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The_Counselor

An Angel Vierra Investigation

By: Sam Fluharty

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The_Counselor

An Angel Vierra Investigation

By: Sam Fluharty

Michael Prebo was the counselor. He did not have a psychology degree, and he certainly did not follow the profession's code of ethics. He counseled young women to take the plunge. A dozen desperate clients had followed his advice to their watery graves. The svelte and savvy TV journalist, Sullivan Hart, tracked him to California and Michigan, where Prebo set his sights and psychosexual fantasies on her. Jane Doe no. 2 (6/11/92) had been murdered. She had also been raped. Five years later, her rape kit was analyzed. It revealed DNA evidence that could lead to her killer. Michigan State Police homicide specialist Angel Vierra catches the case. He recruits his wife, Shantelle, to assist in the investigation. She had been Angel's partner on Detroit PD's homicide squad one. Although she had taken a four-year sabbatical to become a wife and mother, she jumped back into the game with zeal and guts. Critical praise for Sam Fluharty's first novel Rite of revenge: Fluharty, a former Vietnam pilot, puts his flight experience to good use in this novel and also showcases an authority on police techniques and procedure. The story is briskly paced, and the narrative remains central without disappearing behind extraneous information. An uneven romantic thriller that will appeal to genre fans (Kirkus Reviews of New York).

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1984541676

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Ethylenethiourea

Applied Chemistry Division Commission on Terminal Pesticide Residues

By: Sam Stuart

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Ethylenethiourea

Applied Chemistry Division Commission on Terminal Pesticide Residues

By: Sam Stuart

Ethylenethiourea focuses on the occurrence of ethylenethiourea (ETU) as a terminal residue resulting from agricultural use of ethylenebisdithiocarbamate (EBDC) fungicides. The book first states that EBDC forms the most essential class of fungicides for controlling diseases of agricultural crops. The class includes mancozeb, maneb, nabam, metiram, and zineb. The text also underscores that findings have shown that ETU may occur in plant samples after the use of dithiocarbamate fungicides. Methodologies used in the experiments include thin-layer chromatography, polarography, and radioisotope. The publication offers information on the chemistry of ETU, including formation; transformation products of ETU; photooxidation; and soil, plant, and animal metabolism. The book also reviews the dynamics and transformation of ETU residues and the processing and cooking effects of EBDC's. The book is a dependable reference for readers interested in the composition, reactions, effects, and transformations of EBDC fungicides.

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1483165647

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Love Hertz (Silver Hills Cozy Mysteries, Book 9)

By: Sam Cheever

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Love Hertz (Silver Hills Cozy Mysteries, Book 9)

By: Sam Cheever

Come to Silver Hills. Where making friends can prove deadly and making enemies might be easier than you think. Emotions are aflutter at Silver Hills as a new heartthrob moves into the residence. Will all that fluttering still a single heart? And if love dies, will Flo’s very own amour find itself in the crosshairs of the estimable Detective Brent Peters? Agnes and Hertz are on the outs. Secrets tear the tender fabric of a pulsing heart. What do the secrets have to do with murder? Affairs of le cœur aside, will Agnes break the clothing store shopping for a party dress? What will break during a rousing class of Zumba? And will Flo be able to soldier through her dance injuries to follow a chubby cherub to a killer? So many questions. So much hopping, tapping and fluttering. And still a murder to solve. What will Flo and Co. do? They’ll do what they always do, of course. Hearts out and chins up, they’re goin’ in!

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Electric Prose Publications

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1950331202

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9781950331208

Understanding Figurative Language

From Metaphor to Idioms

By: Sam Glucksberg,Matthew S. McGlone

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Understanding Figurative Language

From Metaphor to Idioms

By: Sam Glucksberg,Matthew S. McGlone

He puts forth a new theory of metaphor comprehension that integrates linguistic, philosophical, and psychological perspectives on figurative language."--BOOK JACKET.

