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Audel Carpenter's and Builder's Math, Plans, and Specifications

By: Mark Richard Miller,Rex Miller

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Audel Carpenter's and Builder's Math, Plans, and Specifications

By: Mark Richard Miller,Rex Miller

You can count on a good plan A successful building or remodeling job requires not only a plan, but also the skill to interpret it and an understanding of the mathematics behind it. Whether you are a builder by trade or a do-it-yourself carpenter by choice, turn to this newly updated guide for easy explanations of the math involved and clear instructions on developing and using the necessary plans and specifications. * Explore the different types of wood products and learn what is best for your purpose * Choose appropriate building materials for weather and other natural factors * Refresh your knowledge of fractions, ratios, geometry, and measurement * Understand how to use basic surveying tools * Become familiar with the design process and recognize various styles of architecture * Learn to read architectural drawings and work with computer design

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John Wiley & Sons

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0764571133

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The Dynamics of News

Journalism in the 21st-Century Media Milieu

By: Richard M. Perloff

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The Dynamics of News

Journalism in the 21st-Century Media Milieu

By: Richard M. Perloff

This new and highly readable textbook by Richard M. Perloff introduces students to the complex world of contemporary news and its theoretical underpinnings, engaging with debates and ethical quandaries. The book takes readers on a concept-guided tour of the contours, continuities, and changing features of news. It covers a huge breadth of topics including: the classic theories of what news should do, its colorful history in America and popular myths of news, the overarching forces involved in contemporary news gathering, critical economic determinants of news and social system influences, and innovative trends in the future of journalism. Drawing on scholarship in the fields of journalism studies and sociology of news, Perloff offers readers a critical, in-depth exploration of news filled with relevant examples from newspapers, newscasts, and social media. Students of journalism, communication, sociology, politics, and related courses, as well as inquisitive scholars, will find this book’s intellectual focus enriching, the writing and examples engaging, and the thoroughness of its search of the contemporary media scene invigorating. Boxes summarizing theory and key concepts help students to deepen their understanding of both what news is now and its future.

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Routledge

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1351233491

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9781351233491

Reading and Teaching

By: Richard Meyer,Maryann Manning

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Reading and Teaching

By: Richard Meyer,Maryann Manning

Reading and Teaching raises questions and provides a context for preservice and practicing teachers to understand and to reflect on the complex issues surrounding the teaching of reading in the schools. It presents real teachers in their classrooms, dialogues about that teaching, and exercises for further clarification. The purpose is to help teachers make informed choices about their teaching of reading. The text considers the different types of decisions teachers might make in the teaching of reading and the knowledge upon which they rely in making those decisions—not simply factual information about using certain materials and methods to teach reading, but also knowledge about the mind, the political climate, the broader social and cultural circumstances of their students and schools and the communities in which they teach. Reading and Teaching is designed to engage teachers in beginning to evolve their own practical theories, to help them explore and perhaps modify some basic beliefs and assumptions, and to become acquainted with other points of view. Readers are encouraged to interact with the text and to develop their own perspective on the teaching of reading. This is the fifth volume in Reflective Teaching and the Social Conditions of Schooling: A Series for Prospective and Practicing Teachers, edited by Daniel P. Liston and Kenneth M. Zeichner. It follows the same format as previous volumes in the series. *Part I includes four real-life cases of teachers’ experiences in the classroom: “Teaching Reading Via Direct Systematic Instruction”; “A New Teacher Learns About Teaching Reading and Culture”; “A Teacher-Constructed Whole Language Program”; and “Critical Literacy in an Urban Middle School.” Each case is followed by space for readers to write their own reactions and reflections, educators’ dialogue about the case, space for readers’ reactions to the educators’ dialogue, and a summary and additional questions. *Part II presents three public arguments representing different views about the teaching of reading: direct instruction, whole language, and critical literacy. *Part III offers the authors’ own interpretations of the issues raised throughout the text and some suggestions for further reflection. A list of resources is provided. This text is pertinent for all prospective and practicing teachers at any stage in their teaching careers. It can be used in any undergraduate or graduate course that addresses the teaching of reading.

