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The Great Chicago Fire

By: Ross Miller

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The Great Chicago Fire

By: Ross Miller

A study of the great Chicago fire of 1871 and the rebuilding that followed, focusing on how the city manipulated the tragedy into a lasting myth about the modern struggle against adversity.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252069145

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Evolutionary Dynamics and Extensive Form Games

By: Ross Cressman

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Evolutionary Dynamics and Extensive Form Games

By: Ross Cressman

Evolutionary game theory attempts to predict individual behavior (whether of humans or other species) when interactions between individuals are modeled as a noncooperative game. Most dynamic analyses of evolutionary games are based on their normal forms, despite the fact that many interesting games are specified more naturally through their extensive forms. Because every extensive form game has a normal form representation, some theorists hold that the best way to analyze an extensive form game is simply to ignore the extensive form structure and study the game in its normal form representation. This book rejects that suggestion, arguing that a game's normal form representation often omits essential information from the perspective of dynamic evolutionary game theory.

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MIT Press

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0262033054

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Heralds of the Good News

Isaiah and Paul "In Concert" in the Letter to the Romans

By: J. Ross Wagner

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Heralds of the Good News

Isaiah and Paul "In Concert" in the Letter to the Romans

By: J. Ross Wagner

In this text-critical, literary, and theological investigation of Paul's interpretation of Isaiah in Romans, it is argued that Paul's citations and allusions evince sustained and careful attention to significant portions of Isaiah, in concert with other scriptural voices. Through a radical rereading of Isaiah, Paul appropriates these prophetic oracles as prefigurations of his own mission to Gentiles while simultaneously appealing to Isaiah as a witness to God's continuing fidelity to Israel. The book examines each of Paul's citations and allusions to Isaiah, situating them both within the milieu of early Jewish interpretive practices and within the context of Paul's unfolding argument in Romans. This volume contributes to the current debate about early Christian interpretation of scripture by tracing the complex and dynamic interrelationship in Paul's letter of Scripture, theology, and mission. This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here for details.

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BRILL

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9004268197

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9789004268197

Chief Joseph, Yellow Wolf and the Creation of Nez Perce History in the Pacific Northwest

By: Robert Ross McCoy

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Chief Joseph, Yellow Wolf and the Creation of Nez Perce History in the Pacific Northwest

By: Robert Ross McCoy

This work focuses on how whites used Nez Perce history, images, activities and personalities in the production of history, developing a regional identity into a national framework.

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Routledge

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1135933405

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Kenning Magic

By: Lizzie Ross

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Kenning Magic

By: Lizzie Ross

Noni yearns to do magic and finds little consolation in the book of stories her mother left her. She envies her friend Twig’s magical skills. When Saronians steal everyone’s magic, Noni’s reading skill becomes important. She and Twig set off to find the Book of Spells. Eventually they arrive at the castle where the Book is hidden. With the loss of magic, the ‘Dragon Hold’ weakens. One dragon escapes, wreaks havoc, and ends up at the castle. Pintz, Wanda and deBoyas, the Saronian Mages who take everyone’s magic, quarrel after finding some dragon scales. After a dragon attack, deBoyas abandons the other two. He tries to return to Sarony, but is ‘bound’ to Mitlery. When he learns this, he swears to kill Pintz to free himself. His search eventually takes him to the castle. Pintz and Wanda learn about the Book of Spells and decide to destroy it. They are at the castle when Noni and Twig arrive. Will Noni locate the Book of Spells in time?

