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The Games That Changed the Game

The Evolution of the NFL in Seven Sundays

By: Ron Jaworski,David Plaut,Greg Cosell

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The Games That Changed the Game

The Evolution of the NFL in Seven Sundays

By: Ron Jaworski,David Plaut,Greg Cosell

A gift for sports fans and football afficianados Professional football in the last half century has been a sport marked by relentless innovation. For fans determined to keep up with the changes that have transformed the game, close examination of the coaching footage is a must. In The Games That Changed the Game, Ron Jaworski—pro football’s #1 game-tape guru—breaks down the film from seven of the most momentous contests of the last fifty years, giving readers a drive-by-drive, play-by-play guide to the evolutionary leaps that define the modern NFL. From Sid Gillman’s development of the Vertical Stretch, which launched the era of wide-open passing offenses, to Bill Belichick’s daring defensive game plan in Super Bowl XXXVI, which enabled his outgunned squad to upset the heavily favored St. Louis Rams and usher in the New England Patriots dynasty, the most cutting-edge concepts come alive again through the recollections of nearly seventy coaches and players. You’ll never watch NFL football the same way again.

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0345517962

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9780345517968

Grant

By: Ron Chernow

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Grant

By: Ron Chernow

The #1 New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2017 “Eminently readable but thick with import . . . Grant hits like a Mack truck of knowledge.” —Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait of one of our most compelling generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant. Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically been misunderstood. All too often he is caricatured as a chronic loser and an inept businessman, or as the triumphant but brutal Union general of the Civil War. But these stereotypes don't come close to capturing him, as Chernow shows in his masterful biography, the first to provide a complete understanding of the general and president whose fortunes rose and fell with dizzying speed and frequency. Before the Civil War, Grant was flailing. His business ventures had ended dismally, and despite distinguished service in the Mexican War he ended up resigning from the army in disgrace amid recurring accusations of drunkenness. But in war, Grant began to realize his remarkable potential, soaring through the ranks of the Union army, prevailing at the battle of Shiloh and in the Vicksburg campaign, and ultimately defeating the legendary Confederate general Robert E. Lee. Along the way, Grant endeared himself to President Lincoln and became his most trusted general and the strategic genius of the war effort. Grant’s military fame translated into a two-term presidency, but one plagued by corruption scandals involving his closest staff members. More important, he sought freedom and justice for black Americans, working to crush the Ku Klux Klan and earning the admiration of Frederick Douglass, who called him “the vigilant, firm, impartial, and wise protector of my race.” After his presidency, he was again brought low by a dashing young swindler on Wall Street, only to resuscitate his image by working with Mark Twain to publish his memoirs, which are recognized as a masterpiece of the genre. With lucidity, breadth, and meticulousness, Chernow finds the threads that bind these disparate stories together, shedding new light on the man whom Walt Whitman described as “nothing heroic... and yet the greatest hero.” Chernow’s probing portrait of Grant's lifelong struggle with alcoholism transforms our understanding of the man at the deepest level. This is America's greatest biographer, bringing movingly to life one of our finest but most underappreciated presidents. The definitive biography, Grant is a grand synthesis of painstaking research and literary brilliance that makes sense of all sides of Grant's life, explaining how this simple Midwesterner could at once be so ordinary and so extraordinary. Named one of the best books of the year by Goodreads • Amazon • The New York Times • Newsday • BookPage • Barnes and Noble • Wall Street Journal

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Penguin

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0143110632

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9780143110637

Joe, the Slave Who Became an Alamo Legend

By: Ron J. Jackson,Lee Spencer White

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Joe, the Slave Who Became an Alamo Legend

