Richard Leonard's Books

The Knowland Retribution

By: Richard Greener

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With tainted meat the weapon and corporate greed the motive, The Knowland Retribution is an extremely topical suspense-revenge thriller. Walter Sherman, a/k/a the Locator, is a tracker who honed his skills in Vietnam. The colorful cast of characters also includes Sherman's two friends--a bartender with a mysterious past and an old black man who smokes like a chimney; a feisty young woman who writes obituaries for the New York Times; a southern lawyer who has lost everything and has only one thing to live for; and a group of Wall Street investment bankers who make a deadly decision. The action takes the reader from a tiny Caribbean bar on the island of St. John to the editorial boardroom of the New York Times, from the gleaming skyline of Atlanta to the isolation of northern New Mexico, from Adirondack hideouts to Manhattan suites to Mississippi backwoods. This complex and compelling mystery thriller is the first in a series featuring Walter Sherman as the Locator.

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Llewellyn Worldwide

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0738720496

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A Guide to Six Sigma and Process Improvement for Practitioners and Students

Foundations, DMAIC, Tools, Cases, and Certification

By: Howard S. Gitlow,Richard J. Melnyck,David M. Levine

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A Guide to Six Sigma and Process Improvement for Practitioners and Students

Foundations, DMAIC, Tools, Cases, and Certification

By: Howard S. Gitlow,Richard J. Melnyck,David M. Levine

Master modern Six Sigma implementation with the most complete, up-to-date guide for Green Belts, Black Belts, Champions and students! Now fully updated with the latest lean and process control applications, A Guide to Lean Six Sigma and Process Improvement for Practitioners and Students, Second Edition gives you a complete executive framework for understanding quality and implementing Lean Six Sigma. Whether you're a green belt, black belt, champion, or student, Howard Gitlow and Richard Melnyck cover all you need to know. Step by step, they systematically walk you through the five-step DMAIC implementation process, with detailed examples and many real-world case studies. You'll find practical coverage of Six Sigma statistics and management techniques, from dashboards and control charts to hypothesis testing and experiment design. Drawing on their extensive experience consulting on Six Sigma and leading major Lean and quality initiatives, Gitlow and Melnyck offer up-to-date coverage of: What Six Sigma can do, and how to manage it effectively Six Sigma roles, responsibilities, and terminology Running Six Sigma programs with Dashboards and Control Charts Mastering each DMAIC phase: Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control Understanding foundational Six Sigma statistics: probability, probability distributions, sampling distributions, and interval estimation Pursuing Six Sigma Champion or Green Belt Certification, and more This guide will be an invaluable resource for everyone who is currently involved in Six Sigma implementation, or plans to be. It's ideal for students in quality programs; "Green Belts" who project manage Six Sigma implementations, "Black Belts" who lead Six Sigma teams; "Champions" who promote and coordinate Six Sigma at the executive level; and anyone seeking Six Sigma certification.

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FT Press

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0133925455

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9780133925456

Essays for Richard Ellmann

Omnium Gatherum

By: Richard Ellmann

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Essays for Richard Ellmann

Omnium Gatherum

By: Richard Ellmann

Richard Ellmann's scholarly work is notable for its striking liveliness and clarity and its genuine illumination of the writers and works with which he dealt. His life of James Joyce, published in 1959, received more commendation and critical praise than any previous literary biography.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773507078

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9780773507074

Beyond Enlightenment

Buddhism, Religion, Modernity

By: Richard Cohen

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Beyond Enlightenment

Buddhism, Religion, Modernity

By: Richard Cohen

The vast majority of books on Buddhism describe the Buddha using the word enlightened, rather than awakened. This bias has resulted in Buddhism becoming generally perceived as the eponymous religion of enlightenment. Beyond Enlightenment is a sophisticated study of some of the underlying assumptions involved in the study of Buddhism (especially, but not exclusively, in the West). It investigates the tendency of most scholars to ground their study of Buddhism in these particular assumptions about the Buddha’s enlightenment and a particular understanding of religion, which is traced back through Western orientalists to the Enlightenment and the Protestant Reformation. Placing a distinct emphasis on Indian Buddhism, Richard Cohen adeptly creates a work that will appeal to those with an interest in Buddhism and India and also scholars of religion and history.