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Saguaro Books, LLC

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1545722668

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Pilgrimage to the National Parks

Religion and Nature in the United States

By: Lynn Ross-Bryant

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Pilgrimage to the National Parks

Religion and Nature in the United States

By: Lynn Ross-Bryant

National Parks – ‘America’s Best Idea’ – were from the first seen as sacred sites embodying the God-given specialness of American people and American land, and from the first they were also marked as tourist attractions. The inherent tensions between these two realities ensured the parks would be stages where the country’s conflicting values would be performed and contested. As pilgrimage sites embody the values and beliefs of those who are drawn to them, so Americans could travel to these sacred places to honor, experience, and be restored by the powers that had created the American land and the American enterprise. This book explores the importance of the discourse of nature in American culture, arguing that the attributes and symbolic power that had first been associated with the ‘new world’ and then the ‘frontier’ were embodied in the National Parks. Author Ross-Bryant focuses on National Parks as pilgrimage sites around which a discourse of nature developed and argues the centrality of religion in understanding the dynamics of both the language and the ritual manifestations related to National Parks. Beyond the specific contribution to a richer analysis of the National Parks and their role in understanding nature and religion in the U.S., this volume contributes to the emerging field of ‘religion and the environment,’ larger issues in the study of religion (e.g. cultural events and the spatial element in meaning-making), and the study of non-institutional religion.

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Routledge

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1136207252

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Spacewalker

My Journey in Space and Faith as NASA's Record-setting Frequent Flyer

By: Jerry Lynn Ross,John Norberg

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Spacewalker

My Journey in Space and Faith as NASA's Record-setting Frequent Flyer

By: Jerry Lynn Ross,John Norberg

The majority of this book is an insider's account of the US Space Shuttle program, including the unforgettable experience of launch, the delights of weightless living, and the challenges of constructing the International Space Station. Ross is a uniquely qualified narrator. During seven spaceflights, he spent 1,393 hours in space, including 58 hours and 18 minutes on nine space walks. Life on the ground is also described, including the devastating experiences of the Challenger and Columbia disasters. --

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Purdue University Press

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1557536317

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Evangelical Worship

An American Mosaic

By: Melanie C. Ross

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Evangelical Worship

An American Mosaic

By: Melanie C. Ross

Say the words "evangelical worship" to anyone in the United States -- even if they are not particularly religious -- and a picture will likely spring to mind unbidden: a mass of white, middle-class worshippers with eyes closed, faces tilted upward, and hands raised to the sky. Yet despite the centrality of this image, many scholars have underestimated evangelical worship as little more than a manipulative effort to arouse devotional exhilaration. It is frequently dismissed as a reiteration of nineteenth-century revivalism or a derivative imitation of secular entertainment -- three Christian rock songs and a spiritual TED talk. But by failing to engage this worship seriously, we miss vital insights into a form of Protestantism that exerts widespread influence in the United States and around the world. Evangelical Worship offers a new way forward in the study of American evangelical Christianity. Weaving together insights from American religious history and liturgical studies, and drawing on extensive fieldwork in seven congregations, Melanie C. Ross brings contemporary evangelical worship to life. She argues that corporate worship is not a peripheral "extra" tacked on to a fully-formed spiritual, political, and cultural movement, but rather the crucible through which congregations forge, argue over, and enact their unique contributions to the American mosaic known as evangelicalism.

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Oxford University Press

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019753077X

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9780197530771

Cold War America, 1946 To 1990

By: Facts on File Inc,Ross Gregory

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Cold War America, 1946 To 1990

By: Facts on File Inc,Ross Gregory

Uses statistical tables, charts, photographs, maps, and illustrations to explore everyday life in the United States during the Cold War period.