By: Ron J. Jackson,Lee Spencer White

If we do in fact “remember the Alamo,” it is largely thanks to one person who witnessed the final assault and survived: the commanding officer’s slave, a young man known simply as Joe. What Joe saw as the Alamo fell, recounted days later to the Texas Cabinet, has come down to us in records and newspaper reports. But who Joe was, where he came from, and what happened to him have all remained mysterious until now. In a remarkable feat of historical detective work, authors Ron J. Jackson, Jr., and Lee Spencer White have fully restored this pivotal yet elusive figure to his place in the American story. The twenty-year-old Joe stood with his master, Lieutenant Colonel Travis, against the Mexican army in the early hours of March 6, 1836. After Travis fell, Joe watched the battle’s last moments from a hiding place. He was later taken first to Bexar and questioned by Santa Anna about the Texan army, and then to the revolutionary capitol, where he gave his testimony with evident candor. With these few facts in hand, Jackson and White searched through plantation ledgers, journals, memoirs, slave narratives, ship logs, newspapers, letters, and court documents. Their decades-long effort has revealed the outline of Joe’s biography, alongside some startling facts: most notably, that Joe was the younger brother of the famous escaped slave and abolitionist narrator William Wells Brown, as well as the grandson of legendary trailblazer Daniel Boone. This book traces Joe’s story from his birth in Kentucky through his life in slavery—which, in a grotesque irony, resumed after he took part in the Texans’ battle for independence—to his eventual escape and disappearance into the shadows of history. Joe, the Slave Who Became an Alamo Legend recovers a true American character from obscurity and expands our view of events central to the emergence of Texas.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806149590

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9780806149592

Creating Cultures of Thinking

The 8 Forces We Must Master to Truly Transform Our Schools

By: Ron Ritchhart

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Creating Cultures of Thinking

The 8 Forces We Must Master to Truly Transform Our Schools

By: Ron Ritchhart

Discover why and how schools must become places where thinking is valued, visible, and actively promoted As educators, parents, and citizens, we must settle for nothing less than environments that bring out the best in people, take learning to the next level, allow for great discoveries, and propel both the individual and the group forward into a lifetime of learning. This is something all teachers want and all students deserve. In Creating Cultures of Thinking: The 8 Forces We Must Master to Truly Transform Our Schools, Ron Ritchhart, author of Making Thinking Visible, explains how creating a culture of thinking is more important to learning than any particular curriculum and he outlines how any school or teacher can accomplish this by leveraging 8 cultural forces: expectations, language, time, modeling, opportunities, routines, interactions, and environment. With the techniques and rich classroom vignettes throughout this book, Ritchhart shows that creating a culture of thinking is not about just adhering to a particular set of practices or a general expectation that people should be involved in thinking. A culture of thinking produces the feelings, energy, and even joy that can propel learning forward and motivate us to do what at times can be hard and challenging mental work.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118975065

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9781118975060

Sonny

By: Ron Gabriel

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Sonny

By: Ron Gabriel

It has been more than sixty years since anyone called author Ron Gabriel Sonny. The nickname was bestowed upon him back in Delaware, Ohio, and it carried through the 1940s and 50s. Back then, Sonny was a carefree kid who spent his days running around the neighborhood with his buddies, getting into the occasional scuffle and scrape. Six decades later, how things have changed. Sonny is the true account of a young man who lived out his days in the Midwest. Back then, there was no such thing as Little League; the kids made their own games instead, running and playing as they chose. As Sonny grew up, so did his interests. He bought his first car for forty dollars and nicknamed it The Green Spleen. He met the love of his life and became a husband and fatherand, eventually, a grandfather. Intended to entertain, amuse, and inform, Sonny offers a detailed recording of how the world once was, before the existence of cell phones and the Internet. Gabriel played witness to several events in history, but he also created his own history as a grandfather and an Ohio State fan. Take a step back to another time, when things were more innocent, people moved a bit slower, and young Sonny dreamed of an unknown future.

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1475948573

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9781475948578

The Dark Side of Shakespeare: an Elizabethan Courtier, Diplomat, Spymaster, & Epic Hero

Volume Ii of Iii

By: W. Ron Hess

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The Dark Side of Shakespeare: an Elizabethan Courtier, Diplomat, Spymaster, & Epic Hero

