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A Race for Real Sailors

Bluenose and the International Fisherman's Cup 1920 - 1938

By: Keith McLaren

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A Race for Real Sailors

Bluenose and the International Fisherman's Cup 1920 - 1938

By: Keith McLaren

In the summer of 1920, the public following the latest America’s Cup series were frustrated to find that every time the wind got up, the organizers called off the race. There was muttering in the taverns of Halifax and Lunenburg: why not show these fancy yachtsmen what real sailors can do? A Nova Scotia newspaper donated a trophy and put out a challenge to their rivals in New England, inviting them to meet the Maritimes’ best in a “race for real sailors.” A Race for Real Sailors is a vibrant history of the Fishermen’s Cup series, which dominated sporting headlines between the two world wars. The salt spray practically blows off the page as the author’s arresting style captures the drama of each race and the personalities of the ships that contested them: the Delawana and the Esperanto, the Columbia and the Gertrude L. Thebaud, and dominating them all the Bluenose, the big brute from Lunenburg whose image shines on the Canadian dime to this day. Vying for the spotlight are the boats’ larger-than-life skippers, among them Marty Welch, the hard-charging American who first took the cup; Ben Pine, the Gloucester scrap dealer whose passion kept the races afloat when they seemed destined to fade away; and the irascible, impossible Angus Walters, master of the Bluenose, who repeatedly broke American hearts but whose own heart was broken by Canada’s refusal to come to the rescue of his beloved vessel. This stirring and poignant tale is illustrated with 51 historical photographs and five maps, and rounded out by a glossary of sailing terms and an appendix of the ever-changing race rules. This is a story that will keep even confirmed landlubbers pegged to their seats, a tale of iron men and wooden ships whose time will never come again.

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Douglas & McIntyre

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1771622687

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Rotten

No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs

By: John Lydon,Keith Zimmerman,Kent Zimmerman

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Rotten

No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs

By: John Lydon,Keith Zimmerman,Kent Zimmerman

I have no time for lies and fantasy, and neither should you. Enjoy or die..." --John Lydon Punk has been romanticized and embalmed in various media. An English class revolt that became a worldwide fashion statement, punk's idols were the Sex Pistols, and its sneering hero was Johnny Rotten. Seventeen years later, John Lydon looks back at himself, the Sex Pistols, and the "no future" disaffection of the time. Much more than just a music book, Rotten is an oral history of punk: angry, witty, honest, poignant, crackling with energy. Malcolm McLaren, Sid Vicious, Chrissie Hynde, Billy Idol, London and England in the late 1970s, the Pistols' creation and collapse...all are here, in perhaps the best book ever written about music and youth culture, by one of its most notorious figures.

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Macmillan + ORM

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1466873205

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9781466873209

God, Me and Being Very Old

Stories and Spirituality in Later Life

By: Keith Albans

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God, Me and Being Very Old

Stories and Spirituality in Later Life

By: Keith Albans

This book is not about old age, but essentially it is about old people, known and loved or lost and bemused. The heart of the book is the hearing and re-telling of the faith stories of fifteen of the oldest old, all of whom are living in residential care settings. The stories outline the lives they have lived and the impact they have made on their listeners.

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SCM Press

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0334049466

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9780334049463

America Inc. - The Rise and Fall of a Civil Democracy

By: Keith Edmonds

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America Inc. - The Rise and Fall of a Civil Democracy

By: Keith Edmonds

The book outlines the eradication of democratic freedoms and the emptiness that pervades postmodern existence, combining psychodynamic theories of human behaviour with the politics of consumption.

