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Interpersonal Psychotherapy 2E A Clinician's Guide

By: Scott Stuart,Michael Robertson

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Interpersonal Psychotherapy 2E A Clinician's Guide

By: Scott Stuart,Michael Robertson

This book provides a very useful and thought-provoking account of a developing form of interpersonal psychotherapy and gives a clear guide for practising clinicians."Psychological MedicineFirst published in 2003, this groundbreaking text firmly established itself as a touchstone for all therapists using interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT). Key featu

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CRC Press

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1444137557

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Shadowman

By: Michael D. Grant

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Shadowman

By: Michael D. Grant

Elizabeth Murdock is absolutely in love with the old Edwards home in the small town of Brettinger, Tennessee. As an artist, she is excited to capture the areas natural beauty through her camera lens. However, Allan Murdock has kept a few minor details from his wife, knowing she would never willingly move into a murder house. The truth about their new, beautiful home goes far beyond what Allan knows, though. Something unnatural has come to Brettinger. A creature lives along the edge of the woods. It is a dark figure, imagined in the twist of branch and busha thing of myth, seeking vengeance and using the citizens of Brettinger to exact its final, bloody revenge. After digitally capturing an odd image on her camera, Elizabeths excitement is short-lived, as only the crazy neighbor, Angelina Buscold, will admit to seeing a figure standing among the pines. Angelina saw the same figure when she was just a child and now knows she needs Elizabeths help or no one in Brettinger will be saved from the Shadowman.

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Archway Publishing

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1480827983

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9781480827981

SUBVERSIVE GENEALOGY

By: Michael Paul Rogin

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SUBVERSIVE GENEALOGY

By: Michael Paul Rogin

In this major reconsideration of Herman Melville’s life and work, Michael Paul Rogin shows that Melville’s novels are connected both to the important issues of his time and to the exploits of his patrician and politically prominent family—which, three generations after its Revolutionary War heroes, produced an alcoholic, a bankrupt, and a suicide. Rogin argues that a history of Melville’s fiction, and of the society represented in it, is also a history of the writer’s family. He describes how that family first engaged Melville in and then isolated him from American political and social life. Melville’s brother and father-in-law are shown to link Moby-Dick to the crisis over expansion and slavery. White-Jacket and Billy Budd, which concern shipboard conflicts between masters and seamen, are related to an execution at sea in which Melville’s cousin played a decisive part. The figure of Melville’s father haunts The Confidence Man, whose subject is the triumph of the marketplace and the absence of authority. A provocative study of one of our supreme literary artists.

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Knopf

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0307830942

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9780307830944

Authentic School Science

Knowing and Learning in Open-Inquiry Science Laboratories

By: Wolff-Michael Roth

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Authentic School Science

Knowing and Learning in Open-Inquiry Science Laboratories

By: Wolff-Michael Roth

According to John Dewey, Seymour Papert, Donald Schon, and Allan Collins, school activities, to be authentic, need to share key features with those worlds about which they teach. This book documents learning and teaching in open-inquiry learning environments, designed with the precepts of these educational thinkers in mind. The book is thus a first-hand report of knowing and learning by individuals and groups in complex open-inquiry learning environments in science. As such, it contributes to the emerging literature in this field. Secondly, it exemplifies research methods for studying such complex learning environments. The reader is thus encouraged not only to take the research findings as such, but to reflect on the process of arriving at these findings. Finally, the book is also an example of knowledge constructed by a teacher-researcher, and thus a model for teacher-researcher activity.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9401104956

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Interpersonal Psychotherapy - A Clinician's Guide

By: Michael Robertson

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Interpersonal Psychotherapy - A Clinician's Guide

By: Michael Robertson

Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) is a treatment that helps to reduce psychological symptoms by intervening in relationship difficulties. This book highlights common clinical issues and covers an extensive range of interpersonal problems and psychopathology for which IPT is applicable. It draws on theoretical and research aspects in order to inform

