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A Dictionary of Hiberno-English

By: Terence Patrick Dolan

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A Dictionary of Hiberno-English

By: Terence Patrick Dolan

The Dictionary of Hiberno-English is the leading reference book on Hiberno-English – the form of English commonly spoken in Ireland. It connects the spoken and the written language, and is a unique national dictionary that bears witness to Irish history, struggles and the creative identities found in Ireland. Reflecting the social, political, religious and financial changes of people's ever-evolving lives, it contains words and expressions not usually seen in a dictionary, such as 'kibosh', 'smithereens', 'Peggy's Leg', 'hames', 'yoke', 'blaa', 'banjax' and 'lubán'. It is a celebration of an irrepressible gift for the creative, expressive and reckless manipulation of the English language!

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Gill & Macmillan Ltd

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0717190749

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9780717190744

Kafka, Gothic and Fairytale

By: Patrick Bridgwater

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Kafka, Gothic and Fairytale

By: Patrick Bridgwater

Kafka, Gothic and Fairytale is an original comparative study of the novels and some of the related shorter punishment fantasies in terms of their relationship to the Gothic and fairytale conventions. It is an absorbing subject and one which, while keeping to the basic facts of his life, mind-set and literary method, shows Kafka’s work in a genuinely new light. The contradiction between his persona with its love of fairytale and his shadow with its affinity with Gothic is reflected in his work, which is both Gothic and other than Gothic, both fairytale-like and the every denial of fairytale. Important subtexts of the book are the close connexion between Gothic and fairytale and between both of these and the dream. German text is quoted in translation unless the emphasis is on the meaning of individual words or phrases, in which case the words in question are quoted and their English meanings discussed. This means that readers without German can, for the first time, begin to understand the underlying ambiguity of Kafka’s major fictions. The book is addressed to all who are interested in the meaning of his work and its place in literary history, but also to the many readers in the English and German-speaking worlds who share the author’s enthusiasm for Gothic and fairytale.

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BRILL

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9004490213

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9789004490215

ASP.NET 2.0 Revealed

By: Patrick Lorenz

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ASP.NET 2.0 Revealed

By: Patrick Lorenz

* As well as those who receive the preview at PDC, it is anticipated that all other ASP.NET developers will be hungry for information on the new version. * Will be one of the very first books on ASP.NET 2.0, available as soon as the technology itself becomes available to a wider audience. * Very fast moving, because it assumes prior knowledge of ASP.NET, but never intimidating. * Strong focus on real tasks that web developers will need to perform, not artificial code.

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Apress

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1430207914

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Classics for Two

10 Masterwork Duets from the Renaissance through the Romantic Era

By: Patrick M. Liebergen

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Classics for Two

10 Masterwork Duets from the Renaissance through the Romantic Era

By: Patrick M. Liebergen

This collection of 10 masterwork duets from the Renaissance through the Romantic Era offers outstanding vocal repertoire. Dr. Liebergen provides extensive performance information for each of these classic selections, plus several offer optional instrumental obbligati. Titles: * Ave Maria (Caccini) * Laudamus te (Vivaldi) * Sweet Nymph, Come to Thy Lover (Morley) * Deh prendi un dolce amplesso (Mozart) * Pachelbel’s Canon of Peace (Pachelbel) * Let’s Imitate Her Notes Above (Handel) * Sonntagsmorgen (Mendelssohn) * Panis angelicus (Franck) * Sing with Festive Cheer (Salieri) * When at Night I Go to Sleep (Humperdinck)

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Alfred Music

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1457425912

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9781457425912

Fritz Lang

The Nature of the Beast

By: Patrick McGilligan

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Fritz Lang

The Nature of the Beast

By: Patrick McGilligan

The name of Fritz Lang—the visionary director of Metropolis, M, Fury, The Big Heat, and thirty other unforgettable films—is hallowed the world over. But what lurks behind his greatest legends and his genius as a filmmaker? Patrick McGilligan, placed among “the front rank of film biographers” by the Washington Post, spent four years in Europe and America interviewing Lang’s dying contemporaries, researching government and film archives, and investigating the intriguing life story of Fritz Lang. This critically acclaimed biography—lauded as one of the year’s best nonfiction books by Publishers Weekly—reconstructs the compelling, flawed human being behind the monster with the monocle.

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U of Minnesota Press

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1452940649

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Stories and Lessons from the World’s Leading Opera, Orchestra Librarians, and Music Archivists, Volume 1

North and South America

By: Patrick Lo,Robert Sutherland,Wei-En Hsu,Russ Girsberger

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Stories and Lessons from the World’s Leading Opera, Orchestra Librarians, and Music Archivists, Volume 1

North and South America

By: Patrick Lo,Robert Sutherland,Wei-En Hsu,Russ Girsberger

This volume contains two Open Access Chapters This collection explores the current trends and practices in the field of music performance librarianship. A helpful resource to librarians, and archivists in a variety of situations in the world of performing arts.

