Kevin Hammond's Books

Written in Blood Volume 1

The History of Fort Worth's Fallen Lawmen 1861-1909

By: Richard F. Selcer,Kevin Foster

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Written in Blood Volume 1

The History of Fort Worth's Fallen Lawmen 1861-1909

By: Richard F. Selcer,Kevin Foster

Richard F. Selcer and Kevin S. Foster tell the stories of thirteen of those early lawmen, starting with Tarrant County Sheriff John B. York in 1861 and going through Fort Worth Police Officer William Ad Campbell in 1909. York died in a street fight; Campbell was shot-gunned in the back while walking his beat in Hells Half-Acre. This is also the story of law enforcement in the days when an assortment of policemen and marshals, sheriffs and deputies, and special officers and constables held the line and sometimes crossed over it.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

384

Publisher

University of North Texas Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1574412965

ISBN 13

9781574412963

Biblical Scholarship, Science and Politics in Early Modern England

Thomas Browne and the Thorny Place of Knowledge

By: Kevin Killeen

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Biblical Scholarship, Science and Politics in Early Modern England

Thomas Browne and the Thorny Place of Knowledge

By: Kevin Killeen

Kevin Killeen addresses one of the most enigmatic of seventeenth century writers, Thomas Browne (1605-1682), whose voracious intellectual pursuits provide an unparalleled insight into how early modern scholarly culture understood the relations between its disciplines. Browne's work encompasses biblical commentary, historiography, natural history, classical philology, artistic propriety and an encyclopaedic coverage of natural philosophy. This book traces the intellectual climate in which such disparate interests could cohere, locating Browne within the cultural and political matrices of his time. While Browne is most frequently remembered for the magnificence of his prose and his temperamental poise, qualities that knit well with the picture of a detached, apolitical figure, this work argues that Browne's significance emerges most fully in the context of contemporary battles over interpretative authority, within the intricately linked fields of biblical exegesis, scientific thought, and politics. Killeen's work centres on a reassessment of the scope and importance of Browne's most elaborate text, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, his vast encyclopaedia of error with its mazy series of investigations and through this explores the multivalent nature of early-modern enquiry.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

396

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

135195542X

ISBN 13

9781351955423

KG: A to Z

An Uncensored Encyclopedia of Life, Basketball, and Everything in Between

By: Kevin Garnett

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

KG: A to Z

An Uncensored Encyclopedia of Life, Basketball, and Everything in Between

By: Kevin Garnett

A unique, unfiltered memoir from the NBA champion and fifteen-time all-star looks back on his life and career, including his decision to enter the NBA draft directly out of high school, and shares his thoughts on fame, family, racism, and spirituality.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

320

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

1982170336

ISBN 13

9781982170332

Experience of Free Banking

By: Kevin Dowd

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Experience of Free Banking

By: Kevin Dowd

First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

288

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1134945604

ISBN 13

9781134945603

Space Corp. Special Forces I

The Darkness of History

By: Kevin O'Leary

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Space Corp. Special Forces I

The Darkness of History

By: Kevin O'Leary

The Space Corp. Specials Forces was created to defend the borders, trades routes and ships of Earth. This force took only the best soldiers from the best regiments to do the job. Exploring the galaxy was dangerous and soon we accidentally encountered the Uskabar. The massacre of the mining colony at Flaven Prime taught us a valuable lesson, that we were not always welcome. Three members of the Special Forces rescue team survived that day, now eight years later, Captain Fox, Major Pearson and Colonel Hargreves would face the instigator of that massacre, Colonel Caspan. Fox knew one day that this would happen but hoped it would never come. This time Fox would be taking a team of rookies with him, who would be thrown into a world of bounty-hunters, gun-runners, smugglers and politics; he had high hopes that they might survive.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

314

Publisher

AuthorHouse

Published Date

ISBN 10

1467017094

ISBN 13

9781467017091

Of One Mind and of One Government

The Rise and Fall of the Creek Nation in the Early Republic

By: Kevin Kokomoor

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Of One Mind and of One Government

The Rise and Fall of the Creek Nation in the Early Republic

By: Kevin Kokomoor

In Of One Mind and Of One Government Kevin Kokomoor examines the formation of Creek politics and nationalism from the 1770s through the Red Stick War, when the aftermath of the American Revolution and the beginnings of American expansionism precipitated a crisis in Creek country. The state of Georgia insisted that the Creeks sign three treaties to cede tribal lands. The Creeks objected vigorously, igniting a series of border conflicts that escalated throughout the late eighteenth century and hardened partisan lines between pro-American, pro-Spanish, and pro-British Creeks and their leaders. Creek politics shifted several times through historical contingencies, self-interests, changing leadership, and debate about how to best preserve sovereignty, a process that generated national sentiment within the nascent and imperfect Creek Nation. Based on original archival research and a revisionist interpretation, Kokomoor explores how the state of Georgia's increasingly belligerent and often fraudulent land acquisitions forced the Creeks into framing a centralized government, appointing heads of state, and assuming the political and administrative functions of a nation-state. Prior interpretations have viewed the Creeks as a loose confederation of towns, but the formation of the Creek Nation brought predictability, stability, and reduced military violence in its domain during the era.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