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Equality Before the Law

Equal Dignity, Wrongful Discrimination, and the Rule of Law

By: Michael P Foran

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Equality Before the Law

Equal Dignity, Wrongful Discrimination, and the Rule of Law

By: Michael P Foran

This book presents a defence of the value of equality within law which is neither purely formal nor an entirely speculative theory of justice. It does this by combining a theoretical with a doctrinal project. At the theoretical level, it argues that there is a distinct and meaningful conception of equality before the law which can be separated from concerns of distributive justice. It therefore rejects the claim that legal equality is merely formal. Rather, it is grounded in the equal moral status of all legal subjects. The demand that individuals be treated in accordance with the principle of equality before the law, then, requires that they not be treated in ways that would deny their equal moral standing. This principle of moral equality is the fundamental normative basis of the rule of law. This general claim is applied, in the second half of the book, to antidiscrimination law. It is argued here that the wrong of wrongful discrimination consists in implicit or explicit denial of the equal moral status of legal subjects. This is also a core wrong that the common law seeks to remedy via judicial review and is thus intimately tied to legality itself. In the final chapter, these two strands are brought together to defend the idea that law is a public asset which must be directed towards advancing the best interests of those it governs. This kind of equality principle, one which sets the outermost limits of the use of public power, must look beyond individual rights claims. It manifests a fundamental commitment to substantive equality manifest in a commitment to collective flourishing without tying it to group-based distributive concerns which arise from distinct social and historical contexts and require the exercise of political authority to choose among a range of plausible options for their resolution.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1509964959

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Freud’s Theory of Dreams

A Philosophico-Scientific Perspective

By: Michael T. Michael

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Freud’s Theory of Dreams

A Philosophico-Scientific Perspective

By: Michael T. Michael

Freud’s Theory of Dreams: A Philosophico-Scientific Perspective evaluates Freud’s theory of dreams in light of the many philosophical and scientific criticisms that have been brought against it. Michael T. Michael addresses the validity of Freud’s method of dream interpretation, the scientific nature of the theory, and how Freud’s ideas bear up to modern research on dreams, engaging on the way with critics such as Ludwig Wittgenstein, Clark Glymour, Karl Popper, Adolf Grünbaum, and J. Allan Hobson. Michael reaches beyond the traditional “for” and “against” polarity to offer a more balanced perspective on Freud’s theory. He argues that reports of the demise of Freud’s theory have been greatly exaggerated, and instead the theory is a live hypothesis fully deserving of continued scientific exploration.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442230452

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The Sound of Silence

Conversations with 16 Film and Stage Personalities Who Bridged the Gap Between Silents and Talkies

By: Michael G. Ankerich

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The Sound of Silence

Conversations with 16 Film and Stage Personalities Who Bridged the Gap Between Silents and Talkies

By: Michael G. Ankerich

Marion Shilling began her career as a silent film ingenue for MGM and went on to play heroines in Westerns of the 1930s. Stage actress Esther Muir made the transition from Broadway to Hollywood just as talkies became popular. Hugh Allan was a leading man in the last years of the silents only to leave the film business in 1930 because of the uncertainty surrounding his transition to sound films and his disgust with studio politics. These three performers and thirteen others (Barbara Barondess, Thomas Beck, Mary Brian, Pauline Curley, Billie Dove, Edith Fellows, Rose Hobart, William Janney, Marcia Mae Jones, Barbara Kent, Anita Page, Lupita Tovar, and Barbara Weeks) reminisce here about Hollywood and the movie business as it made the transition.

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McFarland

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078646383X

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The Aurelian Legacy – a History of British Butterflies and their Collectors

With contributions by Peter Marren and Basil Harley

By: Michael Salmon

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The Aurelian Legacy – a History of British Butterflies and their Collectors

With contributions by Peter Marren and Basil Harley

By: Michael Salmon

Although the collecting of butterflies is today an emotive subject, it is impossible to separate a history of British butterflies from a history of their collectors, without whose activities our knowledge of the identification, occurrence, distribution, and variation of British butterflies would be much the poorer. Liberally laced with contemporary quotations, this book brings to life the past three hundred years of butterfly study, with details of early societies, collecting equipment, biographies of 101 deceased lepidopterists, with portraits where available, as well as the chequered history in Britain of some 35 species of butterfly. The colour plates include some of the finest butterfly illustrations ever.

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BRILL

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9004475478

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The Aurelian Legacy

British Butterflies and Their Collectors

By: Michael A. Salmon,Peter Marren,Basil Harley

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The Aurelian Legacy

British Butterflies and Their Collectors

By: Michael A. Salmon,Peter Marren,Basil Harley

This entertaining and informative book traces the history of butterfly collection in Britain from the 17th century, when the study of natural history had its beginnings. Laced with anecdotes and quotations, the beautifully illustrated volume describes the equipment used and gives brief biographies of 101 deceased lepidopterists. 58 illustrations, 42 in color.

