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Out of Bounds

Legendary Tales From the 19th Hole

By: Sam Torrance

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Out of Bounds

Legendary Tales From the 19th Hole

By: Sam Torrance

Sam Torrance is British golf's greatest personality. Well known and loved for his insights and anecdotes in his commentary, he divulges tall tales from the great, the good and the not-so-good in the world of golf, from Ryder Cup clinching moments to what really goes on in the clubhouse bar, Sam will have you reminiscing and guffawing from one moment to the next.

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Simon and Schuster

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184983721X

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Reading Circles, Novels and Adult Reading Development

By: Sam Duncan

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Reading Circles, Novels and Adult Reading Development

By: Sam Duncan

Exploration of what a reading circle approach can offer adult emergent readers, and what adult literacy learners can tell us about novel reading.

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A&C Black

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1441173153

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9781441173157

Understanding and Managing Children's Classroom Behavior

Creating Sustainable, Resilient Classrooms

By: Sam Goldstein,Robert B. Brooks

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Understanding and Managing Children's Classroom Behavior

Creating Sustainable, Resilient Classrooms

By: Sam Goldstein,Robert B. Brooks

This book sets the standard in delivering a comprehensive, state-of-the-art approach for understanding, treating, and preventing classroom behavior difficulties. It should be on the bookshelves of all professionals who work in school settings. I will certainly recommend this text to my colleagues and students." —George J. DuPaul, PhD, Professor of School Psychology, Associate Chair, Education and Human Services, Lehigh University A classic guide to creating a positive classroom environment Covering the most recent and relevant findings regarding behavior management in the classroom, this new edition of Understanding and Managing Children's Classroom Behavior has been completely updated to reflect the current functional approach to assessing, understanding, and positively managing behavior in a classroom setting. With its renewed focus on the concept of temperament and its impact on children's behavior and personality, Understanding and Managing Children's Classroom Behavior emphasizes changing behavior rather than labeling it. Numerous contributions from renowned experts on each topic explore: How to identify strengths and assets and build on them Complete functional behavioral assessments The relationship between thinking, learning, and behavior in the classroom Practical strategies for teachers to improve students' self-regulation How to facilitate social skills Problem-solving approaches to bullies and their victims Medications and their relationship to behavior The classic guide to helping psychologists, counselors, and educators improve their ability to serve all students, Understanding and Managing Children's Classroom Behavior, Second Edition will help educators create citizens connected to each other, to their teachers, to their families, and to their communities.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470114673

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9780470114674

The Least of Us

True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth

By: Sam Quinones

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The Least of Us

True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth

By: Sam Quinones

Apple Best Books of 2021 Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal * Shortlisted for the Zocalo Book Prize From the New York Times bestselling author of Dreamland, a searing follow-up that explores the terrifying next stages of the opioid epidemic and the quiet yet ardent stories of community repair. Sam Quinones traveled from Mexico to main streets across the U.S. to create Dreamland, a groundbreaking portrait of the opioid epidemic that awakened the nation. As the nation struggled to put back the pieces, Quinones was among the first to see the dangers that lay ahead: synthetic drugs and a new generation of kingpins whose product could be made in Magic Bullet blenders. In fentanyl, traffickers landed a painkiller a hundred times more powerful than morphine. They laced it into cocaine, meth, and counterfeit pills to cause tens of thousands of deaths-at the same time as Mexican traffickers made methamphetamine cheaper and more potent than ever, creating, Sam argues, swaths of mental illness and a surge in homelessness across the United States. Quinones hit the road to investigate these new threats, discovering how addiction is exacerbated by consumer-product corporations. “In a time when drug traffickers act like corporations and corporations like traffickers,” he writes, “our best defense, perhaps our only defense, lies in bolstering community.” Amid a landscape of despair, Quinones found hope in those embracing the forgotten and ignored, illuminating the striking truth that we are only as strong as our most vulnerable. Weaving analysis of the drug trade into stories of humble communities, The Least of Us delivers an unexpected and awe-inspiring response to the call that shocked the nation in Sam Quinones's award-winning Dreamland.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1635574374

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9781635574371

Motivation, Educational Policy and Achievement

A critical perspective

By: Sam Carr

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Motivation, Educational Policy and Achievement

A critical perspective

By: Sam Carr

Motivation, Educational Policy and Achievement seeks to theorise and critique current trends in education through the lens of key ideas from motivational theory. Its purpose is to argue that current educational trends on a macro level are a significant threat to the provision of classroom practices seeking to create an educational environment that motivational theorists would argue is best placed to develop motivational equality, optimal motivation, and wellbeing. Linking major contemporary theories of motivation to wider educational and political debate, this unique resource will bring about two major benefits: it will vocalise and mobilise the substantial research evidence from motivational theory in order to ensure that it contributes more explicitly to a critique of current neoliberal trends, and motivation researchers will be better positioned to move the theory forward in relation to what is happening in the real world of education. Areas covered include: developing a more critical space in relation to the field of motivational psychology and contemporary educational policy; linking motivational theory to education policy and broader social and political structures; the neoliberal educational landscape; an overview of achievement goal theory and self-determination theory. Motivation, Educational Policy and Achievement is a ‘wake-up call’ for educational practitioners and policy makers and essential reading for all advanced students and researchers in the fields of educational psychology and educational research.

