fast-paced, fly-on-the-wall story of courage, endurance, bungling, rows and cheating in sport's greatest marathon In 1987, the Tour de France was won by Irishman Stephen Roche. It was the first time the champion had hailed from outside the Continent or the States and the first time in 20 years a British team - ANC Halfords - had competed in the world's toughest and craziest race. Jeff Connor not only stayed with the British team but also found himself an unofficial team member. In this long-awaited new edition of Wide-Eyed and Legless, now widely regarded as a classic, Connor describes what it takes to compete, survive and win during those 26 days of gruelling effort. Alongside the heroism and athleticism, he reveals the extraordinary amounts of chicanery, from pulling riders along to illicit drug use. Time has not dimmed the impact of this eye-opening and entertaining close-up look at the supreme endurance event, and Wide-Eyed and Legless is destined to be acclaimed by a new generation of cycling enthusiasts. Jeff Connor's other books include the definitive story of the Busby Babes, The Lost Babes, and Up and Down Under, an account of the 2001 British Lions tour.

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Random House

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1845968018

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9781845968014

Making Good Food Great

Umami and the Maillard Reaction

By: John Griffin,Jeff Gold

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Making Good Food Great

Umami and the Maillard Reaction

By: John Griffin,Jeff Gold

There is a lot of good food. There is not a lot of great. There are reasons why some food is only just good, and some food is just plain great. Umami and the Maillard Reaction are two reasons why a dish will make the leap from good to great. In this book, Chefs Griffin and Gold demonstrate the nuances of technique and flavors that transform a simple dish that is just good, to a simple dish that is just plain great. With culinary illustrations by Elliott Wennet and many fine recipes, Making Good Food Great will help you understand why some of your dishes taste great, and help you improve all of your recipes.

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iUniverse

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1532024975

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9781532024979

Rebounding from Death's Door

By: Jeff Elliott

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Rebounding from Death's Door

By: Jeff Elliott

Overcome with emotion after watching his son play in his first collegiate basketball game, Jeff was inspired to tell the story of how his son overcame a massive brain tumor, double vision, and zero balance to receive a basketball scholarship and earn a starting position on his college team. Through telling his sons story, it is Jeffs desire to give hope to those who are lost, inspiration to those who despair, and vision to those who cannot see past the obstacles that life has placed in their path.

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1468514393

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9781468514391

Horsebells and Hobblechains

By: Jeff Hill

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Horsebells and Hobblechains

By: Jeff Hill

Twenty-eight Cattlemen tell their stories. If there is a life hereafter I imagine it to be something like this. There will be a big new saleyard in a lush green valley. Mick Moloney will have supplied the steel and supervised the construction. Luke Hopkins will be on the catwalk selling the cattle and Alan Bodman will be taking the bids. Wally Atkinson has drafted the cattle George Birch, Trevor Murray and myself will be leaning on the rails buying. Birchy will be buying for Cec Watts, I will be buying for Live Exports. Sid Parker and Tony Edwards will walk up behind me and tell me I am paying too bloody much for them. Bruce Paine will be on the job looking for cattle with diseases. Ian Knight will be off siding for him. Lyn Hayes and Ken Hammar will have worried looks on their faces because Jack Travers, Ian Michael and Peter McCracken the stock inspectors are checking brands and permits. Under a couple of shady trees not far away will be two droving plants. Bruce Simpson, Abe Teece and Bomber Stacey will be in one camp; George Fry, Bernie Jansen and Tiger Flohr will be in the other. Roger Steele will be horse tailing for both camps. Allan Simpson and Hank Sproules are knocking a few young horses into shape, out in the open. As the sun goes down John Gunn arrives in his road train looking for work. The drovers make a comment that road trains should never have been invented. Everyone calls it a day and heads for John and Wendy Ohlsen’s canteen to have a feed of rib-bones, have a few rums and reminisce about days gone by.

