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Packrat: A Tale of Compulsive Hoarding

By: Tom Hixson

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Packrat: A Tale of Compulsive Hoarding

By: Tom Hixson

Robert Campbell started collecting a wide variety of objects as a youth, but hoarding eventually took over his life; when he died in 2005, he left behind a hoard of over 140 tons of mostly worthless debris. This book documents the progression of the disorder and examines symptoms, causes, and potential solutions to this growing problem.

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Lulu.com

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0557708125

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9780557708123

A Course Called America

Fifty States, Five Thousand Fairways, and the Search for the Great American Golf Course

By: Tom Coyne

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A Course Called America

Fifty States, Five Thousand Fairways, and the Search for the Great American Golf Course

By: Tom Coyne

In 'A Course Called America', Tom Coyne plays his way across the United States in search of the great American golf course. Packed with fascinating tales from American golf history, comic road misadventures, illuminating insight into course design, and many a memorable round with local golfers, this book is an epic narrative travelogue brimming with heart and soul.

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416

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Simon and Schuster

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1982128062

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9781982128067

Word Across the Water

American Protestant Missionaries, Pacific Worlds, and the Making of Imperial Histories

By: Tom Smith

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Word Across the Water

American Protestant Missionaries, Pacific Worlds, and the Making of Imperial Histories

By: Tom Smith

In Word Across the Water, Tom Smith brings the histories of Hawai'i and the Philippines together to argue that US imperial ambitions towards these Pacific archipelagos were deeply intertwined with the work of American Protestant missionaries. As self-styled interpreters of history, missionaries produced narratives to stoke interest in their cause, locating US imperial interventions and their own evangelistic projects within divinely ordained historical trajectories. As missionaries worked in the shadow of their nation's empire, however, their religiously inflected historical narratives came to serve an alternative purpose. They emerged as a way for missionaries to negotiate their own status between the imperial and the local and to come to terms with the diverse spaces, peoples, and traditions of historical narration that they encountered across different island groups. Word Across the Water encourages scholars of empire and religion alike to acknowledge both the pernicious nature of imperial claims over oceanic space underpinned by religious and historical arguments, and the fragility of those claims on the ground.

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336

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Cornell University Press

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1501777432

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9781501777431

Isolationism

By: Thomas Streissguth,Lora Friedenthal,Jennifer L. Weber

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Isolationism

By: Thomas Streissguth,Lora Friedenthal,Jennifer L. Weber

Alphabetic entries trace the history of America's abandonment of its isolationist stance.

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129

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Infobase Publishing

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1438133049

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9781438133041

Webster Groves

By: Tom Cooper, Emma DeLooze-Klein, and Deborah Ladd

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Webster Groves

By: Tom Cooper, Emma DeLooze-Klein, and Deborah Ladd

Drive down almost any street in Webster Groves and one is filled with a sense of timelessness. Entire neighborhoods are in the National Register of Historic Places, and there are lovingly preserved century homes, beautiful old churches, avenues lined with gardens, and shopping districts more reminiscent of small-town America than a thriving suburb next door to the city of St. Louis. History runs deep here, as it is home to the first chapter of the Red Cross and the first Boy Scout Troop west of the Mississippi, the oldest women's organization in Missouri, the first professional fire department, and the first public library in St. Louis County. North Webster once held the only accredited high school for African American students in St. Louis County. Beginning as a site of country homes for St. Louis professionals, growing through a post-World War II boom that expanded into new neighborhoods, Webster Groves has remained true to its heritage and history.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1467113654

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9781467113656

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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184

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Routledge

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1317661877

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9781317661870

Modern Approach to Benign Esophageal Disease

Diagnosis and Surgical Therapy

By: Cedric G. Bremner,Tom R. DeMeester

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Modern Approach to Benign Esophageal Disease

Diagnosis and Surgical Therapy

By: Cedric G. Bremner,Tom R. DeMeester

This work focuses on the physiologic approach to the understanding and management of oesophageal disease. This is coupled with the utilization of minimally invasive thoracoscopic and laparoscopic surgery as a first option in the treatment of gastroesophageal reflux disease. oesophageal motility disorders, oesophageal diverticula, and benign oesopha

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255

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CRC Press

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0824745531

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9780824745530

Fan Fiction and Early Christian Writings

Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha and Canon

By: Tom de Bruin

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Fan Fiction and Early Christian Writings

Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha and Canon

By: Tom de Bruin

What can contemporary media fandoms, like Anne Rice, Star Wars, Batman, or Sherlock Holmes, tell us about ancient Christianity? Tom de Bruin demonstrates how fandom and fan fiction are both analogous and incongruous with Christian derivative works. The often-disparaging terms applied to Christian apocrypha and pseudepigrapha, such as fakes, forgeries or corruptions, are not sufficient to capture the production, consumption, and value of these writings. De Bruin reimagines a range of early Christian works as fan practices. Exploring these ancient texts in new ways, he takes the reader on a journey from the 'fix-it fic' endings of the Gospel of Mark to the subversive fan fictions of the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, and from the densely populated storyworld of early Christian art to the gatekeeping of Christian orthodoxy. Using theory developed in fan studies, De Bruin revisits fundamental questions about ancient derivative texts: Why where they written? How do they interact with more established texts? In what ways does the consumption of derivative works influence the reception of existing traditions? And how does the community react to these works? This book sheds exciting and new light on ancient Christian literary production, consumption and transmission.

