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A User's Guide to the View Camera

Third Edition

By: Jim Stone

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A User's Guide to the View Camera

Third Edition

By: Jim Stone

This reissued third edition of A User’s Guide to View Camera introduces photographers to large-format cameras, covering their use with both film and digital capture. Readers will learn the anatomy of cameras with a separately adjustable back or front, the proper techniques for using view cameras, and how to take care of large-format cameras—all through straightforward and practical instruction and abundant visual examples. This latest edition features: • Practical approaches to mastering lenses, shutters, accessories, and the ever-important maintenance of your view camera • Tips for both simple operation and advanced control of the camera, including film holders, bellows, and tripods, and film handling and development • A section on digital equipment, offering updates on the nearly 200-year-long history of the view camera

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CRC Press

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1317422694

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Larry Bond's First Team: Angels of Wrath

By: Larry Bond,James DeFelice,Jim DeFelice

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Larry Bond's First Team: Angels of Wrath

By: Larry Bond,James DeFelice,Jim DeFelice

The First Team joins forces with the FBI and the Israeli Mossad to investigate a radical cult of fanatics, linked to the Iraqi resistance and a Syrian arms dealer, out to create a new world with a catastrophic religious war with Jerusalem at its center.

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Macmillan

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076530712X

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The Rutland Road

Second Edition

By: Jim Shaughnessy

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The Rutland Road

Second Edition

By: Jim Shaughnessy

One would be challenged to find a railroad to compare scenically and historically with the Rutland Railroad. With Yankee persistence, it struggled for its existence in the snows of Vermont and northern New York for more than one hundred years. Running through territory amply covered by larger and stronger lines, it survived bankruptcy, receivership, flood, unequal competition, seizure, depression, and strikes. Its vestigial remains operate in a small area to this day. Jim Shaughnessy—award-winning railroad photographer and authority—discusses the Rutland's entire history thoroughly, from preconstrnction in 1831 to the present. In this updated edition, the author covers the history of the three lines that continued to operate after the demise of the Rutland Railroad-the Vermont Railway, the Green Mountain Railroad, and the Ogdensburg Bridge and Port Authority. Lavishly illustrated with more than 500 incomparable photographs (including those by railroad photographer Philip R. Hastings), The Rutland Road has other features for the railroad enthusiast and historian alike: maps, charts, reproductions of advertisements, a detailed index with engine rosters, a chronology of the Rutland Railroad, and other significant statistical information.

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Syracuse University Press

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0815604696

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Chicago Entertainment Between the Wars, 1919-1939

By: Jim Edwards,Wynette Edwards

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Chicago Entertainment Between the Wars, 1919-1939

By: Jim Edwards,Wynette Edwards

Chicago has historically been a place of great energy and a showcase of modernity. Determined to wash away the recent memories of World War I, Chicagoans in the 1920s and into the 1930s set out to enjoy themselves, creating a Golden Age of popular entertainment envied throughout the world. Chicago Entertainment Between the Wars, 1919-1939 explores in detail the various old and new playing fields of entertainment that blossomed during this time period, such as dance halls, radio studios, rodeos, theaters, public mechanical musical machines, and movie palaces.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738523305

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Handbook of Offshore Cruising

The Dream and Reality of Modern Ocean Cruising

By: James D. Howard,Jim Howard

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Handbook of Offshore Cruising

The Dream and Reality of Modern Ocean Cruising

By: James D. Howard,Jim Howard

Jim Howard has cruised the great oceans of the world for over 25 years, often single-handed.

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Sheridan House, Inc.

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1574090933

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9781574090932

Declaration of Surrender

By: Jim Burkett

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Declaration of Surrender

By: Jim Burkett

In 1945, the U.S. Congress created a document protecting its own interest against Germany or Japan, leaving its citizens to fend for themselves. The document is lost for 65 years until now when its location is believed found.As the document will give sole ownership of all US properties to whomever finds it, it is a race for DHS to retrieve it first before a foreign country reigns over the US.

