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A Reasonable Doubt

A Robin Lockwood Novel

By: Phillip Margolin

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A Reasonable Doubt

A Robin Lockwood Novel

By: Phillip Margolin

A magician linked to three murders and suspicious deaths years ago disappears in the middle of his new act in New York Times bestseller Phillip Margolin’s latest thriller featuring Robin Lockwood Robin Lockwood is a young criminal defense attorney and partner in a prominent law firm in Portland, Oregon. A former MMA fighter and Yale Law graduate, she joined the firm of legal legend Regina Barrister not long before Regina was forced into retirement by early onset Alzheimer’s. One of Regina’s former clients, Robert Chesterfield, shows up in the law office with an odd request—he’s seeking help from his old attorney in acquiring patent protection for an illusion. Chesterfield is a professional magician of some reknown and he has a major new trick he’s about to debut. This is out of the scope of the law firm’s expertise, but when Robin Lockwood looks into his previous relationship with the firm, she learns that twenty years ago he was arrested for two murders, one attempted murder, and was involved in the potentially suspicious death of his very rich wife. At the time, Regina Barrister defended him with ease, after which he resumed his career as a magician in Las Vegas. Now, decades later, he debuts his new trick—only to disappear at the end. He’s a man with more than one dark past and many enemies—is his disappearance tied to one of the many people who have good reason to hate him? Was he killed and his body disposed of, or did he use his considerable skills to engineer his own disappearance? Robin Lockwood must unravel the tangled skein of murder and bloody mischief to learn how it all ties together.

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Minotaur Books

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1250117550

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The Law of Corporate Groups

Jurisdiction, Practice, and Procedure

By: Phillip I. Blumberg,Kurt A. Strasser,Nicholas L. Georgakopoulos

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The Law of Corporate Groups

Jurisdiction, Practice, and Procedure

By: Phillip I. Blumberg,Kurt A. Strasser,Nicholas L. Georgakopoulos

Traditional corporation law (or entity law) no longer covers the challenges presented by today's multinational corporate integration and control. Now, Blumberg's ground-breaking analysis of the law of corporate groups (or enterprise law) brings current trends in business law into sharp focus, with detailed examination of thousands of cases.Every corporate lawyer must deal with state statutory issues, and this is the source to turn to for information and guidance. Blumberg provides expert, practical analysis of the statutes -- and their application -- in such areas as: Public utilities, banking, and Savings and Loan Associations following federal models -- Insurance Alcoholic beverages and gambling -- The vital topic of professional responsibility in the representation of affiliated corporations is also covered here.

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Wolters Kluwer

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0735570361

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9780735570368

The Indiana Jackass Regiment in the Civil War

A History of the 21st Infantry / 1st Heavy Artillery Regiment, with a Roster

By: Phillip E. Faller

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The Indiana Jackass Regiment in the Civil War

A History of the 21st Infantry / 1st Heavy Artillery Regiment, with a Roster

By: Phillip E. Faller

This book contains never before published information, including artillery firing tables, for an Indiana infantry regiment converted to heavy artillery. It concentrates upon these Hoosiers' three-and-a-half years of duty in the Trans-Mississippi Theater and Gulf states during the Civil War, often as a separate command. They acted as infantry, cavalry and light artillery (with captured cannons) before being converted to heavy artillery in 1863. Their cannons and artillery equipment were hauled by hundreds of mules. The regiment participated in the taking of New Orleans, securing an important rail link to Morgan City, Louisiana, the Teche Campaign, the siege and reduction of Port Hudson, the Red River Campaign, and sieges and reductions of Fort Gaines, Fort Morgan, Spanish Fort and Fort Blakely, Alabama.

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McFarland

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0786470461

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9780786470464

The New Art of Managing People, Updated and Revised

Person-to-Person Skills, Guidelines, and Techniques Every Manager Needs to Guide, Direct, and Motivate the Team

By: Tony Alessandra,Phillip L. Hunsaker,Anthony J. Alessandra

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The New Art of Managing People, Updated and Revised

Person-to-Person Skills, Guidelines, and Techniques Every Manager Needs to Guide, Direct, and Motivate the Team

By: Tony Alessandra,Phillip L. Hunsaker,Anthony J. Alessandra

When a manager establishes a friendly yet productive working atmosphere, the benefits to the whole organization are substantial. The Art of Managing People provides practical strategies, guidelines and techniques for * Developing the interpersonal skills necessary to improve relations with employees * Understanding the differences between people, and behaving accordingly * Assessing, and then improving, current working situations * Creating trust between managers and employees. Person-to-person skills are the key to developing an effective team of satisfied, energetic workers. Letting your workers express their own personalities and maximize their potentials will * Reduce stress within the work force, * Create a positive spirit throughout the company, and * Increase the organization's productivity and profitability.

