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No Turning Back

The new thriller from the #1 bestselling author

By: Sam Blake

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No Turning Back

The new thriller from the #1 bestselling author

By: Sam Blake

FOR FANS OF PERSONS UNKNOWN AND ANGELA MARSONS, NO TURNING BACK IS A GRIPPING READ THAT HAS ENOUGH TWISTS AND TURNS TO KEEP READERS GUESSING UNTIL THE VERY END. Even perfect families have secrets . . . Orla and Conor Quinn are the perfect power couple: smart, successful and glamorous. But then the unthinkable happens. Their only son, Tom, is the victim of a deliberate hit-and-run. Detective Garda Cathy Connolly has just left Tom's parents when she is called to the discovery of another body, this time in Dillon's Park, not far from where Tom Quinn was found. What led shy student Lauren O'Reilly to apparently take her own life? She was a friend of Tom's and they both died on the same night - are their deaths connected and if so, how? As Cathy delves deeper, she uncovers links to the Dark Web and a catalogue of cold cases, realising that those involved each have their own reasons for hiding things from the police. But events are about to get a lot more frightening . . .

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Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

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1785760572

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Sort Your Head Out

Mental health without all the bollocks

By: Sam Delaney

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Sort Your Head Out

Mental health without all the bollocks

By: Sam Delaney

An honest, funny account of how we're all capable of changing for the better' SETH MEYERS 'A great, motivating book that can really help - every bloke should read it' SHAUN RYDER Sam Delaney was Jack the Lad. He was confident, loud and funny; an absolute legend, to be honest. Or at least that was what he pretended to be. But when he reached his thirties, work, relationships and fatherhood started to take their toll. Like so many blokes who seemed to be totally fine, he often felt like a complete failure whose life was out of control; anxiety and depression had secretly plagued him for years. Turning to drink and drugs only made things worse. Sam knew he needed help - the problem was that he thought self-help was for hippies, sobriety was for weirdos and therapy was for neurotics. Keeping it all inside was what nearly dragged Sam under. Then he began to open up and share his story with others. Soon his life started to get better and better. Now, he's written this book to help you do the same. Covering his complex upbringing, fast paced career, struggles with addiction and recovery, and detailing lessons he's learnt along the way, Sort Your Head Out is Sam's startlingly raw, compassionate and hilarious account of why opening up is the first step to sorting your head out.

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1408717077

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Sort Your Head Out

Mental health without all the bollocks

By: Sam Delaney

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Mental health without all the bollocks

By: Sam Delaney

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Educational and Ethical Leadership - Best Practice

By: SAM ELDAKAK

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Educational and Ethical Leadership - Best Practice

By: SAM ELDAKAK

The foundational aspects of business ethics are predicated on how effectively a leader can enable significant change in their organizations while still retaining the most valuable aspects of its culture, people, processes and systems. The intent of this research is to analyze how leadership set the foundation for ongoing ethical compliance. In this study, a professional evaluation of top leaders and educators of local and international settings will be conducted to initiate the ground rules of successful leadership and to define the connection between ethical leadership and best practice. Moreover, the study will reveal how values and characters count in ethical-decision making. Finally, the research will spotlight on the impact culture and how successful leader can create and maintain an ethical environment to ensure best practice.

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AuthorHouse

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149189878X

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One Grand, Sweet Song

Essays

By: Sam Pickering

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One Grand, Sweet Song

Essays

By: Sam Pickering

One Grand, Sweet Song is a collection of familiar essays in which Sam Pickering explores libraries and woods and fields. He wanders over hills and far away—to Caribbean and Canada—but he always returns to the local, to Connecticut and his memories of a Southern childhood. He ponders writing and aging, joy and lunacy. He celebrates family and Christmas. He laughs and tells terrible lies, and jokes. He runs half-marathons, and on a farm in Nova Scotia, he tries to write his Walden. “O World, I cannot hold thee close enough!” Edna St. Vincent Millay once exclaimed. In these pages Pickering embraces his world with great love, wrapping it in words and pulling it and the reader unforgettably close. Pickering has written 28 books and 100s of articles. The subject matter of the books ranges. Three are scholarly studies, two of which focus on 18th century children’s literature. Four are travel books, three of these describing his family’s meanderings in Australia. One book mulls teaching, and another is a memoir. The rest of Pickering’s books are collections of familiar essays, providing his take or perhaps “untake” on things. “Reading Pickering,” a reviewer wrote in the Smithsonian, “is like taking a walk with your oldest, wittiest friend.”

