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Kill the Messenger

The War on Standardized Testing

By: Richard Phelps

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Kill the Messenger

The War on Standardized Testing

By: Richard Phelps

In response to public demand, federal legislation now requires testing of most students in the United States in reading and mathematics in grades three through eight. Many educators, parents, and policymakers who have paid little attention to testing policy issues in the past need to have better information on the topic than has generally been available. Kill the Messenger, now in paperback, fills this gap.This is perhaps the most thorough and authoritative work in defense of educational testing ever written. Phelps points out that much research conducted by education insiders on the topic is based on ideological preference or profound self-interest. It is not surprising that they arrive at emphatically anti-testing conclusions. Much, if not most, of this hostile research is passed on to the public by journalists as if it were neutral, objective, and independent. Kill the Messenger explains and refutes many of the common criticisms of testing; describes testing opponents' strategies, through case studies of Texas and the SAT; illustrates the profound media bias against testing; acknowledges testing's limitations, and suggests how it can be improved; and finally, outlines the consequences of losing the ""war on standardized testing.

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Routledge

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1351510185

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9781351510189

Justice at War

Civil Liberties and Civil Rights During Times of Crisis

By: Richard Delgado

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Justice at War

Civil Liberties and Civil Rights During Times of Crisis

By: Richard Delgado

The status of civil rights in the United States today is as volatile an issue as ever, with many Americans wondering if new laws, implemented after the events of September 11, restrict more people than they protect. How will efforts to eradicate racism, sexism, and xenophobia be affected by the measures our government takes in the name of protecting its citizens? Richard Delgado, one of the founding figures in the Critical Race Theory movement, addresses these problems with his latest book in the award-winning Rodrigo Chronicles. Employing the narrative device he and other Critical Race theorists made famous, Delgado assembles a cast of characters to discuss such urgent and timely topics as race, terrorism, hate speech, interracial relationships, freedom of speech, and new theories on civil rights stemming from the most recent war. In the course of this new narrative, Delgado provides analytical breakthroughs, offering new civil rights theories, new approaches to interracial romance and solidarity, and a fresh analysis of how whiteness and white privilege figure into the debate on affirmative action. The characters also discuss the black/white binary paradigm of race and show why it persists even at a time when the country's population is rapidly diversifying.

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NYU Press

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0814744052

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9780814744055

The Wizard of Death

By: Richard Forrest

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The Wizard of Death

By: Richard Forrest

When he learns a bullet was meant for his wife, children’s author Lyon Wentworth investigates an assassination, in this irresistible political thriller. On a sunny afternoon in Murphysville, Connecticut, the village green of the charming suburb is filled with voters who have come for a glimpse of Randolph Llewyn. Everyone’s attention is locked on the stage as state senator Bea Wentworth introduces the candidate for governor—everyone, that is, but Bea’s husband, Lyon, who is daydreaming of a title for his latest children’s book. Lyon snaps back to attention, however, when a sniper’s bullet cuts Randolph down as he takes the stage. A second bullet misses, but the damage is done. As the crowd erupts in panic, Lyon spots the assassin fleeing on a motorcycle. With police chief Rocco Herbert, Lyon gives chase, but the killer gets away. Only then does Lyon think of Bea, who is shaken, but unharmed. But when he learns that Bea was also a target, the mild-mannered children’s book author must find the courage to hunt an assassin before he strikes again. Written in the rough-and-tumble political climate of the late 1970s, The Wizard of Death is a small-town thriller unlike any other. Starring a delightful husband-and-wife sleuthing team, it’s as quick and shocking as an assassin’s bullet. The Wizard of Death is the 2nd book in the Lyon and Bea Wentworth Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

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Open Road Media

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1504037847

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9781504037846

US Foreign Policy

Domestic Roots and International Impact

By: Richard Johnson

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US Foreign Policy

Domestic Roots and International Impact

By: Richard Johnson

This textbook provides a valuable introduction to the construction and application of US foreign policy in the modern era, encouraging readers to think about how ideas, institutions and goals have been at work in the foreign policy of recent presidential administrations.