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Routledge

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1134192045

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Practicing Romance

Narrative Form and Cultural Engagement in Hawthorne's Fiction

By: Richard H. Millington

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Practicing Romance

Narrative Form and Cultural Engagement in Hawthorne's Fiction

By: Richard H. Millington

Practicing Romance sets out to re-tell the story of Hawthorne's career, arguing that he is best understood as a cultural analyst of extraordinary acuity, ambitious to reshape--in a sense to cure--the community he addresses. Through readings attentive to narrative strategy and alert to the emerging middle-class culture that was his audience, the book defines and describes Hawthornian Romance in a new way: not, in customary fashion, as the definitive instance of a peculiarly American genre, but as a narrative practice designed to expose and restage the covert drama that affiliates us to our community. Hawthorne's fiction thus recovers for its readers, through the interpretive independence it teaches, a freer, more lucid, more critical relation to the community we inhabit, and the cultural engagement romance enacts in turn rescues Hawthorne from the confining marginality that the writer's career had threatened to confer. From the book's distinctive account of his narrative tactics, especially his deployment of the voices and attitudes--authoritarian or democratic, entrapping or freeing--that give shape to his ideological terrain, Hawthorne emerges as a daring reinventor of the novel's cultural role. Originally published in 1992. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Princeton University Press

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1400862256

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9781400862252

The Lacey Confession

By: Richard Greener

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The Lacey Confession

By: Richard Greener

Finding people who don't want to be found is a young man's game. But when a beautiful celebrity begs semi-retired Walter Sherman to locate her nephew, he can't refuse. In his search for Harry Levine, Walter soon discovers that others are desperate to find him and willing to kill for what he has: the written confession by the mastermind behind the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Among those clamoring for the confession are the Kennedy family, renegade Russians seeking the Czar's gold, and a powerful man with connections to the CIA. Finding Harry is one thing, but hiding him from professional killers pushes Walter's aging skills to the limit. It's a wild chase across Europe, Mexico, and the Caribbean in Richard Greener's heart-stopping thriller that offers an unexpected twist on existing JFK conspiracy theories.

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Llewellyn Worldwide

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073872050X

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9780738720500

Murder Is Served

By: Frances Lockridge,Richard Lockridge

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Murder Is Served

By: Frances Lockridge,Richard Lockridge

A death threat concealed in a term paper brings Mr. and Mrs. North back to campus All semester Prof. John Leonard has directed his lectures at Peggy Mott. Not because she’s beautiful—although that doesn’t hurt—but because she has the sharpest mind he’s encountered in all his years teaching psychology. When she turns in her final assignment, a paper on human emotions, Leonard expects a brilliant essay, but what he reads shocks him to the core: There’s someone Peggy detests. And based on her paper, Professor Leonard believes she hates enough to kill. When Peggy’s husband is found with a steak knife buried in his neck, the comely young student is the only suspect. But Jerry and Pamela North see it differently. Mrs. North has a mind that could drive any psychologist batty, but for the sake of a shining pupil, she’ll find out the truth. Murder Is Served is the 12th book in the Mr. and Mrs. North Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

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Open Road Media

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1504031296

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9781504031295

American Mosaic

The Known Ancestors of Robert Hilton Squires II

By: Richard Endress

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American Mosaic

The Known Ancestors of Robert Hilton Squires II

By: Richard Endress

This book covers the history of multiple families whose only overarching connection is that they were all the ancestors of Robert Hilton Squires II, my brother-in-law. But these various genealogical strands intersected with many pivotal eras in English colonial and later American history. Thus in some strange way the history of this one contemporary person is a microcosm of the story of America.

