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Contradance

By: John Peck

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In a country where much of the prominent poetry seeks to affirm the fleeting present and its changing values, John Peck’s poetry comes as an important, if unlikely, gift. Peck’s verse deals the cards of the fragmentary, ideogramic, juxtapositional, and elliptical through the deck of normally discursive syntax. Echoing late high Modernism, Peck’s work, in the words of novelist Joseph McElroy, is “a way of seeing things,” confident “in the packed vividness of the referential.” Avoiding the narrow identity- or group-specific viewpoint of some of his contemporaries, Peck invites us to enter the larger humanscape and unearth with him unnoticed connections to our shared past and to one another. In Contradance, his ninth collection, Peck’s passion for inquiry and historical reflection has never been stronger or more beautifully embodied.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226652939

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9780226652931

Forty Years of Pioneer Life. Memoir of John Mason Peck ... Ed. from His Journals and Correspondence

By: John Mason Peck,Rufus Babcock

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Forty Years of Pioneer Life. Memoir of John Mason Peck ... Ed. from His Journals and Correspondence

By: John Mason Peck,Rufus Babcock

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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374

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Palala Press

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1379272904

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9781379272908

Collected Shorter Poems

By: John Peck

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Collected Shorter Poems

By: John Peck

This is the definitive collection of poems by a remarkable, thoroughly original American poet. Peck's poems continue to attract an appreciative, loyal and growing audience of readers who take on the challenge of confronting his astonishing range and ambitions.

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Northwestern University Press

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0810151405

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9780810151406

Rebuilding Sergeant Peck

How I Put Body and Soul Back Together After Afghanistan

By: John Peck,Dava Guerin,Terry Bivens

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Rebuilding Sergeant Peck

How I Put Body and Soul Back Together After Afghanistan

By: John Peck,Dava Guerin,Terry Bivens

I met Marine Sgt. John Peck, a quadruple amputee who has received a double arm transplant, at Walter Reed in 2017. Today, it was my honor to welcome John (HERO) to the Oval, with his wonderful wife Jessica. He also wrote a book that I highly recommend, Rebuilding Sergeant Peck."—President Donald Trump Marine Sgt. John Peck survived an IED during the War on Terror that left him with a traumatic brain injury, amnesia, and cost him his marriage. He survived another three years later, one that left him with three and a half limbs missing. He’s one of only two living people to survive the flesh-eating fungus he contracted in recovery at Walter Reed, one that left him as a quadruple amputee. And that’s only the beginning of his story. What followed was a recovery nothing short of miraculous. With resilience and the help of advocates like actor and philanthropist Gary Sinise, FOX’s Jennifer Griffin, and Bill O’Reilly, John would use a specialized “Action Trackchair” wheelchair and a newly-built SmartHome to get a third lease on life. In 2016, Peck underwent a groundbreaking bilateral arm transplant, receiving two new arms. To date, the surgery has been successful. Today, Peck is a motivational speaker, a philanthropist for veteran and wounded warrior causes, and is pursuing his lifelong dream of becoming a chef with the help of Chef Robert Irvine. From the lessons learned in a difficult childhood and as a homeless teenager, to dealing with depression in recovery, to learning how to chop with another man’s arms, Rebuilding Sergeant Peck is Peck’s account of an honest, visceral, and inspirational story that is truly unique.

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297

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Simon and Schuster

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151074066X

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9781510740662

The House and Farm Accounts of the Shuttleworths

Part III

By: John Harland

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The House and Farm Accounts of the Shuttleworths

Part III

By: John Harland

Reprint of the original, first published in 1857.

