Ken Chin's Books

Mr Sia: Fly Past

By: Ken Hickson

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Introducing the life and times of a legend in international aviation — Lim Chin Beng — the man they called Mr SIA.Absorbing the life and work of Lim Chin Beng is like watching a fly past of airlines and aircraft old and new. In this book, his past comes to meet you in many forms — designs, shapes, figures, photographs, episodes, places, people and you discover the connections with business, society and international aviation today and into the future. Here's a man who was instrumental in taking the very basic components of a business — like a potter taking the clay — and creating what has become one of the world's leading brands, Singapore Airlines. But this airline 'specialist', trained as an economist, had more jobs to do. His broad range of interests — arts and sports, property and tourism — led to him being called on to do his 'national service' for Singapore. He was Ambassador to Japan for two terms and trade negotiator, chairman of the Singapore Tourism Board, Changi Airport International, Singapore Airshow, Singapore Press Holdings, Ascott Group, and ST Aerospace. Described as a quiet achiever and a visionary, this modest gentleman was not afraid to make bold decisions and take risks, even to the extent of setting up a budget airline, Valuair. Here was one man, who in his time, played many parts, on the world's stage and at home.

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World Scientific

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9814596469

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9789814596466

The Prodigal Diaries

By: Ken Simmons

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The Prodigal Diaries

By: Ken Simmons

In 1969 he felt the call of God to begin a work in Florida with no money and without the backing of any church or organization. Those humble beginnings started a movement that would have a ripple effect that would eventually reach many around the world. But in spite of countless miracles and changed lives, turmoil at home eventually found him running from God-a prodigal, whose long journey back to the Father's home would finally lead him to redemption and victory. This is the miraculous and moving story of Ken Simmons.

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Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

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1635255686

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9781635255683

Strike It Rich with Pocket Change

By: Ken Potter,Brian Allen

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Strike It Rich with Pocket Change

By: Ken Potter,Brian Allen

In the authors' own words, this new edition of Strike It Rich with Pocket Change, dispels the myths of error coins and assists you in discovering, marketing, and researching rare coins that you can find in your pocket change. More than 350 close-up illustrations, key identifying details and current market values help you decipher the difference between proper and error issues and varying types of coins. In addition, this unique must-have how-to also includes: • Coverage of Lincoln Memorial Cents, Roosevelt Dimes, Washington Quarters, John F. Kennedy Half Dollars, State Quarters • Expert insight and advice about tools of the trade, preserving coins, buying and selling error-variety coins • Terms and definitions associated with error coins Whether it's a Jefferson Presidential dollar missing edge lettering, that's worth $2,000 - $10,000 plus or a Lincoln cent with trail marks that make it an error worth $1 - $3 there are hidden treasures to be found in your pocket change, if you know what to look for.

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Penguin

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1440216622

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9781440216626

Beyond the Lion's Den

The Life, The Fights, The Techniques

By: Ken Shamrock,Erich Krauss

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Beyond the Lion's Den

The Life, The Fights, The Techniques

By: Ken Shamrock,Erich Krauss

Inside the Lion's Den is the remarkable story of Ken Shamrock's ascent to the top of reality martial combat. A legendary Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighter and former professional wrestler, Shamrock is an inspiration to thousands. This is the story of his rise from a troubled youth to champion in the ring in both America and Asia. The first "King of Pancrase" in the Japanese fighting circuit, and the first "Superfight Champion" of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), Shamrock also founded the Lion's Den in Northern California, a facility that has trained many champion MMA fighters. Readers and fans will learn the secrets of Shamrock's ultra-efficient submissions fighting system and the training regimen that he and his trainees followed. With over 150 dynamic photos, Inside the Lion's Den is both an inspiring portrait of the fighter known as the "World's Most Dangerous Man" and an invaluable guide for the martial artist, novice and master alike.

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Tuttle Publishing

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1462907946

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9781462907946

Art of Drawing People

Discover Simple Techniques for Drawing a Variety of Figures and Portraits

By: Debra Kauffman Yaun,William Powell,Ken Goldman,Walter Foster

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Art of Drawing People

Discover Simple Techniques for Drawing a Variety of Figures and Portraits

By: Debra Kauffman Yaun,William Powell,Ken Goldman,Walter Foster

Drawing & drawings.

