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A Guy Like Me

Fighting to Make the Cut

By: John Scott

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The John Scott story is the ultimate underdog narrative in sports. In 2016, in the twilight of his career, Scott went from a joke All-Star fan-voted nominee to scoring two goals and winning the All-Star Game's MVP title. This is his heartwarming story about an average Joe who became a sports superhero overnight.

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Simon and Schuster

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1501159615

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9781501159619

A Very English Scandal

Sex, Lies and a Murder Plot at the Heart of Establishment

By: John Preston

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A Very English Scandal

Sex, Lies and a Murder Plot at the Heart of Establishment

By: John Preston

The basis for the Emmy award-winning limited series starring Hugh Grant and Ben Whishaw A behind-the-scenes look at the desperate, scandalous private life of a British MP and champion manipulator, and the history-making trial that exposed his dirty secrets While Jeremy Thorpe served as a Member of Parliament and Leader of the Liberal Party in the 1960s and 70s, his bad behavior went under the radar for years. Police and politicians alike colluded to protect one of their own. In 1970, Thorpe was the most popular and charismatic politician in the country, poised to hold the balance of power in a coalition government. But Jeremy Thorpe was a man with a secret. His homosexual affairs and harassment of past partners, along with his propensity for lying and embezzlement, only escalated as he evaded punishment. Until a dark night on the moor with an ex-lover, a dog and a hired gun led to consequences that even his charm and power couldn’t help him escape. Dubbed the “Trial of the Century,” Thorpe’s climactic case at the Old Bailey in London was the first time that a leading British politician had stood trial on a murder charge, the first time that a murder plot had been hatched in the House of Commons. And it was the first time that a prominent public figure had been exposed as a philandering gay man, in an era when homosexuality had only just become legal. With the pace and drama of a thriller, A Very English Scandal is an extraordinary story of hypocrisy, deceit and betrayal at the heart of the British Establishment.

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Other Press, LLC

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1590519485

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9781590519486

So Far from God

The U.S. War with Mexico, 1846-1848

By: John S. D. Eisenhower

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So Far from God

The U.S. War with Mexico, 1846-1848

By: John S. D. Eisenhower

The Mexican-American War of the 1840s, precipitated by border disputes and the U.S. annexation of Texas, ended with the military occupation of Mexico City by General Winfield Scott. In the subsequent treaty, the United States gained territory that would become California, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and parts of Wyoming and Colorado. In this highly readable account, John S.D. Eisenhower provides a comprehensive survey of this frequently overlooked war.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806132795

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9780806132792

Sword of the Border

Major General Jacob Jennings Brown, 1775-1828

By: John D. Morris

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Sword of the Border

Major General Jacob Jennings Brown, 1775-1828

By: John D. Morris

Jacob Jennings Brown was one of the most successful generals of his era, and his military reforms were still in operation in the 20th century. This text presents a study of his career, focusing on his involvement in the creation of a professional army and the establishment of a command structure.

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Kent State University Press

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0873386590

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9780873386593

Biographical Dictionary of Literary Influences

The Nineteenth Century, 1800-1914

By: John Powell

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Biographical Dictionary of Literary Influences

The Nineteenth Century, 1800-1914

By: John Powell

Over the past two decades, the process of cultural development and, in particular, the role of reading has been of growing interest, but recent research has been episodic and idiosyncratic. In this biographical dictionary, research devoted specifically to the reading habits of 19th century individuals who shaped Western culture is brought together for the first time. While giving prominent coverage to literary and political figures, the volume's 270 entries also include musicians, painters, educators, and explorers. Each entry includes brief biographical information, a concise summary of literary influences on the subject, and clear direction for further research. The book provides a practical tool for scholars wishing to trace the reading experience of important Western cultural figures. Subjects were selected from the people most responsible for the cultural development of Europe, Britain and the British Empire, and the Americas between 1800 and 1914. Although selective, the sample of 270 figures is substantial enough to suggest broad, cross-cultural habits and effects, enabling scholars to better understand the relationship between reading and culture. In an introductory essay, Powell explores the patterns and relationships that can be discerned from the entries. The first of three anticipated volumes, the book is an important step forward in researching the role of reading in cultural development.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313096678

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9780313096679

The Black Madonna

By: John D. Loscher

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The Black Madonna

By: John D. Loscher

This whole country is nothing but a nation of immigrants, Jan. That''s what makes this nation so great! Our forefathers got kicked out of every respectable country in the world!Jan Sharanski would never see the humor in his wifes cynical joke. Having been born in America, she had known nothing but freedom her entire life. He, on the other hand, came from a world where freedom existed so long as no one asked any questions...and that Jan Sharanski, a partisan in the Polish underground during the Second World War, finds he must flee his native Poland for the United States in order to escape communist oppression. Arriving in Chicago, Jan settles in the citys Near-Westside Polish community. There, amidst the backdrop of the Cold War, the Chicago mafia, and the Daley political machine, he will build his life. In the process, Jan discovers that yes, America is the land of opportunity but sadness is also a part of that Great American Dream. Capturing the true essence of that American Dream falls to Jans daughter, Drusilla. Putting her faith in the Black Madonna, Drusilla sets out on her own personal quest to fulfill her fathers ambitions. Steeling herself in the rough and tumble world on the mean streets of Chicago,Drusilla will discover the love, hurt, pain, and success first known by her father. In the process, Drusilla Sharanski discovers her own appreciation for what it is to truly be an American.