646

Publisher

U of Nebraska Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1496212339

ISBN 13

9781496212337

'Adolf Island'

The Nazi occupation of Alderney

By: Caroline Sturdy Colls,Kevin Colls

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

'Adolf Island'

The Nazi occupation of Alderney

By: Caroline Sturdy Colls,Kevin Colls

‘Adolf Island’ offers new forensic, archaeological and spatial perspectives on the Nazi forced and slave labour programme that was initiated on the Channel Island of Alderney during its occupation in the Second World War. Drawing on extensive archival research and the results of the first in-field investigations of the ‘crime scenes’ since 1945, the book identifies and characterises the network of concentration and labour camps, fortifications, burial sites and other material traces connected to the occupation, providing new insights into the identities and experiences of the men and women who lived, worked and died within this landscape. Moving beyond previous studies focused on military aspects of occupation, the book argues that Alderney was intrinsically linked to wider systems of Nazi forced and slave labour.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

399

Publisher

Manchester University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1526149052

ISBN 13

9781526149053

The Law of American Health Care

By: Nicole Huberfeld,Elizabeth Weeks Leonard,Kevin Outterson,Matthew Lawrence

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Law of American Health Care

By: Nicole Huberfeld,Elizabeth Weeks Leonard,Kevin Outterson,Matthew Lawrence

The purchase of this ebook edition does not entitle you to receive access to the Connected eBook on CasebookConnect. You will need to purchase a new print book to get access to the full experience including: lifetime access to the online ebook with highlight, annotation, and search capabilities, plus an outline tool and other helpful resources. A student-friendly casebook for the new generation of health lawyers in an evolving legal landscape, The Law of American Health Care emphasizes lightly, carefully edited primary source excerpts, plain-language exposition, focused comprehension questions, and problems for concept application. It introduces key themes and uses them as a conceptual anchor so when the law inevitably changes, students have tools to nimbly move forward. These themes include: federalism; individual rights; fiduciary relationships; the administrative state; markets and regulation; and equity and distribution. The book engages topics in-depth, to give students a comprehensive understanding of the most important features of health care law and hands-on experience working through cutting-edge issues. New to the 3rd Edition: Current debates about government power among public health officials, legislatures, judges, and other state actors, including issues arising from the COVID-19 pandemic Public insurance materials reorganized so students can better absorb Medicare/Medicaid and apply lessons of the pandemic and litigation over various issues Solidification of ACA reforms, including surprise billing legislation and changes in the exchange subsidies that attempted to fill the Medicaid coverage gap Consolidated health care business organization materials New/revised materials and new cases in tax exempt entities and health care fraud/abuse, state action doctrine, and discrimination in healthcare/health insurance (including history of attempts to address health care discrimination, 1964 Civil Rights Act Title VI, ADA, HIPAA portability, ACA guaranteed issue, renewal, community rating, and Section 1557) Government enforcement’s more aggressive approach to labor issues Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health and ensuing state law chaos and federal/state conflicts Increased use of digital health care tools and telehealth driven by the pandemic Right-to-try movement and other features of biomedical research that became more relevant during the pandemic Benefits for instructors and students: Practice-oriented approach immerses students in primary source materials that include judicial opinions as well as statutory, regulatory, advisory, and empirical sources used in practice Focused on needs of students practicing health care law in a post-ACA, pandemic-impacted world First health care law casebook to reorient federal law as central authority for health care regulation (as opposed to state or common law) Exploration of two major public insurance programs provided before discussion of private insurance options, intentionally suggesting the increasing primacy of social insurance in the U.S. and underscoring even the most uniform coverage (Medicare) is complex Intro chapter with critical organizing themes and in-depth case studies which are woven throughout other chapters, including more prominent emphasis on equity and distributive justice Text boxes highlight key lessons and help explain/enhance material Directed Questions, hypothetical Problems, and end-of-chapter Capstone Problems support focused reading and clearer synthesis of major issues Manageable length Focused on topics encountered in the day-to-day practice of health law Essential connective narrative without overwhelming notes New co-author with deep health care legislative and regulatory experience

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

936

Publisher

Aspen Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1543847676

ISBN 13

9781543847673

Birding in the American West

A Handbook

By: Kevin J. Zimmer

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Birding in the American West

A Handbook

By: Kevin J. Zimmer

A guide to finding and identifying birds in the American West, designed to fill in the gaps left by field guides and bird-finding guides. Provides birders with general concepts and frameworks needed to develop good bird-finding and identification skills, describes different identification techniques, and details microhabitats and difficult-to-identify species in depth. Also gives advice on keeping field notes.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

