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The Hambukushu Rainmakers of the Okavango

By: Thomas John Larson

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The Hambukushu Rainmakers of the Okavango

By: Thomas John Larson

In light of the terrible AIDS tragedy unfolding in southern Africa, one gets an enormous sense of sadness and loss when reading The Hambukushu Rainmakers of the Okavango. Tom J. Larson was one of the last anthropologists to experience and record their ancient culture before it was so radically impacted by modernization and the ravages of the AIDS epidemic. Over the course of many years, he earned the trust of the Hambukushu and was allowed the kind of access needed to painstakingly record the minutiae of every aspect of their daily lives. What emerged is a portrait of a complex, distinctive African culture defined by the abundance of their homeland, the vast and wild Okavango River delta, and by the powerful Rainmaker chiefs who controlled the very fabric of their existence. To read Larson's extraordinary book is to understand how the belief systems that worked so well for them for centuries wreak such havoc on them today.

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0595184561

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Arson Investigation

The Step-by-step Procedure

By: Thomas J. Bouquard

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Arson Investigation

The Step-by-step Procedure

By: Thomas J. Bouquard

This unique book presents a step-by-step approach to arson investigation. Its design and format make the book a ready reference for the investigator in the field and an excellent text for the classroom instructor. The opening chapter sets forth the author's step-by-step method for investigating arson fires. Then, from various points within this chapter, the reader is directed to following chapters that provide specific, in-depth information on basic fire knowledge, cause and origin of fires, basic electrical knowledge, the automobile fire, the youthful fire setter, the insurance fraud fire, the fatal fire, the motive for fire setting, the interview and interrogation, and the polygraph and voice stress tests. To help the reader get the most from the text the step-by-step procedure is followed as closely as possible. Each of the chapters is an update of the original chapters. In addition, there is a question and answer segment at the end of every chapter that may be used for both instruction and court appearances. Instructors and students, along with attorneys in the field, will want to use it to augment their own procedures. The methods, procedures, and techniques outlined make this manual a must for all involved in the field of arson investigation.

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Charles C Thomas Publisher

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0398074720

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9780398074722

From Oxford to the Okavango

By: Thomas John Larson

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From Oxford to the Okavango

By: Thomas John Larson

World explorer Tom Larson is off on another grand adventure this time with his wife and three small children! First they go to Woodstock, England while he studies for his MLitt degree at Oxford, then they are off to Johannesburg, South Africa where Larson has a teaching position at the Witwatersrand University. During vacations he goes to Botswana to continue studies of the Hambukushu people he started in 1950. There is never a dull moment for the Larson family or the reader as the story moves from their lovely home "The Cardinal1s Hat" near stately Blenheim Palace Park in England to native African outposts in the vast, wild Okavango River delta country of Southern Africa. This book is an amazing read! Alec Campbell of Botswana states: "Tom is an old time indefatigable explorer who still works on his enormous accumulation of data, lectures to students, and who still works at research in the Society Islands of French Polynesia.

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0595264107

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9780595264100

When Good Companies Go Bad

100 Corporate Miscalculations and Misdeeds

By: Donald W. Beachler,Thomas Shevory

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When Good Companies Go Bad

100 Corporate Miscalculations and Misdeeds

By: Donald W. Beachler,Thomas Shevory

Covering the entire world of business from heavy industry to the financial houses of Wall Street, this book shines a spotlight on 100 of the most infamous cases of misconduct and malfeasance in corporate history. Corporations are in the business of making money. But when companies forget ethics, take operational shortcuts, or willingly endanger customers and the general public in their quest for profits, disasters of enormous magnitude can result. This book examines 100 of the worst cases of corporate greed and irresponsibility and poses the questions: Is it necessary or desirable to conduct business in this manner? Do the penalties and other punishments levied against these companies go far enough? And what is the government's responsibility for keeping corporate misdeeds in check? Coauthored by distinguished public policy experts, When Good Companies Go Bad: 100 Corporate Miscalculations and Misdeeds presents a representative sample of cases on a variety of topics, such as the financial sector, health care, environmental protection, product liability, and copyright. This broad introduction to the dark side of the corporate world focuses on events and scandals that resulted in substantial financial penalties, regulatory actions, or criminal convictions. The cases are presented in a readable and engaging format, making the book an illuminating and informative read for high school and college students as well as businesspeople, lawyers, journalists, and professors who teach American politics, public law, or public policy.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1610694058

