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Handbook of Alternative Assets

By: Mark J. P. Anson

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Handbook of Alternative Assets

By: Mark J. P. Anson

Since the first edition of the Handbook of Alternative Assets was published, significant events-from the popping of the technology bubble and massive accounting scandals to recessions and bear markets-have shifted the financial landscape. These changes have provided author Mark J. P. Anson with an excellent opportunity to examine alternative assets during a different part of the economic cycle than previously observed in the first edition. Fully revised and updated to reflect today's financial realities, the Handbook of Alternative Assets, Second Edition covers the five major classes of alternative assets-hedge funds, commodity and managed futures, private equity, credit derivatives, and corporate governance-and outlines the strategies you can use to efficiently incorporate these assets into any portfolio. Throughout the book, new chapters have been added, different data sources accessed, and new conclusions reached. Designed as both an introduction to the world of alternative assets and as a reference for the active investor, the Handbook of Alternative Assets, Second Edition will help you match alternative assets with your various investment goals.

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0470089229

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Washington Babylon

From George Washington to Donald Trump, Scandals that Rocked the Nation

By: Mark Hyman

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Washington Babylon

From George Washington to Donald Trump, Scandals that Rocked the Nation

By: Mark Hyman

Since America’s founding, the nation’s capital has experienced more than its share of scandals; thankfully, Washington Babylon explores some of the dirtiest secrets that have occurred throughout US history. Some are from the earliest days of America’s founding and include the most famous people in history, like George Washington. Others are still fresh in our minds, as the dust has not even settled. In between, US history is littered with scandals from nearly all walks of life that were the most talked-about stories at the time. Many past scandals remain infamous, such as Watergate, Chappaquiddick, and Abscam. Other scandals that were once the biggest stories of the day have faded into obscurity. Washington Babylon reveals new details in some scandals that were not known when the story first broke, offering a whole new perspective for discussion. This is the most comprehensive collection of American scandals that will educate, entertain, shock, and perhaps, even titillate the reader.

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Post Hill Press

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1642931535

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9781642931532

Psychotherapy and the Widowed Patient

By: E Mark Stern

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Psychotherapy and the Widowed Patient

By: E Mark Stern

Coming at a time of renewed interest in the developmental changes of the life cycle, Psychotherapy and the Widowed Patient is a rich resource that examines the impact of a spouse's death on an individual's mental health. Psychiatrists and psychoanalysts address a wide range of issues concerning loss, grief, and bereavement, and provide practical and creative approaches for both widowed persons and the helping professionals charged with treating their grief. Chapters in this compassionate volume discuss the characteristics of individuals who are more likely to seek professional help in coping with grief, widowhood as a time of growth and development, the value of openness instead of denial in dealing with death, the grieving process in young widowed spouses, the similarities of widowhood to separation and divorce, the role of dependency in how well widowed patients develop emotionally, and the role of loyalty in the process of grief. The more clinical chapters examine strategies for carrying out experiential psychotherapy with widowed patients, rational-emotive therapy, grief therapy, the effects of new perspectives on spousal bereavement on clinical practice, and aspects of bereavement response to loss, with a timeframe for viewing psychotherapeutic intervention. A review of the psychological literature regarding widowhood completes this comprehensive new book.

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Psychology Press

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131776580X

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9781317765806

Namath: A Biography

By: Mark Kriegel

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Namath: A Biography

By: Mark Kriegel

In between Babe Ruth and Michael Jordan there was Joe Namath, one of the few sports heroes to transcend the game he played. Novelist and former sports-columnist Mark Kriegel’s bestselling biography of the iconic quarterback details his journey from steel-town pool halls to the upper reaches of American celebrity—and beyond. The first of his kind, Namath enabled a nation to see sports as show biz. For an entire generation he became a spectacle of booze and broads, a guy who made bachelorhood seem an almost sacred calling, but it was his audacious “guarantee” of victory in Super Bowl III that ensured his legend. This unforgettable portrait brings readers from the gridiron to the go-go nightclubs as Kriegel uncovers the truth behind Broadway Joe and why his legend has meant so much to so many.

