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Technical Management for the Performing Arts

Utilizing Time, Talent, and Money

By: Mark Shanda,Dennis Dorn

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Technical Management for the Performing Arts

Utilizing Time, Talent, and Money

By: Mark Shanda,Dennis Dorn

Technical Management for the Performing Arts: Utilizing Time, Talent, and Money is a comprehensive guide to the tools and strategies of a successful technical manager. This book demonstrates how you can coordinate personnel, raw materials, and venues, all while keeping a production on a tight schedule and within budget. From concept to realization, through nightly performances, Technical Management for the Performing Arts focuses on the technical and organization skills a technical manager must demonstrate, and emphasizes the need for creativity and interpersonal management of a team.

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1317435745

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Drafting for the Theatre

By: Dennis Dorn,Mark Shanda

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Drafting for the Theatre

By: Dennis Dorn,Mark Shanda

In this newly revised second edition, veteran stage designers and technical directors Dennis Dorn and Mark Shanda introduce industry-standard drafting and designing practices with step-by-step discussions, illustrations, worksheets, and problems to help students develop and refine drafting and other related skills needed for entertainment set production work. By incorporating the foundational principles of both hand- and computer-drafting approaches throughout the entire book, the authors illustrate how to create clear and detailed drawings that advance the production process. Early chapters focus on the basics of geometric constructions, orthographic techniques, soft-line sketching applications, lettering, and dimensioning. Later chapters discuss real-life applications of production drawing and ancillary skills such as time and material estimation and shop-drawing nomenclature. Two chapters detail a series of design and shop drawings required to mount a specific design project, providing a guided path through both phases of the design/construction process. Most chapters conclude with one or more worksheets or problems that provide readers with an opportunity to test their understanding of the material presented. The authors' discussion of universal CAD principles throughout the manuscript provides a valuable foundation that can be used in any computer-based design, regardless of the software. Dorn and Shanda treat the computer as another drawing tool, like the pencil or T-square, but one that can help a knowledgeable drafter potentially increase personal productivity and accuracy when compared to traditional hand-drafting techniques. Drafting for the Theatre, second edition assembles in one book all the principal types of drawings, techniques, and conventional wisdom necessary for the production of scenic drafting, design, and shop drawings. It is richly illustrated with numerous production examples and is fully indexed to assist students and technicians in finding important information. It is structured to support a college-level course in drafting, but will also serve as a handy reference for the working theatre professional.

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SIU Press

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0809387735

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9780809387731

Justin Case and the Brief Case of the Briefcase

By: Mark Lewis

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Justin Case and the Brief Case of the Briefcase

By: Mark Lewis

Justin Case, the most brilliant student Dridlington College has ever had, and the 'Effective Detective', gets shockingly and brutally suspended (from school, not a wooden beam or anything - so it's not that bad) and the only way to clear his name is to find the real committers' of the crime. But since he's not now allowed onto school grounds, he can't even get to the scene of the crime he's been accused of. What's he to do? In an inventive and ingenious tour-de-force, author Mark J Lewis weaves a complex tapestry of intricate intrigue and hysterical humour. He also wrote this book.

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Lulu.com

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1326550551

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9781326550554

Pulmonary Metastasectomy, An Issue of Thoracic Surgery Clinics of North America

By: Mark W. Onaitis,Thomas A. D’Amico

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Pulmonary Metastasectomy, An Issue of Thoracic Surgery Clinics of North America

By: Mark W. Onaitis,Thomas A. D’Amico

This issue of Thoracic Surgery Clinics of North America focuses on Pulmonary Metastasectomy. Articles will include: Biology of Pulmonary Metastases; Preoperative Evaluations and Indications for Metastasectomy; Open Approaches to Pulmonary Metastases: Thoracotomy and Sternotomy; Ablative Approaches for Pulmonary Metastases: RFA, microwave, SBRT; Role of Lymphadenectomy with Pulmonary Metastasectomy; Results of Pulmonary Resection: Colorectal Carcinoma; Results of Pulmonary Resection: Sarcoma and Germ Cell Tumors; Isolated Lung Perfusion; Immunotherapy; Medical Management of Pulmonary Metastases: Is There a Role for Surgery?; Thoracoscopic Management of Pulmonary Metastases; Results of Pulmonary Resection: Other Epithelial Malignancies; Thoracoscopic Lung Suffusion; and more!