422

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

080148328X

ISBN 13

9780801483288

Parks for Profit

Selling Nature in the City

By: Kevin Loughran

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Parks for Profit

Selling Nature in the City

By: Kevin Loughran

A new kind of city park has emerged in the early twenty-first century. Postindustrial parks transform the derelict remnants of an urban past into distinctive public spaces that meld repurposed infrastructure, wild-looking green space, and landscape architecture. For their proponents, they present an opportunity to turn disused areas into neighborhood anchors, with a host of environmental and community benefits. Yet there are clear economic motives as well—successful parks have helped generate billions of dollars of city tax revenues and real estate development. Kevin Loughran explores the High Line in New York, the Bloomingdale Trail/606 in Chicago, and Buffalo Bayou Park in Houston to offer a critical perspective on the rise of the postindustrial park. He reveals how elites deploy the popularity and seemingly benign nature of parks to achieve their cultural, political, and economic goals. As urban economies have become restructured around finance, real estate, tourism, and cultural consumption, parks serve as civic shields for elite-oriented investment. Tracing changing ideas about cities and nature and underscoring the centrality of race and class, Loughran argues that postindustrial parks aestheticize past disinvestment while serving as green engines of gentrification. A wide-ranging investigation of the political, cultural, and economic forces shaping park development, Parks for Profit reveals the social inequalities at the heart of today’s new urban landscape.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

276

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0231550626

ISBN 13

9780231550628

Journey to Armageddon

A Comprehensive Narrative of Military Operations in the Eastern Armies 10 June to 30 June – 1863

By: Kevin A. Campbell

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Journey to Armageddon

A Comprehensive Narrative of Military Operations in the Eastern Armies 10 June to 30 June – 1863

By: Kevin A. Campbell

The information about the book is not available as of this time.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

659

Publisher

Xlibris Corporation

Published Date

ISBN 10

1664189440

ISBN 13

9781664189447

Guilty of Journalism

The Political Case against Julian Assange

By: Kevin Gosztola

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Guilty of Journalism

The Political Case against Julian Assange

By: Kevin Gosztola

From an acclaimed independent journalist, this carefully-documented analysis of the government’s case against Julian Assange and its implications for press freedom acts as a crucial, compelling guidebook to Assange’s upcoming trial. Guilty of Journalism is a joint production of The Censored Press and Seven Stories Press. The legal action against Julian Assange is poised to culminate in a trial in the United States in 2023, and this book will help the public understand the proceedings. The establishment media's coverage of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's extradition case has focused on his deteriorating health and what CBS News called his “secret family,” but most of this coverage failed to detail the complex issues at stake against Assange. Guilty of Journalism outlines how WikiLeaks exposed the reality of American wars, the United States government’s unprecedented indictment against Assange as a publisher, and the media’s role in persuading the public to “shoot the messenger.” This new book by Kevin Gosztola, who has spent the last decade covering Assange, WikiLeaks, and the wider war on whistleblowers, tells the full story based on testimony from dozens of witnesses. It examines abuses of power by the CIA and the FBI, including a spying operation that targeted Assange’s family, lawyers, and doctors. Guilty of Journalism offers a balanced and comprehensive perspective on all the events leading up to what press freedom advocates have called the trial of the century.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

356

Publisher

Seven Stories Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1644212730

ISBN 13

9781644212738

Executive Decision Synthesis

A Sociotechnical Systems Paradigm

By: Victor Tang,Kevin Otto,Warren Seering

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Executive Decision Synthesis

A Sociotechnical Systems Paradigm

By: Victor Tang,Kevin Otto,Warren Seering

This book provides a practice-driven, yet rigorous approach to executive management decision-making that performs well even under unpredictable conditions. It explains how executives can employ prescribed engineering design methods to arrive at robust outcomes even when faced with uncontrollable uncertainty. The book presents the paradigm and its main principles in Part I; in Part II it illustrates how to frame a decision situation and how to design the decision so that it will produce its intended behavior. In turn, Part III discusses in detail in situ case studies on executive management decisions. Lastly, Part IV summarizes the book and formulates the key lessons learned.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

668

Publisher

Springer

Published Date

ISBN 10

3319630261

ISBN 13

9783319630267

A Big History of North America

From Montezuma to Monroe

By: Kevin Jon Fernlund

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

A Big History of North America

From Montezuma to Monroe

By: Kevin Jon Fernlund

The special relationship between the United Kingdom, an established and secure power, and the United States, a rising one, began after the War of 1812, as the former enemies sought accommodation with, rather than the annihilation of, one another. At the same time, Mexico, also a rising power, was not so fortunate. Its relationship with Spain, an established but declining power, turned hostile with Spain’s final exit from North America after Mexico’s War of Independence, leaving its former colony isolated, internally unstable, and vulnerable to external attack. Significantly, Mexico posed little threat to its northern neighbor. By the third decade of the eighteenth century, then, the fate of North America was largely discernable. Nevertheless, the three-century journey to get to this point had been anything but predictable. The United States’ rise as a regional power was very much conditioned by constantly shifting transcontinental, transpacific, and above all transatlantic factors, all of which influenced North America’s three interactive cultural spheres: the Indigenous, the Hispano, and the Anglo. And while the United States profoundly shaped the history of Canada and Mexico, so, too, did these two transcontinental countries likewise shape the course of U.S. history. In this ground-breaking work, Kevin Fernlund shows us that any society’s social development is directly related to its own social power and, just as crucially, to the protective extension or destructive intrusion of the social power of other societies.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

388

Publisher

University of Missouri Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0826274773