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BRILL

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9460913377

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9789460913372

Student Engagement, Higher Education, and Social Justice

Beyond Neoliberalism and the Market

By: Corinna Bramley,Keith Morrison

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Student Engagement, Higher Education, and Social Justice

Beyond Neoliberalism and the Market

By: Corinna Bramley,Keith Morrison

Student engagement is a catch-all term, irresistible to educators and policy makers, and serving many agendas and purposes. This ground-breaking book provides a powerful theory of student engagement, rooted in critical theory and social justice. It sets out a compelling argument for student engagement to promote social justice and to repel neoliberalism in, and through, higher education, addressing three key questions: Student engagement in what? Student engagement for what? Student engagement for whom? The answers draw on Habermas, Honneth, Gramsci, Foucault, and Giroux in examining ideology, power, recognition, resistance, and student engagement, with examples drawn from across the world. It sets out key features, limitations, and failures of neoliberalism in higher education, and indicates how student engagement can resist it. Student engagement calls for higher education institutions to be sites for challenge, debate on values and power, action for social justice, and for students to engage in the struggle to resist neoliberalism, taking action to promote social justice, democracy, and the public good. This book is essential reading for educators, researchers, managers and students in higher education, social scientists, and social theorists. It is a call to reawaken higher education for social justice, human rights, democracy, and freedoms.

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Taylor & Francis

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100075023X

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Introduction to Social Research

Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches

By: Keith F Punch

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Introduction to Social Research

Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches

By: Keith F Punch

In the new edition of Introduction to Social Research, Keith Punch takes a fresh look at the entire research process, from formulating a research question to writing up your research. Covering qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods, the book focuses on matching research questions to appropriate methods. Offering concise, balanced coverage, this book clearly explains the underlying principles of social research and shows you how to put this understanding into practice. The third edition includes: A new chapter on literature searching and reviewing Expanded coverage of ethics A new section on using the internet in research A range of additional student learning features A brand new companion website including full-text journal articles, additional case studies and video tutorials. Using a range of examples from student research and published work, the book is an ideal introduction for any social science student taking a research methods course or embarking on their own undergraduate or postgraduate research project.

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SAGE

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1446296164

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Arsenic Pollution

A Global Synthesis

By: Peter Ravenscroft,Hugh Brammer,Keith Richards

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Arsenic Pollution

A Global Synthesis

By: Peter Ravenscroft,Hugh Brammer,Keith Richards

Arsenic Pollution summarizes the most current research on the distribution and causes of arsenic pollution, its impact on health and agriculture, and solutions by way of water supply, treatment, and water resource management. Provides the first global and interdisciplinary account of arsenic pollution occurrences Integrates geochemistry, hydrology, agriculture, and water supply and treatment for the first time Options are highlighted for developing alternative water sources and methods for arsenic testing and removal Appeals to specialists in one discipline seeking an overview of the work being done in other disciplines

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John Wiley & Sons

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1444355465

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The Good Soil Process: A Backyard Missional Field Guide

By: Keith Tilley

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The Good Soil Process: A Backyard Missional Field Guide

By: Keith Tilley

The Good Soil Process is a seasonal approach to effective missional disciple making. This "field guide" follows the annual Christian calendar and leads followers of Jesus towards vibrant, adventurous lives of faith. All of God's children are participants in God's amazing mission in the world. This field guide attempts to help the church reorient itself outward, as missionaries in our own backyards. The four annual seasons of engagement are Discern, Design, Develop and Delight.

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0557396468

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Introduction to Social Research

Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches

By: Keith F Punch

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Introduction to Social Research

Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches

By: Keith F Punch

Introduction to Social Research' presents the essential elements of both qualitative and quantitative approaches for conducting empirical research in the social sciences.

