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ACC Basketball

The Story of the Rivalries, Traditions, and Scandals of the First Two Decades of the Atlantic Coast Conference

By: J. Samuel Walker

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ACC Basketball

The Story of the Rivalries, Traditions, and Scandals of the First Two Decades of the Atlantic Coast Conference

By: J. Samuel Walker

Since the inception of the Atlantic Coast Conference, intense rivalries, legendary coaches, gifted players, and fervent fans have come to define the league's basketball history. In ACC Basketball, J. Samuel Walker traces the traditions and the dramatic changes that occurred both on and off the court during the conference's rise to a preeminent position in college basketball between 1953 and 1972. Walker vividly re-creates the action of nail-biting games and the tensions of bitter recruiting battles without losing sight of the central off-court questions the league wrestled with during these two decades. As basketball became the ACC's foremost attraction, conference administrators sought to field winning teams while improving academic programs and preserving academic integrity. The ACC also adapted gradually to changes in the postwar South, including, most prominently, the struggle for racial justice during the 1960s. ACC Basketball is a lively, entertaining account of coaches' flair (and antics), players' artistry, a major point-shaving scandal, and the gradually more evenly matched struggle for dominance in one of college basketball's strongest conferences.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807869120

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Role Theory and Role Conflict in U.S.-Iran Relations

Enemies of Our Own Making

By: Akan Malici,Stephen G. Walker

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Role Theory and Role Conflict in U.S.-Iran Relations

Enemies of Our Own Making

By: Akan Malici,Stephen G. Walker

U.S.-Iran relations continue to be an international security problem in the Middle East. These two countries could have been friends, but instead they have become enemies. Stating this thesis raises the following questions: Why are the United States and Iran enemies? How and when did this relationship come to be? When the relationship began to deteriorate, could it have been reversed? What lessons can be learned from an analysis of past U.S.-Iranian relations and what are the implications for their present and future relations? Akan Malici and Stephen G. Walker argue that the dynamics of U.S.-Iran relations are based on role conflicts. Iran has long desired to enact roles of active independence and national sovereignty in world politics. However, it continued to be cast by others into client or rebel roles of national inferiority. In this book the authors examine these role conflicts during three crucial episodes in U.S.-Iran relations: the oil nationalization crisis and the ensuing clandestine coup aided by the CIA to overthrow the Iranian regime in 1950 to 1953; the Iranian revolution followed by the hostage crisis in 1979 to 1981; the reformist years pre- and post- 9/11 under Mohammad Khatami from 1997 to 2002. Their application of role theory is theoretically and methodologically progressive and innovative in illuminating aspects of U.S.-Iran relations. It allows for a better understanding of the past, navigating the present, and anticipating the future in order to avoid foreign policy mistakes. Role Theory and Role Conflict in U.S.-Iran Relations is a useful resource for international relations and foreign policy scholars who want to learn more about progress in international relations theory and U.S. relations with Iran.

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Routledge

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1315525917

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9781315525914

The Supreme Court Compendium

Two Centuries of Data, Decisions, and Developments

By: Lee Epstein,Jeffrey A. Segal,Harold Joseph Spaeth,Thomas G. Walker

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The Supreme Court Compendium

Two Centuries of Data, Decisions, and Developments

By: Lee Epstein,Jeffrey A. Segal,Harold Joseph Spaeth,Thomas G. Walker

The Supreme Court Compendium provides historical and statistical information on the Supreme Court: its institutional development; caseload; decision trends; the background, nomination, and voting behavior of its justices; its relationship with public, governmental, and other judicial bodies; and its impact. With over 180 tables and figures, this new edition is intended to capture the full retrospective picture through the 2013-2014 term of the Roberts Court and the momentous decisions handed down within the last four years, including United States v. Windsor, National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, and Shelby County v. Holder.

