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Love, Sex and Other Foreign Policy Goals

By: Jesse Armstrong

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Love, Sex and Other Foreign Policy Goals

By: Jesse Armstrong

First published in the United Kingdom in 2015 by Jonathan Cape, an imprint of Vintage Publishing.

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Penguin

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0399184201

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9780399184208

Herndon's Lincoln

A True Story of a Great Life

By: William H. Herndon,Jesse W. Weik

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Herndon's Lincoln

A True Story of a Great Life

By: William H. Herndon,Jesse W. Weik

Written only 25 years after his death, this beloved biography of Abraham Lincoln offers something that most other studies of him do not: an intimate portrait constructed from the memories, experiences, and evidence of those who knew him. Lincoln's former law partner WILLIAM HENRY HERNDON (1818-1891) broke new journalistic ground when he insisted, in compiling this charming and insightful work, on gathering input from others who knew Lincoln well. Everything from old correspondence to new interviews Herndon conducted himself with such figures as Mary Todd Lincoln contribute to a personal look at the great man as a man, not as a myth. First published in 1889 across three small volumes, this replica edition collects the complete work into one book that will surprise and delight even those students of history who believe they know everything there is to know about Lincoln.

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654

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Cosimo, Inc.

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1605207284

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9781605207285

The Sky of Our Manufacture

The London Fog in British Fiction from Dickens to Woolf

By: Jesse Oak Taylor

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The Sky of Our Manufacture

The London Fog in British Fiction from Dickens to Woolf

By: Jesse Oak Taylor

The smoke-laden fog of London is one of the most vivid elements in English literature, richly suggestive and blurring boundaries between nature and society in compelling ways. In The Sky of Our Manufacture, Jesse Oak Taylor uses the many depictions of the London fog in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century novel to explore the emergence of anthropogenic climate change. In the process, Taylor argues for the importance of fiction in understanding climatic shifts, environmental pollution, and ecological collapse. The London fog earned the portmanteau "smog" in 1905, a significant recognition of what was arguably the first instance of a climatic phenomenon manufactured by modern industry. Tracing the path to this awareness opens a critical vantage point on the Anthropocene, a new geologic age in which the transformation of humanity into a climate-changing force has not only altered our physical atmosphere but imbued it with new meanings. The book examines enduringly popular works--from the novels of Charles Dickens and George Eliot to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dracula, and the Sherlock Holmes mysteries to works by Joseph Conrad and Virginia Woolf--alongside newspaper cartoons, scientific writings, and meteorological technologies to reveal a fascinating relationship between our cultural climate and the sky overhead. Under the Sign of Nature: Studies in Ecocriticism

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University of Virginia Press

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0813937949

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9780813937946

Last Gangster in Austin

Frank Smith, Ronnie Earle, and the End of a Junkyard Mafia

By: Jesse Sublett

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Last Gangster in Austin

Frank Smith, Ronnie Earle, and the End of a Junkyard Mafia

By: Jesse Sublett

Ronnie Earle was a Texas legend. During his three decades as the district attorney responsible for Austin and surrounding Travis County, he prosecuted corrupt corporate executives and state officials, including the notorious US congressman Tom DeLay. But Earle maintained that the biggest case of his career was the one involving Frank Hughey Smith, the ex-convict millionaire, alleged criminal mastermind, and Dixie Mafia figure. With the help of corrupt local authorities, Smith spent the 1970s building a criminal empire in auto salvage and bail bonds. But there was one problem: a rival in the salvage business threatened his dominance. Smith hired arsonists to destroy the rival; when they botched the job, he sent three gunmen, but the robbery they planned was a bloody fiasco. Investigators were convinced that Smith was guilty, but many were skeptical that the newly elected and inexperienced Earle could get a conviction. Amid the courtroom drama and underworld plots the book describes, Willie Nelson makes a cameo. So do the private eyes, hired guns, and madams who kept Austin not only weird but also riddled with vice. An extraordinary true story, Last Gangster in Austin paints an unusual picture of the Texas capital as a place that was wild, wonderful, and as crooked as the dirt road to paradise.

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224

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University of Texas Press

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1477324003

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9781477324004

Space

A Memoir

By: Jesse Lee Kercheval

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Space

A Memoir

By: Jesse Lee Kercheval

Kercheval recalls her life as a young girl living in Cocoa, Florida, in 1966, watching as her mother slipped into a Valium-induced state of apathy, her father became a workaholic, and her older sister tried to shoulder the burden.