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Routledge

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1317692896

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9781317692898

Pursuing Elena

Heart-pounding Romantic Suspense with a Mysterious Twist

By: Sam Cheever

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Pursuing Elena

Heart-pounding Romantic Suspense with a Mysterious Twist

By: Sam Cheever

She’s hostile and independent. He’s focused and smitten. Will they find a path to love before a killer finds his target? Elena’s life has never been normal. She’s been plagued from birth by a secret that puts her in constant danger. Now a murder’s been dropped on her family’s doorstep. Bringing her into the crosshairs of a killer. Erik didn’t really want the job of protecting Elena DeVitis. She’s the most stubborn, difficult woman he’s ever met. But despite her hard outer shell and the way she constantly keeps him at arm’s length, there’s a certain vulnerability in the beautiful heiress’s eyes. Then a killer puts her in his sights. And all Erik can think of is how cold life would be without her in it. A conspiracy, a murder, an ongoing pursuit. Everything seems to be coming to a head. And as it does, members of the DeVitis family will be put into new and deadly situations. And there remains at least one life-changing surprise for them all. “…twists I never saw coming with a suspenseful storyline that kept me on the edge of my seat. I can truthfully say it was all I could do to not call in sick so that I could finish the book in just one sitting.” “What a thrilling roller coaster of a ride! Action, suspense, surprises, awakening love, whew what a book!” If you crave excitement, adventure, love, and intrigue, you should definitely grab this book!

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Electric Prose Publications

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1635879663

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9781635879667

The Farrells of Donegal

And Associated Families

By: Sam Hanna

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The Farrells of Donegal

And Associated Families

By: Sam Hanna

(O) Farrells/Ferrells and others worldwide often ponder their Irish roots. This is currently the most comprehensive attempt to explore the origins of one of the largest branches of the Farrells/Ferrells. It includes: 1,400 years of Celtic roots in northwest Ireland, Gaelic ancestry linked to St Colum Cille (St Columba) from c.AD 655, 400-year-old associations with the Ulster Plantation, and worldwide migration. Those wishing to explore their own Irish family history and genealogy may use the methodology adopted by the author as a template for their own research. Almost 1,000 references are detailed, representing an invaluable resource to all those researching their Irish and Ulster roots. The benefits of DNA testing in family history and genealogy are outlined, and the results of the Donegal Farrell/Ferrell DNA research are analysed. Extensive genealogies of Ulster Farrells/Ferrells and associated families from the sixteenth to twenty-first centuries have been compiled, and this database will assist others research their roots in Donegal, Ulster, and Ireland.

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WestBow Press

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1973639173

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9781973639176

The imperial premiership

The role of the modern Prime Minister in foreign policy making, 1964–2015

By: Sam Goodman

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The imperial premiership

The role of the modern Prime Minister in foreign policy making, 1964–2015

By: Sam Goodman

Recent votes in the House of Commons on British military intervention have put foreign policy at the heart of public consciousness. This book spans British foreign policy over the last fifty years and nine premierships from Harold Wilson to David Cameron. Based on the author's first-hand interviews with former foreign secretaries, Cabinet ministers, senior civil servants, party officials, military chiefs and diplomats it offers a unique account of the growing role of the prime minister in foreign policymaking and its impact. Written by a senior parliamentary researcher it offers an insider account of votes on military intervention in Syria. The prime minister now spends more time on foreign policy than any previous period outside war, yet the public and MPs themselves remain relatively ill-informed of foreign policy outside of crises. If we are to avoid the mistakes of the past and utilise our country's full capacity on the world stage we need a societal change in how we vet those who seek the office and in educating the electorate.

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Manchester University Press

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1526108453

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Protein and Energy Supply for High Production of Milk and Meat

Proceedings of a Symposium of the Committee on Agricultural Problems of the Economic Commission for Europe and the Food and Agriculture Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, 12-15 January 1981

By: Sam Stuart

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Protein and Energy Supply for High Production of Milk and Meat

Proceedings of a Symposium of the Committee on Agricultural Problems of the Economic Commission for Europe and the Food and Agriculture Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, 12-15 January 1981

By: Sam Stuart

Protein and Energy Supply for High Production of Milk and Meat covers the proceedings of a Symposium of the Committee on Agricultural Problems of the Economic Commission for Europe and the Food and Agriculture Organization. The book presents studies that are relevant in producing more milk and meat products. The text presents 10 papers that discuss the advances in understanding the significance of rumen fermentation; protein/energy relationships in the intermediary metabolism of ruminants; and protein/energy relationships in the practical feeding of dairy and fattening cattle. The book will be of great use to researchers and professionals concerned with procuring more cattle products.

