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Dream Shot

The Journey to a Wheelchair Basketball National Championship

By: Josh Birnbaum

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Dream Shot

The Journey to a Wheelchair Basketball National Championship

By: Josh Birnbaum

In 2008, the men's wheelchair basketball team at the University of Illinois set out to achieve their sport's pinnacle: a college national championship. That lofty goal represented another stage of a journey begun in 1948 when Tim Nugent established the Gizz Kids wheelchair squad. Embedded with the team, Josh Birnbaum took photos that captured the life experiences of people in the Illinois wheelchair basketball program from 2005 through the 2008 championship season. Dream Shot follows the unique lives of the players and coaches on the court and the road, and in quiet moments at home and the classroom. Along the way, Birnbaum provides the definitive story of the 2008 team and the challenges it overcame to capture one of Illinois's record fifteen men's titles. Featuring more than 100 color photographs, Dream Shot memorializes a legendary team alongside the story of the university's dedication to the progress of disability rights.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252050126

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9780252050121

Mental Illness in the Workplace

Psychological Disability Management

By: Henry G. Harder,Shannon Wagner,Josh Rash

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Mental Illness in the Workplace

Psychological Disability Management

By: Henry G. Harder,Shannon Wagner,Josh Rash

The extent of mental illness concerns in the workforce is becoming increasingly apparent. Stress, depression, anxiety, workplace bullying and other issues are costing businesses billions every year in lost productivity, poor treatments and employee retention. Unless appropriately addressed, issues related to mental illness difficulties will result in stiff financial, organizational, and human costs for organizations. Drawing on empirical evidence from North America, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand, the book provides a practical guide to identifying, understanding, treating and preventing individual and organizational mental health issues. The authors illustrate how organizations can save money and improve the health and wellbeing of their employees by using a psychological disability management approach in the treatment and accommodation of mental illness issues. This book will meet the needs of human resources professionals, administrators of employee assistance programs, industrial and organizational psychologists, mental health practitioners, those teaching or studying psychology and disability management, and more generally will serve to enlighten students of business management and practicing managers regarding a major workforce risk factor.

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Routledge

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1317097335

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9781317097334

A Walt Disney World Resort Outing

The Only Vacation Planning Guide Exclusively for Gay and Lesbian Travelers

By: Dann Hazel,Josh Fippen

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A Walt Disney World Resort Outing

The Only Vacation Planning Guide Exclusively for Gay and Lesbian Travelers

By: Dann Hazel,Josh Fippen

An Exclusive Recipe for a World of Disney Magic for the Discerning Gay & Lesbian Traveler!Set aside time for a vacation. Add a pinch of pixie dust. Mix with your favorite fairy tales. Sprinkle liberally with a gay and lesbian sense of fun.What do you have?The makings of one hell of a Walt Disney World Resort vacation, seasoned just right for you!Do you feel left out by travel literature designed to help plan a dream vacation at Walt Disney World?Is there too much emphasis on the June-and-Ward Cleaver set-up, with no mention of the pleasures gay and lesbians might find at the Walt Disney World Resort?A Walt Disney World Resort Outing blasts the traditional party line, and takes you, step-by-step, through the essential planning for a Disney vacation only gay and lesbian travelers can experience. It explores the lavender side of Walt Disney World Resort, both subtle and not-so-subtle, while organizing specific, thorough information that you need to customize your own Walt Disney World Resort outing!_____________________ “A Walt Disney World Resort Outing is a refreshing take on a Disney World vacation for gay & lesbian travelers. It doesn't just present another perspective on Disney attractions, but provides an insightful guide to the lesser known activities that help turn a regular vacation into an unforgettable experience. If you're visiting during Gay Day or any time of the year, this guide is a must-have for every visitor to Walt Disney World Resort!” —Doug Swallow, Founder of Gay Day at Walt Disney World (www.gayday.com)