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Routledge

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1000159310

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9781000159318

Drama Collection

One Act and Three Act Plays

By: Richard R. Kennedy

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Drama Collection

One Act and Three Act Plays

By: Richard R. Kennedy

Collection of plays that's great for High School Drama Clubs and class readings. Productions royalty free.

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Lulu.com

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1435711998

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9781435711990

DIG THE DRY ZONE

By: Richard Byrne BSc(Hons)

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DIG THE DRY ZONE

By: Richard Byrne BSc(Hons)

For a group of recovering addicts, the only thing more powerful than the compelling drink of alcohol is the support they find in music, in each other, and in God. As the former addicts embark on a twelve-week recovery period at a European rehabilitation center, they begin to seek help through hymns. As the group battles their addictions, they’re faced with love and divorce, life and death, and the overall struggle to believe. Their journey of recovery has no bounds, showing addiction — and self-limitations —can be overcome with just a little amount of faith.

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Dorrance Publishing

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148091097X

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9781480910973

Brannon's Choice

By: Richard W. Browne

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Brannon's Choice

By: Richard W. Browne

Mystery/Intrigue: "What if" take-off on Chappaquiddick incident.

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Hard Shell Word Factory

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0759902550

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9780759902558

The Habit

By: Richard Armour

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The Habit

By: Richard Armour

This fast moving financial thriller based around City dealing rooms, bars and clubs, takes you on a hunt for a serial rapist who attacks his prey in a London Taxi. Roger Hamilton is a bond broker at Kaplan Stewart International where he runs the UK GILT desk. His best friend is Detective Sergeant Frank Henson who is investigating a series of rape cases in West London. They socialise on a regular basis, drinking in many of London's trendy bars and clubs. Frank soon discovers that all the rapes are linked and he begins the search for one of London's most prolific serial rapists of all time. He soon realises that the prime suspect is a London Taxi driver when three of the victims are raped in the back of one of London's famous black taxis. Roger is drawn into the fray when his sister, Penelope is brutally raped by her taxi driver whilst travelling home from Paddington Station. The rapist has an uncanny way of keeping a step ahead of the police and is determined to become the most famous serial rapist ever by beating Dan Crosby's record. He's even kind enough to document his work in the form of a wall collage in his flat, so that the police will have all the proof necessary. Can Frank and Roger catch him before more innocent victims are scared for life? As their hunt brings them closer to their prey, neither of them can imagine the horrific truth they are about to discover.

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Authors On Line Ltd

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0755200586

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9780755200580

199 Fun and Effective Fundraising Events for Nonprofit Organizations

By: Justina Walford,Eileen Figure Sandlin,Richard Helweg

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199 Fun and Effective Fundraising Events for Nonprofit Organizations

By: Justina Walford,Eileen Figure Sandlin,Richard Helweg

Suggests one hundred ninety-nine events to raise money for nonprofit organizations, including 50/50 raffles, cakewalks, dunk tanks, money trees, rummage sales, ballroom dance lessons, walking billboards, and bachelor auctions.

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Atlantic Publishing Company

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1601381484

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9781601381484

Southwest Shuffle

Pioneers of Honky Tonk, Western Swing, and Country Jazz

By: Richard Kienzle

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Southwest Shuffle

Pioneers of Honky Tonk, Western Swing, and Country Jazz

By: Richard Kienzle

While Nashville has long been considered the epicenter of country music, 'Southwest shuffle' documents the important influence of country music styles of the region stretching from Texas to California. In this book, you'll read about: Spade Cooley, the western swing fiddler and bandleader whose career was cut short by his imprisonment for murdering his wife in 1961 ; Hank Thompson, a Texan whose durable meld of barroom music and western swing anticipated George Strait ; Jimmy Bryant and Speedy West, legendary pickers whose incendiary instrumental records earned them the nickname "The Flaming Guitars" ; Tennessee Ernie Ford, who went from local L.A. TV star to household word in the 50s ; and Willie Nelson, who struggled for years in the Nashville wilderness convinced that someday his Texan-style eclecticism would prevail." - back cover.