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FriesenPress

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1039149073

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The Enlightened Bracketologist

The Final Four of Everything

By: Nigel Holmes,Richard Sandomir,Mark Reiter

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The Enlightened Bracketologist

The Final Four of Everything

By: Nigel Holmes,Richard Sandomir,Mark Reiter

Every March, the NCAA men's basketball tournament blankets newspapers and the Internet, and attracts millions of television viewers over the course of three weeks. Will a perennial favorite like Duke win? Or will it be a dark horse like Gonzaga? The phenomenon known as March Madness galvanizes a nation of viewers as few other sports events can. The reason? Bracketology. America eagerly watches as 64 teams become 32, then 16, then 8, then 4, then 2, and finally #1. Now it's time to use the same rigorous method for everything that really matters in culture, people, history, the arts and more. In The Enlightened Bracketologist the editors have organized the world's most haunting and maddeningly subjective questions into a scheme of binary pairings that finally reveal what is truly the best in its class: La Tache or Chateau Latour? (1) Barry Bonds or Terrell Owens? (2) "Vissi d'arte" or "Dove Sono"? (3) OJ verdict or JFK assassination? (4) "Top of the world, Ma" or "Nobody's perfect"? (5) Two by two, The Enlightened Bracketologist pits our cultural mainstays against each other; only the finest survive. Every double-page spread of this book will contain a series of brackets compiled by experts and celebrities, with text call-outs that highlight the reason why one competitor moves on and another doesn't. Already committed are Elvis Costello on popular songs; David Bouley on cookbooks; Leon Fleisher on piano music; Reneé Fleming on opera arias; Henry Beard on French phrases; Joseph Ward on wine.

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1596919477

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9781596919471

Spitballers

The Last Legal Hurlers of the Wet One

By: Charles F. Faber,Richard B. Faber

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Spitballers

The Last Legal Hurlers of the Wet One

By: Charles F. Faber,Richard B. Faber

On September 10, 1934, grizzled reliever Burleigh Grimes helped the Pittsburgh Pirates to an inconsequential 9-7 win over the New York Giants in the Polo Grounds. For Grimes, the September contest marked his 270th and final win. For baseball, it marked the last time a legal spitballer would win a major league contest. Though the pitch had been banned in 1920, the American and National leagues both agreed to grant two exemptions per team to spitballers who were already in the majors. In 1921, both leagues agreed to extend grandfather provisions to cover the veteran spitball pitchers for the remainder of their careers. Under the extended rule, 17 pitchers were granted exemptions for their careers. This work looks at the lives and careers of these 17: Red Faber, Burleigh Grimes, Jack Quinn, Urban Shocker, Stan Coveleskie, Bill Doak, Ray Caldwell, Clarence Mitchell, Dutch Leonard, Ray Fisher, Dick Rudolph, Allen Sothoron, Phil Douglas, Allan Russell, Doc Ayers, Dana Fillingim and Marvin Goodwin.

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McFarland

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0786482621

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Working with the Emotional Investor

Financial Psychology for Wealth Managers

By: Chris White,Richard Koonce

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Working with the Emotional Investor

Financial Psychology for Wealth Managers

By: Chris White,Richard Koonce

An invaluable resource for wealth managers advising individuals, couples, and families, this book explains why human emotions drive all investor behavior and makes a powerful case for why advisors need to be aware of such emotions in advising clients—especially in high-stakes situations. Despite the fact that wealth advisors may employ algorithms, fancy financial models, economic theory, and predictive reasoning to forecast future investment returns, according to seasoned wealth management advisor Chris White, people—in other words, clients—basically decide how much risk to take with their money based on emotional factors such as the love they received as children, early life experiences of loss and "imperfect love," psychic wounds, and family traumas. A must-read for anyone in the wealth management profession, including wealth advisors, financial consultants, certified financial analysts, and retirement advisors, this groundbreaking book offers a radically new and well-articulated framework for managing relationships with clients as well as the essential tools to advise, mentor, and guide clients in making financial management decisions. Readers will understand how to recognize the emotional and psychological factors behind investor behavior and apply this insight to be a better wealth advisor. The author explains why early childhood experiences of love, joy, and loss and sometimes very subtle family dynamics play a key role in adult investor behavior; why being sensitive to an individual's unique psychological "systems" is key to being able to accurately assess his or her tolerance and acceptance of risk-taking as part of the wealth management process; what can cause a client's personality to change, especially in high-stress or high-stakes situations; and how to employ sophisticated client relationship management practices such as curiosity, appreciative inquiry, and powerful questioning to understand clients' needs at a deep psychological level.