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iUniverse

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0595214479

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9780595214471

Stranger America

A Narrative Ethics of Exclusion

By: Josh Toth

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Stranger America

A Narrative Ethics of Exclusion

By: Josh Toth

Contradictory ideals of egalitarianism and self-reliance haunt America’s democratic state. We need look no further than Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and victory for proof that early twentieth-century anxieties about individualism, race, and the foreign or intrusive "other" persist today. In Stranger America, Josh Toth tracks and delineates these anxieties in America’s aesthetic production, finally locating a potential narrative strategy for circumnavigating them. Toth’s central focus is, simply, strangeness—or those characters who adamantly resist being fixed in any given category of identity. As with the theorists employed (Nancy, i ek, Derrida, Freud, Hegel), the subjects and literature considered are as encompassing as possible: from the work of Herman Melville, William Faulkner, James Weldon Johnson, and Nella Larsen to that of Philip K. Dick, Woody Allen, Larry David, and Bob Dylan; from the rise of nativism in the early twentieth century to object-oriented ontology and the twenty-first-century zombie craze; from ragtime and the introduction of sound in American cinema to the exhaustion of postmodern metafiction. Toth argues that American literature, music, film, and television can show us the path toward a new ethic, one in which we organize identity around the stranger rather than resorting to tactics of pure exclusion or inclusion. Ultimately, he provides a new narrative approach to otherness that seeks to realize a truly democratic form of community.

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University of Virginia Press

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0813941121

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9780813941127

The Literary Mafia

Jews, Publishing, and Postwar American Literature

By: Josh Lambert

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The Literary Mafia

Jews, Publishing, and Postwar American Literature

By: Josh Lambert

An investigation into the transformation of publishing in the United States from a field in which Jews were systematically excluded to one in which they became ubiquitous “From the very first page, this book is funnier and more gripping than a book on publishing has any right to be. Anyone interested in America’s intellectual or Jewish history must read this, and anyone looking for an engrossing story should.”—Emily Tamkin, author of Bad Jews In the 1960s and 1970s, complaints about a “Jewish literary mafia” were everywhere. Although a conspiracy of Jews colluding to control publishing in the United States never actually existed, such accusations reflected a genuine transformation from an industry notorious for excluding Jews to one in which they arguably had become the most influential figures. Josh Lambert examines the dynamics between Jewish editors and Jewish writers; how Jewish women exposed the misogyny they faced from publishers; and how children of literary parents have struggled with and benefited from their inheritances. Drawing on interviews and tens of thousands of pages of letters and manuscripts, The Literary Mafia offers striking new discoveries about celebrated figures such as Lionel Trilling and Gordon Lish, and neglected fiction by writers including Ivan Gold, Ann Birstein, and Trudy Gertler. In the end, we learn how the success of one minority group has lessons for all who would like to see American literature become more equitable.

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Yale University Press

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0300265352

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9780300265354

Audiotopia

Music, Race, and America

By: Josh Kun

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Audiotopia

Music, Race, and America

By: Josh Kun

Ranging from Los Angeles to Havana to the Bronx to the U.S.-Mexico border and from klezmer to hip hop to Latin rock, this groundbreaking book injects popular music into contemporary debates over American identity. Josh Kun, a MacArthur "Genius" Fellow, insists that America is not a single chorus of many voices folded into one, but rather various republics of sound that represent multiple stories of racial and ethnic difference. To this end he covers a range of music and listeners to evoke the ways that popular sounds have expanded our idea of American culture and American identity. Artists as diverse as The Weavers, Café Tacuba, Mickey Katz, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Bessie Smith, and Ozomatli reveal that the song of America is endlessly hybrid, heterogeneous, and enriching—a source of comfort and strength for populations who have been taught that their lives do not matter. Kun melds studies of individual musicians with studies of painters such as Jean-Michel Basquiat and of writers such as Walt Whitman, James Baldwin, and Langston Hughes. There is no history of race in the Americas that is not a history of popular music, Kun claims. Inviting readers to listen closely and critically, Audiotopia forges a new understanding of sound that will stoke debates about music, race, identity, and culture for many years to come.

