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Iron Ambition

My Life with Cus D'Amato

By: Mike Tyson,Larry Sloman

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Iron Ambition

My Life with Cus D'Amato

By: Mike Tyson,Larry Sloman

From the former heavyweight champion and New York Times–bestselling author comes a powerful look at the life and leadership lessons of Cus D’Amato, the legendary boxing trainer and Mike Tyson’s surrogate father. "[Iron Ambition] spells out D'Amato's techniques for building a champion from scratch." – Wall Street Journal When Cus D’Amato first saw thirteen-year-old Mike Tyson spar in the ring, he proclaimed, “That’s the heavyweight champion of the world.” D’Amato, who had previously managed the careers of world champions Floyd Patterson and José Torres, would go on to train the young Tyson and raise him as a son. D'Amato died a year before Tyson became the youngest heavyweight champion in history. In Tyson’s bestselling memoir Undisputed Truth, he recounted the role D’Amato played in his formative years, adopting him at age sixteen after his mother died and shaping him both physically and mentally after Tyson had spent years living in fear and poverty. In Iron Ambition, Tyson elaborates on the life lessons that D’Amato passed down to him, and reflects on how the trainer’s words of wisdom continue to resonate with him outside the ring. The book also chronicles Cus’s courageous fight against the mobsters who controlled boxing, revealing more than we’ve ever known about this singular cultural figure.

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Penguin

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052553363X

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9780525533634

Vd Man

By: Larry Blumen

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Vd Man

By: Larry Blumen

In 1965, Miami, Florida, has more cases of infectious syphilis than any city in Americaa fact the Chamber of Commerce and the Miami Health Department conspire to cover up. Into this sticky wicket stumbles Allen Kravass, who gives up a cushy job in his fathers bank to pursue a career in syphilis eradication with the federal government. Kravass aspires to be a VD mana sleuth for syphilis. But he is opposed by his boss, Howard Stepman, who would like to fire him. While desperately trying to keep his job, Kravass meets Emily Norden, a healthy nurse in the VD Clinic. Norden accidentally spills Kravasss blood while instructing him in the technique of drawing blood from patients. This leads to an office romance which may not bode well for his new career. Kravasss quest is also threatened by the conflicting ambitions of others in Miamis quirky world of syphilis investigation. His fellow investigators wish him well, but are primarily interested in advancing their own careers. Not everybody succeeds in becoming a VD man. Sometimes, it comes down to the luck of the draw.

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iUniverse

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145021939X

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A WHITE GUY'S WALK THROUGH BLACK AMERICA

By: Larry Fuqua

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A WHITE GUY'S WALK THROUGH BLACK AMERICA

By: Larry Fuqua

My book attempts to give an honest portrayal of my life much lived in America's black world. The "Black world of America" from my experiences is very much different than that of White America profoundly, so I found, through my experiences, study, and observations that there is a dislike and hatred may not be too strong a word to describe the feeling prevalent in Black America. I don't feel my description is, in any way, an exaggeration. I am also the author of more than one hundred essays on race, Black racism, and a proponent for the adaption of a new college course (may be adaptable for high school juniors and seniors) titled "Comparative Racism." I also describe my fourteen years policing in Black neighborhoods with a Black partner. I look at police corruption, corrupt city officials, and I describe my personal experiences and knowledge of events and members of the Chicago's south suburban mafia. I give insight into personal experiences with Black racists and racism at various level in Black America. I covered my time as a White student at an HBCU and my many intimacies with black sistas, including my marriage to a Black woman. Sex, crime, corruption, mafia, racism, hatred, corporate intrigues, it's all between these pages, much of which, I am not proud. I am not Black, but I know I had a perch few other White people have had in my personal experiences. You be the judge, but for me, I am not optimistic about the future of Black and White America. Tell me it ain't so.

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Fulton Books, Inc.

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9798889820406

Fallen Angels

By: Jerry Pournelle,Larry Niven,Michael Flynn

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Fallen Angels

By: Jerry Pournelle,Larry Niven,Michael Flynn

IT ALL HAPPENED SO FAST One minute the two space Hab astronauts were scoop-diving the atmosphere, the next they'd been shot down over the North Dakota Glacier and were the object of a massive manhunt by the United States government. That government, dedicated to saving the environment from the evils of technology, had been voted into power because everybody knew that the Green House Effect had to be controlled, whatever the cost. But who would have thought that the cost of ending pollution would include not only total government control of day-to-day life, but the onset of a new Ice Age Stranded in the anti-technological heartland of America, paralyzed by Earth's gravity, the "Angels" had no way back to the Space Habs, the last bastions of high technology and intellectual freedom on or over the Earth. But help was on its way, help from the most unlikely sources .... Join # 1 national bestsellers Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle and Michael Flynn in a world where civilization is on the ropes, and the environmentalists have created their own worst nightmare: A world of Fallen Angels At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

