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The Heart of Darkness

Book 1 of the Dreadborne Legacy

By: Shawn Cady

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The Heart of Darkness

Book 1 of the Dreadborne Legacy

By: Shawn Cady

The World of Aurora is a place of perils. War has wracked its empires, the Old Ones, both good and evil, have taken interest, and dark, sinister powers conspire in the shadows. And when Augdenguld finds one of its largest cities suddenly unresponsive, a small band of heroes finds an even greater enemy than the elves or the barbarians of the northern wastes. The Lich Lord has set his gaze upon their mortal world, and has readied an army to take it, piece by bloody piece. The Dreadborne has come! Lord Surthath, Old One of Fate and Knowledge, knows well the terrible forces that the Lich Lord serves, but how can one slay a foe that is already dead?

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1479771627

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De Niro

A Life

By: Shawn Levy

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De Niro

A Life

By: Shawn Levy

REMARKABLE BIOGRAPHY OF AN ICON There’s little debate that Robert De Niro is one of the greatest screen actors of his generation, perhaps of all time--if not, in fact, the greatest. His work, particularly in the first 20 years of his career, is unparalleled. Mean Streets, the Godfather Part II, Taxi Driver, the Deer Hunter, and Raging Bull all dazzled moviegoers and critics alike, displaying a talent the likes of which had rarely--if ever--been seen. De Niro became known for his deep involvement in his characters, assuming that role completely into his own life, resulting in extraordinary, chameleonic performances. Yet little is known about the off-screen De Niro--he is an intensely private man, whose rare public appearances are often marked by inarticulateness and palpable awkwardness. It can be almost painful to watch at times, in powerful contrast to his confident movie personae. In this elegant and compelling biography, bestselling writer Shawn Levy writes of these many De Niros--the characters and the man--seeking to understand the evolution of an actor who once dove deeply into his roles as if to hide his inner nature, and who now seemingly avoids acting challenges, taking roles which make few apparent demands on his overwhelming talent. Following De Niro's roots as the child of artists (his father, the abstract painter Robert De Niro Sr., was widely celebrated) who encouraged him from an early age to be independent of vision and spirit, to his intense schooling as an actor, the rise of his career, his marriages, his life as a father, restauranteur, and businessman, and, of course, his current movie career, Levy has written a biography that reads like a novel about a character whose inner turmoil takes him to heights of artistry. His many friendships with the likes of Martin Scorsese, Meryl Streep, Harvey Keitel, Shelley Winters, Francis Ford Coppola, among many others, are woven into this extraordinary portrait of DeNiro the man and the artist, also adding a depth of understanding not before seen. Levy has had unprecedented access to De Niro's personal research and production materials, creating a new impression of the effort that went into the actor's legendary performances. The insights gained from DeNiro’s intense working habits shed new perspective on DeNiro’s thinking and portrayals and are wonderful to read. Levy also spoke to De Niro's collaborators and friends to depict De Niro's transition from an ambitious young man to a transfixing and enigmatic artist and cultural figure. Shawn Levy has written a truly engaging, insightful, and entertaining portrait of one of the most wonderful film artists of our time, a book that is worthy of such a great talent.

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Crown

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0307716791

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9780307716798

Thoreau and the Sociological Imagination

The Wilds of Society

By: Shawn Chandler Bingham

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Thoreau and the Sociological Imagination

The Wilds of Society

By: Shawn Chandler Bingham

Thoreau and the Sociological Imagination: The Wilds of Society is the first in-depth sociological examination of the ideas of Henry David Thoreau. By exploring Thoreau's intellectual links to early social thinkers, as well as addressing mainstay Thoreauvian concerns such as the individual-society relationship, social change, and deconstructing society's idea of progress, Shawn Chandler Bingham illustrates the sophistication of Thoreau's sociological imagination, challenging readers to reexamine the disciplinary boundaries between the social sciences and the humanities. Book jacket.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0742560597

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9780742560598

A Photo Curmudgeon's Tale

By: Shawn M. Tomlinson

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A Photo Curmudgeon's Tale

By: Shawn M. Tomlinson

Long-time columnist and lifelong photographer Shawn M. Tomlinson writers about the art and technique of photography with wit and humor. He focuses in his Photo Curmudgeon columns on getting started in as well as moving into advanced photography. Instead of concentrating upon the newest, shiniest photographic equipment, Tomlinson works with all levels of older equipment, makes recommendations and recounts his own "Voyages of Photography." He helps the novice get started with higher end, older cameras and lenses, and helps with photo editing suggestions and techniques.

