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The People's Machine

Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Rise of Blockbuster Democracy

By: Joe Mathews

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The People's Machine

Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Rise of Blockbuster Democracy

By: Joe Mathews

California voters passed Proposition 13 in 1978. At the same time, a champion bodybuilder named Arnold Schwarzenegger was becoming a movie star. Over the past quarter century, the twin arts of direct democracy (through ballot initiatives designed to push the public to the polls on election day) and blockbuster moviemaking (through movies designed to push the public to the theaters on opening weekend) grew up together, at home in California. With the state's recall election in 2003, direct democracy and blockbuster movies officially merged. The result: Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. In The People's Machine, political reporter Joe Mathews, who covered Schwarzenegger's gubernatorial campaign for the Los Angeles Times and who has subsequently broken many front page stories about him, traces the roots of both movie and political populism, how Schwarzenegger used these twin forces to win election and, especially, how he has used them to govern. "Let the people decide," said Governor Schwarzenegger after his inauguration. The People's Machine, through remarkable access and whip-smart analysis -- there is news in this book -- reports on whether this system of governing proves blessing, curse, or mess, and on the remarkable Austrian bodybuilder, movie star, and political man with the nerve to carry it out.

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PublicAffairs

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1586485504

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Christmas in My Heart, A Third Treasury

Further Tales of Holiday Joy

By: Joe Wheeler

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Christmas in My Heart, A Third Treasury

Further Tales of Holiday Joy

By: Joe Wheeler

Joe Wheeler's bestselling Christmas in My Heart series brings joy to readers by reawakening the true spirit of the season within themselves. His two previous collections make gifts that send a cherished message of love and help families establish a cozy holiday tradition of reading these stories together. In Christmas in My Heart: A Third Treasury, Wheeler offers more warm, tender, and beautiful stories, such as the tale of a young girl who dreams of getting a doll for Christmas or the story of the little orphan who radiates the love of holidays. No family will want to miss out on these lovely stories.

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0307822648

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9780307822642

Lander

By: Carol Thiesse,Traci Foutz,Joe Spriggs

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Lander

By: Carol Thiesse,Traci Foutz,Joe Spriggs

Before Lander became a town, the area had already been the summer hunting grounds for numerous Native American tribes, seen a few rendezvous, and had become a freighting hub. Supplying goods for the miners in the South Pass area and goods for the cavalry and natives at Fort Washakie, the freight wagons rolled year-round. When the Lander townsite was plotted in 1880, the main road remained wide enough that a 20-hitch team could turn around. As more people settled in the area, Lander became an agricultural-based town. It was known throughout the state for its abundance of produce, hay, blooded horses, cattle, and sheep. But it was not all work for the settlers; the Wind River Mountains also beckoned. Lander, located at the edge of the southern half of the Shoshone National Forest, became an outfitting stop for alpinists, scientists, and others seeking adventure. Once word of the vast elk and deer herds and the abundance of trout in those high mountain lakes was out, hunters and fisherman came from all over. It also did not take long for Western adventure writers to highlight that Lander was a good place for tourists who wanted to experience the romance of the west through horseback riding, camping, and mountain adventures.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439625301

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9781439625309

The Doctor's Garden

By: Joe Bergeron

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The Doctor's Garden

By: Joe Bergeron

Joe and Jade are two high school kids involved with spirits trying to help solve a crime. Big pharmaceutical, the FBI, and plenty of intrigue involving all of them are part of this fantasy.

