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Over the Wall

From the Dangerous Streets of NYC…Through the Birth of Counterterrorism and Beyond

By: Kevin M. Hallinan,Rob Travalino

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Over the Wall

From the Dangerous Streets of NYC…Through the Birth of Counterterrorism and Beyond

By: Kevin M. Hallinan,Rob Travalino

From his hardscrabble NYC upbringing, through the NYPD ranks, to command of America’s first ever joint task force on terrorism alongside the FBI, Kevin M. Hallinan lived a lot of history. From beat cop to detective, Hallinan maneuvered through some of America’s most volatile decades and saw from the inside the tenuous gray line between law and order. The job proved to be extremely isolating. And it was almost always hair-trigger. Early in his career, Hallinan became embroiled in deadly mob cases, which pulled him under the scrutiny of the feared and historic Knapp Commission on police corruption. In extreme danger and under pressure, he persevered and kept his integrity intact. Higher-ups took notice and brought him into the chief of detectives’ office where he helped reorganize robbery squads and create innovative and responsive new police initiatives. One such effort helped bring awareness and sensitivity to sexual assault investigations and contributed to the creation of the revolutionary Special Victims Unit. And that was only the beginning. As the 80s unfolded and deadly attacks on police, diplomatic missions, and corporate targets escalated throughout the city, Hallinan relied on the mentoring of a growing network of law enforcement notables. It was compiling this amazing human network that made him the perfect choice to help pull together and lead the pioneering FBI/NYPD Joint Terrorism Task Force. The JTTF, as it came to be known, would go on to create many of the counterterrorism tools and tactics that keep America safe to this very day. After retiring from law enforcement, Hallinan began a new chapter as Executive Director of Security and Facilities Management for Major League Baseball. His fascinating inside look at a life in law enforcement spans layers of history, explores evolutions in national security, and features game-changing heroes and eye-opening innovations. Kevin M. Hallinan’s life and learning are at once informative, thrilling, entertaining—and perhaps most of all, truly inspiring.

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Post Hill Press

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1637583990

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9781637583999

The New York Game

Baseball and the Rise of a New City

By: Kevin Baker

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The New York Game

Baseball and the Rise of a New City

By: Kevin Baker

The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • A hugely entertaining history of baseball and New York City, bursting with larger-than-life figures and fascinating stories from the game’s beginnings to the end of World War II. "You’re going to beg for extra innings. Without missing a scandal or a sensation, with an eye on how assimilation transforms the picture, Kevin Baker has written a buoyant, double coming-of-age story. "—Stacy Schiff, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Baseball is “the New York game” because New York is where the diamond was first laid out, where the bunt and the curveball were invented, and where the home run was hit. It’s where the game’s first stars were born, and where everyone came to play or watch the game. With nuance and depth, historian Kevin Baker brings this all vividly back to life: the still-controversial, indelible moments—Did the Babe call his shot? Was Merkle out? Did they fix the 1919 World Series? Here are all the legendary players, managers, and owners, in all their vivid, complicated humanity, on and off the field. In Baker’s hands the city and the game emerge from the murk of nineteenth-century American life—driven by visionaries and fixers, heroes and gangsters. He details how New York and its favorite sport came to mirror one another, expanding, bumbling through catastrophe and corruption, and rising out of these trials stronger than ever. From the first innings played in vacant lots and tavern yards in the 1820s; to the canny innovations that created the very first sports league; to the superb Hispanic and Black players who invented their own version of the game when white baseball sought to exclude them. And all amidst New York’s own, incredible evolution from a raw, riotous town to a new world city. The New York Game is a riveting, rollicking, brilliant ode to America’s beloved pastime and to its indomitable city of origin.

