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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Sports History & Trivia

By: Mike McGovern

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Sports History & Trivia

By: Mike McGovern

For the sports fan, this guide offers fascinating facts and tidbits on baseball, football, basketball, hockey, the Olympic Games, tennis, figure skating, soccer, and more. It contains special sections on women's sports, young people's sports, and the Special Olympics, and includes listings of winners of the World Series, the Super Bowl, the Stanley Cup, and other major competetions.

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Penguin

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0028639634

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9780028639635

Fast Break

By: Mike Lupica

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Fast Break

By: Mike Lupica

From the #1 bestselling author of Heat, Travel Team and Million-Dollar Throw comes a feel-good basketball tale reminiscent of The Blind Side. Forced to live on his own after his mom dies and her boyfriend abandons him, 12-year-old Jayson does whatever it takes to get by. He will do anything to avoid the foster care system. He manages to get away with his deception until the day he gets caught stealing a new pair of basketball sneakers. Game over. Within a day a social worker places him with a family from the other side of town, the Lawtons. New home, new school, new teammates. Jayson, at first, is combatative, testing the Lawtons' patience at every turn. He wants out, yet the Lawtons refuse to take the bait. But not everyone in Jayson's new life is so ready to trust him. It's on Jayson to believe that he deserves a better life than the one he once had. The ultimate prize if he can? A trip to play in the state finals at Cameron Indoor Stadium–home to the Duke Blue Devils and launching pad to his dream of playing bigtime college ball. Getting there will be a journey that reaches far beyond the basketball court. "Eager fans will find this a slam-dunk. A must-purchase."–Booklist "Lupica's announcer-like delivery will have you breathless, on the edge of your seat, cheering."--Florida Times-Union

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Penguin

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1101997834

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9781101997833

The First Communion Murders

A Novel

By: Mike Robertson

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The First Communion Murders

A Novel

By: Mike Robertson

Sometime in the late 1950s, on the steps of an unknown church, somebody takes a black and white photograph of an assembly of boys making their first communions. Above the heads of eight of the boys, who are all fated to die within the next twenty years, are small carefully ascribed Xs. When the picture is found more than fifty years years later in an abandoned steamer trunk purchased at a neighborhood auction, the pursuit for an answer to the mystery of those marks begins. The First Communion Murders is the story of that search.

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AuthorHouse

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1504901622

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9781504901628

100 Things Predators Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die

By: John Glennon,Mike Fisher

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100 Things Predators Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die

By: John Glennon,Mike Fisher

Most Predators fans have attended a game at Bridgestone Arena, watched every captivating minute of the 2017 Stanley Cup, and remember exactly where they were when the team traded Shea Weber for P.K. Subban. But only real fans can tell you the origins of the catfish toss or know the full story of how hockey first came to Music City. Whether you've been a die-hard booster since '98 or are a more recent supporter of Filip Forsberg and Pekka Rinne, 100 Things Predators Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die stands as the ultimate resource for Smashville faithful. Nashville sportswriter John Glennon has collected every essential piece of Preds knowledge and trivia, as well as must-do activities, and ranks them all from 1 to 100, providing an entertaining and easy-to-follow checklist as you progress on your way to fan superstardom.

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Triumph Books

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1641251336

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9781641251334

Global Technology and Corporate Crisis

Strategies, Planning and Communication in the Information Age

By: Simon Moore,Mike Seymour

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Global Technology and Corporate Crisis

Strategies, Planning and Communication in the Information Age

By: Simon Moore,Mike Seymour

With a wide-ranging information review and a forecast of future crisis management parameters, this innovative text explores the collision of emerging technology, corporate vulnerabilities and new and counter-flows of information and communications.

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Taylor & Francis

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041536597X

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9780415365970

Custer, the Seventh Cavalry, and the Little Big Horn

A Bibliography

By: Mike O'Keefe

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Custer, the Seventh Cavalry, and the Little Big Horn

