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Always Compete

An Inside Look at Pete Carroll and the USC Football Juggernaut

By: Steve Bisheff

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Always Compete

An Inside Look at Pete Carroll and the USC Football Juggernaut

By: Steve Bisheff

Always Compete is both a revealing look at the tactics and personality of one of college football's best coaches, Pete Carroll, and a thrilling chronicle of the 2008 USC Trojans' quest for another championship, culminating in their victory over Penn State in the Rose Bowl. Just when USC football was in the midst of a horrific slump, when skeptics began to say the scholarship limits had conspired to make it impossible to recapture its old glory, Coach Pete Carroll arrived to transform and invigorate the program with his own bristling energy and style. He quickly reestablished the Trojans not only as the dominant college football team in the Pac-10 but as the preeminent program in the country, and the most entertaining team in the sport. During his tenure, Carroll captured two National Championships, made an NCAA-record seven BCS bowl appearances, and produced three Heisman Trophy winners as well as more than thirty NFL draft picks, including seven in round number one. For the first time ever, author Steve Bisheff has been given exclusive access to coaches and players, their meetings, practices, and locker room, as well as one-on-one interviews with Coach Carroll himself.

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St. Martin's Press

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1429962267

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9781429962261

The Matter of the Misdirecting Mastermind

The St. Louis $50 Million Diamond Heist and Bridge Hostage Caper

By: Steve Levi

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The Matter of the Misdirecting Mastermind

The St. Louis $50 Million Diamond Heist and Bridge Hostage Caper

By: Steve Levi

Impossible Crime Detective Heinz Noonan, the “Bearded Holmes,” is ordered to East St. Louis, where a criminal mastermind has made a train with 70 passengers and crew disappear. As the search is on for the hostage, the mastermind loads a railway boxcar with a massive explosive device and abandons it on the Eads Bridge over the Mississippi River between St. Louis, Missouri and East St. Lewis, Illinois. Now the mastermind wants $50 million, or the bridge and portions of both cities of St. Lewis will be destroyed. Heinz Noonan has 48 hours to find the hostages, stop the ransom payment, and disable the bomb before time runs out. Tick, tick, tick. Can he do it? Find out in The Matter of the Misdirecting Mastermind.

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Publication Consultants

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1637470665

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9781637470664

Cardinal and Gold

The Oral History of USC Trojans Football

By: Steve Delsohn

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Cardinal and Gold

The Oral History of USC Trojans Football

By: Steve Delsohn

The candid, never-before-heard history of the past 40 years of USC Trojans Football—whose storied alumni include O.J.Simpson, Reggie Bush, Keyshawn Johnson, and more—as told by the players and coaches who survived it “The untold story behind USC’s success on the field and the scandal off it, from those who lived it day after day.”—Armen Keteyian, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Tiger Woods and correspondent for 60 Minutes Sports Over the years, USC has produced an almost unrivaled level of success: 11 national titles, 38 conference championships, 7 Heisman Trophy winners and 80 All-Americans, while also grooming countless NFL stars. From Todd Marinovich and Keyshawn Johnson to Reggie Bush and Matt Leinart, some of the greatest and most memorable college football players of all time have suited up for the Trojans. And under the leadership of legendary coaches like John Robinson and Pete Carroll, they’ve played in some of college football’s most celebrated big games. At the same time, few big-time football programs are as tumultuous as USC. From battles with the NCAA to bitter internal conflicts between coaches, players, and administration and all-out brawls with hated rivals like Notre Dame, the Trojans’ dominance has often gone hand in hand with controversy. In Cardinal and Gold, respected journalist Steve Delsohn tells the full and unvarnished story of the USC program at its best and worst. From the dynastic “Tailback U” years of the 1970s, to the dominance of the Carroll years, right through the upheaval of the modern era, Cardinal and Gold is a must-read for any fan of USC or major college football.

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Crown Archetype

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0307888428

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9780307888426

Electric Sounds

Technological Change and the Rise of Corporate Mass Media

By: Steve J. Wurtzler

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Electric Sounds

Technological Change and the Rise of Corporate Mass Media

By: Steve J. Wurtzler

Focuses on the innovations in the electronic production and transmission of sound in the 1920s and '30s and their explosive impact on the American mass media, especially the radio, the phonograph, and the cinema.