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Baen Publishing Enterprises

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1618243527

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The Presidents and UFOs

A Secret History from FDR to Obama

By: Larry Holcombe

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The Presidents and UFOs

A Secret History from FDR to Obama

By: Larry Holcombe

Using newly declassified and Freedom of Information Act documents, eyewitness accounts, interviews, and leaked documents being authenticated, [this book] details the secret history of UFOs and the corresponding presidential administration"--

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Macmillan

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1250040515

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Fair Is Foul and Foul Is Fair (Malone Mystery Novels, #2)

By: Larry Darter

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Fair Is Foul and Foul Is Fair (Malone Mystery Novels, #2)

By: Larry Darter

Combining a gorgeous socialite turned high class escort, a dark mystery, a murder or three, a wise-cracking private investigator, and a transnational organized crime consortium is a recipe for a deadly mix ... When a drop-dead gorgeous socialite with a wad of cash and a sordid tale walks into L.A. private investigator Malone’s office, he finds himself unable to refuse - despite his best efforts. Malone does what any self-respecting private investigator with a healthy appreciation for the fairer sex and rent to pay would do. He takes the case. But soon, he realizes he may have bitten off more than he can chew when he attracts some powerful enemies. As loyalties get tested and a shocking twist revealed, Malone and his client Evania find themselves drawn deeper and deeper into an elaborate and deadly scheme that will alter the course of their lives forever. As the body count rises, all signs point to the involvement of a transnational organized crime consortium, the Russian mafia. It becomes increasingly clear to Malone that there’s far more at stake than his client’s stated desire for protecting her privacy. And then the stakes rise too and hit a little too close to home in the romance department for Malone when his love interest, Sara Bernstein, becomes a kidnapping victim at the hands of violent gangsters. Malone must turn to both the FBI and a shady underworld character for help. The clock is ticking. Lives are on the line. Can Malone stop this developing runaway train of death and destruction? Can he untangle the web of criminal wrongdoing in time to save Sara? Or will he lose her and maybe his own life in the bargain? Fair is Foul and Foul Is Fair, is the second novel in the Malone private investigator series of crime and suspense thrillers. You may enjoy reading it as a standalone, since you can read and enjoy the series in any order. But why stop there? Instead, why not binge-read the entire totally gripping, action-packed Malone series? Come What May Fair Is Foul and Foul Is Fair Cold Comfort Foregone Conclusion Live Long Day Foul Play Black Deeds Perchance to Dream What’s Done is Done Passage to Remorse (Coming soon) Fair Is Foul and Foul Is Fair is perfect for fans of Robert B. Parker’s Spenser and Raymond Chandler’s Marlowe.

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Fedora Press

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882831799X

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Run and Not Be Weary

By: Larry Lockhart,Lockhart Larry Lockhart

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Run and Not Be Weary

By: Larry Lockhart,Lockhart Larry Lockhart

Sometimes life requires us to make a leap of faith. Lee Murphy is a good runner - he finishes near the front in his local running club's races - but he thinks he should be better. He has tried everything he can think of to improve, but nothing works until a chance conversation with acquaintance and fellow runner Emily Dawson leads him to clinical psychologist Lucinda Gehringer, Emily's boss. Lucinda's instruction, Emily's friendship and Lee's developing faith combine to produce an inspirational yearlong odyssey. Others, particularly his pastor, befriend and support Lee along the way, but not everyone has his best interests at heart. Circumstances test Lee's growing faith. His own mother is an impediment and the self-serving Lucinda is a mixed blessing. Lee wants to succeed while being a man of God who cares for others. But it isn't easy in a dog-eat-dog world where some people are driven by ambition and self-interest.

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1440199280

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Reconstructing the Common Good in Education

Coping with Intractable American Dilemmas

By: Larry Cuban,Dorothy Shipps

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Reconstructing the Common Good in Education

Coping with Intractable American Dilemmas

By: Larry Cuban,Dorothy Shipps

What constitutes the common good in American public education? This volume explores the ongoing debate between those who expect schools to cultivate citizens through personal, moral, and social development, as well as to bind diverse groups into one nation, and a new generation of school reformers intent on using schools to solve the nation's economic problems by equipping students with marketable skills.

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Stanford University Press

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0804738637

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Black Cat Weekly #16

By: John Gregory Betancourt ,Hal Charles,Frank Kane,Christopher B. Booth,Paige Sleuth,Stacy Woodson,Nisi Shawl,Michael Swanwick,Malcolm Jameson,Larry Tritten

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Black Cat Weekly #16

By: John Gregory Betancourt ,Hal Charles,Frank Kane,Christopher B. Booth,Paige Sleuth,Stacy Woodson,Nisi Shawl,Michael Swanwick,Malcolm Jameson,Larry Tritten

