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Disability

A Diversity Model Approach in Human Service Practice

By: Romel W. Mackelprang,Richard O. Salsgiver

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Disability

A Diversity Model Approach in Human Service Practice

By: Romel W. Mackelprang,Richard O. Salsgiver

Disability is a tool for human service practitioners to use in understanding disability from an empowerment/social model perspective. The text addresses policy, theory, description, and practice from a strengths-based viewpoint, stressing disability as a difference rather than as dysfunction. The book establishes the historical and societal context in which those with disabilities are marginalized, discusses the major groupings of disabilities, and offers a model for assessment and practice.

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Oxford University Press

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0190656409

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The Urban Question in Africa

Uneven Geographies of Transition

By: Pádraig Carmody,James T. Murphy,Francis Owusu,Richard Grant

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The Urban Question in Africa

Uneven Geographies of Transition

By: Pádraig Carmody,James T. Murphy,Francis Owusu,Richard Grant

Illuminates the path to more generative urban transitions in Africa's cities and developing rural areas Africa is the world's most rapidly urbanizing region. The predominantly rural continent is currently undergoing an “urban revolution” unlike any other, generally taking place without industrialization and often characterized by polarization, poverty, and fragmentation. While many cities have experienced construction booms and real estate speculation, others are marked by expanding informal economies and imploding infrastructures. The Urban Question in Africa: Uneven Geographies of Transition examines the imbalanced and contested nature of the ongoing urban transition of Africa. Edited and authored by leading experts on the subject, this unique volume develops an original theory conceptualizing cities as sociotechnical systems constituted by production, consumption, and infrastructure regimes. Throughout the book, in-depth chapters address the impacts of current meta-trends—global geopolitical shifts, economic changes, the climate crisis, and others—on Africa's cities and the broader development of the continent. Presents a novel framework based on extensive fieldwork in multiple countries and regions of the continent Examines geopolitical and socioeconomic topics such as manufacturing in African cities, the green economy in Africa, and the impact of China on urban Africa Discusses the prospects for generative urbanism to produce and sustain long-term development in Africa Features high-quality maps, illustrations, and photographs The Urban Question in Africa: Uneven Geographies of Transition is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students in geography, urban planning, and African studies, academic researchers, geographers, urban planners, and policymakers.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119833620

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Cold War Command

The Dramatic Story of a Nuclear Submariner

By: Dan Conley,Richard Woodman

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Cold War Command

The Dramatic Story of a Nuclear Submariner

By: Dan Conley,Richard Woodman

The part played in the Cold War by the Royal Navy's submarines still retains a great degree of mystery and, in the traditions of the 'Silent Service,' remains largely shrouded in secrecy. Cold War Command brings us as close as is possible to the realities of commanding nuclear hunter-killer submarines, routinely tasked to hunt out and covertly follow Soviet submarines in order to destroy them should there be any outbreak of hostilities. ??Dan Conley takes the reader through his early career in diesel submarines, prior to his transition to the complex and very demanding three-dimensional world of operating nuclear submarines; he describes the Royal Navy's shortcomings in ship and weapons procurement and delivers many insights into the procurement failures which led to the effective bankrupting of the Defence budget in the first decade of the 21st century. In command of the hunter killer submarines Courageous and Valient in the 1980s, he achieved exceptional success against Soviet submarines at the height of the Cold War. He was also involved in the initial deployment of the Trident nuclear weapon system, and divulges hitherto un-revealed facets of nuclear weapons strategy and policy during this period.??This gripping read takes you onboard a nuclear submarine and into the depths of the ocean, and relays the excitement and apprehensions experienced by British submariners confronted by a massive Soviet Navy.??As featured on White Horse News and in the Bath Chronicle.