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Policy Press

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1529215358

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9781529215359

Chuck Tanner and the Pittsburgh Pirates

By: Dale Richard Perelman

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Chuck Tanner and the Pittsburgh Pirates

By: Dale Richard Perelman

Baseball's Mr. Sunshine A beloved son of Western Pennsylvania, Chuck Tanner spent a career in baseball both as a player and manager. He lead the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1977 to 1985 and helped capture the 1979 World Series. Tanner was key in developing the relief pitcher through his work with Goose Gossage and he played a role in the careers of numerous players such as Willie Stargell, Dave Parker and more. Through extensive research and interviews, author Dale Perelman presents the life and career of Chuck Tanner.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1467154865

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9781467154864

The Hollywood Stars

By: Richard Beverage

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The Hollywood Stars

By: Richard Beverage

The Hollywood Stars were created in 1926, when the Salt Lake City franchise of the Pacific Coast League was transferred to the greater Los Angeles area. To avoid confusion with the resident Los Angeles Angels, the new ballclub was called Hollywood. It was a wise choice of names. The movie capital had a glamour that was soon attached to the Stars and created an interest wherever they played. But the Hollywood story is actually one of two separate entities. The first operated from 1926 to 1935 and played at Wrigley Field as a tenant of the Angels. When a dispute arose in 1935 over a proposed increase in rent, owner Bill Lane moved his team to San Diego. After a hiatus of two years, the second incarnation was created in 1938 when the Mission Reds of San Francisco moved to Southern California. They moved into their new park, Gilmore Field, in 1939 and remained there through 1957, when the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles. Hollywood won pennants in 1949, 1952, and 1953 and was the team of choice for the movie world.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738530565

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Can't You Hear Me Calling

The Life Of Bill Monroe, Father Of Bluegrass

By: Richard Smith

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Can't You Hear Me Calling

The Life Of Bill Monroe, Father Of Bluegrass

By: Richard Smith

Now in paperback: The definitive biography of the father of bluegrass, who "did what no other individual has done: invented an entire genre of music."-Chicago Tribune.

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Da Capo Press

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0306810549

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9780306810541

Tinicum Township, Bucks County

By: Patricia Valentine Whitacre,Richard A. Plank

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Tinicum Township, Bucks County

By: Patricia Valentine Whitacre,Richard A. Plank

Tinicum Township remained just beyond civilizations limits as Europeans settled on farmland in lower parts of Bucks County early in the 18th century. Inhabited by Native Americans, the land was not appealing to Europeans. Tinicum was slowly settled by the English, Scotch-Irish, and Germans until early in the 20th century, when Eastern Europeans arrived, followed by artists and writers seeking refuge from city life. The hilly, rocky, and sometimes swampy topography that discouraged early settlement has continued to limit development of the rural areas between the six villages and hamlets of the township, so that early folks returning today would recognize the landscape and many of the homesteads they established here. Through vintage photographs, Tinicum Township, Bucks County celebrates the areas rich history.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439636214

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Cannabis and Young People

Reviewing the Evidence

By: Richard Jenkins

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Cannabis and Young People

Reviewing the Evidence

By: Richard Jenkins

This book aims to shed light on the current debates of cannabis by reviewing all the available evidence on a range of issues relating to the use of cannabis among children and adolescents and summarizing the main conclusions in clear, jargon-free language.

