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Report copyright infringementby LM Taylor (Author)Discover your love for football: The easiest way to learn the game inside out and understand football like a number one fan. Does it seem like everyone around you is deep into the world of football but each game day leaves you feeling confused or out of the loop?Do you wish you could learn the rules, the lingo and the basics without endless hours of studying the game?American football is one of the most watched sports in the world, but that do...

Passionate Work: Choreographing a Dance Career

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Report copyright infringementby Ruth Horowitz (Author)Corps de ballet literally means the "body" of the ballet company, and it refers to the group of dancers who are not principals. Another large group of dancers puts together portfolios of work, often across several dance companies. These categories of dancers typically don't have name recognition and yet comprise the majority of professional dancers today. The ways that they stitch together careers, through dedication, grit, and no small am...

Women's Suffrage: The Complete Guide to the Nineteenth Amendment

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Report copyright infringementby Tiffany K. Wayne (Editor)This is the "everything" women's suffrage and Nineteenth Amendment book, coming just as the country celebrates the centenary of the constitutional amendment that finally brought the vote to all American women. Women's Suffrage: The Complete Guide to the Nineteenth Amendment tells the dramatic story of American women's long fight for the vote and passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. A veritable library on all thi...

Trump the Great! the 45th & 47th President of the United States. God's End-Time Vesell

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Report copyright infringementby Pastor Cliff McAnthony (Author)This book is about God's revelations to me about President Donald J. Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States, and about the End-Time events. I have written this book because of what God said to me in November 2016 that keeps reechoing in my ears. On Thursday morning November 3, 2016, the week before the presidential election between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, God said to me; "Cliff, I showed you such a great...

Hill Folks: A History of Arkansas Ozarkers and Their Image

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Report copyright infringementby Brooks Blevins (Author)The Ozark region, located in northern Arkansas and southern Missouri, has long been the domain of the folklorist and the travel writer -- a circumstance that has helped shroud its history in stereotype and misunderstanding. With Hill Folks, Brooks Blevins offers the first in-depth historical treatment of the Arkansas Ozarks. He traces the region's history from the early nineteenth century through the end of the twentieth century and, in t...

History of the Mariana Islands (2nd Edition)

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Report copyright infringementby S. J. (Author), Alexandre Coello de la Rosa (Editor)Histoire des isles Marianes (History of the Mariana Islands), was published in Paris in 1700 with authorship attributed to French Jesuit priest Charles Le Gobien, S.J. It provides a detailed glimpse into a tumultuous and critically significant period in the history of the Mariana Islands and the CHamoru people--the period commonly referred to as the CHamoru-Spanish Wars. It includes detailed accounts of the fi...

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Report copyright infringementby Sarah Milledge Nelson (Author)Gyeongju, the capital of the Kingdom of Silla, grew from a loose confederation of villages, called Saro, to become the capital of most of the Korean peninsula. Its relationships with Japan, the Eurasian Steppes, and countries along the Silk Road leading to Europe helped to make the city one of the most prosperous and significant in ancient East Asia. In this seminal new volume, Sarah Milledge Nelson draws on over 30 years' experien...

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Report copyright infringementby Andrew Fiala (Author)SUMMARY This book provides an overview of nonviolence. It offers answers to the questions of what nonviolence is, how and why it ought to be used, and who ought to employ it. The book discusses examples of successful nonviolent social protest, from twentieth century movements for civil rights and colonial liberation to the Arab Spring and contemporary Black Lives Matter protests, and considers recent research that explains the power of nonv...

Inside the Brotherhood: Explosive Secrets of the Freemasons

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Report copyright infringementby Martin Short (Author)Explosive Secrets of the Freemasons When the House of Commons Affairs Committee recently recommended that police officers, magistrates, judges and crown officers should publicly register their masonic membership, it was vary largely thanks to the ammunition provided by Martin Short's investigative tour de force. His inside the Brotherhood carried on the pioneering work begun by Stephen Knight's explosive of the Brotherhood. Num...

The Witch of Pungo: Grace Sherwood in Virginia History and Legend

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Report copyright infringementby Scott O. Moore (Author)The authoritative cultural history of Virginia's most famous accused witch In 1706, Grace Sherwood was "ducked" after her neighbors in Princess Anne County accused her of witchcraft. Binding and throwing her into the Lynnhaven River, they waited to see whether she would float to the top (evidence of her guilt) or sink (proof of her innocence). Incredibly, she survived. This bizarre spectacle became an early piece of Virginia folklore as ...

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Report copyright infringementby Stanley South (Author)In Archaeology at Colonial Brunswick, Stanley South recounts the decade-long excavation of this important North Carolina colonial port. He provides historical context and detailed interpretation of the many hundreds of objects uncovered. South's narrative guides the reader through a town and a way of life that ended more than two centuries ago. The experience is enhances by 196 illustrations that include photographs of excavated buildings ...