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Elsevier

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1483150704

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9781483150703

Interstellar Projects

Alien Intent

By: Sam Dore

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Interstellar Projects

Alien Intent

By: Sam Dore

Nineteen-year-olds Molly Long and Betsy Nelson have been best friends for years and are traveling to their first semester of college. But an unexpected invitation to join Joe Murdocks Interstellar Projects derails their plans. They decide its a challenging proposition and a way they can use their high ideals and values to protect planet Earth. Molly and Betsy are impressed with the concept of the projectsusing alien technology and the idea of trying to upgrade science and improve humanity. The projects span four other planets outside of Earths solar system, and the young women are in for the experience of a lifetime as they live and train in space and are involved in important missions. When the space shuttle is involved in an accident, they are able to confirm that alien ships are landing on earth for nefarious purposes. Murdock is attempting to train his people as quickly as possible to enable them to protect Earth. In the meantime, new aliens are being discovered and discovering them in return, and Joes group must determine if they are friend or foe. Murdock and his dedicated team at Interstellar Projects work tirelessly to protect Earth from new alien attempts to annihilate humanity.

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iUniverse

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1469796449

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9781469796444

My Father's Shadow

A Portrait Of Justice Peter Mahon

By: Sam Mahon

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My Father's Shadow

A Portrait Of Justice Peter Mahon

By: Sam Mahon

An intimate portrait of Justice Peter Mahon, who headed the Erebus plane crash inquiry, written by his son. Described often as ‘a man for all seasons’, Justice Peter Mahon is perhaps best remembered for his role in the Erebus Inquiry: an inquiry into the worst air disaster in New Zealand’s history. In My Father’s Shadow, his eldest son, artist Sam Mahon, draws a composite portrait of Peter: a rational, moral, astute and complex character, but a father whom the author hardly knew. In poignant lyrical prose, an expansive story emerges, operatic in scope, of Peter Mahon’s life – through his war years and the Senio offensive, his distinguished legal career, to the insult keenly felt be a proud man when the Court of Appeal questioned his immortal line ‘an orchestrated litany of lies’ – as soldier, lawyer, judge, naturalist, father, colleague, husband. He was at the time of his death ‘one of the ten most admired New Zealanders’. Artfully woven throughout, the memoir exposes the dynamic and the ongoing legacy between these two strong personalities – the rebellious artist-in the- making, and his tolerant, distant and revered father. Written with a spirited clarity, startling honesty, and humour, My Father’s Shadow is a captivating and extraordinary New Zealand story.

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Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited

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1775531317

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9781775531319

Surviving Gabriella (Romantic Suspense Thriller with a Taste of Mystery)

By: Sam Cheever

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Surviving Gabriella (Romantic Suspense Thriller with a Taste of Mystery)

By: Sam Cheever

She’s shattering under the weight of her secret. His heart is breaking as he watches her collapse. events are twisting more tightly around them... Making it hard to breathe...or love... Can they sever the shackles of destiny and find love? Or Will they just exchange one type of restraint for another?

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Electric Prose Publications

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1635879671

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9781635879674

Inventing Elsa Maxwell

How an Irrepressible Nobody Conquered High Society, Hollywood, the Press, and the World

By: Sam Staggs

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Inventing Elsa Maxwell

How an Irrepressible Nobody Conquered High Society, Hollywood, the Press, and the World

By: Sam Staggs

Inventing Elsa Maxwell, the first biography of this extraordinary woman, tells the witty story of a life lived out loud. With Inventing Elsa Maxwell, Sam Staggs has crafted a landmark biography. Elsa Maxwell (1881-1963) invented herself–not once, but repeatedly. Built like a bulldog, she ascended from the San Francisco middle class to the heights of society in New York, London, Paris, Venice, and Monte Carlo. Shunning boredom and predictability, Elsa established herself as party-giver extraordinaire in Europe with come-as-you-are parties, treasure hunts (e.g., retrieve a slipper from the foot of a singer at the Casino de Paris), and murder parties that drew the ire of the British parliament. She set New York a-twitter with her soirees at the Waldorf, her costume parties, and her headline-grabbing guest lists of the rich and royal, movie stars, society high and low, and those on the make all mixed together in let-'er-rip gaiety. All the while, Elsa dashed off newspaper columns, made films in Hollywood, wrote bestselling books, and turned up on TV talk shows. She hobnobbed with friends like Noel Coward and Cole Porter. Late in life, she fell in love with Maria Callas, who spurned her and broke Elsa's heart. Her feud with the Duchess of Windsor made headlines for three years in the 1950s. One of the twentieth century's most colorful characters is brought back to life in this biography by the author of All About All About Eve.

