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The Illyrians

By: John Wilkes

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For more than a thousand years before the arrival of the Slavs in the sixth century AD, the lands between the Adriatic and the river Danube, now Yugoslavia and Albania, were the home of the peoples known to the ancient world as Illyrians. This book, now available in paperback, draws upon the considerable archaeological evidence that has become available since the Second World War to provide an account of the origins, culture, history and legacy of the Illyrians. John Wilkes describes the geography of Illyria and surveys the region in the prehistoric, Greek, Roman and medieval periods. He discusses Illyrian art, material, culture, religion and customs. A chapter examines the Illyrian language, of which little trace survives, and its connection with other Indo-European languages. Professor Wilkes also scrutinizes the linguistic evidence for the Illyrians' relatedness to other peoples - Thracian, Italic, Greek and Celtic. He concludes with a discussion of a possible survival of an Illyrian native culture in the Roman and Byzantine periods.

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Wiley-Blackwell

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0631198075

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9780631198079

Holiday Slow Cooker

100 Incredible and Festive Recipes for Every Celebration

By: Leigh Anne Wilkes

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Holiday Slow Cooker

100 Incredible and Festive Recipes for Every Celebration

By: Leigh Anne Wilkes

Create fantastic holiday fare with a twist fit for any celebration with Holiday Slow Cooker. Have more room for other dishes in or eliminate using your oven by having a slow cooker take on some of the elements. Leigh Anne Wilkes created 100 recipes that are extravagant and gourmet, yet easy to make for festivities. Make parties and entertaining less stressful on your oven by leaving your slow cooker in charge. Create feasts for summer holidays with the BBQ Brisket and Triple Berry Crisp; in the fall and winter, there’s Cornbread and Sausage Dressing and Herbed Turkey Breast. Also included are recipes for Valentine’s Day Dinner, Chinese New Year, St. Patrick’s Day, Easter, Cinco de Mayo and even recipes for appetizers and breakfast. This book features 100 delicious recipes and 60 mouth-watering photos.

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Page Street Publishing

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1624144209

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9781624144202

In Due Season

A Catholic Life

By: Paul Wilkes

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In Due Season

A Catholic Life

By: Paul Wilkes

Paul Wilkes has been a writer/journalist, a TV producer, a monastic, a hedonist, a friend of the famous, a family man, and ultimately a true prodigal son. With In Due Season, Wilkes, one of America's most respected writers on religious belief and spirituality, details his search for God--from his working class upbringing in Cleveland to giving up everything he owned and living with the poor to his hedonistic life among the rich and famous. Wilkes's inspiring life story is one of abysmal failure and ultimate triumph, of a faith in God, battered and tried in the crucible of his experience.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470423331

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9780470423332

Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition. During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842

Vol. III

By: Charles Wilkes

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Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition. During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842

Vol. III

By: Charles Wilkes

Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3368877550

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9783368877552

Mrs. Wilkes' Boardinghouse Cookbook

Recipes and Recollections from Her Savannah Table

By: Sema Wilkes

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Mrs. Wilkes' Boardinghouse Cookbook

Recipes and Recollections from Her Savannah Table

By: Sema Wilkes

A historical cookbook with more than 300 recipes from a pioneer of Southern cuisine. In 1943, a young and determined Sema Wilkes took over a nondescript turn-of-the-century boardinghouse on a sun-dappled brick street in historic downtown Savannah. Her goal was modest: to make a living by offering comfortable lodging and Southern home cooking served family style in the downstairs dining room. Mrs. Wilkes' reputation was strong and business was brisk from the beginning, but it was the coverage in Esquire and the New York Times, and even a profile on David Brinkley's evening news that brought Southern-food lovers from all over the world to her doorstep. With over 300 recipes, photos from the boardinghouse, and culinary historian John T. Edge's colorful telling of Mrs. Wilkes' contribution to Savannah and Southern cuisine, this rich volume is a tribute to a way of cooking—and eating—that must not be forgotten. Recipient of Southern Living's Reader's Choice Award 2000 Winner of the 1999 James Beard “America's Regional Classics” Award

