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Complex Cases in Sport Psychology

By: John E. Coumbe-Lilley

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Complex Cases in Sport Psychology

By: John E. Coumbe-Lilley

Complex Cases in Sport Psychology offers instructors and students a unique and novel approach to teaching and learning about sport psychology. The book consists of a series of character-driven narratives—set within the context of a university athletic department—which encourage discussion and critical thinking in order to find solutions to issues such as athletes lacking in motivation, introducing mental skills training programs and improving recruitment. The book begins with a section introducing the teaching cases approach (suggesting further reading and methods for its delivery), the university setting and the issues this context provides for the sport psychologist, and the cast of characters involved. It goes on to detail over twenty cases spread across four parts (organizational performance, team performance, individual performance, and injury and recovery), each based around a piece of theory and including clear learning outcomes, tasks and non-prescriptive guidance on reaching a solution. With online resources which include topical cases, further guidance on the teaching cases approach and an instructor’s manual, this is an essential supplementary resource for any instructor looking to provide experiential learning and encourage critical thinking in their sport psychology classrooms. Covering a full range of psychological issues in a relevant sporting context, it is also an important, hands-on guide to counselling for any upper-level student of sport psychology.

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1351714686

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Time to Testify

By: John N. Haswell

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Time to Testify

By: John N. Haswell

Time To Testify provides a fascinating view into the private practice of obstetrics and gynecology. Dr. Jay Atwell is on duty when the wife of a JAG officer goes into labor and ruptures her uterus. The instant his scalpel enters the abdominal cavity, a sea of red floods over the edges of the table and splatters onto the green tiled floor. He worries about the baby, hopes it wouldnt be brain damaged. The first rays of dawn barely visible, he knows how little time separates light from darkness, how only minutes separated triumph from disaster, and how only seconds separate life from death. His relationship with a navy nurse is more than comradery. He leaves the navy and searchs for a place to set up practice, checks out a Catholic hospital. Sister Agnes, your hospitals reproductive policies are oppressive to women, offensive to my own beliefs, and incompatible with those of my profession. Do you get special absolution from the Vatican to distort the truth? In his struggle to upgrade Clarkesvilles obstetrical department he locks horns with hospital bureaucracy and demands that obstetrical nurses be trained to scrub-in for emergency cesareans in order to meet the required thirtyminute start-up time. Vivian, his longtime patient, begs him to deliver her next baby by VBAC (vaginal birth after cesarean). He refuses to handle her pregnancy. Vivian ruptures her womb, loses her baby and her uterus. Dr. Atwell blames the hospital. I repeatedly warned this hospitals administration that our department of obstetrics was a disaster waiting to happen and they did nothing to correct the problems. A disaster is exactly what happened. After Vivian is awarded thousands of dollars she names Dr. Atwell as a defendant in a malpractice suit. Eight years later, he stands trial. A surprise witness testifies for Vivian, but her testimony backfires. Dr. Atwell was the obstetrician on duty the night I was born . . . the night my mothers uterus ruptured. He performed an emergency caesarean . . . pulled me out . . . saved my life. Ellen Jones, a retired navy nurse and Dr. Atwells old flame, attends the trial. The jury deliberates, Vivians attorney becomes ill. The verdict is in. Setting and Location A labor and delivery ward in Northern Maryland, Portsmouth Naval Hospital, and Naval Air Station, Patuxent River, Maryland. Dr. Atwells private office, Doctors surgical lounge, Clarkesville Memorial Hospital. The Gulf Coast of Florida. A courtroom. Main Character Dr. Jay Atwell opens doors into the real world of obstetrics. He is frustrated, but relentless and compassionate in his fight for womens rights. Other Characters Claire Foley, wife of a U.S. Navy JAG Officer Commander Ellen Jones, navy nurse Quincy Sadler, obstetrician Bill VanBuren, An Errol Flynntype general surgeon Vivian Andrews, longtime patient Lauren La Fonte, chief nurse Reggie Lehman, hospital administrator Derek Brooks, orderly Georgette Cohen, newspaper reporter Lawyers and physicians Themes Malpractice/the legal profession VBAC (vaginal birth after cesarean) Professional jealousy Sterilization/abortion/religion Action Scenes Operating rooma ruptured uterus Cesarean section for breech Vaginal delivery/hydrocephalic Breech A deadly courtroom scene