A Bibliography

By: Mike O'Keefe

Since the shocking news first broke in 1876 of the Seventh Cavalry’s disastrous defeat at the Little Big Horn, fascination with the battle—and with Lieutenant George Armstrong Custer—has never ceased. Widespread interest in the subject has spawned a vast outpouring of literature, which only increases with time. This two-volume bibliography of Custer literature is the first to be published in some twenty-five years and the most complete ever assembled. Drawing on years of research, Michael O’Keefe has compiled entries for roughly 3,000 books and 7,000 articles and pamphlets. Covering both nonfiction and fiction (but not juvenile literature), the bibliography focuses on events beginning with Custer’s tenure at West Point during the 1850s and ending with the massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890. Included within this span are Custer’s experiences in the Civil War and in Texas, the 1873 Yellowstone and 1874 Black Hills expeditions, the Great Sioux War of 1876–77, and the Seventh Cavalry’s pursuit of the Nez Perces in 1877. The literature on Custer, the Battle of the Little Big Horn, and the Seventh Cavalry touches the entire American saga of exploration, conflict, and settlement in the West, including virtually all Plains Indian tribes, the frontier army, railroading, mining, and trading. Hence this bibliography will be a valuable resource for a broad audience of historians, librarians, collectors, and Custer enthusiasts.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806188146

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9780806188140

Dogleg Madness

By: Mike Bryan,Bryan

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Dogleg Madness

By: Mike Bryan,Bryan

Welcomed as a classic on its original publication, Dogleg Madness is more wide-ranging and comprehensive than any other book on the game of golf, covering the U.S. Open as well as an obscure club tournament in West Texas, and including everything in between.

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Atlantic Monthly Press

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087113330X

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9780871133304

At Arm’s Length

A Rhetoric of Character in Children’s and Young Adult Literature

By: Mike Cadden

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At Arm’s Length

A Rhetoric of Character in Children’s and Young Adult Literature

By: Mike Cadden

Literary critics and authors have long argued about the importance or unimportance of an author’s relationship to readers. What can be said about the rhetorical relationship that exists between author and reader? How do authors manipulate character, specifically, to modulate the emotional appeal of character so a reader will feel empathy, awe, even delight? In At Arm’s Length: A Rhetoric of Character in Children's and Young Adult Literature, Mike Cadden takes a rhetorical approach that complements structural, affective, and cognitive readings. The study offers a detailed examination of the ways authorial choice results in emotional invitation. Cadden sounds the modulation of characters along a continuum from those larger than life and awe inspiring to the life sized and empathetic, down to the pitiable and ridiculous, and all those spaces between. Cadden examines how authors alternate between holding the young reader at arm’s length from and drawing them into emotional intensity. This balance and modulation are key to a rhetorical understanding of character in literature, film, and television for the young. Written in accessible language and of interest and use to undergraduates and seasoned critics, At Arm’s Length provides a broad analysis of stories for the young child and young adult, in book, film, and television. Throughout, Cadden touches on important topics in children’s literature studies, including the role of safety in children’s media, as well as character in multicultural and diverse literature. In addition to treating “traditional” works, he analyzes special cases—forms, including picture books, verse novels, and graphic novels, and modes like comedy, romance, and tragedy.

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1496834607

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Half a World Away

The heart-warming, heart-breaking Richard and Judy Book Club selection

By: Mike Gayle

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Half a World Away

The heart-warming, heart-breaking Richard and Judy Book Club selection

By: Mike Gayle

DON'T MISS MIKE'S BRAND NEW NOVEL, A SONG OF ME AND YOU - AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW! 'His most accomplished and moving novel yet' Lisa Jewell 'Emotionally high-voltage' Metro *** Strangers living worlds apart. Strangers with nothing in common. But it wasn't always that way... Kerry Hayes is single mum, living on a tough south London estate. She provides for her son by cleaning houses she could never afford. Taken into care as a child, Kerry cannot forget her past. Noah Martineau is a successful barrister with a beautiful wife, daughter and home in fashionable Primrose Hill. Adopted as a young child, Noah never looks back. When Kerry contacts Noah, the sibling she lost on the day they were torn apart as children, she sets in motion a chain of events that will change both of their lives forever. By turns funny and moving, Half a World Away is a story that will stay with you long after you read its final page. *** Readers love Half a World Away! 'These are people who matter, situations one can believe. Most readers will find themselves caring very much. A life-affirming read.' Vine 'It isn't easy, it is heart-wrenching, but, oh, is it worth reading. I can't recommend this book highly enough.' Vine 'How have I not read a Mike Gayle book before? I want to give this book all of the starts in the universe. I cried my eyes out at the end. It is touching, heart-wrenching and thought-provoking.' Netgalley 'This story is raw and beautiful and sad. It puts lots of things into perspective and makes you think about what is important in life. Beautifully written, easy to read and will certainly bring tears to your eyes. A must read.' Netgalley 'This is a beautiful, beautiful book. It's about family, about class, about love, about choices and sacrifice. It's about letting go and learning to hold on. It's optimistic and heartbreaking and funny and emotional. It's the kind of book that will stay with you, long after you finish it. Buy it, read it, love it - and hang on to those tissues, you'll need them.' Netgalley Authors love Half a World Away! 'Mike Gayle has such a talent for delving into hearts, minds and contemporary issues. Half a World Away is supremely poignant, uplifting and heartwarming in equal measure - as well as being a real page-turner.' Sophie Kinsella, author of Surprise Me 'Mike has a prodigious talent for writing completely relatable characters who draw you into their world and tug at your heart strings. Half a World Away is an absolute triumph and a joy to read. Once again Mike tackles complex and thorny issues with a confident and compassionate hand.' Ruth Hogan, author of The Keeper of Lost Things 'Half a World Away is heartbreaking and beautiful, full of poignant moments and characters you fall for from page one. I couldn't put it down.' Libby Page, author of The Lido

