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Listening to Old Voices

Folklore, Life Stories, and the Elderly

By: Patrick B. Mullen

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Listening to Old Voices

Folklore, Life Stories, and the Elderly

By: Patrick B. Mullen

Patrick Mullen examines how elderly people use folk traditions to engage others and pass on their wisdom and knowledge to succeeding generations. Based on interviews with nine people in their seventies and eighties who live in rural Virginia, North Carolina, and southern Ohio, this book shows how folklore enriches people's lives. Mullen places the folklore - local legends, jokes, personal-experience narratives, family history, folk medicine, planting signs, foodways, wood carving, belief systems, customs, folk architecture - within the context of the individuals' life stories and the culture of their local communities. The analysis concentrates on recurring themes in each person's folklore and the rhetorical strategies the storytellers use to interest listeners and assure that their traditions will be passed on.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252018087

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CIA Rogues and the Killing of the Kennedys

How and Why US Agents Conspired to Assassinate JFK and RFK

By: Patrick Nolan

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CIA Rogues and the Killing of the Kennedys

How and Why US Agents Conspired to Assassinate JFK and RFK

By: Patrick Nolan

The US Central Intelligence Agency is no stranger to conspiracy and allegations of corruption. Across the globe, violent coups have been orchestrated, high-profile targets kidnapped, and world leaders dispatched at the hands of CIA agents. During the 1960s, on domestic soil, the methods used to protect their interests and themselves at the expense of the American people were no less ruthless. In CIA Rogues and the Killing of the Kennedys, Patrick Nolan fearlessly investigates the CIA’s involvement in the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Senator Robert F. Kennedy—why the brothers needed to die and how rogue intelligence agents orchestrated history’s most infamous conspiracy. Nolan furthers the research of leading forensic scientists, historians, and scholars who agree that there remain serious unanswered questions regarding the assassinations of John F. Kennedy fifty years ago and Robert F. Kennedy in 1968. He revisits and refutes what is currently known about Lee Harvey Oswald and Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, and offers readers a compelling profile of the CIA’s Richard Helms, an amoral master of clandestine operations with a chip on his shoulder. Bolstered by a foreword by Dr. Henry C. Lee, one of the world’s foremost forensic authorities, CIA Rogues and the Killing of the Kennedys is an unmatched effort in forensic research and detective work. As the fiftieth anniversary of the JFK assassination approaches, Nolan has made a significant contribution to the literature on that fateful day in Dallas as well as shed light on that dark night at the Ambassador Hotel. Readers interested in conspiracy, the Kennedy family, or American history will find this book invaluable.

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Skyhorse

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1628734507

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Justice on Fire

The Kansas City Firefighters Case and the Railroading of the Marlborough Five

By: J. Patrick O'Connor

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Justice on Fire

The Kansas City Firefighters Case and the Railroading of the Marlborough Five

By: J. Patrick O'Connor

On the night of November 29, 1988, near the impoverished Marlborough neighborhood in south Kansas City, an explosion at a construction site killed six of the city’s firefighters. It was a clear case of arson, and five people from Marlborough were duly convicted of the crime. But for veteran crime writer and crusading editor J. Patrick O’Connor, the facts—or a lack of them—didn’t add up. Justice on Fire is O’Connor’s detailed account of the terrible explosion that led to the firefighters’ deaths and the terrible injustice that followed. Justice on Fire describes a misguided eight-year investigation propelled by an overzealous Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) agent keen to retire; a mistake-riddled case conducted by a combative assistant US attorney willing to use compromised “snitch” witnesses and unwilling to admit contrary evidence; and a sentence of life without parole pronounced by a prosecution-favoring judge. In short, an abuse of government power and a travesty of justice. O’Connor’s own investigation, which uncovered evidence of witness tampering, intimidation, and prosecutorial misconduct, helped give rise to a front-page series of articles in the Kansas City Star—only to prompt a whitewashing inquiry by the Department of Justice that exonerated the lead ATF agent and named other possible perpetrators who remain unidentified and unindicted. O’Connor extends his scrutiny to this cover-up and arrives at a startling conclusion suggesting that the case of the Marlborough Five is far from closed. Journalists are not supposed to make the news. But faced with a gross injustice, and seeing no other remedy, O’Connor felt he must step in. Justice on Fire is such an intervention.