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Knopf

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0375421831

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Smokescreen

What the Marijuana Industry Doesn't Want You to Know

By: Kevin A. Sabet

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Smokescreen

What the Marijuana Industry Doesn't Want You to Know

By: Kevin A. Sabet

From the leading authority on marijuana—a man who has served as White House advisor on drugs to three different administrations and who NBC News once called “the prodigy of drug politics"—comes the remarkable and shocking exposé about how 21st century pot, today’s new and highly potent form of the drug, is on the rise, spreading rapidly across America by an industry intent on putting rising profits over public health. Smokescreen: What the Marijuana Industry Doesn't Want You to Know examines the inside story behind the headlines, containing accounts from Sabet’s time in the Obama administration to stunning revelations from whistleblowers speaking out for the first time. What it finds is how the marijuana industry is running rampant without proper oversight, leaving Americans’ health seriously at risk. Included are interviews with industry insiders who reveal the hidden dangers of a product they had once worshipped. Also contained in these pages are insights from a major underground-market dealer who admits that legalization is hastening the growth of the illicit drug trade. And more to the heart of the issue are the tragic stories of those who have suffered and died as a result of marijuana use, and in many cases, as a result of its mischaracterization. Readers will learn how power brokers worked behind the scenes to market marijuana as a miracle plant in order to help it gain widespread acceptance and to set the stage for the lucrative expansion of recreational pot. The author of this compelling first-person narrative leading the national fight against the legalization of cannabis through his nonprofit, Smart Approaches to Marijuana (aka SAM) is Kevin Sabet. As a policy advisor to everyone from county health commissioners to Pope Francis, and a frequent public speaker on television, radio and through other media outlets, his analysis is consistently relied upon by those who recognize what’s at stake as marijuana lobbyists downplay the risks of massive commercialization. A book several years in the making, filled with vivid characters and informed by hundreds of interviews and scores of confidential documents, Sabet's Smokescreen lays bare the unvarnished truth about marijuana in America.

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Simon and Schuster

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1948677881

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The Origins of Hospitality and Tourism

By: Kevin D. O'Gorman

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The Origins of Hospitality and Tourism

By: Kevin D. O'Gorman

The Origins of Hospitality and Tourism is an exciting new text about the true origins of hospitality and tourism, identifying how an understanding the past can inform modern approaches to hospitality and tourism management.

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Goodfellow Publishers Ltd

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1906884935

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9781906884932

Promoting Community Resilience in Disasters

The Role for Schools, Youth, and Families

By: Kevin Ronan,David Johnston

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Promoting Community Resilience in Disasters

The Role for Schools, Youth, and Families

By: Kevin Ronan,David Johnston

A myriad of models are available to guide practice before, during, and following disasters. As emphasized in this book, we value the role of research in informing our assessment, education, and intervention efforts in this area. Keeping an eye on those elements that have research backing certainly assists with quality control generally. However, more specifically, we also stress the idea that there is evidence to support a role for hope and positive expectations in the motivation and engagement process. In addition, the more that people, including youth and adults, actively participate in efforts designed to help, the more benefits they tend to receive. The role of research in providing that initial hope and inspiring more active engagement with internal and external resources before, during, and after a disaster is part of the foundation of our practice in this area. In fact, in the clinical psychology training program directed by the senior author, the idea that we attempt to inculcate with our trainees is the idea of “hope and engagement on an evidence-based foundation.” Consequently, we do advocate for models of practice that have identified “active ingredients” that are included: those particularly identified through controlled evaluation research. However, it is also the case that a number of risk and protective factors identified through a number of studies (e.g., see Chapter 2) have as yet to be systematically included.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0387238212

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9780387238210

Diners of Pennsylvania

By: Brian Butko,Kevin Patrick,Kyle R. Weaver,Jacqueline Breuil

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Diners of Pennsylvania

By: Brian Butko,Kevin Patrick,Kyle R. Weaver,Jacqueline Breuil

Revised and updated edition of the best-selling first edition (978-0-8117-2878-2).

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Stackpole Books

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0811744167

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Economic and Societal Impacts of Tornadoes

By: Kevin Simmons,Daniel Sutter

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Economic and Societal Impacts of Tornadoes

By: Kevin Simmons,Daniel Sutter

For almost a decade, economists Kevin M. Simmons and Daniel Sutter have been studying the economic effects and social consequences of the approximately 1,200 tornadoes that touch down across the United States annually. During this time, they have compiled information from sources such as NOAA and the U.S. Census Bureau to examine the casualties caused by tornadoes and to evaluate the National Weather Service (NWS)’s efforts to reduce these casualties. Their unique database has enabled this fascinating and game-changing study for meteorologists, social scientists, emergency managers, and everyone studying severe weather, policy, disaster management, or applied economics.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1935704028

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9781935704027

Medieval Christianity

A New History

By: Kevin Madigan

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Medieval Christianity

A New History

By: Kevin Madigan

A new narrative history of medieval Christianity, spanning from A.D. 500 to 1500, focuses on the role of women in Christianity; the relationships among Christians, Jews and Muslims; the experience of ordinary parishioners; the adventure of asceticism, devotion and worship; and instruction through drama, architecture and art.

