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Infinite Stars

By: David Weber,Brian Herbert,Elizabeth Moon,Orson Scott Card

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Infinite Stars

By: David Weber,Brian Herbert,Elizabeth Moon,Orson Scott Card

The biggest names in space opera and military science fiction share 20+ new short stories set in their most famous universes—including Dune, Honor Harrington, and Ender’s Game! Join Nebula and Hugo Award winners, New York Times-bestselling authors, and Science Fiction Grand Masters as they take you to uncharted worlds . . . distant galaxies . . . and the unknown threats lurking in the cosmos . . . This space opera and military science fiction anthology includes short stories set in wildly popular sci-fi universes. Herein lie canonical tales of the Honorverse, the Lost Fleet, Dune, Vatta’s War, Ender Wiggin, the Legion of the Damned, the Imperium, and more. Also included are past masterpieces by authors whose works defined the genre—including a Miles Vorkosigan adventure, a story from the author of the Dragonriders of Pern, and a rare tale co-authored by the screenwriter for The Empire Strikes Back. Featuring over 20 thrilling stories perfect for space opera fans, Infinite Stars will take you on a wild ride to the farthest regions of space.

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Titan Books (US, CA)

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1785654594

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9781785654596

Creeker

A Woman's Journey

By: Linda Scott DeRosier

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Creeker

A Woman's Journey

By: Linda Scott DeRosier

Linda Sue Preston was born on a feather bed in the upper room of her Grandma Emmy's log house in the hills of eastern Kentucky. More than fifty years later, Linda Scott DeRosier has come to believe that you can take a woman out of Appalachia but you can't take Appalachia out of the woman. DeRosier's humorous and poignant memoir is the story of an educated and cultured woman who came of age in Appalachia. She remains unabashedly honest about and proud of her mountain heritage. Now a college professor, decades and notions removed from the creeks and hollows, DeRosier knows that her roots run deep in her memory and language and in her approach to the world. DeRosier describes an Appalachia of complexity and beauty rarely seen by outsiders. Hers was a close-knit world; she says she was probably eleven or twelve years old before she ever spoke to a stranger. She lovingly remembers the unscheduled, day-long visits to friends and family, when visitors cheerfully joined in the day's chores of stringing beans or bedding out sweet potatoes. No advance planning was needed for such trips. Residents of Two-Mile Creek were like family, and everyone was "delighted to see each other wherever, whenever, and for however long." Creeker is a story of relationships, the challenges and consequences of choice, and the impact of the past on the present. It also recalls one woman's struggle to make and keep a sense of self while remaining loyal to the people and traditions that sustained her along life's way. Told with wit, candor, and zest, this is Linda Scott DeRosier's answer to the question familiar in Appalachia--"Who are your people?

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813137403

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9780813137407

The Veteran's Money Book

A Step-by-Step Program to Help Military Veterans Build a Personal Financial Action Plan and Map Their Futures

By: Mechel Lashawn Glass,Scott Scredon

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The Veteran's Money Book

A Step-by-Step Program to Help Military Veterans Build a Personal Financial Action Plan and Map Their Futures

By: Mechel Lashawn Glass,Scott Scredon

Most of the 2.5 million men and women who were deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan received little education in personal finance during their service. Now these veterans are making the transition to civilian life with little knowledge of how to manage their money. In The Veteran’s Money Book, Army veteran Mechel Glass tells how she came home from war 20 years ago and took control of her financial life...and how post-9/11 veterans can, too. Veterans making the transition to civilian life will learn how: To build a personal financial action plan that meets their individual needs. To understand credit and insurance, avoid scams, and develop lifelong habits to stick to a budget. Other veterans are paying down debt and developing long-term plans to save and build wealth. Glass served her country honorably as a U.S. Army intelligence analyst in Turkey during the Persian Gulf War in the early 1990s. Now she speaks regularly with service members and veterans at military bases, VA hospitals, and elsewhere, providing them with guidance and counseling on a variety of financial matters.

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Red Wheel/Weiser

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1601634757

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9781601634757

And Then She Killed Him

By: Robert Scott

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And Then She Killed Him

By: Robert Scott

Describes how widow Miriam Giles, a seductive beauty and master manipulator with a violent past, murdered her second husband and latest "sugar daddy," Alan Helmick, and then claimed innocence.

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Pinnacle Books

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0786020385

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9780786020386

The Death of Affirmative Action?

Racialized Framing and the Fight Against Racial Preference in College Admissions

By: Carter, J. Scott,Lippard, Cameron D.

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The Death of Affirmative Action?

Racialized Framing and the Fight Against Racial Preference in College Admissions

By: Carter, J. Scott,Lippard, Cameron D.

Affirmative action in college admissions has been a polarizing policy since its inception, decried by some as unfairly biased and supported by others as a necessary corrective to institutionalized inequality. In recent years, the protected status of affirmative action has become uncertain, as legal challenges chip away at its foundations. This book looks through a sociological lens at both the history of affirmative action and its increasingly tenuous future. J. Scott Carter and Cameron D. Lippard first survey how and why so-called "colorblind" rhetoric was originally used to frame affirmative action and promote a political ideology. The authors then provide detailed examinations of a host of recent Supreme Court cases that have sought to threaten or undermine it. Carter and Lippard analyze why the arguments of these challengers have successfully influenced widespread changes in attitude toward affirmative action, concluding that the discourse and arguments over these policies are yet more unfortunate manifestations of the quest to preserve the racial status quo in the United States.