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Univ of California Press

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052093864X

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9780520938649

Illegal Procedure

A Sports Agent Comes Clean on the Dirty Business of College Football

By: Josh Luchs,James Dale

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Illegal Procedure

A Sports Agent Comes Clean on the Dirty Business of College Football

By: Josh Luchs,James Dale

For fifteen years, sports agent Josh Luchs made illegal deals with numerous college athletes, from top-tier, nationally recognized phenoms to late-round draft picks. Flagrantly flaunting NCAA and NFL Players Association rules, he made no-interest loans to players in exchange for the promise of representation on their lucrative pro contracts. After cleaning up his act in 2003, he moved to a new agency, only to be targeted and pushed out of the business for a new violation-one he arguably did not commit. Then, in October 2010, Luchs wrote a confessional article in Sports Illustrated, telling the truth about what he did and didn't do. Since then he has taken on a new role: whistle-blowing, truth-telling reformer. And in telling his own story, Luchs pulls back the curtain on the real economy of college football: how agents win players legally and otherwise, the staggering sums colleges make from an unpaid workforce, the shortfalls of supposed full-ride scholarships, and the myth of a college education given to scholarship jocks. Including new information about major players and scandalized programs such as USC, Auburn, and Ohio State, this book pulls no punches. It's a stunning and necessary read for anyone who loves the game, and the first step toward fixing a broken system. Praise for Josh Luchs' Sports Illustrated story: "There are no innocents in all this-including Luchs. The difference now is Luchs isn't claiming to be innocent." -John Feinstein, Washington Post "[Luchs pulls] the inner workings of an oily business out of the shadows."-Pat Forde, ESPN "A must-read."-New York Times

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1608197220

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9781608197224

Le Mie Ricette Preferite

By: Josh Seventh

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Le Mie Ricette Preferite

By: Josh Seventh

Il miglior ricettario dove puoi scrivere le tue ricette preferite Vuoi conservare e organizzare tutte le tue ricette di famiglia? Il nostro ricettario è fatto per tutto ciò di cui hai bisogno. È il modo perfetto per organizzare tutte le tue ricette preferite in un unico posto. Lo amerai. È semplice, ben progettato, facile da usare, chiaro e ben organizzato. Riguardo questo ricettario: - Registra nelle 130 pagine le tue ricette preferite - Dimensione perfetta: 17.78 x 25.4 cm (7" x 10" in) - Copertina PREMIUM morbida e lucida - Stampato su carta bianca - Spazio extra per note aggiuntive Un grande regalo per i tuoi amici e familiari che amano cucinare e hanno bisogno di registrare e catalogare le loro deliziose creazioni culinarie

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Open University of Israel

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9650611908

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9789650611903

Truth and Metafiction

Plasticity and Renewal in American Narrative

By: Josh Toth

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Truth and Metafiction

Plasticity and Renewal in American Narrative

By: Josh Toth

Metafiction has long been associated with the heyday of literary postmodernism-with a certain sense of irresponsibility, political apathy, or outright nihilism. Yet, if (as is now widely assumed) postmodernism has finally run its course, how might we account for the proliferation of metafictional devices in contemporary narrative media? Does this persistence undermine the claim that postmodernism has passed, or has the function of metafiction somehow changed? To answer these questions, Josh Toth considers a broad range of recent metafictional texts-bywriters such as George Saunders and Jennifer Egan and directors such as Sofia Coppola and Quentin Tarantino. At the same time, he traverses a diffuse theoretical landscape: from the rise of various new materialisms (in philosophy) and the turn to affect (in literary criticism) to the seemingly endless efforts to name postmodernism's ostensible successor. Ultimately, Toth argues that much contemporary metafiction moves beyond postmodern skepticism to reassert the possibility of making true claims about real things. Capable of combating a “post-truth” crisis, such forms assert or assume a kind of Hegelian plasticity; they actively and persistently confront the trauma of what is infinitely mutable, or perpetually other. What is outside or before a given representation is confirmed and endured as that which exceeds the instance of its capture. The truth is thereby renewed; neither denied nor simply assumed, it is approached as ethically as possible. Its plasticity is grasped because the grasp, the form of its narrative apprehension, lets slip.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501351745

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9781501351747

American Jewish Fiction

A JPS Guide

By: Josh Lambert

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American Jewish Fiction

A JPS Guide

By: Josh Lambert

This new volume in the JPS Guides series is a fiction reader?s dream: a guide to 125 remarkable works of fiction. The selection includes a wide range of classic American Jewish novels and story collections, from 1867 to the present, selected by the author in consultation with a panel of literary scholars and book industry professionals. Roth, Mailer, Kellerman, Chabon, Ozick, Heller, and dozens of other celebrated writers are here, with their most notable works. Each entry includes a book summary, with historical context and background on the author. Suggestions for further reading point to other books that match readers? interests and favorite writers. And the introduction is a fascinating exploration of the history of and important themes in American Jewish Fiction, illustrating how Jewish writing in the U.S. has been in constant dialogue with popular entertainment and intellectual life. Included in this guide are lists of book award winners; recommended anthologies; title, author, and subject indexes; and more.