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Yale University Press

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0300158726

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9780300158724

Sell Your Business for an Outrageous Price

An Insider's Guide to Getting More Than You Ever Thought Possible

By: Kevin Short

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Sell Your Business for an Outrageous Price

An Insider's Guide to Getting More Than You Ever Thought Possible

By: Kevin Short

This insightful and invaluable guide reveals how anyone can get a positively outrageous price for their company. Selling something that you’ve poured money, energy, and incalculable amounts of time into is tough enough. Getting anything less than the maximum you deserve in return for all your work is unjustifiable. You deserve to squeeze every dollar you can when it comes time to hand the reins over to the lucky investor who wants to profit from all your back-breaking groundwork. In Sell Your Business for an Outrageous Price, you will discover how to: Prepare their companies and themselves for sale Recognize the best time to go to market Identify, attract, and motivate deep-pocketed buyers Determine their company's competitive advantage and leverage it for the best offer Find a transaction advisor with the skills and experience to guide them through the MA jungle Foil buyers' attempts to undermine sale price Featuring real-life case studies and an appendix of indispensable tools--including due diligence lists, sample nondisclosure agreements, a sales readiness assessment, and a sample engagement letter--this book reveals what you need to do so you can get paid!

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AMACOM

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081443472X

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Exploring Social Change

America and the World

By: Charles L. Harper,Kevin T. Leicht

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Exploring Social Change

America and the World

By: Charles L. Harper,Kevin T. Leicht

For one semester junior/senior and beginning-level graduate courses in Social Change. An introduction to social change that highlights theories on key topics including social change, innovation, social movements, and revolutions. Exploring Social Change: America and the World 6e is a comprehensive introduction to social change. The last part of the book shifts explicitly to the global level to analyze population and environmental issues and globalization. Within this framework, the book discusses topics about change and its problems familiar in sociology and social science.

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Routledge

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1317348400

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9781317348405

William Wilberforce

A Hero for Humanity

By: Kevin Belmonte

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William Wilberforce

A Hero for Humanity

By: Kevin Belmonte

Dramatized in the major motion picture Amazing Grace, the story of William Wilberforce is the remarkable account of how one man’s vision, courage, and relentless pursuit of justice brought freedom to thousands and changed the course of history. “That the greatest and most successful reformer in all history is almost unknown today is a crying shame. Kevin Belmonte puts this right with his inspiring study of an inspiring life.” —Dr. Os Guinness, author of Unspeakable: Facing Up to the Challenge of Evil “An excellently researched and insightfully written biography … I applaud its sound scholarship and commend its perceptive insights into a great life.” —Brian Sibley, author of C. S. Lewis: Through the Shadowlands William Wilberforce: A Hero for Humanity is the definitive biography of the English statesman who overcame incredible odds to bring about the end of slavery and slave trade. Called "the wittiest man in England" by philosopher and novelist Madame de Stael, praised by Abraham Lincoln, and renowned for his oratorical genius, Wilberforce worked tirelessly to accomplish his goal. Whether you are an avid student of history, a pupil of prominent leaders of the past, or simply someone who reads for pleasure, you will love award-winning biographer Kevin Belmonte’s vivid account of the life of William Wilberforce.

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Zondervan

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031086478X

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9780310864783

Labour and Development in East Asia

Social Forces and Passive Revolution

By: Kevin Gray

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Labour and Development in East Asia

Social Forces and Passive Revolution

By: Kevin Gray

The Chinese Communist Party’s response to the wave of factory strikes in the early summer of 2010 has raised important questions about the role that labour plays in the transformation of world orders. In contrast to previous policies of repression towards labour unrest, these recent disputes centring round wages and working conditions have been met with a more permissive response on the part of the state, as the CCP ostensibly seeks to facilitate a transition away from a model of political economy based on ‘low-road’ labour relations and export dependence. Labour and Development in East Asia shows that such inter-linkages between labour, geopolitical transformations, and states’ developmental strategies have been much more central to East Asia’s development than has commonly been recognised. By adopting an explanatory framework of the labour-geopolitics-development nexus, the book theorises and provides an historical analysis of the formation and transformation of the East Asian regional political economy from the end of the Second World War to the present, with particular reference to Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and China. This book will be required reading for students and scholars of international relations, development studies and comparative politics.

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Routledge

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1317613104

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9781317613107

The 21st Century Crossword Puzzle Dictionary

By: Kevin McCann,Mark Diehl

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The 21st Century Crossword Puzzle Dictionary

By: Kevin McCann,Mark Diehl

Compiled from over 10,00 published puzzles, this handy reference offers all the words you need to solve your puzzles and none of the ones you don’t. Finally, a crossword dictionary with all the words solvers need—and none of the ones they don’t! When it comes to puzzle dictionaries, it’s the quality of what’s inside that counts. Who needs a plethora of synonyms that never appear in an actual crossword? So, authors Kevin McCann and Mark Diehl analyzed thousands of crosswords to amass an up-to-date list of words that regularly turn up in today’s top puzzles. To make the dictionary even easier to use, the most popular answers stand out in easy-to-see red, while charts highlight frequently sought-after information such as Oscar winners and Popes’ names. Crossword fans will keep this right next to their favorite puzzles!