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St. Martin's Press

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1250017750

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9781250017758

LUCID AGENTS

By: Sam Luckey

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LUCID AGENTS

By: Sam Luckey

Sam served four overseas tours in the U.S. Army. He served in the Military Police during two tours of South Korea and one tour in West Germany. Once he graduated U.S. Army CID school he returned to West Germany as a Special Agent. Courtesy of the US Army he also served stateside assignments in Arizona, Texas, Alabama and Georgia. Sam observed the very best and the very worst of the US Military. While in Frankfurt West Germany Sam was Team Chief of the most productive Narcotics Investigation (Drug Suppression Team) in Europe. However, when he was told that he would be taking over more more Narcotics Investigations as a CID Team Chief, he declined and left the US Army with numerous medals and awards. Sam no longer believed our current "War on Drugs" paradigm was productive. Our "Drug War" mentality prevents Law Enforcement from doing real "Harm Reduction" and causes more damage and harm than the actual illegal drug use.

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Author House

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1491811722

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Finding Zsa Zsa

The Gabors behind the Legend

By: Sam Staggs

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Finding Zsa Zsa

The Gabors behind the Legend

By: Sam Staggs

For decades, the Gabor dynasty was the epitome of glamour and fairy tale success. But as biographer, film historian, and Gabor family friend Sam Staggs reveals, behind the headlines is a true story more dramatic, fabulous, and surprising than their self-styled legend would have you believe . . . In 1945, after barely escaping Hitler’s invasion of Hungary followed by “liberation” of the country by the Red Army, three members of the Gabor family—Jolie, her ex-husband Vilmos, and their daughter Magda—arrived in New York City. In Hollywood, their other daughters, Zsa Zsa and Eva, had worked feverishly throughout the war years to secure their rescue from the Nazis’ plan to exterminate the Jews. Stepping off the boat, Jolie, the iron-willed matriarch, already had a golden future mapped out for her sharp-witted, cosmopolitan beauties. Over the next six decades, with twenty-three husbands between them (suave All About Eve star George Sanders would wed both Zsa Zsa and Magda), scores of lovers, and roller-coaster rides in film, television, theater, and business, the elegant yet gloriously bawdy, addictively watchable Gabors carved a niche in the entertainment industry that made them world-famous pop-culture icons. But beneath the artifice of Dior and diamonds was another side to the story they never revealed: the whole truth. This first verifiable history of the Gabors casts a startling new light on these extraordinary women. Finding Zsa Zsa reveals the tumultuous and often unforgiven battles between mother and daughter, sister and sister, wife and husband; Eva’s “bearded” romance with Merv Griffin that allowed them both to seek same-sex lovers; Zsa Zsa's involuntary confinement in a mental hospital; her life-long struggle with bipolar disorder; and her last—unconsummated—marriage to the manipulating faux prince Frederic von Anhalt. Here too is the untold story of Zsa Zsa’s daughter, Francesca Hilton, a gifted photographer who eschewed the Gabor lifestyle and paid a sad price for her independence. The story of family patriarch Vilmos Gabor, who returned to Hungary only to be trapped behind the Iron Curtain, reads like a Cold War spy thriller. Culled from new interviews with family, colleagues, and confidantes, and the unpublished memoirs of the author's friend Francesca Hilton, Finding Zsa Zsa finally introduces fans to the Gabor family they never knew, including many never-before-seen photos. It’s a riveting, outrageously funny, bittersweet, and affectionately honest read of four women who were vulnerable, tough, charitable, endlessly fascinating, and always glamorous to a fault.

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Kensington Books

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1496719611

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9781496719614

The Highland Falcon Thief: Adventures on Trains #1

By: M. G. Leonard,Sam Sedgman

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The Highland Falcon Thief: Adventures on Trains #1

By: M. G. Leonard,Sam Sedgman

In The Highland Falcon Thief: Adventures on Trains #1, a middle-grade series starter from MG Leonard and Sam Sedgman, a young boy is swept up in an investigation to uncover the perpetrator of a jewel theft. When eleven-year-old Harrison "Hal" Beck is forced to accompany his travel-writer uncle on the last journey of a royal train, he expects a boring trip spent away from video games and children his age. But then Hal spots a girl who should not be on board, and he quickly makes friends with the stowaway, Lenny. Things get even more interesting when the royal prince and princess board for the last leg of the journey—because the princess's diamond necklace is soon stolen and replaced with a fake! Suspicion falls on the one person who isn't supposed to be there: Lenny. It's up to Hal, his keen observation, and his skill as a budding sketch artist to uncover the real jewel thief, clear his friend's name, and return the diamond necklace before The Highland Falcon makes its last stop.

