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This Abominable Slavery

Race, Religion, and the Battle over Human Bondage in Antebellum Utah

By: W. Paul Reeve,Christopher B. Rich,LaJean Purcell Carruth

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This Abominable Slavery

Race, Religion, and the Battle over Human Bondage in Antebellum Utah

By: W. Paul Reeve,Christopher B. Rich,LaJean Purcell Carruth

On July 22, 1847, a group of about forty refugees entered the Salt Lake Valley. Among them were three enslaved men, two of whom shared the religion, Mormonism, that had caused them to flee. The valley was also home to members of the Ute tribe, who would sometimes barter captive women and children to Spanish colonizers. Thus, the question of whether the Latter-day Saints would accept or reject slavery in their new Zion confronted them on the day they first arrived. Five years later, after Utah had become an American territory, its legislature was prodded to take up the question then roiling the nation: would they be slave or free? George D. Watt, the official reporter for the 1852 legislative session, reported debates and speeches in Pitman shorthand. They remained in their original format, virtually untouched, for more than one hundred and fifty years, until LaJean Purcell Carruth transcribed them. In this eye-opening volume, Carruth, Christopher Rich, and W. Paul Reeve draw extensively on these new sources to chronicle the session, during which the legislature passed two important statutes: one that legally transformed African American slaves into "servants" but did not pass the condition of servitude on to their children and another that authorized twenty-year indentures for enslaved Native Americans. This Abominable Slavery places these debates within the context of the nation's growing sectional divide and contextualizes the meaning of these laws in the lives of Black enslaved people and Native American indentured servants. In doing so, it sheds new light on race, religion, slavery, and unfree labor in the antebellum period.

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Oxford University Press

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0197765041

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Before the Glory

20 Baseball Heroes Talk About Growing Up and Turning Hard Times Into Home Runs

By: Billy Staples,Bill Staples,Rich Herschlag

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Before the Glory

20 Baseball Heroes Talk About Growing Up and Turning Hard Times Into Home Runs

By: Billy Staples,Bill Staples,Rich Herschlag

Recounts the true childhood stories and lessons of some of baseball's greatest players, including Gary Carter, Ralph Kiner, Ferguson Jenkins, and Tony Gwynn.

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Health Communications, Inc.

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0757306268

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Design and Launch an Online Web Design Business in a Week

By: Jason Rich

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Design and Launch an Online Web Design Business in a Week

By: Jason Rich

Unlike traditional gift shops, online shops can be immediately profitable with minimal startup investment. This book provides several, unique business ideas within today's hottest specialities: food, pets, hobbies, home goods and holidays.

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Entrepreneur Press

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1599182653

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9781599182650

Start Your Own Food Truck Business

Your Step-By-Step Guide to Success

By: The Staff of Entrepreneur Media,Rich Mintzer

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Start Your Own Food Truck Business

Your Step-By-Step Guide to Success

By: The Staff of Entrepreneur Media,Rich Mintzer

Satisfy Your Hunger for Success Catering to a new generation of foodies looking for quick and unique specialties, the mobile food business is booming with new opportunities for eager entrepreneurs like you. From gourmet food to all-American basics and hot dog wagons to bustaurants, our experts give you the delicious details behind starting and running a successful mobile food business. Covers: Six of the hottest mobile food options: food carts, concession trailers, kiosks, gourmet trucks, mobile catering, and bustaurants Identifying the perfect food niche and customer base Creating menu items that save time, money, and space in the kitchen Attracting new and loyal customers with social media