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323417175

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9780323417174

Boogaloo on 2nd Avenue

A Novel of Pastry, Guilt, and Music

By: Mark Kurlansky

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Boogaloo on 2nd Avenue

A Novel of Pastry, Guilt, and Music

By: Mark Kurlansky

In his eagerly awaited debut novel, critically acclaimed author Mark Kurlansky entertains readers with a brilliant story bursting with the vivid events and culinary delights-even recipes-that made bestsellers out of his nonfiction works "Cod, "Salt, and "1968. "Nathan woke up on a Friday morning with the unshakable sense that during this day he would commit a catastrophic error in judgment. Something had been written by the gods, and Nathan Seltzer knew this was one Friday that he would regret. . . . It's the boom years of the 1980s, and life is closing in on Nathan Seltzer, who rarely travels beyond his suddenly gentrifying Lower East Side neighborhood. Between paralyzing bouts of claustrophobia, Nathan wonders whether he should cheat on his wife with Karoline, a German pastry maker whose parents may or may not have been Nazis. His father, Harry, is plotting with the 1960s boogaloo star Chow Mein Vega for the comeback of this dance craze. Meanwhile, a homicidal drug addict is terrorizing the neighborhood. With its cast of unforgettable characters, Boogaloo on 2nd Avenue" is a comedy of cultures, of the old and the new, of Latinos, Jews, Sicilians, and Germans. It's about struggling to hold on to life in a rapidly changing world, about food and sex, and about how our lives are shaped by love and guilt.

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Random House Digital, Inc.

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0345448189

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9780345448187

Anti-Monopoly Law and Practice in China

By: H. Stephen Harris,Peter J. Wang,Mark A. Cohen,Yizhe Zhang,Sebastien J Evrard

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Anti-Monopoly Law and Practice in China

By: H. Stephen Harris,Peter J. Wang,Mark A. Cohen,Yizhe Zhang,Sebastien J Evrard

The China Anti-Monopoly Law (AML), which became effective August 1, 2008, is the first comprehensive competition law enacted by China. The AML prohibits a broad array of agreements between competitors and commercial counterparties, as well as competitive conduct by single firms that may harm the competitive process. In addition, it establishes a mandatory administrative review procedure for mergers and acquisitions between companies meeting certain sales thresholds, globally or in China. Beyond these fundamental provisions, the AML prohibits certain types of administrative abuses believed to be prevalent in China and establishes a complex set of administrative agencies with broad powers to enforce the law. Anti-Monopoly Law and Practice in China is the first comprehensive treatment of the AML and the practice of antitrust law under this new system. Each chapter on the substantive provisions of the law includes practical advice on approaches to meeting the challenge of complying with the law's requirements, including analysis of likely interpretations and applications of the AML based on precedents in related economic laws and actions by other administrative agencies. Where policy choices are uncertain, the text will explore probable developments in China based on comparable applications of competition laws in other jurisdictions.