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Seaforth Publishing

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1848327692

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Build Your Community

Turn Your Connections Into A Powerful Online Community

By: Richard Millington

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Build Your Community

Turn Your Connections Into A Powerful Online Community

By: Richard Millington

A powerful customer community will help you to scale customer support, attract new customers, and gather indispensable feedback and knowledge. But how do you make it happen? Build Your Community fuses proven principles from the world of psychology with user experience and design thinking into a foolproof approach helping you to: • Start from scratch and attract your first members. • Find and design the perfect platform for your community. • Keep members engaged, sharing expertise, and helping each other. • Create a magnetic community culture – unique from any other online destination. • Position you and your organisation at the center of your field. • Budget for your community with a detailed breakdown of costs and resources required. Richard Millington shares the strategies, principles and tactics he has used to help over 300 organisations to build communities over the past decade, including Apple, Facebook and SAP. If you wish to build a united, powerful online community, Build Your Community is your definitive guide.

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Pearson UK

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1292330015

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Deep Marine Systems

Processes, Deposits, Environments, Tectonics and Sedimentation

By: Kevin T. Pickering,Richard N. Hiscott

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Deep Marine Systems

Processes, Deposits, Environments, Tectonics and Sedimentation

By: Kevin T. Pickering,Richard N. Hiscott

Deep-water (below wave base) processes, although generallyhidden from view, shape the sedimentary record of more than 65% ofthe Earth’s surface, including large parts of ancientmountain belts. This book aims to inform advanced-levelundergraduate and postgraduate students, and professional Earthscientists with interests in physical oceanography and hydrocarbonexploration and production, about many of the important physicalaspects of deep-water (mainly deep-marine) systems. The authorsconsider transport and deposition in the deep sea, trace-fossilassemblages, and facies stacking patterns as an archive of theunderlying controls on deposit architecture (e.g., seismicity,climate change, autocyclicity). Topics include modern and ancientdeep-water sedimentary environments, tectonic settings, and howbasinal and extra-basinal processes generate the typicalcharacteristics of basin slopes, submarine canyons, contouritemounds and drifts, submarine fans, basin floors and abyssalplains.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118865480

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Wagner’s Parsifal

An Appreciation in the Light of His Theological Journey

By: Richard H. Bell

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Wagner’s Parsifal

An Appreciation in the Light of His Theological Journey

By: Richard H. Bell

Parsifal, Wagner's final opera, is considered by many to be one of the greatest religious musical works ever composed; but it is also one of the most difficult to understand and many have questioned whether it can be considered a "Christian" work at all. Added to this is the furious debate that has surrounded the composer as an anti-Semite, racist, and inspiration for Hitler. Richard Bell addresses such issues and argues that despite any personal failings Wagner makes a fundamental theological contribution through his many writings and ultimately in Parsifal which, he argues, preaches Christ crucified in a way that can never be captured by words alone. He argues that Wagner offers a vision of the divine and a "theology of Good Friday" that can both function as profound therapy and address current theological controversies.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1630870013

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Theology of Wagner's Ring Cycle I

By: Richard H. Bell

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Theology of Wagner's Ring Cycle I

By: Richard H. Bell

Wagner’s Ring is one of the greatest of all artworks of Western civilization, but what is it all about? The power and mystery of Wagner’s creation was such that even he felt he stood before his work ‘as though before some puzzle’. A clue to the Ring’s greatness lies in its multiple avenues of self-disclosure and the corresponding plethora of interpretations that over the years has granted ample scope for directors, and will no doubt do so well into the distant future. One possible interpretation, which Richard Bell argues should be taken seriously, is the Ring as Christian theology. In this first of two volumes, Bell considers, among other things, how the composer’s Christian interests may be detected in the ‘forging’ of his Ring, in his appropriation of sources (whether they be myths and sagas, writers, poets, or philosophers), and in works composed around the same time, especially his Jesus of Nazareth.

