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Beyond Words

A Year with Kenneth Cook

By: Jacqueline Kent

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Beyond Words

A Year with Kenneth Cook

By: Jacqueline Kent

In 1985 Jacqueline Kent was content with her life. She had a satisfying career as a freelance book editor, and was emerging as a writer. Living and working alone, she relished her independence. But then she met Kenneth Cook, author of the Australian classic Wake in Fright, and they fell in love. With bewildering speed Jacqueline found herself in alien territory: with a man almost twenty years older, whose life experience could not have been more different from her own. She had to come to terms with complicated finances and expectations, and to negotiate relationships with Ken’s children, four people almost her own age. But with this man of contradictions – funny and sad, headstrong and tender – she found real and sustaining companionship. Their life together was often joyful, sometimes enraging, always exciting – until one devastating evening. But, as Jacqueline discovered, even when a story is over that doesn’t mean it has come to an end.

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Univ. of Queensland Press

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0702262080

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9780702262081

Luke (2 volumes in 1 / ESV Edition)

That You May Know the Truth

By: R. Kent Hughes

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Luke (2 volumes in 1 / ESV Edition)

That You May Know the Truth

By: R. Kent Hughes

Luke's carefully researched and orderly account of the life of Christ is one of the finest pieces of historical writing from the ancient world. More importantly, it boldly proclaims the story and significance of Jesus, emphasizing his "gospel" as good news for the whole world. In this illuminating commentary, respected pastor R. Kent Hughes explores Luke's historical claims about the life of Christ and his overarching message, offering helpful insights into the biblical text and pastoral reflections on how it applies to everyday life. Written to help preachers and Bible teachers communicate God's Word more effectively, this commentary explores how the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus constitute the fulfillment of Old Testament prophecy and guarantee salvation to all who believe on his name. Part of the Preaching the Word series.

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Crossway

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1433538377

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9781433538377

The Kentucky Thoroughbred

By: Kent Hollingsworth

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The Kentucky Thoroughbred

By: Kent Hollingsworth

Kent Hollingsworth captures the flavor and atmosphere of the Sport of Kings in the dramatic account of the development of the Thoroughbred in Kentucky. Ranging from frontier days, when racing was conducted in open fields as horse-to-horse challenges between proud owners, to the present, when a potential Triple Crown champion may sell for millions of dollars, The Kentucky Thoroughbred considers ten outstanding stallions that dominated the shape of racing in their time as representing the many eras of Kentucky Thoroughbred breeding. No less colorful are his accounts of the owners, breeders, trainers, and jockeys associated with these Thoroughbreds, a group devoted to a sport filled with high adventure and great hazards. First published in 1976, this popular Kentucky classic has been expanded and brought up to date in this new edition.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813115477

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9780813115474

Brains and Numbers

Elitism, Comtism, and Democracy in Mid-Victorian England

By: Christopher Kent

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Brains and Numbers

Elitism, Comtism, and Democracy in Mid-Victorian England

By: Christopher Kent

A group of Oxford graduates, influenced by Arnold and later by Comte, formed the core of a generation of academic radicals who attempted to define the role of an educated élite in an emerging industrial mass democracy. This perceptive study of the English academic scene traces the emergence of Comtism in the university community and examines its expression in the ideas of Frederic Harrison and John Morley. The social and political dimensions of Comte's ideology in England are commonly considered to have been obscured by the tendency to regard it as a sort of eccentric religious sect. This study demonstrates the subtlety with which Harrison applied positivist ideas to mid-Victorian politics and the generally underestimated influence of Comte in Morley's political thought. Both men looked to the frank éliticism of Comte in Morley's political thought – in both thought and action – the political claims of 'brains and numbers.' It was, as the book shows, an attempt singularly appropriate to the requirements of an educated middle class. Set within the context of mid-Victorian academic radicalism, the appeal of Comtism becomes more clear. This book brings together a complex of philosophical, political, and religious ideas. It reflects the Victorian intellectual's perspective on the process and problems of social change.

