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Little Poison

Paul Runyan, Sam Snead, and a Long-Shot Upset at the 1938 PGA Championship

By: John Dechant

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Little Poison

Paul Runyan, Sam Snead, and a Long-Shot Upset at the 1938 PGA Championship

By: John Dechant

Paul Runyan--the Arkansas farm boy who stood five feet, six inches and weighed 130 pounds--shocked the golf world by defeating long and lean, sweet-swinging Sam Snead in the finals of the 1938 PGA Championship, thus earning the nickname "Little Poison." Runyan did more than beat Snead: he shellacked him as decisively as David toppled mighty Goliath. His resounding victory was so convincing, so dominant, that even Snead had to shake his head when it was finished and wonder how the porkpie-wearing, pint-sized golf pro had gotten the better of him in the thirty-six-hole final. One bookmaker made Snead a 10-to-1 favorite before the match. Despite Snead's physical gifts--he routinely outdrove Runyan by fifty yards or more--Snead was no match for Runyan, the underdog victor in one of golf's four major championships. Little Poison is the story of a man who made a career out of punching above his weight on the golf course. Runyan won twenty-nine PGA tournaments between 1930 and 1941, as well as another major championship in 1934. Runyan served in the navy during World War II, joining Snead and other prominent professionals who played exhibition matches to entertain troops and help raise money. After the war he played sparingly--but successfully--and focused on his career as an instructor, teaching his revolutionary short-game techniques. Little Poison follows Runyan throughout these stages of his life, from anonymity to stardom and into golf mythology. At the heart of Runyan's story is his Depression-era grit. He believed passionately that proper technique and relentless hard work would outlast talent and brawn. Americans who emerged from the Great Depression likely had a little Runyan in them, too, making him the perfect sports hero for the era. His story began not on the immaculate fairways of a country club but on a farm in Hot Springs, Arkansas, near a golf course with oiled sand greens. A disadvantage, some would say--but not Runyan. On those sand surfaces he developed a sustainable technique that became the bedrock of his hall of fame career.

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U of Nebraska Press

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1496235932

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9781496235930

Virginia Valley Records

Genealogical and Historical Materials of Rockingham County, Virginia, and Related Regions (with Map)

By: John Walter Wayland

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Virginia Valley Records

Genealogical and Historical Materials of Rockingham County, Virginia, and Related Regions (with Map)

By: John Walter Wayland

This volume is largely a source book of genealogical and historical materials, compiled from the public records of Rockingham, Augusta, Greenbrier, Wythe, Montgomery and other counties of Virginia, with valuable contributions from various other parts of the United States.

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496

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806303727

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9780806303727

The One Year Devos for Sports Fans

By: John Hillman,Kathy Hillman

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The One Year Devos for Sports Fans

By: John Hillman,Kathy Hillman

Find out what the world of sports can teach us about spiritual principles with this new One Year daily devotional. Each daily reading focuses on a Scripture verse and a devotional illustration from the sports world. Illustrations come from over 40 different sports, including basketball, football, baseball, snowboarding, skateboarding, track, golf, and more. This devotional provides daily insight into Scripture for sports fans ages 12 and up.

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420

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Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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1414361653

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9781414361659

If These Walls Could Talk

Stories From the New York Giants' Sidelines, Locker Room, and Press Box

By: Ernie Palladino,John Mara

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If These Walls Could Talk

Stories From the New York Giants' Sidelines, Locker Room, and Press Box

By: Ernie Palladino,John Mara

Chronicling what can arguably be called the most productive years in New York Giants football—with nine playoff appearances and two Super Bowl titles—this work is an insiders-account of the last 20 years of the team's history. A behind-the-scenes look at the era from the players' and coaches' perspectives, this guide highlights coaches Dan Reeves, Jim Fassel, and Tom Coughlin as well as the team's brightest stars, from Phil Simms, Lawrence Taylor, and Michael Strahan to Eli Manning and Victor Cruz. From the locker room to the press box, this book covers all of the successes and failures, elation and embarrassment of recent Giants history, making it essential reading for any fan.