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Policy Press

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1529201128

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9781529201123

The Reasoning Criminal

Rational Choice Perspectives on Offending

By: Marvin Scott

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The Reasoning Criminal

Rational Choice Perspectives on Offending

By: Marvin Scott

The assumption that rewards and punishments influence our choices between different courses of action underlies economic, sociological, psychological, and legal thinking about human action. Hence, the notion of a reasoning criminal-one who employs the same sorts of cognitive strategies when contemplating offending as they and the rest of us use when making other decisions-might seem a small contribution to crime control. This conclusion would be mistaken. This volume develops an alternative approach, termed the "rational choice perspective," to explain criminal behaviour. Instead of emphasizing the differences between criminals and non-criminals, it stresses some of the similarities. In particular, while the contributors do not deny the existence of irrational and pathological components in crimes, they suggest that the rational aspects of offending should be explored. An international group of researchers in criminology, psychology, and economics provide a comprehensive review of original research on the criminal offender as a reasoning decision maker. While recognizing the crucial influence of situational factors, the rational choice perspective provides a framework within which to incorporate and locate existing theories about crime. In doing so it also provides both a new agenda for research and sheds a fresh light on deterrent and prevention policies.

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Routledge

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1351475452

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A Second Reckoning

Race, Injustice, and the Last Hanging in Annapolis

By: Scott D. Seligman

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A Second Reckoning

Race, Injustice, and the Last Hanging in Annapolis

By: Scott D. Seligman

2022 IPPY Silver Medal 2021 Foreword Indies Gold Winner for History 2021-22 Reader Views Literary Awards Silver Medal Winner 2021 Best Book Awards Finalist in US History sponsored by American Book Fest A Second Reckoning tells the story of John Snowden, a Black man accused of the murder of a pregnant white woman in Annapolis, Maryland, in 1917. He refused to confess despite undergoing torture, was tried--through legal shenanigans--by an all-white jury, and was found guilty on circumstantial evidence and sentenced to death. Despite hair-raising, last-minute appeals to spare his life, Snowden was hanged for the crime. But decades after his death, thanks to tireless efforts by interested citizens and family members who believed him a victim of a "legal lynching," Snowden was pardoned posthumously by the governor of Maryland in 2001. A Second Reckoning uses Snowden's case to bring posthumous pardons into the national conversation about amends for past racial injustices. Scott D. Seligman argues that the repeal of racist laws and policies must be augmented by reckoning with America's judicial past, especially in cases in which prejudice may have tainted procedures or perverted verdicts, evidence of bias survives, and a constituency exists for a second look. Seligman illustrates the profound effects such acts of clemency have on the living and ends with a siren call for a reexamination of such cases on the national level by the Department of Justice, which officially refuses to consider them.

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U of Nebraska Press

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1640124861

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9781640124868

Brief Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Cancer Patients

Re-Visioning the CBT Paradigm

By: Scott Temple

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Brief Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Cancer Patients

Re-Visioning the CBT Paradigm

By: Scott Temple

Brief Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Cancer Patients is a practical, clinical guide that allows for the integration of techniques from multiple newer CBT models, organized around a clear conceptual foundation and case conceptualization. The book targets those cognitive, emotional, and behavioral processes that research suggests are instrumental in the maintenance of human psychological suffering. Author Scott Temple also draws on newer models that build on strengths and resilience and brings clinical work to life through vivid case examples, worksheets, and case conceptualization forms. Detailed vignettes show clinicians how to create a case conceptualization as a guide to treatment, as well as how to integrate Beckian and newer CBT techniques.

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Taylor & Francis

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1317368096

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Generation Citizen

The Power of Youth in Our Politics

By: Scott Warren

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Generation Citizen

The Power of Youth in Our Politics

By: Scott Warren

Required reading." —Josh Tickell, author of The Revolution Generation Since its beginnings in 2009, Generation Citizen has grown to become one of the preeminent civics education organizations in America. Championing the activism of young people now and throughout history—from the civil rights movement to #BlackLivesMatter and the Parkland students—Generation Citizen is a bold reminder of the positive power of politics, and an inspiring, actionable guide for anyone ready to fight for democracy. "Timely and accessible. The rising generation is ready to exercise power—and save our republic." —Eric Liu, CEO of Citizen University and author of You're More Powerful Than You Think

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Catapult

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1640091289

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The Education of a Christian Society

Humanism and the Reformation in Britain and the Netherlands

By: N. Scott Amos,Andrew Pettegree

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The Education of a Christian Society

Humanism and the Reformation in Britain and the Netherlands

By: N. Scott Amos,Andrew Pettegree

Throughout the sixteenth century, political and intellectual developments in Britain and The Netherlands were closely intertwined. At different times religious refugees from one or other country found a secure haven across the Channel, and a constant interchange of books, ideas and personnel underscored the affinity of lands which both made a painful progress towards Protestantism during the course of the century. This collection of ten new studies, all by specialists active in the field, explores the full ramifications of these links, from the first intellectual contacts inspired by the growth of Humanism to the planting of established Protestant churches. With contributions from specialists in art history, literary studies and history, the volume also underscores the vitality of new research in this field and points the way to several new departures in the field of Reformation and Renaissance studies.

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1351890905

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Infinite Stars

Infinite Stars

Creeker

Creeker

The Veteran's Money Book

The Veteran's Money Book

And Then She Killed Him

And Then She Killed Him

The Death of Affirmative Action?

The Death of Affirmative Action?

The Reasoning Criminal

The Reasoning Criminal

A Second Reckoning

A Second Reckoning

Brief Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Cancer Patients

Brief Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Cancer Patients

Generation Citizen

Generation Citizen

The Education of a Christian Society

The Education of a Christian Society

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