Volume Ii of Iii

By: W. Ron Hess

The "Dark Side of Shakespeare" trilogy by W. Ron Hess has been his 20-year undertaking to try to fill-in many of the gaps in knowledge of Shakespeare's personality and times. The first two volumes investigated wide-ranging topics, including the key intellectual attributes that Shakespeare exhibited in his works, including the social and political events of the 1570s to early-1600s. This was when Hess believes the Bard's works were being "originated" (the earliest phases of artistry, from conception or inspiration to the first of multiple iterations of "writing"). Hess highlights a peculiar fascination that the Bard had with the half-brother of Spain's Philip II, the heroic Don Juan of Austria, or in 1571 "the Victor of Lepanto." From that fascination, as determined by characters based on Don Juan in the plays (e.g., the villain "Don John" in "Much Ado")and other matters, Hess even made so bold as to propose a series of phases from the mid-1570s to mid-80s in which he feels each Shakespeare play had been originated, or some early form of each play then existed -- if not in writing, at least in the Bard's imagination. Thus, the creative process Hess describes is a vastly more protracted on than most Shakespeare scholars would admit to -- the absurd notion that the Bard would jot off the lines of a work in a few days or weeks and then immediately have it performed on the public stage or published shortly thereafter still dominates orthodox dating systems for the canon. Hess draws on the works of many other scholars for using "topical allusions" within each work in order to set practical limits for when the "origination" and subsequent "alterations" of each play occurred. In the trilogy's Volume III, Hess continues to amplify a heroic "knight-errant" personality type that Shakespeare's very "pen-name" may have been drawn from, a type which envied and transcended the brutal chivalry of Don Juan. This was channeled into a patriotic anti-Spanish and pro-British imperial spirit -- particularly with regard to reforming and improving the English language so that it could rival the Greco-Roman, Italian, and Frenchpoetic traditions -- one-upping the best that the greats of antiquity and the Renaissance had achieved in literature. In fact, as vast as the story is that Hess tells in his three volumes, there is a huge volume of material he is making available out of print (on his webpage at http://home.earthlink.net/~beornshall/index.html and via a "Volume IV" that he plans to offer on CD for a nominal cost via his e-mail BeornsHall@earthlink.net). Among this added material is a searchable 1,000-page Chronological listing of "Everything" that Hess deems relevant to Shakespeare and his age, or to the providing of the canon to modern times. Hess feels that discernable patterns can be detected through that chronology that help to illuminate the roles of others in the Bard's circle, such as Anthony Munday and Thomas Heywood. The network of 16th and 17th century "Stationers" (printers, publishers, and book sellers) and their often curious doings provide many of those patterns. Hess invites his readers to help to continuously update the Chronology and other materials, so that those can remain worthwhile research resources for all to use. For, the mysteries of Shakespeare and his age can only be unraveled through fully understanding the patterns within.

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149171753X

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Sports Great Bo Jackson

By: Ron Knapp

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Sports Great Bo Jackson

By: Ron Knapp

This book tells the story of how Bo Jackson, who grew up in a poor and tough neighborhood, managed to become the first athlete to play professional football and baseball on a superstar level.

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My Name Is Ron, and I'm a Recovering Legislator

Memoirs of a Louisiana State Representative

By: Ron Gomez

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My Name Is Ron, and I'm a Recovering Legislator

Memoirs of a Louisiana State Representative

By: Ron Gomez

Ron Gomez is a journalist as well as a veteran of three terms in the Louisiana House of Representative. Here he reports on the humor and theatrics, successes and failures of Louisiana's system of government.

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0595416535

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Property Testing

A Learning Theory Perspective

By: Dana Ron

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Property Testing

A Learning Theory Perspective

By: Dana Ron

This survey focuses on results for testing properties of functions that are of interest to the learning theory community.

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Now Publishers Inc

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1601981821

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9781601981820

Bebes and the Bear

Gene Stallings, Coach Bryant, and Their 1968 Cotton Bowl Showdown

By: Ron J. Jackson

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Bebes and the Bear

Gene Stallings, Coach Bryant, and Their 1968 Cotton Bowl Showdown

By: Ron J. Jackson

No one who has seen the iconic photograph can ever forget its emotional pull: a grinning Gene Stallings, hoisted into the air at midfield in the arms of his lifelong mentor, Paul “Bear” Bryant, moments after the final gun sounded for the 1968 Cotton Bowl. Stallings’s upstart Aggies delivered an unbelievable upset of Bryant’s Crimson Tide, a team that had dominated its SEC rivals under the leadership of a young quarterback who later achieved NFL fame, Kenny “Snake” Stabler. Yet the famous image captured on that memorable day is merely the culmination of a greater story. In Bebes and the Bear: Gene Stallings, Coach Bryant, and Their 1968 Cotton Bowl Showdown, Ron J. Jackson Jr. unpacks for readers the heartwarming journey of two coaches and their lifelong mutual respect and admiration. From the rocky, drought-plagued practice fields in Junction, Texas, in the summer of 1954, through the memorable 1967 autumn campaign that led both coaches to their highly publicized Cotton Bowl matchup, Jackson chronicles the story of Bryant, Stallings, and the two storied football traditions that bound them together. Based on hours of interviews with Stallings, his players, and other eyewitnesses and painstaking research in the archives at both Texas A&M University and the University of Alabama, Jackson has reconstructed the pivotal moments of play, the coaching decisions, and the athletic heroics that combined to create one of the most unforgettable moments in college football history.

