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Jack the Ripper and the Whitechapel Murders

By: Ken Hughes

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Jack the Ripper and the Whitechapel Murders

By: Ken Hughes

Between April and November of 1888, a shadow descended upon the streets of London’s East End. Night workers – predominantly prostitutes – were targeted in a brutal series of murders. Of the dozen reported killings, six bore the chilling signature of a single murderer, who would later become infamously known as Jack the Ripper. This enigmatic killer left a macabre calling card: surgically excising organs from his victims. Despite numerous theories and alleged familial ties proposed over the decades, the true identity of Jack the Ripper remains elusive. Modern forensics and passionate amateur sleuths have pursued the mystery, but the waters are muddied with myths and hearsay. Can we ever claim to be related to someone whose identity is unknown? The Ripper’s reign of terror may have been brief, yet its impact lingers on. Copycat killers have emerged over the years, attempting to emulate Jack’s nefarious deeds, but none have matched the intrigue surrounding the original Ripper. Whether this phantom killer was a transient or a local, their identity – and whether they fled England or met their end within its borders – remains one of history’s most compelling enigmas. Delve into this book and decide for yourself: after journeying through its pages, do you think you’ve come closer to uncovering the truth about Jack the Ripper?

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Austin Macauley Publishers

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1398472085

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9781398472082

Drawing on Religion

Reading and the Moral Imagination in Comics and Graphic Novels

By: Ken Koltun-Fromm

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Drawing on Religion

Reading and the Moral Imagination in Comics and Graphic Novels

By: Ken Koltun-Fromm

Comics traffic in stereotypes, which can translate into real danger, as was the case when, in 2015, two Muslim gunmen opened fire at the offices of Charlie Hebdo, which had published depictions of Islam and Muhammad perceived by many to be blasphemous. As a response to that tragedy, Ken Koltun-Fromm calls for us to expand our moral imaginations through readings of graphic religious narratives. Utilizing a range of comic books and graphic novels, including R. Crumb’s Book of Genesis Illustrated, Craig Thompson’s Blankets, the Vakil brothers’ 40 Sufi Comics, and Ms. Marvel, Koltun-Fromm argues that representing religion in these formats is an ethical issue. By focusing on the representation of Christian, Jewish, Muslim, and Hindu religious traditions, the comics discussed in this book bear witness to the ethical imagination, the possibilities of traversing religious landscapes, and the problematic status of racial, classed, and gendered characterizations of religious persons. Koltun-Fromm explores what religious stereotypes do and how they function in comics in ways that might expand or diminish our imaginative worlds. The pedagogical challenge, he argues, is to linger in that space and see those worlds well, with both ethical sensitivity and moral imagination. Accessibly written and vibrantly illustrated, this book sheds new light on the ways in which comic arts depict religious faith and culture. It will appeal to students and scholars of religion, literature, and comic studies.

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Penn State Press

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0271088508

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9780271088501

Return to the Bosque

By: Ken Miller

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Return to the Bosque

By: Ken Miller

To protect her family, Sarah Whitman is forced to kill two intruders at her ranch who are fleeing from the law after a government robbery. Those murders haunt her as she searches for her missing husband in the raw frontier town of Fort Worth, Texas during the post-Civil War era. Accompanied by her teenage daughter, infant son, and their pet dog, Sarah is aided in her quest by a saloon madam, a Shakespeare quoting newspaper owner, a young deputy marshal, an alcoholic attorney, and, through it all, the memories of her deceased father. Hounding her every move is a private investigator, Jack Kilpatrick, who suspects Sarah has knowledge of the stolen funds. The search leads Sarah into a courtroom where lynch law threatens to explode, to a remote Indian village to rescue her son, and, finally, to a sanatorium where she finds the clue that leads to her husband and allows her to Return to the Bosque.

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iUniverse

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0595446876

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Bullying in Schools

And what to Do about it

By: Ken Rigby

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Bullying in Schools

And what to Do about it

By: Ken Rigby

Bullying is now widely recognised as a serious problem that affects many children in schools. It can take many forms, including direct verbal and physical harassment and indirect forms such as deliberate exclusion and the targeting of individuals using cyber technology. Continual and severe bullying can cause both short term and long term damage, making it difficult for victims to form intimate relationships with others and for habitual bullies to avoid following a delinquent lifestyle and becoming perpetrators of domestic violence. Even though this type of abuse affects many of our school children, Ken Rigby believes there are grounds for optimism. This passionate and motivating book shows that there are ways of reducing the likelihood of bullying occurring in a school and effective ways of tackling cases when they do occur. Using up-to-date studies, Bullying in Schools helps us to understand the nature of bullying and why it so often takes place in schools. Importantly, it examines and evaluates what schools can do to promote more positive peer relationships within the school community and take effective and sustainable action to deal with problems that may arise. Teachers, parents, school leaders, policy makers, and health professionals will find it invaluable and empowering.