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Boss Bean

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1452357153

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Maladies of Empire

How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine

By: Jim Downs

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Maladies of Empire

How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine

By: Jim Downs

A sweeping global history that looks beyond European urban centers to show how slavery, colonialism, and war propelled the development of modern medicine. Most stories of medical progress come with ready-made heroes. John Snow traced the origins of LondonÕs 1854 cholera outbreak to a water pump, leading to the birth of epidemiology. Florence NightingaleÕs contributions to the care of soldiers in the Crimean War revolutionized medical hygiene, transforming hospitals from crucibles of infection to sanctuaries of recuperation. Yet histories of individual innovators ignore many key sources of medical knowledge, especially when it comes to the science of infectious disease. Reexamining the foundations of modern medicine, Jim Downs shows that the study of infectious disease depended crucially on the unrecognized contributions of nonconsenting subjectsÑconscripted soldiers, enslaved people, and subjects of empire. Plantations, slave ships, and battlefields were the laboratories in which physicians came to understand the spread of disease. Military doctors learned about the importance of air quality by monitoring Africans confined to the bottom of slave ships. Statisticians charted cholera outbreaks by surveilling Muslims in British-dominated territories returning from their annual pilgrimage. The field hospitals of the Crimean War and the US Civil War were carefully observed experiments in disease transmission. The scientific knowledge derived from discarding and exploiting human life is now the basis of our ability to protect humanity from epidemics. Boldly argued and eye-opening, Maladies of Empire gives a full account of the true price of medical progress.

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Harvard University Press

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0674971728

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9780674971721

Rivers Ebb

By: Jim H. Ainsworth

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Rivers Ebb

By: Jim H. Ainsworth

The third in a trilogy of contemporary "Rivers" novels centers around a Texasfamily.

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Sunstone Press

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0865348227

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Hitler Saved My Life

WARNING—This Book Makes Jokes about the Third Reich, the Reign of Terror, World War I, Cancer, Millard Fillmore, Chernobyl, and Features a Full-frontal Nude Photograph of an Unattractive Man.

By: Jim Riswold

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Hitler Saved My Life

WARNING—This Book Makes Jokes about the Third Reich, the Reign of Terror, World War I, Cancer, Millard Fillmore, Chernobyl, and Features a Full-frontal Nude Photograph of an Unattractive Man.

By: Jim Riswold

In Hitler Saved My Life, advertising legend Jim Riswold brilliantly combines incisive and funny essays with gorgeous and hilarious visuals to chronicle his battle with cancer and details how a post-diagnosis career transformation into a 'fake artist' helped stave off death. And that fake art, inhabited by tyrants like Mao, Hitler and Mussolini, has provoked a great deal of controversy. But as one critic noted, Riswold's work 'teaches us how to deal with monsters, be it a Hitler or a deadly disease.

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Simon and Schuster

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1941393330

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9781941393338

The Foundation

By: Jim Blair

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The Foundation

By: Jim Blair

Two young men with integrity manage to keep their principles and their ties of friendship intact through some serious attacks from individuals and the attractions of pleasures that can corrupt. Their world is changing at a blinding rate of speed: the automobile, airplanes, and the telephone are invented; electricity is discovered-all this while they are still in school. They both are supported by adults who love them so much that they will not permit them to slide into the deep waters of life until they are good swimmers.

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iUniverse

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0595260632

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A Use Of Riches

By: J.I.M. Stewart

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A Use Of Riches

By: J.I.M. Stewart

Rupert Craine is a wealthy, cultured banker, and art collector. Something strange occurs when drawings byhis wife’s first husband suddenly appear on the market and a telegram summons Craine and his wife to Italy. There, the past grotesquely and irresistibly explodes into the present.

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House of Stratus

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0755148169

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Who Cut the Cheese?

A Cultural History of the Fart

By: Jim Dawson

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Who Cut the Cheese?

A Cultural History of the Fart

By: Jim Dawson

We've told you HOW TO SHIT IN THE WOODS. We've taken you UP SHIT CREEK. Now, we dare to ask the eternal question...WHO CUT THE CHEESE? Which is to say, what exactly is a fart? Why do we do it? Why do we hide it when we do it? And why do we find farts so darn funny? A cut above anything else on the subject, this book really lets go and tells all, getting to the bottom of these mysteries. Author Jim sniffs out a load of historical and scientific fart tales, then offers the kind of fun facts you'll be dying to let slip at social occasions, in chapters like "Fart Facts That Aren't Just Hot Air," "Gone with the Wind" (on famous movie farts), and "Le Petomane & the Art of the Fart" (on the most famous windbag in history). From fact to fiction to frivolous flatulence, this book is unquestionably a ripping good read.

