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Improving Reading Comprehension of Self-Chosen Books Through Computer Assessment and Feedback

Best Practices from Research

By: Keith James Topping

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Improving Reading Comprehension of Self-Chosen Books Through Computer Assessment and Feedback

Best Practices from Research

By: Keith James Topping

Schools around the world use online programs like Accelerated Reader and Reading Counts to improve students’ reading comprehension of real books, but how can such software be used most effectively? In this unique resource, researcher Keith Topping analyzes independent research studies and brings you best practices on quality implementation to enhance effectiveness. He explains the evidence base for the programs in a comprehensible way and addresses many common questions, such as "Does it work?," "How should it be implemented to make it work?," and "Is it cheaper and more efficient in teacher time than what we were doing before?" He also discusses best practices for using the assessment data, for tailoring implementation in elementary vs. high schools, and for working with disadvantaged students. Appropriate for teachers, literacy coaches, curriculum leaders, and other stakeholders, the book will provide you with a strong research foundation and easily accessible information to help you fine-tune your understanding of the reading programs and implement them more successfully in your schools and classrooms.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000598705

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Improving Reading Comprehension of Self-Chosen Books Through Computer Assessment and Feedback

Best Practices from Research

By: Keith James Topping

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Barclay James Harvest

Every Album, Every Song

By: Keith Domone,Monika Domone

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Barclay James Harvest

Every Album, Every Song

By: Keith Domone,Monika Domone

Barclay James Harvest are surely overdue for greater recognition. They have Long been feted in Germany and in other parts of Continental Europe, but remain largely unknown at home in the U.K. except to a fiercely loyal cognoscenti. Formed in the Saddleworth area of north-west England in 1967, the band released a series of outstanding albums showcasing their pastoral, classically-influenced brand of rock, before hitting the heights of their success, culminating in a massive open-air concert in Berlin in front of an estimated quarter of a million people. With only one line-up change, the departure of keyboard maestro and founder member Woolly Wolstenholme in 1979, they continued to record until 1998, when the band finally split into two separate groups, led by original members John Lees and Les Holroyd respectively. The core of this book covers Barclay James Harvest’s output from 1968 to 1997, with analysis and background information for every studio album and every song released from that period, but there is also room for an overview of their live albums and of the member’s activities after the break up of the original group. It is required reading for anyone with more than a passing interest in one of the rock world’s most underrated bands. Keith and Monika Domone have both been Barclay James Harvest aficionados from an early age, even meeting through their shared love of the band’s music. They graduated from running the band’s official fan club to writing and curating the Barclay James Harvest and John Lees’ Barclay James Harvest web sites, in between work and parenting. They were also responsible for penning two editions of The Barclay James Harvest Story, the only biography of the band to have appeared in print to date, and now out of print. They have two grown-up children, living in Hampshire, UK.

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Sonicbond Publishing Ltd

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1789521092

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9781789521092

The New Trek Programme Guide

The Next Generation & Early Deep Space Nine Episode by Episode

By: Paul Cornell,Martin Day,Keith Topping

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The New Trek Programme Guide

The Next Generation & Early Deep Space Nine Episode by Episode

By: Paul Cornell,Martin Day,Keith Topping

STAR TREK is one of the world's most popular and enduring science fiction franchises, spanning decades' worth of TV, film, comics, books and more. This book - originally published just as DEEP SPACE NINE was first being produced - analyses the rebirth and renaissance of the series in the nineteen eighties and nineties. Along with masses of factual information - plot synopses, cast and crew and, uniquely, British transmission dates - this Programme Guide casts a gently critical eye over the series' continuity (and lack of it) and lingers over the moments of humour (intentional and otherwise). In sum, this is a light-hearted, detailed and affectionate overview of the revitalised version of the classic STAR TREK. Please note that it has not been updated since its original publication.