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0227177479

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9780227177471

De fliegender Hollander

By: Richard Wagner

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De fliegender Hollander

By: Richard Wagner

Der fliegende Hollaender is the first of Wagner's operas that the author considered to be representative of his mature style. The Dutchman embodies one of the major themes that recur throughout Wagner's work: that of a central character seeking redemption from a loving woman. Originally taken from a story by Heinrich Heine, Wagner extended and enriched his musical and dramaturgical language to produce an opera of extraordinary power.An essay in the guide places the opera in the context of emerging German Romanticism, and another highlights the musical riches of the score. A further article explores the emerging importance of myth to Wagner and his contemporaries. As well as a detailed description of the work's performance history, the volume contains Wagner's own instructions to his performers and his programme note about the overture. Illustrations, a thematic guide, the full libretto with English translation and reference sections are also included.Contains:Behind Der fliegende Hollaender, John WarrackAn Introduction to Der fliegende Hollaender, John DeathridgeLoneliness, Love and Death, William VaughanHow Wagner Found the Flying Dutchman, Mike AshmanOf Storms and Dreams: Reflections on the Stage History of Der fliegende Hollaender, Katherine SyerThe Overture to Der fliegende Hollaender, Richard WagnerRemarks on Performing the Opera Der fliegende Hollaender, Richard WagnerDer fliegende Hollaender: Poem by Richard WagnerThe Flying Dutchman: English translation by Lionel Salter

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Alma Books

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071454471X

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The Battle of the River Plate

A Grand Delusion

By: Richard Woodman

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The Battle of the River Plate

A Grand Delusion

By: Richard Woodman

A study and reassessment of the major World War II battle in the South Atlantic between the British and German navies. The Battle of the River Plate was the first major naval confrontation of the Second World War, and it is one of the most famous. The dramatic sea fight between the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee and the British cruisers Exeter, Ajax, and Achilles off the coast of South America caught the imagination in December 1939. Over the last sixty years the episode has come to be seen as one of the classics of naval warfare. Yet the accepted interpretation of events has perhaps been taken for granted and is ripe for reassessment, and that is one of the aims of Richard Woodman’s enthralling new study. Praise for The Battle of the River Plate: A Grand Delusion “This author has made it all so very riveting, it really is a book which is hard to put down until finished.” —Royal Geographical Society “Graphic, thought provoking—highly recommended.” —Britain at War

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Casemate Publishers

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1844689530

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9781844689538

The Richard Burton Diaries

By: Richard Burton

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The Richard Burton Diaries

By: Richard Burton

The personal diaries of the renowned actor and glamorous celebrity describe his life from 1939 to 1983, including his struggles with weight, drinking and jealousy when other men looked at the love of his life, Elizabeth Taylor.

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Yale University Press

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0300180101

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9780300180107

The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IV: Early Essays

By: William Butler Yeats,Richard J. Finneran,George Bornstein

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The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IV: Early Essays

By: William Butler Yeats,Richard J. Finneran,George Bornstein

The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, Volume IV: Early Essays is part of a fourteen-volume series under the general editorship of eminent Yeats scholars George Bornstein and George Mills Harper. These volumes include virtually all of the Nobel laureate's published work, in authoritative texts with extensive explanatory notes. Early Essays, edited by the internationally esteemed Yeats scholars George Bornstein and the late Richard J. Finneran, includes the contents of the two most important collections of Yeats's critical prose, Ideas of Good and Evil(1903) and The Cutting of an Agate(1912, 1919). Among the seminal essays are considerations of Blake, Shakespeare, Shelley, Spenser, and Synge, as well as an extended discussion of the Japanese Noh theatre. The first scholarly edition of these materials, Early Essays offers a corrected text and detailed annotation of all allusions. Several appendices gather materials from early printings which were later excluded, as well as illuminating black-and-white illustrations. Early Essays is an essential sourcebook for understanding Yeats's career as both writer and literary critic, and for the development of modern poetry and criticism. Here, Yeats works out many of his key ideas on poetry, politics, and the theater. He gives interpretations of writers critical to his development and presents a compelling vision of Ireland and the modern world during the last decade of the nineteenth century and first two decades of the twentieth. As T. S. Eliot remarked, Yeats "was one of those few whose history is the history of their own time, who are a part of the consciousness of an age which cannot be understood without them." This volume displays a crucial part of that history.

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Simon and Schuster

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1416556877

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9781416556879

The Autobiography of Sir John Bramston, K.B., of Skreens, in the Hundred of Chelmsford

By: Richard Griffin Braybrooke,John Bramston

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The Autobiography of Sir John Bramston, K.B., of Skreens, in the Hundred of Chelmsford

By: Richard Griffin Braybrooke,John Bramston

Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.