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Hodder & Stoughton

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1473687357

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9781473687356

Population Politics

By: Mike Dixon,Julia Margo

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Population Politics

By: Mike Dixon,Julia Margo

Europe's demographic trends are reshaping its social landscape and the life-chances of its citizens. Britain's politicians need to pay heed and plan, say Mike Dixon & Julia Margo of the Institute of Public Policy Research.

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Institute for Public Policy Research

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1860302955

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9781860302954

Startling Stories: 2022 Issue

By: John Shirley,Darrell Schweitzer ,Adrian Cole ,Cynthia Ward,Mike Chin ,A.J. McIntosh ,Andrew J. Wilson ,M. Stern,Frances Lu-Pai Ippolito ,Lorenzo Crescenti ,Stephen Persing,Eric Del Carlo

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Startling Stories: 2022 Issue

By: John Shirley,Darrell Schweitzer ,Adrian Cole ,Cynthia Ward,Mike Chin ,A.J. McIntosh ,Andrew J. Wilson ,M. Stern,Frances Lu-Pai Ippolito ,Lorenzo Crescenti ,Stephen Persing,Eric Del Carlo

The 2022 issue of Startling Stories presents more action-packed science fiction adventures. Here are tales of strange worlds, stranger civilization, mech warriors, adventures in space, and much, much more! Included in this issue are: "Out on the Edge," by Darrell Schweitzer "A Quickening Tide," by A.J. McIntosh & Andrew J. Wilson "Pharmakon, Pharmakon," by M. Stern "Rising from the Devil's Planet," by Adrian Cole "Speaking with John Shirley" (Interview), conducted by Darrell Schweitzer "Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot: Alpha," by Grendel Briarton, Jr. "Hua Gu Quan (Flower Drum Circle)," by Frances Lu-Pai Ippolito "You're Sunk!" by Cynthia Ward "Introduction to Thoughts That Kill," by Phil Harbottle "Thoughts That Kill," by John Russell Fearn and Ron Turner (Comics Feature) "Sharptooth," by Lorenzo Crescenti "Just Like You and Me," by Stephen Persing "Tears In My Algabeer," by Eric Del Carlo "The Lost City of Los Angeles," by John Shirley "The Colour of Nothing," by Mike Chin

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Wildside Press LLC

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1667640704

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9781667640709

Handbook of Family Therapy

The Science and Practice of Working with Families and Couples

By: Mike Robbins,Tom Sexton,Gerald Weeks

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Handbook of Family Therapy

The Science and Practice of Working with Families and Couples

By: Mike Robbins,Tom Sexton,Gerald Weeks

This new Handbook of Family Therapy is the culmination of a decade of achievements within the field of family and couples therapy, emerging from and celebrating the dynamic evolution of marriage and family theory, practice, and research. The editors have unified the efforts of the profession's major players in bringing the most up-to-date and innovative information to the forefront of both educational and practice settings. They review the major theoretical approaches and break new ground by identifying and describing the current era of evidence-based models and contemporary areas of application. The Handbook of Family Therapy is a comprehensive, progressive, and skillful presentation of the science and practice of family and couples therapy, and a valuable resource for practitioners and students alike.