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University of Toronto Press

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1487590806

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9781487590802

The Red Atlas

How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World

By: John Davies,Alexander J. Kent

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The Red Atlas

How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World

By: John Davies,Alexander J. Kent

The “utterly fascinating” untold story of Soviet Russia’s global military mapping program—featuring many of the surprising maps that resulted (Marina Lewycka, author of A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian). From 1950 to 1990, the Soviet Army conducted a global topographic mapping program, creating large-scale maps for much of the world that included a diversity of detail that would have supported a full range of military planning. For big cities like New York, Washington, D.C., and London to towns like Pontiac, MI, and Galveston, TX, the Soviets gathered enough information to create street-level maps. The information on these maps ranged from the locations of factories and ports to building heights, road widths, and bridge capacities. Some of the detail suggests early satellite technology, while other specifics, like detailed depictions of depths and channels around rivers and harbors, could only have been gained by Soviet spies on the ground. The Red Atlas includes over 350 extracts from these incredible Cold War maps, exploring their provenance and cartographic techniques as well as what they can tell us about their makers and the Soviet initiatives that were going on all around us.

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University of Chicago Press

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022638960X

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9780226389608

Aesthetics and the Revolutionary City

Real and Imagined Havana

By: James Clifford Kent

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Aesthetics and the Revolutionary City

Real and Imagined Havana

By: James Clifford Kent

Aesthetics and the Revolutionary City engages in alternative ways of reading foreign visual representations of Havana through analysis of advertising images, documentary films, and photographic texts. It explores key narratives relating to the projection of different Havana imaginaries and focuses on a range of themes including: pre-revolutionary Cuba; the dream of revolution; and the metaphor of the city “frozen-in-time.” The book also synthesizes contemporary debates regarding the notion of Havana as a real and imagined city space and fleshes out its theoretical insights with a series of stand-alone, important case studies linked to the representation of the Cuban capital in the Western imaginary. The interpretations in the book bring into focus a range of critical historical moments in Cuban history (including the Cuban Revolution and the “Special Period”) and consider the ways in which they have been projected in advertising, documentary film and photography outside the island.

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Springer

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3319640305

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9783319640303

Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science

Volume 29 - Stanford University Libraries to System Analysis

By: Allen Kent,Harold Lancour,Jay E. Daily

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Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science

Volume 29 - Stanford University Libraries to System Analysis

By: Allen Kent,Harold Lancour,Jay E. Daily

The Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science provides an outstanding resource in 33 published volumes with 2 helpful indexes. This thorough reference set--written by 1300 eminent, international experts--offers librarians, information/computer scientists, bibliographers, documentalists, systems analysts, and students, convenient access to the techniques and tools of both library and information science. Impeccably researched, cross referenced, alphabetized by subject, and generously illustrated, the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science integrates the essential theoretical and practical information accumulating in this rapidly growing field.

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CRC Press

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0824720296

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9780824720292

The Woman Writer

The History of the Society of Women Writers and Journalists

By: Sylvia Kent

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The Woman Writer

The History of the Society of Women Writers and Journalists

By: Sylvia Kent

Since its creation in 1894 by Joseph Snell Wood, the Society of Women Writers & Journalists has attracted the company of many famous women writers, journalists, poets and playwrights. From its early days when at least 200 women applied to join, the Society has expanded to become a world-renowned body, with members both in the United Kingdom and abroad. To celebrate the centenary of the birth of the SWWJ's much-loved President of twenty-two years, Joyce Grenfell, the Society's archivist, Sylvia Kent, reveals the long and fascinating history of the Society. Not only is the evolution of the Society fully explored, but also the lives of many of its members have been thoroughly researched to paint a vivid picture of how the Society has gone from strength to strength. Accompanied by images of the Society's members, both past and present, this book will interest not only members of the SWWJ, but is a must-read for women writers everywhere.

