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Leading Curriculum Development

By: Jon Wiles

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Leading Curriculum Development

By: Jon Wiles

Curriculum development, an essential part of educational leadership, helps schools establish purpose, define activities, and guide decision making. This thought-provoking how-to resource helps leaders make sound choices and develop constructive policies as they guide a school team through this critical school improvement effort. Written by an expert in the field, this handbook introduces educational leaders to dynamic curriculum leadership and a curriculum development process that leads to highly successful school programs. The author demonstrates how administrators can adapt curriculum to meet their school's changing needs, incorporate emerging technologies, and reflect new and creative ways of thinking about education. The book walks educational leaders through the process, showing them how to: Move beyond maintenance and management to address short- and long-term school reform - Create a school curriculum team - Establish a regular curriculum cycle of analysis, design, implementation, and evaluation - Develop a path for curriculum improvement. Filled with case studies, sample challenges and solutions, planning sheets, and more, Leading Curriculum Development is a much-needed guide for designing academic programs that lead to excellence in student achievement."--Publisher's website.

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1412961416

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Clown

By: Jon Davison

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Clown

By: Jon Davison

This rich collection of readings offers a wide-ranging and authoritative survey of clown practices, history and theory, from the origins of the word clown through to contemporary clowning. Covering clowns in theatre, circus, cinema, TV, street and elsewhere, the author's stimulating narrative challenges assumptions and turns orthodoxy on its head.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1137300752

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Developing Successful K-8 Schools

A Principal's Guide

By: Jon Wiles

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Developing Successful K-8 Schools

A Principal's Guide

By: Jon Wiles

Offers practical strategies and a step-by-step plan for developing or transitioning to a K–8 school, including methods for curriculum design, student assessment, and more.

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1452215286

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Leading Curriculum Development

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By: Jon Wiles

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Landon's Local Government

By: Jon Wiles

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Landon's Local Government

By: Jon Wiles

Landon's Local Government is aligned to the Common Core State Standards for English/Language Arts, addressing Literacy.RI.3.5 and Literacy.L.3.4b. Readers will join Landon on his field trip to city hall, gaining an understanding of the workings of local government and the services it provides to the community, in this book with full-page color photographs accompanied by narrative nonfiction text. A graphic organizer is included. This book should be paired with My Local Government" (9781477725726) from the Rosen Common Core Readers Program to provide the alternative point of view on the same topic.

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The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

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1477726349

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Policing by the Public

By: Joanna Shapland,Jon Vagg

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Policing by the Public

By: Joanna Shapland,Jon Vagg

Originally published in 1988, Policing by the Public opened up an entirely new field within criminology and the sociology of deviance. The authors focus on the nature of informal social control in both villages and urban centres to show the kinds of policing people do for themselves, within their communities, in an endeavour to curb crime and deviance. Taking as the basis for their study both a rural and an urban community, Joanna Shapland and Jon Vagg are able to counter many of the existing myths about these areas. Beginning with a description of the kinds of problems people experience in their own neighbourhoods, they explore who watches what, who intervenes, and the stereotypes of ‘troublesome’ people and situations that emerge. This study sheds important light on the nature of concern and fear about crime and disorder, the use people want to make of the police and, significantly, the kind of policing they get. Policing by the Public made a major contribution to contemporary international debate about informal mechanisms of social control at the time. It offered a new approach to thinking about policing that will still be of interest not only to criminologists, sociologists, police and policymakers, but also to anyone who is curious about how his or her area actually worked.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000855090

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Integrating Young Adult Literature through the Common Core Standards

By: Rachel L. Wadham,Jon W. Ostenson

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Integrating Young Adult Literature through the Common Core Standards

By: Rachel L. Wadham,Jon W. Ostenson

This book advocates for a stronger role for young-adult literature in ELA classrooms, compellingly documenting how this body of work meets both the needs of adolescent students and the demands of the common core for complex texts and tasks. Integrating Young Adult Literature through the Common Core Standards provides a compelling template for teachers that uses young adult literature and inquiry learning to meet students' needs and the demands of the common core standards. The first part of the book addresses the widely adopted common core state standards by examining closely the standards' model of text complexity and demonstrating how young adult literature can fill the requirements of this model. The second part provides theoretical discussions and analysis of the standards as well as concrete applications of young adult literature within the classroom in order to give school professionals a comprehensive understanding of how young adult literature and the standards can work together. The book empowers schools and teachers to make intelligent, informed decisions about texts and instructional practices that benefit their students. Finally, the authors explore a powerful teaching approach that integrates current understandings about learning, young adult literature, and the common core standards in a way that will facilitate greater learning and understanding in English classrooms.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1610691199

