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Stream of Conscience

By: Davis Rick Davis,Rick Davis

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Stream of conscience is a thriller that portrays the delicate balance between agricultural production and environmental protection set against the backdrop of a stream restoration. Patterns of human behavior shaped by past experience, merge with landscape evolution to illustrate the corresponding process of achieving equilibrium and growth. Steadfast rural values, viewed through a family mired in grief, guilt, and greed struggle against the influence of society evolving environmental ethic.

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iUniverse

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1440183775

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Networking Magic

How to Find Connections that Transform Your Life

By: Rick Frishman,Jill Lublin

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Networking Magic

How to Find Connections that Transform Your Life

By: Rick Frishman,Jill Lublin

The goal is to create real connections that help both a person and a business to make meaningful contacts that are life changing and life giving.

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Morgan James Publishing

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1614487340

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Borate Minerals of Death Valley, Mojave Desert, and Nevada: Annotated Bibliography

By: Rick O. Rittenberg

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Borate Minerals of Death Valley, Mojave Desert, and Nevada: Annotated Bibliography

By: Rick O. Rittenberg

An annotated bibliography of over 2,050 references associated with borate minerals from Death Valley, Mojave Desert, and Nevada. Sources include journal articles, papers, conference proceedings, books, book chapters, and other literature published from the 1860s into 2024. The bibliography is divided into 16 chapters: History, Boron and Borates, Chemistry and Crystal Structure, Mineralogy, Geology, California, Death Valley, Searles Lake, Mojave Desert, Kramer, Calico, Fort Cady, Tick Canyon, Ventura, Nevada, and Annual Reviews. Contains appendices of supplemental information on borate minerals, color photographs, and an alphabetical index of authors. 638 pages. Key words: borax, colemanite, kernite, probertite, and ulexite.

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Lightning Press

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0998563803

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9780998563800

Eddie Collins

A Baseball Biography

By: Rick Huhn

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Eddie Collins

A Baseball Biography

By: Rick Huhn

In what is sure to be the definitive book on Eddie Collins's life and long career, author Rick Huhn covers the Hall of Fame player's experiences from childhood through his days at Columbia University, his tenure with the great Athletics clubs of 1906-1914, the highs and lows of a championship and scandal with the White Sox, and his return to the A's during their final run at greatness. By the time his 25-year playing career had ended, he was a pivotal performer on five all-time great clubs, dominating his position like no one before (or since), and earning a reputation for intelligent, selfless play that followed him to Cooperstown. Also covered in detail is his tenure with the Boston Red Sox, a team he served variously as part owner, vice-president and general manager until 1951, when after 45 years in major league baseball a stroke ended his career and, weeks later, his life.

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McFarland

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078648571X

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9780786485710

Muncie in 150

By: Rick Yencer

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Muncie in 150

By: Rick Yencer

Muncie in 150 started as a look at the communitys sesquicentennial celebrated in many ways by the summer of 2015. The story about Middletown USA evolved into history in the making with several events that offered once in a lifetime experiences for the people and leaders of the community. As Europeans moved to the Midwest after the 1818 Treaty of St. Marys with Native Americans, Muncie grew along the banks of the White River until railroads charted the course for trade, commerce and later industry in Indiana. The communitys post Civil War development along with its turn of the 20th Century industrialization offered progress at every turn along with a growing higher education and health care system making it a regional center. Many of Muncies celebrities are featured like that cat from Albany drawn by Jim Davis and his associates who are looking to China for the next market for Garfield.. Theres also the tragedy of National Football League star Dave Duerson who was an All-American and won two Super Bowls. Duerson took his life and had his brain used for research into chronic brain trauma. Theres also some reads on whats happening in Muncie today like a no contest city election and a failing school system. Muncie in 150 offers a view for those here and there to a community in the Midwest that always puts quality of life and place before crime and poverty.

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Xlibris Corporation

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150359016X

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9781503590168

Jolie Rouge

A Swashbuckling Tale of Adventure and Intrigue

By: Rick Ley

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Jolie Rouge

A Swashbuckling Tale of Adventure and Intrigue

By: Rick Ley

Jolie Rouge is a swashbuckling tale of adventure and historical fiction where the fantastic exploits of Pirate Captain Bartholomew Roberts (1682-1722) and Haitian Voodoo set the stage for a group of college friends who find themselves at the mercy of a band of modern-day pirates of the Caribbean. Will the unlucky friends make their escape, or will they simply vanish into history in the remote Western Atlantic hinterlands? Only the turn of these pages will tell I hope you enjoy the story!