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The History Press

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0750952628

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9780750952620

Origins of Futuristic Fiction

By: Paul Kent Alkon

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Origins of Futuristic Fiction

By: Paul Kent Alkon

For nearly two thousand years, the future was a realm reserved for prophets, poets, astrologers, and practitioners of deliberative rhetoric. Then in 1659 the French writer Jacques Guttin published his romance Epigone, which carried the subtitle "the history of the future century." Unlike the stories of space travel that were popular at the time, or the tales of travel to distant earthly lands which had long been a familiar literary genre, Guttin's romance described human societies displaced by time as well as by space and heroes not of his own day but of a future age. Paul Alkon's Origins of Futuristic Fiction examines the earliest works of prose fiction set in future time, the forgotten writings of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries that are the precursors of such well-known masterpieces of the form as H.G. Wells's The Time Machine, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, and George Orwell's 1984. The first secular story to break the imaginative barrier against tales of the future, Epigone marked the emergence of a form unknown to classical, medieval, or renaissance literature. Guttin's courageous displacement of narrative into future time was followed by writers such as Samuel Madden, Louis-Sebastien Mercier, Cousin de Granville, Mary Shelley, and Emile Souvestre, who wrote books with such titles as Memoirs of the Twentieth Century, The Year 2440, The Last Man, and The World As It Will Be. Most extraordinary, though, may be Felix Bodin's great metafictional Le roman de l'avenir, "the novel of the future." Both a narrative of the future and a poetics of the new genre, this book identified in the previous isolated works set in future time a situation rarely encountered in literary history, in which the possibility for a new form clearly existed without yet being altogether achieved. In the introduction to his uncompleted novel, Bodin presented his vision of the futuristic novel as a literature of realism, morality, and fantasy. His remarkably astute attempt to define the aesthetics of a major transformation in the relation between literature and time still stands as the basis for the poetics of futuristic fiction. Tracing the early literary history of what became a major form of modern fiction, Origins of Futuristic Fiction examines the key works of the earliest writers of the genre not for what they betray of past expectations but for what they reveal about the formal problems that needed to be resolved before tales of the future could achieve their full power in the works of later novelists.

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University of Georgia Press

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082030932X

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9780820309323

New Orleans After the Promises

Poverty, Citizenship, and the Search for the Great Society

By: Kent B. Germany

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New Orleans After the Promises

Poverty, Citizenship, and the Search for the Great Society

By: Kent B. Germany

In the 1960s and 1970s, New Orleans experienced one of the greatest transformations in its history. Its people replaced Jim Crow, fought a War on Poverty, and emerged with glittering skyscrapers, professional football, and a building so large it had to be called the Superdome. New Orleans after the Promises looks back at that era to explore how a few thousand locals tried to bring the Great Society to Dixie. With faith in God and American progress, they believed that they could conquer poverty, confront racism, establish civic order, and expand the economy. At a time when liberalism seemed to be on the wane nationally, black and white citizens in New Orleans cautiously partnered with each other and with the federal government to expand liberalism in the South. As Kent Germany examines how the civil rights, antipoverty, and therapeutic initiatives of the Great Society dovetailed with the struggles of black New Orleanians for full citizenship, he defines an emerging public/private governing apparatus that he calls the "Soft State": a delicate arrangement involving constituencies as varied as old-money civic leaders and Black Power proponents who came together to sort out the meanings of such new federal programs as Community Action, Head Start, and Model Cities. While those diverse groups struggled--violently on occasion--to influence the process of racial inclusion and the direction of economic growth, they dramatically transformed public life in one of America's oldest cities. While many wonder now what kind of city will emerge after Katrina, New Orleans after the Promises offers a detailed portrait of the complex city that developed after its last epic reconstruction.

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0820342580

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The Madness of Ivy Basketball

By: Richard Kent

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The Madness of Ivy Basketball

By: Richard Kent

The madness of ivy basketball takes the reader through the epic 2023-2024 basketball season, Ivy Madness and the NCAA Tournament. There is a focus on all the teams of the Ancient Eight, Xavian Lee, Caden Pierce and Bez Mbeng. Much is said about the internal turmoil in the ivy league regarding topics which are impacted by the changing landscape of college athletics, which include, but are not limited to, NIL, unionization and the House case.