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Simon and Schuster

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1416550623

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9781416550624

Seven Story Mountain

The Union Campaign at Vicksburg

By: Phillip M. Thienel

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Seven Story Mountain

The Union Campaign at Vicksburg

By: Phillip M. Thienel

The Mississippi River was of vital importance to the Civil War efforts of both the North and South. Immediately after the attack on Fort Sumter, Confederate soldiers closed the Mississippi from New Orleans northward to Columbus, Kentucky, and Belmont, Missouri, effectively shutting off transportation and commerce to the northwestern states of the Union. President Lincoln responded with a national military strategy to regain control of the river, symbolized by the struggle to capture the town of Vicksburg. It took seven attempts for General U.S. Grant to deploy his soldiers around the difficult terrain, and finally to confront face-to-face the Confederate soldiers entrenched in Vicksburg. The strategies, battlefield dynamics and innovative bridgebuilding techniques used are highlighted in this day-by-day account of Grant's efforts in a pivotal campaign of the Civil War.

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McFarland

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0786405724

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9780786405725

Politics and Politicians in American Film

By: Phillip L. Gianos

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Politics and Politicians in American Film

By: Phillip L. Gianos

Films have been a part of U.S. society for a century—a source of great enjoyment for the audience and of great profit to filmmakers. How does a mass entertainment medium deal with some of the great sources of dramatic real-life political and economic conflict—the Great Depression, the Cold War—in a way that attracts an audience without making it angry? How does an industry, which has from its beginnings been the subject of attacks from social, political and religious groups deal with political issues and conflicts? This book is an attempt to examine these questions; it is also an examination of some of the greatest and most interesting American films ever made—westerns, gangster films, comedies, war films, satires, and film biographies—to see what American films say about politics and politicians, and what these films, in turn, say about the audience for which they were produced.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313025347

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9780313025341

Policing Nightlife

Security, Transgression and Urban Order

By: Phillip Wadds

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Policing Nightlife

Security, Transgression and Urban Order

By: Phillip Wadds

Nightlife is a place of both real and imagined risk, a ‘frontier’ (Melbin 1978) where apparent freedom and transgression are closely linked, and where regulation of leisure and collective intoxication has been diffused throughout an expanding network of state and private actors. This book explores Sydney’s contemporary night-time economy as the product of an intersection of both local and global transformations, as policing comes to incorporate more and more ‘private’ personnel empowered to regulate ‘public’ drinking and nightlife. Policing Nightlife focuses on the historical and social conditions, cultural meanings and regulatory controls that have shaped both public and private forms of policing and security in contemporary urban nightlife. In so doing, it reflects more broadly on global changes in the nature of contemporary policing and how aspects of neoliberalism and the ideal of the ‘24-hour city’ have shaped policing, security and night-time leisure. Based on a decade of research and interviews with both police and doorstaff working in nightlife settings, it explores the effectiveness of policies governing policing and private security in the night-time economy in the context of media, political and public debates about regulation, and the gendered and highly masculine aspects of much of this work. An accessible and compelling read, this book will appeal to students and scholars of criminology, policing, sociology and those interested in understanding the debates surrounding security, policing and contemporary urban nightlife.

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Routledge

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1351039407

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Miller Cornfield at Antietam: The Civil War’s Bloodiest Combat

By: Phillip Thomas Tucker, PhD

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Miller Cornfield at Antietam: The Civil War’s Bloodiest Combat

By: Phillip Thomas Tucker, PhD

On September 17, 1862, the forces of Major General George B. McClellan and his Union Army of the Potomac confronted Robert E. Lee's entire Army of Northern Virginia at the Battle of Antietam in Sharpsburg, Maryland. The Union forces mounted a powerful assault on Lee's left flank in the idyllic Miller Cornfield. It was the single bloodiest day in the history of the Civil War. The elite combat units of the Union's Iron Brigade and the Confederate Texas Brigade held a dramatic showdown and suffered immense losses through vicious attacks and counterattacks sweeping through the cornstalks. Author Phillip Thomas Tucker reveals the triumph and tragedy of the greatest sacrifice of life of any battleground in America.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1625858655

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9781625858658

100 Things Colts Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die

By: Phillip B. Wilson

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100 Things Colts Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die

By: Phillip B. Wilson

Revealing the most critical moments and important facts about Colts football, 100 Things Colts Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die discusses past and present players, coaches, and teams through the years. Throughout the pages, readers will find pep talks, records, and Indianapolis NFL lore to test their knowledge, including details on the team’s 2012 season that encompassed a return to the playoffs, quarterback Andrew Luck’s success, and head coach Chuck Pagano’s battle with leukemia; highlights of Manning’s record-setting career in Indianapolis; and profiles of unforgettable Colts personalities such as Ted Marchibroda, Bill Polian, and Bob Lamey. Die-hard fans from the early days of Eric Dickerson and Jim Harbaugh as well as new supporters will cherish this book of everything Colts fans should know, see, and do in their lifetime.