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Univ of California Press

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0520229630

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Masters and Slaves

Revisioned Essays in Political Philosophy

By: Michael Palmer

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Masters and Slaves

Revisioned Essays in Political Philosophy

By: Michael Palmer

This collection of essays sheds light on the writings of leading figures in the history of political philosophy by exploring a nexus of questions concerning mastery and slavery in the human soul. To this end, Masters and Slaves elucidates archetypal human alternatives in their import for political life: the philosopher and king; the lover of wisdom and the lover of glory; the king and the tyrant; and finally, the master and the slave. Palmer re-examines these ideas as a framework for achieving a deeper understanding of the work of famous thinkers--from the ancient to modern times--including Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Rousseau. As well, the book addresses distinctions between the 'ancients' and the 'moderns, ' and touches on the work of contemporary theorists such as Leo Strauss, George Parkin Grant, and Allan Bloom.

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Lexington Books

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073910277X

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Thrills Untapped

Neglected Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Films, 1928-1936

By: Michael R. Pitts

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Thrills Untapped

Neglected Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Films, 1928-1936

By: Michael R. Pitts

Giving deserved attention to nearly 150 neglected films, this book covers early sound era features, serials and documentaries with genre elements of horror, science fiction and fantasy, from major and minor studios and independents. Full credits, synopses, critical analyses and contemporary reviews are provided for The Blue Light, The Cat Creeps, College Scandal, Cosmic Voyage, The Dragon Murder Case, The Haunted Barn, Lost Gods, Murder in the Red Barn, The New Gulliver, Return of the Terror, Seven Footprints to Satan, S.O.S. Iceberg, While the Patient Slept, The White Hell of Pitz Palu and many others.

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McFarland

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1476673519

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Black Hammock

By: Michael Wiley

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Black Hammock

By: Michael Wiley

Homicide detective Daniel Turner revisits an 18-year-old unsolved case in the third of this intriguing and atmospheric crime noir series. We had set out from Atlanta to kill my mother and her husband. A slow kill. Oren has returned to the family home he last saw when he was eight years old. Eighteen years later, he is bent on an elaborate scheme of revenge. Homicide detective Daniel Turner was never able to forget the unsolved case, the disappearance of Amon Jakobsen all those years ago. Convinced the man was murdered, he was never able to prove it. Now he has returned to the isolated house on Black Hammock Island following reports of a disturbance. Is this his chance to find out what really happened to Amon eighteen years before? And will he be in time to prevent history repeating itself?

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Severn House Publishers Ltd

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1780107633

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Statistical Encyclopedia of North American Professional Sports

All Major League Teams and Major Non-Team Events Year by Year, 1876 through 2006, 2d ed.

By: K. Michael Gaschnitz

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Statistical Encyclopedia of North American Professional Sports

All Major League Teams and Major Non-Team Events Year by Year, 1876 through 2006, 2d ed.

By: K. Michael Gaschnitz

This reference work, updated since the 1997 edition, provides comprehensive information on the major professional leagues in North America--baseball, basketball, football, hockey and soccer. Arranged chronologically, the entries for each league in each sport include individual statistical leaders, championship results, major rules changes, winners of major awards, and hall of fame inductees.

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McFarland

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0786451122

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9780786451128

Q & A Revision Guide: Criminal Law 2012 and 2013

By: Michael T. Molan,Mike Molan

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Q & A Revision Guide: Criminal Law 2012 and 2013

By: Michael T. Molan,Mike Molan

Q&A Criminal Law offers a lifeline to students revising for exams. It provides clear guidance from experienced examiners on how best to tackle exam questions, and gives students the opportunity to practise their exam technique and assess their progress.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199697604

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Q and a Revision Guide Criminal Law 2014 And 2015

By: Michael T. Molan

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Q and a Revision Guide Criminal Law 2014 And 2015

By: Michael T. Molan

Q&A Criminal Law gives students the opportunity to practise and hone their exam technique with clear guidance and tips from experienced examiners.