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Dog Ear Publishing

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1457539861

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Jelly Roll, Bix, and Hoagy

Gennett Records and the Rise of America's Musical Grassroots

By: Rick Kennedy

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Jelly Roll, Bix, and Hoagy

Gennett Records and the Rise of America's Musical Grassroots

By: Rick Kennedy

“A lively and anecdotal history” of the tiny family-run studio where jazz greats from Jelly Roll Morton to Louis Armstrong made their first recordings (Jazz Times). From 1917 to 1932, in a primitive studio next to the railroad tracks, the Gennett family of Richmond, Indiana, recorded some of the earliest performances of jazz, blues, and country greats—including Jelly Roll Morton, Big Bill Broonzy, King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Gene Autry, Bix Beiderbecke, and native Hoosier Hoagy Carmichael (whose “Stardust” debuted on Gennett as a dance stomp). Jelly Roll, Bix, and Hoagy is the first thoroughly researched account of the people and events behind this unique company and its outsized impact on American music. Alive with personal details and anecdotes from musicians, employees, and family members, it traces the colorful history of a pioneer recording company.

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Indiana University Press

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0253007690

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9780253007698

Be Mine

By: Rick Mofina

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Be Mine

By: Rick Mofina

An Arthur Ellis Award-winning AuthorSan Francisco crime reporter Tom Reed has seen a lot of sick messages in his time, but the one delivered to colleague Molly Wilson is different. It's shockingly personal, the crime lab confirms it was written in human blood . . . and Molly's cop boyfriend has just been found brutally murdered. In a city of mist, shadows and fog, obsession has taken a deadly turn - and Tom is in a desperate race to save his career and stop a killer.

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Pinnacle Books

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0786015268

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100 Things Iowa Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die

By: Rick Brown,Chuck Long

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100 Things Iowa Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die

By: Rick Brown,Chuck Long

Most Iowa Hawkeyes fans have attended a basketball game at Carver-Hawkeye Arena, seen highlights of "The Catch" that beat LSU in 2005, and were thrilled by the school's run to the 2014–15 Big Ten Football Championship Game. But only real fans know how many players have had their numbers retired, the best place to grab a bite before the game, or the only Iowa basketball player to lead the nation in scoring. 100 Things Iowa Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die is the ultimate resource guide for true fans of Iowa athletics. Whether you're a die-hard fan from the days of Nile Kinnick or a new supporter of Fran McCaffery, this book contains everything Hawkeyes fans should know, see, and do in their lifetime.

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Triumph Books

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1633196569

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Thorstein Veblen and His Critics, 1891-1963

Conservative, Liberal, and Radical Perspectives

By: Rick Tilman

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Thorstein Veblen and His Critics, 1891-1963

Conservative, Liberal, and Radical Perspectives

By: Rick Tilman

The influential economist and philosopher Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) was one of the most original and penetrating critics of American culture and institutions, and his work attracted and still attracts the attention of scholars from a wide range of political viewpoints and scholarly disciplines. Focusing on the doctrinal and theoretical facets of Veblen's political economy, this book offers a study not only of his ideas but also of the way his critics have responded to them. Rick Tilman assesses the weight of the critics' reactions, both positive and negative, as well as exposing their sometimes mistaken interpretations of Veblen's work. As he scrutinizes the ideologies of the conservatives, liberals, and radicals who commented on Veblen, he portrays the diversity of social theory in the first half of the twentieth century. Beginning with the first criticism of Veblen's work during the presidency of Benjamin Harrison and concluding with Daniel Bell's attack on him during the Kennedy administration, the book emphasizes those critics who systematically confronted the doctrinal structure of Veblen's thought and believed that they perceived in it fundamental weaknesses. But even the most negatively inclined--such as Paul Baran, Irving Fisher, and Talcott Parsons--admitted some of Veblen's strengths. Ironically, his supporters at times stripped his work of much of its potential for political and moral enlightenment without intending to do so. 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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1400862868

