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Divide and Dissent

Kentucky Politics, 1930-1963

By: John Ed Pearce

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Divide and Dissent

Kentucky Politics, 1930-1963

By: John Ed Pearce

Few men have been more important to the life of Kentucky than three of those who governed it between 1930 and 1963—Albert B. Chandler, Earle C. Clements, and Bert T. Combs. While reams of newspaper copy have been written about them, the historical record offers little to mark their roles in the drama of Kentucky and the nation. In this authoritative and sometimes intimate view of Bluegrass State politics and government at ground level, John Ed Pearce—one of Kentucky's favorite writers—helps fill this gap. In half a century as a close observer of Kentucky politics—as reporter, editorial writer, and columnist for the Louisville Courier-Journal—Pearce has seen the full spectacle. He watched "Happy" Chandler vault into national prominence with his flamboyant campaign style. He was shaken by Earle Clements for asking an awkward question. He joined in the laughter when a striptease artist was commissioned a Kentucky Colonel during the Combs administration. And he watched as the successive governors struggled to move the state forward, each in his own way. Yet this is more than a newsman's account of events. Pearce probes for the roots of the troubles that have slowed Kentucky's progress. He traces the divisions that have plagued the state for almost two centuries, divisions springing from the nature of Kentucky's beginnings. He studies the lack of leadership that has hampered the always dominant Democratic party and the bitter factionalism that has kept the party from developing a cohesive philosophy. When the candidate of one faction has taken office, he shows, the losing faction has usually made political hay by bolting to the opposition party or torpedoing the governor's efforts in the legislature instead of uniting behind a progressive party program. The outcome of such long-term factionalism is a state that must now run fast to catch up.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813188458

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9780813188454

Doggett's New York City Directory

By: John Doggett

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Doggett's New York City Directory

By: John Doggett

Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.

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470

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385263565

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9783385263567

Leading For Educational Lives

Inviting and Sustaining Imaginative Acts of Hope in a Connected World

By: John M. Novak,Denise E. Armstrong,Brendan Browne

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Leading For Educational Lives

Inviting and Sustaining Imaginative Acts of Hope in a Connected World

By: John M. Novak,Denise E. Armstrong,Brendan Browne

This book is written for the growing number of people (teachers, administrators, support staff, parents, and community members) throughout the world who wish to face the challenges of school leadership in ways that feel right, make sense, and contribute to sustaining defensible educational practices. Using and extending the evolving core ideas of the global inviting school movement, it provides a hopeful approach to educational leadership, management, and mentorship that combines philosophical defensibility, administrative savvy, and illustrative stories. A systematic framework for examining the challenges of educational leadership, the Educational LIVES model, is used to organize the book. It is centred on the idea that leadership is fundamentally about people and the caring and ethical relationships they establish with themselves, others, values and knowledge, institutions, and the larger human and other-than-human world. Emphasized throughout the book are the special quality of relationships needed to appreciate individuals in their uniqueness and the types of messages that intentionally call forth their potential to live educational lives. We call this approach the inviting perspective and offer the experiences of educators from around the world who put imaginative acts of hope into practice daily as they lead, manage, and mentor. Leading for Educational Lives: Inviting and Sustaining Imaginative Acts of Hope in a Connected World is divided into three unequal parts. In Part 1, “Educational LIVES Seen From an Inviting Perspective,” we offer two orienting chapters that look at the unique nature of education seen as a guiding ideal along with the practical nature of an inviting theory of practice for constructing relationships that call forth deepened human possibilities. The foundations of the inviting approach combined with the Educational LIVES model point to the concrete possibilities for practice in the ten chapters in Part 2, “Imaginatively Leading, Managing, and Mentoring Educational LIVES.” Part 3, “Dare to Lead for Education,” is made up of a convergent chapter that looks at what is involved in artfully speaking up for educational lives, personally and professionally. This book is meant to serve as a text for anyone interested in educational leadership from an inviting ethical perspective, an approach that is being used by a growing number of educators throughout the world. It can serve as a stand-alone text or in conjunction with a more traditional survey text.

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209

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Springer

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946209554X

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9789462095540

Toxicological Profile for Selenium (Update)

By: John Risher

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Toxicological Profile for Selenium (Update)

By: John Risher

Selenium (SE) and its compounds are used in photographic devices, gun gluing, plastics, paints, anti-dandruff shampoos, vitamin and mineral supp., fungicides, and glass. It is also used to prepare drugs and as a nutritional feed supp. for poultry and livestock. This profile includes: (a) The exam¿n. of toxicologic info. and epidemiologic evaluations on SE to ascertain the levels of significant human exposure for the substance and the chronic health effects; (b) A determination of whether adequate info. on the health effects of SE is avail. to determine levels of exposure that present a significant risk to human health (SRHH); and (c) Ident¿n. of toxicologic testing needed to identify the types of exposure that may present SRHH. Illus. A print on demand pub.