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Boolarong Press

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1876780347

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9781876780340

No Shirt. No Shoes....No Problem!

By: Jeff Foxworthy

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No Shirt. No Shoes....No Problem!

By: Jeff Foxworthy

America's favorite Southern-fried, stand-up comedian and TV sitcom star Jeff Foxworthy brings his humor to the page in this riotous laugh-out-loud book. In No Shirt. No Shoes. . . . No Problem!, Foxworthy examines the hilarity of growing up, love, sex, crazy families, roommates, friendship, mooning, having a crush on your cousin, and the real stories behind many of his favorite Redneck jokes. So get ready: You're in for a helluva good time!

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Hachette Books

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1401394655

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9781401394653

Inflation

History and Measurement

By: Robert O'Neill,Jeff Ralph,Paul A. Smith

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Inflation

History and Measurement

By: Robert O'Neill,Jeff Ralph,Paul A. Smith

This book is an introduction to the history of – and current measurement practice of – inflation for the United Kingdom. The authors describe the historical development of inflation measures in a global context, and do so without using formal mathematical language and related jargon that relates only to a few specialist scholars. Although inflation is a widely used and quoted statistic, and despite the important role inflation plays in real people’s lives – through pension uprating, train tickets, interest rates and the work of economists – few people understand how it is created. O’Neill, Ralph and Smith mix historical data with a description of practices inside the UK statistical system and abroad, which will aid understanding of how this important economic statistic is produced, and the important and controversial choices that statisticians have made over time.

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Springer

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3319641255

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9783319641256

Youtube Celebrity

By: Jeff Walker

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Youtube Celebrity

By: Jeff Walker

Creating Content, Managing Your Channel and Growing Like Wild Fire. You are here because you want to use YouTube to grow your business or brand, right? With modern YouTube Marketing techniques, you can find new customers, boost your conversions, and ultimately increase your revenue. In this YouTube Marketing course, you will learn everything to get started! Whether you run your own business, are helping someone else's businesses, or want to learn an in-demand skill that can help you get hired, this is the perfect YouTube course for you! What will you learn in this YouTube course? * 6 ways to create a marketing funnel with YouTube * Optimize your YouTube channel and videos for views & conversions * Learn the types of videos you should create for your audience * Create YouTube ads to promote your brand * Retarget your own website visitors with your YouTube ads * Place your YouTube ads on your competitor's channels & videos * Starting your own YouTube channel * How to do YouTube keyword research * Grow your channel with YouTube analytics * How to make better videos * so much more! Why should you take this YouTube Marketing course? Instructor of this course, has been using YouTube to grow his own small business. Since less than 5 years, he's grown it to a 7-figure business, using YouTube as a primary method to get new customers. In this course, I'll show you all of my exact strategies to grow my YouTube channel and business. There are no secrets I don't share with you. You will learn all of my techniques in this course. Unlike some other online courses, or trying to learn these techniques on your own through blog articles or even YouTube videos, we're here to help. If you get stuck or have questions, you'll get answers. ORDER NOW.

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3988655198

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Empire of Scrounge

Inside the Urban Underground of Dumpster Diving, Trash Picking, and Street Scavenging

By: Jeff Ferrell

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Empire of Scrounge

Inside the Urban Underground of Dumpster Diving, Trash Picking, and Street Scavenging

By: Jeff Ferrell

Throughout this engaging narrative, full of a colorful cast of characters, from the mansion living suburbanites to the junk haulers themselves, Ferrell makes a persuasive argument about the dangers of over-consumption.

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NYU Press

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0814727379

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9780814727379

Forty Roads to Nowhere

By: Jeff Potter

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Forty Roads to Nowhere

By: Jeff Potter

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Xlibris Corporation

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Seattle

By: Jeff Dickey,Richie Unterberger

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Seattle

By: Jeff Dickey,Richie Unterberger

Rough Guides strips away Seattle's flannel to dig past the grunge and gourmet coffee. Discover Seattle's stunning physical setting, its burgeoning arts scene, unique sites such as the Space Needle and Gasworks Park, and the getaway islands in nearby Puget Sound. From music and microbrews to the all-mighty Microsoft, the Pacific Northwest is presented in all its rugged glory. 12 pages of color photos.