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1462843476

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Red On White

By: John Topham

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Red On White

By: John Topham

The Scotsman entered and exited the Canada Revenue Building in Toronto, and within 45 minutes the Source Deductions Agency was left in shock and horror as 4 of their own were brutally murdered; execution style in cold-blood. Several days later the exclusive Hoggs Hollow region of Toronto was shocked by the killing of the former head of that same agency; shot and killed gangland style in his own home. No suspects for either crime were ever established. On a horse farm in rural Ontario another murder takes place with the killer actually tip[ping off police. The first PC on scene knows the victim and, in turn, becomes another victim as do several detectives from the local Homicide Squad; all acquainted with the first victim. All taken by head shots from over a kilometer away. Neither the original killer nor the sniper were ever found. The case remains cold to this day. At a main police sub-station in Whitby a PC is killed going to his cruiser. During the firefight that ensues others pay the price for...

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0359543316

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Medusa's Child

By: John J. Nance

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Medusa's Child

By: John J. Nance

A pilot races through the sky to stop a nuclear catastrophe in this “compelling” thriller by the New York Times–bestselling author of Pandora’s Clock (People). Vivian Henry hasn’t heard her ex-husband’s voice in three years, but it still fills her with fear. Dangerous and brilliant, Dr. Rogers Henry is calling because he’s dying. He offers Vivian a fortune in insurance money if she’ll carry out one final task for him: Take the Medusa device to Washington, DC. The Medusa is his life’s work—a thermonuclear bomb capable of knocking out all modern technology in the country—and he wants her to deliver it to the Pentagon before it falls into the wrong hands. Cargo plane captain Scott McKay is miles above the ground when the Medusa begins to speak. A recording of Dr. Henry’s voice announces that the device is active and about to explode. With nowhere to land, Captain McKay must rely on his instincts and fly like he has never flown before to prevent a worldwide apocalypse. Medusa’s Child proves once again that John Nance is the “king of the modern-day aviation thriller” (Publishers Weekly).

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Open Road Media

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1504027957

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The First and the Last of the Sheffield City Battalion

By: John Cornwell

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The First and the Last of the Sheffield City Battalion

By: John Cornwell

This is the story of two British men from very different social backgrounds, who both joined a new Pals battalion during World War I. To encourage men to volunteer, the British Army established Pals battalions that allowed men who enlisted together to serve together during the First World War. One of these men was Vivian Simpson, a 31-year-old solicitor who was well known in the city; partly because he was an outstanding footballer, playing for Sheffield Wednesday and an England trialist. Simpson was the very first man to enroll for the new battalion and was commissioned in January 1915. The other man was Reg Glenn, a clerk in the Education Offices who served as a signaler in each battle the 12th Battalion fought in until the summer of 1917, when he was selected to become an officer. To his annoyance, Vivian Simpson was kept back in England as a training officer until after the battalion’s disaster on the Somme on 1 July 1916. However, after that he became a most energetic and courageous officer. He was awarded an MC in 1917, but was killed in the German offensive on the Lys in April 1918. Reg Glenn went back to France in 1918 as a subaltern in the North Staffordshires and was wounded on the Aisne in his first day of combat as an officer. He was never fit enough to go back to the trenches and became a training officer in Northumberland with his new regiment and later with the Cameronians at Invergordon. He survived the war and lived to be 101 years old, making him the last survivor of the 12th Battalion.