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Jessica Kingsley Publishers

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1843103982

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9781843103981

Henry Aaron

By: Richard Scott Rennert

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Henry Aaron

By: Richard Scott Rennert

- Critically acclaimed biographies of history's most notable African Americans- Straightforward and objective writing- Lavishly illustrated with photographs and memorabilia- Essential for multicultural studies Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

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Holloway House Publishing

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0870677802

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9780870677809

The Los Angeles Angels of the Pacific Coast League

A History, 1903-1957

By: Richard Beverage

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The Los Angeles Angels of the Pacific Coast League

A History, 1903-1957

By: Richard Beverage

Long before the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants brought the major leagues to California in 1958, professional baseball thrived on the West Coast in the form of the Pacific Coast League (PCL). Minor only in name, the league featured intense rivalries, a huge fan base, and such future Hall of Famers as Joe DiMaggio and Ted Williams. The Los Angeles Angels won 14 PCL pennants and stood as the league's premier franchise. This year-by-year chronicle of the Los Angeles Angels from 1903 to 1957 includes an overview of the PCL and a wealth of statistical information, including an all-time player roster, a list of important team records, lineups, and attendance information. Based in part on personal interviews with former Angels players, this history offers a nostalgic look back at the PCL and the early days of baseball in the West.

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McFarland

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0786487887

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9780786487882

Chicano Students and the Courts

The Mexican American Legal Struggle for Educational Equality

By: Richard R. Valencia

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Chicano Students and the Courts

The Mexican American Legal Struggle for Educational Equality

By: Richard R. Valencia

In 1925 Adolfo ‘Babe’ Romo, a Mexican American rancher in Tempe, Arizona, filed suit against his school district on behalf of his four young children, who were forced to attend a markedly low-quality segregated school, and won. But Romo v. Laird was just the beginning. Some sources rank Mexican Americans as one of the most poorly educated ethnic groups in the United States. Chicano Students and the Courts is a comprehensive look at this community’s long-standing legal struggle for better schools and educational equality. Through the lens of critical race theory, Valencia details why and how Mexican American parents and their children have been forced to resort to legal action. Chicano Students and the Courts engages the many areas that have spurred Mexican Americans to legal battle, including school segregation, financing, special education, bilingual education, school closures, undocumented students, higher education financing, and high-stakes testing, ultimately situating these legal efforts in the broader scope of the Mexican American community’s overall struggle for the right to an equal education. Extensively researched, and written by an author with firsthand experience in the courtroom as an expert witness in Mexican American education cases, this volume is the first to provide an in-depth understanding of the intersection of litigation and education vis-à-vis Mexican Americans.

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NYU Press

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0814788300

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9780814788301

Key Studies in Psychology, 5th Edition

By: Richard Gross

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Key Studies in Psychology, 5th Edition

By: Richard Gross

Key Studies in Psychology, 5th edition provides summaries of 40 key studies that have shaped the course of psychology, covering both the classic core studies and more recent contemporary studies. Concise, user-friendly and comprehensive, the new edition of this bestselling textbook is ideal for students of psychology at all levels. Before each summary, the Background/Context features put each study into a clear theoretical or practical context, and explain the aims, hypotheses, methods and design. After each summary, a full Evaluation is provided, focusing on major theoretical and methodological issues, subsequent reserach and applications and implications. Each summary is also followed by useful Exercise questions, to encourage the student to think critically about methodological, theoretical, and ethical features of the study. Full answers to all Exercise questions are also provided in an Appendix. All the classic core studies are covered, alongside a number of newer studies, which cover topics such as the effects of abortion on young women, adolescent's brains, anorexia nervosa, and nurses' understanding of the concept of care. These very recent studies are highly relevant to everyday life, making this text ideal for the study of Applied Psychology. Fully updated and modernised, this brand new edition of Key Studies in Psychology is essential reading for Psychology students at all levels.

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Hodder Education

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1444164236

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9781444164237

How to Get a Golf Scholarship to Stanford

By: Richard P. Sinay

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How to Get a Golf Scholarship to Stanford

By: Richard P. Sinay

How to Get a Golf Scholarship to Stanford is a parent's guide to achieving the goal of getting a golf scholarship to Stanford. It is written for those who want to dedicate themselves to accomplishing a great goal: to get their kid to play golf for Stanford. Parents will learn about the academic and athletic challenges to achieve this goal. While my son’s goal was to play for Stanford, it was a team effort to get to that school with an offer of a golf scholarship. The right people need to be engaged to help facilitate this accomplishment. This guide is a handbook for what to expect and what to do to accomplish that goal. Achieving this goal will be one of the most gratifying experiences for young golfers and parents to accomplish something of this magnitude. This is written by a father who endeavored to help his son achieve his dream of playing golf for Stanford. The book will guide any parent seeking an outstanding education at Stanford through a golf scholarship and how the community of Stanford takes care of each other.