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Penguin

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0143035355

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9780143035350

Scowl

The Bonaparte Interviews

By: Mark Lages

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Scowl

The Bonaparte Interviews

By: Mark Lages

This book offers a lifetime of interviews with the pop music phenom known to the world as Scowl. They were conducted by longtime confidante and journalist, Ralph Bonaparte. The interviews begin in 1957, right after one of Scowl’s early rock ‘n’ roll concerts in Los Angeles, and they end in 2001, just prior to one of his sold-out retrospective shows in Las Vegas. These vibrant and compelling interviews cover Scowl’s entire remarkable life from his exuberant years as a young man to his more thoughtful years as an adult. They reveal the heart and soul of a talented, beloved, and flawed American entertainer—who, like the rest of us, learned as he lived.

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AuthorHouse

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1728308836

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9781728308838

Ferenc Morton Szasz: A Celebration and Selected Writings

By: Mark T. Banker

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Ferenc Morton Szasz: A Celebration and Selected Writings

By: Mark T. Banker

Ferenc Morton Szasz was a lifelong student who became a professor of history at the University of New Mexico. As a one-year appointment at the Albuquerque campus evolved into a forty-year career, Szasz glimpsed the predictable unpredictability that he would eventually discern as one of history's most enduring and elusive traits. The connections and consequences along the way forged a truly exceptional life and career. A master of the United States history survey, Szasz enthralled and inspired tens of thousands of students with energy, enthusiasm, provocative insights, and good will. Ambitious undergraduates regularly vied with graduate students for coveted seats in his upper level courses, where he offered insights into World War II, American religious history, and popular culture. Szasz's interests, he insisted, were the "ideas of the people...and how they shift over time." In an era when historical scholarship became increasingly specialized, he pursued an eclectic array of research interests and challenged his doctoral students to do the same. The ten selections of Szasz's writings that are the primary content of this volume balance insights into history's great moments with attention to events and details often overlooked by more conventional historians. Szasz's crisp, accessible prose reveals both the unique and universal in the human experience and offers heartfelt glimpses into humanity's paradoxical promises and perils.""--Back cover

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Lulu.com

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1483489299

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9781483489292

Value of Pensions in Divorce

By: Mark K. Altschuler

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Value of Pensions in Divorce

By: Mark K. Altschuler

Value of Pensions in Divorce, Fifth Edition provides guidelines for financial advisors, divorce attorneys, and pension actuaries through every stage of the pension valuation process - from preliminary client interview to review of pension valuation reports, drafting of qualified domestic relations orders (QDROs), and cross-examination of expert witnesses. Mathematics are kept to a minimum, and legal principles and concepts of pension valuation are translated into plain English and illustrated with examples, sample court orders, and pension documents. Value of Pensions in Divorce includes detailed explanations and examples, as well as updates on standard topics. It introduces new approaches and new concepts relevant to everyday practice. It also offers practical applications of the values, allocations, and settlements of pensions in marital dissolutions. Features include: Statutory case law and references where appropriate The andquot;whyandquot; and andquot;howandquot; of pensions of all kinds Detailed actuarial valuations of pensions Sample QDROs An extensive Glossary And more!

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Wolters Kluwer

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1454825839

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Inner Theatres of Good and Evil

The Mind's Staging of Gods, Angels and Devils

By: Mark Pizzato

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Inner Theatres of Good and Evil

The Mind's Staging of Gods, Angels and Devils

By: Mark Pizzato

Among the most intriguing questions of neurology is how conceptions of good and evil arise in the human brain. In a world where we encounter god-like forces in nature, and try to transcend them, the development of a neural network dramatizing good against evil seems inevitable. This critical book explores the cosmic dimensions of the brain's inner theatre as revealed by neurology, cognitive science, evolutionary psychology, psychoanalysis, primatology and exemplary Western performances. In theatre, film, and television, supernatural figures express the brain's anatomical features as humans transform their natural environment into cosmic and theological spaces in order to grapple with their vulnerability in the world.

