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Jack is an out-of-work investment banker and part-time lounge pianist, who's on the run from the SEC and the Russian mob. Nevada is an aging porn star turned industry icon with a passion for animal husbandry and younger men. Dmitriy is an ex-cosmonaut turned international hit man with a weakness for American pop culture and very large women. Shavkat is a terrorist turned taxi-driver with a penchant for violent swordplay and odd headgear. Pyotr is an ex-KGB colonel turned bank security officer with plans to launch an apocalyptic world revolution. Mix in some local Shriners, veteran bikers, and minor league baseball fans, and you've got the makings of a very long, hot summer day in Durham, North Carolina.
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White Pigeon
White Pigeon Adventures. Another day at work. A journey thru space and time. Will I make it home today?
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A to Z of United States-China Relations
The relationship between the United States of America and the People's Republic of China is traced in this dictionary containing hundreds of cross-referenced entries on the presidents and prime ministers, the secretaries of state and foreign ministers, other key players, and the more significant institutions and events. Everything from the Boxer Uprising in the late 19th Century to Nixon's historic visit to China in 1972, from the crisis over U.S. arms sales to Taiwan in 1982 to the U.S. bombing of the Chinese Embassy at Belgrade in 1999 is covered in this highly accessible scholarly work. The A to Z of United States-China Relations introduction and chronology delineate the many differences in political, military, and ideological issues between the two countries. Two appendixes list all the United States Presidents and Secretaries of State, as well as all the Republic of China Presidents and Prime Ministers and the People's Republic of China Presidents and Prime Ministers, respectively. Supplementing the material is an extremely detailed bibliography of related materials.
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My Work Is That of Conservation
George Washington Carver (ca. 1864–1943) is at once one of the most familiar and misunderstood figures in American history. In My Work Is That of Conservation, Mark D. Hersey reveals the life and work of this fascinating man who is widely—and reductively—known as the African American scientist who developed a wide variety of uses for the peanut.Carver had a truly prolific career dedicated to studying the ways in which people ought to interact with the natural world, yet much of his work has been largely forgotten. Hersey rectifies this by tracing the evolution of Carver’s agricultural and environmental thought starting with his childhood in Missouri and Kansas and his education at the Iowa Agricultural College. Carver’s environmental vision came into focus when he moved to the Tuskegee Institute in Macon County, Alabama, where his sensibilities and training collided with the denuded agrosystems, deep poverty, and institutional racism of the Black Belt. It was there that Carver realized his most profound agricultural thinking, as his efforts to improve the lot of the area’s poorest farmers forced him to adjust his conception of scientific agriculture.Hersey shows that in the hands of pioneers like Carver, Progressive Era agronomy was actually considerably “greener” than is often thought today. My Work Is That of Conservation uses Carver’s life story to explore aspects of southern environmental history and to place this important scientist within the early conservation movement.
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John Sutter
In the history of the American frontier, John Sutter (1803-1880) looms large. A Swiss expatriate who attempted to create a personal empire in California's Sacramento Valley, he founded New Helvetia, a cosmopolitan settlement whose economy depended on Indian slaves and free laborers. New Helvetia drew overland immigrants to California in the 1840s and then - after gold was discovered by Sutter's employees - a flood of fortune seekers. Sutter was poised to become one of the richest men in the West, but rapacious settlers and his own poor business sense sent his dreams crashing.Albert L. Hurtado has written the definitive biography of Sutter, mining a wealth of sources to create the first fully documented account of the man and his times. John Sutter explores Sutter's life in the broader context of America's rush for westward expansion while plumbing the inner dynamics of this erstwhile empire-builder.Sutter was a quintessential outsider driven by anxiety over status - a man of talent, vision, and heroic ambitions who nevertheless became the victim of his own inadequacies as a businessman and his inability to adjust to a rapidly changing frontier. Sutter was full of contradictions. While building a reputation as a humanitarian friend of destitute immigrants, he callously exploited Indians. Nevertheless, this penniless dreamer became one of the most important men in California and a major player in the American conquest of the West.