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Uncertain Lives

Culture, Race and Neoliberalism in Australia

By: Jon Stratton

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Uncertain Lives

Culture, Race and Neoliberalism in Australia

By: Jon Stratton

Uncertain Lives is the first book to examine the impact of neoliberal policies on everyday life in Australia. Going beyond the discussions of multiculturalism that dominated the 1980s and 1990s, Uncertain Lives examines the persistence of race and racism in the Australian experience. While the governments of John Howard followed the rhetoric of neoliberalism in suggesting that market forces dominated social relations, in reality the racism that had been founded in the White Australia policy became again increasingly acceptable, and accepted, in a society no longer subject to the values of multiculturalism. Uncertain Lives tracks this racism from its pervasiveness in everyday life to the ways race influenced decisions about who would, and would not, be allowed into Australia. From discussions of asylum seekers to migrants to the ways that thinking about the border itself has been transformed, Uncertain Lives charts the recent history of the Australian experience. Uncertain Lives ranges over events such as the Cronulla Riots of 2005 and the 2006 Beaconsfield mine rescue and uses a variety of recent films to highlight the impact of race in a society where liberal and social democratic values have been replaced by neoliberal ideology.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1443833185

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The Geographer's Library

By: Jon Fasman

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The Geographer's Library

By: Jon Fasman

A brainy noir . . . [a] winningly cryptic tale . . . a cabinet of wonders written by a novelist whose surname and sensibility fit comfortably on the shelf between Umberto Eco and John Fowles." —Los Angeles Times "One of the year’s most literate and absorbing entertainments." —Kirkus Reviews Jon Fasman’s dizzyingly plotted intellectual thriller suggests a marriage between Dan Brown and Donna Tartt. When reporter Paul Tomm is assigned to investigate the mysterious death of a reclusive academic, he finds himself pursuing leads that date back to the twelfth century and the theft of alchemical instruments from the geographer of the Sicilian court. Now someone is trying to retrieve them. Interspersed with the present action are the stories of the men and women who came to possess those charmed—and sometimes cursed—artifacts, which have powers that go well beyond the transmutation of lead into gold. Deftly combining history, magic, suspense, and romance—and as handsomely illustrated as an ancient incunabulum—The Geographer’s Library is irresistible.

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1101201002

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Dylan, Lennon, Marx and God

By: Jon Stewart

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Dylan, Lennon, Marx and God

By: Jon Stewart

Bob Dylan and John Lennon are two of the most iconic names in popular music. Dylan is arguably the twentieth century's most important singer-songwriter. Lennon was founder and leader of the Beatles who remain, by some margin, the most covered songwriters in history. While Dylan erased the boundaries between pop and poetry, Lennon and his band transformed the genre's creative potential. The parallels between the two men are striking but underexplored. This book addresses that lack. Jon Stewart discusses Dylan's and Lennon's relationship; their politics; their understanding of history; and their deeply held spiritual beliefs. In revealing how each artist challenged the restrictive social norms of their day, the author shows how his subjects asked profound moral questions about what it means to be human and how we should live. His book is a potent meditation and exploration of two emblematic figures whose brilliance changed Western music for a generation.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108809820

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Dante's First Dream

By: Jon Turner

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Dante's First Dream

By: Jon Turner

A man awakes in the middle of a vast forest--- He is broken and his flesh is doomed but he is Only half way through the years of his life, However twisted the streams however bitter The dreams he must cling to what little light--- He must write, write, write so here are his Thoughts this is his record not romance But the kind of sensations only a person Who has lived the limits of life on this earth Can know: just follow along and flip the Pages as I give you an account Blow by blow