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Union Square + ORM

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1402774524

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9781402774522

Roots of Film Noir

Precursors from the Silent Era to the 1940s

By: Kevin Grant

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Roots of Film Noir

Precursors from the Silent Era to the 1940s

By: Kevin Grant

Individual reviews of 90+ films created and released before 1941 are included here in the first title-by-title reference guide to the forerunners of film noir. Silent Hitchcock thrillers and German expressionist masterpieces, French poetic realist dramas and forgotten Hollywood B-movies, pseudo-Freudian gangster films and costume melodramas are among the works covered. The collection spans subgenres and cultures of filmmaking, aiming to demonstrate that the roots of noir were sown far and wide, long before the lasting and mysterious genre flowered in America during the war years.

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McFarland

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1476645817

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9781476645810

Higher Education in the United States [2 volumes]

An Encyclopedia

By: James J. F. Forest,Kevin Kinser

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Higher Education in the United States [2 volumes]

An Encyclopedia

By: James J. F. Forest,Kevin Kinser

Surveys the changing landscape of American higher education, from academic freedom to virtual universities, from campus crime to Pell Grants, from the Student Privacy Act to student diversity.

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ABC-CLIO

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1576072487

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9781576072486

Governing States and Localities

By: Kevin B. Smith,Alan Greenblatt

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Governing States and Localities

By: Kevin B. Smith,Alan Greenblatt

An easy-to-navigate, comparative book on state and local government. Very student-friendly and well-organized." —Jane Bryant, John A. Logan College The trusted and proven Governing States and Localities guides students through the contentious environment of state and local politics and focuses on the role that economic and budget pressures play in issues facing state and local governments. With their engaging journalistic writing and crisp storytelling, Kevin B. Smith and Alan Greenblatt employ a comparative approach to explain how and why states and localities are both similar and different. The Seventh Edition is thoroughly updated to account for such major developments as state versus federal conflicts over immigration reform, school shootings, and gun control; the impact of the Donald Trump presidency on intergovernmental relations and issues of central interest to states and localities; and the lingering effects of the Great Recession. A Complete Teaching and Learning Package SAGE coursepacks FREE! Easily import our quality instructor and student resource content into your school’s learning management system (LMS) and save time. Learn more. SAGE edge FREE online resources for students that make learning easier. See how your students benefit.

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CQ Press

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1544361149

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9781544361147

102 Minutes

The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers

By: Jim Dwyer,Kevin Flynn

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102 Minutes

The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers

By: Jim Dwyer,Kevin Flynn

Searing, poignant, and utterly compelling—102 Minutesdoes for the September 11 catastrophe what Walter Lord did for the Titanic in his masterpiece,A Night to Remember."—Rick Atkinson, author ofIn the Company of SoldiersandAn Army at Dawn At 8:46 am on September 11, 2001, 14,000 people were inside the twin towers. Over the next 102 minutes, each would become part of a drama for the ages. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with rescuers and survivors, thousands of pages of oral histories, and countless phone, e-mail, and emergency radio transcripts,New York Timesreporters Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn tell the story of September 11 from the inside looking out, weaving together the stories of ordinary men and women into an epic account of struggle, determination, and grace. Hailed immediately upon its hardcover publication as the definitive account of that terrible morning,102 Minutesnow contains a new Afterword that incorporates powerful firsthand material, including tapes and documents, that Dwyer and Flynn recently obtained after more than three years of litigation with the city of New York. Eight weeks on theNew York Timesbestseller list and translated into a dozen languages,102 Minutesis a gripping narrative that is also investigative reporting of the first rank—"in a class by itself," according toReader's Digest. Dwyer and Flynn reveal the decisions, both good and bad, that proved to be the difference between life and death on a day that changed America forever.