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Columbia University Press

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0231136765

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9780231136761

End Run

A Drew Gavin Mystery

By: Steve Brewer

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End Run

A Drew Gavin Mystery

By: Steve Brewer

Meet Drew Gavin, former college football star, now a wisecracking sportswriter who claims his drunken rut as a life. But that life changes at his class reunion when his old college sweetheart, Helen, lures Drew into trouble.Helen is married to a wheeler-dealer lawyer named Freddie, imminently in danger of having his knee caps broken for gambling debts. Helen pleads for Drew's help. Playing the sucker, Drew goes to a bookie named Three Eyes to plead Freddie's case. Soon after, Freddie is found dead and Drew becomes the prime murder suspect.Smooth, swift and sure prose, diverting personal and locker-room intrigues, and easy-to-hate villains make this first title in a new series by the author of the Bubba Mabry series an exciting read.-Library Journal

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Big Earth Publishing

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1890768510

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9781890768515

Pro Visual Studio 2005 Team System Application Development

By: Steve Shrimpton

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Pro Visual Studio 2005 Team System Application Development

By: Steve Shrimpton

Visual Studio 2005 Team System is a large and complex product, and is arguably the most sophisticated development environment that Microsoft has ever built. It has enormous potential to improve people’s working lives by allowing them to draw together disparate tasks within a single reporting and testing structure. In order to do this people need a guide, and this book provides that guidance. It walks readers through a fictional scenario containing all the problems that Team System was built to remedy and shows how the product can be best applied to solve the problems of architects, developers, testers and project managers alike.

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Apress

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1430202173

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9781430202172

The Quicksilver Kid

A Gold Rush Adventure

By: Steve Hailes

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The Quicksilver Kid

A Gold Rush Adventure

By: Steve Hailes

This is a fine novel. I really enjoyed reading it. --Kitty Monahan, Director New Almaden Quicksilver Museum This is a great story. --Larry Comstock, San Jose author of Henry Halleck and the Almaden Quicksilver Mines. The Quicksilver Kid is available on unabridged audio tape by Books in Motion of Spokane, Washington (800-752-3199). Other California novels by Mr. Hailes are as follows: California Guns #1: Gila Bend Showdown - starts in Texas in the late 1840s and tells the story of a manhunt on the way to California, ending at a showdown at Gila Bend. California Guns #2: Monterey Deathsong - the story of an ex-Texas Ranger preventing trouble at Californias first constitutional convention in 1849 in Monterey. California Guns #3: Trouble in Mariposa - the story of corruption and greed in the gold fields of California. California Guns #4: Santa Lucia Secrets - there was Spanish treasure and other secrets in the hills, wealth worth more than gold. California Guns #5: West of Yuma - the trail between Yuma on the Colorado River and San Diego was filled with danger and a man seeking revenge.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1453582649

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9781453582640

The New Conch Republic Volume I

The Beginning of the End!

By: Steve Godsey

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The New Conch Republic Volume I

The Beginning of the End!

By: Steve Godsey

The New Conch Republic by Steve Godsey is a tale of turmoil, which began with World War II, and continued for centuries as the world evolved and expanded into deep space. Now it is not only humans, but aliens alike, who engage in this struggle to survive. This story takes place in deep space, but is being chronicled by a group secretly known as 'Time Walkers, ' ones who travel through time to any place or time in the galaxy, appearing human in form. They are rumored to have first appeared on Earth to stop an alien assassination plot to kill Adolf Hitler before his rise to power. While the timeline moves all the way to A.D. 3304 in deep space, so much action takes over the centuries, as the story recounts many historic events that played out here on Earth. However, now, a corrupt and greedy Shadow Government has taken over everything. Will the various human and alien empires come together to overthrow this evil, or will the battle rage on until only the strongest survive? About the Author Steve Godsey is a native of Ohio and currently resides in Cincinnati. His interests include travel and sightseeing, as well as reading historical books and watching DVDs. The author's purpose in writing this novel was to encourage present and future generations to take an interest in our planet and its problems before it is too late. It is also his hope that space exploration will continue so that we might know if we are in this galaxy alone, or are there others out there?

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Dorrance Publishing

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1434937062

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9781434937063

Growing Up Katie

A PreTeen Novel

By: Steve F. Hallsey

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Growing Up Katie

A PreTeen Novel

By: Steve F. Hallsey

Katie Sparrow finds herself in a strange new city after her father dies and her mother moves the family to Chicago from the little town of Alpine, Utah. Katie finds it difficult to make friends and to find her place in this new environment. Her mother's long work hours cause friction between Katie and her mom, causing her to rebel. Everything culminates when Katie is asked to the big school dance by two boys. One is a friend while the other is the love of her life. She tells both boys yes. How does she handle the situation when it's time to decide?