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Triumph Books

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1623682738

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Facets of Fear

The Fear of God in Exilic and Post-Exilic Contexts

By: Phillip Michael Lasater

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Facets of Fear

The Fear of God in Exilic and Post-Exilic Contexts

By: Phillip Michael Lasater

Back cover: How was the widespread notion "fear of God" understood? Why in the first place did it make sense among ancient Jewish scribes to pair "fear" terminology with "God(s)" terminology? Phillip Michael Lasater addresses these questions through philological, conceptual, and exegetical analyses, responding to the history of research on the topic and opening up fresh perspectives.

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Mohr Siebeck

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3161566769

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Remember the Liberty!

Almost Sunk by Treason on the High Seas

By: Ernest Gallo,Ronald Kukal,Phillip Nelson,Phillip Tourney,Raymond McGovern

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Remember the Liberty!

Almost Sunk by Treason on the High Seas

By: Ernest Gallo,Ronald Kukal,Phillip Nelson,Phillip Tourney,Raymond McGovern

One of the most explosive and hidden secrets in U.S. history – one that has never been previously told, Remember the Liberty explores how a sitting U.S. president collaborated with Israeli leaders in the fomentation of a war between them and their Arab neighbors. A war that would ensure a victory for Israel, and include the acquisition of additional land. This book will finally identify the real cause of the vicious attack on a U.S. Naval ship. After the botched plan was executed, the ship refused to sink even after being hit by a torpedo, leading the attack to be cancelled and a massive cover-up invoked. Including severe threats for the crewmembers to "keep their lips sealed." That cover-up is barely still in place, and completely exposed. Written largely by the survivors themselves, the truth is finally being told with the real story revealed.

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TrineDay

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1634241096

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Hoosiers

The Fabulous Basketball Life of Indiana

By: Phillip M. Hoose

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Hoosiers

The Fabulous Basketball Life of Indiana

By: Phillip M. Hoose

Named by The New York Times as "a knowing, respectful and caring look at heartland America" and containing a new foreword by legendary player Bob Plump, this is a book every basketball lover should own. The best of Phillip Hoose's classic writings are included here with a fresh look on Indiana's favorite and most beloved sport. A new edition of a well-known Indiana classic, Hoosiers profiles some of the world's most famous basketball players and coaches—Larry Bird, Bobby Plump, Damon Bailey, Steve Alford, Stephanie White, and Bob Knight among them—along with Indiana towns, schools, and programs. The ultimate book for the diehard fan, Hoosiers: The Fabulous Basketball Life of Indiana explores Hoosier hysteria in all its glory.

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Indiana University Press

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0253021685

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9780253021687

Westerners in Gray

The Men and Missions of the Elite Fifth Missouri Infantry Regiment

By: Phillip Thomas Tucker

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Westerners in Gray

The Men and Missions of the Elite Fifth Missouri Infantry Regiment

By: Phillip Thomas Tucker

Regimental history of the Fifth Missouri, a Confederate unit, who fought outside Missouri at Iuka, Corinth, Port Gibson, and Vicksburg in Mississippi.

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McFarland

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0786400161

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9780786400164

Medieval Scandinavia

An Encyclopedia

By: Phillip Pulsiano

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Medieval Scandinavia

An Encyclopedia

By: Phillip Pulsiano

With full-page maps and supplementary photos, this encyclopedia covers every aspect of Scandinavia during the Middle Ages, including rulers and saints, overviews of the countries, religion, education, politics and law, culture and material life, history, literature, and art.