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Macmillan

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0805080325

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9780805080322

Winning the Game of Belief

Cultivating the Cultural Grit that Defines America’s Greatest Coaches

By: Kevin Sheehan

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Winning the Game of Belief

Cultivating the Cultural Grit that Defines America’s Greatest Coaches

By: Kevin Sheehan

Charles Sullivan, one of the winningest coaches in the history of the sport of volleyball, is a physical education teacher and sports psychology professor at Springfield College by trade. His story provides the reader with a unique approach to winning in sports and success in life, employing a knowledge of psychology to define his program and craft an unparalleled record of success that reveals the power of culture. Rather than lecture his players about research and theory, Coach Sullivan most often teaches through metaphor and stories. These stories share his experience on the court while providing a unique lens that enables the reader to capture the core values that unite all iconic coaches. Kevin Sheehan shares the research on cultural grit, not only, bringing Sullivan’s success to life, but also providing a formula for successful leadership in any field or endeavor. There are lessons in this book that can change your life and cultivate a culture of grit in your organization that will lead to success that you could never have imagined.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1475849001

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9781475849004

Arc of Justice

A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age

By: Kevin Boyle

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Arc of Justice

A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age

By: Kevin Boyle

Winner of the National Book Award for Nonfiction An electrifying story of the sensational murder trial that divided a city and ignited the civil rights struggle In 1925, Detroit was a smoky swirl of jazz and speakeasies, assembly lines and fistfights. The advent of automobiles had brought workers from around the globe to compete for manufacturing jobs, and tensions often flared with the KKK in ascendance and violence rising. Ossian Sweet, a proud Negro doctor-grandson of a slave-had made the long climb from the ghetto to a home of his own in a previously all-white neighborhood. Yet just after his arrival, a mob gathered outside his house; suddenly, shots rang out: Sweet, or one of his defenders, had accidentally killed one of the whites threatening their lives and homes. And so it began-a chain of events that brought America's greatest attorney, Clarence Darrow, into the fray and transformed Sweet into a controversial symbol of equality. Historian Kevin Boyle weaves the police investigation and courtroom drama of Sweet's murder trial into an unforgettable tapestry of narrative history that documents the volatile America of the 1920s and movingly re-creates the Sweet family's journey from slavery through the Great Migration to the middle class. Ossian Sweet's story, so richly and poignantly captured here, is an epic tale of one man trapped by the battles of his era's changing times.

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Henry Holt and Company

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1429900164

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9781429900164

Troubling Education

Queer Activism and Antioppressive Pedagogy

By: Kevin K. Kumashiro

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Troubling Education

Queer Activism and Antioppressive Pedagogy

By: Kevin K. Kumashiro

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Psychology Press

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0415933129

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9780415933124

A Family Cursed

The Kissell Dynasty, a Gilded Fortune, and Two Brutal Murders

By: Kevin F. McMurray

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A Family Cursed

The Kissell Dynasty, a Gilded Fortune, and Two Brutal Murders

By: Kevin F. McMurray

***Please note: This ebook edition does not contain the photos found in the print edition.*** As boys, Robert and Andrew Kissel competed and excelled. As men, they made millions—Robert in the Asian markets and Andrew in real estate. But a darkness was chasing the brothers down. In November 2003, Robert was murdered in his posh Hong Kong apartment. Two-and-a-half years later, Andrew was found stabbed to death in his Greenwich Connecticut mansion. Nancy Kissel was charged with murdering her husband Robert, after serving him a milkshake laced with sedatives and then beating him to death with a blunt object. But what happened to Andrew? His marriage was failing, and he faced prison for real estate fraud. Was his death a murder—or suicide? A Family Cursed tells the riveting true story of the different paths the Kissel brothers took toward the same fate.

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St. Martin's Paperbacks

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1466801026

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9781466801028

You Don’t Know Jack

A Storyteller Goes to School

By: Kevin D. Cordi

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You Don’t Know Jack

A Storyteller Goes to School

By: Kevin D. Cordi

“Jack and the Beanstalk,” “Little Jack Horner,” and “Jack the Giant Killer” are all famous tales and rhymes featuring the same hero, a character who often appears in legends, fairy tales, and nursery rhymes. Unlike moralizing fairy tale heroes, however, Jack is typically depicted as foolish or lazy, though he often emerges triumphant through cleverness and tricks. With their roots traced back to England, Jack tales are an important oral tradition in Appalachian folklore. It was in his Appalachian upbringing that Kevin D. Cordi was first introduced to Jack through oral storytelling traditions. Cordi’s love of storytelling eventually led him down a career path as a professional storyteller, touring the US for the past twenty-seven years. In addition to his work as a storyteller, Cordi worked a second job in an unrelated field—a high school teacher—and for many years, he kept his two lives separate. Everything changed when Cordi began telling stories in the classroom and realized he was connecting with his students in ways he had not previously. Cordi concluded that storytelling, storymaking, and drama can be used as systems of learning instead of as just entertainment. In You Don’t Know Jack: A Storyteller Goes to School, Cordi describes the process of integrating storytelling into his classroom. Using autoethnographic writing, he reflects upon the use of storytelling and storymaking in order to promote inquiry and learning. He argues that engaging with the stories of others, discovering that one voice or identity should not be valued over the other, and listening, especially listening to stories of difference, are of utmost importance to education and growth.