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1503573699

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His Truth Is Marching On

John Lewis and the Power of Hope

By: Jon Meacham

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His Truth Is Marching On

John Lewis and the Power of Hope

By: Jon Meacham

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An intimate and revealing portrait of civil rights icon and longtime U.S. congressman John Lewis, linking his life to the painful quest for justice in America from the 1950s to the present—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Soul of America NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND COSMOPOLITAN John Lewis, who at age twenty-five marched in Selma, Alabama, and was beaten on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, was a visionary and a man of faith. Drawing on decades of wide-ranging interviews with Lewis, Jon Meacham writes of how this great-grandson of a slave and son of an Alabama tenant farmer was inspired by the Bible and his teachers in nonviolence, Reverend James Lawson and Martin Luther King, Jr., to put his life on the line in the service of what Abraham Lincoln called “the better angels of our nature.” From an early age, Lewis learned that nonviolence was not only a tactic but a philosophy, a biblical imperative, and a transforming reality. At the age of four, Lewis, ambitious to become a minister, practiced by preaching to his family’s chickens. When his mother cooked one of the chickens, the boy refused to eat it—his first act, he wryly recalled, of nonviolent protest. Integral to Lewis’s commitment to bettering the nation was his faith in humanity and in God—and an unshakable belief in the power of hope. Meacham calls Lewis “as important to the founding of a modern and multiethnic twentieth- and twenty-first-century America as Thomas Jefferson and James Madison and Samuel Adams were to the initial creation of the Republic itself in the eighteenth century.” A believer in the injunction that one should love one's neighbor as oneself, Lewis was arguably a saint in our time, risking limb and life to bear witness for the powerless in the face of the powerful. In many ways he brought a still-evolving nation closer to realizing its ideals, and his story offers inspiration and illumination for Americans today who are working for social and political change.

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1984855042

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Wisden at The Oval

By: Jon Surtees

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Wisden at The Oval

By: Jon Surtees

The Oval in Kennington, south London – with its instantly recognisable gasholders – is one of sport's most iconic and popular venues. It has played host to an array of blue-ribbon sporting events over the years, including the FA Cup final and rugby's first varsity match. But it is as an iconic cricket venue that it is so widely known and loved. Since opening in 1845, The Oval has been the home of Surrey County Cricket Club, and these days it traditionally hosts the final Test match of the English season. It was one of the first grounds to stage a Test match (second only to Melbourne's MCG), when it hosted England–Australia in 1880, and its place in sporting history continues as 2017 sees the 100th Test match at the venue. The modern-day history of cricket can be told purely by referencing events that have taken place at The Oval or players that called the ground home. Wisden at The Oval takes the reader through that rich history, delving into the Almanack's archive, and arguing that more memorable events and moments have happened at The Oval than any other ground in the world. It will showcase the remarkable matches and series: from that first Test match in England and the subsequent birth of the Ashes, to the first ever official County Championship (won by Surrey), the first ever One Day World Cup in 1975, The Oval's key role in the birth of Twenty20 in 2003, and the biggest series of modern times with the 2005 Ashes and three subsequent Ashes victories in the following decade. It will celebrate the outstanding players and performances, including: Jack Hobbs, who played home games and his final Test at The Oval; Len Hutton's astounding 364* in 1938; Don Bradman's final innings; the iconic performances of Surrey's Jim Laker; Fred Trueman becoming the first player to take 300 Test wickets; the era-defining West Indians of the 70s and 80s who called it a home from home; and all the greats of the game through to today.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1472942647

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The Revelation of Jesus Christ

A Disciple's Commentary

By: Jon Scott Birch

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The Revelation of Jesus Christ

A Disciple's Commentary

By: Jon Scott Birch

“The testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy” (Rev 19:10) and a prophetic perspective promotes purpose. Yet in a world swiftly growing callous, true purpose and meaning are fading. Many of Jesus’ disciples today have “lost their first love,” which is Jesus himself (Rev 2:4). And too many souls overall miss the wonder, inspiration, and comfort gained by those who would endeavor toward fuller comprehension of the book of Revelation: “Blessed are they who read and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written in it; for the time is near” (Rev 1:3). Neglect of the Holy Spirit, slothfulness, fear, and the ongoing confusion generated by competing interpretations and bad theology are the primary obstacles between an individual and the liberation to be had by reading the last book of the Bible. We must not forget that while the apostle John wrote the book of Revelation, its author is Jesus Christ, and he is not an author of confusion but of peace (1 Cor 14:33). This commentary presents a practical, discipleship-based perspective toward following Jesus into the very heart of his Revelation. So as the end of this clamorous age approaches, may we truly hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches!

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1725281147

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Frankenstein's Brain

Puzzles and Conundrums in Mary Shelley's Monstrous Masterpiece

By: Jon Sutherland

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Frankenstein's Brain

Puzzles and Conundrums in Mary Shelley's Monstrous Masterpiece

By: Jon Sutherland

200 years on from the first publication of Frankenstein, John Sutherland delves into the deepest, darkest corners of Mary Shelley's gothic masterpiece to see what strange and terrifying secrets lie within. Is Victor Frankenstein a member of the Illuminati? Was Mary Shelley really inspired by spaghetti? Whoever heard of a vegan monster? Exploring the lesser-known byways of both the original tale and its myriad film and pop culture spinoffs, from the bolts on Boris Karloff's neck to the role of Igor in Young Frankenstein, Frankenstein's Brain is a fascinating journey behind the scenes of this seminal work of literature and imagination. Includes a unique digest by the Guardian's John Crace.

