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Making Out

A Novel of the Fabulous Fifties and Beyond

By: David Laurence Nalick

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Making Out

A Novel of the Fabulous Fifties and Beyond

By: David Laurence Nalick

Making Out" is a novel about a man (David Carter) who writes a novel about his life as seen through the eyes of his protagonist, David Nickelson. During his journey (from seventh grade through his forty-year class reunion) Nickelson, along with many of the other Carter characters, will not only win your heart, but they will make you wish that you had lived during those years accurately described as the "Fabulous Fifties." "Making Out' will bring back memories to those who lived during that era, but it will also allow its younger readers to see, feel, and experience how life was when their grandparents were young, discovering, as they will, that those "ancient ones" were a whole lot more "wild" than any of them could imagine. But the 1950's were only the root years. David Nickelson's life did go on. Experience with Nickelson and his friends...their drinking habits, their gangwars and their brutal personal altercations; discover their religious beliefs, their early attitude toward, and participation in, the drug scene; learn of their wild sexual antics along with the tenderness they could, at the same time, show to those they loved. Learn about their love of "hot" cars, their attitude toward those in authority, their dealings with whores, and their perspective on minority issues. Last, travel with Nickelson to Viet Nam. Learn what he learned, and how he dealt with what he discovered. And upon his return, learn how he, and his friends, made out in a world changing so fast it made them long for those days when life was easy, when the future for them seemed so fi lled with good things to come. Read "Making Out" and you will learn history, not as it has been portrayed by the media, but as it actually happened. Read "Making Out" and you will know that America can still return to its roots, its core values, and by doing so become, once again, the Country it once was.

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1452090440

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Orbit

The Science of Rapport-Based Interviewing for Law Enforcement, Security, and Military

By: Laurence J. Alison,Emily Alison,Director for the Centre for Terrorism and Security Studies (Ctss) Neil Shortland,Neil Shortland,Frances Surmon-Bohr

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Orbit

The Science of Rapport-Based Interviewing for Law Enforcement, Security, and Military

By: Laurence J. Alison,Emily Alison,Director for the Centre for Terrorism and Security Studies (Ctss) Neil Shortland,Neil Shortland,Frances Surmon-Bohr

ORBIT is an evidence-based approach to the analysis and training for interviewing high-value detainees by law enforcement, security services and the military. Although its origins reside as far back as 2005 it gained considerable traction after 2012 when the High Value Detainee Interrogation Group, formed in the wake of the Obama Administration in the US funded work for Prof Alison to look at its application in the context of interviews with high value targets. Since then Alison and colleagues have collected the largest corpus of data anywhere in the world of real suspect interviews with terrorist detainees. This book shows what they found - that rapport-based methods work and that coercion, persuasion and threats do not. Outlining the development of their own unique stance on rapport and its influences drawn from humanistic psychology, the authors show, through real life examples and careful analysis the reasons why 'harsh methods' must be rejected and why compassion and understanding work"--

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0197545955

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9780197545959

Public Management: Old and New

By: Laurence E. Lynn, Jr.

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Public Management: Old and New

By: Laurence E. Lynn, Jr.

Putting the American model in perspective for academics around the world, this book establishes the historical, theoretical, analytical, practical and future foundations for the comparative study of public management.