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0761944176

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9780761944171

Vitamin A Deficiency

Health, Survival, and Vision

By: Alfred Sommer,Keith P. West

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Vitamin A Deficiency

Health, Survival, and Vision

By: Alfred Sommer,Keith P. West

Many studies over the past decade and a half have indicated that vitamin A status is an important determinant of health. The World Bank now estimates that vitamin A intervention programs are some of the most cost-effective health strategies globally. This new book, written by leading investigators in the field, is the first to synthesize the many important studies to date. The authors identify and quantify the biological, clinical and public health impact of vitamin A deficiency on childhood growth, mortality and morbidity, including anemia and blindness. They deal with the epidemiologic and biological basis of these findings, and with the prevention and treatment of these disorders, particularly of measles, diarrhea and xeorophthalmia. Alternative approaches to identifying individuals and populations in need of intervention, alternative strategies for improving vitamin A and carotenoids, and the relationship between vitamin A and immunity are discussed. This comprehensive volume on a critically important and widespread nutritional deficiency will serve as a unique resource for nutritionists, physicians, public health workers and policy makers, and will be especially relevant to clinicians and researchers in international health.

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0195088247

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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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Bush Pilot with a Briefcase

The Incredible Story of Aviation Pioneer Grant McConachie

By: Ronald Keith

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Bush Pilot with a Briefcase

The Incredible Story of Aviation Pioneer Grant McConachie

By: Ronald Keith

At the age of twenty-two, Grant McConachie was a bush pilot running his own crazy airline in the Canadian North, flying trappers, gold miners, huskies and fish all over the wilderness. Only sixteen years later, he was appointed president of CPR’S fledgling airline, Canadian Pacific. In Bush Pilot with a Briefcase author Ronald A. Keith tells the incredible story of this country’s most colourful aviation pioneer. On McConachie's first official commercial flight, his passengers were one university professor and two hundred yellow-tailed crows. His first business partners were a Maltese princess and a carnival barker. He kept his early bush planes—and his subsequent career—aloft with equal parts luck and sheer seat-of-the-pants skill. As chief of Canadian Pacific from 1947 until his death in 1965, McConachie expanded his airline across the globe. Everywhere he went, his freewheeling high spirits, flamboyant style and what one journalist called “supersonic salesmanship” made him an irresistible force.

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D & M Publishers

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192670648X

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9781926706481

Ooparts: An Adventure in TIme

By: Keith Osmond

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Ooparts: An Adventure in TIme

By: Keith Osmond

What if you found a piece of jewelry from the 21st century in a fossil 180 million years old? What if you also were a jaded reporter in a backwater town, bored with his career, and looking for a new direction is his life? What if you found that fossil led you to Nazi experiments, secret installations on the coast of England, and a clandestine British agency dedicated to stopping a madman who threatens to cause chaos across eons of time? Jack Foster is that reporter. Follow him as he embarks on a fast-paced adventure pursuing the truth and falling in love.

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Lulu.com

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1304079384

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9781304079381

Postcards

Day Trips from Adelaide

By: Keith Conlon,Ron Kandelaars

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Postcards

Day Trips from Adelaide

By: Keith Conlon,Ron Kandelaars

SA in a day! That's what you'll find inside this latest Postcards collection - a guide to what South Australia has to offer all within an easy day's drive from Adelaide.

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Wakefield Press

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1862546266

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9781862546264

Saving Primo

By: Keith G. Laufenberg

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Saving Primo

By: Keith G. Laufenberg

Sandcastles in the Sun" is the first story in this series of four novellas featuring Julius '.J.D. ' Dickens and his partner Isaiah 'I-Hop' Hopkins. Dickens gets when his assistant, a 21-year-old first year law student, whose father, a police captain, is a close friend of J.D.'s, assures him that it's a simple "open and shut case" paid for with department money. Now, Dickens has "personal" reasons to take any case paid for with department money but soon finds that it's anything but and open and shut case. "The Spearhead Case," "A Heartbeat Away" and "Saving Primo" are more of the same spine-tingling stories that will quickly interconnect with the one preceding it and keep the reading reading until the last page is turned.