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1613084269

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The Beat Generation FAQ

All That's Left to Know About the Angelheaded Hipsters

By: Rich Weidman

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The Beat Generation FAQ

All That's Left to Know About the Angelheaded Hipsters

By: Rich Weidman

(FAQ). The Beat Generation FAQ is an informative and entertaining look at the enigmatic authors and cutting-edge works that shaped this fascinating cultural and literary movement. Disillusioned with the repression and conformity encompassing post-World War II life in the United States, the Beat writers sought creative alternatives to the mind-numbing banality of modern culture. Beat Generation writers were no strangers to controversy: Both Allen Ginsberg's prophetic, William Blakean-style poem "Howl" (1956) and William S. Burroughs' groundbreaking novel Naked Lunch (1959) led to obscenity trials, while Jack Kerouac's highly influential novel On the Road (1957) was blamed by the establishment for corrupting the nation's youth and continues to this day to serve as a beacon of hipster culture and the bohemian lifestyle. The Beat writers shared a vision for a new type of literature, one that escaped the boundaries of academia and employed an organic use of language, inspired by the spontaneity and improvisational nature of jazz music and abstract expressionism (Kerouac coined this writing style "spontaneous prose"). In search of deeper meaning, Beat Generation writers experimented not only with language but also with spirituality, art, drugs, sexuality, and unconventional lifestyles. Although the movement as a whole flamed out quickly in the early 1960s, replaced by the onset of the hippie counterculture, the Beats made an indelible mark on the nation's consciousness and left a long-lasting influence on its art and culture. This book details the movement its works, creative forces, and its legacy.

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Hal Leonard Corporation

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1617136344

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Rebel Women of the Gold Rush

Extraordinary Achievements and Daring Adventures

By: Rich Mole

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Rebel Women of the Gold Rush

Extraordinary Achievements and Daring Adventures

By: Rich Mole

During the frenzied Klondike Gold Rush, many daring women ventured north to seek riches and adventure or to escape a troubled past. These unforgettable, strong-willed women defied the social conventions of the time and endured heartbreak and horrific conditions to build a life in the wild North. At the height of the gold rush, Martha Purdy, Nellie Cashman, Ethel Berry and a few hundred other women were conquering what came to be called the Trail of '98—a route that proved to be an impossible ordeal for many men. From renowned reporter Faith Fenton and successful entrepreneur Belinda Mulrooney to Mae Field, "The Doll of Dawson," and other "citizens of the demimonde," the Klondike's rebel women bring an intriguing new perspective to gold-rush history.

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Heritage House Publishing Co

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1926613880

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Things Snowball

By: Rich Hall

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Things Snowball

By: Rich Hall

I stopped off at the Peace Gardens - a memorial straddling the US-Canadian border commemorating 'Lasting Peace Between America and Canada', as if there had ever been a problem. Show me a garden commemorating Peace Between America and, say, Iraq and I'll be impressed. America is like a beauty contestant. It's gorgeous, until it opens its mouth.' From the similarities between US gun laws and British drinking hours, to what cryptic crosswords really tell us about the British psyche, American in London Rich Hall casts a keen eye on the lunatic contradictions and weird marvels of his native and adoptive homelands. 'Full of acute left-field reflections on America and Americans, plus some marvellously irreverent sketches ...wise, witty and strangely true' GUARDIAN

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Abacus

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0748108858

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No Hatch to Match

Aggressive Strategies for Fly-Fishing between Hatches

By: Rich Osthoff

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No Hatch to Match

Aggressive Strategies for Fly-Fishing between Hatches

By: Rich Osthoff

The bulk of fly-fishing literature is centered on matching the hatch, when in reality, on most waters, most of the time, there is no hatch to match. This eye-opening book provides a wide range of strategies for fishing resourcefully between the hatches. These include subtle techniques of presentation, such as micro-nymphing for inactive trout; aggressive strategies such as long-line nymphing with precision for active trout; using prospecting dry flies and streamers effectively; and a wealth of practical advice on reading the water. It includes chapters on seasonal movements of trout, temperature-induced feeding binges, beating the heat, dealing with dirty water, and targeting big, carnivorous trout. It will expand your repertoire and make you a more successful fly fisher.

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Stackpole Books

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0811743403

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Children Owe Karma Too!

Nine Karmic Clues to Raising Children

By: Penny Rich

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Children Owe Karma Too!

Nine Karmic Clues to Raising Children

By: Penny Rich

As a Master Numerologist, Penny presents “amazingly accurate” details in a format of who you are or have ever been, as discovered through the nine karmic lessons that every human-being of your earthly realm must be accountable for as the subconscious mind and eternal spirit never forgets anything of positive benefit and spiritual value over generations of earthly incarnations. Penny Rich is the mother of two daughters whose names have been charted through the science of numbers and identified with the intellect of earthbound Archangels; divinely blessed with exceptional gifts of creative expression and literary elegance expressed through music, interior design and motivation al speaking and what a rare breed they are! Now you too can discover the secret to the master numbers 11 and 22 that reveal a surprisingly high number of living angels and earthbound Archangels who represent the material and spiritual statue of divine consciousness and celestial navigation when the numbers clearly define this unique distinction; whose spirits are as ancient as the birth of mankind . Many are of this divine orientation, but few are aware of their level of spiritual attainment and potential as “ star-people” existing on an experiential planet where experience provides eternal survival of the soul. Penny Rich is one so designated to serve as a master-teacher to aid mankind to reach a clearer comprehension of his divine purpose and reason for being given an opportunity to better understand numerical vibrations as it equates to the enlightening challenge of earthly visitation. Enjoy a comprehensive study of the provocative science of numbers. Perhaps you’ll discover that you too are among those destined to attain spiritual perfection as a so-called, “mortal” of the earthly realm.