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Routledge

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1134445598

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Ten Deadly Texans

By: Dan Anderson,Laurence Yadon

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Ten Deadly Texans

By: Dan Anderson,Laurence Yadon

A lighthearted history of ten of Texas’s most notorious outlaws, including Clyde Barrow and a bank robber dressed as Santa Claus. The Wild Westerners were a tough breed. They started young and tended to die young, grow wilder, or fizzle into oblivion. Those outlaws that had the most feuds, gunfights, and robberies within the state lines are profiled here along with their associates, enemies, and accomplices. A rough chronological order of events spanning from pre-Civil War to 1935 tracks significant people and events. With so few lawmen available to police the state, troublesome youths quickly developed into heinous individuals. John Wesley Hardin killed a fellow classmate in a one-room schoolhouse, and eight-year-old James Miller was arrested for murdering his own grandparents. Beginnings and endings for each individual varied. While Sam Bass and Bonnie Parker were cut down in their twenties, Dock Newton didn’t rob his last train until age seventy-seven. Other members of the Barrow Gang lived into their fifties and sixties after transforming themselves from dangerous criminals to ordinary citizens. Texans are often described as being larger than life. Their lives were legendary, their demeanor solid, their illegal activities dramatic and varied from beginning to end. The same lighthearted take on Western history that permeated Dan Anderson and Laurence J. Yadon’s previous works resonates in their latest popular history. True stories, tall tales, and numerous anecdotes comprise this book of ten of the deadliest outlaws to cross the Texas line. Praise for Ten Deadly Texans “Picking the top ten of virtually anything is difficult if not impossible, but [Yadon and Anderson] have presented a strong argument that this grouping belongs at the top of any list of deadly fighters. In their own way, each one chose a deadly path filled with violence, bloodshed, high drama, and excitement.” —Chuck Parsons, author of John B. Armstrong: Texas Ranger and Pioneer Ranchman “A well-researched and highly readable account of the Lone Star State's meanest men and women.” —Mike Cox, author of The Texas Rangers: Wearing the Cinco Peso, 1821–1900 “Yadon and Anderson have done their homework to separate the truth from the legend, because not only are they good historians, they know that the real story is quite often better than the legend. Ten Deadly Texans takes you from the Civil War to the Great Depression, from cow ponies and six-guns to Ford V-8s and automatic weapons, through the real lives of some of Texas’s most notorious sons.” —James R. Knight, author of Bonnie and Clyde: A Twenty-First-Century Update

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Arcadia Publishing

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1455612820

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9781455612826

The Gentleman's Magazine Library. Being a Classified Collection of the Chief Contents of the Gentleman's Magazine from 1731 to 1868

Part II

By: George Laurence Gomme,Alice Bertha Gomme,A. C. Bickley,Frank Alexander Milne

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The Gentleman's Magazine Library. Being a Classified Collection of the Chief Contents of the Gentleman's Magazine from 1731 to 1868

Part II

By: George Laurence Gomme,Alice Bertha Gomme,A. C. Bickley,Frank Alexander Milne

Reprint of the original, first published in 1892.

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3385351502

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Žižek through Hitchcock

By: Laurence Simmons

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Žižek through Hitchcock

By: Laurence Simmons

Maverick Slovenian cultural theorist, philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Žižek has made his name elaborating the complexities of psychoanalytic and Marxist theory through the exotic use of examples from film and popular culture. But what if we were to take Žižek’s pretensions to cinephilia and film criticism seriously? In this book, adopting Žižek’s own tactic of counterintuitive observation, we shall read the corpus of Alfred Hitchcock’s films (‘one of the great achievements of Western civilization’) and Žižek’s idiosyncratic citation of them in order to arrive at a position where we can identify the core commitments that inform Žižek’s own work. From the practice of Hitchcock we shall (hopefully) arrive at a theory of Žižek (just as Žižek in his collection Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lacan (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock) (Verso, 1992) arrives at a theory of Lacan from the practice of Hitchcock). To achieve this goal each chapter looks at a specific film by Hitchcock and explores a specific key concept crucial to the elaboration and core of Žižek’s ideas.

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Springer Nature

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3030624366

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9783030624361

The Law of Contract

By: Laurence Koffman,Elizabeth Macdonald

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The Law of Contract

By: Laurence Koffman,Elizabeth Macdonald

This complete guide to all aspects of contract law gives a thorough explanation of the law, sharply focused commentary and an in-depth analysis of the case law.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199570205

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9780199570201

Without Hatreds Or Fears

Jorge Artel and the Struggle for Black Literary Expression in Colombia

By: Laurence Emmanuel Prescott

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Without Hatreds Or Fears

Jorge Artel and the Struggle for Black Literary Expression in Colombia

By: Laurence Emmanuel Prescott

A study of Tambores en la Noche, two volumes of verse by Jorge Artel, black poet of 20th-century Colombia. It analyzes his work within the context of Colombian history and culture, modern Spanish American literature, and the poet's own career.