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1843530619

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Dead Reckoning

By: Jeff Dawson

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Dead Reckoning

By: Jeff Dawson

The dramatic story of the sinking of the Dunedin Star November 9th, 1942. Amid the cloaking gloom of the Liverpool docks lay the Dunedin Star. A ship of the Blue Star Line, she was bound for the Middle East, her consignment of munitions for the 8th Army supplemented by twenty-one fare-paying civilians escaping the Blitz for the colonies, all forced to take the long haul round the Cape. As an unescorted merchantman sailing U-boat infested waters, Dunedin Star's passage was, at best, a risky undertaking. But her eventual fate was to defy all expectation. Three weeks into her voyage, her hull mysteriously holed, Dunedin Star ran aground off Namibia's infamous Skeleton Coast - five hundred miles of raging surf and burning desert, the most violent and desolate shore on earth. Sixty-three men, women and children were to defy mountainous waves and unfathomable odds to reach land . . . but their struggle for survival had only just begun. From interviews with survivors, eyewitness testimony, historical resources and personal journals, Dawson skilfully reconstructs the Dunedin Star's doomed voyage, the terror of the wilderness and the painstaking rescue missions. From the grim waters of the North Atlantic to the blistering African wastes, he narrates a classic tale of pluck, set against the backdrop of World War II.

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Weidenfeld & Nicolson

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1780224885

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9781780224886

To Wake the Giant

A Novel of Pearl Harbor

By: Jeff Shaara

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To Wake the Giant

A Novel of Pearl Harbor

By: Jeff Shaara

The New York Times bestselling master of military historical fiction tells the story of Pearl Harbor as only he can in the first novel of a gripping new series set in World War II’s Pacific theater. In 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt watches uneasily as the world heads rapidly down a dangerous path. The Japanese have waged an aggressive campaign against China, and they now begin to expand their ambitions to other parts of Asia. As their expansion efforts grow bolder, their enemies know that Japan’s ultimate goal is total conquest over the region, especially when the Japanese align themselves with Hitler’s Germany and Mussolini’s Italy, who wage their own war of conquest across Europe. Meanwhile, the British stand nearly alone against Hitler, and there is pressure in Washington to transfer America’s powerful fleet of warships from Hawaii to the Atlantic to join the fight against German U-boats that are devastating shipping. But despite deep concerns about weakening the Pacific fleet, no one believes that the main base at Pearl Harbor is under any real threat. Told through the eyes of widely diverse characters, this story looks at all sides of the drama and puts the reader squarely in the middle. In Washington, Secretary of State Cordell Hull must balance his own concerns between President Roosevelt and the Japanese ambassador, Kichisaburo Nomura, who is little more than a puppet of his own government. In Japan, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto wins skeptical approval for his outrageous plans in the Pacific, yet he understands more than anyone that an attack on Pearl Harbor will start a war that Japan cannot win. In Hawaii, Commander Joseph Rochefort’s job as an accomplished intelligence officer is to decode radio signals and detect the location of the Japanese fleet, but when the airwaves suddenly go silent, no one has any idea why. And from a small Depression-ravaged town, nineteen-year-old Tommy Biggs sees the Navy as his chance to escape and happily accepts his assignment, every sailor’s dream: the battleship USS Arizona. With you-are-there immediacy, Shaara opens up the mysteries of just how Japan—a small, deeply militarist nation—could launch one of history’s most devastating surprise attacks. In this story of innocence, heroism, sacrifice, and unfathomable blindness, Shaara’s gift for storytelling uses these familiar wartime themes to shine a light on the personal, the painful, the tragic, and the thrilling—and on a crucial part of history we must never forget.

