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The Kamikaze Hunters

By: Will Iredale

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In May 1945, with victory in Europe established, the war was all but over. But on the other side of the world, the Allies were still engaged in a bitter struggle to control the Pacific. And it was then that the Japanese unleashed a terrible new form of warfare: the suicide pilots, or Kamikaze.Drawing on meticulous research and unique personal access to the remaining survivors, Will Iredale follows a group of young men from the moment they signed up through their initial training to the terrifying reality of fighting against pilots who, in the cruel last summer of the war, chose death rather than risk their country's dishonorable defeat—and deliberately flew their planes into Allied aircraft carriers.

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1681771799

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The Complete Story of Civilization

Our Oriental Heritage, Life of Greece, Caesar and Christ, Age of Faith, Renaissance, Age of Reason Begins, Age of Louis XIV, Age of Voltaire, Rousseau and Revolution, Age of Napoleon, Reformation

By: Will Durant

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The Complete Story of Civilization

Our Oriental Heritage, Life of Greece, Caesar and Christ, Age of Faith, Renaissance, Age of Reason Begins, Age of Louis XIV, Age of Voltaire, Rousseau and Revolution, Age of Napoleon, Reformation

By: Will Durant

The Complete Story of Civilization by Will Durant represents the most comprehensive attempt in our times to embrace the vast panorama of man’s history and culture. This eleven volume set includes: Volume One: Our Oriental Heritage; Volume Two: The Life of Greece; Volume Three: Caesar and Christ; Volume Four: The Age of Faith; Volume Five: The Renaissance; Volume Six: The Reformation; Volume Seven: The Age of Reason Begins; Volume Eight: The Age of Louis XIV; Volume Nine: The Age of Voltaire; Volume Ten: Rousseau and Revolution; Volume Eleven: The Age of Napoleon

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1476779716

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9781476779713

Civil War in American Culture

By: Will Kaufman

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Civil War in American Culture

By: Will Kaufman

The Civil War is an event of great cultural significance, impacting upon American literature, film, music, electronic media, the marketplace and public performance. This book takes an innovative approach to this great event in American history, exploring its cultural origins and enduring cultural legacy. It focuses upon the place of the Civil War across the broad sweep of American cultural forms and practices and reveals important links between historical events and contemporary culture.The first chapter introduces a discussion of ante-bellum culture and the part cultural forces played in the sectional crisis that exploded into full-blown war in 1861. Subsequent chapters focus on particular themes, appropriations, interpretations and manifestations of the War as they have appeared in American culture.

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Edinburgh University Press

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0748626565

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Dying to be Men

Psychosocial, Environmental, and Biobehavioral Directions in Promoting the Health of Men and Boys

By: Will Courtenay

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Dying to be Men

Psychosocial, Environmental, and Biobehavioral Directions in Promoting the Health of Men and Boys

By: Will Courtenay

Masculinity has a powerful effect on the health of men and boys. Indeed, many of the behaviors they use to "be men" actually increase their risk of disease, injury, and death. In this book, Dr. Will Courtenay, an internationally recognized expert on men’s health, provides a foundation for understanding this troubling reality. With a comprehensive review of data and literature, he identifies specific gender differences in the health-related attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors of men and boys and the health consequences of these differences. He then describes the powerful social, environmental, institutional, and cultural influences that encourage their unhealthy behaviors and constrain their adoption of healthier ones. In the book’s third section, he more closely examines the health needs of specific populations of men, such as ethnic-minority men, rural men, men in college, and men in prisons. Courtenay also provides four empirical studies conducted with multidisciplinary colleagues that examine the associations between masculinity and men and boys’ health beliefs and practices. Finally, he provides specific strategies and an evidence-based practice guideline for working with men in a variety of settings, as well as a look to the future of men’s health. Medical professionals, social workers, public health professionals, school psychologists, college health professionals, mental health practitioners, academics, and researchers from a broad array of disciplines, and anyone interested in this topic will find it to be an extensively researched and accessible volume.