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Texas A&M University Press

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1623498287

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9781623498283

Blood Prairie: Perilous Adventures On The Oklahoma Frontier

By: Ron J. Jackson Jr.

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Blood Prairie: Perilous Adventures On The Oklahoma Frontier

By: Ron J. Jackson Jr.

Oklahoma’s saga is collectively a triumphant one, but victories were often gained at the price of blood. Settlers fought to conquer the frontier. Indians refused to be conquered. Slaves died to be free. Blood Prairie pays tribute to the sacrifices of those who lived on Oklahoma’s enchanting, yet often violent, prairie. Within these pages, one will journey through a series of perilous adventures on the vast Oklahoma frontier when cultures clashed, and blood flowed freely. Among these gripping historical narratives are the raw, intimate stories of the Kiowa Tribe’s darkest hour, a female Cheyenne warrior’s struggle to defend her homeland, a Mexican captive’s bloody history, and a Civil War battle through the eyes of an Indian Territory slave. Blood Prairie also offers the most complete narrative to date on the Buffalo Wallow Fight — a last stand, Texas epic in which the heroic participants — red and white — hail from Oklahoma’s red soil.

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Eakin Press

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168179327X

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9781681793276

L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 24

The Best New Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year

By: L. Ron Hubbard

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L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 24

The Best New Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year

By: L. Ron Hubbard

Enter 13 spectacular new worlds of imagination and the fantastic. Discover the new visionaries of imagination in the Writers of the Future. Established in 1983 by L. Ron Hubbard expressly for the aspiring writer, Writers of the Future has become the most respected and significant forum for new talent in all aspects of speculative fiction. Never before published first-rate science fiction and fantasy stories selected by top names in the field. “Energetic, colorful, plot-filled and fun.” —Locus Magazine Includes essays written by professionals of the craft: L. Ron Hubbard, Rebecca Moesta and Cliff Neilsen

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Galaxy Press LLC

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1592122647

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9781592122646

Oklahoma Justice

The Oklahoma City Police, a Century of Gunfighters, Gangsters and Terrorists

By: Ron Owens

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Oklahoma Justice

The Oklahoma City Police, a Century of Gunfighters, Gangsters and Terrorists

By: Ron Owens

Reveals the inside story of the Oklahoma City Police from 1889-1995.

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Turner Publishing Company

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1563112809

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Michael Jordan

Star Guard

By: Ron Knapp

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Michael Jordan

Star Guard

By: Ron Knapp

Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls may rightly be called the greatest basketball player who ever lived. An NCAA title, Olympic gold medals, NBA championships, all these prove what an unbelievable athlete Michael Jordan truly was, and still is.

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0894904825

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American Civil War

Confederate Army

By: Ron Field,Richard Hook

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American Civil War

Confederate Army

By: Ron Field,Richard Hook

This is a state-by-state analysis of the uniforms issued to Confederate troops in the American Civil War, from manufacture to supply, for South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina, Missouri, Kentucky and Maryland.

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Potomac Books

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185753218X

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Service America!

Doing Business in the New Economy

By: Karl Albrecht,Ron Zemke

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Service America!

Doing Business in the New Economy

By: Karl Albrecht,Ron Zemke

This classic service primer shows how to make service quality an imperative in the organization and increase profits with customer loyalty.

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McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing

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0870946595

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9780870946592

Official NBA Register

By: Ron Smith,John Gardella,Sporting News,NBA

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Official NBA Register

By: Ron Smith,John Gardella,Sporting News,NBA

This comprehensive atlas of who's who in basketball today is the #1 source for information on every NBA player and head coach from the 2003-2004 season. Inside, fans will find every stat, including detailed and up-to-date year-by-year profiles; personal facts, including height, weight, and birthplace; biographical stats on high school, college, and draft position; and more.

