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Black & White Pipeline

Converting Digital Color Into Striking Grayscale Images

By: Ted Dillard

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Black & White Pipeline

Converting Digital Color Into Striking Grayscale Images

By: Ted Dillard

A guide to converting digital color photographs into grayscale images with Adobe Photoshop that covers luminance, adjustment conversion, plug-ins, optical filters, calibration, printing, and other related topics.

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Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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160059400X

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9781600594007

Raw Pipeline

Revolutionary Techniques to Streamline Digital Photo Workflow

By: Ted Dillard

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Raw Pipeline

Revolutionary Techniques to Streamline Digital Photo Workflow

By: Ted Dillard

Digital photography has changed the visual world, bringing an onslaught of new tools, techniques, and technology—a daunting challenge for photographers trying to keep up with the latest innovations. Fortunately, that task has just gotten a little easier. RAW Pipeline is the solution to mastering the biggest, most important innovation in digital photography: the RAW image file. It explains exactly what a RAW file is, and how to process and efficiently control it. Discover new ways to “think RAW” while shooting and new methods for effectively handling RAW’s time-demanding processing requirements in the computer. Learn how to harness the power of Photoshop’s layers and masks—and then break the boundaries of image control by combining these with Adobe’s ingenious Smart Object technology. Finally, you’ll see how to navigate the RAW workflow process—with the end result being a fine-art quality print. RAW Pipeline will truly revolutionize how you work on your images in Photoshop."--Amazon.com viewed Oct. 24, 2022.

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Lark Books

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1600592791

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9781600592799

Color Pipeline

Revolutionary Paths to Controlling Digital Color

By: Ted Dillard

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Color Pipeline

Revolutionary Paths to Controlling Digital Color

By: Ted Dillard

Provides an overview of basic color theory, explains how the computer translates color, and devises several workflows for achieving the highest-quality image with the least amount of hassle.

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Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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1600593925

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9781600593925

Smart Object Pipeline

Revolutionary Tactics for the Photoshop Layer Workflow

By: Ted Dillard

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Smart Object Pipeline

Revolutionary Tactics for the Photoshop Layer Workflow

By: Ted Dillard

With CS4 looming, Adobe's engineers have nearly perfected this powerful tool and they're aiming at digital photographers too. This volume explains the technology, providing a detailed workflow guide for photographers and Photoshop enthusiasts. It also includes a primer on Adobe Camera RAW.

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Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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1600593976

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9781600593970

...from Fossils to Flux, Third Edition

By: Ted Dillard

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...from Fossils to Flux, Third Edition

By: Ted Dillard

A basic guide to building electric motorcycles, this book gives you the lay of the land, an outline the basic principles and practices of electric vehicles and electric motorcycle conversions, and point you in the direction of some good resources and good advice. ...from Fossils to Flux will get you started down the path, and help you know where to find the signposts to guide you along the way.

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Lulu.com

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1304272044

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9781304272041

Chasing the Rising Sun

The Journey of an American Song

By: Ted Anthony

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Chasing the Rising Sun

The Journey of an American Song

By: Ted Anthony

Chasing the Rising Sun is the story of an American musical journey told by a prize-winning writer who traced one song in its many incarnations as it was carried across the world by some of the most famous singers of the twentieth century. Most people know the song "House of the Rising Sun" as 1960s rock by the British Invasion group the Animals, a ballad about a place in New Orleans -- a whorehouse or a prison or gambling joint that's been the ruin of many poor girls or boys. Bob Dylan did a version and Frijid Pink cut a hard-rocking rendition. But that barely scratches the surface; few songs have traveled a journey as intricate as "House of the Rising Sun." The rise of the song in this country and the launch of its world travels can be traced to Georgia Turner, a poor, sixteen-year-old daughter of a miner living in Middlesboro, Kentucky, in 1937 when the young folk-music collector Alan Lomax, on a trip collecting field recordings, captured her voice singing "The Rising Sun Blues." Lomax deposited the song in the Library of Congress and included it in the 1941 book Our Singing Country. In short order, Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Lead Belly, and Josh White learned the song and each recorded it. From there it began to move to the planet's farthest corners. Today, hundreds of artists have recorded "House of the Rising Sun," and it can be heard in the most diverse of places -- Chinese karaoke bars, Gatorade ads, and as a ring tone on cell phones. Anthony began his search in New Orleans, where he met Eric Burdon of the Animals. He traveled to the Appalachians -- to eastern Kentucky, eastern Tennessee, and western North Carolina -- to scour the mountains for the song's beginnings. He found Homer Callahan, who learned it in the mountains during a corn shucking; he discovered connections to Clarence "Tom" Ashley, who traveled as a performer in a 1920s medicine show. He went to Daisy, Kentucky, to visit the family of the late high-lonesome singer Roscoe Holcomb, and finally back to Bourbon Street to see if there really was a House of the Rising Sun. He interviewed scores of singers who performed the song. Through his own journey he discovered how American traditions survived and prospered -- and how a piece of culture moves through the modern world, propelled by technology and globalization and recorded sound.

