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Hell with the Lid Off

Inside the Fierce Rivalry between the 1970s Oakland Raiders and Pittsburgh Steelers

By: Ed Gruver,Jim Campbell

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Hell with the Lid Off

Inside the Fierce Rivalry between the 1970s Oakland Raiders and Pittsburgh Steelers

By: Ed Gruver,Jim Campbell

Hell with the Lid Off looks at the ferocious five-year war waged by Pittsburgh and Oakland for NFL supremacy during the turbulent seventies. The roots of their rivalry dated back to the 1972 playoff game in Pittsburgh that ended with the “Immaculate Reception,” Franco Harris’s stunning touchdown that led the Steelers to a win over the Raiders in their first postseason meeting. That famous game ignited a fiery rivalry for NFL supremacy. Between 1972 and 1977, the Steelers and the Raiders—between them boasting an incredible twenty-six Pro Football Hall of Famers—collided in the playoffs five straight seasons and in the AFC title game three consecutive years. Both teams favored force over finesse and had players whose forte was intimidation. Pittsburgh’s Steel Curtain defense featured Mean Joe Greene, Jack Lambert, Jack Ham, and Mel Blount, the latter’s heavy hits forcing an NFL rule in his name. The Raiders countered with “The Assassin,” Jack Tatum, Skip Thomas (aka “Dr. Death”), George Atkinson, and Willie Brown in their memorable secondary. Each of their championships crowned the eventual Super Bowl winner, and their bloodcurdling encounters became so violent and vicious that they transcended the NFL and had to be settled in a U.S. district court. With its account of classic games, legendary owners, coaches, and players with larger-than-life personalities, Hell with the Lid Off is a story of turbulent football and one of the game’s best-known rivalries.

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U of Nebraska Press

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1496219155

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9781496219152

Str*ict-ly [Strictly] Technic for Band

A Third Level Supplementary Band Book

By: Jim Swearingen

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Str*ict-ly [Strictly] Technic for Band

A Third Level Supplementary Band Book

By: Jim Swearingen

S*t*r*i*c*t-ly Technic is designed as a warm-up, technic and chorale book. The logical progression of materials allows it to complement any third level band method. Each book in this series is divided into eight units, each based on a major key and its parallel minor key. It's ideally suited for full band classes or private study.

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Alfred Music

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1457459531

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9781457459535

Tales From Behind The Steel Curtain: The Best Stories of the '79 Steelers

By: Jim Wexell

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Tales From Behind The Steel Curtain: The Best Stories of the '79 Steelers

By: Jim Wexell

The "Immaculate Reception" may have started it all, but the 1979 Pittsburgh Steelers put the stamp on the modern era’s greatest sports dynasty. It’s not even a debate. No other National Football League team in the modern sports era—as defined by Nielson—won so much in so little time. The tag is sure to stay with the Steelers for a long, long time. Fans in Pittsburgh can thank NFL free agency, but only in part. They should really thank the ’79 Steelers for winning a fourth title when, really, the team should not have done so. The 1979 Steelers were not supposed to win a championship. The Steel Curtain was in decline, and the Houston Oilers were pounding on the door of the AFC. By the end of the season, of course, the banged-up Oilers were not to be feared, not with the San Diego Chargers gathering steam. In the NFC, the Dallas Cowboys could taste revenge, particularly after Steelers coach Chuck Noll had mocked them unmercifully following the previous year’s Super Bowl. However, the Steelers persevered. "We probably won it more on desire, football intellect," said Steelers defensive superstar "Mean" Joe Greene. Greene admitted that the defense was in decline. He even admitted his great career was in decline, but he never thought the end of the dynasty was near. Star quarterback Terry Bradshaw, on the other hand, with his career just taking off, knew the end was at hand, and after his greatest season, after his second of back-to-back Super Bowl Most Valuable Player awards, Bradshaw hinted at retirement. "I probably should have," he admits 25 years later. The 1979 season had exhausted Bradshaw, a topic he talks about in Tales from Behind the Steel Curtain. Greene also has plenty to say. So do their teammates and their coaches, not to mention the scouts, front office and support personnel, media, and fans. They all have tales to tell about the key season of one of the greatest dynasties the sports world has ever seen. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Sports Publishing imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in sports—books about baseball, pro football, college football, pro and college basketball, hockey, or soccer, we have a book about your sport or your team. Whether you are a New York Yankees fan or hail from Red Sox nation; whether you are a die-hard Green Bay Packers or Dallas Cowboys fan; whether you root for the Kentucky Wildcats, Louisville Cardinals, UCLA Bruins, or Kansas Jayhawks; whether you route for the Boston Bruins, Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens, or Los Angeles Kings; we have a book for you. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

