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A Visitors Guide to Historic Savannah Homes

By: Tom Draffin

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A Visitors Guide to Historic Savannah Homes

By: Tom Draffin

Tom Draffin and his wife are regular visitors to Savannah, and they've enjoyed its shops, squares, and Southern charm. But they became increasingly interested in its old homes, many dating back to the 1700s. Strangely, however, there was no book or reference guide that told them where to find these historic homes and why they are so special. As a way to chronicle his findings-and to help others fascinated by Savannah's architecture and history-he compiled this guide featuring some of the city's oldest historic district homes. The guide tells you when each home was built, where to find it, the history of the ward where it's located, and more. Photos show the homes in the context of their surroundings. In some cases, you'll see two adjacent homes that look identical even though they were built a hundred years apart. Whether you're a visitor or Savannah resident exploring your city's rich history and architecture, you'll find this guide an essential resource to learning about its historic homes.

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1483465098

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Getting it Straight in Notting Hill Gate

A West London Psychogeography Report

By: Tom Vague

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Getting it Straight in Notting Hill Gate

A West London Psychogeography Report

By: Tom Vague

From 43AD, and the building of the (no doubt very straight) Roman Great West Road to Silchester, to 2009, another bout of Carnival Riots and David Cameron getting his bike nicked outside Tescos on the Grove, (retrieved with the help of a friendly / non-class conscious Rasta), long time Portobello Road resident and local historian/psychogeographer Tom Vague takes us on a breathless romp through the peoples history of W10, taking in Roman Coffins on Ladbroke Grove and Civil War skirmishes in Holland Park, Russian occultists at 77 Elgin Crescent, Tory anarchist GK Chesterton and his Napoleon of Notting Hill, Thomas Hardy compering poetry nights at 84 Holland Park Avenue with Wyndham Lewis and Ezra Pound, the pre WW1 Vorticist art HQ on Campden Hill Road ,WW2 bombs on Ladbroke Grove, Halliday Christie moving to 10 Rillington Place, teenage teddy boys rampaging at the Prince of Wales Cinema on Harrow Road, Max Mosely painting fascist Union Movement graffiti around Notting Hill in 1956, Peter Rachman renting properties to the ‘blacks and Irish’ before ruthlessly exploiting them all and ratcheting up local tensions, the infamous race riots of 1959, future Home Secretary Alan Johnsons’ original mod band the Area playing the Pavillion pub on North Pole Road in 1965, Pink Floyd at the Free School, All Saints Church, 1966, Performance, Powis Square 1969, Mick Farrens’ proto-punk Deviants at 56 Chesterton Road in 1970, Strummer, Jones and Simenon’s Clash on the Westway, in the Elgin, at the carnival riots....

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Bread and Circuses Publishing

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1625172028

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9781625172020

Performance Assessment for Field Sports

By: Christopher Carling,Tom Reilly,A. Mark Williams

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Performance Assessment for Field Sports

By: Christopher Carling,Tom Reilly,A. Mark Williams

This is the first book dedicated to the assessment of performance in field sports such as soccer, rugby, hockey, and lacrosse. It provides detailed and clear information about the laboratory and field-based methods that can be used to assess and improve both individual and team performance, from basic physiological assessment to the use of video and information technologies.

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Routledge

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1134091117

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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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DON'T SHOOT ! IT'S ME

By: TOM LEFTWICH

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DON'T SHOOT ! IT'S ME

By: TOM LEFTWICH

A collection of fictionalized true to life adventures as seen in Arizona Territory in the 1850 to 1880 era where Indian warfare and pillaging Raiders were common.These tales all involve realistic events that have been written in a manner to provide an enjoyable short story for the commuter or an interesting lunch break. Violence, during this period in American history was common place and has been included as necessary to provide realism.Authentic practices for training horses and gunmanship techniques are included in some stories. It's my desire to provide the reader with an interesting and satisfying story that is both entertaining and educational. Thank you for taking the time to read this.