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1944699724

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9781944699727

Crop Pollination by Bees, Volume 2

Individual Crops and their Bees, 2nd Edition

By: Keith S. Delaplane

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Crop Pollination by Bees, Volume 2

Individual Crops and their Bees, 2nd Edition

By: Keith S. Delaplane

Since the second half of the 20th Century, our agricultural bee pollinators have faced mounting threats from ecological disturbance and pan-global movement of pathogens and parasites. At the same time, the area of pollinator-dependent crops is increasing globally with no end in sight. Never before has so much been asked of our finite pool of bee pollinators. This book not only explores the evolutionary and ecologic bases of these dynamics, it translates this knowledge into practical research-based guidance for using bees to pollinate crops. It emphasizes conserving wild bee populations as well as culturing honey bees, bumble bees, and managed solitary bees. To cover such a range of biology, theory, and practice from the perspectives of both the pollinator and the crop, the book is divided into two volumes. Volume 1 focuses on bees, their biology, coevolution with flowering plants, foraging ecology and management, and gives practical ways to increase bee abundance and pollinating performance on the farm. Volume 2 (this volume) focuses on crops, with chapters addressing crop-specific requirements and bee pollination management recommendations. Both volumes are essential reading for farmers, horticulturists and gardeners, researchers and professionals working in insect ecology and conservation, and students of entomology and crop protection.

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CABI

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1786393522

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Introduction to Research Methods in Education

By: Keith F Punch

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Introduction to Research Methods in Education

By: Keith F Punch

Based on the popular Introduction to Social Research Methods, this book offers a highly accessible, clear and engaging introduction to research in education, which has been carefully and extensively developed to fully meet the needs of those studying in education and related fields. Introduction to Research Methods in Education assumes no previous knowledge of the subject, and focuses on helping the reader develop a clear conceptual understanding of the nature of empirical research in education, and of how those ideas lead to, and underlie, the principal research techniques. Qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods approaches are covered, along with practical guidance on issues such as how to prepare a research proposal, write a literature review, and analyse different types of data. This book is an ideal introduction to researching in an educational context for students at both undergraduate and postgraduate level and will be a must-have for anyone studying on a research methods course or doing a research project for themselves.

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144620541X

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Star Trek: The Next Generation: Articles of The Federation

By: Keith R. A. DeCandido

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Star Trek: The Next Generation: Articles of The Federation

By: Keith R. A. DeCandido

New president Nan Bacco of Cestus III faces disasters as political tensions rise during her first year of presidency. Following the surprise resignation of Federation President Min Zife after the disastrous Tezwa affair, Nan Bacco of Cestus III has won a hotly contested election to become the new chief executive of over one hundred fifty planetary civilizations and their colonies. But no sooner does she take office than the Romulan Star Empire falls into chaos. With tensions already high, a Reman refugee ship is sighted approaching a Federation outpost, its intentions unknown. As the first year of the Bacco Administration unfolds, the Federation Council is slow to work with its new president, and not always supportive of her policies or her appointments to key council positions; a successful first contact suddenly becomes a diplomatic disaster; and the sins of President Zife prove difficult to lay to rest, as one celebrated Starfleet officer's career reaches a turning point.

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Simon and Schuster

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141651029X

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9781416510291

Dictionary of Theoretical Concepts in Biology

By: Keith E. Roe,Richard G. Frederick

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Dictionary of Theoretical Concepts in Biology

By: Keith E. Roe,Richard G. Frederick

1166 concepts primarily from English-language articles, books, reviews, and histories published through 1979. Includes plant and animal biology; excludes, for the most part, human and behavioral biology. Each entry gives concept and relevant authoritative citations. Many cross references.