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University Press of Kansas

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0700626719

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Nonverbal Learning Disabilities

The Syndrome and the Model

By: Byron Patrick Rourke

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Nonverbal Learning Disabilities

The Syndrome and the Model

By: Byron Patrick Rourke

NONVERBAL LEARNING DISABILITIES systematically identifies, describes, and explains the elements and dynamics of the nonverbal learning disabilities (NLD) syndrome--including its neuropsychological, academic, and socioemotional/adaptational aspects. In addition, this groundbreaking work explores the ramifications of the NLD syndrome for both the theoretical and applied aspects of the neuropsychology of learning disabilities in particular and for the field of child-clinical neuropsychology in general.

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Guilford Press

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0898623782

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The Jagged Side of Midnight

By: Patrick DiCicco

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The Jagged Side of Midnight

By: Patrick DiCicco

Sired by a national champion, Summer Storm's birth in the beautiful rolling hills of Kentucky is a highly anticipated event. Great things are expected of Summer Storm, and she doesn't disappoint. Summer Storm-a beautiful, innocent, and carefree championship racehorse-has a persistent spirit. The word quit is not in her vocabulary. She wins every race she runs and achieves incredible success and fame. But the innocence of her youth is eventually consumed as the Mafia's tentacles grab hold and Summer Storm becomes embroiled in a doping scandal. Betrayal, greed, and murder enter the picture and leave her once-beautiful body and home and her promising future in peril. The Jagged Side of Midnight, told by Summer Storm, follows her life through Kentucky, meandering across the country to the scenic mountains of Tehachapi, California, to tragedy in the desert of Lancaster, California, where she becomes a rescue horse-leaving her lonely and depressed.

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iUniverse

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1491719672

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9781491719671

Open Door Era

United States Foreign Policy in the Twentieth Century

By: Michael Patrick Cullinane

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Open Door Era

United States Foreign Policy in the Twentieth Century

By: Michael Patrick Cullinane

Examines the Open Door, the most influential U.S. foreign policy of the twentieth centuryIn 1899, U.S. Secretary of State John Hay wrote six world powers calling for an aOpen Door in China that would guarantee equal trading opportunities, curtail colonial annexation, and prevent conflict in the Far East. Within a year, the region had succumbed to renewed colonisation and war, but despite the apparent failure of Hays diplomacy, the ideal of the Open Door emerged as the central component of U.S. foreign policy in the twentieth century. Just as visions of aManifest Destiny shaped continental expansion in the nineteenth century, Woodrow Wilson used the Open Door to make the case for a world asafe for democracy, Franklin Roosevelt developed it to inspire the fight against totalitarianism and imperialism, and Cold War containment policy envisioned international communism as the latest threat to a global system built upon peace, openness, and exchange. In a concise yet wide-ranging examination of its origins and development, readers will discover how the idea of the Open Door came to define the American Century.Key FeaturesUncovers the ideological wellspring of U.S. foreign policy in the twentieth centuryPresents debates over U.S. foreign policy, including the aWisconsin School critique of the Open Door as a mechanism of informal empireReveals both the consistency of U.S. foreign policy thinking and offers a deeper context to critical foreign policy decisionsContextulises the roots of contemporary U.S. policy

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Edinburgh University Press

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1474401325

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9781474401326

Elizabeth I

By: Patrick Collinson

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Elizabeth I

By: Patrick Collinson

Definitive, concise, and very interesting... From William Shakespeare to Winston Churchill, the Very Interesting People series provides authoritative bite-sized biographies of Britain's most fascinating historical figures - people whose influence and importance have stood the test of time. Each book in the series is based upon the biographical entry from the world-famous Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

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OUP Oxford

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0191550094

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9780191550096

A Most Valuable Medium

The Remediation of Oral Performance on Early Commercial Recordings

By: Richard Bauman

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A Most Valuable Medium

The Remediation of Oral Performance on Early Commercial Recordings

By: Richard Bauman

Between 1895 and 1920, the United States saw a sharp increase in commercial sound recording, the first mass medium of home entertainment. As companies sought to discover what kinds of records would appeal to consumers, they turned to performance forms already familiar to contemporary audiences--sales pitches, oratory, sermons, and stories. In A Most Valuable Medium, Richard Bauman explores the practical problems that producers and performers confronted when adapting familiar oral genres to this innovative medium of sound recording. He also examines how audiences responded to these modified and commoditized presentations. Featuring audio examples throughout and offering a novel look at the early history of sound recording, A Most Valuable Medium reveals how this new technology effected monumental change in the ways we receive information.