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1312663278

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The Giants Encyclopedia

By: Tom Schott,Nick Peters

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The Giants Encyclopedia

By: Tom Schott,Nick Peters

From the first pitch at the original Polo Grounds on May 1, 1883, to the night of August 9, 2002, at Pacific Bell Park, where Barry Bonds crushed his 600th career home run -- and beyond -- the New York and San Francisco Giants have been one of the most successful -- and popular -- franchises in Major League Baseball. They have won five World Series championships (plus three 19th-century titles) and 20 National League pennants. Some 50 Giants are enshrined in the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York (more than any other franchise). Now, all the highlights and the individuals who provided them are captured in this comprehensive history of the club. The Giants Encyclopedia is more than just a running narrative of the franchise's history. It chronicles all 120 seasons in minute detail (the world championships, pennant winners, near-misses and disappointments). The book features biographies of more than 100 players (from Hall of Famers like Willie Mays and Christy Mathewson to present-day stars like Barry Bonds and Robb Nen), plus prominent owners (such as John Day, Horace and Charles Stoneham, Bob Lurie and Peter Magowan); front office executives (like Chub Feeney, Al Rosen and Brian Sabean); managers (such as John McGraw, Leo Durocher, Roger Craig and Dusty Baker); and broadcasters (Russ Hodges, Lon Simmons and Hank Greenwald).

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Sports Publishing LLC

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1582616930

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9781582616933

Splashed!

A Life from Print to Panorama

By: Tom Mangold

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Splashed!

A Life from Print to Panorama

By: Tom Mangold

Tom Mangold is known to millions as the face of BBC TV's flagship current affairs programme Panorama and as its longest-serving reporter. Splashed! is the 'antidote to the conventional journalist's autobiography' - a compelling, hilarious and raucous revelation of the events that marked an extraordinary life in journalism. Mangold describes his National Service in Germany, where he worked part-time as a smuggler, through his years in the 1950s on Fleet Street's most ruthless newspapers, a time when chequebook journalism ruled and shamelessness was a major skill. Recruited by the BBC, he spent forty years as a broadcaster, developing a reputation for war reporting and major investigations. From world exclusives with fallen women in the red-top days to chaotic interviews with Presidents, Splashed! offers a rare glimpse of the personal triumphs and disasters of a life in reporting, together with fascinating revelations about the stories that made the headlines on Mangold's remarkable journey from print to Panorama.

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1785901931

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Into the Storm

A Study in Command

By: Tom Clancy,Frederick M. Franks

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Into the Storm

A Study in Command

By: Tom Clancy,Frederick M. Franks

In his brilliant, bestselling novels, Tom Clancy has explored the most timely military and security issues of our generation. Now he takes readers deep into the operational art of war with this insightful look at one of the greatest American military triumphs since World War II: the Gulf War.

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1429586788

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Hospitals

A Design Manual

By: Cor Wagenaar,Noor Mens,Guru Manja,Colette Niemeijer,Tom Guthknecht

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Hospitals

A Design Manual

By: Cor Wagenaar,Noor Mens,Guru Manja,Colette Niemeijer,Tom Guthknecht

Das Krankenhaus unterlag als Bautyp in den letzten Jahren großen Veränderungen: Der Wandel im Gesundheitswesen, die evidenzbasierte Medizin sowie Fragen der Gesundheitsökonomie (wie die Bündelung bestimmter Verfahren in Fachkliniken) stellen neue Anforderungen an die Planung. Private Gesundheitseinrichtungen treiben den Paradigmenwechsel vom funktionalen Technikbauwerk zum design-affinen Gesundheitsbau mit Hotelcharakter voran. Dieses Buch stellt in einem breiten systematischen Teil die Voraussetzungen für Entwurf und Planung von Krankenhäusern dar. Der Beispielteil dokumentiert in sechs Kategorien – Allgemeinkrankenhäuser, Kinderkliniken, Universitätskliniken, Fachkrankenhäuser, Ambulanzen und Polikliniken sowie Reha- und Nachsorgeeinrichtungen – ca. 40 internationale Projekte.

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3035611254

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Races, Games, and Olympic Dreams

A Sportscaster's Life

By: Tom Hammond,Mark Story

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Races, Games, and Olympic Dreams

A Sportscaster's Life

By: Tom Hammond,Mark Story

In sports, not all the long shots who succeed are athletes. In 1984, Tom Hammond, a forty-year-old sportscaster who had primarily worked in Kentucky and the Southeast, got an unlikely opportunity to appear on the NBC Sports telecast of the inaugural Breeders' Cup. Assigned to report from the stall area on what was supposed to be a single broadcast, Hammond performed so well that an NBC executive offered him a chance to call NFL games on the spot. That broadcast launched Hammond's thirty-four-year career with NBC Sports and his rise to the top levels of American television sportscasting. Along with cowriter Mark Story, Hammond pulls back the curtain to reveal how a Kentucky native who started out reading horse racing results on Lexington radio went on to broadcast from thirteen Olympic Games. While covering Thoroughbred racing for NBC, Hammond broadcast sixteen Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes races and eleven runnings of the Belmont Stakes, including American Pharoah's historic 2015 Triple Crown victory. Hammond offers glimpses into his time as the play-by-play voice for Notre Dame football, calling NBA and NFL games, and his long-running stint announcing Southeastern Conference men's basketball for the league's syndicated TV package. Races, Games, and Olympic Dreams is an intimate and gripping look at Hammond's experiences, including his coverage of Olympic track and field, figure skating, speed skating, ice dancing, diving, and basketball events. Hammond worked with broadcasting luminaries such as Dick Enberg, Bob Costas, Cris Collinsworth, and Bill Walton, and encountered world-class athletes like Allyson Felix, Michael Jordan, Sarah Hughes, and Peyton Manning. Although his career has spanned the nation and the world, Hammond's roots have always remained firmly planted in the Bluegrass State.