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iUniverse

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1663264368

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A Long, Long Trail

Accounting for My Years

By: Kent Gill

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A Long, Long Trail

Accounting for My Years

By: Kent Gill

A long life fully lived might appropriately be documented in some concrete, long-lasting, retrievable form. So, at the risk of being charged with hubris, I here have accounted for those years, giving credit to ones who accompanied me along the way and implying the values that have motivated me. It has been a life of striving, of involvement, of reaching out for new experience, of celebrating successes and learning from failures. This journey has been deeply rewarding, taking me from the onion fields of Western Colorado to the tranquil forests of Central Oregon, through junior high classrooms and hotel conference rooms, over High Sierra passes, to the offices of government and to many foreign countries. Here I share that life story.

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Xlibris Corporation

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149901080X

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O.C. Undercover

An Unofficial Guide to the Stars and Styles of The O.C.

By: Brittany Kent

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O.C. Undercover

An Unofficial Guide to the Stars and Styles of The O.C.

By: Brittany Kent

Any hip tween worth her Clinique lip gloss knows that Fox's The O.C. is the new television show to watch. Now, in one of the first unofficial guides to the show, readers will meet the hot young cast members of The O.C. and gain behind-the-scenes knowledge of the show. Not just a celeb bio book, Orange County Undercover includes fashion tips and pop culture trends that are sure to attract any tween who is California Dreamin'! The book includes: *Bio's of The O.C.'s cast--Benjamin McKenzie, Adam Brody, Mischa Barton, Rachel Bilson, Chris Carmack *What to Wear, O.C. Style: From Juicy Couture to Seven Jeans, what's in and what's out in Orange County *Surfer Slang: El Rollo, Fall Line, Geeked?? Learn the lingo that is sure to impress even the most diehard dude *Skater Chic: Just what is it about Adam Brody's geeky, skateboarder look that drives fans wild? *And much, much, more. So. . . Grab the guide, snag the remote, and get ready to rock The O.C.!

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St. Martin's Griffin

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1466829176

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9781466829176

Critical Companion to Mark Twain

A Literary Reference to His Life and Work

By: R. Kent Rasmussen

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Critical Companion to Mark Twain

A Literary Reference to His Life and Work

By: R. Kent Rasmussen

Praise for the previous edition:RASD/ALA "Outstanding Reference Source, 1996""'Essential' is the word for it!

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Infobase Publishing

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1438108524

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Children in the International Political Economy

By: G. Kent

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Children in the International Political Economy

By: G. Kent

The first line of responsibility for children lies with their parents, but what if the parents fail to look after their children? Who else is involved, and what should they do? Children in the International Political Economy examines the moral responsibilities of different individuals and agencies towards children and argues that some responsibilities should be codified as concrete legal duties. If all else fails, children must look to the international community for help. Thus international agencies should recognize specific obligations to look after the well-being of children around the world.

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Springer

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0230375537

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Regional Development and Planning for the 21st Century

New Priorities, New Philosophies

By: Allen G. Noble,Frank J. Costa,Robert B. Kent

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Regional Development and Planning for the 21st Century

New Priorities, New Philosophies

By: Allen G. Noble,Frank J. Costa,Robert B. Kent

Regional Development and Planning for the 21st Century examines a number of related themes including: the traditional approach of local and regional planning initiatives developed within the context of national goals; the current decline of bi-polar political and ideological blocs; political decentralization and concurrent economic centralization including the growth of multi-national corporations; devolution of centralized planning powers to regions and localities, and the rise and acceptance of sustainable development concepts. The book is divided into five parts addressing: 1 - adjustments to political, economic and social change; 2 the problems of urban housing and housing and health; 3 - adjustments to environmental change, development policies and sustainability; 4 - the problem of rapid urban growth and mega cities; 5 - adjustments of changing urban networks. The contributors are from several countries worldwide and the chapters examine the issues at a global level.

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Routledge

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1351905562

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9781351905565

Moguls and Mandarins

Oil, Imperialism and the Middle East in British Foreign Policy 1900-1940

By: Marian Kent

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Moguls and Mandarins

Oil, Imperialism and the Middle East in British Foreign Policy 1900-1940

By: Marian Kent

A study of Britain's imperial policy in the Middle East over oil, finance and defence. This book brings together different accounts of British policy in the early 20th century, particularly in the Ottoman Empire, to reflect a consistent pattern of preoccupation, policy-making and diplomacy.

