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A Historical Introduction to English Law

Genesis of the Common Law

By: Russell Sandberg

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A Historical Introduction to English Law

Genesis of the Common Law

By: Russell Sandberg

There are some stories that need to be told anew to every generation. This book tells one such story. It explores the historical origins of the common law and explains why that story needs to be understood by all who study or come into contact with English law. The book functions as the prequel to what students learn during their law degrees or for the SQE. It can be read in preparation for, or as part of, modules introducing the study of English law or as a starting point for specialist modules on legal history or aspects of legal history. This book will not only help students understand and contextualise their study of the current law but it will also show them that the options they have to change the law are greater than they might assume from just studying the current law.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009345311

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9781009345316

World Without Chance: Classic Pulp Science Fiction Stories in the Vein of Stanley G. Weinbaum

By: John Russell Fearn

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World Without Chance: Classic Pulp Science Fiction Stories in the Vein of Stanley G. Weinbaum

By: John Russell Fearn

SF Author Stanley G. Weinbaum died from cancer at 33, in December 1935. Short though his career was, his scientific imagination, smooth characterization, and humor completely revolutionized the field, and profoundly influenced his contemporaries. Among his many imitators was English writer John Russell Fearn. Although Fearn's own distinctive work was very popular, he wanted to increase his number of acceptances by writing under pseudonyms--Thornton Ayre and Polton Cross--with a change of style imitating Weinbaum! These exciting and highly entertaining pastiches, first published in such magazines as Astounding Stories and Thrilling Wonder Stories, are here collected for the very first time in book form, with fascinating historical background notes. The first of two must-have volumes for collectors, the second being VALLEY OF PRETENDERS. Great adventure reading from the classic period of the SF pulps!

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192

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Wildside Press LLC

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1479409685

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9781479409686

Cavendish

The Experimental Life

By: Christa Jungnickel,Russell McCormmach

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Cavendish

The Experimental Life

By: Christa Jungnickel,Russell McCormmach

The Cavendishes flourished during the high tide of British aristocracy following the revolution of 1688-89, and the case can be made that this aristocracy knew its finest hour when Henry Cavendish gently laid his delicate weights in the pan of his incomparable precision balance. For this it took two generations and two kinds of invention, one in social forms and the other in scientific technique. This biography tells how it came to pass."--BOOK JACKET.

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Bucknell University Press

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0838754457

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9780838754450

The Cleveland Indians Encyclopedia

By: Russell Schneider,Russell J. Schneider

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The Cleveland Indians Encyclopedia

By: Russell Schneider,Russell J. Schneider

Propelled into the World Series in 1995 for the first time since 1954, the Cleveland Indians proved to the world they are no run-of-the-mill team. This comprehensive volume covers all of the team lore and legend, the controversies, the triumphs, and the heartaches. It includes 200 player profiles, season-by-season descriptions of unforgettable moments and memories, 700+ illustrations, extensive statistics, the World Series championships, and an immense treasure of little-known facts. The second edition of The Cleveland Indians Encyclopedia has been completely updated from its original release in 1996.

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Sports Publishing LLC

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1582613761

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9781582613765

"Our Connection with Savannah"

History of the First Battalion Georgia Sharpshooters, 1862-1865

By: Russell K. Brown

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"Our Connection with Savannah"

History of the First Battalion Georgia Sharpshooters, 1862-1865

By: Russell K. Brown

From the outset, the 1st Battalion Georgia Sharpshooters had problems. Much of the trouble lay in the organization of Civil War regiments and companies. Most companies in the early years of the war were made up of men from the same town or county. The concept of the sharpshooters was alien to this home-town tradition. Men were asked to leave the comfortable companionship of their neighbors and friends and go into a unit with people they had never met before. Despite its uncertain beginning, the battalion was molded into a fine unit by the skill and energy of its officers and non-commissioned officers. The sharpshooters early won the praise of higher-level commanders and inspecting officers. However, as the war dragged on, the battalion was reduced in numbers, morale, and efficiency. Notwithstanding its poor performance in the last months of its life, the unit has a high reputation that was well deserved. A Civil War veteran and historian called the sharpshooters "one of the best-drilled and most-efficient battalions in the service." This book objectively examines the organization, leadership, and performance of the sharpshooters, follows their wartime experiences, and devotes considerable attention to the individual soldiers. If the story of the 1st Battalion Georgia Sharpshooters has not been a well known story, it is now.