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Taylor & Francis

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0824047877

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9780824047870

Critical Care Medicine E-Book

Principles of Diagnosis and Management in the Adult

By: Joseph E. Parrillo,R. Phillip Dellinger

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Critical Care Medicine E-Book

Principles of Diagnosis and Management in the Adult

By: Joseph E. Parrillo,R. Phillip Dellinger

Now completely revised to bring you up to date with the latest advances in the field, Critical Care Medicine: Principles of Diagnosis and Management in the Adult, 5th Edition, delivers expert, practical guidance on virtually any clinical scenario you may encounter in the ICU. Designed for intensivists, critical care and pulmonology residents, fellows, practicing physicians, and nurse practitioners, this highly regarded text is clinically focused and easy to reference. Led by Drs. Joseph Parrillo and Phillip Dellinger, the 5th Edition introduces numerous new authors who lend a fresh perspective and contribute their expertise to that of hundreds of top authorities in the field. - Includes new chapters on current applications of bedside ultrasound in the ICU, both diagnostic and procedural; mechanical assist devices; and extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). - Contains new administrative chapters that provide important information on performance improvement and quality, length of stay, operations, working with the Joint Commission, and more. - Features new videos and images that provide visual guidance and clarify complex topics. - Keeps you up to date with expanded chapters on echocardiography in the ICU and valvular heart disease, including TAVR. - Includes separate chapters on mechanical ventilation of obstructive airway disease and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) – including the many recent changes in approach to positive end expiratory pressure setting in ARDS. - Covers key topics such as patient-ventilator synchrony and non-invasive ventilation for treating chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients with acute respiratory failure. - Reflects the recent literature and guidance on amount of fluids, type of fluid, vasopressor selection, mean arterial pressure target, and decision on steroid use in septic shock. - Provides questions and answers in every chapter, perfect for self-assessment and review. - Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323611605

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9780323611602

What Every Engineer Should Know About Data-Driven Analytics

By: Satish Mahadevan Srinivasan,Phillip A. Laplante

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What Every Engineer Should Know About Data-Driven Analytics

By: Satish Mahadevan Srinivasan,Phillip A. Laplante

What Every Engineer Should Know About Data-Driven Analytics provides a comprehensive introduction to the theoretical concepts and approaches of machine learning that are used in predictive data analytics. By introducing the theory and by providing practical applications, this text can be understood by every engineering discipline. It offers a detailed and focused treatment of the important machine learning approaches and concepts that can be exploited to build models to enable decision making in different domains. Utilizes practical examples from different disciplines and sectors within engineering and other related technical areas to demonstrate how to go from data, to insight, and to decision making Introduces various approaches to build models that exploits different algorithms Discusses predictive models that can be built through machine learning and used to mine patterns from large datasets Explores the augmentation of technical and mathematical materials with explanatory worked examples Includes a glossary, self-assessments, and worked-out practice exercises Written to be accessible to non-experts in the subject, this comprehensive introductory text is suitable for students, professionals, and researchers in engineering and data science.

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CRC Press

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100085969X

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9781000859690

Anglican Confirmation

1662-1820

By: Phillip Tovey

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Anglican Confirmation

1662-1820

By: Phillip Tovey

Confirmation was an important part of the life of the eighteenth-century church which consumed a significant part of the time of bishops, of clergy in their preparation of candidates, and of the candidates themselves in terms of a transition in their Christian life. Yet it has been almost entirely overlooked by scholars. This book aims to fill this void in our understanding, and offers an important contribution and correction of our understanding of the life of the church during the long eighteenth century in both Britain and North America. Tovey addresses two important historical debates: the 'pessimist/optimist' debate on the character and condition of the Church of England in the eighteenth century; and the debate on the 're-enchantment' of the eighteenth century which challenges the secular nature of society in the age of the Enlightenment. Drawing on new developments of the study of visitation returns and episcopal life and on primary research in historical records, Anglican Confirmation goes behind the traditional Tractarian interpretations to uncover the understanding and confidence of the eighteenth-century church in the rite of confirmation. The book will be of interest to eighteenth-century church historians, theologians and liturgists alike.

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Routledge

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1317181034

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9781317181033

From Death Row to Freedom

The Struggle for Racial Justice in the Pitts-Lee Case

By: Phillip A. Hubbart

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From Death Row to Freedom

The Struggle for Racial Justice in the Pitts-Lee Case

By: Phillip A. Hubbart

An insider’s account of a wrongful conviction and the fight to overturn it during the civil rights era This book is an insider’s account of the case of Freddie Pitts and Wilbert Lee, two Black men who were wrongfully charged and convicted of the murder of two white gas station attendants in Port St. Joe, Florida, in 1963, and sentenced to death. Phillip Hubbart, a defense lawyer for Pitts and Lee for more than 10 years, examines the crime, the trial, and the appeals with both a keen legal perspective and an awareness of the endemic racism that pervaded the case and obstructed justice. Hubbart discusses how the case against Pitts and Lee was based entirely on confessions obtained from the defendants and an alleged “eyewitness” through prolonged, violent interrogations and how local authorities repeatedly rejected later evidence pointing to the real killer, a white man well known to the Port St. Joe police. The book follows the case’s tortuous route through the Florida courts to the defendants’ eventual exoneration in 1975 by the Florida governor and cabinet. From Death Row to Freedom is a thorough chronicle of deep prejudice in the courts and brutality at the hands of police during the civil rights era of the 1960s. Hubbart argues that the Pitts-Lee case is a piece of American history that must be remembered, along with other similar incidents, in order for the country to make any progress toward racial reconciliation today. Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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University Press of Florida