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Ten Speed Press

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0307807738

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9780307807731

The Vine That Ate the South

By: J.D. Wilkes

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The Vine That Ate the South

By: J.D. Wilkes

Wilkes' debut is a rich and heartfelt yarn that resonates as deeply as his music." —Kirkus Reviews With the energy, wit, and singularity of vision that have earned him a reputation as a celebrated and charismatic musician, The Vine That Ate the South announces J.D. Wilkes as an accomplished storyteller on a surreal, Homeric voyage that strikes at the very heart of American mythology. In a forgotten corner of western Kentucky lies a haunted forest referred to locally as "The Deadening," where vampire cults roam wild and time is immaterial. Our protagonist and his accomplice—the one and only, Carver Canute—set out down the Old Spur Line in search of the legendary Kudzu House, where an old couple is purported to have been swallowed whole by a hungry vine. Their quest leads them face to face with albino panthers, Great Dane-riding girls, protective property owners, and just about every American folk-demon ever, while forcing the protagonist to finally take stock of his relationship with his father and the man's mysterious disappearance. The Vine That Ate the South is a mesmerizing fantasia where Wilkes ambitiously grapples with the contradictions of the contemporary American South while subversively considering how well we know our own family and friends. "It's a relentlessly fun novel, the literary equivalent of a country-punk album that grabs you and refuses to let go. Wilkes has a perfect ear for the dialect of Kentucky, and his writing is so bright, you can almost see every abandoned shack, every kudzu-covered tree. Sure, it's bizarre, and at points almost gleefully obscene, but it's undeniably one of the smartest, most original Southern Gothic novels to come along in years." —NPR

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Two Dollar Radio

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1937512568

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9781937512569

Plenty Good Room

Co-creating an Economy of Enough for All

By: Andrew Wilkes

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Plenty Good Room

Co-creating an Economy of Enough for All

By: Andrew Wilkes

Plenty Good Room lays out in clear terms the hope of democratic socialism for a world ravaged by intensifying racial capitalism and social injustice. Unleash your ingenuity for systems that offer plenty good room--not for just a few but for all. Economic inequality yawns as wide as ever. Capitalism is working as it was designed: replicating an uneven balance of power, constraining life chances, and limiting imaginations. Those of us concerned about injustice often confine ourselves to issue-by-issue activism. The end result? Owners, investors, and a politics of inequality win. But what if there's another way to organize our common life--and what if it's as homegrown as sweet potato pie? What if we could become moral engineers who co-create the world we all deserve? Plenty Good Room helps readers understand Black Christian socialism, a stream of the Black radical tradition, from the perspective of a Brooklyn pastor and political scientist's civic awakening. As the former director of the Drum Major Institute, founded by America's most famous democratic socialist, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rev. Andrew Wilkes mounts a challenge to the endless greed, inequality, and profiteering of racial capitalism. Tugging on the threads of history and scripture and pointing to the work of Black radicals like W. E. B. Du Bois, Rev. Addie Wyatt, and Fannie Lou Hamer, Wilkes weaves a narrative of "plenty good room moments": times in which communities and individuals had sufficient resources, human rights, and beauty. He invites us to join a movement that a day-laboring Christ initiated as he organized the dispossessed, the disinherited, and those pushed to the edges of society. Wilkes also introduces contemporary efforts pushing for reparations, community ownership, participatory democracy, and solidarity economies. These stories show us that we can create a world of care and reciprocity by envisioning an economy of enough for all--one rooted in justice, equity, and the God whose spirit falls on all flesh.

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Broadleaf Books

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1506491529

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9781506491523

Gilgi

By: Irmgard Keun

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Gilgi

By: Irmgard Keun

The stirring, never-before-translated story of a single, pregnant, and wickedly nervy young secretary making her way through a Germany succumbing to the Nazis. Irmgard Keun's first novel Gilgi was an overnight sensation upon its initial publication in Germany, selling thousands of copies, inspiring numerous imitators, and making Keun a household name—a reputation that was only heightened when, a few years later, the nervy Keun sued the Gestapo for blocking her royalties. The story of a young woman trying to establish her independence in a society being overtaken by fascism, Gilgi was not only a brave story, but revolutionary in its depiction of women's issues, at the same time that it was, simply, an absorbing and stirring tale of a dauntless spirit. Gilgi is a secretary in a hosiery firm, but she doesn't intend to stay there for long: she's disciplined and ambitious, taking language classes, saving up money to go abroad, and carefully avoiding both the pawing of her boss and any other prolonged romantic entanglements. But then she falls in love with Martin, a charming drifter, and leaves her job for domestic bliss—which turns out not to be all that blissful-- and Gilgi finds herself pregnant and facing a number of moral dilemmas. Revolutionary at the time for its treatment of sexual harassment, abortion, single motherhood, and the "New Woman," Gilgi remains a perceptive and beautifully constructed novel about one woman's path to maturity. It is presented here in its first-ever translation into English.