Grounded Identidad: Making New Lives in Chicago's Puerto Rican Neighborhoods

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Report copyright infringementby Merida M. Rua (Author)Chicago is home to the third-largest concentration of Puerto Ricans in the United States, but scholarship on the city rarely accounts for their presence. This book is part of an effort to include Puerto Ricans in Chicago's history. Rúa traces Puerto Ricans' construction of identity in a narrative that begins in 1945, when a small group of University of Puerto Rico graduates earned scholarships to attend the University of Chicago and a priv...

Ron Jeremy: The Hardest (Working) Man in Showbiz

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Report copyright infringementby Ron Jeremy (Author)He's the porn world's Everyman. Blessed with an enormous "talent" yet average looks, he's starred in more than 1,700 adult films, directed 250 of them, and over the last twenty years has become porn's biggest ambassador to the mainstream. He's appeared in 60 regular films, 14 music videos, and VH1's Surreal Life, starred in the critically acclaimed Porn star (a movie about his life), and in Being Ron Jeremy (a take off on Being John Malkovich...

Worth Fighting for: Finding Courage and Compassion When Cruelty Is Trending

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Report copyright infringementby John Pavlovitz (Author)A 2024 Foreword INDIES Award Finalist "An urgent and passionate commentator, [John Pavlovitz] lives in the tension between despair and hope." - Presbyterian Outlook "John Pavlovitz's Worth Fighting For is a stirring playbook for Christians who strive to ensure that kindness triumphs over toxicity. Forthright and encouraging, Worth Fighting For envisions a grassroots revolution of love led by a 'compassionate coalition of those who give a ...

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Report copyright infringementby Randong Yuan (Author)Pension Sustainability in China: Fragmented Administration and Population Aging aims to investigate the impact of fragmentation and population ageing on pension sustainability in China. The book demonstrates how pension sustainability is compromised by various adverse effects produced by fragmentation, such as the moral hazard caused by the disarticulated intergovernmental fiscal responsibility. An overlapping generations (OLG) model is upd...

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Report copyright infringementby Raphaela Henze (Editor), Federico Escribal (Editor)Cultural Management and Policy in Latin America provides in-depth insights into the education and training of cultural managers from interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives.Author BiographyRaphaela Henze is Professor of Cultural Management at Heilbronn University, Germany.Federico Escribal is Professor of Cultural Management at the National University for the Arts, Argentina. Number of Pages...

The Collapse of Our Monetary System With the Rise of AI

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Report copyright infringementby Benjamin M (Author)As artificial intelligence accelerates past human control, the foundations of our global economy begin to fracture. This compelling exposé explores the convergence of advanced AI and the vulnerabilities of modern finance, tracing how automation, algorithmic dominance, and decentralised technologies are undermining traditional monetary systems. From the silent displacement of jobs to the erosion of central banking authority, The Collapse of Ou...

Sociology, Work and Organisation: Seventh Edition

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Report copyright infringementby Tony Watson (Author)The seventh edition of Sociology, Work and Organisation is outstandingly effective in explaining how we can use the sociological imagination to understand the nature of institutions of work, organisations, occupations, management and employment and how they are changing in the twenty-first century.Intellectual and accessible, it is unrivalled in the breadth of its coverage and its authoritative overview of both traditional and emergent theme...

Chinese Hinterland Capitalism and Shanxi Piaohao: Banking, State, and Family, 1720-1910

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Report copyright infringementby Luman Wang (Author)This book examines Shanxi piaohao - private financiers from the Chinese hinterland - in the economic and business history of late imperial China, forming the original theory of Chinese hinterland capitalism.Author BiographyLuman Wang holds a doctorate in history from the University of Southern California and now teaches at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Her research aims to narrate the long-ignored histories of the Chinese hinterland...

Touching the Heart of Milton Keynes: A Social Perspective

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Report copyright infringementby Susan Popoola (Author)Carefully and lovingly researched, this is a tale of roundabouts and concrete cows, of earlier settlers often marginalised and forgotten, of a promising football team, of lakes and water sports, a thriving business and social community with unique issues, but a very promising future. Susan Popoola opens up a discussion that brings Milton Keynes to life in a concise, yet comprehensive and multi-dimensional exploration of a city often misund...

How to Communicate: The Right Way - 3 Manuscripts in 1 Book, Including: How to Talk to People, How to Ask Questions and How to Be Funny

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Report copyright infringementby Dean Mack (Author)3 Manuscripts in 1 Book, Including: How to Talk to People, How to Ask Questions and How to Be Funny!Book 1)How to Talk to People: The Right Way - The Only 7 Steps You Need to Master Conversation Skills, Effective Communication and Conversation Tactics TodayHere's What You'll Learn: How to prepare and have the right mindset to have a conversation with the desired personHow to learn to listen to the other personHow to ask the right questions, wh...

