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To Collar a Killer

By: Lee Charles Kelley

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A “witty, fast-paced” whodunit starring a Maine dog trainer who plays a game of fetch—and winds up framed for murder (Shirley Rousseau Murphy, author of the Joe Grey Cat Mysteries). One of kennel owner Jack Field’s favorite pastimes is spending quality time with a fun-loving pooch—which is why he’s playing fetch with a Corgi named Tipper instead of mingling with humans at a July 4th shindig. But when Tipper returns with a bloodstained boating cap in his teeth, the ex-New York cop decides to investigate . . . and finds an anonymous dead body clutching the tennis ball Jack tossed away moments before. The local law think Jack’s the killer, since he had the opportunity and, as it turns out, a motive. Even his loyal and lovely fiancée, sometime-medical examiner Dr. Jamie Cutter, is troubled by evidence that contradicts Jack’s tale. Someone’s going to great lengths to frame Jack Field, and he’s determined to find out why--even though everyone from a powerful tycoon to a Miami drug lord to a whole passel of professional killers, is equally determined to see him doggoned dead . . . Praise for the series “Action a-plenty, and lots of humor.” —Bookloons “Engrossing.” —Delia Ephron, New York Times-bestselling author of Left on Tenth

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0061754161

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Dogged Pursuit

By: Lee Charles Kelley

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Dogged Pursuit

By: Lee Charles Kelley

In this suspenseful fifth book in our wonderful series created by veteran dog trainer Lee Charles Kelley, a clever kennel owner, his lady love, and his loyal canines must solve their most disturbing mystery yet! It's October in Maine and ex–cop/criminologist turned dog trainer Jack Field and his fiancée, Chief State Medical Examiner Dr. Jamie Cutter, are getting married in a few weeks. But fate puts a wrench in their plans when the police find a young woman's body in a secluded lake. Jamie asks Jack, who's been appointed her civilian advisor, to come to the scene. Seeing the body sparks a memory of a case Jack studied while taking a seminar at the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit. He suspects the death is the work of a serial killer and as the mystery unfolds, it becomes clear that suspects abound, including a sleazy private detective, a well–respected botanist, recruits in the upper echelons of the FBI, and even the wealthy husband of Jack's ex–girlfriend. Add an adorable Dalmatian named Daisy and a wedding ceremony like no other you've ever seen, and you've got Kelley's most touching, heartbreaking, suspenseful, and downright hilarious book yet!

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0061984264

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Twas the Bite Before Christmas

By: Lee Charles Kelley

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Twas the Bite Before Christmas

By: Lee Charles Kelley

Maine kennel owner and ex-cop Jack Field was hoping to spend a quiet evening in front of the fire with his canine pals and his ladylove, state medical examiner Dr. Jamie Cutter. But his plans go up in smoke when a young housemaid is found murdered in the Bright mansion a few nights before Santa's big day. Jack quickly determines that there are three main suspects--a convicted killer, a chauffeur with a shady past, and a mysterious con-man professor.

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0060732288

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Dogged Pursuit

By: Lee Charles Kelley

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By: Lee Charles Kelley

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Coming Down from Above

Prophecy, Resistance, and Renewal in Native American Religions

By: Lee Irwin

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Prophecy, Resistance, and Renewal in Native American Religions

By: Lee Irwin

For longer than five centuries, Native Americans have struggled to adapt to colonialism, missionization, and government control policies. This first comprehensive survey of prophetic movements in Native North America tells how religious leaders blended indigenous beliefs with Christianity’s prophetic traditions to respond to those challenges. Lee Irwin gathers a scattered literature to provide a single-volume overview that depicts American Indians’ creative synthesis of their own religious beliefs and practices with a variety of Christian theological ideas and moral teachings. He traces continuities in the prophetic tradition from eighteenth-century Delaware prophets to Western dream dance visionaries, showing that Native American prophecy was not merely borrowed from Christianity but emerged from an interweaving of Christian and ancient North American teachings integral to Native religions. From the highly assimilated ideas of the Puget Sound Shakers to such resistance movements as that of the Shawnee Prophet, Irwin tells how the integration of non-Native beliefs with prophetic teachings gave rise to diverse ethnotheologies with unique features. He surveys the beliefs and practices of the nation to which each prophet belonged, then describes his or her life and teachings, the codification of those teachings, and the impact they had on both the community and the history of Native religions. Key hard-to-find primary texts are included in an appendix. An introduction to an important strand within the rich tapestry of Native religions, Coming Down from Above shows the remarkable responsiveness of those beliefs to historical events. It is an unprecedented, encyclopedic sourcebook for anyone interested in the roots of Native theology.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806185791