Black Cat Weekly 16 is a special holiday issue, featuring three holiday-themed mysteries for your reading pleasure. We didn’t have any holiday science fiction or fantasy stories on tap this time, but we will definitely try to do better next year. (Decembers are always a bit chaotic at Wildside Press—we also have to get out the year-end royalties for hundreds of authors.) If you are a fan of classic science fiction, you’ll appreciate “The Star Sneak,” by Larry Tritten—a Jack Vance parody, unearthed from 1974. And Darrell Schweitzer and Cindy Ward bring in stories by two masters—Michael Swanwick and Nisi Shawn. Tarnished Utopia by Malcolm Jameson is our pulp classic from the legendary Startling Stories magazine. For the mystery reader, we lead off with my own “Christmas Pit,” an entry in my “Pit-Bull” Peter Geller series. Our editors Barb Goffman and Michael Bracken bring in holiday tales (with very similar titles!) by Paige Sleuth and Stacy Woodson. Plus a classic hardboiled story from Frank Kane, and a Mr. Clackworthy story by Christopher B. Booth. And what issue would be complete without a solve-it-yourself story by Hal Charles? Without further ado, here is the lineup: Mysteries / Suspense “A Christmas Pit,” by John Gregory Betancourt [short story] Sister Knows Best, by Hal Charles [Solve-It-Yourself Mystery] Frame, by Frank Kane [short novel] “Mr. Clackworthy Forgets His Tonic,” by Christopher B. Booth [short story] “Holiday Holdup,” by Paige Sleuth [Barb Goffman Presents short story] “Holiday Hitman,” by Stacy Woodson [Michael Bracken Presents short story] Science Fiction & Fantasy “Maggies,” by Nisi Shawl [Cynthia M. Ward Presents short story] “A Small Room in Koboldtown,” by Michael Swanwick [Darrell Schweitizer Presents short story] Tarnished Utopia, by Malcolm Jameson [novel] “The Star Sneak,” by Larry Tritten [short story]

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Wildside Press LLC

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1479470600

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Desert Lawmen

The High Sheriffs of New Mexico and Arizona Territories, 1846-1912

By: Larry D. Ball

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Desert Lawmen

The High Sheriffs of New Mexico and Arizona Territories, 1846-1912

By: Larry D. Ball

Elected for two-year terms, frontier sheriffs were the principal peace-keepers in counties that were often larger than New England states. As officers of the court, they defended settlers and protected their property from the ever-present violence on the frontier. Their duties ranged from tracking down stagecoach robbers and serving court warrants to locking up drunks and quelling domestic disputes.The reality of their job embraced such mandane duties as being jail keepers, tax collectors, quarantine inspectors, court-appointed executioners, and dogcatchers.

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UNM Press

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0826325017

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9780826325013

Patrick and Franny

Their Life, Love and Family

By: Larry McCormick Reifurth

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Patrick and Franny

Their Life, Love and Family

By: Larry McCormick Reifurth

Patrick and Franny tells the heartwarming story of life, love, and family. Childhood friends turned partners for life, their union was marked with simplicity, happiness, and contentment. They also experienced the pain of loss of a child, a friend, and a loyal companion. Their love for each other carried on for ages even as one of them faced death and lasted until they were both reunited with their creator.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1450007147

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9781450007146

Crisis Management

Effective School Leadership to Avoid Early Burnout

By: Larry Dake

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Crisis Management

Effective School Leadership to Avoid Early Burnout

By: Larry Dake

This book will assist aspiring and practicing school leaders with strategies to navigate transitions, balance relationships, and manage their time more effectively. All three components are necessary to manage stress and avoid burnout in today’s fast-paced and always-on world of school leadership. While prep programs teach several important facets for the job, nothing quite prepares school leaders for the job’s stress, time expectations, and public face. This book can help all school leaders in these areas!

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1475859597

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Tom Horn in Life and Legend

By: Larry D. Ball

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Tom Horn in Life and Legend

By: Larry D. Ball

Some of the legendary gunmen of the Old West were lawmen, but more, like Billy the Kid and Jesse James, were outlaws. Tom Horn (1860–1903) was both. Lawman, soldier, hired gunman, detective, outlaw, and assassin, this darkly enigmatic figure has fascinated Americans ever since his death by hanging the day before his forty-third birthday. In this masterful historical biography, Larry Ball, a distinguished historian of western lawmen and outlaws, presents the definitive account of Horn’s career. Horn became a civilian in the Apache wars when he was still in his early twenties. He fought in the last major battle with the Apaches on U.S. soil and chased the Indians into Mexico with General George Crook. He bragged about murdering renegades, and the brutality of his approach to law and order foreshadows his controversial career as a Pinkerton detective and his trial for murder in Wyoming. Having worked as a hired gun and a range detective in the years after the Johnson County War, he was eventually tried and hanged for killing a fourteen-year-old boy. Horn’s guilt is still debated. To an extent no previous scholar has managed to achieve, Ball distinguishes the truth about Horn from the numerous legends. Both the facts and their distortions are revealing, especially since so many of the untruths come from Horn’s own autobiography. As a teller of tall tales, Horn burnished his own reputation throughout his life. In spite of his services as a civilian scout and packer, his behavior frightened even his lawless companions. Although some writers have tried to elevate him to the top rung of frontier gun wielders, questions still shadow Horn’s reputation. Ball’s study concludes with a survey of Horn as described by historians, novelists, and screenwriters since his own time. These portrayals, as mixed as the facts on which they are based, show a continuing fascination with the life and legend of Tom Horn.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806145196