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Jewish Publication Society

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0827610025

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9780827610026

Biodesign

The Process of Innovating Medical Technologies

By: Stefanos Zenios,Josh Makower,Paul Yock,Todd J. Brinton,Uday N. Kumar,Lyn Denend,Thomas M. Krummel

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Biodesign

The Process of Innovating Medical Technologies

By: Stefanos Zenios,Josh Makower,Paul Yock,Todd J. Brinton,Uday N. Kumar,Lyn Denend,Thomas M. Krummel

Recognize market opportunities, master the design process, and develop business acumen with this 'how-to' guide to medical technology innovation. A three-step, proven approach to the biodesign innovation process - identify, invent, implement - provides a practical formula for innovation. The experiences of hundreds of innovators and companies, in the form of case studies, quotes and practical advice, offer a realistic, action-orientated roadmap for successful biodesign innovation. Real-world examples, end-of-chapter projects, and Getting Started sections guide the reader through each of the key stages of the process and provide a template to create their own new medical devices. Addressing common medical, engineering, and business challenges to develop well-rounded expertise, this book is the complete package for any biodesign entrepreneur. The text is supported by valuable resources, including up-to-date industry changes: found at ebiodesign.org.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139482262

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9781139482264

The Tyranny of Big Tech

By: Josh Hawley

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The Tyranny of Big Tech

By: Josh Hawley

The reign of Big Tech is here, and Americans’ First Amendment rights hang by a keystroke. Amassing unimaginable amounts of personal data, giants like Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple—once symbols of American ingenuity and freedom—have become a techno-oligarchy with overwhelming economic and political power. Decades of unchecked data collection have given Big Tech more targeted control over Americans’ daily lives than any company or government in the world. In The Tyranny of Big Tech, Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri argues that these mega-corporations—controlled by the robber barons of the modern era—are the gravest threat to American liberty in decades. To reverse course, Hawley argues, we must correct progressives’ mistakes of the past. That means recovering the link between liberty and democratic participation, building an economy that makes the working class strong, independent, and beholden to no one, and curbing the influence of corporate and political elites. Big Tech and its allies do not deal gently with those who cross them, and Senator Hawley proudly bears his own battle scars. But hubris is dangerous. The time is ripe to overcome the tyranny of Big Tech by reshaping the business and legal landscape of the digital world.

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Simon and Schuster

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1684512409

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9781684512409

Dream Shot

The Journey to a Wheelchair Basketball National Championship

By: Josh Birnbaum

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Dream Shot

The Journey to a Wheelchair Basketball National Championship

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University of Illinois Press

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0252050126

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9780252050121

The Practice of Statistics for AP

By: Daren Starnes,David S. Moore,Dan Yates,Josh Tabor

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The Practice of Statistics for AP

By: Daren Starnes,David S. Moore,Dan Yates,Josh Tabor

The Practice of Statistics (TPS) is written specifically to address the College Board AP® Statistics Course Description. Now the overwhelming bestseller for the course returns in a spectacular new edition.

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Macmillan Higher Education

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1464153876

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9781464153877

Everything Is Symbolic

366 Days, One Thought at a Time

By: Josh Ingram

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Everything Is Symbolic

366 Days, One Thought at a Time

By: Josh Ingram

Everything Is Symbolic is a compilation of blog posts—366 of them, to be exact. So it’s also a devotional. I grew up reading and listening to the King James Version of the Bible. Alongside this, I developed a seriously fluid imagination and mind (what with all the emergent media of the eighties). If I hadn’t had the former, the latter would have driven me mad as the inevitable “storms of life” came to me during my twenties. Herein are the distilled thoughts in the wake of those events, presented one day, one thought at a time.

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WestBow Press

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1512767131

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9781512767131

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Dream Shot

Dream Shot

Mental Illness in the Workplace

Mental Illness in the Workplace

A Walt Disney World Resort Outing

A Walt Disney World Resort Outing

Stranger America

Stranger America

The Literary Mafia

The Literary Mafia

Audiotopia

Audiotopia

Illegal Procedure

Illegal Procedure

Le Mie Ricette Preferite

Le Mie Ricette Preferite

Truth and Metafiction

Truth and Metafiction

American Jewish Fiction

American Jewish Fiction

Biodesign

Biodesign

The Tyranny of Big Tech

The Tyranny of Big Tech

Dream Shot

Dream Shot

The Practice of Statistics for AP

The Practice of Statistics for AP

Everything Is Symbolic

Everything Is Symbolic

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