Les Martin's Books

The Man Who Invented Christmas (Movie Tie-In)

How Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits

By: Les Standiford

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The Man Who Invented Christmas (Movie Tie-In)

How Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits

By: Les Standiford

As uplifting as the tale of Scrooge itself, this is the story of how Charles Dickens revived the signal holiday of the Western world—now a major motion picture. Just before Christmas in 1843, a debt-ridden and dispirited Charles Dickens wrote a small book he hoped would keep his creditors at bay. His publisher turned it down, so Dickens used what little money he had to put out A Christmas Carol himself. He worried it might be the end of his career as a novelist. The book immediately caused a sensation. And it breathed new life into a holiday that had fallen into disfavor, undermined by lingering Puritanism and the cold modernity of the Industrial Revolution. It was a harsh and dreary age, in desperate need of spiritual renewal, ready to embrace a book that ended with blessings for one and all. With warmth, wit, and an infusion of Christmas cheer, Les Standiford whisks us back to Victorian England, its most beloved storyteller, and the birth of the Christmas we know best. The Man Who Invented Christmas is a rich and satisfying read for Scrooges and sentimentalists alike.

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Crown

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1524763268

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Seeing the Elephant

A Saxon Mystery (#5)

By: Les Roberts

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Seeing the Elephant

A Saxon Mystery (#5)

By: Les Roberts

#5 in the Saxon mystery series. Saxon returns to his hometown, Chicago, where one of his oldest pals, cop Gavin Cassidy, has died of a lethal combination of drugs and alcohol in a cheap hotel. Saxon arrives for the funeral to find his old crowd—and the old town—much changed. He also encounters rumors that Gavin’s death might not have been accidental. Had Gavin Cassidy, a career cop, finally “seen the elephant” (police parlance for becoming involved in a life-threatening situation), and been unable to extricate himself before it was too late? Saxon’s unofficial investigation into his friend’s death is hindered by the still strong Chicago police machine bosses—and by his long estranged, ex-con father.

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Gray & Company, Publishers

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1938441044

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9781938441042

The One Year Love Talk Devotional for Couples

By: Les Parrott,Leslie Parrott

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The One Year Love Talk Devotional for Couples

By: Les Parrott,Leslie Parrott

Offering wisdom and insights for applying biblical truths to our relationships, this book encourages couples to connect and communicate every day. This practical, uplifting guide is perfect for busy couples who long to experience a stronger relationship and better communication. Easy-to-follow daily readings focus on loving each other the way God loves us.

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Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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141436573X

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9781414365732

Out of Whiteness

Color, Politics, and Culture

By: Vron Ware,Les Back

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Out of Whiteness

Color, Politics, and Culture

By: Vron Ware,Les Back

What happens when people in societies stratified by race refuse to accept the privileges inherent in whiteness? What difference does it make when whites act in a manner that contradicts their designated racial identity? Out of Whiteness considers these questions and argues passionately for an imaginative and radical politics against all forms of racism. Vron Ware and Les Back look at key points in recent American and British culture where the "color line" has been blurred. Through probing accounts of racial masquerades in popular literature, the growth of the white power music scene on the Internet, the meteoric rise of big band jazz during the Second World War, and the pivotal role of white session players in crafting rhythm and blues classics by black artists, Ware and Back upset the idea of race as a symbol of inherent human attributes. Their book gives us a timely reckoning of the forces that continue to make people "white," and reveals to us the polyglot potential of identities and cultures.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226873420