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Because of Grácia

A Novel

By: Tom Simes,Rick Killian

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Because of Grácia

A Novel

By: Tom Simes,Rick Killian

Based on the award-winning film starring Moriah Peters and Chris Massoglia, Because of Grácia follows the stories of Chase Morgan, Grácia Davis, and their fellow high school seniors as they face life-altering decisions on their journeys of faith, friendship, and love. Chase Morgan would love to live up to his name and pursue something great. It's his senior year and he’s still as insecure as ever, but Eastglenn High's newest student is about to turn that around. Grácia is a girl with charisma, intelligence and conviction, but she’s not as “together” as Chase and his best friend OB might think. A dark past gives her a unique connection with Bobbi, a misunderstood classmate with a strained home life and an all-too-cute boyfriend as her means of escape. As Bobbi struggles with a life-and-death decision and Chase risks rejection, Grácia challenges her friends, teachers and even herself to experience the transformative power of grace.

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Dexterity

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1947297015

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9781947297012

Hurricanes and the Middle Atlantic States

By: Rick Schwartz

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Hurricanes and the Middle Atlantic States

By: Rick Schwartz

This reference traces the region's 400-year recorded hurricane history, from Jamestown to the present, drawing on accounts in newspaper articles, books, private journals, and interviews. Emphasizing the human side of a hurricane's aftermath rather than scientific aspects, each hurricane account tells how individuals and communities reacted to the storms. Storms are profiled in year-by-year entries from the 1600's to the current century.

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Blue Diamond Books

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0978628004

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9780978628000

Baseball's Comeback Players

Forty Major Leaguers Who Fell and Rose Again

By: Rick Swaine

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Baseball's Comeback Players

Forty Major Leaguers Who Fell and Rose Again

By: Rick Swaine

This book profiles forty major league ballplayers who engineered remarkable comebacks to salvage fading careers. Details of each comeback is provided along with a summary of the player's career. The comeback players range from Hall of Famers like Ted Williams and Stan Musial; to near-greats like Tommy John and Luis Tiant; to journeyman performers like George McQuinn and Tony Cuccinello. In the absence of statistical standards to evaluate or even define comebacks, the selection of the top comeback players was based on the following criteria: historical significance, uniqueness, dramatic content, degree of difficulty, and the player's overall reputation and standing.

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McFarland

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1476614350

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9781476614359

Carolina Beach Music Encyclopedia

By: Rick Simmons

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Carolina Beach Music Encyclopedia

By: Rick Simmons

While rock groups such as the Beach Boys and Jan and Dean defined the beach music of Southern California during the 1960s, a different, R&B influenced sound could be heard along South Carolina's Grand Strand. Drawing on extensive research and exclusive interviews, this richly illustrated reference work covers the music, songwriters and performers who contributed to the genre of classic Carolina beach music from 1940 to 1980. Detailed entries tell the stories behind nearly 500 classic recordings, with release dates, label information, chart performance and biographical background on more than 200 artists.

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McFarland

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1476667675

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9781476667676

Superstar Series: The Hart Foundation

By: James Dixon,Arnold Furious,Lee Maughan,Bob Dahlstrom,Rick Ashley

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Superstar Series: The Hart Foundation

By: James Dixon,Arnold Furious,Lee Maughan,Bob Dahlstrom,Rick Ashley

The ultimate guide to legendary WWF tag team The Hart Foundation. This book features full reviews of over 150 Hart Foundation matches, the majority of which are exclusive to this book. From PPV to TV to house shows and specials, everything available featuring the duo teaming is covered in the trademark History of Wrestling style. As well as chronological reviews, there are also the usual star ratings, random musings, facts and behind the scenes stories. Not only that, but there is also an exhaustive and exclusive list of every known Hart Foundation match to ever take place. A must have for all fans of the team!

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Lulu.com

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1291538410

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9781291538410

The Day of Battle

The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944

By: Rick Atkinson

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The Day of Battle

The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944

By: Rick Atkinson

In the second volume of his epic trilogy about the liberation of Europe in World War II, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Atkinson tells the harrowing story of the campaigns in Sicily and Italy.

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Macmillan

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080508861X

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9780805088618

Designing Pornotopia

Travels in Visual Culture

By: Rick Poynor

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Designing Pornotopia

Travels in Visual Culture

By: Rick Poynor

Following the discussion of Poynor's previous anthology, Obey the Giant, Designing Pornotopia covers a wide area of subjects, from magazines, billboard advertising, branding, illustration, photography, tattoos, and music graphics to architecture, and includes interviews with architect Rem Koolhaas and maverick American graphic designer and performance artist Elliott Earls. Along the way Poynor reassesses the early work of Peter Saville and tracks the seemingly unstoppable rise of Stefan Sagmeister, among other graphic designers. Poynor's concise, riveting prose constantly challenges the reader with strong and through-provoking arguments.

