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Christmas Movie Ultimate Trivia Book

Test Your Superfan Status and Relive the Most Iconic Christmas Movie Moments

By: Neal E. Fischer

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Christmas Movie Ultimate Trivia Book

Test Your Superfan Status and Relive the Most Iconic Christmas Movie Moments

By: Neal E. Fischer

Put your Christmas-movie expertise to the test with nearly 500 trivia questions, accompanied by entertaining illustrations capturing your favorite holiday-film moments. Quiz yourself or compete with your friends! With challenging questions from over 180 of the greatest Christmas movies in film history, Christmas Movie Ultimate Trivia Book is the perfect way to show off your knowledge and prove your superfan status. Filled with captivating illustrations and photos that transport you back to the thrill of your first viewing, this delightful book allows you to relive your favorite holiday-film moments whenever the mood strikes. Covering Love Actually, Home Alone, Die Hard, The Santa Clause, ELF, and more…Christmas Movie Ultimate Trivia Book brings the movies to life with copious facts on your favorite actors, actresses, their lives on and off camera, and so much more. Perfect for your coffee table or as a gift, to enjoy solo or in a group, this beautifully designed book includes: Hundreds of questions to test your Christmas-movie knowledge Multiple choice, true/false, and matching quizzes Illustrations of the most memorable moments from holiday-film history A rating system and a scoring sheet to determine just how much of a fan you really are Whether you’re just getting into the holiday genre or you’ve been a superfan of Christmas movies for years, Christmas Movie Ultimate Trivia Book will uplift and amuse you with its quizzes, interesting facts, captivating illustrations, and exclusive content. So test your Christmas-movie knowledge and become the ultimate superfan!

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Epic Ink

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0760392277

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9780760392270

LSU Bowl Games

A Complete History

By: Neal Golden

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LSU Bowl Games

A Complete History

By: Neal Golden

Telling the story of LSU football through coverage of each of the Tigers' 50 bowl games--from 1907 through 2019--this book provides summaries of the team's regular season, and their opponents' season, along with quarter-by-quarter game highlights, important stats, and quotes from players and coaches. Bowl games are presented in a number of notable contexts, including games against Hall of Fame coaches (1936-1938 Sugar Bowls, 2010 Capital One Bowl), games that featured Heisman Trophy winners (1959-1960 Sugar Bowls, 2019 Peach Bowl), LSU's first games against black players (1965 Sugar Bowl, 1972 Bluebonnet Bowl), and the first game played by a U.S. football team in a foreign country (1907 Bacardi Bowl).

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McFarland

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1476683115

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9781476683119

Lived Experiences of Multiculture

The New Social and Spatial Relations of Diversity

By: Sarah Neal,Katy Bennett,Allan Cochrane,Giles Mohan

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Lived Experiences of Multiculture

The New Social and Spatial Relations of Diversity

By: Sarah Neal,Katy Bennett,Allan Cochrane,Giles Mohan

In an increasingly ethnically diverse society, debates about migration, community, cultural difference and social interaction have never been more pressing. Drawing on the findings from a two-year, qualitative Economic and Social Research Council funded study of different locations across England, Lived Experiences of Multiculture uses interdisciplinary perspectives to examine the ways in which complex urban populations experience, negotiate, accommodate and resist cultural difference as they share a range of everyday social resources and public spaces. The authors present novel ways of re-thinking and developing concepts such as multiculture, community and conviviality, whilst also repositioning debates which focus on conflict models for understanding cultural differences. Amidst highly charged arguments over the social relations of belonging and the meanings of local and national identities, this timely volume will appeal to advanced undergraduate students and graduate students interested in fields such as Race and Ethnicity Studies, Sociology, Urban Studies, Human Geography and Migration Studies.