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9780226873428

Caribbean Passagemaking

A Cruiser's Guide

By: Les Weatheritt

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Caribbean Passagemaking

A Cruiser's Guide

By: Les Weatheritt

The chain of islands from the Virgins to the southern Lesser Antilles is one of the most desirable tropical cruising grounds as well as the most accessible for North American and European sailors. The Caribbean Sea is usually benign, but the conditions are very different from your home waters—you must learn to sail with the grain of wind, weather, current, and climate, or these forgiving waters will turn into a punishingly rough old sea. Learn to sail in harmony with the winds and currents that surround the Virgins, the Leewards, and the Windwards, and your Caribbean sailing experience will be the good one you deserve. This updated third edition of Caribbean Passagemaking is an entertaining mine of information for the sun-soaked passage planner as well as the dreamer back home. Here is the full, vital background to help skipper and crew enjoy sailing the Caribbean islands. Topics include: How to achieve easier passagemaking and sail in comfort Which are the safe and easy harbors How to spot the weather windows Prevailing winds and currents Ideal equipment for Caribbean waters Plus a wealth of practical, down-to-earth hints and tips.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1574093568

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9781574093568

The Day the Music Died

By: Les MacDonald

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The Day the Music Died

By: Les MacDonald

Behind the roaring crowds and the billion-dollar record deals are tales of solitude, anger, and depression. Readers are about to unearth these stories as author Les MacDonald brings nostalgia to every bookshelf with The Day the Music Died, his newly released book published through Xlibris. The Day the Music Died is a well-researched documentation of the different true stories of the persons whose names are forever etched in the history of music. Throughout, readers will get an intimate look into the deaths of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Elvis Presley, Brian Jones, Bob Marley, John Lennon, George Harrison, Tupac Shakur, Nirvanas Kurt Cobain, Selena, Michael Jackson, and many more. As each of these artists permanently faded from the limelight, a new testimonial will be created to prove that their music lives on. While some of our favorites may have lost their way at some point during their lifetimes, we must remember that there is one thing that the passage of time cannot erase . . . and that, my friends, is the music! shares the author.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1469113562

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9781469113562

The Uses of Reason in the Evaluation of Artworks

Commentaries on the Turner Prize

By: Les Gillon

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The Uses of Reason in the Evaluation of Artworks

Commentaries on the Turner Prize

By: Les Gillon

This book uses an examination of the annual Turner Prize to defend the view that the evaluation of artworks is a reason-based activity, notwithstanding the lack of any agreed criteria for judging excellence in art. It undertakes an empirical investigation of actual critical practice as evident within published commentaries on the Prize in order to examine and test theories of critical evaluation, including the ideas of Noel Carroll, Frank Sibley, Kendall Walton and Suzanne Langer. Case studies of work by Turner Prize winners such as Steve McQueen, Martin Creed, Tomma Abts are used to explore definitions of art and concepts of artistic value and meaning. The book will be of interest to academics in the fields of aesthetics, contemporary art and cultural studies, but also to practitioners working in the arts, media and education.

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Springer

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3319563661

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Home Of The Brave

By: Les Rolston

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Home Of The Brave

By: Les Rolston

Taken directly from affidavits stored at the National Archives in Washington, District of Columbia, immigrant soldiers and witnesses attest to the events that resulted in 26 soldiers of these soldiers being awarded the medal of honor.

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Lulu.com

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1365778177

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The French Play

Exploring Theatre "re-creatively" with Foreign Language Students

By: Les Essif

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The French Play

Exploring Theatre "re-creatively" with Foreign Language Students

By: Les Essif

Incorporating a wide array of subjects pertaining to planning, producing, analysing, and theorising theatre, this edition includes valuable strategies for re-creating theatre for students whose first language is not French.

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University of Calgary Press

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1552382133

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A Carrot for the Donkey

A Saxon Mystery (#3)

By: Les Roberts

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A Carrot for the Donkey

A Saxon Mystery (#3)

By: Les Roberts

#3 in the Saxon mystery series. When hotshot Hollywood producer Mark Evering summons the moonlighting actor to his house (where a drug-fueled sex party is going on) and asks him to find his wayward young daughter, it’s the hint of a possible part in Evering’s next picture, rather than the investigation fee, that hooks Saxon. Evering can’t understand why his daughter has run off with a shady lawyer twice her age when her father has given her everything—including a Betty Ford detox for her high-school graduation. Saxon follows the trail to the wide-open Mexican border town of Tijuana, where he confronts a brutal landowner and his beautiful wife, an arrogant matador, a tough and humorless Tijuana cop, colorful lowlifes from both sides of the border—and the most gruesome murder of his career.