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1496821262

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9781496821263

The Popular Radical Press in Britain, 1811-1821 Vol 3

By: Paul Keen,Kevin Gilmartin

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The Popular Radical Press in Britain, 1811-1821 Vol 3

By: Paul Keen,Kevin Gilmartin

The radical weekly newspaper or pamphlet was the leading print organ of popular radical expression during what has been called the "heroic age of popular Radicalism"; the public agitation for parlimentary reform between 1815 and 1820. This work reprints the original runs of the rarest periodicals.

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Routledge

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1000742644

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9781000742640

Whistle up a Storm

By: Kevin Crowe

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Whistle up a Storm

By: Kevin Crowe

Kevin Crowe was a rugby union player and World War II veteran. This book tells the story of his life as a rugby player in Queensland from the 1940s, and his career as a referee and rugby administrator. He played 110 first grade games for New Farm and represented Queensland, Australia XV and Brisbane.

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Boolarong Press

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1921920149

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9781921920141

Listen but Don't Ask Question

Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar across the TransPacific

By: Kevin Fellezs

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Listen but Don't Ask Question

Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar across the TransPacific

By: Kevin Fellezs

Performed on an acoustic steel-string guitar with open tunings and a finger-picking technique, Hawaiian slack key guitar music emerged in the mid-nineteenth century. Though performed on a non-Hawaiian instrument, it is widely considered to be an authentic Hawaiian tradition grounded in Hawaiian aesthetics and cultural values. In Listen But Don’t Ask Question Kevin Fellezs listens to Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) and non-Hawaiian slack key guitarists in Hawai‘i, California, and Japan, attentive to the ways in which notions of Kanaka Maoli belonging and authenticity are negotiated and articulated in all three locations. In Hawai‘i, slack key guitar functions as a sign of Kanaka Maoli cultural renewal, resilience, and resistance in the face of appropriation and occupation, while in Japan it nurtures a merged Japanese-Hawaiian artistic and cultural sensibility. For diasporic Hawaiians in California, it provides a way to claim Hawaiian identity. By demonstrating how slack key guitar is a site for the articulation of Hawaiian values, Fellezs illuminates how slack key guitarists are reconfiguring notions of Hawaiian belonging, aesthetics, and politics throughout the transPacific.

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Exploring Social Change

America and the World

By: Charles L. Harper,Kevin T. Leicht

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Exploring Social Change

America and the World

By: Charles L. Harper,Kevin T. Leicht

Exploring Social Change provides a compelling analysis of theories that explain social change, innovation, social movements, and revolution, and concludes with reflections about how individuals do and should live in an uncertain and rapidly changing world. Written in a personal and clear manner, the authors provide definitions of key terms and analysis of theories and ideas from the study of social change. The seventh edition includes updated examples reflecting the social changes that have occurred in the world around us, including new discussions on the environmental and social landscapes, as well as updated methods and discussions that reflect that changing field of social change study.

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The Spiritual Doorway in the Brain

A Neurologist's Search for the God Experience

By: Kevin Nelson

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The Spiritual Doorway in the Brain

A Neurologist's Search for the God Experience

By: Kevin Nelson

The world's leading neurologist on out-of-body and near-death experiences shows that spirituality is as much a part of our basic biological makeup as our sex drive or survival instinct. If Buddha had been in an MRI machine and not under the Bodhi tree when he attained enlightenment, what would we have seen on the monitor? Dr. Kevin Nelson offers an answer to that question that is beyond what any scientist has previously encountered on the borderlands of consciousness. In his cutting-edge research, Nelson has discovered that spiritual experiences take place in one of the most primitive areas of the brain. In this eloquent, inspired, and reverent book, he relates the moving stories of patients and research subjects, brain scan analysis, evolutionary biology, and beautiful examples of transcendence from literature to reveal the machinery in our heads that enables us to perceive miracles-whether you are an atheist, Buddhist, or the most devout Catholic. The patients and people Nelson discuss have had an extremely diverse set of spiritual experiences, from arguing with the devil sitting at the foot of their hospital bed to seeing the universe synchronize around the bouncing of the ball in a pinball machine. However, the bizarre experiences don't make the people seem like freaks; they seem strangely very much like us, in surprising ways. Ultimately Nelson makes clear that spiritual experiences are not the exception in human life, but rather an inescapable and precious part of every one of us.