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Wayne State University Press

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0814328784

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9780814328781

Apostles of Equality

The Birneys, the Republicans, and the Civil War

By: D. Laurence Rogers

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Apostles of Equality

The Birneys, the Republicans, and the Civil War

By: D. Laurence Rogers

The first biographical account of the life of James Gillespie Birney in more than fifty years, this fabulously insightful history illuminates and elevates an all-but-forgotten figure whose political career contributed mightily to the American political fabric. Birney was a southern-born politician at the heart of the antislavery movement, with two southern-born sons who were major generals involved in key Union Army activities, including the leadership of the black troops. The interaction of the Birneys with historical figures (Abraham Lincoln, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Henry Clay) highlights the significance of the family’s activities in politics and war. D. Laurence Rogers offers a unique historiography of the abolition movement, the Civil War, and Reconstruction through the experiences of one family navigating momentous developments from the founding of the Republic until the late 19th century.

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MSU Press

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1609172337

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9781609172336

The Kennedy Men

1901-1963

By: Laurence Leamer

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The Kennedy Men

1901-1963

By: Laurence Leamer

The renowned biographer and New York Times bestselling author of The Kennedy Women returns with this first volume in a multigenerational history that will forever change the way America views its most famous family ...

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Harper Collins

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0060502886

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Southern Capitalists

The Ideological Leadership of an Elite, 1832-1885

By: Laurence Shore

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Southern Capitalists

The Ideological Leadership of an Elite, 1832-1885

By: Laurence Shore

Studying the changing strategies used by the nineteenth-century southern leaders to justify their direction of the South's economy and politics, Shore shows how leaders before, during, and after the Civil War attempted to set standards of success in southern society and to clarify the relations between those standards and national prosperity. Shore offers a new perspective on southern leaders' worldview and helps clarify the enduring question of what is new about the "new South." Originally published in 1986. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

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UNC Press Books

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1469647842

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9781469647845

Radio in the Movies

A History and Filmography, 2d ed.

By: Laurence Etling,,Frank Barnas,Marie Barnas

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Radio in the Movies

A History and Filmography, 2d ed.

By: Laurence Etling,,Frank Barnas,Marie Barnas

This richly detailed examination of two forms of American entertainment focuses on the various ways that radio stations and air personalities have been depicted in motion pictures, from 1926's The Radio Detective to more recent films like 2022's Halloween Ends. Newly updated and revised chapters cover the cinematic portrayals of various aspects of radio, including disc jockeys, sports broadcasts, religious programs and abnormal personalities on the air. Such films as The Big Broadcast (1932), Reveille with Beverly (1943), Mister Rock and Roll (1957), WUSA (1970), Radio Days (1987), Private Parts (1997), We Are Marshall (2006) and Straight Outta Compton (2015) provide fascinating insights into not only their own times but also the historical eras that some of these films have attempted to recreate.

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McFarland

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1476690987

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9781476690988

Knowing Animals

By: Laurence Simmons

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Knowing Animals

By: Laurence Simmons

In recent decades the humanities and social sciences have undergone an ‘animal turn’, an efflorescence of interdisciplinary scholarship which is fresh and challenging because its practitioners consider humans as animals amongst other animals, while refusing to do so from an exclusively or necessarily biological point of view. Knowing Animals showcases original explorations of the ‘animal turn’ by new and eminent scholars in philosophy, literary criticism, art history and cultural studies. The essays collected here describe a lively bestiary of cultural organisms, whose flesh is (at least partly) conceptual and textual: paper tigers, beast fables, anthropomorphs, humanimals, l’animot. In so doing, they investigate the benefits of knowing animals differently: more closely, less definitively, more carefully, less certainly. Contributors include: Laurence Simmons, Alphonso Lingis, Barbara Creed, Tanja Schwalm, Philip Armstrong, Annie Potts, Allan Smith, Ricardo De Vos, Catharina Landström, Brian Boyd, Helen Tiffin, Ian Wedde.