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Scarecrow Press

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081081353X

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9780810813533

Family War Stories

The Densmores' Fight to Save the Union and Destroy Slavery

By: Keith P. Wilson

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Family War Stories

The Densmores' Fight to Save the Union and Destroy Slavery

By: Keith P. Wilson

Based on an extensive collection of letters written from the home front and the battlefront, Family War Stories offers fresh insights into how the reciprocal nature of family correspondence can shape a family’s understanding of the war. Family War Stories examines the contribution of the Densmore family to the Northern Civil War effort. It extends the boundaries of research in two directions. First, by describing how members of this white family from Minnesota were mobilized to fight a family war on the home front and the battlefront, and second, by exploring how the war challenged the family’s abolitionist beliefs and racial attitudes. Family War Stories argues that the totality of the family’s Civil War experience was intricately shaped by the dynamics of family life and the reciprocal nature of family correspondence. Further, it argues that the serving sons’ understanding of the war was shaped by their direct military experiences in the army camps and battlefields and how their loved ones at home interpreted these experiences. With two sons serving as officers in the United States Colored Troops’ regiments fighting in the Mississippi Valley, the Densmore family was heavily involved in destroying slavery. Family War Stories analyses how the sons’ military experiences tested the family’s abolitionist ideology and its commitment to white racial superiority. It also explains how the family sought to accommodate the presence of a refugee from slavery working in the family kitchen. In some ways, the presence of this worker in the household posed an even greater range of challenges to the family’s racial beliefs than the sons’ military service. By examining one family’s deep involvement in the war against slavery, Wilson analyses how the Civil War posed particular challenges to Northerners committed to abolitionism and white supremacy.

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Fordham Univ Press

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1531505422

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Epic Solitude

A Story of Survival and a Quest for Meaning in the Far North

By: Katherine Keith

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Epic Solitude

A Story of Survival and a Quest for Meaning in the Far North

By: Katherine Keith

All her life, Katherine Keith has hungered for remote, wild places that fill her soul with freedom and peace. Her travels take her across America, but it is in the vast and rugged landscape of Alaska that she finds her true home. Alaska is known as a place where people disappear—at least a couple thousand go missing each year. But the same vast and rugged landscape that contributed to so many people being lost is precisely what has gotten her found. She and her husband build a log cabin miles away from the nearest road and create a life of love. An idyllic existence, but with isolation and brutal living conditions can also come heartbreak. Chopping wood and hauling water are not just parts of a Zen proverb but a requirement for survival. Keith experiences tragic loss and must push on, with her infant daughter, alone in the Alaskan backcountry. Long-distance dog sledding opens a door to a new existence. Racing across the state of Alaska offers the best of all worlds by combining raw wilderness with solitude and athleticism. The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, the “Last Great Race on Earth,” remains a true test of character and offers the opportunity to intimately explore the frontier that she has come to love. With every thousand miles of winter trail traversed in total solitude, she confronts challenges that awaken internal demons, summoning all the inner grief and rage that lies dormant. In the tradition of Cheryl Strayed’s Wild and John Krakauer’s Into the Wild, Epic Solitude is the powerful and touching story of how one woman found her way—both despite and because of—the difficulties of living and racing in the remote wilderness.

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Blackstone Publishing

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1538557037

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The Classic Serial on Television and Radio

By: Robert Giddings,Keith Selby

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The Classic Serial on Television and Radio

By: Robert Giddings,Keith Selby

The classic serial, invented by BBC Radio Drama sixty years ago, survived and adapted itself to television, the arrival of colour and the global market in what has become a flood of classics with all channels competing for ratings and overseas sales. This richly detailed book traces these developments and analyses the genre's response to social, economic, technical and cultural changes, which have re-shaped it into the form we recognise today. The book contains considerable interview material with performers and media professionals.

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Springer

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0230596290

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Strange But True Tales of Car Collecting

Drowned Bugattis, Buried Belvederes, Felonious Ferraris and Other Wild Stories of Automotive Misadventure

By: Keith Martin,The Editors of Sports Car Market

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Strange But True Tales of Car Collecting

Drowned Bugattis, Buried Belvederes, Felonious Ferraris and Other Wild Stories of Automotive Misadventure