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Feiwel & Friends

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1250222907

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9781250222909

Georgia During World War II

By: Sam Crompton

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Georgia During World War II

By: Sam Crompton

World War II occurred during a time in Georgia's history when changes to the economy, government, and civil rights were already underway. The war helped to pull Georgia out of the Great Depression and bring the state up to speed with the rest of the modernizing country. This book explores how World War II influenced the changing state and also how the state made a difference in the war. Students will learn about important military bases and shipyards, influential people such as Richard Russell and Carl Vinson, and President Roosevelt's relationship with Georgia. Primary sources make history come alive. Readers will gain a better understanding of important curricular topics and make valuable connections between various historical events.

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The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

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1508160007

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Settlers, War, and Empire in the Press

Unsettling News in Australia and Britain, 1863-1902

By: Sam Hutchinson

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Settlers, War, and Empire in the Press

Unsettling News in Australia and Britain, 1863-1902

By: Sam Hutchinson

This book explores how public commentary framed Australian involvement in the Waikato War (1863-64), the Sudan crisis (1885), and the South African War (1899-1902), a succession of conflicts that reverberated around the British Empire and which the newspaper press reported at length. It reconstructs the ways these conflicts were understood and reflected in the colonial and British press, and how commentators responded to the shifting circumstances that shaped the mood of their coverage. Studying each conflict in turn, the book explores the expressions of feeling that arose within and between the Australian colonies and Britain. It argues that settler and imperial narratives required constant defending and maintaining. This process led to tensions between Britain and the colonies, and also to vivid displays of mutual affection. The book examines how war narratives merged with ideas of territorial ownership and productivity, racial anxieties, self-governance, and foundational violence. In doing so it draws out the rationales and emotions that both fortified and unsettled settler societies.

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Springer

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3319637754

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Georgia During the New South Era

By: Sam Crompton

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Georgia During the New South Era

By: Sam Crompton

Providing in-depth information about Georgia's unique experience during the interval between 1877 and 1918, this text supplements the Georgia Social Studies Performance Standards. Readers will learn about Jim Crow laws, the International Cotton Exposition, and the factors leading up to the First World War. The book illuminates importance of noteworthy individuals such as W.E.B. DuBois, Booker T. Washington, and Alonzo Herndon. Primary source images expand on the information, and eye-catching photographs draw readers' interest.

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1508160015

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9781508160014

Abstraction

By: Sam Weis

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Abstraction

By: Sam Weis

Trip-inducing paintings, an amphibious tour bus, and assorted donuts. With the lush Pacific Northwest as a backdrop, a famous artist abruptly changes her painting style and finds her art has an eerie impact on people. Wren Willow Hendrix’s new work provokes inexplicable personality changes in those who view it, with often hilarious results. All too soon, Wren finds herself the center of unwanted attention. With Homeland Security hot on her trail and a hate-spewing cult preacher gunning for her, Wren needs all the help she can get. Unfortunately, her best friend has hatched a plot of her own—one that will not only put her in the line of danger, but will pull Wren onto the stage of world events. Will the dubious protection of a meddling journalist, a battle-scarred veteran, and a reclusive pot farmer be enough to keep Wren out of the clutches of those who would abuse her art—or worse? Abstraction is a quirky, fast-paced story of artists, villains, and accidental heroes.

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Kasva Press

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1948403323

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9781948403320

Improv Nation

How We Made a Great American Art

By: Sam Wasson

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Improv Nation

How We Made a Great American Art

By: Sam Wasson

“Like the best of his subjects, which include Stephen Colbert, Bill Murray and Tina Fey, Wasson has perfect timing.”—Minneapolis Star-Tribune Finalist for the 2017 George Freedley Memorial Award In this richly reported, scene-driven narrative, Sam Wasson charts the meteoric rise of improv from its unlikely beginnings in McCarthy-era Chicago. We witness the chance meeting between Mike Nichols and Elaine May, hang out at the after-hours bar where Dan Aykroyd hosted friends like John Belushi, Bill Murray, and Gilda Radner, and go behind the scenes of cultural landmarks from The Graduate to The Colbert Report. Along the way, we befriend pioneers such as Harold Ramis, Chevy Chase, Steve Carell, Amy Poehler, Alan Arkin, Tina Fey, Judd Apatow, and many others. “Compelling, absolutely unputdownable…And, in case you’re wondering, yes, the book is funny. In places, very funny. A remarkable story, magnificently told.”—Booklist “One of the most important stories in American popular culture…Wasson may be the first author to explain [improv’s] entire history…a valuable book.”—The New York Times Book Review “Improv Nation masterfully tells a new history of American comedy…It holds the element of surprise—true to the spirit of its subject.”—Entertainment Weekly