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Pen and Sword

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1526762250

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9781526762252

The Holland Suggestions

By: John Dunning

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The Holland Suggestions

By: John Dunning

Trying to connect with his daughter, a man is undone by a secret from his past in this novel from “a master” of suspense (USA Today). The first time he notices how much Judy looks like her mother, Jim Ryan is so surprised he nearly faints. Vivian was the most interesting woman he had ever known, but their relationship was traumatic, and seeing her every day in their daughter’s face sends a chill through him that he cannot understand. He is just getting up the nerve to tell his daughter the truth about her mother when a picture arrives in the mail that will change his life forever. It is an ordinary snapshot of a treacherous-looking mountain pass, but it stirs a powerful force deep within Jim’s unconscious and compels him to visit the quiet town in the photo. He proceeds as if hypnotized, risking his life and his family for an answer to the riddle that has corrupted his dreams.

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1480456268

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President John F. Kennedy & Marilyn Monroe’s Son, in his own words

By: John F. Kennedy

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President John F. Kennedy & Marilyn Monroe’s Son, in his own words

By: John F. Kennedy

Beloved President John F. Kennedy had a son with Marilyn Monroe before he was forced to marry Jacqueline Bouvier in order to win the presidency. Pushed to keep his identity a secret as an adolescent, their son, Jack, tries to learn as much as he can from his father without letting on who his parents are to the public. After two tragic deaths, Jack must switch gears from being safe, learning politics and meeting celebrities to mere survival in a world that does not know he exists and some of the few who do, do not want to see him thrive. This groundbreaking autobiography follows the life of Jack Kennedy, Jr., a child with his father’s intelligence and his mother’s charm. Uncovering what life was like in the 1950s and ‘60s, it will change the way you see these famous American Icons.

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1642375101

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The Wilderness Singers

A Short Novel and Stories

By: John Zepf

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The Wilderness Singers

A Short Novel and Stories

By: John Zepf

A nearly forgotten literary lion in winter, holding forth in a nursing home in New York City while a pair of media players hover around him mysteriously; a frustrated would-be impresario struggling on the fringes of nineteen-fifties popular music; a persevering cat whose adventures seem to embody a mysterious metaphor of survival; a buttoned-down engineer and his desperate gamble; these and other characters inhabit an unusual debut collection of fictional writing. Often moving and emotionally nuanced, at other times the author's language is topical and essay-like. Satirical passages, provoked by the cultural scene or world events, are unusually perceptive and savage. Antic humor co-exists with the dramatic in this collection which features a short novel and stories.

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1440133379

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9781440133374

The Old Man in the Attic

The Search for the Answers to Life's Meaning

By: John Albertone and S.J. Doggett

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The Old Man in the Attic

The Search for the Answers to Life's Meaning

By: John Albertone and S.J. Doggett

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1635689465

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How Good is David Mamet, Anyway?

Writings on Theater--and Why It Matters

By: John Heilpern

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How Good is David Mamet, Anyway?

Writings on Theater--and Why It Matters

By: John Heilpern

First Published in 2000. Why do we go to the theater? There's a question! Or put it this way: Why, oh why, do we go to the theater? If we go to a movie and it isn't any good, well it's not the end of the world. We're usually quite content just the same. It passes the time. Though, as Samuel Beckett pointed out, the time would have passed anyway. But if we're disappointed at the theater, everything changes dramatically. We cannot while away the time at the theater. Time becomes precious. This is a collection of writings about the world of the theatre and includes pieces about Sir John Gielgud, Sir Ralph Richardson, Arthur Miller, Michael Bennett, Noel Coward, Barbra Streisand, Ralph Fiennes and more.

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1136691529

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The Communion Of Saints

By: John Miller

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The Communion Of Saints

By: John Miller

God's saints come in a wide variety of personalities, with purity and dubious intent liberally mixed into all of them. They have many levels of faith or doubt, along with obvious or deceptively disguised sanctity. All saints are flawed people; there is none totally righteous, no, not one, as the apostle Paul insisted. Nonetheless, all daughters and sons of God are saints. And because everyone is a child of God, we are all saints, even if we reject our God-given saintly status. The author has known many hundreds of church members very well through more than fifty years of parish ministry, plus several thousands of others not so well. The Communion of Saints: A Pastor's Potpourri of Parishioners is a collection of short biographical sketches of many admired church people as seen through the eyes of a long-of-tooth parson.

