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Keep Watching the Skies!

American Science Fiction Movies of the Fifties, The 21st Century Edition

By: Bill Warren

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Keep Watching the Skies!

American Science Fiction Movies of the Fifties, The 21st Century Edition

By: Bill Warren

Bill Warren's Keep Watching the Skies! was originally published in two volumes, in 1982 and 1986. It was then greatly expanded in what we called the 21st Century Edition, with new entries on several films and revisions and expansions of the commentary on every film. In addition to a detailed plot synopsis, full cast and credit listings, and an overview of the critical reception of each film, Warren delivers richly informative assessments of the films and a wealth of insights and anecdotes about their making. The book contains 273 photographs (many rare, 35 in color), has seven useful appendices, and concludes with an enormous index. This book is also available in hardcover format (ISBN 978-0-7864-4230-0).

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McFarland

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1476625050

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Lethal Bylaw: The Vanishing Act

The Vanishing ACT

By: Warren Williams

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Lethal Bylaw: The Vanishing Act

The Vanishing ACT

By: Warren Williams

During the Independent Day Celebration in Cimarron, Duke Mason, U.S. Marshal along with his close friend Joe O'Brian, a Texas Ranger are enjoying the cowboy games when they are suddenly taken unaware by a band of outlaws with detrimental results. It is a day that changes their lives forever. The ruthless Moryson brothers and their gang of cold-blooded outlaws arrive shooting up the burg, killing the innocent and defiling some of the womenfolk, including Joe's girl, Becky. Along with a brutal half-blood, Comanche-Mexican called Raza; they leave the lawmen for dead. The two lawmen, one duty-bound by the code of law, the other crazed with rage skirting on the edge of the law hit the trail in search of the gang. Join Duke and his companions; protected by the lethal bylaw of Texas, on their adventures; filled with murder, mayhem and a laugh or two, also with a bit of sorrow as they hunt for the Moryson Gang. Along the way, they encounter other lawmen, outlaws, painted ladies and a deadeye...

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Lulu.com

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1483467473

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A Separate Place

The Formation of Clarke County, Virginia

By: Warren R. Hofstra

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A Separate Place

The Formation of Clarke County, Virginia

By: Warren R. Hofstra

The origins of Clarke County, Virginia go back more than 250 years to the men and women who first settled in Shenandoah Valley and left their imprint upon the land. When, in the early 1830s, the people in one portion of old Frederick County moved to establish their own county, they were seeking to maintain the way of life they had inherited from this earlier generation. At the same time, they were acting in concert with contemporary forces that had a statewide, and in some ways national, significance. The origins of Clarke County--how it came to be, and why--are examined here for the first time. Warren R. Hofstra not only tells the story of the people who made Clarke County a separate place but also puts the movement for its formation in the context of Virginia and U.S. politics. It is a story fascinating in detail and rich in implication, for the issues that strained old Frederick to the breaking point--local control vs. an expanded federal government, conformity vs. pluralism, agrarian values vs. commercial pursuits--are still featured in the political debates today both regionally and nationally.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0945612702

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9780945612704

Dry Bones Rattling

Community Building to Revitalize American Democracy

By: Mark R. Warren

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Dry Bones Rattling

Community Building to Revitalize American Democracy

By: Mark R. Warren

Dry Bones Rattling offers the first in-depth treatment of how to rebuild the social capital of America's communities while promoting racially inclusive, democratic participation. The Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) network in Texas and the Southwest is gaining national attention as a model for reviving democratic life in the inner city--and beyond. This richly drawn study shows how the IAF network works with religious congregations and other community-based institutions to cultivate the participation and leadership of Americans most left out of our elite-centered politics. Interfaith leaders from poor communities of color collaborate with those from more affluent communities to build organizations with the power to construct affordable housing, create job-training programs, improve schools, expand public services, and increase neighborhood safety. In clear and accessible prose, Mark Warren argues that the key to revitalizing democracy lies in connecting politics to community institutions and the values that sustain them. By doing so, the IAF network builds an organized, multiracial constituency with the power to advance desperately needed social policies. While Americans are most aware of the religious right, Warren documents the growth of progressive faith-based politics in America. He offers a realistic yet hopeful account of how this rising trend can transform the lives of people in our most troubled neighborhoods. Drawing upon six years of original fieldwork, Dry Bones Rattling proposes new answers to the problems of American democracy, community life, race relations, and the urban crisis.