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Routledge

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1317240863

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Looking for Leroy

Illegible Black Masculinities

By: Mark Anthony Neal

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Looking for Leroy

Illegible Black Masculinities

By: Mark Anthony Neal

Mark Anthony Neal’s Looking for Leroy is an engaging and provocative analysis of the complex ways in which black masculinity has been read and misread through contemporary American popular culture. Neal argues that black men and boys are bound, in profound ways, to and by their legibility. The most “legible” black male bodies are often rendered as criminal, bodies in need of policing and containment. Ironically, Neal argues, this sort of legibility brings welcome relief to white America, providing easily identifiable images of black men in an era defined by shifts in racial, sexual, and gendered identities. Neal highlights the radical potential of rendering legible black male bodies—those bodies that are all too real for us—as illegible, while simultaneously rendering illegible black male bodies—those versions of black masculinity that we can’t believe are real—as legible. In examining figures such as hip-hop entrepreneur and artist Jay-Z, R&B Svengali R. Kelly, the late vocalist Luther Vandross, and characters from the hit HBO series The Wire, among others, Neal demonstrates how distinct representations of black masculinity can break the links in the public imagination that create antagonism toward black men. Looking for Leroy features close readings of contemporary black masculinity and popular culture, highlighting both the complexity and accessibility of black men and boys through visual and sonic cues within American culture, media, and public policy. By rendering legible the illegible, Neal maps the range of identifications and anxieties that have marked the performance and reception of post-Civil Rights era African American masculinity.

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NYU Press

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0814760600

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Winchell

Gossip, Power, and the Culture of Celebrity

By: Neal Gabler

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Winchell

Gossip, Power, and the Culture of Celebrity

By: Neal Gabler

Hailed as the most important and entertaining biography in recent memory, Gabler's account of the life of fast-talking gossip columnist and radio broadcaster Walter Winchell "fuses meticulous research with a deft grasp of the cultural nuances of an era when virtually everyone who mattered paid homage to Winchell" (Time). of photos.

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Vintage

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0679764399

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The Book Lady

A Psychological Horror Novel

By: Rodney Neal Powell,Chandra Renee Powell

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The Book Lady

A Psychological Horror Novel

By: Rodney Neal Powell,Chandra Renee Powell

The Book Lady By: Rodney Neal Powell and Chandra Renee Powell Revenge and horror has a name, Lucinda Annette McKay, a woman driven to the depths of insanity and ravages a Southern Louisiana town targeting its most vulnerable population and adapting twisted fairy tales as her MO to exact her revenge. Can Lucinda McKay be stopped? The Book Lady will have your heart racing to the most shocking ending you won't expect.

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Dorrance Publishing

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1646105125

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No Plan

By: Neal Locke

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No Plan

By: Neal Locke

The officers of the Delta shift for the Crest Police Department in central Oklahoma work the graveyard shift. They work from 11 p.m. until 7 a.m. protecting the citizens of the City of Crest. They do routine police work like answering calls for service, traffic enforcement, writing reports and anything that is needed of them to insure the safety and well being of the City of Crest. A large shipment belonging to a criminal enterprise has been lost. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has information about the shipment and they too have lost contact. Local contacts and the criminal enterprise are looking hard for the shipment, but four police officers of the Delta shift have already found it. As this story progresses the suspense on what is going to happen next takes the medium sized City of Crest into an unfamiliar setting of drugs, money, murder, good cops, and bad cops.

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Author House

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1449084117

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Security as Politics

Beyond the State of Exception

By: Neal Andrew W. Neal

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Security as Politics

Beyond the State of Exception

By: Neal Andrew W. Neal

Andrew W. Neal argues that while 'security' was once an anti-political 'exception' in liberal democracies - a black box of secret intelligence and military decision-making at the dark heart of the state - it has now become normalised in professional political life. This represents a direct challenge to critical security studies debates and their core assumption that security is a kind of illiberal and undemocratic 'anti-politics'. Using archival research and interviews with politicians, Neal investigates security politics from the 1980s to the present day to show how its meaning and practice have changed over time. In doing so, he develops an original reassessment of the security/politics relationship.