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Indiana University Press

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0253065194

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9780253065193

TEAM SINAI

By: PATRICK O'GRADY

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TEAM SINAI

By: PATRICK O'GRADY

The United States maintains the policy, "We do not negotiate with terrorists" Tension is building at the highest level of government as questions continue to be asked by insiders, about the most publicly forgotten loss of life amongst the military in a century. The CIA and other agencies continue to track a mole within the Department of Defense. All leads point towards a single terrorist training organization with connections world wide. A funding operation brought the terrorist onto American soil and soon after it was discovered that an American was among the terrorists. A team of soldiers was assembled to put an end to the questions and to the terrorists. The team had been brought together for each of their specialties. Each member has also witnessed events over the years that in some manner connect them to this mission. Once American hostages are taken the former 101st MFO veterans find themselves once again in the sands of the Sinai.

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Lulu.com

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1411619676

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9781411619678

The Parties in American Presidential Elections, 1789–2020

By: Patrick Novotny

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The Parties in American Presidential Elections, 1789–2020

By: Patrick Novotny

This book offers a timely understanding of the history of the Democratic and Republican Parties and their adaptability, endurance, and importance in presidential elections. Taking the reader from the beginnings of parties as caucuses of members of the First Congress meeting in 1789 through November 2020’s presidential election, it provides a fascinating historical account of the debates, events, and personalities behind the beginnings of the nation’s political parties. This includes the importance of national party nominating conventions in the nineteenth century, the growing importance of primary elections in nominations beginning in the early twentieth century, and the changes of campaigning for presidential candidates as they started to travel across the United States for the first time in the early twentieth century. The book tells the story of the beginnings of nationally televised presidential debates and any number of other changes in the era of broadcasting and now digital platforms for presidential elections in the twenty-first century. It finishes with a look at political dynamics since the November 2020 election and a study of negative partisanship to define how campaigning for the White House works today.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3111340023

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9783111340029

Notorious Memphis Gangster Diggs Nolen

By: Mr. Patrick O'Daniel

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Notorious Memphis Gangster Diggs Nolen

By: Mr. Patrick O'Daniel

The Memphis Underworld King Diggs Nolen's name was the byword for crime in 1920s Memphis. As a child, he dreamed of becoming a swashbuckling outlaw. He turned his back on a promising career, his family and consorted with the worst elements of society. Under the tutelage of train robber Frank Holloway, Nolen became a notorious con artist. Later, he and his gun-slinging wife built an empire out of selling narcotics and trafficking stolen goods. Law enforcement caught Nolen, but they could not hold him. Nolen escaped from Leavenworth Prison, led the largest jailbreak in Memphis history and confounded prosecutors with legal wranglings. Author Patrick O'Daniel details Nolen's quixotic quest for criminal fame that earned him the title King of the Memphis Underworld.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439679630

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Picturing Texas Politics

A Photographic History from Sam Houston to Rick Perry

By: Chuck Bailey,Patrick L. Cox

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Picturing Texas Politics

A Photographic History from Sam Houston to Rick Perry

By: Chuck Bailey,Patrick L. Cox

With rare, previously unpublished photographs and iconic images of politicians from the state’s founders to Ann Richards, George W. Bush, and Rick Perry, here is the first-ever photographic album of Texas politicians and political campaigns. The Republic of Texas was founded in 1839, around the time that photography was being invented. So while there were no photographers at the Alamo or San Jacinto, they arrived soon after to immortalize, on film, Sam Houston, David Burnett, Mirabeau Lamar, and many other founding fathers of the Lone Star State. Over the following nearly two centuries, Texas politics and politicians have provided reliable, often dramatic, and sometimes larger-than-life subjects for photographers to capture in the moment and add to the historical record. Picturing Texas Politics presents the first photographic album of Texas politicians and political campaigns ever assembled. Chuck Bailey has searched archives, museums, libraries, and private collections to find photographs that have never been published, as well as iconic images, such as Russell Lee’s pictures of one of Ralph Yarborough’s campaigns. These photographs are arranged into four chronological sections, each one introduced by historian Patrick Cox, who also provides informative photo captions. The photographs display power and political savvy from the early Republic to Lyndon Johnson and Bob Bullock; unmatched dedication to Texas in the Hobby and Bush families; and the growing influence of women in politics, from Miriam “Ma” Ferguson to Barbara Jordan, Ann Richards, and Kay Bailey Hutchison. With Sam Houston’s jaguar vest, W. Lee “Pappy” O’Daniel’s hillbilly band, a famous governor with an ostrich, and prominent Texans eating watermelons, shooting guns, and riding horses, this is Texas politics at its liveliest and best.