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Psychology Press

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0415941032

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9780415941037

The Troupers

By: Richard Scarsbrook

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The Troupers

By: Richard Scarsbrook

The Trouper-Royale Orpheum Galaxie Theatre is a jewel in the entertainment crown of Niagara Falls. At least, that’s what the marquee out front says. To the Fabulous Trouper Quintuplets their family’s old theatre is a thorn in the crown of their adolescent memories. Under their famous-child-actor-turned-director father’s overbearing, and narcissistic eye, the quintuplets are raised on a strict diet of Golden Age entertainment and homeschooling to mold them into the best actors of their generation. But through a series of hilarious and tragic events, the siblings begin to develop their own personalities and ambitions, rebelling against their father’s aspirations for them. The tension rising from the quintuplets’ newfound individualism sparks an onstage brawl during a performance on their 18th birthday that changes the trajectory of all their lives. Twenty years later, the quintuplets reunite for the reading of their father’s will and his demand for one last performance.

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Cormorant Books

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1770866310

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Prima Facie

A Book of Psychaotic* Essays

By: Richard Thomas

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Prima Facie

A Book of Psychaotic* Essays

By: Richard Thomas

Filled with more than eighty compelling and often humorous essays, Prima Facie explores a wide array of subjects-human nature, free will, war, evolution, religion, political correctness, death and taxes. Author Richard Thomas reflects on these subjects and his own life to determine why people act the way they do. Thomas proposes three laws to explain human behavior: Reciprocity. This law states that everyone should have an equivalent exchange of goods for services rendered. We all want fair treatment from our associates. The Leg Up. This law claims that a person will climb over someone else to improve his situation or enforce his supposed superior status. LCD. This law maintains that humans tend to drag each other down to the lowest common denominator (LCD). One person cannot be better than someone else. Thomas argues that the various systems we have created to control our interactions with one another have turned the human race from once fearful, huddling prey into predators who now stalk their own kind. Prima Facie asks us to examine our own lives and beliefs, requires us to recognize the negative impact our everyday behavior has on others, and encourages us to take back responsibility for our destiny.

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iUniverse

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0595470262

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9780595470266

The Gospels and Christian Life in History and Practice

By: Richard Valantasis,Douglas K. Bleyle,Dennis C. Haugh

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The Gospels and Christian Life in History and Practice

By: Richard Valantasis,Douglas K. Bleyle,Dennis C. Haugh

The Gospels And Christian Life reads the four canonical Gospels as handbooks for religious formation through communal practices. The book focuses on the communities that produced each gospel, the dynamic energy each gospel displays for creating and sustaining community life, the different interpretations of the person of Jesus, and the different systems of organization and leadership each gospel promulgated. The authors carefully describe the social context of each Gospel and delineate the practices the texts prescribe. Each gospel has an imaginative portal, an introductory chapter introducing the necessary background for understanding the social, intellectual, and religious setting for each gospel. Their reading of each Gospel builds on these foundations to illustrate the nature and scope of the community's practices. Their work starts from the assumption that the communities did not look to the Gospels for biographical data on the life of Jesus to offer the reader a powerful reading of each Gospel community, its unique practices, and the way people were trained to become members of it. This book is aimed at undergraduate and graduate teachers and students, pastors, and the general audience eager for new ways to understand the New Testament.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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074257069X

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9780742570696

The Thursday Murder Club

A Novel

By: Richard Osman

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The Thursday Murder Club

A Novel

By: Richard Osman

A New York Times bestseller | Soon to be a major motion picture “Witty, endearing and greatly entertaining.” —Wall Street Journal “Don’t trust anyone, including the four septuagenarian sleuths in Osman’s own laugh-out-loud whodunit.” —Parade Four septuagenarians with a few tricks up their sleeves A female cop with her first big case A brutal murder Welcome to... THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to discuss unsolved crimes; together they call themselves the Thursday Murder Club. When a local developer is found dead with a mysterious photograph left next to the body, the Thursday Murder Club suddenly find themselves in the middle of their first live case. As the bodies begin to pile up, can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer, before it's too late?