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1440845131

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9781440845130

The American Insolvency Reports. Containing full Reports of All the Most Important Decisions Under the Insolvent Law of Various States. From January, 1878, to January, 1883

Vol. I

By: Richard M. Bruno

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The American Insolvency Reports. Containing full Reports of All the Most Important Decisions Under the Insolvent Law of Various States. From January, 1878, to January, 1883

Vol. I

By: Richard M. Bruno

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

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338534719X

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House of Secrets

A Novel

By: Richard Hawke

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House of Secrets

A Novel

By: Richard Hawke

Senator Andrew Foster has it all: charm to spare, a loving wife, a beautiful daughter, and a fast-track career that will surely land him one day in the White House. And with the sudden resignation of the vice president, that track may have gotten a lot faster. But there’s a problem. There are people who know that Andy Foster’s charm can get the better of him, and they have bugged the Shelter Island bungalow where he is enjoying a midnight tryst with a beautiful campaign adviser. But all hell breaks loose when a man carrying an iron pipe comes crashing through the bedroom’s sliding glass door. Within seconds, the young woman lies bloodied, dead on the sheets, and Foster has fled in panic. And it’s all on tape. As momentum builds for Foster’s likely selection as the next vice president, the senator’s only hope of keeping his involvement with the murdered woman secret is to locate his blackmailers. But even they don’t have their hands on the devastating images. The man they used for the job has turned the tables and is blackmailing them. All the while, Foster’s personal life is collapsing. His wife, Christine, senses that something is terribly wrong. Unhappy about their daughter’s living in a political fishbowl, Christine is also worried that she and her husband have drifted away from each other. Little does she know that power-hungry politicians and brutal gangsters are ready to rip her family utterly apart. From the rarefied halls of Washington to the briny boardwalks of Brighton Beach, Richard Hawke pulls back the curtain to reveal what is taking place inside the hearts and minds of the powerful people we read about every day in the news. With House of Secrets, Hawke has delivered a pulse-pounding thriller that ignites the fatal mixture of politics, arrogance, and lust.

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Random House

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0679603573

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The Bizarre Events at Hellman Elementary

My Family, My Nightmare

By: Richard M. Born

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The Bizarre Events at Hellman Elementary

My Family, My Nightmare

By: Richard M. Born

Have you ever looked to the skies to see a shooting star? In Golfing Blue, every fifty years, you can look up at the sky and see the streak of blue light from Jeffrey’s comet. This can only mean one thing for the students of Hellman Elementary—even more bizarre happenings! Taking on the teachers at the school is next to nothing compared to Jeffrey’s comet and who may be riding it. Strange things are happening this week at Hellman Elementary. Changes are occurring, teachers are just as strange, and the janitor is locking doors more often than normal. What could possibly be hiding in the basement? What does the lunch lady really use to make the Sloppy Joes? Does it have something to do with comet shooting across the sky? Jacob is about to find out the dangers of wishing upon shooting stars. He is tired of being the only boy in his family and tired of the way his sisters treat him. But when he wishes for a different family, he finds out just how strange things can get, not only at home but at school as well. Will Jacob get his original family back, or will he be destined to live with his new nightmarish family? Do not miss the next bizarre event, The Perfect Game—Book 5, in the series.