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Oxford University Press

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0195111095

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Freezer Bernie: Fun and Quirky Cozy Mystery (Silver Hills Cozy Mysteries, Book 3)

By: Sam Cheever

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Freezer Bernie: Fun and Quirky Cozy Mystery (Silver Hills Cozy Mysteries, Book 3)

By: Sam Cheever

3 Winter chickens against a cadre of thugs? Yeah, the bad guys are definitely in trouble! When a dead guy turns up in the freezer of Flo and Agnes’s favorite Italian restaurant, the ladies quickly discover that the corpse had connections to one of their friends. Celia Angonetti’s husband owns Gioppino's Italian Restaurant, as well as the gun lying next to the frozen body with bullet holes in its chest. What he doesn’t own, according to Celia, is responsibility for the kill. Against their better judgment, the ladies get pulled into the mystery of how the dead guy got dead in the freezer…why he’d been killed with Massimo Angonetti’s gun…and how Celia came to the unlikely conclusion that her thug of a hubby was innocent of the crime. Some might think it was an impossible task. Some probably haven’t met Flo and Agnes.

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Electric Prose Publications

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168418875X

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9781684188758

Vlad-Handing (Silver Hills Cozy Mysteries, Book 7)

By: Sam Cheever

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Vlad-Handing (Silver Hills Cozy Mysteries, Book 7)

By: Sam Cheever

Come to Silver Hills. Where an old nemesis can lead to new trouble and murder is a line item in a business plan. Vlad Newsome isn't exactly known as a people person. He's really more contentious than convivial. But something's changed with him, and Flo and Agnes are suspicious. Vlad's suddenly "peopling". He's shaking hands and even curving his thin lips upward at times in a terrifying imitation of a smile. Could it be he's turning over a new leaf? Is he facing a life-changing event that's made him grow as a person? Nah... He's up to something. And Flo and Agnes are determined to find out what. When a woman who had a beef with the reprehensible creature of the night known as Vlad Newsome turns up dead in her home...Vlad appears to be the culprit behind her murder. Silver City PD certainly believe he's guilty. But Vlad insists he's innocent. It's going to be up to Flo and Co. to solve the murder and find the "real" killer. Unfortunately for everyone involved, the ladies aren't totally certain Vlad isn't the murderer. Will Flo and Co. walk away...leave Vlad to defend himself? If you believe that you haven't been paying attention. After all, this is Flo and Agnes!

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Electric Prose Publications

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0999170376

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9780999170373

Street Fare: Fun and Quirky Cozy Mystery (Silver Hills Cozy Mysteries, Book 10)

By: Sam Cheever

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Street Fare: Fun and Quirky Cozy Mystery (Silver Hills Cozy Mysteries, Book 10)

By: Sam Cheever

Come to Silver Hills for a street fair with rides, gastronomic treats, and the requisite dead body. Flo loves street fairs. When the opportunity comes up for Silver Hills to sponsor one, she jumps at the chance to serve as committee chair. After all, she can’t let the spooky duo of Vlad and Morticia do it. Or Agnes, who isn’t known for her grace under pressure. Or even Celia, whose thuggish husband may or may not have had something to do with the corpse riding in the rented car with him. In the end, nothing goes as planned. But Flo once taught math and science to thirty middle schoolers. Certainly, she can deal with a few setbacks and crises in a street fair. Or…maybe not?

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Electric Prose Publications

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1962287025

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9781962287029

Christmas Grift (Silver Hills Cozy Mysteries, Book 4)

By: Sam Cheever

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Christmas Grift (Silver Hills Cozy Mysteries, Book 4)

By: Sam Cheever

A corpse, a cantankerous camel, an entertaining array of suspects, and a yule tide of problems along the way…it must be a Flo and Agnes Christmas! Who would have guessed Agnes would rub Penelope the cranky camel the wrong way? Or that Flo would find herself ankle deep in camel dung while fending off a masked murderer? Or that TC would, once again, get on the wrong side of her handsome detective in an attempt to help her friends? Why…anybody who’s been to Silver Hills before…that’s who!

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1684181178

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9781684181179

Naval Gazing (Silver Hills Cozy Mysteries, Book 6)

By: Sam Cheever

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Naval Gazing (Silver Hills Cozy Mysteries, Book 6)

By: Sam Cheever

Come to Silver Hills. Where age is relative and relatives can be deadly. A skeleton under the floorboards…a long-hidden crime…and a nonagenarian WWII veteran who claims to have no knowledge of how the body got buried under her living room floor… When their new friend, Scarlett, moves to Silver Hills, Flo and Agnes soon realize the crotchety veteran isn’t exactly a people person. Unfortunately, her acerbic personality isn’t helping her convince Detective Peters that she had nothing to do with murdering the dead guy beneath her floorboards. So the two sleuths, with a colorful array of the usual sidekicks, dive into the decades old murder and quickly learn it has a grip in the present. Can Flo and Agnes keep themselves above the fray? Or will they soon find themselves over their heads and swimming against the tide? If you've been to Silver Hills before you already know the answer to that. There's really only one question left: backstroke or breaststroke?

