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Killer Book of Serial Killers

Incredible Stories, Facts, and Trivia from the World of Serial Killers

By: Tom Philbin,Michael Philbin

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Killer Book of Serial Killers

Incredible Stories, Facts, and Trivia from the World of Serial Killers

By: Tom Philbin,Michael Philbin

The Killer Book of Serial Killers is the ultimate resource (and gift) for any true crime fan and student of the bizarre world of serial killers. Filled with stories, trivia, quizzes, quotes, photos, and odd facts about the world's most notorious murderers, this is the perfect bathroom reader for anyone fascinated with serial killers. The stories and trivia cover such killers as: John Wayne Gacy Ted Bundy The BTK Killer Jack the Ripper The Green River Killer Serial killers around the world And many more Bathroom readers have enjoyed considerable success as a format, selling millions of copies. The Killer Book series brings this format to the rabid true crime audience. Including more than 40 black & white photos, this is a must for true crime fans.

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Sourcebooks, Inc.

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1402226470

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9781402226472

A Field Guide to Gettysburg

Experiencing the Battlefield through Its History, Places, and People

By: Carol Reardon,Tom Vossler

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A Field Guide to Gettysburg

Experiencing the Battlefield through Its History, Places, and People

By: Carol Reardon,Tom Vossler

In this lively guide to the Gettysburg battlefield, Carol Reardon and Tom Vossler invite readers to participate in a tour of this hallowed ground. Ideal for carrying on trips through the park as well as for the armchair historian, this book includes comprehensive maps and deft descriptions of the action that situate visitors in time and place. Crisp narratives introduce key figures and events, and eye-opening vignettes help readers more fully comprehend the import of what happened and why. A wide variety of contemporary and postwar source materials offer colorful stories and present interesting interpretations that have shaped--or reshaped--our understanding of Gettysburg today. Each stop addresses the following: What happened here? Who fought here? Who commanded here? Who fell here? Who lived here? How did participants remember this event?

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UNC Press Books

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1469608189

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9781469608181

VC

An American History

By: Tom Nicholas

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VC

An American History

By: Tom Nicholas

“An incisive history of the venture-capital industry.” —New Yorker “An excellent and original economic history of venture capital.” —Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution “A detailed, fact-filled account of America’s most celebrated moneymen.” —New Republic “Extremely interesting, readable, and informative...Tom Nicholas tells you most everything you ever wanted to know about the history of venture capital, from the financing of the whaling industry to the present multibillion-dollar venture funds.” —Arthur Rock “In principle, venture capital is where the ordinarily conservative, cynical domain of big money touches dreamy, long-shot enterprise. In practice, it has become the distinguishing big-business engine of our time...[A] first-rate history.” —New Yorker VC tells the riveting story of how the venture capital industry arose from America’s longstanding identification with entrepreneurship and risk-taking. Whether the venture is a whaling voyage setting sail from New Bedford or the latest Silicon Valley startup, VC is a state of mind as much as a way of doing business, exemplified by an appetite for seeking extreme financial rewards, a tolerance for failure and experimentation, and a faith in the promise of innovation to generate new wealth. Tom Nicholas’s authoritative history takes us on a roller coaster of entrepreneurial successes and setbacks. It describes how iconic firms like Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia invested in Genentech and Apple even as it tells the larger story of VC’s birth and evolution, revealing along the way why venture capital is such a quintessentially American institution—one that has proven difficult to recreate elsewhere.

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Harvard University Press

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0674240111

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9780674240117

Solution-Focused School Counselor

Shaping Professional Practice

By: Tom E. Davis,Cynthia J. Osborn

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Solution-Focused School Counselor

Shaping Professional Practice

By: Tom E. Davis,Cynthia J. Osborn

This text highlights the indispensable role of school counselors today, namely as change agents in an increasingly complex and fluctuating school system. Informed by emerging standards of practice and current research, the book adopts the salutary perspective of solution-focused brief therapy as its foundation. It outlines practical and time-sensitive strategies for school counselors to use with students, parents, teachers, and administrators. The Solution-Focused School Counselor encourages readers to envision and proactively construct interactions with students, families, and staff that contribute not only to the formation of an exceptional school, but to the shaping of an effective professional practice. Blending current theory into practice, the authors have consulted research across a variety of disciplines and have related it in an understandable format. School counselors will find this book useful either as a professional resource to be read from cover-to-cover, or as a reference tool from which specific sections may be consulted. This book is an excellent resource for school counselors and students alike. It is also useful for school psychologists and administrators as well as anyone interested in making a difference in the school setting.