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Haulin' Rope & Gaff

Songs and Poetry in the History of the Newfoundland Seal Fishery

By: Shannon Ryan,Larry Small

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Haulin' Rope & Gaff

Songs and Poetry in the History of the Newfoundland Seal Fishery

By: Shannon Ryan,Larry Small

Men and boys of Newfoundland's north East Coast always looked forward to the coming of March. It was sealing or swilin' time. Seal meat would give some reprieve to `the long and hungry month of March by which time the family food store was very low. At this time of the year, sealing provided the only opportunity to obtain fresh meat and the pelts brought long awaited cash. Shannon Ryan was bo and bred in Riverhead, Harbor Grace, the one time home of the great sealing industry. He attended secondary school in his home community and later received an education degree from Memorial University. After spending several years teaching in Newfoundland he taught for two years at ranking inlet in North West Territories. In the late 1960's he retu ed to university and later obtained a M. A. in history at Memorial University. He has done extensive research on the Newfoundland seal and cod fisheries and has spent one summer doing fisheries research in Norway. Larry Small was bo and reared in Morton's Harbor, Notre Damme Bay. He killed his first whitecoat at the age of fifteen: the gaff was a dogwood selected from the woods by his father and the hook crafted by the community blacksmith. He attended the one room Methodist school in Morton's Harbor and later took up studies at Memorial University. During his BA at Memorial he came under the influence of the inte ationally known scholar, Herbert Halpert, who inspired him to study for an MA degree of folklore and folklife at the University of Pennsylvania. All of his field research has been in Newfoundland outporting community's where he has done extensive work on various aspects of talk among fishermen. Since 1974 he has been teaching in the department of Folklore at Memorial University.

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Breakwater Books

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0919948537

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Exploring Jewish Literature of the Second Temple Period

A Guide for New Testament Students

By: Larry R. Helyer

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Exploring Jewish Literature of the Second Temple Period

A Guide for New Testament Students

By: Larry R. Helyer

Larry R. Helyer provides an introduction and historical context for the wealth of Jewish literature outside the Hebrew Bible, and he explores the pressures, realities, questions and dreams that nurtured and provoked these written works.

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InterVarsity Press

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0830826785

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To Know the Truth

By: Larry Martz

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To Know the Truth

By: Larry Martz

It's the late '50s, that yeasty time of a new era struggling to be born, and Detroit is still the fabled Motor City, full of vitality, swagger and vivid characters. A young reporter is learning his craft, and the facts of life. A brutal murder turns out to be both more and less than it seems, and a handicapped boy becomes a pawn in covering up the truth. A gifted politician launches what will surely be a national career. A beautiful girl is torn between her love and the aphrodisiac of power. The story probes the city's gamy underside, from Jimmy Hoffa's Teamsters and their gangland allies to the "respectable" men who deal with them under the table. In the end, the tangle of interlaced schemes erupts into national news.

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1477285547

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Diagnosing the Legacy

The Discovery, Research, and Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes in Indigenous Youth

By: Larry Krotz

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Diagnosing the Legacy

The Discovery, Research, and Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes in Indigenous Youth

By: Larry Krotz

In the late 1980s, pediatric endocrinologists at the Children’s Hospital in Winnipeg began to notice a new cohort appearing in their clinics for young people with diabetes. Indigenous youngsters from two First Nations in northern Manitoba and northwestern Ontario were showing up not with type 1 (or insulin-dependent diabetes), but with what looked like type 2 diabetes, until then a condition that was restricted to people much older. Investigation led the doctors to learn that something similar had become a medical issue among young people of the Pima Indian Nation in Arizona though, to their knowledge, nobody else. But these youth were just the tip of the iceberg. Over the next few decades more children would confront what was turning into not only a medical but also a social and community challenge. Diagnosing the Legacy is the story of communities, researchers, and doctors who faced—and continue to face—something never seen before: type 2 diabetes in younger and younger people. Through dozens of interviews, Krotz shows the impact of the disease on the lives of individuals and families as well as the challenges caregivers faced diagnosing and then responding to the complex and perplexing disease, especially in communities far removed from the medical personnel a facilities available in the city.