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0813072832

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9780813072838

The Glorious American Essay

One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present

By: Phillip Lopate

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The Glorious American Essay

One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present

By: Phillip Lopate

A monumental, canon-defining anthology of three centuries of American essays, from Cotton Mather and Benjamin Franklin to David Foster Wallace and Zadie Smith—selected by acclaimed essayist Phillip Lopate "Not only an education but a joy. This is a book for the ages." —Rivka Galchen, author of Atmospheric Disturbances The essay form is an especially democratic one, and many of the essays Phillip Lopate has gathered here address themselves—sometimes critically—to American values. We see the Puritans, the Founding Fathers and Mothers, and the stars of the American Renaissance struggle to establish a national culture. A grand tradition of nature writing runs from Audubon, Thoreau, and John Muir to Rachel Carson and Annie Dillard. Marginalized groups use the essay to assert or to complicate notions of identity. Lopate has cast his net wide, embracing critical, personal, political, philosophical, literary, polemical, autobiographical, and humorous essays. Americans by birth as well as immigrants appear here, famous essayists alongside writers more celebrated for fiction or poetry. The result is a dazzling overview of the riches of the American essay.

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Anchor

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0525436278

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9780525436270

Following Jesus

Discipleship in the Gospel of Luke and Beyond

By: Phillip C. Thrailkill

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Following Jesus

Discipleship in the Gospel of Luke and Beyond

By: Phillip C. Thrailkill

Two questions are braided together in Luke’s Gospel. Who is Jesus, and what does it mean to be his student and apprentice? The church has spent much of its intellectual energies on the first question, but not so much on the second. We are precise in our Christology and vague in our Discipleology (my new word!). Of the four biographies that open the New Testament, Luke is perhaps the best equipped to answer the question of what it means to follow Jesus along with others, and what we can expect in the process. Luke’s Gospel is dense with story after story about Jesus’s stumbling, goofy, persistent disciples. And his second volume—Acts—continues the tale. There is a deep continuity, as Luke teaches, between Jesus’s original disciples and the ones who later declared their allegiance to him after his resurrection. We walk in the footsteps of pioneers in this new way of living with a Jesus who is always near but just beyond sight. The aim of this book is to plunder the fruits of New Testament scholarship, especially the tools of rhetorical and narrative criticism, to highlight what an incredible adventure came with the call to follow me.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1666743488

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9781666743487

Father of the Tuskegee Airmen, John C. Robinson

By: Phillip Thomas Tucker

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Father of the Tuskegee Airmen, John C. Robinson

By: Phillip Thomas Tucker

A thrilling biography of one of the most famous African American pilots of all time.

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Potomac Books, Inc.

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1597976067

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9781597976060

The Odyssey Effect: Dawn of the Artificials

By: Phillip G. Cargile

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The Odyssey Effect: Dawn of the Artificials

By: Phillip G. Cargile

Back info In the year 2127 on a planet one hundred thousand light years away a race of artificial human’s labor to supply Earth with the miracle ore Dycornum. Then an anomalous quirk occurred in the maturation process and sentient artificials were born. Now free from the supercomputer that governed their every thought, they followed their natural inclination and came to Earth to be a part of humanities utopian society. Detective Dexter Ruyac, like everyone else on Earth, envisioned the artificals as advertised by the government to be drones – biological machines; so far removed from mankind they did not even have souls. He was startled to discover that the anomaly of a sentient artificial he had found was just one of many. One presidential official of the global government the World Court deemed them as an industrial accident and a threat to the social order of Earth; knowledge of these intelligent artificials should not reach the public. This officer of the Court formed a black operation group of cybernetic hunter killers to eliminate them. Dexter’s social pledge as a policeman to protect and serve has extended to these immigrants of mankind from across the stars but he is running out of time to find them first.

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Fulton Books, Inc.