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Electric Prose Publications

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138661744X

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9781386617440

A Truffaut Notebook

By: Sam Solecki

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A Truffaut Notebook

By: Sam Solecki

François Truffaut (1932-1984) ranks among the greatest film directors and has had a worldwide impact on filmmaking as a screenwriter, producer, film critic, and founding member of the French New Wave. His most celebrated films include The 400 Blows, Shoot the Piano Player, Jules and Jim, Day for Night, and The Last Metro. A Truffaut Notebook is a lively and eclectic introduction to the life and work of this major cinematic figure. In entries as brief as a page, as well as in full-length essays, it examines topics such as Truffaut's mentors, the autobiographical nature of his films, his place in the film tradition, his film criticism, his reputation, his relationships with other directors, and the formal and thematic coherence of his body of work. Sam Solecki also argues for Truffaut's continuing appeal and relevance by examining his influence on filmmakers like Woody Allen, Noah Baumbach, Alexander Payne, Patrice Leconte, and Jean-Pierre Jeunet, and on writers such as Julian Barnes, Ann Beattie, and Salman Rushdie. Because the book returns regularly to the author's shifting responses to Truffaut's work over the last fifty years, it also offers an autobiographical meditation on his own lifelong fascination with film. Consisting of over eighty short entries and essays, as well as provocative lists, dreams, and quizzes, A Truffaut Notebook is an original and exciting text and a model of passionate engagement with cinema.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773597999

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9780773597990

Labour Exploitation and Work-Based Harm

By: Scott, Sam

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Labour Exploitation and Work-Based Harm

By: Scott, Sam

EPUB and EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Labour exploitation is a highly topical though complex issue that has international resonance for those concerned with social justice and social welfare, but there is a lack of research available about it. This book, part of the Studies in Social Harm series, is the first to look at labour exploitation from a social harm perspective, arguing that, as a global social problem, it should be located within the broader study of work-based harm. Written by an expert in policy orientated research, he critiques existing approaches to the study of workplace exploitation, abuse and forced labour. Mapping out a new sub-discipline, this innovative book aims to shift power from employers to workers to reduce levels of labour exploitation and work-based harm. It is relevant to academics from many fields as well as legislators, policy makers, politicians, employers, union officials, activists and consumers.

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Policy Press

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144732207X

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Dose Vidanya: Fun and Quirky Cozy Mystery (Silver Hills Cozy Mysteries, Book 2)

By: Sam Cheever

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Dose Vidanya: Fun and Quirky Cozy Mystery (Silver Hills Cozy Mysteries, Book 2)

By: Sam Cheever

Come to Silver Hills. Where petting a cat can be a death sentence and yoga is all about survival. Silver Hills Senior and Singles Residence isn’t exactly a boring place. Home to a death-predicting cat named Tolstoy, a night manager who may or may not suck blood and float above the floor, a cook with mad voodoo and pie-baking powers, and a trio of nosy sleuths who are determined to get to the bottom of the corpse in the library (maybe literally)…some might say things couldn’t get any weirder. Some would be wrong.

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Electric Prose Publications

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1944784675

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9781944784676

The Moral Landscape

How Science Can Determine Human Values

By: Sam Harris

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The Moral Landscape

How Science Can Determine Human Values

By: Sam Harris

Sam Harris dismantles the most common justification for religious faith--that a moral system cannot be based on science.

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Simon and Schuster

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143917122X

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9781439171226

Knowledge, Higher Education, and the New Managerialism

The Changing Management of UK Universities

By: Rosemary Deem,Sam Hillyard,Mike Reed,Michael Reed

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Knowledge, Higher Education, and the New Managerialism

The Changing Management of UK Universities

By: Rosemary Deem,Sam Hillyard,Mike Reed,Michael Reed

The authors analyse changes in the management of recent professional academic work in British universities, examine the implications of mass higher education, and look at the impact of 'new managerialism' in 'knowledge-intensive' organisations.