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Lulu.com

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1329835816

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9781329835818

The New Forensics

Investigating Corporate Fraud and the Theft of Intellectual Property

By: Joe Anastasi

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The New Forensics

Investigating Corporate Fraud and the Theft of Intellectual Property

By: Joe Anastasi

An in-depth look at the tools, techniques, and tactics used in computer forensics The New Forensics introduces readers to the world of business forensics, using interesting vignettes, interviews, and actual crime reports. It examines recent cases in which the use of computer forensics led to evidence linking executives to fraud and covers issues such as the theft of trade secrets, the use of data mining, money laundering, and other types of theft and fraud. Author Joe Anastasi, a well-respected leader in computer and business forensics, leads the reader on a shadowy journey through top-secret government offices and real-life business investigations while covering the moral and legal issues surrounding corporate crime. Case studies, stories, and interviews help highlight important issues and move the book out of the theoretical into the realm of actual practice. Joe Anastasi (San Francisco, CA) serves as the Global Leader for Deloitte Forensics, which includes the operation of several Cybercrime Computer Forensics labs located around the world. He is a member of the High-Tech Crime Investigation Association and the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0471457957

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9780471457954

High Arctic Odyssey

By: Joe Fougere

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High Arctic Odyssey

By: Joe Fougere

About the Book If you like to read tom Clancy’s novels with tons of details in them, then you will surely enjoy “High Arctic Odyssey”. It is crammed with glorious details about plane crashes, under-ice submarine maneuvers, flying hovercraft, and helicopters. If you enjoy an Ian Flemming book about the exploits of James Bond with his license to kill, you will be thrilled by the skills and abilities of Major Shawn Phillips of the RCAF. He is a proficient pilot and a Search and Rescue Specialist. He shoots to kill when in the line-of-duty. Whether it is saving a Russian chopper or using a rocket launcher to attack enemies, you can count on the Major. Mari Leech is a beautiful love interest of the airman and also a skillful RCAF pilot. If you are motivated by a captivating plot involving unbounded greed, uncontrolled selfishness, espionage and political intrigue, you will be galvanized by the well-defined characters in this book. There are two Naval Admirals. Both want power. One would stage an election while the other overthrows a government in order to steal land and resources. Major Phillips retaliates, with forces consisting of friends and foes, to over-turn the actions of the Admirals. Talk about evil foes! You will not be disappointed in the cruelty and scheming ways of both Admirals. Each of them are pure evil and will do anything to achieve their private goals. Their bags of tricks include a military coup, sabotage, blackmail and cut-throat operations. It is up to Major Phillips to defeat them and their followers. There is a likable Russian Colonel, with his commandos, in the arctic to retrieve precious equipment and loads of strategic data. The Colonel is an aggressive goal-oriented leader, and it takes all of Phillips’ rational skills to control him. A naive Naval submarine commander gets duped into acts against other countries’ authorities and needs to find revenge. If you enjoy reading unique tales, you will be enticed to follow the twists and turns of this story as it demonstrates how small mistakes can turn out to be major disasters.

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Dorrance Publishing

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1638675554

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9781638675556

Gorilla Tactics (Dr. Critchlore's School for Minions #2)

By: Sheila Grau,Joe Sutphin

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Gorilla Tactics (Dr. Critchlore's School for Minions #2)

By: Sheila Grau,Joe Sutphin

The second book in this hilarious, illustrated series cracks the imaginative world of minions wide open, and we meet the other schools and Evil Overlords that surround Dr. Critchlore’s. Runt Higgins needs answers, fast. Someone cursed him to die on his sixteenth birthday, but no one seems to know who cursed him or why. Runt decides he must find the Great Library, where all true knowledge is hidden. Unfortunately, the only people who know the location of the Great Library are a covert network of librarian-spies who’d rather die than give up the Library’s secrets. And when one of Runt’s professors is attacked, it soon becomes clear that others are also out to find the Library at any cost. Meanwhile, Runt’s not the only one whose days are numbered. To save the floundering school from an inevitable sale, Dr. Critchlore takes some desperate measures. His master plan to save the school: a fashion show.

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Abrams

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1613128932

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9781613128930

Hollywood Animal

By: Joe Eszterhas

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Hollywood Animal

By: Joe Eszterhas

Joe Eszterhas had everything Hollywood could offer. A combination of insider and rebel, he saw and participated in the fights, the deals, the backstabbing, and all the sex and drugs. But here, in his candid and heartwrenching memoir, we see the rest of the story: the inspiring account of the child of Hungarian immigrants who, against all odds, grows up to live the American Dream. Hollywood Animal reveals the trajectory of Eszterhas's life in gripping detail, from his childhood in a refugee camp, to his battle with a devastating cancer. It shows how a struggling journalist became the most successful screenwriter of all time, and how a man who had access to the most beautiful women in Hollywood ultimately chose to live with the love of his life in a small town in Ohio. Above all, it is the story of a father and a son, and the turbulent relationship that was an unending cycle of heartbreak. Hollywood Animal is an enthralling, provocative memoir: a moving celebration of the human spirit.

