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Dying For Gold

The True Story of the Giant Mine Murders

By: Lee Selleck,Francis Thompson

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Dying For Gold

The True Story of the Giant Mine Murders

By: Lee Selleck,Francis Thompson

On September 18, 1992 a violent explosion deep in Yellowknife's Giant mine took the lives of nine miners. The men had defied the picket lines that were the scene of violent clashes between the mineworkers and company security forces during a long and bitter strike/lockout. Roger Warren, a veteran miner whose skills were legendary, was convicted of nine counts of murder, but his guilt is disputed to this day. In this stunning, updated 30th anniversary expose, journalists Lee Selleck and Francis Thompson tell the dramatic story behind this tragedy, the vast personal and political fallout, and the lessons that hold true today. Dying For Gold unravels the complex web of events leading up to the explosion and gives incisive portraits of the major players on all sides of the bitter standoff. Selleck and Thompson conducted more than 500 interviews and spent five years writing Dying For Gold. Their work takes you inside the mine, to the picket lines, to the front row of the courtrooms for Roger Warren's trials, and the victims' families' tenacious struggle for compensation and justice. Dying For Gold inspired the CBC's recent, award-winning podcast, Giant – Murder Underground.

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FriesenPress

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1038306264

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Jed

By: Ronald Lee Weagley

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Jed

By: Ronald Lee Weagley

A taste for the finest in material things produced a delicate wife, two children and a more than adequate job. However, his craze for success consumed his focus and overpowered his value system. JED played poker and won a national championship. His fame spread. He also won a trucking company in a challenge match game with a fool. The win allowed him to move from being a small executive fish in a big pond to being the big top fish in a small pond and he loved it. Failure with his family life further twisted his values. He took his wifes sister as a mistress and they produced a male child that remained a phantom until his death. JED fought his demons while dancing between card games and union contracts. Eventually, the grim reaper cornered him in his penthouse hotel room, paralyzed and dying. A witness who knew him as a kind, generous, and thoughtful man described him at the funeral as a marvel of a man. Nevertheless, most doubted the description wondering, Was he good or bad or both?

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1463431570

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9781463431570

Card and James' Business Law

By: Lee Roach

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Card and James' Business Law

By: Lee Roach

Far-reaching and detailed, 'Card & James' Business Law' is the definitive guide to the subject. Roach encourages students to understand the basics and challenges them to push their grasp of the legal principles further. Accompanied by an abundance of learning features and a suite of online resources designed to hone critical assessment skills.

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Oxford University Press

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0198748388

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9780198748380

Conspiracies Uncovered

Discover the World's Biggest Secrets

By: Dr. Lee Mellor

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Conspiracies Uncovered

Discover the World's Biggest Secrets

By: Dr. Lee Mellor

Enter a hidden world of mysteries, scandals, secrets, and lies Perhaps it is human nature to believe there is more to the world than meets the eye - that the greatest secrets and truths are hidden from us. Whatever the reason, conspiracy theories are a global phenomenon. Conspiracies Uncovered delves into some of the most pervasive theories, from the "The assassination of John F. Kennedy" to the moon landings, showcasing the evidence for and against each one, revealing the surprising truths behind some and the bizarre inspirations for others.

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Penguin

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0744044014

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9780744044010

Kew Observatory and the Evolution of Victorian Science, 1840–1910

By: Lee T. Macdonald

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Kew Observatory and the Evolution of Victorian Science, 1840–1910

By: Lee T. Macdonald

Kew Observatory was originally built in 1769 for King George III, a keen amateur astronomer, so that he could observe the transit of Venus. By the mid-nineteenth century, it was a world-leading center for four major sciences: geomagnetism, meteorology, solar physics, and standardization. Long before government cutbacks forced its closure in 1980, the observatory was run by both major bodies responsible for the management of science in Britain: first the British Association for the Advancement of Science, and then, from 1871, the Royal Society. Kew Observatory influenced and was influenced by many of the larger developments in the physical sciences during the second half of the nineteenth century, while many of the major figures involved were in some way affiliated with Kew. Lee T. Macdonald explores the extraordinary story of this important scientific institution as it rose to prominence during the Victorian era. His book offers fresh new insights into key historical issues in nineteenth-century science: the patronage of science; relations between science and government; the evolution of the observatory sciences; and the origins and early years of the National Physical Laboratory, once an extension of Kew and now the largest applied physics organization in the United Kingdom.

