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The Johnson Circle

A Group Portrait

By: Lyle Larsen

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Samuel Johnson, from early boyhood, lived with the knowledge that his homely face, large and ungainly body, loud voice, and odd mannerisms put people off. He later confessed that he had never made an effort to please others until past thirty, “considering the matter as hopeless.” Yet he managed to gather about him as friends, especially during the last quarter of his life, some of the most fascinating and accomplished people of the day. These friendships were not always smooth, and some did not last, but Johnson valued the individuals nonetheless. Actor, painter, playwright, novelist, Greek scholar, miscellaneous writer, biographer, leading bluestocking, wealthy man-of-fashion: they represented a wide range of talents and personalities. Johnson brought them together as a group, and all testified that in knowing him they became far better persons than they otherwise would have been. This book focuses on ten key figures, aside from Johnson himself, of the so-called Johnson circle. It explores their characters, their contributions to society, their relationships with one another, and their indebtedness to Samuel Johnson.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1683931165

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Stein and Hemingway

The Story of a Turbulent Friendship

By: Lyle Larsen

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Stein and Hemingway

The Story of a Turbulent Friendship

By: Lyle Larsen

This historical and biographical text explores the numerous up-and-down stages of Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway's friendship, one of the most fascinating and instructive literary associations of the twentieth century. Over a span of twenty-four years, they moved from a mentor-student relationship to a rivalry between artistic peers. Despite dramatic fluctuations--of love, admiration, jealousy, resentment and name-calling--their association endured, partly because of Stein's admitted "weakness" for Hemingway and his need for her approval. By incorporating unpublished material from the Hemingway Collection at the John F. Kennedy library in Boston, the text shines new light on this famous friendship.

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McFarland

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0786480157

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Hospital and Healthcare Facility Design

By: Richard Lyle Miller,Earl S. Swensson

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Hospital and Healthcare Facility Design

By: Richard Lyle Miller,Earl S. Swensson

A state-of-the-art blueprint for architects, planners, and hospital administrators, Hospital and Healthcare Facility Design provides innovative ideas and concrete guidelines for planning and designing facilities for the rapidly changing healthcare system.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393730727

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9780393730722

New York Yankees Openers

An Opening Day History of Baseball's Most Famous Team, 1903-2017, 2d ed.

By: Lyle Spatz

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New York Yankees Openers

An Opening Day History of Baseball's Most Famous Team, 1903-2017, 2d ed.

By: Lyle Spatz

The New York Yankees are baseball's most storied team. They first played at Hilltop Park, then moved to the Polo Grounds, then Yankee Stadium, Shea Stadium, back to the renovated Yankee Stadium, and now in the new Yankee Stadium. They also frequently opened the season in Boston's historic Fenway Park, fondly remembered Shibe Park in Philadelphia, Griffith Stadium in Washington, and all around the expanded leagues after 1961. This book details every opening-day celebration and game from 1903 to 2017, while noting how each was affected by war, the economy, political and social protest and population shifts. We see presidents and politicians, entertainers, celebrities, and fans, owners, managers, and most of all, the players.

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McFarland

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1476632472

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Scripture and the English Poetic Imagination

By: David Lyle Jeffrey

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Scripture and the English Poetic Imagination

By: David Lyle Jeffrey

The God of the Bible often speaks in poetry. Beginning with an illuminating exploration of eloquence in the divine voice, a highly acclaimed professor of literature opens up the treasury of biblical tradition among English poets both past and present, showing them to be well attuned not only to Scripture's meaning but also to its music. In exploring the work of various poets, David Lyle Jeffrey demonstrates how the poetry of the Bible affords a register of understanding in which the beauty of Holy Scripture deepens meditation on its truth and is indeed a vital part of that truth.

