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By: Talia Vance

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Descended from a demigod, Brianna has fled to Ireland to escape the Sons of Killian. Taking refuge at the estate of her former nemesis, Austin Montgomery, Brianna discovers a rift in time that opens to an era before the feud began. But Brianna and Austin will need to combine their magical strength to avoid a tragic destiny.

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North Star Editions, Inc.

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0738737062

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9780738737065

Murder & Mayhem in Houston

Historic Bayou City Crime

By: Mike Vance,John Nova Lomax

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Murder & Mayhem in Houston

Historic Bayou City Crime

By: Mike Vance,John Nova Lomax

Houston, we have a problem. The largest city in Texas has a wild west past filled with dodgy criminals and murderous madmen. When the Allen brothers sold Houston’s first lots, the city became a magnet for enterprising tycoons and opportunistic crooks alike. As the young city grew, a scourge of crime and vice accompanied the success of oil and real estate. The Bayou City’s seedy side—flashing Bowie knives, privileged bad boys, hardened prostitutes and unchecked serial killers—established its hold. From a young Clyde Barrow to the Man Who Killed Halloween, Houston’s past is filled with bloody tales, heartbreaking loss and despicable deeds. Authors Mike Vance and John Nova Lomax shine a light on these dark days. Includes photos!

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Arcadia Publishing

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1625850565

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9781625850560

Arch Lake Woman

Physical Anthropology and Geoarchaeology

By: Douglas W. Owsley,Margaret A. Jodry,Thomas W. Stafford,C. Vance Haynes,Dennis J. Stanford

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Arch Lake Woman

Physical Anthropology and Geoarchaeology

By: Douglas W. Owsley,Margaret A. Jodry,Thomas W. Stafford,C. Vance Haynes,Dennis J. Stanford

The Arch Lake human burial site, discovered in 1967 in eastern New Mexico, contains the third-oldest known remains in North America. Since its original excavation and removal to Eastern New Mexico University’s Blackwater Draw Museum, the 10,000 radiocarbon-year-old burial has been known only locally. In February 2000 an interdisciplinary team led by Douglas W. Owsley reexamined the osteology, geology, archaeology, and radiocarbon dating of the burial. In this first volume in Peopling of the Americas Publications—released by Texas A&M University Press for the Center for the Study of the First Americans—Arch Lake Woman presents the results of this recent analysis of the skeleton and site. In addition to color and black-and-white illustrations, Arch Lake Woman includes extensive tables describing the team’s discoveries and comparing their results with those of other ancient burials.

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Texas A&M University Press

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1603442081

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9781603442084

Getting Away with Bloody Murder

J. B. Brockman, the Best Criminal Lawyer in Texas

By: Mike Vance

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Getting Away with Bloody Murder

J. B. Brockman, the Best Criminal Lawyer in Texas

By: Mike Vance

James Brockman rose from shady character to preeminent defense attorney in Houston, Texas representing clients including gang leaders, jilted spouses, wealthy storekeepers and drunken on-duty policemen. These high-profile true crime and murder accounts take place between 1895 and 1910. They cross racial lines, revealing instances of separate and unequal justice in segregated Texas that had a lasting effect on the city and the state. His career gained national recognition, including his involvement in the most famous American murder case of the young twentieth century, when he himself was murdered leaving a dubious legacy.

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145562621X

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9781455626212

(Un)Controlled Chaos

Canada's Remarkable Professional Wrestling Legacy

By: Vance Nevada

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(Un)Controlled Chaos

Canada's Remarkable Professional Wrestling Legacy

By: Vance Nevada

The heroic feats of ring gladiators have taken wrestling fans on an emotional journey—living vicariously through every body slam, dropkick, and piledriver. The investment of the crowd is demonstrated by their roars of excitement, their cheers for their heroes, and their catcalls at nasty ring villains. (Un)Controlled Chaos: Canada’s Remarkable Professional Wrestling Legacy re-lives those unforgettable moments between the ropes. It provides a fascinating snapshot of the world behind the curtain, and a glimpse into the lives of the men and women who have both competed in the ring and served as the very architects of the industry.