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McFarland

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0786457589

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Blood in the Moonlight

Michael Mann and Information Age Cinema

By: Mark E. Wildermuth

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Blood in the Moonlight

Michael Mann and Information Age Cinema

By: Mark E. Wildermuth

Director and screenwriter Michael Mann is the creative force behind such movies as Last of the Mohicans and Ali. Markedly reticent, Mann prefers that his personal background remain an enigma, but his disparate films contain clear and consistent messages. One of Mann's focuses is on the Information Age. He addresses the nature of modern communication, its use to manipulate and coerce, and the resultant subjugation of truth. The perils inherent in modern technology and communication stand in stark contrast to the power of symbolic and oral exchange, the trusted medium of Mann's protagonists. This critical exploration of the films of Michael Mann examines his recurring focus on the nature of modern communication and information and their effect on the individual and society. Mann's films highlight the struggle to maintain a connection to reality in a world where information is a commodity manipulated and abused by forces that exert increasing control over its content and dissemination. Each chapter examines one of Mann's films--including Manhunter, The Keep, Last of the Mohicans, The Insider and Ali--in which the protagonist longs for a sense of human connection but is pitted against forces that devalue and destroy individuality. Photographs illustrate specific moments from the films. A bibliography and an index are included.

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0786482214

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Tomorrow Is Always Wednesday

By: Brian F. Decker,Lt. Col Mark Halferty (USMC),Major Gregory Estvander (USMC)

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Tomorrow Is Always Wednesday

By: Brian F. Decker,Lt. Col Mark Halferty (USMC),Major Gregory Estvander (USMC)

Tomorrow Is Always Wednesday By: Brian F. Decker with Lt. Col Mark Halferty (USMC) and Major Gregory Estvander (USMC) Tomorrow Is Always Wednesday is a love story that combines the hardships of war and what men and women on both sides had to endure, either in combat or while waiting on the sidelines. Follow a group of friends just trying to survive the war, a young man trying to return to his family in Japan, and a young woman trying to discover her grandfather’s legacy. This book is for all; but is dedicated to the memory of the young men who never got to grow old and those that did, but have the memories of combat burned into them forever.

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Dorrance Publishing

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1480987034

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9781480987036

"Getting History Right"

East and West German Collective Memories of the Holocaust and War

By: Mark A. Wolfgram

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"Getting History Right"

East and West German Collective Memories of the Holocaust and War

By: Mark A. Wolfgram

How do individuals, societies, and nations deal with their difficult pasts? 'Getting History Right' examines this question in a comparative context by looking at an authoritarian East Germany and a pluralistic, democratic West Germany. Eschewing a narrow focus on elites, this work draws extensively on societal level discussions of the past in popular culture, such as film, television, radio, and newspapers. It examines how societal level discussions of the past shaped individual perceptions and interpretations of the past; and how individual perceptions and struggles over the meaning of the past shaped societal level discussions. These struggles over meaning and 'getting history right' are not only shaped by political power, but are also a source of symbolic power. To understand political life, scholars must embrace not only material political power, but also the symbolic and cultural roots of power. The research presented here makes extensive use of public opinion data, cinema attendance, and television viewer data, as well as other sources, to look at the multiple meanings that East and West Germans assigned to the Holocaust and World War II across time. Rather than culture merely being an extension of political power, this work argues that culture and the boundaries of the cultural matrix shape the use of political power by different social actors. Getting history right is not only a reflection of political power; it is a source of power itself.

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Bucknell University Press

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1611480078

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Parties and Elections in America

The Electoral Process

By: L. Sandy Maisel,Mark D. Brewer

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Parties and Elections in America

The Electoral Process

By: L. Sandy Maisel,Mark D. Brewer

The 10th edition of this classic text introduces students to political parties and their critical role in representative democracy at the local, state, and national levels. Students will engage in fully up-to-date discussion of changes to presidential campaigns and elections, the ever-evolving world of campaign finance, rapidly changing media environment and much more. In addition, Parties and Elections in America reflects the authors’ continuing emphasis on the foundations of our modern political system by providing historical context throughout the text. The new edition fully incorporates the 2020 and 2022 election cycles as well as the initial run-up to the 2024 election.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538188821