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Routledge

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1136988297

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Mark Warner the Dealmaker

From Business Success to the Business of Governing

By: Will Payne

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Mark Warner the Dealmaker

From Business Success to the Business of Governing

By: Will Payne

When Mark Warner left office in 2006 with an 80 percent approval rating, TIME magazine called him one of "America's Five Best Governors." Virginia was ranked the best-managed state in the nation, the best state for business and the best state for educational opportunity. When Warner began his term in 2002, the commonwealth was in the midst of its worst fiscal crisis in forty years, and partisan bickering had brought political discourse in Richmond to a standstill. An entrepreneur from a young age, Warner became the world's first cellular industry broker and later co-founded Nextel. The conservative Democrat came in with a plan to turn Virginia around and restore the public's trust in state government, winning the support of battle-hardened Republican legislators. This is the story of how Mark Warner entered the governor's office a hands-on dealmaker and emerged a statesman.

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162585112X

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Life as it Is, Or, Matters and Things in General

Containing Amongst Other Things, Historical Sketches of the Exploration and First Settlement of the State of Tennessee

By: John Will M. Breazeale

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Life as it Is, Or, Matters and Things in General

Containing Amongst Other Things, Historical Sketches of the Exploration and First Settlement of the State of Tennessee

By: John Will M. Breazeale

Originally published in 1842, John Will M. Breazeale's Life as It Is is an insightful--and at times chilling--collection of essays on a variety of subjects relating to life in early East Tennessee. Though little is known about the author, a frontier lawyer and editor of the Tennessee Journal from 1837 to 1838, scholars of the nineteenth-century South, Tennessee historians, and even true crime buffs will find his observations of considerable interest. The first chapters present a history of Tennessee from its first European exploration through the state's admission to the Union. Later chapters highlight the state's unique geographic features, followed by a gruesome account of the murderous rampage of Micajah and Wiley Harp, who terrorized settlers along the line separating eastern Kentucky and Tennessee at the turn of the nineteenth century. Breazeale next offers his thoughts on the practice of political "electioneering," recounting a fictional canvass in a typical congressional district. Life as It Is concludes with several chapters noting various features of Breazeale's Tennessee, including Native American "antiquities," the founding of the state government, and an early religious revival. Breazeale's account both complements and corrects Judge John Haywood's better-known Civil and Political History of the State of Tennessee, revealing the richly varied attitudes of early Tennessee pioneers toward their history, society, politics, and natural environments. J. W. M. Breazeale was a lawyer and editor of the Tennessee Journal from 1837 to 1838. Jonathan M. Atkins, professor of history at Berry College in Mt. Berry, Georgia, is the author of numerous articles and the book Parties, Politics, and the Sectional Conflict in Tennessee, 1832-1861.

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1572334770

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Basketball

By: Will Graves

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Basketball

By: Will Graves

Basketball highlights one of the world's most popular sports. Readers will be introduced to the rules of the game, the skills required to play it, and the history of the sport. In addition, readers will learn about the legendary teams, players, and coaches that have helped the sport grow. Features include a glossary, additional resources, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Early Encyclopedias is an imprint of Abdo Reference, a division of ABDO.

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1098277449

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Cambodia for Sale

Everyday Privatization in Education and Beyond

By: Will Brehm

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Cambodia for Sale

Everyday Privatization in Education and Beyond

By: Will Brehm

Winner of the Comparative and International Education Society’s Globalization and Education SIG Book Award Cambodia for Sale: Everyday Privatization in Education and Beyond details a post-conflict society that socializes children into a world of private rather than public goods. Despite the government's best efforts since the 1990s to re-constitute a functioning system of public services, life remains organized around buying and selling virtually everything, from humanitarian aid to schooling and from religious good deeds to irrigation. Through an ethnography of one village, Cambodia for Sale argues that efforts to rebuild Cambodia after decades of conflict have resulted in various forms of everyday privatization. Although this is most notable in the education system, these practices of privatization can be found in multiple institutions that constitute social life, from the Buddhist pagoda to local government. The various efforts of international development are as much at fault for this reality as are the legacies of the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime. This argument unfolds through the life stories of six residents of the Preah Go village, who collectively depict everyday life through overlapping village institutions, systems, and histories. This is an insightful and valuable reference for scholars interested in educational development, Southeast Asian studies, and comparative education.