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Princeton Architectural Press

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1568986076

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9781568986074

100 Things Commanders Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die

By: Rick Snider

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100 Things Commanders Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die

By: Rick Snider

As the Washington Commanders step into a new era, celebrate the franchise's full NFL history with this revised and updated guide! Most Commanders fans have taken a trip or two to FedEx Field, have seen highlights of a young Art Monk, and know the story of Super Bowl XXVI. But only real fans know their way around the team's training camp facilities or in which famous baseball stadium the Redskins played in the team's early years.100 Things Commanders Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die is the fully up-to-date resource guide for true DC sports fans. Whether you attended games at RFK Stadium or are a new supporter of the team under head coach Ron Rivera, these are the 100 things all fans needs to know and do in their lifetime.Author Rick Snider has collected every essential piece of knowledge and trivia, as well as must-do activities, and ranks them all, providing an entertaining and easy-to-follow checklist as you progress on your way to fan superstardom.

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Triumph Books

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163727243X

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9781637272435

40 Hits, 40 Stories

Behind Top Songs of the 1960s and 1970s

By: Rick Simmons

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40 Hits, 40 Stories

Behind Top Songs of the 1960s and 1970s

By: Rick Simmons

Innovative sounds in pop, rock and soul in the 1960s and 1970s meant that music appealed to more people than ever before. While some songs appealed to a broad audience, some targeted a much narrower demographic, meaning songs on the pop charts might not do as well on the adult contemporary or soul charts, or vice versa. This book examines forty songs featured on song charts of the 1960s and 1970s. Charts considered are Billboard Pop, Billboard Soul, Adult Contemporary, Cashbox and British Charts. Each listing includes discussion of the factors that contributed to the songs' popularity. Author interviews with songwriters, musicians and artists such as KC (of KC and the Sunshine Band), Mark Farner (of Grand Funk), Jerry Butler, Ron Dante (of the Archies and the Cuff Links), Freda Payne, Lou Christie, Tommy Roe, The Spinners and others tell the stories behind some of the era's most popular songs.

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McFarland

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1476646902

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9781476646909

Pleasant Lines

By: Rick Lindholtz

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Pleasant Lines

By: Rick Lindholtz

Pleasant Lines is the story of families who journeyed from the British Isles, Europe, and Scandinavia to begin a new life in the new world of North America. It is a story of courage and sacrifice. It is a story of the love, and the inspiring faith, that was a foundation for those families and for so many others like them. Pleasant Lines is divided into two sections. Book One recounts the remarkable stories that interface with the events of America's founding and earliest years, all the way through World War II and the early 1960s. Book Two resets the clock in order to focus on two young people who found one another, and at about the same time, found faith. In their way of loving, living, and even dying, they left an inspiring witness.

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Lulu.com

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1312488328

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9781312488328

It Happened in West Virginia

By: Rick Steelhammer

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It Happened in West Virginia

By: Rick Steelhammer

It Happened in West Virginia takes readers on a rollicking, behind-the-scenes look at some of the characters and episodes from the Mountain State's storied past. Including both famous tales, and famous names--and little-known heroes, heroines, and happenings.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1493001655

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9781493001651

1837

A History, A Play

By: Salutin, Rick,Theatre Passe Muraille

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1837

A History, A Play

By: Salutin, Rick,Theatre Passe Muraille

A play about the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837 and the life of William Lyon Mackenzie, covering key events in the history of Canada.