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0199689210

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EYES OF FIRE

By: Michael W. Evans

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EYES OF FIRE

By: Michael W. Evans

Elsa gains the respect of the people of Texas, and the Apache Indians as she grows to maturity

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Lulu.com

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1678014257

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9781678014254

Hollywood Songsters: Garland to O'Connor

By: James Robert Parish,Michael R. Pitts

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Hollywood Songsters: Garland to O'Connor

By: James Robert Parish,Michael R. Pitts

For fans of musicals, singing, Hollywood history, and the lives of stars, no other work equals this new three-volume reference to the on- and off-camera careers of more than 100 performers who made major contributions to the American screen musical. From June Allyson to Mae West, Hollwood Songsters provides a detailed narrative-ranging from 2,000 to 5000 words each-of the lives and careers of stars forever etched in our memories. Each entry includes a filmography, discography (of both albums and CDs), Broadway appearances, radio work, television appearances and series, and a full-page photo of the subject. This is the ideal reference work for everyone one from the mildly curious to the devoted fan.

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Taylor & Francis

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0415943337

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Law of Connection

The Science of Using NLP to Create Ideal Personal and Professional Relationships

By: Michael J. Losier

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Law of Connection

The Science of Using NLP to Create Ideal Personal and Professional Relationships

By: Michael J. Losier

From the bestselling author of Law of Attraction comes an easy-to-follow book on creating ideal personal and professional relationships using the techniques of Neuro-Linguistic Programming. Married couples . . . dating couples . . . parents and children . . . teachers and students . . . office workers . . . management and staff . . . business to business. Are there certain people in your life who you have difficulty communicating with—at home, at work, or in your community? You say one thing, they hear something else. You simply do not understand one another, and you cannot explain why. The only thing you are certain of, however, is that this lack of connection leads to disappointment, frustration, and conflict. Now, in Law of Connection, Michael J. Losier gives you the tools you need to foster greater understanding in every aspect of your life. With tips, tools, exercises, and scripts to guide you, you will discover: The three conditions for connecting Techniques for calibrating conversations Four easy methods for effective communication Tips for creating positive rapport in all situations A special section for teachers, trainers, and anyone who makes group presentations Bring Law of Connection home to your family and introduce it into your workplace. Watch and listen as communication improves wherever you are, and your relationships become fuller, richer, and free of conflict. There is a simple solution to improving your communication and building better, healthier relationships. It's called Law of Connection.

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Grand Central Life & Style

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0446552143

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9780446552141

Windswept (Part II Wherever the Wind May Blow)

By: Michael Verrett

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Windswept (Part II Wherever the Wind May Blow)

By: Michael Verrett

Windswept is the sequel to Homecoming. The romance, humor, and adventure continues for Anne and Jules Allan. Anne aspires to be a writer but though an avid reader of 19th Century literature she realizes she has little imagination. She decides to forgo thoughts of romance and adventure and live a practical, well-ordered life. She is suddenly swept into a fantastic adventure in the land of Homecoming by the mysterious, Jules Allan. She is mistaken for Alice of Wonderland, attacked by flying pirates and creature known as Enuffs. She encounter jealous pixies, a vindictive Gray Queen and has troubles in babysitting. As Anne tries to make sense of it all as she finds that her real conflict is internal. She struggles to cope with clumsiness and emotional outburst. All the while she is haunted by the mystery of spiral staircases and the need to protect her inner child of unconditional love.

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Lulu.com

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1304649970

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9781304649973

Returning Home

Diné Creative Works from the Intermountain Indian School

By: Farina King,Michael P. Taylor,James R. Swensen

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Returning Home

Diné Creative Works from the Intermountain Indian School

By: Farina King,Michael P. Taylor,James R. Swensen

Returning Home features and contextualizes the creative works of Diné (Navajo) boarding school students at the Intermountain Indian School, which was the largest federal Indian boarding school between 1950 and 1984. Diné student art and poetry reveal ways that boarding school students sustained and contributed to Indigenous cultures and communities despite assimilationist agendas and pressures. This book works to recover the lived experiences of Native American boarding school students through creative works, student interviews, and scholarly collaboration. It shows the complex agency and ability of Indigenous youth to maintain their Diné culture within the colonial spaces that were designed to alienate them from their communities and customs. Returning Home provides a view into the students’ experiences and their connections to Diné community and land. Despite the initial Intermountain Indian School agenda to send Diné students away and permanently relocate them elsewhere, Diné student artists and writers returned home through their creative works by evoking senses of Diné Bikéyah and the kinship that defined home for them. Returning Home uses archival materials housed at Utah State University, as well as material donated by surviving Intermountain Indian School students and teachers throughout Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico. Artwork, poems, and other creative materials show a longing for cultural connection and demonstrate cultural resilience. This work was shared with surviving Intermountain Indian School students and their communities in and around the Navajo Nation in the form of a traveling museum exhibit, and now it is available in this thoughtfully crafted volume. By bringing together the archived student arts and writings with the voices of living communities, Returning Home traces, recontextualizes, reconnects, and returns the embodiment and perpetuation of Intermountain Indian School students’ everyday acts of resurgence.