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Texas A&M University Press

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1680030965

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9781680030969

Dock Workers

International Explorations in Comparative Labour History, 1790-1970

By: Sam Davies,Colin J. Davis,David de Vries,Lex Heerma van Voss,Lidewij Hesselink,Klaus Weinhauer

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Dock Workers

International Explorations in Comparative Labour History, 1790-1970

By: Sam Davies,Colin J. Davis,David de Vries,Lex Heerma van Voss,Lidewij Hesselink,Klaus Weinhauer

Workers who loaded and unloaded ships have formed a distinctive occupational group over the past two centuries. As trade expanded so the numbers of dock labourers increased and became concentrated in the major ports of the world. This ambitious two-volume project goes beyond existing individual studies of dock workers to develop a genuinely comparative international perspective over a long historical period. Volume 1 contains studies of 22 major ports worldwide. Built around an agreed framework of issues, these 'port studies' examine the type of workers who dominated dock labour, their race, class and ethnicity, the working conditions of dockers and the role of government as employer, arbitrator and supporter. The studies also detail how dockers organized their labour, patterns of strike action and involvement in political organizations. The structure of the port city is also outlined and descriptions given of the waterside environment. These areas of investigation form the basis for a series of 11 thematic studies which comprise Volume 2. Drawing on the information provided in the port studies, these essays identify important aspects and recurring themes, and explain how and why particular cases diverge from the rest. The final chapter of the book synthesizes the various approaches taken to offer a model which suggests several configurations of dock labour and presents suggestions for future research. This major scholarly achievement represents the most sustained attempt to date to provide a comparative international history of dock labour. An annotated bibliography completes this essential reference work.

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Routledge

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1351943243

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Sam Smith's Great American Political Repair Manual

How to Rebuild Our Country So the Politics Aren't Broken and Politicians Aren't Fixed

By: Sam Smith

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Sam Smith's Great American Political Repair Manual

How to Rebuild Our Country So the Politics Aren't Broken and Politicians Aren't Fixed

By: Sam Smith

Witty and profound, opinionated and informative, maverick journalist Sam Smith has important things to say to politically disaffected Americans of all stripes. This primer gives hope that the coughing engines and stripped gears of American democracy can be made to work again--if Americans can recover their can-do spirit and practice a politics of common sense and common decency combined with a search for common ground.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393316270

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9780393316278

Drought and Aquatic Ecosystems

Effects and Responses

By: P. Sam Lake

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Drought and Aquatic Ecosystems

Effects and Responses

By: P. Sam Lake

Droughts are a major hazard to both natural and human-dominated environments and those, especially of long duration and high intensity, can be highly damaging and leave long-lasting effects. This book describes the climatic conditions that give rise to droughts, and their various forms and chief attributes. Past droughts are described including those that had severe impacts on human societies. As a disturbance, droughts can be thought of as “ramps” in that they usually build slowly and take time to become evident. As precipitation is reduced, flows from catchments into aquatic systems decline. As water declines in water bodies, ecological processes are changed and the biota can be drastically reduced, though species and populations may survive by using refuges. Recovery from drought varies in both rates and in degrees of completeness and may be a function of both refuge availability and connectivity. For the first time, this book reviews the available rather scattered literature on the impacts of drought on the flora, fauna and ecological processes of aquatic ecosystems ranging from small ponds to lakes and from streams to estuaries. The effects of drought on the biota of standing waters and flowing waters and of temporary waters and perennial systems are described and compared. In addition, the ways in which human activity can exacerbate droughts are outlined. In many parts of the world especially in the mid latitudes, global warming may result in increases in the duration and intensity of droughts. Drought and Aquatic Ecosystems is essential reading for freshwater ecologists, water resource managers and advanced students.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1444341790

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9781444341799

Three Of Swords

By: Sam O'Rourke

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Three Of Swords

By: Sam O'Rourke

Nightmares haunt Mia O'Halloran. Having given birth to two babies in her early teens, one the product of a vicous rape. She has spent most of her twenties in a drug and drink-fuelled fog of denial, on the mean streets of London. Now she is returning home to Ireland, with a new husband, and hope for a new beginning. But the past will not remain hidden. The truth always bubbles back to the surface no matter how deeply buried. When it does, nothing will remain untouched, as the sins of the past return to expose the guilty. As Mia's homcoming dreams turn to dust, she must find the courage to face her demons, and the man who ruined her life all those years ago. But the truth comes at a cost, even to those who are innocent...