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Aust Council for Ed Research

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0864314477

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9780864314475

Contemporary Strategy

Theories and Policies

By: John Baylis,Ken Booth,John Garnett,Phil Williams

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Contemporary Strategy

Theories and Policies

By: John Baylis,Ken Booth,John Garnett,Phil Williams

This book, first published in 1975, is a comprehensive examination of specialised strategic studies, and deals with the theoretical and policy aspects of the topic. It argues that military power is an intrinsic part of the international system, with strategy being the means by which military power may be used to achieve political objectives. Hence, given the destructiveness of modern weapons it is the prime aim of the strategic doctrines of the major powers not to wage war, but to use their military potential to further their interests by less catastrophic means. However, outside the Cold War superpower confrontation, strategy exhibits many of its traditional aspects. This book analyses both types of strategy variations.

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Routledge

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1000262499

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9781000262490

Snakes in the Wild Oats

By: Ken Wotherspoon

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Snakes in the Wild Oats

By: Ken Wotherspoon

Snakes in the Wild Oats brings readers into the lives of Grade Eight boys in 1940s Canada as they experience new curiosities, secrets, sexual wonderings, conflicts, and societal challenges in their small rural community. Here is a rewarding tale that will remind readers of the hardships, rewards, and responsibilities of adolescence.

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Vantage Press, Inc

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0533160723

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9780533160723

Country Music Changed My Life

Tales of Tough Times and Triumph from Country's Legends

By: Ken Burke

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Country Music Changed My Life

Tales of Tough Times and Triumph from Country's Legends

By: Ken Burke

In this book based on new interviews, some of country music's greatest stars share personal moments of redemption, inspiration, and heartache related to the music that shaped their lives. Brenda Lee explains how her childhood singing gift raised her entire family out of dire poverty, and Pat Boone speaks about the spiritual influence of his father-in-law, Red Foley. Barbara Pittman talks about her childhood friendship with Elvis Presley, while Little Jimmy Dickens divulges how Hank Williams came to write a song for him and why he never recorded it. Mickey Gilley talks about gladly living in, then gladly escaping, the shadow of his cousin Jerry Lee Lewis, and Hank Thompson reveals how his background in electrical engineering helped revolutionize country music. More stories from Glen Campbell, Don Williams, Johnny Legend, Chris Hillman, and many others explain the inspiration and effect of country music in their lives.

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Chicago Review Press

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1556529910

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9781556529917

Firsts, Facts, Feats, & Failures in the World of Golf

By: Ken Janke

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Firsts, Facts, Feats, & Failures in the World of Golf

By: Ken Janke

For the golf enthusiast who has heard it all"Firsts, Facts, Feats, and Failures in the World of Golf" offers a refreshingly hilarious and enlightening compilation of stories from Ken Janke, one of golf's most colorful historians. From the early days of the game to today's golf legends, this book includes the greats and almost-greats, the winners and losers, the true and not-so true.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0471965596

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9780471965596

The Big Dance

The Story of the NCAA Basketball Tournament

By: Barry Wilner,Ken Rappoport

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The Big Dance

The Story of the NCAA Basketball Tournament

By: Barry Wilner,Ken Rappoport

Covered by four networks, allowing every game to be televised, “March Madness” has become an American phenomenon as anticipated as the Super Bowl. This is the story of the tournament from its beginnings seventy-three years ago as just an eight-team “bracket” to today’s sixty-eight-team format. From the “Cinderella” teams like Butler and Gonzaga to perennial powerhouses such as UCLA and Kentucky, covering buzzer-beaters, upsets, and dynasties, the story of one of the most-followed sporting events in history is comprehensively told here.