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California Gold Rush
In January of 1848, James Marshall discovered gold at Sutter's Mill in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. For a year afterward, news of this discovery spread outward from California and started a mass migration to the gold fields. Thousands of people from the East Coast aspiring to start new lives in California financed their journey West on the assumption that they would be able to find wealth. Some were successful, many were not, but they all permanently changed the face of the American West.In this text, Mark Eifler examines the experiences of the miners, demonstrates how the gold rush affected the United States, and traces the development of California and the American West in the second half of the nineteenth century. This migration dramatically shifted transportation systems in the US, led to a more powerful federal role in the West, and brought about mining regulation that lasted well into the twentieth century. Primary sources from the era and web materials help readers comprehend what it was like for these nineteenth-century Americans who gambled everything on the pursuit of gold.
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Lesen und Gefangen-Sein
In der ersten umfassenden Untersuchung zum Bücherverleih und zu den Bibliotheken in Schweizer Gefängnissen und Justizvollzugseinrichtungen zeigt Thomas Sutter auf, wie Organisation, Strukturen und personelle Faktoren die Gefängnisbibliotheksarbeit beeinflussen und welche Lektüremodalitäten in Gefangenschaft an Bedeutung gewinnen. Zusätzlich geht der Autor in einer komparativen Analyse von fünf ausgewählten Gefängnisromanen der literarischen Darstellung des Bücherlesens, der Bibliotheken und der Leserfiguren nach. In einem übergreifenden Fazit werden schließlich die Bedeutung des Lesens im Gefängnis(roman) diskutiert und Handlungsempfehlungen für die Gefängnisbibliotheksarbeit formuliert.
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Virtual Power
Mark Bunting, presenter of his own televison shows on computers in America, combines plain-language explanations and infectious enthusiasm to transform the way people think about their home computers. After all, the Personal Computer is not merely an expensive machine bought for typing letters; it can become the most extraordinary tool because it enables the user to build, fix, or create whatever they will. In VIRTUAL POWER, entrepeneurs will learn how to write business plans, keep abreast of financial news, and chat with colleagues and customers. Students can access accurate, up-to-date information on any subject; hobbyists can hook up with others who share their interests; and people eager to expand their circle of friends can tap into a world of new possiblities. Bunting's user-friendly, accessible guide to maximising potential of computers is sure to become a backlist staple for many seasons to come.
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Good Son
From the bestselling author of Pistol and Namath, a vivid, revealing, and fast-paced biography of the great boxer Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini. Frank Sinatra fawned over him. Warren Zevon wrote a tribute song. Sylvester Stallone produced his life story as a movie of the week. In the 1980s, Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini wasn't merely the lightweight champ. An adoring public considered him a national hero, the real Rocky. But it all came apart on November 13, 1982, in a brutal battle at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. Mancini's obscure Korean challenger, Duk Koo Kim, went down in the fourteenth round and never regained consciousness. Three months later, Kim's despondent mother took her own life. The deaths would haunt Ray and ruin his carefully crafted image, suddenly transforming boxing's All-American Boy into a pariah. With the vivid style and deep reporting that have earned him renown as a biographer, Mark Kriegel has written a fast-paced epic. The Good Son is an intimate history, a saga of fathers and fighters, loss and redemption.
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US-China Relations
Much has changed in US-China relations since the first edition of this book over a decade ago alerted readers to balance outwardly positive discourse in multiple bilateral dialogues with an understanding of important differences. This fourth edition provides a comprehensive assessment of historical and contemporary determinants of Sino-American relations up to the present, giving special focus to the recent dramatic hardening amid acute competition between the world’s leading powers. The catalyst and main driver of this negative change remains a unique bipartisan Congressional-Administration consensus that sees multiple challenges from China now posing an overall existential threat. Urgency to counter these challenges dominates US policy making toward China. The consensus came about despite acute partisanship and erratic presidential leadership during the Trump administration and it continues strong with the more consistent foreign policy of President Biden. China remains uncompromising, forecasting continued trouble ahead.Leading expert Robert G. Sutter has written the only book on the subject that combines assessment of the historical evolution, in-depth analysis of the many issues determining recent developments, and likely prospects for US-China relations going forward. His balanced study will be an essential resource for all concerned with the globe's most crucial bilateral partnership.
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