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Heroes & Ballyhoo

How the Golden Age of the 1920s Transformed American Sports

By: Michael K. Bohn

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Heroes & Ballyhoo

How the Golden Age of the 1920s Transformed American Sports

By: Michael K. Bohn

A handful of star athletes, along with their promoters and journalists, created America's sports entertainment industry during the 1920s, the Golden Age of American sports. The period had an extraordinary impact, profoundly changing individual sports, establishing the secular religion of sports and sports heroes, and helping bond disparate social and regional sectors of the country. It's when sports became a cornerstone of modern American life. Heroes and Ballyhoo profiles the ten most prominent Golden Age heroes and describes their effect on sports and society. Babe Ruth saved baseball after the Black Sox Scandal. Boxer Jack Dempsey made the "sweet science" a respectable sport. Red Grange single-handedly set professional football on a path to eventual success. Knute Rockne helped transform college football from a game to a colossal enterprise. Bobby Jones changed golf into a spectator sport, and Walter Hagen sparked the first national interest in professional golf. Bill Tilden put tennis on the front of the sports section. Tennis player Helen Wills Moody joined swimmer Gertrude Ederle in empowering women athletes. Johnny Weissmuller astonished international swimming before becoming Tarzan. The book also explores the ballyhoo artists--sportswriters, promoters, and press agents--who hyped the stars to a receptive public. Simultaneously, the spectators established themselves as the focus of popular sports. The personalities and events of the 1920s thus created today's entertainment conglomerate of heroes, promoters and advertisers, fans, arenas--and money. Sports as a profit center started with the Golden Age's heroes and PR artists, and the public's obsessive interest in sports helped shape America's emerging mass society. Heroes and Ballyhoo tells the story of what was both a symptom and a cause of modern America.

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Potomac Books, Inc.

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1597976091

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Encyclopedia of Deserts

By: Michael A. Mares

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Encyclopedia of Deserts

By: Michael A. Mares

Encyclopedia of Deserts represents a milestone: it is the first comprehensive reference to the first comprehensive reference to deserts and semideserts of the world. Approximately seven hundred entries treat subjects ranging from desert survival to the way deserts are formed. Topics include biology (birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, fishes, invertebrates, plants, bacteria, physiology, evolution), geography, climatology, geology, hydrology, anthropology, and history. The thirty-seven contributors, including volume editor Michael A. Mares, have had extensive careers in deserts research, encompassing all of the world’s arid and semiarid regions. The Encyclopedia opens with a subject list by topic, an organizational guide that helps the reader grasp interrelationships and complexities in desert systems. Each entry concludes with cross-references to other entries in the volume, inviting the reader to embark on a personal expedition into fascinating, previously unknown terrain. In addition a list of important readings facilitates in-depth study of each topic. An exhaustive index permits quick access to places, topics, and taxonomic listings of all plants and animals discussed. More than one hundred photographs, drawings, and maps enhance our appreciation of the remarkable life, landforms, history, and challenges of the world’s arid land.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806172290

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The Social Context Of Health

By: Hardey , Michael

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The Social Context Of Health

By: Hardey , Michael

* In what way is health related to our sense of self-identity? * How do we make decisions about our health in an age of uncertainty? * Which developments in medical knowledge and the delivery of care change our ideas about health? The central theme running through this book is the essentially 'social' nature of health. This embraces the way medical knowledge emerged out of a specific set of historical and intellectual circumstances, and the shaping of the health professions by the cultural and political milieu of the nineteenth century. Like non-expert knowledge, the development and application of expert knowledge in health is embedded in social processes. In this accessible text the complex relationships between inequality, race, gender and other social divisions are examined and related to changes in health care. Problems central to the delivery of health care are highlighted and linked to challenges to established health-care professions and systems. Michael Hardey shows the way in which health has become part of our identity, and relates this to the increasing range of health advice and the constant choices available in terms of our health and lifestyles.