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Covenant Books, Inc.

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Drawn to Injustice

The Wrongful Conviction of Timothy Masters

By: Timothy Masters,Steve Lehto

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Drawn to Injustice

The Wrongful Conviction of Timothy Masters

By: Timothy Masters,Steve Lehto

Timothy Masters was a lonely, troubled teenager with a penchant for gory artwork when he first saw Peggy Lee Hettrick… …her dead, mutilated body nearly frozen in the early morning of Fort Collins, Colorado. Not believing it could really be a dead body, thinking he was the victim of yet another prank by his abusive classmates, the fifteen-year-old didn’t go to the police—but they came to him. So began a decade-long investigation led by a relentless detective who was sure that Masters was the killer, even without a shred of physical evidence. Against all reason, a conspiracy of silence and circumstantial evidence eventually put Masters behind bars. Only the determination of a lone investigator who believed the young man was innocent would reveal the shocking truth, and free Masters after ten years in prison. This is the compelling true story of one life ended in blood and murder, one life ruined by coincidence and prejudice, and justice long denied but finally found.

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1101585129

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9781101585122

Aliens vs Predator Omnibus

By: Steve Perry,Stephani Danelle Perry,David Bischoff

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Aliens vs Predator Omnibus

By: Steve Perry,Stephani Danelle Perry,David Bischoff

Machiko Noguchi accepted the supervision of the ranching colony of Ryushi as a challenge. Little did she know that she would defend it with her life. For the entire unarmed human settlement lies smack between two varieties of monster, one spider-like, one human-like, but infinitely stronger. Monsters who will simply never stop… HUNTER’S PLANET by David Bischoff On Hunter's Planet, populated by genetically engineered creatures of all kinds, it seems that Predators have begun to seed Aliens. This is bad, real bad, for business, which is why Machiko Noguchi is sent in to confront the Predators she once considered friends. The only way for her to win is to take control of the most deadly planet in known space… WAR by S. D. Perry Machiko Noguchi is an outcast being tracked by the Predators who used to be her hunting band. Jess, Lara, and Ellis are the remnants of a bug-hunting team that wiped out an infestation in a Company space station. All four humans must join a desperate fight on the swamp planet Bunda, where fearsome Predators are at war with a ferocious colony of aliens.

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Titan Books (US, CA)

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1785652001

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9781785652004

Trout Quintet

Five Stories of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Fly Fishing

By: Steve Raymond

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Trout Quintet

Five Stories of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Fly Fishing

By: Steve Raymond

This is a new book from the Pacific Northwest’s finest angling writer. There is an abundance of literature on the pleasure and wonder of fly fishing. The themes are familiar and well traveled: ruminations on aging and the passage of time; musings on marriage and balancing the love of friends and families with that of fishing; reflections on the need for companionship versus the quiet beauty and solitude of fly fishing. Now, Steve Raymond takes these well-explored subjects and views them through the lens of fiction. With flowing prose, the five stories in Trout Quintet touch on some of the more salient topics that the flyfisherman faces, from the problem of overfishing to the sometimes nonsensical rules that anglers must contend with. From the story of a dying man who comes back to life as a rainbow trout to the tale of a young boy and his lucky hat, Trout Quintet is a refreshing evocation of the sport that so many women and men love. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction—novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

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Simon and Schuster

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1510706275

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9781510706279

Throwing Grenades at Gilligan’S Island

By: Steve Mitchell

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Throwing Grenades at Gilligan’S Island

By: Steve Mitchell

As the Vietnam War winds down, the USS Tutanga repairs river boats on the Saigon River. Connor Simmons arrives on board to find House, a battle-scarred sailor who works the black market and has a soft spot for the Vietnamese kids in the nearby village of Nha Be. When Connor goes to work on an antiquated light ship, he learns that it may be central to Houses plan to save those he cares about most. Throwing Grenades at Gilligans Island is a one-hundred-thousand-word historical novel that explores love, loyalty, and the absurdity of war.