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Emerald Group Publishing

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1801176523

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The Spirit of This Place

How Music Illuminates the Human Spirit

By: Patrick Summers

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The Spirit of This Place

How Music Illuminates the Human Spirit

By: Patrick Summers

Artists today are at a crossroads. With funding for the arts and humanities endowments perpetually under attack, and school districts all over the United States scrapping their art curricula altogether, the place of the arts in our civic future is uncertain to say the least. At the same time, faced with the problems of the modern world—from water shortages and grave health concerns to global climate change and the now constant threat of terrorism—one might question the urgency of this waning support for the arts. In the politically fraught world we live in, is the “felt” experience even something worth fighting for? In this soul-searching collection of vignettes, Patrick Summers gives us an adamant, impassioned affirmative. Art, he argues, nurtures freedom of thought, and is more necessary now than ever before. As artistic director of the Houston Grand Opera, Summers is well positioned to take stock of the limitations of the professional arts world—a world where the conversation revolves almost entirely around financial questions and whose reputation tends toward elitism—and to remind us of art’s fundamental relationship to joy and meaning. Offering a vehement defense of long-form arts in a world with a short attention span, Summers argues that art is spiritual, and that music in particular has the ability to ask spiritual questions, to inspire cathartic pathos, and to express spiritual truths. Summers guides us through his personal encounters with art and music in disparate places, from Houston’s Rothko Chapel to a music classroom in rural China, and reflects on musical works he has conducted all over the world. Assessing the growing canon of new operas performed in American opera houses today, he calls for musical artists to be innovative and brave as opera continues to reinvent itself. This book is a moving credo elucidating Summers’s belief that the arts, especially music, help us to understand our own humanity as intellectual, aesthetic, and ultimately spiritual.

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University of Chicago Press

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022609510X

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Invincible Days

By: Patrick Atangan

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Invincible Days

By: Patrick Atangan

This collection of short stories forms a singular narrative that reveals the tiny moments when you realize you are at the precious end-days of youth. Calling on memories from his own childhood as well as those gathered from friends and family, author and artist Patrick Atangan's work blends stories with strong psychological elements and insight with simple artwork evocative of youth. Bittersweet, joyful and reflective, these are the type of marking moments that best define us as adults.

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NBM Publishing

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1561639036

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The Traveller's Tree

A Journey Through the Carribean Islands

By: Patrick Leigh Fermor

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The Traveller's Tree

A Journey Through the Carribean Islands

By: Patrick Leigh Fermor

In the late 1940s Patrick Leigh Fermor, now widely regarded as one of the twentieth century’s greatest travel writers, set out to explore the then relatively little-visited islands of the Caribbean. Rather than a comprehensive political or historical study of the region, The Traveller’s Tree, Leigh Fermor’s first book, gives us his own vivid, idiosyncratic impressions of Guadeloupe, Martinique, Dominica, Barbados, Trinidad, and Haiti, among other islands. Here we watch Leigh Fermor walk the dusty roads of the countryside and the broad avenues of former colonial capitals, equally at home among the peasant and the elite, the laborer and the artist. He listens to steel drum bands, delights in the Congo dancing that closes out Havana’s Carnival, and observes vodou and Rastafarian rites, all with the generous curiosity and easy erudition that readers will recognize from his subsequent classic accounts A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water.

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New York Review of Books

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1590175220

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The Mashego File

By: Ian Patrick

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The Mashego File

By: Ian Patrick

A dark and mysterious crime thriller, set in the real world of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. This is a region with a reputation for one of the highest murder rates in the world. Detective Mashego, who carries the burden of a tragic past, and is himself a victim of barbaric crime, will stop at nothing to apprehend brutal killers. When he encounters a shadowy thug with political connections, this does not deter him in the quest for justice. But how far will he be constrained by law and morality? Can he proceed when the worst kind of criminal is protected by the Commissioner of Police herself? When dealing with evil, is it necessary to go beyond the law? Follow Mashego into the brutal heart of darkness and political corruption.