ISBN 13

9780826274779

The Complete Victoria Cross

A Full Chronological Record of All Holders of Britain's Highest Award for Gallantry

By: Kevin Brazier

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Complete Victoria Cross

A Full Chronological Record of All Holders of Britain's Highest Award for Gallantry

By: Kevin Brazier

This fully revised paperback edition of the complete chronological record of VC holders is an essential work of reference for every student of military history. All the British and Commonwealth servicemen who have been awarded the highest honour for exceptional acts of bravery and self-sacrifice are commemorated here. The first VCs awarded for the Crimean War and in the nineteenth-century colonial wars are described, as are the VCs awarded in the world wars of the twentieth century and the most recent VCs awarded during present-day conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. The extraordinary exploits recounted in this fascinating book make unforgettable reading.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

450

Publisher

Casemate Publishers

Published Date

ISBN 10

1473872065

ISBN 13

9781473872066

Texas Jazz Singer

Louise Tobin in the Golden Age of Swing and Beyond

By: Kevin Mooney

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Texas Jazz Singer

Louise Tobin in the Golden Age of Swing and Beyond

By: Kevin Mooney

At 102 years of age, Louise Tobin is one of the last surviving musicians of the Swing Era. Born in Aubrey, Texas, in 1918, she grew up in a large family that played music together. She once said that she fell out of the cradle singing and all she ever wanted to do was to sing. And sing she did. She sang with Benny Goodman and also performed vocals for such notables as Will Bradley, Bobby Hackett, Harry James (her first husband), Johnny Mercer, Lionel Hampton, the Glenn Miller Orchestra, Peanuts Hucko (her second husband), and Fletcher Henderson. Based on extensive oral history interviews and archival research, Texas Jazz Singer recalls both the glamour and the challenges of life on the road and onstage during the golden age of swing and beyond. As it traces American music through the twentieth century, Louise Tobin’s story provides insight into the challenges musicians faced to sustain their careers during the cultural revolution and ever-changing styles and tastes in music. In this absorbing biography, music historian Kevin Edward Mooney offers readers a view of a remarkable life in music, told from the vantage point of the woman who lived it. Rather than simply making Tobin an emblem for women in jazz of the big band era, Mooney concentrates instead on Tobin’s life, her struggles and successes, and in doing so captures the particular sense of grace that resonates throughout each phase of Tobin’s notable career.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

249

Publisher

Texas A&M University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1623499666

ISBN 13

9781623499662

Star Trek: SCE: Out of the Cocoon

By: William Leisner,Kevin Killiany,Phaedra M. Weldon

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Star Trek: SCE: Out of the Cocoon

By: William Leisner,Kevin Killiany,Phaedra M. Weldon

When something in the galaxy needs to be fixed, tweaked, investigated, or repaired, the Federation sends in the best: the Starfleet Corps of Engineers. Traveling throughout the quadrant on the Sabre-class U.S.S. da Vinci, Captain David Gold, former Starship Enterprise™ engineer Commander Sonya Gomez, and the crack S.C.E. team solve the problems of the galaxy, one disaster at a time. Whether dealing with the legacy of Captain Jean-Luc Picard’s decision regarding the Mariposa colony, stopping an alien predator from destroying a pre-warp culture, fixing a planet-wide power outage, or repairing the damage done by the Dominion to a former ally, the Corps of Engineers is on the case! But not all problems are technical: Dr. Elizabeth Lense deals with the consequences of her unexpected pregnancy, Security Chief Domenica Corsi encounters a Prime Directive crisis, Dr. Bart Faulwell faces a personal crossroads, and Chief Vance Hawkins must try to lay the ghosts of the Dominion War to rest.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

562

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

1439148422

ISBN 13

9781439148426

Primary Education in Ecuador's Chota Valley

Reflections on Education and Social Reproduction in the Development Era

By: Kevin Lucas

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Primary Education in Ecuador's Chota Valley

Reflections on Education and Social Reproduction in the Development Era

By: Kevin Lucas

In November 1998, the author arrived in Mascarilla, a small village in Ecuador's predominantly-black Chota Valley, to begin a six-month teaching assignment at the Escuela "Hernando Tquez" (the local primary school). Based both on his own observations and on the assessments offered by various former students, parents, community leaders, and Ecuadorean scholars, the author judges the educational performance of the Escuela "Hernando Tquez" to be grossly inadequate. Indeed, the various shortcomings attributed to the school (and documented as a case study in chapters three and four of this book) are so glaring that the author was led to question how such a dysfunctional school could be allowed to exist in a country where the government states that "to improve education is to improve the quality of life of Ecuador's people." Ultimately, the school's failure to provide quality education to its students forced the author to reconsider the true purpose of public education. Indeed, why does the state provide public education? It is generally assumed that the state builds and supports public schools because it believes in the potential of education to affect great changes in society. Specifically, most government officials contend that public school systems are designed with two primary goals: to contribute to the state's socio-economic development through the creation of "human capital," and to preserve and promote national unity and democratic values. Reflecting on the poor performance of the Escuela "Hernando Tquez," the author (in chapter five) asks whether there might be a hidden agenda regarding the state's role in public education. Perhaps the state's rhetoric regarding the potential socio-economic and political benefits of public education is used to obscure the public school system's true purpose. Perhaps the state (acting as the representative of society's dominant classes) provides public education in order to control oppressed groups, to ensure that they do not challenge the status quo. Perhaps the state provides public education solely in order to ensure the social reproduction of injustice and inequality. The final chapter considers the relationship between education and development, observing how the prevailing development-as-economic-development definition has often led to increased inequality and injustice. Proposing a new understanding of development based on humanist ideals, the author explores how public schools such as the Escuela "Hernando Tquez" could be transformed from the control mechanisms that they are, into the instruments of social justice that they could be.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