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University of Pittsburgh Press

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0822983494

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Unyielding Spirits

Black Women and Slavery in Early Canada and Jamaica

By: Maureen Elgersman Lee

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Unyielding Spirits

Black Women and Slavery in Early Canada and Jamaica

By: Maureen Elgersman Lee

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Taylor & Francis

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0815332297

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The Rainbow Bridge

Rainbows in Art, Myth, and Science

By: Raymond L. Lee,Alistair B. Fraser

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The Rainbow Bridge

Rainbows in Art, Myth, and Science

By: Raymond L. Lee,Alistair B. Fraser

Venerated as god and goddess, feared as demon and pestilence, trusted as battle omen, and used as a proving ground for optical theories, the rainbow's image is woven into the fabric of our past and present. From antiquity to the nineteenth century, the rainbow has played a vital role in both inspiring and testing new ideas about the physical world. Although scientists today understand the rainbow's underlying optics fairly well, its subtle variability in nature has yet to be fully explained. Throughout history the rainbow has been seen primarily as a symbol&—of peace, covenant, or divine sanction&—rather than as a natural phenomenon. Lee and Fraser discuss the role the rainbow has played in societies throughout the ages, contrasting its guises as a sign of optimism, bearer of Greek gods' messages of war and retribution, and a symbol of the Judeo-Christian bridge to the divine. The authors traverse the bridges between the rainbow's various roles as they explore its scientific, artistic, and folkloric visions. This unique book, exploring the rainbow from the perspectives of atmospheric optics, art history, color theory, and mythology, will inspire readers to gaze at the rainbow anew. For more information on The Rainbow Bridge, visit: &

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Penn State Press

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0271019778

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9780271019772

Constitutional Law for a Changing America

Rights, Liberties, and Justice

By: Lee Epstein,Thomas G. Walker

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Constitutional Law for a Changing America

Rights, Liberties, and Justice

By: Lee Epstein,Thomas G. Walker

Capturing the authors’ excitement for constitutional law, this updated Tenth Edition of Constitutional Law for a Changing America shows students how judicial decisions are influenced by political factors—from lawyers and interest groups, to the shifting sentiments of public opinion, to the ideological and behavioral inclinations of the justices. Authors Lee Epstein and Thomas G. Walker show how these dynamics shape the development of constitutional doctrine. Known for fastidious revising and streamlining, the authors incorporate the latest scholarship in the fields of both political science and legal studies and offer solid analysis of both classic and contemporary landmark cases, including key opinions handed down through the 2017 session. Filled with additional supporting material—photographs of the litigants, sidebars comparing the United States with other nations, and "Aftermath" boxes that tell the stories of the parties′ lives after the Supreme Court has acted—the text helps students develop a thorough understanding of the way the U.S. Constitution protects civil rights and liberties. Bundle with the Resource Center for FREE! Take your constitutional law class beyond the book with Epstein and Walker’s newly redesigned Resource Center, featuring more than 500 excerpted, supplemental cases referenced in the commentary of the Constitutional Law for a Changing America volumes. The Resource Center offers a place for students to study core content with online quizzes and explore court cases. Instructors can find teaching materials, including hypothetical cases paired with discussion questions and writing assignments, moot-court simulations, test banks, and more. Ensure FREE access—use bundle ISBN: 978-1-5443-5051-6.