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0544558251

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9780544558250

Small Town South

By: Sam Byrd

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Small Town South

By: Sam Byrd

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

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Read Books Ltd

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1528760891

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9781528760898

Physics, 1963-1970

By: Sam Stuart

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Physics, 1963-1970

By: Sam Stuart

Physics: 1963-1970 focuses on the history, developments, and trends in physics, including the applications of lasers, semiconductors, and electrodynamics. The book first offers information on events, laws of nature, and invariance principles and the shell model. Topics include magic numbers, atomic analogue, individual orbits in the nucleus, and the use of invariance principles and approximate invariances. The text also ponders on the production of coherent radiation by atoms and molecules, including basic maser principles, maser clocks and amplifiers, and application of lasers. The publication takes a look at semiconductor lasers and development of quantum electrodynamics. Discussions focus on methods of obtaining states with negative temperature in semiconductors; conditions for the production of negative temperature in semiconductors; and semiconductor lasers. The text also examines the optical methods for studying Hertzian resonances, energy production in stars, and developments in particle physics. The manuscript is a dependable reference for readers interested in the history, developments, and trends in physics.

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1483279863

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Cognitive Rhetoric

The cognitive poetics of political discourse

By: Sam Browse

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Cognitive Rhetoric

The cognitive poetics of political discourse

By: Sam Browse

This book sets out a framework for investigating audience responses to political discourse. It starts from the premise that audiences are active participants who bring their own background knowledge and political standpoint to the communicative event. To operationalise this perspective, the volume draws on concepts from classical rhetoric alongside contemporary research in cognitive stylistics and cognitive linguistics (including schema theory, Text World Theory, Cognitive Grammar, and mind-modelling, amongst others). It examines the role played by the speaker’s identity, the arguments they make, and the emotions of the audience in the – often critical – reception of political text and talk, using a diversity of examples to illustrate this three-dimensional approach – from political speeches, interviews and newspaper articles, to more creative text-types such as politicised rap music, television satire and filmic drama. The result of this wide-ranging application is a holistic and systematic account of the rhetorical and ideological effects of political discourse in reception.

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The 100 Best Superhero Movies

By: Sam Pine

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The 100 Best Superhero Movies

By: Sam Pine

Suffering from superhero fatigue? Superhero films are ten a penny these days and often disappoint with their cardboard characters and tiresome CGI destruction. Though this genre is increasingly the object of snooty disdain from film industry royalty there have been many great superhero films which are simply great films period - irrespective of genre. This book will hopefully remind you that not all superhero films are the same. Let's attempt to separate the wheat from the chaff and count down the 100 best superhero movies of all time.

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Against White Interiority

A Racial Critique of Therapeutic Reason

By: Sam Binkley

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Against White Interiority

A Racial Critique of Therapeutic Reason

By: Sam Binkley

This book presents a bold critique of the new racial sensibility that has attained global prominence following the police murder of George Floyd. Through a set of managerial and therapeutic discourses, this new sensibility describes the inner racial life of white subjects, inducing them to adopt a therapeutic attitude toward deeply interiorized white emotions and conflicts. In so doing, the new racial sensibility promises to remake whiteness in the image of the self-aware racial ally. However, such an appeal, it is argued, serves the subtle function of the preservation of white racial dispositions, and the reproduction of the very racism it sets out to transform. Adopting a critical lens derived from Michel Foucault’s analysis of sexuality, together with an engagement with sociological, psychoanalytic and phenomenological reflections on shame as a racial affect, a critique of white interiority considers alternative frames through which white anti-racist subjection might be imagined.

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3031318285

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Steven Truscott and the Murder of 12-Year Old Lynne Harper

By: Sam Dennis McDonough

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Steven Truscott and the Murder of 12-Year Old Lynne Harper

By: Sam Dennis McDonough

Reason for Reading: This book presents all the facts from both sides about Canada's most infamous crime. Reach your own conclusion by being objective and thinking critically. Synopsis: On a cold September day in 1959 a 14 year old Canadian schoolboy, in just his first encounter with the police and in a crime of passion, was sentenced by a jury to hang for the murder of his 12-year-old friend. Why I wrote this book: My greatest passion is to search for the truth in real crimes. Why you should read this book: This is probably the only book you will find in all of America's media about Steven Truscott and the Murder of 12-year-old Lynne Harper that is completely objective. Why you may avoid this book: There is an unconscious desire on the part of many to find greater meaning in the life and trials of Steven Truscott than is possible based upon the historical case. And so for them, there will always be an innocent Truscott. It simply has to be, no matter what.