171

Publisher

Universal-Publishers

Published Date

ISBN 10

1581121024

ISBN 13

9781581121025

Material Dreams

Southern California Through the 1920's

By: Kevin Starr

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Material Dreams

Southern California Through the 1920's

By: Kevin Starr

Kevin Starr is the foremost chronicler of the California dream. In Material Dreams, he turns to one of the most vibrant decades in the Golden State's history, the 1920's, when some two million Americans migrated to California, the vast majority settling in or around Los Angeles.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

494

Publisher

Americans and the California D

Published Date

ISBN 10

0195044878

ISBN 13

9780195044874

History of Chess in the English Civil Service

By: Kevin Thurlow

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

History of Chess in the English Civil Service

By: Kevin Thurlow

This book covers more than a hundred years of chess in the Civil Service, with information about the clubs, the individuals, the events they contested, the successes, and the arguments that sometimes resulted. Clubs regularly featured leading players of the day and the Civil Service representative team frequently beat strong counties in 50-board matches, as well as participating in a mammoth 500-board match against the rest of England. Names of chess clubs bring a whiff of nostalgia, with India Office, War Office and Civil Service Rifles no longer in existence. Leading players served their country not only in their departments, but at establishments like Bletchley Park in the Second World War. Several civil servants represented their country in international matches. Over a thousand players participated in the league at one stage.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

241

Publisher

eBook Partnership

Published Date

ISBN 10

1839783109

ISBN 13

9781839783104

Women Architects at Work

Making American Modernism

By: Mary Anne Hunting,Kevin D. Murphy

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Women Architects at Work

Making American Modernism

By: Mary Anne Hunting,Kevin D. Murphy

The first comprehensive history of the role of women architects within the history of American modernism"--

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

264

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0691206694

ISBN 13

9780691206691

Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974

By: Kevin M. Kruse,Julian E. Zelizer

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974

By: Kevin M. Kruse,Julian E. Zelizer

A gripping and troubling account of the origins of our turbulent times.” —Jill Lepore, author of These Truths: A History of the United States When—and how—did America become so polarized? In this masterful history, leading historians Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer uncover the origins of our current moment. It all starts in 1974 with the Watergate crisis, the OPEC oil embargo, desegregation busing riots in Boston, and the wind-down of the Vietnam War. What follows is the story of our own lifetimes. It is the story of ever-widening historical fault lines over economic inequality, race, gender, and sexual norms firing up a polarized political landscape. It is also the story of profound transformations of the media and our political system fueling the fire. Kruse and Zelizer’s Fault Lines is a master class in national divisions nearly five decades in the making.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

634

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

Published Date

ISBN 10

039363454X

ISBN 13

9780393634549

Play the Way You Feel

The Essential Guide to Jazz Stories on Film

By: Kevin Whitehead

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Play the Way You Feel

The Essential Guide to Jazz Stories on Film

By: Kevin Whitehead

Jazz stories have been entwined with cinema since the inception of jazz film genre in the 1920s, giving us origin tales and biopics, spectacles and low-budget quickies, comedies, musicals, and dramas, and stories of improvisers and composers at work. And the jazz film has seen a resurgence in recent years--from biopics like Miles Ahead and HBO's Bessie, to dramas Whiplash and La La Land. In Play the Way You Feel, author and jazz critic Kevin Whitehead offers a comprehensive guide to these films and other media from the perspective of the music itself. Spanning 93 years of film history, the book looks closely at movies, cartoons, and a few TV shows that tell jazz stories, from early talkies to modern times, with an eye to narrative conventions and common story points. Examining the ways historical films have painted a clear picture of the past or overtly distorted history, Play the Way You Feel serves up capsule discussions of sundry topics including Duke Ellington's social life at the Cotton Club, avant-garde musical practices in 1930s vaudeville, and Martin Scorsese's improvisatory method on the set of New York, New York. Throughout the book, Whitehead brings the same analytical bent and concise, witty language listeners know from his jazz segments on NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross. He investigates well-known songs, traces the development of the stock jazz film ending, and offers fresh, often revisionist takes on works by such directors as Howard Hawks, John Cassavetes, Shirley Clarke, Francis Ford Coppola, Clint Eastwood, Spike Lee, Robert Altman, Woody Allen and Damien Chazelle. In all, Play the Way You Feel is a feast for film-genre fanatics and movie-watching jazz enthusiasts.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

304

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

019084759X

ISBN 13

9780190847593

The Haunted Houses of Anderson

By: Kevin Guest

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Haunted Houses of Anderson

By: Kevin Guest

Dr. Grant, the new chair of the Psychology Department, has been charged to vet Dr. Anderson's manuscript, 'Texas Hauntings.'As he does, he discovers a wealth of knowledge both frightening and incriminating. However, in doing his charged task, he learns that some spirits may still be interested in Anderson's work!