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CQ Press

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1506380328

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9781506380322

The Films of Sean Connery

By: Lee Pfeiffer,Philip Lisa

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The Films of Sean Connery

By: Lee Pfeiffer,Philip Lisa

For 40 years, Sean Connery has been among the world's most admired and popular actors. This edition is both an in-depth biography of this international superstar and a complete filmography with 400 photos, rare production stills, movie posters and lobby cards.

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Citadel Press

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0806522232

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9780806522234

Reading, Learning, Teaching Ralph Ellison

By: Paul Lee Thomas

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Reading, Learning, Teaching Ralph Ellison

By: Paul Lee Thomas

Our English classrooms are often only as vibrant as the literature that we teach. This book explores the writing of African American author Ralph Ellison, who offers readers and students engaging fiction and non-fiction that confront the reader and the world. Here, teachers will find an introduction to Ellison's works and an opportunity to explore how to bring them into the classroom as a part of the reading and writing curriculum. This book attempts to confront what we teach and how we teach as instructors of literature through the vivid texts Ellison offers his readers.

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Peter Lang

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1433100908

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Repatriation, Exchange, and Colonial Legacies in the Gulf of Papua

Moving Pictures

By: Lara Lamb,Christopher Lee

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Repatriation, Exchange, and Colonial Legacies in the Gulf of Papua

Moving Pictures

By: Lara Lamb,Christopher Lee

This book explores the people of the Kikori River Delta, in the Gulf of Papua, as established historical agents of intercultural exchange. One hundred years after they were made, Frank Hurley’s colonial-era photographic reproductions are returned to the descendants of the Kerewo and Urama peoples, whom he photographed. The book illuminates how the movement, use, and exchange of objects can produce distinctive and unrecognised forms of value. To understand this exchange, a nuanced history of the conditions of the exchange is necessary, which also allows a reconsideration of the colonial legacies that continue to affect the social and political worlds of people in the twenty-first century.

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Springer Nature

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3031155793

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Incredible Fishing Stories

By: Shaun Morey,Jared Lee

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Incredible Fishing Stories

By: Shaun Morey,Jared Lee

From a grueling 37-hour fight with a Pacific salmon to the maimed fisherman whose severed thumb turned up in the belly of a Mackinaw trout. From extraordinary marlin quests to hair-raising tales of "fish catches man," here are fishing's 80 most unpredictable and spectacular tales. To get them, Shaun Morey-a fanatical fisherman and inveterate story collector-traveled from Alaska to Australia, Mexico, and the Caribbean to interview anglers, boat captains, guides and witnesses; to dig up photographs, and to confirm each tale. You'll read about Captain Jimmy Lewis who, in a moment of sheer bravado (or insanity), speared by hand-and landed-a 1,600-pound hammerhead shark. Or Bob Smith, fulfilling his twenty-year quest to catch all forty species of North America's wild trout on the bitter cold morning after his eighty-first birthday. Or the 800-pound blue marlin that made a final lunge-ripping up the deck and dragging a chair, with Paul Clause strapped in it, to the bottom of the ocean. (Paul survived; so did the marlin.) Truth is stranger than fiction.

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Workman Publishing

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0761171118

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9780761171119

The Logbooks of the Lady Nelson

By: Ida Lee

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The Logbooks of the Lady Nelson

By: Ida Lee

The Logbooks of the Lady Nelson" is a historical work written by Ida Lee. Published in 1915, the book focuses on the logbooks of the Lady Nelson, a ship known for its exploration along the coasts of Australia in the early 19th century. Ida Lee, an Australian author and maritime historian, edited and annotated the logbooks of the Lady Nelson, providing insights into the ship's voyages, discoveries, and interactions with Indigenous peoples. The Lady Nelson played a significant role in the exploration of Australian waters during the period. For readers interested in maritime history, early Australian exploration, and primary source documents from the age of sail, Ida Lee's "The Logbooks of the Lady Nelson" offers a valuable resource, shedding light on the challenges and discoveries made by this historic ship.