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richardpsinay.com

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1965216129

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9781965216125

Reflections of a Cold Warrior

From Yalta to the Bay of Pigs

By: Richard M. Bissell

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Reflections of a Cold Warrior

From Yalta to the Bay of Pigs

By: Richard M. Bissell

Forfatterens oplevelser og betragtninger som højt placeret embedsmand i den amerikanske administration - her udenrigspolitikken og internationale forhold.

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Yale University Press

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0300064306

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9780300064308

Dead Wrong

Violence, Vengeance, and the Victims of Capital Punishment

By: Richard A. Stack

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Dead Wrong

Violence, Vengeance, and the Victims of Capital Punishment

By: Richard A. Stack

Attitudes toward the death penalty have changed dramatically throughout the course of history, evolving from times when public executions were occasions of solemn and pious ritual to excuses for raucous entertainment, and finally to the modern era of private, bureaucratized, mechanized, and sanitized executions that are out of sight and out of mind. Conforming thus to modern sensibilities, state-sanctioned killing is somehow more acceptable to us than public hangings would have been, because we can imagine that the inmate's death is relatively painless, and not in violation of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. This may or may not be true; Stack presents compelling arguments to the contrary. What is certain is that Dead Wrong demonstrates beyond a doubt that death row is itself a form of psychological torture and of slow, painful dehumanization. Polls indicate that 75 percent of Americans favor the death penalty—but they also show that minds change when individuals are confronted with the facts. This book was written to offer those facts-and to change those minds. The United States is alone among Western democracies in its support for capital punishment, which was only briefly abolished throughout this country between 1972 and 1976. Today, 38 states have some form of capital punishment. Yet studies show that the death penalty is not a deterrent to crime, that racial disparities in the implementation of capital punishment are rampant, and that all kinds of procedural errors, incompetent defense lawyers, and mistaken eyewitness identifications lead to an alarming number of wrongful convictions. Attitudes toward the death penalty have changed dramatically throughout the course of history, evolving from times when public executions were occasions of solemn and pious ritual to those when it was an excuse for raucous entertainment, and finally to the modern era of private, bureaucratized, mechanized, and sanitized executions conducted out of sight and out of mind. Conforming thus to modern sensibilities, state-sanctioned killing is somehow more acceptable to us than public hangings, because we can imagine that the inmate's death is relatively painless, and not in violation of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. This may or may not be true; Stack presents compelling arguments to the contrary. What is certain is that Dead Wrong demonstrates beyond a doubt that death row is itself a form of psychological torture and of slow, painful dehumanization.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313084491

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9780313084492

The CIA in Guatemala

The Foreign Policy of Intervention

By: Richard H. Immerman

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The CIA in Guatemala

The Foreign Policy of Intervention

By: Richard H. Immerman

A history and analysis of the United States’ involvement in the deposition of Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz and the consequences. Using documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, recently opened archival collections, and interviews with the actual participants, Immerman provides us with a definitive, powerfully written, and tension-packed account of the United States’ clandestine operations in Guatemala and their consequences in Latin America today. “A valuable study of what Immerman correctly portrays as a seminal event, not just in the annals of the Cold War, but in U.S.–Latin American relations.” —Washington Monthly “A damning indictment of American interference abroad.” —Pittsburgh Press “A masterpiece of analysis.” —Reviews in American History

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Univ of TX + ORM

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0292756429

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9780292756427

Food Choice and Sustainability

Why Buying Local, Eating Less Meat, and Taking Baby Steps Won't Work

By: Dr. Richard Oppenlander

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Food Choice and Sustainability

Why Buying Local, Eating Less Meat, and Taking Baby Steps Won't Work

By: Dr. Richard Oppenlander

Food choice and sustainability tackles the critical issue of the global depletion of our natural resources drawing attention to what might seem an unlikely spot: our dinner plates.