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Gray & Company, Publishers

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1938441028

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25 Ways to a Happier Marriage

By: Les Parrott

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25 Ways to a Happier Marriage

By: Les Parrott

A simple guide to helping couples find happiness in their marriage.

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Worthy Inspired

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1617956058

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Leave Your Mark

A Memoir

By: Les Moore

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Leave Your Mark

A Memoir

By: Les Moore

Leave Your Mark is a personal memoir of Les Moore's life. It chronicles his diverse and intriguing journey from growing up in Michigan and unknowingly meeting Henry Ford, to enlisting in the navy; from meeting the woman of his dreams, to selflessly putting his family first and providing for them. Moore documents life as he moved across the United States to end up in California in the 1960s, to where he is today, father and grandfather in Michigan. It's a journey of the human spirit. Whatever challenges life tossed Moore's way, he met and encountered them. He worked hard to be the best he could be: not only for himself, but for those he loved along the way.

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FriesenPress

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146024110X

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The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X

By: Les Payne,Tamara Payne

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The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X

By: Les Payne,Tamara Payne

An epic, award-winning biography of Malcolm X that draws on hundreds of hours of personal interviews and rewrites much of the known narrative. Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to create an unprecedented portrait of Malcolm X, one that would separate fact from fiction. The result is this historic, National Book Award–winning biography, which interweaves previously unknown details of Malcolm X’s life—from harrowing Depression-era vignettes to a moment-by-moment retelling of the 1965 assassination—into an extraordinary account that contextualizes Malcolm X’s life against the wider currents of American history. Bookended by essays from Tamara Payne, Payne’s daughter and primary researcher, who heroically completed the biography after her father’s death in 2018, The Dead Are Arising affirms the centrality of Malcolm X to the African American freedom struggle.

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Liveright Publishing

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1631491679

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Palm Beach, Mar-a-Lago, and the Rise of America's Xanadu

By: Les Standiford

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Palm Beach, Mar-a-Lago, and the Rise of America's Xanadu

By: Les Standiford

From the first Gilded Age to the second, a “charming, zippy history . . . a rollicking, informative lesson in real estate, American history, and current events.” —Town & Country Looking at the island of Palm Beach today, with its unmatched mansions, tony shops, and pristine beaches, one is hard pressed to visualize the dense tangle of Palmetto brush and mangroves that it was when visionary entrepreneur and railroad tycoon Henry Flagler first arrived there in April 1893. Trusting his remarkable instincts, he built the Royal Poinciana Hotel within a year, and two years later, what was to become the legendary Breakers—instantly establishing the island as the preferred destination for those who could afford it. Over the next 125 years, Palm Beach has become synonymous with exclusivity—especially its most famous residence, Mar-a-Lago. As Les Standiford relates, the high walls of Mar-a-Lago and other manses like it were seemingly designed to contain scandal within as much as keep intruders out. This book tells the history of this fabled landscape intertwined with the colorful lives of its famous and infamous protagonists, from Flagler’s two wives to architect Addison Mizner, who created Palm Beach’s “Mediterranean look” to heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post and her husband E. F. Hutton, the original residents of Mar-a-Lago. With authoritative detail, Standiford recounts how Marjorie ruled Palm Beach society until her death in 1973, and how the fate of her mansion threatened to tear apart the very fabric of the town until Donald Trump acquired it in 1985. “Edifying, energetic, and captivating.” —Florida Weekly

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Atlantic Monthly Press

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0802146457

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High-maintenance Relationships

By: Les Parrott, III,Les Parrott

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High-maintenance Relationships

By: Les Parrott, III,Les Parrott

How do you cope with impossible people? The author offers clear and direct answers for dealing with relationships that give so little but demand so much.