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Mercer University Press

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0865549168

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9780865549166

Organizational Justice and Human Resource Management

By: Robert G. Folger,Robert Folger,Russell Cropanzano

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Organizational Justice and Human Resource Management

By: Robert G. Folger,Robert Folger,Russell Cropanzano

Researchers, scholars, and doctoral-level students in human resources, organizational behavior, and ethics will find this a timely, thought-provoking resource.

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SAGE

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0803956878

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9780803956872

Antique Trader Book Collector's Price Guide

By: Richard Russell

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Antique Trader Book Collector's Price Guide

By: Richard Russell

This new edition of Antique Trader Book Collector's Price Guide provides readers with the information and values to carve a niche for themselves in a market where rare first editions of Jane Austen's Emma and J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone recently sold at auction for 254,610 dollars and 40,355 dollars respectively. Organized in 13 categories, including Americana, banned, paranormal and mystery, this guide discusses identifying and grading books, and provides collectors with details for identifying and assessing books in 8,000 listings.

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Penguin

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1440225060

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9781440225062

Winston Churchill Soldier

The military life of a gentleman at war

By: Douglas S. Russell

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Winston Churchill Soldier

The military life of a gentleman at war

By: Douglas S. Russell

As a young man Winston Churchill set out to become a hero, to make a name for himself in the public eye as a soldier and so make possible a life of politics and statesmanship. There were many chances to fail and many close calls in the face of sword, spear and bullet along the way. Yet Churchill survived and succeeded – an early measure of his courage and stubborn will that the world would come to know so well in the Second World War. This is the first full-length, fully-researched biography of Churchill's colourful military career. Using an unrivalled range of sources, and with previously unpublished photographs, and detailed maps by Sir Martin Gilbert, it brings to life Churchill's motives, abilities, experiences, successes and failures, and his unswerving sense of destiny as an officer in the British Army. The result is a story to echo the man himself – rich in action, courage, charismatic self-belief, patriotism and humour. Making extensive use of the contemporary accounts of Churchill and his fellow soldiers and archival documents from three continents, illustrated with many maps and previously unpublished photographs, Douglas S. Russell vividly brings to life the military career of the vigorous young officer of hussars who later became the greatest Briton of the twentieth century. From Sandhurst to the mountainous North-West Frontier of India, to the charge of the 21st Lancers at Omdurman, from the South African veldt to the deadly trench warfare of the Great War, the author – whom Sir Martin Gilbert calls 'a keen portraitist' – tells the gripping story of Churchill's army life with careful attention to historical detail and all the drama that the real life adventures of his subject deserve.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1844862046

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9781844862047

Criminal Law

By: Claire de Than,Russell Heaton

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Criminal Law

By: Claire de Than,Russell Heaton

A comprehensible evaluation of the subject written in an engaging manner and illustrated with running examples showing how the law works in practice. Learning features throughout the chapters and additional materials on the Online Resource Centre, including the Hot 100 Cases database, help to structure study and revision.