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Ballantine Books

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0593129644

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9780593129647

Ghost Hunter's Guide to Portland and the Oregon Coast

By: Jeff Dwyer

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Ghost Hunter's Guide to Portland and the Oregon Coast

By: Jeff Dwyer

Ghosts and spirits abound in western Oregon. The imprints of pioneers, soldiers, prostitutes, and murder victims haunt the places they trod in life, searching for loved ones, reliving joyful times, protecting favorite haunts, and seeking revenge. This guide, history, and comprehensive how-to offers tantalizing information about the lives, deaths, and locales of the Portland area's lingering past. Areas include Central Portland, East Portland communities, Vancouver and North Portland, communities south of Portland, and Oregon's coastal communities. The infamous Shanghai Tunnels have long reverberated with the screams of kidnapped victims, doomed to a brief life of forced servitude. Lone Fir Cemetery is visited to this day by the spirits of the Chinese laborers, mental asylum inmates, and Civil War veterans who rest there. Thelma Taylor can sometimes be felt in Cathedral Park, under the St. John Bridge. Historical hotels still host the spirits of guests who died, sometimes by their own hand. Opera houses and ballrooms tell a happier story: the imprints left by decades of entertainment and energy can be felt even now. These sites, and many others, are vividly described, and entries include locations and contact information. Informative sections cover what a ghost is, how it can manifest, ideal ghost sighting conditions, and types of imprints. Techniques included are preliminary historical research, physical and mental preparation, and the two primary schools of ghost hunting: the technical and psychic methods. The technical method section covers equipment use and suggestions, and the psychic method section discusses using your intuition and sensitivity to sense phenomena. Helpful appendixes include a sighting report form; suggested readings, videos, and websites; a list of tours and events; and a collection of area museums and historical societies.

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145562117X

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The Old Lion

A Novel of Theodore Roosevelt

By: Jeff Shaara

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The Old Lion

A Novel of Theodore Roosevelt

By: Jeff Shaara

In one of his most accomplished, compelling novels yet, acclaimed New York Times bestseller Jeff Shaara accomplishes what only the finest historical fiction can do - he brings to life one of the most consequential figures in U.S. history - Theodore Roosevelt - peeling back the many-layered history of the man, and the country he personified. From the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century, from the waning days of the rugged frontier of a young country to the emergence of a modern, industrial nation exerting its power on the world stage, Theodore Roosevelt embodied both the myth and reality of the country he loved and led. From his upbringing in the rarefied air of New York society of the late 19th century to his time in rough-and-tumble world of the Badlands in the Dakotas, from his rise from political obscurity to Assistant Secretary of the Navy, from national hero as the leader of the Rough Riders in the Spanish-American War to his accidental rise to the Presidency itself, Roosevelt embodied the complex, often contradictory, image of America itself. In gripping prose, Shaara's The Old Lion tells the story of the man who both defined and created the modern United States. “Shaara deftly weaves a growing intensity that explodes on the pages.” – Bookreporter.com on To Wake the Giant.”

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125027995X

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Springsteen on Springsteen

Interviews, Speeches, and Encounters

By: Jeff Burger

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Springsteen on Springsteen

Interviews, Speeches, and Encounters

By: Jeff Burger

Offering fans an extensive look at the artist's own words throughout the past four decades, Springsteen on Springsteen brings together Q&A&–formatted articles, speeches, and features that incorporate significant interview material. No one is better qualified to talk about Springsteen than the man himself, and he's often as articulate and provocative in interviews and speeches as he is emotive onstage and in recordings. While many rock artists seem to suffer through interviews, Springsteen has welcomed them as an opportunity to speak openly, thoughtfully, and in great detail about his music and life. This volume starts with his humble beginnings in 1973 as a struggling artist and follows him up to the present, as Springsteen has achieved almost unimaginable wealth and worldwide fame. Included are feature interviews with well-known media figures, including Charlie Rose, Ted Koppel, Brian Williams, Nick Hornby, and Ed Norton. Fans will also discover hidden gems from small and international outlets, in addition to radio and TV interviews that have not previously appeared in print. This collection is a must-have for any Springsteen fan.