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BoD - Books on Demand

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The Medicine of Art

Disease and the Aesthetic Object in Gilded Age America

By: Elizabeth L. Lee

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The Medicine of Art

Disease and the Aesthetic Object in Gilded Age America

By: Elizabeth L. Lee

In 1901, the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens proclaimed in a letter to Will Low, “Health-is the thing!” Though recently diagnosed with intestinal cancer, Saint-Gaudens was revitalized by recreational sports, having realized midcareer “there is something else in life besides the four walls of an ill-ventilated studio.” The Medicine of Art puts such moments center stage in order to consider the role of health and illness in the way art was produced and consumed. Not merely beautiful or entertaining objects, works by Gilded-Age artists such as John Singer Sargent, Abbott Thayer, and Augustus Saint-Gaudens are shown to function as balm for the ill, providing relief from physical suffering and pain. Art did so by blunting the edges of contagious disease through a process of visual translation. In painting, for instance, hacking coughs, bloody sputum, and bodily enervation were recast as signs of spiritual elevation and refinement for the tuberculous, who were shown with a pale, chalky pallor that signalled rarefied beauty rather than an alarming indication of death. Works of art thus redirected the experience of illness in an era prior to the life-saving discoveries that would soon become hallmarks of modern medical science to offer an alternate therapy. The first study to address the place of organic disease-cancer, tuberculosis, syphilis-in the life and work of Gilded-Age artists, this book looks at how well-known works of art were marked by disease and argues that art itself functioned in medicinal terms for artists and viewers in the late 19th century.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501346881

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9781501346880

HRH The Duke of Kent

A Life of Service

By: Celia Lee

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HRH The Duke of Kent

A Life of Service

By: Celia Lee

His Royal Highness Prince Edward The Duke of Kent KG GCMG GCVO ADC(P), first cousin to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, has devoted his life to the service of his country. Even before he served twenty-one years as a regular soldier in the British Army, he was introduced to this life of service by his widowed mother, HRH Princess Marina, The Duchess of Kent, during an extensive tour of the Far East at the time of his seventeenth birthday.His interest in modern technology, especially computing and engineering, in issues of health, fitness and social welfare, and in the development of the intellect, has seen him become the patron, president or active member of more than one hundred charities and social organisations. His military service, and deep interest in military history, sees him making a particularly important contribution to many military-related organisations - the chief of which must be the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.At the time of his eightieth birthday on October 9, 2015, Prince Edward remains one of the busiest members of the royal family. This book is offered as a tribute to his life of service, and to the myriad organisations, large and small, local, national and international, that make up the fabric of the United Kingdom in the twenty-first century.

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Seymour Books

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1843963515

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9781843963516

Popular American Recording Pioneers

1895-1925

By: Frank Hoffmann,B Lee Cooper,Tim Gracyk

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Popular American Recording Pioneers

1895-1925

By: Frank Hoffmann,B Lee Cooper,Tim Gracyk

Encounter the trailblazers whose recordings expanded the boundaries of technology and brought “popular” music into America's living rooms! Popular American Recording Pioneers: 1895--1925 (winner of the 2001 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award of Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research) covers the lives and careers of over one hundred musical artists who were especially important to the recording industry in its early years. Here are the men and women who brought into American homes the hits of the day--Tin Pan Alley numbers, Broadway show tunes, ragtime, parlor ballads, early jazz, and dance music of all kinds. Popular American Recording Pioneers: 1895--1925 compiles rare information that was scattered in hundreds of record catalogs, hobbyist magazines, newspaper clippings, phonograph trade journals, and other sources. Look no further! This volume is the ultimate resource on the subject! You will increase your knowledge in these areas: the recording industry's formative years artists’personalities and musical styles popular music history history of recording technology Popular American Recording Pioneers: 1895--1925 provides a unique “who's who” approach to popular music history. It is the definitive work on the music that was popular during America's coming of age. No music historian should be without this volume.