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James Lorimer & Company

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0888621191

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9780888621191

Beyond the Sunshine

A Timeline of Florida's Past

By: Rick Baker

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Beyond the Sunshine

A Timeline of Florida's Past

By: Rick Baker

From the time the first humans reached the Florida peninsula more than 12,000 years ago through today's complex and diverse state, this timeline narrative sets Florida's fascinating history against the backdrop of world events. Learn how early native peoples, European exploration, wars, and transformative economic, social, cultural, and technological changes have shaped and continue to shape the "Sunshine State.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1683340159

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9781683340157

Physics of High-Density Z-Pinch Plasmas

By: Michael A. Liberman,John S. De Groot,Arthur Toor,Rick B. Spielman

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Physics of High-Density Z-Pinch Plasmas

By: Michael A. Liberman,John S. De Groot,Arthur Toor,Rick B. Spielman

A "z pinch" is a deceptively simple plasma configuration in which a longitudinal current produces a magnetic field that confines the plasma. Z-pinch research is currently one of the fastest growing areas of plasma physics, with revived interest in z-pinch controlled fusion reactors along with investigations of new z-pinch applications, such as very high power x-ray sources, high-energy neutrons sources, and ultra-high magnetic fields generators. This book provides a comprehensive review of the physics of dense z pinches and includes many recent experimental results.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461214246

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9781461214243

Crafting Mexico

Intellectuals, Artisans, and the State after the Revolution

By: Rick A. López

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Crafting Mexico

Intellectuals, Artisans, and the State after the Revolution

By: Rick A. López

After Mexico’s revolution of 1910–1920, intellectuals sought to forge a unified cultural nation out of the country’s diverse populace. Their efforts resulted in an “ethnicized” interpretation of Mexicanness that intentionally incorporated elements of folk and indigenous culture. In this rich history, Rick A. López explains how thinkers and artists, including the anthropologist Manuel Gamio, the composer Carlos Chávez, the educator Moisés Sáenz, the painter Diego Rivera, and many less-known figures, formulated and promoted a notion of nationhood in which previously denigrated vernacular arts—dance, music, and handicrafts such as textiles, basketry, ceramics, wooden toys, and ritual masks—came to be seen as symbolic of Mexico’s modernity and national distinctiveness. López examines how the nationalist project intersected with transnational intellectual and artistic currents, as well as how it was adapted in rural communities. He provides an in-depth account of artisanal practices in the village of Olinalá, located in the mountainous southern state of Guerrero. Since the 1920s, Olinalá has been renowned for its lacquered boxes and gourds, which have been considered to be among the “most Mexican” of the nation’s arts. Crafting Mexico illuminates the role of cultural politics and visual production in Mexico’s transformation from a regionally and culturally fragmented country into a modern nation-state with an inclusive and compelling national identity.

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Duke University Press

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0822391732

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9780822391739

The Invisible Bridge

The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan

By: Rick Perlstein

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The Invisible Bridge

The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan

By: Rick Perlstein

The best-selling author of Nixonland presents a portrait of the United States during the turbulent political and economic upheavals of the 1970s, covering events ranging from the Arab oil embargo and the era of Patty Hearst to the collapse of the South Vietnamese government and the rise of Ronald Reagan--Publisher's description.

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Simon and Schuster

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1476782423

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9781476782423

Tightwads and Spendthrifts

Navigating the Money Minefield in Real Relationships

By: Scott Rick

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Tightwads and Spendthrifts

Navigating the Money Minefield in Real Relationships

By: Scott Rick

A revolutionary guide to navigating the financial aspects of real relationships Have you ever asked yourself “What if I’m a tightwad and my significant other is a spendthrift?” or vice versa? Scott Rick, a behavioral scientist at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, knows that many people do. He also knows that the financial aspects of an intimate relationship can become a money minefield if couples try to navigate it without first discussing all of the financial issues between them, especially if those two people have different approaches to spending. Tightwads and Spendthrifts is a science-based guide to understanding and transforming how we manage money, both on our own and in relationships. Building on his original research, and surveying a vast body of interdisciplinary work, Tightwads and Spendthrifts will help you understand your own financial psychology and how it plays out in your relationships. Can tightwads and spendthrifts live together in harmony? Rick says “yes,” but not without first asking hard questions about whose opinion should count most when making a financial decision. After all of the issues have been aired, he tells readers how to create a game plan for navigating financial decision making that both Tightwads and Spendthrifts can rely on for a happy life together.

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St. Martin's Press

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1250280087

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9781250280084

Tiger, Meet My Sister...

And Other Things I Probably Shouldn't Have Said

By: Rick Reilly

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Tiger, Meet My Sister...

