Tom Finnegan's Books

My Stories and I'm Still Sticking to Them!

Fennimore...As I Remember

By: Tom Nelson

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My Stories and I'm Still Sticking to Them!

Fennimore...As I Remember

By: Tom Nelson

Some folks will often ask Tom what his columns in that Wisconsin newspaper are all about. He will answer, Do you mean the one in the Fennimore Times, called FennimoreAs I remember?As though there were any other. Then he will respond: Oh, I write about a special place, friends and neighbors, happy times what ever. Like swimming pools and pool halls, town constables and chiefs. City parks, paper routes, pastors, parsons and priests. I wont forget town and country schools and dedicated teachers there within. With tales of playground hi-jinksall to make you grin. The old places called a Blacksmith Shop, Gus shoeing horses at the open door. Fred Doan the Harness maker, Bill Buri, Wagon builderthese craftsmen are no more. The Fenway Theater packed with kids, admission one thin dime. A Friday double feature Roy, Gene and Hopalong, cowboys for all time. There are neighborhoods and life long friends, creameries making cheese. Sparkys Saturday night dances, May I have this waltzPlease? I claim my stories are but true, as best I can remember. And many do agree, but others shout Not in April, twas in November! Best of all, even strangers come to me and say, I know this place and the stories that you tell. Just change the names, for then youll seeFennimores my hometown as well.

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1467064599

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Ways of Reading

Advanced Reading Skills for Students of English Literature

By: Martin Montgomery,Alan Durant,Nigel Fabb,Tom Furniss,Sara Mills

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Ways of Reading

Advanced Reading Skills for Students of English Literature

By: Martin Montgomery,Alan Durant,Nigel Fabb,Tom Furniss,Sara Mills

First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Routledge

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1134280246

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9781134280247

Beginners

The Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong Learning

By: Tom Vanderbilt

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Beginners

The Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong Learning

By: Tom Vanderbilt

The bestselling author of Traffic and You May Also Like now offers a thought-provoking, playful investigation into the transformative joys that come with starting something new, no matter one's age.

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Knopf

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1524732168

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9781524732165

A Vagabond Life

Stories From a Minnesota Hockey Coach

By: Tom Peart

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A Vagabond Life

Stories From a Minnesota Hockey Coach

By: Tom Peart

When it comes to a career in coaching sports, there is no teaching without doing—and practice doesn’t just make perfect, it makes a whole life. In this heartfelt memoir, first-time author Thomas H. Peart recounts the story of his experiences growing up in Alexandria, Minnesota, playing hockey, joining the US Marine Corps, attending college, and eventually entering a lengthy and impressive career as a coach for high school, college, and professional hockey—both stateside and overseas—alongside a number of other sports. Beginning in childhood and throughout his life, all the way up to the moment of his authoring this very book, Peart’s career as a coach is a testament to the value of learning through experience, teaching with care and respect, and always remaining open to opportunity. A satisfying slice of life in the postwar American Midwest, this book will make a great addition to the shelves of Peart’s contemporaries, as well as anyone interested in the worlds of amateur and professional sports. Because those who do, teach—and those who teach, do.

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FriesenPress

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1039164692

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9781039164697

Foundation Flash CS5 For Designers

By: Tom Green,Tiago Dias

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Foundation Flash CS5 For Designers

By: Tom Green,Tiago Dias

Flash is one of the most engaging, innovative, and versatile technologies available—allowing the creation of anything from animated banners and simple cartoons to rich Internet applications, interactive videos, and dynamic user interfaces for web sites, kiosks, devices, or DVDs. The possibilities are endless, and now it just got better. Flash CS5 boasts a host of new features, including better support for mobile devices, a whole new animation engine enabling full manipulation of tweens and paths, custom easing, improved inverse kinematics, a revamped timeline, built-in 3D, and much more. This book is all you’ll need to learn Flash CS5 from the ground up. If you already have Flash experience, this book will allow you to quickly catch up on all the cool new features. Flash experts Tom Green and Tiago Dias guide you step-by-step through all facets of Flash CS5, keeping the emphasis firmly on good design techniques that you use in your own projects. Learn Flash design from the ground up, or just get to grips with the new features, with a series of step-by-step tutorials. Provides an easy introduction to ActionScript 3.0 coding, but the focus is mainly kept on design. Learn from the experts—written by renowned Flash designers Tom Green and Tiago Dias.