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Gateway

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057513349X

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Flour-Free Eating

By: Keith Wayne Berkowitz, M.D.,Shelly James

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Flour-Free Eating

By: Keith Wayne Berkowitz, M.D.,Shelly James

A healthy choice...includes 150 recipes. The Complete Idiot's Guide®t o Flour-Free Eating has all the information readers need to easily and comfortably get on, and stick to, a healthier eating plan. It explains to readers what they can eat and what they should avoid, including important guidance on how to identify hidden flour in processed foods and how to stay flour free while eating out. ?Includes more than 150 flour-and sugar-free recipes ?Diabetes now affects over 18 million Americans, and since flour = sugar, eliminating flour is a must to help combat these and other illnesses

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1101198044

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9781101198049

No Wood, No Kingdom

Political Ecology in the English Atlantic

By: Keith Pluymers

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No Wood, No Kingdom

Political Ecology in the English Atlantic

By: Keith Pluymers

In early modern England, wood scarcity was a widespread concern. Royal officials, artisans, and common people expressed their fears in laws, petitions, and pamphlets, in which they debated the severity of the problem, speculated on its origins, and proposed solutions to it. No Wood, No Kingdom explores these conflicting attempts to understand the problem of scarcity and demonstrates how these ideas shaped land use, forestry, and the economic vision of England's earliest colonies. Popular accounts have often suggested that deforestation served as a "push" for English colonial expansion. Keith Pluymers shows that wood scarcity in England, rather than a problem of absolute supply and demand, resulted from social conflict over the right to define and regulate resources, difficulties obtaining accurate information, and competing visions for trade, forestry, and the English landscape. Domestic scarcity claims did encourage schemes to develop wood-dependent enterprises in the colonies, but in practice colonies competed with domestic enterprises rather than supplanting them. Moreover, close studies of colonial governments and the actions of individual landholders in Ireland, Virginia, Bermuda, and Barbados demonstrate that colonists experimented with different, often competing approaches to colonial woods and trees, including efforts to manage them as long-term resources, albeit ones that nonetheless brought significant transformations to the land. No Wood, No Kingdom explores the efforts to knot together woods around the Atlantic basin as resources for an English empire and the deep underlying conflicts and confusion that largely frustrated those plans. It speaks to historians of early modern Europe, early America, and the Atlantic World but also offers key insights on early modern resource politics, forest management, and political ecology of interest to readers in the environmental humanities and social sciences as well as those interested in colonialism or economic history.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812299558

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Hollywood Vampire: The Apocalypse - An Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to the Final Season of Angel

By: Keith Topping

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Hollywood Vampire: The Apocalypse - An Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to the Final Season of Angel

By: Keith Topping

Leaving behind his life in Sunnydale and his relationship with Buffy Sunners, Angel atones for his sins by fighting for humanity in the dark seedy underworld of the superficially glamorous city of L.A. Angel Investigations has moved from the Hyperion Hotel to running Wolfram & Hart, but has their conviction to be champions survived the upheaval? In his comprehensive unofficial guide to Season Five of Angel's world, Keith Topping, bestselling author of Slayer, the unofficial guide to Buffy, looks at each episode in turn, considering the links and cross-references between Angel and Buffy, draws attention to logic flaws, points out numerous pop-culture references and discusses recurrent themes and coverage of Angel on the Internet. This essential guide to the final season of the popular show explores the world of Angel, Wesley, Gunn, Fred, Lorne and Spike as they fight their own personal demons and the loneliness of the Big City in their search for redemption.

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Random House

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1448132290

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9781448132294

Doctor Who - Byzantium!

By: Keith Topping

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Doctor Who - Byzantium!

By: Keith Topping

Life is cheap in Byzantium. Life is cheap everywhere that the Romans are.' Byzantium. The imperial city - rising dramatically, as if by a trick of the light, from the peninsula of the Bosphorus and the Black Sea. Its domes and towers and minarets overlook a place of intrigue, lust, power, oppression, resistance and murder. Romans, Greeks, Zealots, Pharisees...all meet in the market squares of the great city, but mutual loathing and suspicion are rife. In this cauldron, the Doctor and his companions arrive, expecting to view the splendour and civilisation of the Roman empire. But events cast them into a deadly maelstrom of social and political upheaval. In the eye of the hurricane they must each face the possibility of being stranded, alone and far away from their own times, in an alien culture bunker.