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336

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University of Wisconsin Pres

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0299300242

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9780299300241

The One Year Devotions for Active Boys

By: Jesse Florea,Karen Whiting

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The One Year Devotions for Active Boys

By: Jesse Florea,Karen Whiting

A daily devotional for high-energy boys combines lighthearted, engaging spiritual messages with scriptural excerpts and themed jokes, riddles, puzzles and hands-on activity suggestions that reveal how to apply biblical principles to everyday challenges. Original. Simultaneous eBook.

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Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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1414394047

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Rebels on the Air

An Alternative History of Radio in America

By: Jesse Walker

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Rebels on the Air

An Alternative History of Radio in America

By: Jesse Walker

Explores the alternative radio that refuses to succumb to the big business that monopolizes the airwaves Boring DJs who never shut up, and who don't even pick their own records. The same hits, over and over. A constant stream of annoying commercials. How did radio get so dull? Not by accident, contends journalist and historian Jesse Walker. For decades, government and big business have colluded to monopolize the airwaves, stamping out competition, reducing variety, and silencing dissident voices. And yet, in the face of such pressure, an alternative radio tradition has tenaciously survived. Rebels on the Air explores these overlooked chapters in American radio, revealing the legal barriers established broadcasters have erected to ensure their dominance. Using lively anecdotes drawn from firsthand interviews, Walker chronicles the story of the unsung heroes of American radio who, despite those barriers, carved out spaces for themselves in the spectrum, sometimes legally and sometimes not. Walker's engaging, meticulous account is the first comprehensive history of alternative radio in the United States. From the unlicensed amateurs who invented broadcasting to the community radio movement of the 1960s and 1970s, from the early days of FM to today's micro radio movement, Walker lays bare the hidden history of broadcasting. Above all, Rebels on the Air is the story of the pirate broadcasters who shook up radio in the 1990sand of the new sorts of radio we can expect in the next century, as the microbroadcasters crossbreed with the even newer field of Internet broadcasting.

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NYU Press

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0814784771

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9780814784778

All the Way to the Top

A Practical Guide for Corporate and Business Leadership

By: Jesse L. Calloway PhD

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A Practical Guide for Corporate and Business Leadership

By: Jesse L. Calloway PhD

About the Design of this Book In support of the information contained herein, various references are provided, reflecting the extensiveness of the scholarly research and topic review. Thus, you will observe frequent citations and source identifiers in the following form: (author, year, page). Additionally, as key business and technical concepts are discussedsuch as capital budgeting, analytical marketing, and statistical applicationstutorial information will be provided to assure reader comprehension. And finally, key leadership insights are offered to solidify understanding of character execution of the presented strategies and theory. Author and journalist Ernest Hemingway wrote: Show the readers everything, tell them nothing. Thus, you will note I have liberally used diagrams, charts, and graphs as my intent is to take advantage of Hemingways sentiments to aid you in comprehending the concepts and strategies presented. The first chapter focuses on leadership definitions, theories, and principles. Building on this foundation, discussion of a key piece of corporate and organizational infrastructure (the performance appraisal) follows, which is linked to the theory presented. An overview of corporate structure follows, with emphasis on corporate initiation, implementation, and operation. You are then introduced to a simulated corporation, Summit Consumables Incorporated. Next comes a systematized discussion of inputs, processing, and outputs (IPO). Then I introduce my leadership improvement model (the 5C LIM). This model is applied by a simulation that demonstrates how to handle corporate and business scenarios seen in the examples of six Summit Consumables employees as they respond to performance evaluation results. Bolstered by previously reviewed leadership strategies, the book then offers leadership-oriented approachespurpose, preparation, perception, persuasion, and power (the 5 Ps)for development and delivery of individual presentations, leveraging the previously introduced Summit Consumables employees. The final chapter demonstrates how stages of the 5C LIM may be used as a stand-alone model to circumvent issues and opportunities occurring in the typical world of leaders.