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318

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3375170882

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9783375170882

Financialising City Statecraft and Infrastructure

By: Andy Pike,Peter O’Brien,Tom Strickland,John Tomaney

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Financialising City Statecraft and Infrastructure

By: Andy Pike,Peter O’Brien,Tom Strickland,John Tomaney

Financialising City Statecraft and Infrastructure addresses the struggles of national and local states to fund, finance and govern urban infrastructure. It develops fresh thinking on financialisation and city statecraft to explain the socially and spatially uneven mixing of managerial, entrepreneurial and financialised city governance in austerity and limited decentralisation across England. As urban infrastructure fixes for the London global city-region risk undermining national ‘rebalancing’ efforts in the UK, city statecraft in the rest of the country is having uneasily to combine speculation, risk-taking and prospective venturing with co-ordination, planning and regulation.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1788118952

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9781788118958

Monroeville and the Stage Production of To Kill a Mockingbird

By: John Williams

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Monroeville and the Stage Production of To Kill a Mockingbird

By: John Williams

Tread the boards with Mockingbird Players as they present Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. To Kill a Mockingbird burst into the world in 1960, followed by the Academy Award-winning film in 1962. Since then, the story of Scout, Atticus, Tom Robinson and Boo Radley has been an indelible part of American culture. Playwright Christopher Sergel secured Harper Lee's blessing in 1970 for the stage adaptation of her novel, and in 1991, the Mockingbird Players began the annual ritual of staging the show on its home turf and beyond. Author John Williams chronicles the production's extraordinary journey along with a wealth of side stories from the deep and colorful histories of Monroeville and Monroe County.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439677085

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9781439677087

Australian Beetles Volume 1

Morphology, Classification and Keys

By: John Lawrence,Adam Slipinski

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Australian Beetles Volume 1

Morphology, Classification and Keys

By: John Lawrence,Adam Slipinski

Volume 1 in a three-volume series that represents a comprehensive treatment of the beetles of Australia.

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CSIRO PUBLISHING

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0643097295

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9780643097292

Related Families of Botetourt County, Virginia

By: John William Austin,Rebecca H. R. Austin

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Related Families of Botetourt County, Virginia

By: John William Austin,Rebecca H. R. Austin

This is the definitive work on Americans taken prisoner during the Revolutionary War. The bulk of the book is devoted to personal accounts, many of them moving, of the conditions endured by U.S. prisoners at the hands of the British, as preserved in journals or diaries kept by physicians, ships' captains, and the prisoners themselves. Of greater genealogical interest is the alphabetical list of 8,000 men who were imprisoned on the British vessel The Old Jersey, which the author copied from the papers of the British War Department and incorporated in the appendix to the work. Also included is a Muster Roll of Captain Abraham Shepherd's Company of Virginia Riflemen and a section on soldiers of the Pennsylvania Flying Camp who perished in prison, 1776-1777.

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450

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806350237

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9780806350233

The Refiner's Fire

The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-1844

By: John L. Brooke

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The Refiner's Fire

The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-1844

By: John L. Brooke

This 1995 book presents an alternative and comprehensive understanding of the roots of Mormon religion.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521565642

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9780521565646

Bribes

By: John Thomas Noonan

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Bribes

By: John Thomas Noonan

Traces the history of bribery from ancient Egypt to ABSCAM, examines changing perceptions of bribery, and discusses the legal, ethical and religious injunctions against bribes

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Univ of California Press

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0520061543

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9780520061545

Human Assessment and Cultural Factors

By: John W. Berry,S.H. Irvine

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Human Assessment and Cultural Factors

By: John W. Berry,S.H. Irvine

Against the background of NATO's Istanbul conference of 1971 (Cronbach and Drenth, 1972), the Kingston conference shows that great progress has been made by the community of cross-cultural psychologists. The progress is as much in the psychology of the investigators as in the investigations being reported. In 1971 the investigators were mostly strangers to each other. Behind their reports lay radically different field experiences, disparate research traditions, and mutually contradictory social ideals. Istanbul was not a Tower of Babel, but participants did speak past each other. Now a community exists, thanks to the meetings of NATO and the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology, to flourishing journals, and the Triandis et a1. (1980) Handbook. The members tend to know each other, can anticipate how their formu lations will fallon the ears of others, and accept superficially divergent approaches as making up a collective enterprise. Ten years ago there was open conflict between those who con fronted exotic peoples with traditional tests and applied tradi tional interpretations to the responses, and the relativists who insisted that tasks, test taking, and interpretation cannot be "standardized" in the ways that matter. Today's investigators are conscious of the need to revalidate tasks carried into alien settings; they often prefer to redesign the mode of presentation and to attune the subject to test taking. They face the diffi culties squarely and recognize that even the best means of coping are only partially successful.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1489921516

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9781489921512

A United Kingdom?