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Routledge

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1135451303

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9781135451301

West Texas Tales

By: Mike Cox

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West Texas Tales

By: Mike Cox

Historian Mike Cox has been writing about Texas history for four decades, sharing tales that have been overlooked or forgotten through the years. Travel to El Paso during the "Big Blow" of 1895, brave the frontier with Elizabeth Russell Baker, and stare down the infamous killer known as Old Three Toe. From frontier stories and ghost towns to famous folks and accounts of everyday life, this collection of West Texas Tales has it all.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1614238146

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9781614238140

Confessions of a Fisherman & Other Lies

By: Mike Stubblefield

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Confessions of a Fisherman & Other Lies

By: Mike Stubblefield

A series of short articles and essays published in Florida regional fishing and outdoor magazines. The vignettes depict real experiences and thoughts of a local fisherman not in lock step with tourism, mass marketing or tournaments. It's a look at back country Florida and those who prowl and fiercely love the areas.

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Lulu.com

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1430305584

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9781430305583

Claytie

The Roller-Coaster Life of a Texas Wildcatter

By: Mike Cochran

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Claytie

The Roller-Coaster Life of a Texas Wildcatter

By: Mike Cochran

The native son of a distinguished West Texas family and a 1954 graduate of Texas A&M whose career and personal pursuits have ranged from farmer to insurance salesman to wildcatter, pipeline entrepreneur, rancher, banker, real estate mogul, big game hunter, conservationist, philanthropist, front-running gubernatorial candidate, and oil tycoon, Clayton W. Williams Jr. is by all measures one of a kind. He has repeatedly been on the Forbes list of the 400 wealthiest Americans, yet more than once Claytie has also been on the verge of bankruptcy. This authorized biography captures the dimensions of his fascinating life: his determined work ethic and honesty; his passionate interests and rough-hewn style; his devotion to wife and constant companion Modesta and family; his all-in wildcatter bets and integrity-above-all payoff of debts; his patented gaffes in the “wildest, woolliest Texas governor’s race ever” and their spotlighted consequences for the state and nation; and running through it all, both unrestrained celebrations and knees-on-the-ground repentance. His many notable successes, his most admirable traits, as well as his most outrageous flaws are all portrayed in this book, often in Claytie’s own words or in the extensive comments, revealing anecdotes, and first-person accounts of others, supplemented by family and business documents, as well as contemporary journalistic records. This book tells it all, revealing one distinctive maverick who has left his boot prints all across Texas for 75 years.

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Texas A&M University Press

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1585446343

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9781585446346

Battle for the Southern Frontier

The Creek War and the War of 1812

By: Mike Bunn,Clay Williams

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Battle for the Southern Frontier

The Creek War and the War of 1812

By: Mike Bunn,Clay Williams

This comprehensive book is the first to chronicle both wars and document the sites on which they were fought. It sheds light on how the wars led to the forced removal of Native Americans from the region, secured the Gulf South against European powers, facilitated increased migration into the area, furthered the development of slave-based agriculture and launched the career of Andrew Jackson.

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Arcadia Publishing

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162584381X

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9781625843814

Bird Observatories of Britain and Ireland

By: Mike Archer

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Bird Observatories of Britain and Ireland

By: Mike Archer

An overview of the history and ornithological significance of the Bird Observatories of Britain.

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610

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A&C Black

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1408110407

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9781408110409

Robotech Archives: The Macross Saga Volume 1

By: Mike Baron,Jack Herman,Carl Macek

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Robotech Archives: The Macross Saga Volume 1

By: Mike Baron,Jack Herman,Carl Macek

Titan Comics proudly presents the first volume of Robotech Archives - a series of omnibus books set to collect a wide range of classic and rare Robotech comics. This volume collects the Robotech Graphic Novel - a prologue to the Macross saga - plus the first 11 issues of the original comic adaptation of the Robotech Macross comic series. Contains a special foreword by Svea Stauch Macek, the original artist on the first Robotech Macross comic issue and widow of Carl Macek, the creator of the Robotech saga.