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

296

Publisher

Kevin Michael Guest

Published Date

ISBN 10

1475101317

ISBN 13

9781475101317

Operative Techniques in Plastic Surgery

By: Kevin Chung

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Operative Techniques in Plastic Surgery

By: Kevin Chung

Publisher's Note: Products purchased from 3rd Party sellers are not guaranteed by the Publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. A new addition to the best-selling Operative Techniques series, Operative Techniques in Plastic Surgery provides superbly illustrated, authoritative guidance on operative techniques along with a thorough understanding of how to select the best procedure, how to avoid complications, and what outcomes to expect. Easy to follow, up to date, and highly visual, this step-by-step reference covers nearly all operations in current use in plastic surgery, and is ideal for residents and physicians in daily practice.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

11782

Publisher

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Published Date

ISBN 10

1496339517

ISBN 13

9781496339515

NeoVouchers

The Emergence of Tuition Tax Credits for Private Schooling

By: Kevin Grant Welner

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

NeoVouchers

The Emergence of Tuition Tax Credits for Private Schooling

By: Kevin Grant Welner

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the structure, legality, and policy implications of tuition tax credit policies. At a time when these tax credit policies are becoming a major form of American school choice, this book offers insights into both the strengths and weakness of the approach.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

194

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield

Published Date

ISBN 10

0742540804

ISBN 13

9780742540804

Hothead

By: Cal Ripken Jr.,Kevin Cowherd

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Hothead

By: Cal Ripken Jr.,Kevin Cowherd

Connor Sullivan is an All-Star shortstop on his Babe Ruth team, the Orioles. He can hit and field with the best of them, but he's got one big problem: his temper. When he strikes out or makes an error, he's a walking Mt. Vesuvius, slamming batting helmets and throwing gloves. His teammates are starting to avoid him, even his best friend Jordy. His coach is ready to kick him off the team. To make matters worse, things aren't much better at home. His dad is having trouble finding a new job after being laid off. Money is tight. Connor's dream of attending the prestigious Brooks Robinson Baseball Camp this summer seems like just that now -- a dream. When the sports editor of the school paper threatens to do a big story on his tantrums -- complete with embarrassing photos -- Connor realizes he has to clean up his act. But can he do it in time to regain his teammates' trust and help the Orioles win the championship against the best team in the league?

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

154

Publisher

Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Published Date

ISBN 10

1423154355

ISBN 13

9781423154358

The Bundy Secrets

Hidden Files on America's Worst Serial Killer

By: Kevin Sullivan

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Bundy Secrets

Hidden Files on America's Worst Serial Killer

By: Kevin Sullivan

The author of The Bundy Murders shares unprecedented access to official case files in the investigations to apprehend the infamous serial killer. In the 1970s, as Ted Bundy spread terror across the United States, law enforcement agencies from the Pacific Northwest to the Rocky Mountains to Florida attempted to put an end to his depraved killing spree. In The Bundy Secrets, true crime author and Bundy expert Kevin M. Sullivan provides a revealing chronicle of these police investigations through the original case files, shown to the reader just as they appeared to detectives themselves. The third volume in Sullivan’s Bundy Trilogy, this book presents a “just the facts” chronology of formerly classified documents detailing the nationwide manhunt for America’s most infamous serial killer. It also includes contemporary interviews gathered by Sullivan from dozens of sources along Bundy’s trail of terror. The Bundy Secrets is an essential collection of primary source documents for true crime students of Ted Bundy.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

258

Publisher

WildBlue Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1942266863

ISBN 13

9781942266860

The Public Administration Theory Primer

By: H. George Frederickson,Kevin B. Smith,Christopher Larimer,Michael J. Licari

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Public Administration Theory Primer

By: H. George Frederickson,Kevin B. Smith,Christopher Larimer,Michael J. Licari

The Public Administration Theory Primer explores how the science and art of public administration is definable, describable, replicable, and cumulative. The authors survey a broad range of theories and analytical approaches—from public institutional theory to theories of governance—and consider which are the most promising, influential, and important for the field. This book paints a full picture of how these theories contribute to, and explain, what we know about public administration today. The third edition is fully revised and updated to reflect the latest developments and research in the field including more coverage of governments and governance, feminist theory, emotional labor theory, and grounded research methodology. Expanded chapter conclusions and a brand-new online supplement with sample comprehensive exam questions and summary tables make this an even more valuable resource for all public administration students.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

321

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

0429973993

ISBN 13

9780429973994

Star-Spangled Hockey

Celebrating 75 Years of USA Hockey

By: Kevin Allen

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Star-Spangled Hockey

Celebrating 75 Years of USA Hockey

By: Kevin Allen

In Star-Spangled Hockey, legendary hockey writer Kevin Allen takes readers on a journey from the earliest days of USA Hockey to celebrate the organization's 75th anniversary. From the beginning, when the organization was started literally out of a shoebox in Tom Lockhart's New York City apartment, to the excitement generated by the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, this book covers the fascinating history of amateur hockey in America.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