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Vintage

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0307530876

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9780307530875

California Dreamin' Along Route 66

By: Joe Sonderman

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California Dreamin' Along Route 66

By: Joe Sonderman

The California Dream made Route 66 the most famous road in the world. Flappers dreamed of stardom under the bright lights of Hollywood. A wave of families fleeing the Dust Bowl transformed the state during the Great Depression. During World War II, another wave followed Route 66 seeking opportunity in the massive wartime industrial plants. Thousands of soldiers trained in the Mojave Desert and then returned amid the postwar prosperity to blossoming housing developments that replaced the vast orange groves. While Nat King Cole sang "(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66," the newly prosperous middle class hit the road headed for the dream land constructed by Walt Disney. Inspired by the Beat poets, the hippies, and the adventures of Buz and Tod on the CBS television show Route 66, a new generation took to the open road. Those who savor the journey as much as the destination still seek it out on Route 66 today.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439666911

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Collision Course

A Josh Williams Novel

By: Joe Broadmeadow

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Collision Course

A Josh Williams Novel

By: Joe Broadmeadow

Ambition, Murder, Politics. Elements in the tragic collision of two lives. Anthony ‘JoJo’ Machado decorated Marine combat veteran and Detective Sergeant Josh Williams, East Providence, Rhode Island Police Department Two men inextricably linked by circumstances beyond their control. One will die. One will face the loss of everything he holds dear. Collision Course is the riveting story of blind political ambition trampling truth. US Attorney Robert Collucci, candidate for the US Senate, will stop at nothing to succeed, using the rage of racial inequality to fuel his quest for power. Williams and Machado are pawns in this game of politics. There is only one person standing between the truth and the power of the government. A sarcastic, misogynistic, former Green Beret, defense lawyer named Harrison “Hawk” Bennett, who risks his career to set things right.

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JEBWizard Publishing

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149732145X

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9781497321458

Justice on Trial

By: Joe Browne

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Justice on Trial

By: Joe Browne

Matt is having a bad year. First, he loses his job. Then his wife kicks him out of their home and gets a barring order, forcing him to kip on his best friends couch. Things couldnt get worse, could they? Then poor Matt gets drunk, forgets about the barring order, goes home, and is promptly arrested, which introduces Matt to a totally different societyprison. Here, all the rules are different. It is a whole new world and one that most of us will never know. We track Matts progress on his journey into the unknown and how he copes with everything that gets thrown at him. Read on to get a unique insight into this underbelly of Dublin life.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1524593680

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9781524593681

Project Fear

How an Unlikely Alliance Left a Kingdom United but a Country Divided

By: Joe Pike

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Project Fear

How an Unlikely Alliance Left a Kingdom United but a Country Divided

By: Joe Pike

As the clock struck 10 p.m. on Thursday 18 September 2014, polling stations across Scotland closed, signalling the end of two and a half bruising years of debate for the Yes and No campaigns. Dubbed 'Project Fear', the unique Better Together alliance was relieved as victory was secured and a weary and dejected Alex Salmond tendered his resignation. But the relief proved to be premature. Despite the defeat, the Scottish National Party grew in strength and gained unprecedented momentum, transforming its referendum failure into stunning general election success. The SNP went on to dominate the polls in Scotland, and the party's tsunami surge of support created a dynamic new force in Westminster. Now, Joe Pike delves deep into the nail-biting back-room operations of the referendum's No campaign, examining the striking shift in Scottish political attitudes and its effect on the most unpredictable election in a generation. Based on over fifty private interviews with those at the heart of the action, this exclusive account explores what really went on behind closed doors as Better Together kept a kingdom united, but left a country divided.