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1465383743

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Holocaust Cinema Complete

A History and Analysis of 400 Films, with a Teaching Guide

By: Rich Brownstein

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Holocaust Cinema Complete

A History and Analysis of 400 Films, with a Teaching Guide

By: Rich Brownstein

Holocaust movies have become an important segment of world cinema and the de-facto Holocaust education for many. One quarter of all American-produced Holocaust-related feature films have won or been nominated for at least one Oscar. In fact, from 1945 through 1991, half of all American Holocaust features were nominated. Yet most Holocaust movies have fallen through the cracks and few have been commercially successful. This book explores these trends--and many others--with a comprehensive guide to hundreds of films and made-for-television movies. From Anne Frank to Schindler's List to Jojo Rabbit, more than 400 films are examined from a range of perspectives--historical, chronological, thematic, sociological, geographical and individual. The filmmakers are contextualized, including Charlie Chaplin, Sidney Lumet, Steven Spielberg, Quentin Tarantino and Roman Polanski. Recommendations and reviews of the 50 best Holocaust films are included, along with an educational guide, a detailed listing of all films covered and a four-part index-glossary.

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McFarland

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1476641927

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Ghosts of the Civil War

Exploring the Paranormal History of America's Deadliest War

By: Rich Newman

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Ghosts of the Civil War

Exploring the Paranormal History of America's Deadliest War

By: Rich Newman

The Civil War left behind unforgettable stories of brave soldiers, heartbroken families, violent battles...and a paranormal legacy that continues to fascinate and scare us more than 150 years after the war ended. Paranormal investigator Rich Newman presents over 160 different locations with reported supernatural activity related to the Civil War. Explore major battlefields, smaller skirmishes, forts, cemeteries, homes, and historic buildings teeming with ghosts. Discover the rich history of these Civil War locations and why so many souls linger long after death. Featuring terrifying, heartbreaking, and captivating ghost stories, this book helps you uncover the supernatural secrets of America's deadliest war.

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Llewellyn Worldwide

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0738754250

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Pee Wees

Confessions of a Hockey Parent

By: Rich Cohen

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Pee Wees

Confessions of a Hockey Parent

By: Rich Cohen

A New York Times bestselling author takes a rollicking deep dive into the ultra-competitive world of youth hockey Rich Cohen, the New York Times–bestselling author of The Chicago Cubs: Story of a Curse and Monsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of Football, turns his attention to matters closer to home: his son’s elite Pee Wee hockey team and himself, a former player and a devoted hockey parent. In Pee Wees: Confessions of a Hockey Parent, Cohen takes us through a season of hard-fought competition in Fairfield County, Connecticut, an affluent suburb of New York City. Part memoir and part exploration of youth sports and the exploding popularity of American hockey, Pee Wees follows the ups and downs of the Ridgefield Bears, the twelve-year-old boys and girls on the team, and the parents watching, cheering, conniving, and cursing in the stands. It is a book about the love of the game, the love of parents for their children, and the triumphs and struggles of both.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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0374720584

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María de Zayas Tells Baroque Tales of Love and the Cruelty of Men

By: Margaret Rich Greer

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María de Zayas Tells Baroque Tales of Love and the Cruelty of Men