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Simon and Schuster

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1416539301

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9781416539308

The Haunt of Grace

Responses to the Mystery of God's Presence

By: Ted Loder

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The Haunt of Grace

Responses to the Mystery of God's Presence

By: Ted Loder

From the pen of one of today's most visionary spiritual thinkers comes a book of profound explorations on the mysteries and marvels of faith, love, and life. Believing that mystery is at the very heart of faith, Loder delves deep into the "sneaky" ways God surfaces in the muddle of everyday experience. In fourteen chapters crafted from his best-loved sermons as Senior Minister of the First United Methodist Church of Germantown (Philadelphia), Loder's persistently evocative images call us to live in this scarred, beautiful world differently, to find a truer, more compassionate place in it. This is not a book for the timid or complacent; it's one of the most exciting spiritual reads you'll come across in a long time.

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Augsburg Books

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1451418744

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Writing Brave and Free

Encouraging Words for People who Want to Start Writing

By: Ted Kooser,Steve Cox

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Writing Brave and Free

Encouraging Words for People who Want to Start Writing

By: Ted Kooser,Steve Cox

Sometimes setting pen to paper requires bravery, and writing well means breaking free of the rules learned in school. Liberating and emboldening the beginning writer are the goals of Ted Kooser and Steve Cox in this spirited book of practical wisdom that brings to bear decades of invaluable experience in writing, teaching, editing, and publishing. Unlike ?how to write? books that dwell on the angst and the agony of the trade, Writing Brave and Free is upbeat and accessible. The focus here is the work itself: how to get started and how to keep going, and never is heard a discouraging word such as ?no,? ?not,? or ?never.? Because of the wealth of their experience, the authors can offer the sort of practical publishing advice that novices need and yet rarely find. Organized in brief, user-friendly chapters?on everything from sensory details to a work environment, from creating suspense to revising and taking criticism?the book allows aspiring (and practicing) writers to dip in anywhere and find something of value.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803278322

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9780803278325

The Monogram Checklist

The Films of Monogram Pictures Corporation, 1931-1952

By: Ted Okuda

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The Monogram Checklist

The Films of Monogram Pictures Corporation, 1931-1952

By: Ted Okuda

Monogram Pictures Corporation, one of several famed "poverty row" studios, produced over 700 feature films--cheap, often inept, frequently forgettable, but so inexpensive profit was unavoidable. The Bowery Boys and Charlie Chan series were extremely popular. This, the first such reference book, corrects errors in other sources while giving movie titles, casts, credits, plot synopses, running times, release dates, alternate and remake titles.

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McFarland

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1476610118

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9781476610115

Breathe Restlessness into Me

The Subversive and Inspired Poems and Meditations of Ted Loder

By: Ted Loder

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Breathe Restlessness into Me

The Subversive and Inspired Poems and Meditations of Ted Loder

By: Ted Loder

Ted Loder continues to inspire readers with his powerful prayers, sermons, and reflections. His books speak to the human experience, drawing out the beauty and struggle as we respond to the grace of God. Loder is perhaps best known for Guerrillas of Grace: Prayers for the Battle, which speaks to the battle Christians face against the principalities and powers, where our weapon is prayer. Wrestling the Light: Ache and Awe in the Human-Divine Struggle gives expression to the human struggle to meet God in our daily lives, where God calls and invites us to join him in his grace. While Loder may be recognized for his prayers, The Haunt of Grace: Responses to the Mystery of God's Presence is a book of his sermons from his time as a senior pastor for over forty years. Finally, Tracks in the Straw: Tales Spun from the Manger is Loder's presentation of the birth story of Jesus from different perspectives and voices, helping us to explore the deeper meaning of Christmas. The collection provides the reader with some of Ted Loder's most memorable works with a variety of meditations for reflection.