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University of Texas Press

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1477329250

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9781477329252

Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America

By: Patrick Phillips

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Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America

By: Patrick Phillips

[A] vital investigation of Forsyth’s history, and of the process by which racial injustice is perpetuated in America." —U.S. Congressman John Lewis Forsyth County, Georgia, at the turn of the twentieth century, was home to a large African American community that included ministers and teachers, farmers and field hands, tradesmen, servants, and children. But then in September of 1912, three young black laborers were accused of raping and murdering a white girl. One man was dragged from a jail cell and lynched on the town square, two teenagers were hung after a one-day trial, and soon bands of white “night riders” launched a coordinated campaign of arson and terror, driving all 1,098 black citizens out of the county. The charred ruins of homes and churches disappeared into the weeds, until the people and places of black Forsyth were forgotten. National Book Award finalist Patrick Phillips tells Forsyth’s tragic story in vivid detail and traces its long history of racial violence all the way back to antebellum Georgia. Recalling his own childhood in the 1970s and ’80s, Phillips sheds light on the communal crimes of his hometown and the violent means by which locals kept Forsyth “all white” well into the 1990s. In precise, vivid prose, Blood at the Root delivers a "vital investigation of Forsyth’s history, and of the process by which racial injustice is perpetuated in America" (Congressman John Lewis).

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393293025

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9780393293029

Indiana University and the World

A Celebration of Collaboration, 1890-2018

By: Patrick O'Meara

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Indiana University and the World

A Celebration of Collaboration, 1890-2018

By: Patrick O'Meara

Indiana University's administration, faculty, and staff believe that an international reach is a central part of the teaching and research identity of a great university. Beginning with "summer tramps" led by faculty in the later 1800s, providing support to a struggling German higher education system devastated by World War II, partnering with Kenyan medical institutions, and collaborating with Ukrainian parliamentarians, IU has participated in a diverse range of international opportunities. What connects these seemingly disparate efforts is their reciprocal nature. IU's international activities have benefited countless lives while providing opportunities for the intellectual development of faculty and students. This commitment to international engagement continues into Indiana University's third century, with the launch of Gateway offices in economically and culturally dynamic parts of the world, such as China, India, Germany, and Mexico.

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Well House Books

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0253044316

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Cambridge Guide to Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT)

By: Anthony Bateman,Peter Fonagy,Chloe Campbell,Patrick Luyten,Martin Debbané

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Cambridge Guide to Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT)

By: Anthony Bateman,Peter Fonagy,Chloe Campbell,Patrick Luyten,Martin Debbané

A complete and practical guide offering a concise overview of mentalization-based treatment (MBT) and its application in different situations and with different groups of patients to help improve the treatment of mental health disorders. Featuring an introduction to mentalizing and the evidence base to support it, followed by the principles of MBT and the basic clinical model in individual and group psychotherapy. Other chapters offer extensive clinical illustrations of the treatment of patients with depression, psychosis, trauma, eating disorders, and borderline, antisocial, narcissistic, and avoidant personality disorders. The final section outlines the application of mentalizing and MBT in different populations – children, adolescents, families, couples – and their use in different contexts – teams, schools, and care settings. Part of the Cambridge Guides to the Psychological Therapies series, offering all the latest scientifically rigorous and practical information on a range of key, evidence-based psychological interventions for clinicians.

