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Eavesdropping

An Intimate History

By: John L. Locke

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Who among us hasn't eavesdropped on a stranger's conversation in a theater or restaurant? Indeed, scientists have found that even animals eavesdrop on the calls and cries of others. In Eavesdropping, John L. Locke provides the first serious look at this virtually universal phenomenon. Locke's entertaining and disturbing account explores everything from sixteenth-century voyeurism to Hitchcock's "Rear Window"; from chimpanzee behavior to Parisian cafe society; from private eyes to Facebook and Twitter. He uncovers the biological drive behind the behavior and highlights its consequences across history and cultures. Eavesdropping can be a good thing--an attempt to understand what goes on in the lives of others so as to know better how to live one's own. Even birds who listen in on the calls of distant animals tend to survive longer. But Locke also concedes that eavesdropping has a bad name. It can encompass cheating to get unfair advantage, espionage to uncover secrets, and secretly monitoring emails to maintain power over employees. In the age of CCTV, phone tapping, and computer hacking, this is eye-opening reading.

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Oxford University Press

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0199236135

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Oh, Beautiful

An American Family in the 20th Century

By: John Godges

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Oh, Beautiful

An American Family in the 20th Century

By: John Godges

AWARDED THE KIRKUS STAR! NAMED TO KIRKUS REVIEWS' BEST OF 2011 LIST! 2012 INDIE READER DISCOVERY AWARD WINNER! 2012 ERIC HOFFER BOOK AWARD RECIPIENT! INDIE BOOK AWARDS FINALIST IN TWO CATEGORIES! An extended Italian immigrant family clings to community life amid tragedy, the Spanish flu, Prohibition, and the Great Depression. A broken Polish immigrant family leaves a legacy of heartbreak, separation, Civilian Conservation Corps redemption, and World War II heroism. From these dissimilar backgrounds emerges a quintessential American family, one whose members embody the conflicting social movements of their times: a staunchly Catholic Polish immigrant U.S. Marine Corps father, an emotionally effusive Italian mother, an Oliver North son, a Hillary Clinton daughter, a mentally ill sister, a jock brother, a lesbian rocker, and a gay male activist. In an age of bitter cultural polarization, Oh, Beautiful: An American Family in the 20th Century celebrates what has kept America together. This true story is an engrossing portrait of an American family and an evocative documentation of nearly 100 years of American history.

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534

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John Paul Godges

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1451508018

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9781451508017

Two Worlds Under the Stairs

By: John Stockmyer

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Two Worlds Under the Stairs

By: John Stockmyer

John Lyon has accidentally become Mage of a medieval world of magic can he use 20th Century knowledge to defeat evil? Could you?

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185

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iUniverse

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0595362257

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9780595362257

Wetland Landscape Characterization

Practical Tools, Methods, and Approaches for Landscape Ecology, Second Edition

By: Ricardo D. Lopez,John G. Lyon,Lynn K. Lyon,Debra K. Lopez

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Wetland Landscape Characterization

Practical Tools, Methods, and Approaches for Landscape Ecology, Second Edition

By: Ricardo D. Lopez,John G. Lyon,Lynn K. Lyon,Debra K. Lopez

Wetlands are, by their very nature, ephemeral and transitional, which makes them challenging to characterize. Yet the need for characterizing wetlands continues to grow, particularly as we develop a better understanding of the wealth of ecosystem services that they provide. Wetland Landscape Characterization: Practical Tools, Methods, and Approache

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311

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CRC Press

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1466504323

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9781466504325

Foreign Investment Strategies in Restructuring Economies

Learning from Corporate Experiences in Chile

By: John Kline

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Foreign Investment Strategies in Restructuring Economies

Learning from Corporate Experiences in Chile

By: John Kline

Restructuring economies in Latin America, Eastern Europe, and elsewhere are abandoning their hostility to foreign enterprises and adopting policies to attract international investment. This book examines corporate experiences in Chile, one of the first nations to move successfully from a statist economy to an open market system using privatization, debt conversion, and liberal trade and investment policies. Drawing from research on over seventy foreign corporations, the book compares investment strategies used to assess risk and exploit business opportunities under conditions of fundamental economic change. Case studies describe how and why firms selected different financing, management, employment, production, and marketing approaches in establishing or expanding their operations. After a brief historical review, the book examines key policy decisions in the 1980s that shaped Chile's new economy. Case studies are then analyzed by sector, covering mining and energy, nontraditional exports (forestry, fishing, and agribusiness), banking and insurance, and other industries including computers, telecommunications, chemicals, electrical goods, automotive products, foods and beverages, and pharmaceuticals. Summary chapters relate these learning experiences to broader strategic issues such as ownership and control, financing methods, technology transfer, trade policy, labor relations, taxation, regulatory reform, and coordinating global corporate operations. This book presents cumulative learning experiences useful for business executives and public officials who must develop new foreign investment strategies, as well as scholars and students interested in the role of foreign investment in developing countries.

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320

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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031336933X

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9780313369339

Who Killed Tom Thomson?

The Truth about the Murder of One of the 20th Century's Most Famous Artists

By: John Little

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Who Killed Tom Thomson?