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0307778789

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Sounds Good

A Guide to Church Organs, for Incumbents, Churchwardens and PCCs

By: John Norman,Jim Berrow

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A Guide to Church Organs, for Incumbents, Churchwardens and PCCs

By: John Norman,Jim Berrow

Sounds Good is a user-friendly guide providing advice on the care and repair of older organs, as well as recommendations on the use of new and second-hand organs. The book also contains helpful sections on dealing with organ builders, finance and contracts. This is an excellent resource for all those who are involved with the care and maintenance of their local church organ.

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Weird & Wacky Inventions

By: Jim Murphy

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Weird & Wacky Inventions

By: Jim Murphy

A hair-cutting machine, a used gum receptacle, jumping shoes, and more of the strangest inventions ever! A hat that can tip itself. A suitcase that turns into a bathtub. A pair of protective eyeglasses for chickens. These are just three of the hundreds of unusual inventions that people have dreamed up over the last two centuries. Some, such as the mustache guard, made perfect sense when they first appeared. Others were considered just plain silly. Jim Murphy has compiled a collection of the weirdest and wackiest inventions and presented them in a quiz style that is challenging and fun. Simple, clear explanations are provided on how the inventions worked or failed to work. Complete with over 100 colored illustrations of these crazy creations, this is the perfect gift for any child interested in science and inventions. Ages: 9–12.

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Simon and Schuster

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1626365865

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9781626365865

U.S. Marine Corps Uniforms and Equipment in World War II

By: Jim Moran

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U.S. Marine Corps Uniforms and Equipment in World War II

By: Jim Moran

The United States Marine Corps was one of the phenomena of the Second World War. Greatly expanded from its prewar order of battle of scattered defense battalions, overseas garrisons and ship detachments, it became a multi-division force bearing the brunt of the hardest fighting across the whole vast expanse of the Pacific theater of operations. In August 1942 Marines were among the first to strike back at the Japanese in the jungles of Guadalcanal; Marine Raider battalions were formed to carry the fight to the enemy; and from the Central Solomon's landings of mid–1943 it was the Marines who spearheaded the 'island hopping' amphibious campaign which brought them to Okinawa, on Japan's doorstep, by VJ-Day. This epic story has been well documented in most respects except one: the uniforms, insignia and personal equipment of the Marines who fought their way across the Pacific. Authoritative, illustrated reference works of this important aspect of World War II's physical history have been notoriously lacking. In this book, longtime collector and researcher Jim Moran fills the gap, with a systematic, detailed guide illustrated with more than 300 photographs, including some 200 close-ups of surviving items in private collections on both sides of the Atlantic. The author covers service and field uniforms at the outbreak of war; the development of the Marine's dungaree's; the introduction and development of the camouflage uniforms which became the Marine's trademark in the popular imagination; the 782 gear webbing equipment; the various packs and other load-carrying items; the uniforms, insignia and equipment special to the elite Marine Raiders and Paramarines; the uniforms and accouterments of the US Marine Corps Women's Reserve; and a range of issue and personal small kit items which collectors may encounter. His research is supported by some 100 wartime photographs showing the identified item in use. Assisted and encouraged by the US Marine Corps Historical Center at Quantico, Virginia, Jim Moran has produced an essential reference for the collector, modeler, illustrator and uniform historian.

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Pen and Sword

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1526710439

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9781526710437

Digital Photography Exposure For Dummies

By: Jim Doty, Jr.

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Digital Photography Exposure For Dummies

By: Jim Doty, Jr.

Proper exposure techniques and tips in a single practical guide Most of today's cameras do all the work for the user, yet more and more photographers are looking to add some agility and aptitude to their do-it-all cameras. Digital Photography Exposure For Dummies builds upon skills introduced in Photography For Dummies to guide you through creating the perfect shot. Using aperture and shutter speed techniques, as well as knowledge of ISO sensitivity, lens choice, lighting, and color, you will learn a variety of methods and scenarios to produce astonishing and gripping images. Learn how to control the amount of light let into the lens for each photo Features full-color examples and comparisons in techniques Breaks down the settings and adjustments that should be made to achieve different effects Includes suggested exercises to apply as you become more comfortable with new techniques The step-by-step instructions in Digital Photography Exposure For Dummies allow you to get the picture you want every time!

