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Murphy's War Stories

By: William C. Knowles

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Murphy's War Stories spans two wars and is the story of a young man who drops out of high school and joins the US Army to become a paratrooper after the 1968 TET offensive in Vietnam. He completes airborne training and is sent to the famous 82nd Airborne Division. Later, he becomes the enlisted aide to the Commandant of Cadets at West Point where he associates with several US Army Generals. Afterwards, he is sent to Vietnam where he completes a tour fighting the North Vietnamese. While in Vietnam he receives the Silver Star. While a member of the Army Reserve, he is later activated for the Iraq War. During his time in Iraqi he compares and contrasts his two wars and the differences between the old army the new army in Iraq.

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Writers Republic LLC

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ISBN 13

9798891001817

Boyd's New York City Tax-Book

By: William Henry Boyd

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Boyd's New York City Tax-Book

By: William Henry Boyd

Reprint of the original, first published in 1857.

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266

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BoD – Books on Demand

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ISBN 10

337516811X

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9783375168117

True Heroines

Police Women Killed in the Line of Duty Throughout the United States, 1916-1999

By: William Wilbanks

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True Heroines

Police Women Killed in the Line of Duty Throughout the United States, 1916-1999

By: William Wilbanks

Describes the circumstances and events which led to the 138 women law enforcement officers who died in the line of duty, the identity of their perpetrator(s), and the deposition of the case, with a biography and photo of each officer and their descendants. Author Dr. William Wilbanks carefully researched each case and unveiled the mystery of unsolved deaths.

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250

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Turner Publishing Company

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ISBN 10

1563115239

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9781563115233

Ireland

Life and Land in Literature

By: William A. Dumbleton

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Ireland

Life and Land in Literature

By: William A. Dumbleton

The essence of the Emerald Isle is captured in this book, which introduces the reader to Irish literature as it reflects and illuminates the history and culture of the people of Ireland. William Dumbleton has painted an impressionistic portrait of the country and its literature, focusing, where it serves to bring out the essential pattern, on relevant or exemplary works by such writers as Maria Edgeworth, William Butler Yeats, James Plunkett, Sean O'Casey, John Synge, Liam O'Flaherty, James Joyce, and John McGahern.

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216

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SUNY Press

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ISBN 10

0873957830

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9780873957830

The St. Louis Irish

An Unmatched Celtic Community

By: William Barnaby Faherty

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The St. Louis Irish

An Unmatched Celtic Community

By: William Barnaby Faherty

A French-founded frontier village that transformed into a booming nineteenth-century industrial mecca dominated by Germans, the city of St. Louis nonetheless resounds from the influence of Irish immigrants. Both the history and the maps of the city are dotted with the enduring legacies of familiar celts--John Mullanphy, John O'Fallon, Cardinal John J. Glennon--but the true marks of the Irish in St. Louis were made by the common immigrants--those who fled their homeland to settle in the Kerry Patch on St. Louis's near north side--and their battle to maintain cultural, ethnographic, and religious roots. Popular local historian William Barnaby Faherty, S.J., offers readers a look into the history and effects of the Irish immigration to St. Louis. The author can now be placed within a rich Irish heritage in the world of publishing: Joseph Charless, editor of the first newspaper west of the Mississippi, the Missouri Gazette; William Marion Reedy, editor of the Mirror and nineteenth-century literary mogul; Joseph McCullagh, editor of the Globe-Democrat in the late nineteenth century; and controversial author Kate (O'Flaherty) Chopin. The Irish in St. Louis is an enticing ethnographic history of one nationality clinging to its roots in a melting- pot American city. Both visitor and native St. Louisian, Irish or not, will relish this history of one of St. Louis's most enduring communities.