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Princeton University Press

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1400832047

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9781400832040

The Planting of New Virginia

Settlement and Landscape in the Shenandoah Valley

By: Warren R. Hofstra

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The Planting of New Virginia

Settlement and Landscape in the Shenandoah Valley

By: Warren R. Hofstra

An important addition to scholarship of the geography and history of colonial and early America, The Planting of New Virginia, rethinks American history and the evolution of the American landscape in the colonial era.

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JHU Press

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0801882710

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9780801882715

Slavery and Four Years of War

Volume 1

By: Joseph Warren Keifer

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Slavery and Four Years of War

Volume 1

By: Joseph Warren Keifer

Reproduction of the original: Slavery and Four Years of War by Joseph Warren Keifer

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3752315873

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Sir William Berkeley and the Forging of Colonial Virginia

By: Warren M. Billings

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Sir William Berkeley and the Forging of Colonial Virginia

By: Warren M. Billings

Sir William Berkeley (1605--1677) influenced colonial Virginia more than any other man of his era, diversifying Virginia's trade with international markets, serving as a model for the planter aristocracy, and helping to establish American self-rule. An Oxford-educated playwright, soldier, and diplomat, Berkeley won appointment as governor of Virginia in 1641 after a decade in the court of King Charles I. Between his arrival in Jamestown and his death, Berkeley became Virginia's leading politician and planter, indelibly stamping his ambitions, accomplishments, and, ultimately, his failures upon the colony. In this masterly biography, Warren M. Billings offers the first full-scale treatment of Berkeley's life, revealing the extent to which Berkeley shaped early Virginia and linking his career to the wider context of seventeenth-century Anglo-American history.

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LSU Press

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0807147036

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9780807147030

Blindness and Children

An Individual Differences Approach

By: David H. Warren

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Blindness and Children

An Individual Differences Approach

By: David H. Warren

This study concludes that many aspects of delayed development are not the result of visual impairment itself, but rather of environmental variables that tend to accompany it, after summarizing and interpreting the research literature on infants and children with visual impairments.

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Cambridge University Press

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052145719X

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9780521457194

Raphael Semmes

The Philosophical Mariner

By: Warren F. Spencer

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Raphael Semmes

The Philosophical Mariner

By: Warren F. Spencer

Naval hero for all the South, Raphael Semmes (1809-1877) sailed two famous Confederate raiders. He outfitted CSS Sumter in 1861 and captured 18 Union merchant ships in six months before the raider was blockaded at Gibraltar. Next he took command of CSS Alabama, an English-built raider, and terrorized U.S. merchant vessels on the high seas from August 1862 until the raider was sunk in battle off Cherbourg in June 1864. During that two-year period, he captured more enemy merchant ships than any other cruiser captain in maritime history. He is considered one of the greatest ship's commanders that America has produced. In this first, full-scale biography that relies on Semmes's private papers, unpublished diaries, and correspondence, Spencer has produced a well-balanced and comprehensive account of the man, as well as the naval officer. The biographer paints a vivid portrait of Semmes—the intellectual, the family man, lawyer, romanticist, nationalist—providing a greater understanding of the man behind the heroic deeds. Semmes was born in Maryland to a slave-holding family and entered the United States Navy in 1826. In 1849, he moved his family to Mobile, Alabama, to be near the navy base at Pensacola, Florida, and to practice law during leaves. Semmes was an astute student, not only of international and maritime law but also of weather patterns; astronomy; flora and fauna; naval, social, and cultural history; and the classics. His study of constitutional law led him to side with his adopted state in 1861, a move that set the stage for his place in history.

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University of Alabama Press

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0817358390

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9780817358396

A Man Called Destruction

The Life and Music of Alex Chilton, From Box Tops to Big Star to Backdoor Man

By: Holly George-Warren

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A Man Called Destruction

The Life and Music of Alex Chilton, From Box Tops to Big Star to Backdoor Man

By: Holly George-Warren

The first biography of the artist who “essentially invented indie and alternative rock” (Spin) A brilliant and influential songwriter, vocalist, and guitarist, the charismatic Alex Chilton was more than a rock star—he was a true cult icon. Awardwinning music writer Holly George-Warren’s A Man Called Destruction is the first biography of this enigmatic artist, who died in 2010. Covering Chilton’s life from his early work with the charttopping Box Tops and the seminal power-pop band Big Star to his experiments with punk and roots music and his sprawling solo career, A Man Called Destruction is the story of a musical icon and a richly detailed chronicle of pop music’s evolution, from the mid-1960s through today’s indie rock.