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Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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0842314660

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9780842314664

They Knew Marilyn Monroe

Famous Persons in the Life of the Hollywood Icon

By: Les Harding

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They Knew Marilyn Monroe

Famous Persons in the Life of the Hollywood Icon

By: Les Harding

Taking an innovative approach to the life and legend of Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962), this biographical dictionary concentrates on her circle of friends, acquaintances and coworkers--1618 in all. Distilled from hundreds of celebrity biographies are references to, and quotes about, the iconic Hollywood sex symbol from such diverse personalities as architect Frank Lloyd Wright, Israeli diplomat Abba Eban, beat poet Jack Kerouac, novelist Somerset Maugham, jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, counterculture guru Timothy Leary and evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, to name but a few. All of these remarkable people have, in one way or another, crossed paths with the magnificent Monroe. The entries in this volume (with source listings for further reading and research) confirm the fact that Marilyn Monroe remains a figure of enduring fascination five decades after her death.

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McFarland

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0786466375

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9780786466375

Fifty Years Behind the Microphone

The Les Keiter Story

By: Les Keiter,Dennis Christianson

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Fifty Years Behind the Microphone

The Les Keiter Story

By: Les Keiter,Dennis Christianson

A sports broadcaster looks back on his life and career and shares memories of fellow broadcasters and famous sports figures.

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University of Hawaii Press

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082481388X

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Advertising and Violence

Concepts and Perspectives

By: Nora J. Rifon,Marla B Royne,Les Carlson

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Advertising and Violence

Concepts and Perspectives

By: Nora J. Rifon,Marla B Royne,Les Carlson

Advertising and Violence identifies and analyzes the important issues related to violence in advertising and its overall effects on society. The book is based on a widely cited special issue of the Journal of Advertising and includes eight new chapters that expand the book's coverage. The objective of the book is to compile a compendium of current thinking, perspectives, theoretical viewpoints, and research relevant to the violence and advertising interface. The chapter authors, all notable experts in the field, take a multidisciplinary approach that incorporates perspectives from disciplines other than marketing in order to provide a broad-based view of how advertising and violence coalesce and the policy implications of this juxtaposition.

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Routledge

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1317477707

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Enough About You, Let's Talk About Me

How to Recognize and Manage the Narcissists in Your Life

By: Les Carter

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Enough About You, Let's Talk About Me

How to Recognize and Manage the Narcissists in Your Life

By: Les Carter

Those who are in the unenviable position of living or working with a narcissist have learned by sad trial and error that they are the only one in the relationship who can change the dynamic. Certainly narcissists don’t think they need to change. Enough About You, Let’s Talk About Me is a hands-on resource for helping colleagues, families, and spouses deal with people who exhibit narcissistic tendencies by learning how to change their own attitudes and responses.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470185147

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9780470185148

Yankee Classics

World Series Magic from the Bronx Bombers, 1921 to Today

By: Les Krantz

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Yankee Classics

World Series Magic from the Bronx Bombers, 1921 to Today

By: Les Krantz

No team, in any sport, enjoys a championship legacy as celebrated as the New York Yankees—and no book provides as thorough an exploration of that legacy as Yankee Classics. With year-by-year recaps filled with stories and photos, the book goes through all 40 World Series the Yankees have participated in, including the seven-game classics and the four-game cakewalks. Profiles of the biggest stars of the Fall Classic—from Ruth and Gehrig, to Berra and Mantle, to Jeter and Rivera—and detailed sidebars on the memorable moments, the October rivalries, and the lesser-known heroes round out this comprehensive look at an unprecedented sports success story.