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Titan Comics

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1785867024

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9781785867026

X-Men Epic Collection

It's Always Darkest Before The Dawn

By: Steve Englehart,Len Wein,Gerry Conway,Stan Lee,Roy Thomas,Archie Goodwin,Mike Friedrich,Tony Isabella,Chris Claremont

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X-Men Epic Collection

It's Always Darkest Before The Dawn

By: Steve Englehart,Len Wein,Gerry Conway,Stan Lee,Roy Thomas,Archie Goodwin,Mike Friedrich,Tony Isabella,Chris Claremont

Collects Amazing Adventures (1970) #11-17; Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #92; Incredible Hulk (1968) #150, #161, #172 And #180-182; Marvel Team-Up (1972) #4 And #23; Avengers (1963) #110-111; Captain America (1968) #172-175; Defenders (1972) #15-16; And Giant-Size Fantastic Four #4. Continuing the saga of Marvel’s original mutant team! Hank McCoy sets off on his own, taking a research job — but his scientific curiosity will curse him forever when an experiment gone wrong transforms him into a fanged, furry Beast! Meanwhile, the other X-Men find themselves pursued by a secret adversary that seeks to pick them off one by one. They must join forces with Captain America to save the nation and rescue their mutant comrades! Also featuring the first appearances of Wolverine and Madrox the Multiple Man, an X-Men/Avengers battle against Magneto and a host of rare covers!

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Marvel Entertainment

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1302515179

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9781302515171

The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy

By: Mike Ashley

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The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy

By: Mike Ashley

This dazzling new collection of off-the-wall fantasies features stories from the minds of the funniest writers in the field, including Esther Friesner, Neil Gaiman, Tom Holt, Paul di Filippo, Adam Roberts and Molly Brown. Here are 35 stories guaranteed to reassure us that the next-door world will be just as mad as this one. It includes a mix of brand-new stories and rare finds or forgotten gems, with a wide range of tales to suit every taste in humour. From the missionary plunged into the bizarre initiation rituals of a lost tribe to the bloke who thought magic would help his love life, from a wizard allergic to magic who sneezes his way into chaos to a man who finds his shoes have taken over control of his life, The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy unfalteringly turns fantasy and horror fiction on its head and makes magic into mayhem. A welcome new shot of comic genius in the sphere of fantasy fiction.

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Robinson

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1472114809

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9781472114808

Montana

By: Mike Graf

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Montana

By: Mike Graf

An introduction to the geography, history, government, politics, economy, resources, people, and culture of Montana, including maps, charts, and a recipe.

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Capstone

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0736821848

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The Soils of Mississippi

By: Delaney Johnson,Mike Lilly,Birl Lowery,James G. Bockheim

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The Soils of Mississippi

By: Delaney Johnson,Mike Lilly,Birl Lowery,James G. Bockheim

This book capitalizes on data collected by the Natural Resources Conservation Service & other organizations over the past 100+ years & offers the first comprehensive treatment of Mississippi soils. Main topics include the history of soil studies; soil-forming factors; general soil regions; taxonomic soil regions; soil-forming processes; benchmark, endemic, rare, & endangered soils; land use; key environmental issues; & yield potential of Mississippi soils. The book contains over 100 photographs of soils, vegetation, & land use & should be of interest to planners & students interested in soil science & allied disciplines.

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Springer Nature

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3031362357

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Museums as Agents of Change

A Guide to Becoming a Changemaker

By: Mike Murawski

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Museums as Agents of Change

A Guide to Becoming a Changemaker

By: Mike Murawski

Museums everywhere have the potential to serve as agents of change—bringing people together, contributing to local communities, and changing people’s lives. So how can we, as individuals, radically expand the work of museums to live up to this potential? How can we more fiercely recognize the meaningful work that museums are doing to enact change around the relevant issues in our communities? How can we work together to build a stronger culture of equity and care within museums ? Questions like these are increasingly vital for all museum professionals to consider, no matter what your role is within your institution. They are also important questions for all of us to be thinking about more deeply as citizens and community members. This book is about the work we need to do to become changemakers and demand that that our museums take action toward positive social change and bring people together into a more just, equitable, compassionate, and connected society. It is a journey toward tapping the energies within all of us to make change happen and proactively shape a new future.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538108968