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BookRix

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3743821370

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Historical Thinking

By: Sam Wineburg

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Historical Thinking

By: Sam Wineburg

Since ancient times, the pundits have lamented young people's lack of historical knowledge and warned that ignorance of the past surely condemns humanity to repeating its mistakes. In the contemporary United States, this dire outlook drives a contentious debate about what key events, nations, and people are essential for history students. Sam Wineburg says that we are asking the wrong questions. This book demolishes the conventional notion that there is one true history and one best way to teach it. Although most of us think of history -- and learn it -- as a conglomeration of facts, dates, and key figures, for professional historians it is a way of knowing, a method for developing and understanding about the relationships of peoples and events in the past. A cognitive psychologist, Wineburg has been engaged in studying what is intrinsic to historical thinking, how it might be taught, and why most students still adhere to the one damned thing after another concept of history. Whether he is comparing how students and historians interpret documentary evidence or analyzing children's drawings, Wineburg's essays offer rough maps of how ordinary people think about the past and use it to understand the present. Arguing that we all absorb lessons about history in many settings -- in kitchen table conversations, at the movies, or on the world-wide web, for instance -- these essays acknowledge the role of collective memory in filtering what we learn in school and shaping our historical thinking.

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Temple University Press

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1439903018

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9781439903018

Hemostasis and Thrombosis

Basic Principles and Clinical Practice

By: Victor J. Marder,William C. Aird,Joel S. Bennett,Sam Schulman,Gilbert C. White, II

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Hemostasis and Thrombosis

Basic Principles and Clinical Practice

By: Victor J. Marder,William C. Aird,Joel S. Bennett,Sam Schulman,Gilbert C. White, II

Since publication of the First Edition in 1982, Hemostasis and Thrombosis has established itself as the pre-eminent book in the field of coagulation disorders. No other book is as inclusive in scope, with coverage of the field from the standpoint of both basic scientists and clinicians. This comprehensive resource details the essentials of bleeding and thrombotic disorders and the management of patients with these and related problems, and delivers the most up-to-date information on normal biochemistry and function of platelets or endothelial cells, as well as in-depth discussions of the pharmacology of anticoagulant, fibrinolytic, and hemostatic drugs. NEW to the Sixth Edition... • A new team of editors, each a leader in his field, assures you of fresh, authoritative perspectives. • Full color throughout • A companion website that offers full text online and an image bank. • A new introductory section of chapters on basic sciences as related to the field • Entirely new section on Hemostatic and Thrombotic Disorders Associated with Systemic Conditions includes material on pediatric patients, women's health issues, cancer, sickle cell disease, and other groups. • Overview chapters preceding each section address broad topics of general importance. This is the tablet version which does not include access to the supplemental content mentioned in the text.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1451177690

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Boys on the Verge of Tears

By: Sam Grabiner

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Boys on the Verge of Tears

By: Sam Grabiner

Wild, thrilling, brutally honest and beautifully tender. This is a truly extraordinary new play.' Lucy Kirkwood WINNER OF THE VERITY BARGATE AWARD 2022 A father waits for his son. Kids hang around skipping school. Fights break out after nights of drinking. Set inside a men's public toilet, Boys on the Verge of Tears is a bold, kaleidoscopic tale of violence and vulnerability. Sam Grabiner's play premiered at Soho Theatre, London, in April 2024.

