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The 4th Michigan Infantry in the Civil War

By: Martin N. Bertera,Kim Crawford

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The 4th Michigan Infantry in the Civil War

By: Martin N. Bertera,Kim Crawford

This fascinating narrative tells the story of a remarkable regiment at the center of Civil War history. The real-life adventure emerges from accounts of scores of soldiers who served in the 4th Michigan Infantry, gleaned from their diaries, letters, and memoirs; the reports of their officers and commanders; the stories by journalists who covered them; and the recollections of the Confederates who fought against them. The book includes tales of life in camp, portraying the Michigan soldiers as everyday people—recounting their practical jokes, illnesses, political views, personality conflicts, comradeship, and courage. The book also tells the true story of what happened to Colonel Harrison Jeffords and the 4th Michigan when the regiment marched into John Rose's wheat field on a sweltering early July evening at Gettysburg. Beyond the myths and romanticized newspaper stories, this account presents the historical evidence of Jeffords's heroic, yet tragic, hand-to-hand struggle for his regiment's U.S. flag.

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MSU Press

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1628951397

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9781628951394

Goldmine Record Album Price Guide

By: Martin Popoff

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Goldmine Record Album Price Guide

By: Martin Popoff

Whether you're cleaning out a closet, basement or attic full of records, or you're searching for hidden gems to build your collection, you can depend on Goldmine Record Album Price Guide to help you accurately identify and appraise your records in order to get the best price. • Knowledge is power, so power-up with Goldmine! • 70,000 vinyl LPs from 1948 to present • Hundreds of new artists • Detailed listings with current values • Various artist collections and original cast recordings from movies, televisions and Broadway • 400 photos • Updated state-of-the-market reports • New feature articles • Advice on buying and selling Goldmine Grading Guide - the industry standard

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Penguin

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1440229163

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9781440229169

Innovation, Strategy and Risk in Construction

Turning Serendipity Into Capability

By: Martin Loosemore

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Innovation, Strategy and Risk in Construction

Turning Serendipity Into Capability

By: Martin Loosemore

1. Serendipity and innovation -- 2. The innovation process -- 3. Innovation in construction -- 4. The history and future of innovation in the construction industry -- 5. Strategy and innovation -- 6. Organizing for innovation -- 7. Managing the risks of innovation -- 8. Conclusion : we need a reality-check.

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Routledge

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1136673555

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9781136673559

The Evil 100

By: Martin Gilman Wolcott

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The Evil 100

By: Martin Gilman Wolcott

Who was the evilest of the evil, the baddest of,the bad? For armies of armchair thrill seekers and,shudder hounds everywhere, The Evil 100 presents a,cold, heartless ranking of the world's 100 most,malevolent people, past and present. Including,well-known figures from Stalin to Jack the Ripper,to Bin Laden, obscure characters like King,Astyges, who punished a servant by feeding the man,his own son, and evil organisations such as the,Klu Klux Klan. This makes for more than a simple,catalogue of atrocities, it is a serious,examination of the darker side to human nature.

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Citadel Press

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080652555X

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9780806525556

The Perspective of the Acting Person

Essays in the Renewal of Thomistic Moral Philosophy

By: Martin Rhonheimer

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The Perspective of the Acting Person

Essays in the Renewal of Thomistic Moral Philosophy

By: Martin Rhonheimer

The Perspective of the Acting Person introduces readers to one of the most important and provocative thinkers in contemporary moral philosophy

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CUA Press

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0813215110

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9780813215112

A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book About Studying Strategy

By: Chris Carter,Stewart R Clegg,Martin Kornberger

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A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book About Studying Strategy

By: Chris Carter,Stewart R Clegg,Martin Kornberger

′If strategy is the queen of business, then this book offers us the perfect introduction to her court! It is accessible, lively, and informative. The book repays the reader with wonderful account of how strategy works. It also lets the reader in on some of the darker secrets of strategy′ - André Spicer, Associate Professor of Organisation Studies, Warwick Business School Studying Strategy is a welcoming, lively and thought provoking account that helps students get to grips with strategy′s key issues and broad debates and introduce them to the latest ideas. Conceived by Chris Grey as an antidote to conventional textbooks, each book in the ‘Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap’ series takes a core area of the curriculum and turns it on its head by providing a critical and sophisticated overview of the key issues and debates in an informal, conversational and often humorous way. Suitable for students of strategy at Undergraduate, Masters and MBA level, professionals involved in strategic decision making and anyone interested in how strategy works.