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Chicago Review Press

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1613744374

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The Purpose Revolution

How Leaders Create Engagement and Competitive Advantage in an Age of Social Good

By: John Izzo , Ph.D.,Jeff Vanderwielen

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The Purpose Revolution

How Leaders Create Engagement and Competitive Advantage in an Age of Social Good

By: John Izzo , Ph.D.,Jeff Vanderwielen

Discover the Purpose Advantage! Customers, employees, and investors are no longer satisfied with companies providing good products, good prospects, and good profits—they want them to do some social good, too. These “purpose-driven” companies do better on nearly every traditional metric: greater customer loyalty, higher retention, more innovation, and a healthier bottom line. But a nice mission statement and donations to charity won't make your company stand out. Using scores of real-world examples and practical exercises, John Izzo and Jeff Vanderwielen help leaders find a truly authentic purpose, one that is a natural fit for them and their organization. They describe concrete actions leaders can take to ensure that employees own it, customers and recruits connect with it, and every corporate action and activity reflects it.

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1626569673

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Breathing Space

Living and Working at a Comfortable Pace in a Sped-up Society

By: Jeff Davidson,Jeffrey P. Davidson

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Breathing Space

Living and Working at a Comfortable Pace in a Sped-up Society

By: Jeff Davidson,Jeffrey P. Davidson

Breathing Space is a ground-breaking book that will show readers how to avoid racing the clock and gain control over each day. It offers proven steps for handling information and activity overload and balancing one's professional and personal life.

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Breathing Space Institute

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0942361326

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Planting Eli

By: Jeff Black

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Planting Eli

By: Jeff Black

A touching and darkly hilarious novel about a man granted a drug-based reprieve from his HIV death sentence. Ed Dell is gay, single and confidante to goddess Oprah Winfrey--at least in his fertile imagination. He writes for a Chicago newspaper, takes care of his ailing parents, and likes to annoy his snobbish sister. HIV-positive and very private, Ed has seen better days. With the new drugs working--and with his parental obligations miraculously vanished--he suddenly, surprisingly has the chance to live again. If only he could remember how...--From publisher description.

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Psychology Press

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1560235985

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The Dynasty

By: Jeff Benedict

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The Dynasty

By: Jeff Benedict

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Coming soon as a 10-part docuseries on Apple TV+ From the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Tiger Woods comes the definitive inside story of the New England Patriots—the greatest sports dynasty of the 21st century. It’s easy to forget that the New England Patriots were once the laughingstock of the NFL, a nearly bankrupt team that had never won a championship and was on the brink of moving to St. Louis. Everything changed in 1994, when Robert Kraft acquired the franchise and soon brought on board head coach Bill Belichick and quarterback Tom Brady. Since then, the Patriots have become a juggernaut, making ten trips to the Super Bowl, winning six of them, and emerging as one of the most valuable sports franchises in the world. How was the Patriots dynasty built? And how did it last for two decades? In The Dynasty, acclaimed journalist Jeff Benedict provides richly reported answers in a sweeping account based on exclusive interviews with more than two hundred insiders—including team executives, coaches, players, players’ wives, team doctors, lawyers, and more—as well as never-before-seen recordings, documents, and electronic communications. Through his exhaustive research, Benedict uncovers surprising new details about the inner workings of a team notorious for its secrecy. He puts us in the room as Robert Kraft outmaneuvers a legion of lawyers and investors to buy the team. We listen in on the phone call when the greatest trade ever made—Bill Belichick for a first-round draft choice—is negotiated. And we look over the shoulder of forty-year-old Tom Brady as a surgeon operates on his throwing hand on the eve of the AFC Championship Game in 2018. But the portrait that emerges in The Dynasty is more rewarding than new details alone. By tracing the team’s epic run through the perspectives of Kraft, Belichick, and Brady—each of whom was interviewed for the book—the author provides a wealth of new insight into the complex human beings most responsible for the Patriots’ success. The result is an intimate portrait that captures the human drama of the dynasty’s three key characters while also revealing the secrets behind their success. “The Dynasty is…[a] masterpiece…It’s a relationship book, it’s a football book, it’s a business book…you’ll just eat up these stories” (Colin Cowherd).