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9781610694056

South Pasadena's Raymond Hotel

By: Rick Thomas

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South Pasadena's Raymond Hotel

By: Rick Thomas

Built in lavish Victorian style in 1886 atop Bacon Hill, the Raymond Hotel was the most regal feature on the skyline in the San Gabriel River Valleya sundown silhouette of the wealth and prominence that had coalesced in the Pasadena area. It became the base of activities for Eastern tycoons families enjoying the balmy Southern California climate, even fostering the development of the winter mansions on Orange Grove Avenue. After the original 200-room hotel with 80 chimneys burned down on Easter Sunday in 1895, the second 300-room Raymond Hotel opened in 1901. The pioneering orange groves on the sprawling grounds gave way to a golf course. Pres. Theodore Roosevelt and Charles Chaplin are just two examples of the early-20th-century celebrities who stayed there. This visually stunning collection of images is a mere sample of the vintage professional photography that exists of South Pasadenas iconic landmark.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738559199

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9780738559193

Lincoln's Campaign Biographies

By: Thomas A. Horrocks

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Lincoln's Campaign Biographies

By: Thomas A. Horrocks

During the 1860 and 1864 presidential campaigns, Abraham Lincoln was the subject of over twenty campaign biographies. In this innovative study, Thomas A. Horrocks examines the role that these publications played in shaping an image of Lincoln that would resonate with voters and explores the vision of Lincoln that the biographies crafted, the changes in this vision over the course of four years, and the impact of these works on the outcome of the elections. Horrocks investigates Lincoln’s campaign biographies within the context of the critical relationship between print and politics in nineteenth-century America and compares the works about Lincoln with other presidential campaign biographies of the era. Horrocks shows that more than most politicians of his day, Lincoln deeply appreciated and understood the influence and the power of the printed word. The 1860 campaign biographies introduced to America “Honest Abe, the Rail Splitter,” a trustworthy, rugged candidate who appealed to rural Americans. When Lincoln ran for reelection in 1864, the second round of campaign biographies complemented this earlier portrait of Lincoln with a new, paternal figure, “Father Abraham,” more appropriate for Americans enduring a bloody civil war. Closing with a consideration of the influence of these publications on Lincoln’s election and reelection, Lincoln’s Campaign Biographies provides a new perspective for those seeking a better understanding of the sixteenth president and two of the most critical elections in American history.

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SIU Press

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0809333325

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9780809333325

The Common Flaw

Needless Complexity in the Courts and 50 Ways to Reduce It

By: Thomas G. Moukawsher

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The Common Flaw

Needless Complexity in the Courts and 50 Ways to Reduce It

By: Thomas G. Moukawsher

The American lawsuit is riddled with needless complexity. This book proposes fifty changes-that decide cases promptly-more on the facts than the law-more for the parties than the lawyers-more for the consequences to the people and the public-and in words we can all understand"--

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Brandeis University Press

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1684581648

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9781684581641

Law in American Meetinghouses

Church Discipline and Civil Authority in Kentucky, 1780–1845

By: Jeffrey Thomas Perry

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Law in American Meetinghouses