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Faber & Faber

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0571390188

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9780571390182

Hey, Whipple, Squeeze This

The Classic Guide to Creating Great Ads

By: Luke Sullivan,Sam Bennett,Edward Boches

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Hey, Whipple, Squeeze This

The Classic Guide to Creating Great Ads

By: Luke Sullivan,Sam Bennett,Edward Boches

The classic (and irreverent) bestselling guide to creating great advertising Hey Whipple, Squeeze This has inspired a generation of ad students, copywriters, and young creatives to make their mark in the industry. But students need new guidance to ply their craft now in the digital world. This new fourth edition explains how to bring brand stories into interactive, dynamic places online, in addition to traditional television, radio, print, and outdoor ads. Creativity is still king, but this new edition contains: Important new chapters and updates that bring Whipple into the new digital world New content and examples for how to use social media and other emerging platforms Illustrate what's changing in the new world of advertising—and what isn't Hey Whipple, Squeeze This! will help sharpen your writing chops, unleash your creativity, and help raise the level of your work from hack to master craftsman.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118237188

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9781118237182

Yale Football

By: Sam Rubin

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Yale Football

By: Sam Rubin

Yale's great players and achievements are portrayed through rare and captivating images. With 26 national championships, two Heisman Trophy winners, and more than 800 victories, Yale football captures all the elements that make the sport so special.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738545325

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9780738545325

Glenn's Urologic Surgery

By: Sam D. Graham,Thomas E. Keane

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Glenn's Urologic Surgery

By: Sam D. Graham,Thomas E. Keane

For more than 45 years, Glenn’s Urologic Surgery has been the must-have surgical reference for residents and practicing urologists. Authored by renowned experts in the field, the 8th Edition focuses on the adult and pediatric surgical techniques you need to master to ensure the best possible outcomes for your patients. Comprehensive coverage, more than 1,300 full-color illustrations, and concise, easy-to-follow text are the hallmarks of this updated surgical resource.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1496320778

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9781496320773

Music Documentaries for Radio

By: Sam Coley

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Music Documentaries for Radio

By: Sam Coley

Drawing on both academic research and real world practice, this book offers an in-depth investigation into the production of music documentaries broadcast on radio. Music Documentaries for Radio provides a thorough overview of how the genre has developed technically and editorially alongside a discussion of the practical production processes involved. Digital production equipment and online tools used in music documentary production are discussed in detail, outlining how the development of these technologies shapes the output of producers operating in both the public service and the commercial sectors of the industry. Drawing on his own experiences as an award-winning music documentary producer, the author also looks at how the industry views this form of radio documentary and considers how innovation and technical advances, as well as governmental regulation, have shaped the field. The book demonstrates how changing practices and technical innovations have led to the emergence of multi-skilled, freelance radio producers and how previously separate production roles have merged into one convergent, multifaceted position. Music Documentaries for Radio is an ideal resource for students and academics in the fields of radio studies, media production, documentary-making, and journalism studies.

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Routledge

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1000463982

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9781000463989

Kay Thompson

From Funny Face to Eloise

By: Sam Irvin

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Kay Thompson

From Funny Face to Eloise

By: Sam Irvin

Presents a tribute to the Hollywood entertainer-turned-author. Covers her close friendship with Judy Garland, contributions as a celebrity trainer, and creation of the mischievous six-year-old Plaza mascot, Eloise.

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Simon and Schuster

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143917654X

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9781439176542

A History of New York in 101 Objects

By: Sam Roberts

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A History of New York in 101 Objects

By: Sam Roberts

“Delightfully surprising….A portable virtual museum…an entertaining stroll through the history of one of the world’s great cities” (Kirkus Reviews), told through 101 distinctive objects that span the history of New York, almost all reproduced in luscious, full color. Inspired by A History of the World in 100 Objects, Sam Roberts of The New York Times chose fifty objects that embody the narrative of New York for a feature article in the paper. Many more suggestions came from readers, and so Roberts has expanded the list to 101. Here are just a few of what this keepsake volume offers: -The Flushing Remonstrance, a 1657 petition for religious freedom that was a precursor to the First Amendment to the Constitution. -Beads from the African Burial Ground, 1700s. Slavery was legal in New York until 1827, although many free blacks lived in the city. The African Burial Ground closed in 1792 and was only recently rediscovered. -The bagel, early 1900s. The quintessential and undisputed New York food (excepting perhaps the pizza). -The Automat vending machine, 1912. Put a nickel in the slot and get a cup of coffee or a piece of pie. It was the early twentieth century version of fast food. -The “I Love NY” logo designed by Milton Glaser in 1977 for a campaign to increase tourism. Along with Saul Steinberg’s famous New Yorker cover depicting a New Yorker’s view of the world, it was perhaps the most famous and most frequently reproduced graphic symbol of the time. Unique, sometimes whimsical, always important, A History of New York in 101 Objects is a beautiful chronicle of the remarkable history of the Big Apple. “The story [Sam Roberts] is telling is that of New York, and he nails it” (Daily News, New York).