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Univ. of Manitoba Press

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0887555586

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Social Work

Seeking Relevancy in the Twenty-First Century

By: Jean A Pardeck,Roland Meinert,Larry W Kreuger

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Social Work

Seeking Relevancy in the Twenty-First Century

By: Jean A Pardeck,Roland Meinert,Larry W Kreuger

Discover why social work must be restructured if it is to remain viable!Social Work: Seeking Relevancy in the Twenty-First Century provides you with a critical examination of the major issues that social work education and practice must confront if social work is to remain as a mainline profession. The book explores issues that are not normally covered in social work literature, such as the challenge of reconstructing the social work profession, the use of technology in social work, and the tension surrounding various social work education curriculums. You will benefit from this thorough discussion of the many problems that the social work profession is facing: a lack of scholarly research, inadequate educational programs, and the use of hypertechnology to educate social work students.Social Work: Seeking Relevancy in the Twenty-First Century examines the epistemological, theoretical, socio/technical, and practice directions that social work has branched into. You'll discover that today's central direction for social work is generated from liberal, postmodern, and increasingly feminist ideological perspectives. In a field where conceptual and theoretical input rarely allow for intellectual diversity, this volume demonstrates that several views are best for inquiry and exploration in social work.Issues discussed include: examining real or unreal social work values by separating them from beliefs, preferences, norms, attitudes, and opinions creating social work course outlines that incorporate practices developed around the globe, allowing for more conceptual and theoretical growth within the field realizing the tremendous difference between communication in the instrumental sense via technology, and in the affective, soul-oriented sense via personal interaction investigating the negative effects of communicating with hypertechnology (modems, e-mail) in the social work profession realizing the need for a greater quantity and quality of social work research to progress further in the field Social Work: Seeking Relevancy in the Twenty-First Century invites you to reinvent social work for today's post-industrial and post-modern era. You will discover a series of challenges that social work must meet and overcome if it is to move into the new century as a relevant and viable profession. You will explore solutions such as increasing scholarship and research among social workers, and decreasing the use of technology (for example, classes held via the Internet) in social work education programs in order to increase the quality of the social work profession.

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Routledge

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1000156737

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From Hockey to Baseball: I kept them in stitches

By: Ken Carson,Larry Millson

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From Hockey to Baseball: I kept them in stitches

By: Ken Carson,Larry Millson

Ken Carson's career as rink rat, athletic trainer and executive has spanned sixty years from junior hockey to the NHL and from major-league baseball to the minors. Carson has sharpened skates with Bobby Orr as his helper; been frightened out of a wrestling ring by Yukon Eric; lived at the arena in Rochester, N.Y.; stitched up players for the Pittsburgh Penguins; celebrated the Blue Jays' first AL East championship on the turf of Exhibition Stadium as the team trainer who doubled as director of team travel. He was the first trainer for two expansion teams in two sports, the Penguins and the Blue Jays, participating in the 1976 NHL All-Star Game and the 1980 MLB All-Star Game. In 1987, Carson became the Blue Jays' director of Florida operations, which included the role of general manager of the Class A team at Dunedin. As a respected minor-league executive, he became president of the Class A Florida State League in 2015. Carson's story, as told to Toronto sports writer Larry Millson, offers a unique perspective of sports over the generations....

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1460280113

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The Deal Goes Down

By: Larry Beinhart

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The Deal Goes Down

By: Larry Beinhart

A legendary, Edgar-Award winning writer returns, and so does his legendary detective, with a gripping thriller about marital discord, contract killing, off-piste skiing and the deep state... Ex-private eye Tony Casella lives in the Catskill mountains, a lonely old tough guy whose body can no longer do what it once did. His wife and son are dead; his daughter barely talks to him; his bank is in the process of foreclosing on his home. But a chance encounter with a rich young woman on a train changes everything. He is hired to take care of her superrich, sexual predator husband. That job leads to others and he joins a small start-up whose mission is to save women from abusive marriages. Provided their spouses are in the top 0.01%. It's a luxury service destined to make great profits. Tony’s problems seem to be over, but are they? An old, angry associate is determined to get his cut of Tony’s earnings, murky government agents start to tail him, and when he is sent to the Austrian alps to kill a Russian oligarch and rescue his American wife, all hell breaks loose… Packed with action The Deal Goes Down is an unforgettable portrait of a Lion in Winter who still has a few tricks up his sleeve, from a writer garlanded with awards and critical acclaim and whose novel American Hero was made into the classic film, Wag the Dog.