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298

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Missouri History Museum

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1883982391

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9781883982393

The Delusions of Crowds

Why People Go Mad in Groups

By: William J. Bernstein

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The Delusions of Crowds

Why People Go Mad in Groups

By: William J. Bernstein

This “disturbing yet fascinating” exploration of mass mania through the ages explains the biological and psychological roots of irrationality (Kirkus Reviews). From time immemorial, contagious narratives have spread through susceptible groups—with enormous, often disastrous, consequences. Inspired by Charles Mackay’s nineteenth-century classic Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, neurologist and author William Bernstein examines mass delusion through the lens of current scientific research in The Delusions of Crowds. Bernstein tells the stories of dramatic religious and financial mania in western society over the last five hundred years—from the Anabaptist Madness of the 1530s to the dangerous End-Times beliefs that pervade today’s polarized America; and from the South Sea Bubble to the Enron scandal and dot com bubbles. Through Bernstein’s supple prose, the participants are as colorful as their “desire to improve one’s well-being in this life or the next.” Bernstein’s chronicles reveal the huge cost and alarming implications of mass mania. He observes that if we can absorb the history and biology of this all-too-human phenomenon, we can recognize it more readily in our own time, and avoid its frequently dire impact.

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491

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Grove Press

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ISBN 10

0802157114

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9780802157119

Using Paired Text to Meet the Common Core

Effective Teaching across the K-8 Curriculum

By: William Bintz

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Using Paired Text to Meet the Common Core

Effective Teaching across the K-8 Curriculum

By: William Bintz

Teaching students to make connections across related texts promotes engagement and improves reading comprehension and content learning. This practical guide explains how to select and teach a wide range of picture books as paired text--two books related by topic, theme, or genre--in grades K-8. The author provides mini-lessons across the content areas, along with hundreds of recommendations for paired text, each linked to specific Common Core standards for reading literature and informational texts. In a large-size format for easy photocopying, the book includes 22 reproducible graphic organizers and other useful tools. Purchasers also get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials.

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233

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Guilford Publications

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ISBN 10

1462519016

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9781462519019

August "Garry" Herrmann

A Baseball Biography

By: William A. Cook

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August "Garry" Herrmann

A Baseball Biography

By: William A. Cook

August Garry Herrmann entered the murky waters of 19th century machine politics in Cincinnati, serving as a trusted lieutenant to one of the most powerful political bosses in the country, George B. Cox. Herrmann, a gifted man who introduced modern management principles to municipal government and oversaw the committee that built Cincinnati's modern water works system, eventually did for baseball what he did for his home town, guiding it into a new century. Along with George B. Cox and Cincinnati mayor Julius Fleischmann, Herrmann bought the Cincinnati Reds from John T. Brush in 1902. By 1903 he had chaired the peace conference between the leagues that ushered in the modern game. With the leagues united, Herrmann was selected to head up the National Commission, a three-person ruling body that governed major league baseball in the years before the commissionership.

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McFarland

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ISBN 10

0786430737

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9780786430734

Ars Poetriae

Rhetorical and Grammatical Invention at the Margin of Literacy

By: William Michael Purcell

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Ars Poetriae

Rhetorical and Grammatical Invention at the Margin of Literacy

By: William Michael Purcell

Purcell suggests that the medieval genre holds contemporary significance as a model for rhetorical concerns brought to light by the critiques of post-modernism and feminism. Purcell examines the six Latin artes poetriae or works intended to instruct students in the composition of prose and poetry. He contends that because of their position in the shift from oral to written communication, the treatises reveal much about the nature of rhetoric and grammar.

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212

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Univ of South Carolina Press

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1570030596

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9781570030598

Moneywood

Hollywood in Its Last Age of Excess

By: William Stadiem

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Moneywood

Hollywood in Its Last Age of Excess

By: William Stadiem

As wild and sexy and over-the-top as the decade it brings to life, "Moneywood"is the inside story of Hollywood producers in the 1980s. The purse strings were not controlled by adults, but by pop culture cowboys who couldn't balance their own checkbooks but could fast talk the talent. This is a meaty expos of the real hit men of Hollywood's last go-go decade.

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Macmillan

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0312656890

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9780312656898

Book's by William Murphy

Murphy's War Stories

Murphy's War Stories

Boyd's New York City Tax-Book

Boyd's New York City Tax-Book

True Heroines

True Heroines

Ireland

Ireland

The St. Louis Irish

The St. Louis Irish

The Delusions of Crowds

The Delusions of Crowds

Using Paired Text to Meet the Common Core

Using Paired Text to Meet the Common Core

August "Garry" Herrmann

August "Garry" Herrmann

Ars Poetriae

Ars Poetriae

Moneywood

Moneywood

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