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Simon and Schuster

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1476728801

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9781476728803

War of Numbers

An Intelligence Memoir of the Vietnam War's Uncounted Enemy

By: Sam Adams

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War of Numbers

An Intelligence Memoir of the Vietnam War's Uncounted Enemy

By: Sam Adams

In the fall of 1967, political and military leaders in Washington said the Vietnam War was approaching “the crossover point”: More Vietcong soldiers were dying in battle each week than could be recruited. CIA analyst Sam Adams, however, was insisting the good news was an illusion. His estimates of enemy ranks and morale varied wildly from those being released by military intelligence for public consumption, and for use by commanders in the field. Adams' findings indicated the war was unwinnable, and when US leaders failed to acknowledge basic facts, he knew the intelligence was being politicized. From inside the CIA and then after quitting the agency in 1973, Adams embarked on a one-man crusade to expose the truth. He loved intelligence work, and his enthusiasm for it shines throughout this illuminating memoir. Thanks to Adams, newsman Mike Wallace produced his influential CBS News documentary “The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception;” General William Westmoreland was called to account, and his book dramatizes in clear, compelling prose how America’s involvement in Southeast Asia became such a tragedy.

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Steerforth Press / Truth to Power

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1586422677

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9781586422677

Girl Squads

20 Female Friendships That Changed History

By: Sam Maggs

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Girl Squads

20 Female Friendships That Changed History

By: Sam Maggs

A fun and feisty tour of famous girl BFFs from history who stuck together and changed the world. Spanning art, science, politics, activism, and sports, these 20 diverse profiles show just how essential female friendship have been across history and around the world. In this engaging and well-researched book, Sam Maggs takes you on a tour of some of history's most fascinating and bravest BFFs, including: • Anne Bonny and Mary Read, the infamous lady pirates who sailed the seven seas and plundered with the best of the men • Jeanne Manon Roland and Sophie Grandchamp, Parisian socialites who landed front-row seats (from prison) to the French Revolution • Sharon and Shirley Firth, the Indigenous twin sisters who went on to become Olympic skiers and barrier breakers in the sport • The Edinburgh Seven, the band of gal pals who became the first women admitted to medical school in the United Kingdom • The Zohra Orchestra, the ensemble from Afghanistan who defied laws, danger, and threats to become the nation's first all-female musical group Fun, informative, and delightful to read—with fresh illustrations by Jenn Woodall—it's perfect for you and every member of your own girl gang.

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Quirk Books

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1683690737

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Lu's Basic Toxicology

Fundamentals, Target Organs, and Risk Assessment, Seventh Edition

By: Byung-Mu Lee,Sam Kacew,Hyung Sik Kim

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Lu's Basic Toxicology

Fundamentals, Target Organs, and Risk Assessment, Seventh Edition

By: Byung-Mu Lee,Sam Kacew,Hyung Sik Kim

Continuing a long tradition, Lu‘s Basic Toxicology, Seventh Edition, provides guidance on principles of toxicology and testing procedures for toxicities as well as a concise yet detailed mechanism of both target organ and non-target organ toxicities. The book also addresses the toxic effects of chemicals and risk assessment, giving students and practicing toxicologists, the tools to enhance their practice. This edition includes new chapters on Systems Toxicology, Chemicals and Children, Toxicology of Reproductive Systems, providing the essentials of these topics in the same style as other chapters in the book. Separate subject and chemical indexes make this a useful, quick shelf reference.

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CRC Press

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1315391686

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Dancing with the Queen, Marching with King

The Memoirs of Alexander "Sam" Aldrich

By: Sam Aldrich

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Dancing with the Queen, Marching with King