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241

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Triumph Books

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1623683394

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9781623683399

Case Study Research in Counselling and Psychotherapy

By: John McLeod

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Case Study Research in Counselling and Psychotherapy

By: John McLeod

British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.

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273

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SAGE Publications

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1849208050

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9781849208055

Doing Counselling Research

By: John McLeod

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Doing Counselling Research

By: John McLeod

Practical and accessible this guide to doing research within psychotherapy and counselling has been fully revised and updated and includes new chapters on evidence-based practice and practitioner research.

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244

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SAGE

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0761941088

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9780761941088

One Drop in a Sea of Blue

The Liberators of the Ninth Minnesota

By: John B. Lundstrom

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One Drop in a Sea of Blue

The Liberators of the Ninth Minnesota

By: John B. Lundstrom

The story of the Liberators of the Ninth Minnesota, the state's "hard luck" Civil War regiment, from defying orders and saving a slave family, through bitter defeat and imprisonment, to the ultimate victory and their lives in postwar America.

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626

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Minnesota Historical Society

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0873518721

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9780873518727

Settlers by the Long Grey Trail

Some Pioneers to Old Augusta County, Virginia, and Their Descendants of the Family of Harrison and Allied Lines

By: John Houston Harrison

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Settlers by the Long Grey Trail

Some Pioneers to Old Augusta County, Virginia, and Their Descendants of the Family of Harrison and Allied Lines

By: John Houston Harrison

A contribution to old Augusta County and Rockingham County and their descendants of the family of Harrison and allied lines. Rev. Thomas Harrison (1619-1682), an intimate of the Cromwell family, served as chaplain of the Virginia colony during Gov. Berkeley's first term. He immigrated to Jamestown, Virginia from England in 1640 and, changing from anti-Puritan to Puritan, moved to Massachusetts and marrying Dorothy Symonds about 1648/1649. He then returned to England. Benjamin Harrison, his brother, then immigrated to become the founder of the Harrison family of the James River in Virginia. Other colonial Harrisons who immigrated are detailed, along with many of their descendants and relatives, particularly those who settled in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Long Island of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia. Descendants and relatives also lived in West Virginia, Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, Tennessee, Texas, Florida, Kentucky, California and elsewhere. Includes many ancestors and genealogical data in England, Ireland and elsewhere.

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712

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806306645

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9780806306643

Myers on Evidence in Child, Domestic, and Elder Abuse Cases

By: John E. B. Myers

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Myers on Evidence in Child, Domestic, and Elder Abuse Cases

By: John E. B. Myers

Investigating and litigating cases of interpersonal violence is difficult. With child and elder abuse, the vulnerability of the victim makes the work emotionally as well as legally taxing. With domestic violence, the tendency of some victims to

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Wolters Kluwer

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0735556687

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9780735556683

Cybersecurity Operations Handbook

By: John Rittinghouse PhD CISM,William M. Hancock PhD CISSP CISM

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Cybersecurity Operations Handbook

By: John Rittinghouse PhD CISM,William M. Hancock PhD CISSP CISM

Cybersecurity Operations Handbook is the first book for daily operations teams who install, operate and maintain a range of security technologies to protect corporate infrastructure. Written by experts in security operations, this book provides extensive guidance on almost all aspects of daily operational security, asset protection, integrity management, availability methodology, incident response and other issues that operational teams need to know to properly run security products and services in a live environment. Provides a master document on Mandatory FCC Best Practices and complete coverage of all critical operational procedures for meeting Homeland Security requirements.·First book written for daily operations teams·Guidance on almost all aspects of daily operational security, asset protection, integrity management·Critical information for compliance with Homeland Security

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1331

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Digital Press

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0080530184

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9780080530185

Old Three Toes and Other Tales of Survival and Extinction

By: John Joseph Mathews

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Old Three Toes and Other Tales of Survival and Extinction