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McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

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0335198635

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American Literary Publishing in the Mid-nineteenth Century

The Business of Ticknor and Fields

By: Michael Winship

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American Literary Publishing in the Mid-nineteenth Century

The Business of Ticknor and Fields

By: Michael Winship

This is a study of some of the central questions in literary publishing in mid-nineteenth-century North America and Britain, addressed through examination of the unusually rich archives of a unique publishing firm. Boston-based Ticknor and Fields, one of the pre-eminent literary publishers of its time, enjoyed close links with Britain, and also developed new production, distribution, and marketing skills as the settlement of North America pushed ever further west. Michael Winship has studied the firm's business records and publications in detail: he reveals what Ticknor and Fields published, its costs of production, the ways it marketed and distributed its books, and the profits it made. Winship goes on to explore the implications of the firm's work for the book trade in general, and to show how an investigation of Ticknor and Fields enriches our understanding of the literary and cultural history of Britain and North America.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521526663

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The Traffic Assignment Problem

Models and Methods

By: Michael Patriksson

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The Traffic Assignment Problem

Models and Methods

By: Michael Patriksson

This monograph provides both a unified account of the development of models and methods for the problem of estimating equilibrium traffic flows in urban areas and a survey of the scope and limitations of present traffic models. The development is described and analyzed by the use of the powerful instruments of nonlinear optimization and mathematical programming within the field of operations research. The first part is devoted to mathematical models for the analysis of transportation network equilibria; the second deals with methods for traffic equilibrium problems. This title will interest readers wishing to extend their knowledge of equilibrium modeling and analysis and of the foundations of efficient optimization methods adapted for the solution of large-scale models. In addition to its value to researchers, the treatment is suitable for advanced graduate courses in transportation, operations research, and quantitative economics.

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Courier Dover Publications

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0486802272

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Essentials of Clinical Geriatrics, Eighth Edition

By: Robert L. Kane,Joseph G. Ouslander,Barbara Resnick,Michael L. Malone

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Essentials of Clinical Geriatrics, Eighth Edition

By: Robert L. Kane,Joseph G. Ouslander,Barbara Resnick,Michael L. Malone

The leading introductory textbook on geriatrics – completely updated and revised A Doody’s Core Title for 2024 & 2021! Essentials of Clinical Geriatrics is an engagingly written, up-to-date introductory guide to the core topics in geriatric medicine. Since 1984, its goal has remained unchanged: to help clinicians do a better job of caring for their older patients. You will find thorough and authoritative coverage of all the important issues in geriatrics, along with concise, practical guidance on the diagnosis and treatment of the diseases and disorders most commonly encountered in an elderly patient. Presented in full-color, this classic features a strong focus on the field’s must-know concepts, from the nature of clinical aging to differential diagnosis of important geriatric syndromes to drug therapy and health services. The Eighth Edition has been completely revised to provide the most current updates on the assessment and management of geriatric care. FEATURES: Numerous tables and figures that summarize conditions, values, mechanisms, therapeutics, and more Thorough coverage of preventive services and disease screening Eight chapters devoted to general management strategies Important chapters on ethical issues and palliative care Appendix of Internet resources on geriatrics Essentials of Clinical Geriatrics, Eighth Edition is the best resource available to help healthcare professionals provide the innovative, cost-effective, and person-centered care that older people and their caregivers deserve.

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McGraw Hill Professional

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1259860523

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The Folkloresque

By: Michael Dylan Foster,Jeffrey A. Tolbert

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The Folkloresque

By: Michael Dylan Foster,Jeffrey A. Tolbert

This volume introduces a new concept to explore the dynamic relationship between folklore and popular culture: the “folkloresque.” With “folkloresque,” Foster and Tolbert name the product created when popular culture appropriates or reinvents folkloric themes, characters, and images. Such manufactured tropes are traditionally considered outside the purview of academic folklore study, but the folkloresque offers a frame for understanding them that is grounded in the discourse and theory of the discipline.Fantasy fiction, comic books, anime, video games, literature, professional storytelling and comedy, and even popular science writing all commonly incorporate elements from tradition or draw on basic folklore genres to inform their structure. Through three primary modes—integration, portrayal, and parody—the collection offers a set of heuristic tools for analysis of how folklore is increasingly used in these commercial and mass-market contexts.The Folkloresque challenges disciplinary and genre boundaries; suggests productive new approaches for interpreting folklore, popular culture, literature, film, and contemporary media; and encourages a rethinking of traditional works and older interpretive paradigms.

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University Press of Colorado

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1457197464

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The Concepts and Practices of Lifelong Learning

By: Brenda Morgan-Klein,Michael Osborne

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The Concepts and Practices of Lifelong Learning

By: Brenda Morgan-Klein,Michael Osborne

This textbook gives a wide-ranging, research-informed introduction to issues in lifelong learning across a variety of educational settings and practices. Its very accessible approach is multi-disciplinary drawing on sociology and psychology in particular. In addition, issues are discussed within an international context. While there has been a proliferation of texts focussing on particular areas of practice such as higher education, there is little in the way of a broad overview. Chapters one to four introduce various conceptions of lifelong learning, the factors that impinge on learning through the life course, and the social and the economic rationale for lifelong learning. Chapters five-ten consider the varied sites of lifelong learning, from the micro to macro (from the home to the region to the virtual). Chapter eleven draws the strands together in the context of turbulence and continuing transition in personal and work roles, and against the background of future technological development. This timely overview will be relevant to education and training professionals, education studies students and the general reader.