The Memoirs of Alexander "Sam" Aldrich

By: Sam Aldrich

When he was twenty-five, Sam Aldrich danced with Queen Elizabeth II in London. By the time he was thirty-seven, he was marching with Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma. Recounting the journey between and beyond those two points, and musing over the irony of the contrast they represent, is the subject of this remarkable and entertaining memoir. After a cosseted childhood in New York's silk stocking district, including weekends on Long Island's Gold Coast and summers in Dark Harbor, Maine, Aldrich was expected to follow in his father's footsteps and pursue a career in high finance. "Dancing with the queen of England was just a small function of the privileged life and family into which I was born," he writes, "and events such as this would be a regular part of my upper-class, well-traveled social life." Instead, and to his parents' chagrin, he chose decades of hard work in the public sector, serving as deputy police commissioner in New York City, director of the New York State Division for Youth, executive assistant to Governor Nelson Rockefeller, president of the Brooklyn Center of Long Island University, and commissioner of the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, before entering teaching full-time at midlife. Illustrated with photographs from Aldrich's personal collection, this lively memoir offers personal insights into New York State politics and history. Whether working to develop an effective system for rehabilitating juvenile offenders in New York City, trying to find an environmentally sound means for development in the Hudson River Valley, or teaching public policy at SUNY's Empire State College, Aldrich shows what it means to follow one's passions and interests, and to take the gifts one has been given and use them to try to make this world a better place.

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State University of New York Press

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143843989X

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9781438439891

You Can't Always Get What You Want

My Life with the Rolling Stones, the Grateful Dead and Other Wonderful Reprobates

By: Sam Cutler

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You Can't Always Get What You Want

My Life with the Rolling Stones, the Grateful Dead and Other Wonderful Reprobates

By: Sam Cutler

A “straight-dope, tell-all account” of touring with two of the world’s greatest bands of the 60s and 70s—A “fast-moving narrative of rock-n-roll excess” (Publishers Weekly). In this all-access memoir of the psychedelic era, Sam Cutler recounts his life as tour manager for the Rolling Stones and the Grateful Dead—whom he calls the yin and yang of bands. After working with the Rolling Stones at their historic Hyde Park concert in 1969, Sam managed their American tour later that year, when he famously dubbed them “The Greatest Rock Band in the World.” And he was caught in the middle as their triumph took a tragic turn during a free concert at the Altamont Speedway in California, where a man in the crowd was killed by the Hell’s Angels. After that, Sam took up with the fun-loving Grateful Dead, managing their tours and finances, and taking part in their endless hijinks on the road. With intimate portraits of other stars of the time—including Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, the Band, the Allman Brothers, Pink Floyd, and Eric Clapton—this memoir is a treasure trove of insights and anecdotes that bring some of rock’s greatest legends to life.

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ECW Press

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1554906962

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Allies in Memory

By: Sam Edwards

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Allies in Memory

By: Sam Edwards

A fresh perspective on World War II commemoration that identifies the central place of war memory in post-1945 transatlantic relations.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107074576

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The Pedagogical State

Education and the Politics of National Culture in Post-1980 Turkey

By: Sam Kaplan

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The Pedagogical State

Education and the Politics of National Culture in Post-1980 Turkey

By: Sam Kaplan

This ethnographic study of a local school system in Turkey illuminates the dynamic interplay between politics, society, and education.

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Stanford University Press

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0804754330

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Science for Better Environment

Proceedings of the International Congress on the Human Environment (Hesc) (Kyoto, 1975)

By: Sam Stuart

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Science for Better Environment

Proceedings of the International Congress on the Human Environment (Hesc) (Kyoto, 1975)

By: Sam Stuart

Science for Better Environment: Proceedings of the International Congress on the Human Environment (HESC) focuses on the applications of science in health, human settlements, and protection of the environment. The selection first offers information on the background of HESC, including human settlements and habitat, environment and development, natural disasters, and energy. The text then discusses human’s place in natural ecosystems, along with essential properties of ecosystem, auto-regulation in ecosystem, and collapse of symbiosis between human and nature. The compilation presents a summary of the environmental problems in Japan, including progress and outstanding issues in the environmental field. The water pollution from 1970 to 1975 and air pollution control in the country are underscored. The text also explains the development of antipollution laws in the country. Topics include local government antipollution laws, creation of antipollution laws, and clarifying the responsibility of industries in antipollution drives. The book also touches on the role of scientists in the task of achieving a better environment; challenges of stress on human health in urban ecosystems; and environmental problems on a global scale. The selection is a dependable reference for readers interested in the application of science for the improvement of the environment.

