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Treasure Neverland

Real and Imaginary Pirates

By: Neil Rennie

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Treasure Neverland

Real and Imaginary Pirates

By: Neil Rennie

Treasure Neverland compares the facts of real eighteenth-century pirate lives with how such they were transformed artistically for historical novels, popular melodramas, boyish adventures, and Hollywood films.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199679339

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9780199679331

The A-Z of Victorian Crime

By: Neil R. A. Bell,Trevor Bond,Kate Clarke,M.W. Oldridge

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The A-Z of Victorian Crime

By: Neil R. A. Bell,Trevor Bond,Kate Clarke,M.W. Oldridge

The new definitive guide to Victorian crime.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445647877

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9781445647876

The A to Z from the Great War to the Great Depression

By: Neil A. Wynn

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The A to Z from the Great War to the Great Depression

By: Neil A. Wynn

This volume examines significant individuals and developments in American political, economic, social, and cultural history between the years 1913 and 1933. It was a time of momentous change including involvement in World War I, the Red Scare, the Jazz Age, the Crash of 1929, and the onset of the Great Depression. It covers the presidencies of Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover and the shift from reformism to conservatism. Prohibition and gangsterism symbolized the apparent failure of politics. The A to Z from the Great War to the Great Depression covers this important period in American history with a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on everything from automobiles, chemicals, and electrical goods, to mass entertainment and the rise of Hollywood, radio, and sport.

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Scarecrow Press

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0810863308

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9780810863309

The Gold

The real story behind Brink’s-Mat: Britain’s biggest heist

By: Neil Forsyth,Thomas Turner

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The Gold

The real story behind Brink’s-Mat: Britain’s biggest heist

By: Neil Forsyth,Thomas Turner

The real story that inspired the BBC drama, The Gold On Saturday, 26 November 1983, an armed gang stole gold bullion worth almost £26 million from the Brink's-Mat security depot near London's Heathrow Airport. It was the largest robbery in world history, and only the start of an extraordinary story. For forty years, myths and legends have grown around the Brink's-Mat heist and the events that followed. The heist led to a wave of international money laundering, provided dirty money that helped fuel the London Docklands property boom, caused seismic changes in both British crime and policing, and has been linked to a series of deaths that continued until 2015. The Gold is the conclusion of extensive research and includes exclusive testimony from one of the original robbers who gives his version of events for the first time. The result is the astonishing true story of the robbery of the century.

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Random House

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1529192501

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9781529192506

Profile in Silver

And Other Screenwritings

By: J. Neil Schulman

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Profile in Silver

And Other Screenwritings

By: J. Neil Schulman

For most of the '80s and early '90s, Schulman wrote screenplays and stories, including scripts for "The Twilight Zone." For devotees of TV, movies, and science fiction, this book shows that sometimes the stories that aren't on the screen are as compelling as the ones that are.

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Pulpless.Com

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1584451025

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9781584451020

Norwich in the Second World War

By: Neil R Storey

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Norwich in the Second World War

By: Neil R Storey

Norwich in the Second World War is the story of the city and its people, both civilian and military, from the construction of the first air raid shelters in 1938 through to VE Day in 1945 and the return of Far Eastern prisoners of war in 1946. Featuring first-hand accounts of what happened when enemy bombers raided the city, notably during the notorious Baedeker Blitz of 1942, rare photographs and documents make this book a must for anyone who knows and loves the city of Norwich.

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The History Press

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0750999799

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9780750999793

Futile Diplomacy, Volume 3

The United Nations, the Great Powers and Middle East Peacemaking, 1948-1954

By: Neil Caplan

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Futile Diplomacy, Volume 3

The United Nations, the Great Powers and Middle East Peacemaking, 1948-1954

By: Neil Caplan

This book, first published in 1997, provides a careful and balanced behind-the-scenes account of the intricate diplomatic activity of the period between the first and second Arab-Israeli wars. The author examines the recurring deadlocks in terms of the motives and calculations of the various parties, and reveals how new incentives of pressures offered by outsiders proved incapable of reversing the serious deterioration of Arab-Israeli relations as the region headed for war at Suez. The text of this volume comprises both an in-depth analysis of the period and events, and a selection of primary documents from archival sources.