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470887451

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Baffling & Bizarre Inventions

By: Jim Murphy

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Baffling & Bizarre Inventions

By: Jim Murphy

A talking watch. An overcoat for two. A pair of pants for poodles. In his companion to Weird & Wacky Inventions, Jim Murphy shows kids some additional baffling and utterly silly inventions in the form of a guessing game that is both challenging and fun. What is a finger-supporting device used for? Can you really buy that talking watch? What on earth is a beard grinder? Whether it’s a device for shaping the upper lip or a life preserver for horses, this parade of unusual inventions is a real treat for trivia lovers and any curious kid with an interest in science and inventions. Ages: 9–12.

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Simon and Schuster

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1626365857

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Software for Your Head

Core Protocols for Creating and Maintaining Shared Vision

By: Jim McCarthy,Michele McCarthy

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Software for Your Head

Core Protocols for Creating and Maintaining Shared Vision

By: Jim McCarthy,Michele McCarthy

Most people have experienced--at least once in their lives--the incomparable thrill of being part of a great team effort. They can remember the unity of purpose they experienced, the powerful passion that inspired them, and the incredible results they achieved. People who have been on a great team can attest that the difference between being on a team with a shared vision and being on a team without one is the difference between joy and misery. In 1996, Jim and Michele McCarthy, after successful careers leading software development teams at Microsoft and elsewhere, set out to discover a set of repeatable group behaviors that would always lead to the formation of a state of shared vision for any team. They hoped for a practical, communicable, and reliable process that could be used to create the best possible teams every time it was applied. They established a hands-on laboratory for the study and teaching of high-performance teamwork. In a controlled simulation environment, their principle research and teaching effort--the McCarthy Software Development BootCamp--challenged dozens of real-world, high-tech teams to produce and deliver a product. Teams were given a product development assignment, and instructed to form a team, envision the product, agree on how to make it, then design, build, and ship it on time. By repeating these simulations time after time, with the new teams building on the learning from previous teams, core practices emerged that were repeatedly successful. These were encoded as patterns and protocols. Software for Your Head is the first publication of the most significant results of the authors' unprecedented five-year investigation into the dynamics of contemporary teams. The information in this book will provide a means for any team to create for itself a compelling state of shared vision. 0201604566B09042001

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Addison-Wesley Professional

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0201604566

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Top Performance

How to Develop Excellence in Yourself and Others

By: Zig Ziglar,Krish Dhanam,Bryan Flanagan,Jim Savage

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How to Develop Excellence in Yourself and Others

By: Zig Ziglar,Krish Dhanam,Bryan Flanagan,Jim Savage

Advice from one of America's most respected experts on achieving success.

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Revell

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0800759745

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Agents of Repression

The FBI's Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement

By: Ward Churchill,Jim Vander Wall

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Agents of Repression

The FBI's Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement

By: Ward Churchill,Jim Vander Wall

For those wondering how Bill Clinton could pardon white-collar fugitive Marc Rich but not Native American leader Leonard Peltier, important clues can be found in this classic study of the FBI's COINTELPRO (Counterintelligence Program). Agents of Repression includes an incisive historical account of the FBI siege of Wounded Knee, and reveals the viciousness of COINTELPRO campaigns targeting the Black Liberation movement. The authors' new introduction examines the legacies of the Panthers and AIM, and shows how the FBI still presents a threat to those committed to fundamental social change. Ward Churchill is author of From a Native Son. Jim Vander Wall is co-author of The COINTELPRO Papers: Documents from the FBI's Secret Wars Against Dissent in the United States, with Ward Churchill.

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South End Press

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0896086461

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At Least I Lived Longer

By: Jim Fuxa

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At Least I Lived Longer

By: Jim Fuxa

Whom did you outlive today? Cleopatra? Einstein? Hitler? AT LEAST I LIVED LONGER puts a new twist on biography with 3675 thumbnail profiles arranged by lifespans, down to the day, youngest to oldest, including historical figures and modern celebrities, women and men. Learning about famous people is fascinating, but surpassing them in some way is even better! As for me ... I may not have conquered the world like Alexander the Great, but AT LEAST I LIVED LONGER!