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0892047194

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9780892047192

Trashing the Economy

How Runaway Environmentalism is Wrecking America

By: Ron Arnold,Alan M. Gottlieb

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Trashing the Economy

How Runaway Environmentalism is Wrecking America

By: Ron Arnold,Alan M. Gottlieb

They challenge environmentalism! Eco-group leaders polled by People magazine voted Ron and Alan the Number One Enemy of the Earth they'd like to see livivng next to a toxic waste dump. Everybody is talking about them. Time magazine said, .in the wise-use movement, its ideologues are Ron Arnold, a former Sierra Clubber who did a philosopical backflip, and Alan Gottlieb, a longtime fundraiser for conservative causes. The New York Times wrote, Mr. Gottlieb is the most successful fund-raiser working to tap a growing movement of loggers, ranchers, miners, oil drillers, dirt-bike riders and others who view big environmental groups as a threat to their livelihood and way of life. The Washington Post wrote, A former Sierra Club official... Arnold says he still considers himself a strong conservationist. But he accuses mainstream groups of exaggerating or even inventing environmental threats in order to advance narrow political goals that have little to do with safeguarding natural resources.

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Merril Press

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093957117X

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9780939571178

Edward J. Steptoe and the Indian Wars

Life on the Frontier, 1815-1865

By: Ron McFarland

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Edward J. Steptoe and the Indian Wars

Life on the Frontier, 1815-1865

By: Ron McFarland

Lieutenant Colonel Edward J. Steptoe's escape from encirclement by 1,000 Northern Plateau Indians in 1858 is a familiar story from the Indian Wars. Yet the details of the Battle of Pine Creek (or Tohotonimme) and its aftermath remain subjects of debate. Outnumbered six to one, Steptoe's 164 troops slipped away in the night. Newspapers called it a "disaster." A few weeks later, Colonel George Wright avenged the defeat and Steptoe, who had suffered a stroke months before the battle, lived his final years in relative obscurity in his native Virginia as the Civil War erupted. This definitive biography of Steptoe chronicles the career of a field officer who served nearly four years in the Second Seminole War, won commendation for gallantry during the Mexican War, performed admirably (though controversially) in the Utah Territory, undertook construction of forts at Walla Walla in the newly defined Washington Territory and engaged with various tribes throughout his deployments. His personal letters reveal a thoughtful, sensitive commander who came to question his choice of career even before his final battle.

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McFarland

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1476623880

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9781476623887

Manual of Emergency Airway Management

By: Ron Walls,Michael Murphy

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Manual of Emergency Airway Management

By: Ron Walls,Michael Murphy

Manual of Emergency Airway Management, now in its 4th edition, is a practical guide to emergency airway management in any adult or pediatric patient and offers step-by-step instructions on techniques, drug administration, and prevention and management of complications.The book may be used in conjunction with the Difficult Airway CourseTM, or on its own. The text has been reorganized to reflect the decision-making process of emergency care providers treating the patient in distress. Features include: Completely reorganized chapters into cohesive sections Expanded discussion of videolaryngoscopes, including newer, low-cost alternatives More illustrations, with expanded “how to” descriptions Revised and updated airway algorithms

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1451178492

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9781451178494

Intercultural Communication and Identity

By: Ron Darvin,Tongle Sun

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Intercultural Communication and Identity

By: Ron Darvin,Tongle Sun

This Element asserts how identity as a construct enables a critical awareness of how speakers position themselves and are positioned by others in intercultural encounters. It discusses how identity vis-à-vis culture has been theorized through social psychological, poststructuralist, and critical lenses, and how identity is discursively constructed and mediated. Rejecting essentialist notions of language and culture, this Element demonstrates how inscriptions of identity such as race, ethnicity, nationality, and class can be used to critically examine the dynamics of situated intercultural encounters and to understand how such interactions can index competing and colluding ideologies. By examining identity research from different parts of the world, it casts a light on how identities are performed in diverse intercultural contexts and discusses research methodologies that have been employed to examine identity in intercultural communication.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009206729

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Sixties Radicals, Then and Now

Candid Conversations with Those Who Shaped the Era

By: Ron Chepesiuk

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Sixties Radicals, Then and Now

Candid Conversations with Those Who Shaped the Era

By: Ron Chepesiuk

Aroused by gains in civil rights and galvanized by the antiwar movement, radical leaders of the 1960s sought to make revolutionary changes in American society. Partly through their leadership, a generation was awakened by the call for a counterculture. That generation is now responsible for the same social and political structures they so adamantly, and sometimes violently, opposed. How did the sixties affect the counterculture leaders? And what are they doing now? Paul Krassner, Cleveland Sellers, Jane Adams, Dave Dellinger, Bill Ayers, Warren Hinckle, Peter Berg, Noam Chomsky, Tim Leary, Philip Berrigan, Anita Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Erica Huggins, Jim Fouratt, Bernadine Dohrn, Barry Melton, Peter Coyote, and Abbie Hoffman reflect on the seminal events that dominated the sixties and discuss the major issues and problems facing America (and them!) today.