By: Margaret Rich Greer

Mar&ía de Zayas y Sotomayor (1590&–1650?) published two collections of novellas, Novelas amorosas y exemplares (1637) and Desenga&ños amorosos (1647), which were immensely popular in her day. During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Victorian and bourgeois sensibilities exiled her &“scandalous&” works to the outer fringes of serious literature. Over the last two decades, however, she has gained an enthusiastic and ever-expanding readership, drawing intense critical attention and achieving canonical status as a major figure of the Spanish Golden Age. In this first comprehensive study of Zayas&’s prose, Margaret R. Greer explores the relationship between narration and desire, analyzing both the &“desire for readers&” displayed by Zayas in her Prologue and the sexual desire that drives the telling within the novellas themselves. Greer examines Zayas&’s narrative strategies through the twin lenses of feminist and psychoanalytic theory. She devotes close attention to the weight of Renaissance literary traditions and the role of Zayas&’s own cultural context in shaping her work. She discusses Zayas&’s biography and the reception of her publications; her advocacy of women&’s rights; her conflictive loyalty to an aristocratic, patriarchal order; her crafting of feminine tales of desire; and her erasure of the frontiers between the natural and supernatural, indeed, between love and death itself. In so doing, Greer offers an expansive analysis of this recently rediscovered Golden Age writer.

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Penn State Press

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0271019875

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Memories From A Real World

The Road To The Rapture

By: Rich Seibert

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Memories From A Real World

The Road To The Rapture

By: Rich Seibert

Since the fall of man, God had set a time for the final judgment of Satan. The endgame is about to begin, and Satan’s reign on Earth is about to end. This is the final move through his son, the takeover of earth, and the return to Heaven with his armies to conquer and settle the score. Meanwhile, Christ prepares to bring home his own, the saved from eternity past. It is now 1994; in the aftermath of a congressional investigation, a new agency has replaced the CIA, and its director is a man without a past. In an area of Queens, New York, a lodge is destroyed by an unknown source. In the aftermath of the destruction, five individuals and a missionary woman rescue two brothers in a hospital, while in another dimension, Satan plans a strategy to remove Christianity from the last bastion on earth, the United States of America. Working through the man without a past, he suspects seven individuals to be part of a conspiracy to undermine his plans outside the predestined path. The seven, the chosen from the foundations of the earth, are Satan’s main target. Who are these seven? Are they soldiers of Christ the many who are saved to pave the way for the Savior’s return? The man without a past, will he set in motion the events that will lead to the Rapture? Imagine in an alternate time and history what is to happen, for it is a warning of what is to come. Read on, find out, and claim the promise before Christ returns.

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1662407599

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An Experiential Approach to Group Work, Second Edition

By: Rich Furman,Kimberly Bender,Diana Rowan

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An Experiential Approach to Group Work, Second Edition

By: Rich Furman,Kimberly Bender,Diana Rowan

An Experiential Approach to Group Work is not your typical group work text! Using dozens of exercises that build practice-tested skills, the authors' approach is in perfect step with CSWE's competence-based education requirements. The book is organized into three sections-the first addresses stages of group practice, the second looks at major types of groups, and the final section looks at examples of group work practice with special populations.

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Oxford University Press

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0190685263

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Social Work Practice with Men at Risk

By: Rich Furman

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Social Work Practice with Men at Risk

By: Rich Furman

Treating men as a culturally distinct group, Rich Furman integrates key conceptions of masculinity into culturally sensitive social work practice with men. Focusing on veterans, displaced workers, substance abusers, mental health consumers, and other groups that might be unlikely to seek help, Furman deftly explores the psychosocial development of men, along with the globalization of men's lives, alternative conceptions of masculinity, and special dynamics within male relationships. Furman bolsters his conclusions with case studies and evidence-based interventions. His cutting-edge research merges four key social work theories and explores how they inform practice with mental health issues, compulsive disorders, addiction, and violence. By promoting gender equity and culturally competent practice with men, Furman bridges the gap between clinical and macro practice. Social Work Practice with Men at Risk is a crucial text for educators and practitioners hoping to pursue effective, far-reaching interventions.

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Columbia University Press

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0231143818

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This Business of Concert Promotion and Touring

A Practical Guide to Creating, Selling, Organizing, and Staging Concerts

By: Ray D. Waddell,Rich Barnet,Jake Berry

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This Business of Concert Promotion and Touring

A Practical Guide to Creating, Selling, Organizing, and Staging Concerts

By: Ray D. Waddell,Rich Barnet,Jake Berry

The only book that looks at the business of concert promotion. Concerts are part art, part party—and a big part business. This Business of Concert Promotion and Touring is the first to focus on that all-important business aspect, from creating a show, to selling a show, to organizing the show, to staging the show. Working with venues, personnel, booking, promoting, marketing, publicity, public relations, financial management, and much more are covered in this indispensable one-volume resource. And the ideas and techniques explained here can be used for every type of concert promotion, including college shows, artist showcases, club gigs, as well as major events handled by local promoters, nationwide promoters, and worldwide promoters. Concert promoters and tour managers at every level need to know This Business of Concert Promotion and Touring

