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The American Senate

An Insider's History

By: Neil MacNeil,Richard A. Baker

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The American Senate

An Insider's History

By: Neil MacNeil,Richard A. Baker

Shares the history of the United States Senate, including its struggles with the presidency, its investigative power, and how filibustering became a common practice.

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Oxford University Press

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0190231963

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Patterns of American Jurisprudence

By: Neil Duxbury

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Patterns of American Jurisprudence

By: Neil Duxbury

This unique study offers a comprehensive analysis of American jurisprudence from its emergence in the later stages of the nineteenth century through to the present day. The author argues that it is a mistake to view American jurisprudence as a collection of movements and schools which have emerged in opposition to each other. By offering a highly original analysis of legal formalism, legal realism, policy science, process jurisprudence, law and economics, and critical legal studies, he demonstrates that American jurisprudence has evolved as a collection of themes which reflect broader American intellectual and cultural concerns.

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Clarendon Press

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0191018767

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9780191018763

Northumberland and Tyneside's War

Voice of the First World War

By: Neil R. Storey,Fiona Kay

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Northumberland and Tyneside's War

Voice of the First World War

By: Neil R. Storey,Fiona Kay

Captures the experiences of the people of Tyneside and Northumberland in the First World War in their own words.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445669439

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Negro League Baseball

The Rise and Ruin of a Black Institution

By: Neil Lanctot

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Negro League Baseball

The Rise and Ruin of a Black Institution

By: Neil Lanctot

The story of black professional baseball provides a remarkable perspective on several major themes in modern African American history: the initial black response to segregation, the subsequent struggle to establish successful separate enterprises, and the later movement toward integration. Baseball functioned as a critical component in the separate economy catering to black consumers in the urban centers of the North and South. While most black businesses struggled to survive from year to year, professional baseball teams and leagues operated for decades, representing a major achievement in black enterprise and institution building. Negro League Baseball: The Rise and Ruin of a Black Institution presents the extraordinary history of a great African American achievement, from its lowest ebb during the Depression, through its golden age and World War II, until its gradual disappearance during the early years of the civil rights era. Faced with only a limited amount of correspondence and documents, Lanctot consulted virtually every sports page of every black newspaper located in a league city. He then conducted interviews with former players and scrutinized existing financial, court, and federal records. Through his efforts, Lanctot has painstakingly reconstructed the institutional history of black professional baseball, locating the players, teams, owners, and fans in the wider context of the league's administration. In addition, he provides valuable insight into the changing attitudes of African Americans toward the need for separate institutions.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812202562

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Campy

The Two Lives of Roy Campanella

By: Neil Lanctot

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Campy

The Two Lives of Roy Campanella

By: Neil Lanctot

Neil Lanctot’s biography of Hall of Fame catcher Roy Campanella—filled with surprises—is the first life of the Dodger great in decades and the most authoritative ever published. Born to a father of Italian descent and an African- American mother, Campanella wanted to be a ballplayer from childhood but was barred by color from the major leagues. He dropped out of school to play professional ball with the Negro Leagues’ Washington (later Baltimore) Elite Giants, where he honed his skills under Hall of Fame catcher Biz Mackey. Campy played eight years in the Negro Leagues until the major leagues integrated. Ironically, he and not Jackie Robinson might have been the player to integrate baseball, as Lanctot reveals. An early recruit to Branch Rickey’s “Great Experiment” with the Brooklyn Dodgers, Campy became the first African-American catcher in the twentieth century in the major leagues. As Lanctot discloses, Campanella and Robinson, pioneers of integration, had a contentious relationship, largely as a result of a dispute over postseason barnstorming. Campanella was a mainstay of the great Dodger teams that consistently contended for pennants in the late 1940s and 1950s. He was a three-time MVP, an outstanding defensive catcher, and a powerful offensive threat. But on a rainy January night in 1958, all that changed. On his way home from his liquor store in Harlem, Campy lost control of his car, hit a utility pole, and was paralyzed below the neck. Lanctot reveals how Campanella’s complicated personal life (he would marry three times) played a role in the accident. Campanella would now become another sort of pioneer, learning new techniques of physical therapy under the celebrated Dr. Howard Rusk at his Institute of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. As he gradually recovered some limited motion, Campanella inspired other athletes and physically handicapped people everywhere. Based on interviews with dozens of people who knew Roy Campanella and diligent research into contemporary sources, Campy offers a three-dimensional portrait of this gifted athlete and remarkable man whose second life after baseball would prove as illustrious and courageous as his first.