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1135234221

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War Pictures

Cinema, Violence, and Style in Britain, 1939-1945

By: Kent Puckett

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War Pictures

Cinema, Violence, and Style in Britain, 1939-1945

By: Kent Puckett

In this original and engaging work, author Kent Puckett looks at how British filmmakers imagined, saw, and sought to represent its war during wartime through film. The Second World War posed unique representational challenges to Britain’s filmmakers. Because of its logistical enormity, the unprecedented scope of its destruction, its conceptual status as total, and the way it affected everyday life through aerial bombing, blackouts, rationing, and the demands of total mobilization, World War II created new, critical opportunities for cinematic representation. Beginning with a close and critical analysis of Britain’s cultural scene, War Pictures examines where the historiography of war, the philosophy of violence, and aesthetics come together. Focusing on three films made in Britain during the second half of the Second World War—Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), Lawrence Olivier’s Henry V (1944), and David Lean’s Brief Encounter (1945)—Puckett treats these movies as objects of considerable historical interest but also as works that exploit the full resources of cinematic technique to engage with the idea, experience, and political complexity of war. By examining how cinema functioned as propaganda, criticism, and a form of self-analysis, War Pictures reveals how British filmmakers, writers, critics, and politicians understood the nature and consequence of total war as it related to ideas about freedom and security, national character, and the daunting persistence of human violence. While Powell and Pressburger, Olivier, and Lean developed deeply self-conscious wartime films, their specific and strategic use of cinematic eccentricity was an aesthetic response to broader contradictions that characterized the homefront in Britain between 1939 and 1945. This stylistic eccentricity shaped British thinking about war, violence, and commitment as well as both an answer to and an expression of a more general violence. Although War Pictures focuses on a particularly intense moment in time, Puckett uses that particularity to make a larger argument about the pressure that war puts on aesthetic representation, past and present. Through cinema, Britain grappled with the paradoxical notion that, in order to preserve its character, it had not only to fight and to win but also to abandon exactly those old decencies, those “sporting-club rules,” that it sought also to protect.

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Fordham Univ Press

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0823276511

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9780823276516

Cupid and the King

Five Royal Paramours

By: Her Royal Highness Princess Michael of Kent,Princess Michael (of Kent)

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Cupid and the King

Five Royal Paramours

By: Her Royal Highness Princess Michael of Kent,Princess Michael (of Kent)

Written with an insider's keen understanding of court life and filled with delicious details born of impeccable research, Cupid and the King explores a little-known chapter of the history of women's roles in the royal bedrooms of Europe.

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Simon and Schuster

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074327086X

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9780743270861

James (ESV Edition)

Faith That Works

By: R. Kent Hughes

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James (ESV Edition)

Faith That Works

By: R. Kent Hughes

The epistle of James is one of the most practical books in the New Testament. Focused on what the Christian life looks like in practice, this short letter highlights a crucial truth about genuine faith: it always leads to good works. In this redesigned volume in the popular Preaching the Word commentary series, Kent Hughes walks readers through James's important teaching about what it means to follow Jesus, exploring the call to persevere through suffering, the relationship between faith and works, and the importance of taming the tongue. Accessible yet robust, this commentary will help pastors, Bible teachers, and small group leaders understand and communicate the message of the book of James with insight and clarity. Part of the Preaching the Word series.

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Crossway

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1433538490

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I Was A Teenage Treacle Tin

By: Mike Kent

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I Was A Teenage Treacle Tin

By: Mike Kent

In I Was A Teenage Treacle Tin, Mike looks back to his childhood and growing up in 1950s London. It was a time of innocence and trust, when parents didn’t worry where their children were or what they were doing as long as they turned up for their tea. Here are the events, situations and characters he encountered during a crowded childhood. His growing fascination with cinema after he’d received a toy projector for Christmas, his traumatic stay in hospital having his tonsils removed, the dentist who cared little about children and terrified him, the teachers who bored him rigid at secondary school, and his thoroughly enjoyable misadventures camping with the Boy Scouts. He also describes his halcyon holidays with his parents in Kent, injuring himself with his home-made fireworks, starting his great love of music with a temperamental wind-up gramophone and the bitter sweetness of first love. With nostalgia and great affection, Mike looks back at a child’s world that can only be imagined today.