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SAGE

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0857029975

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9780857029973

The Marx Brothers as Social Critics

Satire and Comic Nihilism in Their Films

By: Martin A. Gardner

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The Marx Brothers as Social Critics

Satire and Comic Nihilism in Their Films

By: Martin A. Gardner

The Marx Brothers' films are packed with slapstick and obvious jokes, gags, puns, pratfalls, and mimicry. But beneath the laughs is a serious and biting condemnation of American culture. This book examines historical events, political practices, economic conditions, manners and customs, literary subjects, and popular entertainment as satirized in the films and considers the ways in which the films were relevant in their era and remain so today.

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McFarland

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0786454547

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9780786454549

The Baby-Sitters Club #5: Dawn and the Impossible Three

By: Ann M. Martin

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The Baby-Sitters Club #5: Dawn and the Impossible Three

By: Ann M. Martin

The megahit series returns to charm and inspire another generation of baby-sitters! Following a brand-new prequel in April 2010, the first seven BSC titles are back with a new look. Can the Baby-sitters Club handle another member? Dawn hopes so -- she's the new girl, eager to make friends, and ready to show her talent as a baby-sitter. But when she's assigned to the terrible Barrett kids, Dawn isn't sure she's up to this impossible task!

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Scholastic Inc.

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0545322839

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9780545322836

Operation Breadbasket

An Untold Story of Civil Rights in Chicago, 1966-1971

By: Martin L. Deppe

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Operation Breadbasket

An Untold Story of Civil Rights in Chicago, 1966-1971

By: Martin L. Deppe

This is the first full history of Operation Breadbasket, the interfaith economic justice program begun by Martin Luther King Jr. during the 1966 Chicago Freedom Movement that transformed into Jesse Jackson's Operation PUSH (now the Rainbow PUSH Coalition), as told by insider Martin L. Deppe.

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University of Georgia Press

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082035046X

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9780820350462

It Came From Outer Space Wearing an RAF Blazer!

A Fan's Biography of Sir Patrick Moore

By: Martin Mobberley

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It Came From Outer Space Wearing an RAF Blazer!

A Fan's Biography of Sir Patrick Moore

By: Martin Mobberley

To British television viewers, the name ‘Patrick Moore’ has been synonymous with Astronomy and Space Travel since he first appeared on The Sky at Night in 1957. To amateur astronomers he has been a source of inspiration, joy, humour and even an eccentric role model since that time. Most people know that his 55 years of presenting The Sky at Night is a world record, but what was he really like in person? What did he do away from the TV cameras, in his observatory, and within the British Astronomical Association, the organisation that inspired him as a youngster? Also, precisely what did he do during the War Years, a subject that has always been shrouded in mystery? Martin Mobberley, a friend of Patrick Moore’s for 30 years, and a former President of the British Astronomical Association, has spent ten years exhaustively researching Patrick’s real life away from the TV cameras. His childhood, RAF service, tireless voluntary work for astronomy and charity and his endless book writing are all examined in detail. His astronomical observations are also examined in unprecedented detail, along with the battles he fought along the way and his hatred of bureaucracy and political correctness. No fan of Sir Patrick Moore can possibly live without this work on their bookshelf!

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3319006096

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9783319006093

Annapolis

A Novel

By: William Martin

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Annapolis

A Novel

By: William Martin

From the days of pirate raids on the Chesapeake to swift-boat actions in Vietnam, the Staffords and their traditional rivals, the Parrishes, struggle with foreign enemies and each other to build a navy and a nation. They march across the deserts of Tripoli, sail into the South Seas to battle the British and dally with the native girls, fight aboard the Merrimac and the Monitor, fly into the battle of Midway, and look into the living faces of all four men on Mount Rushmore. When Stafford descendant Susan Browne sets out to film a documentary about her famous ancestry, her work sweeps her into the past, to celebrate Stafford victories, mourn their losses, and confront their secrets. Annapolis is William Martin's most ambitious novel, a tale of romance and courage, honor and patriotism, an ode to the men and women who have made the proud traditions of the United States Navy. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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Forge Books