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Icon Books

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1785784099

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Freedom from Addictions and Other Life Controlling Problems

By: Jon R. Penoi

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Freedom from Addictions and Other Life Controlling Problems

By: Jon R. Penoi

Freedom from Addiction and Other Life Controlling Problems is an insightful workbook which speaks to your deepest needs within a spiritual context. This workbook answers the most important questions on addiction, relationships, communication, the effects and healing of trauma, finances, problem solving techniques, and many other topics which many workbooks simply dont address.

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Tate Publishing

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1602473978

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Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens

By: Jon Hesk

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Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens

By: Jon Hesk

This book, first published in 2000, is a full-length study of the representation of deceit and lies in classical Athens. Dr Hesk traces the ways in which Athenian drama, democratic oratory and elite prose-writing construct and theorize a relationship between dishonesty and civic identity. He focuses on the ideology of military trickery, notions of the 'noble lie' and the developing associations of rhetorical language with deceptive communication. Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens combines close analysis of Athenian texts with lively critiques of modern theorists and classical scholars. Athenian democratic culture was crucially informed by a nuanced, anxious and dynamic discourse on the problems and opportunities which deception presented for its citizenry. Mobilizing comparisons with twentieth-century democracies, the author argues that Athenian literature made deception a fundamental concern for democratic citizenship. This ancient discourse on lying highlights the dangers of modern resignation and postmodern complacency concerning the politics and morality of deception.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139429582

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9781139429580

Pax

The Millennium Alliance

By: Jon C. Thomas

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Pax

The Millennium Alliance

By: Jon C. Thomas

What if the peacemakers became the peacebreakers? What if a future organization, dedicated to maintaining international peace, became the greatest threat to it? That is the premise for the first novel in a military/science fiction series entitled PAX. The series begins with, PAX: The Millennium Alliance, and is set in the year 2031. It is a time when PAX, the multicultural, multinational, successor to the United Nations and N.A.T.O., patrols the world's oceans in quarter-mile long submersible command ships. Led by the brilliant and charismatic Chairman Julius Petrain, PAX has kept the peace for fourteen years, but the have done their job too well. Lulled into a false sense of security, PAX's international sponsors have allowed their individual militaries to wane, opening the door for Petrain's ruthless grab for worldwide power. All that stands in his way is Jeffrey Speares, the American captain of PAX's newest and largest command ship, a man desperately trying to fit into this new geopolitical reality. With the help of loyal officers like Rachel Velasquez, one of PAX's leading fighter aces, he battles the powerful forces arrayed against him, and ultimately thwarts Petrain's plan of military conquest. Victory however, comes at a very high price.

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iUniverse

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0595233163

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The Trailsman #310

Alaskan Vengeance

By: Jon Sharpe

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The Trailsman #310

Alaskan Vengeance

By: Jon Sharpe

White snow, red blood… Skye Fargo loves poker, especially when the pot includes an Alaskan gold mine—and he’s the winner. But when he arrives in Alaska to claim his riches, Fargo learns that there are plenty of vicious cutthroats, greedy Russians, and savage Indians who will do anything to stop him. The Trailsman is swept up in a whirlwind of deceit and bloodshed, and he knows that he’ll have to cut into some veins of warm crimson before he digs into the veins of cold gold…

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1440620881

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Pieminister

A Pie for All Seasons: the ultimate comfort food recipe book full of new and exciting versions of the humble pie from the award-winning Pieminister

By: Jon Simon,Tristan Hogg

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Pieminister

A Pie for All Seasons: the ultimate comfort food recipe book full of new and exciting versions of the humble pie from the award-winning Pieminister