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Apress

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1430229950

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Poetry and Poetics in the Presocratic Philosophers

Reading Xenophanes, Parmenides and Empedocles as Literature

By: Tom Mackenzie

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Poetry and Poetics in the Presocratic Philosophers

Reading Xenophanes, Parmenides and Empedocles as Literature

By: Tom Mackenzie

The first book-length, literary-critical study of the Presocratic philosopher-poets, Xenophanes, Parmenides and Empedocles. Sheds new light on these authors' philosophical projects and enriches our appreciation of their works as literary artefacts, also arguing that they played an important role in the development of Greek poetics.

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Cambridge University Press

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110884393X

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9781108843935

Lightning that Lingers

A Loveswept Classic Romance

By: Sharon Curtis,Tom Curtis

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Lightning that Lingers

A Loveswept Classic Romance

By: Sharon Curtis,Tom Curtis

From Sharon and Tom Curtis, one of the most celebrated writing duos in romance, comes a sizzling story of unexpected attraction—as sparks fly between a shy librarian and a sexy dancer. Philip Brooks is a man with a passion for biology, wildlife, and restoring his old family home—all of which add up to a pile of bills that require attention. Moonlighting as the Cougar Club’s hottest dancer is a job, nothing more, nothing less—until lovely Jennifer Hamilton nearly faints during one of his shows. Her sweet innocence tugs at his heart and makes him painfully aware of his longing for the kind of love a woman as perfect and real as Jennifer can offer. Watching her most secret fantasy come to life on the dance floor is almost more than Jennifer can bear. Now, the sexiest man she’s ever met is near enough to hold. For a shy, bookish lady with little experience in the romance department, life feels as if it’s spinning out of control—and not in the direction, or with the kind of man, she ever imagined. Can she believe in the passion Philip ignites and take a chance on a dance that could last a lifetime? Includes a special message from the editor, as well as excerpts from these Loveswept titles: Remember the Time, The Vow, This Fierce Splendor, The Baron, Tall, Dark, and Lonesome, Dream Lover, and Legends.

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Loveswept

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0307798828

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9780307798824

Vice Slang

By: Tom Dalzell,Terry Victor

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Vice Slang

By: Tom Dalzell,Terry Victor

Are you a bit of a chairwarmer? Do you use the wins from a country straight to get scudded on snakebite in a blind tiger? Do you ride the waves on puddle or death drop? Vice Slang gently eases you into the language of gambling, drugs and alcohol, providing you with 3,000 words to establish yourself firmly in the world of corruption and wickedness. All words are illustrated by a reference from a variety of sources to prove their existence in alleys and dives throughout the English speaking world. This entertaining book will give you hours of reading pleasure.

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Routledge

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1134194854

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Lecturing the Atlantic

Speech, Print, and an Anglo-American Commons 1830-1870

By: Tom F. Wright

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Lecturing the Atlantic

Speech, Print, and an Anglo-American Commons 1830-1870

By: Tom F. Wright

In the early nineteenth century, the public lecture emerged as one of the Anglo-American world's most important cultural forms. On both sides of the Atlantic, audiences and performers transformed a cultural practice with origins in the medieval cloister into an unexpected flashpoint medium of public life. In the United States, as part of the "lyceum movement," lecturing became crucial to literary and political life, multiple social reform movements, and the rise of public intellectualism, offering speakers from across the cultural spectrum a platform from which to promote their ideas and explain contemporary life. Lecturing the Atlantic argues for a new interpretation of this neglected institution. It reorients our understanding of the lyceum by seeing it as an international and cross-media phenomenon patterned by cultural investment in an "Anglo-American commons." Tom F. Wright shows how some of the mid-century North Atlantic world's most enduring cultural figures, such as Frederick Douglass, William Makepeace Thackeray, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, as well as fascinating marginal voices such as Lola Montez and John B. Gough, used lecture hall discussions of a transatlantic imaginary to offer powerful commentaries on slavery, progress, comedy, order, tradition, and reform. Crucially, this world was a matter as much of print as performance, since as the book reveals, a remarkable culture of newspaper commentary allowed oratory to resonate far beyond the realm of the lecture hall. Through a series of inventive readings of Anglo-American relations as understood through performance and print re-mediation, Wright connects the transatlantic turn in cultural studies to important recent debates in media theory and public sphere scholarship. Lecturing the Atlantic speaks to those interested in the literature and history of Victorian Britain and the early US, to students of performance, communication and rhetoric, and all those seeking a deeper understanding of nineteenth-century public culture.