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1838595155

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The Ultimate History of Video Games, Volume 2

Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, and the Billion-Dollar Battle to Shape Modern Gaming

By: Steven L. Kent

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The Ultimate History of Video Games, Volume 2

Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, and the Billion-Dollar Battle to Shape Modern Gaming

By: Steven L. Kent

The definitive behind-the-scenes history of video games’ explosion into the twenty-first century and the war for industry power “A zippy read through a truly deep research job. You won’t want to put this one down.”—Eddie Adlum, publisher, RePlay Magazine As video games evolve, only the fittest companies survive. Making a blockbuster once cost millions of dollars; now it can cost hundreds of millions, but with a $160 billion market worldwide, the biggest players are willing to bet the bank. Steven L. Kent has been playing video games since Pong and writing about the industry since the Nintendo Entertainment System. In volume 1 of The Ultimate History of Video Games, he chronicled the industry’s first thirty years. In volume 2, he narrates gaming’s entrance into the twenty-first century, as Nintendo, Sega, Sony, and Microsoft battle to capture the global market. The home console boom of the ’90s turned hobby companies like Nintendo and Sega into Hollywood-studio-sized business titans. But by the end of the decade, they would face new, more powerful competitors. In boardrooms on both sides of the Pacific, engineers and executives began, with enormous budgets and total secrecy, to plan the next evolution of home consoles. The PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube, and Sega Dreamcast all made radically different bets on what gamers would want. And then, to the shock of the world, Bill Gates announced the development of the one console to beat them all—even if Microsoft had to burn a few billion dollars to do it. In this book, you will learn about • the cutthroat environment at Microsoft as rival teams created console systems • the day the head of Sega of America told the creator of Sonic the Hedgehog to “f**k off” • how “lateral thinking with withered technology” put Nintendo back on top • and much more! Gripping and comprehensive, The Ultimate History of Video Games: Volume 2 explores the origins of modern consoles and of the franchises—from Grand Theft Auto and Halo to Call of Duty and Guitar Hero—that would define gaming in the new millennium.

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Crown

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1984825445

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9781984825445

A Life of Gwendolyn Brooks

By: George Kent

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A Life of Gwendolyn Brooks

By: George Kent

This is the first full-scale biography of Gwendolyn Brooks, one of America's major poets. George E. Kent, a longtime friend and literary associate of the poet in Chicago, was given exclusive access to Brooks' early notebooks, which she kept from the age of seven. Kent also interviewed Brooks, her mother, and other family members in Chicago and elsewhere. He scoured records and correspondence with her publishers, editors, and agent. He participated in the poet's literary enterprises and in her wide circle of literary and family friends. The study reveals intimate acquaintance with the Harlem Renaissance, with the Chicago literary scene and its leading figures from the thirties on, with historical developments in black culture and consciousness, and with the significant figures and activities that impressed the poet's life and art. It places Brooks' work in the context of the civil rights movement, the black arts movement, and black nationalism. Gwendolyn Brooks won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1950 for Annie Allen and is today widely recognized as one of the nation's leading poets, yet her work has received less than its due from mainstream critics. Kent's authoritative book has been one step in correcting that neglect.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813153921

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9780813153926

Working Through Setbacks in Psychotherapy

Crisis, Impasse and Relapse

By: Rob Leiper,Rosemary Kent

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Working Through Setbacks in Psychotherapy

Crisis, Impasse and Relapse

By: Rob Leiper,Rosemary Kent

Counsellors and psychotherapists often encounter difficult situations with clients for which they feel ill prepared. At any stage in the process a client may experience a crisis or set back in their progress or simply be unable to move beyond a certain point. Working through Setbacks in Psychotherapy is therefore intended to help therapists respond to such events which form major obstacles to the successful development and maintenance of the therapeutic relationship. The authors present a framework for understanding the problems that arise and offers effective guidance for working through difficult situations which test the skills of even the most experienced practitioners. Until now little has been written about the

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0761953159

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