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Simon and Schuster

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1451606494

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9781451606492

Understanding Psychological Contracts at Work

A Critical Evaluation of Theory and Research

By: Neil Conway,Rob B. Briner

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Understanding Psychological Contracts at Work

A Critical Evaluation of Theory and Research

By: Neil Conway,Rob B. Briner

How can we understand the relationship between employer and employee? What determines the give and take of such relationships and what happens when they go wrong? This book is the first to provide a comprehensive and critical overview of what is now the major way of trying to understand the employment relationship - the concept of the psychological contract. Written contracts often specify very little in terms of the important details about what we are prepared to do for our employer and what we want back in return. The psychological contract considers these implicit or unwritten aspects of the employment relationship. What do employees really expect from work? What happens when the contract, or 'the deal', with their employer is broken? How well does the psychological contract help us understand what happens at work between an employee and their employer? Is the idea of practical value in managing employees? How can our understanding of this important concept be developed in the future? Starting with a history of the concept, from its emergence in the 1960s through to it finding wider acceptance in the 1990s, the authors trace the conflicting and changing definitions of the psychological contract. The shifting meaning of the concept allows possible methodological and conceptual weaknesses of the psychological contract to be explored, such as the conceptual emphasis on process within the employment relationship, which has so far been neglected by researchers. The authors start to address this issue by considering whether employees and employers can use what is known about the psychological contract to better manage the employment relationship. Written to provide a comprehensive yet critical introduction to the topic, Understanding Psychological Contracts at Work will be key reading for advanced students, lecturers, and researchers in Organizational Psychology, Organization Studies, Management Studies, Human Resource Management, Occupational Psychology; and professionals and practitioners in Occupational Psychology, Management Consultancy, Human Resource Management, Careers and Career Management, Career Counselling, Workplace Training.

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OUP Oxford

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0191515639

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In Action with the SAS

Updated Edition of SAS

By: David Horner,Neil Thomas

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In Action with the SAS

Updated Edition of SAS

By: David Horner,Neil Thomas

Thrilling examination of some of the actions the SAS has been involved in up to and including its service in East Timor."--Publisher's website.

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1459603656

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The 1970s

By: Neil A. Hamilton

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The 1970s

By: Neil A. Hamilton

Traces the history of the United States during the 1970s as well as presenting primary source material such as memoirs, letters, news articles, and speeches.

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Infobase Publishing

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1438108788

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King Khama, Emperor Joe, and the Great White Queen

Victorian Britain Through African Eyes

By: Neil Parsons

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King Khama, Emperor Joe, and the Great White Queen

Victorian Britain Through African Eyes

By: Neil Parsons

They were remarkably successful in gaining support, eventually swaying Secretary of State for the Colonies Joseph Chamberlain into drafting the agreement that secured their territories against the encroachment of Rhodesia, leading indirectly to the independence of present-day Botswana.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226647455

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The Bike, the Brush Up and the Beauty of the Journey

By: Claudine J. Neil

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The Bike, the Brush Up and the Beauty of the Journey

By: Claudine J. Neil

The Bike, the Brush Up and the Beauty of the Journey is the story of a fun-loving, adventure-seeking motorcyclist who survives a near fatal accident, but sustains a traumatic brain injury and numerous physical injuries. It begins with what perhaps is an eerie prediction of what is to come when her bike fails to start and an ominous sign that she should have stayed in that weekend. Peppered with memories throughout her recovery, she relives thrilling moments on the road, albeit with an ornery riding partner she calls Cowboy. She tolerates their acrimonious relationship because of her deep passion for riding and their mutual sense of adventure. With her life in turmoil, she tries desperately to deal with the losses, including her life as she knew it, and struggles with being on the verge of fifty; unable to let go of the past, move forward, or start over.