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Ian Patrick

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1537388150

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The Collected Novels Volume One

Notes from an Exhibition and A Perfectly Good Man

By: Patrick Gale

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The Collected Novels Volume One

Notes from an Exhibition and A Perfectly Good Man

By: Patrick Gale

Two deeply empathetic novels about families in crisis from an international bestselling British writer “with heart, soul, and a dark and a naughty wit” (The Observer). Armistead Maupin says of Patrick Gale: “Few writers have grasped the twisted dynamics of family the way Gale has. There’s really no one he can’t inhabit, understand, and forgive.” In both the international bestseller, Notes from an Exhibition, and its subtly linked companion novel, A Perfectly Good Man, Gale’s generous compassion for his characters and their struggles resonates on every page. Notes from an Exhibition: Gifted painter Rachel Kelly lived a life of manic highs and suicidal lows, which took its toll on her family. After a fatal heart attack in her studio in Penzance, Rachel is honored with a retrospective of her work, attracting art lovers but also stirring up emotional turmoil in her husband and four grown children as they try to come to grips with a legacy of secrets and the devastating effects of her bipolar disorder. Told from the multiple viewpoints of the family members—including Rachel—Gale’s compassionately curated novel evolves into “an engrossing portrait of a troubled and remarkable character” (The Mail on Sunday). “A warm, well-written novel about creativity and the perils of living with the creative spirit.” —The Times Literary Supplement A Perfectly Good Man: Barnaby Johnson is a good man, a priest in a West Cornwall parish, beloved and trusted by his community. But when twenty-year-old Lenny Barnes, paralyzed in a rugby accident, commits suicide in his presence, the reverberations shake Barnaby, his family, and his neighbors to the core. Those around him then invite Barnaby’s morally repellent nemesis to attempt to bring about his downfall. With several narrators, this “warm and humane . . . beautifully written” novel confronts profound questions of morality, faith, and consequences (The Times, London). “A moving account of a man’s struggle with faith, marriage, and morality.” —The Sunday Times

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Open Road Media

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1504054326

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9781504054324

Asphalt Pavements

A Practical Guide to Design, Production and Maintenance for Engineers and Architects

By: Patrick Lavin

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Asphalt Pavements

A Practical Guide to Design, Production and Maintenance for Engineers and Architects

By: Patrick Lavin

Asphalt Pavements provides the know-how behind the design, production and maintenance of asphalt pavements and parking lots. Incorporating the latest technology, this book is the first to focus primarily on the design, production and maintenance of low-volume roads and parking areas. Special attention is given to determining the traffic capacity, required thickness and asphalt mixture type for parking applications. Topics covered include: material information such as binder properties, testing grading and selection; construction information such as mixing plant operation, proportioning, mixture placement and compaction; and design information such as thickness and mixture design methods and guidelines on applying these to highways, city streets and parking Areas. It is an essential practical guide aimed at those engineers and architects who are not directly involved in the asphalt industry, but who nonetheless need to have a good general knowledge of the subject. Asphalt Pavements provides a novice with enough information to completely design, construct and specify an asphalt pavement.

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CRC Press

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0203453298

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Connections 500

Blackout; Eclipse; What Are They Like?; Bassett; I'm Spilling My Heart Out Here; Gargantua; Children of Killers; Take Away; It Snows; The Musicians; Citizenship; Bedbug

By: Snoo Wilson,Simon Armitage,Jackie Kay,Patrick Marber,Mark Ravenhill,Bryony Lavery,Frantic Assembly,Davey Anderson,James Graham,Katori Hall,Carl Grose,Stacey Gregg,Lucinda Coxon

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Connections 500

Blackout; Eclipse; What Are They Like?; Bassett; I'm Spilling My Heart Out Here; Gargantua; Children of Killers; Take Away; It Snows; The Musicians; Citizenship; Bedbug

By: Snoo Wilson,Simon Armitage,Jackie Kay,Patrick Marber,Mark Ravenhill,Bryony Lavery,Frantic Assembly,Davey Anderson,James Graham,Katori Hall,Carl Grose,Stacey Gregg,Lucinda Coxon

Drawing together the work of 12 leading playwrights, this National Theatre Connections anthology celebrates highlights from 21 years of the Connections festival with a retrospective selection of plays. Featuring work by some of the most prolific playwrights of the 20th and 21st centuries, and together in one volume, the anthology offers young performers between the ages of 13 and 19 an engaging selection of plays to perform, read or study. Each play has been specifically commissioned by the National Theatre's literary department over the years, with the young performer in mind. In 2016, these plays were then performed by approximately 500 schools and youth theatre companies across the UK and Ireland, in partnership with multiple professional partner regional theatres at which the works were showcased. The anthology contains all 12 of the play scripts; notes from the writer and director of each play, addressing the themes and ideas behind the play; and production notes and exercises for the drama groups. This year's anniversary anthology includes plays by Snoo Wilson, Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt; Simon Armitage; Jackie Kay; Patrick Marber; Mark Ravenhill; Bryony Lavery & Frantic Assembly; Davey Anderson; James Graham; Katori Hall; Carl Grose; Stacey Gregg; and Lucinda Coxon.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1474284140

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9781474284141

The Art of Over the Garden Wall

By: Patrick McHale,Sean Edgar

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The Art of Over the Garden Wall

By: Patrick McHale,Sean Edgar

A complete tour through the development and production of the hit animated miniseries Over the Garden Wall, this volume contains hundreds of pieces of concept art and sketches"--