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Lulu.com

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1365336387

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9781365336386

The Archaeology Coursebook

An Introduction to Themes, Sites, Methods and Skills

By: Jim Grant,Sam Gorin,Neil Fleming

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The Archaeology Coursebook

An Introduction to Themes, Sites, Methods and Skills

By: Jim Grant,Sam Gorin,Neil Fleming

This fully updated and revised edition of the best-selling title The Archaeology Coursebook is a guide for students studying archaeology for the first time. Including new methods and key studies in this fourth edition, it provides pre-university students and teachers, as well as undergraduates and enthusiasts, with the skills and technical concepts necessary to grasp the subject. The Archaeology Coursebook: introduces the most commonly examined archaeological methods, concepts and themes, and provides the necessary skills to understand them explains how to interpret the material students may meet in examinations supports study with key studies, key sites, key terms, tasks and skills development illustrates concepts and commentary with over 400 photos and drawings of excavation sites, methodology and processes, tools and equipment provides an overview of human evolution and social development with a particular focus upon European prehistory. Reflecting changes in archaeological practice and with new key studies, methods, examples, boxes, photographs and diagrams, this is definitely a book no archaeology student should be without.

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Routledge

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1317541111

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Punch Drunk

By: Jim Ford

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Punch Drunk

By: Jim Ford

Two men have been found beaten to death in a Newcastle park. One is a mild-mannered librarian, the other a member of a gang of armed robbers from the 1970s. It's no mystery who killed them. But Walter Oyston - ex-boxer turned violent wino - is also dead, his heart having given out before his liver. Is it a simple case of mistaken identity? Or have the ghosts of Newcastle's criminal underworld returned to seek vengeance on one of their own? Following hot on the heels of their last investigation comes another baffling case for DCI Theo Voss and his team from the Bug House.

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C & R Crime

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1472112059

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399 Days

An American Adventure

By: Jim Taylor,Pam Taylor,Caitlin Taylor,Ben Taylor,Lindsey Taylor,Abby Taylor

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399 Days

An American Adventure

By: Jim Taylor,Pam Taylor,Caitlin Taylor,Ben Taylor,Lindsey Taylor,Abby Taylor

This book tells the true story of one familys dream trip. Like many young couples before having kids, Jim and Pam enjoyed traveling together to new places. Unlike most couples, their traveling days did not stop when kids came along. In fact, their love for travel infected their whole family. Every school break they would travel somewhere, to explore a new state or visit a far-off relative. What would it be like to spend a whole year traveling together? They tossed the idea around, considered the places they might travel and the people they might see. Especially alluring would be the special opportunities to knit their hearts together even tighter as a family. This idea grew into a reality. This book tells the story of that dream-come-true.

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1524670197

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Pennant Race

The Classic Game by Game Account of a Championship Season, 1961

By: Jim Brosnan

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Pennant Race

The Classic Game by Game Account of a Championship Season, 1961

By: Jim Brosnan

“Brosnan obviously knows his baseball, writes about it wittily, informally and with irony. He is a cynical, tough professional athlete and his book makes wonderful reading.”—New Yorker From the author of The Long Season—considered by many to be the greatest baseball book of all time—comes another classic sports memoir by legendary pitcher Jim Brosnan, which chronicles how his team, the Cincinnati Reds, went on to win the 1961 National League pennant. In Pennant Race, Brosnan—with his trademark wise-guy wit and plain-spoken practicality—once again offers a refreshingly candid alternative to hackneyed baseball mythologizing. Day by day, game by game, Brosnan reveals the real lives of professional ballplayers: their exhilaration and frustration, hope and despair, chronic worry over job security, playful camaraderie, world-weary cynicism, and boyish—if cautious—optimism. Although the Reds would ultimately lose the World Series to the Yankees, for Brosnan and his teammates, this was a winning season. Pennant Race vividly captures a remarkable year in the life of a ball club and the golden age of one of Major League Baseball’s most memorable eras.

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0062454897

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Dale Brown's Dreamland: Revolution

By: Dale Brown,Jim DeFelice

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Dale Brown's Dreamland: Revolution

By: Dale Brown,Jim DeFelice

In a volatile world, America’s worst nightmares canbecome real—anywhere, anytime, and with no warning. But there is one potent defense: a top-secret military facility in the Nevada desert where the high-tech future of warfare is being conceived and constructed. Masters of astonishing military technology that enables them to deploy almost instantaneously to any part of the Earth, the Dreamland team must now stop a dangerous revolution in the making in Eastern Europe—where a mysterious group of insurgents has blown up an essential pipeline, thereby disrupting Europe’s gas supply. With NATO and the EU paralyzed by the crisis, it falls to Dreamland’s best and brightest to keep the world from the brink of another Cold War. But the secret hand of an old enemy is pulling the strings from the shadows, hoping to reap the rewards of chaos. And the devastating results could erupt with intense, white-hot fury.

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