And Other Things I Probably Shouldn't Have Said

By: Rick Reilly

In this hilariously funny essay collection, ESPN columnist Rick Reilly compiles the best of his sports columns—essays that include his expert opinion on athlete tattoos, NFL cheerleaders, and even running with the bulls in Pamplona. Rick Reilly has no compunction telling readers, in his quick-witted style, how he really feels about some of the most popular sports figures of our time. Wondering about quarterback Jay Cutler? “Cutler is the kind of guy you just want to pick up and throw into a swimming pool, which is exactly what Peyton Manning and two linemen did one year at the Pro Bowl.” Or how about Tiger Woods? “Sometimes you wonder where Tiger Woods gets his public-relations advice. Gary Busey?” But for every brazen takedown, Reilly has written a heartwarming story of the power of sports to heal the wounded and lift the downtrodden: the young Ravens fan with cancer who called the plays for a few—victorious—games in 2012, or the onetime top NFL recruit who was finally exonerated after serving five years for a crime he didn’t commit. Whether he makes you laugh, cry, or just gets under your skin, Rick Reilly is sure to offer a unique and hilarious perspective on your favorite golf players, football teams, MVPs, and more. Rick Reilly has been called “one of the funniest humans on the planet—an indescribable amalgam of Dave Barry, Jim Murray, and Lewis Grizzard, with the timing of Jay Leno and the wit of Johnny Carson” (Publishers Weekly). With a new introduction and updates from Reilly on his most talked-about columns, Tiger, Meet My Sister... makes the perfect gift for sports fans of all kinds.

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0142181900

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The Integration of Major League Baseball

A Team by Team History

By: Rick Swaine

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The Integration of Major League Baseball

A Team by Team History

By: Rick Swaine

This book is a record of the men and events, team by team, during Major League Baseball's integration. It focuses especially on the owners, executives and managers who were the heroes, villains or spectators of integration, and it sheds new light on the unheralded champions of integration and on those whose culpability has so far been overlooked. Individual chapters cover each of baseball's integration-era teams, and a final chapter covers expansion teams of the 1960s. Each team's responsible individuals are examined, its acquisition, deployment and treatment of black players documented, and the effect of its integration actions on team performance analyzed. Appendices provide populations of integration-era Major League cities, first black players by team, first black players in various minor leagues, rosters of black players by team, a timeline of black player milestones, and a list of black All-Star selections through 1969.

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McFarland

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0786453346

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A Mountain Within

By: Rick Vasquez

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A Mountain Within

By: Rick Vasquez

It doesn't have to take a lifetime to find your mountain within." A Mountain Within is based on a true American story about a dysfunctional family who finds room in their hearts for love and forgiveness. The story reminds us that we have each other to help and support making rough roads in life more approachable. This novel takes us on a journey outside of our hometowns, just down the street and around the corner. The love and pains that the Lores have experienced will change your emotions from laughter to tears. You will love the warmth of the characters helping you to understand and appreciate the special people in your life. The story gives us the opportunity to find our own mountain within as we discern and deal with the positives and the negatives in each of our lives.

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Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

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164458770X

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Texas Ranger John B. Jones and the Frontier Battalion, 1874-1881

By: Rick Miller

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Texas Ranger John B. Jones and the Frontier Battalion, 1874-1881

By: Rick Miller

For the first time, author Rick Miller presents the story of the Frontier Battalion as seen through the eyes of its commander, John B. Jones, during his administration from 1874 to 1881, relating its history?both good and bad?chronologically, in depth, and in context. Highlighted are repeated budget and funding problems, developing standards of conduct, personalities and their interaction, mission focus and strategies against Indian war parties and outlaws, and coping with politics and bureaucracy. Miller covers all the major activities of the Battalion in the field that created and ultimately enhanced the legend of the Texas Rangers. Jones?s personal life is revealed, as well as his role in shaping the policies and activities of the Frontier Battalion.

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University of North Texas Press