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Penguin

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1984880985

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9781984880987

Managing Social Anxiety, Workbook

A Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Approach

By: Debra A. Hope,Richard G. Heimberg,Cynthia L. Turk

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Managing Social Anxiety, Workbook

A Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Approach

By: Debra A. Hope,Richard G. Heimberg,Cynthia L. Turk

Social anxiety is a common problem that can occur in situations ranging from dating to conversations to job interviews. Fortunately, three decades of research have shown that most people struggling with social anxiety can benefit from the treatment described in Managing Social Anxiety. The third edition of this Workbook provides essential information on the nature of social anxiety and the scientifically supported cognitive-behavioral techniques used to treat it. Readers may use it as part of therapy with a mental health professional or on their own. This new edition is fully updated with current science and clinical findings, a greater emphasis on multicultural experiences of social anxiety, and much more. Complete with user-friendly forms and worksheets, as well as relatable case examples and chapter review questions, this workbook contains all the tools necessary to help readers manage anxiety and improve quality of life.

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Oxford University Press

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0190671831

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9780190671839

John Wayne

Actor, Artist, Hero

By: Richard D. McGhee

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John Wayne

Actor, Artist, Hero

By: Richard D. McGhee

After the death of Marion Morrison, known as John Wayne, in 1979, President Jimmy Carter said that Wayne "was bigger than life. In an age of few heroes, he was the genuine article. But he was more than a hero; he was a symbol of many of the qualities that made America great." The first section of this study concentrates on Wayne's style of work and sphere of action as an actor: The man who works for a living and is concerned with his audience and the constraints of his immediate environment. The second section examines the artist: the man who lives in his art, who disappears into his character as an archetype of human fears and desires. Analyses of films that have made Wayne a hero are presented in the third section. A comprehensive filmography and numerous photographs are included.

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McFarland

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1476628246

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9781476628240

Betting on Horse Racing For Dummies

By: Richard Eng

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Betting on Horse Racing For Dummies

By: Richard Eng

Betting on Horse Racing For Dummies is packed with information that teaches you the ins and outs of the racetrack. You’ll learn how to improve your odds, avoid common betting mistakes, and just plain have fun at the races. This is a spectator’s easy-to-understand guide, so you’ll have no trouble identifying the racing breeds with their strengths and weaknesses, sizing up the jockey, understanding the importance and role of a trainer, placing bets, managing money, and beyond. Can’t make it to the track? No worries! You’ll get the scoop on online betting with off track betting sites and apps. This update covers the latest changes in the betting world and in the racing world, so you’ll know just what you’re wagering. Learn about the different types of horse racing Discover and identify the best racing breeds Know your jockeys and trainers Make smart wagers and manage your funds For beginning betters, Betting on Horse Racing For Dummies is your ticket to well informed wagers and a winning edge. Already know the ropes? You’ll love the market trends and insider tips you’ll find inside.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119908922

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9781119908920

Rescue

By: Richard C. Sammis

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Rescue

By: Richard C. Sammis

The year is 1942. Charlie Scudder moves from the Navy to the Office of Strategic Services where Penny Conklin is then in training. They are both posted to the London Station. He soon finds himself on a night-time mission to occupied France in an unarmed Lysander SD. He will be tested by this war to the death in many ways. Through a friendship he forges with an officer in the British Special Operations Executive, Charlie is introduced to the incongruous wartime life led by many of Britain’s most privileged citizens. Long work days, even covert operations, are followed by dinners at London restaurants and, on the weekends, recuperation at a family’s splendid country home. RESCUE is a tale of war and love in the time of war. Blending fact with fiction, it tells two stories, one of ordinary people facing death and unspeakable loss rising to the occasion and the other of love found where there was once only sorrow.