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609

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Oxford University Press

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0199657203

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9780199657209

Your Storytelling Potential

The Underground Guide to Finally Writing a Great Screenplay or Novel

By: Mitchell German,Russell Phillips

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Your Storytelling Potential

The Underground Guide to Finally Writing a Great Screenplay or Novel

By: Mitchell German,Russell Phillips

Writers seeking to create novels and screenplays with genuine layers and depth will find essential insight in Mitchell German’s Your Storytelling Potential! After studying filmmaking and screenwriting at NYU—one of the premier film studies programs in the United States (if not the world)—Mitchell German graduated with a complete doctrine on storytelling theory in his arsenal; yet his screenplays still lacked the potency he desired. He spent ten years studying every available book and “expert” on storytelling, but it wasn’t until 2002, after endlessly studying the movie Liar Liar, that Mitchell found the key and developed the Your Storytelling Potential Method. The truth about great storytelling is hidden in plain view for anyone to see, but nearly every expert ignores the most basic story construct. In Your Storytelling Potential, writers who seek to tell great stories will find: A complete understanding of the Identifiable Traits great novels and screenplays (namely movies) have that distinguish them from the other 99.99% of books and screenplays written every year How to use Two Stories within a screenplay and novel, which exponentially increases the chances of those stories gaining buzz and attention A proper understanding of the critical and essential role of Subplots to create genuine character depth and relationships How to properly integrate a Theme for stories to convey deep, relevant, and amazing ideas An outline for utilizing A/B Parallel Story Structure and the Simple Story Timeline to build multi-dimensional stories with the required converging events of the A-Story/B-Story relationship How the premise of every great story is created by the convergence of the A & B Storylines, and how this Key Information can unlock Your Storytelling Potential

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240

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Morgan James Publishing

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163698035X

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9781636980355

Valley of Pretenders

Classic Pulp Science Fiction Stories in the Vein of Stanley G. Weinbaum

By: John Russell Fearn

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Valley of Pretenders

Classic Pulp Science Fiction Stories in the Vein of Stanley G. Weinbaum

By: John Russell Fearn

Science fiction author Stanley G. Weinbaum died from cancer at 33 in December 1935. Short though his career was, his scientific imagination, smooth characterizations, and pervasive humor completely revolutionized the field, and profoundly influenced his contemporaries. Among his many imitators was English writer John Russell Fearn. Although his own distinctive work was very popular in the SF magazines of the time, the ambitious Fearn wanted to increase his number of acceptances by writing under pseudonyms in the style of Weinbaum! In the late 1930s, the American SF magazine market boomed, and all of Fearn's Weinbaum pastiches found billets. These intriguing stories are here identified and collected for the first time, with fascinating background notes. This is the second volume of two must-have collections, the first of which was published as World Without Chance. Great science fiction adventure reading from the golden era of the pulps!

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Wildside Press LLC

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1479409529

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9781479409525

Carboranes

By: Russell N. Grimes

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Carboranes

By: Russell N. Grimes

Carboranes, Second Edition is designed as a comprehensive source of information in a field that has experienced enormous growth in both its fundamental and applied aspects in the four decades since the publication of Carboranes (1970). During this long period thousands of original research papers have appeared, along with many review articles and book chapters dealing with aspects of carborane chemistry. As carborane science has grown in complexity, and applications have advanced steadily in areas such as medicine, nanostructured and electroactive materials, catalysis, polymers, and others, the need for a monograph covering the entire area in a unified treatment has become increasingly apparent. This volume has two principal objectives, the first of which is to provide a readable and concise introduction to the basic principles underlying the synthesis, structures, reactivity, and applications of carboranes and metallacarboranes at a level suitable for readers in industry and academe who are not trained in boron chemistry but find themselves working with, or lecturing about carboranes. Secondly, the book furnishes a trove of detailed information for workers active in carborane science and associated technologies. To that end, it incorporates tables listing thousands of specific compounds keyed to literature references, together with more than 2,000 molecular structure drawings that illuminate the accompanying discussion. Thorough treatment of the synthesis, structures, and reactions of carboranes, heterocarboranes, and metallacarboranes in the first 13 chapters is followed by four chapters detailing advances in practical applications in polymer science, catalysis, medicine, and other areas. Includes over 2,000 molecular structure drawings throughout the text Features tables listing thousands of compounds with key literature references

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Academic Press

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0080921043

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9780080921044

The Perfect Season

A Memoir of the 1964–1965 Evansville College Purple Aces

By: Russell Grieger

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The Perfect Season

A Memoir of the 1964–1965 Evansville College Purple Aces

By: Russell Grieger

In 1964, the Evansville College Purple Aces raced undefeated through the Indiana Collegiate Conference, posting a perfect 24–0 regular-season record and winning the College Division NCAA championship. The skeleton of this season exists in newspaper archives and in books that capture the on-court action, but the flesh and blood has never been written—until now. This is the story of Russell Grieger, a starting guard, and his observations, feelings, reactions, and struggles of that season. It provides a game-by-game look into the team, showcasing Grieger's teammates, Coach Arad McCutchan, and Evansville's love for the Aces. The Perfect Season is an insider's inspiring story of a team whose motto—"If you're going to go, go big time or don't go at all"—inspired them to achieve their dream.