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1574414674

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9781574414677

Hard Work

Remaking the American Labor Movement

By: Rick Fantasia,Kim Voss

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Hard Work

Remaking the American Labor Movement

By: Rick Fantasia,Kim Voss

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Univ of California Press

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0520240138

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9780520240131

The Cleanest Kill

By: Rick Reed

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The Cleanest Kill

By: Rick Reed

Cop vs. Killer Detective Jack Murphy never met a cold case he couldn’t crack. This one’s been on ice for 37 years. The prime suspect in a decades-old unsolved murder is about to be named Evansville’s next Chief of Police. The Mayor wants the top cop’s name cleared—and that’s why Murphy and his partner, Liddell Blanchard, are ordered to re-open the investigation. But when the victim’s sister and mother are targeted for violence, troubling new questions arise. Is this the work of the same killer, or is someone else playing a deadly game? The answers lie buried in the past. But no one digs through the dirt like Jack Murphy . . . Praise for Rick Reed and his novels “Reed gives the reader a story worth every minute and every penny spent.” —Book Reporter “Rick Reed knows the dark side as only a real-life cop can, and his writing crackles with authenticity.” —Shane Gericke “A jaw-dropping thriller.”—Gregg Olsen “Reed thrusts his story forward to bring us along on a ride we won’t soon forget!” —Suspense Magazine

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Lyrical Press

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1516104587

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9781516104581

We Share Our Matters

Two Centuries of Writing and Resistance at Six Nations of the Grand River

By: Rick Monture

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We Share Our Matters

Two Centuries of Writing and Resistance at Six Nations of the Grand River

By: Rick Monture

The Haudenosaunee, more commonly known as the Iroquois or Six Nations, have been one of the most widely written-about Indigenous groups in the United States and Canada. But seldom have the voices emerging from this community been drawn on in order to understand its enduring intellectual traditions. Rick Monture’s We Share Our Matters offers the first comprehensive portrait of how the Haudenosaunee of the Grand River region have expressed their long struggle for sovereignty in Canada. Drawing from individualsas diverse as Joseph Brant, Pauline Johnson and Robbie Robertson, Monture illuminates a unique Haudenosaunee world view comprised of three distinct features: a spiritual belief about their role and responsibility to the earth; a firm understanding of their sovereign status as a confederacy of independant nations; and their responsibility to maintain those relations for future generations. After more than two centuries of political struggle Haudenosaunee thought has avoided stagnant conservatism and continues to inspire ways to address current social and political realities.

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Univ. of Manitoba Press

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0887554660

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9780887554667

Little Labels--big Sound

Small Record Companies and the Rise of American Music

By: Rick Kennedy,Randy McNutt

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Small Record Companies and the Rise of American Music

By: Rick Kennedy,Randy McNutt

* Stories from the lean early days of American popular music * Ten visionaries who altered the course of popular music * Close-up portraits of risk-taking label owners who often gambled their careers and livelihoods to release music they believed in

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Indiana University Press

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0253335485

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9780253335487

The Political Ideas of Thorstein Veblen

By: Sidney Plotkin,Rick Tilman

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The Political Ideas of Thorstein Veblen

By: Sidney Plotkin,Rick Tilman

Thorstein Veblen is best known for his authorship of "The Theory of the Leisure Class" and "The Theory of Business Enterprise," which made him a celebrated figure in the fields of economics and sociology at the turn of the twentieth century. In this book, Sidney Plotkin and Rick Tilman argue that in addition to his well-known work in these fields Veblen also made important--and until now overlooked--statements about politics.While Veblen's writings seldom mention politics, they are saturated with political ideas: about the relationship among war, executive power, and democracy; about the similarities between modern executive positions and monarchy; about the political influence of corporate power; about the symbolism of politics; and about many other issues. By demonstrating the deep relevance of Veblen's writings to today's political troubles, "The Political Ideas of Thorstein Veblen "offers an important reconsideration of a major American thinker.

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Yale University Press

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030016338X

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Obscene in the Extreme

The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck's the Grapes of Wrath

By: Rick Wartzman

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Obscene in the Extreme

The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck's the Grapes of Wrath

By: Rick Wartzman

Few books have caused as big a stir as John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, when it was published in April 1939. By May, it was the nation's number one bestseller, but in Kern County, California - the Joads' newfound home - the book was burned publicly and banned from library shelves. Obscene in the Extreme tells the remarkable story behind this fit of censorship. When W. B. ''Bill'' Camp, a giant cotton and potato grower, presided over its burning in downtown Bakersfield, he declared: ''We are angry, not because we were attacked but because we were attacked by a book obscene in the extreme sense of the word.'' But Gretchen Knief, the Kern County librarian, bravely fought back. ''If that book is banned today, what book will be banned tomorrow?'' Obscene in the Extreme serves as a window into an extraordinary time of upheaval in America - a time when, as Steinbeck put it, there seemed to be ''a revolution...going on.

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1458759520

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9781458759528

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