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Routledge

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1136592296

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Water Marketing, the Next Generation

By: Terry Lee Anderson,Peter Jensen Hill

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Water Marketing, the Next Generation

By: Terry Lee Anderson,Peter Jensen Hill

Unified by their desire to produce innovative solutions to the problem of allocating fresh water, the prominent contributors to Water Marketing argue that government regulations inadvertently encourage the waste of our most vital resource by preventing the evolution of property rights to water marketing. This volume offers insightful public policy alternatives to water marketing that will stimulate a rethinking of traditional policies.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0847683982

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9780847683987

The Economy of Literary Form

English Literature and the Industrialization of Publishing, 1800-1850

By: Lee Erickson

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The Economy of Literary Form

English Literature and the Industrialization of Publishing, 1800-1850

By: Lee Erickson

Erickson analyzes the effects of a changing market on the relative cultural status of literary forms. Topics include the impact of technological changes in printing on English poetry; ideological focus and the market for the essay; and marketing the novel, 1820-1850."--"Book News, Inc., " Portland, Oregon. (Literary Criticism)

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JHU Press

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0801863589

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The Role of Environmental Tobacco Smoke in Asthma Induction and Exacerbation in Children and Adults

By: Peter N. Lee,Barbara Forey

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The Role of Environmental Tobacco Smoke in Asthma Induction and Exacerbation in Children and Adults

By: Peter N. Lee,Barbara Forey

This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date review of epidemiological and experimental (chamber) studies relating tobacco smoke (ETS) exposure to the induction and exacerbation of asthma in children and adults. Particular attention is given to separating out the roles of maternal smoking in pregnancy and post-natal ETS exposure on the induction of asthma. It is at a level equivalent to that in peer-reviewed academic publications. Previous reviews by the California EPA and by Strachan and Cook reach different views as to whether ETS exposure induces asthma or not. The book is aimed at clarifying the situation by more detailed and more up-to-date investigations.

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Nova Publishers

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1600218725

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9781600218729

The Ragged Suitcase

A Cricket Kelly Mystery

By: Lee Ann Hager

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The Ragged Suitcase

A Cricket Kelly Mystery

By: Lee Ann Hager

Ages 8-12--Cricket Kelly is no ordinary twelve year-old. Shes super smart and very observant, and she has one week until her birthday to prove it. Crickets life transforms when she begins receiving strange clues that require her to solve the mystery of where she will spend her first summer vacation away from home. Enter kookie Aunt Lila, the orchestrator of a complex plot to take Cricket to Lighthouse Cove on Nantucket Island. Lilas work for the travel magazine, The Ragged Suitcase, prompts Crickets investigation into some scary island mysteries. Following the clues to a long-ago disappearance, one of the first people Cricket encounters on Nantucket is Nate Tucker, a scary old man who holds a very old grudge. In an effort to escape Tucker, she meets Michael Adams, a dreamy fourteen year-old boy with sandy-blonde hair. Michael accompanies her on her mission to solve the infamous missing persons case of Hattie Mae Bellarose, a childrens mystery writer from Savannah, Georgia. Armed with nothing but her courage, her smarts, and some old notebooks left to one of Hattie Maes relatives, Cricket manages to turn this hundred year-old cold case into one that will go down in the record books. Cricket figures out the clues and just in time. More importantly though, she discovers that you shouldnt judge people before you get to know them.

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146342535X

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Love in the Time of Revolution

Transatlantic Literary Radicalism and Historical Change, 1793-1818

By: Andrew Robert Lee Cayton

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Love in the Time of Revolution

Transatlantic Literary Radicalism and Historical Change, 1793-1818

By: Andrew Robert Lee Cayton

Love in the Time of Revolution: Transatlantic Literary Radicalism and Historical Change, 1793-1818

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UNC Press Books

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1469607506

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The Universalist Movement in America, 1770-1880

By: Ann Lee Bressler

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The Universalist Movement in America, 1770-1880