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163525907X

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Walking with the Wind

A Memoir of the Movement

By: John Lewis,Michael D'Orso

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Walking with the Wind

A Memoir of the Movement

By: John Lewis,Michael D'Orso

Forty years ago, a teenaged boy stepped off a cotton farm in Alabama and into the epicenter of the struggle for civil rights in America, where he has remained to this day, committed still to the nonviolent ideals of his mentor Martin Luther King and the movement they both served. of photos.

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Simon and Schuster

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1476797714

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A History Of The British Army – Vol. X – (1814-1815)

By: Sir John William Fortescue

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A History Of The British Army – Vol. X – (1814-1815)

By: Sir John William Fortescue

Sir John Fortescue holds a pre-eminent place amongst British military historians, his enduring fame and legacy resting mainly on his life’s work “The History of the British Army”, issued in 20 volumes, which took him some 30 years to complete. In scope and breadth it is such that no modern scholar has attempted to cover such a large and diverse subject in its entirety; but Sir John did so and with aplomb, leading to a readable and comprehensive study. This tenth volume covers the period from 1814-1815, as the British Army along with its Portuguese and Spanish Allies finally pushed into France in 1814 they still met with fierce and determined resistance from the French troops under the veteran Marshal Soult. After a number of skilful, and some less skilful actions along the river lines the victories of the British troops added further evidence to the hopeless situation for Napoleon who abdicated in 1814. The British government immediately sent a large part of the victorious Peninsular army on a foolish and unsuccessful attack of New Orleans, all the more futile as peace had already been signed between the United States and Great Britain. Napoleon did not rest long in his new home on the Isle of Elba, returning to France in 1815 reuniting his enemies against him and fighting the era defining battle of Waterloo, one of the finest hours of the British Army. TIMES.—"We have in these volumes the worthy continuation of a history which is worthy of its subject. Mr. Fortescue will not ask for higher praise." A MUST READ for any military enthusiast.

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Pickle Partners Publishing

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1782891374

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Unless the Threat of Death is Behind Them

Hard-Boiled Fiction and Film Noir

By: John T. Irwin

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Hard-Boiled Fiction and Film Noir

By: John T. Irwin

The noted literary critic delves into the psychology and significance of American hardboiled crime fiction and film noir of the 1930s and ’40s. Early in the twentieth century, American crime novelists like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler put forward a new kind of character: the “hard-boiled” detective, as exemplified by Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon. Unlike the analytical detectives of nineteenth-century fiction, these new detectives encountered cases not as intricate logical puzzles but as stark challenges of manhood. John T. Irwin explores how the stories of these characters grapple with ideas of American masculinity. Professional codes are pitted against personal desires, resulting in either ruinous relationships or solitary integrity. In thematic conflicts between independence and subordination, all notions of manly independence prove subordinate to the hand of fate. Tracing the stylistic development of the genre, Irwin demonstrates the particular influence of the novel of manners, especially the writing of F. Scott Fitzgerald. He also shows that as hard-boiled fiction began to appear on the screen in film noir, it took on themes of female empowerment—just as women entered the workforce in large numbers. Finally, he discusses how these themes persist in contemporary dramatic series on television, representing the conflicted lives of Americans into the twenty-first century.