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Elsevier

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1483160491

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The Instinctive Screenplay

Watching and Writing Screen Drama

By: Sam North

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The Instinctive Screenplay

Watching and Writing Screen Drama

By: Sam North

What is it that makes humans engage with a dramatic narrative? Is it linked to our primitive selves, contained within our instinctive experience? This innovative text argues that understanding how and why our human instincts are brought into play as we watch screen drama is the key to writing it. Analysing four powerful instincts – willpower, logic, morality and emotion – Sam North explores how they determine our level of involvement in their drama, and how screenwriters can use them to develop their craft. Including a variety of both well-known and less famous examples, from The Shawshank Redemption to Samira Makhmalbaf's The Apple, this book offers a fresh new approach to thinking about, discussing and writing screenplays.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350309303

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Teaching Higher Education to Lead

Strategies for the Digital Age

By: Sam Choon-Yin

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Teaching Higher Education to Lead

Strategies for the Digital Age

By: Sam Choon-Yin

Competition to provide education is tense, attributed to the ease to access and process information. Technological development has also landed a terrible blow to the employment situation, which forces higher education institutions to review what and how their students learn. Yet, the desire to retain and grow the number of students and gain commercially can sometimes cloud judgment of educational leaders. They need to know that poorly made decisions hurt the businesses and students. In this book, Sam Choon-Yin explores how technological development has the potential to transform higher education. However, the same technology also has the potential to disrupt the education sector. The author provides a critical outlook on the prevailing practices of the higher education institutions. By drawing our attention to the various challenges, the author shows how teaching and learning can be effectively carried out in the digital age to serve the needs of students and hiring companies, and ultimately the institutions of higher learning. Understanding the issues and challenges means better design of and delivery of the curriculum. At a deeper level, the book raises a complex question of “what makes an education institution different” as they aim to define themselves by fulfilling students’ desire. Understanding these issues forms the basis of power for higher education institutions to remain competitive and relevant in the age of digitization.

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Business Expert Press

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1637421648

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Barash, Cullen, and Stoelting's Clinical Anesthesia

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By: Bruce F. Cullen,M. Christine Stock,Rafael Ortega,Sam R. Sharar,Natalie F. Holt,Christopher W. Connor,Naveen Nathan

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Barash, Cullen, and Stoelting's Clinical Anesthesia

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By: Bruce F. Cullen,M. Christine Stock,Rafael Ortega,Sam R. Sharar,Natalie F. Holt,Christopher W. Connor,Naveen Nathan

Covering the full spectrum of clinical issues and options in anesthesiology, Barash, Cullen, and Stoelting’s Clinical Anesthesia, Ninth Edition, edited by Drs. Bruce F. Cullen, M. Christine Stock, Rafael Ortega, Sam R. Sharar, Natalie F. Holt, Christopher W. Connor, and Naveen Nathan, provides insightful coverage of pharmacology, physiology, co-existing diseases, and surgical procedures. This award-winning text delivers state-of-the-art content unparalleled in clarity and depth of coverage that equip you to effectively apply today’s standards of care and make optimal clinical decisions on behalf of your patients.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1975199081

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Cortical Plasticity

By: Sam Fazeli,Graham L. Collingridge

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Cortical Plasticity

By: Sam Fazeli,Graham L. Collingridge

This book provides an insight into the rapidly growing field of cortical plasticity. It brings together diverse experimental approaches to the study of activity-dependent changes in neuronal connections, as exemplified by long-term potentiation (LTP) and long-term depression (LTD).

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Garland Science

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1000140989

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An Illustrated History of Boxing

By: Nat Fleischer,Sam Andre

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An Illustrated History of Boxing

By: Nat Fleischer,Sam Andre

Updated by Nigel Collins, author of "Boxing Babylon", this classic "bible of boxing" has been continuously in print since 1959. Here in one stunning volume is the vast panorama of the "sweet science", from bare-knuckle fighting through the rise of Lennox Lewis. Photos throughout.

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Citadel Press

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0806522011

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9780806522012

Design and Analysis of Ecological Experiments

By: Sam Scheiner

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Design and Analysis of Ecological Experiments

By: Sam Scheiner

The goal of this book is to make some underutilized but potentially very useful methods in experimental design and analysis available to ecologists, and to encourage better use of standard statistical techniques. Ecology has become more and more an experimental science in both basic and applied work,but experiments in the field and in the laboratory often present formidable statistical difficulties. Organized around providing solutions to ecological problems, this book offers ways to improve the statistical aspects of conducting manipulative ecological experiments, from setting them up to interpreting and reporting the results. An abundance of tools, including advanced approaches, are made available to ecologists in step-by-step examples, with computer code provided for common statistical packages. This is an essential how-to guide for the working ecologist and for graduate students preparing for research and teaching careers in the field of ecology.