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Walter Foster

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1600580696

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9781600580697

Human Cold Stress

By: Ken Parsons

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Human Cold Stress

By: Ken Parsons

This book provides an up-to-date, accessible, and comprehensive coverage of human cold stress from principles and theory to practical application. It defines cold stress and how people respond to it. It describes how to assess a cold environment to predict when discomfort, wind-chill, hypothermia, shivering, frostbite, and other consequences will occur. It also advises on what to do to prevent unacceptable outcomes, including determination and selection of clothing to preserve comfort and health. The book will be of interest to practitioners and students and anyone involved with fields such as textiles, clothing, and industrial hygiene.

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CRC Press

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1000427064

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9781000427066

Going the Distance

By: Ken Norton,Marshall Terrill,Mike Fitzgerald

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Going the Distance

By: Ken Norton,Marshall Terrill,Mike Fitzgerald

The 1970s ushered in boxing's greatest class of heavyweight fighters. The fight game has never before or since seen such a talented and charismatic group. Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, George Foreman, Larry Holmes, and Ken Norton have been hailed as "Champions Forever, " as the world heavyweight title was passed among them throughout the decade. On March 31, 1973, Norton broke Ali's jaw in the process of winning a 12-round decision over "The Greatest." Going the Distance traces the incredible path of Norton's life, from Jacksonville, Illinois, to Northeast Missouri State University, to the U.S. Marines, to his historic bout with Ali in San Diego, California, and on to his life today. The book includes exclusive personal photos from Norton's collection, as well as a chronology of Norton's 49 professional fights.

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Sports Publishing LLC

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1582612250

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9781582612256

The Judas Murders

By: Ken Oder

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The Judas Murders

By: Ken Oder

On a cold February morning in 1967, Sheriff Coleman Grundy finds Betty Lou Mundy dead in her front yard and her husband on the porch with the gun that killed her. It looks like a classic case of revenge on a cheating wife.Until the next murder. And the next. As Cole desperately searches for leads, he’s forced to come to grips with his own wife’s unsolved murder three years earlier, and in the process, he unearths long-buried secrets that change his life forever.

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SkipJack Publishing

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1939889944

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9781939889942

Colour

By: Ken Reynolds

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Colour

By: Ken Reynolds

For many months, Ed has chatted on the phone to Gail, the Bronson and Schubert’s order clerk with a spine-tingling voice, without ever seeing her. Yet, he has fallen in love and is desperate to meet her. When he finally contrives to see her, he’s in for a shock, leading to a romance fraught with difficulties, censure, high adventure, and danger. This is South Africa in 1970.

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Covenant Books, Inc.

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1685262414

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9781685262419

River Channel Management

Towards sustainable catchment hydrosystems

By: Peter Downs,Ken Gregory

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River Channel Management

Towards sustainable catchment hydrosystems

By: Peter Downs,Ken Gregory

River Channel Management is the first book to deal comprehensively with recent revolutions in river channel management. It explores the multi-disciplinary nature of river channel management in relation to modern management techniques that bear the background of the entire drainage basin in mind, use channel restoration where appropriate, and are designed to be sustainable. River Channel Management is divided into five sections: ·The Introduction outlines the need for river channel management . ·Retrospective Review offers an overview of twentieth century engineering methods and the ways that river channel systems operate. ·Realisation explains how greater understanding of river channel adjustments, channel hazards and river basin planning created a context for twenty-first century management. ·Requirements for Management explains and examines environmental assessment, restoration-based approaches, and methods that work towards 'design with nature' ·Final Revision speculates about prospects for twenty-first century river channel management. River Channel Management is written for higher-level undergraduates and for postgraduates in geography, ecology, engineering, planning, geology and environmental science, for professionals involved in river channel management, and for staff in environmental agencies.