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Edinburgh University Press

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1474450954

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The Great Plains States of America: People, Politics, and Power in the Nine Great Plains States

By: Neal R. Peirce

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The Great Plains States of America: People, Politics, and Power in the Nine Great Plains States

By: Neal R. Peirce

Outlines the characteristics, problems, and progress of the nine Great Plains states and describes the region's geographical features.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393053490

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9780393053494

Bemused

By: Neal Gray

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Bemused

By: Neal Gray

A brutal and mysterious murder claims the heart of a city and tears a family apart. When a family member who had become famous is murdered, relationships are strained and tested. But, in one case, love is found in this moving tale of dishonesty, lies, and deceit.

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Trafford Publishing

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1490777598

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9781490777597

GAAP Guide Level A 2009

By: Jan R. Williams,Joseph V Carcello, Ph.D., CPA,Joseph V. Carcello,Terry L. Neal

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GAAP Guide Level A 2009

By: Jan R. Williams,Joseph V Carcello, Ph.D., CPA,Joseph V. Carcello,Terry L. Neal

Providing an analysis of authoritative GAAP literature contained in Level A of the GAAP hierarchy, this resource discusses each pronouncement in a comprehensive format that makes it easy to understand and apply.

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CCH

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0808092189

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9780808092186

Catching the Wind

Edward Kennedy and the Liberal Hour, 1932-1975

By: Neal Gabler

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Catching the Wind

Edward Kennedy and the Liberal Hour, 1932-1975

By: Neal Gabler

NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • “One of the truly great biographies of our time.”—Sean Wilentz, New York Times bestselling author of Bob Dylan in America and The Rise of American Democracy “A landmark study of Washington power politics in the twentieth century in the Robert Caro tradition.”—Douglas Brinkley, New York Times bestselling author of American Moonshot The epic, definitive biography of Ted Kennedy—an immersive journey through the life of a complicated man and a sweeping history of the fall of liberalism and the collapse of political morality. Catching the Wind is the first volume of Neal Gabler’s magisterial two-volume biography of Edward Kennedy. It is at once a human drama, a history of American politics in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, and a study of political morality and the role it played in the tortuous course of liberalism. Though he is often portrayed as a reckless hedonist who rode his father’s fortune and his brothers’ coattails to a Senate seat at the age of thirty, the Ted Kennedy in Catching the Wind is one the public seldom saw—a man both racked by and driven by insecurity, a man so doubtful of himself that he sinned in order to be redeemed. The last and by most contemporary accounts the least of the Kennedys, a lightweight. He lived an agonizing childhood, being shuffled from school to school at his mother’s whim, suffering numerous humiliations—including self-inflicted ones—and being pressed to rise to his brothers’ level. He entered the Senate with his colleagues’ lowest expectations, a show horse, not a workhorse, but he used his “ninth-child’s talent” of deference to and comity with his Senate elders to become a promising legislator. And with the deaths of his brothers John and Robert, he was compelled to become something more: the custodian of their political mission. In Catching the Wind, Kennedy, using his late brothers’ moral authority, becomes a moving force in the great “liberal hour,” which sees the passage of the anti-poverty program and the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts. Then, with the election of Richard Nixon, he becomes the leading voice of liberalism itself at a time when its power is waning: a “shadow president,” challenging Nixon to keep the American promise to the marginalized, while Nixon lives in terror of a Kennedy restoration. Catching the Wind also shows how Kennedy’s moral authority is eroded by the fatal auto accident on Chappaquiddick Island in 1969, dealing a blow not just to Kennedy but to liberalism. In this sweeping biography, Gabler tells a story that is Shakespearean in its dimensions: the story of a star-crossed figure who rises above his seeming limitations and the tragedy that envelopes him to change the face of America.