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1000359077

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The Papers of Will Rogers: The early years, November 1879-April 1904

By: Will Rogers

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The Papers of Will Rogers: The early years, November 1879-April 1904

By: Will Rogers

Horses, friends, ragtime music, and steer roping-those were the interests of the youthful Will Rogers as he came of age in the Indian Territory and traveled to the Southern Hemisphere in this first of six definitive volumes of The Papers of Will Rogers. By separating fact from legend and unveiling new knowledge via extensive archival research, this documentary history represents a unique contribution to Rogers scholarship and to studies of the Cherokee Nation West. Using many previously unpublished letters and photographs-together with introductions, notes, and biographies of his friends and relatives-volume one illuminates Rogers’s complex relationship with his father, his Cherokee heritage, his early education, first encounters with his future wife, Betty Blake, his voyage to Argentina, and his fledging years in Wild West shows and circuses in South Africa, New Zealand, and Australia. Coorespondence, performance reviews, and rare newspaper documents spotlight the singular experiences that shaped the young Rogers within the context of his family, his ethnic background, and historical events. No other book describes so provocatively and authentically the genesis of America’s most beloved and influential humorist.

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0806127457

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The Chapo Guide to Revolution

A Manifesto Against Logic, Facts, and Reason

By: Chapo Trap House,Felix Biederman,Matt Christman,Brendan James,Will Menaker,Virgil Texas

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The Chapo Guide to Revolution

A Manifesto Against Logic, Facts, and Reason

By: Chapo Trap House,Felix Biederman,Matt Christman,Brendan James,Will Menaker,Virgil Texas

Instant New York Times bestseller “Howard Zinn on acid or some bullsh*t like that.” —Tim Heidecker The creators of the cult-hit podcast Chapo Trap House deliver a manifesto for everyone who feels orphaned and alienated—politically, culturally, and economically—by the lanyard-wearing Wall Street centrism of the left and the lizard-brained atavism of the right: there is a better way, the Chapo Way. In a guide that reads like “a weirder, smarter, and deliciously meaner version of The Daily Show’s 2004 America (The Book)” (Paste), Chapo Trap House shows you that you don’t have to side with either sinking ships. These self-described “assholes from the internet” offer a fully ironic ideology for all who feel politically hopeless and prefer broadsides and tirades to reasoned debate. Learn the “secret” history of the world, politics, media, and everything in-between that THEY don’t want you to know and chart a course from our wretched present to a utopian future where one can post in the morning, game in the afternoon, and podcast after dinner without ever becoming a poster, gamer, or podcaster. A book that’s “as intellectually serious and analytically original as it is irreverent and funny” (Glenn Greenwald, New York Times bestselling author of No Place to Hide) The Chapo Guide to Revolution features illustrated taxonomies of contemporary liberal and conservative characters, biographies of important thought leaders, “never before seen” drafts of Aaron Sorkin’s Newsroom manga, and the ten new laws that govern Chapo Year Zero (everyone gets a dog, billionaires are turned into Soylent, and logic is outlawed). If you’re a fan of sacred cows, prisoners being taken, and holds being barred, then this book is NOT for you. However, if you feel disenfranchised from the political and cultural nightmare we’re in, then Chapo, let’s go…

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Atria Books

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1501187295

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Milwaukee Bucks

By: Will Graves

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Milwaukee Bucks

By: Will Graves

This title introduces basketball fans to the history of the Milwaukee Bucks NBA franchise. The title features informative sidebars, exciting photos, a timeline, team facts, trivia, a glossary, and an index. SportsZone is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