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Fortress Press

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1506488870

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9781506488875

Funnymen

A Novel

By: Ted Heller

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Funnymen

A Novel

By: Ted Heller

SIGMUND "ZIGGY" BLISSMAN isn't the best-looking, sanest boy in the world. Far, far from it. But this misfit child of a failed husband-and-wife vaudeville team has one (and only one) thing going for him: He can crack people up merely by batting his eyelashes. And Vittorio "Vic" Fontana, the son of a fisherman, is a fraud. Barely able to carry a tune or even stay awake while attempting to, the indolent baritone (if that's what he is) has one thing going for him: Women love to look at him. On their own, they're failures. But on one summer night in the Catskills, they step onstage and together become the funniest men -- and the hottest act -- in America. Funnymen is the wildly inventive story of Fountain and Bliss, the comedy duo that delighted America in the 1940s and '50s. Conceived as a fictional oral biography and filled with more than seventy memorable characters, Funnymen details the extraordinary careers of two men whose professional success is never matched in their personal lives. The two men fight constantly with their managers, their wives, their children, their mistresses, and those responsible for their success: each other. The stories recounted about Vic and Ziggy -- and the truths Heller reveals about human ambition, egotism, and friendship -- make Funnymen a wild ride of a novel that is also a rare and imaginative masterpiece of storytelling.

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Simon and Schuster

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074324236X

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9780743242363

Liberty and Justice for Some

By: Ted Paulk

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Liberty and Justice for Some

By: Ted Paulk

The news story runs repeatedly: A teenage girl is raped and murdered by a recently paroled child molester Marcus Regan. While searching for her body, the police find the remains of another victim, killed a year earlier by the same man. Through the machinations of his attorney, Regan cuts a deal for a life sentence rather than facing the death penalty. The story infuriates former police officer Josh OBrien. He decides its time to introduce a more fitting punishment to child predators living behind prison walls. His first attempt fails when he is assaulted by gang members he tries to recruit in South Phoenix. Joshs fervor reignites when the father of a murdered woman in a high-profile case takes his revenge on her killer. OBrien calls on an imprisoned pal from Texas, Bobby Lee Baker, and they target Regan. Jacob Oakley, a noted attorney with high ethical standards, sees Bobby Lees plight and gets involved. With the help of his private investigator and a female deputy, Oakley uncovers a plot involving a crooked sheriff, an unscrupulous federal agent, and numerous unsavory lawyers, judges, and prosecutors who have wrongfully put a large number of minor offenders in prison for life.

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iUniverse

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1462006620

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9781462006625

Earth Calling

A Climate Change Handbook for the 21st Century

By: Ellen Gunter,Ted Carter

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Earth Calling

A Climate Change Handbook for the 21st Century

By: Ellen Gunter,Ted Carter

Our earliest mythologies tell us we all start as a little bit of dirt. These stories carry a profound message: each of us is born with a deep and abiding connection to the earth, one that many of us have lost touch with. The Silent Spring for today's environmental activists, this book offers an invitation to reestablish our relationship with nature to repair our damaged environment. Chapter 1 examines the threats to the planet's health through the lens of the human energy system known as the chakras, describing how the broken first chakra relates to our disconnection from our biosphere. Chapter 2 shows how our current environmental crises--global warming, climate change, dwindling water resources, natural disasters such as wildfires and hurricanes--represent severe manifestations of our disconnection from the earth. Chapter 3 describes how the preponderance of oil in our culture--especially agribusiness--compounds this disconnection, from our dependence on other countries for our energy, to current issues of oil depletion, peak oil, and fracking, to the dumbing down of our agricultural polyculture. Chapter 4 explains how the most basic building blocks of our nourishment--seeds--are being compromised with a loss of biodiversity and rise of GMOs, and how that adversely affects the farmers whose sacred connection to the land has in many cases been severed. Chapter 5 describes the ways in which we as individuals can begin to wake up to climate activism as a spiritual practice. This chapter includes specific activities that you can use to implement change and heal your own connection to the earth. By learning and practicing ritual and understanding the earth's rhythms and seasonal rites of passage, each of us can find unique ways to heal our own connections and help others heal theirs. Chapter 6 brings to life Goethe’s wisdom: “Knowing isn’t enough; neither is being willing. We must do,” by providing strategies and resources for exploring how each of us can find our own Earth Calling, then anchoring that calling with the only force that ignites change: Action.