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CQ Press

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1071834584

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9781071834589

Policy Instruments to Lean Against the Wind in Latin America

By: Mr.G. Terrier,Mr.Rodrigo O. Valdes,Mr.Camilo Ernesto Tovar Mora,Mr.Jorge A. Chan-Lau,Carlos Fernandez Valdovinos,Ms.Mercedes Garcia-Escribano,Mr.Carlos I. Medeiros,Man-Keung Tang,MissMercedes Vera Martin,W. Christopher Walker

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Policy Instruments to Lean Against the Wind in Latin America

This paper reviews policy tools that have been used and/or are available for policy makers in the region to lean against the wind and review relevant country experiences using them. The instruments examined include: (i) capital requirements, dynamic provisioning, and leverage ratios; (ii) liquidity requirements; (iii) debt-to-income ratios; (iv) loan-to-value ratios; (v) reserve requirements on bank liabilities (deposits and nondeposits); (vi) instruments to manage and limit systemic foreign exchange risk; and, finally, (vii) reserve requirements or taxes on capital inflows. Although the instruments analyzed are mainly microprudential in nature, appropriately calibrated over the financial cycle they may serve for macroprudential purposes.

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International Monetary Fund

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1455297720

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9781455297726

Mysteries of the Heart

By: Francis D. Walker

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Mysteries of the Heart

By: Francis D. Walker

Mysteries Of The Heart" takes you on a journey with twists and turns. It's about secrets, betrayal, life, death, drugs, destruction; but most of all it's about God loving us enough to give us All a second chance to get it right. Four stories will unfold and take you out of your comfort zone; giving you a taste of reality. We never know what tomorrow will bring, so live out each day to the fullest and never take life, peace, serenity, and freedom for granted. My name is Francis Deniece Walker. I was born January 12th, 1965 in Houston, TX. My parents are the late Gloria Jean Walker and Willie Lankford Burney. I have six sisters and four brothers. I was raised in the fifthward by my fathers mother; Nan rest in peace.

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Xulon Press

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160957043X

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Catalogue of the Specimens of Hemiptera Heteroptera in Collection of the British Museum

Vol. VI

By: Francis Walker

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Catalogue of the Specimens of Hemiptera Heteroptera in Collection of the British Museum

Vol. VI

By: Francis Walker

Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

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218

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3752530677

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9783752530674

Sunny Side Up

Jr. Devotional

By: Celeste Perrino Walker

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Sunny Side Up

Jr. Devotional

By: Celeste Perrino Walker

Presents daily meditation stories, Scripture quotes, questions, and suggestions for putting faith into practice.

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Review and Herald Pub Assoc

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0828011400

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9780828011402

Pass the 7

A Training Guide for the NASD Series 7 Exam

By: Robert Mark Walker

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Pass the 7

A Training Guide for the NASD Series 7 Exam

By: Robert Mark Walker

FINRA is the successor to the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (NASD).

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First Books

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0912301716

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9780912301716

Allen Wilson Walker: 1926-2011

By: Jim Walker

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Allen Wilson Walker: 1926-2011

By: Jim Walker

The Genealogical research of Allen Wilson Walker and his Ancestors, going back 35 generations.

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Lulu.com

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1646066421

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9781646066421

The Crowded Grave

A Mystery of the French Countryside

By: Martin Walker

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The Crowded Grave

A Mystery of the French Countryside

By: Martin Walker

Another delightful installment in the internationally acclaimed series featuring Bruno, Chief of Police: It’s spring in the idyllic village of St. Denis, and for Chief of Police Bruno Courrèges that means lamb stews, bottles of his beloved Pomerol, morning walks with his hound, Gigi, and a new string of regional crimes and international capers. When a local archaeological team searching for Neanderthal remains turns up a corpse with a watch on its wrist and a bullet in its head, it’s up to Bruno to solve the case. But the task will not be easy, not with a meddlesome new magistrate, a series of attacks by animal rights activists on local foie gras producers, and a summit between France and Spain approaching—not to mention two beautiful, brilliant women vying for Bruno’s affections.

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Vintage

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0307958590

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9780307958594

The Strategic Use of Referendums

Power, Legitimacy, and Democracy

By: M. Walker

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The Strategic Use of Referendums

Power, Legitimacy, and Democracy

By: M. Walker

The strategic use of referendums by leaders often confers legitimacy but it may also reflect the power struggle between leaders, groups, and institutions and in doing so not provide a democratic result for the citizenry of a country.