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3368877127

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Shakespeare, Court Dramatist

By: Richard Dutton

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Shakespeare, Court Dramatist

By: Richard Dutton

Shakespeare, Court Dramatist centres around the contention that the courts of both Elizabeth I and James I loomed much larger in Shakespeare's creative life than is usually appreciated. Richard Dutton argues that many, perhaps most, of Shakespeare's plays have survived in versions adapted for court presentation, where length was no object (and indeed encouraged) and rhetorical virtuosity was appreciated. The first half of the study examines the court's patronage of the theatre during Shakespeare's lifetime and the crucial role of its Masters of the Revels, who supervised all performances there (as well as censoring plays for public performance). Dutton examines the emergence of the Lord Chamberlain's Men and the King's Men, to whom Shakespeare was attached as their 'ordinary poet', and reviews what is known about the revision of plays in the early modern period. The second half of the study focuses in detail on six of Shakespeare's plays which exist in shorter, less polished texts as well as longer, more familiar ones: Henry VI Part II and III, Romeo and Juliet, Henry V, Hamlet, and The Merry Wives of Windsor. Dutton argues that they are not cut down from those familiar versions, but poorly reported originals which Shakespeare revised for court performance into what we know best today. More localized revisions in such plays as Titus Andronicus, Richard II, and Henry IV Part II can also best be explained in this context. The court, Richard Dutton argues, is what made Shakespeare Shakespeare.

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Oxford University Press

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0191083321

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9780191083327

Irish Freedom

A History of Nationalism in Ireland

By: Richard English

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Irish Freedom

A History of Nationalism in Ireland

By: Richard English

Richard English's brilliant new book, now available in paperback, is a compelling narrative history of Irish nationalism, in which events are not merely recounted but analysed. Full of rich detail, drawn from years of original research and also from the extensive specialist literature on the subject, it offers explanations of why Irish nationalists have believed and acted as they have, why their ideas and strategies have changed over time, and what effect Irish nationalism has had in shaping modern Ireland. It takes us from the Ulster Plantation to Home Rule, from the Famine of 1847 to the Hunger Strikes of the 1970s, from Parnell to Pearse, from Wolfe Tone to Gerry Adams, from the bitter struggle of the Civil War to the uneasy peace of the early twenty-first century. Is it imaginable that Ireland might – as some have suggested – be about to enter a post-nationalist period? Or will Irish nationalism remain a defining force on the island in future years? 'a courageous and successful attempt to synthesise the entire story between two covers for the neophyte and for the exhausted specialist alike' Tom Garvin, Irish Times

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Pan Macmillan

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0330475827

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9780330475822

Theology of Wagner's Ring Cycle II

By: Richard H. Bell

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Theology of Wagner's Ring Cycle II

By: Richard H. Bell

Wagner’s Ring addresses fundamental concerns that have faced humanity down the centuries, such as power and violence, love and death, freedom and fate. Further, the work seems particularly relevant today, addressing as it does the fresh debates around the created order, politics, gender, and sexuality. In this second of two volumes on the theology of the Ring, Richard Bell argues that Wagner’s approach to these issues may open up new ways forward and offer a fresh perspective on some of the traditional questions of theology, such as sacrifice, redemption, and fundamental questions about God. A linchpin for Bell’s approach is viewing the Ring in the light of the Jesus of Nazareth sketches, which, he argues, confirms that the artwork does indeed address questions of Christian theology, for those inside and outside the church.