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Biteback Publishing

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1849549958

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9781849549950

Judgment Day

And Other Stories

By: Joe Orlando,Al Feldstein

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Judgment Day

And Other Stories

By: Joe Orlando,Al Feldstein

Classic EC science fiction from the pen of Joe Orlando, including two Ray Bradbury stories, all of EC's "Adam Link" adaptations, and the famous anti-racism title story.

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Fantagraphics Books

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1606997270

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9781606997277

Dr. Critchlore's School for Minions (#1)

By: Sheila Grau,Joe Sutphin

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Dr. Critchlore's School for Minions (#1)

By: Sheila Grau,Joe Sutphin

Welcome to Dr. Critchlore’s School for Minions, the premier trainer of minions for Evil Overlords everywhere. No student is prouder to be at Dr. Critchlore’s than Runt Higgins, a twelve-year-old werewolf. (At least he thinks he’s twelve. He was abandoned at the school as a baby, so he can’t say for sure.) Runt loves everything about Dr. Critchlore’s. He loves his classes—such as History of Henchmen and Introduction to Explosives. He loves his friends—such as Darthin the gargoyle and Syke the tree nymph. And he loves his foster family, who took him in when his wolf pack couldn’t. But not everyone loves Dr. Critchlore’s as much as Runt. After a series of disasters, each worse than the next, it’s clear that someone is trying to shut the school down. It’s up to Runt, who knows the place better than anybody, to figure out who’s behind the attacks . . . and to save his home, and Dr. Critchlore himself, from total destruction.

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Abrams

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161312757X

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9781613127575

A Literature of Questions

Nonfiction for the Critical Child

By: Joe Sutliff Sanders

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A Literature of Questions

Nonfiction for the Critical Child

By: Joe Sutliff Sanders

Nonfiction books for children—from biographies and historical accounts of communities and events to works on science and social justice—have traditionally been most highly valued by educators and parents for their factual accuracy. This approach, however, misses an opportunity for young readers to participate in the generation and testing of information. In A Literature of Questions, Joe Sutliff Sanders offers an innovative theoretical approach to children’s nonfiction that goes beyond an assessment of a work’s veracity to develop a book’s equivocation as a basis for interpretation. Addressing how such works are either vulnerable or resistant to critical engagement, Sanders pays special attention to the attributes that nonfiction shares with other forms of literature, including voice and character, and those that play a special role in the genre, such as peritexts and photography. The first book-length work to theorize children’s nonfiction as nonfiction from a literary perspective, A Literature of Questions carefully explains how the genre speaks in unique ways to its young readers and how it invites them to the project of understanding. At the same time, it clearly lays out a series of techniques for analysis, which it then applies and nuances through extensive close readings and case studies of books published over the past half century, including recent award-winning books such as Tanya Lee Stone’s Almost Astronauts: Thirteen Women Who Dared to Dream and We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball by Kadir Nelson. By looking at a text’s willingness or reluctance to let children interrogate its information and ideological context, Sanders reveals how nonfiction can make young readers part of the project of learning rather than passive recipients of information.

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U of Minnesota Press

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1452955778

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9781452955773

Gus Dorais

Gridiron Innovator, All-American and Hall of Fame Coach

By: Joe Niese,Bob Dorais

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Gus Dorais

Gridiron Innovator, All-American and Hall of Fame Coach

By: Joe Niese,Bob Dorais

Charles "Gus" Dorais (1891-1954) was the quarterback of Notre Dame's "Dorais to Rockne" tandem that revolutionized football's forward pass. A triple threat prep star from Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, Dorais was a captain and undefeated four-year starter at Notre Dame, and the school's first consensus All-American in 1913. Over the next four decades, Dorais was a professional player in the pre-NFL days and a college football coach--notably at the University of Detroit--and then head coach of the Detroit Lions. During his career, he tallied more than 150 wins. A pioneer of offensive strategies, Dorais played with and coached against most of the prominent football legends of his time.