Economic, Social and Political Geographies

By: John Mohan

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A United Kingdom?

Economic, Social and Political Geographies

By: John Mohan

The human geography of the UK is currently being reshaped by a number of forces - such as globalisation, transition in the organisations of production, the changing character of state intervention, and changing relationships with Europe. A consideration of the impacts of these forces on economic, social and political landscapes is, therefore, an urgent task. At the same time, enduring institutional features of the British economy and polity are also having important influences on socio-economic processes. The result is a complex mosaic of uneven development, which belies the notion of simplistic regional contrasts. Rather than simply mapping spatial inequality, 'A United Kingdom?' charts the processes underpinning uneven development at a range of scales and for a number of key topics. The book draws upon and synthesises the latest contemporary research findings and places emphasis on the interrelated nature of economic, social and political geographies. It treats the human geographies of the UK in a coherent and integrated way, and asks whether contemporary processes of change are tending towards the reduction of socio-spatial divisions or their reproduction in new forms.

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Routledge

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1317859030

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9781317859031

Cactus Flower Site in Southeastern Alberta

1972-1974 Excavations

By: John H. Brumley

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Cactus Flower Site in Southeastern Alberta

1972-1974 Excavations

By: John H. Brumley

Following limited testing in 1972, extended excavations were conducted during 1973 and 1974 of the Cactus Flower site. Ten occupations and a long series of natural stratigraphic units were defined. Although sporadic occupation during the Pelican Lake phase is apparent, most of the levels are attributable to the McKean Complex, dated between 3000 and 1500 B.C. This occupation at Cactus Flower appears to represent late spring to early autumn hunting camps. The excavations provide the best picture to date of the McKean Complex on the Canadian Plains.

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University of Ottawa Press

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1772820431

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9781772820430

Five and Ten

The Fabulous Life of F. W. Woolworth

By: John K. Winkler

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The Fabulous Life of F. W. Woolworth

By: John K. Winkler

This book, first published in 1940, is the unmissable biography of Frank Winfield Woolworth (1852-1919), the American entrepreneur behind the F. W. Woolworth Company and the operator of variety stores known as “Five-and-Dimes”. He was also the first to use self-service display cases, so customers could examine what they wanted to buy without the help of a sales clerk. Woolworth founded an international financial empire with a short lease on a tiny store, a couple of gross of tin cans and a simple but revolutionary idea. Woolworth grew up a poor farm boy who tended his father’s cows barefoot, but he followed the great American dream by parlaying native ingenuity, business sense, and understanding of people into a huge fortune and establishing an institution that became a familiar part of America’s way of life.

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Pickle Partners Publishing

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1787207900

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Contradance

Contradance

Forty Years of Pioneer Life. Memoir of John Mason Peck ... Ed. from His Journals and Correspondence

Forty Years of Pioneer Life. Memoir of John Mason Peck ... Ed. from His Journals and Correspondence

Collected Shorter Poems

Collected Shorter Poems

Rebuilding Sergeant Peck

Rebuilding Sergeant Peck

The House and Farm Accounts of the Shuttleworths

The House and Farm Accounts of the Shuttleworths

Financialising City Statecraft and Infrastructure

Financialising City Statecraft and Infrastructure

Monroeville and the Stage Production of To Kill a Mockingbird

Monroeville and the Stage Production of To Kill a Mockingbird

Australian Beetles Volume 1

Australian Beetles Volume 1

Related Families of Botetourt County, Virginia

Related Families of Botetourt County, Virginia

The Refiner's Fire

The Refiner's Fire

Bribes

Bribes

Human Assessment and Cultural Factors

Human Assessment and Cultural Factors

A United Kingdom?

A United Kingdom?

Cactus Flower Site in Southeastern Alberta

Cactus Flower Site in Southeastern Alberta

Five and Ten

Five and Ten

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