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Simon and Schuster

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1613214936

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9781613214930

Secret and Suppressed

Banned Ideas and Hidden History

By: Jim Keith

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Secret and Suppressed

Banned Ideas and Hidden History

By: Jim Keith

An underground sensation, Secret and Suppressed confronts the reader with disquieting revelations on mind control, secret societies, media disinformation, cults and elite cabals.

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Feral House

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1936239418

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9781936239412

Just a Thin Slice: A Family's Journey Through the American Landscape - 1623 to the Present

By: Jim Kenaston

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Just a Thin Slice: A Family's Journey Through the American Landscape - 1623 to the Present

By: Jim Kenaston

Just a Thin Slice" is a selective account of a family history covering nearly 400 years. The life and times of multiple generations are characterized for the sake of young members of the family and for others who may find the account to be a useful or edifying word. This second edition provides an updated set of reflections in accordance with our changing times.

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Lulu.com

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1387252003

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9781387252008

Risk Assessment Method to Support Modification of Airfield Separation Standards

By: Jim W. Hall

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Risk Assessment Method to Support Modification of Airfield Separation Standards

By: Jim W. Hall

ACRP report 51 is intended to be used to support requests for modification of standards in those circumstances where the design criteria for separations between taxiways/taxilanes and other taxiways/taxilanes and fixed or movable objects as well as separations between taxiways and runways cannot be met.

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Transportation Research Board

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0309213320

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9780309213325

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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9780896086463

Writing Majors

Eighteen Program Profiles

By: Greg Giberson,Jim Nugent,Lori Ostergaard

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Writing Majors

Eighteen Program Profiles

By: Greg Giberson,Jim Nugent,Lori Ostergaard

The writing major is among the most exciting scenes in the evolving American university. Writing Majors is a collection of firsthand descriptions of the origins, growth, and transformations of eighteen different programs. The chapters provide useful administrative insight, benchmark information, and even inspiration for new curricular configurations from a range of institutions. A practical sourcebook for those who are building, revising, or administering their own writing majors , this volume also serves as a historical archive of a particular instance of growth and transformation in American higher education. Revealing bureaucratic, practical, and institutional matters as well as academic ideals and ideologies, each profile includes sections providing a detailed program review and rationale, an implementation narrative, and reflection and prospection about the program. Documenting eighteen stories of writing major programs in various stages of formation, preservation, and reform and exposing the contingencies of their local and material constitution, Writing Majors speaks as much to the “how to” of building writing major programs as to the larger “what,” “why,” and “how” of institutional growth and change.

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University Press of Colorado

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0874219728

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9780874219722

Beyond Darkness

By: Jim Robertson

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Beyond Darkness

By: Jim Robertson

What would you do if in a matter of seconds you went from being healthy and strong to being so badly damaged even your loved ones would have trouble recognizing it was really you? If you wound up being robbed of the ability to see the world as you had always done, how could you make up for such a loss? What kind of future could you have if you were no longer the person you'd always known yourself to be? The author of this autobiography had to start facing these questions when he was only 20 years old. His answers provide insight into his true character and portray the people and the era from which he came.

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iUniverse

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1440131228

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9781440131226

Snyder County

By: Jim Campbell

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Snyder County

By: Jim Campbell

Since its formation in 1855, Snyder County has played many important roles. It was a key link in the nation's first mass-transit system, the Pennsylvania Canal; the home of the commonwealth's last three-term governor, Simon Snyder; and the seat of one of the nation's oldest coeducational colleges, Susquehanna University. Snyder County explores this area's rich history through beautiful photographs, many of which were culled from treasured family albums. While this volume commemorates more than one hundred fifty years of history, particular attention is paid to the period from 1860 to 1960 through two hundred original photographs, many of which are published here for the first time.