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Oxford University Press

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0199265909

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9780199265909

The Forgotten Marlins

A Tribute to the 1956-1960 Original Miami Marlins

By: Sam Zygner

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The Forgotten Marlins

A Tribute to the 1956-1960 Original Miami Marlins

By: Sam Zygner

The Forgotten Marlins pays tribute to the original Miami Marlins of the AAA International League, bringing to life one of the most colorful and flamboyant teams to play in baseball’s minor leagues. During their five years of existence, the Marlins featured prominent personalities such as eccentric manager Pepper Martin, zany Mickey McDermott, and maverick promoter Bill Veeck. Including rarely-heard stories about baseball icon and Hall-of-Famer Satchel Paige’s years in Miami, and containing interviews between the author and several of the surviving ballplayers, this book is a unique and comprehensive account of a truly original baseball team. The Forgotten Marlins is an entertaining and engaging read for all baseball fans and historians.

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Scarecrow Press

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0810891395

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Bad HairCult (Silver Hills Cozy Mysteries, Book 5)

By: Sam Cheever

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Bad HairCult (Silver Hills Cozy Mysteries, Book 5)

By: Sam Cheever

Come to Silver Hills. Where a bad hair day could end up costing you your life. If you were a “mature” individual with a mighty fine bouff, would you consider shaving your head to solve a case of possible murder? That’s the million-dollar question for Flo and Agnes as they find themselves neck-deep in missing Satanists, scheming cultists, and a long string of seriously bad hair days. But what’s a sleuth to do when the queen of the night comes to them pleading…erm…threatening…ahhh…pleatening them for help? If you know Flo and Agnes you already know the answer to that question. They’re goin’ in!

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Electric Prose Publications

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163587968X

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9781635879681

Fowl Campaign (Silver Hills Cozy Mysteries, Book 8)

By: Sam Cheever

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Fowl Campaign (Silver Hills Cozy Mysteries, Book 8)

By: Sam Cheever

Come to Silver Hills. Where fowl plans can either mean dinner out, or the deadly designs of a chicken-livered killer. When Vlad’s opponent for the Silver City mayoral race succumbs to fowl deeds, he seriously changes the pecking order in Vlad’s favor. But the victim’s death has made Vlad king of the roost, so the Silver Hills night manager quickly becomes the obvious suspect. Plucky investigators Flo and Co. are certainly no strangers to Vlad’s evil ways. But they’re also not egg-xactly convinced he did it. So, when Flo learns that the victim, a wealthy local chicken farmer, had been trying to reach her when he was killed, she’s more than a little curious why. Will their investigation shine a light on a killer’s fowl deeds before he flies the coop? Or will Flo chicken out when the villain threatens to go all cock-a-doodle-do on her bad self? There’s only one way to find out. And you already know what it is… Yep, Flo and Co. are goin’ in, tail feathers high!

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Electric Prose Publications

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1950331016

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9781950331017

Wedding Blitz

By: Sam Cheever

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Wedding Blitz

By: Sam Cheever

Come to Silver Hills, where nothing is impervious to murder and chaos, even a long-awaited wedding. Agnes and Hertz are finally getting married. It would be nice to report that all was going to go as planned. Unfortunately, we’re dealing with Flo and Co. and their propensity for finding bodies everywhere they go. These nuptials might be noxious. The wedding may be weird. The marriage could be murderous. Will a little thing like a wedding dress and three hundred guests deter the fearsome foursome from launching an investigation into the “problem”? If you believe that, you haven’t been paying attention.

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Electric Prose Publications

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1962287033

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The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

By: Sam Harris

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The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

By: Sam Harris

Harris offers a vivid historical tour of mankind's willingness to suspend reason in favor of religious beliefs, even when those beliefs are used to justify harmful behavior and sometimes heinous crimes.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393327655

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9780393327656

County Borough Elections in England and Wales, 1919–1938: A Comparative Analysis

Volume 3: Chester to East Ham

By: Sam Davies,Bob Morley

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County Borough Elections in England and Wales, 1919–1938: A Comparative Analysis

Volume 3: Chester to East Ham

By: Sam Davies,Bob Morley

These volumes provide an essential comprehensive work of reference for the annual municipal elections that took place each November in the 83 County Boroughs of England and Wales between 1919 and 1938. They also provide an extensive and detailed analysis of municipal politics in the same period, both in terms of the individual boroughs and of aggregate patterns of political behaviour. Being annual, these local election results give the clearest and most authoritative record of how political opinion changed between general elections, especially useful for research into the longer gaps such as 1924-29 and 1935-45, or crisis periods such as 1929-31. They also illuminate the impact of fringe parties such as the Communist Party and the British Union of Fascists, and also such questions as the role of women in politics, the significance of religious and ethnic differentiation and the connection between occupational and class divisions and party allegiance. Analysis at the ward level is particularly useful for socio-spatial studies. A major work of reference, County Borough Elections in England and Wales, 1919-1938 is indispensable for university libraries and local and national record offices. Each volume has approximately 700 pages.