The Truth about the Murder of One of the 20th Century's Most Famous Artists

By: John Little

Tom Thomson was Canada's Vincent van Gogh. He painted for a period of five years before meeting his untimely death in a remote wilderness lake in July 1917. He was buried in an unofficial grave close to the lake where his body was found. About eight hours after he was buried, the coroner arrived but never examined the body and ruled his death accidental due to drowning. A day and a half later, Thomson's family hired an undertaker to exhume the body and move it to the family plot about 100 miles away. This undertaker refused all help, and only worked at night. In 1956, John Little's father and three other men, influenced by the story of an old park ranger who never believed Thomson's body was moved by the undertaker, dug up what was supposed to be the original, empty grave. To their surprise, the grave still contained a body, and the skull revealed a head wound that matched the same location noted by the men who pulled his corpse from the water in 1917. The finding sent shockwaves across the nation and began a mystery that continues to this day. In Who Killed Tom Thomson? John Little continues the sixty-year relationship his family has had with Tom Thomson and his fate by teaming up with two high-ranking Ontario provincial police homicide detectives. For the first time, they provide a forensic scientific opinion as to how Thomson met his death, and where his body is buried. Little draws upon his father's research, plus recently released archival material, as well as his own thirty-year investigation. He and his colleagues prove that Thomson was murdered, and set forth two persons of interest who may have killed Tom Thomson.

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462

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Simon and Schuster

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1510733418

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9781510733411

Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer

A Road Trip into the Heart of Fan Mania

By: Warren St. John

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Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer

A Road Trip into the Heart of Fan Mania

By: Warren St. John

What is it about sports that turns otherwise sane people into raving lunatics? Why does winning compel people to tear down goal posts, and losing, to drown themselves in bad keg beer? In short, why do fans care? In search of answers, Warren St. John seeks out the roving community of RVers who follow the Alabama Crimson Tide from game to game. A movable feast of Weber grills and Igloo coolers, these are hard-core football fans who arrive on Wednesday for Saturday’s game: The Reeses, who skipped their own daughter’s wedding because it coincided with a Bama game; Ray Pradat, the Episcopal minister who watches the games on a television beside his altar while performing weddings; and John Ed, the wheeling and dealing ticket scalper whose access to good seats gives him power on par with the governor. In no time at all, St. John buys an RV (a $5,500 beater named The Hawg) and joins the caravan for a full football season, chronicling the world of the extreme fan and learning that in the shadow of the stadium, it can all begin to seem strangely normal. Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer is not only a hilarious travel story, but a cultural anthropology of fans that goes a long way toward demystifying the universal urge to take sides and to win.

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Crown

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0609807137

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9780609807132

A 21st Century Rationalist in Medieval America

Essays on Religion, Science, Morality, and the Bush Administration

By: John Bice

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A 21st Century Rationalist in Medieval America

Essays on Religion, Science, Morality, and the Bush Administration

By: John Bice

Exploring the power of "preaching to the converted," this motivating collection challenges other atheists, secularists, agnostics, and freethinkers to become vocal and involved in their own local media, adding a rational voice to the daily dialogue taking place in newspapers across the country.

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220

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Chelydra Bay Press

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0979365201

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9780979365201

Red Sand Green Heart

Ecological adventures in the outback

By: John L. Read

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Red Sand Green Heart

Ecological adventures in the outback

By: John L. Read

Australia's arid outback is teeming with life ... when you know where to look. From taipan snakes and pelicans to hippie activists and hardline miners, John Read brings to life the characters, creatures and cultures of the outback. Through vivid, personal stories he shares his experience as an ecologist making new discoveries; challenging conventional approaches to pastoralism, mining, tourism and environmental management; and witnessing the precarious balance of nature as species are pitted against the harsh climate of the outback. Written in an accessible and non-scientific style, Red Sand Green Heart: Ecological adventures in the outback evokes a humorous, entertaining and informative picture of Australia's desert region and the environmental issues that affect us all.

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Wakefield Press

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1743056869

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9781743056868

Turnpike Trooper

By: John I. Hogan

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Turnpike Trooper

By: John I. Hogan

Harrowing experiences and shocking details regarding the societal phenomenon known as, 'Racial Profiling" fill the pages of this true story based on the life of New Jersey State Trooper John Hogan. Following his involvement in the infamous, 'Turnpike Shooting" which ignited the nation's firestorm regarding the issue of racial profiling, observe a first hand look at how New Jersey's politicians, not the facts of the case, influenced the outcome of this tragedy. Turnpike Trooper is an emotional depiction of the selection process and training regiment of the New Jersey State Police and ultimately takes you on patrol on one of America's most dangerous roadways, the enigma known as the New Jersey Turnpike. Witness how Trooper Hogan's unblemished service career, reputation and life were singled out and shattered - solely for political gain by New Jersey's elected officials.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1413482074

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9781413482072

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Eavesdropping

Eavesdropping

Oh, Beautiful

Oh, Beautiful

Two Worlds Under the Stairs

Two Worlds Under the Stairs

Wetland Landscape Characterization

Wetland Landscape Characterization

Foreign Investment Strategies in Restructuring Economies

Foreign Investment Strategies in Restructuring Economies

Who Killed Tom Thomson?

Who Killed Tom Thomson?

Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer

Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer

A 21st Century Rationalist in Medieval America

A 21st Century Rationalist in Medieval America

Red Sand Green Heart

Red Sand Green Heart

Turnpike Trooper

Turnpike Trooper

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