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1098271998

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Will Storr Vs. The Supernatural

One man's search for the truth about ghosts

By: Will Storr

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Will Storr Vs. The Supernatural

One man's search for the truth about ghosts

By: Will Storr

When journalist and ghost sceptic Will Storr heads to Philadelphia to meet Lou Gentile, a demonologist, he expects a little fun with an amusing eccentric. What he gets are terrifying experiences of spectral lights and horrific demonic growling - and all of his safe, adult preconceptions about ghosts instantly vanish. In the cold light of day, Will decides on a quest for the truth about ghosts. He meets professional paranormal investigators and takes part in séances and a vigil in the most haunted house in Britain, tries out divining rods and ouija boards, and goes on set with TV's Most Haunted. But Will also seeks out the sceptics in clinical psychology and philosophy who ask if spirits are really just in our heads. His journey is full of bizarre, terrifying and hilarious experiences, each one a new insight into life, death and what might come after.

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Random House

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1448177065

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Beyond the Individual

Stoic Philosophy on Community and Connection

By: Will Johncock

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Beyond the Individual

Stoic Philosophy on Community and Connection

By: Will Johncock

Do you believe you think independently? Do you alone control your actions? Stoic philosophy asserts that your mind, thoughts, and actions are traces of a world which shapes you, and everyone else, together. Our personal nature is part of a system, not independent. This book studies how a Stoic thinks and acts as part of a community and in service of a world, rather than separately or for themselves alone. This is not just another book about Stoic philosophy. Stoicism has been popularized as a way to primarily serve personal benefits, promising mental resilience in an uncontrollable world of people and events. This book instead explores how for the Stoics we only benefit personally by being aware of how we are entangled with our fellow humans and the world. This perspective reveals anti-individualistic conditions for the well-being that individuals seek from the philosophy. By studying features that might seem to define us as separate individuals--our mind, body, self-preserving instinct, knowledge, and happiness--we find that everything about each of us is interconnected and shared. The theoretical analysis, suitable for general and academic readers, involves all ancient Stoic eras, comparisons with pre-Socratic, Platonic, and Aristotelian positions, and modern Stoic debates.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1666759384

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The Chairman

By: Will Thomas

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The Chairman

By: Will Thomas

India’s finest cricketer is found murdered in a Kolkata dressing room. Theories abound about who is responsible: match fixers, Pakistani fans or disaffected team mates? All eyes are on India until Australia’s best player also meets his demise in the cricket nets at the SCG. It is Mike Dunn’s job to find out who is dismissing the world’s best cricketers. The mission takes him across the globe searching for a murderer or a group of assassins who are tearing the game asunder. In a thrilling race around the world, Dunn finds himself a step behind at every turn until a chilling theory reveals itself...

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1398410659

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Classical versus Neoclassical Monetary Theories

The Roots, Ruts, and Resilience of Monetarism — and Keynesianism

By: Will E. Mason,William N. Butos

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Classical versus Neoclassical Monetary Theories

The Roots, Ruts, and Resilience of Monetarism — and Keynesianism

By: Will E. Mason,William N. Butos

Classical Versus Neoclassical Monetary Theories, completed just before Professor Will E. Mason's untimely death, places recent and mid-20th century monetary theory in a larger historical context, while examining the relevance of contemporary questions in monetary policy. The first half of the volume analyzes the development of the methodological and conceptual foundations of monetary theory, up to and including contemporary mainstream views; the second half addresses more policy-oriented monetary questions. Emphasis is placed on the dichotomy of monetary and value theory, the Walrasian general equilibrium paradigm, the resolution of the `Patinkin controversy', the Federal Reserve System's failed experiment with `pure monetarism', and the misplacement of the free market in the `Chicago paradox'. Classical Versus Neoclassical Monetary Theories will be of interest both to historians of economic thought and monetary and macro economists, as well as to many well-informed followers and fashioners of monetary policy.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461562619