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1496932803

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Computability and Complexity

From a Programming Perspective

By: Neil D. Jones

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Computability and Complexity

From a Programming Perspective

By: Neil D. Jones

Computability and complexity theory should be of central concern to practitioners as well as theorists. Unfortunately, however, the field is known for its impenetrability. Neil Jones's goal as an educator and author is to build a bridge between computability and complexity theory and other areas of computer science, especially programming. In a shift away from the Turing machine- and G�del number-oriented classical approaches, Jones uses concepts familiar from programming languages to make computability and complexity more accessible to computer scientists and more applicable to practical programming problems. According to Jones, the fields of computability and complexity theory, as well as programming languages and semantics, have a great deal to offer each other. Computability and complexity theory have a breadth, depth, and generality not often seen in programming languages. The programming language community, meanwhile, has a firm grasp of algorithm design, presentation, and implementation. In addition, programming languages sometimes provide computational models that are more realistic in certain crucial aspects than traditional models. New results in the book include a proof that constant time factors do matter for its programming-oriented model of computation. (In contrast, Turing machines have a counterintuitive "constant speedup" property: that almost any program can be made to run faster, by any amount. Its proof involves techniques irrelevant to practice.) Further results include simple characterizations in programming terms of the central complexity classes PTIME and LOGSPACE, and a new approach to complete problems for NLOGSPACE, PTIME, NPTIME, and PSPACE, uniformly based on Boolean programs. Foundations of Computing series

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0262100649

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The Story of Ireland

A History of the Irish People

By: Neil Hegarty

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The Story of Ireland

A History of the Irish People

By: Neil Hegarty

In this groundbreaking history of Ireland, Neil Hegarty presents a fresh perspective on Ireland's past. Comprehensive and engaging, The Story of Ireland is an eye-opening account of a nation that has long been shaped by forces beyond its coasts. The Story of Ireland re-examines Irish history, challenging the accepted stories and long-held myths associated with Ireland. Transporting readers to the Ireland of the past, beginning with the first settlement in A.D. 433, this is a sweeping and compelling history of one of the world's most dynamic nations. Hegarty examines how world events, including Europe's 16th century religious wars, the French and American revolutions, and Ireland's policy of neutrality during World War II, have shaped the country over the course of its long and fascinating history. With an up-to-date afterword that details the present state of affairs in Ireland, this is an essential text for readers who are fascinated by current events, politics, and history. Spanning Irish history from its earliest inhabitants to the country's current financial crisis, The Story of Ireland is an epic and brilliant re-telling of Ireland's history from a new point of view.

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Macmillan

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1429941294

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9781429941297

Milton, Rights and Liberties

By: Neil Forsyth

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Milton, Rights and Liberties

By: Neil Forsyth

On July 14th, 1790, a key figure in the French Revolution honoured Milton as a founding father of the French republic. In the light of this connection, it was appropriate that the 8th International Milton Symposium (7-11 June 2005) was held in Grenoble, cradle of the French Revolution. But the connection of Milton and Rights takes us well beyond the specific link with France, and the fascinating selection of essays assembled in this volume, many by leading Milton scholars, addresses the question in the poetry as well as the prose. Milton's fervent but changing attitude to liberties is debated from various points of view, so that the volume contains essays on topics ranging from the musical adaptations of Samson Agonistes to its angrily argued parallel with contemporary terrorism, from air pollution in Paradise Lost to Milton's supposed Puritanism and putative parallels with a French pornographer.