By: Jon Simon,Tristan Hogg

A stunning recipe book with easy-to-follow recipes, beautiful photography, charming good-humour and a wealth of information around the history of the pie from award-winning Pieminister - the creation of Tristan Hogg and Jon Simon - who have led the way in reinventing this great British classic for a new generation of food lovers. Guiding us through pie recipes for all seasons, and including sweet and savoury pies, this is the perfect choice for any foodie! 'It is the honest good flavour of these pies I like so much' -- Daily Telegraph 'A book of delicious recipes for pies of all seasons' -- Sun 'A whole lot of pie love. Delicious' -- Fork Magazine 'You won't believe that there are so many pies to be made: it's great' -- Choice Magazine 'A beautiful book full of scrumptious recipes' -- ***** Reader review 'Yum yum!' -- ***** Reader review 'THE KING OF PIE BOOKS!' -- ***** Reader review 'This is easily my most used recipe book' -- ***** Reader review 'Just buy it. You won't regret it' -- ***** Reader review ************************************************************ Everyone loves a pie. Pies are part of our food culture and heritage, as British as ... pork pie. And they are more than a comforting plate-full for the winter months. Throughout the year, the team at the award-winning Pieminister search out the best fresh, natural ingredients, creating an ever-changing, wonderfully varied menu. And in Pieminister - A Pie for All Seasons, you will find recipes that are filled with seasonal ingredients, great for spring suppers, summer parties and autumn lunches. Small pies, big pies, breakfast pies, fruit pies, family pies and pies that make you go oooooh! Recipes include: pork, chorizo and prawn pie asparagus, pea and ricotta pie chili con carne pie smoked haddock and cider pie smoked aubergine and olive strudel pulled pork, sage and apple pie pheasant and Bath chaps pie paneer, spinach and pea pie rhubarb and custard pie chocolate 'hedonist' pie Fantastic ingredients and the best pastry you've ever tasted. Into the oven, be patient and then enjoy. Live and eat pie!

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Random House

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1446464733

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Murder, She Wrote: A Date with Murder

By: Jessica Fletcher,Donald Bain,Jon Land

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Murder, She Wrote: A Date with Murder

By: Jessica Fletcher,Donald Bain,Jon Land

Jessica Fletcher investigates a friend's murder and a dangerous dating service in the latest entry in this USA Today bestselling series... Jessica Fletcher takes up the case of her good friend Barbara "Babs" Wirth after Babs' husband Hal suffers a fatal heart attack that Jessica has reason to believe was actually murder. At the heart of her suspicions lies a sinister dating site Hal had used while he and Babs were having marital issues, a site that may be complicit in somehow swindling him out of millions. Jessica's investigation reveals that Hal was far from the only victim and when his former business partner is also killed, a deadly pattern emerges. Jessica teams up with a brilliant young computer hacker to follow the trail but as she gets closer to the truth, two near misses force her to realize that she may very well be the next victim. The stakes have never been this high as Jessica finds herself being stalked by the killer she is trying to catch. She must now set the perfect trap to avoid her very own date with murder.

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0451489284

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A Strange Proximity

Stage Presence, Failure, and the Ethics of Attention

By: Jon Foley Sherman

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A Strange Proximity

Stage Presence, Failure, and the Ethics of Attention

By: Jon Foley Sherman

What happens in the relationship between audience and performer? What choices are made in the space of performance about how we attend to others? A Strange Proximity examines stage presence as key to thinking about performance and ethics. It is the first phenomenological account of ethics generated from, rather than applied to, contemporary theatrical productions. The ethical possibilities of the stage, argues Jon Foley Sherman, rest not so much in its objects—the performers and the show itself—as in the “how” of attending to others. A Strange Proximity is a unique perspective on the implications of attention in performance.

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Routledge

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1317440978

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Taboo

Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports And Why We're Afraid To Talk About It

By: Jon Entine

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Taboo

Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports And Why We're Afraid To Talk About It

By: Jon Entine

In virtually every sport in which they are given opportunity to compete, people of African descent dominate. East Africans own every distance running record. Professional sports in the Americas are dominated by men and women of West African descent. Why have blacks come to dominate sports? Are they somehow physically better? And why are we so uncomfortable when we discuss this? Drawing on the latest scientific research, journalist Jon Entine makes an irrefutable case for black athletic superiority. We learn how scientists have used numerous, bogus "scientific" methods to prove that blacks were either more or less superior physically, and how racist scientists have often equated physical prowess with intellectual deficiency. Entine recalls the long, hard road to integration, both on the field and in society. And he shows why it isn't just being black that matters—it makes a huge difference as to where in Africa your ancestors are from.Equal parts sports, science and examination of why this topic is so sensitive, Taboois a book that will spark national debate.

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0786724501

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The Trailsman #364

Rocky Mountain Ruckus

By: Jon Sharpe

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The Trailsman #364

Rocky Mountain Ruckus

By: Jon Sharpe

Ain’t no mountain high enough to stop Fargo… Skye Fargo is searching for three widows gone missing in the Rocky Mountains. But he also finds Dub Kreeger and his brutal gang of Army deserters. Kreeger’s been slaughtering and stealing from anyone foolhardy enough to try and make it through the mountains. Now, with the soon-to be-merry widows to protect, the Trailsman is going to put the bad men between a rock and a dead place…