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Page Publishing Inc

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1662445547

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The Knuckleball Club

The Extraordinary Men Who Mastered Baseball's Most Difficult Pitch

By: Richard A. Johnson

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The Knuckleball Club

The Extraordinary Men Who Mastered Baseball's Most Difficult Pitch

By: Richard A. Johnson

The knuckleball—so difficult to hit but also difficult to control and catch—has been a part of major league baseball since the early 1900s and continues to be used to this day. This remarkable and unusual pitch is the instrument of a special breed of pitcher, a determined athlete possessing tremendous concentration, self confidence, and a willingness to weather all kinds of adversity. In The Knuckleball Club: The Extraordinary Men Who Mastered Baseball's Most Difficult Pitch, Richard A. Johnson provides an informal history of the wildest, weirdest, most mesmerizing pitch of all time. Beginning with an examination of the invention of the knuckleball, Johnson then briefly touches upon the science and psychology of the pitch before profiling the game’s great knuckleballers. Rich in anecdotes and interviews, this book shares the unique stories of Hoyt Wilhelm, Phil Niekro, Jim Bouton, Tom Candiotti, Tim Wakefield, R.A. Dickey, and many others. Also featured are the stories of the best knuckleball catchers, from Bob Uecker and Doug Mirabelli to Rick Ferrell and Paul Richards. While knuckleballers today are an anomaly, decades ago a surprisingly large number of major league pitchers used the knuckler. The Knuckleball Club is the first book to provide a comprehensive survey of the pitch and the players who used it, offering a deep understanding of how the knuckleball has fit into the fabric of the game over the past one hundred years. Anyone wanting to learn more about this unusual pitch, from baseball historians and fans to current and former players, will find this book an entertaining and enlightening read.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442261706

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9781442261709

Payoff for the Banker

By: Frances Lockridge,Richard Lockridge

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Payoff for the Banker

By: Frances Lockridge,Richard Lockridge

“One of the funniest and most satisfactory mysteries in this excellent series” set in 1940s Manhattan (The New Yorker). When he saw the Zeroes on his tail, Rick Hunter knew he had two choices: He could land on the carrier, inviting a Japanese attack that could destroy the squadron, or he could take the Zeroes out to sea. He turned away from the carrier, and flew until his tanks were empty, sacrificing himself to save his troop. But his heroism is no comfort to his widow. After less than a year of marriage, Mary Hunter has been left alone. She’s just getting her life back together when death intrudes again. Mary’s still getting used to her new apartment when she comes home to find a dead man on the floor, and the police assume she killed him. To prove her innocence, she turns to Pamela and Jerry North, who will do anything to bring the true murderer to justice—even if it means putting their lives on the line. Payoff for the Banker is the 8th book in the Mr. and Mrs. North Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

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Open Road Media

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150403127X

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9781504031271

The Long Reach

New & Uncollected Poems, 1948-1984

By: Richard Eberhart

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The Long Reach

New & Uncollected Poems, 1948-1984

By: Richard Eberhart

Poems deal with truth, religion, nature, thought, the role of poetry, death, visions, age, and the past.

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New Directions Publishing

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0811212866

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9780811212861

Club Titanic

By: Richard Wheat

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Club Titanic

By: Richard Wheat

Deep Sea Adventures, Inc., has created a resort on the bed of the Atlantic Ocean, five miles from the most famous shipwreck in history. For a price, guests can venture into these crushing depths to catch a glimpse of the crow's nest, where Lookout Frederick Fleet spotted the iceberg; the lifeboat davits, some of which still stand ready; and other highlights of this legendary vessel. Due to the Titanic's salvage rights being awarded to another company, Deep Sea Adventures has been forbidden to pursue the idea of a resort, or to take passengers down to the wreck. But in a place where light cannot penetrate, who would notice a resort structure miles away on the ocean floor? Who would notice a solitary supply ship, a virtual lifeline, sailing in a wide, but constant circle in the North Atlantic? Who wouldn't pay a huge ticket price with the only string attached being silence about the trip?

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Lulu.com

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1105782913

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A Trilogy Called Tribes!

The Osiris Papers

By: Richard Curtis Williams

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A Trilogy Called Tribes!

The Osiris Papers

By: Richard Curtis Williams

Book one is focused on the Island Kingdom of Kebra founded by General Jakarta Osiris a Blackamoor who along with his fifty thousand plus army endured a bloody battle and took the massive island group that sits just off the coast of Southeast Africathe taking of the Islands allowed the Romans to defeat the Germans and the great Julius Cesar was so pleased he awarded the Islands to the General as a reward for his service to Rome thusthe monarchy was born and Jakarta Osiris began to write his prophecy dubbed the Jakarta Papers, that called for African kingdoms to unite and build an empire not unlike that of Rome over the centuries his successors would add chapters of their own by the twentieth century his prophecy became Jakarta Unlimited a plan to unite African nations through corporate development; the twenty-first century brought on the Blackstreet Prospectus as ordered by Jakarta Osiris IV affectingly referred to as the Chairman and it is his generation that has begun the implementation of the plan whos concept of mission is to bring selected African nations into world power status And so it begins.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1462829279