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Routledge

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1134088302

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Correctional Counseling and Rehabilitation

By: Patricia Van Voorhis,Michael C. Braswell,David Lester

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Correctional Counseling and Rehabilitation

By: Patricia Van Voorhis,Michael C. Braswell,David Lester

This text presents foundations of correctional intervention, including overviews of the major systems of therapeutic intervention, diagnosis of mental illness, and correctional assessment and classification. Its detailed descriptions and cross-approach comparisons can help professionals better determine which of several techniques might be especially useful in their particular setting. Includes key concepts and terms as well as discussion questions.

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Routledge

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1437755224

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Routine Outcome Monitoring and Feedback in Psychological Therapies

By: Kim de Jong,Jaime Delgadillo,Michael Barkham

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Routine Outcome Monitoring and Feedback in Psychological Therapies

By: Kim de Jong,Jaime Delgadillo,Michael Barkham

“This book is clear, well-written, evidence-based, and timely. Combined with the authors’ decades of practice-based research and clinical experience, it describes a way helping professionals of all stripes can improve the results of psychological care.” Scott D. Miller, Ph.D., International Center for Clinical Excellence, USA “A must-read for every therapist, supervisor, researcher, manager – and client – in the field of mental health.” Helene A. Nissen-Lie, Professor in Clinical Psychology and Therapist, University of Oslo, Norway “The depth and breadth of these authors’ knowledge about progress monitoring shine through on every page.” Jacqueline B. Persons, Director, Oakland Cognitive Behavior Therapy Center and Clinical Professor, Department of Psychology, University of California at Berkeley, USA “I highly recommend this book to anyone wanting to work with a routine outcome monitoring (ROM) and feedback system in psychological therapies.” Professor Mike Lucock, Centre for Applied Research in Health, University of Huddersfield, UK. Based on the authors’ own varied and extensive experiences as practitioners, this clear and practical guide shows therapists and trainees how feedback can best be used to inform treatment decisions and, ultimately, improve patient outcomes. Key features include: • An up-to-date analysis of the current evidence base about the effectiveness of progress feedback • Advice on how to effectively implement Routine Outcome Monitoring in teams, services, and healthcare systems • Instructive clinical vignettes and examples of therapist-patient dialogue • Advice on how to deal with negative feedback • Clinical guidelines for therapists and guidance on translating theory into practice. Routine Outcome Monitoring and Feedback in Psychological Therapies brings together the collective wisdom of research leaders in the field and experienced therapists and patients to provide the go-to guide on how to integrate Routine Outcome Monitoring and feedback into psychological therapies. Kim de Jong, Ph.D. is Senior Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at Leiden University, the Netherlands and a cognitive behavioural therapist. She is one of the leading researchers on ROM and feedback and has implemented ROM in a wide variety of settings. Jaime Delgadillo, Ph.D. is Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Sheffield, UK, and is trained as a psychoanalyst and cognitive behavioural therapist. He is known for the development and evaluation of feedback systems, digital health and AI technologies in the field of mental health. Michael Barkham, Ph.D., FBPsS is Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Sheffield, UK and was previously Professor of Counselling and Clinical Psychology at the University of Leeds, UK. He is a well-known developer of outcome measures and has encouraged their use in routine practice over the past 35 years.

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McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

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0335249701

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9780335249701

The Novel

A Biography

By: Michael Schmidt

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The Novel

A Biography

By: Michael Schmidt

The 700-year history of the novel in English defies straightforward telling. Geographically and culturally boundless, with contributions from Great Britain, Ireland, America, Canada, Australia, India, the Caribbean, and Southern Africa; influenced by great novelists working in other languages; and encompassing a range of genres, the story of the novel in English unfolds like a richly varied landscape that invites exploration rather than a linear journey. In The Novel: A Biography, Michael Schmidt does full justice to its complexity. Like his hero Ford Madox Ford in The March of Literature, Schmidt chooses as his traveling companions not critics or theorists but “artist practitioners,” men and women who feel “hot love” for the books they admire, and fulminate against those they dislike. It is their insights Schmidt cares about. Quoting from the letters, diaries, reviews, and essays of novelists and drawing on their biographies, Schmidt invites us into the creative dialogues between authors and between books, and suggests how these dialogues have shaped the development of the novel in English. Schmidt believes there is something fundamentally subversive about art: he portrays the novel as a liberalizing force and a revolutionary stimulus. But whatever purpose the novel serves in a given era, a work endures not because of its subject, themes, political stance, or social aims but because of its language, its sheer invention, and its resistance to cliché—some irreducible quality that keeps readers coming back to its pages.