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Routledge

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1351948040

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9781351948043

Turning of the Tide

How One Game Changed the South

By: Don Yaeger,Sam Cunningham,John Papadakis

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Turning of the Tide

How One Game Changed the South

By: Don Yaeger,Sam Cunningham,John Papadakis

New York Times bestselling author Yaeger tells the electrifying story of the game that broke down the last racial division in college football.

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Center Street

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159995236X

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9781599952369

Driv'n by Fortune

The Scots' March to Modernity in America, 1745–1812

By: Sam Allison

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Driv'n by Fortune

The Scots' March to Modernity in America, 1745–1812

By: Sam Allison

The story of the 78th Fraser's Highlanders moves from the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion, through the Seven Years' War and the American Revolution, to the War of 1812. When these men were rewarded free land in the "New World," they brought with them revolutionary ideas, creating a legacy that extends far beyond Scotland and Canada.

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Dundurn

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1459722043

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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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Flo Charts (Silver Hills Cozy Mysteries, Book 1)

By: Sam Cheever

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Flo Charts (Silver Hills Cozy Mysteries, Book 1)

By: Sam Cheever

Come to Silver Hills. Where new friends are made and a grim reaper is born. Agnes Willard is moving into Silver Hills. She’s worried about the change and concerned about fitting in. Luckily for her, Florence Bee has decided to take Agnes under her wing. When Agnes’ cat Tolstoy escapes as they’re getting Agnes settled into her new apartment, they quickly find him across the hall, perched on a dying woman’s chest. The new friends soon learn three things from the experience: 1. The cat definitely has an instinct for and proclivity toward people who are on death’s doorstep. 2. Finding and avoiding a killer is a really tough way to spend your first days in a new place. And 3. Agnes truly does have a unique talent for debauching a crime scene.

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Electric Prose Publications

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1732050708

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9781732050709

Thruway Diaries

By: Sam Kelley

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Thruway Diaries

By: Sam Kelley

Thruway Diaries Summary In Thruway Diaries, the Cadillac, that Black American symbol of achievement and success, having made it, provides no immunity to Big T and his family as they travel from Chicago to his native Mississippi in the early sixties and find themselves the target of police officers hell bent on making sure they know their place. It is even more unfortunate for Big T and his family that they are making the trip only a few years after Rosa Parks has refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, sparking a bus boycott that fuels the Civil Rights Movement. Even a car representing success can be seen as an affront to the status quo. God forbid one should display an ounce of visible pride, which could easily be interpreted as an act of defiance, an action that could land the unwary in a shallow grave. There are other places to vacationNew York and Chicagoto show off the Cadillac, as Big T knows and hears in no uncertain terms from his children. But home is where the heart is and millions of African Americans returned home each year to visit family and display their new found status. Some, like my Uncle Albert and Uncle John Dew, escaped Mississippi under the cover of darkness to avoid the penury system that held blacks in a state of economic servitude that was little better than slavery. So returning home in a modern car, sometimes a Cadillac as my Uncle Albert did, displaying the latest fashions, was an act of liberation, of financial independence, if not outright defiance. But Big T learns a harsh lesson that compels him to put his Cadillac on the blocks. Family comes first. Big Ts wife, Naomi, while willing to share in her husbands wishes to see his Mother, harbors a disturbing secret of her own from her days as a maid in a white household when the white master still took advantage of young black women without fear of being charged with sexual abuse. She has fled to Chicago to escape in the arms of Big T. Her experience leaves her on an emotional edge that is soothed only by the comfort of family, the distance from her native home and her hope for the future of her family. But what happens almost forty years later when a retired Big T pulls his Cadillac off the blocks and travels with his family to the Southeast, this time through Pennsylvania, Washington, D. C., and to Virginia? There are three generations instead of two in his Cadillac setting out to enjoy that dream vacation that includes a visit to the Washington, D. C. Vietnam Veterans Memorial to see a family member and to walk his granddaughter down the aisle. They could not be happier and they are very comfortable. The Cadillac Eldorado, after all, has been modernized and updated by grandson Tyrone, known also as Little T, himself an automotive design student at a prestigious Midwestern university. The past, the present, and the future are represented in Big Ts Cadillac. As with the typical family, they are not perfect, there is laughter and joking, stories from the past and some tension between mother and son about relationships, in this case an interracial one. But for Big T and Naomi, the golden years have been good to them. Naomi has hand stitched her granddaughters wedding dress. The dream wedding that she never had will be lived through her granddaughter as she walks down the aisle in the perfect dress, one that is without blemish. The wholesome family of law-abiding, God-fearing Americans heading on a vacation in their modernized Cadillac is driving into a very different world than the early sixties. It is world at the mercy of America's War on Drugs into which they are driving. In the security of their home and local community in which Big T travels, it mattered little to them that the United States Supreme Court has validated stop and frisk by police; that the Court has further ruled that any traffic offense committed by a driver, no matter how minor, is a legitimate legal basis