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AuthorHouse

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1463479654

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9781463479657

The Philatelical Library

By: John Tiffany

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The Philatelical Library

By: John Tiffany

Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3368832026

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9783368832025

Revolution and the Historical Novel

By: John McWilliams

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Revolution and the Historical Novel

By: John McWilliams

John McWilliams has written the first, much needed account of the ways the promise and threat of political revolution have informed masterpieces of the historical novel. The jolting sense of historical change caused by the French Revolution led to an immense readership for a new kind of fiction, centered on revolution, counter-revolution and warfare, which soon came to be called “the historical novel.” During the turbulent wake of The Declaration of the Rights of Man, promptly followed by the phenomenon of Napoleon Bonaparte, the historical novel thus served as a literary hybrid in the most positive sense of that often-dismissive term. It enabled readers to project personal hopes and anxieties about revolutionary change back into national history. While immersed in the fictive lives of genteel, often privileged heroes, readers could measure their own political convictions against the wavering loyalties of their counterparts in a previous but still familiar time. McWilliams provides close readings of some twenty historical novels, from Scott and Cooper through Tolstoy, Zola and Hugo, to Pasternak and Lampedusa, and ultimately to Marquez and Hilary Mantel, but with continuing regard to historical contexts past and present. He traces the transformation of the literary conventions established by Scott’s Waverley novels, showing both the continuities and the changes needed to meet contemporary times and perspectives. Although the progressive hopes imbedded in Scott’s narrative form proved no longer adaptable to twentieth century carnage and the rise of totalitarianism, the meaning of any single novel emerges through comparison to the tradition of its predecessors. A foreword and epilogue explore the indebtedness of McWilliams’s perspective to the Marxist scholarly tradition of Georg Lukacs and Frederic Jameson, while defining his differences from them. This is a scholarly work of no small ambition and achievement.

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Lexington Books

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1498503284

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9781498503280

The Good Intent

The Story and Heritage of a Fresno Family

By: John Renning Phillips

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The Good Intent

The Story and Heritage of a Fresno Family

By: John Renning Phillips

Phillips chronicles the history of two Fresno families who could trace their bloodlines to nobility in 17th-century Britain.

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John Renning Phillips

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0979786711

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9780979786716

Evil Liberation

By: John H. Stubbs

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Evil Liberation

By: John H. Stubbs

Meet Jacob H. Crystal, an ordinary guy with an extraordinary gift. Son of Robert D. and Mary Crystal, and the oldest in his family, he lives an ordinary life with his three younger brothers. That is, until Adam, one of Jacob’s younger brothers accidentally released monsters into Philadelphia. Now Jacob must destroy seven monsters and their leader before they destroy Philadelphia for good.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1462837581

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9781462837588

Triumph of Good Will

How Terry Sanford Beat a Champion of Segregation and Reshaped the South

By: John Drescher

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Triumph of Good Will

How Terry Sanford Beat a Champion of Segregation and Reshaped the South

By: John Drescher

In styling himself as an education candidate with a moderate position on integration and many other issues, Sanford shaped future political strategy for campaigns across Dixie - Jim Hunt's in North Carolina, Jimmy Carter's in Georgia, Bill Clinton's in Arkansas, and Al Gore's in Tennessee.".

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1578063108

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The Baroque in Architectural Culture, 1880-1980

By: Andrew Leach,John Macarthur

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The Baroque in Architectural Culture, 1880-1980

By: Andrew Leach,John Macarthur

In his landmark volume Space, Time and Architecture, Sigfried Giedion paired images of two iconic spirals: Tatlin’s Monument to the Third International and Borromini’s dome for Sant’Ivo alla Sapienza. The values shared between the baroque age and the modern were thus encapsulated on a single page spread. As Giedion put it, writing of Sant’Ivo, Borromini accomplished 'the movement of the whole pattern [...] from the ground to the lantern, without entirely ending even there.' And yet he merely 'groped' towards that which could 'be completely effected' in modern architecture-achieving 'the transition between inner and outer space.' The intellectual debt of modern architecture to modernist historians who were ostensibly preoccupied with the art and architecture of earlier epochs is now widely acknowledged. This volume extends this work by contributing to the dual projects of the intellectual history of modern architecture and the history of architectural historiography. It considers the varied ways that historians of art and architecture have historicized modern architecture through its interaction with the baroque: a term of contested historical and conceptual significance that has often seemed to shadow a greater contest over the historicity of modernism. Presenting research by an international community of scholars, this book explores through a series of cross sections the traffic of ideas between practice and history that has shaped modern architecture and the academic discipline of architectural history across the long twentieth century. The editors use the historiography of the baroque as a lens through which to follow the path of modern ideas that draw authority from history. In doing so, the volume defines a role for the baroque in the history of architectural historiography and in the history of modern architectural culture.