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9781461562610

Post-heritage Perspectives on British Period Drama Television

By: Will Stanford Abbiss

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Post-heritage Perspectives on British Period Drama Television

By: Will Stanford Abbiss

Drawing upon the existing scholarship of period drama and emerging research into new media ecologies, instigated by television streaming services such as Netflix, this book establishes a critical framework for understanding the representation of nationhood and cultural identity in television drama. By formalising the term ‘post-heritage’ the book proposes a methodology which recognises the interplay of traditional and innovative elements within period drama productions. The book applies this critical perspective to popular British period drama productions from the 2010s, with examples including The Crown, the ‘society dramas’ of Upstairs Downstairs and Downton Abbey, Steven Knight’s Dickens adaptations, and Stephen Poliakoff’s recent oeuvre, to demonstrate the benefits of evaluating period drama as part of twenty-first century television’s developments. It challenges the assumptions around characteristics and ideological purpose that period drama discourse often contends with, and offers new perspectives on understanding the past through televisual representations. This book will be important reading for students and scholars of television studies, film studies and cultural studies.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000894002

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101 Greatest Athletes of the Century

By: Will Grimsley

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101 Greatest Athletes of the Century

By: Will Grimsley

Babe Ruth; Muhammad Ali; Arnold Palmer; Terry Bradshaw; Wilt Chamberlain; Billie Jean King; Jesse Owens; Bobby Hull; Mickey Mantle; O.J. Simpson; Rocky Marciano; Jack Nicklaus; Joe Namath; Magic Johnson; Martina Navratilova; Pele; Ted Williams; Joe Louis; Bobby Orr; Rod Laver; Willie Mays, Larry Bird, Jim Brown; Joe Dimaggio; Wayne Gretzky; Sonja Henie, Jackie Robinson; Sugar Ray Leonard, Stan Musial; Gordie Howe, Pete Rose; Julius Erving; Hank Aaron; Tom Watson; Willie Shoemaker; Bill Russell; Johnny Unitas; Walter Payton; Roger Staubach; Jerry West; Sugar Ray Robinson; Bjorn Borg; Kareem Abdul-Jabbar; Roy Campanella; Dick Butkus; Bob Cousy; Jack Dempsey; Ty Cobb; Oscar Robertson; Red Grange; Ben Hogan; Vasily Alexeyev; Dr. Roger Bannister; Sammy Baugh; Yogi Berra; Dick Butkus; Nadia Comaneci; Jack Dempsey; Margaret Smith Court; Julius Erving; Chris Evert; Bob Feller; A.J. Foyt; Lou Gehrig; Otto Graham; Red Grange; Wayne Gretzky; Walter Hagen; Bill Hartack; Walter Hagen; Ben Hogan; Rogers Hornsby; Gordie Howe; Bobby Hull; Jack Johnson; Jack Kramer; Rod Laver; Helen Wills Moody; Al Oerter; B; Satchel Paige; Pele; Willie Pep; Richard Petty; Jacques Plante; Gary Player; Willis Reed; Maurice Richard; Oscar Robertson; Jackie Robinson; Sugar Ray Robinson; Pete Rose; Wilma Rudolph; Bill Russell; Gene Sarazen; Terry Sawchuk; Sam Snead' Mark Spitz; Bart Starr; Roger Staubach; Jim Thorpe; Bill Tilden; Johnny Unitas; Tom Watson; Johnny Weissmuller; Jerry West ; Babe Didrikson Zaharias; Emil Zatopek, and others.