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1543444261

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Uncovered

How the Media Got Cozy with Power, Abandoned Its Principles, and Lost the People

By: Steve Krakauer

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Uncovered

How the Media Got Cozy with Power, Abandoned Its Principles, and Lost the People

By: Steve Krakauer

From the COVID lab leak theory to Hunter Biden's laptop to Jeffrey Epstein, media critic and former CNN producer Steve Krakauer spotlights the problems of a news industry filled with geographically isolated, introspection-free, egomaniacal journalists. In Uncovered, America’s sharpest media critic, former CNN insider Steve Krakauer, reveals exactly what went wrong—and why the media went off the rails. The fourth estate is supposed to be a conduit to the people and a check on power. But instead, we have geographically isolated, introspection-free, cozy-with-power, egomaniacal journalists thirsty for elite approval. Krakauer dives deep into some of the most egregious examples of the elite censorship collusion racket, like how tech suppression and media fear led to the New York Post-Hunter Biden email debacle before the 2020 election. Krakauer takes readers inside CNN after the shock Trump election, inside the New York Times after the Tom Cotton op-ed backlash, inside ESPN after the shift away from sports-only coverage, and more. No one understands these problems (and people) better than Krakauer. He has spent years getting to know the most influential players in the industry and this fascinating book is what he’s learned. But most importantly, Krakauer equips readers with the crucial tools to sniff out when the press is lying or misleading the people of America in the future—so together, we can bypass them altogether. "Steve Krakauer's new book, Uncovered, is vital reading. It's the best and most perceptive deep dive into legacy media bias out there, from someone who knows where all the bodies are buried." ― Ben Shapiro "One of the most insightful critiques that has been published on this topic in years." ― Glenn Greenwald

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Center Street

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1546003495

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Balance of Power

Op-Center 05

By: Tom Clancy,Steve Pieczenik,Jeff Rovin

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Balance of Power

Op-Center 05

By: Tom Clancy,Steve Pieczenik,Jeff Rovin

Spain is a nation poised to suffer its worst internal strife in centuries. Certain well-placed Spanish diplomats sense it. Op-Center intelligence corroborates it. All the United States and Spain have to do is find a way to avert it. Before they can, an Op-Center representative is assassinated in Madrid on her way to a top secret meeting. Now all fears are confirmed. Someone very powerful wants another Spanish civil war--no matter what the cost.

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0425165566

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League of Denial

The NFL, Concussions, and the Battle for Truth

By: Mark Fainaru-Wada,Steve Fainaru

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League of Denial

The NFL, Concussions, and the Battle for Truth

By: Mark Fainaru-Wada,Steve Fainaru

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The story of how the NFL, over a period of nearly two decades, denied and sought to cover up mounting evidence of the connection between football and brain damage “League of Denial may turn out to be the most influential sports-related book of our time.”—The Boston Globe “Professional football players do not sustain frequent repetitive blows to the brain on a regular basis.” So concluded the National Football League in a December 2005 scientific paper on concussions in America’s most popular sport. That judgment, implausible even to a casual fan, also contradicted the opinion of a growing cadre of neuroscientists who worked in vain to convince the NFL that it was facing a deadly new scourge: a chronic brain disease that was driving an alarming number of players—including some of the all-time greats—to madness. In League of Denial, award-winning ESPN investigative reporters Mark Fainaru-Wada and Steve Fainaru tell the story of a public health crisis that emerged from the playing fields of our twenty-first-century pastime. Everyone knows that football is violent and dangerous. But what the players who built the NFL into a $10 billion industry didn’t know—and what the league sought to shield from them—is that no amount of padding could protect the human brain from the force generated by modern football, that the very essence of the game could be exposing these players to brain damage. In a fast-paced narrative that moves between the NFL trenches, America’s research labs, and the boardrooms where the NFL went to war against science, League of Denial examines how the league used its power and resources to attack independent scientists and elevate its own flawed research—a campaign with echoes of Big Tobacco’s fight to deny the connection between smoking and lung cancer. It chronicles the tragic fates of players like Hall of Fame Pittsburgh Steelers center Mike Webster, who was so disturbed at the time of his death he fantasized about shooting NFL executives, and former San Diego Chargers great Junior Seau, whose diseased brain became the target of an unseemly scientific battle between researchers and the NFL. Based on exclusive interviews, previously undisclosed documents, and private emails, this is the story of what the NFL knew and when it knew it—questions at the heart of a crisis that threatens football, from the highest levels all the way down to Pop Warner.