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Oxford University Press

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0199875278

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9780199875276

Comedy Writing Secrets

The Best-Selling Guide to Writing Funny and Getting Paid for It

By: Mark Shatz,Mel Helitzer

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Comedy Writing Secrets

The Best-Selling Guide to Writing Funny and Getting Paid for It

By: Mark Shatz,Mel Helitzer

The Must-Have Guide to Humor Writing Bring on the funny! With Comedy Writing Secrets 3rd Edition, you can discover the secrets of humor writing that will keep your readers rolling in their seats. Learn the basics of joke construction, as well as in-depth comedy-writing techniques that you can apply to a variety of print and online markets. If your aim is to make 'em laugh--and make a career in comedy writing--then look no further. In this completely revised and refreshed edition, you'll discover: • Hundreds of updated one-liners, anecdotes, and bits from top comedians like Louis C.K., Conan O’Brien, Tina Fey, Amy Schumer, Rodney Dangerfield, Jon Stewart, Steve Martin, Ellen DeGeneres, Jimmy Fallon, George Carlin, Zach Galifianakis, Stephen Colbert, Erma Bombeck, and more. • Exclusive tips for injecting humor into articles, speeches, advertisements, greeting cards, and more. • New instruction on writing for online markets and social media. • Advice on brainstorming and editing to beat writer's block and generate new material. • Exercises and expanded instructions for exaggeration, reverses, word play and more to practice and refine your writing skills. For more than twenty years, Comedy Writing Secrets has helped humor writers of all skill levels write and sell their work. With Comedy Writing Secrets 3rd Edition, you'll be laugh-out-loud funny and leave readers wanting more.

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Penguin

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1599639637

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9781599639635

Russ & Daughters

Reflections and Recipes from the House That Herring Built

By: Mark Russ Federman

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Russ & Daughters

Reflections and Recipes from the House That Herring Built

By: Mark Russ Federman

The former owner/proprietor of the beloved appetizing store on Manhattan’s Lower East Side tells the delightful, mouthwatering story of an immigrant family’s journey from a pushcart in 1907 to “New York’s most hallowed shrine to the miracle of caviar, smoked salmon, ethereal herring, and silken chopped liver” (The New York Times Magazine). When Joel Russ started peddling herring from a barrel shortly after his arrival in America from Poland, he could not have imagined that he was giving birth to a gastronomic legend. Here is the story of this “Louvre of lox” (The Sunday Times, London): its humble beginnings, the struggle to keep it going during the Great Depression, the food rationing of World War II, the passing of the torch to the next generation as the flight from the Lower East Side was beginning, the heartbreaking years of neighborhood blight, and the almost miraculous renaissance of an area from which hundreds of other family-owned stores had fled. Filled with delightful anecdotes about how a ferociously hardworking family turned a passion for selling perfectly smoked and pickled fish into an institution with a devoted national clientele, Mark Russ Federman’s reminiscences combine a heartwarming and triumphant immigrant saga with a panoramic history of twentieth-century New York, a meditation on the creation and selling of gourmet food by a family that has mastered this art, and an enchanting behind-the-scenes look at four generations of people who are just a little bit crazy on the subject of fish. Color photographs © Matthew Hranek

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Schocken

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0805242945

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9780805242942

Magnesia Cements

From Formulation to Application

By: Mark Shand,Abir Al-Tabbaa,Jueshi Qian,Liwu Mo,Fei Jin

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Magnesia Cements

From Formulation to Application

By: Mark Shand,Abir Al-Tabbaa,Jueshi Qian,Liwu Mo,Fei Jin

There is an urgent need for innovative, cost-effective, and sustainable approaches to reduce the tremendous environmental impact of conventional cement and cement-based technologies. Consuming a significantly lower quantity of natural resources than conventional cements, with the added ability to effectively sequestering carbon, magnesia cements offer great potential in this area. Magnesia Cements: From Formulation to Application explores the latest developments in this exciting area, reviewing the unique properties offered by these cements, including superior strength, fire resistance, and exceptional ability to bond to a wide range of aggregates, and highlighting their potential role in making cement production and usage more sustainable. Providing detailed analysis of the chemistry, properties, manufacture, and both traditional and novel applications, Magnesia Cements: From Formulation to Application is ideally suited for materials scientists, cement chemists, ceramicists, and engineers involved with the design, development, application and impact assessment of magnesia cements across both academia and industry. - Provides formulary information research into more environmentally friendly cement systems - Discusses chemical phase analysis and the impact of formulation - Applies analysis and history of global uses to provide support for future environmentally stable industrial, building, and non-building applications