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Lulu.com

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1329222016

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9781329222014

The Communication Age

Connecting and Engaging

By: Autumn Edwards,Chad Edwards,Shawn T. Wahl,Scott A. Myers

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The Communication Age

Connecting and Engaging

By: Autumn Edwards,Chad Edwards,Shawn T. Wahl,Scott A. Myers

We are in “the communication age.” No matter who you are or how you communicate, we are all members of a society who connect through the internet, not just to it. From face-to-face interactions to all forms of social media, The Communication Age, Second Edition invites you to join the conversation about today’s issues and make your voice heard. This contemporary and engaging text introduces students to the essentials of interpersonal, small group, and public communication while incorporating technology, media, and speech communication to foster civic engagement for a better future.

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SAGE Publications

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1483373711

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9781483373713

The Not So Common Sense

Differences in How People Judge Social and Political Life

By: Shawn W. Rosenberg

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The Not So Common Sense

Differences in How People Judge Social and Political Life

By: Shawn W. Rosenberg

divdivIn this fascinating interdisciplinary book, Shawn W. Rosenberg challenges two basic assumptions that orient much contemporary social scientific thinking. Offering theory and empirical research, he rejects the classic liberal view that people share a basic “common sense” or rationality. At the same time, he questions the view of contemporary social theory that meaning is simply an intersubjective or cultural product. Through in-depth interviews, Rosenberg explores the underlying logic of cognition. Rather than discovering a common sense or rationality, he finds that people reason in fundamentally different ways, and these differences affect the kind of understandings they craft and the evaluations they make. As a result, people actively reconstruct culturally prevalent meanings and norms in their own subjective terms. Rosenberg provides a comprehensive description of three types of socio-political reasoning and the full text of three exemplary interviews. Rosenberg’s findings help explain such puzzling social phenomena as why people do not learn even when it is to their advantage to do so, or why they fail to adapt to changed social conditions even when they have clear information and motivation. The author argues that this kind of failure is commonplace and discusses examples ranging from the crisis of modernity to the classroom performance of university students. Building on the ideas of Jean Piaget, George Herbert Mead, and Jurgen Habermas, Rosenberg offers a new orienting vision, structural pragmatics, to account for these social phenomena and his own research in cognition. In the concluding chapter, he discusses the implications of his work for the study of social cognition, political behavior, and democratic theory. /DIV/DIV

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Yale University Press

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0300129467

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9780300129465

Old Heart Of Nevada

Ghost Towns And Mining Camps Of Elko County

By: Shawn Hall

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Old Heart Of Nevada

Ghost Towns And Mining Camps Of Elko County

By: Shawn Hall

Elko County, in the old heart of Nevada, is rich in historic sites, many of them hitherto uncharted and some verging on disappearing. For the first time, historian Shawn Hall identifies and locates the ghost towns and old mining camps of Elko County and recounts their colorful histories. Following a guidebook format, Hall divides the county into five easily accessible regions, then lists the historic sites within each region and provides directions to reach them. He offers a brief history of each site as well as a description of its extant structures and their present condition. The result is a lively compilation of local history and mining and ranching lore that records the dramatic past of Nevada’s northeast corner, its pioneers and prospectors, its towns and mines, its outlaws, ranchers, merchants, mining concerns, and civic leaders. The book offers never-before available information about the old heart of Nevada and the people who settled there. It will be of enduring value to tourists and weekend explorers, historic preservationists, and all those interested in the history and artifacts of this region.

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University of Nevada Press

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0874174090

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9780874174090

When Bad Men Combine

The Star Route Scandal and the Twilight of Gilded Age Politics

By: Shawn Francis Peters

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When Bad Men Combine

The Star Route Scandal and the Twilight of Gilded Age Politics

By: Shawn Francis Peters

The Star Route scandal captured the nation’s attention for more than a decade, with newspapers throughout the United States characterizing it as an unprecedented case of Gilded Age graft. Shawn Francis Peters’s When Bad Men Combine provides a glimpse into this uniquely tumultuous period marked by brazen greed and duplicity. In the first book to offer a full recounting of the Star Route maelstrom, which roiled American politics during the 1870s and 1880s, Peters reveals how postal service corruption resulted in a remarkable legal case that featured jury bribery and document theft. When Bad Men Combine follows the saga to its culmination as two sensational criminal trials presented evidence implicating some of the most prominent men in America and, perhaps, led to the assassination of President James Garfield.