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Harvard University Press

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0674369068

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9780674369061

The Caterpiller's Hat

By: Michael K. Browne

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The Caterpiller's Hat

By: Michael K. Browne

A caterpiller learns that true beauty comes from within and will come to them when they least expect it.

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1481750186

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The Making of Pioneer Wisconsin

Voices of Early Settlers

By: Michael E. Stevens

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The Making of Pioneer Wisconsin

Voices of Early Settlers

By: Michael E. Stevens

From the mid-1830s through the 1850s, more than a half million people settled in Wisconsin. While traveling in ships and wagons, establishing homes, and forming new communities, these men, women, and children recorded their experiences in letters, diaries, and newspaper articles. In their own words, they revealed their fears, joys, frustrations, and hopes for life in this new place. The Making of Pioneer Wisconsin provides a unique and intimate glimpse into the lives of these early settlers, as they describe what it felt like to be a teenager in a wagon heading west or an isolated young wife living far from her friends and family. Woven together with context provided by historian Michael E. Stevens, these first-person accounts form a fascinating narrative that deepens our ability to understand and empathize with Wisconsin’s early pioneers.

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Wisconsin Historical Society

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087020890X

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9780870208904

The Literary Imagination from Erasmus Darwin to H.G. Wells

Science, Evolution, and Ecology

By: Michael R. Page

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The Literary Imagination from Erasmus Darwin to H.G. Wells

Science, Evolution, and Ecology

By: Michael R. Page

At the close of the eighteenth century, Erasmus Darwin declared that he would 'enlist the imagination under the banner of science,' beginning, Michael Page argues, a literary narrative on questions of evolution, ecology, and technological progress that would extend from the Romantic through the Victorian periods. Examining the interchange between emerging scientific ideas-specifically evolution and ecology-new technologies, and literature in nineteenth-century Britain, Page shows how British writers from Darwin to H.G. Wells confronted the burgeoning expansion of scientific knowledge that was radically redefining human understanding and experience of the natural world, of human species, and of the self. The wide range of authors covered in Page's ambitious study permits him to explore an impressive array of topics that include the role of the Romantic era in the molding of scientific and cultural perspectives; the engagement of William Wordsworth and Percy Shelley with questions raised by contemporary science; Mary Shelley's conflicted views on the unfolding prospects of modernity; and how Victorian writers like Charles Kingsley, Samuel Butler, and W.H. Hudson responded to the implications of evolutionary theory. Page concludes with the scientific romances of H.G. Wells, to demonstrate how evolutionary fantasies reached the pinnacle of synthesis between evolutionary science and the imagination at the close of the century.

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Routledge

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131702527X

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Arthur and Sherlock

Conan Doyle and the Creation of Holmes

By: Michael Sims

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Arthur and Sherlock

Conan Doyle and the Creation of Holmes

By: Michael Sims

From the acclaimed author of The Story of Charlotte’s Web, the rich, true tale tracing the young Arthur Conan Doyle’s creation of Sherlock Holmes and the modern detective story.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1632860406

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Sisters

Relation and Rescue in Nineteenth-century British Novels and Paintings

By: Michael Cohen

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Sisters

Relation and Rescue in Nineteenth-century British Novels and Paintings

By: Michael Cohen

The agency of this erasure is a heroic rescue of one sister by the other. In both arts the subject of female rescue is resisted and contested.

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Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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0838635555

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9780838635551

Families of Co. Kerry, Ireland

By: Michael C. O'Laughlin

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Families of Co. Kerry, Ireland

By: Michael C. O'Laughlin

Specifications: 6" x 9" size; 244 + xxvi pages; 40 illustrations; well indexed by surname. Includes Castles in County Kerry; family seats of power; locations; variant spellings of family names; full map of County Kerry, coats of arms, and sources for research. From ancient times to the modern day. First Edition in dust jacket. Author/Editor: Michael C. O'Laughlin. Please remember that the first book in the Irish Families Project, "The Book of Irish Families, great & small" has information on Kerry families not contained in this book.

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Irish Roots Cafe

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0940134365

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9780940134362

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