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An Enduring Passion

My Ryder Cup Years

By: Sam Torrance

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An Enduring Passion

My Ryder Cup Years

By: Sam Torrance

The Ryder Cup has defined Sam Torrance's life as a professional golfer. He has played with and against some of the greatest golfers the game has ever known, in the biggest and most high-pressure team event in golf. In An Enduring Passion, Torrance recalls every great moment in the two decades he spent pursuing Ryder Cup glory and looks at how the event has changed since he was trying to qualify for it as a player in the late 1970s. He examines the tactics and techniques of the captains he played under and those he played against, and tells how his huge experience as a player, and his vice captaincy to Mark James in the bear pit of Brookline, shaped the way he conducted his own captaincy at The Belfry in 2002. Everything he had learned about the Ryder Cup went into his leadership during that event, and when he raised the trophy aloft at the end of it all he knew he had learned the lessons well. Today, Sam Torrance is one of the most identifiable faces, and voices, of golf. It is the Ryder Cup, though, that made him, and this book is his enlightening account of the competition from an insider's perspective.

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1907195777

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Invisible Insanity

A Social History of Mental Illness

By: John Deadman,Sam Sussman,David Streiner

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Invisible Insanity

A Social History of Mental Illness

By: John Deadman,Sam Sussman,David Streiner

From the frontlines of the fight for dignity and appropriate treatment for those struggling with mental health challenges, John Deadman, Sam Sussman, and David Streiner offer a social history of mental illness in Canada and the world that is rich in research, personal experience, scientific knowledge, and challenging truths. Reaching back to ancient times, the authors trace the story of mental health treatment and connect past events to the eventual policy of deinstitutionalization in Canada. As eyewitnesses to the painful fallout of deinstitutionalization, the authors are well-positioned to describe the results of this policy, particularly for the severely mentally ill: incarceration, homelessness, and helplessness. The shocking visibility of these challenges has led to calls for action, but major social institutions, such as government and religious organizations, have been unable to provide lasting solutions. Invisible Insanity: A Social History of Mental Illness in Canada and the World will appeal to mental health professionals, those who suffer from mental illness, family and friends of those who suffer, and members of society as a whole. It’s an issue that touches all of us in some way, and the authors will inspire readers to advocate for comprehensive care that meets the needs of patients and treats them with the dignity and professionalism they deserve.

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1039163165

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The Transformation of Black Music

The rhythms, the songs, and the ships of the African Diaspora

By: Sam Floyd,Melanie Zeck,Guthrie Ramsey

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The Transformation of Black Music

The rhythms, the songs, and the ships of the African Diaspora

By: Sam Floyd,Melanie Zeck,Guthrie Ramsey

Powerful and embracive, The Transformation of Black Music explores the full spectrum of black musics over the past thousand years as Africans and their descendants have traveled around the globe making celebrated music both in their homelands and throughout the Diaspora. Authors Samuel A. Floyd, Melanie Zeck, and Guthrie Ramsey brilliantly discuss how the music has blossomed, permeated present traditions, and created new practices. As a companion to the ground-breaking The Power of Black Music, this text brilliantly situates emerging, morphing, and influential black musics in a broader framework of cultural, political, and social histories. Grappling with subjects frequently omitted from traditional musical texts, The Transformation of Black Music is guided by more than just the ideals of inclusivity and representation. This work covers overlooked topics that include classical musicians of African descent, and builds upon the contributions of esteemed predecessors in the field of black music study. Providing a sweeping list of figures rarely included in conventional music history and theory textbooks, the text elucidates the findings of ethnomusicologists, cultural historians, Americanists, Africanists, and anthropologists, and weaves these accounts into a powerful and informative narrative. Taking its readers on a journey - one that has never been attempted in a single volume alone - this book reflects the musical phenomena generated by forced African migration and collective memory, and considers the kinds of powerful stories that these musics were meant to tell. Filling in critical musical and historical gaps previously ignored, authors Floyd, Zeck, and Ramsey infuse an engaging musical dialogue with a deeper understanding of the interrelationships between black musical genres and mainstream music. The Transformation of Black Music will solidify not only the inestimable value of black musics, but also the importance and relevance of black music research to all musical endeavors.

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0190651296

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Double Cross

The Explosive Inside Story of the Mobster Who Controlled America

By: Sam Giancana,Chuck Giancana,Bettina Giancana

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Double Cross

The Explosive Inside Story of the Mobster Who Controlled America

By: Sam Giancana,Chuck Giancana,Bettina Giancana

One of the most feared Chicago mobsters Sam Giancana clawed his way to the top of the Mafia hierarchy by starting as a hit man for Al Capone. He was known as one of the best vehicle escape artists, a tenacious business man, and a ruthless killer. He partied with major stars such as Frank Sinatra and Marilyn Monroe and did business with agents ranging from the CIA to the Vatican to the shah of Iran. When politician Joe Kennedy gave Giancana the chance to use mob muscle to get his son John elected, Giancana jumped at the task. But the Kennedy brothers double-crossed him, waging full-out war on organized crime throughout the United States. And Giancana went after them. Written with suspense and conviction, we learn about how the CIA asked Giancana to assassinate Fidel Castro. The book includes Giancana's testimony about the truth of his involvement in the deaths of Monroe and others, among others. Chuck Giancana, Sam's brother, contributes a unique perspective of the mobs relationship with the Bay of Pigs and many other pivotal events of the 60's and beyond. Double Cross is an eye-opening account of the interworking of the government and the mob and how this relationship has impacted American history.