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Routledge

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1134639104

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9781134639106

Creatures Real and Imaginary in Chinese and Japanese Art

An Identification Guide

By: Walther G. von Krenner,Ken Jeremiah

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Creatures Real and Imaginary in Chinese and Japanese Art

An Identification Guide

By: Walther G. von Krenner,Ken Jeremiah

This guide to identifying lions, unicorns and other creatures real and fanciful in Chinese and Japanese artwork explains how these and other animal depictions were introduced to the East, and how their portrayals changed over time. Tracing the lion's early use in Mesopotamian art and its cultural symbolism in Greece and Rome, this study includes stylized foxes, tigers, badgers and cats, as well as fanciful creatures like dragons, humanoid birds, water imps, demons and other chimerical beasts. Stories and descriptions are provided along with numerous photographs and drawings, making this work an invaluable resource for art collectors and anyone interested in East Asian culture and history.

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McFarland

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1476619581

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9781476619583

The Moral Symmetry of Good and Evil

By: Ken Levi

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The Moral Symmetry of Good and Evil

By: Ken Levi

“I love to kill people. I love watching them die.” So said Richard Ramirez, the notorious Los Angeles “Night Stalker.” Can we say that he, and others like him, are pure evil? Or, is that just a matter of personal opinion? This book is about morality. It’s about proving good and evil are real; that they’re not just an opinion; that they are based on a measurable standard; that the measurable standard comes not from religion, not from philosophy, but from science. What is that scientific standard? Symmetry. It’s how things work in physics, in aesthetics, and even in ethics. The same symmetry that governs the interaction among subatomic particles, that forms the wings of a butterfly, that determines the genius of a snowflake, also has fashioned you and me as moral beings, and has given us the choice between what’s evil and what’s good. That’s what I explain.

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Ken Levi

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0463655591

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9780463655597

Timothy and the Phubbers

By: Ken Kwek

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Timothy and the Phubbers

By: Ken Kwek

Timothy Pong has enough trouble at home without throwing his first year of secondary school into the mix. The Pong family only interact with each other through digital machines rather than human contact. Twelve-year-old Timothy is too young to own a phone, according to his mum, so he hasn’t actually spoken to his family in years as he can’t WhatsApp his parents or Snapchat his older sister. Even worse, the most menacing bully in school, who also just happens to be the prettiest girl Timothy has ever seen, has plucked him out as her new favourite target. Luckily, Timothy has a few ideas up his sleeve to survive Secondary One, as well as the help of his undernourished friend Rudy, who, when not helping Timothy, can be found eating grass in the school field. When their first plan goes horribly wrong and Timothy is caught on camera with his pants down – the most embarrassing three minutes of fame ever, the two friends must up their game if they’re to expose the conniving Bella, ace their Science project, and learn how an old-fashioned camera they first mistook for a hairdryer might be the answer to their prayers.

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Epigram Books

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9814757985

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9789814757980

Yoga Mom, Buddha Baby

The Yoga Workout for New Moms

By: Jyothi Larson,Ken Howard

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Yoga Mom, Buddha Baby

The Yoga Workout for New Moms

By: Jyothi Larson,Ken Howard

S-T-R-E-T-C-H, STRENGTHEN, AND MEDITATE—WITH YOUR BABY Practicing yoga with your baby—as you hold your baby, have your baby next to you, or have your baby leaning against your thighs or atop your belly—is a wonderful way to add joy to your first year together. Popular yoga teacher Jyothi Larson shares the specially adapted yoga poses she has taught to hundreds of moms and their “Buddha babies,” her term for the happy and calm babies in her classes. Whether you are new to yoga or an experienced student, whatever shape you are in, you are in the perfect place to practice yoga. In this beautifully illustrated book with easy-to-follow instructions, Larson presents twenty routines that help you get back in shape faster as you bond with your baby. Included are: • prenatal yoga, with a focus on the last trimester • what to do after birth through the first six weeks, with special poses for women who have had C-sections • modified yoga poses that respect your changing post-pregnancy body and give all of yoga’s benefits—stretching, strengthening, and relaxing • fun yoga moves that encourage your baby’s natural flexibility and growth • breathing and relaxation exercises as well as partner postures and much more! Experience the joy of yoga while bonding with your baby.