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Melville House

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1612199917

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The Abcs of Strategic Communication

Thousands of Terms, Tips and Techniques

By: M. Larry Litwin APR Fellow PRSA

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The Abcs of Strategic Communication

Thousands of Terms, Tips and Techniques

By: M. Larry Litwin APR Fellow PRSA

Examples include: 25 words that hurt your resume; A user-friendly Web site; ABCs of strategic public relations; CBAs of strategic public relations; Ad placement matters on the Web; Assessing your writing; Be a better manager; Business dining: Dos and donts; Convince vs. persuade; Crafting your resume; Cover letters that get attention; Fly with less turbulence; Getting you out there; iPod etiquette; Know your audiences; Know where you are headed!; Looking for a job; Making your Web site pop; Planning your business trip; Pack without wrinkles; Political advertising; Resolving client reluctance; Telephone and cell phone etiquette; That all important thank you note; The 30-3-30 Principle; The 3-Minute Drill; The dreaded social kiss; The elevator speech; The

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Juggler of Worlds

200 Years Before the Discovery of the Ringworld

By: Larry Niven,Edward M. Lerner

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200 Years Before the Discovery of the Ringworld

By: Larry Niven,Edward M. Lerner

For too long, the Puppeteers have controlled the fate of worlds. Now Sigmund is pulling the strings... Covert agent Sigmund Ausfaller is Earth's secret weapon, humanity's best defense against all conspiracies, real and potential - and imaginary - of foes both human and alien. Who better than a brilliant paranoid to expose the devious plots of others? He may finally have met his match in Nessus, representative of the secretive Puppeteers, the elder race who wield vastly superior technologies. Nessus schemes in the shadows with Earth's traitors and adversaries, even after the race he represents abruptly vanishes from Known Space. As a paranoid, Sigmund had always known things would end horribly for him. Only the when, where, how, why, and by whom of it all had eluded him. That fog has begun to lift... But even Sigmund has never imagined how far his investigations will take him - or that his destiny is entwined with the fates of worlds. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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1429951419

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Rockaway Blue

A Novel

By: Larry Kirwan

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Rockaway Blue

A Novel

By: Larry Kirwan

When terrorists attacked on September 11, 2001, Lieutenant Brian Murphy rescued seven people from the World Trade Center. Even as steel girders buckled and groaned, Brian rushed back up the stairs of the North Tower in search of those in need. He died a hero, one of more than four hundred police officers, firefighters, and other first responders who perished that fateful day. Three years later, Vietnam veteran and retired NYPD detective-sergeant Jimmy Murphy is on a mission to find the truth behind his son's death. Why was Brian in the tower that morning? Had he anticipated the attack? Suspecting a cover-up of a deeper truth, Jimmy must confront his family, friends, and old colleagues in the police department to discover what happened to Brian and who his eldest son really was. Murphy's investigation takes him from his home turf in the Irish American enclave of Rockaway Beach to Muslim Atlantic Avenue and beyond in order to find his own truth about 9/11. Dry-eyed and determined, Murphy battles barstool patriotism, the NYPD blue wall of silence, and a ticking clock—all the while haunted by his own secrets and the raw memory of his difficult relationship with his dead son. Written by author and musician Larry Kirwan, Rockaway Blue is a thrilling and poignant story of a family struggling to pull itself together after an unthinkable trauma.

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Cornell University Press

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1501754238

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Texas South Plains War Stories

Interviews with Veterans from World War II to Afghanistan

By: Larry A. Williams,Katherine McLamore

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Texas South Plains War Stories

Interviews with Veterans from World War II to Afghanistan

By: Larry A. Williams,Katherine McLamore

Every veteran has a story to tell--often ones they have not told their own families. But as one vet in this collection of original interviews succinctly said of his combat experiences: "Some things are better left unsaid." Documenting recollections from survivors of World War II, Korea, Vietnam and other conflicts--all residents of the Texas Panhandle--this book presents narratives from men and women whose young lives, for good or ill, were defined by their participation in warfare in service to their country.

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1476642125

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Yoga Therapy & Integrative Medicine

Where Ancient Science Meets Modern Medicine

By: Larry Payne, Ph.D., E-RYT500, YTRX,Terra Gold, M.A., L.Ac., E-RYT500, YTRX,Eden Goldman, D.C., E-RYT500, YTRX

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Yoga Therapy & Integrative Medicine

Where Ancient Science Meets Modern Medicine

By: Larry Payne, Ph.D., E-RYT500, YTRX,Terra Gold, M.A., L.Ac., E-RYT500, YTRX,Eden Goldman, D.C., E-RYT500, YTRX

Use friendly reference guide detailing a wide range of approaches, the book is designed to educate medical professionals, students, yoga teachers, academia, and the general public on alternative treatment methodss and the game-changing therapeutic framework for Yoga Therapy's application as a complementary treatment approach.

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Turner Publishing Company

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1591207231

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The Digital Marketer

Ten New Skills You Must Learn to Stay Relevant and Customer-Centric

By: Larry Weber,Lisa Leslie Henderson

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The Digital Marketer

Ten New Skills You Must Learn to Stay Relevant and Customer-Centric

By: Larry Weber,Lisa Leslie Henderson

Big data. Digital loyalty programs. Predictive analytics. Contextualized content. Are you ready? These are just a few of the newest trends in digital marketing that are part of our everyday world. In The Digital Marketer: Ten New Skills You Must Learn to Stay Relevant and Customer-Centric, digital marketing guru Larry Weber and business writer and consultant Lisa Leslie Henderson explain the latest digital tools and trends used in today's marketing initiatives. The Digital Marketer explains: The ins and outs of this brave new world of digital marketing The specific techniques needed to achieve high customer engagement The modern innovations that help you outperform the competition The best targeting and positioning practices for today's digital era How customer insights derived from big and small data and analytics, combined with software, design, and creativity can create the customer experience differential With the authors' decades of combined experience filling its pages, The Digital Marketer gives every marketer the tools they need to reinvent their marketing function and business practices. It helps businesses learn to adapt to a customer-centric era and teaches specific techniques for engaging customers effectively through technology. The book is an essential read for businesses of all sizes wanting to learn how to engage with customers in meaningful, profitable, and mutually beneficial ways.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118760816