By: Keith Martin,The Editors of Sports Car Market

These bizarre true stories of collectors and their cars is "a whole lot of fun" (The Virginian Pilot). Have you heard of the fellow who squirrelled away dozens of Chevelles, Camaros, and other classic muscle cars in semi-trailers? How about the president of Shakespeare fishing rods, who sold thirty Bugattis for a mere $85,000? What about the English nobleman who cut up and buried his Ferrari hoard in an elaborate insurance scam? Or how about the Duesenberg abandoned in a Manhattan parking garage for decades only to be uncovered by Jay Leno? Most car collectors exhibit a healthy enthusiasm for their hobby by digging into their favorite marques, chasing parts, swapping stories, and generally living the car-guy lifestyle. Some, however, step over that fine line between enthusiasm and obsession—and that's where these legendary car-collector stories come from. In Strange but True Tales of Car Collecting, Keith Martin and the staff of Sports Car Market Magazine recount the wildest, most eccentric, over-the-top stories of collectors and their collections. "This likable book serves as a ‚ÄòRipley's Believe It or Not!' for car obsessives." —The New York Times

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Quarto Publishing Group USA

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0760361835

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9780760361832

Walter Nash

By: Keith Sinclair

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Walter Nash

By: Keith Sinclair

Walter Nash (1882&–1968) was among the most influential of the group of Labour Party leaders who created the welfare state. He was a member of parliament for almost 40 years and he was one of New Zealand political leaders known internationally. Keith Sinclair's engrossing biography traces Walter Nash's development from his youth through to his determination to build a more just society. Nash grappled with an array of practical problems such as finance, trade, war and international relations. Walter Nash is a riveting account of New Zealand politics and of a man whose enthusiasm, drive and personal quirks aroused admiration laced with exasperation in those who worked with him. This highly readable and important work was enjoyed by many as a New Zealand Listener serial.

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Auckland University Press

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1775582396

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9781775582397

The Rationality Quotient

Toward a Test of Rational Thinking

By: Keith E. Stanovich,Richard F. West,Maggie E. Toplak

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The Rationality Quotient

Toward a Test of Rational Thinking

By: Keith E. Stanovich,Richard F. West,Maggie E. Toplak

How to assess critical aspects of cognitive functioning that are not measured by IQ tests: rational thinking skills. Why are we surprised when smart people act foolishly? Smart people do foolish things all the time. Misjudgments and bad decisions by highly educated bankers and money managers, for example, brought us the financial crisis of 2008. Smart people do foolish things because intelligence is not the same as the capacity for rational thinking. The Rationality Quotient explains that these two traits, often (and incorrectly) thought of as one, refer to different cognitive functions. The standard IQ test, the authors argue, doesn't measure any of the broad components of rationality—adaptive responding, good judgment, and good decision making. The authors show that rational thinking, like intelligence, is a measurable cognitive competence. Drawing on theoretical work and empirical research from the last two decades, they present the first prototype for an assessment of rational thinking analogous to the IQ test: the CART (Comprehensive Assessment of Rational Thinking). The authors describe the theoretical underpinnings of the CART, distinguishing the algorithmic mind from the reflective mind. They discuss the logic of the tasks used to measure cognitive biases, and they develop a unique typology of thinking errors. The Rationality Quotient explains the components of rational thought assessed by the CART, including probabilistic and scientific reasoning; the avoidance of “miserly” information processing; and the knowledge structures needed for rational thinking. Finally, the authors discuss studies of the CART and the social and practical implications of such a test. An appendix offers sample items from the test.

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MIT Press

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0262034840

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9780262034845

Becoming Modern in Toronto

The Industrial Exhibition and the Shaping of a Late Victorian Culture

By: Keith Walden

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Becoming Modern in Toronto

The Industrial Exhibition and the Shaping of a Late Victorian Culture

By: Keith Walden

In Becoming Modern in Toronto, Keith Walden shows how the Toronto Industrial Exhibition, from its founding, in 1879, to 1903 (when it was renamed the Canadian National Exhibition), influenced the shaping and ordering of the emerging urban culture.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802078702

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9780802078704

Defining the Victorian Nation

Class, Race, Gender and the British Reform Act of 1867

By: Catherine Hall,Keith McClelland,Jane Rendall

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Defining the Victorian Nation