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Bantam

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0307493512

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9780307493514

Epic in the Forgotten War

By: Ken Filing

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Epic in the Forgotten War

By: Ken Filing

Tony Marino has reached a crossroads in life. With high school commencement just two weeks away, Marino is definitely ready to explore the world that lies outside Cleveland, Ohio. But times are tough in 1949, leaving Marino only one viable optionto join the navy. As he enlists, he has no idea that the Korean War is about to break out. Soon after his ship is assigned to action in Korea, Marino is sent on an undercover mission with two shipmates, Sully and Peacock, to provide valuable information to General MacArthur, who is planning an invasion of Inchon. As his mission increases in intensity, Marino and his shipmates bravely face great danger as they scout out three islands, gather critical information, and finally return safely to the ship. But as the war progresses, it is not long before their ship is assigned to help in the evacuation of Hungnam in North Koreaa fateful decision that leads Marino and Sully to imprisonment in a clandestine hospital known for its inhumane experiments. In this military thriller loosely based on real-life events, two American sailors must rely on the CIA and a beautiful Korean girl to escapebefore it is too late.

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Trafford Publishing

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1426968221

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9781426968228

Teaching Language and Communication to the Mentally Handicapped

By: Ken Leeming,Will Swann,Judith Coupe,Peter Mittler

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Teaching Language and Communication to the Mentally Handicapped

By: Ken Leeming,Will Swann,Judith Coupe,Peter Mittler

First published in 1979. This report offers a working model for the teaching of language and communication to the mentally handicapped which derives from both theory and practice, and tries to build a bridge between them. It provides detailed examples of teachers putting principles into action and illustrates how teachers and children work together. The report will be of interest to all those concerned with the welfare of the handicapped child, including the parents. It provides both a working text for teachers, and a basis for critical discussion about curriculum development and content in special needs schools.

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Routledge

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0429949421

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9780429949425

Time and Migration

How Long-Term Taiwanese Migrants Negotiate Later Life

By: Ken Chih-Yan Sun

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Time and Migration

How Long-Term Taiwanese Migrants Negotiate Later Life

By: Ken Chih-Yan Sun

Based on longitudinal ethnographic work on migration between the United States and Taiwan, Time and Migration interrogates how long-term immigrants negotiate their needs as they grow older and how transnational migration shapes later-life transitions. Ken Chih-Yan Sun develops the concept of a "temporalities of migration" to examine the interaction between space, place, and time. He demonstrates how long-term settlement in the United States, coupled with changing homeland contexts, has inspired aging immigrants and returnees to rethink their sense of social belonging, remake intimate relations, and negotiate opportunities and constraints across borders. The interplay between migration and time shapes the ways aging migrant populations reassess and reconstruct relationships with their children, spouses, grandchildren, community members, and home, as well as host societies. Aging, Sun argues, is a global issue and must be reconsidered in a cross-border environment.

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Cornell University Press

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1501754882

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9781501754883

North Korea under Kim Chong-il

Power, Politics, and Prospects for Change

By: Ken E. Gause

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North Korea under Kim Chong-il

Power, Politics, and Prospects for Change

By: Ken E. Gause

This much-needed study draws on fresh material and firsthand observation to provide an understanding of North Korea as it exists today. North Korea under Kim Chong-il: Power, Politics, and Prospects for Change delves deeply into what we know—and what we think we know—about the current North Korean system. This incisive book probes the dynamics that inform the nation's domestic and foreign policies, examining key leadership institutions and personalities, as well as prospects for the next regime. In outlining the major events behind Kim Chong-il's assumption of power, Ken E. Gause illuminates the environment that shaped Chong-il's worldview and his concept of the regime and his role in it. The book focuses on regime politics since 1994. Among other critical topics, the book examines the evolution of North Korean decision-making with regard to its internal and external affairs and how both are intermingled. The prospects for a third hereditary succession and the prospective stability of the next regime are also considered.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313381763