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Infobase Publishing

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1438107986

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Security Engineering

A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems

By: Ross Anderson

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Security Engineering

A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems

By: Ross Anderson

Now that there's software in everything, how can you make anything secure? Understand how to engineer dependable systems with this newly updated classic In Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems, Third Edition Cambridge University professor Ross Anderson updates his classic textbook and teaches readers how to design, implement, and test systems to withstand both error and attack. This book became a best-seller in 2001 and helped establish the discipline of security engineering. By the second edition in 2008, underground dark markets had let the bad guys specialize and scale up; attacks were increasingly on users rather than on technology. The book repeated its success by showing how security engineers can focus on usability. Now the third edition brings it up to date for 2020. As people now go online from phones more than laptops, most servers are in the cloud, online advertising drives the Internet and social networks have taken over much human interaction, many patterns of crime and abuse are the same, but the methods have evolved. Ross Anderson explores what security engineering means in 2020, including: How the basic elements of cryptography, protocols, and access control translate to the new world of phones, cloud services, social media and the Internet of Things Who the attackers are – from nation states and business competitors through criminal gangs to stalkers and playground bullies What they do – from phishing and carding through SIM swapping and software exploits to DDoS and fake news Security psychology, from privacy through ease-of-use to deception The economics of security and dependability – why companies build vulnerable systems and governments look the other way How dozens of industries went online – well or badly How to manage security and safety engineering in a world of agile development – from reliability engineering to DevSecOps The third edition of Security Engineering ends with a grand challenge: sustainable security. As we build ever more software and connectivity into safety-critical durable goods like cars and medical devices, how do we design systems we can maintain and defend for decades? Or will everything in the world need monthly software upgrades, and become unsafe once they stop?

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1119642817

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Tales from Missouri and the Heartland

By: Ross Malone

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Tales from Missouri and the Heartland

By: Ross Malone

These one hundred short stories are inspirational, humorous, and interesting for students or anyone interested in the people and events that figured in the life of Missouri, the Mother of the West. Learn things you didn't know about Jesse James, Walt Disney, Kit Carson, Bald Knobers, Ozarkers and prairie folks who gave us what we enjoy today. American Exceptionalism is proudly and laughingly on display in the pages of Tales From Missouri and the Heartland. This is a great gift for students, teachers, former Midwesterners, people in the military or travelers who enjoy light reading in the airport or on the plane. Every story is bound to make them think of another story just as good.

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1449097162

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Benny Hill - Merry Master of Mirth

By: Robert Ross

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Benny Hill - Merry Master of Mirth

By: Robert Ross

Benny Hill is the best known and best loved British comedian on world television - from the USA to the Pacific Rim. Feted for his unique brand of coy awareness, innuendo and saucy songs - but seemingly out of favour in his homeland before his death - Benny Hill can now be rated as having had one of the foremost careers in comedy. Robert Ross tracks Hill's career through the landmark Independent Television specials, early parody sketches for the BBC, film appearances, radio shows and recordings - including the No. 1 hit 'Ernie, the Fastest Milkman in the West'. Ross examines Hill's skillful use of the fledgling TV medium, and celebrates the support of his regular back-up team (Bob Todd, Henry McGee and Nicholas Parsons). The truth is revealed about Hill's Angels and the alternative comedy backlash that saw Hill pushed off the small screen in the UK. Benny Hill is the ultimate guide to the most widely recognised funny man since Charlie Chaplin.

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Batsford Books

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1849942587

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Social Causes of Psychological Distress

By: Catherine E. Ross

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Social Causes of Psychological Distress

By: Catherine E. Ross

A core interest of social science is the study of stratification--inequalities in income, power, and prestige. Few persons would care about such inequalities if the poor, powerless, and despised were as happy and fulfilled as the wealthy, powerful, and admired. Social research often springs from humanistic empathy and concern as much as from scholarly and scientific curiosity. An economist might observe that black Americans are disproportionately poor, and investigate racial differences in education, employment, and occupation that account for disproportionate poverty. A table comparing additional income blacks and whites can expect for each additional year of education is thus as interesting in its own right as any dinosaur bone or photo of Saturn. However, something more than curiosity underscores our interest in the table. Racial differences in status and income are a problem in the human sense. Inequality in misery makes social and economic inequality personally meaningful. There are two ways social scientists avoid advocacy in addressing issues of social stratification. The first way is to resist projecting personal beliefs, values, and responses as much as possible, while recognizing that the attempt is never fully successful. The second way is by giving the values of the subjects an expression in the research design. Typically, this takes the form of opinion or attitude surveys. Researchers ask respondents to rate the seriousness of crimes, the appropriateness of a punishment for a crime, the prestige of occupations, the fair pay for a job, or the largest amount of money a family can earn and not be poor, and so on. The aggregate judgments, and variations in judgments, represent the values of the subjects and not those of the researcher. They are objective facts with causes and consequences of interest in their own right. This work is an effort to move methodology closer to human concerns without sacrificing the scientific grounds of research as such. The