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Taylor Trade Publications

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1589796225

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9781589796225

Pixar's Boy Stories

Masculinity in a Postmodern Age

By: Shannon R. Wooden,Ken Gillam

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Pixar's Boy Stories

Masculinity in a Postmodern Age

By: Shannon R. Wooden,Ken Gillam

Since Toy Story, its first feature in 1995, Pixar Animation Studios has produced a string of commercial and critical successes including Monsters, Inc.; WALL-E; Finding Nemo; The Incredibles; Cars; and Up. In nearly all of these films, male characters are prominently featured, usually as protagonists. Despite obvious surface differences, these figures often follow similar narratives toward domestic fulfillment and civic engagement. However, these characters are also hypermasculine types whose paths lead to postmodern social roles more revelatory of the current “crisis” that sociologists and others have noted in boy culture. In Pixar’s Boy Stories: Masculinity in a Postmodern Age, Shannon R. Wooden and Ken Gillam examine how boys become men and how men measure up in films produced by the animation giant. Offering counterintuitive readings of boy culture, this book describes how the films quietly but forcefully reiterate traditional masculine norms in terms of what they praise and what they condemn. Whether toys or ants, monsters or cars, Pixar’s males succeed or fail according to the “boy code,” the relentlessly policed gender standards rampant in American boyhood. Structured thematically around major issues in contemporary boy culture, the book discusses conformity, hypermasculinity, socialhierarchies, disability, bullying, and an implicit critique of postmodern parenting. Unprecedented in its focus on Pixar and boys in its films, this book offers a valuable perspective to current conversations about gender and cinema. Providing a critical discourse about masculine roles in animated features, Pixar’s Boy Stories will be of interest to scholars of film, media, and gender studies and to parents.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442233591

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9781442233591

Opening Up North America, 1497-1800

By: Caroline Cox,Ken Albala

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Opening Up North America, 1497-1800

By: Caroline Cox,Ken Albala

Opening Up North America, 1497-1800, Revised Edition integrates in a chronological narrative the voyages taken from Florida to Newfoundland, covering the first recorded contact of John Cabot in 1497 through Alexander Mackenzie's journey across the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific in 1793. Through these stories, the geography of northeastern North America is pieced together and the impact European exploration had on Native American society continues to be felt today. Coverage of this title includes: the importance of cod fishing in the North Atlantic; Beaver hats and the role played by the fur trade in exploration of the continent's interior; Spanish, French, and English claims to territory in the southeast in the 16th century; and, exploration by Jacques Cartier, Samuel de Champlain, Henry Hudson, Etienne Brule, Rene-Robert Cavaller, Sieur de La Salle, and others.

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Infobase Publishing

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1604131969

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9781604131963

Trail North

The Okanagan Trail of 1858–68 and Its Origins in British Columbia and Washington

By: Ken Mather

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Trail North

The Okanagan Trail of 1858–68 and Its Origins in British Columbia and Washington

By: Ken Mather

Winner (second prize), 2019 British Columbia Lieutenant Governor's Medal for Historical Writing A revealing history of the ancient trail that served as a major transportation route between Washington and British Columbia and shaped the cultural and economic ties between the two jurisdictions. Trails are the most enduring memorials of human occupation. Long before stone monuments were created, pathways throughout the world were being worn into hardness by human feet. Travellers along the stretch of Highway 97 from Brewster, Washington, to Kamloops, BC, may not know that they are travelling a route as old as humankind’s presence in the region. In fact, this north–south valley, a natural corridor linking the two major river systems that drain the Interior Plateau, has served as transportation route for tens of thousands of years. Trail North traces the origins of this iconic trail among the Indigenous people of the Interior Plateau and its uses by the three different fur trading companies, before turning its focus on the period of 1858 to 1868, when the trail was used by miners, packers, and cattlemen as the major entry point into British Columbia from Washington Territory. The historical use of the trail in both jurisdictions is a fascinating episode in the history of the Pacific Northwest.

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Heritage House Publishing Co

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177203231X

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9781772032314

The Last American Newspaper

An Institution in Peril, Through the Eyes of a Small-Town Editor

By: Ken Tingley

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The Last American Newspaper

An Institution in Peril, Through the Eyes of a Small-Town Editor

By: Ken Tingley

This book reveals what is happening in small communities across the United States as their newspapers struggle to survive. It is a celebration not just of journalism, but of the inspirational people who do it and the news and events of small towns. Importantly, it asks the question: who will be the community watchdog of the future? This book memorializes the American newspaper through the story of the Post-Star of Glens Falls, NY. The author, a devoted veteran of the Post-Star, compiles a series of vignettes that depict the newspaper's coverage over the years. They provide a glimpse behind the newsroom curtain through the stories of the investigative journalism done in small towns.

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McFarland

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1476688265

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9781476688268

The Deadbeat Dad

By: Ken Hultman

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The Deadbeat Dad

By: Ken Hultman

Mortimer J. Snow, Ph.D. is a renowned psychologist, author and university professor with a beautiful wife and two healthy children. While in the throes of a mid-life crisis, he makes the drastic choice to follow the advice hes been doling out for years and live as his authentic self. During his journey, he discovers whether pursuing a dream is worth risking everything and how culture shapes our definition of sanity. The Deadbeat Dad provides an intimate glimpse into a man, who by all outside standards is very successful, but inwardly feels empty and has a desperate need to save himself from societys view of how life should be lived.