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1429935758

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9781429935753

Fashion For Dummies

By: Jill Martin,Pierre A. Lehu

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Fashion For Dummies

By: Jill Martin,Pierre A. Lehu

Your full-color guide to building a fun, functional wardrobe Fashion For Dummies takes the guess out of dress, giving you the confidence and know-how you need to dress for every occasion. This full-color guide is packed with tips on creating a confusion-free wardrobe that works with your body type and personal style, as well as navigating the worlds of color, pattern, and texture. Reveals how to put together outfits that work without overextending your budget Features a section dedicated to menswear Packed with helpful illustrations presented in full color The perfect guide for novice fashion-hunters, Fashion For Dummies is your key to always dressing your best!

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470595663

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9780470595664

Death Draws Five

A Wild Cards Novel

By: George R. R. Martin,John Jos. Miller

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Death Draws Five

A Wild Cards Novel

By: George R. R. Martin,John Jos. Miller

Edited by bestselling author George R. R. Martin, in the next Wild Cards adventure we follow John Fortune, son of two of the most powerful and popular Aces the world has ever seen. In Death Draws Five, John Fortune's card has finally turned. He's an Ace! And proud of it . . . except that his new powers put him on a collision course with enemies he never knew he had. Is he the new messiah? Or the Anti-Christ? Or is he just a kid who's in over his head and about to drown? It's really quite simple. Mr. Nobody wants to do his job. The Midnight Angel wants to serve her Lord. Billy Ray, dying from boredom, wants some action. John Nighthawk wants to uncover the awful secret behind his mysterious power. Fortunato wants to rescue his son from the clutches of a cryptic Vatican office. John Fortune just wants to catch Siegfried and Ralph's famous Vegas review. The problem is that all roads, whether they start in Turin, Italy, Las Vegas, Hokkaido, Japan, Jokertown, Snake Hill, the Short Cut, or Yazoo City, Mississippi, lead to Leo Barnett's Peaceable Kingdom, where the difference between the Apocalypse and Peace on Earth is as thin as a razor's edge and where Death himself awaits the final, terrible turn of the card. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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Tor Books

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1250227259

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9781250227256

The Third Western Novel MEGAPACK®: 4 Great Western Novels!

By: Noel Loomis,Chuck Martin,William Colt MacDonald,Alan Le May

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The Third Western Novel MEGAPACK®: 4 Great Western Novels!

By: Noel Loomis,Chuck Martin,William Colt MacDonald,Alan Le May

The Third Western Novel MEGAPACK® presents four more great tales of the Old West, by four different writers. Included in this volume are: FERGUSON'S FERRY, by Noel Loomis ... The ferry as the only crossing over the Missouri to the beckoning West, and many men battled to wrest it from Sandy John Ferguson... BOOTHILL GOSPEL, by Chuck Martin ... Men listened to his gospel -- or died by his gun! HELL GATE, by William Colt MacDonald .. Killing men was just another job to Quist... GUNSIGHT TRAIL, by Alan Le May ... A six-shooter siege at the Lazy M ranch! If you enjoy this volume of classic westerns, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see the 220+ other entries in this series, covering westerns and historical fiction, science fiction, fantasy, horror, mysteries -- and much, much more!

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Wildside Press LLC

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1479406244

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9781479406241

Beatson, Matthews and Elliott's Administrative Law Text and Materials

By: Mark Elliott,Jack Beatson,Martin Matthews

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Beatson, Matthews and Elliott's Administrative Law Text and Materials

By: Mark Elliott,Jack Beatson,Martin Matthews

Beatson, Matthews & Elliot's Administrative Law' combines extracts from key cases, articles and other sources with detailed commentary. Aimed at undergraduates studying administrative law, it provides comprehensive coverage of the subject.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199238529

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9780199238521

The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein

By: Martin Duberman

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The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein