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9781538108963

Unaccountable

How the Accounting Profession Forfeited a Public Trust

By: Mike Brewster

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Unaccountable

How the Accounting Profession Forfeited a Public Trust

By: Mike Brewster

Dieses Buch befasst sich mit einem topaktuellen und gleichzeitig umstrittenen Thema: die Praktiken von Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaften und der Ruf nach umfassenden Reformen. Die ganze Brisanz dieses Themas wird am Beispiel des Prozesses gegen Arthur Anderson im Fall Enron nur zu deutlich, und die Situation für Wirtschaftsprüfer und ihre Klienten wird zunehmend brenzliger. Anhand von Interviews mit über 100 Hauptakteuren der Prüfungsbranche geht Autor Mike Brewster auf wichtige Gesprächsrunden und Ereignisse ein, die die Weiterentwicklung der Rolle des Wirtschaftsprüfers - weg von der reinen Prüfungspraxis und hin zu Consulting- und Researchaktivitäten bis zu Anlagetipps - deutlich belegen. "Unaccountable" zeichnet die faszinierende Verwandlung des Wirtschaftsprüfers nach, der einst als unabhängige Stimme im Auftrag der Aktionäre handelte und sich mittlerweile in einen Finanzberater für seine Unternehmensklientel verwandelt hat. Mike Brewster hat Kontakt zu einigen der stärksten Befürworter von Reformen sowie zu Brancheninsidern, wie z.B. Arthur Levitt, Harvey Pitt, Sandy Weill und den Vertretern der Großen 5 Wirtschaftsprüfungsunternehmen in den USA. Er stellt unbequeme Fragen und enthüllt dabei den großen Einflussbereich von Prüfern in Vorstandsetage, Wirtschaft und Politik. Denn Prüfer gehen heute lieber ihren Consultingaktivitäten nach als der Rechnungsprüfung; und die Großen 5 sind mehr damit beschäftigt, Prozesse zu führen als an der Verbesserung ihrer Prüfungen zu arbeiten. "Unaccountable" - Dieses Buch diskutiert die wirklich wichtigen Themen, beschreibt Möglichkeiten der Reform und erläutert die Auswirkungen, die diese auf Investoren und die Öffentlichkeit haben werden.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0471468517

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9780471468516

Macroeconomic Theory

A Dynamic General Equilibrium Approach (Second Edition)

By: Michael Wickens,Mike Wickens

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Macroeconomic Theory

A Dynamic General Equilibrium Approach (Second Edition)

By: Michael Wickens,Mike Wickens

Suitable for students and researchers seeking coverage of the developments in macroeconomics, this title lays out the core ideas of modern macroeconomics and its links with finance. It presents the simplest general equilibrium macroeconomic model for a closed economy, and then gradually develops a comprehensive model of the open economy.

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Princeton University Press

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0691152861

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The Oxford Handbook of Strategy Implementation

By: Michael A. Hitt,Susan E. Jackson,Salvador Carmona,Leonard Bierman,Christina E. Shalley,Mike Wright

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The Oxford Handbook of Strategy Implementation

By: Michael A. Hitt,Susan E. Jackson,Salvador Carmona,Leonard Bierman,Christina E. Shalley,Mike Wright

Many strategies fail not because they are improperly formulated but because they are poorly implemented. The Oxford Handbook of Strategy Implementation examines the crucial role of implementation in how business and managerial strategies produce returns. In this wide-ranging collection of essays, leading scholars address governance, resources, human capital, and accounting-based control systems, advancing our understanding of strategy implementation and identifying opportunities for future research on this important process.