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Oxford University Press

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0190496800

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Divided Highways

Building the Interstate Highways, Transforming American Life

By: Tom Lewis

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Divided Highways

Building the Interstate Highways, Transforming American Life

By: Tom Lewis

In Divided Highways, Tom Lewis offers an encompassing account of highway development in the United States. In the early twentieth century Congress created the Bureau of Public Roads to improve roads and the lives of rural Americans. The Bureau was the forerunner of the Interstate Highway System of 1956, which promoted a technocratic approach to modern road building sometimes at the expense of individual lives, regional characteristics, and the landscape. With thoughtful analysis and engaging prose Lewis charts the development of the Interstate system, including the demographic and economic pressures that influenced its planning and construction and the disputes that pitted individuals and local communities against engineers and federal administrators. This is a story of America's hopes for its future life and the realities of its present condition. It is an engaging history of the people and policies that profoundly transformed the American landscape-and the daily lives of Americans. In this updated edition of Divided Highways, Lewis brings his story of the Interstate system up to date, concluding with Boston's troubled and yet triumphant Big Dig project, the growing antipathy for big federal infrastructure projects, and the uncertain economics of highway projects both present and future.

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Cornell University Press

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0801467837

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9780801467837

Nine Inches

Stories

By: Tom Perrotta

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Nine Inches

Stories

By: Tom Perrotta

A collection of stories focuses on suburban nuclear families, including "Senior Season," "Nine Inches" and "The Smile on Happy Chang's Face.

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Macmillan

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1250034701

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The Improv Handbook

The Ultimate Guide to Improvising in Comedy, Theatre, and Beyond

By: Tom Salinsky,Deborah Frances-White

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The Improv Handbook

The Ultimate Guide to Improvising in Comedy, Theatre, and Beyond

By: Tom Salinsky,Deborah Frances-White

The most comprehensive, smart, helpful and inspiring guide to improve available today. Applicable to comedians, actors, public speakers and anyone who needs to think on their toes. From The Improv Handbook: The problem for improvisers is anxiety. faced with a lot of nameless eyes staring at us, and feeling more than anything else like prey, we are likely to want to display very consistent behavior, so that anyone who looks at us, looks away and then looks back sees the same thing. Thus we become boring, we fade into the background, and we cease to be of interest. The Improv Handbook provides everything someone interested in improvisational comedy needs to know, as written by a husband and wife comedy duo with years of experience and teaching in the field. in addition to providing a comprehensive history of improvisational theater as a backdrop, it also looks at modern theories and practices of improvisation on a global scale, including how the form of comedy has evolved differently in different parts of the world, from Europe to the UK to the Chicago scene. The Improv Handbook also contains an essential performance segment that details different formats of improvisation. Chapter topics include Theatresports, Micetro, Gorilla Theatre, and the inventions of Keith Johnstone and Del Close as well as other popular forms of improv, like those on "Whose Line is it Anyway." The core section of the book is called simply, "How to Improvise" and delves into issues of spontaneity, the fundamentals of storytelling, working together, upping the ante, and character development. The book concludes with sections on how to improvise in front of an audience and- just as crucially- how to attract an audience in the first place.

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A&C Black

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1472536622

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9781472536624

Don't Be a Jerk, It's Christmas!

By: Tom Kenny,Andy Paley

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Don't Be a Jerk, It's Christmas!

By: Tom Kenny,Andy Paley

Lyrics of "Don't be a jerk-- it's Christmas" from the stop-motion animation film, "It's a Spongebob Christmas.