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Crown

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0307405451

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9780307405456

Seveneves

A Novel

By: Neal Stephenson

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Seveneves

A Novel

By: Neal Stephenson

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anathem, Reamde, and Cryptonomicon comes an exciting and thought-provoking science fiction epic—a grand story of annihilation and survival spanning five thousand years. What would happen if the world were ending? A catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb. In a feverish race against the inevitable, nations around the globe band together to devise an ambitious plan to ensure the survival of humanity far beyond our atmosphere, in outer space. But the complexities and unpredictability of human nature coupled with unforeseen challenges and dangers threaten the intrepid pioneers, until only a handful of survivors remain . . . Five thousand years later, their progeny—seven distinct races now three billion strong—embark on yet another audacious journey into the unknown . . . to an alien world utterly transformed by cataclysm and time: Earth. A writer of dazzling genius and imaginative vision, Neal Stephenson combines science, philosophy, technology, psychology, and literature in a magnificent work of speculative fiction that offers a portrait of a future that is both extraordinary and eerily recognizable. As he did in Anathem, Cryptonomicon, the Baroque Cycle, and Reamde, Stephenson explores some of our biggest ideas and perplexing challenges in a breathtaking saga that is daring, engrossing, and altogether brilliant.

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Harper Collins

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0062190415

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Searching for Franklin

By: Neal Locke

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Searching for Franklin

By: Neal Locke

Searching for Franklin follows the trail of thirty-six million dollars that once belonged to a Mexican Mafia Cartel. The money being transported from back east to the cartel made an unexpected stop in Crown Oklahoma. The money was accidently found by four police officers that know the money is drug money and they take steps to hide it as revealed in the authors first novel "NO PLAN." It has been over a year and the four police officers think the coast is clear so they decide to start spending some of their find. The trail of the money takes a sudden turn when an ex-con burglarizes one of the locations some of the money was hidden. The ex-con reveals to a friend he has a large sum of money and the Mexican Mafia is alerted. The cartel and the FBI are doing everything they can to find the money. An FBI Agent through his investigation has narrowed his search to the four police officers. The cartel is following the trail of the ex-con and the race is on to find the money. As the FBI Agent closes in on the four police officers the pressure is starting to take a toll on them as the ex-con takes the cartel on a cross country journey trying to avoid them. The ex-con takes refuge with an old friend only to find he has been double-crossed. The FBI Agent thinks he has the case solved but events leave him guessing. The conclusion will keep every one guessing as to the final destination of the money.

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1477277544

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Sitting on a Keg of Dynamite

Father Bill, Texas City, and a Disaster Foretold

By: John Neal Phillips

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Sitting on a Keg of Dynamite

Father Bill, Texas City, and a Disaster Foretold

By: John Neal Phillips

On April 16, 1947, the French vessel SS Grandcamp, carrying ammonium nitrate fertilizer, exploded in the port of Texas City, just north of Galveston, Texas. Nearly 600 people died instantly and property damage reached catastrophic proportions. The Texas City disaster remains, to date, the worst industrial accident in U.S. history. Among those killed was William Roach, a Roman Catholic priest known affectionately as Father Bill. Sitting on a Keg of Dynamite, by historian John Neal Phillips, tells the remarkable story of Father Bill’s life and premature death against the backdrop of the rapid growth—and near destruction—of an American industrial city. Through extensive archival research and oral interviews, Phillips pieces together previously unknown details of Father Bill’s story to present a well-rounded portrait of the man who is today revered as a hero. Born in Philadelphia, Roach attended seminary in Arkansas before he went on to serve as parish priest for St. Mary of the Miraculous Medal in Texas City. Restless, energetic, and beloved for his humor, tolerance, and empathy, Father Bill was an outspoken advocate for poor and working-class citizens, fair wages, and workplace safety. One evening, as Phillips vividly recounts, Roach sat on the church steps, looking out at the strange orange-yellow light created by hydrocarbon gas flares emerging from nearby oil refineries. “I feel like I’m sitting on a keg of dynamite,” he told parishioners who were passing by. His premonition proved prophetic. When a fire erupted onboard the Grandcamp, Father Bill hurried to the docks to lend assistance. It was then that the ship detonated. There is still much to be learned from the Texas City disaster—and from the legacy of Father Bill, an early crusader for social justice in America. Descendants of the disaster victims received financial reparations, and yet, as Phillips cautions, safety and environmental regulations barely exist in Texas today, particularly when it comes to the petrochemical industry. Sitting on a Keg of Dynamite serves as a cautionary tale for Texans—and all Americans—as environmental accidents continue to threaten our safety.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806191465