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9781538188828

The Color of Law

A Novel

By: Mark Gimenez

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The Color of Law

A Novel

By: Mark Gimenez

In this riveting, unputdownable legal thriller, a partner at a prominent law firm is forced to choose between his enviable lifestyle and doing the right thing. Former college football star Scott Fenney has worked his way to the top of the heap at the Dallas firm of Ford Stevens. But when Clark McCall, wayward son of a Texas politician, gets himself murdered after a night of booze, drugs, and rough sex, Scott is assigned to defend the prime suspect, a heroine-addicted hooker named Shawanda Jones. The powers that be want her convicted—and Scott’s future at the firm may depend on it. But unfortunately for Scott, Shwanada claims she’s innocent, and he believes her.

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Anchor

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0307275000

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Parties and Elections in America

The Electoral Process

By: Mark D. Brewer,L. Sandy Maisel

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Parties and Elections in America

The Electoral Process

By: Mark D. Brewer,L. Sandy Maisel

This classic text provides an in-depth examination and history of American political parties and their critical role in representative democracy at the local, state, and national levels.

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1538136074

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Chicken Soup for the Soul: Reader's Choice 20th Anniversary Edition

The Chicken Soup for the Soul Stories that Changed Your Lives

By: Jack Canfield,Mark Victor Hansen,Amy Newmark

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Chicken Soup for the Soul: Reader's Choice 20th Anniversary Edition

The Chicken Soup for the Soul Stories that Changed Your Lives

By: Jack Canfield,Mark Victor Hansen,Amy Newmark

This special anniversary collection of has a double-dose of inspiration - personal stories of how Chicken Soup for the Soul changed lives, and the life-changing story itself! Twenty years later, Chicken Soup for the Soul and its stories are still changing lives! This special twentieth anniversary collection celebrates the power of storytelling. Readers share their personal, inspiriting stories about how a Chicken Soup for the Soul story made a difference in their lives, paired with the life-changing story itself. It’s a double dose of inspiration!

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Simon and Schuster

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1611592240

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9781611592245

Curious Cases

A Series of Short Pastoral Case Studies

By: Mark J. Renner

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Curious Cases

A Series of Short Pastoral Case Studies

By: Mark J. Renner

There are many situations that leaders in the church encounter that are curious. These situations require a patient, listening, and compassionate ear. A leader in the church should be prepared to make well-informed, responsible decisions on a regular basis while operating with only limited information. That is precisely why this book, Curious Cases, contains these one-hundred-fifty short pastoral case studies: in order to assist leaders in the church (especially young leaders in the church) to make good decisions inside of their various and unique ministry settings. Each case study provides the reader with enough information to make a sound decision on a case, but that doesn’t mean the decision will be easy. In Curious Cases: A Series of Short Pastoral Case Studies, you will find real-life complex, challenging scenarios that the church is encountering in the modern world on a regular basis. This book is designed to help leaders in the church to faithfully prepare to engage the world in whatever setting they may be currently serving in!

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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Gettysburg's Unknown Soldier

The Life, Death, and Celebrity of Amos Humiston

By: Mark H. Dunkelman

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Gettysburg's Unknown Soldier

The Life, Death, and Celebrity of Amos Humiston

By: Mark H. Dunkelman

He was found dead on the battlefield at Gettysburg, an unknown soldier with nothing to identify him but an ambrotype of his three children, clutched in his fingers. With the photograph as the single, sad clue to his identity, a publicity campaign to locate his family swept the North. Within a month, the bereaved widow and children were located in Portville, New York, and the devoted father was revealed to be Sergeant Amos Humiston of the 154th New York Volunteers. Using many previously untapped sources, this book tells the tale of 19th-century war, sentiment, and popular culture in greater detail than ever before. The Humiston story touched deep emotions in Civil War America, and inspired a flood of heartfelt prose, poetry, and song. Amid a vast outpouring of public sympathy, a charitable drive evolved to assist the bereft family. At the end of the war, the crusade was expanded to establish a home at Gettysburg for orphans of deceased soldiers. The first residents of the institution were Amos Humiston's widow Philinda and her three children: Franklin, Alice, and Frederick. In this extensive account, a full portrait emerges of Amos Humiston, the loving husband and father destined to be remembered for his death tableau, and his family, the widow and orphans who struggled for the rest of their lives with celebrity born of tragedy.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313003807