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1351490508

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An Evidentiary Analysis of Doctor Richard Carrier's Objections to the Resurrection of Jesus Christ

By: S. Ross Hickling

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An Evidentiary Analysis of Doctor Richard Carrier's Objections to the Resurrection of Jesus Christ

By: S. Ross Hickling

Resurrection -- Jesus Christ -- Richard Carrier -- Evidence -- Analysis -- Contradiction -- Comparison -- Dying and rising gods -- Hallucination.

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1532663137

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Christian Living Imperatives

By: Ross Thompson

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Christian Living Imperatives

By: Ross Thompson

The book has forty eight two page discussions on essentials for a life based on the Word of God, in the power of the Holy Spirit. Holiness, Faith, Relationship with God, Jesus and His atonement, How to have joy, Christians and debt, Loving impossible people, Death the last enemy, It is no longer I but Christ, Suffering, Parts of the Word we prefer to ignore, No more consciousness of sin, are just some of the topics discussed. Expect to find discussion you may not have thought about previously. Expect to find new revelation concerning all Jesus accomplished for us in His death, burial, and resurrection. If you are open to change this will be a life changing book. Nineteen further discussions of interest to Christians, make up the last part of the book. God will give you debt cancellation, unusual spiritual events among Christians, are the four horseman of the apocalypse here today, the Bible codes in Genesis, miracles in the African Churches, miracle money, are some of the topics covered. A diverse assortment of topics you are sure to find absorbing.

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Ross Thompson

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Security Engineering

A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems

By: Ross J. Anderson

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Security Engineering

A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems

By: Ross J. Anderson

The world has changed radically since the first edition of this book was published in 2001. Spammers, virus writers, phishermen, money launderers, and spies now trade busily with each other in a lively online criminal economy and as they specialize, they get better. In this indispensable, fully updated guide, Ross Anderson reveals how to build systems that stay dependable whether faced with error or malice. Here's straight talk on critical topics such as technical engineering basics, types of attack, specialized protection mechanisms, security psychology, policy, and more.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118008367

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Joseph Wharton

Quaker Industrial Pioneer

By: Willard Ross Yates

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Joseph Wharton

Quaker Industrial Pioneer

By: Willard Ross Yates

This first book-length biography of Joseph Wharton traces his family background, his business enterprises, and his contribution to the nineteenth-century age of industrial enterprise.

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Lehigh University Press

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0934223009

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Forsaken

By: Ross Howell

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Forsaken

By: Ross Howell

In April 1912 in Hampton, Virginia, white eighteen-year-old reporter Charles Mears covers his first murder case, a trial that roiled racial tensions. An uneducated African American girl, Virginia Christian, was tried for killing her white employer. "Virgie" died in the electric chair one day after her seventeenth birthday, the only female juvenile executed in Virginia history. Charlie tells the story of the trial and its aftermath. Woven into his narrative are actual court records, letters, newspaper stories, and personal accounts, reflecting the arc of history in characters large and small, in events local and global. Charlie falls in love with Harriet, a girl orphaned by the murder; meets Virgie's blind attorney George Fields, a former slave; and encounters physician Walter Plecker, a state official who pursues racial purity laws later emulated in Nazi Germany. There is much to admire in the pages of Forsaken, especially the vivid sense of time and place, Hampton Roads after the Civil War and Reconstruction. The novel's premise is ambitious, its events striking and tragic, and fiction and nonfiction are deftly blended in this powerful read on the themes of injustice, corruption, and racial conflict set in the poisonous epoch known as Jim Crow.