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Routledge

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1317040597

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9781317040590

The Qualified Sales Leader

By: John McMahon

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The Qualified Sales Leader

By: John McMahon

The learnings in The Qualified Sales Leader will help you and your sales team sell more, make more money and grow your career in enterprise sales. Luca Lazzaron-CRO Sprinklr Almost monthly someone asks me, “When are you going to write a book”. When I ask, “Why?”, people tell me, “Because no one has written a sales leadership book with practical, solutions to real life issues in enterprise SaaS sales forces”, Why: 62% of sales reps fail, not because they couldn’t sell but because they were assigned the wrong accounts. Sales leaders don’t align skillsets to account complexity. Sales rep attrition at most SaaS companies is over 20% Sales leaders can’t recruit A players Sales Leaders don’t coach their reps on deal advancement issues Most sales leaders are “glorified scorekeepers” Most sales leader don’t motivate their sales team They’re focused on deals, not rep competency Sales forecasts are inaccurate because most reps game the CRM system. Sales team leaders lack qualification of sales stage exit criteria Many salesforces only win 50% of their proof of concepts They can’t frame a winning POC Criteria 8 of 10 executive buyers say the sales meetings they take are a waste of time. Sales reps lack the ability to sell business value. 42% of reps in enterprise sales say one of the top 3 biggest challenges is to establish urgency. Reps don’t quantify critical business pain to create a buying influence. Reps can’t find high-level business champions, only low-level coaches They can’t find pain above the noise. Many reps find pain but can’t attract a champion They’re selfishly focused on closing a sale instead of earning trust. Most reps say they feel out of control during the sales process. Reps can’t find a champion to help them control the process. 50% of reps say they can’t overcome price objections while companies struggle to increase the average deal size. Most sales reps are vending, not selling. Their reps aren’t immersed in the customer conversation. The reps are “thinking”, not “knowing” the key elements of the customer use case Top sales leaders will find the answers to these issues and more in The Qualified Sales Leader

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John McMahon

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0578895056

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9780578895055

Liberalism Versus Postliberalism

The Great Divide in Twentieth-Century Theology

By: John Allan Knight

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Liberalism Versus Postliberalism

The Great Divide in Twentieth-Century Theology

By: John Allan Knight

The book provides an original analysis of the central philosophical differences between liberal and postliberal theology. Knight argues that important developments in philosophy of language reveal serious problems with the central methodological commitments of liberalism and postliberalism and suggest ways in which the divide can be bridged.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199969388

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9780199969388

Lucky Sods And Passion Killers

By: John Godber

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Lucky Sods And Passion Killers

By: John Godber

Godber is one of the best contemporary British playwrights"(Financial Times) Lucky Sods is a candid black comedy about a couple who have nothing on a Friday night and £4 million on Saturday. And now they just can't stop winning. Passionkillers is a beach play about Andy and Tom who find themselves amid the sun, sea, sex and sangria of the Mediterranean and tempted by the advances of Trish and Karen. Will they remember their commitments back home or outsmart the advances of their young rivals Scott and Ray?

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A&C Black

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1408177803

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9781408177808

The First Way of War

American War Making on the Frontier, 1607–1814

By: John Grenier

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The First Way of War

American War Making on the Frontier, 1607–1814

By: John Grenier

This 2005 book explores the evolution of Americans' first way of war, to show how war waged against Indian noncombatant population and agricultural resources became the method early Americans employed and, ultimately, defined their military heritage. The sanguinary story of the American conquest of the Indian peoples east of the Mississippi River helps demonstrate how early Americans embraced warfare shaped by extravagant violence and focused on conquest. Grenier provides a major revision in understanding the place of warfare directed on noncombatants in the American military tradition, and his conclusions are relevant to understand US 'special operations' in the War on Terror.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139444700

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Book's by John Scott

A Guy Like Me

A Guy Like Me

A Very English Scandal

A Very English Scandal

So Far from God

So Far from God

Sword of the Border

Sword of the Border

Biographical Dictionary of Literary Influences

Biographical Dictionary of Literary Influences

The Black Madonna

The Black Madonna

The Philatelical Library

The Philatelical Library

Revolution and the Historical Novel

Revolution and the Historical Novel

The Good Intent

The Good Intent

Evil Liberation

Evil Liberation

Triumph of Good Will

Triumph of Good Will

The Baroque in Architectural Culture, 1880-1980

The Baroque in Architectural Culture, 1880-1980

The Qualified Sales Leader

The Qualified Sales Leader

Liberalism Versus Postliberalism

Liberalism Versus Postliberalism

Lucky Sods And Passion Killers

Lucky Sods And Passion Killers

The First Way of War

The First Way of War

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