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Dark Horse Comics

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1506703763

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9781506703763

Near Woods

A Year in an Allegheny Forest

By: Kevin Patrick

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Near Woods

A Year in an Allegheny Forest

By: Kevin Patrick

We experience, learn about, and enjoy nature throughout our lifetimes in woods close to home. In the spirit of Walden, author Kevin Patrick spent a year connecting with White's Woods, a 500-acre tract in an Allegheny forest adjacent to his home in Indiana, Pennsylvania. He captured in prose and photographs the four seasons of this near-woods paradise, weaving natural history with human experience to create a geography of place to stand for all similar near-woods places.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0811772225

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9780811772228

100 Stress-Relieving Crossword Puzzles to Sharpen Your Mind

Presented by Maria Shriver, Patrick Schwarzenegger, and MOSH

By: Maria Shriver,Patrick Schwarzenegger,MOSH

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100 Stress-Relieving Crossword Puzzles to Sharpen Your Mind

Presented by Maria Shriver, Patrick Schwarzenegger, and MOSH

By: Maria Shriver,Patrick Schwarzenegger,MOSH

100 crossword puzzles to help you relieve stress and sharpen your mind! Doing crosswords is a fantastic way to stay mentally fit and expand your knowledge. With 100 easy- to medium-level puzzles in a minimalist, stylish design, this crossword collection is perfect for anyone looking for a fun way to stimulate their brain! 100 crosswords of varying themes: Enjoy modern and fun clues covering pop culture, sports, healthy living, history, and more Easy- to medium-level puzzles: Engaging puzzles suitable for crossword enthusiasts of all skill levels Expert contributors: Created by renowned contributors whose work has been featured in the New York Times, New Yorker, Wall Street Journal, and more Travel size: The book's 6" x 9" size makes it perfect for travel or on-the-go solving Layflat and easy to read: The book lays flat for easy writing, and the puzzle grids and clues spread across two pages for readability Hardcover: Durable cover and premium paper, totaling 224 pages Answer key included: Solutions to all puzzles are provided at the back of the book for quick reference This crossword book is brought to you by MOSH, a mission-driven brain health and wellness company that was founded by Maria Shriver and Patrick Schwarzenegger to inspire optimal brain health at every stage of life through nutrition, education, research, and advocacy. For more information, visit www.moshlife.com.

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Blue Star Press

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1963183339

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Grimm Memorials

By: R. Patrick Gates

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Grimm Memorials

By: R. Patrick Gates

Steve and Diane Nailer move their family from Boston to the quiet town of Norwood. There, for more than 50 years, Eleanor Grimm has been bewitching the parents of Northwood and spiriting away the souls of their children. Now she sets her sights on the Nailer's children. Original.

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Pinnacle Books

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0786016981

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9780786016983

The Evolution of Aesthetic Medicine

The Evolution of a New Field of Medicine by a Pioneer Voted the Top Aesthetic Doctor in the World

By: Dr Patrick Treacy

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The Evolution of Aesthetic Medicine

The Evolution of a New Field of Medicine by a Pioneer Voted the Top Aesthetic Doctor in the World

By: Dr Patrick Treacy

The birth and exponential growth of aesthetic medicine has been phenomenal. Recent technical innovation in aesthetic devices and products, coupled with an ever-increasing awareness of physical appearance and a rise in disposable income has boosted the demand for this field of medicine beyond all expectations. Its market size is presently valued at USD 60 billion and is anticipated to continue to expand at a CAGR of 10%. Now comes a book, written by one of the pioneers of this field of medicine who started one of the first aesthetic clinics in the world from his apartment in Dublin in 1999. Since then, he has built clinics around the world and won multiple international awards for his own innovations and advanced techniques, including ‘Top Aesthetic Physician in the World’ in 2019.

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Austin Macauley Publishers

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1398417505

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9781398417502

Bird Brain Teasers

Puzzles, Games & Avian Trivia

By: Patrick Merrell

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Bird Brain Teasers

Puzzles, Games & Avian Trivia

By: Patrick Merrell

Why does the Blue Grouse migrate north in the winter? Why did Lewis Carroll use a dodo bird to represent himself in "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"? What are the bird names that appear most often as crossword clues? Birdwatchers and puzzle fans alike will delight in "Bird Brainteasers," a fresh collection of puzzles, games, and avian amusements by noted puzzle creator Patrick Merrell. This book is packed with bird-themed crosswords, visual puzzles, and the first-ever Birdoku challenges. Interspersed throughout are fascinating and amusing bird facts, trivia, and lore, drawn from everything from music and literature to popular culture. Packaged is a small format and highly illustrated with a unique combination of historical and cultural images, "Bird Brainteasers" is the perfect gift for any bird lover. Put down the binoculars and pick up a pencil!