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Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster

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1982134100

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Cambridge English Empower Advanced Student's Book

By: Adrian Doff,Craig Thaine,Herbert Puchta,Jeff Stranks,Peter Lewis-Jones

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Cambridge English Empower Advanced Student's Book

By: Adrian Doff,Craig Thaine,Herbert Puchta,Jeff Stranks,Peter Lewis-Jones

Cambridge English Empower is a general English course for adult and young adult learners that combines course content from Cambridge University Press with validated assessment from Cambridge English Language Assessment ..."--Publisher description.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107469082

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The Political World of Bob Dylan

Freedom and Justice, Power and Sin

By: Jeff Taylor,Chad Israelson

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The Political World of Bob Dylan

Freedom and Justice, Power and Sin

By: Jeff Taylor,Chad Israelson

This work illuminates, identifies, and characterizes the influences and expressions of Bob Dylan's Political World throughout his life and career. An approach nearly as unique as the singer himself, the authors attempt to remove Dylan from the typical Left/Right paradigm and place him into a broader and deeper context.

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Springer

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1137477474

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1001 Golf Holes You Must Play Before You Die

By: Jeff Barr

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1001 Golf Holes You Must Play Before You Die

By: Jeff Barr

Whether readers play for fun or for serious sport, this guide will encourage them to live their ultimate golfing fantasies at the world's premier courses. Each golf course has been selected for its interest either as a challenge to play, a place of outstanding beauty, a famous occurrence, or the brilliance of its design.

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Ronnie Sellers Productions

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1569065853

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Reclaiming Prosperity

Blueprint for Progressive Economic Policy

By: Todd Schafer,Jeff Faux

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Reclaiming Prosperity

Blueprint for Progressive Economic Policy

By: Todd Schafer,Jeff Faux

This work presents a predicted summary of major economic challenges facing the United States in the last years of the 20th century. Intended to shape the platforms of the major parties and the general public, it contains proposals by leading specialists aimed at resolving such challenges.

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Routledge

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1315480638

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9781315480633

Geniuses of Crack

By: Jeff Gomez

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Geniuses of Crack

By: Jeff Gomez

From the author of Our Noise, an engaging and touching tale about the misadventures of a Virginia-based rock band Bottlecap that’s “an intricate and richly detailed study in twentysomething generational manners and mores that’s almost encyclopedic in scope” (Bret Easton Ellis). Bottlecap, the Virginia-based group introduced in Jeff Gomez’s cult favorite Our Noise, traded in life as a small band on a struggling independent label for a lucrative contract with a big Los Angeles company. This should mean more money, more attention—more of all the stuff that comes with fame. But from the minute Mark, Steve, and Gary arrive in Los Angeles, they enter a world they don’t quite understand. Mark, as leader of the band, tries to keep things under control, but his own life and his relationship with his new girlfriend Corinne—a native Angeleno and inveterate mallrat—begin to spin out of control. Steve falls under the influence of a neighbor with bad habits while Gary scours the city’s thrift stores searching for Atari memorabilia and a love of his own. Confusion reaches its peak when the record company’s plans take an unexpected and, to the band, unacceptable turn. They must either completely sell out and surrender the band or take a stand, relegating themselves to commercial obscurity. Or is it already too late? With humor and insight, Gomez limns the lives of three young men who are geniuses at everything except what matters. Fans of Our Noise will welcome this update of Bottlecap; newcomers will find a writer with a rare talent for capturing the mood and the voice of a generation.