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1985901021

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Hand of History, Burden of Pseudo History

By: Tom O Connor

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Hand of History, Burden of Pseudo History

By: Tom O Connor

Roman legions rang Celtic Europe's death-knell and orchestrated Celtic Britain's swansong, provoking Queen Boudicea's massive anti-Roman revolt which resulted in "the worst disaster to befall the Roman Empire" — all of which had a huge bearing on the rise of Celtic Ireland. This book presents Turoe's Celtic Royal complex, unprecedented for its size and layout, but akin to Belgic oppida (as named by Caesar) in SE England and NW Europe. It hosts the Turoe Stone, Europe's most celebrated La Tene-decorated stone. No one knew why this classic masterpiece of Celtic stone art was set on Turoe's summit in the West of Ireland. Here its hitherto unrecognized Royal Sanctuary trappings at the centre of a vast Belgic oppidum defensive system of linear embankments uniquely connected to the Celtic invasion of Ireland and its archaic history are unfolded. It is recorded in early dindshenchas (history of the famous places) and associated with the names of archaic kings and queens. The first record of it is by the renowned 1st/2nd century Greek geographer, Ptolemy of Alexandria, who listed 2 capitals in Ireland, the only 2 in his day. One is Emain Macha near Armagh. The other was never definitively identified. He located it roughly in central Co. Galway where Turoe is. He named it REGIA E TERA (Te[mh]ra), the genuine early Celtic name for 'Capital at Turoe' (Cnoc Temhro). It had an acropolis and several necropoli, including those around Athenry cited in archaic texts in the Book of Leinster as ‘Releg na Rí lamh le Cruachain' where members of Turoe's Royal Household (Rígrád Temhróit) were interred, such as Queen Medb and her father, Eochaid Ferach Mhor whose palace, Rath Ferach Mhor, stood beside the Turoe Stone. Part of its sprawling urban-like complex flanking Turoe and Knocknadala (Assembly/Parliament Hill) is placed under preservation order by The National Monuments Department. Ptolemy renders Knocknadala (early Cnoc na nDál) as NAG-NA-TA[L], "the most illustrious 'city' (polis) in all Britannia, and most considerable in size, located in the west of Ireland." The sole reference to a dense population in early Irish literature points to this area. Ancient roadways, Slí Mhór and Slí Dála, converged on Turoe/Knocknadala. Rót na Ri, Royal Road of the Kings, ran from Turoe to the great seaport of Ath Cliath Magh Rí in Galway Bay. Dindshenchas texts state that "Ath Cliath Magh Rí was the chief seaport of Ireland through which Ireland has most often been invaded." A large segment of the Celtic invasion force landed there and advanced on Turoe, the core of its primary settlement area, as recorded in the Dindshenchas of Cnoc na Dála. Continental and British Belgic tribes are remembered in townland names within this vast Turoe oppidum complex. It was suppressed by pseudo-historians who set the Irish race on the cutting edge of woeful ignorance about its Celtic roots as Armagh's monastic conmen concocted scheming stews of sheer political propaganda to win the patronage of powerful warlords. The enforced Irish exile of King Dagobert II shows the depth of involvement of Armagh-linked Abbots in Frankish politics through whom Pepin's new national Over Kingship of the Franks profoundly impacted the genesis of Ireland's High King-ship/Tara/Patrick myth. As E. Breathnach noted "The culmination of the creation of the medieval myth surrounding Tara ensured Tara would be regarded from the late 10th/11th century as the monument of the Kingship of Ireland. Tara's potency as a political symbol was evoked to the extent that by the 17th century it was depicted as one of the institutions on which the Kingship of Ireland had rested from time immemorial" (Edel Breathnach, 'Cultural Identity of Tara' in Discovery Programme Reports').