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Newnes

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0123919312

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9780123919311

How to Make an Ohio Will

By: John R. Willamowski,Mark Warda

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How to Make an Ohio Will

By: John R. Willamowski,Mark Warda

MAKE YOUR OWN OHIO WILL EASILY AND LEGALLY Your property may not go to whom you want if you die without a will. How to Make an Ohio Will explains Ohio law regarding wills and joint property and includes ready-to-use forms. It will show you how to quickly, easily and inexpensively set up the distribution of your estate so that you will know who gets your property after you. This book explains in simple language how: --Ohio laws affect distribution of your property --Ohio laws protect beneficiaries --To prepare your own will --To decide who will care for your minor children --To protect your children and their property --To make specific bequests --To donate organs for research or transplantation --To change your will under Ohio law --To provide for your spouse --To exempt some property from the control of your will --To avoid probate with a simple bank account --To keep your will secret until your death --To forbid the use of artificial life-support systems if you become terminally ill

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SphinxLegal

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1572481730

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9781572481732

Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon

By: Mark Dike DeLancey,Mark W. Delancey,Rebecca Neh Mbuh

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Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon

By: Mark Dike DeLancey,Mark W. Delancey,Rebecca Neh Mbuh

Cameroon is a land of much promise, but a land of unfulfilled promises. It has the potential to be an economically developed and democratic society but the struggle to live up to its potential has not gone well. Since independence there have been only two presidents of Cameroon; the current one has been in office since 1982. Endowed with a variety of climates and agricultural environments, numerous minerals and substantial forests, and a dynamic population, this is a country that should be a leader of Africa. Instead, we find a country almost paralyzed by corruption and poor management, a country with a low life expectancy and serious health problems, and a country from which the most talented and highly educated members of the population are emigrating in large numbers. To all of this is recently added a serious terrorism problem, Boko Haram, in the north, a separatist movement in the Anglophone west, refugee influxes in the north and east, and bandits from the Central African Republic attacking eastern villages. This fifth edition of Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the Republic of Cameroon.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538119684

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9781538119686

The Work of Leaders

How Vision, Alignment, and Execution Will Change the Way You Lead

By: Julie Straw,Barry Davis,Mark Scullard,Susie Kukkonen

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The Work of Leaders

How Vision, Alignment, and Execution Will Change the Way You Lead

By: Julie Straw,Barry Davis,Mark Scullard,Susie Kukkonen

The culmination of six years of research and development, The Work of Leaders presents a simple structure that neatly captures the complexity of contemporary leadership. The goal of this book is to make this wealth of leadership insight accessible to anyone who wants better results as a leader. The work that leaders do—the work that really matters—is boiled down to three areas: crafting a vision, building alignment, and championing execution. Vision, Alignment, and Execution are “magic words.” They strike a chord that turns the goal of leadership into tangible steps. With passion and insight, the authors draw from the best-known leadership authorities, while leveraging their unparalleled access to data from thousands of leaders and followers and their connections to hundreds of organizational development consultants. Interwoven with humor and drawing from real-world scenarios, The Work of Leaders distills leadership best practices into a simple, compelling process that helps leaders at all levels get immediate results.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118663411

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9781118663417

23 Hours

By: Mark Rogo

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23 Hours

By: Mark Rogo

With every step we take, advancing ourselves as a species, humans come closer to understanding divinity. Each scientific breakthrough also makes us more powerful as humans, gives us greater wherewithal to question the existence of the divine. It was only a matter of time before explorers of the twenty-first century would allow us to launch a device deep into space that would return data and information, verifying the existence of other worlds that can support other life forms. Our desire to seek out the meaning of our existence through exploration is insatiable. What men never realized, however, was that they were being observed, and the launch of the first nuclear-propelled spacecraft sent the wrong message. This is how the saga began.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1514436388

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9781514436387

I Smell Esther Williams

By: Mark Leyner

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I Smell Esther Williams

By: Mark Leyner

A community theater's production of Special Yearnings triggers a string of underground nuclear explosions from St. Louis to Worcester, Massachusetts. A man frantically swats at the blaze that his girlfriend has ignited in his trousers, while her family tries to figure out whether his agonized sign language means "Under the Volcano" or "No Time for Sergeants." Charo, Marianne Faithfull, and Napoleon's sister swap glittering witticisms and pornographic come-ons with languid aesthetes and unhinged suburbanites. Such scenarios are just par for the course in this gloriously disorienting volume by Mark Leyner, author of My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist and Et Tu, Babe, and a writer who plays the English language the way Jimi Hendrix played the guitar: at blinding speed, dangerous volume, and with a perfect mixture of lyricism and sheer menace.