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Peter Lang

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3039112368

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9783039112364

Augustus Baltazar

By: Neil Bursnoll

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Augustus Baltazar

By: Neil Bursnoll

Mark. Enforcer. Just plain old Stu. Augustus Baltazar is a Paranormal Investigator with more skeletons than space in the cupboard. He only has best friend Mike to depend on, until beautiful brunette Jenny threatens to rattle his bones. DI Joe Merrick is on his last life with the Police force, caught between a case he is struggling to solve and a DS with a different opinion. Out of all this, what piece of the puzzle does Mike's girlfriend Sera hold? And just what are the sinister shadow and the man on fire that haunt them all? Once the fuse is lit, everything changes. This is the first thrilling volume in an ongoing series from emerging author Neil Bursnoll.

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Andrews UK Limited

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1782348344

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Writers' Retreats

Literary Cabins, Creative Hideaways, and Favorite Writing Spaces of Iconic Authors

By: Neil Burkey

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Writers' Retreats

Literary Cabins, Creative Hideaways, and Favorite Writing Spaces of Iconic Authors

By: Neil Burkey

Featuring over 50 writers and their getaways--get a glimpse into the creative habits of some of the greatest writers of the last two centuries. From Henry David Thoreau's famous cabin at Walden Pond and James Baldwin's 'Welcome Table' in Provence, to Roald Dahl's garden hut and Toni Morrison's sunrise-lit couch at dawn, Writers' Retreats reveals the quirky, private, and sometimes curious places where literary magic has happened. Each location is brought to life through illustration and the writer's own words on what made that place so perfect for creating. An exploration of famous literary writers of past and present, from Emily Dickinson and Marcel Proust to Margaret Atwood, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Alice Munro, this is the perfect bookish gift for both writers and booklovers to feed their fascination with what ignited the creativity behind their favorite works of literature.

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Charlesbridge Publishing

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1623545102

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They Stand Beside Us

The lives of the Old Colcestrians who died in the Second World War

By: Neil Brinded,Michael Green,Colonel Richard Kemp CBE

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They Stand Beside Us

The lives of the Old Colcestrians who died in the Second World War

By: Neil Brinded,Michael Green,Colonel Richard Kemp CBE

The path of countless ages has been trod By many a scholar now forgotten, save For the inscribed tombstone of his grave (If not already sunken ‘neath the sod). And if these men be now mere names or less, They’ve done their share to keep the School alive, And uphold that tradition we derive From those men in the days of Good Queen Bess; And we must let our fame be ne’er outshone, Holding aloft the school’s honour and name, That she may continue to rise in fame, Surpassing heights attained in years now gone. However, this our work cannot be done Unless a share is taken by each one. — Flight Lieutenant Benjamin Robinson DFC RAF, former CRGS pupil, Killed in Action over Germany, 17th June 1944.

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Paragon Publishing

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1782227946

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Shadow

A Cottontail Bomber Crew in World War II

By: Neil Hunter Raiford

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Shadow

A Cottontail Bomber Crew in World War II

By: Neil Hunter Raiford

This is the poignant and exciting story of a statistical anomaly, a B-24 bomber crew that completed 50 combat missions in World War II. This crew was part of the famous 450th Bomb Group, which was nicknamed the "Cottontails" because of their white rudders. As part of the 15th Army Air Force, they flew strategic bombing missions out of Manduria, Italy (in the heel of the boot) and struck strategic targets which were out of the reach of the 8th Army Air Force bases in England. The group lost 1,505 airmen in only a year and a half--the equivalent of losing their effective flying strength three times over. The book's title comes from the crew's bomber, Shadow, which in turn was named for the pilot's black cocker spaniel that flew with them on training missions. Based on interviews with the surviving crewmembers and their families as well as extant archival source material, the book details the childhood, training and post-war life of each of its 13 principal characters. Chapter One is a discussion of each man's boyhood years and Chapter Two provides details of the training that each received. In Chapter Three, the original crew of ten (Crew #4-N-33) was formed in Clovis, New Mexico. An assignment for training in Clovis and in B-24s meant that the crew had been designated for heavy bombardment. Chapter Four includes a description of the four main objectives for the crew, one of which was to participate in POINTBLANK, the Combined Bomber Offensive, which called for the destruction of German fighter aircraft plants, ball bearing plants, oil refineries, rubber plants, munitions factories, sub pens and bases. Details of the structural components of most missions are provided in Chapter Five. The crew completes its first missions in Chapter Six. In Chapter Seven, "Shadow" completes its last after taking enemy fire, and Chapter Eight introduces a new plane, Sleepy Time Gal. The book's Epilogue contains information about the post-war lives of the crew.