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9780313003806

The Educator's Guide to Preventing and Solving Discipline Problems

By: Mark Boynton,Christine Boynton

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The Educator's Guide to Preventing and Solving Discipline Problems

By: Mark Boynton,Christine Boynton

What can you do to keep students from fighting in the hallways and acting out in class? When they break the rules, what disciplinary actions can you take to help students behave themselves in the future? You'll find the answers to these questions and many more in this comprehensive, research-based guide to developing a schoolwide discipline system. Preventing discipline problems usually requires less energy than coping with problems after they occur, and a day without discipline problems is certainly more enjoyable for teachers and students alike! With this in mind, Mark and Christine Boynton present a wide variety of prevention strategies that any teacher can use, including advice about their relative appropriateness in different settings and circumstances. Of course, even the most successful preventive measures sometimes can't stop a student from disrupting a lesson or picking on classmates. In those situations, it is crucial to know which interventions are effective and which are counterproductive. This book will help you learn the most appropriate reactions to (and consequences for) student misbehavior, as well as specific strategies for handling oppositional defiant disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and anger management issues in students. You'll also find ideas for exploring your school's philosophical beliefs concerning discipline, promoting positive teacher-student relations, and establishing clearly defined parameters of acceptable classroom behavior. Whether you're a K-12 teacher or a school principal, The Educator's Guide to Preventing and Solving Discipline Problems will change the way you approach discipline in your school—for the better!

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ASCD

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1416603263

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Of Uncommon Birth

Dakota Sons in Vietnam

By: Mark St. Pierre

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Of Uncommon Birth

Dakota Sons in Vietnam

By: Mark St. Pierre

A work of creative nonfiction inspired by the true story of two South Dakota teenagers, Mark St. Pierre’s Of Uncommon Birth draws upon extensive interviews and exhaustive research in military archives to present a harrowing story of two young men—one white, one Indian—caught in the vortex of the Vietnam War. Dale, a young middle-class white American from South Dakota, joins the army during the Vietnam War and dreams of serving his country. Frank, a young Lakota Indian, joins the army in an effort to flee the seemingly inescapable circumstances of his life and to follow his people’s warrior tradition. Mark St. Pierre intimately weaves together the lives of these two men from different worlds, as each struggles with issues of loyalty, responsibility, sacrifice, and personal identity through his experiences in Vietnam. Of Uncommon Birth presents the ironic story of an American Indian soldier who lets himself become stereotyped as the Native “good luck charm,” even if the brave Indian scout stereotype carries with it the smell of death.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806155647

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9780806155647

All the Wrong Sides

By: Mark Quinn

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All the Wrong Sides

By: Mark Quinn

A car bomb explodes prematurely on the Northern Irish border, missing its intended target. Someone has passed information to the police, but who? Three childhood friends hold the key. During one long night in hospital, Frank will spin his side of the story. This is about the limits of friendship and the pasts we cannot escape for all our efforts to reinvent them. It is about football and song and the noises that stick in our ears. It is about the promise of the lives we could have and the ones we decide to settle for.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1664118462

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Chicken Soup for the Grieving Soul

Stories About Life, Death and Overcoming the Loss of a Loved One

By: Jack Canfield,Mark Victor Hansen

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Chicken Soup for the Grieving Soul

Stories About Life, Death and Overcoming the Loss of a Loved One

By: Jack Canfield,Mark Victor Hansen

This collection of inspirational stories will undoubtedly touch many hearts. Written by authors who have lost loved ones, these stories offer comfort, peace and understanding to those going through the grieving process.