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Vintage

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0307819604

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9780307819604

Amanda911

By: Mark Schreiber

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Amanda911

By: Mark Schreiber

YA Crossover. What's it like to be a teen influencer? Sixteen-year-old Amanda Dizon is an ordinary girl in an ordinary town in Iowa. But when she falls into an abandoned well in her backyard during presidential primary campaign season, the national media post the story; the candidates visit her in the hospital, and she becomes a star on the new social media platform, PingPong. Amanda911 is a story for our time, about an occupation that didn't exist a few years ago, but which millions now aspire to. It's a funny, fast-paced journey through the contemporary digital landscape that is the influencer phenomenon.

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Pleasure Boat Studio: A Literary Press

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1545755116

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9781545755112

Leonardo ́s Lost Robots

By: Mark Rosheim

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Leonardo ́s Lost Robots

By: Mark Rosheim

This book reinterprets Leonardo da Vinci's mechanical design work, revealing a new level of sophistication not recognized by art historians or engineers. The book reinterprets Leonardo's legacy of notes, showing that apparently unconnected fragments from dispersed manuscripts actually comprise cohesive designs for functioning automata. Using the rough sketches scattered throughout almost all of Leonardo's notebooks, the author has reconstructed Leonardo's programmable cart, which was the platform for other automata. Through a readable, lively narrative, the author explains how he reconstructed da Vinci's designs.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540284974

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9783540284970

Competing Economic Paradigms in China

The Co-Evolution of Economic Events, Economic Theory and Economics Education, 1976–2016

By: Steven Mark Cohn

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Competing Economic Paradigms in China

The Co-Evolution of Economic Events, Economic Theory and Economics Education, 1976–2016

By: Steven Mark Cohn

When the Chinese economic reforms began in 1978, Marxist economics infused all the institutions of economic theory in China, from academic departments and economics journals to government departments and economic think tanks. By the year 2000, neoclassical economics dominated these institutions and organized most economic discussion. This book explains how and why neoclassical economic theory replaced Marxist economic theory as the dominant economics paradigm in China. It rejects the idea that the rise of neoclassical theory was a triumph of reason over ideology, and instead, using a sociology of knowledge approach, links the rise of neoclassical economics to broad ideological currents and to the political-economic projects that key social groups inside and outside China wanted to enable. The book concludes with a discussion of the nature of economic theory and economics education in China today.

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Routledge

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1134829590

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9781134829590

Unthinkable

By: Mark Sable

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Unthinkable

By: Mark Sable

They've been hired to think the Unthinkable. But what happens when the unthinkable actually happens? After 9-11, best-selling author Alan Ripley joins a government think tank consisting of the most imaginative minds in diverse fields. Their job? Think of nightmare scenarios and crippling terrorist attacks so the government can safeguard against them. But what happens when the think tank folds, and the attacks start to happen? From Mark Sable and rising talent Julian Totino Tedesco.

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Boom! Studios

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1641449209

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9781641449205

Drafting for the Theatre

By: Dennis Dorn,Mark Shanda

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Drafting for the Theatre

By: Dennis Dorn,Mark Shanda

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Southern Illinois University Press

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0809330377

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9780809330379

Political Power: Jon Stewart

By: Jerome Maida

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Political Power: Jon Stewart

By: Jerome Maida

Chronicles the life of the comedian, covering his upbringing in New Jersey, the odd jobs he held after graduating from college, his entry into the world of comedy, and his work on "The Daily Show.

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