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1446417859

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The Doctor Who Discontinuity Guide

By: Paul Cornell,Martin Day,Keith Topping

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The Doctor Who Discontinuity Guide

By: Paul Cornell,Martin Day,Keith Topping

When it was originally published, the Discontinuity Guide was the first attempt to bring together all of the various fictional information seen in BBC TV's DOCTOR WHO, and then present it in a coherent narrative. Often copied but never matched, this is the perfect guide to the 'classic' Doctors. Fulffs, goofs, double entendres, fashion victims, technobabble, dialogue disasters: these are just some of the headings under which every story in the Doctor's first twenty-seven years of his career is analysed. Despite its humorous tone, the book has a serious purpose. Apart from drawing attention to the errors and absurdities that are among the most loveable features of DOCTOR WHO, this reference book provides a complete analysis of the story-by-story creation of the Doctor Who Universe. One sample story, Pyramids of Mars, yields the following gems: TECHNOBABBLE: a crytonic particle accelerator, a relative continuum stabiliser, and triobiphysics. DIALOGUE TRIUMPHS: 'I'm a Time Lord... You don't understand the implications. I'm not a human being. I walk in eternity.' CONTINUITY: the doctor is about 750 years old at this point, and has apparently aged 300 years since Tomb of the Cybermen. He ages about another 300 years between this story and the seventh' Doctor's Time and the Rani. An absolute must for every Doctor Who fan, this new edition of the classic reference guide has not been updated at all for the 50th anniversary.

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057513318X

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The Classic British Telefantasy Guide

By: Paul Cornell,Martin Day,Keith Topping

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The Classic British Telefantasy Guide

By: Paul Cornell,Martin Day,Keith Topping

The Classic British Telefantasy Guide is derived from the second edition of The Guinness Book of Classic British TV with various corrections and a revised introduction to bring it up to date. It was written when the Internet barely existed, and at a time when few books had been published on the subject. This is, however, by no means a new or completely revised version of the original material - too much time has passed, and if we were to start reworking and correcting the text now, it would probably never be finished! Instead, Classic British Telefantasy is an electronic reprint of some of the authors' earliest work, repacked for a new format and, perhaps, a new age.

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057513352X

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9780575133525

The Rough Guide to Bath, Bristol & Somerset

Includes Salisbury and Stonehenge

By: Keith Drew,Robert Andrews

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The Rough Guide to Bath, Bristol & Somerset

Includes Salisbury and Stonehenge

By: Keith Drew,Robert Andrews

Full-colour throughout, The Rough Guide to Bath, Bristol and Somerset is the ultimate guide to this alluring region. With 30 years experience and our trademark 'tell it like it is' writing style, Rough Guides cover all the basics with practical, on-the-ground details, as well as unmissable alternatives to the usual must-see sights. At the top of your list and guaranteed to get you value for money, each guide also reviews the best accommodation and restaurants in all price brackets. We know there are times for saving, and times for splashing out. In The Rough Guide to Bath, Bristol and Somerset: - Over 50 colour-coded maps featuring every listing - Area-by-area chapter highlights - Top 5 boxes - Things not to miss section Make the most of your trip with The Rough Guide to Bath, Bristol and Somerset. Now available in ePub format.

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Rough Guides UK

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1409358844

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The Rough Guide to Bristol, Bath & Somerset

By: Keith Drew,Robert Andrews,Rough Guides

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The Rough Guide to Bristol, Bath & Somerset

By: Keith Drew,Robert Andrews,Rough Guides

The Rough Guide to Bath, Bristol & Somerset is the definitive, full-color guide to this alluring region, illustrated throughout with striking photographs and packed with insightful information on everything from Beau Nash to Banksy, and from state-of-the-art spas to walking in the Mendips. Clear maps help you explore cosmopolitan Bristol and historic Bath, the Georgian city par excellence, while detailed descriptions of the best accommodations, restaurants, pubs, and clubs give the inside track on exactly where to eat, drink, and be merry. From the iconic cities of Wells and Glastonbury to the dramatic landscapes of Exmoor and the Levels, Somerset is covered in unparalleled detail, along with popular destinations just across the border in Wiltshire, such as Lacock, Longleat, and the unforgettable and mysterious ancient site of Stonehenge.

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1405393815

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9781405393812

Concerto

By: Keith Stonier

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Concerto

By: Keith Stonier

Concerto is a human story with a musical context. The first part is based on the historical facts surrounding the contrasting arrivals in New York, over a century ago, of two of the finest performers of their day (Mahler as conductor and Rachmaninov as concert pianist and composer) and a celebrated performance of a Concerto. This is a fictional account of what might have occurred, based upon the known historical facts. A century later, we are introduced to Kenneth Evanson and his marathon journey as an aspiring conductor. His trials and tribulations are intertwined with those of other people and an encounter with the woman who may be destined to become a part of his life. The climax is the centenary performance of the Concerto. What happens? How are the people in his life involved in the aftermath? Who are the two, shadowy figures providing commentary on the unfolding events of this epic tale? Read, discover and enjoy!