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1412202833

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Foxy Ned Hanlon

The Baseball Life of a Hall of Fame Manager

By: Tom Delise,Jay Seaborg

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Foxy Ned Hanlon

The Baseball Life of a Hall of Fame Manager

By: Tom Delise,Jay Seaborg

This is the first book-length biography of Ned Hanlon, a Hall of Famer but yet an underappreciated figure in baseball history. As a first generation Irish-American, Ned Hanlon left behind a childhood in the cotton mills to become a star player in the major leagues and the famous manager of the colorful 1890s Baltimore Orioles. He traveled the world on an all-star team and was a key member of the first attempt by baseball players to unionize, which led to the creation of the upstart Players' League. Hanlon was an innovative and shrewd tactician whose strategies and ideas helped baseball transition from its rough infancy into the modern game we know today. As one of the premier baseball minds of his time, "Foxy Ned" also exerted a profound influence on the sport through the managerial tree he established, which includes Hall of Fame managers such as John McGraw, Miller Huggins, and Connie Mack.

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147665140X

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Storytellers to the Nation

A History of American Television Writing

By: Tom Stempel

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Storytellers to the Nation

A History of American Television Writing

By: Tom Stempel

Jam-packed with hundreds of anecdotes and quotes from in-depth interviews with over forty television writers, this is the first comprehensive history of writing for American television. These writers tell, often in wonderfully funny tales, of their experiences working with, and often fighting with, the networks, the censors, the sponsors, the producers, and the stars in trying to create shows.

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Syracuse University Press

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0815603681

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The Castle

The Sean Rooney Psychosleuth Series

By: Tom O. Keenan

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The Castle

The Sean Rooney Psychosleuth Series

By: Tom O. Keenan

In The Castle, aka Hillwood Mental Hospital, long-term patients are mysteriously killing themselves. Sean Rooney, trainee psychologist, forms a self-help patient group to investigate the mysterious deaths. The Castle has many secrets, some going back over a hundred years. Rooney has a particular reason for choosing The Castle as his placement, posing a question: is he there to meet his own needs or that of the patients? The Hospital Management Team consider suicide in large mental hospitals as coming 'with the turf'. Rooney doesn't agree and after 'going undercover', believes there is more to these suicides. All have a common feature: after many years in hospital, these patients were all considered for 'care in the community'. The Castle doesn't give up its secrets easily, whether historical, criminal, or supernatural. It takes a group of like-minded patients – a psychotic scientist, depressed philosopher, delusional vigilante, dope-head crime writer, autistic arsonist, wannabe detective, and a bipolar psychologist to find out who or what is killing patients at The Castle. The Castle is the prequel to The Father, the first in the crime thriller series by critically acclaimed author Tom O. Keenan.

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McNidder & Grace

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0857162438

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9780857162434

Politics in South Africa

From Mandela to Mbeki

By: Tom Lodge

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Politics in South Africa

From Mandela to Mbeki

By: Tom Lodge

This well-informed and crisply written introduction will appeal to both students of contemporary politics and general readers interested in the new democracy. Book jacket.

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0864865058

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In Rod We Trust, Too

By: Tom Sawyer

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In Rod We Trust, Too

By: Tom Sawyer

There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. This is a dimension of imagination. In the case of these stories, it is THE 2nd TIME where author Tom Sawyer’s imagination takes flight in an explosive follow-up to IN ROD WE TRUST, a collection of stories uniquely inspired by Rod Serling's THE TWILIGHT ZONE television series. Mr. Sawyer, as a celebrated Michigan horror and science fiction fiction author over many years past, presents to you further thrilling tales that will not only entertain, enchant, and leave you mesmerized, but guaranteed to completely pull you in and freak you out....which is exactly what fervent fans of Serling's The Twilight Zone fully expect!

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194687499X

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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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Living the urban periphery

Infrastructure, everyday life and economic change in African city-regions

By: Paula Meth,Sarah Charlton,Tom Goodfellow,Alison Todes

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Living the urban periphery

Infrastructure, everyday life and economic change in African city-regions

By: Paula Meth,Sarah Charlton,Tom Goodfellow,Alison Todes

The edges of cities are increasingly understood as places of dynamism and change, but there is little research on African urban peripheries, the nature of building, growth, investment and decline that is shaping them and how these are lived. This co-authored monograph draws on findings from an extensive comparative study on Ethiopia and South Africa, in conversation with a related study on Ghana. It examines African urban peripheries through a dual focus on the experiences of living in these changing contexts, alongside the logics driving their transformation. Through its conceptualisation and application of five ‘logics of periphery’, it offers unique, contextually-informed insights into the generic processes shaping urban peripheries, and the variable ways in which these are playing out in contemporary Africa for those living the peripheries.