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NewSouth Books

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160306396X

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Memories of J. Ross Tennant and a Genealogy of the Family Originated by Richard Tennant of Glasgow, Scotland

By: J. Ross Tennant

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Memories of J. Ross Tennant and a Genealogy of the Family Originated by Richard Tennant of Glasgow, Scotland

By: J. Ross Tennant

Memories of J. Ross Tennant and a Genealogy of the Family Originated by Richard Tennant of Glasgow, Scotland (Vol. 4) This is Volume 4 of a lengthy family genealogical study, tracing the Tennant family back to Richard Tennant of Glasgow, Scotland.

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Wildside Press LLC

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1434405745

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Critical Forms

Forms of Literary Criticism, 1750-2020

By: Ross Wilson

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Critical Forms

Forms of Literary Criticism, 1750-2020

By: Ross Wilson

Critical Forms is an account of the generic forms in which literary criticism has been undertaken. It examines chiefly Anglophone literary criticism, with comparative discussion of French and German material, from around 1750 to the present and examines prefaces, selections and anthologies, reviews, lectures, dialogues, letters, and life-writing. Though not intended to be an exhaustive history of the period, Critical Forms begins in the mid-eighteenth century with the emergence of something like the forms (chiefly, the essay and the treatise) in which criticism is still predominantly practised. In order at least to complicate this predominance, the book documents an abiding plurality in the forms of literary critical writing in the subsequent period, leading up to the present. Ross Wilson both questions the status of the essay and treatise as the 'natural' forms of literary criticism and shows that the history of literary criticism is much more formally various and innovative than the usual ways of recounting that history as a succession of schools and movements would allow. Critical Forms harbours the hope that it will make available a wider array of forms for the practice of literary criticism today; it is this hope that licenses its own experiments in critical form.

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Oxford University Press

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0198881134

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9780198881131

The Fifth Script

By: Ross H. Spencer

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The Fifth Script

By: Ross H. Spencer

Lacy Lockington is “one thoroughly bewildered six-foot-one, 205-pound, 48-year-old ex-police detective with the damnedest case of snakebite he’d ever heard of.” He cruises the lower depths of Chicago in his weathered Pontiac, seeking some comfort from healthy dollops of Martell’s and from Edna Garson, the part-time cashier at Easheski’s Liquor Emporium. Lockington is entitled to a mild case of paranoia: he’s still trying to make sense of the knifing-murder of his true girlfriend, Julie Masters, when in the space of about a week, he tangles with four viscious miscreants and shoots them dead_pretty much in self defense. Stella Starbright, hard-hitting columnist for the Morning Sentinel, takes vigorous exception to Lockington’s action_in bold print. Then she walks into his life in person. “She was five-six or so, dark-haired, dark-eyed, and cuter than a termite’s night shirt...” Like that. Erika Elwood, nom de plume, Stella Starbright. Despite taking him to task, she presents the possibility of pleasant distraction for Lockington_until some of the other ladies who have written the column start turning up dead, and Lockington is quickly considered numero uno suspect... “Spencer’s Chicago crime novels [are] rather like Chandler filtered through Perelman.” —Booklist “Spencer delivers an earthy, hard-to-put-down yarn... combines humor and suspense until the last page.” —Sacramento Union Ross H. Spencer was born in Hughart, West Virginia and raised in Youngstown, Ohio. During World War II, he served with the 37th Infantry Division on New Georgia, on Bougainville, and in the Philippines. Following the war, he moved to Chicago to be near the Chicago Cubs, the ball club of his choice since 1932. He served again, this time with the Air Force during the Korean Emergency or “whatever it was.” Ross H. Spencer was the father of three wonderful daughters and the proud husband of Shirley, “the most beautiful lady on earth.” In 1987, he returned to Youngstown, Ohio, where he spent the remaining 11 years of his life.