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Storey Publishing

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1603426418

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9781603426411

Hiking Kentucky's Red River Gorge

Your Definitive Guide to the Jewel of the Southeast

By: Sean Patrick Hill

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Hiking Kentucky's Red River Gorge

Your Definitive Guide to the Jewel of the Southeast

By: Sean Patrick Hill

Hiking Kentucky's Red River Gorge is the definitive guide to trails in the Red River Gorge Geologic Area, Natural Bridge State Park, and Clifty Wilderness. The book showcases 25 of the best hikes in the Gorge, as well as a back-of-book bonus on nearby trails. Distinguished from other Red River Gorge guides, this book provides readers not only with detailed maps, sharp photos, and individual-trail details, THIS guidebook outlines definitive hikes--ways to explore the area and enjoy its flora, fauna, and history. The easy-to-use layout treats each hike distinctly, as its own adventure. Because of this, the routes are detailed with photographs, maps, trail gradient information and, most importantly, ratings for key elements that make a trail appealing to a wide variety of people. This allows the reader to make informed decisions about which trails they will want to hike, which ones will be appropriate for children, and so on. Further, readers will discover how to combine trails and routes for a great hiking day or backpacking trip. This book is ideal for people who've never been to the Gorge, or even beginner hikers. The book simply looks great and is easy to read, and designed for planning hikes as well as while on the trail.

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Menasha Ridge Press

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0897329627

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Biohydrogen

Chapter 5. Hydrogenase

By: Philippe Constant,Patrick C. Hallenbeck

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Biohydrogen

Chapter 5. Hydrogenase

By: Philippe Constant,Patrick C. Hallenbeck

Several evolutionary models proposed that molecular hydrogen (H2) was the primary energy source on the early Earth, exerting a major influence on the origin of life. Hydrogenase, the enzyme catalyzing the interconversion of H2 into protons and electrons, is thus considered an ancestral invention, for which the molecular structure and architecture have been thoroughly adapted for specialized tasks, undertaken in peculiar environments, during the course of the evolution. Three different types of hydrogenase can be distinguished on the basis of the metal content of their active site, namely, [NiFe]-hydrogenase, [FeFe]-hydrogenase, and [Fe]-hydrogenase. Although they share common features, taxonomic distribution, maturation apparatus, and physiological role differ substantially among the three different classes of hydrogenases. These metalloenzymes are thus considered a classical example of convergent evolution. The notion that “there is much to learn from nature” holds great promise for biohydrogen applications, and this has been demonstrated by the emergence of bioengineering strategies used to design synthetic metabolic pathways and improve the O2 tolerance of hydrogenases. This chapter provides an overview of the diversity and physiological role of hydrogenases, with a particular emphasis on their biotechnological potential.

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Elsevier Inc. Chapters

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0128083557

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9780128083550

Ablutions

By: Patrick deWitt

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Ablutions

By: Patrick deWitt

Picture yourself as a bartender, sipping top-shelf whiskey and watching your customers descend into nightly oblivion. Your heart is broken by the world around you and, leaving the whisky aside, you hatch a devious, unthinkable plan of escape... Award-winning FellSwoop Theatre present Ablutions:a dark, modern drama, adapted from the novel by Man Booker shortlisted author, Patrick deWitt. A grimly funny tale from the sodden depths of the Los Angeles underworld, Ablutions blends a live soundtrack with detailed mime and deWitt’s heart-wrenching humour.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1783198710

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The Forbidden Temple

By: Patrick Woodhead

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The Forbidden Temple

By: Patrick Woodhead

To Luca Matthews the dangers of the high mountain peaks are the air upon which he thrives. In the ruthless pursuit of his goals he would sacrifice anything - even another climber's life. His friends and family know and fear it. So when he sights a virgin peak in the Himalayas that exists on no map, no one is surprised when he becomes obsessed with being the first to scale it. Together with his climbing partner, Bill Taylor, they set off into a region of Tibet highly restricted by the Chinese. But a freak accident puts one of their team in mortal danger and it is left to a local Tibetan girl to lead them to Geltang, a monastery that has been hidden from the outside world since the Chinese Cultural Revolution, when most of the monasteries were pillaged and burned. When the Chinese secret police get wind of them, Luca and Bill find themselves embroiled in an age-old struggle, not for their lives but to protect the precious secret that Geltang hides, and the legacy of Tibet itself.