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MVP Books

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1610601009

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The Best of Emerge Magazine

By: George E. Curry,Brenda L. Webber,Sylvester Monroe,Les Payne

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The Best of Emerge Magazine

By: George E. Curry,Brenda L. Webber,Sylvester Monroe,Les Payne

The 1990s. African Americans achieved more influence–and faced more explosive issues–than ever before. One word captured those times. One magazine expressed them. Emerge. In those ten years, with an impressive circulation of 170,000 and more than forty national awards to its credit, Emerge became a serious part of the American mainstream. Time hailed its “uncompromising voice.” The Washington Post declared that Emerge “gets better with each issue.” Then, after nearly a decade, Emerge magazine closed its doors. Now, for the first time, here’s a collection of the finest articles from a publication that changed the face of African American news. From the Clarence Thomas nomination to the Bill Clinton impeachment . . . from the life of Louis Farrakhan to the death of Betty Shabazz . . . from reparations for slavery to the rise of blacks on Wall Street . . . the most important people, topics, and turning points of this remarkable period are featured in incisive articles by first-rate writers. Emerge may have ended with the millennium, but–as this incomparable volume proves–the quality of its coverage is still unequaled, the extent of its impact still emerging. Stirring tribute, uncanny time capsule, riveting read–The Best of Emerge Magazine is also the best of American journalism.

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One World

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0307514153

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9780307514158

Holy Bingo, the Lingo of Eden, Jumpin' Jehosophat and the Land of Nod

A Dictionary of the Names, Expressions and Folklore of Christianity

By: Les Harding

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Holy Bingo, the Lingo of Eden, Jumpin' Jehosophat and the Land of Nod

A Dictionary of the Names, Expressions and Folklore of Christianity

By: Les Harding

Christianity abounds with fascinating, little-known trivia. Gas station attendants, for example, enjoy their own patron saint. So do stamp collectors, truss makers and sailors in the Bolivian navy. Jesus and Judas were common names in the biblical period, and Jesus of Nazareth had a brother named Judas. The forbidden fruit was more likely an apricot than an apple, and Delilah hired a barber to cut Sampson's hair. This dictionary of miscellany combs the annals of Christian esoterica, offering the most intriguing facts that are often forgotten, overlooked or ignored. Departing from the standard subject matter, this work serves as an unruly companion to the typical Bible dictionary. Nearly 1500 entries range from Aaron's beard (a popular name for Saint John's wort) to zounds (an antiquated Christian swear word). Information is cross-referenced and includes numerous quotations.

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McFarland

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1476608385

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The Man Who Invented Christmas (Movie Tie-In): Includes Charles Dickens's Classic a Christmas Carol

How Charles Dickens's a Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits

By: Les Standiford

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The Man Who Invented Christmas (Movie Tie-In): Includes Charles Dickens's Classic a Christmas Carol

How Charles Dickens's a Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits

By: Les Standiford

Standiford examines how the unlikely success of "A Christmas Carol" revitalized Charles Dickens's languishing career and revived the celebration of the near-forgotten Christmas holiday.

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Crown Publishing Group (NY)

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1524762466

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God in the Corridors of Power

Christian Conservatives, the Media, and Politics in America

By: Michael Ryan,Les Switzer

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God in the Corridors of Power