537

Publisher

Triumph Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

1633190870

ISBN 13

9781633190870

To Hazard All

A Guide to the Maryland Campaign, 1862

By: Robert Orrison,Kevin Pawlak

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

To Hazard All

A Guide to the Maryland Campaign, 1862

By: Robert Orrison,Kevin Pawlak

Experience the history of the Maryland Campaign with this Civil War chronicle and guide featuring battlefield information and day-trip itineraries. In the summer of 1862, the world watched anxiously as Confederate armies advanced across a thousand-mile front. Reacting to the Army of Northern Virginia’s trek across the Potomac River, George B. McClellan gathered the broken and scattered remnants of several Federal armies within Washington, D. C., to repel the invasion and expel the Confederates from Maryland. “Everything seems to indicate that they intend to hazard all upon the issue of the coming battle,” he said of the invading force. Historians Robert Orrison and Kevin Pawlak trace the routes both armies traveled during the Maryland Campaign, ultimately coming to a climactic blow on the banks of Antietam Creek. That clash on September 17, 1862, remains the bloodiest single day in American history. To Hazard All offers several day trip tours and visits many out-of-the-way sites related to the Maryland Campaign.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

300

Publisher

Casemate Publishers

Published Date

ISBN 10

1611214106

ISBN 13

9781611214109

Wild Pitch

By: Cal Ripken Jr.,Kevin Cowherd

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Wild Pitch

By: Cal Ripken Jr.,Kevin Cowherd

A page-turner packed with action and redemption by legendary short-stop and a veteran sportswriter Cal Ripkin. Robbie Hammond is the hardest throwing pitcher in the Babe Ruth League. But what good is all that heat when he can't seem to find the plate? With Robbie struggling, the Orioles are suffering through a nightmare season, still looking for their first win. Robbie's teammates are whispering that the only reason he's even pitching is that he's the coach's kid. They've even given him a new nickname: Ball Four. What the other Orioles don't know is that Robbie is still haunted by a fastball that got away from him and injured a batter in last year's All-Star Game. Now, with the pressure mounting, he's willing to try anything to get his control back, including listening to a mysterious boy who just might hold the key to helping Robbie and the Orioles save their season. This third action-packed book in Cal Ripken Jr.'s All-Star series will have readers on the edge of their seats as they root for Robbie's comeback.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

215

Publisher

Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Published Date

ISBN 10

1423178971

ISBN 13

9781423178972

Alien Mysteries, Conspiracies and Cover-Ups

By: Kevin D Randle

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Alien Mysteries, Conspiracies and Cover-Ups

By: Kevin D Randle

Conspiracy theories run rampant in the world of the UFO and search for alien life. Some are government-sanctioned, some are government-sponsored, and more than a few can be laid at the feet of UFO witnesses and UFO investigators. Untangle the truth from the theories! Thoroughly investigated by a former Army officer and taken from his review of hundreds of historical and government documents and in-person interviews, Alien Mysteries, Conspiracies and Cover-Ups chronicles more than 100 sightings, events, and discoveries of alien encounters, government conspiracy, and the influence of extraterrestrials on human events throughout history. From prehistoric UFO sightings, cave paintings, and ancient astronauts to modern sightings around the world, Alien Mysteries investigates claims of aliens living among us, abductions of humans to alien spacecraft, and accounts of interstellar cooperation since the UFO crash in Roswell, along with evidence of what the government knows and what it has covered up. This discussion of the government secrets, theories, and mysteries surrounding aliens is packed with thought-provoking stories and shocking revelations of alien involvement in the lives of Earthlings. A complete dossier on alien activities and government cover-ups, this revealing book includes a look at prehistoric UFO sighting, Indian cave paintings, the Peruvian dinosaurs (the Ica stones), the Majestic-Twelve, the Allende letters, the faked photographs that have been published as the real thing, the Condon Committee, the Roswell bodies, the alien autopsy, project moon dust, the Phoenix lights, ancient astronauts, the recent UFO crash in Needles, California, and much more!

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

353

Publisher

Visible Ink Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1578594650

ISBN 13

9781578594658

Preparing for the Classroom

What Teachers Really Think about Teacher Education

By: Kevin O. Mason

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Preparing for the Classroom

What Teachers Really Think about Teacher Education

By: Kevin O. Mason

Teacher Preparation explores and examines current topics and issues in teacher education through the lens of eight practicing teachers. Their voices add a new perspective on the effectiveness and practicality of current trends and reforms in teacher education. Their insights may help to better prepare the next generation of teachers for success and longevity in the classroom. While most teachers rate their own experience as positive, many are not satisfied with the effectiveness of current pre-service teacher education programs as a whole. In fact, less than half of the teachers surveyed by the author were mostly or very satisfied with current pre-service teacher education. This book explains why so many teachers are unsatisfied. In their own words, the teachers explain the thoughts and reasoning behind the views expressed throughout the book. Although teachers offer both praises and critiques of teacher education, the overall message is one of collaboration and partnership.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