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Springer

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1403973776

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9781403973771

Wayward Saints

The Godbeites and Brigham Young

By: Ronald Warren Walker

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Wayward Saints

The Godbeites and Brigham Young

By: Ronald Warren Walker

A story that includes spiritualist seances, conspiracy, and an important church trial, Wayward Saints chronicles the 1870s challenge of a group of British Mormon intellectuals to Brigham Young's leadership and authority. William S. Godbe and his associates revolted because they disliked Young's authoritarian community and resented what they perceived as the church's intrusion into matters of personal choice. Expelled from the church, they established the New Movement, which eventually faltered. Both a study in intellectual history and an investigation of religious dissent, Wayward Saints explores nineteenth-century American spiritualism as well as the ideas and institutional structure of first- and second-generation Mormonism.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252067053

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9780252067051

Doctor Blood Moon

By: Jack Walker

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Doctor Blood Moon

By: Jack Walker

Doctor Blood Moon is a love story cum murder mystery cum coming-of-age novel. It centers on a physician striving to reach his full human potential after years in a smothering professional career and a bad marriage. The book is also about the risks and rewards of life in the city of Los Angeles. Johnny Blood, the leading heart surgeon in Southern California, grew up on a dirt-poor Crow Indian reservation in Montana. A basketball scholarship to UCLA was his way out. He attended Harvard Medical School on scholarship and eventually reached the peak of his profession through monk-like dedication. In spite of his success, his failing marriage and the mysterious death of a Nobel laureate patient rattled his self-confidence. As the novel begins, Johnny sets out to reinvent himself as a man, physician, citizen, husband, father, and friend through the agency of people on their own journeys: mainly a beautiful Greek film actress named Michaela and Johnnys nephew, Nicky, an Afghanistan vet whom Johnny rescued twice, first from the Crow reservation and then from the mean streets of Los Angeles.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1499070977

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9781499070972

400 Friends and No One to Call

Breaking through Isolation and Building Community

By: Val Walker

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400 Friends and No One to Call

Breaking through Isolation and Building Community

By: Val Walker

A friendly, candid, and comforting guide for isolating times when we have no one to count on. Despite the inclusive promise of social media, loneliness is a growing epidemic in the United States. Social isolation can shatter our confidence. In isolating times, we’re not only lonely, we’re also ashamed because our society stigmatizes people who appear to be without support. As a single, fifty-eight-year-old woman, Val Walker found herself stranded and alone after major surgery when her friends didn’t show up. As a professional rehabilitation counselor, she was too embarrassed to reveal how utterly isolated she was by asking for someone to help, and it felt agonizingly awkward calling colleagues out of the blue. As she recovered, Val found her voice and developed a plan of action for people who lack social support, not only to heal from the pain of isolation, but to create a solid strategy for rebuilding a sense of community. 400 Friends and No One to Call spells out the how-tos for befriending our wider community, building a social safety net, and fostering our sense of belonging. On a deeper level, we are invited to befriend our loneliness, rather than feel ashamed of it, and open our hearts and minds to others trapped in isolation.

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Central Recovery Press

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1949481255

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9781949481259

British Nuclear Weapons and the Test Ban

Squaring the Circle of Defence and Arms Control, 1974-82

By: John R. Walker

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British Nuclear Weapons and the Test Ban

Squaring the Circle of Defence and Arms Control, 1974-82

By: John R. Walker

This book provides an overview of how the UK tried to maintain and modernize its strategic and tactical nuclear weapons during 1974-82, whilst also pursuing a comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty. The core question addressed in the book is how a test ban treaty would impact on the reliability and safety of the UK’s nuclear weapons and how this would constrain and limit efforts to secure a comprehensive treaty that would prohibit nuclear testing indefinitely. An added complication lay in the fact that a ban treaty could also prevent or limit the UK’s ability to test new warhead designs to replace its existing tactical nuclear weapons and a new strategic successor system to Polaris. How all of this played out between 1974 and 1982, when the UK announced its decision to acquire Trident and the US decided that a test ban treaty was no longer in its security interests, is discussed. A detailed review, based on the available materials in the UK National Archives, also looks at the aims and objectives of UK nuclear tests in Nevada and on the decisions taken on the Chevaline warhead and its Trident replacement. The book also considers whether there was a far greater threat to the UK nuclear programme from shortages of skilled craftsmen and industrial action at the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston than from a test ban treaty. It also looks at whether nuclear defence trumped arms control objectives during this period. This book will be of much interest to students of British politics, nuclear proliferation and Cold War History.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000875881