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Routledge

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1317441915

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9781317441915

Futile Diplomacy

The United Nations, the Great Powers and Middle East Peacemaking 1948-1954

By: Neil Caplan

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Futile Diplomacy

The United Nations, the Great Powers and Middle East Peacemaking 1948-1954

By: Neil Caplan

These two volumes provide a careful and balanced behind-the-scenes account of the intricate diplomatic activity of the period between the first and second Arab-Israeli wars. Exploiting a range of available archive sources as well as extensive secondary sources, they provide an authoritative analysis of the positions and strategies which the principal parties and the would-be mediators adopted in the elusive search for a stable peace. The author examines the recurring deadlocks in terms of the motives and calculations of the various parties, and reveals how new incentives of pressures offered by outsiders proved incapable of reversing the serious deterioration of Arab-Israeli relations as the region headed for war at Suez. The text of each volume comprises both analytical-historical chapters and a selection of primary documents from archival sources.

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Routledge

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1135250251

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Futile Diplomacy: The United Nations, the great powers, and Middle East peacemaking, 1948-1954

By: Neil Caplan

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Futile Diplomacy: The United Nations, the great powers, and Middle East peacemaking, 1948-1954

By: Neil Caplan

These four volumes provide a careful and balanced behind-the-scenes account of the intricate diplomatic activity of the period between 1913 and 1956. Exploiting a range of available archive sources as well as extensive secondary sources, they provide an authoritative analysis of the positions and strategies which the principal parties and the would-be mediators adopted in the elusive search for a stable peace. The text of each volume comprises both analytical-historical chapters and a selection of primary documents from archival sources ...

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Psychology Press

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071464756X

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9780714647562

The Birds of British Columbia

Nonpasserines: Diurnal Birds of Prey Through Woodpeckers

By: Robert Wayne Campbell,Neil K. Dawe,British Columbia. Wildlife Branch,Canadian Wildlife Service,Ian McTaggart-Cowan

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The Birds of British Columbia

Nonpasserines: Diurnal Birds of Prey Through Woodpeckers

By: Robert Wayne Campbell,Neil K. Dawe,British Columbia. Wildlife Branch,Canadian Wildlife Service,Ian McTaggart-Cowan

This volume completes the nonpasserine species and contains accounts for the diurnal birds of prey through woodpeckers.

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UBC Press, [1997]-2001.

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0774806192

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9780774806190

Draw in the Dunes

The 1969 Ryder Cup and the Finish That Shocked the World

By: Neil Sagebiel

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Draw in the Dunes

The 1969 Ryder Cup and the Finish That Shocked the World

By: Neil Sagebiel

Chronicles the events and incredible finish of the 1969 Ryder Cup, a golf tournament that began a lifelong friendship between the two stars, Jack Nicklaus and Tony Jacklin.

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Macmillan

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1250015952

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9781250015952

Category 5

The 1935 Labor Day Hurricane

By: Thomas Neil Knowles

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Category 5

The 1935 Labor Day Hurricane

By: Thomas Neil Knowles

In the midst of the Great Depression, a furious storm struck the Florida Keys with devastating force. With winds estimated at over 225 miles per hour, it was the first recorded Category 5 hurricane to make landfall in the United States. Striking at a time before storms were named, the catastrophic tropical cyclone became known as the 1935 Labor Day Hurricane, and its aftermath was felt all the way to Washington, D.C. In the hardest hit area of the Florida Keys, three out of every five residents were killed, while hundreds of World War I veterans sent there by the federal government perished. By sifting through overlooked official records and interviewing survivors and the relatives of victims, Thomas Knowles pieces together this dramatic story, moment by horrifying moment. He explains what daily life was like on the Keys, why the veteran work force was there (and relatively unprotected), the state of weather forecasting at the time, the activities of the media covering the disaster, and the actions of government agencies in the face of severe criticism over their response to the disaster. The Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 remains one of the most intense to strike America's shores. Category 5 is a sobering reminder that even with modern meteorological tools and emergency management systems, a similar storm could cause even more death and destruction today.