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The Dragon Portfolio

By: Richard Hoyt

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The Dragon Portfolio

By: Richard Hoyt

Chinese Communists plan to take the American capital markets for half a billion dollars under the counter. In a superbly complex plan involving the offer of Chinese state secrets to the CIA, agents Ella Nidech and James Burlane must turn the affair to the advantage of the U.S. "A wildly wicked yarn about Asian politics, power and high finance. It's worth ten routine cloak-and-swagger dramas." —New York Daily News "Damned near perfect." —Kirkus Reviews

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Speaking Volumes

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1645404056

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Your Success in the Retail Business (Collection)

By: Richard Hammond,Barry R. Berman

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Your Success in the Retail Business (Collection)

By: Richard Hammond,Barry R. Berman

A new collection filled with winning ideas and strategies for improving¿ your sucess in the retail business... 2¿authoritative books, now in a convenient e-format, at a great price! Smart Retail, the world's #1 guide to retail success, complete with crucial, up-to-date insights--including new case studies, ideas, strategies, and tactics from today's best retailers, like TopShop, IKEA, and Best Buy. Covering everything from creating the ultimate retail experience to understanding the customer and the importance of motivated workers, this is the book that will equip managers, team-workers, retail entrepreneurs and indeed anybody who sells direct to customers, with practical winning ideas and strategies.¿ Competing in Tough Times brings together the powerful new strategies that world-class retailers, like Trader Joe’s, Costco, and Nordstrom, are using today to survive--and thrive--in a brutally unforgiving retail environment. Internationally respected retail management expert Barry Berman shows retailers and their suppliers exactly how to build effective strategies based on cost and differentiation, plan and implement those strategies, and measure the results.¿Berman offers detailed coverage of implementing strategies based on becoming the low-cost provider and minimizing product proliferation; enhancing the service experience; developing and maintaining a strong private label program; and more. From world-renowned experts Richard Hammond and Barry Berman.

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0133577716

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Lakota Woman

By: Mary Crow Dog,Richard Erdoes

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Lakota Woman

By: Mary Crow Dog,Richard Erdoes

The bestselling memoir of a Native American woman’s struggles and the life she found in activism: “courageous, impassioned, poetic and inspirational” (Publishers Weekly). Mary Brave Bird grew up on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota in a one-room cabin without running water or electricity. With her white father gone, she was left to endure “half-breed” status amid the violence, machismo, and aimless drinking of life on the reservation. Rebelling against all this—as well as a punishing Catholic missionary school—she became a teenage runaway. Mary was eighteen and pregnant when the rebellion at Wounded Knee happened in 1973. Inspired to take action, she joined the American Indian Movement to fight for the rights of her people. Later, she married Leonard Crow Dog, the AIM’s chief medicine man, who revived the sacred but outlawed Ghost Dance. Originally published in 1990, Lakota Woman was a national bestseller and winner of the American Book Award. It is a story of determination against all odds, of the cruelties perpetuated against American Indians, and of the Native American struggle for rights. Working with Richard Erdoes, one of the twentieth century’s leading writers on Native American affairs, Brave Bird recounts her difficult upbringing and the path of her fascinating life.