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Gotham

A History of New York City to 1898

By: Edwin G. Burrows,Mike Wallace

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Gotham

A History of New York City to 1898

By: Edwin G. Burrows,Mike Wallace

To European explorers, it was Eden, a paradise of waist-high grasses, towering stands of walnut, maple, chestnut, and oak, and forests that teemed with bears, wolves, raccoons, beavers, otters, and foxes. Today, it is the site of Broadway and Wall Street, the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty, and the home of millions of people, who have come from every corner of the nation and the globe. In Gotham, Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace have produced a monumental work of history, one that ranges from the Indian tribes that settled in and around the island of Manna-hata, to the consolidation of the five boroughs into Greater New York in 1898. It is an epic narrative, a story as vast and as varied as the city it chronicles, and it underscores that the history of New York is the story of our nation. Readers will relive the tumultuous early years of New Amsterdam under the Dutch West India Company, Peter Stuyvesant's despotic regime, Indian wars, slave resistance and revolt, the Revolutionary War and the defeat of Washington's army on Brooklyn Heights, the destructive seven years of British occupation, New York as the nation's first capital, the duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton, the Erie Canal and the coming of the railroads, the growth of the city as a port and financial center, the infamous draft riots of the Civil War, the great flood of immigrants, the rise of mass entertainment such as vaudeville and Coney Island, the building of the Brooklyn Bridge and the birth of the skyscraper. Here too is a cast of thousands--the rebel Jacob Leisler and the reformer Joanna Bethune; Clement Moore, who saved Greenwich Village from the city's street-grid plan; Herman Melville, who painted disillusioned portraits of city life; and Walt Whitman, who happily celebrated that same life. We meet the rebel Jacob Leisler and the reformer Joanna Bethune; Boss Tweed and his nemesis, cartoonist Thomas Nast; Emma Goldman and Nellie Bly; Jacob Riis and Horace Greeley; police commissioner Theodore Roosevelt; Colonel Waring and his "white angels" (who revolutionized the sanitation department); millionaires John Jacob Astor, Cornelius Vanderbilt, August Belmont, and William Randolph Hearst; and hundreds more who left their mark on this great city. The events and people who crowd these pages guarantee that this is no mere local history. It is in fact a portrait of the heart and soul of America, and a book that will mesmerize everyone interested in the peaks and valleys of American life as found in the greatest city on earth. Gotham is a dazzling read, a fast-paced, brilliant narrative that carries the reader along as it threads hundreds of stories into one great blockbuster of a book.

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Oxford University Press

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0199741204

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Foul Perfection

Essays and Criticism

By: Mike Kelley

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Foul Perfection

Essays and Criticism

By: Mike Kelley

Critical writings and commentary by the Los Angeles based artist Mike Kelley. The work of artist Mike Kelley (b. 1954) embraces performance, installation, drawing, painting, video, and sculpture. Drawing distinctively on high art and vernacular traditions, including historical research, popular culture, and psychology, Kelley came to prominence in the 1980s with a series of sculptures composed of craft materials. His recent work offers dialogues with architecture and with repressed memory syndrome, and a sustained inquiry into his own aesthetic and social history. The subjects on which Kelley has written are as varied as his artistic media. They include the work of fellow artists, sound, caricature, the uncanny, UFOlogy, and gender-bending. This book offers a diverse collection of Kelley's writings from the last twenty-five years. It contains major critical texts on art, film, and the wider culture, including his piece on the aesthetic he calls "urban Gothic." It also contains essays, mostly commissioned for exhibition catalogs and journals, on the artists and groups David Askevold, Öyvind Fahlström, Douglas Huebler, John Miller, Survival Research Laboratories, and Paul Thek, among others. Kelley's voices are passionate, analytic, and ironic, and his critical intelligence is leavened with touches of whimsy.

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268

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MIT Press

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0262611783

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Mike Royko: The Chicago Tribune Collection 1984-1997

By: Mike Royko

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Mike Royko: The Chicago Tribune Collection 1984-1997

By: Mike Royko

Mike Royko: The Chicago Tribune Collection 1984–1997 is an expansive new volume of the longtime Chicago news legend’s work. Encompassing thousands of his columns, all of which originally appeared in the Chicago Tribune, this is the first collection of Royko work to solely cover his time at the Tribune. Covering politics, culture, sports, and more, Royko brings his trademark sarcasm and cantankerous wit to a complete compendium of his last 14 years as a newspaper man. Organized chronologically, these columns display Royko's talent for crafting fictional conversations that reveal the truth of the small-minded in our society. From cagey political points to hysterical take-downs of "meatball" sports fans, Royko's writing was beloved and anticipated anxiously by his fans. In plain language, he "tells it like it is" on subjects relevant to modern society. In addition to his columns, the book features Royko's obituary and articles written about him after his death, telling the tale of his life and success. This ultimate collection is a must-read for Royko fans, longtime Chicago Tribune readers, and Chicagoans who love the city's rich history of dedicated and insightful journalism.

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Agate Digital

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1572844922

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9781572844926

The Ultimate Golf Trivia Book

By: Mike Towle

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The Ultimate Golf Trivia Book

By: Mike Towle

The Ultimate Golf Trivia Book is interactive in that each of the eighteen chapters is assigned a par of three, four, or five. Readers can keep score and earn eagles, birdies, pars, bogeys, and double bogeys dependent on the number of correct answers he or she provides for that chapter. Par for this book's course is 72. Golf-savvy readers will love trying to break 80. Scattered throughout the book are interesting sidebars such as top-ten lists, strange-but-true stories, and more than thirty photographs.

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Thomas Nelson

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1418554170

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9781418554170

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