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Billboard Books

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0307875008

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9780307875006

Nursing Ethics

Across the Curriculum and Into Practice

By: Janie B. Butts,Karen L. Rich

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Nursing Ethics

Across the Curriculum and Into Practice

By: Janie B. Butts,Karen L. Rich

This accessible textbook integrates nursing ethics content throughout the nursing curriculum, preparing students and professionals for moral issues encountered in daily practice. Its theoretical foundations are derived from clinical evidence, case studies, and Patricia Benner's most recent study that focuses on transformation. NCLEX-testing protocols are integrated throughout the book to prepare students for the nursing ethics portion of the NCLEX.

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Jones & Bartlett Publishers

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1449622186

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Haunted Bridges

Over 300 of America's Creepiest Crossings

By: Rich Newman

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Haunted Bridges

Over 300 of America's Creepiest Crossings

By: Rich Newman

Restless Spirits and Supernatural Thrills More than 300 bridges with eerie phenomenon that span space and time Across the country hundreds of bridges harbor some of the creepiest paranormal activity known to man. Invisible hands reach out and touch unsuspecting travelers. Residual ghosts haunt scenes of murders, accidents, hangings, and suicides. At some bridges a voice cries out in the darkness that sends a chill down the spine of anyone who hears it. Haunted Bridges tells the kinds of stories that are told in hushed tones around hearths and campfires as we ponder the unknown late into the night. The stories are at once mesmerizing, unique, and unexpectedly familiar, as if we all know deep down that fate keeps some spirits bound to earth. If you can endure the fear and you don’t look away, you will experience the dread and mystery of the unexplained. Cities and states are listed for 324 public locations so readers can look up specific bridges.

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Llewellyn Worldwide

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0738750255

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Yale Football Through the Years

By: Rich Marazzi

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Yale Football Through the Years

By: Rich Marazzi

Chronicling Yale football from its 1872 inception to the present, this volume offers a comprehensive coverage of the most important games, including all Yale-Harvard contests, most Yale-Princeton games, record-making performances, great plays and more. Human-interest anecdotes offer a sidebar to the game or era covered, giving color to the storied history of Yale football. The evolution is traced of rules that transformed a game combining soccer and rugby into the football we know today.

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McFarland

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1476638551

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Southwest Shuffle

By: Rich Kienzle

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Southwest Shuffle

By: Rich Kienzle

Southwest Shuffle documents an important period in country music history. During the '30s and early '40s, hundreds of thousands of "Okies," "Arkies," and other rural folks from around the Southwest resettled in California, in search of work. A country music scene quickly blossomed there, with performers playing Western Swing, Cowboy, and Honky Tonk country. After World War II, these styles rocked country music, leading to the innovations of '60s performers like Buck Owens and Merle Haggard in creating the so-called "Bakersfield Sound." These stories are based on original interviews and archival research by one of the most respected writers on this period of country history. Kienzle writes in a vibrant style, reflecting his long-time love for these musical styles.

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Routledge

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1136718966

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Doo Wop

The Music, the Times, the Era

By: Cousin Bruce Morrow,Rich Maloof

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Doo Wop

The Music, the Times, the Era

By: Cousin Bruce Morrow,Rich Maloof

With abundant background and enticing images, this work covers more than just the gorgeous harmonies of the unforgettable doo wop groups. The landmark volume traces the development of the music, politics, art, architecture, and popular culture of the 1950s.

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1402742762

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Happy The Land

By: Louise Rich Dickinson

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Happy The Land

By: Louise Rich Dickinson

Do you people get that way from living here, or were you all peculiar to start with? someone once asked Louise Dickinson Rich. In her early thirties, she took to the woods with her husband. They found their livelihood and raised a family in the remote Maine backcountry. Louise made time after morning chores to write about their lives, and these magnificent books are the result. They are still captivating readers a half-century later.