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University Press of Florida

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081304703X

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9780813047034

Cold Blooded Evil

By: Neil Root

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Cold Blooded Evil

By: Neil Root

On December 2nd, 2006, the naked body of a woman was discovered in woodland just south of the Suffolk satellite town of Ipswich. Over the next ten days, four further bodies were found. All were naked - prostitutes who worked in Ipswich's red light district - and all five had been strangled. This work presents the story of the Ipswich Killer.

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Kings Road Publishing

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1843586878

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9781843586876

The Longest Shot

Jack Fleck, Ben Hogan, and Pro Golf's Greatest Upset at the 1955 U.S. Open

By: Neil Sagebiel

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The Longest Shot

Jack Fleck, Ben Hogan, and Pro Golf's Greatest Upset at the 1955 U.S. Open

By: Neil Sagebiel

The Longest Shot tells the inspirational story of the unknown golfer from Iowa who beat his idol in the 1955 U.S. Open. With the overlooked Jack Fleck still playing the course, NBC-TV proclaimed that the legendary Ben Hogan had won his record fifth U.S. Open and signed off from San Francisco. Undaunted, the forgotten Iowan rallied to overcome a nine-shot deficit over the last three rounds—still a U.S. Open record—and made a pressure-packed putt to tie Hogan on the final hole of regulation play. The two men then squared off in a tense, 18-hole playoff from which Fleck emerged victorious in one of the most startling upsets in sports history. On par with the classic golf narratives of Mark Frost and John Feinstein, The Longest Shot will surprise and delight fans as they trace the improbable journey of an unheralded former caddie who played his way into the record books by out-dueling the sport's greatest champion of his time.

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Macmillan

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1250012406

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9781250012401

Birds of British Columbia, Volume 2

Nonpasserines - Diurnal Birds of Prey through Woodpeckers

By: Wayne Campbell,Neil K. Dawe,Ian McTaggart-Cowan,John M. Cooper,Gary W. Kaiser,Michael C.E. McNall

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Birds of British Columbia, Volume 2

Nonpasserines - Diurnal Birds of Prey through Woodpeckers

By: Wayne Campbell,Neil K. Dawe,Ian McTaggart-Cowan,John M. Cooper,Gary W. Kaiser,Michael C.E. McNall

This volume completes the nonpasserine species and contains accounts for the diurnal birds of prey through woodpeckers.

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UBC Press

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0774844361

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9780774844369

Capturing Jack The Ripper

In the Boots of a Bobby in Victorian England

By: Neil R. A. Bell

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Capturing Jack The Ripper

In the Boots of a Bobby in Victorian England

By: Neil R. A. Bell

Explores life in the Victorian police force from the time of Jack the Ripper, from training to discovering a murder.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445621681

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9781445621685

Futile Diplomacy - A History of Arab-Israeli Negotiations, 1913-56

By: Neil Caplan

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Futile Diplomacy - A History of Arab-Israeli Negotiations, 1913-56

By: Neil Caplan

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Routledge

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1317444450

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9781317444459

French and American Prisoners of War at Dartmoor Prison, 1805-1816

The Strangest Experiment

By: Neil Davie

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French and American Prisoners of War at Dartmoor Prison, 1805-1816

The Strangest Experiment

By: Neil Davie

This book explores the history of Dartmoor War Prison (1805-16). This is not the well-known Victorian convict prison, but a less familiar penal institution, conceived and built nearly half a century earlier in the midst of the long-running wars against France, and destined, not for criminals, but for French and later American prisoners of war. During a period of six and a half years, more than 20,000 captives passed through its gates. Drawing on contemporary official records from Britain, France and the USA, and a wealth of prisoners’ letters, diaries and memoirs (many of them studied here in detail for the first time), this book examines how Dartmoor War Prison was conceived and designed; how it was administered both from London and on the ground; how the fate of its prisoners intertwined with the military and diplomatic history of the period; and finally how those prisoners interacted with each other, with their captors, and with the wider community. The history of the prison on the moor is one marked by high hopes and noble intentions, but also of neglect, hardship, disease and death

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Springer Nature

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3030838919

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9783030838911

Industrial Analysis with Vibrational Spectroscopy

By: Neil W Barnett,G Dent,John M Chalmers

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Industrial Analysis with Vibrational Spectroscopy

By: Neil W Barnett,G Dent,John M Chalmers

Industrial Analysis with Vibrational Spectroscopy is an integrated work which emphasises the synergy and complementary nature of the techniques of infrared and Raman spectroscopy in industrial laboratories. The book is written in a pragmatic and straight-forward manner and is illustrated throughout with examples of real-world, everyday problems and applications. It provides a developed, realistic insight into industrial analysis with vibrational spectroscopy for both undergraduate and academic researcher, while additionally providing a straight-forward working tool of value to the industrial laboratory worker.