Class and Inequality in the Time of Finance: Subject to Terms and Conditions

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Report copyright infringementby Niamh Mulcahy (Author)This book explores the effects of the gradual liberalisation of capital markets and the expansion of consumer credit on poorer households in the UK, drawing on the thought of Foucault and Althusser to examine the precariousness caused by a lack of savings and a reliance on debt at a time of reorganisation or rollback of government benefits. Author BiographyNiamh Mulcahy is Alice Tong Sze Research Fellow at Lucy Cavendish College, and the C...

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Report copyright infringementby Yenn Purkis (Author), Wenn Lawson (Author), Emma Goodall (Foreword by)'A must-read!' FINLAY GAMES This essential survival guide gives autistic trans and/or non-binary adults all the tools and strategies they need to live as their very best self. Blending personal accounts with evidence-based insights and up-to-date information, and written from a perspective of empowerment and self-acceptance, the book promotes pride, strength and authenticity, covering topics ...

Halal Logistics and Supply Chain Management in Southeast Asia

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Report copyright infringementby Nor Aida Abdul Rahman (Editor), Azizul Hassan (Editor), Mohammad Fakhrulnizam Mohammad (Editor)This book gives an overview of what Halal is in logistics and supply chain management and discusses related issues and challenges in Southeast Asia. The book also examines halal logistics and supply chain in reference to global trends and practices. Author BiographyNor Aida Abdul Rahman is an Associate Professor at Universiti Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and currently serv...

10 Basic Servant Principles to Improve Leadership: Strategies That Highly Effective Leaders Embraced

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Report copyright infringementby Paul Yang (Author)Servant leadership, rooted in Robert Greenleaf's theory, emphasizes leaders as role models who lead by nurturing and supporting others. This approach is essential in law enforcement, where leaders often face challenging, unpredictable decisions. Traditional autocratic leadership-characterized by strict command and control-is common in police work due to the need for quick decision-making. However, this style can overlook the importance of enga...

Information Systems Foundations: Theory Building in Information Systems

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Report copyright infringementby Dennis N. Hart (Editor), Shirley Gregor (Editor)This volume presents the papers from the fifth biennial Information Systems Foundations Workshop, held at The Australian National University in Canberra from 30 September to 1 October 2010. The focus of the workshop was, as for the others in the series, the foundations of information systems as an academic discipline. The emphasis in the 2010 workshop was on theory building in information systems, which is a non-t...

The Basque Diaspora Webscape: Identity, Nation, and Homeland, 1990s-2010s

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Report copyright infringementby Pedro J. Oiarzabal (Author)The Basque Diaspora Webscape documents a particular conjunctural moment in which the webmasters of Basque associations around the world configure and project Basque ethnic identity-itself a work in progress. It provides prima facie, even "official," evidence of how identity may become nuanced differently according to the wider local setting of each diaspora and with respect to identity maintenance in the European Basque homeland. It c...

Critical Mass: A Primer for Living with the Future

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Report copyright infringementby Pat McGrew (Author), Bill McDaniel (Joint Author) Number of Pages: 152 Dimensions: 0.35 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: November 01, 2000

The Temple That Never Sleeps: Freemasons and E-Masonry Toward a New Paradigm

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Report copyright infringementby Gerald Reilly (Author), Josh Heller (Author)A revolutionary book for every Freemason.The two authors, American and UK Masons, present a radical view of Freemasonry for both today and tomorrow. In addition to their ideas are those of numerous Internet Masons (E-Masons) from around the world who, by sharing the experience of their own Masonic journey, have provided stunning personal insight into the viability of the Craft in the Internet Age.This book will challe...

In the Line of Inquiry: Solving the Unsolvable

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Report copyright infringementby Jeff A. Schwarz (Author)Unravel the Mysteries of the Criminal MindDelve into the intricate world of criminal investigation with an eye-opening journey through the minds of those who dare to solve the unsolvable. In the Line of Inquiry: Solving the Unsolvable weaves a compelling tapestry of methodical analysis and pioneering techniques, drawing you into the realm of detectives and forensic scientists who relentlessly pursue justice.Discover the tools and minds b...

The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

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Report copyright infringementby Larry Mitchell (Author), Ned Asta (Illustrator)"Part fairy tale, part radical manifesto, entirely unequaled." --The New York TimesA facsimile edition of the classic 1970s book with new essays and archival material. The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions, written by Larry Mitchell with illustrations by Ned Asta, takes place in a brutal empire in decline, where the faggots and their friends are surviving the ways and the world of men. Beloved by many s...

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Report copyright infringementby Pierre Devolder (Author), Sébastien de Valeriola (Author)This book offers a broad and up-to-date account of the actuarial principles of pensions. Divided into three parts, it includes discussions on both social security schemes and private pension funds, and aspects of life insurance. The first part presents the general principles of pension schemes. After a general look at the pension issue and some basic elements of demography, the main methods of financing a...