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The Manliness of Peanut Butter and Jelly

By: Mark Rice,Travis Blankenship

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The Manliness of Peanut Butter and Jelly

By: Mark Rice,Travis Blankenship

In The Manliness of Peanut Butter & Jelly, four young boys battle one another in a culinary competition as stomach-churning as it is heart-warming. Struggling to identify as men, these boys build their confidence in victory and the bonds established with others in a story that unfolds when the school cafeteria serves a dreaded pizza. Ink wash illustrations by Mark Rice highlight standout moments, as the tension in this essay by Travis Blankenship builds.

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1304688151

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9781304688156

Hillsville Remembered

Public Memory, Historical Silence, and Appalachia's Most Notorious Shoot-Out

By: Travis A. Rountree

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Hillsville Remembered

Public Memory, Historical Silence, and Appalachia's Most Notorious Shoot-Out

By: Travis A. Rountree

On March 14, 1912, Hillsville, Virginia, native Floyd Allen (1856–1913) was convicted of three criminal charges: assault, maiming, and the rescue of prisoners in custody. What had begun as a scuffle between Allen's nephews over a young woman ended with him being charged as the guilty party after he allegedly hit a deputy in the head with a pistol. When the jury returned with the verdict, Allen stood up and announced, "Gentleman, I ain't a-goin." A gunfight ensued in the crowded courtroom that killed five people and wounded seven others. The state of Virginia put Floyd and Claude Allen to death by electrocution the following spring. More than a century later, the event continues to impact the citizens and communities of the area as local newspapers recirculate the sordid story and give credence to annual public reenactments that continue to negatively impact the national perception of the region. In this first book-length scholarly review of the Hillsville shoot-out, author Travis A. Rountree examines various media written about and inspired by the event and explains how the incident reinforced the nation's conception of Appalachia through depictions of this sensational moment in history. In all, this book provides an extensive analysis of this historic conflict and reveals a new understanding of the shaping of memories and stories from the event.

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183

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813197236

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9780813197234

Another Breed of Currituck Duck Hunters

Fresh Tales from a Native Gunner

By: Travis Morris

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Another Breed of Currituck Duck Hunters

Fresh Tales from a Native Gunner

By: Travis Morris

People called Currituck County a sportsman's paradise back when the skies clouded over with ducks and the waters teemed with fish. The game is more elusive these days and the hunting methods more sophisticated, but native Travis Morris shows through these stories that the thrill of it all is just as intense. From a four-year-old boy on his first hunt with his grandfather to an eighty-two-year-old woman who still loves to shoot her supper, Morris highlights both the heart and humor of the sportsman. There's a three-strand cord that will forever bind Currituck gunners: passion for the hunt, love of the outdoors and respect for the dangers of open, shallow waters.

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175

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Arcadia Publishing

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1614236100

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9781614236108

Sustainability in Transition

Principles for Developing Solutions

By: Travis Gliedt,Kelli Larson

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Sustainability in Transition

Principles for Developing Solutions

By: Travis Gliedt,Kelli Larson

Sustainability in Transition: Principles for Developing Solutions offers the first in-depth education-focused treatment of how to address sustainability in a comprehensive manner. The textbook is structured as a learning-centered approach to walk students through the process of linking sustainable behavior and decision-making to green innovation systems and triple-bottom-line economic development practices, in order to achieve sustainable change in incremental to transformational ways. All chapters combine theory and practice with the help of global case study and research study examples to illustrate barriers and best practices. Each chapter begins with learning objectives and ends with a 'check on learning' section that ties the main points back to the core themes of the book. Chapters include a section focused on measuring progress and a box comparing international research or case studies to the North American focus of the chapter. A list of additional academic sources for students that complement each chapter is included. Building sustainability tools, techniques, and competencies cumulatively with the help of problem- and project-based learning modules, Sustainability in Transition: Principles for Developing Solutions is a comprehensive resource for learning sustainability theory and doing sustainability practice. It will be essential reading for advanced undergraduate and graduate level students who have already completed introductory sustainability classes.

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308

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Routledge

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1134989962

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9781134989966

Best of Museum Musings

By: Travis Monday

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Best of Museum Musings

By: Travis Monday

True stories about the history of Nolan County, Texas, and the surrounding area. Topics include ambush of Frank Hamer, WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots), Avenger Field, Artists of Nolan County, History of Funeral Industry in Roscoe, History of Coca-Cola in Sweetwater, History of Post Office in Sweetwater, Story of Sweetwater Marble and Granite Works, Description of Sweetwater, Texas in the Year 1900, and others.