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Hillcrest Publishing Group

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1626524351

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9781626524354

Tony Poe's CIA War

A Secret War Waged by His Paramilitary Army in Southeast Asia

By: Richard Gough

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Tony Poe's CIA War

A Secret War Waged by His Paramilitary Army in Southeast Asia

By: Richard Gough

The character of Colonel Kurtz in the Vietnam War film epic Apocalypse Now is reportedly the cinematic depiction of a real CIA agent and a trained killer. His name was Anthony Poshepny, but he was better known as Tony Poe. Poe was a heavy drinker, a stocky former Marine sergeant with the elite Parachute Battalion, and a CIA paramilitary agent. In 1942, at the age of seventeen, he joined the Marine Raiders. In Guadalcanal, he hunted down Japanese soldiers. In 1945, he led his machine gun section ashore across the knee-deep black sands at Red Beach on Iwo Jima. Recruited by the CIA in 1951, he was told that his role as a paramilitary agent was to carry out the Agency’s dirty work, which could be “plausibly denied.” He was the dagger in the phrase “cloak and dagger.” In 1961, he was in Laos, where his role as field commander of the CIA’s secret war was leading 17,000 mountain villagers against a well-equipped communist force and crossing enemy lines into China. Poe spent nine years living in his mountain hideout with his tribal fighters and absorbed sufficient shrapnel in his body to set off airport security alarms. He was awarded a chest full of medals, including two Purple Hearts and the CIA’s highest award: the Intelligence Star.

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Knox Press

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1637589166

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9781637589168

The Ultimate Engineer

The Remarkable Life of NASA's Visionary Leader George M. Low

By: Richard Jurek

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The Ultimate Engineer

The Remarkable Life of NASA's Visionary Leader George M. Low

By: Richard Jurek

NASA pioneer George M. Low’s remarkable life, accomplishments, and legacy as a key visionary and leader.

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U of Nebraska Press

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149622941X

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9781496229410

The Soldiers of America's First Army, 1791

By: Richard M. Lytle

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The Soldiers of America's First Army, 1791

By: Richard M. Lytle

1791 marked one of the worst military defeats the United States Army ever suffered. As Major General Arthur St. Clair led both regular Army and militia levee soldiers to the banks of the Wabash River, Native Americans rose to stop them--and stop the Army they did. In this fascinating study, Richard Lytle gives historians, genealogists, and local history buffs a monumental resource for the study of St. Clair's soldiers. Not only a detailed narrative of this campaign, this is also the most complete roster of soldiers available, and a comprehensive description of their origins, equipment and organization. This resource assembles in one place both the narrative and hard to find reference materials that genealogists and historians need to research and better understand this seminal event in America's westward growth.

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Scarecrow Press

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0810850117

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9780810850118

Czar of Alaska

The Cross of Charlemagne

By: Richard Trout

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Czar of Alaska

The Cross of Charlemagne

By: Richard Trout

After surviving a hurricane in the Caribbean, ivory poachers in East Africa, and a Cairo crime syndicate racing up the Nile, zoologist Jack MacGregor, his paleontologist wife, Mavis, and children, Chris, Ryan, and Heather, head to the wilderness of Alaska and encounter an unusual new threat from ecoterrorists. As in all MacGregor Family Adventure Series novels, the MacGregors are once again caught in a web of intriguing characters full of danger, deception, and plenty of techno-thrilling surprises. Three Russian Orthodox priests seek the religious artifact the Cross of Charlemagne, while their rivals, a rogue Vatican priest and a renowned Polish archaeologist, are following a trail across Alaska left by early Russian settlers, hoping to reach the treasure first. Meanwhile, an ominous international team of ecoterrorists armed with state-of-the-art weapons are determined to prevent oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and get rid of Jack MacGregor once and for all. Featuring an entertaining cast of characters including the MacGregor teens' new friend, Roy Nageak, an Inupiat native, Czar of Alaska is fast paced and action packed. Vivid descriptions of the exhilarating Alaskan mountains create the setting for a harrowing encounter with a grizzly bear, daring dogsled and helicopter excursions, and plenty of sibling rivalry and family challenges. With the aid of a local historian, the Russian Orthodox priests, a member of the native Alutiq tribe, and a seasoned FBI agent, the MacGregors strive to recover lost treasures and unwittingly find themselves trapped in a situation that has them fighting for their lives. As with all of Richard Trout's books in the MacGregor Family Adventure Series, the book begins with a description of a historic event, putting readers in the throes of an a.d. 788 battle in the Bavarian Alps that sets the drama of the Cross of Charlemagne in motion.