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Arcadia Publishing

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143963176X

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9781439631768

The Haiku Economist

101 Poems Economic principles, economically expressed

By: Jim Cox

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The Haiku Economist

101 Poems Economic principles, economically expressed

By: Jim Cox

Whether you're already familiar with free-market economics or the concepts are brand new to you, The Haiku Economist will entertain, inform, and delight you. Among the nuggets you will learn: Haiku is a Japanese poetic form that presents ideas and images in a succinct 17 syllables. Can profound economic principles be presented in such a tiny package? This book answers with a resounding "Yes!" This little book packs a big punch: 101 short poems, each loaded with insight and food for thought. Economic wisdom-in just 17 syllables! - from the introduction by Forbes.com columnist Art Carden"A valuable contribution to economic literacy… we'll have a better world for it.

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Ludwig von Mises Institute

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0975432672

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9780975432679

Rutter's Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

By: Sir Michael J. Rutter,Dorothy Bishop,Daniel S. Pine,Stephen Scott,Jim S. Stevenson,Eric A. Taylor,Anita Thapar

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Rutter's Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

By: Sir Michael J. Rutter,Dorothy Bishop,Daniel S. Pine,Stephen Scott,Jim S. Stevenson,Eric A. Taylor,Anita Thapar

Rutter’s Child and Adolescent Psychiatry has become an established and accepted textbook of child psychiatry. Now completely revised and updated, the fifth edition provides a coherent appraisal of the current state of the field to help trainee and practising clinicians in their daily work. It is distinctive in being both interdisciplinary and international, in its integration of science and clinical practice, and in its practical discussion of how researchers and practitioners need to think about conflicting or uncertain findings. This new edition now offers an entirely new section on conceptual approaches, and several new chapters, including: neurochemistry and basic pharmacology brain imaging health economics psychopathology in refugees and asylum seekers bipolar disorder attachment disorders statistical methods for clinicians This leading textbook provides an accurate and comprehensive account of current knowledge, through the integration of empirical findings with clinical experience and practice, and is essential reading for professionals working in the field of child and adolescent mental health, and clinicians working in general practice and community pediatric settings.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1444358715

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9781444358711

Beverly Shores

A Suburban Dunes Resort

By: Jim Morrow

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Beverly Shores

A Suburban Dunes Resort

By: Jim Morrow

Beverly Shores, Indiana, is a small resort community clustered along the southernmost tip of Lake Michigan, approximately forty miles southeast of Chicago. The town is now an island of private resort homes surrounded by the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, a federal park. Beverly Shores: A Suburban Dunes Resort presents an extensive collection of architectural and environmental photographs that reflect the changes in Chicago society between the late 1920s and World War II. With this glimpse into Beverly Shores' past, readers of all ages will delight in discovering the unique heritage of this town in northwestern Indiana. From developer Frederick Bartlett's introduction of the Mediterranean Revival style of architecture, to Robert Bartlett's most enduring publicity stunt of buying pieces of the 1933-34 Chicago World's Fair and stationing them in the town, this architectural study includes nearly 200 vintage images of the evolution of this suburban dunes resort community.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738508047

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9780738508047

Furniture Design

By: Jim Postell

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Furniture Design

By: Jim Postell

The comprehensive guide to furniture design— expanded and updated Furniture designers draw on a range of knowledge and disciplines to create their work. From history to theory to technology, Furniture Design offers a comprehensive survey of the essential craft- and practice-related aspects of furniture design. Generously illustrated with photographs and drawings—including a new color section—this Second Edition features updated coverage of material specifications, green design, digital design, and fabrication technologies. It also features twenty-five case studies of furniture design that represent a broad selection of works, designers, and techniques, including recent designs produced within the last decade. The book explores: Furniture function and social use Form, spatial organization, and typological orders Structural integrity and composition Accessibility, universal design, human factors, and ergonomics The design process, from schematics through fabrication Materials, processes, and methods of fabrication Professional practice and marketing The history of furniture design, from prehistory to the digital age Complete with a glossary of terms and a comprehensive bibliography, Furniture Design, Second Edition is a one-stop resource that furniture designers will turn to regularly for the advice, guidance, and information needed to perform their craft.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118353188