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125

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Lulu.com

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1411624998

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9781411624993

Addicted to Incarceration

By: Travis C. Pratt

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Addicted to Incarceration

By: Travis C. Pratt

Provides a thorough understanding of the nature and scope of incareration.

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177

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SAGE

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0761928324

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9780761928324

Balthasar and Prayer

By: Travis LaCouter

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Balthasar and Prayer

By: Travis LaCouter

This study renders an original and constructive Catholic theology of prayer drawing on the work of Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905-1988). Travis LaCouter explores the trinitarian, Christological, ecclesial, anthropological, and eschatological dimensions of prayer in Balthasar's theology, and shows how these combine to give a powerful account of prayer's proper theological scope and purpose. There is also a critical dimension of prayer which is arguably underdeveloped in some of Balthasar's key texts, but which LaCouter shows to have significant dialogical potential with contemporary accounts of parrhesia since Foucault. This approach demonstrates the centrality of prayer to Balthasar's entire theological system and does so in a way which itself constitutes an exercise in Catholic systematics. This study is also distinctive for establishing a method of proceeding through Balthasar's sprawling oeuvre (and the similarly vast secondary literature) by arguing for three “categories” of texts in Balthasar's writings and, separately, three “waves” of Balthasar readers. Thus, this study is a resource not just for those interested in prayer but for anyone interested in reading Balthasar today.

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233

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0567701905

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9780567701909

Confederate Casualties at Gettysburg

A Comprehensive Record

By: John W. Busey,Travis W. Busey

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Confederate Casualties at Gettysburg

A Comprehensive Record

By: John W. Busey,Travis W. Busey

This reference book provides information on 24,000 Confederate soldiers killed, wounded, captured or missing at the Battle of Gettysburg. Casualties are listed by state and unit, in many cases with specifics regarding wounds, circumstances of casualty, military service, genealogy and physical descriptions. Detailed casualty statistics are given in tables for each company, battalion and regiment, along with brief organizational information for many units. Appendices cover Confederate and Union hospitals that treated Southern wounded and Federal prisons where captured Confederates were interned after the battle. Original burial locations are provided for many Confederate dead, along with a record of disinterments in 1871 and burial locations in three of the larger cemeteries where remains were reinterred. A complete name index is included.

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2370

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McFarland

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1476624364

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9781476624365

Demonic Bodies and the Dark Ecologies of Early Christian Culture

By: Travis W. Proctor

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Demonic Bodies and the Dark Ecologies of Early Christian Culture

By: Travis W. Proctor

Drawing insights from gender studies and the environmental humanities, Demonic Bodies analyzes how ancient Christians constructed the Christian body through its relations to demonic adversaries. Case studies on New Testament texts, early Christian church fathers, and "Gnostic" writings trace how early followers of Jesus construed the demonic body in diverse and sometimes contradictory ways, as both embodied and bodiless, "fattened" and ethereal, heavenly and earthbound. Across this diversity of portrayals, however, demons consistently functiond as personfications of "deviant" bodily practices such as "magical" rituals, immoral sexual acts, gluttony, and "pagan" religious practices. This demonization served an exclusionary function whereby Christian writers marginalized fringe Christian groups by linking their ritual activities to demonic modes of (dis)embodiment. Demonic Bodies demonstrates, therefore, that the formation of early Christian cultures was part of the shaping of broader Christian "ecosystems," which in turn informed Christian experiences of their own embodiment and community"--

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289

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Oxford University Press

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0197581161

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9780197581162

Book's by Travis Blankenship

The Manliness of Peanut Butter and Jelly

The Manliness of Peanut Butter and Jelly

Hillsville Remembered

Hillsville Remembered

Another Breed of Currituck Duck Hunters

Another Breed of Currituck Duck Hunters

Sustainability in Transition

Sustainability in Transition

Best of Museum Musings

Best of Museum Musings

Addicted to Incarceration

Addicted to Incarceration

Balthasar and Prayer

Balthasar and Prayer

Confederate Casualties at Gettysburg

Confederate Casualties at Gettysburg

Demonic Bodies and the Dark Ecologies of Early Christian Culture

Demonic Bodies and the Dark Ecologies of Early Christian Culture

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