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Royal Society of Chemistry

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1849730660

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9781849730662

A Bright Shining Lie

John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

By: Neil Sheehan

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A Bright Shining Lie

John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

By: Neil Sheehan

One of the most acclaimed books of our time—the definitive Vietnam War exposé and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. When he came to Vietnam in 1962, Lieutenant Colonel John Paul Vann was the one clear-sighted participant in an enterprise riddled with arrogance and self-deception, a charismatic soldier who put his life and career on the line in an attempt to convince his superiors that the war should be fought another way. By the time he died in 1972, Vann had embraced the follies he once decried. He died believing that the war had been won. In this magisterial book, a monument of history and biography that was awarded the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction, a renowned journalist tells the story of John Vann—"the one irreplaceable American in Vietnam"—and of the tragedy that destroyed a country and squandered so much of America's young manhood and resources.

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Vintage

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0679603808

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9780679603801

Jailhouse Stories

Memories of a Small-town Sheriff

By: Neil Haugerud

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Jailhouse Stories

Memories of a Small-town Sheriff

By: Neil Haugerud

In the 1950s and '60s Neil Haugerud served as sheriff of Fillmore County in southeastern Minnesota. During this time, he and his wife and their four small children made their home in the building that housed the county jail. In Jailhouse Stories, Haugerud describes what it was like to live above a prison, where jailbirds and jailbreaks were part of family life. These are the reminiscences of a real-life Andy Griffith character, a man dedicated to maintaining order during both peaceful and turbulent days in rural America. Through the author we meet colorful characters on both sides of the law: for example, Doc Nehring, the county coroner, who uses dark humor to get through the grim duties of his job, and Irvin Johnson, who becomes the sheriff's friend despite his constant drinking and incarceration. Stories of domestic squabbles and infidelity are mixed with those of church functions and child rearing. Throughout the stories runs Haugerud's compassionate outlook on human nature. "I came to understand how people make a lot of mistakes, but in my view there are very few bad people, " he writes. The town where Haugerud lives is part Mayberry, part Twin Peaks. We get a glimpse into the lives of the town's citizens, whose problems range from the ordinary to the offbeat to the downright bizarre. In stories that are by turns heartwarming and sad, humorous and humane, Jailhouse Stories tells of the trials, tribulations, and pleasures of rural law enforcement during a bygone era.

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U of Minnesota Press

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0816633614

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9780816633616

Dictionary of American Classical Composers

By: Neil Butterworth

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Dictionary of American Classical Composers

By: Neil Butterworth

The Dictionary of American Classical Composers covers over 650 composers active from the 18th century to today. Covering all classical styles, it offers the most comprehensive overview of key composers in the United States available. Entries include basic biographical information and critical analysis of each composer's key works and ideas. Entries also include worklists and bibliographic information. Whenever possible, the entries will have been checked by the composers themselves to assure greatest possible accuracy. This new edition, completely updated and expanded from the 1984 edition, also includes over 200 historic photographs.