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1524663360

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A Life of Power and Persuasion

By: Keith A. Elliott

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A Life of Power and Persuasion

By: Keith A. Elliott

Described as ‘an interesting and thought provoking book’ this autobiography by Keith A. Elliott MBE shares his career in the Metropolitan Police over 38 years from the late 1950’s to the late 1990’s uniquely in London’s West End dealing with many of the daily incidents and criminal acts as a front line police officer and where he was introduced to many elevated and influential members of society. On leaving the police he also uniquely set up and ran a consultancy to the film industry making a contribution to over 75 films including the ‘Harry Potter’ series, ‘V’ for Vendetta’ using his knowledge and persuasive ability to obtain agreements on behalf of the film companies and at the same time ensuring that film directors and assistant directors and crew abided by the agreements negotiated with the authorities in London and the Counties. This process enabled the author to witness from the public perspective point of view the changing the changing role and performance of the police leading to the present day. Coming from a humble background and childhood beset with poverty , deprivation and bullying he entered into a career in the police where he worked to make a difference for over 38 years and beyond.

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1800468520

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9781800468528

Cold Case Muncie

By: Keith Roysdon,Douglas Walker

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Cold Case Muncie

By: Keith Roysdon,Douglas Walker

The coldest cases from Middletown, USA With dozens of unsolved murders spanning decades, Muncie and surrounding Delaware County might have more killings without justice than any American community like it. In 1962, Maggie Mae Fleming was shot to death as she sat in her living room. Paula Garrett was bludgeoned in her home in 1979, and her son, who survived the attack, wants justice. Garth Rector, killed in 2008, could have been murdered by any number of people he knew--or dated. Journalists and award-winning true crime authors Douglas Walker and Keith Roysdon shine a spotlight on the victims, and on their loved ones and the investigators still hoping for resolution to long-cold murders.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439678553

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9781439678558

Miracles Are for Real

What Happens When Heaven Touches Earth

By: James L. Garlow,Keith Wall

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Miracles Are for Real

What Happens When Heaven Touches Earth

By: James L. Garlow,Keith Wall

Biblical teaching and true stories of miracles today, combined with sound teaching on the subject, reveal God's power at work in the world.

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Bethany House

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0764209078

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9780764209079

Real Life, Real Miracles

True Stories That Will Help You Believe

By: James L. Garlow,Keith Wall

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Real Life, Real Miracles

True Stories That Will Help You Believe

By: James L. Garlow,Keith Wall

Fascinating Accounts of Modern-Day Miracles Does God still play an active role in the world today? Readers are thrilled to discover that yes, he does, showing himself in countless miracles and unexplained events. In their signature style, trusted pastor Jim Garlow and writer Keith Wall tap into readers' fascination with miracles by gathering exciting, credible true stories of God's supernatural activities in the lives of everyday people. These stories will encourage and inspire, making this a great gift or impulse buy.

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Baker Books

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1441260943

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9781441260949

The Rough Guide to Scotland

By: Rob Humphreys,Steve Vickers,James Stewart,Helena Smith,Brendon Griffin,Darren (Norm) Longley,Keith Munro

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The Rough Guide to Scotland

By: Rob Humphreys,Steve Vickers,James Stewart,Helena Smith,Brendon Griffin,Darren (Norm) Longley,Keith Munro

The new, full-colour Rough Guide to Scotland is the definitive travel guide to this gem of a country. In-depth coverage of its burgeoning food scene, artistic innovations and awe-inspiring wild places - from remote, Gaelic-speaking islands to untamed, ruggedly beautiful glens - takes you to the most rewarding spots, with striking colour photography bringing everything to life. Whether you're wild camping or staying in chic B&Bs, you can discover adventure and solitude in equal measure with our expert advice on where to spot wild dolphins, stunning hikes to deserted beaches and the best places to slurp seasonal oysters and "nose" original whiskies. The guide includes clear maps and insider reviews to take you straight to the best hotels, restaurants, bars and music venues for all budgets, ensuring that you won't miss a thing. Scotland is heaven for "slow travel", but the guide also includes extensive coverage of the country's premier cities, Edinburgh and Glasgow, plus details on all the best places to ski, surf and mountain bike if you fancy picking up the pace a little. Make the most of your time with The Rough Guide to Scotland. Now available in ePub format.