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North Atlantic Books

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1583947817

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9781583947814

The River Stops Here

Saving Round Valley, A Pivotal Chapter in California’s Water Wars

By: Ted Simon

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The River Stops Here

Saving Round Valley, A Pivotal Chapter in California’s Water Wars

By: Ted Simon

A vivid chapter in the saga of the California water wars, The River Stops Here documents state and federal plans to flood the largest, most fertile valley in Mendocino County to send water south to Los Angeles. The eventual success of Richard Wilson, a rancher in Round Valley, to stop the project is the heart of this compelling story.

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Univ of California Press

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0520927656

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9780520927650

The View From The Studio Door

How Artists Find Their Way In An Uncertain World

By: Ted Orland

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The View From The Studio Door

How Artists Find Their Way In An Uncertain World

By: Ted Orland

In the perennial best-seller Art & Fear, Ted Orland (with David Bayles) examined the obstacles that artists encounter each time they enter their studio and stand before a new blank canvas. Now, in The View From The Studio Door, Orland turns his attention to broader issues that stand to either side of that artistic moment of truth. In a text marked by grace, brevity and humor, Orland argues that when it comes to art making, theory and practice are always intertwined. There are timeless philosophical questions (How do we make sense of the world?) that address the very nature of art making, as well as gritty real-world questions (Is there art after graduation?) that artists encounter the moment they’re off the starting blocks and producing work on a regular basis. Simply put, this is a book of practical philosophy. As a teacher and working artist himself, Orland brings authentic insight and encouragement to all those who face the challenge of making art in an uncertain world. The breadth of material covered is reflected in chapters that include Making Sense of the World, Art & Society, The Education of the Artist, Surviving Graduation, Making Art That Matters, The Artistic Community, and more. The View From The Studio Door is the perfect companion piece to Art & Fear, and will appeal to a similar (and already-established) audience of students, working artists, teachers and professionals. For students’ benefit, The View is also modestly priced, with wide page margins for easy note-taking and annotation.

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Image Continuum Press

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0961454768

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9780961454760

Blue Ridge Folklife

By: Ted Olson

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Blue Ridge Folklife

By: Ted Olson

In the years immediately preceding the founding of the American nation the Blue Ridge region, which stretches through large sections of Virginia and North Carolina and parts of surrounding states along the Appalachian chain, was the American frontier. In colonial times, it was settled by hardy, independent people from several cultural backgrounds that did not fit with the English-dominated society. The landless, the restless, and the rootless followed Daniel Boone, the most famous of the settlers, and pushed the frontier westward. The settlers who did not migrate to new lands became geographically isolated and politically and economically marginalized. Yet they created fulfilling lives for themselves by forging effective and oftentimes sophisticated folklife traditions, many of which endure in the region today. In 1772 the Blue Ridge was the site of the Watauga Association, often cited as the first free and democratic non-native government on the American continent. In 1780 Blue Ridge pioneers helped win the Revolutionary War for the patriots by defeating Patrick Ferguson's army of British loyalists at the Battle of Kings Mountain. When gold was discovered in the southernmost section of the Blue Ridge, America experienced its first gold rush and the subsequent tragic displacement of the region's aboriginal people. Having been spared by the coincidence of geology and topography from the more environmentally damaging manifestations of industrialization, coal mining, and dam building, the Blue Ridge region still harbors scenic natural beauty as well as vestiges of the earliest cultures of southern Appalachia. As it describes the most characteristic and significant verbal, customary, and material traditions, this fascinating, fact-filled book traces the historical development of the region's distinct folklife.

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1628467614

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9781628467611

Across the Threshold, Into the Questions

Discovering Jesus, Finding Self

By: Caren Goldman,Ted Voorhees

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Across the Threshold, Into the Questions

Discovering Jesus, Finding Self

By: Caren Goldman,Ted Voorhees

Offers reflections on how the words of a first-century Jew can offer meaning, hope, and wholeness to readers today. Across the Threshold, into the Questions includes new encounters with Jesus and his parables and teachings from the Gospel stories in Mark, Matthew and Luke. This volume continues to build the strong foundation needed for another volume that uses Goldman and William Dols' method to explore the non-canonical Gospel of Thomas.

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Church Publishing, Inc.