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Simon and Schuster

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1453279016

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Brothers 5 - Midnight Rendezvous

Midnight Rendezvous

By: Mark J. Lay

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Brothers 5 - Midnight Rendezvous

Midnight Rendezvous

By: Mark J. Lay

Quintuplet brothers were taken from their family when they were too young to remember and put through an experiment that unlocked dormant superhuman genes and gave them superhuman abilities. Now, years later as teenagers, the brothers use their abilities along with other fields of training to take on missions given to them by the organization that changed them and to help good people in need. Besides their missions, the usual daily routines of the five brothers are altered when they come across a young homeless girl needing their help to save those she loves from an evil gang of bikers using the girls people as slaves for their schemes. The brothers know they have the power to help, so how can they not?

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1462825974

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Howard Hiatt

How This Extraordinary Mentor Transformed Health with Science and Compassion

By: Mark Rosenberg

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Howard Hiatt

How This Extraordinary Mentor Transformed Health with Science and Compassion

By: Mark Rosenberg

The seven-decade career of Howard Hiatt, a pioneer in public health, advocate for global health and health equity, a mentor to generations of healthcare leaders. Howard Hiatt—physician, scientist, advocate for global health, and mentor to generations of healthcare leaders—has spent much of his seven-decade career being ahead of his time. His innovative ideas as head of Harvard's School of Public Health from 1972 to 1984—about preventive medicine, the incorporation of cutting-edge science into the curriculum, and cross-disciplinary collaboration—met fierce resistance at the time but are now widely recognized building blocks of public health. Hiatt's interest in global health and health equity equipped him to advocate for a series of younger physicians and researchers, including Paul Farmer and Jim Kim, two founders of Partners in Health, and the prominent health policy expert Don Berwick. This book tells the story of Hiatt's life and work, with important lessons for today drawn from Hiatt's 92 years of experience. Hiatt, born in 1925, attended Harvard College and received an M.D. degree from Harvard Medical School. Before he headed the School of Public Health, he was a modernizing force as chief of medicine at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital. After his stormy tenure at SPH, he went to Brigham and Women's as a professor of medicine and a senior physician with a portfolio of his own devising. It was at the Brigham that Hiatt took on the role of mentor, influencing generations of physicians and staking out new territory in the fields of global health and clinical effectiveness. He is still active at 92 as teacher and mentor.

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MIT Press

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0262546698

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9780262546690

The Face of Death

By: Omus Sours,Mark Bishop

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The Face of Death

By: Omus Sours,Mark Bishop

The Whyos Gang spilled more blood and spread more terror in the big cities than any western outlaw could imagine. The Henessey murder captured the national headlines and made the term "Mafia" a household word. During the 'Roaring Twenties' the United States experienced one of its worst crime periods. It was a time of rampant violence spawned by the Volstead Act, more commonly known as "Prohibition." The Face of Death chronicles the history of crime in the United States, from the roots of the Mafia and big city gangs to Bonnie and Clyde.

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Trafford Publishing

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155395730X

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Parties and Elections in America

The Electoral Process

By: Louis Sandy Maisel,Mark D. Brewer

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Parties and Elections in America

The Electoral Process

By: Louis Sandy Maisel,Mark D. Brewer

Provides a comprehensive introduction to the American political process, covering national, state, and local elections, nominating processes, voting regulations, campaigning and campaign finance, the role of political parties, and influence of the media.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0742547647

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Goats

By: Mark Poirier

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Goats

By: Mark Poirier

A sly and wonderful novel ... Poirier fights deliberately shy of delivering a familiar coming-of-age story. Instead, Ellis and Goat Man's journey turns out to be as comically tricky as every other subtly sketched event and relationship' The Times 'Poirier is as on the ball as Salinger, as clued in as Hunter S. Thompson, and acutely tuned to right here, right now' Scotsman Ellis is fourteen. His parents have split up - Mom's gone New Age in Tucson with some asshole abstract artist; and Dad - Fucker Frank, is sporting nerdy glasses and retailing Mexican knick-knacks to Washington wannabes. Ellis is about to start at a squaresville boarding-school. It's your standard dysfunctional family thing ... except that Ellis has been hitting the bong since he was eleven, has a goat-man for a guru, and a weed-wisdom beyond his years. Goats is an extra-mellow coming-of-age tale - quirky, touching and very funny. It's about growing up and getting your shit together.