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University of Arizona Press

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0816544328

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9780816544325

Mammoth Books presents That Haunted Feeling

Six short stories by Barbara Roden, Reggie Oliver & M.R. James, Chris Bell, Richard Christian Matheson, John Gaskin and Michael Kelly

By: Barbara Roden,Chris Bell,John Gaskin,M.R. James,Michael Kelly,Reggie Oliver,Richard Christian Matheson

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Mammoth Books presents That Haunted Feeling

Six short stories by Barbara Roden, Reggie Oliver & M.R. James, Chris Bell, Richard Christian Matheson, John Gaskin and Michael Kelly

By: Barbara Roden,Chris Bell,John Gaskin,M.R. James,Michael Kelly,Reggie Oliver,Richard Christian Matheson

Six short stories to shake you to your core. Out and Back by Barbara Roden An abandoned amusement park attracts unwary thrill seekers The Game of Bear - Reggie Oliver & M. R. James Reggie Oliver completes M. R. James' unfinished classic. Shem-el-Nessim: An Inspiration in Perfume - Chris Bell Venturi - Richard Christian Matheson Party Talk - John Gaskin Princess of the Night - Michael Kelly

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Robinson

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1472102479

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Widowhood

The Death of a Spouse

By: Michael Rock,Janice Rock

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Widowhood

The Death of a Spouse

By: Michael Rock,Janice Rock

Provides professional and personal insight into dying and death, and includes stories of men and women who learned to accept and deal with the loss of their spouses.

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Trafford Publishing

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1412024528

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Choice Cuts-A Bite From The Dark Realm

By: Michael J Elliott

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Choice Cuts-A Bite From The Dark Realm

By: Michael J Elliott

Welcome to The Dark Realm, where the residents are eager to regale you with stories both dark and disturbing. In this collection you'll find such gems as: PENANCE In the bowels of her convent, Sister Elizabeta is locked away awiting her punishment from The Mother Superior. This is no ordinary convent and Elizabeta is no ordinary nun. SPEAK NO EVIL: A deaf woman comes up with a gruesome way to punish her philandering boyfriend. A BITE FROM THE DARK REALM: A young supermarket worker discovers a strange race of tiny creatures living in the store room. They're lke Brownies only much more aggressive, oh and they're carnivores. HOW DOES YOUR GARDEN GROW?: Davey and Ox are two unemployed British youths who aren't above stealing to make some extra cash.When they learn that local gardener, Mary McKenzie will be raising money for charity they think they've found an easy job. The residents of Mary's garden may have other ideas. These and eight more stories await you within.

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0244679177

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9780244679170

Legends of the Security Services Industry

Profiles in Leadership

By: Keith Oringer,Michael Hymanson

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Legends of the Security Services Industry

Profiles in Leadership

By: Keith Oringer,Michael Hymanson

The global contract security market now totals over $200 billion, with the number of private security officers exceeding that of public law enforcement officers. But this wasn’t always the case. Legends of the Security Services Industry: Profiles in Leadership presents the unique stories of 15 industry legends, who transformed the industry from early private detective and small night watch companies into large-scale contract security companies. The large-scale companies include, but are not limited to, Pinkerton, Burns International, The Wackenhut Corporation, Guardsmark, Wells Fargo, and U.S. Security Associates; as well as today’s leading security companies, Allied Universal, Securitas, G4S, Prosegur, and GardaWorld. The book begins in the nineteenth century, with early U.S. legendary detectives: Allan Pinkerton and William Burns. Then, the book focuses largely from the mid-twentieth century to the present, where successive generations of legends built large-scale contract security companies which competed with, and then acquired, those formed by the early legends. Part II legends George Wackenhut, Ira Lipman, and Tom Wathen; Part III legends, Charles Schneider, Kenneth W. Oringer, William Whitmore, Jr., and Albert Berger; and Part IV, Scandinavian legends Jørgen Philip-Sørensen, Lars Nørby Johansen, and Thomas Berglund, all developed major security companies. Part V includes current global security leaders Helena Revoredo Gut, Stephan Crétier, and Steve Jones. Part VI reviews the timelines and successful leadership of these legendary leaders, with a look at the future of the industry. The legends’ personal stories contain colorful insight into how they capitalized on the industry’s explosive growth. While each generation of legends faced unique social and competitive landscapes, their personal stories illustrate how they respectively succeeded. Their leadership and management prowess enabled them to achieve great success, as they displayed vision and achieved their goals through grit, determination, hard work, charisma, organizational skills, and calculated risk-taking. Each chapter has been extensively researched and includes firsthand accounts based on interviews with living legends, colleagues, and family of deceased legends. Personal, company and signature event photos add further color to the moving narrative. Their stories are not only highly interesting, but also provide a framework for current leaders, and the next generation of entrepreneurs, on how to build and lead large-scale security service companies. With a Foreword from Robert D. McCrie, PhD, longtime John Jay Professor and editor of the renowned industry publication The Security Letter.