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Crescent

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0517655799

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Writings on Reconciliation and Resistance

By: Will D. Campbell

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Writings on Reconciliation and Resistance

By: Will D. Campbell

If prophets are called to unveil and expose the illegitimacy of those principalities masquerading as "the right" and purportedly using their powers for "the good," then Will D. Campbell is one of the foremost prophets in American religious history. Like Clarence Jordan and Dorothy Day, Campbell incarnates the radical iconoclastic vocation of standing in contraposition to society, naming and smashing the racial, economic, and political idols that seduce and delude.In this anthology Campbell diagnoses a problem afflicting much of the church today. Zealous to make a difference in the world by acquiring the power of legislation and enforcement, Christians employ society's political science rather than the scandalous politics of Jesus. Although well-intentioned, Christians are, Campbell laments, mistakenly "up to our steeples in politics." Campbell's prescription is for disciples simply to incarnate the reconciliation that Christ has achieved. Rather than crafting savvy strategies and public policies, "Do nothing," Campbell counsels. "Be reconciled!"Yet his encouragement to "do nothing" is no endorsement of passivity or apolitical withdrawal. Rather, Campbell calls for disciples to give their lives in irrepressible resistance against all principalities and powers that would impede or deny our reconciliation in Christ--an unrelenting prophetic challenge leveled especially at institutional churches, as well as Christian colleges and universities.In sermons, difficult-to-access journal articles, and archival manuscripts, Campbell then develops what reconciliation looks like. Being the church, for example, means identifying with, and advocating for, society's "least one"-including violent offenders, disenfranchised minorities, and even militant bigots. In fact, in Campbell's o

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1606081284

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Gravity

Newtonian, Post-Newtonian, Relativistic

By: Eric Poisson,Clifford M. Will

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Gravity

Newtonian, Post-Newtonian, Relativistic

By: Eric Poisson,Clifford M. Will

This textbook explores approximate solutions to general relativity and their consequences. It offers a unique presentation of Einstein's theory by developing powerful methods that can be applied to astrophysical systems. Beginning with a uniquely thorough treatment of Newtonian gravity, the book develops post-Newtonian and post-Minkowskian approximation methods to obtain weak-field solutions to the Einstein field equations. The book explores the motion of self-gravitating bodies, the physics of gravitational waves, and the impact of radiative losses on gravitating systems. It concludes with a brief overview of alternative theories of gravity. Ideal for graduate courses on general relativity and relativistic astrophysics, the book examines real-life applications, such as planetary motion around the Sun, the timing of binary pulsars, and gravitational waves emitted by binary black holes. Text boxes explore related topics and provide historical context, and over 100 exercises present challenging tests of the material covered in the main text.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139952390

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9781139952392

American Culture in the 1970s

By: Will Kaufman

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American Culture in the 1970s

By: Will Kaufman

The 1970s was one of the most culturally vibrant periods in American history. This book discusses the dominant cultural forms of the 1970s - fiction and poetry; television and drama; film and visual culture; popular music and style; public space and spectacle - and the decade's most influential practitioners and texts: from Toni Morrison to All in the Family, from Diane Arbus to Bruce Springsteen, from M.A.S.H. to Taxi Driver and from disco divas to Vietnam protesters. In response to those who consider the seventies the time of disco, polyester and narcissism, this book rewrites the critical engagement with one of America's most misunderstood decades.Key Features*Focused case studies featuring key texts and influential writers, artists, directors and musicians*Chronology of 1970s American Culture*Bibliographies for each chapter and a general bibliography on 1970s Culture*14 black-and-white illustrations

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Edinburgh University Press

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0748631534

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Lindbergh: Takeoff 1902-1931

By: Will Bergen

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Lindbergh: Takeoff 1902-1931

By: Will Bergen

Charles Lindbergh was the quintessential Lone-Eagle American hero, the handsome, modest Midwesterner who was the first to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. His record-setting flight took thirty-three hours and thirty minutes, making him the first person in history to be in New York one day and Paris the next - and propelling him to international fame. Lindbergh remains a compelling figure today, admired for his epic flight, the grace and power of his prize-winning prose, and his environmental prescience. Here, in the first of two volumes on his life and legacy, historian Will Bergen explores Lindbergh's life from a boy who was always "looking out of windows" - and terrified of falling - to the most celebrated aviator in history.