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Indiana University Press

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0253023246

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9780253023247

Mason County, West Virginia Marriages, 1806-1915

By: Julie Chapin Hesson,Sherman Gene Hesson,Jane J. Russell

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Mason County, West Virginia Marriages, 1806-1915

By: Julie Chapin Hesson,Sherman Gene Hesson,Jane J. Russell

This remarkable book is an alphabetical listing of nearly the entire adult male (and some of the female) population of Monmouth County during the American Revolution--some 6,000 Monmouth Countians between 1776 and 1783. For roughly half of the persons listed, we find one or two identifying pieces of information, and in an equal number of cases we are presented with enough information to trace the allegiance or comings and goings of a Monmouth County resident over a number of years.

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806346736

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9780806346731

Popular Music in England 1840-1914

A Social History

By: Dave Russell

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Popular Music in England 1840-1914

A Social History

By: Dave Russell

In this important study, Dave Russell explores a wide range of Victorian and Edwardian musical life including brass bands, choral societies, music hall and popular concerts. He analyzes the way in which popular cultural practice was shaped by and, in turn, helped shape social and economic structures. Critically acclaimed on publication in 1987, the book has been fully revised in order to consider recent work in the field.

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Manchester University Press

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0719052610

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9780719052613

Dillinger

The Untold Story

By: George Russell Girardin,William J. Helmer

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Dillinger

The Untold Story

By: George Russell Girardin,William J. Helmer

The inside story of one of America's most notorious criminals

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Indiana University Press

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0253216338

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9780253216335

Lou Boudreau

Covering All the Bases

By: Lou Boudreau,Russell Schneider,Rich Schneider

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Lou Boudreau

Covering All the Bases

By: Lou Boudreau,Russell Schneider,Rich Schneider

Lou Boudreau: Covering All the Bases" is the personal history of one of the

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Sports Publishing LLC

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0915611724

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9780915611720

Self-taught Art

The Culture and Aesthetics of American Vernacular Art

By: Charles Russell

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Self-taught Art

The Culture and Aesthetics of American Vernacular Art

By: Charles Russell

The first book to give self-taught art the same degree of scholarly attention and critical thinking that mainstream art traditionally receives

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1578063809

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9781578063802

American Indian Holocaust and Survival

A Population History Since 1492

By: Russell Thornton

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American Indian Holocaust and Survival

A Population History Since 1492

By: Russell Thornton

Demographic overview of North American history describing in detail the holocaust that occurred to the Indians.

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312

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University of Oklahoma Press

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080612220X

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9780806122205

Root and Branch

African Americans in New York and East Jersey, 1613-1863

By: Graham Russell Gao Hodges

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Root and Branch

African Americans in New York and East Jersey, 1613-1863

By: Graham Russell Gao Hodges

In this remarkable book, Graham Hodges presents a comprehensive history of African Americans in New York City and its rural environs from the arrival of the first African--a sailor marooned on Manhattan Island in 1613--to the bloody Draft Riots of 1863. Throughout, he explores the intertwined themes of freedom and servitude, city and countryside, and work, religion, and resistance that shaped black life in the region through two and a half centuries. Hodges chronicles the lives of the first free black settlers in the Dutch-ruled city, the gradual slide into enslavement after the British takeover, the fierce era of slavery, and the painfully slow process of emancipation. He pays particular attention to the black religious experience in all its complexity and to the vibrant slave culture that was shaped on the streets and in the taverns. Together, Hodges shows, these two potent forces helped fuel the long and arduous pilgrimage to liberty.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807876011

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9780807876015

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