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9780313381768

Dying Days

By: Ken Fry

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Dying Days

By: Ken Fry

Scott Anderson is terminally ill, and is not expected to live much longer. As an ex-RAF officer from World War Two, operating in Bomber Command, he has come to realise that once he is dead, there will be no one to pass on what he knows about his life; what he did with it, and the lives of his ancestors.He wants his adult children to know about his history so they, in turn, can pass it onto their children. It’s important, he thinks, to know where you come from, your roots and your heritage.He begins to dictate his story to his son Hugh. It’s an extensive and highly surprising account of Anderson’s wartime experiences and his early life. He also reveals the whereabouts of a large, locked wooden chest, which is only to be opened once he has died. Inside, he says, they will find part of their inheritance.In fact, what Anderson’s children find in the box will ensure that their lives will never be the same again. There was, it seems, a darker reason for his deathbed revelation, and the box contains a shocking legacy that will impact deeply on all their lives and, in doing so, will take them around the world.

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1848763212

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9781848763210

The Sun Jumpers

By: Ken Luber

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The Sun Jumpers

By: Ken Luber

Ten thousand years ago, two teenage lovers set out to save their clan. But what they didn’t expect is to end up in the 21st century… Along with two loyal friends, Ty and Sita embark on a daring vision quest, searching a deadly prehistoric forest for a tribe to save their cave-dwelling clan. But when the blood of a beast and Sita’s shamanic potions combine to scramble their psyches, the dark-skinned seekers find themselves thrust from their familiar cave-land world into the technology-driven modern-day city of Los Angeles. Darren, a young filmmaker shooting a carpet commercial on a mountaintop, mistakes the Stone Age kids for a rap group and brings them to his home, where the teens discover the wonders of Star Wars, pizza, sunglasses, and skateboarding. Ty’s courage and Sita’s shamanic wisdom eventually force the pompous filmmaker to face his destiny, and disbelief slowly becomes trust. Still, Ty must find a way to travel back ten millennia with a miracle that will save his starving clan. But how? Or will Sita’s potions hurl them into another, unrecognizable, even malevolent future? The Sun Jumpers is a witty yet moving tale of teenage love, the power of friendship, and how bravery and a willing heart can save an entire people.

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Dog Ear Publishing

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1457550466

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9781457550461

A Great Escape

Short Stories for Travelers

By: Ken Wasil

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A Great Escape

Short Stories for Travelers

By: Ken Wasil

A GREAT ESCAPE: Short Stories for Travelers LAY BACK . . . CURL UP . . . LET GO . . . AND ESCAPE TO ANOTHER WORLD. You'll journey to camel markets and traverse hot sand dunes in the deserts of Egypt while witnessing a new country being formed by revolutionaries. You'll visit a topsy turvy East Coast town where household pets attack their owners because of GMO's in the pet food. And you'll cruise through the most dangerous city in America and discover one man's solution to crime and corruption. Then you'll take a trip to Salem, Massachusetts where you'll encounter real Vampires—the kind you'll soon meet in your neighborhood and in the company where you work. Finally, you'll be chased and shot at with poison darts by the Kawahiva Headhunters in the Amazon Rain Forests of Brazil. This is only a preview of the adventures awaiting you in the twenty stories in A Great Escape. They will entertain you and get your heart racing. However, read them with care . . . take them in small dose . . . for they may make you forget your day to day life, quit your job, and travel the world.

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Booktango

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146895881X

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9781468958812

Tokyo Revengers 22

By: Ken Wakui

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Tokyo Revengers 22

By: Ken Wakui

The newest Time Leap: Suspense, volume 22!! The Kanto Incident draws to a close, and the Toman approaches their final gathering. Upon receiving the support of Mikey, Takemichi resolves to separate himself from the past. Is that the key to eventually achieving the greatest happiness ever before…?!

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Kodansha America LLC

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1636993591

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Essential Human Anatomy for Artists

A Complete Visual Guide to Drawing the Structures of the Living Form

By: Ken Goldman

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Essential Human Anatomy for Artists

A Complete Visual Guide to Drawing the Structures of the Living Form

By: Ken Goldman

Essential Human Anatomy for Artists is a series of anatomy lessons that guides artists to see and draw the shapes and structures of the human form as it exists in life.