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0227177487

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9780227177488

Die Meistersinger von Nuernberg

By: Richard Wagner

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Die Meistersinger von Nuernberg

By: Richard Wagner

Die Meistersinger von Nuernberg is the only comedy among Richard Wagner's mature works. Unusually for Wagner, it is set in a historically specific time and place, sixteenth-century Nuremberg, and tells of a song contest among the town's guildsmen. It nevertheless explores the same themes of renewal, renunciation and human love as Wagner's other great music dramas. The finely drawn humanity of its principal characters and the brilliance of its musical invention make it one of the most rewarding operas in the repertory.The guide contains articles on the complex historical and political background to the opera, a detailed examination of its musical structure and a survey of its sometimes contentious performance history. Further articles explore some of the work's roots in the poetry of Schiller and the vexed question of the extent to which Wagner's virulent anti-Semitism may be said to be present in the opera. The guide also includes the full libretto with English translation, sixteen pages of illustrations, a musical thematic guide, a discography, a bibliography and DVD and website guides.Contains:Snapshots of Die Meistersinger von Nuernberg, John DeathridgeThe Music: A Commentary, Arnold WhittallHans Sachs and Friedrich Schiller, Tim BlanningThe Beckmesser Problem, Hans Rudolf VagetThe Performance Legacy of Die Meistersinger, Aine SheilDie Meistersinger von Nuernberg: Poem by Richard WagnerThe Mastersingers of Nurenberg: Libretto by Peter Branscombe

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Alma Books

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0714544663

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Oxford History of Western Music

5-vol. set

By: Richard Taruskin

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Oxford History of Western Music

5-vol. set

By: Richard Taruskin

The Oxford History of Western Music is a magisterial survey of the traditions of Western music by one of the most prominent and provocative musicologists of our time. This text illuminates, through a representative sampling of masterworks, those themes, styles, and currents that give shape and direction to each musical age. Taking a critical perspective, this text sets the details of music, the chronological sweep of figures, works, and musical ideas, within the larger context of world affairs and cultural history. Written by an authoritative, opinionated, and controversial figure in musicology, The Oxford History of Western Music provides a critical aesthetic position with respect to individual works, a context in which each composition may be evaluated and remembered. Taruskin combines an emphasis on structure and form with a discussion of relevant theoretical concepts in each age, to illustrate how the music itself works, and how contemporaries heard and understood it. It also describes how the c

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0199813698

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What If?

By: Richard E. Buery

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What If?

By: Richard E. Buery

RICHARD EVRAUD BUERY This book is the result of encouragement, in part, and personal desire. I was presented with a copy of a book written by Rev. J. Mastin Nisbett. Recording the efforts sustained, when building St. David's Episcopal Church of Cambria Heights. Considering that St. Gabriel's Episcopal Church, Brooklyn, went through the struggle of building also, Mr. Euclid Jordon approached me with a copy of the same book, stating that someone should also record the struggles sustained while building our church. (We were in this about the same time.) As a matter of fact, it was my intention to write my autobiography for the benefit of my children and family; therefore, this was a great opportunity to combine this project since it was always my intention to do this. As can be noted, I kept most of the information; therefore, it was just a matter of getting my files and thoughts together. As I started, the matter of a title of the book was imperative. As I pondered about my life growing up in Colón, Republic of Panama, the place of my birth it became obvious to me. The question was this: What if certain situations existed? What direction would my life take? What if I had connected with the photographer mentioned in the book? What if we had decided to take the opportunity to sign a contract offered to Harmonizers? What if the date set by the apprentice program was a day different? What if there was not a stevedore strike when I was employed at the steamship company? What if conditions were different when I was growing up in high school? What if I had furthered my musical experience and taken voice lessons? What if I decided not to be involved on certain occasions? These two words What if? can really influence the direction of one's life. This explains the cover of this narrative. It is actually autobiographical and telling the story of the building of St. Gabriel's Episcopal Church, Brooklyn, New York, from my perspective. "AS I SEE IT." Friends are like possessions (working or not), as long as I keep them, they are mine.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1493125400

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Adams Resume Almanac

By: Richard J Wallace

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Adams Resume Almanac

By: Richard J Wallace

A revised edition of the most comprehensive resume guide on the market! A must for the successful job search, The Adams Resume Almanac, 2nd Edition contains everything a candidate needs to know in order to craft a compelling, job-winning resume. Whether a first-time job hunter starting with a blank page, or a seasoned professional with a long story to tell, the candidate will find 600 examples of resumes appropriate to every situation.

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