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iUniverse

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0595006566

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9780595006564

Global Capitalism

The New Leviathan

By: Robert J. S. Ross,Kent C. Trachte

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Global Capitalism

The New Leviathan

By: Robert J. S. Ross,Kent C. Trachte

How have global markets and global manufacturing changed the balance of social, economic and political power? With this volume Ross and Trachte challenge existing political-economic theory. In concise terms they show how traditional theories of monopoly capitalism and world systems are not well-suited to analyze the emergence of global capitalism. This book, in a series of case studies of U.S. metropolitan areas, examines the dramatic transformation of the world economy in the last two decades. The book's last section examines political strategy and the political theory implied by the heightened power of capital.

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State University of New York Press

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1438418051

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The Language of the Past

By: Ross Wilson

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The Language of the Past

By: Ross Wilson

The Language of the Past analyzes the use of history in discourses within the political, media and the public sphere. It examines how particular terms, phrases and allusions first came into usage, developed and how they are employed today. To speak of something or someone as representing the 'stone age', or characterize an institution as 'byzantine', to describe a business relationship as 'feudal' or to disparage ideals or morality as 'Victorian', refers to both a perception of the past and its relationship to the present. Whilst dictionaries and etymologies define meanings and origin points of words or phrases, this study examines how history is maintained and used within society through language. Detailing the specific words and phrases associated with particular periods used to describe contemporary society, this thorough examination of language and history will be of great interest to those studying historiography, social history and linguistics.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1474246788

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Cougar's Crossing

Revised: Historical Novel from Real Life Adventure

By: Lillian Ross

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Cougar's Crossing

Revised: Historical Novel from Real Life Adventure

By: Lillian Ross

Cougar’s Crossing “To read a book by Lillian Ross is to travel to another time and place with characters who quickly become family. Read this true-to-life novel to feel the essence of the rugged era on the Canadian prairies… raw, messy, inspired by hope and motivated by grit. Ross weaves a poignant drama of wounded love, jealousy and human emotion.” Corrine McConchie, Librarian Vancouver Excerpt from Iris Tuftin’s Editor’s Comment …Could this be ‘his’ remains, we wondered? The hated man who killed our Aunt Florence in 1921? …The facts were overwhelming – more fascinating than we ever imagined. Now the story of Cougar’s Crossing would have to be changed. We knew the truth – or most of it. A Historical Novel with a Mysterious Twist The loud, brash, irreverent Cougar Wright swore like a trooper and didn’t believe in a higher power than his own strength, but he loved his family and wanted them to join him in his struggle to tame the wilderness. His family’s dance with destiny in Alberta’s Northwest would shake his world and theirs.

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1946540595

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The Untouchables

The people who helped wreck Ireland - and are still running the show

By: Nick Webb,Shane Ross

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The Untouchables

The people who helped wreck Ireland - and are still running the show

By: Nick Webb,Shane Ross

A devastating new exposé from the bestselling authors of The Bankers and Wasters. In March 2011, the Irish people elected a new government. But how much had really changed? In The Untouchables, Shane Ross and Nick Webb shine a light into dark corners of official Ireland to show that the blame for running the country into the ground goes well beyond Fianna Fáil, and that a dismaying number of the people who should share the blame are still in situ: in the civil service, on the boards of the leading companies, and in the banks, law firms, and consultancies that carry so much influence in deciding who wins and who loses. They name names, trace connections, and show how the untouchables managed to do so much damage, how they got away with it, and how so many of them are still in positions of power and influence in Ireland. 'Fascinating ... required reading for anyone interested in how crony capitalism and power work in practice in Ireland' Irish Times 'The Untouchables is hard to put down. Read it and seethe.' Irish Independent Shane Ross is an independent TD for Dublin South, and columnist in the Sunday Independent. Nick Webb is business editor of the Sunday Independent. They are the authors of Wasters, 2010's top-selling Irish current affairs title.

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014197186X

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