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080219155X

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The Main Event

Boxing in Nevada from the Mining Camps to the Las Vegas Strip

By: Richard O. Davies

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The Main Event

Boxing in Nevada from the Mining Camps to the Las Vegas Strip

By: Richard O. Davies

Richard O. Davies won Foreword Reviews' INDIEFAB Book of the Year Bronze Medal in Sports for The Main Event: Boxing in Nevada from the Mining Camps to the Las Vegas Strip. Davies' book was chosen as one of the best indie books of 2014. As the twentieth century dawned, bare-knuckle prizefighting was transforming into the popular sport of boxing, yet simultaneously it was banned as immoral in many locales. Nevada was the first state to legalize it, in 1897, solely to stage the Corbett-Fitzsimmons world heavyweight championship in Carson City. Davies shows that the history of boxing in Nevada is integral to the growth of the sport in America. Promoters such as Tex Rickard brought in fighters like Jack Dempsey to the mining towns of Goldfield and Tonopah and presented the Johnson-Jeffries “Fight of the Century” in Reno in 1910. Prizefights sold tickets, hotel rooms, drinks, meals, and bets on the outcomes. It was boxing\--before gambling, prostitution, and easy divorce\--that first got Nevada called “America’s Disgrace” and the “Sin State.” The Main Event explores how boxing’s growth in Nevada relates to the state’s role as a social and cultural outlier. Starting in the Rat Pack era, organized gambling’s moguls built arenas outside the Vegas casinos to stage championships\--more than two hundred from 1960 to the present. Tourists and players came to see and bet on historic bouts featuring Sonny Liston, Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, Sugar Ray Leonard, Mike Tyson, and other legends of the ring. From the celebrated referee Mills Lane to the challenge posed by mixed martial arts in contemporary Las Vegas, the story of boxing in Nevada is a prism for viewing the sport. Davies utilizes primary and secondary sources to analyze how boxing in the Silver State intersects with its tourist economy and libertarian values, paying special attention to issues of race, class, and gender. Written in an engaging style that shifts easily between narrative and analysis, The Main Event will be essential reading for sports fans and historians everywhere.

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The Teaching of Instrumental Music

By: Richard J. Colwell,Michael P. Hewitt

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The Teaching of Instrumental Music

By: Richard J. Colwell,Michael P. Hewitt

The Teaching of Instrumental Music, Sixth Edition, introduces music education majors to basic instrumental pedagogy for the instruments and ensembles commonly found in the elementary and secondary curricula. It focuses on the core competencies required for teacher certification in instrumental music, with the pervasive philosophy to assist teachers as they develop an instrumental music program based on understanding and respecting all types of music. Parts I and II focus on essential issues for a successful instrumental program, presenting first the history and foundations, followed by effective strategies in administrative tasks and classroom teaching. Parts III, IV, and V are devoted to the skills and techniques of woodwind, brass and percussion, and string instruments. In all, The Teaching of Instrumental Music is the complete reference for the beginning instrumental teacher, commonly retained in a student’s professional library for its unique and comprehensive coverage. This Sixth Edition includes: Streamlined language and improved layout throughout, making this edition more concise and accessible to students. Updated content throughout, including insights from current research for curriculum development, coverage of current law and policy changes that impact the classroom, contemporary motivational strategies, and more information on the history of African-American and all-female music ensembles. Updated references, photos, lists of artists, and online resources.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040153534

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The Politics of Language in Romantic Literature

By: Richard Marggraf Turley

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The Politics of Language in Romantic Literature

By: Richard Marggraf Turley

This innovative study examines a range of canonical and non-canonical materials to open a new narrative on the mutually illuminating interchange between Romantic literature and philological theory in the late-eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Arguing that philology can no longer be treated as something that did not happen to Romantic authors, this book undertakes a substantial revision of our understanding of the intellectual and political contexts that helped determine the Romantic consciousness

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Ethical Practice in the Human Services

From Knowing to Being

By: Richard D. Parsons,Karen L. Dickinson

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Ethical Practice in the Human Services

From Knowing to Being

By: Richard D. Parsons,Karen L. Dickinson

Ethical Practice in the Human Services by Richard D. Parsons and Karen L. Dickinson moves beyond addressing ethical issues and principles to helping readers actually practice ethical behavior through awareness of their personal morals, values, and choices. With coverage of ethical standards from six different associations, the text addresses ethical issues and principles in social work, counseling, psychology, and marriage and family therapy. Robust pedagogy includes case illustrations and guided exercises to give readers a deeper understanding of the underlying moral principles and values that serve as a foundation for the various ethical codes.

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Deep Distresses

William Wordsworth, John Wordsworth, Sir George Beaumont, 1800-1808

By: Richard E. Matlak

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Deep Distresses

William Wordsworth, John Wordsworth, Sir George Beaumont, 1800-1808

By: Richard E. Matlak

Deep Distresses is a study of the intersecting family and professional vicissitudes that afflicted Wordsworth during the period of his greatest poetic productivity. The negative national publicity over his mariner brother's death at sea is the focus of the family tragedy; hostile reception to Poems in Two Volumes (1807) is the focus of professional duress. Both topics become related through the intercession of the poet's patron, Sir George Beaumont, who attempts to ameliorate the family tragedy with money and his painting of Pecl Castle in a Storm, while hoping to groom Wordsworth for a place among the cultural elite of London. In its attention to nineteenth-century culture and business, this study offers an entirely new context for reading and re-interpreting many of Wordsworth's major works from Michael through the major lyrics of Poems in Two Volumes and the latter books of The Prelude. Richard E. Matlak is a Professor of English and Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary and Special Studies at the College of the Holy Cross.