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Cambridge University Press

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110890131X

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9781108901314

Defending the Resurrection

By: Ed James Patrick Holding

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Defending the Resurrection

By: Ed James Patrick Holding

Did Jesus rise from the dead? The question is one on which the truth of the Christian faith turns (1 Cor. 15). If Jesus did not rise, you may as well close down your church! In this volume, prominent Internet apologist James Patrick Holding and a team of Christian authors provide a series of essays defending the Resurrection as a historical event, taking on criticisms from every angle - from that which is scholarly to that which is plain lunacy! With this book, you'll be prepared to meet many of today's greatest challenges to the core event of the Christian faith. "Both the interested reader and especially the student of this subject should find many worthwhile discussions that are easily worth the price of the book." - from the Foreword by Dr. Gary Habermas

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Xulon Press

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1609576543

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9781609576547

We Were One

Shoulder to Shoulder with the Marines Who Took Fallujah

By: Patrick K. O'Donnell

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We Were One

Shoulder to Shoulder with the Marines Who Took Fallujah

By: Patrick K. O'Donnell

A riveting first-hand account of the fierce battle for Fallujah during the Iraq War and the Marines who fought there--a story of brotherhood and sacrifice in a platoon of heroes Five months after being deployed to Iraq, Lima Company's 1st Platoon, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, found itself in Fallujah, embroiled in some of the most intense house-to-house, hand-to-hand urban combat since World War II. In the city's bloody streets, they came face-to-face with the enemy-radical insurgents high on adrenaline, fighting to a martyr's death, and suicide bombers approaching from every corner. Award-winning author and historian Patrick O'Donnell stood shoulder to shoulder with this modern band of brothers as they marched and fought through the streets of Fallujah, and he stayed with them as the casualties mounted.

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Hachette+ORM

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0306815931

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The Transformation of the Christian Churches in Western Europe

1945-2000

By: Leo Kenis,Patrick Pasture

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The Transformation of the Christian Churches in Western Europe

1945-2000

By: Leo Kenis,Patrick Pasture

KADOC Studies on Religion, Culture and Society, Volume 6Research continues to show that the Christian religion is gradually disappearing from the public, cultural, and social spheres in Western Europe. Even on the individual level, institutionalized religion is becoming increasingly marginalized. New forms of religious life and community, however, may point toward a resurgence of Christian churches in postmodern Europe. This book focuses on the complex transformations Christian churches in Western Europe have undergone since World War II. In English and French.

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Universitaire Pers Leuven

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905867665X

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Lightning Storm

By: Patrick Kirk

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Lightning Storm

By: Patrick Kirk

Over the last twenty years of the 20th Century, set in Georgia and primarily in southern California, Patrick Kirk writes a fictional account of the lives of Bryan and Carolyn Jenkins as they traverse the “yuppies gotta have it all” lifestyle. The story is in some ways a high tech suspense thriller; part romance, part spy novel. It is about business, mentorship, career changes and their effects on a marriage and having a family in the 90’s. It’s also about corporate corruption and greed and how the PC software revolution assisted in the decline in American business values. It’s a dissection of the Enron-driven rolling electrical blackouts and the company’s ultimate demise. Some of the story lines are imagined after people, places, events and technology encountered by the author during his thirty years in the PC software business.

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Page Publishing Inc

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1646284224

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On the Law of Nations

By: Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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On the Law of Nations

By: Daniel Patrick Moynihan

The US Senator from New York offers an insightful account of American attitudes toward international law from the founding of the Republic to the present day. He reveals Americans to be generally well-disposed toward a law of nations, notwithstanding the contrary values of the US government over the last decade. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Harvard University Press

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0674635752

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Mount Vernon

By: Patrick L. O'Neill

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Mount Vernon

By: Patrick L. O'Neill

lmages of America: Mount Vernon takes a visual excursion through the history of the home and neighborhood of our first president of the United States, George Washington. Washington's ancestors came to Northern Virginia over 320 years ago, and by 1786, he had acquired an 8,000-plus-acre tract of land surrounding Mount Vernon. Washington divided this acreage into five farms, which were considered his pride and joy. His detailed management of agricultural affairs, as well as his flair for entertaining, left a visual impression on all that visited. The region, from the late 17th century to Washington's death in 1799, continued to thrive. The estate has withstood and prospered during the selling of Mount Vernon and the surrounding properties, the establishment of the Quaker community in the 1840s, the Civil War, the arrival of the Army Corps of Engineers in 1915, and over 200 years of tourism. Through this volume, containing over 200 images of Mount Vernon and the surrounding vicinity, readers will experience the area's rich history.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738516015