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Random House Books for Young Readers

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0449817660

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9780449817667

Character Theology

Engaging God through His Cast of Characters

By: Tom Steffen,Ray Neu

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Character Theology

Engaging God through His Cast of Characters

By: Tom Steffen,Ray Neu

Character Theology provides a natural, universal way for the world to engage God through his chosen cast of characters. As the media eras continue to change (oral to print to digital-virtual), too many Bible scholars, and consequently pastors and Bible teachers in the West and beyond, lack capability to effectively communicate Scripture to Millennials, Gen Z, and Gen Alpha. These generations find little if any relevance in the Christianity promoted by those stuck in modernity’s sticky abstract systematic theology. Character Theology relates, sticks, and transforms these generations. Why? Because people grasp and engage God most naturally and precisely through his interaction with biblical characters and their interaction with each other! Characters communicate the Creator’s characteristics. The roadmap to the recovery and expansion of Christianity in the twenty-first century will be through Bible characters.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1666778575

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9781666778571

Schools as Dangerous Places

A Historical Perspective

By: Tom A. O'Donoghue

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Schools as Dangerous Places

A Historical Perspective

By: Tom A. O'Donoghue

The lack of serious study on how dangerous schools as institutions can be is a little surprising given that the matter was put squarely on the research agenda in persuasive fashion by Waller back in 1932. The lack of response to the possibilities opened up means that a vibrant research agenda still awaits construction. This book will stimulate debate on the matter from the historical perspective. It consists of fifteen chapters drawing on historical case studies from the United States, Canada, England, Ireland, Scotland, and Australia written by international scholars in the field. These chapters are helpfully grouped into three sections. The first section focuses on certain dangers to which pupils were exposed in the past and on certain dangerous practices which they promoted. The second section examines dangers to which teachers were exposed in the past along with dangerous practices which they themselves promoted. In the final and third section, the chapters explore the dangers to which teachers and students were exposed in the past at the university level. Throughout the book, the emphases range from dangers emanating from the institutions themselves and the patterns of relationships that developed in them, to what occurred due to particular ideologies and practices connected with sport, sex, religion, and science. Schools as Dangerous Places delivers a historical perspective of schools in a manner that is most unusual. This unique study helps us examine education through a very different lens.

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Cambria Press

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1934043761

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9781934043769

A Lancashire Miscellany

By: Tom Holman

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A Lancashire Miscellany

By: Tom Holman

How do you make a Lancashire Hot Pot? Why did a red rose become the emblem of Lancashire? Where can you find Bedlam, Buttock and Little Tongues? Which Italian opera was set in Lancashire? What is the highest point in the county? When is Lancashire Day? Find all the answers and much more besides in A Lancashire Miscellany-a treasure trove of knowledge about this wonderful part of England. Whether you're a true Lancastrian or just passing through, this book is an entertaining romp through the people and places of the wonderful county. Teach yourself the Lancashire lingo with a gradely guide to local dialect and sayings, and pick up tips for cooking famous local specialities like black pudding and Eccles cakes. From Prime Ministers to rock stars, read the stories of famous Lancastrians through the ages, and discover some of the quirky customs of the region. From its famous landmarks and industries to its cultural and sporting highlights, A Lancashire Miscellany is bursting with intriguing facts and figures-a book to dip into again and again. This title is also available as an ebook, in either Kindle, ePub or PDF editions

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Frances Lincoln

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1907666419

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9781907666414

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing a Novel, 2nd Edition

Make Your Dream of Writing a Novel Come True

By: Tom Monteleone

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing a Novel, 2nd Edition

Make Your Dream of Writing a Novel Come True

By: Tom Monteleone

A completely updated guide for first-time novelists Completely revised to include new interviews with best-selling authors; more detailed information on writing genre fiction from paranormal romance to cozy mysteries; and everything a writer needs to know about self-publishing and ebooks to get started. The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Writing a Novel, Second Edition, is an indispensable reference on how to write and publish a first novel. • Expert author with over thirty published novels • Includes interviews with new best-selling novelists • Features new material on writing genre fiction and self-publishing