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McFarland

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1476675244

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9781476675244

School of Mandolin: Irish Mandolin

By: Joe Carr,Michael B. Gregory

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School of Mandolin: Irish Mandolin

By: Joe Carr,Michael B. Gregory

This new manual, intended for beginners, contains all you need to begin playing authentic Irish jigs, reels, hornpipes and more on the mandolin. Starting with simple polkas and slides, 26 common session tunes are included. the tunes are all favorites allowing you to rapidly join the fun of session playing. A special section explains pick direction for authentic jig picking. Included are instructions on basic Irish ornamentation for reels and jigs. the accompanying CD can be used for traditional by ear learning. Presented in mandolin tablature and standard musical notation.• Contains all you need to begin playing authentic Irish jigs, reels, hornpipes and more on the mandolin•

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Mel Bay Publications

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1610653807

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9781610653800

Why We Love Baseball

A History in 50 Moments

By: Joe Posnanski

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Why We Love Baseball

A History in 50 Moments

By: Joe Posnanski

NEW YORK TIMES bestseller WALL STREET JOURNAL bestseller #1 New York Times bestselling author Joe Posnanski is back with a masterful ode to the game: a countdown of 50 of the most memorable moments in baseball’s history, to make you fall in love with the sport all over again. Posnanski writes of major moments that created legends, and of forgotten moments almost lost to time. It's Willie Mays’s catch, Babe Ruth’s called shot, and Kirk Gibson’s limping home run; the slickest steals; the biggest bombs; and the most triumphant no-hitters. But these are also moments raw with the humanity of the game, the unheralded heroes, the mesmerizing mistakes drenched in pine tar, and every story, from the immortal to the obscure, is told from a unique perspective. Whether of a real fan who witnessed it, or the pitcher who gave up the home run, the umpire, the coach, the opposing player—these are fresh takes on moments so powerful they almost feel like myth. Posnanski’s previous book, The Baseball 100, portrayed the heroes and pioneers of the sport, and now, with his trademark wit, encyclopedic knowledge, and acute observations, he gets at the real heart of the game. From nineteenth-century pitchers’ duels to breaking the sport’s color line in the ’40s, all the way to the greatest trick play of the last decade and the slide home that became a meme, Posnanski’s illuminating take allows us to rediscover the sport we love—and thought we knew. Why We Love Baseball is an epic that ends too soon, a one-of-a-kind love letter to the sport that has us thrilled, torn, inspired, and always wanting more.

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Penguin

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0593472675

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9780593472675

Black Maestro

The Epic Life of an American Legend

By: Joe Drape

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Black Maestro

The Epic Life of an American Legend

By: Joe Drape

In Black Maestro, Joe Drape meticulously brings to life the drama, adventures, romances, and heartbreaks of an unlikely participant in the greatest historical events of the twentieth century. It is a breathtaking narrative that takes you from pastoral Kentucky to Mob–controlled Chicago, from the horse country of Poland to the chaos of Red Square, and from freewheeling Paris to the hard–luck American South of the Depression. It is also a story that returns Jimmy Winkfield to his rightful place as an original American hero. In 1919, at the age of thirty–seven, as Bolshevik cannon fire thundered above, the already epic life of Jimmy Winkfield turned into an odyssey. With a ragtag band of Russian nobility and Polish soldiers, the son of a black sharecropper from Chilesburg, Kentucky, was entrusted with saving more than 250 of the most royal but fragile thoroughbreds left in crumbling Csarist Russia. They trekked 1,100 miles from Odessa to Warsaw for nearly three months amid the bloodiest part of the Russian Revolution, surviving gunfire and starvation....

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Harper Collins

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0061976830

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9780061976834

Training a Young Pointer

How the Experts Developed My Bird Dog and Me

By: Joseph Healy,Joe Healy

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Training a Young Pointer

How the Experts Developed My Bird Dog and Me

By: Joseph Healy,Joe Healy

Commands to advice on field training, whistle training, and ranging methods, Training a Young Pointer covers every aspect of dog handling. Entertaining and informative, this book appeals to all who want to own and train a great bird dog. Book jacket.