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Archway Publishing

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1665740396

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9781665740395

Awakening

By: Richard C. Sammis

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Awakening

By: Richard C. Sammis

In 1939, life is good for Charlie Scudder and his fellow members of Psi Upsilon at Dartmouth College. Drinking, poker and hockey are favorite activities at the house. Following graduation, however, war breaks out in Europe and the course of Charlie's life suddenly turns in a very different direction. Charlie's cherished experiences at college do not prepare him for unprecedented future events that challenge him mentally, morally, and physically. He is surrounded by war, and his actions now have profound consequences for himself and the people he loves, especially when he befriends Frieda Pelle, a charming secretary in Germany. Awakening is an atmospheric tale, bringing to life Dartmouth, New York, and Europe in the age of the "Greatest Generation." Told with rich, historical detail and anchored in time by colorful facts, it is the story of a boy becoming a man as he learns the value of character over beauty and the need to courageously answer when duty calls.

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Archway Publishing

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1480858498

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German Imperial Knights

Noble Misfits between Princely Authority and the Crown, 1479–1648

By: Richard J. Ninness

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German Imperial Knights

Noble Misfits between Princely Authority and the Crown, 1479–1648

By: Richard J. Ninness

The German imperial knights were branded disobedient, criminal, or treasonous, but instead of finding themselves on the wrong side of history, they resisted marginalization and adapted through a combination of conservative and progressive strategies. The knights tried to turn the elite world on its head through their constant challenges to the princes in the realms of both culture and governance. They held their own chivalric tournaments from 1479-1487, and defied the emperor and powerful princes in refusing to obey laws that violated custom. But their resistance led to a series of disasters in the 1520s: their leaders were hunted down and their castles destroyed. Having failed on their own, they turned to Emperor Charles V in the 1540s and the imperial knighthood was formed. This new status stabilized their position and provided them with important rights, including the choice between Lutheranism and Catholicism. During the Reformation era (1517-1648), no other German group embraced diversity in religion like the imperial knights. Despite the popularity of Protestantism in the group, they stood up to their princely adversaries, now Protestant, becoming champions of the Catholic Church and proved themselves just as staunch defenders of the Church as the Habsburg and Wittelsbach dynasties.

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Routledge

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1000285022

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9781000285024

Lobsticks and Stone Cairns

Human Landmarks in the Arctic

By: Richard Clarke Davis

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Lobsticks and Stone Cairns

Human Landmarks in the Arctic

By: Richard Clarke Davis

Lobsticks and stone cairns are landmarks that mark paths and commemorate events. The one hundred biographies in this book also offer themselves as paths to be taken. Centuries of human endeavour, hardship, folly, and suffering are collapsed into stories through which we can discover what the Arctic is and has been. Profiled in this book are "human landmarks" dating from as far back as the sixteenth century to those still active in the North today. Included are stories of adventurers, military officers, authors, guides, culture heroes, police, traders, and even the occasional charlatan. The biographies are of Inuit, European, American, Indian, and Canadian men and women. What appears here is the essence of each person, rendered by an expert and put in a new context, bringing the history and geography of the North to life.

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University of Calgary Press

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1895176883

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9781895176889

Chameleon

A Novel

By: Richard Hains

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Chameleon

A Novel

By: Richard Hains

Jon Phillips is head bond trader at one of Wall Street's largest investment banks and lives the American dream in the heart of New York's decadent banking community. But, after years of selfishness and extravagance, he plans his exit through an unprecedented and ultimately fraudulent deal in the US government bond market. A high-ranking colleague, who sits on the bank's main board, has teamed up with a Russian financier in order to provide Jon with one of the key elements vital to the success of his ingenious scheme. The deal goes spectacularly wrong and Jon's world collapses. As the Russians desperately attempt to recover their lost millions, Jon is thrown into a deadly game of cat and mouse. From the seedy nightspots of downtown NYC to the plush yacht clubs of the Hamptons, pastoral aristocratic England, and Southern Australia's endless beaches, past lovers, new menaces, and numerous apparently accidental deaths line his trail. Jon's survival now depends on putting the past behind him and becoming a calculated predator instead of the vulnerable prey.

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Beaufort Books

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0825305101

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9780825305108

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