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"I Am Not Master of Events"

The Speculations of John Law and Lord Londonderry in the Mississippi and South Sea Bubbles

By: Larry Neal

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"I Am Not Master of Events"

The Speculations of John Law and Lord Londonderry in the Mississippi and South Sea Bubbles

By: Larry Neal

Two of the greatest financial fiascos of all time took place at the same time and were instigated by two acquaintances: the Mississippi Bubble, on which John Law at first made a vast fortune and gained sway over French finances; and the South Sea Bubble, launched by Law and Thomas Pitt, Jr., Lord Londonderry, his main partner in England. This book tells the story of these two financial schemes from the letters and accounts of two leading personalities. Larry Neal, a distinguished economic historian, highlights the rationality of each person and also finds that the primitive exchanges of the day, though informal and completely unregulated, actually performed reasonably well.

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Yale University Press

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0300153163

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Close Quarters

A Novel

By: Larry Heinemann

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Close Quarters

A Novel

By: Larry Heinemann

From the moment his first novel was published, Larry Heinemann joined the ranks of the great chroniclers of the Vietnam conflict--Philip Caputo, Tim O’Brien, and Gustav Hasford. In the stripped-down, unsullied patois of an ordinary soldier, draftee Philip Dosier tells the story of his war. Straight from high school, too young to vote or buy himself a drink, he enters a world of mud and heat, blood and body counts, ambushes and firefights. It is here that he embarks on the brutal downward path to wisdom that awaits every soldier. In the tradition of Naked and the Dead and The Thin Red Line, Close Quarters is the harrowing story of how a decent kid from Chicago endures an extraordinary trial-- and returns profoundly altered to a world on the threshold of change.

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Vintage

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0307517705

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The Media in the Movies

A Catalog of American Journalism Films, 1900-1996

By: Larry Langman

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The Media in the Movies

A Catalog of American Journalism Films, 1900-1996

By: Larry Langman

Cynical news hounds, grumbling editors, snooping television newscasters, inquisitive foreign correspondents, probing newsreel cameramen, and a host of others--all can be found in this reference work to Hollywood's version of journalism: from the early one-reelers to modern fare, over a thousand silent and sound films can be found. Each entry includes title, date of release, distributor, director, screenwriter, and major cast members. These credits are followed by a brief plot summary and analysis, cross-references and other information. The book is arranged alphabetically, and includes a preface, introduction, bibliography, a list of abbreviations, appendices, and an index of names. The detailed introduction covers an historical survey of the topic, with numerous film examples. The work also includes a selection of stills from various films.

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McFarland

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147660925X

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AIA Guide to Downtown Minneapolis

By: Larry Millett

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AIA Guide to Downtown Minneapolis

By: Larry Millett

Let architecture critic Larry Millett be your guide to downtown Minneapolis, whose architectural history displays the uniqueness of this far-from-identical "twin" city. AIA Guide to Downtown Minneapolis includes walking tours for Nicollet Mall, the Warehouse District, the central riverfront, and the Elliot Park and Loring Park neighborhoods. Each tour is copiously illustrated with current and historic photographs and paired with detailed maps. This deeply informative guidebook is perfect for tourists discovering the Twin Cities and residents exploring what is right next door. Larry Millett has written extensively about Twin Cities architecture, notably in AIA Guide to the Twin Cities, Twin Cities Then and Now, and Lost Twin Cities.

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Minnesota Historical Society

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0873517202

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Massachusetts Disasters

True Stories of Tragedy and Survival

By: Larry Pletcher

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Massachusetts Disasters

True Stories of Tragedy and Survival

By: Larry Pletcher

Facing Unimaginable Events With Courage It's only human to be fascinated by disasters--and uplifted by reports of survival in the face of overwhelming circumstances. This book takes you back to Massachusetts' most catastrophic events, vividly re-creating the moments that changed the state forever. The twenty-five true stories presented here are a chilling reminder to expect the unexpected. From the 1874 Mill River flood and wreck of the City of Columbus, in 1884, to the Cocoanut Grove fire, in 1942, and the Amtrak derailment of 1990, Massachusetts has been the site of some of the nation's most dramatic moments. Each account in this book reveals not only the circumstances surrounding the disaster and the magnitude of the devastation, but also the courage and ingenuity displayed by those who survived and the heroism of those who helped others, often risking their own lives in rescue efforts.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1493028774