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For Artists

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1631599593

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The Encyclopedia of Wit, Humor, and Wisdom

The Big Book of Little Anecdotes

By: Ken Alley

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The Encyclopedia of Wit, Humor, and Wisdom

The Big Book of Little Anecdotes

By: Ken Alley

Whenever you need an amusing story to hold attention, drive home a point in speech making to enliven conversation, or to read just for fun, the more than 4,100 peppery, bubbling stories in this volume will satisfy every demand. All are arranged alphabetically under subject. The index and cross-index makes it possible to locate the right story quickly. The range of this volume is far and wide. The stories are about people in all walks of life. All of them are wholesome and clean. And what is more, you will want to remember and retell these stories. Drawn from the vagaries, the foibles, and the peculiarities of human nature, they provide countless chuckles from many different locales. The ENCYCLOPEDIA of WIT, HUMOR and WISDOM is indispensable for public speakers, toastmasters, lawyers, ministers, educators, writers, salesmen, and those who love a good laugh.

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iUniverse

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1462092292

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9781462092291

Optimal Muscle Training

By: Ken Kinakin

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Optimal Muscle Training

By: Ken Kinakin

Looks at how muscles function, provides tests to determine the ability to do weight-training exercises, and includes exercise to improve muscle function and strength.

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Human Kinetics

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0736081720

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9780736081726

Start to Draw

By: Robert Capitolo,Ken Schwab

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Start to Draw

By: Robert Capitolo,Ken Schwab

By successfully combining theory and practice, this page-by-page course provides the tools and information necessary for any artist to develop strong observational, organizational, and expressive drawing skills. The instructions include a discussion of the uses and history of drawing materials; then they present the basics of composition and controlling representational shading. Seven distinct shading techniques, including various forms of crosshatch shading, charcoal techniques, and shading with colored pencils, are laid out in detail and supplement a variety of compositional ideas. Read through this volume as a comprehensive primer in drawing, or refer to it as needed to answer questions or refine particular skills. A supplemental glossary is included to explain technical terms.

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Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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1402734603

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9781402734601

American Song

The Complete Musical Theatre Companion

By: Ken Bloom

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American Song

The Complete Musical Theatre Companion

By: Ken Bloom

American song contains data on over 4,800 American musicals spread over two volumes. All Broadway, off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway productions are included, together with all resident theatre productions of shows by major artists, shows that closed out of town prior to Broadway, shows that toured, selected nightclub shows, straight plays with original songs, vaudeville and burlesque shows.

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Macmillan Reference USA

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0028645723

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9780028645728

Broadway

An Encyclopedia

By: Ken Bloom

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Broadway

An Encyclopedia

By: Ken Bloom

This volume is another example in the Routledge tradition of producing high-quality reference works on theater, music, and the arts. An A to Z encyclopedia of Broadway, this volume includes tons of information, including producers, writer, composers, lyricists, set designers, theaters, performers, and landmarks in its sweep.

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1135950199

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Finding Forever

A Deadline Diaries Exclusive

By: Ken Baker

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Finding Forever

A Deadline Diaries Exclusive

By: Ken Baker

In this YA series, Brooklyn Brant is a celebrity news blogger dying to have her big break. Her blog, Deadline Diaries, features the clickbait hook-ups, break-ups, and screw-ups of the Hollywood glitterati, but she has yet to nab the one juicy scoop that will establish her as the ultimate insider. Actress Taylor Prince is America's sweetheart—beautiful, talented, successful, and sober. With a Golden Globe win, Oscar nom, clothing and fragrance line, and too many magazine covers to count, Taylor is ready to celebrate her sixteenth birthday with a big poolside bash. However, she is not prepared for a police raid and blacking out in the arms of a dangerously handsome stranger. Brooklyn is called by Taylor's assistant to locate the missing starlet under the radar and on a very tight deadline. And she will need both her sleuthing and journalistic skills to solve the mystery and get the story of a lifetime. In this suspenseful, dual narrative thriller alternating between the perspectives of Brooklyn and Taylor, author Ken Baker uses his in-depth experience with celebrity journalism and behind-the-scenes truths to explore the ugly underbelly of Hollywood's obsession with finding the ever elusive fountain of youth. [Excerpt:] “Sources are to a news-breaking blogger what water is to a plant: Everything but the sun.”