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1510711252

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Settle the Score

the brand-new gripping and action-packed gangland thriller for 2024

By: Sam Tobin

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Settle the Score

the brand-new gripping and action-packed gangland thriller for 2024

By: Sam Tobin

Packs a mighty punch! . . . Fast paced and full of twists . . . If you like gangster thrillers, this is one for you' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Malton's in prison. Keisha's back in town. Dean's out on his own. And it's all about to come crashing down . . . Craig Malton, the man who solves crime for criminals in Manchester's underworld, is banged up in prison - for a murder he didn't commit. Journalist Ruth Porter is hungry for a story. Young men are turning up brutally murdered and one name keeps cropping up - Craig Malton. As Ruth investigates she soon discovers a truth far darker than she could ever have imagined. There's a sadistic killer hiding in plain sight and he's already chosen his next victim . . . A riveting, action-packed gangland thriller for fans of Kimberley Chambers, Mandasue Heller and Jessie Keane, with an ending you'll never see coming! READERS LOVE SETTLE THE SCORE: 'Another cracking read. Full of grit and twists . . . an amazing story' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Gritty action-packed . . . There is plenty going on to keep you captivated and twists and turns along the way. . . highly recommended' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Another fantastic read from Sam Tobin. These stories are so good, can't put the book down' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ PRAISE FOR SAM TOBIN: 'A deliciously dark new voice in crime fiction. I loved it!' M.J. Arlidge 'A thrilling killer read that left me wanting more. Full of character, heart and underworld brutality! You'll never look at Manchester the same way again' Kevin Erlis, co-creator of Ackley Bridge 'A chilling, fast-paced journey through Manchester's brutal underworld. Once you pick this book up, you won't want to put it down' Bestselling author Roberta Kray 'Grabs you by the throat. Scary, compulsive and very, very readable. I already want more' J.J. Connolly

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1399713892

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The New Yorkers

31 Remarkable People, 400 Years, and the Untold Biography of the World's Greatest City

By: Sam Roberts

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The New Yorkers

31 Remarkable People, 400 Years, and the Untold Biography of the World's Greatest City

By: Sam Roberts

Longlisted for the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize in Nonfiction From award-winning New York Times reporter Sam Roberts, the story of the world's most exceptional city, told through 31 little-known yet pivotal inhabitants who helped define it. In Sam Roberts's pulsating history of the world's most exceptional metropolis, greet the city anew through thirty-one unique New Yorkers you've probably never heard of-just in time for the city's 400th birthday. The New Yorkers introduces the first woman to appear nude in a motion picture, becoming the face of Civic Fame as Miss Manhattan; the couple whose soirée ended the Gilded Age with an embarrassing bang; and the husband and wife who invented the modern celebrity talk show. It reveals the victim of the city's first recorded murder in the seventeenth century and the high school dropout who slashed crime rates in the twentieth. The notorious mobster who was imperiously banished from the city and the woman who successfully sued a bus company for racial discrimination a century before Rosa Parks. Some deserved monuments, but their grandeur was overlooked or forgotten. Others shepherded the city through its perpetual evolution, but discreetly. Virtually all have vanished into New York's uncombed history. The New Yorkers is a living biography of the world's greatest city, and no one knows New York better than Sam Roberts-or is better at bringing its history to life.

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1620409798

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The 31st Golden Age of Science Fiction MEGAPACK®: Sam Merwin, Jr.

By: Sam Merwin Jr.

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The 31st Golden Age of Science Fiction MEGAPACK®: Sam Merwin, Jr.

By: Sam Merwin Jr.

Sam Merwin, Jr. (1910-1996) is one of those great "lost" authors. Equally adept and mystery and science fiction, he produced a significant body of work in both fields. In fact, this volume adds as a bonus two of his classic mystery stories, in addition to a selection of 7 science fiction stories. Included are: JUDAS RAM THE AMBASSADOR THE FINAL FIGURE REEL LIFE FILMS A WORLD APART IT'S ALL YOURS TESTING AMY STOPS THE CLOCK (Bonus Mystery Story) DEATH FROM A FAMILY TREE (Bonus Mystery Story) If you enjoy this ebook, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see more of the 280+ volumes in this series, covering adventure, historical fiction, mysteries, westerns, ghost stories, science fiction -- and much, much more!

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147942000X

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