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1101575557

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Sugar and Spice

Grocers and Groceries in Provincial England, 1650-1830

By: Jon Stobart

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Sugar and Spice

Grocers and Groceries in Provincial England, 1650-1830

By: Jon Stobart

Consumers in eighteenth-century England were firmly embedded in an expanding world of goods, one that incorporated a range of novel foods (tobacco, chocolate, coffee, and tea) and new supplies of more established commodities, including sugar, spices, and dried fruits. Much has been written about the attraction of these goods, which went from being novelties or expensive luxuries in the mid-seventeenth century to central elements of the British diet a century or so later. They have been linked to the rise of Britain as a commercial and imperial power, whilst their consumption is seen as transforming many aspects of British society and culture, from mealtimes to gender identity. Despite this huge significance to ideas of consumer change, we know remarkably little about the everyday processes through which groceries were sold, bought, and consumed. In tracing the lines of supply that carried groceries from merchants to consumers, Sugar and Spice reveals how changes in retailing and shopping were central to the broader transformation of consumption and consumer practices, but also questions established ideas about the motivations underpinning consumer choices. It demonstrates the dynamic nature of eighteenth-century retailing; the importance of advertisements in promoting sales and shaping consumer perceptions, and the role of groceries in making shopping an everyday activity. At the same time, it shows how both retailers and their customers were influenced by the practicalities and pleasures of consumption. They were active agents in consumer change, shaping their own practices rather than caught up in a single socially-inclusive cultural project such as politeness or respectability.

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0192515624

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Patient-Centered Prescribing

Seeking Concordance in Practice

By: Jon Dowell,Brian Williams,David Snadden

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Patient-Centered Prescribing

Seeking Concordance in Practice

By: Jon Dowell,Brian Williams,David Snadden

Series Editors: Moira Stewart, Judith Belle Brown and Thomas R Freeman Half of all prescribed medicines are used in a sub-optimal manner and clinicians struggle to find ways of improving the situation. There is a move towards greater partnership with patients, but concordance (shared decision making between patients and healthcare professionals) is a growing challenge for the profession. This practical book offers numerous real life case studies to demonstrate the way the patient-centered model, combined with other behavioural models, can result in a logical approach to prescribing for difficult clients, including 'non-compliant' and other challenging patients. Patient-Centered Prescribing fully considers the very complex nature of the issues at hand, ethical questions, time restrictions and financial matters, to produce a realistic analysis of the difficulties to be overcome in achieving better practice. This book is ideal for doctors, nurses and pharmacists, and postgraduate students of medicine, pharmacy and nursing. It is also of great interest to medical educators, particularly those teaching primary care and communication skills, and to everyone involved in developing doctor-patient partnerships.

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Quillifer the Knight

By: Walter Jon Williams

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Quillifer the Knight

By: Walter Jon Williams

“Williams knows exactly what to do with Quillifer, and it's hugely entertaining.” —Locus “Walter Jon Williams is always fun, but this may be his best yet, a delight from start to finish, witty, colorful, exciting and amusing by turns, exquisitely written.” —George R. R. Martin “Chock full of derring-do, blood and thunder, swashbuckling, and other good stuff evocative of Rafael Sabatini, Sir Walter Scott, and the penny-bloods.” —Paul Di Filippo, author of The Big Get-Even Quillifer—now a member of the nobility—finds himself further immersed in court politics as the outcast princess Floria is suddenly in a position of power with a rebellion stoked by a certain brilliant tactician, in this thrilling sequel to Quillifer. Rogue. Joker. Lover. Reluctant conspirator. The ambitious young Quillifer was been knighted for services to the crown, but was then banished from court by a queen who finds him obnoxious. Now, after a two-year voyage to improve his fortunes, Quillifer returns to court and is plunged immediately into a maelstrom of intrigue that triggers duels, plots, amours, and rollicking adventure. Bounding back and forth from the high councils of state to the warm bed of his mistress, Quillifer must exert every ounce of seductive charm and low cunning in order to survive. Queen Berlauda’s foreign husband brings war in his wake, along with a clutch of officials who enforce the royal will with violence, torture, and judicial murder. A dragon menaces the realm, and political conspiracy threatens the life of Quillifer’s young patroness, Princess Floria. It’s the traditional job of a knight to fight dragons and rescue princesses, but Quillifer is hardly a traditional knight, and he brings to the job an array of unorthodox skills that dazzles his swarm of rivals, seduces their wives, and threatens the realm. But there’s a greater menace to Quillifer than deadly political intrigue, for once again he finds himself hunted by the cruel, beautiful, and vengeful goddess Orlanda.