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McFarland

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0786481498

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The Diamond in the Bronx

Yankee Stadium and the Politics of New York

By: Neil J. Sullivan

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The Diamond in the Bronx

Yankee Stadium and the Politics of New York

By: Neil J. Sullivan

Timed to be released at the start of 2008 spring training, Neil Sullivan's The Diamond in the Bronx chronicles the entire history of a stadium that has been home to the greatest dynasty in sports history, a stadium that will see its final Yankees game in 2008. As Yankee Stadium is about to become a memory, an indelible part of the cultural history of baseball and of New York City, Neil Sullivan's The Diamond in the Bronx offers a fascinating account of its history and its position at the intersection of sports, business, government, and society, Sullivan tells how Yankee Stadium came to be built in 1923, at a time when the Bronx was a burgeoning borough that held middle class housing for immigrants as well as hunting lodges for wealthy Manhattanites, an era when small children could ride the subway, alone, to the ball game, and when many of the ballplayers themselves lived on the Grand Concourse. As the city and the Bronx changed, Yankeedom changed too, and the stadium is now surrounded by of parking lots, symbolic of the team's suburban fan base and the decline of the South Bronx. In recent years the team has threatened to leave New York City, prompting extravagant proposals for keeping it there, including a billion dollar new stadium in Manhattan to be financed with public money. The resulting stadium controversy tells us much about the public's changing views of government and the changing nature of professional sports. For Yankee fans, baseball aficionados, and anyone interested in the increasingly vexed relationship between sports, business, and politics, The Diamond in the Bronx offers a wealth of detail, insight, and historical perspective.

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Oxford University Press

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0190623527

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The Minors

By: Neil J. Sullivan

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The Minors

By: Neil J. Sullivan

This impressive history of baseball in the smaller towns and cities of the U.S. is divided into three sections. The first covers the years from 1877 to 1920, when the modern game was evolving and the general outlines of major and minor leagues were taking shape; the second treats the period from 1920 to 1950, the golden age of the minors; the third is devoted to the expansion of the majors and the rise of television, both of which all but destroyed the minors, reducing the number of leagues from 59 to 21.

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0312302215

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The New Democracy Wars

The Politics of North American Democracy Promotion in the Americas

By: Neil A. Burron

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The New Democracy Wars

The Politics of North American Democracy Promotion in the Americas

By: Neil A. Burron

Burron provides a critical analysis of Canadian and US democracy promotion in the Americas. He concentrates on Haiti, Peru, and Bolivia in particular but situates them within a larger analysis of Canadian and US foreign policy - bilateral and regional - in the areas of trade, investment, diplomacy, security and, for the United States, the war on drugs. His main argument is that democracy promotion is typically formulated to advance commercial, geopolitical and security objectives that conflict with a genuine commitment to democratic development. Given this broad scope, the book is well positioned to contribute to a number of debates in comparative Latin American politics and international political economy (IPE) with a focus on North-South relations in the hemisphere.

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Routledge

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1317022939

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Fair Dealing and Clean Playing

The Hilldale Club and the Development of Black Professional Baseball, 1910-1932

By: Neil Lanctot

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Fair Dealing and Clean Playing

The Hilldale Club and the Development of Black Professional Baseball, 1910-1932

By: Neil Lanctot

The Hilldale Club of Darby, Pennsylvania, was the dominant team in black baseball during the 1920s. Their success came about largely through the efforts of Hilldale president and manager Edward Bolden. Bolden’s professionalism and reputation for fair play were instrumental in his forming the Eastern Colored (EC) League in 1922. This absorbing story, highlighted with vivid photographs, chronicles the origins and development of black baseball.