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1646547136

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9781646547135

Development of Perception in Infancy

The Cradle of Knowledge Revisited

By: Martha E. Arterberry,Phillip J. Kellman

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Development of Perception in Infancy

The Cradle of Knowledge Revisited

By: Martha E. Arterberry,Phillip J. Kellman

The developing infant can accomplish all important perceptual tasks that an adult can, albeit with less skill or precision. Through infant perception research, infant responses to experiences enable researchers to reveal perceptual competence, test hypotheses about processes, and infer neural mechanisms, and researchers are able to address age-old questions about perception and the origins of knowledge. In Development of Perception in Infancy: The Cradle of Knowledge Revisited, Martha E. Arterberry and Philip J. Kellman study the methods and data of scientific research on infant perception, introducing and analyzing topics (such as space, pattern, object, and motion perception) through philosophical, theoretical, and historical contexts. Infant perception research is placed in a philosophical context by addressing the abilities with which humans appear to be born, those that appear to emerge due to experience, and the interaction of the two. The theoretical perspective is informed by the ecological tradition, and from such a perspective the authors focus on the information available for perception, when it is used by the developing infant, the fit between infant capabilities and environmental demands, and the role of perceptual learning. Since the original publication of this book in 1998 (MIT), Arterberry and Kellman address in addition the mechanisms of change, placing the basic capacities of infants at different ages and exploring what it is that infants do with this information. Significantly, the authors feature the perceptual underpinnings of social and cognitive development, and consider two examples of atypical development - congenital cataracts and Autism Spectrum Disorder. Professionals and students alike will find this book a critical resource to understanding perception, cognitive development, social development, infancy, and developmental cognitive neuroscience, as research on the origins of perception has changed forever our conceptions of how human mental life begins.

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Oxford University Press

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0199395659

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9780199395651

Sepik

By: Phillip Varady

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Sepik

By: Phillip Varady

From the time that Renate was a schoolgirl she knew she wanted to be a nun; being a wife and mother was desirable but out of the question . . . or so it seemed. After taking her vows her curiosity about the life she had given up became her weakness and at times resulted in great difficulty for her. Having chosen to be a missionary she was sent from her native Germany to a mission half a world away in German New Guinea in the turbulent days before the First World War. She thought that all her concerns had now become moot but it was there that she met Lieutenant Johannes Seitz and his beautiful mixed-race wife Rosa. Their open sexuality taunted her and she was drawn into a whirlpool of emotions that left her vulnerable to her secret desires. In her innocence she was unaware of an agenda that transcended her wildest dreams.

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Lulu.com

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1411687205

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9781411687202

Cliff Ellis

The Winning Edge

By: Cliff Ellis,Phillip Marshall

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The Winning Edge

By: Cliff Ellis,Phillip Marshall

The spectacular season turned in by the Auburn Tigers in 1998-99, when the SEC champions earned a No. I seed in the NCAA Tournament, is just the latest in a long line of outstanding achievements generated by the coaching of Cliff Ellis. In his nearly six years at Auburn, Ellis has led the rejuvenation of Tigers basketball, helping the school enjoy the high level of success it had not experienced since the days of NBA standouts Charles Barkley, Chuck Person, and Chris Morris. Since surprising all the doubters during his first season with the school, Ellis has helped build Auburn into a consistent winning program -- and one that exploded onto the national scene in 1999. Clearly, Cliff Ellis has worked his coaching magic once again, and he looks forward to leading Auburn basketball successfully into the new millennium.

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Communicating for Managerial Effectiveness

Challenges | Strategies | Solutions

By: Phillip G. Clampitt

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Communicating for Managerial Effectiveness

Challenges | Strategies | Solutions

By: Phillip G. Clampitt

Appreciated by thousands of thoughtful students, successful managers, and aspiring senior leaders around the world Communicating for Managerial Effectiveness skillfully integrates theory, research, and real-world case studies into models designed to guide thoughtful responses to complex communication issues. The highly anticipated Sixth Edition builds on the strategic principles and related tactics highlighted in previous editions to show readers how to add value to their organizations by communicating more effectively. Author Phillip G. Clampitt (Blair Endowed Chair of Communication at the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay) addresses common communication problems experienced in organizations, including: Communicating about major changes spanning organizational boundaries Selecting the proper communication technologies Transforming data into knowledge Addressing ethical dilemmas Providing useful performance feedback Structuring and using robust decision-making practices Cultivating the innovative spirit Building a world-class communication system

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Apples, Oranges and Lemons

Surviving the Automobile Business

By: Phillip James Grismer

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Apples, Oranges and Lemons

Surviving the Automobile Business

By: Phillip James Grismer

When purchasing your vehicle, you should probably expect to be lied to by everyone from the sales department to the financial department. Apples, Oranges, and Lemons is a one-of-a-kind, tell-all book about the automobile trade that reveals inside secrets they don't want you to know. There is no other book like it. It is written by the only person who could, or would. Phillip James Grismer knows the automobile industry from the inside out. He first apprenticed in a number of import auto shops, eventually rising through the ranks and opening his own facility. Grismer draws on his thirty-seven years of experience to expose how the industry really works. He provides answers on how to deal with a "lemon" while offering advice on how to make the best buy before purchasing your vehicle. Discover how the valuation and appraisal process works and how the history of your vehicle affects you and your money. Grismer's conversational style makes the information accessible while offering personal insight on the process of vehicle manufacturing and servicing. Even the most casual reader will be enlightened and entertained by the inner workings of the automobile manufacturing, sales, and service industry. But most importantly, this handy reference guide empowers the consumer to make well-informed decisions about vehicles.