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Baker Academic

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1493416898

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9781493416899

Biolinguistics

Exploring the Biology of Language

By: Lyle Jenkins

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Biolinguistics

Exploring the Biology of Language

By: Lyle Jenkins

This book investigates the nature of human language and its importance for the study of the mind. In particular, it examines current work on the biology of language. Lyle Jenkins reviews the evidence that language is best characterized by a generative grammar of the kind introduced by Noam Chomsky in the 1950s and developed in various directions since that time. He then discusses research into the development of language which tries to capture both the underlying universality of human language, as well as the diversity found in individual languages (Universal Grammar). Finally, he discusses a variety of approaches to language design and the evolution of language. An important theme is the integration of biolinguistics into the natural sciences - the 'unification problem'. Jenkins also answers criticisms of the biolinguistic approach from a number of other perspectives, including evolutionary psychology, cognitive science, connectionism and ape language research, among others.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139426419

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9781139426411

Historical Dictionary of Baseball

By: Lyle Spatz

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Historical Dictionary of Baseball

By: Lyle Spatz

Dating back to 1869 as an organized professional sport, the game of baseball is not only the oldest professional sport in North America, but also symbolizes much more. Walt Whitman described it as “our game, the American game,” and George Will compared calling baseball “just a game” to the Grand Canyon being “just a hole.” Countless others have called baseball “the most elegant game,” and to those who have played it, it’s life. The Historical Dictionary of Baseball is primarily devoted to the major leagues it also includes entries on the minor leagues, the Negro Leagues, women’s baseball, baseball in various other countries, and other non-major league related topics. It traces baseball, in general, and these topics individually, from their beginnings up to the present. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 900 cross-referenced entries on the roles of the players on the field—batters, pitchers, fielders—as well as non-playing personnel—general managers, managers, coaches, and umpires. There are also entries for individual teams and leagues, stadiums and ballparks, the role of the draft and reserve clause, and baseball’s rules, and statistical categories. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the sport of baseball.

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Scarecrow Press

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0810879549

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9780810879546

Fundamental Considerations in Language Testing

By: Lyle F. Bachman

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Fundamental Considerations in Language Testing

By: Lyle F. Bachman

Offers a discussion of the basic concerns which underlie the development and use of language tests. Presenting a synthesis of research on testing, this book is useful for students on teacher education courses. It is also helpful for those professionally involved in designing and administering tests, acting as a complement to 'how to' books.

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Oxford University Press

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0194370038

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9780194370035

Concussion in Sports, An Issue of Clinics in Sports Medicine

By: William P. Meehan,Lyle J. Micheli

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Concussion in Sports, An Issue of Clinics in Sports Medicine

By: William P. Meehan,Lyle J. Micheli

This issue of Clinics in Sports Medicine will explore all aspects of sports-related concussion, such as the biomechanics and epidemiology of concussions,as well as special considerations for female and pediatric athletes. The issue will also include articles on return-to-play and retiring decisions after sports-related concussions.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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1455709565

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9781455709564

Muskox Land

Ellesmere Island in the Age of Contact

By: Lyle Dick

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Muskox Land

Ellesmere Island in the Age of Contact

By: Lyle Dick

Muskox Land provides a meticulously researched and richly illustrated treatment of Canada's High Arctic as it interweaves insights from historiography, Native studies, ecology, anthropology, and polar exploration.

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University of Calgary Press

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1552380505

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Integrated Motivational Interviewing and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (ICBT)

A Practitioners Guide

By: Joseph Hyde,Maria Torres,Win Turner,R. Lyle Cooper

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Integrated Motivational Interviewing and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (ICBT)