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FriesenPress

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1039154816

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9781039154810

From Noose to Needle

Capital Punishment and the Late Liberal State

By: Timothy Vance Kaufman-Osborn

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From Noose to Needle

Capital Punishment and the Late Liberal State

By: Timothy Vance Kaufman-Osborn

From Noose to Needle contributes a new perspective on the controversial topic of capital punishment by asking how the conduct of state killing reveals broader contradictions in the contemporary liberal state, especially, but not exclusively, in the United States. Moving beyond more familiar legal and sociological approaches to this matter, Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn asks several questions. Why do executions no longer take the form of public spectacles? Why are certain methods of execution considered barbaric? Why must the liberal state strictly segregate the imposition of a death sentence, whether by judge or jury, from its actual infliction, whether by a state official or an ordinary citizen? Why are women so infrequently sentenced to death and executed? How does the state seek to hide the suffering inflicted by capital punishment through its endorsement of a bio-medical conception of pain? How does the nearly-universal shift to lethal injection pose problems for the late liberal state by confusing its punitive and welfare responsibilities? Drawing on a wide range of theoretical sources, including John Locke, Max Weber, Nicos Poulantzas, Friedrich Nietzsche, J. L. Austin, Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, Pierre Bourdieu, Elaine Scarry, and others, Kaufman-Osborn grounds his appropriation of these authors in analyses of specific recent executions, including that of Wesley Allan Dodd and Charles Campbell in Washington, Karla Faye Tucker in Texas, and Allen Lee Davis in Florida. From Noose to Needle will be of interest to students of law, political theory, and sociology as well as more general readers interested in the troublesome issue of capital punishment. Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn is Baker Ferguson Professor of Politics and Leadership, Whitman College.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472022903

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9780472022908

Paleoindian Geoarchaeology of the Southern High Plains

By: Vance T. Holliday

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Paleoindian Geoarchaeology of the Southern High Plains

By: Vance T. Holliday

The Southern High Plains of northwestern Texas and eastern New Mexico are rich in Paleoindian archaeological sites, including such well-known ones as Clovis, Lubbock Lake, Plainview, and Midland. These sites have been extensively researched over decades, not only by archaeologists but also by geoscientists, whose studies of soils and stratigraphy have yielded important information about cultural chronology and paleoenvironments across the region. In this book, Vance T. Holliday synthesizes the data from these earlier studies with his own recent research to offer the most current and comprehensive overview of the geoarchaeology of the Southern High Plains during the earliest human occupation. He delves into twenty sites in depth, integrating new and old data on site geomorphology, stratigraphy, soils, geochronology, and paleoenvironments. He also compares the Southern High Plains sites with other sites across the Great Plains, for a broader chronological and paleoenvironmental perspective. With over ninety photographs, maps, cross sections, diagrams, and artifact drawings, this book will be essential reading for geoarchaeologists, archaeologists, and Quaternary geoscientists, as well as avocational archaeologists who take part in Paleoindian site study throughout the American West.

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University of Texas Press

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0292784538

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9780292784536

Attractive Tales from Grand Cities. A Social Memoir

By: George Vance McGee

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Attractive Tales from Grand Cities. A Social Memoir

By: George Vance McGee

A boisterous, meandering, and escapade-filled romp. Youth and young manhood tales that reveal its joys and fun. Stories that discuss an influx society. An autobiographical memoir. That author's personal opinions on societal issues and protruding topics. Travel, Dating, and Life in between.

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Lulu.com

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1365865835

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9781365865831

Open Mindful "Philosophy on the Fly"

By: George Vance McGee

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Open Mindful "Philosophy on the Fly"

By: George Vance McGee

Open Mindful was birthed and commenced after the author was happily laid off once, from his Madison Avenue corporate job in New York City. This book is a fast moving chapter creation and journal. The main theme is for society and humanity to embrace free thinking.

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1365884023

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9781365884023

Silver

By: Talia Vance

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Silver

By: Talia Vance

Brianna is a seventh-generation daughter of the goddess Danu. Blake is a son of Killian, trained to slay any daughter of Danu. Their families are ancient enemies, but their passion for each other is overwhelming. With their souls magically bound together, their only hope is to end the war between their families and the fear that keeps them apart.

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North Star Editions, Inc.