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JHU Press

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0801889383

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9780801889387

Call it North Country

The Story of Upper Michigan

By: John Bartlow Martin

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Call it North Country

The Story of Upper Michigan

By: John Bartlow Martin

From Back Cover: This is a newspaperman's history of the Upper Peninsula. Intrigued by the place name Michigamme, Martin and his wife stopped there on their wedding trip in 1940 and became enchanted with the Upper Peninsula. Out of that attraction came more visits, a string of interviews and a series of tales told by miners, loggers, hunters and trappers. Originally published in 1944, it is a collection of nineteen lively stories told in convenient chunks for quick reading.-Detroit Free Press. The passage of time provides a better test of the quality of a book than litmus paper does of the acidity of a solution. This book was originally written in 1944 by one of our most powerful documentary authors. [Call it North Country] reads like a novel. If you're a history buff, it reads better than a novel. This book could not be written today. The witnesses to the development of upper Michigan would be missing and twice or thrice told tales would lose much detail and would not have the ring of truth which authenticates history.-Inland Seas.

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0814318681

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Transformational Reminiscence

Life Story Work

By: John A. Kunz, MS,Florence Gray Soltys, MSW, ACSW, LCSW

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Transformational Reminiscence

Life Story Work

By: John A. Kunz, MS,Florence Gray Soltys, MSW, ACSW, LCSW

[A]s recently as fifty years ago people believed that reminiscing was a sign of senility....Today, along with a greater understanding of the significance of reminiscence we have seen the rising popularity of private memoirs in various forms, from oral histories by universities to audio and videotapes for family archives. John A. Kunz and Florence Gray Soltys have made a major contribution to the field by providing a framework for individuals and groups engaged in this enriching and important work." --Robert N. Butler, MD Finally, a book that takes a "big picture" look at the complexities of using life story work with older adults. Using the life story matrix as a framework, the authors and their contributors cover the complexities of reminiscence and life review, techniques and advice for making a personal story public, and the delicate balance of when to focus on content and when the process of telling one's life story can be therapeutic or destructive. Transformational Reminiscence teaches the reader how to use the full spectrum of life story approaches to enhance quality of life for older adults, ameliorate social and psychological problems, and intervene if they occur. Practical applications, anecdotes, exercises that help clarify the experiential side of the content, and helpful suggestions enhance each chapter and ensure a safe and ethical application of this technique. This book is a must read for anyone who uses a life story approach in his or her work with older adults or is teaching or supervising others in doing so.

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Springer Publishing Company

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0826101054

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Worlds End Worlds Start

By: John Bateman

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Worlds End Worlds Start

By: John Bateman

All the scientific people say that Yellowstone will erupt again, but no one knows when. Everything is still a guessing game. They say that it could be a super volcano. This is a volcano capable of producing a volcanic eruption with an ejected volume greater than 1,000 km (240 cu mi). This is thousands of times larger than normal volcanic eruptions. Super volcanoes can occur when magma in the mantle rises into the crust from a hotspot but is unable to break through the crust, and pressure builds in a large and growing magma pool until the crust is unable to contain the pressure. Such is the case for the Yellowstone Caldera. They can monitor and watch, but it is still a guessing game. I based my book on one type of eruption that may take place, which is a Plinian eruption. These eruptions are marked by their similarity to the eruption of Mount Vesuvious in AD 79. Plinian eruptions are marked by columns of gas and volcanic ash extending high into the stratosphere, a high layer of the atmosphere. The key characteristics are ejection of large amounts of pumice and very powerful continuous gas blast eruptions.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1503523543

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The Mechanics of I Love You

By: John Kimson

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The Mechanics of I Love You

By: John Kimson

In a world characterized by an increasing rate of relational disappointments, heartbreaks, and distrust, The Mechanics of I Love You by John Kimson deals with everyday issues such as love, lies, and relationships. The books analyzes known and unknown issues directly or indirectly affecting those in a loving relationship and further explains why there are trends such as multiple partners, the role of lies, influence of the unknown, and seeing oneself through the eyes of others. Written from a rich and complex personal and shared experiences of relational struggles, the books main focus is to help on adopting healthier attitude and improve the quality of decision making while interacting with others in the name of love.