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0819226718

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9780819226716

Religion Gone Astray

What We Found at the Heart of Interfaith

By: Don Mackenzie,Ted Falcon,Jamal Rahman

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Religion Gone Astray

What We Found at the Heart of Interfaith

By: Don Mackenzie,Ted Falcon,Jamal Rahman

Welcome to the deeper dimensions of interfaith dialogue--exploring that which divides us personally, spiritually and institutionally. "We believe that interfaith dialogue holds the key to a healing that calls us back to purpose and to meaning. We have risked confronting aspects of our traditions usually hidden, and the consequences have been deeply life-affirming. We risk becoming vulnerable as we share awkward and even unacceptable texts and interpretations, but it is this very vulnerability that allows our dialogue to move forward." --from the Introduction Expanding on the conversation started with their very successful first book, the Interfaith Amigos--a pastor, a rabbi and an imam--probe more deeply into the problem aspects of our religious institutions to provide a profound understanding of the nature of what divides us. They identify four common problem areas in the Abrahamic faiths: Exclusivity Staking Claim to a One and Only Truth Violence Justifying Brutality in the Name of Faith Inequality of Men and Women The Patriarchal Stranglehold on Power Homophobia A Denial of Legitimacy They explore the origins of these issues and the ways critics use these beliefs as divisive weapons. And they present ways we can use these vulnerabilities to open doors for the collaboration required to address our common issues, more profound personal relationships, and true interfaith healing.

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SkyLight Paths Publishing

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1594733171

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9781594733178

Arrival

By: Ted Chiang

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Arrival

By: Ted Chiang

A collection of science fiction short stories, including "Story of Your Life," in which a linguist's insight into the language of alien lifeforms on Earth and its nonlinear structure help her deal with her divorce and death of her daughter."--Publisher.

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Vintage

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0525433678

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9780525433675

Candy Barr

The Small-Town Texas Runaway Who Became a Darling of the Mob and the Queen of Las Vegas Burlesque

By: Ted Schwarz

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Candy Barr

The Small-Town Texas Runaway Who Became a Darling of the Mob and the Queen of Las Vegas Burlesque

By: Ted Schwarz

Born Juanita Slusher in Edna, Texas, in 1935, the entertainer who became Candy Barr was perhaps the last great dancer in burlesque, a stripper who insisted on live, improvisational music and who at one time commanded $2,000 a week in 1950s Las Vegas. But as Juanita she had started life as a prematurely well-developed thirteen-year-old runaway victimized by a Dallas ritual known as "the capture" that enslaved her into prostitution, for a time turning over 4,000 tricks a year before she was able to escape. A lover of Mickey Cohen's and friend to Jack Ruby, Barr's tumultuous life included a period of imprisonment on trumped-up drug charges, an appearance in a crude, 20-minute stag film, and unlikely role in the investigation into the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Based on over 100 hours of exclusive interviews with Barr, this book is not just the story of Juanita and Candy, but also paints an unflattering picture of all those who sought to exploit her.

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Taylor Trade Publications

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1589796950

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9781589796959

Carol Shields, Narrative Hunger, and the Possibilities of Fiction

By: Ted Farrell

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Carol Shields, Narrative Hunger, and the Possibilities of Fiction

By: Ted Farrell

Award-winning Canadian writer Carol Shields has garnered praise from scholars and an international audience of readers. Inspired by the quality and scope of Shields's work, Carol Shields, Narrative Hunger, and the Possibilities of Fiction addresses her creative exploration of postmodernism. As the first thorough examination of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, this collection of essays establishes the groundwork for future studies of her oeuvre. The collection begins with a significant new essay from Shields herself, 'Narrative Hunger and the Overflowing Cupboard,' perhaps her most substantial commentary upon her own aims as a writer. In addition, scholars from Canada, England, the United States, and Australia explore the complexity of Shields's work and her contributions to the genre of the novel. These lively essays reflect Shields's verve and her playful approach to today's sophisticated critical thinking. Among the topics are Shields's use of biography and autobiography, metafiction, popular romance, and symbolism. While the essays foreground the unreliability of language, and hence our inability to know one another or even ourselves, the contributors argue that Shields has taken a step beyond postmodernism by suggesting that we can transcend the limitations of its epistemology. Containing several essays on Swann and The Stone Diaries, Shields's most popular works, and the most extensive annotated bibliography available of works by and about Shields, this collection will appeal widely to scholars, students, and readers of Carol Shields and Canadian fiction.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802084893

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9780802084897

Getting to Heart of Interfaith

The Eye-Opening, Hope-Filled Friendship of a Pastor, a Rabbi & an Imam

By: Pastor Don Mackenzie, PhD,Rabbi Ted Falcon, PhD,Imam Jamal Rahman

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Getting to Heart of Interfaith