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The Cinematic Boogeyman

From the Fairytale to the Slasher Film

By: Kevin McGuiness

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The Cinematic Boogeyman

From the Fairytale to the Slasher Film

By: Kevin McGuiness

In the 1978 horror film classic Halloween, little Tommy Doyle asks his babysitter Laurie Strode "what is the Boogeyman?" This book answers this question by assessing the qualities that create the Boogeyman persona in Western popular culture particularly in the fairytale and the modern horror film. Using an archetypal approach derived from the work of Carl Jung and his successors Erich Neumann and Edgar Herzog, the book assesses the figure of the Boogeyman through an interdisciplinary lens that incorporates research from the fields of psychology, philosophy, and film studies. The book begins with an examination of the key traits associated with Bluebeard, a quintessential example of the folkloric Boogeyman featured in Charles Perrault's 1697 collection of fairytales. Through an intense comparative analysis, it highlights the presence of similar qualities in the popular villains from the contemporary American slasher movies of the 1970s and '80s. Specifically, these characters include Michael Myers from Halloween (1978), Jason Voorhees of Friday the 13th (1980), and Freddy Krueger featured in A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984). This examination situates these terrifying antagonists within a larger context of monstrosity and simultaneously establishes their role as cinematic manifestations of the folkloric Boogeyman.

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McFarland

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The Supreme Court Bar

Legal Elites in the Washington Community

By: Kevin T. McGuire

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The Supreme Court Bar

Legal Elites in the Washington Community

By: Kevin T. McGuire

Who represents litigants in the Supreme Court of the United States? Kevin T. McGuire shows that the most sophisticated of them have the advantage of representation by an elite counsel made up of former clerks to the justices, alumni of the Office of the Solicitor General, partners in powerful Washington law firms, and public interest lawyers, all of whom serve as gatekeepers to the Court. In this study, the first to characterize the bar of the Supreme Court as a whole, McGuire uses survey, archival, and interview data to explore the history and social structure of the community of Supreme Court specialists. In so doing, he assesses the strategic politics of Supreme Court practice, the ways in which dominant litigators can shape the Court's decisions, and what the existence of such an elite implies for judicial fairness.

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0813914493

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The Handbook for Nursing Associates and Assistant Practitioners

By: Gillian Rowe,Chris Counihan,Scott Ellis,Deborah Gee,Kevin Graham,Michelle Henderson,Janette Barnes,Jade Carter-Bennett

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The Handbook for Nursing Associates and Assistant Practitioners

By: Gillian Rowe,Chris Counihan,Scott Ellis,Deborah Gee,Kevin Graham,Michelle Henderson,Janette Barnes,Jade Carter-Bennett

Written specifically for students who are undertaking a foundation degree or higher level apprenticeship in healthcare practice, or for those studying for the new nursing associate role, this book provides readers with the core knowledge and skills, giving them a springboard to further study. Key features include: A broad range of topics such as study skills, professional development, infection control and health promotion, health sciences, mental health, learning disabilities, children and families Clinical case studies throughout to show how theory relates to real-life practice Different levels of activity to help students ‘step up learning’ whether they are at level 4 or 5 Written by a wide range of authors with both experience in practice and in running degrees in nursing and health, the book is essential reading for all healthcare support workers, assistant practitioners and nursing associates.

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152641760X

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Resilience

By: Kevin Grove

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Resilience

By: Kevin Grove

Is resilience simply a fad, or is it a new way of thinking about human–environment relations, and the governance of these relations, that has real staying power? Is resilience a dangerous, depoliticizing concept that neuters incipient political activity, or the key to more empowering, emancipatory, and participatory forms of environmental management? Resilience offers an advanced introduction to these debates. It provides students with a detailed review of how the concept emerged from a small corner of ecology to critically challenge conventional environmental management practices, and radicalize how we can think about and manage social and ecological change. But Resilience also situates this new style of thought and management within a particular historical and geographical context. It traces the roots of resilience to the cybernetically-influenced behavioral science of Herbert Simon, the neoliberal political economic theory of new institutional economics, the pragmatist philosophy of John Dewey, and the modernist design aesthetic of the Bauhaus school. These diverse roots are what distinguish resilience approaches from other ways of studying human-environment relations. Resilience thinking recalibrates the study of social and environmental change around a will to design, a drive or desire to synthesize diverse forms of knowledge and develop collaborative, cross-boundary solutions to complex problems. In contrast to the modes of analysis and critique found in geography and cognate disciplines, resilience approaches strive to pragmatically transform human–environment relations in ways that will produce more sustainable futures for complex social and ecological systems. In providing a road map to debates over resilience that brings together research from geography, anthropology, sociology, international relations, and philosophy, this book gives readers the conceptual and theoretical tools necessary to engage with political and ethical questions about how we can and should live together in an increasingly interconnected and unpredictable world.