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Manchester University Press

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1526171201

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The History of New Zealand

By: Tom Brooking

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The History of New Zealand

By: Tom Brooking

With its closest neighbor some 1,200 miles away, New Zealand is one of the most geographically isolated countries in the world. Its remoteness led to its relatively late settlement. Brooking traces New Zealand from its earliest Maori settlers to issues in 2003, covering intertribal relations, the effects of European contact, the challenges of globalization, and more. The volume includes a timeline of historical events, biographical entries of notable people in the history of New Zealand, a glossary of Maori terms, and a bibliographic essay. With its closest neighbor some 1,200 miles away, New Zealand is one of the most geographically isolated countries in the world. Its remoteness led to its relatively late settlement. Brooking traces New Zealand from its earliest Maori settlers to issues in 2003, covering intertribal relations, the effects of European contact, the challenges of globalization, and more. The volume includes a timeline of historical events, biographical entries of notable people in the history of New Zealand, a glossary of Maori terms, and a bibliographic essay. This concise, engagingly written volume is ideal for students and general interest readers seeking information on New Zealand's history.

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0313058490

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A Uganda Diary A Doctor on Safari

By: Tom Hopwood

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A Uganda Diary A Doctor on Safari

By: Tom Hopwood

An insight into the working life of a doctor in Uganda from 1948 until independence in 1962. The story includes a fascinating account of a six-month Travelling Felloship in the USA. He descibes this time as his and his family's happiest days of their lives.

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1409267830

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9781409267836

Glory Denied: The Vietnam Saga of Jim Thompson, America's Longest-Held Prisoner of War

By: Tom Philpott

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Glory Denied: The Vietnam Saga of Jim Thompson, America's Longest-Held Prisoner of War

By: Tom Philpott

Weaving together interviews with Thompson and his family; comments from friends, fellow soldiers, and other POWs; and excerpts from service records, medical reports, and intelligence briefings, journalist Tom Philpott creates a moving and compelling portrait of a complex and heroic figure.

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0393342816

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Baker Street Whodunits

Puzzles of Deduction

By: Tom Bullimore

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Baker Street Whodunits

Puzzles of Deduction

By: Tom Bullimore

Break secret codes, unscramble anagrams, and solve logic problems to help Sherlock Holmes unravel a number of mysteries.

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0806947632

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9780806947631

Richard Seddon: King of God's Own

King of God's Own

By: Tom Brooking

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Richard Seddon: King of God's Own

King of God's Own

By: Tom Brooking

**2014 Must Read** Otago Daily Times 'The life, the health, the intelligence, and the morals of the nation count for more than riches, and I would rather have this country free from want and squalor and unemployed than the home of multi-millionaires.'—Richard Seddon, 1905 *** Casting a long shadow over New Zealand history, Richard John Seddon, Premier from 1893 to his untimely death in 1906, held a clear vision for the country he led. Pushing New Zealand in more egalitarian directions than ever before, he was both the builder and the maintenance man – if not the architect – of our country. Challenging popular opinion of New Zealand's longest-serving Prime Minister as a ruthless pragmatist, cunning misogynist and Imperialistic jingoist, this landmark biography of Seddon presents an altogether more sympathetic, erudite appraisal. Reconciling two generations of New Zealand scholarship, Richard Seddon: King of God's Own demonstrates that, while holding fast to common ideals, Seddon was successful by mastering the art of the possible. He knew instinctively what his electorate would tolerate and remained in step with public opinion. Despite contradictions in his attitudes towards other races, he fought to ensure privilege did not become entrenched in what he envisioned as a white man's utopia. In this perceptive new evaluation, political historian Tom Brooking explains Seddon's complex relationship with Maori and shows how he in fact held a progressively bi-cultural vision for the future of 'God's Own Country'. Seddon was no saint. Somewhat autocratic and given to petty nepotism, he nevertheless remains the most dominant political leader in our country's history. Internationally, his high profile within the Empire helped put New Zealand on the map. Domestically, he sought a middle ground between free-market extremism and full-blown socialism. And more privately, Seddon was a devoted family man, his actions shaped much more by his supportive wife and assertive daughters than has previously been realised. Richard Seddon: King of God's Own is a superlative achievement in New Zealand history writing. Absorbing, wide-ranging and beautifully articulated, it reframes and repositions one of the founding fathers of modern New Zealand. *** 'The definitive biography of one of New Zealand's most influential political leaders.' —Paul Moon, author of New Zealand in the Twentieth Century 'King of God's Own is a nuanced and generous assessment of our most famous Premier, a man very much of his own time.' —Gavin McLean, co-editor of the bestselling Frontier of Dreams: The Story of New Zealand 'An excellent biography, and a major revision of an important period in this country's history.' —Barry Gustafson, acclaimed biographer of Sir Keith Holyoake, Sir Robert Muldoon and Michael Joseph Savage Also available as an eBook