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Stackpole Books

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0811701433

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9780811701433

Joe Cahill

A Life in the IRA

By: Brendan Anderson,Joe Cahill

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Joe Cahill

A Life in the IRA

By: Brendan Anderson,Joe Cahill

I was born in a united Ireland, I want to die in a united Ireland.' Born in Belfast in 1920, Joe Cahill has been an IRA man motivated by this ambition all his life. IRA activists rarely speak about their lives or their organisation, but here Cahill gives his full and frank story, his viewpoint, his experiences -- from Northern Irish prison cells of the 1940s, on a death sentence, to Washington when the Good Friday Agreement was being negotiated. He tells of the visit he made to Colonel Gaddafi to arrange for arms and ammunition, and the fateful voyage of the Claudia; Bloody Sunday and the burning of the British Embassy in Dublin; the high-drama helicopter escape of IRA prisoners from Portlaoise Jail. This is the story of an extraordinary journey, Cahill's own life mirroring the growth, changes and development of the republican movement as a whole through more than sixty years of intense involvement.

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The O'Brien Press

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1847174280

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9781847174284

Advanced Studies in Media

By: Joe Nicholas,John Price

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Advanced Studies in Media

By: Joe Nicholas,John Price

Advanced Studies in Media has been designed to offer a comprehensive and stimulating textbook for all students on advanced level media studies and communications studies courses.

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Nelson Thornes

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0174900473

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9780174900474

Telling It Like It Is

By: Joe Darensbourg,Peter Vacher

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Telling It Like It Is

By: Joe Darensbourg,Peter Vacher

The autobiography of one of the foremost jazz clarinetists who is well known for his recordings with Edward 'Kid' Ory and the Louis Armstrong All Stars. Darensbourg was born in Baton Rouge, LA, in 1906 and heard many early New Orleans jazz bands as a young boy. For most of his life he lived on the West Coast and the book is a first-rate reference source for students of jazz and popular music in the urban centres of Seattle and Los Angeles.

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Springer

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1349087300

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9781349087303

A Teacher’S Tale

A Memoir

By: Joe Gilliland

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A Teacher’S Tale

A Memoir

By: Joe Gilliland

It was never in author Joe Gillilands plan to become a teacher, certainly not a college teacher and most certainly not an English teacher. But thats what happened, and hes never looked back. In A Teachers Tale, he explains, how by neither planning for nor seeking a life of learning and teaching, lacking a syllabus or lesson plan, he discovered that a life in academe lay in his patha path hes followed for more than fifty years. A Teachers Tale begins in 1932 with Gillilands first experiences in schooling and concludes in the summer of 1955 just as he completes his apprenticeship and stands on the brink of becoming a qualified instructor in a small college in east Texas. This memoir presents a collection of stories about his experiences as a teacher and a college student. A story of schooling deeply immersed in the arts and humanities, A Teachers Tale shares Gillilands love of the university and how it compelled him to seek a life devoted to teaching, primarily in the community college arena. Through this narrative, he brings together a philosophy of higher education based on the importance of arts and humanities in todays high- tech world.

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iUniverse

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1491745843

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9781491745847

Hidden Voices

Lived Experiences in the Irish Welfare Space

By: Joe Whelan

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Hidden Voices

Lived Experiences in the Irish Welfare Space

By: Joe Whelan

Welfare states are a major feature of many societies. This book draws on qualitative interviews with people receiving various working age welfare payments in Ireland to analyse welfare conditionality and explore stigma, social reciprocity and the notions of the deserving and undeserving poor.