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1408847752

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9781408847756

Sharing the Crust

A Communion of Saints in a Baltimore Neighborhood

By: Mark R. Gornik

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Sharing the Crust

A Communion of Saints in a Baltimore Neighborhood

By: Mark R. Gornik

In Sharing the Crust, Mark Gornik tells the story of an unbreakable love through the life and witness of Allan Tibbels and a communion of saints in the Sandtown neighborhood of Baltimore. Sharing the Crust is about the power of small changes, "the little way," and the hard work of peacemaking in a divided world. It is about the meaning of companionship in this life and the life to come, of who we are to one another. A refreshingly complex story of ministry, church life, and community development, Sharing the Crust is a witness to faith, hope, and love for our times.

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1666753548

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Chicken Soup for the Gardener's Soul

Stories to Sow Seeds of Love, Hope and Laughter

By: Jack Canfield,Mark Victor Hansen

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Chicken Soup for the Gardener's Soul

Stories to Sow Seeds of Love, Hope and Laughter

By: Jack Canfield,Mark Victor Hansen

Chicken Soup for the Gardener's Soul celebrates all the magic of gardening-the feeling of satisfaction that comes from creating something from nothing; the physical and spiritual renewal the earth provides; and the special moments shared with friends and family only nature can bestow.

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Simon and Schuster

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1453280111

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Japan's Holocaust

History of Imperial Japan's Mass Murder and Rape During World War II

By: Bryan Mark Rigg

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Japan's Holocaust

History of Imperial Japan's Mass Murder and Rape During World War II

By: Bryan Mark Rigg

Japan’s Holocaust is a comprehensive exploration of Japan’s mass murder and sexual crimes during the Pacific and Asian Wars from 1927 to 1945. Japan’s Holocaust combines research conducted in over eighteen research facilities in five nations to explore Imperial Japan’s atrocities from 1927 to 1945 during its military expansions and reckless campaigns throughout Asia and the Pacific. This book brings together the most recent scholarship and new primary research to ascertain that Japan claimed a minimum of thirty million lives, slaughtering far more than Hitler’s Nazi Germany. Japan’s Holocaust shows that Emperor Hirohito not only knew about the atrocities his legions committed, but actually ordered them. He did nothing to stop them when they exceeded even the most depraved person’s imagination, as illustrated during the Rape of Nanking as well as many other events. Japan’s Holocaust will document in painful detail that the Rape of Nanking was not an isolated event during the Asian War but rather representative of how Japan behaved for all its campaigns throughout Asia and the Pacific from 1927 to 1945. Mass murder, rape, and economic exploitation was Japan’s modus operandi during this time period, and whereas Hitler’s SS Death’s Head outfits attempted to hide their atrocities, Hirohito’s legions committed their atrocities out in the open with fanfare and enthusiasm. Moreover, whereas Germany has done much since World War II to atone for its crimes and to document them, Japan has been absolutely disgraceful with its reparations for its crimes and in its efforts to educate its population about its wartime past. Shockingly, Japan continues, in general, to glorify is criminals and its wartime past.

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1637586892

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Boston Confronts Jim Crow, 1890-1920

By: Mark Schneider

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Boston Confronts Jim Crow, 1890-1920

By: Mark Schneider

Discusses how activists in Boston upheld their anti-slavery tradition and promoted an equal rights agenda during the years between 1890 and 1920, a period in which African-Americans throughout the country were being deprived of civil and political justice.

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UPNE

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1555532969

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Five Came Back

A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War

By: Mark Harris

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Five Came Back

A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War

By: Mark Harris

Now a Netflix original documentary series, also written by Mark Harris: the extraordinary wartime experience of five of Hollywood's most important directors, all of whom put their stamp on World War II and were changed by it forever Here is the remarkable, untold story of how five major Hollywood directors—John Ford, George Stevens, John Huston, William Wyler, and Frank Capra—changed World War II, and how, in turn, the war changed them. In a move unheard of at the time, the U.S. government farmed out its war propaganda effort to Hollywood, allowing these directors the freedom to film in combat zones as never before. They were on the scene at almost every major moment of America’s war, shaping the public’s collective consciousness of what we’ve now come to call the good fight. The product of five years of scrupulous archival research, Five Came Back provides a revelatory new understanding of Hollywood’s role in the war through the life and work of these five men who chose to go, and who came back. “Five Came Back . . . is one of the great works of film history of the decade.” --Slate “A tough-minded, information-packed and irresistibly readable work of movie-minded cultural criticism. Like the best World War II films, it highlights marquee names in a familiar plot to explore some serious issues: the human cost of military service, the hypnotic power of cinema and the tension between artistic integrity and the exigencies of war.” --The New York Times