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1317340000

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Intensive Kids - Intensive Interventions

By: Kevin Coates

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Intensive Kids - Intensive Interventions

By: Kevin Coates

The book focuses on what schools can do to educate and support children with serious emotional and behavioral problems. Written for the busy school administrator, school psychologist, special educator and other school leaders, it serves as a research-based, yet practical guide that pulls together key principles, information and resources helpful in the process of developing and implementing school-based programs. The reader will gain an understanding of the essential elements that contribute to quality intensive programming as well as information related to positive behavior management supports and program evaluation.

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1581129165

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Quality of Service - IWQoS 2003

11th International Workshop, Berkeley, CA, USA, June 2-4, 2003, Proceedings

By: Kevin Jeffay,Ion Stoica

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Quality of Service - IWQoS 2003

11th International Workshop, Berkeley, CA, USA, June 2-4, 2003, Proceedings

By: Kevin Jeffay,Ion Stoica

The refereed proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Quality of Service, IWQoS 2003, held in Berkeley, CA, USA, in June 2003. The 27 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on analysis and modeling, resource allocation and admission control, multimedia and incentives, dependability and fault tolerance, routing, availability and dependability, Web services, rate-based QoS, and storage.

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3540402810

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Green Culture

An A-to-Z Guide

By: Kevin Wehr

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Green Culture

An A-to-Z Guide

By: Kevin Wehr

Colorful bracelets, funky brooches, and beautiful handmade beads: young crafters learn to make all these and much more with this fantastic step-by-step guide. In 12 exciting projects with simple steps and detailed instructions, budding fashionistas create their own stylish accessories to give as gifts or add a touch of personal flair to any ensemble. Following the successful "Art Smart" series, "Craft Smart" presents a fresh, fun approach to four creative skills: knitting, jewelry-making, papercrafting, and crafting with recycled objects. Each book contains 12 original projects to make, using a range of readily available materials. There are projects for boys and girls, carefully chosen to appeal to readers of all abilities. A special "techniques and materials" section encourages young crafters to try out their own ideas while learning valuable practical skills.

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Predisposed

Liberals, Conservatives, and the Biology of Political Differences

By: John R. Hibbing,Kevin B. Smith,John R. Alford

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Predisposed

Liberals, Conservatives, and the Biology of Political Differences

By: John R. Hibbing,Kevin B. Smith,John R. Alford

Buried in many people and operating largely outside the realm of conscious thought are forces inclining us toward liberal or conservative political convictions. Our biology predisposes us to see and understand the world in different ways, not always reason and the careful consideration of facts. These predispositions are in turn responsible for a significant portion of the political and ideological conflict that marks human history. With verve and wit, renowned social scientists John Hibbing, Kevin Smith, and John Alford—pioneers in the field of biopolitics—present overwhelming evidence that people differ politically not just because they grew up in different cultures or were presented with different information. Despite the oft-heard longing for consensus, unity, and peace, the universal rift between conservatives and liberals endures because people have diverse psychological, physiological, and genetic traits. These biological differences influence much of what makes people who they are, including their orientations to politics. Political disputes typically spring from the assumption that those who do not agree with us are shallow, misguided, uninformed, and ignorant. Predisposed suggests instead that political opponents simply experience, process, and respond to the world differently. It follows, then, that the key to getting along politically is not the ability of one side to persuade the other side to see the error of its ways but rather the ability of each side to see that the other is different, not just politically, but physically. Predisposed will change the way you think about politics and partisan conflict. As a bonus, the book includes a "Left/Right 20 Questions" game to test whether your predispositions lean liberal or conservative.

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Audience-ology

How Moviegoers Shape the Films We Love

By: Kevin Goetz

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Audience-ology

How Moviegoers Shape the Films We Love

By: Kevin Goetz

Looks at the often secretive process of audience testing Hollywood movies and how it can help shape movies, with first-hand accounts from directors such as Ron Howard, Cameron Crowe, Drew Barrymore and Ed Zwick.

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1982186747

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