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Policy Press

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1447360931

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9781447360933

Kill the Witness

By: Joe McCormick

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Kill the Witness

By: Joe McCormick

The crime boss had a chilling look in his eye as he spoke. "There had better not be any slipups this time, he said. Make sure it's a clean job, not a vestige of evidence left. I don't care if you use quicklime or a wood chipper...leave nothing that can be traced back to us!" With these orders a manhunt was set in motion that led from the bayous of the Gulf Coast to the river bottoms of West Tennessee. With no clue of why they are being hunted by the Southern Mafia, software developer James Lyman and his wife Jane survive by using their knowledge of wilderness terrain to hold off their pursuers until answers can be found. This is a story of ordinary people finding extraordinary faith and strength in a time of crisis to overcome seemingly insurmountable difficulties.

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Lulu.com

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1365085945

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9781365085949

In the Black

By: Joe Lerner

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In the Black

By: Joe Lerner

Against hundred to one odds, the Ravens fly obsolete aircraft through the rottenest flying weather in the world. Their mission: to fight a war no one admits waging, in the ruggedest unexplored terrain on the planet. Their goal: to prevent the North Vietnamese from outflanking the Vietnam War and overrunning Laos, Thailand, and Cambodia. Disowned by their country, the Ravens wage a ferocious battle for honor, victory, and survival. Joe Lerner is pitched into this whirlwind of violence when he is forced into the Air Force. His trip into the black netherworld of espionage is a descent into a shadow play of deceit. It is a world where you can drink beer with your enemies at night, your friends can unexpectedly vanish forever, and your superiors can be as dangerous as your adversaries. It's all to easy to die horribly in this obscure melee in the dark. It's even easier for personal humanity to perish. The dilemma for Joe is, What price survival?

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iUniverse

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0595407145

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Windjammers

Songs of the Great Lakes Sailors

By: Ivan Walton,Joe Grimm

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Songs of the Great Lakes Sailors

By: Ivan Walton,Joe Grimm

A collection of stories, lyrics, music and folklore centered on the Great Lakes.

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Wayne State University Press

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0814329977

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9780814329979

Family Law in Scotland

By: Joe Thomson

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Family Law in Scotland

By: Joe Thomson

Family Law in Scotland, 7th edition is a well-established, clear and comprehensive survey of Scots family law and is of practical use to practitioners and students alike. Topics are laid out in a clear logical manner covering the formalities and legal consequences of marriage and civil partnership, divorce and dissolution, and important issues relating to children, such as parental rights and responsibilities, protection and adoption. The seventh edition includes all recent legislative changes including the Children and Young Persons (Scotland) Act 2014 and the Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2014. Previous print edition ISBN: 9781847665607

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1780437609

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9781780437606

The Secret of Graveyard Hill

By: James Hibbitts,Joe Roberts

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The Secret of Graveyard Hill

By: James Hibbitts,Joe Roberts

Right before she died, your mother called me on the phone and told me that there were some things I needed to know. She told me all this on a Monday.. I got the call on Thursday that your mother had passed away.' Until finding out that he would be receiving an inheritance upon his father's death, Jessie Walker's life had been fairly norma-except for the untimely passing of his mom when he was a child. But with the inheritance from his father comes an unsettling, possibly sinister discovery. Had his mom really passed away from an illness, as he'd been told, or was the real reason something much, much worse? Secret of Graveyard Hill is fiction, but it's based on one grain of truth in author James Hibbitts's life: He doesn't know the true cause of his mother's death. He and Joe Roberts have written this novel in an attempt to help him sort through his pain and to possibly find some answers.

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Tate Publishing

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1620241609

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9781620241608

Jerry Siegel's & Joe Shuster's Science Fiction

By: Joe Shuster,Jerry Siegel

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Jerry Siegel's & Joe Shuster's Science Fiction

By: Joe Shuster,Jerry Siegel

High quality reprint of "the Reign of the Super-man," the very first "superman" story by Gerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. Not a comic book, but a short novel in the style of the pulps, it tells the story of Bill Dunn, a down-of-his-luck man who acquires superpowers through a radical experiment. The story has all the main elements of the superman myth: a bald super-villain, an unknown element coming from space that mutates human beings, telescopic-vision, aliens, and an indomitable quest for absolute power. It was originally published on Science Fiction - The Advance Guard of Future Civilization #3 (Jan. 1933), one of the very first fanzine to be created, which Siegel and Shuster developed with a typewriter and mimeographic machine for printing. Also collected for the first time: "Goober the Mighty", Siegel's Tarzan parody, Stiletto Vance the vain detective, and other raw gems the creators of Superman developed for the Torch, the High School newspaper they worked for.