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McFarland

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0786437324

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9780786437320

Ron Schara's Minnesota Bound

By: Ron Schara

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Ron Schara's Minnesota Bound

By: Ron Schara

Ron Schara's Minnesota Bound is a book that features actual scripts and video grabs from the beloved show, MN Bound. Ron's award-winning show is in its 13th year and he is truly a celebrity in the Midwest and beyond. Ron brings the heart and spirit of the outdoors to your living room.

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Tristan Outdoors

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093167493X

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9780931674938

Steve Young

Star Quarterback

By: Ron Knapp

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Steve Young

Star Quarterback

By: Ron Knapp

An exciting and informative account of the life and career of Steve Young, the star quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers. An All-American athlete from Brigham Young University, he played for both the USFL and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers until he was traded to the 49ers. Taking over for the injured Joe Montana, he went on to be named the NFL's MVP and lead the 49ers to their fifth Super Bowl championship.

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Enslow Publishers

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0894906542

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9780894906541

American Legends of Rock

By: Ron Knapp

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American Legends of Rock

By: Ron Knapp

A collective biography that focuses on ten exceptional rock and roll artists whose music and influence live on and also inspire today's new and upcoming performers. Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, The Beach Boys, Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, and Bruce Springsteen are featured.

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0894907093

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9780894907098

Sports Great Will Clark

By: Ron Knapp

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Sports Great Will Clark

By: Ron Knapp

A biography of one of the best hitters in major league baseball who became the game's highest-paid player in 1989.

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Enslow Publishers

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089490390X

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9780894903908

The Wisconsin Supper Clubs Story

By: Ron Faiola

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The Wisconsin Supper Clubs Story

By: Ron Faiola

In The Wisconsin Supper Clubs Story: An Illustrated History, with Relish, the third in his popular series, Ron Faiola invites readers to pull up a chair as he regales us with more than a century of history behind this beloved dining tradition, guiding readers from London to Hollywood, to New York City, and finally, to his own home state. The journey begins with the world’s very first supper clubs, which emerged in London in the mid-1800s. The phenomenon was adopted by New York’s restaurant and saloon owners in the late 1800s, and soon spread to suburban and rural areas. Across the United States, supper clubs enhanced culinary and dining traditions, and greatly influenced the evolution of live entertainment such as cabaret, comedy, and jazz, and dance crazes such as “The Charleston,” “Turkey Trot,” and the eyebrow-raising “Wiggle Wiggle.” Faiola unfolds the history of Wisconsin’s supper clubs with stories of its most iconic establishments, such as Ray Radigan’s, Hoffman House, and Fazio’s on Fifth. He reveals the remarkable durability of the supper club tradition as it withstood WWI, the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, Prohibition, the Great Depression, WWII, as well as the mid-twentieth century advent of fast food franchises and casual dining chains. Through their innovation and determination, supper club owners and their staff have managed not only to survive, but to maintain generations-spanning restaurants that remain prominent features of their communities to this day. Bursting with full-color photographs, newspaper clippings, and first-hand interviews, The Wisconsin Supper Clubs Story: An Illustrated History, with Relish offers a hearty buffet of the history of Wisconsin’s most iconic supper clubs and the folks who keep the cocktails poured, the relish trays fresh, and ensure there’s always an open seat at the table.