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Rough Guides UK

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1409372251

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9781409372257

Border Reiver 1513–1603

By: Keith Durham

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Border Reiver 1513–1603

By: Keith Durham

Stretching from the North Sea to the Solway Firth, the Border region has a sharply diverse landscape and was a battleground for over 300 years as the English and Scottish monarchs encouraged their subjects to conduct raids across their respective borders. This Warrior title will detail how this narrow strip of land influenced the Borderer's way of life in times of war. Covering every aspect of militant life, from the choice of weapons and armour to the building of fortified houses, this book gives the readers a chance to understand what it must have been like to live life in a late-medieval war zone.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1780966431

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9781780966434

The Bibliography of Regional Fiction in Britain and Ireland, 1800–2000

By: Keith D. M. Snell

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The Bibliography of Regional Fiction in Britain and Ireland, 1800–2000

By: Keith D. M. Snell

Pioneering and interdisciplinary in nature, this bibliography constitutes a comprehensive list of regional fiction for every county of Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England over the past two centuries. In addition, other regions of a usually topographical or urban nature have been used, such as Birmingham and the Black Country; London; The Fens; the Brecklands; the Highlands; the Hebrides; or the Welsh border. Each entry lists the author, title, and date of first publication. The geographical coverage is encompassing and complete, from the Channel Islands to the Shetlands. An original introduction discusses such matters as definition, bibliographical method, popular readerships, trends in output, and the scholarly literature on regional fiction.

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Routledge

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1351894013

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9781351894012

Historical Dictionary of American Cinema

By: Keith M. Booker

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Historical Dictionary of American Cinema

By: Keith M. Booker

The Historical Dictionary of American Cinema provides broad coverage of the people, films, companies, techniques, themes, and genres that have made American cinema such a vital part of world cinema. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and over 500 cross-referenced dictionary entries. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the history of American Cinema.

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Scarecrow Press

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0810874598

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9780810874596

Noble Society In Scotland

Wealth, Family and Culture, from Reformation to Revolution

By: Brown Keith Brown

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Noble Society In Scotland

Wealth, Family and Culture, from Reformation to Revolution

By: Brown Keith Brown

Even in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries it was conventional for humanist writers and their Enlightenment successors to regard the nobility which dominated early modern Scottish society and politics as violent, unlearned, and backward - at best conservatively bound to feudal codes of behaviour; at worst, brutal, corrupt and anarchic. It is a view that prevails still. Keith Brown takes issue with this.The author draws on extensive research in the rich archives of the Scottish noble houses to demonstrate that the conventional view of the Scottish nobility is wrong. He shows that the nobility were as steeped in contemporary European debates and movements as they were rooted in local society. Far from holding back Scotland's economic and cultural development, they embraced economic change, seized financial opportunities, led the way in the pursuit of Renaissance ideals through their own learning and in the education of their children, and were partners in religious reform. Professor Brown makes extensive comparisons with the noble societies elsewhere in Europe to reveal how the differences and above all the similarities between the lives of Scottish nobles and their peers abroad.Elegantly written and illustrated with a wealth of contemporary incident and anecdote, the book presents an intimate and vivid picture of noble life in Scotland. It challenges and will change perceptions of early modern Scotland. Noble Society in Scotland is the first of two related books on the subject. The second, on noble power and the relations between the nobility, state and monarchy, will be published by EUP in 2003.