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CRC Press

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1040101453

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9781040101452

The Collected Plays of Michael P. Riccards

By: Michael P. Riccards

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The Collected Plays of Michael P. Riccards

By: Michael P. Riccards

This volume is a collection of verse plays by Michael P. Riccards. The author shows how a modern verse style can be used to heighten and deepen the situations and events that characterize a variety of subjects from historical dramas of great men to baseball heroes and famous persons in fables that we all know and love.

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iUniverse

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1450270255

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9781450270250

The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story

By: Michael M. Lewis

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The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story

By: Michael M. Lewis

Tells the unlikely story of Silicon Valley through the life of one of its great achievers--Jim Clark, who founded Silicon Graphics and Netscape and may be on the verge of another trillion-dollar company.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393048136

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9780393048131

The Lost Prime Ministers

Macdonald's Successors Abbott, Thompson, Bowell, and Tupper

By: Michael Hill

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The Lost Prime Ministers

Macdonald's Successors Abbott, Thompson, Bowell, and Tupper

By: Michael Hill

After John A. Macdonald’s death, four Tory prime ministers — each remarkable but all little known — rose to power and fell in just five years. From 1891 to 1896, between John A. Macdonald’s and Wilfrid Laurier’s tenures, four lesser-known men took on the mantle of leadership. Tory prime ministers John Abbott, John Thompson, Mackenzie Bowell, and Charles Tupper headed the government of Canada in rapid succession. Each came to the job with qualifications and limitations, and each left after unexpectedly short terms. Yet these reluctant prime ministers are an important part of our political legacy. Their roles were much more than caretakers between the administrations of two great leaders. Personal tragedy, terrible health issues, backstabbing, and political manipulation all led to their eventual downfalls. The Lost Prime Ministers is the dramatic saga of these overlooked Canadian leaders.

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1459749340

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The House That Jack Built

The True Story Behind the Marsden Grotto and the Search for Roman Treasure

By: Michael J. Hallowell

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The House That Jack Built

The True Story Behind the Marsden Grotto and the Search for Roman Treasure

By: Michael J. Hallowell

The House That Jack Built reveals the truth behind one of history's greatest untold stories. An old lead miner and his wife who took up residence in a remote cave on a windswept beach in South Shields. A pub was built within the cave and a search initiated to find buried Roman treasure hidden in a network of underground caves and tunnels.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445631474

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Family Illusions

By: Michael Tadman

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Family Illusions

By: Michael Tadman

Sue Charter and her siblings supplied DNA to identify her dead brother Harry Charter. Now the airline informs Sue that she is not related to her surviving brother or sister. Her father is certain there was no adoption. Everyone seems to be telling the truth. Yet her DNA does not match her birth family. Ever think you have been born into the wrong family