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0595879292

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The Fundamental Things

By: Phillip Dibble

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The Fundamental Things

By: Phillip Dibble

1930S America was in the depths of the great worldwide depression. A rich young man, educated in the radical mix of the University of Chicago, joins with a group of young communists who want to abet the struggle for union rights in the emerging labor union movement. They are in the thick of the physcial and economic struggle when Rick shoots several strikebreakers who are beating some unarmed strikers. His group aids him in his escape to South America and then to Berlin. There he becomes involved in the political intrigues that led to World War II. He accompanies a strange little man to Zurich where he meets "The Fat Man" a worldly wise amoral adventurer who has developed a scheme for running guns for Emperor Haile Selaisse of Ethiopia in his struggle againts Mussolini's fascist dreams of a new Rome. On arrival Rick sees quickly the futility of the scheme which rapidly unravels. The group escape from Ethiopia, scatters, and he goes to Spain. There he joins the International Brigades who are fighting General Franco's fascists. Soviet intrigues, espionage, and betrayals cause him to flee to Paris. There he meets a mysterious young woman and falls in love. His happiness is interrupted by the approaching Nazi Wehrmacht.

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Política

Nuevomexicanos and American Political Incorporation, 1821–1910

By: Phillip B. Gonzales,Felipe Gonzales

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Política

Nuevomexicanos and American Political Incorporation, 1821–1910

By: Phillip B. Gonzales,Felipe Gonzales

Chapter 15. Realized Political Parties, 1869-1871 -- Conclusions -- Appendixes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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0803284659

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Cathy Williams

From Slave to Female Buffalo Soldier

By: Phillip Thomas Tucker

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Cathy Williams

From Slave to Female Buffalo Soldier

By: Phillip Thomas Tucker

Presents a biography of Cathy Williams, African American and only woman ever to disguise herself as a man, join, serve in the Buffalo Soldiers, and succeed against all odds.

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0811703401

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Death at the Little Bighorn

A New Look at Custer, His Tactics, and the Tragic Decisions Made at the Last Stand

By: Phillip Thomas Tucker

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Death at the Little Bighorn

A New Look at Custer, His Tactics, and the Tragic Decisions Made at the Last Stand

By: Phillip Thomas Tucker

On the hot Sunday afternoon of June 25, 1876, Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer decided to go for broke. After dividing his famed 7th Cavalry, he ordered his senior officer, Major Marcus A. Reno, to strike the southern end of the vast Indian encampment along the Little Bighorn River, while Custer would launch a bold flank attack to hit the village's northern end. Custer needed to charge across the river at Medicine Tail Coulee Ford. We all know the ultimate outcome of this decision, but this groundbreaking new book proves that Custer's tactical plan was not so ill-conceived. The enemy had far superior numbers and more advanced weaponry. But Custer's plan could still have succeeded, as his tactics were fundamentally sound. Relying on Indian accounts that have been largely ignored by historians, this is also a story of the Sioux and Cheyenne warriors. Custer’s last move was repulsed, resulting in withdrawal to the high ground above the ford… and it was here, on the open and exposed slopes and hilltops, that Custer and his five companies were destroyed in systematic fashion. This book tells for the first time the forgotten story of the true turning point of America's most iconic battle. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

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1634508068

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Blumberg on Corporate Groups

By: Phillip I. Blumberg

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Blumberg on Corporate Groups

By: Phillip I. Blumberg

This new five volume "Second Edition" of "Blumberg on

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0735542066

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Jesus the Bridegroom

The Origin of the Eschatological Feast as a Wedding Banquet in the Synoptic Gospels

By: Phillip J. Long

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Jesus the Bridegroom

The Origin of the Eschatological Feast as a Wedding Banquet in the Synoptic Gospels

By: Phillip J. Long

Did Jesus claim to be the "bridegroom"? If so, what did he mean by this claim? When Jesus says that the wedding guests should not fast "while the bridegroom is with them" (Mark 2:19), he is claiming to be a bridegroom by intentionally alluding to a rich tradition from the Hebrew Bible. By eating and drinking with "tax collectors and other sinners," Jesus was inviting people to join him in celebrating the eschatological banquet. While there is no single text in the Hebrew Bible or the literature of the Second Temple Period which states the "messiah is like a bridegroom," the elements for such a claim are present in several texts in Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Hosea. By claiming that his ministry was an ongoing wedding celebration he signaled the end of the Exile and the restoration of Israel to her position as the Lord's beloved wife. This book argues that Jesus combined the tradition of an eschatological banquet with a marriage metaphor in order to describe the end of the Exile as a wedding banquet.