Class, Race, Gender and the British Reform Act of 1867

By: Catherine Hall,Keith McClelland,Jane Rendall

Defining the Victorian Nation offers a fresh perspective on one of the most significant pieces of legislation in nineteenth-century Britain. Hall, McClelland and Rendall demonstrate that the Second Reform Act was marked by controversy about the extension of the vote, new concepts of masculinity and the masculine voter, the beginnings of the women's suffrage movement, and a parallel debate about the meanings and forms of national belonging. Fascinating illustrations illuminate the argument, and a detailed chronology, biographical notes and a selected bibliography offer further support to the student reader.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521576539

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Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part VII, Volume 2

Joseph Conrad, Henry Rider Haggard and Rudyard Kipling by their Contemporaries

By: Ralph Pite,Keith Carabine,Tom Hubbard,Lindy Stiebel

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Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part VII, Volume 2

Joseph Conrad, Henry Rider Haggard and Rudyard Kipling by their Contemporaries

By: Ralph Pite,Keith Carabine,Tom Hubbard,Lindy Stiebel

This book looks at Rider Haggard from a different standpoint, his own. It carries a selection of critical appraisals of Haggard's work by his contemporaries up until the early 1950s.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040129218

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Performing Black Masculinity

Race, Culture, and Queer Identity

By: Bryant Keith Alexander

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Performing Black Masculinity

Race, Culture, and Queer Identity

By: Bryant Keith Alexander

This is a remarkable set of linked essays on the African American male experience. Alexander picks a number of settings that highlight Black male interaction, sexuality, and identity_the student-teacher interaction, the black barbershop, drag queen performances, the funeral eulogy. From these he builds a theory of Black masculine identity using auto-ethnography and ideas of performance as his base.

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Rowman Altamira

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0759114188

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Practical Prehospital Care E-book

By: Ian Greaves,Keith Porter,Jason Smith

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Practical Prehospital Care E-book

By: Ian Greaves,Keith Porter,Jason Smith

•defines the specialty of pre-hospital medicine•editors have extensive experience of both military and civilian pre-hospital trauma life support•Greaves and Porter are well-known authors amongst the paramedic market•updated resuscitation guidelines (now in force throughout Europe)•updated references•modern, reader-friendly page design, incorporating text colour•market-priced•non-essential material (e.g. history of emergency medicine) removed

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0702048968

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9780702048968

Reframing International Development

By: Nelson W. Keith

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Reframing International Development

By: Nelson W. Keith

Attempts to theorize contemporary globalization rarely stray beyond variations on old themes of superordination versus subordination. Yet there are many new definers of our present global reality - depletion of strategic resources, degradation of our environment, counter-offensives against modern patterns of thought and action - which suggest that a new framework of global relations is needed. Nelson Keith challenges the presumptions upon which Western notions of the world have rested, and sounds a call to forge a world order more sensitive to all of its representative voices.

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SAGE

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0803970625

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Louise Thompson Patterson

A Life of Struggle for Justice

By: Keith Gilyard

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Louise Thompson Patterson

A Life of Struggle for Justice

By: Keith Gilyard

Born in 1901, Louise Thompson Patterson was a leading and transformative figure in radical African American politics. Throughout most of the twentieth century she embodied a dedicated resistance to racial, economic, and gender exploitation. In this, the first biography of Patterson, Keith Gilyard tells her compelling story, from her childhood on the West Coast, where she suffered isolation and persecution, to her participation in the Harlem Renaissance and beyond. In the 1930s and 1940s she became central, along with Paul Robeson, to the labor movement, and later, in the 1950s, she steered proto-black-feminist activities. Patterson was also crucial to the efforts in the 1970s to free political prisoners, most notably Angela Davis. In the 1980s and 1990s she continued to work as a progressive activist and public intellectual. To read her story is to witness the courage, sacrifice, vision, and discipline of someone who spent decades working to achieve justice and liberation for all.