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Beyond Glory: Medal of Honor Heroes in Their Own Words

By: Larry Smith

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Beyond Glory: Medal of Honor Heroes in Their Own Words

By: Larry Smith

This first oral history of living Medal of Honor winners evokes Flags of Our Fathers with stirring accounts of patriotic valor. This New York Times best-selling account of battlefield courage celebrates the larger-than-life sacrifices of those awarded the nation's highest honor for valor in combat. Exclusive interviews with these twenty-four men—firsthand accounts of battlefield sacrifice from the greatest generation to Vietnam, along with before-and-after stories—form the core of this classic work. The recipients, as portrayed here, represent a cross-section as diverse as America itself—officers and enlisted men; African Americans, Hispanics, and Caucasians; men who went on to become famous (Daniel Inouye, James Stockdale, Bob Kerrey) and others who returned proudly to small towns. Beyond Glory, in the voices of these heroes, is a testament to the courage of the American nation.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393243222

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Demagogue

The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy

By: Larry Tye

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Demagogue

The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy

By: Larry Tye

A Joe McCarthy chronology -- Coming alive -- Senator who? -- An ism is born -- Bully's pulpit -- Behind closed doors -- The body count -- The enablers -- Too big to bully -- The fall.

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Mariner Books

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1328959724

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Young Thurgood

The Making of a Supreme Court Justice

By: Larry S. Gibson

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Young Thurgood

The Making of a Supreme Court Justice

By: Larry S. Gibson

Like the movie Marshall, this book--the only biography of Thurgood Marshall to be endorsed by Marshall’s immediate family--focuses on his early civil rights struggles and successes before Brown v. Board of Education. Thurgood Marshall was the most important American lawyer of the twentieth century. He transformed the nation's legal landscape by challenging the racial segregation that had relegated millions to second-class citizenship. He won twenty-nine of thirty-three cases before the United States Supreme Court, was a federal appeals court judge, served as the US solicitor general, and, for twenty-four years, sat on the Supreme Court. Marshall is best known for achievements after he relocated to New York in 1936 to work for the NAACP. But Marshall's personality, attitudes, priorities, and work habits had crystallized during earlier years in Maryland. This work is the first close examination of the formative period in Marshall's life. As the author shows, Thurgood Marshall was a fascinating man of contrasts. He fought for racial justice without becoming a racist. Simultaneously idealistic and pragmatic, Marshall was a passionate advocate, yet he maintained friendly relationships with his opponents. Young Thurgood reveals how Marshall's distinctive traits were molded by events, people, and circumstances early in his life. Professor Gibson presents fresh information about Marshall's family, youth, and education. He describes Marshall's key mentors, the special impact of his high school and college competitive debating, his struggles to establish a law practice during the Great Depression, and his first civil rights cases. The author sheds new light on the NAACP and its first lawsuits in the campaign that led to the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education school desegregation decision. He also corrects some of the often-repeated stories about Marshall that are inaccurate. The only biography of Thurgood Marshall to be endorsed by Marshall’s immediate family, Young Thurgood is an exhaustively researched and engagingly written work that everyone interested in law, civil rights, American history, and biography will want to read.

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Prometheus Books

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1616145722

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Red Dragon Rising: Shadows of War

By: Larry Bond,Jim DeFelice

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Red Dragon Rising: Shadows of War

By: Larry Bond,Jim DeFelice

An American scientist is on the run in the jungles of Vietnam as world powers prep for war in this thriller by two New York Times–bestselling authors. “An adrenaline-fueled, multilayered thriller that cuts right to the chase. . . . Constant action makes this a must read for military adventure fans.” —Publishers Weekly In the not-too-distant future, massive climate change has wracked the globe. China’s rice-growing regions have been devastated by typhoons, whiles its western breadbasket is suffering from three years of drought. Riots threaten to tear the country apart. With the old-guard Chinese government paralyzed by the crisis, a young, charismatic party leader steps to the fore. His solution to the unrest is a time-tested one—conquest of China’s neighbors. And after that, the world. Josh MacArthur, a mild-mannered American scientist studying climate change in northern Vietnam, is the only witness to a clever attempt by the Chinese to make it appear that Vietnam started the war. Escaping a massacre, he manages to gather critical evidence that could turn world opinion against China. Unfortunately, the Chinese learn of MacArthur’s survival, and of the information he carries. A former Ch’an fighting monk turned commando is sent to capture him. Mara Duncan, a CIA agent, is also on MacArthur’s trail. The American scientist has become the subject of a deadly race in the jungles of northern Vietnam, with that fate of the world in his hands. “The authors have done their homework, using clips from newspaper reports to heighten the realistic feel and producing a thriller that reads like an account of true events. Fans of military thrillers, especially Clancy’s, are the built-in audience for this one.” —Booklist

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1429960604

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