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294

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0567706664

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9780567706669

Armored Cav

By: Tom Clancy

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Armored Cav

By: Tom Clancy

A penetrating look inside an armored cavalry regiment -- the technology, the strategies, and the people . . . profiled by Tom Clancy. His first non-fiction book, Submarine, captured the reality of life aboard a nuclear warship. Now, the #1 bestselling author of Clear and Present Danger and Without Remorse portrays today's military as only army personnel can know it. With the same compelling, you-are-there immediacy of his acclaimed fiction, Tom Clancy provides detailed descriptions of tanks, helicopters, artillery, and more -- the brilliant technology behind the U. S. Army. He captures military life -- from the drama of combat to the daily routine -- with total accuracy, and reveals the roles and missions that have in recent years distinguished our fighting forces. Armored Cav includes: Descriptions of the M1A2 Main Battle Tank, the AH-64A Apache Attack Helicopter, and more An interview with General Frederick Franks Strategies behind the Desert Storm account Exclusive photograph, illustrations and diagrams PLUS: From West Point cadet to Desert Storm commander . . . an interview with a combat cavalry officer on the rise.

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356

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Penguin

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1101002263

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9781101002261

Halsey's Typhoon

The True Story of a Fighting Admiral, an Epic Storm, and an Untold Rescue

By: Bob Drury,Tom Clavin

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Halsey's Typhoon

The True Story of a Fighting Admiral, an Epic Storm, and an Untold Rescue

By: Bob Drury,Tom Clavin

This account of a disaster at sea during World War II is “a powerful and engrossing story of tragedy, survival, and heroism” (Mark Bowden, author of Black Hawk Down). In the final days of 1944, Admiral William “Bull” Halsey is the Pacific theater’s most popular and colorful naval hero. After a string of victories, the “Fighting Admiral” and his thirty-thousand-man Third Fleet are charged with protecting General MacArthur’s flank during the invasion of the Philippine island of Mindoro. But in the midst of the landings, Halsey attempts a complicated refueling maneuver—and unwittingly drives his 170 ships into the teeth of a massive typhoon. Halsey’s men find themselves battling ninety-foot waves and 150 mph winds. Amid the chaos, three ships are sunk and nearly nine hundred sailors and officers are swept into the Philippine Sea. For three days, small bands of survivors battle dehydration, exhaustion, sharks, and the elements, awaiting rescue. It will be up to courageous lieutenant commander Henry Lee Plage to defy orders and sail his tiny destroyer escort, the USS Tabberer, back into the storm to rescue drifting sailors. Revealing a little-known chapter of WWII history in absorbing detail, this is “a vivid tale of tragedy and gallantry at sea.” (Publishers Weekly).

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Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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1555846297

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9781555846299

Packrat: A Tale of Compulsive Hoarding

By: Tom Hixson

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By: Tom Hixson

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0557708125

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My Father's Story

By: Tom Norton

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My Father's Story

By: Tom Norton

A father (Tom) hears his son Richard say, “School is OK except I don’t like learning numbers or arithmetic.” After dinner, Tom sits with Richard and tells him a story of a kingdom long ago where the use of numbers is forbidden by King Kcaj and of the chaos that ensues because of it. As Tom’s story unfolds, he hopes to instill in Richard a sense of the importance of learning numbers, counting, and arithmetic along with other life lessons.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1450057640

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9781450057646

The Adventures of the Real Tom Sawyer (Hardback)

By: Tom Sawyer

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The Adventures of the Real Tom Sawyer (Hardback)

By: Tom Sawyer

Discover Tom's multiple exciting careers, from penciling and inking comic books at the age of twenty-two for Stan Lee, to top advertising illustrator, to award-winning filmmaker, and on through his Emmy and Edgar-nominated career in Hollywood to musical theatre and beyond.

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1629331058

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9781629331058

Book's by Tom Hixson

Packrat: A Tale of Compulsive Hoarding

Packrat: A Tale of Compulsive Hoarding

A Course Called America

A Course Called America

Word Across the Water

Word Across the Water

Isolationism

Isolationism

Webster Groves

Webster Groves

Vietnam War Slang

Vietnam War Slang

Modern Approach to Benign Esophageal Disease

Modern Approach to Benign Esophageal Disease

Fan Fiction and Early Christian Writings

Fan Fiction and Early Christian Writings

Armored Cav

Armored Cav

Halsey's Typhoon

Halsey's Typhoon

Packrat: A Tale of Compulsive Hoarding

Packrat: A Tale of Compulsive Hoarding

My Father's Story

My Father's Story

The Adventures of the Real Tom Sawyer (Hardback)

The Adventures of the Real Tom Sawyer (Hardback)

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