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1620329573

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Abstractionist Aesthetics

Artistic Form and Social Critique in African American Culture

By: Phillip Brian Harper

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Abstractionist Aesthetics

Artistic Form and Social Critique in African American Culture

By: Phillip Brian Harper

An artistic discussion on the critical potential of African American expressive culture In a major reassessment of African American culture, Phillip Brian Harper intervenes in the ongoing debate about the “proper” depiction of black people. He advocates for African American aesthetic abstractionism—a representational mode whereby an artwork, rather than striving for realist verisimilitude, vigorously asserts its essentially artificial character. Maintaining that realist representation reaffirms the very social facts that it might have been understood to challenge, Harper contends that abstractionism shows up the actual constructedness of those facts, thereby subjecting them to critical scrutiny and making them amenable to transformation. Arguing against the need for “positive” representations, Abstractionist Aesthetics displaces realism as the primary mode of African American representational aesthetics, re-centers literature as a principal site of African American cultural politics, and elevates experimental prose within the domain of African American literature. Drawing on examples across a variety of artistic production, including the visual work of Fred Wilson and Kara Walker, the music of Billie Holiday and Cecil Taylor, and the prose and verse writings of Ntozake Shange, Alice Walker, and John Keene, this book poses urgent questions about how racial blackness is made to assume certain social meanings. In the process, African American aesthetics are upended, rendering abstractionism as the most powerful modality for Black representation.

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1479818364

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The Oxford Companion to American Literature

By: James D. Hart,Phillip Leininger

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The Oxford Companion to American Literature

By: James D. Hart,Phillip Leininger

For more than half a century, James D. Hart's The Oxford Companion to American Literature has been an unparalleled guide to America's literary culture, providing one of the finest resources to this country's rich history of great writers. Now this acclaimed work has been completely revised and updated to reflect current developments in the world of American letters.For the sixth edition, editors James D. Hart and Phillip Leininger have updated the Companion in light of what has happened in American literature since 1982. To this end, they have revised the entries on such established authors as Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer, and Joyce Carol Oates, and they have added more than 180 new entries on novelists (T. Coraghessan Boyle, Tim O'Brien, Louise Erdrich, Don De Lillo), poets (Rita Dove, Weldon Kees), playwrights (Wendy Wasserstein, August Wilson), popular writers (Stephen King, Louis L'Amour), historians (James M. McPherson, David Herbert Donald, William Manchester), naturalists (Aldo Leopold, Edward Abbey), and literary critics (Camille Paglia, Richard Ellmann). In addition, the Companion boasts more women's, African-American, and ethnic voices, with new entries on such luminaries as Charlotte Perkins Gilman, M.F.K. Fisher, William Least Heat-Moon, Ursula Le Guin, and Oscar Hijuelos, among many others.These additions represent only some of the revisions for the new edition. Of course, the basic qualities of the Companion that readers have grown to know and love over the years are as superb as ever. With over 5,000 total entries, The Oxford Companion to American Literature reflects a dynamic balance between past and contemporary literature, surveying virtually every aspect of our national literature, from the Pulitzer Prize to pulp fiction, and from Walt Whitman to William F. Buckley, Jr. There are over 2,000 biographical profiles of important American authors (with information regarding their styles, subjects, and major works) and influential foreign writers as well as other figures who have been important in the nation's social and cultural history. There are more than 1,100 full summaries of important American novels, stories, essays, poems (with verse form noted), plays, biographies and autobiographies, tracts, narratives, and histories. The new edition provides historical background and astute commentary on literary schools and movements, literary awards, magazines, newspapers, and a wide variety of other matters directly related to writing in America. Finally, the book is thoroughly cross-referenced and features an extensive and fully updated index of literary and social history.Ranging from Captain John Smith to John Updike, and from Anne Bradstreet to Anne Rice, the sixth edition of The Oxford Companion to American Literature is up to date, accurate, and comprehensive, a delight for both the casual browser and the serious student.

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0195065484

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