The Eye-Opening, Hope-Filled Friendship of a Pastor, a Rabbi & an Imam

By: Pastor Don Mackenzie, PhD,Rabbi Ted Falcon, PhD,Imam Jamal Rahman

A deeply personal journey to interfaith collaboration that offers hope for an inclusive and healing way of being together in the world. Too often religion seems to fuel more hatred than love, more conflict than collaboration. Interfaith Talk Radios interfaith amigosa pastor, a rabbi and an Imamprovide a rich understanding of the road to interfaith collaboration by sharing their stories, challenges, and the inner spiritual work necessary to go beyond tolerance to a vital, inclusive spirituality. From their deep commitment and lived experience, they present ways we can work together to transcend the differences that have divided us historically. Together they explore: The five stages of the interfaith journey The power of our stories The core of our traditions The promises and problems of our traditions New dimensions of spiritual identity And much more Along with inspiring insights and encouragement for tapping into the promise of interfaith dialogue, they provide practical actions, additional readings and discussion questions to help you embody their revolutionary spirit of healing.

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Turner Publishing Company

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1594733643

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9781594733642

Arrival (Stories of Your Life MTI)

By: Ted Chiang

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Arrival (Stories of Your Life MTI)

By: Ted Chiang

Previously published as Stories of Your Life and Others. Includes "Story Of Your Life," the basis for the major motion picture Arrival, starring Amy Adams, Forest Whitaker, Jeremy Renner, and directed by Denis Villeneuve. “A swell movie adaptation always sends me to the source material, so Arrival had me pick up Ted Chiang's Stories of Your Life and Others: lean, relentless, and incandescent.” —Colson Whitehead, GQ Ted Chiang has long been known as one of the most powerful science fiction writers working today. Offering readers the dual delights of the very strange and the heartbreakingly familiar, Arrival presents characters who must confront sudden change. In "Story of Your Life," which provides the basis for the film Arrival, alien lifeforms suddenly appear on Earth. When a linguist is brought in to help communicate with them and discern their intentions, her new knowledge of their language and its nonlinear structure allows her to see future events and all the joy and pain they may bring. In each story of this incredible collection, with sharp intelligence and humor, Ted Chiang examines what it means to be alive in a world marked by uncertainty, but also by wonder.

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Vintage

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0525433686

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9780525433682

The Paradise Trilogy

By: Ted Dekker

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The Paradise Trilogy

By: Ted Dekker

Welcome to the Paradise Trilogy from bestselling author Ted Dekker - Showdown, Saint, and Sinner.

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Thomas Nelson Inc

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1401686982

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9781401686987

Lights Out

Pride, Delusion, and the Fall of General Electric

By: Thomas Gryta,Ted Mann

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Lights Out

Pride, Delusion, and the Fall of General Electric

By: Thomas Gryta,Ted Mann

How could General Electric--perhaps America's most iconic corporation--suffer such a swift and sudden fall from grace? This is the definitive history of General Electric's epic decline, as told by the two Wall Street Journal reporters who covered its fall. Since its founding in 1892, GE has been more than just a corporation. For generations, it was job security, a solidly safe investment, and an elite business education for top managers. GE electrified America, powering everything from lightbulbs to turbines, and became fully integrated into the American societal mindset as few companies ever had. And after two decades of leadership under legendary CEO Jack Welch, GE entered the twenty-first century as America's most valuable corporation. Yet, fewer than two decades later, the GE of old was gone. Lights Out examines how Welch's handpicked successor, Jeff Immelt, tried to fix flaws in Welch's profit machine, while stumbling headlong into mistakes of his own. In the end, GE's traditional win-at-all-costs driven culture seemed to lose its direction, which ultimately caused the company's decline on both a personal and organizational scale. Lights Out details how one of America's all-time great companies has been reduced to a cautionary tale for our times.