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County Borough Elections in England and Wales, 1919–1938: A Comparative Analysis

Volume 4: Exeter - Hull

By: Dr Bob Morley,Professor Sam Davies

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County Borough Elections in England and Wales, 1919–1938: A Comparative Analysis

Volume 4: Exeter - Hull

By: Dr Bob Morley,Professor Sam Davies

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1840142499

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Welcome to Your Brain

Why You Lose Your Car Keys but Never Forget How to Drive and Other Puzzles of Everyday Life

By: Sandra Aamodt,Sam Wang

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Welcome to Your Brain

Why You Lose Your Car Keys but Never Forget How to Drive and Other Puzzles of Everyday Life

By: Sandra Aamodt,Sam Wang

Does drinking really kill brain cells? Does listening to Mozart make your baby smarter? For all the mileage we've gotten from our own brains, most of us have essentially no idea how they work. We're easily susceptible to myths (like the "fact" that we use only 10% of our brains) and misconceptions (like the ones perpetrated by most Hollywood movies), probably because we've never known where to turn for the truth. But neurologists Sandra Aamodt and Sam Wang are glad to help. In this funny, accessible book, we get a guided tour of our own minds, what they're made of, how they work, and how they can go wrong. Along the way, we get a host of diagrams, quizzes, and "cocktail party tips" that shed light on the questions we nag each other about. (Can a head injury make you forget your own name? Are dolphins smarter than chimpanzees?) Fun and surprisingly engrossing, Welcome to Your Brain shows you how your brain works, and how you can make it work better.

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1596917067

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The Big Goodbye

Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood

By: Sam Wasson

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The Big Goodbye

Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood

By: Sam Wasson

From the New York Times bestselling author of Fifth Avenue, Five A.M. and Fosse comes the revelatory account of the making of a modern American masterpiece Chinatown is the Holy Grail of 1970s cinema. Its twist ending is the most notorious in American film and its closing line of dialogue the most haunting. Here for the first time is the incredible true story of its making. In Sam Wasson's telling, it becomes the defining story of the most colorful characters in the most colorful period of Hollywood history. Here is Jack Nicholson at the height of his powers, as compelling a movie star as there has ever been, embarking on his great, doomed love affair with Anjelica Huston. Here is director Roman Polanski, both predator and prey, haunted by the savage death of his wife, returning to Los Angeles, the scene of the crime, where the seeds of his own self-destruction are quickly planted. Here is the fevered dealmaking of "The Kid" Robert Evans, the most consummate of producers. Here too is Robert Towne's fabled script, widely considered the greatest original screenplay ever written. Wasson for the first time peels off layers of myth to provide the true account of its creation. Looming over the story of this classic movie is the imminent eclipse of the '70s filmmaker-friendly studios as they gave way to the corporate Hollywood we know today. In telling that larger story, The Big Goodbye will take its place alongside classics like Easy Riders, Raging Bulls and The Devil's Candy as one of the great movie-world books ever written. Praise for Sam Wasson: "Wasson is a canny chronicler of old Hollywood and its outsize personalities...More than that, he understands that style matters, and, like his subjects, he has a flair for it." - The New Yorker "Sam Wasson is a fabulous social historian because he finds meaning in situations and stories that would otherwise be forgotten if he didn't sleuth them out, lovingly." - Hilton Als