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Everything Is Predictable

How Bayesian Statistics Explain Our World

By: Tom Chivers

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Everything Is Predictable

How Bayesian Statistics Explain Our World

By: Tom Chivers

A captivating and user-friendly tour of Bayes’s theorem and its global impact on modern life from the acclaimed science writer and author of The Rationalist’s Guide to the Galaxy. At its simplest, Bayes’s theorem describes the probability of an event, based on prior knowledge of conditions that might be related to the event. But in Everything Is Predictable, Tom Chivers lays out how it affects every aspect of our lives. He explains why highly accurate screening tests can lead to false positives and how a failure to account for it in court has put innocent people in jail. A cornerstone of rational thought, many argue that Bayes’s theorem is a description of almost everything. But who was the man who lent his name to this theorem? How did an 18th-century Presbyterian minister and amateur mathematician uncover a theorem that would affect fields as diverse as medicine, law, and artificial intelligence? Fusing biography, razor-sharp science writing, and intellectual history, Everything Is Predictable is an entertaining tour of Bayes’s theorem and its impact on modern life, showing how a single compelling idea can have far reaching consequences.

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Eat, Drink, Animate

An Animators Cookbook

By: Tom Sito

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Eat, Drink, Animate

An Animators Cookbook

By: Tom Sito

Tom Sito (the legendary animator behind Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Beauty and the Beast, and other classic works) brings together the perfect fusion of culinary skill and animation in his cookbook, Eat, Drink, Animate: An Animator's Cookbook. Sito’s book is a celebration of the works from legendary animation artists from around the world. Twelve Academy Award winners, five Emmy Award winners. From legendary animators from Hollywood’s Golden Age, to modern masters. Not only does he demonstrate examples of their works, but he also includes their favorite personal recipe, and an anecdote from their professional lives that relates to food. Key Features: A rare look behind the scenes of some of animation's most memorable films. Usable recipes you canmake yourself, tested and adapted by Rebecca Bricetti, former editor for Stewart, Tabori, & Chang (Glorious Food ) and Robert Lence animator and gourmet (Toy Story, Shrek ). Never before seen photos and illustrations. Anecdotes from behind-the-scenes of some of your favourite animated classics.

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Not for Me to Judge

By: Tom Smith

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Not for Me to Judge

By: Tom Smith

This is story of the life of our wonderful life as a counting couple and 69 married years, spoiled only by the NHS including rape of my wife by a female nurse, but included threats and total lack of real nursing. Withholding medication and equipment. Thousands of pounds wasted on her just because they would not listen or respect the elderly. confined to a hospital bed when she could have been allowed to sleep in a normal bed and walk to and from the toilet .Complaints got nowhere. Documents enclosed prove this.

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Bion, Rickman, Foulkes, and the Northfield Experiments

Advancing on a Different Front

By: Tom Harrison

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Bion, Rickman, Foulkes, and the Northfield Experiments

Advancing on a Different Front

By: Tom Harrison

The Northfield Experiments, conducted during the Second World War, mark an important moment in the development of the therapeutic community movement. This is the first book to record the experiments in detail. The book provides a fascinating account of a significant advance in psychiatry.

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Tokyo Museum Guide

A Complete Guide

By: Tom Flannigan,Ellen Flannigan

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Tokyo Museum Guide

A Complete Guide

By: Tom Flannigan,Ellen Flannigan

This Japan travel companion is a complete guide to over 195 fascinating museums in Tokyo, Yokahoma, and Chiba. Tokyo affords no better—or cheaper—day trip than a visit to one of its many fascinating museums. Now for the first time in English is a complete guide to all the museums, large and small, general and specific, in the Tokyo and Yokohama areas. Tokyo has everything for the expert and the casual observer alike. Superb exhibits include the collection of Oriental antiquities at the Tokyo National Museum and an old-Tokyo neighborhood recreated in the Fukagawa Edo Museum. Whatever your interests—from poetry to parasites—Tokyo has a museum for you. The authors, Thomas and Ellen Flannigan, who personally visited all the museums, give excellent advice on what to see and what to avoid.