Church Discipline and Civil Authority in Kentucky, 1780–1845

By: Jeffrey Thomas Perry

A revealing look at the changing role of churches in the decades after the American Revolution. Most Americans today would not think of their local church as a site for arbitration and would probably be hesitant to bring their property disputes, moral failings, or personal squabbles to their kin and neighbors for judgment. But from the Revolutionary Era through the mid-nineteenth century, many Protestants imbued local churches with immense authority. Through their ritual practice of discipline, churches insisted that brethren refrain from suing each other before "infidels" at local courts and claimed jurisdiction over a range of disputes: not only moral issues such as swearing, drunkenness, and adultery but also matters more typically considered to be under the purview of common law and courts of equity, including disputes over trespass, land, probate, slave warranty, and theft. In Law in American Meetinghouses, Jeffrey Thomas Perry explores the ways that ordinary Americans—Black and white, enslaved and free—understood and created law in their local communities, uncovering a vibrant marketplace of authority in which church meetinghouses played a central role in maintaining their neighborhoods' social peace. Churches were once prominent sites for the creation of local law and in this period were a primary arena in which civil and religious authority collided and shaped one another. When church discipline failed, the wronged parties often pushed back, and their responses highlight the various forces that ultimately hindered that venue's ability to effectively arbitrate disputes between members. Relying primarily on a deep reading of church records and civil case files, Perry examines how legal transformations, an expanding market economy, and religious controversy led churchgoers to reimagine their congregations' authority. By the 1830s, unable to resolve doctrinal quibbles within the fellowship, church factions turned to state courts to secure control over their meetinghouses, often demanding that judges wade into messy ecclesiastical disputes. Tracking changes in disciplinary rigor in Kentucky Baptist churches from that state's frontier period through 1845, and looking beyond statutes and court decrees, Law in American Meetinghouses is a fresh take on church-state relations. Ultimately, it highlights an oft-forgotten way that Americans subtly repositioned religious institutions alongside state authority.

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JHU Press

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1421443082

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The Broken Branch

How Congress is Failing America and how to Get it Back on Track

By: Thomas E. Mann,Norman J. Ornstein

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The Broken Branch

How Congress is Failing America and how to Get it Back on Track

By: Thomas E. Mann,Norman J. Ornstein

Two nationally renowned congressional scholars review the evolution of Congress from the early days of the republic to 2006, arguing that extreme partisanship and a disregard for institutional procedures are responsible for the institution's current state of dysfunction.

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Oxford University Press

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0195368711

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9780195368710

The Liberty to Take Fish

Atlantic Fisheries and Federal Power in Nineteenth-Century America

By: Thomas Blake Earle

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The Liberty to Take Fish

Atlantic Fisheries and Federal Power in Nineteenth-Century America

By: Thomas Blake Earle

In The Liberty to Take Fish, Thomas Blake Earle offers an incisive and nuanced history of the long American Revolution, describing how aspirations to political freedom coupled with the economic imperatives of commercial fishing roiled relations between the young United States and powerful Great Britain. The American Revolution left the United States with the "liberty to take fish" from the waters of the North Atlantic. Indispensable to the economic health of the new nation, the cod fisheries of the Grand Banks, the Bay of Fundy, and the Gulf of St. Lawrence quickly became symbols of American independence in an Atlantic world dominated by Great Britain. The fisheries issue was a near-constant concern in American statecraft that impinged upon everything, from Anglo-American relations, to the operation of American federalism, and even to the nature of the marine environment. Earle explores the relationship between the fisheries and the state through the Civil War era when closer ties between the United States and Great Britain finally surpassed the contentious interests of the fishing industry on the nation's agenda. The Liberty to Take Fish is a rich story that moves from the staterooms of Washington and London to the decks of fishing schooners and into the Atlantic itself to understand how ordinary fishermen and the fish they pursued shaped and were, in turn, shaped by those far-off political and economic forces. Earle returns fishing to its once-central place in American history and shows that the nation of the nineteenth century was indeed a maritime one.

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Cornell University Press

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1501770861

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9781501770869

When the Hills Are Gone

Frac Sand Mining and the Struggle for Community

By: Thomas W. Pearson

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When the Hills Are Gone

Frac Sand Mining and the Struggle for Community

By: Thomas W. Pearson

Fracking is one of the most controversial methods of fossil fuel extraction in the United States, but a great deal about it remains out of the public eye. In Wisconsin it has ignited an unprecedented explosion in the state’s sand mining operations, an essential ingredient in hydraulic fracturing that has shaken local communities to the core. In When the Hills Are Gone, Thomas W. Pearson reveals the jolting impact of sand mining on Wisconsin’s environment and politics. A source of extraordinary wealth for a lucky few, and the cause of despoiled land for many others, sand mining has raised alarm over air quality, water purity, noise, blasting, depressed tourism, and damage to the local way of life. It has also spurred a backlash in a grassroots effort that has grown into a mature political movement battling a powerful mining industry. When the Hills Are Gone tells the story of Wisconsin’s sand mining wars. Providing on-the-ground accounts from both the mining industry and the concerned citizens who fought back, Pearson blends social theory, ethnography, stirring journalism, and his own passionate point of view to offer an essential chapter of Wisconsin’s history and an important episode in the national environmental movement. Digging deep into the struggles over place, community, and local democracy that are occurring across the United States, When the Hills Are Gone gives vital insight into America’s environmental battles along the unexpected frontlines of energy development.