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Penguin

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1101198117

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9781101198117

Vietnam War Slang

A Dictionary on Historical Principles

By: Tom Dalzell

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Vietnam War Slang

A Dictionary on Historical Principles

By: Tom Dalzell

In 2014, the US marks the 50th anniversary of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, the basis for the Johnson administration’s escalation of American military involvement in Southeast Asia and war against North Vietnam. Vietnam War Slang outlines the context behind the slang used by members of the United States Armed Forces during the Vietnam War. Troops facing and inflicting death display a high degree of linguistic creativity. Vietnam was the last American war fought by an army with conscripts, and their involuntary participation in the war added a dimension to the language. War has always been an incubator for slang; it is brutal, and brutality demands a vocabulary to describe what we don’t encounter in peacetime civilian life. Furthermore, such language serves to create an intense bond between comrades in the armed forces, helping them to support the heavy burdens of war. The troops in Vietnam faced the usual demands of war, as well as several that were unique to Vietnam – a murky political basis for the war, widespread corruption in the ruling government, untraditional guerilla warfare, an unpredictable civilian population in Vietnam, and a growing lack of popular support for the war back in the US. For all these reasons, the language of those who fought in Vietnam was a vivid reflection of life in wartime. Vietnam War Slang lays out the definitive record of the lexicon of Americans who fought in the Vietnam War. Assuming no prior knowledge, it presents around 2000 headwords, with each entry divided into sections giving parts of speech, definitions, glosses, the countries of origin, dates of earliest known citations, and citations. It will be an essential resource for Vietnam veterans and their families, students and readers of history, and anyone interested in the principles underpinning the development of slang.

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Routledge

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1317661869

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Why John Wrote a Gospel

Jesus--Memory--History

By: Tom Thatcher

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Why John Wrote a Gospel

Jesus--Memory--History

By: Tom Thatcher

Nineteen-hundred years ago, someone called the Beloved Disciple told stories about Jesus and his days on earth. These stories had been told for decades when someone took the stories and wrote them down, turning them from oral tradition into the book we know as the Gospel of John. Scholars have long concentrated on the content of this Fourth Gospel, analyzing how it differs from the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke and wondering how the different Gospels relate to the Jesus of history. Tom Thatcher builds on all of this previous scholarship in this book, focusing on how stories and written texts operate to reflect and to create memory within groups of people. He uncovers how early Christians strove to remember Jesus in the decades after Jesus' ministry and how Christians came into conflict with one another about which memories were best. With this interest in the social memory of early Christians, Thatcher provides original insights into the Gospel of John and provides new answers to old questions.

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Westminster John Knox Press

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0664235492

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Protecting Other People's Children

120 Days to a Strong Child Safety Policy

By: Debbie Ausburn,Tom Rawlings

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Protecting Other People's Children

120 Days to a Strong Child Safety Policy

By: Debbie Ausburn,Tom Rawlings

A one-of-a-kind guide for youth-serving organizations to help build out their own child protection policies in just 120 days. Expert guidance, worksheets, and checklists take the guesswork out of confusing industry standards—so you can focus on helping kids learn, grow, and flourish. Written by two experts with more than 60 years of experience helping youth-serving organizations (YSOs), the book's goal is to provide a blueprint for other organizations to develop their own policies thereby helping the organizations to fulfill their missions while protecting the children in their care. From private schools to church youth groups to mentoring organizations to summer camps, YSOs provide unparalleled opportunities for children to learn, grow, and flourish. Unfortunately, because they serve a vulnerable population, those groups also face unparalleled risks. Within the book, organizations will be able to: Recognize and avoid common pitfalls and mistakes Set up a workable timeline for implementation Create and confirm their own commitments and principles Access several supportive worksheets, checklists, and activity guides Learn how to pick the right people (leaders, team, volunteers, etc.) Understand and adhere important protocols and guidelines Appropriately respond to serious incidents This not only enables YSOs to develop a robust, sustainable child protection plan, but also holds everyone accountable and protects both the programs and the minors they serve.

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Hatherleigh Press

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1961293099

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Called to Serve

Stories of Men and Women Confronted by the Vietnam War Draft

By: Tom Weiner

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Called to Serve

Stories of Men and Women Confronted by the Vietnam War Draft

By: Tom Weiner

Stories of men and women confronted by the Vietnam War. Contains personal stories of Vietnam War Veterans, people who fled the country, people who refused to go to war, people who beat the draft, people who obtained Conscientious Objector status, and people who loved and supported them.