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Agate Publishing

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1572848545

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Understanding and Interpreting Educational Research

By: Ronald C. Martella,J. Ron Nelson,Robert L. Morgan,Nancy E. Marchand-Martella

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Understanding and Interpreting Educational Research

By: Ronald C. Martella,J. Ron Nelson,Robert L. Morgan,Nancy E. Marchand-Martella

This user-friendly text takes a learn-by-doing approach to exploring research design issues in education and psychology, offering evenhanded coverage of quantitative, qualitative, mixed-methods, and single-case designs. Readers learn the basics of different methods and steps for critically examining any study's design, data, and conclusions, using sample peer-reviewed journal articles as practice opportunities. The text is unique in featuring full chapters on survey methods, evaluation, reliability and validity, action research, and research syntheses. Pedagogical Features Include: *An exemplar journal article at the end of each methods chapter, together with questions and activities for critiquing it (including, where applicable, checklist forms to identify threats to internal and external validity), plus lists of additional research examples. *Research example boxes showing how studies are designed to address particular research questions. *In every chapter: numbered chapter objectives, bulleted summaries, subheadings written as questions, a running glossary, and end-of-chapter discussion questions. * Electronic Instructor's Resource Manual with Test Bank, provided separately--includes chapter outlines; answers to exercises, discussion questions, and illustrative example questions; and PowerPoints.

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Guilford Press

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1462509622

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Robert E. Lee

By: Ron Field

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Robert E. Lee

By: Ron Field

Beloved by his soldiers and respected by his enemies, Robert E. Lee is undoubtedly the most popular general in American history to fight on the losing side. This book takes an in-depth look at this southern gentleman as a strategist and a tactician, covering all of his most important victories and defeats. Although courted by Lincoln, Robert E. Lee could not fight against his native Virginia and joined the Confederacy. After assuming command of the Army of Northern Virginia, Lee ran off a string of shocking victories that left the North reeling. However, on two separate occasions, Lee led invasions into the North and both ended in defeat, first at Antietam and then at Gettysburg. Encompassing the huge body of research surrounding General Lee and presenting it with numerous photographs and newly commissioned artwork, this book provides a complete understanding of Lee as a battlefield commander.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1782001344

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General Abner M. Perrin, C.S.A.

A Biography

By: Ron V. Killian

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General Abner M. Perrin, C.S.A.

A Biography

By: Ron V. Killian

More than 1,000 men held the rank of brigadier general during the Civil War, but a surprising number remain unknown to all but the most ardent scholar. These lesser-known brigadiers, like General Abner M. Perrin (1830–1864), played much more than a casual role in the momentous conflict. Perrin, of the South Carolina 14th Regiment, took part in all of the major battles of the Army of Northern Virginia. At Gettysburg, he assumed command of a brigade whose general was wounded and defeated all opponents to lead the first troops to enter the town. He received a promotion to brigadier general for his actions and commanded his own brigade at Mine Run, the Wilderness, and Spotsylvania, where he was mortally wounded. This welcome biography chronicles Perrin’s life and military career, removing this deserving Civil War personality from the shadows of history.

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McFarland

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0786490365

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9780786490363

Chris Webber

Star Forward

By: Ron Knapp

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Chris Webber

Star Forward

By: Ron Knapp

A number one draft pick from the University of Michigan, Chris Webber entered the NBA with dreams of superstardom. Despite many injuries, Webber has proved himself to be a top power forward and all-around team leader for the Washington Bullets.

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0894907999

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Sequence Learning

Paradigms, Algorithms, and Applications

By: Ron Sun

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Sequence Learning

Paradigms, Algorithms, and Applications

By: Ron Sun

Sequential behavior is essential to intelligence in general and a fundamental part of human activities, ranging from reasoning to language, and from everyday skills to complex problem solving. Sequence learning is an important component of learning in many tasks and application fields: planning, reasoning, robotics natural language processing, speech recognition, adaptive control, time series prediction, financial engineering, DNA sequencing, and so on. This book presents coherently integrated chapters by leading authorities and assesses the state of the art in sequence learning by introducing essential models and algorithms and by examining a variety of applications. The book offers topical sections on sequence clustering and learning with Markov models, sequence prediction and recognition with neural networks, sequence discovery with symbolic methods, sequential decision making, biologically inspired sequence learning models.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540415971

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Big Game Hunter's Guide to Wyoming

By: Ron Spomer,Ty Stockton

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Big Game Hunter's Guide to Wyoming

By: Ron Spomer,Ty Stockton

New in the Big Game Hunter's Guide series, this book covers all the big game species in Wyoming by region. It includes information on hunting each species as well as hub city information that includes, hotels, campgrounds, restaurants, sporting goods stores, medical facilities, car repair services, airports, and much more. Distribution maps by region for each species are included also.

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Wilderness Adventures Press

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1932098410

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