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Stories of Your Life and Others

By: Ted Chiang

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Stories of Your Life and Others

By: Ted Chiang

From the author of Exhalation, an award-winning short story collection that blends "absorbing storytelling with meditations on the universe, being, time and space ... raises questions about the nature of reality and what it is to be human" (The New York Times). Stories of Your Life and Others delivers dual delights of the very, very strange and the heartbreakingly familiar, often presenting characters who must confront sudden change—the inevitable rise of automatons or the appearance of aliens—with some sense of normalcy. With sharp intelligence and humor, Chiang examines what it means to be alive in a world marked by uncertainty, but also by beauty and wonder. An award-winning collection from one of today's most lauded writers, Stories of Your Life and Others is a contemporary classic. Includes “Story of Your Life”—the basis for the major motion picture Arrival

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Knopf

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1931520895

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9781931520898

The Columbia Comedy Shorts

Two-Reel Hollywood Film Comedies, 1933-1958

By: Ted Okuda,Edward Watz

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The Columbia Comedy Shorts

Two-Reel Hollywood Film Comedies, 1933-1958

By: Ted Okuda,Edward Watz

Columbia produced over 500 two-reel shorts from 1933 through 1958, with Hollywood's finest comics (the Three Stooges, Andy Clyde, Buster Keaton, Harry Langdon, Charley Chase, others). Fully illustrated with never-before-published photographs, the book chronicles the history of all, including interviews with the veterans. The filmography covers all of the 526 two-reelers: credits, date, synopsis.

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147661010X

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Sinner

A Paradise Novel

By: Ted Dekker

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Sinner

A Paradise Novel

By: Ted Dekker

Full of mystery, intrigue, and mind-blowing twists, Sinner explores what happens when the idea of tolerance leads to intolerance. Some say roll with the punches. Drift with the tide. Nothing can stop the inevitability of change. There was a time when 300 Spartans disagreed with such mindless thinking and stood in the gap. Now it's time for 3,000 to stand in the gap. Sinner is the story of Marsuvees Black, a force of raw evil who speaks with wicked persuasion that is far more destructive than swords or guns. Beware all who stand in his way. It’s also the story of Billy Rediger and Darcy Lange, two unsuspecting survivors of a research project gone bad, who discover that they are perhaps the two most powerful souls in the land. Listen to them or pay a terrible price. And it’s the story of Johnny Drake, the one who comes out of the desert and leads the 3,000. Follow him and die. Sinner tells the story of a free land where people who worship as they please and say what they believe are suddenly silenced in the name of tolerance. Most will roll with the punches. Most will drift with the tide. But not all. Not the 3,000. Full-length suspense with a thread of fantasy Includes Author’s Note and Discussion Questions for book clubs Book three in the Paradise series: Showdown, Saint, and Sinner

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Thomas Nelson

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1418580066

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9781418580063

Conducting and Reading Research in Kinesiology

By: Ted A. Baumgartner,Larry D Hensley,Weimo Zhu,Pamela Hodges Kulinna

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Conducting and Reading Research in Kinesiology

By: Ted A. Baumgartner,Larry D Hensley,Weimo Zhu,Pamela Hodges Kulinna

Updated and reorganized, Conducting and Reading Research in Kinesiology, Sixth Edition teaches students how to conduct their own research and how to read—with understanding—the research that others in the field have done. This text is comprehensive yet practical and understandable, incorporating many examples of the application of various research methods and techniques in an attempt to increase students’ grasp of the research process. Written for those students with little research background, and those who may not write a master's thesis, the text helps readers develop an appreciation for research and an understanding of how different types of research are conducted so they will become good consumers and readers of the research of others Conducting and Reading Research in Kinesiology, Sixth Edition will also serve the need of students beginning the introduction to research course knowing they will write a master's thesis or complete a master's project, as it highlights the numerous

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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1284205665

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9781284205664

Fredericksburg, Virginia

Eclectic Histories for the Curious Reader

By: Ted Kamieniak

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Fredericksburg, Virginia

Eclectic Histories for the Curious Reader

By: Ted Kamieniak

Ted Kamieniak collected these fifteen superb articles to amaze and fascinate all who feel history is simply a well-worn path. Each selection delivers fresh perspective and intriguing events connected to Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County, Virginia. Fastidiously investigated and painstakingly written, this eclectic compilation presents little-visited neighborhoods of historical inquiry. Meet Fredericksburgs first cop on the beat; discover the persistence of hoodoo and conjuration in black plantation society; delve into the account of State Senator Benjamin Pitts and Fredericksburgs first drive-in movie theaterand so much more! Whether your interests lie in social history, vernacular architecture, historic technology or folkways, you will find this book an entertaining and profitable read.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1625844662

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9781625844668

The Dark Side of Hopkinsville

By: Ted Poston

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The Dark Side of Hopkinsville