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9781118353189

OverSuccess

Healing the American Obsession with Wealth, Fame, Power, and Perfection

By: Jim Rubens,James M. Rubens

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OverSuccess

Healing the American Obsession with Wealth, Fame, Power, and Perfection

By: Jim Rubens,James M. Rubens

Why are one in three American adults pervasively dissatisfied with their lives? Why is major depression seven times more likely among those born after 1970 than their grandparents? Why are one in four of us addicted to at least one substance or behavior? Why is America drowning in record personal and public debt? Why did over 100,000 people humiliate themselves this year auditioning for Fox's American Idol? Why are 80 percent of women unhappy with their bodies? What is it about contemporary America that connects the swelling incidence of depression, behavioral addictions, eating disorders, debt, materialism, sleep deprivation, family breakdown, rudeness, fame fixation, ethical collapse, mistrust, and monstrous acts of personal violence? Drawing from emerging science in several fields and insights about our transformed social lives, Rubens explains how genes, commercial culture, and global hyper-competition have locked tens of millions of Americans into an unwinnable success benchmarks race and unleashed an epidemic of status defeat. OverSuccess shows how and why the resulting social and psychological pathologies are different for baby boomers, men, and women. Offering hope for our future, Rubens outlines 20 ways that individuals, businesses, and voluntary organizations can satisfy the American drive for recognition and personal achievement without the toxic burdens of OverSuccess. These cures range from holding the door for strangers and somatic cell gene therapy, to responsible displays of wealth and building village-scale social and business organizations.

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Greenleaf Book Group

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1929774761

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9781929774760

God Can Handle It . . .Teenagers

By: Jim Gallery,Julie Gallery

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God Can Handle It . . .Teenagers

By: Jim Gallery,Julie Gallery

If you are lucky enough to be a teenager, this book is designed for you. The ideas that follow are designed to help you find all the excitement and zest that God intends for your life. So do yourself a big favor and put these ideas into practice today. After all, you're only young once- but with God in your heart and a smile on your face, once is enough!

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Walnut Grove Press

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1887655972

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9781887655972

The International Directory of Military Aircraft

By: Gerard Frawley,Jim Thorn

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The International Directory of Military Aircraft

By: Gerard Frawley,Jim Thorn

Editors Australian Aviation. From the MiG-17 to trainers, helicopters to fighters and special mission aircraft, 280 individual types are featured in full-color.

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192

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Australian Aviation

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187567120X

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9781875671205

Str*ict-ly [Strictly] Technic for Band

A Third Level Supplementary Band Book

By: Jim Swearingen

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Str*ict-ly [Strictly] Technic for Band

A Third Level Supplementary Band Book

By: Jim Swearingen

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Alfred Music

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1457459620

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9781457459627

Strickly Technic

E Flat Alto Clarinet

By: Jim Swearingen

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Strickly Technic

E Flat Alto Clarinet

By: Jim Swearingen

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Alfred Publishing Company, Incorporated

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0769229816

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9780769229812

SLEEP WELL and FEEL GREAT with CPAP

A Definitive Guide

By: J. I. M. Swearingen

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SLEEP WELL and FEEL GREAT with CPAP

A Definitive Guide

By: J. I. M. Swearingen

This is a tremendous sourcebook of information and definitive guide for all who use CPAP, BiPap and VPaP machines. If you or someone you know snores, this is a must-read. The book, first guides the reader through what happens physically when sleep-disordered breathing, i.e. sleep apnea occurs. From there, a definitive set of instructions is provided to help you get the most out of your pressure therapy equipment. Based on experience working with thousands of clients, the author has identified specific reasons for failure to use and benefit from these machines. Though individual results will always vary, following these guidelines, step-by-step, is sure to provide something of value. All clinical concepts are grounded in published medical literature, and those references are added making it easy for the reader to acquire any clarification. For all who snore, are new PAP users, or have tried pressure therapy and either felt it was not beneficial, or failed completely, this is information you need. This work gives necessary and specific details helpful to anyone needing air pressure for a good night sleep.

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