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Xlibris Corporation

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152451005X

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9781524510053

American Conspiracies

By: Jesse Ventura

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American Conspiracies

By: Jesse Ventura

A New York Times Best Seller! New York Times bestselling author Jesse Ventura is back with more conspiracies that our government wishes you didn’t know about! In this explosive account of wrongful acts and ensuing cover-ups, Jesse Ventura offers a different side to the stories we’ve all heard and read about in the history books. He takes a look at the wide gap between what the government knows and what is revealed to the American people. The media is complicit in these acts of deception, often refusing to consider alternate possibilities and dismissing voices that diverge from public opinion. He will look closely at the theories that have been presented over the years and examine the truth as well as the lies. Ventura does not shy away from the tough questions. As he states, “When I get denied something, I do the opposite of getting intimidated—I get angry.” Now with new conspiracies added including information on the CIA torture scandal and the financial meltdown of 2008, you will see how the United States government continues to abuse our civil liberties and why we need to continue to stand up for what we know is right. You may not believe everything in American Conspiracies, but it is guaranteed to make you think harder about everything you do believe. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

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Simon and Schuster

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1634509390

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9781634509398

They Killed Our President

63 Reasons to Believe There Was a Conspiracy to As

By: Jesse Ventura

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63 Reasons to Believe There Was a Conspiracy to As

By: Jesse Ventura

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past fifty years, you’re aware of the many hypotheses that the assassination of President John F. Kennedy was not done by one man. Whether you’ve read one or a dozen of the books on this topic, there’s no way to fully grasp the depth of this conspiracy. For the first time ever, New York Times bestselling authors Jesse Ventura and Dick Russell have teamed up with some of the most respected and influential assassination researchers to put together the ultimate compendium that covers every angle—from the plot to the murder—of JFK. They Killed Our President will not only discuss the most famous of theories, but will also bring to light new and recently discovered information, which together shows that the United States government not only was behind this egregious plot, but took every step to make sure that the truth would not come out. With 2013 marking the fiftieth anniversary of JFK’s assassination, this is the perfect time for They Killed Our President to be available to readers. The research and information in this book are unprecedented, and there’s nobody better to bring this to everyone’s attention than the former governor of Minnesota and US Navy SEAL, Jesse Ventura.

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Skyhorse

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1628735511

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9781628735512

The Emotional Construction of Morals

By: Jesse Prinz

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The Emotional Construction of Morals

By: Jesse Prinz

Jesse Prinz argues that recent work in philosophy, neuroscience, and anthropology supports two radical hypotheses about the nature of morality: moral values are based on emotional responses, and these emotional responses are inculcated by culture, not hard-wired through natural selection. In the first half of the book, Jesse Prinz defends the hypothesis that morality has an emotional foundation. Evidence from brain imaging, social psychology, and psychopathology suggest that, when we judge something to be right or wrong, we are merely expressing our emotions. Prinz argues that these emotions do not track objective features of reality; rather, the rightness and wrongness of an act consists in the fact that people are disposed to have certain emotions towards it. In the second half of the book, he turns to a defence of moral relativism. Moral facts depend on emotional responses, and emotional responses vary from culture to culture. Prinz surveys the anthropological record to establish moral variation, and he draws on cultural history to show how attitudes toward practices such as cannibalism and marriage change over time. He also criticizes evidence from animal behaviour and child development that has been taken to support the claim that moral attitudes are hard-wired by natural selection. Prinz concludes that there is no single true morality, but he also argues that some moral values are better than others; moral progress is possible. Throughout the book, Prinz relates his views to contemporary and historical work in philosophical ethics. His views echo themes in the writings of David Hume and Friedrich Nietzsche, but Prinz supports, extends, and revises these classic theories using the resources of cutting-edge cognitive science. The Emotional Construction of Morals will stimulate and challenge anyone who is curious about the nature and origin of moral values.

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OUP Oxford

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0191608629

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Book's by Jesse Armstrong

Love, Sex and Other Foreign Policy Goals

Love, Sex and Other Foreign Policy Goals

Herndon's Lincoln

Herndon's Lincoln

The Sky of Our Manufacture

The Sky of Our Manufacture

Last Gangster in Austin

Last Gangster in Austin

Space

Space

The One Year Devotions for Active Boys

The One Year Devotions for Active Boys

Rebels on the Air

Rebels on the Air

All the Way to the Top

All the Way to the Top

American Conspiracies

American Conspiracies

They Killed Our President

They Killed Our President

The Emotional Construction of Morals

The Emotional Construction of Morals

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