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1501140620

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A Thousand Cuts

The Bizarre Underground World of Collectors and Dealers Who Saved the Movies

By: Dennis Bartok,Jeff Joseph

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A Thousand Cuts

The Bizarre Underground World of Collectors and Dealers Who Saved the Movies

By: Dennis Bartok,Jeff Joseph

A Thousand Cuts is a candid exploration of one of America's strangest and most quickly vanishing subcultures. It is about the death of physical film in the digital era and about a paranoid, secretive, eccentric, and sometimes obsessive group of film-mad collectors who made movies and their projection a private religion in the time before DVDs and Blu-rays. The book includes the stories of film historian/critic Leonard Maltin, TCM host Robert Osborne discussing Rock Hudson's secret 1970s film vault, RoboCop producer Jon Davison dropping acid and screening King Kong with Jefferson Airplane at the Fillmore East, and Academy Award-winning film historian Kevin Brownlow recounting his decades-long quest to restore the 1927 Napoleon. Other lesser-known but equally fascinating subjects include one-legged former Broadway dancer Tony Turano, who lives in a Norma Desmond-like world of decaying movie memories, and notorious film pirate Al Beardsley, one of the men responsible for putting O. J. Simpson behind bars. Authors Dennis Bartok and Jeff Joseph examine one of the least-known episodes in modern legal history: the FBI's and Justice Department's campaign to harass, intimidate, and arrest film dealers and collectors in the early 1970s. Many of those persecuted were gay men. Victims included Planet of the Apes star Roddy McDowall, who was arrested in 1974 for film collecting and forced to name names of fellow collectors, including Rock Hudson and Mel Tormé. A Thousand Cuts explores the obsessions of the colorful individuals who created their own screening rooms, spent vast sums, negotiated underground networks, and even risked legal jeopardy to pursue their passion for real, physical film.

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1496808622

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A Minimalist Approach to Intrasentential Code Switching

By: Jeff MacSwan

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A Minimalist Approach to Intrasentential Code Switching

By: Jeff MacSwan

First Published in 1999. Code switching is widely used in bilingual communities worldwide, and has been found in government documents, literature, religious works, and song. Pursuing this aim here, chapter 1 addresses the relevance of the study of code switching for education and schooling, focusing on ways in which a misunderstanding of code switching may lead to tacit tracking effects for language-minority children.

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1135680051

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9781135680053

Cashup Davis

The Inspiring Life of a Secret Mentor

By: Jeff Burnside,Gordon W. Davis

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Cashup Davis

The Inspiring Life of a Secret Mentor

By: Jeff Burnside,Gordon W. Davis

Enamored by the western frontier, British immigrant Cashup Davis, his wife Mary Ann, and nine children became one of the first white families to settle on the Palouse’s spectacular rolling hills in eastern Washington Territory. Living at first in a simple sod house, they turn their bunchgrass acreage into a farm, befriend Native Americans during a war ignited by the U.S. government’s treaty violations, and eventually open an immensely popular and prosperous stagecoach stop. But Cashup has another dream: he is resolutely determined to build a grand luxury hotel on one of the region’s highest points, the summit of Steptoe Butte. People tell him it is a ridiculous idea, but Cashup never listens to the doubters. He’s brash, confident, and ever so charming. The story is told through the eyes of his great-grandson, Gordon Davis, who views Cashup as the "secret mentor" he never met. As Gordon has achieved success in his life and turned to philanthropy, he has sought to better understand his own good fortune by delving into his great-grandfather’s astonishing past. Cashup’s life prompts questions that are still relevant today: What is real success? Does it blind people to other joys in life? How should people balance risk and reward? Cashup’s hotel opened on July 4, 1888, and he became one of Washington’s first national celebrities. But no one--especially Gordon--expected what happened next.

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1638640122

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