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Running Press Kids

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0762458178

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9780762458172

Negima!

By: Ken Akamatsu

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Negima!

By: Ken Akamatsu

10-year-old Negi Springfield has just graduated from a British school for wizards. After meeting with the school headmaster to discuss his graduate work assignment, he finds that he will be moving to Japan--to teach English at an all-girls high school. Under strict instructions not to show his magic powers, Negi finds that he can't resist using them to help others. Of course, despite his good intentions sometimes his magic just makes things even worse!

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Kodansha Comics

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1612628508

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Pimp

By: Ken Bruen,Jason Starr

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Pimp

By: Ken Bruen,Jason Starr

DEALING… PRODUCING… ALL IN A DAY’S WORK FOR A DRUGLORD. OR IN HOLLYWOOD. Ruined and on the lam, former drug kingpin Max Fisher stumbles upon the biggest discovery of his crooked life: a designer drug called PIMP that could put him back on top. Meanwhile, a certain femme fatale from his past is pursuing a comeback dream of her own, setting herself up in Hollywood as producer of a series based on her and Max’s life story. But even in La-La Land, happy endings are hard to come by, especially with both the cops and your enemies in the drug trade coming after you…

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Titan Books (US, CA)

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1783295708

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9781783295708

Echoes of Evil

By: Ken R. Abell

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Echoes of Evil

By: Ken R. Abell

Echoes of Evil rejoins Deacon Coburn and company in a new adventure that picks up storylines and characters from Days of Purgatory and Shadows of Revenge. Joys and sorrows weave through this mosaic narrative, for the pursuit of justice extracts a great price as gripping scenarios unfold and secrets are confronted in the midst of upheaval. True to his sojourner outlook, the whiskey-sipping philosopher from Conoy Creek always comes to the aid of others at just the right time, embodying a theme of life: "We ride upon the rippling currents set in motion for us by the Almighty. We merely lean into eddies we choose." Populated by Old West heroes and outlaws, Echoes of Evil introduces a cunning scoundrel unseen in the saga until now. This third installment continues a life-and-death struggle filled with harrowing turns and supernatural overtones.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1625647093

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Feet to the Fire

CIA Covert Operations in Indonesia, 1957-1958

By: Ken Conboy,James Morrison

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Feet to the Fire

CIA Covert Operations in Indonesia, 1957-1958

By: Ken Conboy,James Morrison

Today the vast archipelago of Southeast Asia islands known as Indonesia is in the headlines because of political instability, religious tension, and violence in the streets. Forty years ago similar conditions led the Central Intelligence Agency to mount a top-secret covert action campaign designed to hold that nation's left-leaning President Sukarno's feet to the fire and prevent a strategic crossroad from falling into the communist camp. The Agency supported rebels with weapons, planes, and a memorable cast of bigger-than-life American agents. In a fast-paced, engrossing narrative evoking the novels of John LeCarré and Graham Greene, the authors provide the first unclassified, detailed case study of an operation that has escaped public scrutiny for decades. Their work adds significantly to our understanding of the CIA and American involvement in Asia. Drawing on declassified documents and an extraordinary number of interviews with CIA and Indonesian participants, Kenneth Conboy and James Morrison reconstruct the delicate, dangerous game played by American intelligence agents across the Indonesian archipelago. This is a story of ideologues and soldiers of fortune--historic CIA legends like Allen Dulles and Franklin Wisner, and notorious special operators like Tony "Poe" Poshepny, whose reputation reached mythic proportions later in Laos, and Allen Pope, an indefatigable B-26 pilot who was captured and sentenced to die. But it also includes the transfixing exploits of Montana smokejumpers, Polish aircrews, Muslim anti-communist guerrillas, U.S. Navy submarine crews, and Filipino mercenary pilots flying P-51 Mustangs. With the problems in today's Indonesia far from solved and the complex U.S.-Indonesian relationship coming under close scrutiny, this fascinating account of an American covert operation gone bad will play a significant role in shedding new light on the CIA's efforts in Southeast Asia.