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Random House

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1446440338

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Planning Paradise

Politics and Visioning of Land Use in Oregon

By: Peter A. Walker,Patrick T. Hurley

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Planning Paradise

Politics and Visioning of Land Use in Oregon

By: Peter A. Walker,Patrick T. Hurley

“Sprawl” is one of the ugliest words in the American political lexicon. Virtually no one wants America’s rural landscapes, farmland, and natural areas to be lost to bland, placeless malls, freeways, and subdivisions. Yet few of America’s fast-growing rural areas have effective rules to limit or contain sprawl. Oregon is one of the nation’s most celebrated exceptions. In the early 1970s Oregon established the nation’s first and only comprehensive statewide system of land-use planning and largely succeeded in confining residential and commercial growth to urban areas while preserving the state’s rural farmland, forests, and natural areas. Despite repeated political attacks, the state’s planning system remained essentially politically unscathed for three decades. In the early- and mid-2000s, however, the Oregon public appeared disenchanted, voting repeatedly in favor of statewide ballot initiatives that undermined the ability of the state to regulate growth. One of America’s most celebrated “success stories” in the war against sprawl appeared to crumble, inspiring property rights activists in numerous other western states to launch copycat ballot initiatives against land-use regulation. This is the first book to tell the story of Oregon’s unique land-use planning system from its rise in the early 1970s to its near-death experience in the first decade of the 2000s. Using participant observation and extensive original interviews with key figures on both sides of the state’s land use wars past and present, this book examines the question of how and why a planning system that was once the nation’s most visible and successful example of a comprehensive regulatory approach to preventing runaway sprawl nearly collapsed. Planning Paradise is tough love for Oregon planning. While admiring much of what the state’s planning system has accomplished, Walker and Hurley believe that scholars, professionals, activists, and citizens engaged in the battle against sprawl would be well advised to think long and deeply about the lessons that the recent struggles of one of America’s most celebrated planning systems may hold for the future of land-use planning in Oregon and beyond.

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University of Arizona Press

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0816528837

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The Facts of Life

A Novel

By: Patrick Gale

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The Facts of Life

A Novel

By: Patrick Gale

Three generations of a British family struggle through war, intolerance, infidelity, and illness in this “extraordinary blockbuster” (Time Out London). In the Roundel, an odd, secluded, eight-sided house in the English countryside, Edward Pepper and Sally Banks build a life. Hoping they’ve left hardship behind—they met when Sally, a doctor, treated Edward for tuberculosis after he escaped from Nazi Germany to England—they raise a family together. The German-Jewish composer has his devoted wife’s support—though he is sidetracked by the temptations of the movie industry. But for Edward and Sally, their children, and their children’s children, tragedy and joy will always go hand-in-hand, as they maneuver through a world of often bitter and brutal realities. And as the decades pass, a family shaped in equal measure by love and human failing will find itself sorely tested by mistrust, tyranny, misunderstanding, and an AIDS diagnosis. It will take more than the strength they found in their wartime romance to fight the battles of everyday life. The critically acclaimed novels of Patrick Gale have been compared to the writings of literary giants from Iris Murdoch to Gabriel García Márquez. Powerful, moving, and magnificent, this multigenerational family saga is one of Gale’s most compassionate and memorable works, a truly masterful fiction that Armistead Maupin, author of Tales of the City, calls “achingly true and beautiful.”

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1504037650

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Obscene Gestures

Counter-Narratives of Sex and Race in the Twentieth Century

By: Patrick Lawrence

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Obscene Gestures

Counter-Narratives of Sex and Race in the Twentieth Century

By: Patrick Lawrence

Drawing on sources as diverse as Supreme Court decisions, nightclub comedy, congressional records, and cultural theory, Obscene Gestures explores the many contradictory vectors of twentieth-century moralist controversies surrounding literary and artistic works from Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer to those of Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Kathy Acker, Robert Mapplethorpe, 2 Live Crew, Tony Kushner, and others. Patrick S. Lawrence dives into notorious obscenity debates to reconsider the divergent afterlives of artworks that were challenged or banned over their taboo sexual content to reveal how these controversies affected their critical reception and commercial success in ways that were often determined at least in part by racial, gender, or sexual stereotypes and pernicious ethnographic reading practices. Starting with early postwar touchstone cases and continuing through the civil rights, feminist, and LGBTQ+ movements, Lawrence demonstrates on one level that breaking sexual taboos in literary and cultural works often comes with cultural cachet and increased sales. At the same time, these benefits are distributed unequally, leading to the persistence of exclusive hierarchies and inequalities. Obscene Gestures takes its bearings from recent studies of the role of obscenity in literary history and canon formation during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, extending their insights into the postwar period when broad legal latitude for obscenity was established but when charges of obscenity still carried immense symbolic and political weight. Moreover, the rise of social justice movements around this time provides necessary context for understanding the application of legal precedents, changes in the publishing industry, and the diversification of the canon of American letters. Obscene Gestures, therefore, advances the study of obscenity to include recent developments in the understanding of race, gender, and sexuality while refining our understanding of late-twentieth-century American literature and political culture.