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Melville House

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1612192777

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9781612192772

Right Or Wrong, God Judge Me

The Writings of John Wilkes Booth

By: John Wilkes Booth

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Right Or Wrong, God Judge Me

The Writings of John Wilkes Booth

By: John Wilkes Booth

All of the known writings of John Wilkes Booth are included in this collection. Of this wealth of material, the most important item is a previously unpublished twenty-page manuscript discovered at the Players Club in Manhattan. Written by Booth in 1860 in a form similar to Mark Antony's funeral oration in Julius Caesar, it makes clear that his hatred for Lincoln was formed early and was deeply rooted in his pro-slavery and pro-Southern ideology. Also included in the nearly seventy documents are six love letters to a seventeen-year-old Boston girl, Isabel Sumner, written during the summer of 1864, when Booth was conspiring against Lincoln; several explicit statements of Booth's political convictions; and the diary he kept during his futile twelve-day flight after the assassination. The documents show that Booth, although opinionated and impulsive, was not an isolated madman. Rather, he was a highly successful actor and ladies' man who also was a Confederate agent. Along with many others, he believed that Lincoln was a tyrant whose policies threatened civil liberties. --From publisher's description.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252069676

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9780252069673

Fluid Mechanics for Chemical Engineers with Microfluidics and CFD.

By: James O. Wilkes

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Fluid Mechanics for Chemical Engineers with Microfluidics and CFD.

By: James O. Wilkes

This second edition contains extensive new coverage of both microfluidics and computational fluid dynamics, systematically demonstrating CFD through detailed examples using FlowLab and COMSOL Multiphysics. The chapter on turbulence has been extensively revised to address more complex and realistic challenges, including turbulent mixing and recirculating flows"--Jacket.

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Pearson Education

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0131482122

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9780131482128

The Art of Confession

Renewing Yourself Through the Practice of Honesty

By: Paul Wilkes

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The Art of Confession

Renewing Yourself Through the Practice of Honesty

By: Paul Wilkes

Paul Wilkes has written an elegant, prescriptive, secular book—a spiritual gem—that reinvents the power of confession for a contemporary audience. Confession is the foundation of religion, the essence of mental health. It is listening to the voice within to follow the path to honest and conscious living. And for thousands of years people have used the power of confession to find their best selves. Liberating confession from the confessional, The Art of Confession draws on traditions as old as ancient Greece and as modern as psychoanalysis as diverse as Judaism, Catholicism, and Islam, to show readers how to incorporate a confessional practice into their daily lives. There are visualizations, spiritual exercises, prompts, and meditations; private confessions, direct confessions, psychological confessions. Accompanied throughout by a wise “confessional chorus”—a rabbi, a priest, a psychiatrist, a nun, whose points-of-view complement and augment the text—The Art of Confession is an antidote to our age of oversharing, where we happily broadcast the minutest details of our lives in public, yet never find the time to discover the risk, relief, and ultimately the renewal that real, considered self-reflection offers.