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Down East Books

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1461741750

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The Secret Ingredient Murders

A Eugenia Potter Mystery

By: Nancy Pickard,Virginia Rich

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The Secret Ingredient Murders

A Eugenia Potter Mystery

By: Nancy Pickard,Virginia Rich

A DINNER TO DIE FOR Summoned from her Arizona ranch to take charge of her teenage great-nephew and his twin sister, Genia Potter takes a rental on the Rhode Island coast. Old acquaintance Stanley Parker is only too happy to welcome her. And soon Genia is busily preparing for the tasting party that she and Stanley are hosting that evening at her cottage. An avid cook and recipe collector, Stanley has already roped Genia into collaborating on The Secret Ingredient Cookbook, chock-full of Rhode Island culinary mysteries. Now is their chance to test some recipes and solicit others from each of the invited. Stanley has carefully selected six guests. And each has been asked to contribute a recipe with one secret ingredient. Genia asks no questions–until the lobster bisque is cold and all but one are present. Where is Stanley? Dead. And unlamented. Has one of the guests concocted a secret recipe for murder? Everyone has a motive. And everyone has a secret–including Genia’s troubled great-nephew, the prime suspect. . .

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0307807177

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Warm Up the Snake

A Hollywood Memoir

By: John Rich

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Warm Up the Snake

A Hollywood Memoir

By: John Rich

An action-packed tour of famed director John Rich's half century career as producer or director of such hits as All in the Family, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Gunsmoke, Bonanza, and MacGyver

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University of Michigan Press

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0472115782

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Toys in the Age of Wonder

Science Fiction, Society and the Symbolism of Play

By: Mark Rich

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Toys in the Age of Wonder

Science Fiction, Society and the Symbolism of Play

By: Mark Rich

By the middle 1800s, toys were appearing in forms that drew upon--and that inspired--advances in areas such as optics, biology, geography, transportation, and automation. In these decades, too, a new type of wonder tale was being brought to maturity by a Poe-inspired Jules Verne. The modern wonder tale's highly-charged vision expressed the hopes and the fears, and the delights and the traumas, engendered by "new worlds idealism"--that Western pursuit of both mechanical and geographical conquest. Exploring realms belonging to childhood, literature, science, and history, this innovative study weaves together the histories of wonder tales and children's toys, focusing specifically on their modern aspects and how they reflect and express the social attitudes of that time period beginning around 1859 and ending around 1957.

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1476639787

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The Greatest Story Ever Sold

The Decline and Fall of Truth in Bush's America

By: Frank Rich

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The Greatest Story Ever Sold

The Decline and Fall of Truth in Bush's America

By: Frank Rich

When America was attacked on 9/11, its citizens almost unanimously rallied behind its new, untested president as he went to war. What they didn't know at the time was that the Bush administration's highest priority was not to vanquish Al Qaeda but to consolidate its own power at any cost. It was a mission that could be accomplished only by a propaganda presidency in which reality was steadily replaced by a scenario of the White House's own invention—and such was that scenario's devious brilliance that it fashioned a second war against an enemy that did not attack America on 9/11, intimidated the Democrats into incoherence and impotence, and turned a presidential election into an irrelevant referendum on macho imagery and same-sex marriage. As only he can, acclaimed New York Times columnist Frank Rich delivers a step-by-step chronicle of how skillfully the White House built its house of cards and how the institutions that should have exposed these fictions, the mainstream news media, were too often left powerless by the administration's relentless attack machine, their own post-9/11 timidity, and an unending parade of self-inflicted scandals (typified by those at The New York Times). Demonstrating the candor and conviction that have made him one of our most trusted and incisive public voices, Rich brilliantly and meticulously illuminates the White House's disturbing love affair with "truthiness," and the ways in which a bungled war, a seemingly obscure Washington leak, and a devastating hurricane at long last revealed the man-behind-the-curtain and the story that had so effectively been sold to the nation, as god-given patriotic fact.