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Fordham University Press

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1531500110

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The Wrong Wong

By: Patrick Leong

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The Wrong Wong

By: Patrick Leong

The unthinkable is about to erupt in a small sleepy town in New Hampshire. James Wongvideo game extraordinaire and unrelenting prankster, went back to his hometown to attend a high school friends funeral. While there, due to a case of mistaken identity, he was asked to serve as the towns temporary doctor. Unable to reject the idea of such a delicious ruse, not to mention the high daily pay and the girl of his dream right there in town, he gladly accepted the position. There is only one problem: hes not a real doctor. Wong is consumed by all the intricacies of a day-to-day medical practice. He has discovered the fabrics and the laces of the interpersonal emotions which he has so overlooked over the years. Among friends and foes from his youthful years, hes pulling off the scam seamlessly. Just when he settles into that delicate role of a great healer in town, disaster strikes. FBI Special Agent Harry Bernard knows all about Wongs false identity. And to absolve such an offense, Wong is pressured into checking out a potential al-Qaeda terrorist in town. Antar Hannan is coming to the clinic as a first time patient. Wong will need to somehow look for a hidden scar to confirm one of the worlds most wanted terrorists. During the investigation, an extremely sinister plot is uncovered. Aside from a personal vendetta, Antar is planning to assassinate the Democratic Presidential nominee so as to incite civil unrest in the United States. In the end, Wong is being hunted by both the towns overzealous sheriff, and the ruthless terrorist, Antar Hannan. The seemingly benign hoax is now crashing down on Wong. Will he get to live another day?

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1481739409

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Journey Within the Human Womb

a philosophic tale translated by Martha MAURI

By: Patrick LOISEAU

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Journey Within the Human Womb

a philosophic tale translated by Martha MAURI

By: Patrick LOISEAU

Sometimes while searching a course, there is a silent and timely fight between the compass and the dream ... The compass indicates to the North of the journey to be accomplished while the dream strives to place (healthy) sticks in the wheels, for the greater good, naturally, of discovery, the unexpected and certain revelation... Our hero, although quite common, experienced this initiation journey. He took the path of scholars, looking for some kind of chimeric guru, and later on had several encounters, some richer than others. But his journey has the characteristic that it takes place not on the moon, on a mystery island, in a balloon adrift at the world’s mercy, or even in the centre of the earth itself ... No! This journey shall take place in the human womb, this human womb we claim to know so well, and yet it is still a stranger for us, a paradoxical place where discrete beings hide to operate the pulleys of our ontological disguises.

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Babelcube Inc.

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1071513036

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9781071513033

Poem-mobiles

Crazy Car Poems

By: J. Patrick Lewis,Douglas Florian

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Poem-mobiles

Crazy Car Poems

By: J. Patrick Lewis,Douglas Florian

This paperback picture book features fresh, quirky poems by two picture-book poetry veterans which explore practically every kid's favorite topic: CARS! The U.S. Children's Poet Laureate and an award-winning children's poet join their prolific forces in this picture book of poems about cars. But they're not just any cars: there's the "Sloppy-Floppy-Nonstop-Jalopy" ("So unique there is no copy"); the Bathtub Limosine ("With hot water heating / And porcelain seating"); and the "High Heel Car." Each of the thirteen quirky, inventive poems will speak directly to the imaginations of children, as will Holmes's high-concept, detail-filled illustrations.

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Dragonfly Books

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1984894471

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Notes from an Exhibition

A Novel

By: Patrick Gale

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Notes from an Exhibition

A Novel

By: Patrick Gale

Four siblings discover truths about their late mother, a troubled artist—and themselves—in this “uplifting, immensely empathetic novel” (The Guardian). Gifted painter Rachel Kelly lived a life of manic highs and suicidal lows. Her husband, a gentle, devout Quaker, gave her a safe haven where she could create and be herself, but her mental illness still took its toll on her family. Now, after a fatal heart attack, a retrospective of Rachel’s work attracts art lovers who marvel at her skill, but her grown children are busy coping with the shattering effects of her death—and her life. Her eldest son has been bequeathed a letter that shakes him to his core. Another son reflects on the years he spent trying not to upset his mother’s delicate equilibrium while negotiating his own relationship with his lover. The youngest son was much beloved by Rachel, for reasons not everyone knows. And Rachel’s only daughter seems to have inherited her talent—but also her demons. Set against the wild and beautiful landscape of Cornwall, this novel by the acclaimed author of A Place Called Winter and A Perfectly Good Man shifts back and forth in time and place as it moves effortlessly between characters, offering a revealing window into the symbiotic relationship between genius and mental illness and the effects both have on maternal love and the creation of enduring art. In the words of Armistead Maupin, “few writers have grasped the twisted dynamics of family the way Gale has. There’s really no one he can’t inhabit, understand, and forgive.”