By: Ann Lee Bressler

In this volume Ann Lee Bressler offers the first cultural history of American Universalism and its central teaching -- the idea that an all-good and all-powerful God saves all souls. Although Universalists have commonly been lumped together with Unitarians as "liberal religionists," in its origins their movement was, in fact, quite different from that of the better-known religious liberals. Unlike Unitarians such as the renowned William Ellery Channing, who stressed the obligation of the individual under divine moral sanctions, most early American Universalists looked to the omnipotent will of God to redeem all of creation. While Channing was socially and intellectually descended from the opponents of Jonathan Edwards, Hosea Ballou, the foremost theologian of the Universalist movement, appropriated Edwards's legacy by emphasizing the power of God's love in the face of human sinfulness and apparent intransigence. Espousing what they saw as a fervent but reasonable piety, many early Universalists saw their movement as a form of improved Calvinism. The story of Universalism from the mid-nineteenth century on, however, was largely one of unsuccessful efforts to maintain this early synthesis of Calvinist and Enlightenment ideals. Eventually, Bressler argues, Universalists were swept up in the tide of American religious individualism and moralism; in the late nineteenth century they increasingly extolled moral responsibility and the cultivation of the self. By the time of the first Universalist centennial celebration in 1870, the ideals of the early movement were all but moribund. Bressler's study illuminates such issues as the relationship between faith and reason in a young, fast-growing, and deeply uncertain country, and the fate of the Calvinist heritage in American religious history.

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Oxford University Press

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0190284668

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Limelight

Canadian Women and the Rise of Celebrity Autobiography

By: Katja Lee

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Limelight

Canadian Women and the Rise of Celebrity Autobiography

By: Katja Lee

At the heart of fame is the tricky business of image management. Over the last 115 years, the celebrity autobiography has emerged as a popular and useful tool for that project. In Limelight, Katja Lee examines the memoirs of famous Canadian women like L. M. Montgomery, Nellie McClung, the Dionne Quintuplets, Margaret Trudeau, and Shania Twain to trace the rise of celebrity autobiography in Canada and the role gender has played in the rise to fame and in writing about that experience. Arguing that the celebrity autobiography is always negotiating historically specific conditions, Lee charts a history of celebrity in English Canada and the conditions that shape the way women access and experience fame. These contexts shed light on the stories women tell about their lives and the public images they cultivate in their autobiographies. As strategies of self-representation change and the pressure to represent the private life escalates, the celebrity autobiography undergoes distinct shifts—in form, function, and content—during the period examined in this study. Limelight: Canadian Women and the Rise of Celebrity Autobiography is the first book to explore the history and development of the celebrity autobiography and offers compelling evidence of the critical role of gender and nation in the way fame is experienced and represented.

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Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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1771124318

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The Remarkable Education of John Quincy Adams

By: Phyllis Lee Levin

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The Remarkable Education of John Quincy Adams

By: Phyllis Lee Levin

A patriot by birth, John Quincy Adams's destiny was foreordained. He was not only "The Greatest Traveler of His Age," but his country's most gifted linguist and most experienced diplomat. John Quincy's world encompassed the American Revolution, the War of 1812, and the early and late Napoleonic Age. As his diplomat father's adolescent clerk and secretary, he met everyone who was anyone in Europe, including America's own luminaries and founding fathers, Franklin and Jefferson. All this made coming back to America a great challenge. But though he was determined to make his own career he was soon embarked, at Washington's appointment, on his phenomenal work abroad, as well as on a deeply troubled though loving and enduring marriage. But through all the emotional turmoil, he dedicated his life to serving his country. At 50, he returned to America to serve as Secretary of State to President Monroe. He was inaugurated President in 1824, after which he served as a stirring defender of the slaves of the Amistad rebellion and as a member of the House of Representatives from 1831 until his death in 1848. In The Remarkable Education of John Quincy Adams, Phyllis Lee Levin provides the deeply researched and beautifully written definitive biography of one of the most fascinating and towering early Americans.