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Hallmark

A Century of Caring

By: Patrick Regan

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Hallmark

A Century of Caring

By: Patrick Regan

100 years that crafted an iconic American company A century ago, the Halls were a poverty-stricken family trying to make their way in a small Nebraska town. Today, they are a golden example of a family that has created a groundbreaking company. Hallmark: A Century of Caring is the inspirational story of an American dream brought to life through hard work, strong values, and a genuine care for both employees and customers. Beginning with a heartfelt introduction from famed poet Maya Angelou, the reader is taken on a journey that follows the Hall family from Norfolk, Nebraska, to Kansas City, Missouri, the eventual home of Hallmark. Through boom times, war times, and the Great Depression, the company grew and flourished, always with the belief that its products and services must enrich people's lives. One hundred years after Joyce Hall first stepped off of the train in Kansas City, Hallmark is poised and ready for the future. This book is an enduring salute to the company and a historic journal of a truly iconic American company.

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Andrews McMeel Publishing

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0740792407

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9780740792403

Cartoon History of Texas

By: Patrick M. Reynolds

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Cartoon History of Texas

By: Patrick M. Reynolds

Based on a 1912 publication about Texans who fought for the South in the Civil War, Texas Boys in Gray presents a collection of fascinating remembrances of those who were there. Sometimes humorous and sometimes heartbreaking, the experiences of these men are documented as a tribute to Texas war veterans. Texas Boys in Gray captures, in their own words, the patriotism, the fear, the confusion, the bravery, the terrible wounds, the desperate hunger, the camaraderie, the horrible prison conditions, and the joyful reunions that were all part of that historical time.

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Taylor Trade Publications

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1556227809

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Young Bob

A Biography of Robert M. La Follette, Jr

By: Patrick J. Maney

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Young Bob

A Biography of Robert M. La Follette, Jr

By: Patrick J. Maney

He made his mark on national life as a key architect of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, a leading champion of labor rights and civil liberties, and author of legislation that endures to this present day." "Young Bob was one of the best senators in history but also one of the most tragic. In 1946, at the height of his national prominence, La Follette lost his Senate seat to Joseph McCarthy. Seven years later, with McCarthy very much on his mind, La Follette committed suicide."--BOOK JACKET.

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087020341X

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Bitter Waters

The Struggles of the Pecos River

By: Patrick Dearen

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Bitter Waters

The Struggles of the Pecos River

By: Patrick Dearen

Rising at 11,750 feet in the Sangre de Cristo range and snaking 926 miles through New Mexico and Texas to the Rio Grande, the Pecos River is one of the most storied waterways in the American West. It is also one of the most troubled. In 1942, the National Resources Planning Board observed that the Pecos River basin “probably presents a greater aggregation of problems associated with land and water use than any other irrigated basin in the Western U.S.” In the twenty-first century, the river’s problems have only multiplied. Bitter Waters, the first book-length study of the entire Pecos, traces the river’s environmental history from the arrival of the first Europeans in the sixteenth century to today. Running clear at its source and turning salty in its middle reach, the Pecos River has served as both a magnet of veneration and an object of scorn. Patrick Dearen, who has written about the Pecos since the 1980s, draws on more than 150 interviews and a wealth of primary sources to trace the river’s natural evolution and man’s interaction with it. Irrigation projects, dams, invasive saltcedar, forest proliferation, fires, floods, flow decline, usage conflicts, water quality deterioration—Dearen offers a thorough and clearly written account of what each factor has meant to the river and its prospects. As fine-grained in detail as it is sweeping in breadth, the picture Bitter Waters presents is sobering but not without hope, as it also extends to potential solutions to the Pecos River’s problems and the current efforts to undo decades of damage. Combining the research skills of an accomplished historian, the investigative techniques of a veteran journalist, and the engaging style of an award-winning novelist, this powerful and accessible work of environmental history may well mark a turning point in the Pecos’s fortunes.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806154616

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Cooperative Learning for Intercultural Classrooms

Case Studies for Inclusive Pedagogy

By: Kate Ferguson-Patrick,Wendy Jolliffe

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Case Studies for Inclusive Pedagogy