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Levellers Press

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0981982042

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THE FUN HOUSE

Memory, Magic, and Mayhem

By: Tom Bissinger

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THE FUN HOUSE

Memory, Magic, and Mayhem

By: Tom Bissinger

The Fun House by Tom Bissinger is a rollicking tale of coming of age in the sixties and seventies. Based on the childhood thrills he experiences at the fun house at Playland in San Francisco, Tom comes to understand that making fun houses and exploring those of others would become the defining quest of his life. He’s brought up in privilege, and like his father who had at one time performed on Broadway, Tom’s drawn to the theater. After boarding school and his immersion into a repertory theater company while attending Stanford, he lives in Paris then enlists in the army then moves to New York, and we are at the birth of the sixties, erupting like a bombshell, and Tom is there to celebrate and be open to the Golden Age of New York theater while simultaneously weaving the momentous events of that era into his story: assassinations, civil rights marches, and the Vietnam War. Sexual experimentation and drugs follow Tom as he ricochets through love affairs, directs plays, and marches in Selma. He moves to Philadelphia in 1969 to become the artistic director of the Theatre of Living Arts. In 1970, Tom abandons the legitimate theater and reinvents himself on Philly’s South Street. Tom paints emotionally vivid portraits of neighborhood characters who hang out in Tom’s new fun house: eccentric old-timers, newly minted hippies, artists, dopers, and a murderer. In 1977, Tom, his wife, Kristen, and their two-year-old travel for nine months as nomads: they live with Samoan families, spend two months on a fifty-foot trimaran in Fiji, live at Papunya Aborigine settlement in Australia, fall into a drug smuggler’s den in Bali, and end up in an ashram in Sri Lanka before returning home as the book ends.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1493127535

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9781493127535

No Borders

Playing Rugby for Ireland

By: Tom English

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No Borders

Playing Rugby for Ireland

By: Tom English

Fully updated to include Ireland's historic victory over the All Blacks and their 2018 Six Nations Grand Slam. From Jack Kyle's immortals to Brian O'Driscoll's golden generation, this is the story of Irish rugby told in the players' words. Celebrated rugby writer Tom English embarks on a pilgrimage through the four provinces to reveal the fascinating and illuminating story of playing test rugby in the emerald green of Ireland - all the glory of victory, all the pain of defeat, and all the craic behind the scenes.But this is more than just a nostalgic look back through the years, it is a searing portrait of the effects of politics and religion on Irish sport, a story of great schisms and volatile divisions, but also as story of the profound unity, passionate friendships and the bonds of a brotherhood. With exclusive new interview material with a host of Ireland rugby greats, No Borders unveils the compelling truth of what it means to play for Ireland at Lansdowne Road, Croke Park and around the world. This is the ultimate history of Irish rugby - told, definitively, by the men who have been there and done it.

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Birlinn

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0857908448

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9780857908445

Exclamations: A Half Century of Poems of Love, Life, and Death

Part II: an Elegy to the Civil Rights Movement

By: Tom Levin

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Exclamations: A Half Century of Poems of Love, Life, and Death

Part II: an Elegy to the Civil Rights Movement

By: Tom Levin

Too seldom do we see so well credentialed an academician make so wide a leap from science to worldliness and romance, as Dr. Levin does in Exclamations Part I and Part II. His work moves from Ben Franklin Bon Mot to lengthy Whitmanesque verbal tourism. And then in Part II on to social policy and social change. When questioned about the mix he says, "Truth is beauty and poetry is the ultimate verbal beauty.

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iUniverse

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0595509126

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My Hero

By: Tom Holt

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My Hero

By: Tom Holt

This is the story of Jane who finds the novel she is working on starts to write back. She's already realized novel writing isn't such a piece of cake after all, and the world of fiction is a far more complicated place than she ever imagined.

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0316232971

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The Messiah Formerly Known as Jesus

Dispatches from the Intersection of Christianity and Pop Culture

By: Tom Breen

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The Messiah Formerly Known as Jesus

Dispatches from the Intersection of Christianity and Pop Culture

By: Tom Breen

Acclaimed "Internet Theologian" Tom Breen has written a satirical, tongue-in-cheek exploration of pop Christianity. Whether pondering why there are so many Christian rock bands but so few good Christian rock songs or providing helpful tips on writing hip translations of the Bible (hint: lose the boring parts and constantly mention celebrities), Breen offers whip-smart, non-stop fun, along with a side-splitting send-up of our contemporary obsessions.