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The Trailsman #240

Frisco Filly

By: Jon Sharpe

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The Trailsman #240

Frisco Filly

By: Jon Sharpe

Skye Fargo takes to the San Francisco stage—and knocks 'em dead... The Trailsman gets mixed up with a troupe of actors who are about to take a final bow right into the grave—and some murderous criminals who are out to steal the show. But the Trailsman's going to show the thieving thugs that this show will go on-even if their lives don't...

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1101178779

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Decoding Clausewitz

A New Approach to On War

By: Jon Tetsuro Sumida

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Decoding Clausewitz

A New Approach to On War

By: Jon Tetsuro Sumida

For nearly two centuries, On War, by Carl Phillip Gottfried von Clausewitz (1780-1831), has been the bible for statesmen and military professionals, strategists, theorists, and historians concerned about armed conflict. The source of the famous aphorism that "war is an extension of politics by other means," it has been widely read and debated. But, as Jon Sumida shows in this daring new look at Clausewitz's magnum opus, its full meaning has eluded most readers-until now. Approaching Clausewitz's classic as if it were an encoded text, Sumida deciphers this cryptic masterwork and offers a more productive way of looking at the sources and evolution of its author's thought. Sumida argues that On War should be viewed as far more complete and coherent than has been supposed. Moreover, he challenges the notion that On War is an attempt to explain the nature of armed conflict through the formulation of abstract theories. Clausewitz's primary concern, Sumida contends, was practical instruction of the military and political leadership of his country. To achieve this end, Clausewitz invented a method of reenacting the psychological difficulties of high command in order to promote the powers of intuition that he believed were essential to effective strategic decision-making. In addition, Sumida argues that Clausewitz's primary strategic proposition is that the defense is a stronger form of war than the offense. This concept, Sumida maintains, must be understood in order to make sense of Clausewitz's positions on absolute and real war, guerrilla warfare, and the relationship of war and policy/politics. Sumida's pathbreaking critique is supported by examination of the Prussian officer's experience during the Napoleonic Wars, previous major theoretical and historical scholarship on Clausewitz and his writing, and modern philosophical and scientific works that have much in common with Clausewitz's creative guide to the consideration of strategic practice. A major study of intellectual and military history, Sumida's book provides a provocative and above all readily comprehensible treatment of a previously inaccessible classic. It will surely become essential reading for all military professionals and serious students of military thought.

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0700618198

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From Warm Center to Ragged Edge

The Erosion of Midwestern Literary and Historical Regionalism, 1920-1965

By: Jon Lauck

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From Warm Center to Ragged Edge

The Erosion of Midwestern Literary and Historical Regionalism, 1920-1965

By: Jon Lauck

During the half-century after the Civil War, intellectuals and politicians assumed the Midwest to be the font and heart of American culture. Despite the persistence of strong currents of midwestern regionalism during the 1920s and 1930s, the region went into eclipse during the post–World War II era. In the apt language of Minnesota’s F. Scott Fitzgerald, the Midwest slid from being the “warm center” of the republic to its “ragged edge.” This book explains the factors that triggered the demise of the Midwest’s regionalist energies, from anti-midwestern machinations in the literary world and the inability of midwestern writers to break through the cultural politics of the era to the growing dominance of a coastal, urban culture. These developments paved the way for the proliferation of images of the Midwest as flyover country, the Rust Belt, a staid and decaying region. Yet Lauck urges readers to recognize persisting and evolving forms of midwestern identity and to resist the forces that squelch the nation’s interior voices.

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1609384962

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Romanticism, Enthusiasm, and Regulation

Poetics and the Policing of Culture in the Romantic Period

By: Jon Mee

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Romanticism, Enthusiasm, and Regulation

Poetics and the Policing of Culture in the Romantic Period

By: Jon Mee

This study looks at the way writers in the Romantic period, both canonical and popular, attempted to situate themselves in relation to enthusiasm, frequently craving the idea of its therapeutic power, but often also seeking to distinguish their writing from what many regarded as its destructive and pathological power.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199284784