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Lulu.com

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1300918233

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9781300918233

Thom Gunn

A Cool Queer Life

By: Michael Nott

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Thom Gunn

A Cool Queer Life

By: Michael Nott

A no-holds-barred biography of the great poet and sexual rebel, who could “give the dead a voice, make them sing” (Hilton Als, The New Yorker). Thom Gunn was not a confessional poet, and he withheld much, but inseparable from his rigorous, formal poetry was a ravenous, acute experience of life and death. Raised in Kent, England, and educated at Cambridge, Gunn found a home in San Francisco, where he documented the city’s queerness, the hippie mentality (and drug use) of the sixties, and the tragedy and catastrophic impact of the AIDS crisis in the eighties and beyond. As Jeremy Lybarger wrote in The New Republic, the author of Moly and The Man with Night Sweats was “an agile poet who renovated tradition to accommodate the rude litter of modernity.” Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life chronicles, for the first time, the largely undocumented life of this revolutionary poet. Michael Nott, a coeditor of The Letters of Thom Gunn, draws on letters, diaries, notebooks, interviews, and Gunn’s poetry to create a portrait as vital as the man himself. Nott writes with insight and intimacy about the great sweep of Gunn’s life: his traditional childhood in England; his mother’s suicide; the mind-opening education he received at Cambridge, reading Shakespeare and John Donne; his decades in San Francisco and with his life partner, Mike Kitay; and his visceral experience of sex, drugs, and loss. Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life is a long-awaited, landmark study of one of England and America’s most innovative poets.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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0374721378

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Gloria Swanson

Hollywood's First Glamour Queen

By: Stephen Michael Shearer

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Gloria Swanson

Hollywood's First Glamour Queen

By: Stephen Michael Shearer

Gloria Swanson is most remembered today for her role as “Norma Desmond” in Billy Wilder’s noir sound classic Sunset Boulevard (1950), but Swanson during her heyday was heralded as filmdom’s leading fashion queen, as proclaimed by director Cecil B. DeMille in such silent motion pictures as Male and Female (1919), Why Change Your Husband (1921), and The Affairs of Anatol (1922). Throughout that decade and well into the 1930s, Swanson set fashion standards on and off the screen in creations designed by such illustrious couturieres as Mitchell Leisen, Paul Iribe, Norman Norell, Sonia Delaunay, Max Ree, Capt. Edward H. Molyneux, Coco Chanel, Rene Hubert, and later Edith Head. In the 1950s, she designed and managed her own line of ready to wear fashion patterns called Forever Young for women of a discernible age. Gloria Swanson: Hollywood’s First Glamour Queen is a photographic tribute to this extraordinary woman. Focusing on sense of style and fashion, the book contains hundreds of personal and professional photographs, many never before published, and running biographical commentary by biographer Stephen Michael Shearer, author of the definitive book of the star, Gloria Swanson: The Ultimate Star (St. Martin’s Press-Macmillan).

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1493077058

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Philosophical Dialogue in the British Enlightenment

Theology, Aesthetics and the Novel

By: Michael Prince

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Philosophical Dialogue in the British Enlightenment

Theology, Aesthetics and the Novel

By: Michael Prince

This book offers the first full-length study of philosophical dialogue during the English Enlightenment. It explains why important philosophers - Shaftesbury, Mandeville, Berkeley and Hume - and innumerable minor translators, imitators and critics wrote in and about dialogue during the eighteenth century; and why, after Hume, philosophical dialogue either falls out of use or undergoes radical transformation. Philosophical Dialogue in the British Enlightenment describes the extended, heavily coded, and often belligerent debate about the nature and proper management of dialogue; and it shows how the writing of philosophical fictions relates to the rise of the novel and the emergence of philosophical aesthetics. Novelists such as Fielding, Sterne, Johnson and Austen are placed in a philosophical context, and philosophers of the empiricist tradition in the context of English literary history.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521550629

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The Harley-Davidson Reader

By: Arlen (CON) Ness, Michael Dregni, Evel Knievel, Jean (FRW) Davidson, Sonny Barger, Hunter S. (CON) Thompson

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The Harley-Davidson Reader

By: Arlen (CON) Ness, Michael Dregni, Evel Knievel, Jean (FRW) Davidson, Sonny Barger, Hunter S. (CON) Thompson

Harley-Davidson motorcycles are the grandest name in American motorcycling, and represent the freedom of the open road, a life of rebellion, and a heritage of craftsmanship for over 100 years. In this collection, the biggest and best writings, old and new, are assembled on Harley-Davidson and their unique mystique by writers and personalities that are part of the legend, from Hunter S. Thompson to Sonny Barger, Evel Knievel to Arlen Ness, and more. Punctuated with classic images—from vintage motorcycling photos to racing and walls of death posters to pictures from biker LPs and novels—these are the stories that have helped define the Harley-Davidson myth. The tales of the company’s birth, the rise of the biker outlaw legend, and the modern-day revival of choppers, bobbers, and retro rides are all told by the best-loved sages of biker lore. With sidebars on biker movies, biker literature, and much more, this book chronicles the Motor Company’s long ride into modern-day legend.

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