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0738734802

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9780738734804

OUR NASHES

A Genealogy of William Nash and Anne Hopkins

By: William Vance Nash

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OUR NASHES

A Genealogy of William Nash and Anne Hopkins

By: William Vance Nash

With a comprehensive study of libraries, archives, court houses, churches, land offices, maps and histories of nations and people the story of the William Nash and Anne Hopkins family comes to life in this book. The amusing and often tongue-in-cheek manner in which Bill Nash tells the story gives the reader a clear picture of the family saga. From the 1635 sailing from London to the present, this is the story of a courageous and proud people. Much more than just charts and lineages, “Our Nashes” intertwines the history of this nation with the Nash family into a hard-to-put-down volume.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1465368086

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9781465368089

Irish Literature Since 1800

By: Norman Vance

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Irish Literature Since 1800

By: Norman Vance

This book surveys Irish writing in English over the last two centuries, from Maria Edgeworth to Seamus Heaney, to give the literary student and the general reader an up-to-date sense of its variety and vitality and to indicate some of the ways in which it has been described and discussed. It begins with a brief outline of Irish history, of Irish writing in Irish and Latin, and of writing in English before 1800. Later chapters consider Irish romanticism, Victorian Ireland, W.B.Yeats and the Irish Literary Revival, new directions in Irish writing after Joyce and the literature of contemporary Ireland, north and south, from 1960 to the present.

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Routledge

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1317870492

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9781317870494

Arts of Possession

The Middle English Household Imaginary

By: D. Vance Smith

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Arts of Possession

The Middle English Household Imaginary

By: D. Vance Smith

An innovative work of both economic anthropology and literary history, Arts of Possession draws on philosophical, theoretical, literary, historical, and archival sources and insights to situate the household at the center of the social and cultural imagination of fourteenth-century England. D. Vance Smith argues that in a period commonly represented as precapitalist there actually existed a sophisticated economic discourse -- and that discourse underlies common forms of representation and the writing of literary texts. His work provides a new historiography of capital and of the development of the relation between economic sophistication and cultural practices. Smith reads well-known and less-appreciated works -- such as Winner and Waster, Sir Launfal, The Canterbury Tales, and Piers Plowman -- for what they can tell us about the surpluses and economies that drew the medieval imagination, and about the complex ethics of possession at the heart of the fourteenth-century household. In bringing this to light, Smith's book itself becomes an eloquent meditation on the poetics and ethics of possession.

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U of Minnesota Press

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0816639507

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9780816639502

Soils in Archaeological Research

By: Vance T. Holliday

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Soils in Archaeological Research

By: Vance T. Holliday

Soils, invaluable indicators of the nature and history of the physical and human landscape, have strongly influenced the cultural record left to archaeologists. Not only are they primary reservoirs for artifacts, they often encase entire sites. And soil-forming processes in themselves are an important component of site formation, influencing which artifacts, features, and environmental indicators (floral, faunal, and geological) will be destroyed and to what extent and which will be preserved and how well. In this book, Holliday will address each of these issues in terms of fundamentals as well as in field case histories from all over the world. The focus will be on principles of soil geomorphology , soil stratigraphy, and soil chemistry and their applications in archaeological research.

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Oxford University Press

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0199882088

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9780199882083

Book's by Vance Austin

Gold

Gold

Murder & Mayhem in Houston

Murder & Mayhem in Houston

Arch Lake Woman

Arch Lake Woman

Getting Away with Bloody Murder

Getting Away with Bloody Murder

(Un)Controlled Chaos

(Un)Controlled Chaos

From Noose to Needle

From Noose to Needle

Paleoindian Geoarchaeology of the Southern High Plains

Paleoindian Geoarchaeology of the Southern High Plains

Attractive Tales from Grand Cities. A Social Memoir

Attractive Tales from Grand Cities. A Social Memoir

Open Mindful "Philosophy on the Fly"

Open Mindful "Philosophy on the Fly"

Silver

Silver

OUR NASHES

OUR NASHES

Irish Literature Since 1800

Irish Literature Since 1800

Arts of Possession

Arts of Possession

Soils in Archaeological Research

Soils in Archaeological Research

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