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Syracuse University Press

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0815608659

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Uncanny

By: Peter Hepplewhite,Neil Tonge

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Uncanny

By: Peter Hepplewhite,Neil Tonge

Presents five puzzling stories, and the theories that try to unravel them.

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Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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Leadership and Literacy

Principals, Partnerships and Pathways to Improvement

By: Neil Dempster,Tony Townsend,Greer Johnson,Anne Bayetto,Susan Lovett,Elizabeth Stevens

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Leadership and Literacy

Principals, Partnerships and Pathways to Improvement

By: Neil Dempster,Tony Townsend,Greer Johnson,Anne Bayetto,Susan Lovett,Elizabeth Stevens

This book focuses on what school leaders need to know and understand about leadership for learning, and for learning to read in particular. It brings together theory, research and practice on leadership for literacy. The book reports on the findings from six studies that followed school principals from their involvement in a professional learning program consisting of five modules on leadership and the teaching of reading, to implementation action in their schools. It describes how they applied a range of strategies to create leadership partnerships with their teachers, pursuing eight related dimensions from a Leadership for Learning framework or blueprint. The early chapters of the book feature the use of practical tools as a focus for leadership activity. These chapters consider, for example, how principals and teachers can develop deeper understandings of their schools’ contexts; how professional discussions can be conducted with a process called ‘disciplined dialogue’; and how principals might encourage approaches to shared leadership with their teachers. The overall findings presented in this book emphasise five positive positions on leadership for learning to read: the importance of an agreed moral purpose; sharing leadership for improvement; understanding what learning to read involves; implementing and evaluating reading interventions; and recognising the need for support for leaders’ learning on-the-job.

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3319542982

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Moral Certainty and the Foundations of Morality

By: Neil O'Hara

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Moral Certainty and the Foundations of Morality

By: Neil O'Hara

What lies at the foundation of our moral beliefs? If we dig down far enough do we find that our moral values have no ground at all to stand on, and so are apt to collapse upon serious philosophical investigation? This book seeks to answer these and related questions by positing an indubitable foundation for our moral beliefs – they arise from the phenomenon of ‘primary recognition’, and are fundamentally shaped by ‘basic moral certainties’. Drawing on philosophers such as Ludwig Wittgenstein and Knud Ejler Løgstrup, this book draws together insights from both Analytic and Continental philosophy to provide a convincing new picture of our moral foundations. And it does so in a way that eschews moral conservativism and opens the way for a rich understanding of the variety and particularity of our human moral systems, while also keeping a significant place for those moral beliefs that occur universally, across cultures.

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3319754440

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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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1136790233

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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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1529192501

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The Indian and Pacific Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, 1768–1820, Volume 6

By: Neil Chambers

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The Indian and Pacific Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, 1768–1820, Volume 6

By: Neil Chambers

Following his participation in James Cook's circumnavigation in HMS Endeavour (1768-71), Joseph Banks developed an extensive global network of scientists and explorers. His correspondence shows how he developed effective working links with the British Admiralty and with the generation of naval officers who sailed after Cook. Volume 6 Letters 1801–1805

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1315475928

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Cycling and the British

A Modern History

By: Neil Carter

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Cycling and the British

A Modern History

By: Neil Carter

Cycling is currently enjoying a boom in popularity. What are the reasons behind this phenomenon? How have perceptions and the popularity of cycling shifted? This book charts the historical development of cycling both as a leisure and sporting activity since the 19th century and explores the wider political and cultural context in which cycling in Britain emerged. In particular, it examines cycling's relationship with environmental politics and its place in popular culture. Neil Carter successfully traverses several historical sub-disciplines, including the history of transport, leisure, sport, medicine and politics, employing the analytical tools of class, gender, political culture, the role of the state and commercialism to demonstrate how British identity has shaped and been shaped by cycling. At a time when it has become part of debates over transport and health, Cycling and the British: A Modern History provides a timely and clear analysis of the changes and continuities in attitudes towards cycling.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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W.F.P. Burton (1886-1971): A Pentecostal Pioneer's Missional Vision for Congo