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0770437567

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Native American Voices

By: Susan Lobo,Steve Talbot,Traci Morris Carlston

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Native American Voices

By: Susan Lobo,Steve Talbot,Traci Morris Carlston

This unique reader presents a broad approach to the study of American Indians through the voices and viewpoints of the Native Peoples themselves. Multi-disciplinary and hemispheric in approach, it draws on ethnography, biography, journalism, art, and poetry to familiarize students with the historical and present day experiences of native peoples and nations throughout North and South America–all with a focus on themes and issues that are crucial within Indian Country today. For courses in Introduction to American Indians in departments of Native American Studies/American Indian Studies, Anthropology, American Studies, Sociology, History, Women's Studies.

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Routledge

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1317346165

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9781317346166

In the Zone

Achieving Optimal Performance in Business-- as in Sports

By: J. Mitchell Perry,Steve Jamison

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In the Zone

Achieving Optimal Performance in Business-- as in Sports

By: J. Mitchell Perry,Steve Jamison

Like a runner hitting a stride or an athlete on a winning streak, there are times when everything falls into place. This compelling book reveals how the nation's most effective coaches, athletes, and teams use mental techniques to reach an optimal performance level and how these techniques can be translated in the business environment. Photos & illustrations.

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JM Perry Learning Technolog

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0809231956

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A Chance in the World

An Orphan Boy, a Mysterious Past, and How He Found a Place Called Home

By: Steve Pemberton

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A Chance in the World

An Orphan Boy, a Mysterious Past, and How He Found a Place Called Home

By: Steve Pemberton

“Pemberton’s beautifully told story is a rags to riches journey—beginning in a place and with a jarring set of experiences that could have destroyed his life. But Steve’s refusal to give in to those forces, and his resolve to create a better life, shows a courage and resilience that is an example for many of us to follow.” —Stedman Graham, author, educator Home is the place where our life stories begin. A Chance in the World is the astonishing true story of a boy destined to become a man of resilience determination and vision. Down in the dank basement, amidst my moldy, hoarded food and beloved worm-eaten books, I dreamed that my real home, the place where my story had begun, was out there somewhere, and one day I was going to find it. Taken from his mother at age three, Steve Klakowicz lives a terrifying existence. Caught in the clutches of a cruel foster family and subjected to constant abuse, Steve finds his only refuge in a box of books given to him by a kind stranger. In these books, he discovers new worlds he can only imagine and begins to hope that one day he might have a different life, that one day he will find his true home. A fair-complexioned boy with blue eyes, a curly Afro, and a Polish last name, he is determined to unravel the mystery of his origins and find his birth family. Armed with just a single clue, Steve embarks on an extraordinary quest for his identity, only to find that nothing is as it appears. Through it all, Steve’s story teaches us that no matter how broken our past, no matter how great our misfortunes, we have it in us to create a new beginning and to build a place where love awaits.

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HarperChristian + ORM

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1595554165

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9781595554161

The Deadlier Sex

By: Steve Lawson

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The Deadlier Sex

By: Steve Lawson

Jenny Bell is on death row waiting to be executed for the murder of three US-Army officers. Steve Dennison, her former boyfriend, a freelance journalist, ex-cop, ex-barrister learns of her plight and hurries to Texas to save her from the executioner's deadly injection, unaware of the perils awaiting him. Jenny, a sex-obsessed Englishwoman with a bad reputation, lives in America. Despite it all, Dennison is certain that she is not capable of murder. Soon he finds out about a plot to railroad her and seeks proof for her innocence while exposing the real killer. But matters become even more complicated when help arrives in the shape of beautiful Samantha Collins, niece of Dennison's publisher. With "The Deadlier Sex", Steve Lawson presents a dramatic story of love, revenge and murder in which the protagonists Samantha and Steve must overcome their conflict and cooperate, on the one hand, to prove Jenny's innocence and on the other to fend off attacks on their own lives. And what role does a secret society play in these murders? The reader, as well as Dennison, face a puzzle the overall view of which, is brought to light piece by piece in a gripping story. NB: The manuscript of this book was granted the "Gold Star Award" by The Publishers Desk in New York.