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Routledge

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1135058148

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9781135058142

The New Wigmore

A Treatise on Evidence : Impeachment and Rehabilitation

By: Roger Park,Tom Lininger

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The New Wigmore

A Treatise on Evidence : Impeachment and Rehabilitation

By: Roger Park,Tom Lininger

... I hope that this treatise will contribute to the development of evidentiary law by addressing underlying conceptual issues and examining the basic precepts and organizing principles of that law. The responsibility of an author of this treatise is qualitatively different from that of a lawyer or judge focusing on the case at hand, or even of a scholar working on a law review article or on a smaller treatise". -- INTRODUCTION.

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0735528551

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Tom Kelly E-Book Bundle 1

By: Tom Kelly

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Tom Kelly E-Book Bundle 1

By: Tom Kelly

Tenth Legion Dealer's Choice Better on a Rising Tide The Season

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Tom Kelly, Inc.

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156142272X

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9781561422722

The Underground Railroad in the Adirondack Region

By: Tom Calarco

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The Underground Railroad in the Adirondack Region

By: Tom Calarco

The success of the Underground Railroad depended on the participation of sympathizers in hundreds of areas throughout the country, each operating independently. Each area was distinctive both geographically and societally. This work focuses on the contributions of people in the Adirondack region, including their collaboration with operatives from Albany to New York City. With more than 10 years of research, the author has been able to take what for years in northern New York was considered akin to legend and transform it into history. Abolitionist newspapers--such as Friend of Man, Liberator, Pennsylvania Freeman, Emancipator, National Anti-Slavery Standard, and the little known Albany Patriot--that were published weekly from 1841 to 1848, as well as materials from local archives, were utilized. The book has extensive maps, photographs and appendices; key contributors to the cause are identified, abolition meetings and conventions are described, and maps of the Underground Railroad stations by county are provided.

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McFarland

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0786487402

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9780786487400

Game On

How the Pressure to Win at All Costs Endangers Youth Sports, and What Parents Can Do About It

By: Tom Farrey

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Game On

How the Pressure to Win at All Costs Endangers Youth Sports, and What Parents Can Do About It

By: Tom Farrey

A first-of-its-kind investigative book on the least examined and most important topic in sports today. Youth sports isn't just orange slices and all-star trophies anymore. It's 14-year-olds who enter high school with a decade of football experience, 9-year-olds competing for national baseball championships, 5-year-old golfers who shoot par, and toddlers made from sperm donated (for a fee) by elite college athletes. It's a year-round "travel team" in every community--and parents who fear that not making the cut in grade school will cost their kid the chance to play in high school. In short, a landscape in which performance often matters more than participation, all the way down to peewee basketball. Much as Fast Food Nation challenged our eating habits and Silent Spring rewired how we think about the environment, Tom Farrey's Game On will forever change the way we look at this desperate culture besotted by the example of Tiger Woods. An Emmy award-winning reporter, Farrey examines the lives of child athletes and the consequences of sorting the strong from the weak at ever earlier ages: fewer active kids, testier sidelines, rising obesity rates, and U.S. national teams that rarely win world titles. He dives into the world of these games that are played by more than 30 million boys and girls, and along the way uncovers some surprising truths. When the very best athletes enter organized play. The best approach to coaching them. And the powerful influence of wealth and genetics. Farrey has written a surprising, alarming, thoughtful, and ultimately empowering book for anyone who wants the best for the newest generation of Americans, as athletes and citizens. From the Hardcover edition.