By: David Neil Emmett

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W.F.P. Burton (1886-1971): A Pentecostal Pioneer's Missional Vision for Congo

By: David Neil Emmett

Emmett shows how Pentecostalism in Belgian Congo was pioneered by W.F.P. Burton alongside local agency. Burton had a passionate desire to see the emancipation of humankind from the spiritual powers of darkness believing only Spirit-empowered local agency would prove effective.

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9004440739

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The Last Waltz of The Band

By: Neil Minturn

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The Last Waltz of The Band

By: Neil Minturn

For Vol. 2 of the series CMS Sourcebooks in American Music, Neil Minturn acknowledges the phenomenon of rock and roll with a serious examination of Martin Scorsese's film, THE LAST WALTZ (1978), the celebrated "rockumentary" that so artfully captured for posterity the final performance of The Band. From 1861 to 1976, this partnership of one American and four Canadians produced an impressive body of popular song in the rock idiom between 1961 and 1976. Joining its members for their farewell performance are a variety of guests, who, like The Band itself, reflected the rich array of traditions that have nourished rock and roll since its emergence. Minturn approaches the substance of the performances and the film itself in terms of intimacy and tradition. He presents the San Francisco concert as a summation of an extraordinary musical journey and prefaces his "scene-by-scene" analysis with a cogent introduction to documentary filmmaking. Selected performances are discussed in detail.

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Pendragon Press

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1576470938

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Journey’S End

Revised Edition

By: Neil L. Hawkins

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Journey’S End

Revised Edition

By: Neil L. Hawkins

In this second sequel to The Book in the Loft the stars suddenly vanish and then reappear, throwing the crews of the Circle of Planets starship Explorer and the Surion battle cruiser Doras into a distorted universe. And shortly after a battle with aliens from out of Earths past, two of Explorers crew disappear. Captain Jon Varkon and Surion Captain Korron then set out to find the cause that twisted space and time. Their journey takes them to the secrets of creation gone wrongto loss, abandonment, and death, with no idea how to return to the life they knew.

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1504905717

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Policing the Poor

From Slave Plantation to Public Housing

By: Neil Websdale

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Policing the Poor

From Slave Plantation to Public Housing

By: Neil Websdale

A hard-hitting examination of community policing and its negative impact on the urban poor.

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UPNE

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1555534961

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Shakespeare and the Origins of English

By: Neil Rhodes

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Shakespeare and the Origins of English

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What existed before there was a subject known as English? How did English eventually come about? Focusing specifically on Shakespeare's role in the origins of the subject, Rhodes addresses the evolution of English from the early modern period up to the late eighteenth century. He deals with the kinds of literary and educational practices that would have formed Shakespeare's experience and shaped his work and traces the origins of English in certain aspects of the educational regime that existed before English literature became an established part of the curriculum. Rhodes then presents Shakespeare both as a product of Renaissance rhetorical teaching and as an agent of the transformation of rhetoric in the eighteenth century into the subject that emerged as the modern study of English. By transferring terms from contemporary disciplines, such as 'media studies' and 'creative writing', or the technology of computing, to earlier cultural contexts Rhodes aims both to invite further reflection on the nature of the practices themselves, and also to offer new ways of thinking about their relationship to the discipline of English. Shakespeare and the Origins of English attempts not only an explanation of where English came from, but suggests how some of the things that we do now in the name of 'English' might usefully be understood in a wider historical perspective. By extending our view of its past, we may achieve a clearer view of its future.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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019924572X

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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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The Big East

Inside the Most Entertaining and Influential Conference in College Basketball History

By: Dana O'Neil

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The Big East

Inside the Most Entertaining and Influential Conference in College Basketball History