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Open Road Media

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1504036557

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Bawdy Songbooks of the Romantic Period, Volume 4

By: Patrick Spedding,Paul Watt,Ed Cray,David Gregory,Derek B Scott

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Bawdy Songbooks of the Romantic Period, Volume 4

By: Patrick Spedding,Paul Watt,Ed Cray,David Gregory,Derek B Scott

The songbooks of the 1830-40s were printed in tiny numbers, and small format so they could be hidden in a pocket, passed round or thrown away. Collectors have sought ‘these priceless chapbooks’, but only recently a collection of 49 songbooks has come to light. This collection represents almost all of the known songbooks from the period.

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Routledge

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1000748081

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9781000748086

Ritual and the Idea of Europe in Interwar Writing

By: Patrick R. Query

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Ritual and the Idea of Europe in Interwar Writing

By: Patrick R. Query

While most critical studies of interwar literary politics have focused on nationalism, Patrick Query makes a case that the idea of Europe intervenes in instances when the individual and the nation negotiate identity. He examines the ways interwar writers use three European ritual forms-verse drama, bullfighting, and Roman Catholic rite-to articulate ideas of European cultural identity. Within the growing discourse of globalization, Query argues, Europe presents a special, though often overlooked, case because it adds a mediating term between local and global. His book is divided into three sections: the first treats the verse dramas of T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats, and W.H. Auden; the second discusses the uses of the Spanish bullfight in works by D.H. Lawrence, Stephen Spender, Jack Lindsay, George Barker, Cecil Day Lewis, and others; and the third explores the cross-cultural impact of Catholic ritual in Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, and David Jones. While all three ritual forms were frequently associated with the most conservative tendencies of the age, Query shows that each had a remarkable political flexibility in the hands of interwar writers concerned with the idea of Europe.

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Routledge

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1317062434

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Holy Headshot!

A Celebration of America's Undiscovered Talent

By: Patrick Borelli,Douglas Gorenstein

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Holy Headshot!

A Celebration of America's Undiscovered Talent

By: Patrick Borelli,Douglas Gorenstein

Holy Headshot! is an amazing collection of the funniest, strangest, most captivating performers' headshots and resumes you have ever seen. The book throws open the door to the casting director's office and gives an entertaining peek into the amazing -- and sometimes bizarre -- world of show business. Authors Patrick Borelli and Douglas Gorenstein pored over 50,000 headshots to put together this remarkable gallery, which showcases everyone from aspiring amateurs who are striving to live out their Hollywood dreams to seasoned professionals that you might recognize from the big screen. A celebration of our national obsession with getting famous, Holy Headshot! offers up plenty of "What were they thinking!?" hilarity, but just as often you'll find yourself rooting for the characters that populate its pages.

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Simon and Schuster

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1439123160

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The Laboratory of Love

By: Patrick Roscoe

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The Laboratory of Love

By: Patrick Roscoe

In this powerful suite stories set in Spain, Africa, and North America populated by wild dogs, tattoo artists, and lost boys, Patrick Roscoe’s characters?lonely, damaged, nomadic?are outsiders searching for love and acceptance in an often brutal and punishing world. In Roscoe’s beguiling laboratory, science meets emotion in experiments that attempt to decipher the forces of love, loss, and longing.

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Arsenal Pulp Press

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1551525224

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Donkey Work

Congressional Democrats in Conservative America, 1974–1994

By: Patrick Andelic

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Donkey Work

Congressional Democrats in Conservative America, 1974–1994

By: Patrick Andelic

What happened to the Democratic Party after the 1960s? In many political histories, the McGovern defeat of 1972 announced the party’s decline—and the conservative movement’s ascent. What the conventional narrative neglects, Patrick Andelic submits, is the role of Congress in the party’s, and the nation’s, political fortunes. In Donkey Work, Andelic looks at Congress from 1974 to 1994 as the Democratic Party’s stronghold and explores how this twenty-year tenure boosted and undermined the party’s response to the conservative challenge. If post-1960s America belongs to the conservative movement, Andelic asks, how do we account for the failure of so much of the conservative agenda—especially the shrinking of the federal government? Examining the Democratic Party’s unusual durability in Congress after 1974, Donkey Work disrupts the narrative of inexorable liberal decline since the 1970s and reveals the ways in which liberalism and conservatism actually developed in tandem. The book traces the evolution of ideologies within the Democratic Party, particularly the emergence of “neoliberalism,” suggesting that this political philosophy was as much an anticipation of America’s “right turn” as a reaction to it; as factions vied for control of the party, Congress itself both strengthened and weakened liberal resistance to the conservative movement. By putting the focus on Congress and legislative politics, in contrast to the “presidential synthesis” that dominates US political history, Andelic’s book offers a new, deeply informed perspective on two turbulent decades of American politics—a perspective that alters and expands our understanding of how we arrived at our present political moment.

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University Press of Kansas

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0700638091

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9780700638093

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