A Practitioners Guide

By: Joseph Hyde,Maria Torres,Win Turner,R. Lyle Cooper

A practical approach to clinical interventions applicable to a range of mental health diagnoses Integrated Motivational Interviewing and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (ICBT) for Adults is a guide for practitioners looking for evidence-based clinical interventions that are portable across settings and diagnoses. Written in plain English and with an emphasis on step-by-step instructions, this valuable toolkit collects strategies and interventions that have been shown to be effective in substance use disorder, depression, anxiety, and beyond. This widely applicable treatment approach draws on motivational interviewing, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), motivational enhancement therapy, mindfulness, functional analysis, and other methods that are strongly supported in the literature. With content reflecting emerging research findings and evolving social contexts, this book is both timely and firmly rooted in science. After presenting a set of proven techniques for motivational interviewing and CBT, this book details a 16-session course designed to fit within conventional models of therapeutic practice. Each session covers a cognitive behavioral skill (e.g., assertiveness, handling cravings, suicidality) and builds upon the previous sessions, but they also work as standalone interventions and do not have to be followed in a particular order. The book also offers additional tools to promote intervention quality and clinical supervision. Worksheets, handouts, and other materials are included in photocopiable format, making this a valuable guide in all outpatient mental health settings. Learn the fundamentals of motivational interviewing, cognitive behavioral therapy, and other evidence-based treatment modalities Get practical clinical tools, including step-by-step session guides on cognitive behavioral skills relevant to a range of diagnoses Access self-assessments, clinical supervision tools, and other resources to enhance clinical effectiveness Incorporate emerging research, changing social contexts, and lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic into your practice Earlier editions of this guide focused on addressing substance use disorders and cooccurring disorders. This edition is applicable to those disorders but reflects that these clinical strategies are transdiagnostic.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1394241933

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9781394241934

Neverending Stories

The Popular Emergence of Digital Fiction

By: R. Lyle Skains

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Neverending Stories

The Popular Emergence of Digital Fiction

By: R. Lyle Skains

Digital fiction has long been perceived as an experimental niche of electronic literature. Yet born-digital narratives thrive in mainstream culture, as communities of practice create and share digital fiction, filling in the gaps between the media they are given and the stories they seek. Neverending Stories explores the influences of literature and computing on digital fiction and how the practices and cultures of each have impacted who makes and plays digital fiction. Popular creativity emerges from subordinated groups often excluded from producing cultural resources, accepting the materials of capitalism and inverting them for their own carnivalesque uses. Popular digital fiction goes by many different names: webnovels, adventure games, visual novels, Twitter fiction, webcomics, Twine games, walking sims, alternate reality games, virtual reality films, interactive movies, enhanced books, transmedia universes, and many more. The book establishes digital fiction in a foundation of innovation, tracing its emergence in various guises around the world. It examines Infocom, whose commercial success with interactive fiction crumbled, in no small part, because of its failure to consider women as creators or consumers. It takes note of the brief flourish of commercial book apps and literary games. It connects practices of cognitive and conceptual interactivity, and textual multiplicity-dating to the origins of the print novel-to the feminine. It pushes into the technological future of narrative in immersive and mixed realities. It posits the transmedia franchises and the practices of fanfiction as examples of digital fiction that will continue indefinitely, regardless of academic notice or approval.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501364928

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9781501364921

The Marriage Paradox

Why Emerging Adults Love Marriage Yet Push it Aside

By: Brian J. Willoughby,Spencer Lyle James

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The Marriage Paradox

Why Emerging Adults Love Marriage Yet Push it Aside

By: Brian J. Willoughby,Spencer Lyle James

The Marriage Paradox explores both national U.S. data and a smaller sample of emerging adults to find out how they really view marriage today. Interspersed with real stories and insight from emerging adults themselves, this book attempts to make sense of the increasingly paradoxical ways that young adults are thinking about marriage.

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Oxford University Press

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0190296658

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Historical Syntax in Cross-Linguistic Perspective

By: Alice C. Harris,Lyle Campbell

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Historical Syntax in Cross-Linguistic Perspective

By: Alice C. Harris,Lyle Campbell

In this major new work Alice Harris and Lyle Campbell set out to establish a general framework for the investigation of linguistic change. Systematic cross-linguistic comparison of syntactic change across a wide variety of languages is used to construct hypotheses about the universals and limits of language change more generally. In particular, the authors seek to move closer towards describing the range of causes of syntactic change to develop an understanding of the mechanisms of syntactic change, and to provide an understanding of why some languages undergo certain changes and not others. The authors draw on languages as diverse as Pipil and French, Georgian and Estonian, and the data presented is one of the book's great strengths. Rigor and precision are combined here with a great breadth of scholarship to produce a unique resource for the study of linguistic change, which will be of use to scholars and students alike.