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The Missing Girls

A Shocking True Story of Abduction and Murder

By: Rick Watson,Philip Tennyson,Linda O'Neal

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The Missing Girls

A Shocking True Story of Abduction and Murder

By: Rick Watson,Philip Tennyson,Linda O'Neal

Linda O'Neal recounts the events surrounding the 2002 disappearance of her step-granddaughter and her best friend, and shares what her private investigation has revealed about the case.

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Macmillan

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0312941617

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9780312941611

The Voice of the Blues

Classic Interviews from Living Blues Magazine

By: Jim O'Neal,Amy van Singel

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The Voice of the Blues

Classic Interviews from Living Blues Magazine

By: Jim O'Neal,Amy van Singel

The Voice of the Blues brings together interviews with many pioneering blues men including Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter, Jimmy Reed, B.B. King, and many others.

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Routledge

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1136707484

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Construction Law Update 2012

By: Neal J. Sweeney

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Construction Law Update 2012

By: Neal J. Sweeney

For the past 20 years, legal and business professionals in the constructionlaw industry have eagerly anticipated the annual release of thisbest-selling guide. The Construction Law Update chronicles andcommunicates changes in the construction law industry. Comprised of 14informative chapters -- each written by an expert or experts in the field --the 2012 Edition offers these contributing authors' timely,practical analysis on many current issues in the construction lawindustry.Construction Law Update brings you up-to-date with newdevelopments impacting six major geographical regions of the United States:Southeast, Northeast, Southwest, West, Northwest, and Midwest.For these regions, you'll discover what's happening in vital areas like:New legislation affecting payment obligationsBidding rights and obligationsContractual rights and obligationsBonds and liensInsurance and suretiesBuilding Code issuesArbitrationAnd more!

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Wolters Kluwer

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1454809892

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Day of the Phoenix

By: Neal James

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Day of the Phoenix

By: Neal James

Steve Marshall was ready. This time there would be no mistakes – no-one to derail the plan, and no-one to step outside his ideas for the perfect Britain. Anyone standing in the way of progress would be brutally mown down. Infiltrating the British Democratic Party was the ultimate solution to the establishment of a Fascist state – a state controlled by him and him alone. Robert Grafton, the party’s current leader, was going to be the perfect tool in the fulfilment of a dream, and would be just one more stepping stone on a path reaching back as far as the end of the Second World War. Marshall had toiled hard and long at the plan since the debacle of 1992. The Organisation had come within a whisker of success, and but for some strokes of outrageous fortune, MI5 and its head, the imperious George Watkinson, would have been all but consigned to history. This time it would be different. Neal James takes this sequel to ‘A Ticket to Tewkesbury’ into a frighteningly possible future. A future built upon the use of the ballot box to further the aims of a radical political society, and where the lessons of history are all too easily forgotten. Book reviews online: PublishedBestsellers website.

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Pneuma Springs Publishing

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1782283560

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Philosophy and the Modern African American Freedom Struggle

A Freedom Gaze

By: Anthony Sean Neal

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Philosophy and the Modern African American Freedom Struggle

A Freedom Gaze

By: Anthony Sean Neal

Philosophy and the Modern African American Freedom Struggle: A Freedom Gaze describes the ideas that defined the movement and struggle to be free by Black people in the United States during their Modern Era. Using a historical perspective, this work engages the question of how the historical experience of oppression and the denial of humanity created space for the development of a certain consciousness. The existence and demonstration of agency within the ideas of the African diaspora and the creation of an intentional community with the aim of defining and attaining freedom are dissected in order to understand the Black community as a whole during the modern era. This book was nominated for the 2023 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award in nonfiction.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1793640521

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Sapphire’s Literary Breakthrough

Erotic Literacies, Feminist Pedagogies, Environmental Justice Perspectives

By: Neal A. Lester,Lynette D. Myles

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Sapphire’s Literary Breakthrough

Erotic Literacies, Feminist Pedagogies, Environmental Justice Perspectives

By: Neal A. Lester,Lynette D. Myles

The first collection focused on the writing of provocative author and performance artist Sapphire, including her groundbreaking novel PUSH that has since become the Academy-award-winning film Precious.