By: Martin Duberman

A rich and revelatory biography of one of the crucial cultural figures of the twentieth century. Lincoln Kirstein’s contributions to the nation’s life, as both an intellectual force and advocate of the arts, were unparalleled. While still an undergraduate, he started the innovative literary journal Hound and Horn, as well as the modernist Harvard Society for Contemporary Art—forerunner of the Museum of Modern Art. He brought George Balanchine to the United States, and in service to the great choreographer’s talent, persisted, against heavy odds, in creating both the New York City Ballet and the School of American Ballet. Among much else, Kirstein helped create Lincoln Center in New York, and the American Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Connecticut; established the pathbreaking Dance Index and the country’s first dance archives; and in some fifteen books proved himself a brilliant critic of art, photography, film, and dance. But behind this remarkably accomplished and renowned public face lay a complex, contradictory, often tortured human being. Kirstein suffered for decades from bipolar disorder, which frequently strained his relationships with his family and friends, a circle that included many notables, from W. H. Auden to Nelson Rockefeller. And despite being married for more than fifty years to a woman whom he deeply loved, Kirstein had a wide range of homosexual relationships throughout the course of his life. This stunning biography, filled with fascinating perceptions and incidents, is a major act of historical reclamation. Utilizing an enormous amount of previously unavailable primary sources, including Kirstein’s untapped diaries, Martin Duberman has rendered accessible for the first time a towering figure of immense complexity and achievement.

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Knopf

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0307549674

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9780307549679

The Dictionary Wars

The American Fight Over the English Language

By: Peter Martin

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The Dictionary Wars

The American Fight Over the English Language

By: Peter Martin

Peter Martin recounts the patriotic fervor in the early American republic to produce a definitive national dictionary that would rival Samuel Johnson's 1755 Dictionary of the English Language. But what began as a cultural war of independence from Britain devolved into a battle among lexicographers, authors, scholars, and publishers, all vying for dictionary supremacy and shattering forever the dream of a unified American language.

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Princeton University Press

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0691188912

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9780691188911

The Formation of the Biblical Canon: Volume 2

The New Testament: Its Authority and Canonicity

By: Lee Martin McDonald

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The Formation of the Biblical Canon: Volume 2

The New Testament: Its Authority and Canonicity

By: Lee Martin McDonald

Lee Martin McDonald provides a magisterial overview of the development of the biblical canon --- the emergence of the list of individual texts that constitutes the Christian bible. In these two volumes -- in sum more than double the length of his previous works -- McDonald presents his most in-depth overview to date. McDonald shows students and researchers how the list of texts that constitute 'the bible' was once far more fluid than it is today and guides readers through the minefield of different texts, different versions, and the different lists of texts considered 'canonical' that abounded in antiquity. Questions of the origin and transmission of texts are introduced as well as consideration of innovations in the presentation of texts, collections of documents, archaeological finds and Church councils. In the first volume McDonald reexamines issues of canon formation once considered settled, and sets the range of texts that make up the Hebrew Bible (or Old Testament) in their broader context. Each indidvidual text is discussed, as are the cultural, political and historical situations surrounding them. This second volume considers the New Testament, and the range of so-called 'apocryphal' gospels that were written in early centuries, and used by many Christian groups before the canon was closed. Also included are comprehensive appendices which show various canon lists for both Old and New Testaments and for the bible as a whole.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0567668851

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9780567668851

Dundurn Performing Arts Library Bundle — Theatre

Broadway North / Let's Go to The Grand! / Once Upon a Time in Paradise / Passion to Dance / Sky Train / Romancing the Bard / Stardust and Shadows

By: James Neufeld,Charles Foster,Mel Atkey,Martin Hunter,Sheila M.F. Johnston,Ward McBurney

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Dundurn Performing Arts Library Bundle — Theatre

Broadway North / Let's Go to The Grand! / Once Upon a Time in Paradise / Passion to Dance / Sky Train / Romancing the Bard / Stardust and Shadows

By: James Neufeld,Charles Foster,Mel Atkey,Martin Hunter,Sheila M.F. Johnston,Ward McBurney

This special bundle contains seven books that detail Canada’s long and storied history in the performing arts. We learn about Canada’s early Hollywood celebrity movie stars; Canadians’ vast contributions to successful international stage musicals; the story of The Grand, a famous theatre in London, Ontario; reminiscences from the early days of radio; the history of the renowned Stratford Festival; and a lavish history of the famous National Ballet of Canada. Canada’s performing artists blossomed in the twentieth century, and you can learn all about it here. Includes Broadway North Let’s Go to The Grand! Once Upon a Time in Paradise Passion to Dance Sky Train Romancing the Bard Stardust and Shadows

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1459728300

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9781459728301

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