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Duke University Press

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0822372312

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Greenfield's Surgery

Scientific Principles & Practice

By: Michael W. Mulholland,Keith D. Lillemoe,Gerard M. Doherty,Ronald V. Maier,Diane M. Simeone,Gilbert R. Upchurch

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Greenfield's Surgery

Scientific Principles & Practice

By: Michael W. Mulholland,Keith D. Lillemoe,Gerard M. Doherty,Ronald V. Maier,Diane M. Simeone,Gilbert R. Upchurch

The Fifth Edition of Greenfield's Surgery has been thoroughly revised, updated, and refocused to conform to changes in surgical education and practice. Reflecting the increasingly clinical emphasis of residency programs, this edition features expanded coverage of clinical material and increased use of clinical algorithms. Key Points open each chapter, and icons in the text indicate where Key Points are fully discussed. Many of the black-and-white images from the previous edition have been replaced by full-color images. This edition has new chapters on quality assessment, surgical education, and surgical processes in the hospital. Coverage of surgical subspecialty areas is more sharply focused on topics that are encountered by general surgeons and included in the current general surgery curriculum and ABSITE exam. The vascular section has been further consolidated. A new editor, Diane M. Simeone, MD, PhD, has joined the editorial team. This edition is available either in one hardbound volume or in a four-volume softbound set. The lightweight four-volume option offers easy portability and quick access. Each volume is organized by organ system so you can find the facts you need within seconds. The companion website presents the fully searchable text, an instant-feedback test bank featuring over 800 questions and answers, and a comprehensive image bank. Unique to this new edition's website are 100 "Morbidity and Mortality" case discussions. Each case reviews a specific surgical complication, how the complication was addressed, and reviews the literature on approaches and outcomes.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1451152922

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9781451152920

Queer Airwaves: The Story of Gay and Lesbian Broadcasting

The Story of Gay and Lesbian Broadcasting

By: Phylis W Johnson,Michael C Keith

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Queer Airwaves: The Story of Gay and Lesbian Broadcasting

The Story of Gay and Lesbian Broadcasting

By: Phylis W Johnson,Michael C Keith

This book is both a retrospective history of the gay community's use of electronic media as a way of networking and creating a sense of community, and an examination of the current situation, an analysis and critical assessment of gay/lesbian electronic media. Keith and Johnson use original interviews and oral history to delineate the place of electronic media in the lives of this increasingly visible and vocal minority in America.

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Routledge

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1317461517

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Collaborative Spirit-Writing and Performance in Everyday Black Lives

By: Bryant Keith Alexander,Mary E. Weems

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Collaborative Spirit-Writing and Performance in Everyday Black Lives

By: Bryant Keith Alexander,Mary E. Weems

Collaborative Spirit-Writing and Performance in Everyday Black Lives is about the interconnectedness between collaboration, spirit, and writing. It is also about a dialogic engagement that draws upon shared lived experiences, hopes, and fears of two Black persons: male/female, straight/gay. This book is structured around a series of textual performances, poems, plays, dialogues, calls and responses, and mediations that serve as claim, ground, warrant, qualifier, rebuttal, and backing in an argument about collaborative spirit-writing for social justice. Each entry provides evidence of encounters of possibility, collated between the authors, for ourselves, for readers, and society from a standpoint of individual and collective struggle. The entries in this Black performance diary are at times independent and interdependent, interspliced and interrogative, interanimating and interstitial. They build arguments about collaboration but always emanate from a place of discontent in a caste system, designed through slavery and maintained until today, that positions Black people in relation to white superiority, terror, and perpetual struggle. With particular emphasis on the confluence of Race, Racism, Antiracism, Black Lives Matter, the Trump administration, and the Coronavirus pandemic, this book will appeal to students and scholars in Race studies, performance studies, and those who practice qualitative methods as a new way of seeking Black social justice.

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1000478661

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9781000478662

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