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Pelican Publishing

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1455603236

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Written in Blood Volume 2

The History of Fort Worth's Fallen Lawmen 1910-1928

By: Richard F. Selcer,Kevin Foster

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Written in Blood Volume 2

The History of Fort Worth's Fallen Lawmen 1910-1928

By: Richard F. Selcer,Kevin Foster

In 2010 Written in Blood Volume 1 told the stories of thirteen law officers who died in the line of duty between 1861 and 1909. Now Selcer and Foster are back with Volume 2 covering more line-of-duty deaths. This volume covers 1910 to 1928, as Fort Worth experiences a race riot, lynchings, bushwhacking, assassinations and martial law imposed by the U.S. Army.

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University of North Texas Press

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1574413228

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9781574413229

Race in the Jury Box

Affirmative Action in Jury Selection

By: Hiroshi Fukurai,Richard Krooth

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Race in the Jury Box

Affirmative Action in Jury Selection

By: Hiroshi Fukurai,Richard Krooth

Race in the Jury Box focuses on the racially unrepresentative jury as one of the remaining barriers to racial equality and a recurring source of controversy in American life. Because members of minority groups remain underrepresented on juries, various communities have tried race-conscious jury selection, termed "affirmative jury selection." The authors argue that affirmative jury selection can insure fairness, verdict legitimization, and public confidence in the justice system. This book offers a critical analysis and systematic examination of possible applications of race-based jury selection, examining the public perception of these measures and their constitutionality. The authors make use of court cases, their own experiences as jury consultants, and jury research, as well as statistical surveys and analysis. The work concludes with the presentation of four strategies for affirmative jury selection.

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State University of New York Press

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0791486257

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Radclyffe Hall

A Life in the Writing

By: Richard Dellamora

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Radclyffe Hall

A Life in the Writing

By: Richard Dellamora

The Well of Loneliness is probably the most famous lesbian novel ever written, and certainly the most widely read. It contains no explicit sex scenes, yet in 1928, the year in which the novel was published, it was deemed obscene in a British court of law for its defense of sexual inversion and was forbidden for sale or import into England. Its author, Radclyffe Hall, was already well-known as a writer and West End celebrity, but the fame and notoriety of that one book has all but eclipsed a literary output of some half-dozen other novels and several volumes of poetry. In Radclyffe Hall: A Life in the Writing Richard Dellamora offers the first full look at the entire range of Hall's published and unpublished works of fiction, poetry, and autobiography and reads through them to demonstrate how she continually played with the details of her own life to help fashion her own identity as well as to bring into existence a public lesbian culture. Along the way, Dellamora revises many of the truisms about Hall that had their origins in the memoirs of her long-term partner, Una Troubridge, and that have found an afterlife in the writings of Hall's biographers. In detailing Hall's explorations of the self, Dellamora is the first seriously to consider their contexts in Freudian psychoanalysis as understood in England in the 1920s. As important, he uncovers Hall's involvement with other modes of speculative psychology, including Spiritualism, Theosophy, and an eclectic brand of Christian and Buddhist mysticism. Dellamora's Hall is a woman of complex accommodations, able to reconcile her marriage to Troubridge with her passionate affairs with other women, and her experimental approach to gender and sexuality with her conservative politics and Catholicism. She is, above all, a thinker continually inventive about the connections between selfhood and desire, a figure who has much to contribute to our own efforts to understand transgendered and transsexual existence today.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812204654

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9780812204650

When is Daddy Coming Home?