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iUniverse

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1491741902

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9781491741900

Earth Changes Handbook

By: Ken Ludden

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Earth Changes Handbook

By: Ken Ludden

This handbook is designed to support the Earth Changes Workshop, first given in northern California on December 2-4, 2011. Ken Ludden, Loron Lavoie, Nelise Carbonare, Matita, Makarta, Orion Trist and Ashley Philpot have combined their collective knowledge base and put together this workshop that teaches skills that will be needed to prepare for, survive and re-establish world civilization after the earth crust shift.Dedicated to the survival of mankind, this workshop prepares the individual to have the resourceful and flexible state of mind necessary to face the potential earth crust shift.Not only is much of the science that supports the ECS theory presented in this workshop, but the fundamental set of skills needed to survive in the wild are presented in an organized and illuminating fashion.

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Lulu.com

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1105278891

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9781105278891

Relentless Pursuit

God's Love of Outsiders Including the Outsider in All of Us

By: Ken Gire

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Relentless Pursuit

God's Love of Outsiders Including the Outsider in All of Us

By: Ken Gire

Bestselling Author Reveals God's Heart for Outsiders Everyone feels like an outsider sometimes. Acclaimed bestselling author Ken Gire lets readers know that they are not alone. He brings them directly into the action of Scripture, telling the stories of foreigners, lepers, prostitutes, and other "outcasts" who found acceptance with God. Alongside the Bible stories, he blends contemporary examples and spiritual insights to paint a picture of a God who relentlessly pursues each of us. Discussion questions are included for individual or small group use.

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Baker Books

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1441271058

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9781441271051

The Best in Tent Camping: Montana

A Guide for Car Campers Who Hate RVs, Concrete Slabs, and Loud Portable Stereos

By: Ken Soderberg,Vicky Soderberg

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The Best in Tent Camping: Montana

A Guide for Car Campers Who Hate RVs, Concrete Slabs, and Loud Portable Stereos

By: Ken Soderberg,Vicky Soderberg

From the Cabinet Mountain Wilderness in the northwest, to the Yellowstone River Valley in the south, The Best in Tent Camping: Montana is a guidebook for tent campers who like quiet, scenic, and serene campsites. Whether you are a native Montanan in search of new territory or a vacationer on the lookout for that dream campground, this book unlocks the secrets to the best tent camping that Montana has to offer.

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Menasha Ridge Press

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0897325982

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9780897325981

Ogden Dunes

By: Dick Meister, Ken Martin, and the Historical Society of Ogden Dunes

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Ogden Dunes

By: Dick Meister, Ken Martin, and the Historical Society of Ogden Dunes

Ogden Dunes, incorporated in 1925, is the largest and most residential of the three Porter County lake-front communities established in the 1920s. Although it began as a highly restricted resort community with the largest man-made ski jump in North America, it became a middle-class residential community after 1945. Because of its proximity to Gary and Chicago, Ogden Dunes was also a battleground between the forces that wished to conserve the dunes and those that pushed for industrializing them. Alice Gray, Diana of the Dunes; Dorothy Buell, who led the fight to create a national park; and Dale Messick, the creator of comic strip Brenda Starr: Girl Reporter were important members of the community. Over the years, Ogden Dunes has provided a creative and supportive environment for children and adults, especially those with artistic talents and interests.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1467111899

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9781467111898

The Encyclopedia of TV Pets

A Complete History of Television's Greatest Animal Stars

By: Ken Beck,Jim Clark

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The Encyclopedia of TV Pets

A Complete History of Television's Greatest Animal Stars

By: Ken Beck,Jim Clark

The Encyclopedia of TV Pets is an entertaining and comprehensive journey into the lives of the world's most famous television animal stars. All creatures great and small, from kangaroos, sea lions, simians, and horses to elephants, dogs, lions, cats, and bears are here and pictured in nearly 200 photographs. More than 100 TV series are represented along with the biographies and true-life stories of such memorable animals as Lassie, Mr. Ed, Gentle Ben, Wishbone, Flipper, Trigger, Arnold the Pig, Murray, Morris, Silver, J. Fred Muggs, Spuds McKenzie, Nunzio, Clarence the Cross-eyed Lion and Judy the Chimp, Benji, Morty the Moose, Marcel the Monkey, Salem from Sabrina, Fred the Cockatoo, Flicka, Fury, Lancelot Link, Tramp, Comet, Skippy the Kangaroo, Rin Tin Tin, Cheetah, London, C.J. the Orangutan, Eddie from Frasier, and even the Taco Bell® Chihuahua! The Encyclopedia of TV Pets is an amazing menagerie of facts and tales, many never before told to television fans. Owners, trainers, and the human actors who worked with the animals have told stories in exclusive interviews. What were the animals' real names? What were their favorite treats? Who trained them to do the incredible feats you see on TV? It's all here and more in The Encyclopedia of TV Pets, a book that animal lovers will keep handy alongside their remote control.