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1101218096

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The Tsar's Colonels

Professionalism, Strategy, and Subversion in Late Imperial Russia

By: David Alan Rich

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The Tsar's Colonels

Professionalism, Strategy, and Subversion in Late Imperial Russia

By: David Alan Rich

In this impressive study, David Rich demonstrates how the modernization of Russia's general staff during the second half of the nineteenth century reshaped its intellectual and strategic outlook and equipped the staff to play a strong, and at times dominant, role in shaping Russian foreign policy. Rich weaves together several levels of narrative to show how the increasingly sophisticated, scientific, and positivistic work attitudes and habits of the general staff acculturated younger officers, redefining their relationship with, and responsibilities to, the state. In time, this new generation of officers projected their characteristic notions onto the state and onto autocracy itself; professional concern for the security of the state eclipsed traditional unquestioning loyalty to the regime. Rich goes on to show how divergence between diplomatic and military aims among those responsible for making strategy cost the state dearly in terms of economic stability and international standing. The author supports his findings with original research in Russian foreign policy and military archives and wide reading in published sources. The Tsar's Colonels contributes to a number of debates in Russian military and social history and offers new insights on the structural roots of the Great War, and on the theoretical problems of modernization and professionalization.

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Harvard University Press

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0674059646

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Life 2.0

How People Across America are Transforming Their Lives by Finding the where of Their Happiness

By: Rich Karlgaard

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Life 2.0

How People Across America are Transforming Their Lives by Finding the where of Their Happiness

By: Rich Karlgaard

Would you be happier if you lived somewhere else? A place where the quality of life is greater than the cost of living? Such places do exist--you just have to look a little harder to find them. The answer probably doesn't lie in the big coastal cities: the cost-of-living gap between those urban areas adn the heartland is an immense chasm. And yet the "sophistication gap" between these regions is steadily shrinking--cable TV, computers, fax machines, cell phones, and broadband Internet access are making it possible to work almost anywhere. Forbes publisher Rich Karlgaard wanted to explore the new appeal of "flyover" country, and he decided to sky-hop around America in a single-engine Cessna, talking to people--those with a nose for entrepreneurship, a faith in technology, and the willingness to take a chance--who found their bliss in places like Green Bay, Wisconsin; Des Moines, Iowa; Boseman, Montana. America offers up scores of these gems--cities towns with a winning combination of low cost of living and high quality of life--and Karlgaard provides an in-depth look at the country's 150 cheapest (and greatest) places to live. Life 2.0 is the story of those who are living larger lives in smaller places, and a road map for thos who want to follow their lead.

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Total Access

A Journey to the Center of the NFL Universe

By: Rich Eisen

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Total Access

A Journey to the Center of the NFL Universe

By: Rich Eisen

Football fans are tired of lame memoirs or technical fantasy football books. Rich Eisen's Total Access gives them what they want—a chance to share in his world of a never-ending football season. It's about eating, living, and breathing the most popular sport in the history of America. The passion. The pageantry. The pigskin. Thanks to his role as host of NFL Total Access, Eisen gets to go to virtually every event on the NFL calendar—the Super Bowl, the Pro Bowl, the Scouting Combine, the NFL Draft, and the Hall of Fame Weekend. You name it, Eisen is there. And thanks to this book, you can go along for the ride with him—in front of the camera interviewing league MVPs or behind the scenes with some of the game's all-time greats. Total Access is the ultimate football book for fans everywhere.

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Macmillan

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1429922575

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Christian Nation: A Novel

By: Frederic C. Rich

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Christian Nation: A Novel

By: Frederic C. Rich

They said what they would do, and we did not listen. Then they did what they said they would do." So ends the first chapter of this brilliantly readable counterfactual novel, reminding us that America’s Christian fundamentalists have been consistently clear about their vision for a "Christian Nation" and dead serious about acquiring the political power to achieve it. When President McCain dies and Sarah Palin becomes president, the reader, along with the nation, stumbles down a terrifyingly credible path toward theocracy, realizing too late that the Christian right meant precisely what it said. In the spirit of Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America, one of America’s foremost lawyers lays out in chilling detail what such a future might look like: constitutional protections dismantled; all aspects of life dominated by an authoritarian law called "The Blessing," enforced by a totally integrated digital world known as the "Purity Web." Readers will find themselves haunted by the questions the narrator struggles to answer in this fictional memoir: "What happened, why did it happen, how could it have happened?

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393240347

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Relational Management and Display of Site Environmental Data

By: David Rich

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Relational Management and Display of Site Environmental Data

By: David Rich

When your environmental project reaches the point where the amount of data seems overwhelming, you will need a robust tool to help you manage it. Written by a recognized expert and software author with over 25 years of industry experience, Relational Management and Display of Site Environmental Data begins with an overview of site data management c

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1420032224

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