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tredition

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3748203446

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100 Things Blue Jays Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die

By: Steve Clarke

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100 Things Blue Jays Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die

By: Steve Clarke

Most Blue Jays fans have taken in a game or two at Rogers Centre, remember where they were when Joe Carter hit his World Series–winning home run in 1993, and took in every moment of the Jays' historic 2015 postseason run. But only real fans know who spent two decades as the team's BJ Birdy mascot, can name the opposing player who was once jailed for hitting a seagull with a thrown baseball at Exhibition Stadium, or how long it takes to open the Rogers Centre roof. 100 Things Blue Jays Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die stands as the ultimate resource for true fans of Canada's sole major league baseball team. Author Steve Clarke has collected every essential piece of Blue Jays knowledge and trivia, as well as must-do activities, and ranks them all, providing an entertaining and easy-to-follow checklist as readers progress on their way to fan superstardom. This updated edition includes the Blue Jay's recent success and revival, including the push to the 2015 American League Championship Series and Josh Donaldson's MVP season.

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Triumph Books

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1633197700

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Lines in the Sand

Congressional Redistricting in Texas and the Downfall of Tom DeLay

By: Steve Bickerstaff

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Lines in the Sand

Congressional Redistricting in Texas and the Downfall of Tom DeLay

By: Steve Bickerstaff

The events of 2003 in Texas were important to the political history of this country. Congressman Tom DeLay led a Republican effort to gerrymander the state's thirty-two congressional districts to defeat all ten of the Anglo Democratic incumbents and to elect more Republicans; Democratic state lawmakers fled the state in an effort to defeat the plan. The Lone Star State uproar attracted attention worldwide. The Republicans won this showdown, gaining six additional seats from Texas and protecting the one endangered Republican incumbent. Some of the methods used by DeLay to achieve this result, however, led to his criminal indictment and ultimately to his downfall. With its eye-opening research, readable style, and insightful commentary, Lines in the Sand provides a front-line account of what happened in 2003, often through the personal stories of members of both parties and of the minority activist groups caught in a political vortex. Law professor Steve Bickerstaff provides much-needed historical perspective and also probes the aftermath of the 2003 redistricting, including the criminal prosecutions of DeLay and his associates and the events that led to DeLay's eventual resignation from the U.S. House of Representatives. As a result, Bickerstaff graphically shows a dark underside of American politics—the ruthless use of public institutional power for partisan gain.

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University of Texas Press

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0292726457

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2008 Philadelphia Phillies - A Poetic Season

The Story As Told from a Fan's Perspective

By: Steve Potter

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2008 Philadelphia Phillies - A Poetic Season

The Story As Told from a Fan's Perspective

By: Steve Potter

This is the story of the 2008 Philadelphia Phillies baseball season. It is a day to day depiction of the team and games played during the regular and post seasons, a daily column and game day story combined as told from a fan's point of view. There are specific stories on games, team members, broadcasters and players, each game of the season is recapped with narrative and comments. This is the story of how the 2008 team became the world champions of baseball, it depicts the ups and downs of a long baseball season and the ultimate joy that is found by all when a championship is won as told from a lifelong fans perspective !

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What Does the Word Freedom Mean?

Poems about freedom and some of those who worked to attain it

By: Steve Halpern

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What Does the Word Freedom Mean?

Poems about freedom and some of those who worked to attain it

By: Steve Halpern

Today, millions of people from around the world are questioning the basic values we were raised with. This is a book of 48 poems that attempt to connect our past with contemporary reality. Looking at the world as we know it today, these poems question the definitions of words we routinely use. Some of these words are freedom, what it means to be normal, a success, legal, legitimate, or what the words status quo, value, or civilization mean. Some of these poems look at history from the viewpoint of historical biographies. Those biographies are about the lives of Spartacus, Toussaint Louverture, Tecumseh, Geronimo, Frederick Douglass, Antonio Maceo, Eugene Debs, Mother Jones, Celia Sanchez, Ernesto Che Guevara, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Celia Sanchez, Malcolm X, Ida Wells, and Frantz Fanon. There are also poems about how women are central to the liberation of humanity, as well as a few sports stories. By looking at our reality from this perspective, these poems imagine how the future might be profoundly better than the reality we are living with today.