Christian Conservatives, the Media, and Politics in America

By: Michael Ryan,Les Switzer

God in the Corridors of Power: Christian Conservatives, the Media, and Politics in America is a comprehensive study of Christian conservative power in America's political culture—how it was achieved, how it is maintained, and where it is going. It came about in part because of an enduring influence in the school room, the seminary and in the pulpit, and in part because conservatives are so skilled at using commercial and non-commercial media, including religious media, to disseminate their views to broader audiences. Though their power has waxed and waned, they continue to be a potent force in public policy today. The authors argue that the astonishing electoral successes of Christian conservatives at all levels of national, state and local government was made possible by linking political, social, media and religious interests with an emerging consensus about what constitutes a conservative mindset in American politics. Christian conservatives unquestionably have been the most significant component in a coalition of religious conservatives, traditionalist conservatives and neoconservatives that has driven the Republican Party now for almost two generations. This multifaceted understanding of Christian conservative activists in religion and politics traces the impact Christian conservatives have had on American Christianity as a whole while also examining the limitations imposed on the Christian conservative agenda by American civil religion, the Constitution and case law. The authors explore women's reproductive rights in the debate over contraception and abortion, and gay civil rights in the debate over gay marriage and family rights. The debate over intelligent design and evolution is examined in the context of the campaign to transform public school education. The run-up to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq is scrutinized against the background of the declared "war on terrorism." While the conservative religious and secular coalition within the Republican Party began to fragment even before the end of George W. Bush's first term in office, it remained a powerful force in the 2004 and 2008 elections. The book concludes with some thoughts about the impact of Christian conservatives in politics, media and religion in the future.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313356114

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9780313356117

The Indian Sign

A Milan Jacovich Mystery

By: Les Roberts

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The Indian Sign

A Milan Jacovich Mystery

By: Les Roberts

A security leak at a toy company leads P.I. Milan Jacovich into a corporate sewer that tests his ethics as never before. But a second case, involving an infant stolen from a poverty-stricken Odawa tribe family in Michigan's Upper Peninsula tears at his Slovenian heart. Jacovich is going to need all of his skills to solve these two different cases. Martin's Press.

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Macmillan

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0312976461

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Handy Guide to Murderville

By: Les Pobjie

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Handy Guide to Murderville

By: Les Pobjie

Visitors may find the Handy Guide to Manderville useful, but it offers no help to residents lost in a deadly maze of no-longer familiar streets, among newly sinister public places. Its pages extol the virtues of significant buildings, fine parks, and especially, the town’s upstanding citizens.

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Australian Self Publishing Group

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1922618357

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9781922618351

The Home Brewer's Recipe Database, 3rd edition - hard cover

By: Les Howarth

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The Home Brewer's Recipe Database, 3rd edition - hard cover

By: Les Howarth

This is not a recipe book. It is a database of ingredient information that should assist the home or craft brewer in creating their own recipes in order to attempt the replication of commercial beers, many of which are no longer in production. Instructions on how to convert the supplied ingredient information into recipes customised to the brewer's own equipment and technique are provided. This book also provides inspiration to brewers wishing to experiment with different ingredients since it gives an interesting insight into how professional brewers have used them in their own brews. This third edition includes data for more beers and breweries including a new category for historical beers. Finally, this book should also be of interest to the discerning beer enthusiast who is curious about what goes into their favourite drink.

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Lulu.com

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132979284X

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Love's Greatest Joy

By: Les Galicinski

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Love's Greatest Joy

By: Les Galicinski

The God who is Love rejoices greatly when His people walk with Him in Truth. This book provides the essentials of the Christian life in a way that is theologically rich and and inspired by the discipleship teachings of past giants of the faith. It provides a solid theological understanding of the character of God, His purposes and desires for His people. It provides an occasion for inner transformation by teaching, asking questions and providing spiritual exercises that will allow God's Spirit to envelope the reader. It teaches spiritual disciplines that lead to Godly habits and enhance the quality of one's soul-life with God. It also seeks to help the reader to move out into the world as one sent by God to testify to the joyous grace of the God who is Love. This book and integrated study guide was developed with several groups of research participants who contributed to its refinement. It is ideal for individual study or for small groups.