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Thomas Nelson

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1418557374

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9781418557379

Freeing David McCallum

The Last Miracle of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter

By: Ken Klonsky

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Freeing David McCallum

The Last Miracle of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter

By: Ken Klonsky

In April 2014, Rubin "Hurricane" Carter died after a long battle with cancer. David McCallum was exonerated and freed two months later, after serving 29 years in prison. This is the story of how Carter and his friend and coauthor Ken Klonsky worked for ten years to help free the wrongfully convicted McCallum. It details their struggles—from founding an innocence project, to finding lawyers willing to work pro bono, to hiring a private detective to sift through old evidence and locate original witnesses, and the most difficult part, convincing members of a deeply flawed criminal justice system to reopen a case that would expose their own mistakes. It eventually took a new district attorney, a documentary film, and a New York Daily News op-ed written by Carter on his death bed to secure justice. Freeing David McCallum tells a tale of frustration, agony, and undying hope, and the miracle that resulted in David's release.

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Chicago Review Press

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1613737963

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9781613737965

Contemporary Perspectives On Masculinity

Men, Women, And Politics In Modern Society, Second Edition

By: Ken Clatterbaugh

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Contemporary Perspectives On Masculinity

Men, Women, And Politics In Modern Society, Second Edition

By: Ken Clatterbaugh

What is social reality for men in modern society? What maintains or explains this social reality? What condition might we imagine that would be better for men? How might we achieve this better condition? These are the questions Kenneth Clatterbaugh brings to seven different visions of men in modern society considered in this newly updated edition. In clear and insightful language, Clatterbaugh surveys not just conservative, liberal, and radical views of masculinity, but also the alternatives offered by the men's rights movement, spiritual growth advocates, and black and gay rights activists. Each of these is explored both as a theoretical perspective and as a social movement, and each offers distinctive responses to the questions posed.The first edition of this book was the first to survey the range of responses to feminism that men have made as well as the first to put political theory at the center of men's awareness of their own masculinity. This new edition adds chapters on recent highly-publicized movements such at the Promise Keepers, Million Man March, and the evolution of gay men's rights. Clatterbaugh treats all views with fairness and timeliness as he develops and defends a vision of men and masculinity consistent with feminist ideals and a just society.

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Routledge

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0429974965

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9780429974960

Management Buy-ins

Entrepreneurship, Active Investors, and Corporate Restructuring

By: Ken Robbie,Mike Wright

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Management Buy-ins

Entrepreneurship, Active Investors, and Corporate Restructuring

By: Ken Robbie,Mike Wright

This work presents the theory, development and characteristics of management buy-ins (MBIs), an important feature of corporate restructuring since the late 1980s.

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Manchester University Press

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071904281X

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Subcultures

Cultural Histories and Social Practice

By: Ken Gelder

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Subcultures

Cultural Histories and Social Practice

By: Ken Gelder

This book presents a cultural history of subcultures, covering a remarkable range of subcultural forms and practices. It begins with London’s ‘Elizabethan underworld’, taking the rogue and vagabond as subcultural prototypes: the basis for Marx’s later view of subcultures as the lumpenproletariat, and Henry Mayhew’s view of subcultures as ‘those that will not work’. Subcultures are always in some way non-conforming or dissenting. They are social - with their own shared conventions, values, rituals, and so on – but they can also seem ‘immersed’ or self-absorbed. This book identifies six key ways in which subcultures have generally been understood: through their often negative relation to work: idle, parasitical, hedonistic, criminal their negative or ambivalent relation to class their association with territory - the ‘street’, the ‘hood’, the club - rather than property their movement away from home into non-domestic forms of ‘belonging’ their ties to excess and exaggeration (as opposed to restraint and moderation) their refusal of the banalities of ordinary life and in particular, of massification. Subcultures looks at the way these features find expression across many different subcultural groups: from the Ranters to the riot grrrls, from taxi dancers to drag queens and kings, from bebop to hip hop, from dandies to punk, from hobos to leatherfolk, and from hippies and bohemians to digital pirates and virtual communities. It argues that subcultural identity is primarily a matter of narrative and narration, which means that its focus is literary as well as sociological. It also argues for the idea of a subcultural geography: that subcultures inhabit places in particular ways, their investment in them being as much imaginary as real and, in some cases, strikingly utopian.

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Routledge

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1134181264

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9781134181261

Lynching in the West, 1850-1935

By: Ken Gonzales-Day

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Lynching in the West, 1850-1935

By: Ken Gonzales-Day

This visual and textual study of lynchings that took place in California between 1850 and 1935 shows that race-based lynching in the United States reached far beyond the South.