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512

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Cambridge University Press

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0521478812

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9780521478816

Notorious Two-Bit Street

2nd Edition

By: Lyle,Jean Barnes

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Notorious Two-Bit Street

2nd Edition

By: Lyle,Jean Barnes

Madams of brothels, houses of gambling, rampant government corruption—all these were found in a late 1800s Mormon community. This is the fascinating, well-researched, true history of Two-Bit Street—a street that became known throughout the world for its ladies of the evening and saloons that never closed. The American West’s wildest poured into this small Utah town after it was chosen to be the Junction City for the newly constructed 1869 transcontinental railroad. A history that spans three quarters of a century, this book shows how a pious people can be overpowered by an uncontrollable malignancy of lust. At times inspiring, this book also unveils the struggle between deep corruption and those who wanted this corruption to be destroyed. Infamous Twenty-Fifth Street in Ogden has been named as one of the ten great streets in America because of its past notoriety and its complete contiguous turn-of-the-century commercial architecture which remains as a witness of that colorful past. Lyle J. Barnes is the street’s original historian, and many other authors have quoted his history of Twenty-Fifth Street. With the fine additional research and writing done by Jean Barnes, this second edition makes Lyle’s best-selling history better than ever.

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Page Publishing Inc

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1662436610

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9781662436611

Language Assessment in Practice

Developing Language Assessments and Justifying their Use in the Real World

By: Lyle Bachman,Palmer Adrian

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Language Assessment in Practice

Developing Language Assessments and Justifying their Use in the Real World

By: Lyle Bachman,Palmer Adrian

Language Assessment in Practice enables the reader to become competent in the design, development, and use of language assessments. Authors, Lyle Bachman and Adrian Palmer, have developed an Assessment Use Argument (AUA) as a rigorous justification of how language assessment is used. The authors also demonstrate how the AUA guides the process of test development in the real world.

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Oxford University Press

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0194426998

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American Indian Languages

The Historical Linguistics of Native America

By: Lyle Campbell

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American Indian Languages

The Historical Linguistics of Native America

By: Lyle Campbell

Native American languages are spoken from Siberia to Greenland. Campbell's project is to take stock of what is known about the history of Native American languages and in the process examine the state of American Indian historical linguistics.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195140508

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Stein and Hemingway

The Story of a Turbulent Friendship

By: Lyle Larsen

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Stein and Hemingway

The Story of a Turbulent Friendship

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McFarland

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Luke

By: David Lyle Jeffrey

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Luke

By: David Lyle Jeffrey

A highly acclaimed professor of literature offers a theological reading of Luke in this addition to the Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible.

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Baker Books

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1587431416

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The Johnson Circle

A Group Portrait

By: Lyle Larsen

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The Johnson Circle

A Group Portrait

By: Lyle Larsen

Samuel Johnson, from early boyhood, lived with the knowledge that his homely face, large and ungainly body, loud voice, and odd mannerisms put people off. He later confessed that he had never made an effort to please others until past thirty, "considering the matter as hopeless." Yet he managed to gather about him as friends, especially during the last quarter of his life, some of the most fascinating and accomplished people of the day. These friendships were not always smooth, and some did not last, but Johnson valued the individuals nonetheless. Actor, painter, playwright, novelist, Greek scholar, miscellaneous writer, biographer, leading bluestocking, wealthy man-of-fashion: they represented a wide range of talents and personalities. Johnson brought them together as a group, and all testified that in knowing him they became far better persons than they otherwise would have been. This book focuses on ten key figures, aside from Johnson himself, of the so-called Johnson circle. It explores their characters, their contributions to society, their relationships with one another, and their indebtedness to Samuel Johnson.

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