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9781000875881

Running To Catch A Bus

By: Walker Armstrong

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Running To Catch A Bus

By: Walker Armstrong

Running to Catch a Bus is the first novel in a series called The Gordon Chronicles. This series is about life, love, tragedy and triumph in a small town in the mountains of North Carolina. Running to Catch a Bus is a story about the transformative power of forgiveness. In it, the heroine Annie Bryant is a middle-aged woman who is going through the motions of life. She is seeking to avoid the pain of a bitter divorce while balancing the relentless pressures of work with the unpredictable challenges of raising an out of control teenage daughter. In the midst of her trials she meets a man who seems too good to be true. They fall in love and seem to be moving towards a fairytale ending when secrets from his past disrupt not only their burgeoning romance, but also tear at the very fabric of their community.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1669800547

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Catalogue of the Specimens of Heteropterous Hemiptera in Collection of the British Museum

Vol. II

By: Francis Walker

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Catalogue of the Specimens of Heteropterous Hemiptera in Collection of the British Museum

Vol. II

By: Francis Walker

Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3752530650

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9783752530650

The Art of Comforting

What to Say and Do for People in Distress

By: Val Walker

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The Art of Comforting

What to Say and Do for People in Distress

By: Val Walker

We live in an increasingly "virtual" world in which it can be tempting to skip making that true, human connection with someone in pain. Even though our thoughts might be with them, we lack the confidence to reach out, worrying that we will say or do the "wrong" thing. In this practical, step-by-step guide to what she calls "the art of comforting," Val Walker draws on numerous interviews with "Master Comforters" to guide readers in gently and gracefully breaking through the walls that those who are suffering often erect around themselves. Interviewees include inspiring individuals such as Alicia Rasin, who, as a victim's advocate for the city of Richmond, Virginia, has devoted her life to comforting grieving families devastated by homicide, gang violence, and other traumatic experiences; or Patricia Ellen, who, as a grief counselor and outreach director at the Center for Grieving Children in Portland, Maine, appears on site to support and comfort children, staff, and parents when a school is facing a death, violence, or other crises. All of us will, at one time or the other, be called upon to offer warmth and support to another human being who is suffering-this book will show you how to answer the call with an open heart.

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Penguin

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110144469X

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9781101444696

Activate Brand Purpose

How to Harness the Power of Movements to Transform Your Company

By: Scott Goodson,Chip Walker

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Activate Brand Purpose

How to Harness the Power of Movements to Transform Your Company

By: Scott Goodson,Chip Walker

SHORTLISTED: Business Book Awards 2022 - International Business Book category CATEGORY SILVER WINNER: Axiom Awards 2022 - Business Commentary Category The greatest challenge facing leaders is activating and actioning purpose based brands to the people who matter inside the company and out. Recent statistics prove that more than 87% of consumers would purchase a product because a company advocated for an issue they cared about, and more than two-thirds would refuse to do so if the company supported an issue contrary to their beliefs. We live in an age of activism - the conscious consumer is more socially aware than ever before, and this is reflected in their buying habits. Yet, activism on behalf of brands is lagging. While many claim to be 'purpose driven', far too often this purpose is relegated to a plaque above the CEO's desk, and never goes any further. Or, worse, the 'purpose' is transparently used as a marketing ploy, but never acted upon in any real way. Activate Brand Purpose shows readers how to transform their brand's purpose into meaningful action by sparking a company wide cultural movement, beginning internally and permeating externally. Regardless of whether your purpose is lofty and socially conscious, or all business, focus on galvanizing people, and they will respond if you can prove that you care about that purpose, and that you're working to realize it, rather than simply chasing the next dollar. This book contains a clearly explained, proven framework that will make this happen.

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