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Etruscan and Early Roman Architecture

By: Axel Boëthius,Roger Ling,Tom Rasmussen

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Etruscan and Early Roman Architecture

By: Axel Boëthius,Roger Ling,Tom Rasmussen

Axel Boethius's account begins about 1400 B.C. with the primitive villages of the Italic tribes. The scene was transformed by the arrival of the Greeks and by the Etruscans who by about 600 had Rome and Central Italy under their cultural spell.

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Self-Assessment in Paediatrics E-BOOK

By: Tom Lissauer,Will Carroll

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Self-Assessment in Paediatrics E-BOOK

By: Tom Lissauer,Will Carroll

This is a new, first-edition book of MCQs and EMQs designed to help test understanding of content presented in the Illustrated Textbook of Paediatrics. It is ordered by the same chapter titles as Illustrated Textbook of Paediatrics for ease of reference. Features: - Over 300 questions in MCQ and EMQ formats - Highly illustrated - 31 chapters

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We Shall Not Be Moved

Rebuilding Home in the Wake of Katrina

By: Tom Wooten

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We Shall Not Be Moved

Rebuilding Home in the Wake of Katrina

By: Tom Wooten

As floodwaters drained in the weeks following Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans residents came to a difficult realization. Their city was about to undertake the largest disaster recovery in American history, yet they faced a profound leadership vacuum: members of every tier of government, from the municipal to the federal level, had fallen down on the job. We Shall Not Be Moved tells the absorbing story of the community leaders who stepped into this void to rebuild the city they loved. From a Vietnamese Catholic priest who immediately knows when two of his six thousand parishioners go missing to a single mother from the Lower Ninth Ward who instructs the likes of Jimmy Carter and Brad Pitt, these intrepid local organizers show that a city’s fate rests on the backs of its citizens. On their watch, New Orleans neighborhoods become small governments. These leaders organize their neighbors to ward off demolition threats, write comprehensive recovery plans, found community schools, open volunteer centers, raise funds to rebuild fire stations and libraries, and convince tens of thousands of skeptical residents to return home. Focusing on recovery efforts in five New Orleans neighborhoods—Broadmoor, Hollygrove, Lakeview, the Lower Ninth Ward, and Village de l’Est—Tom Wooten presents vivid narratives through the eyes and voices of residents rebuilding their homes, telling a story of resilience as entertaining as it is instructive. The unprecedented community mobilization underway in New Orleans is a silver lining of Hurricane Katrina’s legacy. By shedding light on this rebirth, We Shall Not Be Moved shows how residents, remarkably, turned a profound national failure into a story of hope.

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From Soul to Hip Hop

By: Tom Perchard

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From Soul to Hip Hop

By: Tom Perchard

The essays contained in this volume address some of the most visible, durable and influential of African American musical styles as they developed from the mid-1960s into the 21st-century. Soul, funk, pop, R&B and hip hop practices are explored both singly and in their many convergences, and in writings that have often become regarded as landmarks in black musical scholarship. These works employ a wide range of methodologies, and taken together they show the themes and concerns of academic black musical study developing over three decades. While much of the writing here is focused on music and musicians in the United States, the book also documents important and emergent trends in the study of these styles as they have spread across the world. The volume maintains the original publication format and pagination of each essay, making for easy and accurate cross-reference and citation. Tom Perchard?s introduction gives a detailed overview of the book?s contents, and of the field as a whole, situating the present essays in a longer and wider tradition of African American music studies. In bringing together and contextualising works that are always valuable but sometimes difficult to access, the volume forms an excellent introductory resource for university music students and researchers.

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In the Footsteps of the Etruscans

Changing Landscapes around Tuscania from Prehistory to Modernity

By: Graeme Barker,Tom Rasmussen

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In the Footsteps of the Etruscans

Changing Landscapes around Tuscania from Prehistory to Modernity

By: Graeme Barker,Tom Rasmussen

In the Footsteps of the Etruscans describes the archaeology of the countryside within a ten km radius of the small town of Tuscania near Rome, throwing light on the unrecorded lives of the generations of farmers and shepherds who have lived there. What was the character of prehistoric settlement prior to Etruscan urbanization? How did urbanization shape the lives of the 'ordinary Etruscans' working the land, hardly ever addressed in Etruscan archaeology? What was the impact on these people of being absorbed into the expanding Roman empire and its globalised economic structures? How did the empire's collapse and the subsequent emergence of the nucleated medieval village affect Tuscania's rural population? The project's 7500-year 'archaeological history', from the first farmers to those grappling with globalisation today, contributes eloquently to our understanding of how Mediterranean peoples have constantly shaped their landscape, and been shaped by it.