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Duke University Press

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0822337940

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Pirates of the Prairie

Outlaws and Vigilantes in America's Heartland

By: Ken Lizzio

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Pirates of the Prairie

Outlaws and Vigilantes in America's Heartland

By: Ken Lizzio

The dramatic story of outlaws and vigilantes on the American frontier invariably calls to mind the Wild West of the latter nineteenth century. Yet, there was an earlier frontier, Illinois, that was every bit as wild and lawless as Dodge City or Tombstone. Between 1835 and 1850 several hundred outlaws and desperadoes descended on the prairie state, holding up stagecoaches, robbing homes and individuals, rustling cattle and horses, counterfeiting, murdering, and terrorizing residents with virtual impunity. In a state that was mostly wilderness, outlaws went undetected for years, often masquerading as law-abiding farmers and merchants while preying on isolated settlers and passing emigrants. If it was hard to detect the pirates, it was harder still to capture them and bring them to justice. With law enforcement incapable of checking outlaws, frustrated citizens eventually took matters into their own hands, administering frontier justice—vigilantism. Posses were formed; outlaws were swept from their lairs and whipped, shot, or hanged. Sometimes the miscreants got their just desserts; other times, the use of public tribunals to enact personal vendettas led to abuses, even chaos. Pirates of the Prairie brings the story of these wild times to life.

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1493036580

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9781493036585

Regaining Marxism

By: Ken Post

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Regaining Marxism

By: Ken Post

This book responds to recent events by proposing a radical reshaping of Marxist theory. Taking the core problem as that of the historical subject, it conceptualises human life in terms of four interrelated practices. It explores these in turn in the context of a capitalism divided into 'centre' and 'periphery', primarily through nine 'theoretical reconstructions', which attempt to meet such problems as the labour theory of value, the nature and role of the state, and consciousness.

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Street Legal

A Guide to Pre-trial Criminal Procedure for Police, Prosecutors, and Defenders

By: Ken Wallentine

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A Guide to Pre-trial Criminal Procedure for Police, Prosecutors, and Defenders

By: Ken Wallentine

This 396-page book provides specific guidance on pre-trial criminal procedure of all sorts, and explains in understandable terms what you can do and what you can't do under 4th Amendment search and seizure law. From traffic checkpoints and forceful felony arrest, from Miranda warnings to inmate and cell searches, it's all covered in this concise reference. In addition, numerous charts and guides are included throughout the book to make this as practical a guide as possible.

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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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The Madness of Michele Bachmann

A Broad-Minded Survey of a Small-Minded Candidate

By: Ken Avidor,Karl Bremer,Eva Young

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The Madness of Michele Bachmann

A Broad-Minded Survey of a Small-Minded Candidate

By: Ken Avidor,Karl Bremer,Eva Young

This fact-packed exposé reveals all the dirty little secrets that Michele Bachmann would rather you didn't know Since Michele Bachmann became a front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, journalists have been plumbing the depths of the well-regarded blog Dump Bachmann for material on her. Now the bloggers themselves pour forth a decade's worth of research and analysis to show that, no matter what you've heard about Bachmann, there's worse. Much worse. After dogging her heels for the past decade, they reveal the blood-curdling truth about the woman who may well become the Republican Party’s 2012 presidential nominee. Describes Bachmann's faith-based antischool agenda and antigay crusade Explores her fellow travelers, her problematic pastors, and criminal supporters, any of whom could become her Rev. Jeremiah Wright Reveals the boondoggles she's supported, the pernicious legislation she's championed (but, fortunately, almost never passed), and her foreign policy, which boils down to Jesus will be her Secretary of Defense Exposes the truth behind the notorious "Bathroomgate" incident Uncovers the influence of outside money on Bachmann's campaigns, causes, and policies Democrats disappointed by Obama, Republicans embarrassed by their party's shallow field of candidates, and moderate independents looking for a reasonable choice need to know all they can about presidential contenders. The Madness of Michele Bachman provides deep background they won't find in the mainstream media.