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Lulu.com

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1329988116

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9781329988118

Seán Treacy and the Tan War

By: Joe Ambrose

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Seán Treacy and the Tan War

By: Joe Ambrose

This book covers the exploits of charismatic guerrilla leader Seán Treacy, Tipperary's flying columns and the horrors of Croke Park's 'Bloody Sunday'.

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Mercier Press Ltd

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1856355543

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9781856355544

The Joe Public Guide to the Roman Catholic Church

By: Joe Castello

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The Joe Public Guide to the Roman Catholic Church

By: Joe Castello

The Roman Catholic Church is the original church of Christianity and is one of the oldest institutions in the world. It has survived for over 2,000 years and has over 1.2 billion adherents. This book observes how the Church has transitioned from a simple structure to one of great complexity and great wealth. This wealth is examined. The Roman Catholic Church has been responsible for many good things in this world but as this book shows, it has also been embroiled in many controversial episodes. The accusations that it has been involved with murder, the Mafia and unscrupulous wealth creation, are all covered in this short book. This book was written in 2019 by a non-Catholic for the benefit of other non-Catholics who have a natural curiosity regarding powerful and long-lasting institutions that have been very influential over so many people’s lives.

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Austin Macauley Publishers

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1398431516

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9781398431515

Tales Until Dawn

The World of a Cape Breton Gaelic Story-Teller

By: Joe Neil MacNeil,John Shaw

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Tales Until Dawn

The World of a Cape Breton Gaelic Story-Teller

By: Joe Neil MacNeil,John Shaw

MacNeil also describes his early years in a Gaelic-speaking rural community, where story-telling is still a basic element of community life. He explains how he learned the tales and the customs and practices associated with their telling. He also introduces us to the families and individuals who were custodians of the tales. John Shaw's introduction outlines the informant's tradition and its place in the world of the European story-teller. The commentaries of MacNeil and Shaw, the tales, the games, and the other folk material offer a rich and unique perspective on the Gaelic culture generally, and as it has developed on Cape Breton Island in particular.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773561129

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9780773561120

Sonic Cool

The Life & Death of Rock 'n' Roll

By: Joe S. Harrington

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Sonic Cool

The Life & Death of Rock 'n' Roll

By: Joe S. Harrington

(Book). In the tradition of Nick Tosches, Tom Wolfe and Lester Bangs comes an epic and riveting history of rock and roll that reads like a novel. Sonic Cool presents the saga of rock and roll as the closest thing we have to genuine "myth" in the modern world, and it is the first book about rock to be written in the spirit of rock. Immense, fierce, opinionated and hilarious, Joe Harrington masterfully presents rock as a movement of near-religious proportions, against a backdrop of social factors and important events such as the invention of the guitar, the jukebox, LSD, the 12-inch phonograph record, the '70s recession, the Reagan Revolution, and the Internet. This is the history of rock as it's never been told, as the legend of a massive cultural movement, one that had meaning, but ultimately failed because it sold its soul. Radically egalitarian in its assessments towering figures such as Lennon, Dylan and Cobain stand along side lesser-known but equally influential artists like the MC5, the Misfits and Joy Division Sonic Cool is gripping reading for anyone who ever believed in the music. Includes a 16-page black-and-white photo insert. Joe S. Harrington began writing at the age of 10, an act that provoked a rejection slip from Mad magazine. He has written about music for the Boston Globe , Boston Phoenix , New York Press , Seattle Stranger , Lowell Sun , Wired , Reflex , Raygun , High Times , Seconds , Rollerderby and numerous fanzines. He is currently employed as an on-line jazz critic at Amazon, and lives in Portland, Maine. Softcover.

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Hal Leonard Corporation

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0634028618

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9780634028618

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