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Baylor University Press

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1602580197

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The Thinking Drinkers Almanac

By: Tom Sandham,Ben McFarland

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The Thinking Drinkers Almanac

By: Tom Sandham,Ben McFarland

The Times Best Food Books of the Year 2021 'Ben McFarland and Tom Sandham bring a much-needed lightness of touch to what can perversely be a very dry subject.' The Times No matter what day of the year it is and regardless of the occasion, there is always a very good reason to enjoy a drink. Responsibly of course. Aimed at discerning drinkers keen to broaden their booze horizons and those looking to become more adventurous in their elbow-bending, this enlightening and alternative almanac celebrates every day of the year with an appropriate alcoholic drink - featuring everything from Absinthe and Zinfandel to Martinis and Monastic beers. It's a cocktail of cultural history, eccentric events, unlikely anniversaries, recipes and recommendations infused with all manner of 'interestingness', several dashes of drinking did you knows, fascinating facts, famous folk, unsung heroes, lesser-known legends from all walks of life and major weird, wonderful and well-known moments from our past.

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Kyle Books

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1914239008

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9781914239007

Twentieth-Century Music in the West

An Introduction

By: Tom Perchard,Stephen Graham,Tim Rutherford-Johnson,Holly Rogers

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Twentieth-Century Music in the West

An Introduction

By: Tom Perchard,Stephen Graham,Tim Rutherford-Johnson,Holly Rogers

This is the first introductory survey of western twentieth-century music to address popular music, art music and jazz on equal terms. It treats those forms as inextricably intertwined, and sets them in a wide variety of social and critical contexts. The book comprises four sections – Histories, Techniques and Technologies, Mediation, Identities – with 16 thematic chapters. Each of these explores a musical or cultural topic as it developed over many years, and as it appeared across a diversity of musical practices. In this way, the text introduces both key musical repertoire and critical-musicological approaches to that work. It historicises music and musical thinking, opening up debate in the present rather than offering a new but closed narrative of the past. In each chapter, an overview of the topic's chronology and main issues is illustrated by two detailed case studies.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108638899

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The Literature of Possibility

By: Tom Butler-Bowden

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The Literature of Possibility

By: Tom Butler-Bowden

A digital collection of the wisdom of the greatest thinkers in history. Six books in one package.

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Hachette UK

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1857889355

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Channel Shore

From the White Cliffs to Land's End

By: Tom Fort

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Channel Shore

From the White Cliffs to Land's End

By: Tom Fort

A humorous, discursive, utterly absorbing journey from Dover to Land's End, along the English Channel shore, the busiest waterway in the world.

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Simon and Schuster

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1471129721

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9781471129728

Green Man, Earth Angel

The Prophetic Tradition and the Battle for the Soul of the World

By: Tom Cheetham

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Green Man, Earth Angel

The Prophetic Tradition and the Battle for the Soul of the World

By: Tom Cheetham

Green Man, Earth Angel explores the central role of imagination for understanding the place of humans in the cosmos. Tom Cheetham suggests that lives can only be completely whole if human beings come to recognize that the human and natural worlds are part of a vast living network and that the material and spiritual worlds are deeply interconnected. Central to this reimagining is an examination of the place of language in human life and art and in the worldview that the prophetic religions—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—presuppose. If human language is experienced only as a subset of a vastly more-than-human whole, then it is not only humans who speak, but also God and the world with all its creatures. If humans' internal poetry and creative imaginations are part of a greater conversation, then language can have the vital power to transform the human soul, and the soul of the world itself.