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DIANE Publishing

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143793076X

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9781437930764

Red Scare

Right-Wing Hysteria, Fifties Fanaticism, and Their Legacy in Texas

By: Don E. Carleton,John Henry Faulk

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Red Scare

Right-Wing Hysteria, Fifties Fanaticism, and Their Legacy in Texas

By: Don E. Carleton,John Henry Faulk

Winner of the Texas State Historical Association Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Prize for Best Book on Texas History, this authoritative study of red-baiting in Texas reveals that what began as a coalition against communism became a fierce power struggle between conservative and liberal politics.

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University of Texas Press

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0292758553

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9780292758551

Ultimate Deception

By: John R Boyd

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Ultimate Deception

By: John R Boyd

The follow up to “Twisted Fate,” days following the daring rescues and turning the FARC leader over to the FBI, the U.S. President decides to relocate the FARC leader to Guantanamo Bay, CUBA. The FARC leader and team transporting him are all killed. Only a select few in the United States and Colombian governments knew of the capture. The President tasked Davis and his team to discover the source of the leak that led to their deaths. Davis and team take on the job knowing that it had to be someone high up on one or both governments. While agreeing to the mission, Davis also tries to keep a promise to his future sister-in-law who was held captive for more than eleven years by the FARC, “to find the other hostages held by the FARC in the Colombian jungles.” The story is fast paced that leads to a deadly confrontation and the reader to different areas of the globe.

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136

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Four Pawns Publishing

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1497448670

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9781497448674

McBride Mast Families

By: John Eacott

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McBride Mast Families

By: John Eacott

This book includes the descendents of Thomas Clarke McBride and Mary Elizabeth Mast. It more importantly gives the history of their ancestors from the earliest colonial times until the mid 1800's with both original research and existing material. Anyone interested in McBride, Mast, Farthing, Baird, Smith, Wilson, Green, Eggers, Harmon families with connection to the Watauga County area of North Carolina will be interested in this book. With today's interest in DNA and family trees this book may provide answers to who we are, where we came from, and why.

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194

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Lulu.com

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0987822756

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9780987822758

The Classic Guide to Beekeeping

From Hives to Honey

By: John Hunter

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The Classic Guide to Beekeeping

From Hives to Honey

By: John Hunter

A comprehensive period guide to beekeeping, from hives to honey, including a small selection of recipes.

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237

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445649608

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9781445649603

Wilkes County, NC, P&Q Minutes, 1811-1817

By: John A. McGeachy

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Wilkes County, NC, P&Q Minutes, 1811-1817

By: John A. McGeachy

Transcription of 1811-1817 minutes of the Wilkes County (NC) Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions; indexed by personal name, business name, geographic name and subject.

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1387719432

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9781387719433

Simon Vector

By: J. A. K. Holding,Ken Chapman,John Jackson

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Simon Vector

By: J. A. K. Holding,Ken Chapman,John Jackson

Alpha Draconis. Its name alone makes even the most law-abiding citizens of the Empire uneasy. Located in the farthest reaches of known space, it is the most remote and feared prison in the Imperial penal system. When Zodiac Battle Systems sends an investigator to Alpha Draconis, Ana Bolo is no less a prisoner than the cannibals, serial rapists, and mass murderers this frozen hell confines. Tasked to learn the fate of a secret project once concealed within the bowels of the prison, her corporate masters will kill her if she fails. But as she hunts for clues left behind by the suicidal genius, Doctor Thaddeus Kong, she realizes that Kong’s increasingly erratic logs point to a more sinister truth. Alpha Draconis lies vulnerable to a horror unlike any mankind has yet faced, a horror drawn to the planetoid by the very experiment Kong tried to hide.

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League Entertainment

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0984847421

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9780984847426

Our Time in Vietnam

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By: John H. Corns

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By: John H. Corns

Captain John Corns leads his Special Forces team into the jungles of the Central Highlands of Vietnam in 1963. Th ere is an insurgency, and he and his Green Berets have undergone extensive training for the mission of assisting the Vietnamese and Montagnard people in their fi ght against communist terrorism. What they fi nd is a challenge that resists rapid progress and a cause that leaves destruction and death in its wake. Corns returns four years later as a major and operations offi cer for the Army/Navy Mobile Riverine Force in the Mekong Delta. Th e confl icting military forces are larger, losses to both the insurgent Viet Cong and to American Forces are greater, and the sacrifi ces of men around him beg the question of what will it cost to win and will it be worth the losses. Now a retired Lieutenant General, Corns looks back at those days as a young offi cer to share the worth, to him, of that experience—his time in Vietnam with men like himself.

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iUniverse

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1440183252

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9781440183256

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Divide and Dissent

Divide and Dissent

Doggett's New York City Directory

Doggett's New York City Directory

Leading For Educational Lives

Leading For Educational Lives

Toxicological Profile for Selenium (Update)

Toxicological Profile for Selenium (Update)

Red Scare

Red Scare

Ultimate Deception

Ultimate Deception

McBride Mast Families

McBride Mast Families

The Classic Guide to Beekeeping

The Classic Guide to Beekeeping

Wilkes County, NC, P&Q Minutes, 1811-1817

Wilkes County, NC, P&Q Minutes, 1811-1817

Simon Vector

Simon Vector

Our Time in Vietnam

Our Time in Vietnam

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