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Penguin

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0698151429

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F-80 Shooting Star Units of the Korean War

By: Warren Thompson

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F-80 Shooting Star Units of the Korean War

By: Warren Thompson

Built within a 180-day time limit in 1943, the F-80 Shooting Star first saw service in Italy in the final year of World War 2, and consequently was sent to bases in the US, Europe and the Far East after VJ Day. It was the latter groups based in Japan that initially bore the brunt of the early fighting in Korea, engaging MiG-15s in the world's first jet-versus-jet combat. Flown principally by the 8th and 49th Fighter Bomber Wings, the F-80 served until the end of the war, completing an astonishing 98,515 combat sorties, shooting down 17 aircraft (including three of the vastly superior MiG-15s), dropping over 33,000 tons of bombs, and firing over 80,000 air-to-ground rockets. Aside from the fighter-bomber Shooting Stars, the ultra-rare, but heavily used, photo-reconnaissance RF-80A saw extensive use in the frontline in Korea as a replacement for the vulnerable RF-51D. Filled with first-hand accounts and rare colour photographs taken by the veterans themselves, this is the engrossing story of the pioneering F-80 Shooting Star.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1472829077

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The Croom Family and Goodwood Plantation

Land, Litigation, and Southern Lives

By: William Warren Rogers,Erica R. Clark

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The Croom Family and Goodwood Plantation

Land, Litigation, and Southern Lives

By: William Warren Rogers,Erica R. Clark

One of the most elegant mansions in Florida, Goodwood was built over a century ago and stands today as one of Tallahassee's grandest historical monuments. It was once the center of a thriving plantation founded by the Croom family of North Carolina, who in the 1820s sought to revive their fortunes in the newly opened Florida territory. William Warren Rogers and Erica R. Clark tell the story of this family and their legacy, shedding new light on many aspects of antebellum family life, plantation management, and race relations. They describe how brothers Hardy and Bryan Croom developed Goodwood Plantation to over four thousand acres with nearly two hundred slaves before Hardy and his family were killed in a shipwreck, and how a twenty-year lawsuit, complicated by questions of survivorship and residency, denied Bryan control of the estate. This meticulously detailed account, drawing extensively on family correspondence and court records, is a story of humaneness, hard work, and family values—but also of selfishness and greed—that reveals an intriguing chapter of southern history.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820334839

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9780820334837

So Once Was I

Forgotten Tales from Glasnevin Cemetery

By: Warren Farrell

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So Once Was I

Forgotten Tales from Glasnevin Cemetery

By: Warren Farrell

‘Remember now as you go by, as you are now so once was I ...’ From unmarked plots to striking monuments, Glasnevin Cemetery has become home to a microcosm of Irish society since it opened its gates in 1832. Every grave has a story to tell, but with more than a million souls resting there, many of these stories have been long forgotten. So Once Was I sets out to celebrate the quirky, strange and sometimes unbelievable tales of lesser-known figures in Ireland’s famous cemetery. Representing all threads of Irish society’s rich tapestry, from lion tamers to pioneering aviators, the mistress of the macabre to a mysterious, murderous count, forgotten revolutionaries to the mammy of Irish cooking, the cemetery’s population is reanimated in this book through vivid retellings of their lives. This intriguing tour through the national necropolis brings back to life those Joyce called the ‘faithful dead’, an intricate mosaic of stories rediscovered among the grandeur of Glasnevin’s famed monuments.

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Merrion Press

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178537513X

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9781785375132

Harlequin Western Romance August 2016 Box Set

An Anthology

By: Amanda Renee,Linda Warren,Sasha Summers,Heidi Hormel

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Harlequin Western Romance August 2016 Box Set

