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If You Like The Terminator...

Here Are Over 200 Movies, TV Shows and Other Oddities That You Will Love

By: Scott on Von Doviak

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If You Like The Terminator...

Here Are Over 200 Movies, TV Shows and Other Oddities That You Will Love

By: Scott on Von Doviak

The Terminator began life as a low-budget B movie seemingly destined for a short run at malls and drive-ins before blossoming into a billion-dollar franchise that launched the careers of director James Cameron and star Arnold Schwarzenegger. The original 1984 film not only spawned three sequels, a weekly television series, and countless novels, comic books, and videogames, it also redefined the science fiction genre with its blend of high tech and film noir. Here is the first book to explore the spectacular array of films, television shows, and other works that helped inspire The Terminator, as well as those that have drawn inspiration from it. If You Like The Terminator... delves into the history of science-fiction cinema, from its earliest days to the golden age of the 1950s and beyond, encountering killer robots, time travelers and postapocalyptic wastelands along the way. This turbo-charged journey through time also reviews the improbable career of Arnold Schwarzenegger, revisits the action heroes of the 1980s, and reevaluates the films of James Cameron, before touching down in the computer-dominated realm of today's science fiction cinema and projecting the future of the Terminator franchise. From Metropolis to The Matrix, from Frankenstein to RoboCop, from H. G. Wells and Harlan Ellison to Roger Corman and Roland Emmerich, you'll find them all here – in If You Like The Terminator.

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216

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1476821437

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9781476821436

Religion and the State in American Law

By: Boris I. Bittker,Scott C. Idleman,Frank S. Ravitch

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Religion and the State in American Law

By: Boris I. Bittker,Scott C. Idleman,Frank S. Ravitch

Religion and the State in American Law provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of religion and government in the United States, from historical origins to modern laws and rulings. In addition to extensive coverage of the religion clauses of the First Amendment, it addresses many statutory, regulatory, and common-law developments at both the federal and state levels. Topics include the history of church-state relations and religious liberty, religion in the classroom, and expressions of religion in government. This book also covers the role of religion in specific areas of law such as contracts, taxation, employment, land use regulation, torts, criminal law, and domestic relations as well as in specialized contexts such as prisons and the military. Accessible to the general as well as the professional reader, this book will be of use to scholars, judges, practising lawyers, and the media.

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1001

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Cambridge University Press

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1316381137

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9781316381137

The Year That Follows

By: Scott Lasser

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The Year That Follows

By: Scott Lasser

Cat is a single mother living in Detroit when her brother is killed in New York, just a day after he told her that he thought he had a son. Filled with determination, she sets off on a search for the orphaned boy, but it’s interrupted when she gets a surprise call from her father. Sam is eighty and carrying the weight of a secret that he has kept from Cat all her life—and one that threatens the family she is attempting to build. Superbly realized and deeply profound, The Year That Follows explores the complexities of love and the bonds that even death is powerless to diminish.

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224

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Vintage

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0307272311

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9780307272317

Blackbird: An AFK Book (Five Nights at Freddy’s: Fazbear Frights #6)

By: Scott Cawthon

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Blackbird: An AFK Book (Five Nights at Freddy’s: Fazbear Frights #6)

By: Scott Cawthon

Five Nights at Freddy's fans won't want to miss this pulse-pounding collection of three novella-length tales that will keep even the bravest FNAF player up at night... Haunted by the past . . .To avoid confronting an ugly truth, Nole falls prey to a monster that punishes past transgressions. Growing weaker by the day, nine-year-old Jake looks back on the time before he was sick, imagining life as if he were well again. And, forever desperate to prove his worth to his arrogant brother and distant father, Toby chases victory at an arcade game with horrifying consequences. But in the unpredictable world of Five Nights at Freddy's, sometimes the past can take on a life of its own.In this sixth volume, Five Nights at Freddy's creator Scott Cawthon spins three sinister novella-length stories from different corners of his series' canon, featuring cover art from fan-favorite artist LadyFiszi.Readers beware: This collection of terrifying tales is enough to unsettle even the most hardened Five Nights at Freddy's fans.