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ESPN

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0345517482

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9780345517487

Peregrinations

How the Davises Overran America

By: Tom Davis

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Peregrinations

How the Davises Overran America

By: Tom Davis

PEREGRINATIONS is an autobiography of one of the Davis boys, believed to be descendants from a long line of pig thieves exiled from Wales as indentured servants to Virginia in the New World. This story begins with the Grandparents of the author and the Oklahoma Land rush followed by the exodus from the poverty of the Great Depression. It continues into and through World War II and up to the present with Tom just into his ninth decade of life, alive and angry at the disaster elected officials and liberals have foisted off on unsuspecting citizens.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1469109131

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9781469109138

The Complete Book of Pontiac GTO

Every Model Since 1964

By: Tom Glatch

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The Complete Book of Pontiac GTO

Every Model Since 1964

By: Tom Glatch

The Complete Book of Pontiac GTO gives you a year-by-year, model-by-model exploration of the world's first muscle car, all in full color photography, most of which has never been published. When Pontiac created the original muscle car—the GTO—it reshaped the automotive world like a four-inch piston going through a three-inch cylinder bore. Everything changed the moment John Zachery DeLorean and his crew of hot-rodding miscreants bolted a big engine into a smaller car and created the 1964 GTO. Make no mistake: DeLorean and his partners in crime were genuine outlaws. The GTO broke so many of General Motors' corporate rules that the people responsible should have been fired. And they would have been, except the car was a hit. The Complete Book of Pontiac GTO explores every iteration of the first car created specifically for baby boomers. With rare photography from the archives of Hot Rod and Motor Trend magazines, this book is the complete resource for fans of of the world’s first muscle car.

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Motorbooks

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0760359954

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9780760359952

Strategic Appraisal

The Changing Role of Information in Warfare

By: Zalmay Khalilzad,Tom LaTourrette,David E. Mosher,Lois M. Davis,David R. Howell,Barbara Raymond

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Strategic Appraisal

The Changing Role of Information in Warfare

By: Zalmay Khalilzad,Tom LaTourrette,David E. Mosher,Lois M. Davis,David R. Howell,Barbara Raymond

Advances in information technology have led us to rely on easy communication and readily available information--both in our personal lives and in the life of our nation. For the most part, we have rightly welcomed these changes. But information that is readily available is available to friend and foe alike; a system that relies on communication can become useless if its ability to communicate is interfered with or destroyed. Because this reliance is so general, attacks on the information infrastructure can have widespread effects, both for the military and for society. And such attacks can come from a variety of sources, some difficult or impossible to identify. This, the third volume in the Strategic Appraisal series, draws on the expertise of researchers from across RAND to explore the opportunities and vulnerabilities inherent in the increasing reliance on information technology, looking both at its usefulness to the warrior and the need to protect its usefulness for everyone. The Strategic Appraisal series is intended to review, for a broad audience, issues bearing on national security and defense planning.

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Rand Corporation

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0833043331

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9780833043337

Sorting Out the New South City, Second Edition

Race, Class, and Urban Development in Charlotte, 1875–1975

By: Tom Hanchett

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Sorting Out the New South City, Second Edition

Race, Class, and Urban Development in Charlotte, 1875–1975

By: Tom Hanchett

One of the largest and fastest-growing cities in the South, Charlotte, North Carolina, came of age in the New South decades of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, transforming itself from a rural courthouse village to the trading and financial hub of America's premier textile manufacturing region. In this book, Thomas W. Hanchett traces the city's spatial evolution over the course of a century, exploring the interplay of national trends and local forces that shaped Charlotte and, by extension, other New South urban centers. Hanchett argues that racial and economic segregation are not age-old givens but products of a decades-long process. Well after the Civil War, Charlotte's whites and blacks, workers and business owners, lived in intermingled neighborhoods. The rise of large manufacturing enterprises in the 1880s and 1890s brought social and political upheaval, however, and the city began to sort out into a "checkerboard" of distinct neighborhoods segregated by both race and class. When urban renewal and other federal funds became available in the mid-twentieth century, local leaders used the money to complete the sorting-out process, creating a "sector" pattern in which wealthy whites increasingly lived on one side of town and blacks on the other. A new preface by the author confronts the contemporary implications of Charlotte's resegregation and prospects for its reversal.