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New Word City

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1612309151

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Living Low Carb: Revised & Updated Edition

The Essential Guide to Choosing the Right Low-Carb Plan for You

By: Jonny Bowden,Barry Sears,Will Cole

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Living Low Carb: Revised & Updated Edition

The Essential Guide to Choosing the Right Low-Carb Plan for You

By: Jonny Bowden,Barry Sears,Will Cole

The best low-carb guide keeps getting better! This revised edition of the book by nationally known nutrition expert Jonny Bowden provides up-to-date insight on how to choose the perfect diet for you. In their quest to lose weight and live healthily, dieters continue to embrace low-carb plans like Keto, Paleo, and the Mediterranean Diet. And with this new update and revision, Jonny Bowden's bestselling Living Low Carb more perfectly reflects today’s choices, focusing on five major contemporary diets: Keto, Atkins, Mediterranean, Paleo, and Zone-type diets. It explores the most recent scientific discoveries on the microbiome, brain chemistry, appetite, cravings, carbs, and sugar addiction, and features new tips, tricks, and sidebars from professionals—providing more guidance for dieters trying to figure out what plan is right for them. With refreshing candor, Bowden evaluates the popular low-carb programs in light of the latest scientific research and shows you how to customize your own plan for long-term weight loss and optimal well-being. This updated edition: Focuses on five basic philosophies of low-carb eating Explores the most recent scientific discoveries made about brain chemistry, appetite, cravings, and sugar addiction Features an introduction by Dr. Will Cole

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1454935057

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The Reformation

The Story of Civilization, Volume VI

By: Will Durant

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The Reformation

The Story of Civilization, Volume VI

By: Will Durant

The Story of Civilization, Volume VI: A history of European civilization from Wyclif to Calvin: 1300–1564. This is the sixth volume of the classic, Pulitzer Prize–winning series. An engrossing volume on the European Reformation by Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Will Durant The sixth volume of Durant’s acclaimed Story of Civilization, The Reformation chronicles the history of European civilization from 1300 to 1564. In this masterful work, you will encounter: -The schism within the Roman Catholic Church and the formation of early Protestantism -The theology of Martin Luther and his societal impact -The rise of Humanism and the life of Desiderius Erasmus -The royal monarchies of England, France, Spain, and Italy -The imperial conquests of Christopher Columbus and the discovery of the Americas -The Bohemian revolution of Eastern Europe, the unification of Russia, and the rise of the Ottoman Empire -The teachings of John Calvin -The Counter-Reformation of the 16th century

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The Renaissance

The Story of Civilization, Volume V

By: Will Durant

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The Renaissance

The Story of Civilization, Volume V

By: Will Durant

The Story of Civilization, Volume V: A history of civilization in Italy from 1304-1576. This is the fifth volume of the classic, Pulitzer Prize-winning series.

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Industrial Society in England Towards the End of the Eighteenth Century

By: Will Bowden,Witt Bowden,S. Bowden

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Industrial Society in England Towards the End of the Eighteenth Century

By: Will Bowden,Witt Bowden,S. Bowden

First Published in 1965. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Psychology Press

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0714612766

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Best NBA Guards of All Time

By: Will Graves

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Best NBA Guards of All Time

By: Will Graves

Some of basketball's biggest names happen to be the NBA's greatest guards: Earvin "Magic" Johnson, Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, and Dwayne Wade just to name a few! Basketball fans will love Spotlight stats and informative boxes for each player. Not to mention great full-color and historic action photographs. Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards. SportsZone is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

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1629686689

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Sacred and Profane in Chaucer and Late Medieval Literature

Essays in Honour of John V. Fleming

By: Will Robins

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Sacred and Profane in Chaucer and Late Medieval Literature