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165

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Scholastic Inc.

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1338733591

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9781338733594

Five Nights at Freddy's Fazbear Frights Collection - An AFK Book

By: Scott Cawthon,Kira Breed-Wrisley

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Five Nights at Freddy's Fazbear Frights Collection - An AFK Book

By: Scott Cawthon,Kira Breed-Wrisley

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and creator of Five Nights at Freddy's, don't miss this twelve-book boxed set, which includes stories that were left on the cutting room floor from books one through eleven! All eleven Fazbear Frights books in one amazing collection, plus a twelfth book of bonus stories – stories that didn't make the cut for the first eleven books! Five Nights at Freddy's creator Scott Cawthon spins three sinister novella-length in each book of this collection, with stories from different corners of his series' canon.

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Scholastic Inc.

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1338833758

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9781338833751

First Principles

The Jurisprudence of Clarence Thomas

By: Scott Douglas Gerber

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First Principles

The Jurisprudence of Clarence Thomas

By: Scott Douglas Gerber

Clarence Thomas is one of the most vilified public figures of our day. To date, however, his legal philosophy has received only cursory treatment. First Principles provides a portrait of Thomas based not on the justice's caricatured reputation, but on his judicial opinions and votes, his scholarly writings, and his public speeches. The paperback edition includes a provocative new Afterword by the author bringing the book up to date by assessing Justice Thomas's performance, and the reaction to his decisions, during the last five years.

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316

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NYU Press

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081473099X

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9780814730997

When Religious and Secular Interests Collide

Faith, Law, and the Religious Exemption Debate

By: Scott A. Merriman

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When Religious and Secular Interests Collide

Faith, Law, and the Religious Exemption Debate

By: Scott A. Merriman

This book examines the countervailing arguments in the religious exemption debate and explains why this issue continues to be so heated and controversial in modern-day America. Can religion be used to legalize discrimination? When does religion exclude a person or corporation from having to follow a federal or state law, and does our government automatically favor one faith over another when allowing such exemptions? How "religious" must an activity be to qualify as exempt? These are just a few of the difficult questions addressed in When Religious and Secular Interests Collide: Faith, Law, and the Religious Exemption Debate, one of the most modern resources for looking at religion and the law, both historically and in the present. This book enables readers to fully comprehend this important multifaceted issue that continues to be contested in our courts, legislatures, hearts, and minds. Readers will gain vital historical background about this battleground topic of academic and public interest, see how the contentious issue has changed in the past, and learn about recent developments, including the controversies surrounding religious exemption laws passed in Arkansas and Indiana in 2015. They will also glean knowledge to evaluate claims made about the First Amendment and equal rights and reach their own educated opinions on the subject. Additionally, the work includes primary source documents such as excerpts of important Supreme Court decisions accompanied by insightful analysis of how the religious exemption issue surfaced in modern American culture.

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210

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1440847088

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9781440847080

A Series of EPIC Stories

By: Scott Clenchy

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A Series of EPIC Stories

By: Scott Clenchy

Within these pages live twenty-five short stories crafted by twenty-five authors. Each provides a unique glimpse into the mind and writing style of a budding young writer. As our title suggests, this anthology is filled with a series of adventurous, heart-warming, dramatic, thought-provoking, and altogether EPIC stories. We welcome you to delve into the themes and depth of this writing, or simply sit back and enjoy the sincerity of these young writers. Completed as part of 2018's annual NaNoWriMo competition, these narratives represent the perseverance, hard work, and determination of twenty-five outstanding Grade 6 and 7 students at Forest View Public School in Oshawa Ontario. It is with great pleasure that we present this anthology to the world. May you have as much fun reading as we did writing.