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State University of New York Press

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0791484157

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9780791484159

Freshmen

By: Tom Ellen,Lucy Ivison

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Freshmen

By: Tom Ellen,Lucy Ivison

A laugh-out-loud, realistic portrayal of a freshman year in college for fans of Emergency Contact, Broad City, and The Bold Type. Getting in is just the beginning. Phoebe can't wait to get to college. On her own, discovering new things, no curfew . . . she'll be free. And she'll be totally different: cooler, prettier, smarter . . . the perfect potential girlfriend. Convenient: the only person from her high school also going to York is her longtime crush, Luke. Luke didn't set out to redefine himself, but as soon as he arrives on campus, he finds himself dumping his long-term long-distance girlfriend. And the changes don't stop there. . . . Just when things start looking up (and Phoebe and Luke start hooking up), drama looms on the horizon. Rumors swirl about the Wall of Shame, a secret text chain run by Luke's soccer team, filled with compromising photos of girls. As the women on campus determine to expose the team and shut down the account, Luke and Phoebe find themselves grappling with confusing feelings and wondering how they'll ever make it through freshman year. "Flirty, bawdy, sloppy, and buckets of fun." --Booklist

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Ember

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1524701815

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9781524701819

Not Shaped for Sportive Tricks

By: tom weathers

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Not Shaped for Sportive Tricks

By: tom weathers

Poems about science and 3:00 AM at the Waffle House. Essays about science, Zen, the sacred and the profane and toilets.

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Lulu.com

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1304945065

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Where the Trees Dance

A memoir and love song to a birth mother, mom and dad and the love of a life.

By: Tom Geraty

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Where the Trees Dance

A memoir and love song to a birth mother, mom and dad and the love of a life.

By: Tom Geraty

”Where The Trees Dance has a taste of Jack Kerouac's On The Road, with a nod to the Emerald Isle... both an exploration and a celebration of family and heritage, about bravery and vulnerability, but for the reader it is rich and full of experiences that leap off the page. Tom has written a tribute and love letter to the courage it takes to set out on a quest for meaning, on the ultimate journey, to battle your own demons, and to surrender completely to Love.” ~ Kim Tobin-Lehl, Co-Artistic Director, 4th Wall Theater Company, Houston “Geraty uses an artful language to provide an honest, humorous, and ultimately satisfying story. A story that may help others to realize that even if you do not hold lofty titles, you may lead the most purposeful life that you can just by devoting yourself to others. Geraty, through this memoir, might become one of your ”guardian angels.” ~ John Burney, Ph.D., former Dean of Arts and Sciences, Drake University “The memoir really touched my heart. I loved the combination of being a man with all the wandering and explorations, as well as the vulnerable side of Tom's true love story. The interweave throughout the book of his adoption story was brilliant.” ~ Ann Flood, Licensed Mental Health Counsellor, Certified Mindfulness and Meditation Teacher “Memoirist Tom Geraty sings a song of gratitude while giving the reader an insider view of what it means to be adopted. Rollicking, no holds barred, highly recommended.” ~ Elaine Pinkerton, author of The Goodbye Baby – Adoptee Diaries and The Hand of Ganesh

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Outskirts Press

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1977266290

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9781977266293

Stay Up With Me

By: Tom Barbash

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Stay Up With Me

By: Tom Barbash

Stay Up With Me belongs to the tradition of the classic American story and, like John Cheever, Barbash dramatizes the messy lives of New Yorkers' Independent on Sunday A newly single mother wrestles with the evidence of her son's love life during his Christmas vacation; an anxious husband persists in playing the host at his annual drinks party even though his marriage is in trouble and his wife mysteriously absent; a young man watches his widowed father become the toast of Manhattan's midlife dating scene while he struggles to find his own footing in life . . . The characters in Tom Barbash's acclaimed, Folio Prize-nominated collection explore the myriad ways we seek to connect with each other and the sometimes cruel world around us. In the classic tradition of John Cheever or Tobias Wolff, Barbash laces his narratives with sharp wit, psychological acuity and pathos, so that they pierce the heart and linger in the imagination. 'One of the most satisfying cover-to-cover short story collections I can remember' Dave Eggers 'Tom Barbash's wise and bittersweet stories map the gulfs between us, and the unexpected connections. I tried to keep track of my favorite one, but it was always the story I'd just finished'David Mitchell 'Is there such a thing as the Great American Story Collection? Yes, and this is it' Justin Cronin

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Simon and Schuster

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1471128458

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9781471128455

The Admiral's Daughter

By: Tom Milton

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The Admiral's Daughter

By: Tom Milton

Kristy McKay, a young woman from Mississippi living in New York in the early 1960s, struggles to come to terms with her father, a war hero and proponent of white supremacy.

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0979457912

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9780979457913

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