An American Family during World War II

By: Richard Carlton Haney

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When is Daddy Coming Home?

An American Family during World War II

By: Richard Carlton Haney

Now in paperback, a bestselling memoir of a family on the home front during World War II World War II was coming to a close in Europe and Richard Haney was only four years old when the telegram arrived at his family's home in Janesville, Wisconsin. That moment, when Haney learned of his father's death in the final months of fighting, changed his and his mother's lives forever. In this powerful book, Haney explores the impact of war on an American family. He skillfully weaves together those memories with his parents' wartime letters and his mother's recollections to create a unique blend of history and memoir. Through his father's letters he reveals the war's effect on a man who fought in the Battle of the Bulge with the 17th Airborne but wanted nothing more than to return home. Haney illuminates life on the home front in small-town America as well, describing how profoundly the war changed such communities. With When Is Daddy Coming Home?, Richard Haney makes an exceptional contribution to the literature on the Greatest Generation—one that is both devastatingly personal and representative of what families all over America endured during that testing time.

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Wisconsin Historical Society

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0870205595

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9780870205590

Marketing the Moon

The Selling of the Apollo Lunar Program

By: David Meerman Scott,Richard Jurek

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Marketing the Moon

The Selling of the Apollo Lunar Program

By: David Meerman Scott,Richard Jurek

One of the most successful public relations campaigns in history, featuring heroic astronauts, press-savvy rocket scientists, enthusiastic reporters, deep-pocketed defense contractors, and Tang. In July 1969, ninety-four percent of American televisions were tuned to coverage of Apollo 11's mission to the moon. How did space exploration, once the purview of rocket scientists, reach a larger audience than My Three Sons? Why did a government program whose standard operating procedure had been secrecy turn its greatest achievement into a communal experience? In Marketing the Moon, David Meerman Scott and Richard Jurek tell the story of one of the most successful marketing and public relations campaigns in history: the selling of the Apollo program. Primed by science fiction, magazine articles, and appearances by Wernher von Braun on the “Tomorrowland” segments of the Disneyland prime time television show, Americans were a receptive audience for NASA's pioneering “brand journalism.” Scott and Jurek describe sophisticated efforts by NASA and its many contractors to market the facts about space travel—through press releases, bylined articles, lavishly detailed background materials, and fully produced radio and television features—rather than push an agenda. American astronauts, who signed exclusive agreements with Life magazine, became the heroic and patriotic faces of the program. And there was some judicious product placement: Hasselblad was the “first camera on the moon”; Sony cassette recorders and supplies of Tang were on board the capsule; and astronauts were equipped with the Exer-Genie personal exerciser. Everyone wanted a place on the bandwagon. Generously illustrated with vintage photographs, artwork, and advertisements, many never published before, Marketing the Moon shows that when Neil Armstrong took that giant leap for mankind, it was a triumph not just for American engineering and rocketry but for American marketing and public relations.

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MIT Press

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0262026961

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9780262026963

Firebreak

By: Richard Herman

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Firebreak

By: Richard Herman

As a call for a holy war unites the Arab world, and Israel prepares for nuclear conflict, the U.S. President makes a crucial decision--to send a squadron of F-15s led by his own grandson

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William Morrow & Company

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0688106684

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9780688106683

Conducting Insanity Evaluations

By: Richard Rogers,Daniel W. Shuman

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Conducting Insanity Evaluations

By: Richard Rogers,Daniel W. Shuman

Forensic professionals are brought up to date on key issues surrounding insanity investigations, including the legal standards applied to criminal responsibility. The book provides research-based guidelines for interview-based assessments, psychological testing and other specialized procedures, and forensic reports and testimony.

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Guilford Press

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1572305215

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