Essays in Honour of John V. Fleming

By: Will Robins

Literary depictions of the sacred and the secular from the Middle Ages are representative of the era's widely held cultural understandings related to religion and the nature of lived experience. Using late Medieval English literature, including some of Chaucer's writings, these essays do not try to define a secular realm distinct and separate from the divine or religious, but instead analyze intersections of the sacred and the profane, suggesting that these two categories are mutually constitutive rather than antithetical. With essays by former students of John V. Fleming, the collection pays tribute to the Princeton University professor emeritus through wide-ranging scholarship and literary criticism. Including reflections on depictions of Bathsheba, Troilus and Criseyde, the Legend of Good Women, Chaucer's Pardoner, and Margery Kempe, these essays focus on literature while ranging into history, philosophy, and the visual arts. Taken together, the work suggests that the domain of the sacred, as perceived in the Middle Ages, can variously be seen as having a hierarchical or a complementary relationship to the things of this world.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442640812

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Theory and Experiment in Gravitational Physics

By: Clifford M. Will

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Theory and Experiment in Gravitational Physics

By: Clifford M. Will

A comprehensive review of the testing and research conducted on Einstein's theory of general relativity.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107117445

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Shadow Revolution

Code Name - Operation Achilles

By: Will Edwinson

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Shadow Revolution

Code Name - Operation Achilles

By: Will Edwinson

What would life be like if there were a twenty-first-century style revolution and civil war in the United States? Titus Coppard and the revolutionists are fed up with government over regulation and encroachment into their private lives. An exodus to eighteen Western states by these like-minded people ensues, and these states secede from the Union in one block to form the new "Free States of America." A civil war develops when the old United States declares war on the new Free States. But, the US has a vulnerable spot. The Free States unleash their secret weapon, taking the old United States by surprise, putting them instantly into a pre-1900 lifestyle.

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Wheatmark, Inc.

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1627872809

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Life/Death Rhythms of Capitalist Regimes – Debt Before Dishonour

Part Ii Democratic Capitalism

By: Will Slatyer

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Life/Death Rhythms of Capitalist Regimes – Debt Before Dishonour

Part Ii Democratic Capitalism

By: Will Slatyer

Life/Death Rhythms of Capitalist RegimesDebt before Dishonour explores the cyclical theory of cultural development, with particular attention paid to the introduction of democratic forms of government in the British Empire and the United States republic. The cyclical theory allows a forecast of the fading of the dominance of the United States as an imperial power. PART II details the political rise and fall of the democratic empires of Britain and the United States of America. Similar to cultural survival of the loss of dominance experienced by the British Empire after the Great War, the United States will survive in a new form. Which superpower will take over the reins remains to be seen, but the likely contender is the Peoples Republic of China. This conclusion and the timing will allow long-term planning by corporations and governments. In the age of political correctness, it is unlikely that readers will experience any such forecasts by government bodies. Throughout history, societies have used and abused debt, revolted and warred over debt, and have forbidden usury. But the modern financial world as we know it simply cannot exist without usury. Since the 1400s, modern governments have found new ways to expand debt to produce modern economies, which are still subject to the age-old basic principle of debtthat it needs to be repaid or dire consequences ensue. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana (18631952)

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Partridge Publishing Singapore

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1482827271

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The British General Election of 2019

By: Robert Ford,Tim Bale,Will Jennings,Paula Surridge

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The British General Election of 2019

By: Robert Ford,Tim Bale,Will Jennings,Paula Surridge

The British General Election of 2019 is the definitive account of one of the most consequential and controversial general elections in recent times, when Boris Johnson gambled everything calling an early election to 'Get Brexit Done', and emerged triumphant. Drawing upon cutting-edge research and wide-ranging elite interviews, the new author team provides a compelling and accessible narrative of this landmark election and its implications for British politics, built on unparalleled access to all the key players, and married up to first-class data analysis. The 21st volume in a prestigious series dating back to 1945, it offers something for everyone from Westminster insiders and politics students to the interested general reader.

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Springer Nature

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3030742547

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