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Naval Institute Press

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1682473503

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9781682473504

Michi Challenges History: From Farm Girl to Costume Designer to Relentless Seeker of the Truth: The Life of Michi Nishiura Weglyn

By: Ken Mochizuki

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Michi Challenges History: From Farm Girl to Costume Designer to Relentless Seeker of the Truth: The Life of Michi Nishiura Weglyn

By: Ken Mochizuki

A powerful biography of Michi Weglyn, the Japanese American fashion designer whose activism fueled a movement for recognition of and reparations for America’s World War II concentration camps. The daughter of Japanese immigrants, Michi Nishiura Weglyn was confined in Arizona’s Gila River concentration camp during World War II. She later became a costume designer for Broadway and worked as the wardrobe designer for some of the most popular television personalities of the ’50s and early ’60s. In 1968, after a televised statement by the US Attorney General that concentration camps in America never existed, Michi embarked on an eight-year solo quest through libraries and the National Archives to expose and account for the existence of the World War II camps where she and other Japanese Americans were imprisoned. Her research became a major catalyst for passage of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, in which the US government admitted that its treatment of Japanese Americans during World War II was wrong. Thoroughly researched and intricately told, Michi Changes History is a masterful portrayal of one woman’s fight for the truth—and for justice.

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WW Norton

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1324015896

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9781324015895

Sheep Tales

The Bible According to the Animals Who Were There

By: Ken Davis

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Sheep Tales

The Bible According to the Animals Who Were There

By: Ken Davis

Meet Galya, one of the nicest sheep you could hope to know. Far too nice to be hanging out with a crusty, bitter bird like Edgar the raven. Yet, who but someone as kind and wise as Galya could see past Edgar's nastiness to his deepest need and care about him enough to tell him the Sheep Tales? In Sheep Tales, the animals have their say. Here is the Bible story as you and your children have never experienced it, seen through the eyes of Galya, Edgar, Arvid the platypus, Dandy the lion, Glubber the whale, and other furry, feathery, and creepy-crawly creatures made and loved by God. This devotional storybook will touch and delight your children--and you. With tenderness, humor, and creativity, author Ken Davis takes your imagination to the very heart of the gospel: God's love, displayed from the Creation to the Resurrection. It's big enough to weave the animals children love into God's awesome plan of redemption. And it's wonderful enough and strong enough to heal anything--even a broken and angry heart like Edgar's.

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Zondervan

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0310227585

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9780310227588

The Art of Drawing & Painting Portraits

Create Realistic Heads, Faces & Features in Pencil, Pastel, Watercolor, Oil & Acrylic

By: Tim Chambers,Ken Goldman,Peggi Habets,Lance Richlin

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The Art of Drawing & Painting Portraits

Create Realistic Heads, Faces & Features in Pencil, Pastel, Watercolor, Oil & Acrylic

By: Tim Chambers,Ken Goldman,Peggi Habets,Lance Richlin

This all-inclusive book covers everything about portraiture in the most popular drawing and painting media.

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Walter Foster

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1600582672

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9781600582677

Beans

A History

By: Ken Albala

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Beans

A History

By: Ken Albala

This is the story of the bean, the staple food cultivated by humans for over 10,000 years. From the lentil to the soybean, every civilization on the planet has cultivated its own species of bean. The humble bean has always attracted attention - from Pythagoras' notion that the bean hosted a human soul to St. Jerome's indictment against bean-eating in convents (because they "tickle the genitals"), to current research into the deadly toxins contained in the most commonly eaten beans. Over time, the bean has been both scorned as "poor man's meat" and praised as health-giving, even patriotic. Attitudes to this most basic of foodstuffs have always revealed a great deal about a society. Featuring a new preface from author Ken Albala, Beans: A History takes the reader on a fascinating journey across cuisines and cultures.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350026123

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9781350026124

Track: The Field Events

By: Jim Santos,Ken Shannon

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Track: The Field Events

By: Jim Santos,Ken Shannon

With this book you can harness your abilities to acheive jumping and throwing success! Let two ationally acclaimed coaches show you: Proper techniques Special drills to help you readch your full potential How to incorporate weightlifting into your ear-round program Plymetrics Plus tips on nutrition, coaching, workouts and more!

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Sports Illustrated

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1461712505

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9781461712503

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