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1105350207

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9781105350207

Harry Redknapp - The Biography

By: Les Roopanarine

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Harry Redknapp - The Biography

By: Les Roopanarine

Harry Redknapp is one of the biggest and best-loved characters in English football. From West Ham to Bournemouth, Portsmouth to Tottenham, legions of fans regard him as one of the game's true legends.• Harry's long career has been packed with twists and turns and plenty of controversy. Signing for West Ham as a 17 year-old, Harry Redknapp made 149 appearances before moving to Bournemouth where he stayed until 1982, leaving to take up his first coaching position with the club. After a major car accident in 1990 Harry was forced to reconsider his career options and made the switch from Bournemouth to West Ham. In 2003 he headed to Portsmouth in what was to be a turbulent time. With a brief spell at Southampton, Harry returned to Portsmouth and in 2008 he steered them to their first FA cup victory in 69 years.• In October 2008 Harry Redknapp joined Tottenham Hotspurs working his 'Harry Houdini' magic to lift them out of the relegation zone in just two weeks. And in 2010 they have made it to the knock-out stages in the Champions Leagues for the first time.

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1843589427

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Making Happy

The Art and Science of a Happy Marriage

By: Les Parrott

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Making Happy

The Art and Science of a Happy Marriage

By: Les Parrott

Discover the six counter-intuitive dials to turn right now in your relationship. these are proven happiness boosters. and let's face it, knowing how to make happiness -- the deep and abiding joy of feeling good together -- isn't always easy for time-starved and sleep-deprived couples. Making Happy will change all that by: Instantly making your relationship 25 percent happier. Countering the effects of taking each other for granted so you can notice even more things you appreciate about each other. Knowing the easy way to ensure your partner is happier today than yesterday. Relationship experts Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott bring all the relevant research together in Making Happy and show you how to elevate happiness in your relationship. It's easier than you think. Includes an immensely practical three-week Happiness Plan.

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Worthy Books

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1617953415

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Exceptional Children

Integrating Research and Teaching

By: Ronald L. Taylor,Les Sternberg

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Exceptional Children

Integrating Research and Teaching

By: Ronald L. Taylor,Les Sternberg

Exceptional Children: Integrating Research and Teaching provides a com prehensive introduction to the constantly changing area of special educa tion. The book is research-based, and its title reflects our opinion regarding the important link between research and classroom practice. There is one feature of Exceptional Children: Integrating Research and Teaching that warrants attention and perhaps justification; it was written specifically to address the graduate student or sophisticated undergraduate student mar ket. As such, the book is written at a higher level and with a greater concept density than typical introductory special education texts. We feel that this type of book is very much needed and will be received favorably by the special education community. There are also several unique features of Exceptional Children: Integrat ing Research and Teaching that we feel will be quite valuable. First, we have emphasized the area of teaching practices and not simply included basic facts about definitions, characteristics, and causes. Although some intro ductory texts include information about teaching considerations, that area is not discussed as in depth as it is in our text. We feel that it is important that readers not only understand the educational needs of exceptional chil dren, but also can identify the best educational practices to meet those needs.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461236029

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The Cleveland Local

A Milan Jacovich Mystery

By: Les Roberts

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The Cleveland Local

A Milan Jacovich Mystery

By: Les Roberts

When hot shot Cleveland real estate attorney Joel Kerner, Jr., is killed on a Caribbean holiday, only his angry sister Patrice thinks it's more than a botched robbery. But when burly ex-football player-turned-investigator Milan Jacovich is hired to investigate the case, he gets stabbed, beaten, and almost burned to death, before he's led to the right door. Unfortunately there's a catch, and Milan is dangerously close to getting tangled in a barbed-wire net. Martin's Press.