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Penguin

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0698151577

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9780698151574

Race, Manhood, and Modernism in America

The Short Story Cycles of Sherwood Anderson and Jean Toomer

By: Mark Whalan

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Race, Manhood, and Modernism in America

The Short Story Cycles of Sherwood Anderson and Jean Toomer

By: Mark Whalan

Narrative, gender, and history in Winesburg, Ohio -- Sherwood Anderson and primitivism -- Double dealing in the South : Waldo Frank, Sherwood Anderson, Jean Toomer, and the ethnography of region -- "Things are so immediate in Georgia": articulating the South in Cane -- Cane, body technologies, and genealogy -- Cane, audience, and form.

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Univ. of Tennessee Press

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1572335807

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9781572335806

Chicken Soup for the Preteen Soul 2

Stories About Facing Challenges, Realizing Dreams and Making a Difference

By: Jack Canfield,Mark Victor Hansen

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Chicken Soup for the Preteen Soul 2

Stories About Facing Challenges, Realizing Dreams and Making a Difference

By: Jack Canfield,Mark Victor Hansen

Filled with relevant, inspiring and fun stories written mostly by kids, this new volume features a unique, innovative chapter, "Rockin' Our World", that highlights real kids achieving real dreams, helping less fortunate people, starting your own business, and utilizing your unique abilities.

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Simon and Schuster

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1453278982

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The Public Face of Modernism

Little Magazines, Audiences, and Reception, 1905-1920

By: Mark S. Morrisson

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The Public Face of Modernism

Little Magazines, Audiences, and Reception, 1905-1920

By: Mark S. Morrisson

Between the 1890s and the 1920s, mass consumer culture and modernism grew up together, by most accounts as mutual antagonists. This provocative work of cultural history tells a different story. By delving deeply into the publishing and promotional practices of the modernists in Britain and America, however, Mark Morrisson reveals that their engagements with the commercial mass market were in fact extensive and diverse. The phenomenal successes of new advertising agencies and mass market publishers did elicit what Morrisson calls a "crisis of publicity" for some modernists and for many concerned citizens in both countries. But, as Morrisson demonstrates, the vast influence of these industries on consumers also had a profound and largely overlooked effect upon many modernist authors, artists, and others. By exploring the publicity and audience reception of several of the most important modernist magazines of the period, The Public Face of Modernism shows how modernists, far from lamenting the destruction of meaningful art and public culture by the new mass market, actually displayed optimism about the power of mass-market technologies and strategies to transform and rejuvenate contemporary culture--and, above all, to restore a public function to art. This reconstruction of the "public face of modernism" offers surprising new perceptions about the class, gender, racial, and even generational tensions within the public culture of the early part of the century, and provides a rare insight into the actual audiences for modernist magazines of the period. Moreover, in new readings of works by James Joyce, George Bernard Shaw, Wyndham Lewis, Ford Madox Ford, T. S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, and many others, Morrisson shows that these contexts also had an impact on the techniques and concerns of the literature itself.

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Univ of Wisconsin Press

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0299169243

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9780299169244

The Long Road

A Fable

By: Mark Plattner

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The Long Road

A Fable

By: Mark Plattner

Frank Cooper was at the end of his rope: no job, no friends, no family, no purpose. After an encounter with the mysterious Wiseman he was charged with an impossible task. Now as the newly rechristened Seeker, Frank will travel past the end of the Earth to the world Outside where he will meet all manner of fantastic people, visit exotic lands and ultimately journey into the heart of himself. The Long Road is an adventure that will fill your heart with joy, challange your beliefs…and change the way you view yourself.

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0595091695

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9780595091690

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