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Routledge

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1136790233

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9781136790232

Lawrence of Arabia's War

The Arabs, the British and the Remaking of the Middle East in WWI

By: Neil Faulkner

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Lawrence of Arabia's War

The Arabs, the British and the Remaking of the Middle East in WWI

By: Neil Faulkner

This radically new perspective on T. E. Lawrence, the Arab Revolt, and WWI in the Middle East provides essential insight into today’s violent conflicts. Archaeologist and historian Neil Faulkner draws on ten years of field research in the Middle East to offer the first truly multidisciplinary history of the conflicts that raged in Sinai, Arabia, Palestine, and Syria during the First World War. Rarely is a book published that revises our understanding of an entire world region and the history that has defined it. This groundbreaking volume makes just such a contribution. In Lawrence of Arabia’s War, Faulkner sheds new light on British intelligence officer T. E. Lawrence and his legendary military campaigns. He explores the intersections among the declining Ottoman Empire, the Bedouin tribes, rising Arab nationalism, and Western imperial ambition. Faulkner arrives at a provocative new analysis of Ottoman resilience in the face of modern industrialized warfare. This analysis leads him to reassesses the relative weight of conventional operations in Palestine and irregular warfare in Syria—and thus the historic roots of today’s divided, fractious, war-torn Middle East.

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Yale University Press

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0300219458

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9780300219456

Richest of the Spoils

In God We Trust, Presidents Just Come and Go!

By: Neil Michael O'Mara

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Richest of the Spoils

In God We Trust, Presidents Just Come and Go!

By: Neil Michael O'Mara

Political reporter Eddie Novak believes he is making a routine doorstep interview with a New York businessman, rumoured to sometimes deceive the law he has aspirations in the forthcoming elections to the Senate. To Eddie's horror, the candidate is the son-in-law of a Mafia crime boss. The meeting is memorable beyond belief and is the start of an association between the two, their families and the newspaper. The relationship between them starts as a cause and effect connection but as the mobster's career escalates so does the bad blood that becomes a war of nerves. The weapons employed to hurt each other are the ones each knows the better, the sword and the pen.

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Andrews UK Limited

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178538418X

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9781785384189

Lord's Dominion

The History of Canadian Methodism

By: Neil Semple

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Lord's Dominion

The History of Canadian Methodism

By: Neil Semple

Semple covers virtually every aspect of Canadian Methodism. He examines early nineteenth-century efforts to evangelize pioneer British North America and the revivalistic activities so important to the mid-nineteenth-century years. He documents Methodists' missionary work both overseas and in Canada among aboriginal peoples and immigrants. He analyses the Methodist contribution to Canadian education and the leadership the church provided for the expansion of the role of women in society. He also assesses the spiritual and social dimensions of evangelical religion in the personal lives of Methodists, addressing such social issues as prohibition, prostitution, the importance of the family, and changing attitudes toward children in Methodist doctrine and Canada in general. Semple argues that Methodism evolved into the most Canadian of all the churches, helping to break down the geographic, political, economic, ethnic, and social divisions that confounded national unity. Although the Methodist Church did not achieve the universality it aspired to, he concludes that it succeeded in defining the religious, political, and social agenda for the Protestant component of Canada, providing a powerful legacy of service to humanity and to God.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773565752

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9780773565753

The League That Lasted

1876 and the Founding of the National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs

By: Neil W. Macdonald

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The League That Lasted

1876 and the Founding of the National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs

By: Neil W. Macdonald

In the early 1870s, baseball was chaos, mired in mismanagement and corruption. William Hulbert, the owner of Chicago's National Association team, believed that a league run efficiently with honest competition would survive and flourish. Hulbert, relying on his pragmatic philosophy of "molasses now, vinegar later" and working with his prize recruit Albert Spalding, founded the National League in 1876. That inaugural season of the National League is chronicled in this heavily documented work. The league fell far short of Hulbert's dreams in its first season, but he stuck to his belief that integrity would win out in the end. He not only prohibited Sunday baseball and the sale and consumption of alcohol within the league's ballparks, but ousted two teams--New York and Philadelphia--from the league because they failed to meet their obligation to finish out the season. Despite the setbacks, scandals, and considerable opposition, all of which are thoroughly covered here, the National League survived its first year.

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McFarland

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0786417552

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Lichfield Book of Days

By: Neil Coley

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Lichfield Book of Days

By: Neil Coley

Taking you through the year day by day, The Lichfield Book of Days contains quirky, eccentric, shocking, amusing and important events and facts from different periods in the history of the cathedral city. Ideal for dipping into, this addictive little book will keep you entertained and informed. Featuring hundreds of snippets of information gleaned from the vaults of Lichfield’s archives and covering the social, political, religious, agricultural, criminal, industrial and sporting history of the region, it will delight residents and visitors alike.