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Rhetorical Agency

Mind, Meshwork, Materiality, Mobility

By: Les Belikian

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Rhetorical Agency

Mind, Meshwork, Materiality, Mobility

By: Les Belikian

In recent accounts of rhetoric's storied productivity, commentators have implied, along systematically Kantian lines, albeit with the occasional protestation, that agency must be coextensive with subjectivity. But is that all there is (to 2,500 years' worth of hypothesizing about the ways in which communication might promote social change)? Les Belikian's answer, drawing not only on traditional and contemporary rhetorical studies but also on Deleuzean thinking, actor-network theory, and object-oriented ontology, takes the form of a quadruply contrarian thesis: Rhetorical agency inheres, irreducibly so, in subjectivity, in conventionality, in transcendence, and in materiality, all of which are themselves under production. TABLE OF CONTENTS // Chapter 1: Productivity as a Context for Theorizing Rhetorical Transaction - A Miscellaneously Self-Effacing Rhetorical Agency? - Rhetoricity Bound, Unbounded, and Both - Variegation (Not Conglomeration) - Chapter 2: A Four-Folded Rhetorical Agency - Tetradic Due Diligence - Disaggregating a Constitution - A Willfully Productive Rhetorical Agency - Assemblage-Theoretical Resources - Triangulation - An Investigative Itinerary - Chapter 3: Subjectivity in the Social-Structural Landscape - Co-Constructing Constraint - Can the Speaker Speak? - An Ineffectual Agency - Subtracting from Rhetorical Practice - What Else Is Wrong with This Paradigm? - A Chimerical Agency for a Colossal Agent - Chapter 4: Conventionality in the Rhetorical-Humanistic Landscape - De-Leviathanizing the Normative - From Normativity to Shared Values - A Tribe of Equals - Keeping Shared Values between the Ceiling and the Seat - Staying the Same by Doing Something Differently - Maximizing Assent by Minimizing Recalcitrance - Still Missing So Far - Chapter 5: Transcendence in the Existential-Transversal Landscape - Existence, Transcendence, and Transversality - Philosophizing for the Living by Getting Rid of Their Materiality - The Two Styles of Transcendence - The Fideistic Appeal - Correcting Forgetfulness through a Material Phenomenology - Rhetorical Agency and the Existential Self - On Pivoting, Transcendence, and Emergence - The Rhetorical Agent and the Original Body - A Re-Corporealized Transversality - Chapter 6: Materiality in the Material-Semiotic Landscape - A Parable of Materiality-and-Relationality - Assemblaging, Stratification, and Circulating Reference - Entering at Biblical Precept - Crossing over to Race - From Race to Gender - Rescaling the Envoy - And A'n't We a Meshwork? - Chapter 7: Agency in the Rhetorical-Theoretical World - No More Homogenization Now! - On Keeping Difference Different - A Fluctuating Rhetorical Agent

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1947447246

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Rose's Romance

Third Time Charm

By: Les Sonksen

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Rose's Romance

Third Time Charm

By: Les Sonksen

After 18 years of never dating, Rose McDowell finally breaks out of her naivety by romantic adventures with a sailor, Marvin Brown, much to her father’s chagrin. Complications end that romance only for Rose to fall in love with a drug dealer that doesn’t help for permanency of a romance either when Rose, now AKA Gertrude, is serving time in a penitentiary. Paroled and moving to Denver, a series of unplanned situations bring Gertrude and Marvin together again in the huge metropolitan city, in a hospital no less, via the ski slopes. But does Marvin want her back or does Gertrude for that matter?? Watch for Les’s sequel: Rose AKA Gertrude’s Romance—Marriage Moments.

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1698717466

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Bird Songs

250 North American Birds in Song

By: Les Beletsky

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Bird Songs

250 North American Birds in Song

By: Les Beletsky

In Bird Songs, ornithologist Les Beletsky profiles 250 birds alongside colorful illustrations, and includes a digital audio player that provides the corresponding song for each of the 250 birds. Drawing from the collection of the world-renowned Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Bird Songs presents the most notable North American birds—including the rediscovered ivory-billed woodpecker—in a stunning format. Renowned ornithologist Les Beletsky provides a succinct description of each of the 250 birds profiled, with an emphasis on their distinctive songs. Lavish full-color illustrations accompany each account, while a sleek, built-in digital audio player holds 250 corresponding songs and calls. In his foreword, North American bird expert and distinguished natural historian Jon L. Dunn shares insights gained from a lifetime of passionate study. Complete with the most up-to-date and scientifically accurate information, Bird Songs is the first book to capture the enchantment of these beautiful birds in words, pictures, and song.

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0760363269

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