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Macmillan + ORM

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1137474629

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9781137474629

With Schwarzkopf

Life Lessons of The Bear

By: Gus Lee

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With Schwarzkopf

Life Lessons of The Bear

By: Gus Lee

With Schwarzkopf is Gus Lee's remembrance of his mentor and friend H. Norman Schwarzkopf, and his firsthand account of how Schwarzkopf shaped his life. In 1966, Lee, a junior-year cadet at West Point, was bright, athletic, and popular. He was also on the verge of getting kicked out. Nearing the bottom of his class due to his penchant for playing poker and reading recreationally instead of studying engineering, he was assigned a new professor: then-Major Norman Schwarzkopf. Schwarzkopf's deeply principled nature and fierce personality took hold of the wayward cadet, and the two began meeting regularly and discussing what it meant to be a scholar, a soldier, and a man. Lee's vibrant, witty narrative brings his more than forty-year relationship with Schwarzkopf to life. Readers get an inside look at West Point culture; they see Schwarzkopf's bristling anger with his rebellious pupil as well as his tenacity, intellect, and moments of surprising emotional warmth; and they watch as Lee starts to absorb his teachings. As he left West Point and took on more professional and personal roles, Lee approached every crisis or difficult decision by channeling his mentor. Over the years, Schwarzkopf's instilled values, wise counsel, and warm conversations shaped Lee and brought the two together in an unlikely friendship. In With Schwarzkopf, Lee passes along the lessons he learned so future generations can hear Schwarzkopf's important teachings.

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Smithsonian Institution

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1588345297

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9781588345295

Doing Research on Sensitive Topics

By: Raymond M. Lee

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Doing Research on Sensitive Topics

By: Raymond M. Lee

This book is a comprehensive guide to the methodological, ethical and practical issues involved in undertaking research on sensitive topics. Raymond M Lee explores the reasons why social research may be politically or socially contentious: its relation to issues of social or political power; its capacity to encroach on people's lives; and its potentially problematic nature for the researcher. Issues examined include: the choice of methodologies for sensitive research; problems of estimating the size of hidden populations; questions of sampling, surveying and interviewing; and sensitivity in access and the handling of data. The book also discusses the political and ethical issues at stake in the relations between the researcher and the researched, and in the disclosure, dissemination and publication of research.

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SAGE

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1446226913

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The Making of C. S. Lewis (1918–1945)

From Atheist to Apologist

By: Harry Lee Poe

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The Making of C. S. Lewis (1918–1945)

From Atheist to Apologist

By: Harry Lee Poe

Experience C. S. Lewis's Captivating Transformation from Atheist to Christian At the end of World War I, young C. S. Lewis was a devout atheist about to begin his studies at Oxford. In the three decades that followed, he would establish himself as one of the most influential writers and scholars of modern times, undergoing a radical conversion to Christianity that would transform his life and his work. Scholar Harry Lee Poe unfolds these watershed years in Lewis's life, offering readers a unique perspective on his conversion, his friendships with well-known Christians such as J. R. R. Tolkien and Dorothy L. Sayers, and his development from an opponent of Christianity to one of its most ardent defenders.

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Crossway

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1433567865

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The Devil Can Ride

The World's Best Motorcycle Writing

By: Lee Klancher

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The Devil Can Ride

The World's Best Motorcycle Writing

By: Lee Klancher

Authors such as Hunter Thompson, Robert Pirsig, and Mark Singer have written about the motorcycle, that icon for outlaws, rebels, thieves, and beat poets. This collection of motorcycle tales features the best of the vast collection of motorcycle writing created since old Gottlieb Daimler first bolted a crude internal-combustion engine to his wooden two-wheeled Einspur in 1876. In addition to essays from Thompson and Pirsig, The Devil Can Ride features works by Peter Egan, T.E. Lawrence, James Stevenson, Jamie Elvidge, John Hall, and Kevin Cameron.

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Motorbooks

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1610600444

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