223

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield

Published Date

ISBN 10

1475800436

ISBN 13

9781475800432

The Abolitionist Decade, 1829-1838

A Year-by-Year History of Early Events in the Antislavery Movement

By: Kevin C. Julius

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Abolitionist Decade, 1829-1838

A Year-by-Year History of Early Events in the Antislavery Movement

By: Kevin C. Julius

The years between America's founding and the cusp of the Civil War are often overlooked in discussions of America's struggle over slavery. The conflagration that nearly destroyed the country did not ignite quickly, but was the culmination of a long-smoldering debate that saw significant developments in those intervening decades. In particular, the period from 1829 to 1838 witnessed the growth of the Abolitionist movement, begun by determined visionaries bent on bringing the evils of slavery to the forefront of America's consciousness and ending a glaring injustice. Attacked by their opponents, scorned by both sides for their missionary zeal, often relegated to a footnote in history, the Abolitionists were key in shaping the argument over slavery and bringing America's greatest internal struggle to its conclusion. This examination of the Abolitionist movement presents a year-by-year outline of the period from 1829 to 1838, chronicling the growth of the Abolitionists as a social and political group. By giving an overview of other important occurrences each year, it depicts the movement in a broader context, cementing relationships between seemingly disparate elements of American history and giving the movement its full due in the struggle to end slavery.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

282

Publisher

McFarland

Published Date

ISBN 10

078648375X

ISBN 13

9780786483754

Money and the Nation State

The Financial Revolution, Government and the World Monetary System

By: Kevin Dowd

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Money and the Nation State

The Financial Revolution, Government and the World Monetary System

By: Kevin Dowd

Monetary and banking problems in the world today arise not so much from the failure of specific policies as from more deep-seated problems in institutional structures. Individuals clearly make mistakes and legislatures make bad laws, but the institutions from which decisions and laws emanate determine the effectiveness of social operations and the value of social decisions. Unless we change the present institutional structure, we are not likely to get stable solutions to today's most serious problems—ongoing and often erratic inflation and serious banking instability. Money and the Nation State examines the history of modern monetary and banking arrangements, some of the major monetary and banking problems, and options for meaningful reform. The common theme of all the essays is that current arrangements result less from the accomplishments of great men than man-made institutions that society has inherited—central banks and "the legal and regulatory frameworks that accompany them. The contributors emphasize the impact of political interference on the workings of monetary and financial institutions. Not surprisingly, they find many problems arise because politically generated structures are inappropriate to the real needs of the individuals and groups they are meant to serve. Money and the Nation State provides an essential framework for those willing to return to first principles in thinking about the role of monetary institutions in economic life. Economists, financial theorists, and the interested citizen will find it stimulating reading.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

679

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1351291629

ISBN 13

9781351291620

Duncan Phyfe

Master Cabinetmaker in New York

By: Peter M. Kenny,Duncan Phyfe,Michael Kevin Brown

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Duncan Phyfe

Master Cabinetmaker in New York

By: Peter M. Kenny,Duncan Phyfe,Michael Kevin Brown

Duncan Phyfe (1770-1854), known during his lifetime as the "United States Rage," to this day remains America's best-known cabinetmaker. Establishing his reputation as a purveyor of luxury by designing high-quality furniture for New York's moneyed elite, Phyfe would come to count among his clients some of the nation's wealthiest and most storied families. This richly illustrated volume covers the full chronological sweep of the craftsman's distinguished career, from his earliest furniture-- which bears the influence of his 18th-century British predecessors Thomas Sheraton and Thomas Hope--to his late simplified designs in the Grecian Plain. More than sixty works by Phyfe and his workshop are highlighted, including rarely seen pieces from private collections and several newly discovered documented works. Additionally, essays by leading scholars bring to light new information on Phyfe's life, his workshop production, and his roster of illustrious patrons. What unfolds is the story of Phyfe's remarkable transformation from a young immigrant craftsman to an accomplished master cabinetmaker and an American icon."--Publisher's website.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

314

Publisher

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published Date

ISBN 10

1588394425

ISBN 13

9781588394422

Sociology of Religion

Contemporary Developments

By: Kevin J. Christiano,William H. Swatos,,Peter Kivisto

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Sociology of Religion

Contemporary Developments

By: Kevin J. Christiano,William H. Swatos,,Peter Kivisto

This third edition of Sociology of Religion introduces students to key principles in the sociological understanding of religion, with revisions and updates throughout. The book offers an overview of the nature and function of religious institutions and practices, asking sociological questions about the changing role of religion in today’s “post-traditional” world. After an introduction to the many facets of religion and key theories for its study, the book examines central themes such as changes in religious life in the United States; the intersections between religion, social class, and power and between gender, sexuality, and religion; globalization and religion; religion in mass media; and more. The third edition features new material on the relationship of race and ethnicity to religion, the perceived rises of both secularism and fundamentalism, and the role of religion in public debates on sexuality. Sociology of Religion addresses both the foundations of the field and the profound changes it has undergone, placing new examples against their historical background. Charts, photos, down-to-earth examples, and a readable style make the book an ideal introduction for students.

Average ratings

N/A