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1499079427

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Deep South Dispatch

Memoir of a Civil Rights Journalist

By: John N. Herbers

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Deep South Dispatch

Memoir of a Civil Rights Journalist

By: John N. Herbers

Former New York Times correspondent John N. Herbers (1923-2017), who covered the civil rights movement for more than a decade, has produced Deep South Dispatch: Memoir of a Civil Rights Journalist, a compelling story of national and historical significance. Born in the South during a time of entrenched racial segregation, Herbers witnessed a succession of landmark civil rights uprisings that rocked the country, the world, and his own conscience. Herbers's retrospective is a timely and critical illumination on America's current racial dilemmas and ongoing quest for justice. Herbers's reporting began in 1951, when he covered the brutal execution of Willie McGee, a black man convicted for the rape of a white housewife, and the 1955 trial for the murder of Emmett Till, a black teenager killed for allegedly whistling at a white woman. With immediacy and first-hand detail, Herbers describes the assassination of John F. Kennedy; the death of four black girls in the Birmingham, Alabama, church bombing; extensive travels and interviews with Martin Luther King Jr.; Ku Klux Klan cross-burning rallies and private meetings; the Freedom Summer murders in Philadelphia, Mississippi; and marches and riots in St. Augustine, Florida, and Selma, Alabama, that led to passage of national civil rights legislation. This account is also a personal journey as Herbers witnessed the movement with the conflicted eyes of a man dedicated to his southern heritage but who also rejected the prescribed laws and mores of a prejudiced society. His story provides a complex understanding of how the southern status quo, in which the white establishment benefited at the expense of African Americans, was transformed by a national outcry for justice.

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1496816773

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Falling Through the Ice

The Path of a Zen Methodist

By: John D. Hiestand

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Falling Through the Ice

The Path of a Zen Methodist

By: John D. Hiestand

Why a journey from Zen to Methodism? Two friends embark on a dual path of discovery while driving from Portland to Denver. The miles take them through the beautiful scenery of the Pacific Northwest as their souls traverse the spiritual landscapes of a lifetime. The journey begins in the San Francisco Bay Area of the 1960s with the nascent American Zen movement led by Shunryu Suzuki. From there it winds through the years, passing through Christianity and pop culture, John Cage and avant-garde music, the haunting beauty of Taize worship, Celtic Christianity, spiritual naturalism, the painful failures of the modern church, and the promise the church may still hold. The barren landscape of southern Wyoming becomes a fitting backdrop for one friend's growing skepticism as the spiritual past seems more and more disconnected from the present uncertainty. Unexpectedly, the practical theology of eighteenth-century theologian John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, offers the possibility of merging these disparate spiritual experiences together into a single pathway. Transformation, however, inevitably involves loss when the friends find their roads diverging as the destination approaches: one branching towards hope, and the other towards despair.

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1498200176

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The Man

By: John Highbarger

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The Man

By: John Highbarger

Suddenly, The Man is a single parent. His wife has just died of leukemia, and he now must raise their children on his own while sifting through personal grief and starting a Foreign Opportunites Fund for his successful firm. In desperate need of help, he hires a live-in nanny. After a major trauma in his life, The Man becomes a modern, technology-based drug mogul. He establishes his drug business from scratch, carefully piecing together a network of suppliers that keep his identity secure. As a rich businessman, he is able to stay active in anti-drug efforts, and he and the The Man are now on a collision course neither could have foreseen that could alter the political climate of the United States. The Man is a sweeping thriller with multiple story lines, colorful characters, and heart-thumping drama. Author John Highbarger introduces many technologies of the future and the effects, good and bad, these technologies may have on society. Packed with action, intrigue, and family, this page-turner inspires serious thought and will make you question all you know.

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Archway Publishing

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1480872326

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Speaking of Monsters

A Teratological Anthology

By: Caroline Joan S. Picart,John Edgar Browning

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Speaking of Monsters

A Teratological Anthology

By: Caroline Joan S. Picart,John Edgar Browning

Employing a range of approaches to examine how "monster-talk" pervades not only popular culture but also public policy through film and other media, this book is a "one-stop shop" of sorts for students and instructors employing various approaches and media in the study of "teratologies," or discourses of the monstrous.

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1137101490

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