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CRC Press

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1000152960

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9781000152968

Peter Grimes

By: Sam Kinchin-Smith

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Peter Grimes

By: Sam Kinchin-Smith

ã`Who can turn skies back and begin again?' -Peter ã This book contends that Peter Grimes, widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential operas of the 20th century, is also one of the British theatre's finest `lost' plays. Seeking to liberate Britten and Slater's work from the blinkered traditions of theatre and opera criticism, Sam Kinchin-Smith poses two questions: If an opera was created like a play, and can be staged as a play, is it a play? If a portion of its success and influence is the product of this newly identified theatrical engine, is it then a great play? The answers involve Wagner and W.G. Sebald, George Crabbe and Complicite, Akenfield and Twin Peaks. Challenging long-established narratives of post-war theatre history, this book makes a compelling case for why practitioners and scholars of performance ought to pay more attention to Britten and Slater's achievement - a milestone of unconventional English modernism - and perhaps to other operatic masterpieces too.

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Routledge

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1317192788

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Dissonant Waves

Ernst Schoen and Experimental Sound in the 20th century

By: Sam Dolbear,Esther Leslie

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Dissonant Waves

Ernst Schoen and Experimental Sound in the 20th century

By: Sam Dolbear,Esther Leslie

An investigation of the cultures and technologies of early radio and how a generation of cultural operators—with Schoen at the center—addressed crisis and adversity. Dials, knobs, microphones, clocks; heads, hands, breath, voices. Ernst Schoen joined Frankfurt Radio in the 1920s as programmer and accelerated the potentials of this collision of bodies and technologies. As with others of his generation, Schoen experienced crisis after crisis, from the violence of war, the suicide of friends, economic collapse, and a brief episode of permitted experimentalism under the Weimar Republic for those who would foster aesthetic, technical, and political revolution. The counterreaction was Nazism—and Schoen and his milieux fell victim to it, found ways out of it, or hit against it with all their might. Dissonant Waves tracks the life of Ernst Schoen—poet, composer, radio programmer, theorist, and best friend of Walter Benjamin from childhood—as he moves between Frankfurt, Berlin, Paris, and London. It casts radio history and practice into concrete spaces, into networks of friends and institutions, into political exigencies and domestic plights, and into broader aesthetic discussions of the politicization of art and the aestheticization of politics. Through friendship and comradeship, a position in state-backed radio, imprisonment, exile, networking in a new country, re-emigration, ill-treatment, neglect, Schoen suffers the century and articulates its broken promises. An exploration of the ripples of radio waves, the circuits of experimentation and friendship, and the proposals that half-found a route into the world—and might yet spark political-technical experimentation.

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MIT Press

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1913380556

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The Films of Woody Allen

By: Sam B. Girgus

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The Films of Woody Allen

By: Sam B. Girgus

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Cambridge University Press

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0521009294

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Employment Law in Scotland

By: Sam Middlemiss,Margaret Downie

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Employment Law in Scotland

By: Sam Middlemiss,Margaret Downie

Brings together all the areas of employment and labour law relevant to the parties involved in the employment relationship in Scotland. Covers the following: - References to relevant primary and secondary research materials in the UK and further afield. - The differences between Scottish employment law and the rest of the UK including third party rights; holiday entitlements; claims in breach of contract; the Employment Appeals Tribunal process and Civil Court procedure. - Institutions of employment law; Human rights; contracts of employment; atypical workers; transfer of undertakings; termination; equality law; disability discrimination; family-friendly rights; wages; statutory regulation of working time; health and safety; trade union law; industrial action; immigration; and alternative dispute resolution. - Updated case law - The Scottish Affairs Committee inquiry into zero hours contracts and the increase in 'gig economy' - Elimination of employment tribunal fees by the UK Supreme Court - Ongoing discussions in the Scottish parliament regarding changes in legislation on sexual harassment in the workplace - The possible implications of Brexit on future European Court of Justice employment law

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1526509636

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