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Workman Publishing Company

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0761168729

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9780761168720

Diversity and the Common Good

Civil Society, Religion, and Catholic Sisters in a Small City

By: Meg Wilkes Karraker

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Diversity and the Common Good

Civil Society, Religion, and Catholic Sisters in a Small City

By: Meg Wilkes Karraker

Diversity and the Common Good: Civil Society, Religion, and Catholic Sisters in a Small City examines how Catholic Sisters and their congregations have been critical nodes in religious and civil networks, investing their social capital to address one of the most pressing issues facing American communities today: diversity. “Bluffton,” situated in America's heartland, is revealed as a community that has confronted racism of the ugliest kind and chosen to work toward a good society for its citizens, driven by the concerted efforts of its Catholic Sisters and highly committed civic and religious actors. Blending quantitative and qualitative data collected over three years and scholarship on civil society, Meg Wilkes Karraker's narrative style engages scholars from sociology, political science, public administration, and religious, but also speaks tocommunity leaders and citizens seeking to understand how they can act on behalf of the common good in their own communities. Notably, Diversity and the Common Good tells the story of a community that “works!” Given recent criticisms of American Sisters by the Vatican, this story of the great good done by Sisters must be told now.

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Lexington Books

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073918153X

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9780739181539

The Navigator Series: Coaching Self

By: Mark Wilkes-Jones

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The Navigator Series: Coaching Self

By: Mark Wilkes-Jones

There are many people who consider themselves victims of fate. The stress, anger, frustration, and sometimes depression that they feel on a daily basis is nothing more than the result of refined habits of negativity and lack of anything resembling direction or vision. It would never have occurred to them that they could coach themselves out of these bad habits and generate strategies for positive change. This book has been created to provide the right information and guidance on how to apply professional coaching techniques to your life, and it will open the readers eyes to the process of creating positive directional change, whereby the reader is able to develop their potential through the completion of many activities outlined in the book. Topics covered in this book include establishing your values, vision and goals, motivation, identifying and taking action against the barriers to your success, and learning to accept change in your life. It is a well-written, practical guide to self-development which will set you on a path to positive and lasting change.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1543405312

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9781543405316

A Hope-Filled Life

The Significance of Hope in the Life of the Believer

By: James R. Wilkes

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A Hope-Filled Life

The Significance of Hope in the Life of the Believer

By: James R. Wilkes

Hope is part of the spiritual vocabulary of the believer in Jesus Christ. The word is found abundantly in the Scriptures. We speak of it in our testimonies and fellowship. We sing about it in our corporate worship. Yet, it would seem at times that our concept of hope is understood in merely some vague way. Hope seems like an abstraction (something we consider only theoretically) not something that really matters or makes a difference. However, biblical hope is a gospel grace that provides joy and endurance for our lives right now. A Hope-Filled Life seeks to define biblical hope and provide a practical theology for understanding and applying it to our lives. Hope is, indeed, not an optional add-on but a vital necessity. Embracing the many truths about hope in the Scriptures strengthens our hearts. As we run the race set before us, we must grow in our understanding that Jesus Christ is truly our great Savior and our sure and steadfast hope!

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1725292815

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9781725292819

Children's Quick and Easy Cookbook

More Than 60 Simple Recipes

By: Angela Wilkes

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Children's Quick and Easy Cookbook

More Than 60 Simple Recipes

By: Angela Wilkes

A children's introductory cookbook with 60 mouthwatering recipes presented in full-color, step-by-step photographs and instructions. Children's Quick and Easy Cookbook is packed with delicious, easy-to-follow recipes that any child can make, from super-fast snacks and speedy meals to treats and sweets. From classic omelets to chicken chow mein to hot chocolate soufflés, it includes dishes the whole family will want to eat. Feature boxes highlight all the necessary ingredients for each recipe, and photographs of finished dishes will inspire kids as they cook. Perfect for the whole family to enjoy together, Children's Quick and Easy Cookbook introduces children to the joy of cooking and eating good food—that they have made themselves!

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Penguin

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0744086248

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9780744086249

Treasure Island

By: Robert Louis Stevenson,Angela Wilkes

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Treasure Island

By: Robert Louis Stevenson,Angela Wilkes

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0860205754

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9780860205753

Cancer Chemotherapy

A Nursing Process Approach

By: Margaret Barton-Burke,Gail M. Wilkes,Karen Ingwersen

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Cancer Chemotherapy

A Nursing Process Approach

By: Margaret Barton-Burke,Gail M. Wilkes,Karen Ingwersen

This text for beginning and advanced oncology nurses integrates the nursing process, including nursing diagnosis, with the administration of cancer chemotherapeutic agents. Chapters in the first section review the history of chemotherapy and the role of the oncology nurse in chemotherapy research. T

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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0763714720

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9780763714727

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