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LSU Press

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0807179620

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9780807179628

20 20 Smart Lists

By: Shawn Holley

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20 20 Smart Lists

By: Shawn Holley

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1635684765

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Shadowboxing the Apocalypse: The WW1 Correspondence of Dr. Theo Hascall, 103rd F.A. 26th Yankee Division

By: Shawn Pease

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Shadowboxing the Apocalypse: The WW1 Correspondence of Dr. Theo Hascall, 103rd F.A. 26th Yankee Division

By: Shawn Pease

Shadowboxing the Apocalypse- the WW1 correspondence of Dr. Theo Hascall, 103rd Field Artillery, 26th Yankee Division contains fascinating letters sent home from the trenches in The Great War to East Providence (Riverside), RI. It also contains the text of all the letters sent by his wife Emma to Dr. Hascall in France during the Great War. It is a fascinating story of a young couple with three children (all under the age of 10) making sacrifices for their country, surviving the Great War, and weathering the Influenza pandemic in 1918. Their story is told in their own words with over 150 fully transcribed letters arranged by date. The book is divided into chapters corresponding to the major "sectors" the Yankee Division fought in during the war. Dr. Hascall "self censored" his letters, so many normally forbidden remarks are made. Dr. Hascall also carried a small camera, and many of his pictures are published in this book for the first time anywhere.

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1387911007

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9781387911004

Time 4: Rendezvous With Destiny

By: Shawn M. Tomlinson

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Time 4: Rendezvous With Destiny

By: Shawn M. Tomlinson

Tommy guns blasting, the trucks swooped in toward yet-to-be-elected Franklin D. Roosevelt. There were screams from the crowd. Martin, on the running board, pushed FDR down, Eleanor following suit. Chloe shot the driver in the first truck. The truck swerved, tipped over. Chloe was shooting at the driver of the second truck, but it had bullet-proof glass. She kept firing, but the truck kept coming. ÒDrive!Ó Martin shouted. The driver squealed the wheels. The four hung on, protecting FDR. The truck was following with men leaning out the back, firing. Tommy guns didnÕt have much range, but they could kill close up. Martin shot the tire under the driver. The tire was tough, but finally it went. The truck swerved and rolled. Martin saw men pulling themselves out of the the truck. Chloe told the driver to get behind the green car and stop. She told Daniel and Joseph to help get Roosevelt into the ÒgangsterÓ car. They were going to make certain FDR became president, no matter what.

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1387640038

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9781387640034

Hillary Clinton's Career in Speeches

The Promises and Perils of Women's Rhetorical Adaptivity

By: Shawn J. Parry-Giles,David S Kaufer,Xizhen Cai

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Hillary Clinton's Career in Speeches

The Promises and Perils of Women's Rhetorical Adaptivity

By: Shawn J. Parry-Giles,David S Kaufer,Xizhen Cai

Women candidates are under more pressure to communicate competence and likability than men. And when women balance these rhetorical pressures, charges of inauthenticity creep in, suggesting the structural and strategic anti-woman backlash at play in presidential politics. Hillary Clinton demonstrated considerable ability to adapt her rhetoric across roles, contexts, genres, and audiences. Comparisons between Clinton’s campaign speeches and those of her presidential opponents (Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders, and Donald Trump) show that her rhetorical range exceeded theirs. And comparisons with Democratic women candidates of 2020 suggest they too exhibited a rhetorical range and faced a backlash similar to Clinton. Hillary Clinton’s Career in Speeches combines statistical text-mining methods with close reading to analyze the rhetorical highs and lows of one of the most successful political women in U.S. history. Drawing on Clinton’s oratory across governing and campaigning, the authors debunk the stereotype that she was a wooden and insufferably wonkish speaker. They marshal evidence for the argument that the sexist tactics in American politics function to turn women’s rhetorical strengths into political liabilities.

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MSU Press

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1609177436

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9781609177430

Time 5: Canyon Diablo

By: Shawn M. Tomlinson

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Time 5: Canyon Diablo

By: Shawn M. Tomlinson

It wasn't all that grim," she said. "We don't have to go to Deadwood. I was thinking, maybe, Tombstone or Fort Sumner..." "Wyatt Earp or Billy the Kid?" he said. "Are you nuts?" "Yes," she said. "Absolutely. I went nuts the moment I saw a flaming star in the day sky hit a tower and reveal the man I love. It's the only way it makes sense. I'm in an asylum somewhere dreaming all this." They certainly looked the part: long dusters, black clothes, armed like tanks. The guns were too new, and the bullets they carried were all they'd have. "I know we shouldn't be carrying Glocks into the 1880s," Chloe said. "We damned well will, though," he said. "It's one of the most dangerous places we've gone and we need every advantage we can get. If we run out of bullets, we'll have to use local guns. We'll take advantage of the fact that everybody else has less than half the shots we have. Don't think this is a joke. The people you met in the New Old West had been civilized once. Many of these folks haven't been, ever.