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Shadows of Tyranny

Defending Democracy in an Age of Dictatorship

By: Ken McGoogan

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Shadows of Tyranny

Defending Democracy in an Age of Dictatorship

By: Ken McGoogan

Bestselling historian and author Ken McGoogan delves into dictatorships of the twentieth century to sound this crucial alarm about the possibility of democratic collapse in the United States and its implications for Canada. Twentieth-century novels such as George Orwell’s 1984 and Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale produced visions of future dystopia that rang with echoes of past tyrannies. Always implied was a warning that history’s worst chapters are never truly closed, and that we must not fail—as many of our forebears did—to recognize that the threat of totalitarianism cannot simply be wished away. Awakening to Invasion, an alarming and engrossing work of non-fiction from acclaimed Canadian author Ken McGoogan, draws on this sense of looping history to show how figures like Donald Trump replay many aspects of the authoritarianism that spread in the middle of the last century. Calling not only on Orwell and Atwood, but also on H.G. Wells, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Jack London, and Hannah Arendt, McGoogan traces the ways democracy succumbed to paranoia, polarization, scapegoating and demagoguery less than a hundred years ago. These same forces, he argues, are now driving a far-right movement in the United States that seems devoted to using Trump’s warped charisma as a “wrecking ball” to clear the way for autocracy that closely resembles the dictatorships that stoked the Second World War. With this prospect, McGoogan’s central questions become all the more pressing: How should Canadians respond, officially and individually, to the possibility of democratic collapse in our powerful neighbour to the south? Is talk of manifest destiny from right-wing American firebrands like Tucker Carlson just chatter for the sake of notoriety? Or is it a hint of the expansionist urges that always lie at the heart of authoritarianism, and that may one day point the American military machine in our direction on the pretext of “liberating” us? In the cautionary spirit of earlier visionary works, Awakening to Invasion offers a galvanizing image of a dark possible future, as well as an urgent call to act in the belief that we still have the time and ability to ward it off.

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1771624256

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The Ordinary Genius

A Life of Arnold Platt

By: Ken Hoeppner

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The Ordinary Genius

A Life of Arnold Platt

By: Ken Hoeppner

The development of agriculture in Alberta owes much to Arnold W. Platt, who set out to plant a seed of positive change. Whether as a plant breeder, an organizer for the Farmers’ Union of Alberta, or a commissioner for the McPherson Royal Commission on Transportation, Platt applied his inventive and creative thinking to problems of rural development in twentieth century Alberta. In The Ordinary Genius, Ken Hoeppner pays homage to the accomplishments of this modest man, whose life’s work continues to resonate in farmlands across the Prairies. This detailed and thoroughly researched story will appeal to western history enthusiasts, agriculture specialists, and farmers.

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0888647662

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Master Your Data with Power Query in Excel and Power BI

Leveraging Power Query to Get & Transform Your Task Flow

By: MrExcel's Holy Macro! Books,Miguel Escobar,Ken Puls

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Master Your Data with Power Query in Excel and Power BI

Leveraging Power Query to Get & Transform Your Task Flow

By: MrExcel's Holy Macro! Books,Miguel Escobar,Ken Puls

Master data transformation techniques using Power Query in Excel and Power BI. Learn to manage, optimize, and automate your data workflows with practical examples. Key Features Comprehensive coverage of Power Query from basics to advanced techniques Seamless integration and movement of queries between Excel and Power BI Hands-on practice with real-world data scenarios to build your confidence Book DescriptionThis book equips you with the essential skills to master Power Query in Excel and Power BI. Starting with the basics, you'll learn query management, data types, and error handling, establishing a solid foundation. You'll explore techniques to move queries between Excel and Power BI, ensuring seamless workflow integration. As the guide progresses, you'll delve into data import methods from flat files, Excel, web-based, and relational sources, while performing key transformations like appending, combining, and reshaping data. Advanced topics such as conditional logic, Power Query values, and M Language fundamentals will enhance your ability to customize and optimize queries. The book also covers the creation of parameters and custom functions, alongside applying sophisticated date and time techniques. Finally, you'll learn to optimize query performance and automate data refreshes, ensuring your analysis remains current. By the end of this guide, you'll have the confidence and expertise to effectively transform and manage data using Power Query, significantly enhancing your data analysis capabilities in Excel and Power BI.What you will learn Understand Power Query fundamentals Manage queries effectively Transform and cleanse data Import data from diverse sources Utilize advanced features like M language Automate and optimize data processes Who this book is for Ideal for data analysts, Excel users, and Power BI enthusiasts looking to streamline data processing. Readers should have a basic understanding of Excel and data handling concepts. No prior knowledge of Power Query is required.

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Packt Publishing Ltd

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183664664X

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Religious Liberty in Crisis

Exercising Your Faith in an Age of Uncertainty

By: Ken Starr

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Religious Liberty in Crisis

Exercising Your Faith in an Age of Uncertainty

By: Ken Starr

What was unfathomable in the first two decades of the twenty-first century has become a reality. Religious liberty, both in the United States and across the world, is in crisis. As we navigate the coming decades, We the People must know our rights more than ever, particularly as it relates to the freedom to exercise our religion. Armed with a proper understanding of this country’s rich tradition of religious liberty, we can protect faith through any crisis that comes our way. Without that understanding, though, we’ll watch as the creeping secular age erodes our freedom. In this book, Ken Starr explores the crises that threaten religious liberty in America. He also examines the ways well-meaning government action sometimes undermines the religious liberty of the people, and how the Supreme Court in the past has ultimately provided us protection from such forms of government overreach. He also explores the possibilities of future overreach by government officials. The reader will learn how each of us can resist the quarantining of our faith within the confines of the law, and why that resistance is important. Through gaining a deep understanding of the Constitutional importance of religious expression, Starr invites the reader to be a part of protecting those rights of religious freedom and taking a more active role in advancing the cause of liberty.