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UNC Press Books

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1469656450

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9781469656458

A Field Guide to Gettysburg, Second Edition Expanded Ebook

Experiencing the Battlefield through Its History, Places, and People

By: Carol Reardon,Tom Vossler

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A Field Guide to Gettysburg, Second Edition Expanded Ebook

Experiencing the Battlefield through Its History, Places, and People

By: Carol Reardon,Tom Vossler

This special enhanced ebook edition to the newly updated A Field Guide to Gettysburg will lead visitors to every important site across the battlefield and also give them ways to envision the action and empathize with the soldiers involved and the local people into whose lives and lands the battle intruded.. Both Carol Reardon and Tom Vossler are themselves experienced guides who understand what visitors to Gettysburg are interested in, but they also bring the unique perspectives of a scholar and a former army officer. Divided into three day-long tours, this newly improved and expanded edition offers important historical background and context for the reader while providing answers to six key questions: What happened here? Who fought here? Who commanded here? Who fell here? Who lived here? And what did the participants have to say about it later? With new stops, maps, soldier vignettes, and illustrations, the enhanced e-book edition of A Field Guide to Gettysburg adds more human stories to an already impressive work that remains the most comprehensive guide to the events and history of this pivotal battle of the Civil War.

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1469633353

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9781469633350

Financial Structures and Economic Outcomes

An Empirical Analysis

By: Mr.Tom Gole,Tao Sun

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Financial Structures and Economic Outcomes

An Empirical Analysis

By: Mr.Tom Gole,Tao Sun

This paper investigates the potential relationships between financial structures and economic outcomes. The empirical results that withstand a battery of methods suggest that some financial intermediation structures are likely to be more closely related to positive economic outcomes than others. For instance, protective financial buffers within institutions have been associated with better economic performance, and a domestic financial system that is dominated by some types of nontraditional bank intermediation or that has a high proportion of foreign banks has in some cases been associated with adverse economic outcomes, especially during the financial crisis. The results also suggest that there may be trade-offs between beneficial effects on growth and stability of some financial structures. For example, the positive association of financial buffers with growth can diminish above a certain, relatively high, threshold—a too-safe system may limit the available funds for credit and hence growth.

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International Monetary Fund

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1484394763

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9781484394762

Sorting Out the New South City

Race, Class, and Urban Development in Charlotte, 1875-1975

By: Thomas W. Hanchett

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Sorting Out the New South City

Race, Class, and Urban Development in Charlotte, 1875-1975

By: Thomas W. Hanchett

One of the largest and fastest-growing cities in the South, Charlotte, North Carolina, came of age in the New South decades of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, transforming itself from a rural courthouse village to the trading and financial hub of America's premier textile manufacturing region. In this book, Thomas Hanchett traces the city's spatial evolution over the course of a century, exploring the interplay of national trends and local forces that shaped Charlotte, and, by extension, other New South urban centers. Hanchett argues that racial and economic segregation are not age-old givens, but products of a decades-long process. Well after the Civil War, Charlotte's whites and blacks, workers and business owners, all lived intermingled in a "salt-and-pepper" pattern. The rise of large manufacturing enterprises in the 1880s and 1890s brought social and political upheaval, however, and the city began to sort out into a "checkerboard" of distinct neighborhoods segregated by both race and class. When urban renewal and other federal funds became available in the mid- twentieth century, local leaders used the money to complete the sorting out process, creating a "sector" pattern in which wealthy whites increasingly lived on one side of town and blacks on the other.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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080786188X

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9780807861882

The Interstate Gourmet--Texas and the Southwest

By: Barbara Rodriguez,Tom Miller

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The Interstate Gourmet--Texas and the Southwest

By: Barbara Rodriguez,Tom Miller

Describes the location, hours, and regional specialties of restaurants along the major highways of Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma...

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0671523341

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9780671523343

Better on a Rising Tide

By: Tom Kelly

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Better on a Rising Tide

By: Tom Kelly

Better On A Rising Tide contains 22 humourous articles from Tom Kelly's magazine past. Tom wrote for all the great blood sport magazines in the 1970s and up to the 1990s when articles were shortened to make more room for style and ads. If you loved Tom's 1973 TENTH LEGION, you will certainly be pleased with Tom Kelly's shrewd and perspective writing aout rural folk. And of course the bird.

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Tom Kelly, Inc.

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1561422282

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9781561422289

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