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Lulu.com

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1387817477

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9781387817474

Ruin and Resilience

Southern Literature and the Environment

By: Daniel Spoth

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Ruin and Resilience

Southern Literature and the Environment

By: Daniel Spoth

In Ruin and Resilience, Daniel Spoth confronts why the environmental stories told about the U.S. South curve inevitably toward distressing plotlines. Examining more than a dozen works of postbellum literature and cinema, Spoth’s analysis winds from John Muir’s walking journey across the war-torn South, through the troubling of southern environmentalism’s modernity by Faulkner and Hurston, past the accounts of its acceleration in Welty and O’Connor, and finally into the present, uncovering how the tragic econarrative is transformed by contemporary food studies, climate fiction, and speculative tales inspired by the region. Phrased as a reaction to the rising temperatures and swelling sea levels in the South, Ruin and Resilience conceptualizes an environmental, ecocritical ethos for the southern United States that takes account of its fundamentally vulnerable status and navigates the space between its reactionary politics and its ecological failures.

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LSU Press

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0807180041

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9780807180044

The Perfect Fence

Untangling the Meanings of Barbed Wire

By: Lyn Ellen Bennett,Scott Abbott

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The Perfect Fence

Untangling the Meanings of Barbed Wire

By: Lyn Ellen Bennett,Scott Abbott

Barbed wire is made of two strands of galvanized steel wire twisted together for strength and to hold sharp barbs in place. As creative advertisers sought ways to make an inherently dangerous product attractive to customers concerned about the welfare of their livestock, and as barbed wire became commonplace on battlefields and in concentration camps, the fence accrued a fascinating and troubling range of meanings beyond the material facts of its construction. In The Perfect Fence, Lyn Ellen Bennett and Scott Abbott explore the multiple uses and meanings of barbed wire, a technological innovation that contributes to America’s shift from a pastoral ideal to an industrial one. They survey the vigorous public debate over the benign or “infernal” fence, investigate legislative attempts to ban or regulate wire fences as a result of public outcry, and demonstrate how the industry responded to ameliorate the image of its barbed product. Because of the rich metaphorical possibilities suggested by a fence that controls through pain, barbed wire developed into an important motif in works of literature from the late nineteenth century to the present day. Early advertisements proclaimed that barbed wire was “the perfect fence,” keeping “the ins from being outs, and the outs from being ins.” Bennett and Abbott conclude that while barbed wire is not the perfect fence touted by manufacturers, it is indeed a meaningful thing that continues to influence American identities.

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Texas A&M University Press

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1623495830

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9781623495831

Exploring the Oregon Trail

America's Historic Road Trip

By: Kay W. Scott,David L. Scott

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Exploring the Oregon Trail

America's Historic Road Trip

By: Kay W. Scott,David L. Scott

The Oregon Trail, the route of the pioneers during the largest mass migration in United States history, was a long and difficult journey made by Americans nearly two centuries ago. This guidebook, rich with photos, interviews, and information about the famous landmarks, facilities, individuals, activities, and towns along the trail, will please both adventurers planning to travel the trail and individuals who wish to learn about and follow the trail from an easy chair. Complete with maps and details of each state from Missouri to Oregon, Exploring the Oregon Trail will give readers everything needed to follow in the footsteps of the American pioneers.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1493066080

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9781493066087

Book's by Scott Connor

If You Like The Terminator...

If You Like The Terminator...

Religion and the State in American Law

Religion and the State in American Law

The Year That Follows

The Year That Follows

Blackbird: An AFK Book (Five Nights at Freddy’s: Fazbear Frights #6)

Blackbird: An AFK Book (Five Nights at Freddy’s: Fazbear Frights #6)

Five Nights at Freddy's Fazbear Frights Collection - An AFK Book

Five Nights at Freddy's Fazbear Frights Collection - An AFK Book

First Principles

First Principles

When Religious and Secular Interests Collide

When Religious and Secular Interests Collide

A Series of EPIC Stories

A Series of EPIC Stories

Ruin and Resilience

Ruin and Resilience

The Perfect Fence

The Perfect Fence

Exploring the Oregon Trail

Exploring the Oregon Trail

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