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BRILL

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9047419502

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9789047419501

Let the Whole Church Say Amen!

A Guide for Those who Pray in Public

By: Laurence Hull Stookey

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Let the Whole Church Say Amen!

A Guide for Those who Pray in Public

By: Laurence Hull Stookey

In this practical guide, Stookey seeks to relieve the anxiety of inexperienced leaders of public prayer and the discomfort of those with and for whom they pray. This succinct discussion of the nature and practice of prayer is clearly organized and easy to use, and offers concrete exercises in editing and crafting prayer texts.

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Abingdon Press

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0687090776

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9780687090778

Cardiovascular Complications of Liver Disease

By: Arieh Bomzon,Laurence M. Blendis

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Cardiovascular Complications of Liver Disease

By: Arieh Bomzon,Laurence M. Blendis

This state-of-the-art book concentrates in one volume our current knowledge on the cardiovascular complications of liver disease. This easy-to-read work provides a better understanding of the pathogenesis and consequences of portal hypertension and establishes a physiological basis for its pharmacological treatment. It examines the effect of liver disease on volume regulation, the activity of the sympathetic nervous system, and the processes involved in capillary fluid exchange. It includes a discussion on volume and sodium regulation, as well as atrial natriuretic peptide. It also covers the effects of different classes of drugs such as alcohol, sympathomimetics, diuretics, and hormones on the cardiovascular system in liver disease. This reference manual is an absolute must for all clinicians and researchers with an interest in the cardiovascular system in liver disease.

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CRC Press

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1351462474

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9781351462471

Long Drums & Cannons

Nigerian Dramatists and Novelists, 1952-1966

By: Margaret Laurence

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Long Drums & Cannons

Nigerian Dramatists and Novelists, 1952-1966

By: Margaret Laurence

Up-to-date biographies with a list of works for each of the writers, detailed annotations to the original text and a glossary complete this edition."--BOOK JACKET.

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University of Alberta

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0888643322

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9780888643322

Information Ecology

Mastering the Information and Knowledge Environment

By: Thomas H. Davenport,Laurence Prusak

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Information Ecology

Mastering the Information and Knowledge Environment

By: Thomas H. Davenport,Laurence Prusak

Information technology spending in the US over the last decade is estimated at 3 trillion dollars, yet, by many accounts, has not worked. In this text, the author proposes a way of looking at information management which takes into account the total information environment within an organization.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195111680

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9780195111682

General History of the Caribbean

The Long Nineteenth Century

By: Ibarra Cuesta, Jorge,Laurence, K.O.,UNESCO

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General History of the Caribbean

The Long Nineteenth Century

By: Ibarra Cuesta, Jorge,Laurence, K.O.,UNESCO

The title of Volume IV of the General History of the Caribbean, the Long Nineteenth Century, indicates its range, from the last years of the eighteenth to the first two decades of the twentieth. The volume begins during the hegemony of the European nations and the social and economic dominance of the slave masters. It ends with the hegemony of the United States of America and the economic dominance of American and European agricultural and mercantile corporations. The chapters provide thematic accounts of societies emerging from slavery at different times during the century and also of the circumstances that affected the extent to which these societies were autochthonous within their various territories. The book's survey of this span of 150 years begins with the Haitian Revolution and its repercussions both within the region and outside. It then examines in turn the variety of ways in which the emancipated, their ex-masters and the colonial powers related to each other in the economy, polity and society of various territories; the economy of sugar in decline; the hostility of local landed elites to the welfare of the emancipated, to the ways landless labourers adapted to survive, and to interregional migrations; the social and cultural transformations of new populations from Africa, India and China; the technical innovations in the sugar industry towards the end of the century that differentiate the interests of field owner from factory owner; the decline of white pre-eminence, yet their resistance to claims for autonomy and an end to colonial tutelage

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9231033581

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9789231033582

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