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A History of Fort Worth in Black & White

165 Years of African-American Life

By: Richard F. Selcer

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A History of Fort Worth in Black & White

165 Years of African-American Life

By: Richard F. Selcer

A History of Fort Worth in Black & White fills a long-empty niche on the Fort Worth bookshelf: a scholarly history of the city's black community that starts at the beginning with Ripley Arnold and the early settlers, and comes down to today with our current battles over education, housing, and representation in city affairs. The book's sidebars on some noted and some not-so-noted African Americans make it appealing as a school text as well as a book for the general reader. Using a wealth of primary sources, Richard Selcer dispels several enduring myths, for instance the mistaken belief that Camp Bowie trained only white soldiers, and the spurious claim that Fort Worth managed to avoid the racial violence that plagued other American cities in the twentieth century. Selcer arrives at some surprisingly frank conclusions that will challenge current politically correct notions.

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1574416162

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Jazz Pedagogy

The Jazz Educator's Handbook and Resource Guide

By: J. Richard Dunscomb,Willie Hill

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Jazz Pedagogy

The Jazz Educator's Handbook and Resource Guide

By: J. Richard Dunscomb,Willie Hill

DVD provides over three hours of audio and video demonstrations of rehearsal techniques and teaching methods for jazz improvisation, improving the rhythm section, and Latin jazz styles.

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St. John's Church, Lafayette Square

The History and Heritage of the Church of the Presidents, Washington, DC

By: Richard F. Grimmett

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St. John's Church, Lafayette Square

The History and Heritage of the Church of the Presidents, Washington, DC

By: Richard F. Grimmett

St. John's Episcopal Church, Lafayette Square, in Washington, DC is one of the most unique churches in the United States. A National Historic Landmark, located just north of Lafayette Square, and in clear view of the White House, it has witnessed the presence within its walls of more notable civilian and military leaders of the United States than any other church in the nation. Apart from the White House, St. John's Church is the oldest building adjacent to Lafayette Square. It was designed, and its construction supervised, by Benjamin Henry Latrobe, a leading architect of the early national period. From its opening in October 1816, every person, beginning with James Madison, who has held the office of President of the United States has attended St. John's at least once. Several Presidents have been members. Thus, St. John's is called "the Church of the Presidents." A significant number of members of St. John's, past and present, have played very prominent roles in the public life of the United States and the city of Washington, DC. This book tells the story of this historic church from its origins to the present, while chronicling notable services held at it, and key events in the lives of distinguished Americans who were personally connected with St. John's during their residence in Washington. REVIEWS The first thing to note about this marvelous history of St. John's Church is the research. From start to finish the facts are meticulously assembled and clearly laid out to the reader. This alone makes the book worth reading. But it is far more than a collection of facts. It is the story--or rather the stories-- of St. John's Church that makes this book stand out as a true gem with very few equals in the annals of Church History. --Harry S. Stout Jonathan Edwards Professor of American Religious History Yale University Sited importantly on its corner across from the White House, St. John's Episcopal Church has served both the famous and Everyman without interruption for nearly 200 years, its architectural evolution an index of the development of the capital itself. Historian Richard Grimmett tells the story of the "Church of the Presidents" in "St. John's Church: Lafayette Square" with the painstaking accuracy of an experienced researcher. Flavored with personalities and rich anecdotes, this book begins life as a Washington classic. --William Seale Editor, White House History author of "The President's House: A History." Because St. John's Church has been so closely associated with presidents, cabinet members, powerful insiders and Washington society ... anyone interested in the compelling historical details of a slice of Washington life would want to add the book to his or her library. --Mary O. Klein Archivist, Episcopal Diocese of Maryland.

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1934248533

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