By: Dana O'Neil

The definitive, compulsively readable story of the greatest era of the most iconic league in college basketball history—the Big East “This book, full of long-standing rivalries, unmatched moments in the lives of coaches and players, and juicy insider gossip, is, like the game of basketball, a ton of fun.”—Philadelphia magazine The names need no introduction: Thompson and Patrick, Boeheim and the Pearl, and of course Gavitt. And the moments are part of college basketball lore: the Sweater Game, Villanova Beats Georgetown, and Six Overtimes. But this is the story of the Big East Conference that you haven’t heard before—of how the Northeast, once an afterthought, became the epicenter of college basketball. Before the league’s founding, East Coast basketball had crowned just three national champions in forty years, and none since 1954. But in the Big East’s first ten years, five of its teams played for a national championship. The league didn’t merely inherit good teams; it created them. But how did this unlikely group of schools come to dominate college basketball so quickly and completely? Including interviews with more than sixty of the key figures in the conference’s history, The Big East charts the league’s daring beginnings and its incredible rise. It transports fans inside packed arenas to epic wars fought between transcendent players, and behind locker-room doors where combustible coaches battled even more fiercely for a leg up. Started on a handshake and a prayer, the Big East carved an improbable arc in sports history, an ensemble of Catholic schools banding together to not only improve their own stations but rewrite the geographic boundaries of basketball. As former UConn coach Jim Calhoun eloquently put it, “It was Camelot. Camelot with bad language.”

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Ballantine Books

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0593237951

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Cognitive-behavioral Therapy for Deaf and Hearing Persons with Language and Learning Challenges

By: Neil S. Glickman

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Cognitive-behavioral Therapy for Deaf and Hearing Persons with Language and Learning Challenges

By: Neil S. Glickman

The needs of deaf and hearing people with limited functioning can be a challenge for the mental health practitioner to meet. This text provides concrete guidance for adapting best practices in cognitive-behavioral therapy to deaf and hearing persons who are non- or semi-literate, and who have greatly impaired language skills or other cognitive deficits, such as mental retardation, that make it difficult for them to benefit from traditional talk- and insight-oriented psychotherapies. --

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Taylor & Francis

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0805863982

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This Unfriendly Soil

The Loyalist Experience in Nova Scotia, 1783-1791

By: Neil MacKinnon

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This Unfriendly Soil

The Loyalist Experience in Nova Scotia, 1783-1791

By: Neil MacKinnon

Following the American Revolution, more than 20,000 loyalists fled to Nova Scotia, doubling the population in a single year. Neil MacKinnon provides the first detailed account of this great wave of immigrants, their exodus and settlement, their adjustment to the new land, and their effect upon its people and institutions.

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0773507191

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Hate Crime

Impact, Causes and Responses

By: Neil Chakraborti,Jon Garland

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Hate Crime

Impact, Causes and Responses

By: Neil Chakraborti,Jon Garland

This engaging and thought-provoking text provides an accessible introduction to the subject of hate crime. In a world where issues of hatred and prejudice are creating complex challenges for society and for governments, this book provides an articulate and insightful overview of how such issues relate to crime and criminal justice. It offers comprehensive coverage, including topics such as: Racist hate crime Religiously motivated hate crime Homophobic crime Gender and violence Disablist hate crime

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SAGE Publications

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1412945682

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Public Interest Law

An Economic and Institutional Analysis

By: Burton Allen Weisbrod,Joel F. Handler,Neil K. Komesar

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Public Interest Law

An Economic and Institutional Analysis

By: Burton Allen Weisbrod,Joel F. Handler,Neil K. Komesar

Monographic compilation of essays on public interest, law activities in the USA - presents theoretical analysis of failure of government policy to enhance public interest law, firm behaviour and volume of business, presents case studies in interest group advocacy for environmental protection, housing, employment, sex discrimination, consumer protection, occupational safety and occupational health, etc., and includes jurisprudence. Graphs, references and statistical tables.

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