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Edinburgh University Press

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1474465439

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9781474465434

Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction Cinema

By: M. Keith Booker

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Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction Cinema

By: M. Keith Booker

In the years since Georges Méliès’s Le voyage dans la lune (A Trip to the Moon) was released in 1902, more than 1000 science fiction films have been made by filmmakers around the world. The versatility of science fiction cinema has allowed it to expand into a variety of different markets, appealing to age groups from small children to adults. The technical advances in filmmaking technology have enabled a new sophistication in visual effects. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction Cinema contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 400 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, films, companies, techniques, themes, and subgenres. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about science fiction cinema.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538130106

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9781538130100

Groove Interrupted

Loss, Renewal, and the Music of New Orleans

By: Keith Spera

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Groove Interrupted

Loss, Renewal, and the Music of New Orleans

By: Keith Spera

The recent history of New Orleans is fraught with tragedy and triumph. Both are reflected in the city's vibrant, idiosyncratic music community. In Keith Spera's intimately reported Groove Interrupted, Aaron Neville returns to New Orleans for the first time after Hurricane Katrina to bury his wife. Fats Domino improbably rambles around Manhattan to promote a post-Katrina tribute CD. Alex Chilton lives anonymously in a battered cottage in the Treme neighborhood. Platinum-selling rapper Mystikal rekindles his career after six years in prison. Jazz trumpeter Terence Blanchard struggles to translate Katrina into music. The spotlight also shines on Allen Toussaint, Pete Fountain, Gatemouth Brown, the Rebirth Brass Band, Phil Anselmo, Juvenile, Jeremy Davenport and the 2006 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. With heartache, hope, humor and resolve, each of these contemporary narratives stands on its own. Together, they convey that the funky, syncopated spirit of New Orleans music is unbreakable, in spite of Katrina's interruption.

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Macmillan + ORM

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1429962070

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9781429962070

Frommer's? Eastern Europe

By: Ryan James,Hana Mastrini,Mark Baker,Karen Torme Olson,Angela Charlton,Keith Bain,Pippa de Bruyn

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Frommer's? Eastern Europe

By: Ryan James,Hana Mastrini,Mark Baker,Karen Torme Olson,Angela Charlton,Keith Bain,Pippa de Bruyn

Travel to Eastern Europe is booming-international arrivals to Eastern Europe have increased by an average of 3.9 percent each year since 2004 Destinations covered in this guide are Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Moscow & St. Petersburg, Slovakia, Slovenia,and Kaliningrad According to a May 2006 Euromonitor article, Poland has the most visitors (15 million in 2005), with Hungary close behind The fastest growing destination in Europe is Bulgaria; inbound tourists increased 17 percent between 2004 and 2005 Low cost airlines continue to add more routes to and within Eastern Europe

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0470473347

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9780470473344

Molecular Biology of the Cell

By: Bruce Alberts,Dennis Bray,John Howard Wilson (biochemist),Hunt,Julian Lewis,Martin Raff,Keith Roberts,James D. Watson

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Molecular Biology of the Cell

By: Bruce Alberts,Dennis Bray,John Howard Wilson (biochemist),Hunt,Julian Lewis,Martin Raff,Keith Roberts,James D. Watson

New edition of a text in which six researchers from leading institutions discuss what is known and what is yet to be understood in the field of cell biology. The material on molecular genetics has been revised and expanded so that it can be used as a stand-alone text. A new chapter covers pathogens, infection, and innate immunity. Topics include introduction to the cell, basic genetic mechanisms, methods, internal organization of the cell, and cells in their social context. The book contains color illustrations and charts; and the included CD-ROM contains dozens of video clips, animations, molecular structures, and high-resolution micrographs. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR.

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Courier Corporation

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0824036956

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British Political Leaders

A Biographical Dictionary

By: Keith Laybourn

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British Political Leaders

A Biographical Dictionary

By: Keith Laybourn

This A–Z biographical dictionary profiles Britain's prime ministers, foreign secretaries, home secretaries, and Chancellors of the Exchequer, from 1730 through the present—all in clear, concise language. These leaders guided the nation through the loss of empire, through two devastating world wars, and into a new role as members of the European Union. In clear, accessible language, this new dictionary shows how in the 18th century, and to a lesser extent in the 19th century, many of Britain's top leaders were linked more closely by family and factional interests than by party. It also illustrates—and helps to explain—the rise of the Labour Party and the emergence of "New Labour.

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380

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1576075702

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9781576075708

Slayer

An Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to Season Six of Buffy the Vampire Slayer

By: Keith Topping

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Slayer

An Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to Season Six of Buffy the Vampire Slayer

By: Keith Topping

Vampires, passion, teenage angst, cigarettes and alcohol, sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. Whether you're a seasoned Slayerette, a Scooby groupie or a novice, this book offers you a guide to the surreal world of Sunnydale.

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Virgin Books Limited

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0753507382

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9780753507384

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