An Anthology

By: Amanda Renee,Linda Warren,Sasha Summers,Heidi Hormel

Romance—the Western way! Harlequin Western Romance brings you a collection of four new heartwarming contemporary romances of everyday women finding love. Available now! This box set includes: A BULL RIDER'S PRIDE Welcome to Ramblewood • by Amanda Renee After a stay in the hospital, bull rider Brady Sawyer can't get back into the arena fast enough. Which is against the advice of Sheila Lindstrom, the doctor who put Brady back together…and could possibly break his heart!TEXAS REBELS: PHOENIX Texas Rebels • by Linda Warren Everything is changing for Phoenix Rebel. Not only has the formerly carefree cowboy discovered he's the father to a baby boy, he's also fallen in love with Rosemary McCray—a sworn enemy of his family. COURTED BY THE COWBOY The Boones of Texas • by Sasha Summers Kylee James keeps people at arm's length for good reasons. Especially Fisher Boone. With her past dogging her, Kylee knows the handsome cowboy deserves happiness, which is something she could never give him… THE KENTUCKY COWBOY'S BABY Angel Crossing, Arizona • by Heidi Hormel Former bull rider AJ McCreary has inherited a ranch in Arizona and the timing is perfect—he needs to get off the rodeo circuit to properly raise his toddler daughter. Problem is, Pepper Bourne thinks his ranch belongs to her!

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1488010455

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Confederate Home Front

Montgomery During the Civil War

By: William Warren Rogers

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Confederate Home Front

Montgomery During the Civil War

By: William Warren Rogers

Drawing from a wealth of historic documents and personal papers, William Warren Rogers, Jr., provides a detailed political, economic, social, and commercial history of Montgomery, Alabama, from 1860 to 1865. Rogers's account begins with an examination of daily life in the city before the war and ends with the situation in Montgomery as set against a disintegrating Confederacy and the city's surrender to Union troops.

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University of Alabama Press

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081731153X

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9780817311537

Texas Rebels: Phoenix

By: Linda Warren

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Texas Rebels: Phoenix

By: Linda Warren

THE COWBOY'S LAST RIDE Once he gets over the shock of finding out he's a father, Phoenix Rebel is ready to do right by his toddler son. The gorgeous barrel racer he runs into on the circuit could add a much-needed woman's touch. There's just one problem. She's a McCray—a Rebel's worst enemy. Rosemary could gaze into Phoenix's warm brown eyes forever. And helping the sexy bull rider and his adorable two-year-old has ignited a fierce yearning in Rosie. Somehow she and Phoenix have to find a way to create their own family—even if it means leaving everyone else they love behind…

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1488010293

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9781488010293

The Law of Contract 1670–1870

By: Warren Swain

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The Law of Contract 1670–1870

By: Warren Swain

The foundations for modern contract law were laid between 1670 and 1870. Rather than advancing a purely chronological account, this examination of the development of contract law doctrine in England during that time explores key themes in order to better understand the drivers of legal change. These themes include the relationship between lawyers and merchants, the role of equity, the place of statute, and the part played by legal literature. Developments are considered in the context of the legal system of the time and through those who were involved in litigation as lawyers, judges, jurors or litigants. It concludes that the way in which contract law developed was complex. Legal change was often uneven and slow, and some of the apparent changes had deep roots in the past. Clashes between conservative and more reformist tendencies were not uncommon.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316240002

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9781316240007

A Scalawag in Georgia

Richard Whiteley and the Politics of Reconstruction

By: William Warren Rogers

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A Scalawag in Georgia

Richard Whiteley and the Politics of Reconstruction

By: William Warren Rogers

A controversial period in American history as revealed through one man's personal and political experiences

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University of Illinois Press

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0252031601

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9780252031601

Rifleman/Doctor

A Marine Corps Physician’S Memoir

By: Warren S. Gilbert MD

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Rifleman/Doctor

A Marine Corps Physician’S Memoir

By: Warren S. Gilbert MD

Warren S. Gilbert grew up on the streets of Chicago, and no one expected him to accomplish much. Even so, his athleticism paved the way for him to attend Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, and his intellect led him to Rush Medical College. While most people would have been happy with graduating and becoming a successful physician, he grew bored and moved to Nevada for a fresh start. But as time passed, he sought more meaning out of life and he found it when various branches of the armed services began calling. With his country seeking help from qualified doctors and terrorism on the rise, he joined the US Naval Reserve. But everything changed when terrorists attacked the United States on September 11, 2001. What was supposed to have been a detour turned into a career that would lead to some of his most memorable and meaningful moments. Join Gilbert as he looks back at serving his country, fighting terrorists, and excelling as a member of the US Naval Reserve and then as a physician serving with the Marine Corps. It was all part of pulling double duty as a rifleman and doctor.

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