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U of Minnesota Press

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1452956227

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9781452956220

Where They're Buried

A Directory Containing More Than Twenty Thousand Names of Notable Persons Buried in American Cemeteries, with Listings of Many Prominent People who Were Cremated

By: Thomas E. Spencer

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Where They're Buried

A Directory Containing More Than Twenty Thousand Names of Notable Persons Buried in American Cemeteries, with Listings of Many Prominent People who Were Cremated

By: Thomas E. Spencer

This volume invites readers to get up close and personal with one of the most respected and beloved writers of the last four decades. Carolyn J. Sharp has transcribed numerous table conversations between Walter Brueggemann and his colleagues and former students, in addition to several of his addresses and sermons from both academic and congregational settings. The result is the essential Brueggemann: readers will learn about his views on scholarship, faith, and the church; get insights into his "contagious charisma," grace, and charity; and appreciate the candid reflections on the fears, uncertainties, and difficulties he faced over the course of his career. Anyone interested in Brueggemann's work and thoughts will be gifted with thought-provoking, inspirational reading from within these pages.

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806348232

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A History of the Mediterranean Air War, 1940–1945

Sicily and Italy to the Fall of Rome 14 May, 1943–5 June, 1944

By: Christopher Shores,Giovanni Massimello,Russell Guest,Frank Olynyk,Winfried Bock,Andy Thomas

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A History of the Mediterranean Air War, 1940–1945

Sicily and Italy to the Fall of Rome 14 May, 1943–5 June, 1944

By: Christopher Shores,Giovanni Massimello,Russell Guest,Frank Olynyk,Winfried Bock,Andy Thomas

This fourth volume in the comprehensive series “fills a gap in the existing narrative” of WWII’s Mediterranean air war (Journal of Military History). The fourth volume in this momentous series commences with the attacks on the Italian island fortress of Pantellaria, which led to its surrender and occupation achieved almost by air attack alone. The account continues with the ultimately successful, but at times very hard fought, invasions of Sicily and southern Italy as burgeoning Allied air power, now with full US involvement, increasingly dominated the skies overhead. The successive occupations of Sardinia and Corsica are also covered in detail. This is essentially the story of the tactical air forces up to the point when Rome was occupied, just at the same time as the Normandy landings were occurring in northwest France. With regards to the long-range tactical role of the Allied heavy bombers, only the period from May to October is examined, while they remained based in North Africa, with the narrative continuing in a future volume. This volume also delves into the story of “the soldiers’ air force.” Frequently overshadowed by more immediate newsworthy events elsewhere, the soldiers’ struggle was often of an equally Homeric nature. “No future publication on the Mediterranean air war will be credible without use of this series.” —Air Power History

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Casemate Publishers

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1911621785

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9781911621782

U.S. by the Numbers

Figuring What's Left, Right and Wrong with America State by State

By: Raymond J. Keating,Thomas N. Edmonds

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U.S. by the Numbers

Figuring What's Left, Right and Wrong with America State by State

By: Raymond J. Keating,Thomas N. Edmonds

An invaluable resource of information about America's taxes, crime, the economy, the environment, health care, and much more.

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1892123142

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The Hambukushu Rainmakers of the Okavango

The Hambukushu Rainmakers of the Okavango

Arson Investigation

Arson Investigation

From Oxford to the Okavango

From Oxford to the Okavango

When Good Companies Go Bad

When Good Companies Go Bad

South Pasadena's Raymond Hotel

South Pasadena's Raymond Hotel

Lincoln's Campaign Biographies

Lincoln's Campaign Biographies

The Common Flaw

The Common Flaw

Law in American Meetinghouses

Law in American Meetinghouses

The Broken Branch

The Broken Branch

The Liberty to Take Fish

The Liberty to Take Fish

When the Hills Are Gone

When the Hills Are Gone

Where They're Buried

Where They're Buried

A History of the Mediterranean Air War, 1940–1945

A History of the Mediterranean Air War, 1940–1945

U.S. by the Numbers

U.S. by the Numbers

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