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The History Press

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0750957441

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Electric Don Quixote: The Definitive Story Of Frank Zappa

By: Neil Slaven

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Electric Don Quixote: The Definitive Story Of Frank Zappa

By: Neil Slaven

Frank Zappa's reputation as one of rock's maverick geniuses has continued to grow since his death in 1993. Revised and updated, Electric Don Quixote is still the most comprehensive chronicle of his extraordinary life and career. Author, Neil Slaven, brings together the complex strands of Zappa's life and work in a book that will please not just Zappa fans but anyone interested in the history of rock music. Fully illustrated and includes a comprehensive discography.

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0857120433

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9780857120434

The Piano Lessons Book

By: Neil Miller

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The Piano Lessons Book

By: Neil Miller

THE PIANO LESSONS BOOK by Neil Miller provides the essential information required to excel at playing the piano: what you should be learning in piano lessons so you can play to your full potential. It is the piano student's guide for getting the most out of practicing, lessons, your teacher and yourself. Whether your preferences are towards classical, jazz or popular music, THE PIANO LESSONS BOOK will show you organized practicing methods that take the mystery out of music, revealing how music is put together and easing the challenges of piano playing.THE PIANO LESSONS BOOK combines Neil Miller's creative teaching techniques and experiences with practicing and performing, comprehensively covering topics extremely useful to anyone taking or planning to take lessons.In THE PIANO LESSONS BOOK, Neil Miller recounts relevant personal incidents and informative historical accounts, to enlighten and entertain. Hundreds of illustrations and musical examples enhance the explanations.

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THE PIANO LESSONS BOOK

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1434818535

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9781434818539

The Absurd in Literature

By: Neil Cornwell

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The Absurd in Literature

By: Neil Cornwell

This is the first book to offer a comprehensive survey of the phenomenon of the absurd in a full literary context (that is to say, primarily in fiction, as well as in theatre).

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071907410X

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The Last Putt

2 Teams, One Dream & a Freshman Named Tiger

By: Neil Hayes,Brian Murphy

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The Last Putt

2 Teams, One Dream & a Freshman Named Tiger

By: Neil Hayes,Brian Murphy

College golf is the breeding ground for the PGA, and the sport’s overlooked chapter. And in 1995 college golf saw its ultimate showdown. At the NCAA championship, a freshman who would become the sport’s biggest icon stood on the green in a sudden-death playoff that would settle the score in a tense and heated rivalry. Would Tiger Woods sink the putt? Based on exhaustive reporting and interviews, The Last Putt tells the story of an epic rivalry that encapsulated the changing face of the game. On one side was Oklahoma State, a true golfing dynasty featuring the young bloods of a privileged golf family and a coach whose winning record and reputation for toughness made him a mythical figure. On the other side was Stanford, born of the creative recruiting of an unforgettable group of players: Notah Begay (golf ’s first prominent Native American), Casey Martin (who broke down barriers by playing with a severe disability), and Tiger Woods. A stirring ensemble tale of young men carving out their futures on and off the course, The Last Putt makes for compelling, stroke-for-stroke reading down to the last putt.

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HarperCollins

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0547487118

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Dr. Seuss and Mr. Geisel

A Biography

By: Judith Morgan,Neil Morgan

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Dr. Seuss and Mr. Geisel

A Biography

By: Judith Morgan,Neil Morgan

Horton, Thidwick, Yertle, the Lorax, the Grinch, Sneetches, and the Cat in the Hat are just a handful of the bizarre and beloved characters Theodor S. Geisel (1904–1991), alias Dr. Seuss, created in his forty-seven children's books, from 1937's And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street to 1990's Oh, the Places You'll Go! During his lifetime Dr. Seuss was honored with numerous degrees, three Academy Awards, and a Pulitzer, but the man himself remained a reclusive enigma. In this first and only biography of the good doctor, the authors, his close friends for almost thirty years, have drawn on their firsthand insights as well as his voluminous papers; the result is an illuminating, intimate portrait of a dreamer who saw the world "through the wrong end of a telescope," and invited us to enjoy the view.

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Da Capo Press

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030680736X

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