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Handbook of Reading Assessment

A One-Stop Resource for Prospective and Practicing Educators

By: Sherry Mee Bell,R. Steve McCallum

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Handbook of Reading Assessment

A One-Stop Resource for Prospective and Practicing Educators

By: Sherry Mee Bell,R. Steve McCallum

The Handbook of Reading Assessment, Second Edition, covers the wide range of reading assessments educators must be able to use and understand to effectively assess and instruct their students. Comprehensive and filled with numerous authentic examples, the text addresses informal classroom based assessment, progress monitoring, individual norm-referenced assessment, and group norm-referenced or ‘high-stakes’ testing. Coverage includes assessment content relevant for English language learners and adults. A set of test guidelines to use when selecting or evaluating an assessment tool is provided. New and updated in the Second Edition Impact on reading assessment of Common Core Standards for literacy; increased top-down focus on accountability and high stakes tests; innovations in computerized assessment of reading Latest developments in Response to Intervention (RTI) model, particularly as they impact reading assessment International Reading Association standards for reading educators and brief discussion of International Dyslexia Association standards Types of reading assessment, including discussion of formative versus summative assessment Expanded coverage of assessment of reading motivation Expanded coverage of writing assessment New and revised assessments across genres of reading assessment Companion Website: numerous resources relevant to reading and writing assessment; suggestions for evidence-based instructional practices that can be linked to assessment results; PowerPoint slides; test bank; study guides; application exercises

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1317619269

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Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings

By: Steve Sullivan

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Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings

By: Steve Sullivan

From John Philip Sousa to Green Day, from Scott Joplin to Kanye West, from Stephen Foster to Coldplay, The Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings, Volumes 1 and 2 covers the vast scope of its subject with virtually unprecedented breadth and depth. Approximately 1,000 key song recordings from 1889 to the present are explored in full, unveiling the stories behind the songs, the recordings, the performers, and the songwriters. Beginning the journey in the era of Victorian parlor balladry, brass bands, and ragtime with the advent of the record industry, readers witness the birth of the blues and the dawn of jazz in the 1910s and the emergence of country music on record and the shift from acoustic to electrical recording in the 1920s. The odyssey continues through the Swing Era of the 1930s; rhythm & blues, bluegrass, and bebop in the 1940s; the rock & roll revolution of the 1950s; modern soul, the British invasion, and the folk-rock movement of the 1960s; and finally into the modern era through the musical streams of disco, punk, grunge, hip-hop, and contemporary dance-pop. Sullivan, however, also takes critical detours by extending the coverage to genres neglected in pop music histories, from ethnic and world music, the gospel recording of both black and white artists, and lesser-known traditional folk tunes that reach back hundreds of years. This book is ideal for anyone who truly loves popular music in all of its glorious variety, and anyone wishing to learn more about the roots of virtually all the music we hear today. Popular music fans, as well as scholars of recording history and technology and students of the intersections between music and cultural history will all find this book to be informative and interesting.

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0810882965

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The Shiva Option

By: David Weber,Steve White

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The Shiva Option

By: David Weber,Steve White

Like some carnivorous cancer, the "Bugs" had overrun planet after planet ... The Grand Alliance of Humans, Orions, Ophiuchi, and Corm, united in desperate self-defense."--Jacket.

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Baen Books

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Digital Learning in Organizations

Help your Workforce Capitalize on Technology

By: Steve Wheeler

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Digital Learning in Organizations

Help your Workforce Capitalize on Technology

By: Steve Wheeler

Technology holds vast potential for learning and development (L&D) practitioners. It can improve performance, productivity, engagement and knowledge retention. But if employees aren't able to leverage the potential of these technologies, any investment in them may be wasted. Digital Learning in Organizations shows L&D professionals how to make sure that their workforce is 'digitally ready' and has the skills, capabilities and understanding needed to capitalize on the opportunities created by learning technologies and to feel confident in their ability to get the most out of them. It includes guidance on how technologies can be used to improve both social and personal learning, how the increased flexibility created by technology enables a multi-located workforce to develop simultaneously, and discussion of how to ensure that technology really does facilitate employee development and doesn't become a distraction. Digital Learning in Organizations also includes comprehensive coverage of the ways in which L&D practitioners can engage with learning technologies and digital capabilities such as mobile learning, wearable technology, learning analytics, digital game-based learning as well as augmented, mixed and virtual reality. Packed with insights from leading L&D practitioners and case studies from organizations including Royal Mail, DTE Energy, and the UK National Health Service (NHS), this is an essential read for all L&D practitioners needing to improve employee and company performance in a digital world.