By: John Joseph Mathews

The nine short stories in this collection by distinguished Osage author John Joseph Mathews are sure to be recognized as classics of twentieth-century nature writing and the wildlife conservation movement. The characters in Old Three Toes and Other Tales of Survival and Extinction are coyotes, mountain lions, deer, owls, sandhill cranes, prairie chickens—and human beings, who sometimes kill their prey but are often outsmarted by the largest and smallest animals. Mathews shows us the world through the animals’ eyes and ears and noses. His convincing portrayals of their intelligence recall the fiction of Jack London and Ernest Thompson Seton. Like these literary ancestors, Mathews originally intended his nature stories for boys, but the stories transcend boundaries of age, gender, and geography. Mathews writes not just to inspire his readers with nature’s beauty but also to demonstrate the interrelatedness of humans, animals, and the landscapes in which they interact. Timely and relevant to discussions of ecology and the environment, his stories will reach a wide audience today, more than fifty years after they were written. These stories show Mathews’s ability to write precise descriptions—of a coyote catching a field mouse, a crane eating a frog, a mountain lion playing. A hunter himself, Mathews understood both the animals’ readiness to fight and man’s instinct to survive. And he let readers share the dignity of the animal characters and their refusal to acquiesce to their own extinction, particularly in the face of human ignorance and carelessness. Susan Kalter’s afterword provides a poignant portrait of Mathews and traces the inspirations for the short stories in this collection. Thoughtfully annotated, these stories are the only published examples of Mathews’s hitherto unknown short fiction and will add to his stature as an important American Indian writer.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806149825

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9780806149820

Drugs

By: John Baselmans

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Drugs

By: John Baselmans

When we think of drugs, we immediately think of the old guard drugs like cocaine, heroin and hemp. Other than that, there are for some time synthetic drugs (XTC) made in many forms, colors and effects. We talk in this book about the ordinary old-fashioned drugs in the form of cocaine. WeOre going to expose what is behind and who are the true drug dealers. The old-fashioned drug is still the trade with which the super rich enrich themselves. Also, it is the elite who use a lot of this stuff. You can make it clear that most of the top in the business world, but also the politics and those who move into higher layers, are the permanent users of the cocaine stuff. Often in the most pure form and often used daily like a breakfast and dinner. But first I like to elaborate some things; what is cocaine and who are the driving forces behind these drugs according to world organizations of detecting drugs. Let's talk about drugs.

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Lulu.com

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1326843257

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9781326843250

An Introduction to Personality, Individual Differences and Intelligence

By: Nick Haslam,Luke Smillie,John Song

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An Introduction to Personality, Individual Differences and Intelligence

By: Nick Haslam,Luke Smillie,John Song

The second edition of this popular textbook builds on the strengths of the first, continuing its reputation for clarity, accessibility, conceptual sophistication and panoramic coverage of personality and intelligence. The authorship team is enriched by the addition of two high-profile international scholars, Luke Smillie and John Song, whose expertise broadens and deepens the text. New to this edition: Chapters exploring the neurobiological, genetic and evolutionary foundations of personality; and emotion, motivation and personality processes An enhanced coverage of personality disorders A thoroughly revised and extended section on intelligence which now addresses cognitive abilities and their biological bases; the role of intelligence in everyday life; and emotional intelligence A brand new companion website that includes a substantial test bank and lecture slides. An Introduction to Personality, Individual Differences and Intelligence, Second Edition is a key textbook for all psychology students on a personality or individual differences course.

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385

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1473933730

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9781473933736

Book's by John Runyan

Little Poison

Little Poison

Virginia Valley Records

Virginia Valley Records

The One Year Devos for Sports Fans

The One Year Devos for Sports Fans

If These Walls Could Talk

If These Walls Could Talk

Case Study Research in Counselling and Psychotherapy

Case Study Research in Counselling and Psychotherapy

Doing Counselling Research

Doing Counselling Research

One Drop in a Sea of Blue

One Drop in a Sea of Blue

Settlers by the Long Grey Trail

Settlers by the Long Grey Trail

Myers on Evidence in Child, Domestic, and Elder Abuse Cases

Myers on Evidence in Child, Domestic, and Elder Abuse Cases

Cybersecurity Operations Handbook

Cybersecurity Operations Handbook

Old Three Toes and Other Tales of Survival and Extinction

Old Three Toes and Other Tales of Survival and Extinction

Drugs

Drugs

An Introduction to Personality, Individual Differences and Intelligence

An Introduction to Personality, Individual Differences and Intelligence

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