By: Kate Ferguson-Patrick,Wendy Jolliffe

Cooperative Learning for Intercultural Classrooms helps both pre-service and in-service teachers to develop a well-researched pedagogy that supports inclusive practice for a globalised world. It provides: an overview of theoretical perspectives that illustrate why cooperative learning is an effective learning strategy; reviews research findings about how cooperative learning supports inclusion; and outlines the strategies and methods that support teachers in putting cooperative learning into practice. Providing a step-by-step guide to implementing cooperative learning for schools, teachers and teacher educators, this invaluable resource includes: guidelines for a staged approach to implementation; case studies of cooperative learning in classrooms from a range of different contexts, including Australia, England, Sweden, Italy, India, Singapore and Hong Kong; guidance on developing an effective professional development programme for a school; appendices with valuable information on a range of cooperative learning structures and explanations of the main types of cooperative learning used in classrooms.

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Routledge

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1351164627

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The African American Newspaper

Voice of Freedom

By: Patrick S. Washburn,Medill School of Journalism

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The African American Newspaper

Voice of Freedom

By: Patrick S. Washburn,Medill School of Journalism

Winner, 2007 Tankard Award In March of 1827 the nation's first black newspaper appeared in New York City—to counter attacks on blacks by the city's other papers. From this signal event, The African American Newspaper traces the evolution of the black newspaper—and its ultimate decline--for more than 160 years until the end of the twentieth century. The book chronicles the growth of the black press into a powerful and effective national voice for African Americans during the period from 1910 to 1950--a period that proved critical to the formation and gathering strength of the civil rights movement that emerged so forcefully in the following decades. In particular, author Patrick S. Washburn explores how the Pittsburgh Courier and the Chicago Defender led the way as the two most influential black newspapers in U.S. history, effectively setting the stage for the civil rights movement's successes. Washburn also examines the numerous reasons for the enormous decline of black newspapers in influence and circulation in the decades immediately following World War II. His book documents as never before how the press's singular accomplishments provide a unique record of all areas of black history and a significant and shaping affect on the black experience in America.

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Northwestern University Press

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0810122901

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Living and Loving with Asperger Syndrome

Family Viewpoints

By: Patrick and Estelle McCabe

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Living and Loving with Asperger Syndrome

Family Viewpoints

By: Patrick and Estelle McCabe

For most people, family life means both love and compromise. Within families where one or more members have Asperger Syndrome (AS), this compromise becomes yet more crucial to mutual happiness. In this book, the McCabe family discuss how Patrick's AS affects each relationship. Estelle, Patrick's wife, talks about how she has adjusted her speech and social life in order to live peacefully with her husband. In turn, Patrick discusses how he has learnt to accommodate Estelle's needs and his teenage son's growing independence to his desire for strict routine and clear communication. Jared explains how his father's AS has affected growing up and describes ways in which issues can be resolved without either losing face with his peers or upsetting his parents. Focusing positively on the relationships that are both the most important and the most difficult to maintain, this book is invaluable for anyone closely involved with AS.

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Jessica Kingsley Publishers

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1846422027

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Diners of Pennsylvania

By: Brian Butko,Kevin Joseph Patrick

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Diners of Pennsylvania

By: Brian Butko,Kevin Joseph Patrick

Revised and updated edition of the best-selling first edition (978-0-8117-2878-2) 239 classic diners identified All-new, full-color photographs and vintage postcards Color maps pinpoint locations and diner highways Complete directories with location, food, and hours Detailed information on styles, vintages, and manufacturers

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Stackpole Books

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0811728781

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Now Playing... Again

A Novel of Second Chances

By: Patrick J. Dunlavy

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A Novel of Second Chances

By: Patrick J. Dunlavy

While flying home to New York after a business trip, Bryan Powers, Fractional Jet executive, is asked a simple question by his CEO: If you could relive one event in your life, what would you choose? Powers admits that replaying a football game the team lost his senior year in high school would be a wish he'd make. Moments later, a strange event occurs on the plane. Powers awakes to discover that he is on a wild and mysterious ride into his past life. He realizes the wish was not as simple as he'd thought. Seeing his best buddy-who would be killed in Vietnam in 1970-stuns Powers into shifting his original mission from merely changing the outcome of a football game into saving his best friend's life. Everything comes to a climax for Powers and his quest during the big game Saturday night in front of 20,000 screaming fans. Join them and experience his race against a ticking clock.

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Lulu.com

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1257127683

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