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0749484691

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The Duke of Havana

Baseball, Cuba, and the Search for the American Dream

By: Steve Fainaru,Ray Sanchez

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The Duke of Havana

Baseball, Cuba, and the Search for the American Dream

By: Steve Fainaru,Ray Sanchez

In 1998, a mysterious right-handed pitcher emerged from the ashes of the Cold War and helped lead the New York Yankees to a World Championship. His origins and even his age were uncertain. His name was Orlando El Duque Hernandez. He was a fallen hero of Fidel Castro's socialist revolution. The chronicle of El Duque's triumph is at once a window into the slow death of Cuban socialism and one of the most remarkable sports stories of all time. Once hailed as a paragon of Castro's revolution, the finest pitcher in modern Cuban history was banned from baseball for life for allegedly plotting to defect. Instead of accepting his punishment, he fearlessly fought back, defying the Communist party authorities, vowing to pitch again, and ultimately fleeing his country in the bowels of a thirty-foot fishing boat. Here, for the first time and in astonishing detail, the secrets behind El Duque's persecution and escape are revealed. Moving from the crumbling streets of post Cold War Havana to the polarized world of exile Miami, from the deadly Florida Straits to the hallowed grounds of Yankee Stadium, it is a story of cloak-and-dagger adventure, audacious secret plots, the pull of big money, and the historic collision of ideologies. Present throughout are the larger-than-life characters who converged at this bizarre intersection of baseball and politics: El Duque himself, Fidel Castro, the Miami sports agent Joe Cubas, the late John Cardinal O'Connor along with scouts, smugglers, and the Cuban ballplayers who gave up their lives as tools of socialism to test the free market and chase their major-league dreams. Reported in the United States and Cuba by two award-winning journalists who became part of the story they were covering, The Duke of Havana is a riveting saga of sports, politics, liberation, and greed.

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Villard

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0375506691

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Heaven's Hammers

An Fbi Agent's Walk in a Dark World

By: Steve Fillerup

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Heaven's Hammers

An Fbi Agent's Walk in a Dark World

By: Steve Fillerup

This memoir begins on the reservation of the White Mountain Apaches in Arizona when a tribal police officer is laid to rest after being assaulted and murdered by two suspected burglars. The book concludes with the author's interrogation of a "routine" suspect in the case of a five-year-old girl who has gone missing for a week. In between these events, the author describes his career journey as an FBI special agent, a journey that sometimes produces success and vindication for crime victims and, sadly, investigations ending in failure. The author, a rather sheltered son of religious parents, navigates a troubled world of darkness, crime and sin.

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149901077X

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The Secret History of Gender

Women, Men, and Power in Late Colonial Mexico

By: Steve J. Stern

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The Secret History of Gender

Women, Men, and Power in Late Colonial Mexico

By: Steve J. Stern

In this study of gender relations in late colonial Mexico (ca. 1760-1821), Steve Stern analyzes the historical connections between gender, power, and politics in the lives of peasants, Indians, and other marginalized peoples. Through vignettes of everyday

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0807846430

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A Very DC Rebirth Holiday

By: Paul Dini,Amanda Conner,Jimmy Palmiotti,Tim Seeley,Mariko Tamaki,James Tynion IV,Gene Luen Yang,Steve Orlando

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A Very DC Rebirth Holiday

By: Paul Dini,Amanda Conner,Jimmy Palmiotti,Tim Seeley,Mariko Tamaki,James Tynion IV,Gene Luen Yang,Steve Orlando

ItÕs time to deck the halls with the DC UniverseÕs greatest heroes in a collection of holiday-themed stories from the world of DC! Harley Quinn rings in the festivities, hosting yuletide tales of Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman, Green Lantern, the Flash and more. Then Harley herself takes center stage when she has to help an ailing Santa Claus get back to his holiday work, but discovers that Santa has no interest in hitching up the sleigh ever again! Discover how Gotham City celebrates the holidays in these Dark Knight stories that include the Eisner Award-winning ÒGood BoyÓ (from writer Tom King and artist David Finch), which introduces a new take on BatmanÕs best friend! A VERY DC REBIRTH CHRISTMAS showcases all-star creators Scott Snyder, Jimmy Palmiotti, Amanda Conner, Paul Dini, Neal Adams, Gene Luen Yang, Steve Orlando, Joseph Michael Linsner, Ian Churchill, Andrea Mutti and many more. Collecting DC REBIRTH HOLIDAY SPECIAL #1, HARLEY QUINN #10 and BATMAN ANNUAL #1, itÕs the perfect gift for good guys and gals on anyoneÕs list!

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