By: Ted Poston

Preserving an engaging, little-known slice of American life, The Dark Side of Hopkinsville is a collection of ten picaresque tales bearing witness to a black child's life in a southern town at the turn of the century. Born and reared in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, Ted Poston (1906-1974) became the first black career-long reporter for a major metropolitan daily (the New York Post) and served as a member of Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Negro Cabinet" in Washington in 1940. After thirty-five years at the Post, Poston was without question the "Dean of Black Journalists." Acquainted with the major figures of the Harlem Renaissance, Poston regaled his associates with tales of his childhood. These memories resulted in the stories collected in The Dark Side of Hopkinsville. Told from the vantage point of "Ted," a bright, high-spirited student at Booker T. Washington Colored Grammar School, the stories focus on a coterie of imaginative children, their entertainments and games, ties to the church, and relations with immediate and extended families. The memorable, recurring characters in the stories are based on individuals Poston knew: Cousin Blind Mary, a fortune teller who can see into someone's future only after consulting with the servants of the family in question; Ted's father, Ephraim, "the only Negro Democrat in our Hopkinsville, Kentucky, or in the whole state of Kentucky for that matter"; Fertilizer Ferguson, whom Ted credits with coining the phrase "eating higher up on the hog"; and Ted's schoolmate Knee Baby Watkins, the "catalytic agent who precipitated the most disasterous social feud in the history of Hopkinsville." Though the presence of prejudice--both within and outside the race--is acknowledged throughout the stories, that social reality does not lessen the characters' exuberant enjoyment of being young. After watching Bronco Billy and his black sidekick, Pistol Pete, at the nickel movie on Saturdays, Ted and his friends make Pistol Pete the hero and Bronco Billy the sidekick of their games in "The Werewolf of Woolworth's." In "The Revolt of the Evil Fairies," Ted uses Palmer's Skin Success ("guaranteed to give you a light complexion in just seven days") so that he can play Prince Charming opposite his fair-skinned sweetheart in the school play. Kathleen A. Hauke has annotated the stories with recollections of the author's family and friends, who are often major characters in the stories. An extended biographical and critical introduction offers background information on the life and work of Ted Poston, and on old Hopkinsville and its residents.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820342386

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9780820342382

Call Me Ted

By: Ted Turner,Bill Burke

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Call Me Ted

By: Ted Turner,Bill Burke

Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell and advertise!" These words of fatherly advice helped shape Ted Turner's remarkable life, but they only begin to explain the colorful, energetic, and unique style that has made Ted into one of the most amazing personalities of our time. Along the way - among his numerous accomplishments - Ted became one of the richest men in the world, the largest land owner in the United States, revolutionized the television business with the creation of TBS and CNN, became a champion sailor and winner of the America's Cup, and took home a World Series championship trophy in 1995 as owner of the Atlanta Braves. An innovative entrepreneur, outspoken nonconformist, and groundbreaking philanthropist, Ted Turner is truly a living legend, and now, for the first time, he reveals his personal story. From his difficult childhood to the successful launch of his media empire to the catastrophic AOL/Time Warner deal, Turner spares no details or feelings and takes the reader along on a wild and sometimes bumpy ride. You'll also hear Ted's personal take on how we can save the world...share his experiences in the dugout on the day when he appointed himself as manager of the Atlanta Braves....learn how he almost lost his life in the 1979 Fastnet sailing race (but came out the winner)...and discover surprising details about his dealings with Fidel Castro, Mikhail Gorbachev, Jimmy Carter, Bill Gates, Jack Welch, Warren Buffett, and many more of the most influential people of the past half century. Ted also doesn't shrink from the darker and more intimate details of his life. With his usual frankness, he discusses a childhood of loneliness (he was left at a boarding school by his parents at the tender age of four), and the emotional impact of devastating losses (Ted's beloved sister died at seventeen and his hard-charging father committed suicide when Ted was still in his early twenties). Turner is also forthcoming about his marriages, including the one to Oscar-winning actress, Jane Fonda. Along the way, Ted's friends, colleagues, and family are equally revealing in their unique "Ted Stories" which are peppered throughout the book. Jane Fonda, especially, provides intriguing insights into Ted's inner drive and character. In Call Me Ted, you'll hear Ted Turner's distinctive voice on every page. Always forthright, he tells you what makes him tick and what ticks him off, and delivers an honest account of what he's all about. Inspiring and entertaining, Call Me Ted sheds new light on one of the greatest visionaries of our time.

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0446543365

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