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138769474X

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9781387694747

American Archives

Gender, Race, and Class in Visual Culture

By: Shawn Michelle Smith

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American Archives

Gender, Race, and Class in Visual Culture

By: Shawn Michelle Smith

Visual texts uniquely demonstrate the contested terms of American identity. In American Archives Shawn Michelle Smith offers a bold and disturbing account of how photography and the sciences of biological racialism joined forces in the nineteenth century to offer an idea of what Americans look like--or "should" look like. Her varied sources, which include the middle-class portrait, baby picture, criminal mugshot, and eugenicist record, as well as literary, scientific, and popular texts, enable her to demonstrate how new visual paradigms posed bodily appearance as an index to interior "essence." Ultimately we see how competing preoccupations over gender, class, race, and American identity were played out in the making of a wide range of popular and institutional photographs. Smith demonstrates that as the body was variously mapped and defined as the key to essentialized identities, the image of the white middle-class woman was often held up as the most complete American ideal. She begins by studying gendered images of middle-class domesticity to expose a transformation of feminine architectures of interiority into the "essences" of "blood," "character," and "race." She reads visual documents, as well as literary texts by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Pauline Hopkins, and Theodore Dreiser, as both indices of and forms of resistance to dominant images of gender, class, race, and national identity. Through this analysis Smith shows how the white male gaze that sought to define and constrain white women and people of color was contested and transformed over the course of the nineteenth century. Smith identifies nineteenth-century visual paradigms that continue to shape debates about the terms of American belonging today. American Archives contributes significantly to the growing field of American visual cultural studies, and it is unprecedented in explaining how practices of racialized looking and the parameters of "American looks" were established in the first place.

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Princeton University Press

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0691004781

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9780691004785

Inspiring African-American Women of the Civil Rights Movement:

18Th, 19Th, and 20Th Centuries

By: La Shawn B. Kelley

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Inspiring African-American Women of the Civil Rights Movement:

18Th, 19Th, and 20Th Centuries

By: La Shawn B. Kelley

The Civil Rights Movement is a milestone in American history that can help us think more clearly about today's movement for social and political change, which can sometimes be influenced or misguided by the media. We all must seize the opportunity to shape our own post-civil rights era and redefine what civil rights means to us today and in the future. Inspiring African-American Women of the Civil Rights Movement 18th, 19th, and 20th Centuries is just one glimpse into the lives of twenty very brave and courageous African-American women, who fought to protect the civil rights of African-Americans and ultimately changed the course of history. As you read this book, I will: ? Give a more in-depth understanding about the true meaning of the freedom and equality in America. ? Provide an awareness of the struggles of the civil rights movement to the racial injustices of the Jim Crow laws. ? Bring attention to important relationships that developed along the way of each womans journey based on the civil rights cause. ? Depict a timeline of events of each crusaders journey. Above all: ? Highlight the incredible accomplishments of African-American women, who have contributed to our nations greatness even in the face of certain danger and personal tragedy in the name of freedom and equality. Be inspired by the Civil Rights Movement and embrace all that African-American history has to offer because it truly is an important part of American history. The Civil Rights Movement challenged racism in America and because of civil rights crusaders like Rosa Parks and Harriet Tubman, the country is a more just and humane society for us all.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1503541711

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9781503541719

This Year I Sing

366 Women's Stories from Three Generations

By: Jean Steiner,Mary Steiner Whelan,Shawn Whelan

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This Year I Sing

366 Women's Stories from Three Generations

By: Jean Steiner,Mary Steiner Whelan,Shawn Whelan

A compelling collection of 366 stories about women's lives, told from the perspective of three generations. The authors (a grandmother, mother, and daughter team) listened to women from all walks of life telling the truth of their lives. Sometimes poignant, sometimes humorous, stories may be read as daily reflections or as very short stories.

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A-Ha Publications

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0967992516

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The Heart of Darkness

Book 1 of the Dreadborne Legacy

By: Shawn Cady

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The Heart of Darkness

Book 1 of the Dreadborne Legacy

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