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Springer

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1137330864

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Sharks of the Air

Willy Messerschmitt and How He Built the World's First Operational Jet Fighter

By: James Neal Harvey

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Sharks of the Air

Willy Messerschmitt and How He Built the World's First Operational Jet Fighter

By: James Neal Harvey

“[A] perfect blend of sympathetic career biography and gripping military history . . . a definite winner for all World War II military history buffs” (Library Journal). In July 1944, the Allies were stunned by the appearance of the Messerschmitt Me 262, the world’s first operational jet warplane. More than one hundred mph faster than any other aircraft in the skies, the Me 262 gained scores of victories over Allied fighters and bombers, and by the end of the war, many of the Luftwaffe’s greatest aces had clamored to be in their cockpits. Sharks of the Air tells the story of Willy Messerschmitt’s life and shows how this aeronautical genius built many revolutionary airplanes—not excluding the Luftwaffe’s mainstay, the Me 109—and culminating in the Me 262. It describes how his various warplanes fought in Spain, Poland, France, Britain, the USSR, and Germany, and it provides thrilling accounts of air battles drawn from combat reports and interviews with veterans. And finally, this biography gives “insight into the life of a man who played a role in the Nazi war machine, but is not defined by it” (Scale Aviation Modeller International). Aspects of Messerschmitt’s life never before made public are revealed, including his love affair with the beautiful Baroness Lilly Michel-Rolino, a rich aristocrat who left her husband to live with Willy. Author James Harvey “uses his 40 years of flying experience and experience of aviation to tell the fascinating story of Messerschmitt and how, given the right conditions, Messerschmitt and other German aircraft designers could have changed the course of WWII” (Military Scale).

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Casemate

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1612000231

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9781612000237

Soldier: a Memoir

By: Neal Griffin

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Soldier: a Memoir

By: Neal Griffin

This memoir records my life during twenty years of military service. It begins when I was eighteen and joined the army and ends when I retired at thirty-eight. It describes my flaws, struggles, successes, failures, weaknesses, and insecurities as I face the challenges of military service. At the same time, it examines the relationship between two kids that got married too young. It describes their struggles and failures during the turmoil of army life, many overseas moves, raising kids, loneliness from frequent and long separations, and the results.

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1524625132

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Biogeochemistry and the Environment

By: Michael O'Neal Campbell

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Biogeochemistry and the Environment

By: Michael O'Neal Campbell

Biogeochemistry may be defined as the science that combines biological and chemical perspectives for the examination of the Earth’s surface, including the relations between the biosphere, lithosphere, atmosphere, and hydrosphere. Biogeochemistry is a comparatively recently developed science, that incorporates scientific knowledge and findings, research methodologies, and models linking the biological, chemical, and earth sciences. Therefore, while it is a definitive science with a strong theoretical core, it is also dynamically and broadly interlinked with other sciences. This book examines the complex science of biogeochemistry from a novel perspective, examining its comparatively recent development, while also emphasizing its interlinked relationship with the earth sciences (including the complementary science of geochemistry), the geographical sciences (biogeography, oceanography, geomatics, earth systems science), the biological sciences (ecology, wildlife studies, biological aspects of environmental sciences) and the chemical sciences (including environmental chemistry and pollution). The book covers cutting-edge topics on the science of biogeochemistry, examining its development, structure, interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, and transdisciplinary relations, and the future of the current complex knowledge systems, especially in the context of technological, developments, and the computer and data fields.

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