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Governing Systems

Modernity and the Making of Public Health in England, 1830–1910

By: Tom Crook

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Governing Systems

Modernity and the Making of Public Health in England, 1830–1910

By: Tom Crook

When and how did public health become modern? In Governing Systems, Tom Crook offers a fresh answer to this question through an examination of Victorian and Edwardian England, long considered one of the critical birthplaces of modern public health. This birth, Crook argues, should be located not in the rise of professional expertise or a centralized bureacratic state, but in the contested formation and functioning of multiple systems, both human and material, administrative and technological. Theoretically ambitious but empirically grounded, Governing Systems will be of interest to historians of modern public health and modern Britain, as well as to anyone interested in the complex gestation of the governmental dimensions of modernity.

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Aberdeen in Vintage Postcards

By: Tom Hayes,Mike Wiese

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Aberdeen in Vintage Postcards

By: Tom Hayes,Mike Wiese

Plotted and planned as a crossroads town along the developing Milwaukee Railroad, Aberdeen, South Dakota was first settled in 1881. With the arrival of the railroad in 1882, Aberdeen flourished. It earned the nickname of Hub City, serving as a railroad junction and agricultural center. Aberdeen's ability to adapt to a changing economy has led to steady growth and has made it the third largest city in the state. Using more than 200 images, authors Tom Hayes and Mike Wiese take the reader on a historic tour of Aberdeen. Drawing on their immense postcard collection, they tell the story of this tight-knit community and the incredible people who are an integral part of its history.

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The Hudson

A History

By: Tom Lewis

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The Hudson

A History

By: Tom Lewis

The Hudson River has always played a vital role in American culture. Flowing through a valley of sublime scenery, the great river uniquely connects America's past with its present and future. This book traces the course of the river through four centuries, recounting the stories of explorers and traders, artists and writers, entrepreneurs and industrialists, ecologists and preservationists-those who have been shaped by the river as well as those who have helped shape it. Their compelling narratives attest to the Hudson River's distinctive place in American history and the American imagination. Among those who have figured in the history of the Hudson are Benedict Arnold, Alexander Hamilton, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, the Astors and the Vanderbilts, and Thomas Cole of the Hudson River school. Their stories appear here, alongside those of such less famous individuals as the surveyor who found the source of the Hudson and the engineer who tried to build a hydroelectric plant at Storm King Mountain. Inviting us to view the river from a wider perspective than ever before, this entertaining and enlightening book is worthy of its grand subject.

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What Will Other People Think?

By: Tom Clement

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What Will Other People Think?

By: Tom Clement

DescriptionBorn an only child to a family with a traditional but outdated view to discipline, Tom spent his early years on the outskirts of London, before his family moved to a cottage in the countryside. After his father became interested in horseracing, it was decided that the family were going to move to Newmarket to follow his fathers dream of becoming a successful race horse trainer.The idyllic life that his family hoped to pursue when they moved to Newmarket never happened, as they were betrayed by a colleague and lost their financial security. Becoming targets for people who had been wronged by the same person that deceived them.As his world grew more uncertain, his mental health began to wain, and by the time his grandparents committed suicide, Tom was engulfed in a fully blown psychotic illness that led to him being sectioned when he was sixteen.After finding a flaw in his psychotic delusions. Tom worked hard to regain some control of his life and integrate with the lifestyle of Newmarket's famous horseracing industry. Tom then embarked on a years long quest to fit in and be 'normal'. But ultimately the desire to fit in with everyone else and the pressures of trying to live up to other people expectations caused him to have a major relapse that threw his world in turmoil. This biography charts the progress if one young mans recovery from severe mental illness and touches on the damage that can be done from trying to live up to other peoples expectations.About the AuthorTom currently resides in Newmarket, where he enjoys nature, illustration, listening to music, and singing songs he's written when nobody is listening. Hopefully one day he'll let you listen. You never know, stranger things have happened.He's recently become involved with the local service user group, Suffolk User Forum (SUF) and believes that service user involvement is essential for maintaining and improving services for other people who experience mental distress.

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Off the Page

Literary and Cultural Criticism as Multimedia Performance

By: Tom Lavazzi

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Off the Page

Literary and Cultural Criticism as Multimedia Performance

By: Tom Lavazzi

Off the Page offers a series of critical “scripts” exploring various cultural texts, and a working definition of performative criticism grounded in poststructuralist literary, cultural, and performance theory.

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