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Surviving Nirvana

Death of the Buddha in Chinese Visual Culture

By: Sonya S. Lee

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Surviving Nirvana

Death of the Buddha in Chinese Visual Culture

By: Sonya S. Lee

The Buddha's nirvana marks the end of the life of a great spiritual figure and the beginning of Buddhism as a world religion. Surviving Nirvana is the first book in the English language to examine how this historic moment was represented and received in the visual culture of China, of which the nirvana image has been a part for over 1,500 years. --Mining a selection of well-documented and well-preserved examples from the sixth to twelfth centuries, Sonya Lee offers a reassessment of medieval Chinese Buddhism by focusing on practices of devotion and image-making that were inspired by the Buddha's "complete extinction." The nirvana image, comprised of a reclining Buddha and a mourning audience, was central to defining the local meanings of the nirvana moment in different times and places. The motif's many guises, whether on a stone-carved stele, inside a pagoda crypt, or as a painted mural in a cave temple, were the product of social interactions, religious institutions, and artistic practices prevalent in a given historical context. They were also cogent responses to the fundamental anxiety about the absence of the Buddha and the prospect of one's salvation. By reinventing the nirvana image to address its own needs, each community of patrons, makers, and viewers sought to recast the Buddha's "death" into an allegory of survival that was charged with local pride and contemporary relevance.- -Thoroughly researched, this study engages methods and debates from the fields of art history, religion, archaeology, architecture, and East Asian history that are relevant to scholars and students alike. The many examples analyzed in the book offer well-defined local contexts to discuss broader historical and theoretical issues concerning representation, patronage, religion and politics, family values, and vision.--Sonya S. Lee is assistant professor of art history and East Asian languages and cultures at University of Southern California.-- -

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Hong Kong University Press

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9622091253

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9789622091252

From Sawdust to Stardust

The Biography of DeForest Kelley, Star Trek's Dr. McCoy

By: Terry Lee Rioux

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From Sawdust to Stardust

The Biography of DeForest Kelley, Star Trek's Dr. McCoy

By: Terry Lee Rioux

This life story of DeForest Kelley, best known for his role as Dr. "Bones" McCoy in the classic "Star Trek" television series and subsequent feature films, takes readers into the story of his tragedies and triumphs.

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Simon and Schuster

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0743457625

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Abstracts, Lancaster County, Virginia, Wills, 1653-1800

By: Ida Johnson Lee

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Abstracts, Lancaster County, Virginia, Wills, 1653-1800

By: Ida Johnson Lee

Abstracts of wills for Lancaster Co VA 1653 to 1800, including name of decedent, whether will, inventory, or appraisal, relatives mentioned in bequests with relationship given, name of administrator or executor or appraisers, date made, date of record, volume and page.

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806305827

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Popular Sovereignty in Early Modern Constitutional Thought

By: Daniel Lee

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Popular Sovereignty in Early Modern Constitutional Thought

By: Daniel Lee

Popular sovereignty - the doctrine that the public powers of state originate in a concessive grant of power from "the people" - is the cardinal doctrine of modern constitutional theory, placing full constitutional authority in the people at large, rather than in the hands of judges, kings, or a political elite. This book explores the intellectual origins of this influential doctrine and investigates its chief source in late medieval and early modern thought - the legal science of Roman law. Long regarded the principal source for modern legal reasoning, Roman law had a profound impact on the major architects of popular sovereignty such as François Hotman, Jean Bodin, and Hugo Grotius. Adopting the juridical language of obligations, property, and personality as well as the classical model of the Roman constitution, these jurists crafted a uniform theory that located the right of sovereignty in the people at large as the legal owners of state authority. In recovering the origins of popular sovereignty, the book demonstrates the importance of the Roman law as a chief source of modern constitutional thought.

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Oxford University Press

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0191062456

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The Debates to Which is Added a Review of the Proceedings of Said Conference

By: Luther Lee,E. Smith

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The Debates to Which is Added a Review of the Proceedings of Said Conference

By: Luther Lee,E. Smith

Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.

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338526250X

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Moving Violations

Automobiles, Experts, and Regulations in the United States

By: Lee Vinsel

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Moving Violations

Automobiles, Experts, and Regulations in the United States

By: Lee Vinsel

The first comprehensive history of auto regulation in the United States. Regulation has shaped the evolution of the automobile from the beginning. In Moving Violations, Lee Vinsel shows that, contrary to popular opinion, these restrictions have not hindered technological change. Rather, by drawing together communities of scientific and technical experts, auto regulations have actually fostered innovation. Vinsel tracks the history of American auto regulation from the era of horseless carriages and the first, faltering efforts to establish speed limits in cities to recent experiments with self-driving cars. He examines how the government has tried to address car-related problems, from accidents to air pollution, and demonstrates that automotive safety, emissions, and fuel economy have all improved massively over time. Touching on fuel economy standards, the rise of traffic laws, the birth of drivers' education classes, and the science of distraction, he also describes how the government's changing activities have reshaped the automobile and its drivers, as well as the country's entire system of roadways and supporting technologies, including traffic lights and gas pumps. Moving Violations examines how policymakers, elected officials, consumer advocates, environmentalists, and other interested parties wrestled to control the negative aspects of American car culture while attempting to preserve what they saw as its positive contributions to society. Written in a clear, approachable, and jargon-free voice, Moving Violations will appeal to makers and analysts of policy, historians of science, technology, business, and the environment, and any readers interested in the history of cars and government.

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1421429667

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To Collar a Killer

To Collar a Killer

Dogged Pursuit

Dogged Pursuit

Twas the Bite Before Christmas

Twas the Bite Before Christmas

Dogged Pursuit

Dogged Pursuit

Coming Down from Above

Coming Down from Above

Surviving Nirvana

Surviving Nirvana

From Sawdust to Stardust

From Sawdust to Stardust

Abstracts, Lancaster County, Virginia, Wills, 1653-1800

Abstracts, Lancaster County, Virginia, Wills, 1653-1800

Popular Sovereignty in Early Modern Constitutional Thought

Popular Sovereignty in Early Modern Constitutional Thought

The Debates to Which is Added a Review of the Proceedings of Said Conference

The Debates to Which is Added a Review of the Proceedings of Said Conference

Moving Violations

Moving Violations

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