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164177181X

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Chasing Arizona

One Man’s Yearlong Obsession with the Grand Canyon State

By: Ken Lamberton

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Chasing Arizona

One Man’s Yearlong Obsession with the Grand Canyon State

By: Ken Lamberton

It seemed like a simple plan—visit fifty-two places in fifty-two weeks. But for author Ken Lamberton, a forty-five-year veteran of life in the Sonoran Desert, the entertaining results were anything but easy. In Chasing Arizona, Lamberton takes readers on a yearlong, twenty-thousand-mile joyride across Arizona during its centennial, racking up more than two hundred points of interest along the way. Lamberton chases the four corners of Arizona, attempts every county, every reservation, and every national monument and state park, from the smallest community to the largest city. He drives his Kia Rio through the longest tunnels and across the highest suspension bridges, hikes the hottest deserts, and climbs the tallest mountain, all while visiting the people, places, and treasures that make Arizona great. In the vivid, lyrical, often humorous prose the author is known for, each destination weaves together stories of history, nature, and people, along with entertaining side adventures and excursions. Maps and forty-four of the author’s detailed pencil drawings illustrate the journey. Chasing Arizona is unlike any book of its kind. It is an adventure story, a tale of Arizona, a road-warrior narrative. It is a quest to see and experience as much of Arizona as possible. Through intimate portrayals of people and place, readers deeply experience the Grand Canyon State and at the same time celebrate what makes Arizona a wonderful place to visit and live.

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0816528926

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Struggle for the Soul of the Postwar South

White Evangelical Protestants and Operation Dixie

By: Ken Fones-Wolf,Elizabeth A. Fones-Wolf

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Struggle for the Soul of the Postwar South

White Evangelical Protestants and Operation Dixie

By: Ken Fones-Wolf,Elizabeth A. Fones-Wolf

In 1946, the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) undertook Operation Dixie, an initiative to recruit industrial workers in the American South. Elizabeth and Ken Fones-Wolf plumb rarely used archival sources and rich oral histories to explore the CIO's fraught encounter with the evangelical Protestantism and religious culture of southern whites. The authors' nuanced look at working class religion reveals how laborers across the surprisingly wide evangelical spectrum interpreted their lives through their faith. Factors like conscience, community need, and lived experience led individual preachers to become union activists and mill villagers to defy the foreman and minister alike to listen to organizers. As the authors show, however, all sides enlisted belief in the battle. In the end, the inability of northern organizers to overcome the suspicion with which many evangelicals viewed modernity played a key role in Operation Dixie's failure, with repercussions for labor and liberalism that are still being felt today. Identifying the role of the sacred in the struggle for southern economic justice, and placing class as a central aspect in southern religion, Struggle for the Soul of the Postwar South provides new understandings of how whites in the region wrestled with the options available to them during a crucial period of change and possibility.

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0252097009

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Harmonic Maass Forms and Mock Modular Forms: Theory and Applications

By: Kathrin Bringmann,Amanda Folsom,Ken Ono,Larry Rolen

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Harmonic Maass Forms and Mock Modular Forms: Theory and Applications

By: Kathrin Bringmann,Amanda Folsom,Ken Ono,Larry Rolen

Modular forms and Jacobi forms play a central role in many areas of mathematics. Over the last 10–15 years, this theory has been extended to certain non-holomorphic functions, the so-called “harmonic Maass forms”. The first glimpses of this theory appeared in Ramanujan's enigmatic last letter to G. H. Hardy written from his deathbed. Ramanujan discovered functions he called “mock theta functions” which over eighty years later were recognized as pieces of harmonic Maass forms. This book contains the essential features of the theory of harmonic Maass forms and mock modular forms, together with a wide variety of applications to algebraic number theory, combinatorics, elliptic curves, mathematical physics, quantum modular forms, and representation theory.

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1470419440

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Couldn't Have a Wedding Without the Fiddler

The Story of Traditional Fiddling on Prince Edward Island

By: Ken Perlman

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Couldn't Have a Wedding Without the Fiddler

The Story of Traditional Fiddling on Prince Edward Island

By: Ken Perlman

13. The Role of Radio and Recordings -- 14. The Repertoire -- 15. "It's Amazing How Quick It Did Go Down"--16. "If Everybody Does a Little Bit, Great Things Can Happen"--17. "There's Been a Big Revival of Music on the Island" -- Appendix A. Musical Examples -- Appendix B. Lists of Interview Sessions -- Appendix C. Lists of Collected Tunes -- Appendix D. Pronunciation Guide -- Appendix E. Discography and Suggested Listening -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index

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1621900975

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