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Therapy Over 50

Aging Issues in Psychotherapy and the Therapist's Life

By: Jeffrey Kottler,Jon Carlson

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Therapy Over 50

Aging Issues in Psychotherapy and the Therapist's Life

By: Jeffrey Kottler,Jon Carlson

Traditional training in counseling and psychotherapy makes minimal distinctions on the ages of the client and therapist in the treatment process. Therapy Over 50: Aging Issues in Psychotherapy and the Therapist's Life highlights how therapy is frequently a very different process for the older client and therapist. Specifically, this book explores: a) how therapists over 50 (or approaching that life transition) experience, struggle, and enjoy doing therapy in ways that are different from when they were younger (this includes their special challenges, adaptations, fears, and joys); and b) the landscape related to working clinically with aging clients, and those approaches and strategies that work best with this population. The text also includes both current research and classic literature on the subject of aging issues in therapy, as well as current excerpts from interviews the authors will conduct with some of the most notable aging figures in the fields of counseling, social work, marriage and family therapy, and clinical psychology. Therapy Over 50 ultimately deals with the inevitable and unrelenting changes that take place along with corresponding lost and reconfigured dreams as well as the approaches and strategies that are most effective for working with this population. With an optimistic tone, Kottler and Carlson promote a philosophy of positive aging and development for the therapist and client, thereby offering hope and inspiration for both parties

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0190205709

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On The Ministry: Writings And Messages From The Puritans

By: Jon Bonker

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On The Ministry: Writings And Messages From The Puritans

By: Jon Bonker

Sermons, writings, and letters on the subject of the ministry from the Puritans and others who followed in their footsteps, including: J.A. James, John Flavel, Abraham Booth, Horatius Bonar, Thomas Brooks, John Brown of Edinburgh, Robert Murray McCheyne, Charles Spurgeon, and John Brown of Haddington.

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Lulu.com

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1312704853

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The Legion of Regrettable Supervillains

Oddball Criminals from Comic Book History

By: Jon Morris

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The Legion of Regrettable Supervillains

Oddball Criminals from Comic Book History

By: Jon Morris

Meet more than one hundred of the oddest supervillains in comics history, complete with backstories, vintage art, and colorful commentary. This collection affectionately spotlights the most ridiculous, bizarre, and cringe-worthy criminals ever published, from fandom favorites like MODOK and Egg Fu to forgotten weirdos like Brickbat (choice of weapon: poison bricks) and Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man. Casual comics readers and diehard enthusiasts alike will relish the hilarious commentary and vintage art from obscure old comics.

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1594749337

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Marshal Of France; The Life And Times Of Maurice, Comte De Saxe, 1699-1750

By: Jon Manchip White

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Marshal Of France; The Life And Times Of Maurice, Comte De Saxe, 1699-1750

By: Jon Manchip White

MAURICE DE SAXE was the brilliant adornment of a brilliant age, one of the most renowned and admired men in the Europe of his day. It is not surprising that the writing of the biography of this vivid, talented and entertaining figure should have provided the author with a genial and absorbing task. He came of extraordinary stock; the circumstances of his birth were remarkable; he was the lover of many celebrated women; he won the lifelong friendship of men of the stature of Voltaire; he aspired to a crown, and nearly became the Czar of Russia; his activities spanned a whole continent, from Paris to Dresden, from Dresden to Warsaw, from Warsaw to Moscow. Yet he was more, much more, than an energetic and flamboyant adventurer: he was acknowledged to be the outstanding general of his era, a military genius who linked the epoch of Marlborough with the epoch of Frederick the Great. He led great armies and won great victories. It is part of the purpose of this book to restore him to the pre-eminent place in social and military history to which his achievements entitle him. The study of his campaigns has proved no dutiful or dreary labour, for he was among the wittiest and most elegant military practitioners who have ever lived. There was a touch of diablerie about the manner in which he gained his spectacular triumphs that set him apart from the other great captains of his era.

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1786258609

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Geneva's Use of Lies, Deceit, and Subterfuge, 1536-1563

Telling the Old, Old Story in Reformation France

By: Jon Balserak

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Geneva's Use of Lies, Deceit, and Subterfuge, 1536-1563

Telling the Old, Old Story in Reformation France

By: Jon Balserak

This study examines the ethical character of John Calvin and his Genevan colleagues' evangelizing of France. It reveals that Calvin's plans for proselytizing his homeland involved lying, deception, and obfuscation which were employed as a means of evading detection by the French authorities. Balserak considers important questions about the relationship between godliness and cunning, about Calvin's manufacturing of his image, and about the lengths to which he and his colleagues went to spread their gospel.

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0197672302

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Flights of Fancy

By: Jon Christensen

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Flights of Fancy

By: Jon Christensen

Book Summary: This is a short book of short stories (and one novelette) of mixed genre. The genre range goes from occult/horror, to murder/horror, to near-future/speculative, to something that may (or may not) be speculative. If there is such a thing, the latter may be tongue-in-cheek speculative, or perhaps food-for-thought speculative. Whatever they may be catagorized as, they are intended to be just for fun. The horror stories in this book are not the splatter type of horror that we are so often confronted with today. It is merely the type of horror for the unjaded palate.

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1462824781

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