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1250301831

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Intellectual Property and the New International Economic Order

Oligopoly, Regulation, and Wealth Redistribution in the Global Knowledge Economy

By: Sam F. Halabi

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Intellectual Property and the New International Economic Order

Oligopoly, Regulation, and Wealth Redistribution in the Global Knowledge Economy

By: Sam F. Halabi

In economic sectors crucial to human welfare – agriculture, education, and medicine – a small number of firms control global markets, primarily by enforcing intellectual property (IP) rights incorporated into trade agreements made in the 1980s onward. Such rights include patents on seeds and medicines, copyrights for educational texts, and trademarks in consumer products. According to conventional wisdom, these agreements likewise ended hopes for a 'New International Economic Order,' under which wealth would be redistributed from rich countries to poor. Sam F. Halabi turns this conventional wisdom on its head by demonstrating that the New International Economic Order never faded, but rather was redirected by other treaties, formed outside the nominally economic sphere, that protected poor countries' interests in education, health, and nutrition and resulted in redistribution and regulation. This illuminating work should be read by anyone seeking a nuanced view of how IP is shaping the global knowledge economy.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316835987

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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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Be Inspired, Stay Focused

Creativity, Learning, and the Business of Music

By: Sam Newsome

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Be Inspired, Stay Focused

Creativity, Learning, and the Business of Music

By: Sam Newsome

Be Inspired, Stay Focused: Creativity, Learning, and the Business of Music is an engaging and inspiring collection of personal essays written by soprano saxophonist Sam Newsome. This book is a must-read for those wanting real insight into how a creative musician thinks about his or her craft and an honest and nuanced perspective of the music business. There's a little something in here for everybody: ? The aspiring musician; ? The seasoned musician; ? The jazz fan; ? The jazz writer; ? The jazz educator; ? And everyday folks seeking inspiration and new ways to connect to this music we love called jazz.

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1098352319

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Doctor Quintard, Chaplain C.S.A. and Second Bishop of Tennessee

The Memoir and Civil War Diary of Charles Todd Quintard

By: Sam Davis Elliott

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Doctor Quintard, Chaplain C.S.A. and Second Bishop of Tennessee

The Memoir and Civil War Diary of Charles Todd Quintard

By: Sam Davis Elliott

Trained as a physician and ordained an Episcopal priest, Charles Todd Quintard (1824--1898) was a remarkable man by the standard of any generation. Born, raised, and educated in the North, he migrated to the South to pursue a medical career but was inspired by the bishop of Tennessee to serve the church. When Tennessee seceded from the Union in May 1861, Quintard joined the Confederate 1st Tennessee Infantry Regiment as its chaplain and during the maelstrom of the Civil War kept a diary of his experiences. He later penned a memoir, which was published posthumously in 1905. Sam Davis Elliott combines a previously unpublished portion of the diary with Quintard's memoir in Doctor Quintard, Chaplain C.S.A. and Second Bishop of Tennessee. Quintard offers an unusual perspective and insightful observations gained from ministering to soldiers and civilians as both a priest and a physician. With thoughtful editing and annotating, Quintard's writings provide a valuable window into the high command of the Army of Tennessee at some of its more critical junctures and substantial detail of the last eight months of the war in Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia. Quintard was present during the early fighting in Virginia, marched into Kentucky with Braxton Bragg, attended to the wounded at Murfreesboro and Chickamauga, witnessed two Confederate retreats from Middle Tennessee, and watched the Federal armies overrun the Deep South in the spring of 1865. He met such diverse personages as Robert E. Lee and Federal Major General James H. Wilson; prayed with Bragg, Leonidas Polk, and John Bell Hood; shared a bed once with Nathan Bedford Forrest; and performed the sad duty of conducting the funerals of Patrick Cleburne and others killed at Franklin, Tennessee. Throughout his military service, he organized hospitals and relief efforts, filled in as a parish priest, and served as chaplain at large of the Army of Tennessee. After the war, Quintard became the prime mover in the revival of Leonidas Polk's dream of an Episcopal Church--sponsored University of the South, and in 1865 he was consecrated bishop of Tennessee, a position he held until his death. These interesting and lively war-year remembrances of one of the Confederacy's most exceptional characters shed new light on the little-known western theater's military, civilian, and religious fronts.

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0807128465

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