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Clint Eastwood-actor, director, composer, musician, and politician-is undeniably one of the most prolific and accomplished celebrities of the modern age. This book provides insights into Eastwood's life and entire career, from early television app...

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For more than 5,000 years, massive empires have met on the battlefield to determine the future course of world history. Ranging from Sumer, the world's first imperial state, to the fall of the Byzantine Empire, this comprehensive three-volume set,...

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The book goes beyond the assembly line to examine the physical environment of the industrial landscape. What machines are used to make cars and computer chips? Who are the people who make the products? When did robots replace humans on the assembl...

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In July 1979, Saddam Hussein became the President of Iraq. His dictum was simply expressed-power through terror. During the first decade of his presidency, Saddam engaged in three wars: the Iran-Iraq War, the invasion of Kuwait, and the Gulf War o...

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Today's Retro Swing bands, like the Squirrel Nut Zippers and the Brian Setzer Orchestra, all owe their inspiration to the original masters of Swing. This rich reference details the oeuvre of the leading Swing musicians from the WWII and post-...

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The early swing era of jazz, from 1930 to 1941, represents both an extension of developments of the previous decade and an introduction of new tendencies that influenced subsequent periods of jazz history. Major big bands and individual artists es...

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Notable Women in the Physical Sciences features substantive biographical essays on 96 world and American women scientists who have made significant contributions to the physical sciences from antiquity to the present. The essays go beyond the basi...

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As corporations move aggressively into the business of education, the boudaries between the profit and nonprofit sectors are blurring, forcing administrators to adopt a strategic approach to ensuring the health of their institutions. This book sho...

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In candid interviews, former academic presidents speak on the record about their experiences with faculty, students, trustees, and legislators, describing conflicts, frustrations, and failures as well as successful governance strategies.

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Lyall and Sell have opened a candid public policy discussion about the future of public universities. This is the only book-length treatment of public higher education finance at the beginning of the 21st century that looks comprehensively at stat...

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Eason provides an extensive overview of the mythology, legends, and folklore surrounding fabulous and strange fantasy creatures from diffferent lands and ages, from Chinese dragons and the Native North American thunderbird to the demon hounds of C...

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?This little book is a vade mecum through the labyrinth of the history and development of free thought in America.... A helpful book in any library, an essential item on any campus where courses in religion, U.S. history, and American studies are ...

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?This volume is a fine bibliographical contribution to a field of study that is both important and increasingly relevant to the general study of higher education.?-Choice

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?This annotated bibliography provides a sound, basic introduction to the literature of management education and development.... Herbert and Yost have reviewed the literature for the past two decades and provide the reader with a quality selection ...

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?This work treats four aspects of college counseling services: foundations, administration, programming, and current directions....That such a state of the art handbook could be written without excessive use of jargon is a major accomplishment. Co...

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Lists and describes articles about child abuse and its prevention, causes, manifestations, and legal issues.

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This tool fills an important gap for all science collections. Choice

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International works of approximately the past forty years, omitting only the architectural media, listed according to their locations and illustrative accessibility within two extensive indexes, artist and subject and title.

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?This collection includes citations of over 1400 items arranged in seven subject areas and indexed by subject, compiler, and issuing agency.... Research collections and professionals in the field will find this item of great value.?-Library Journal

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?This bibliography represents an impressive effort on the part of the compiler. An important source for African and biology collections.?-American Reference Book Annual

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?This bibliography offers a comprehensive listing (arranged alphabetically and chronologically) of speeches and talks made by politicians, literary figures, and social activists from the earliest days of recorded sound in the 1880s until the 1950s...

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"This practical, comprehesive, and well-organized book by an experienced conductor and educator is the very first to concentrate on this type of performing group and its special needs. . . . Valuable appendixes give IRS rulings, suggested aud...

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In the last several decades, interest in this leader of the English romantic movement has increased dramatically. More and more scholars are publishing books and articles about Coleridge; more and more students are writing their theses and dissert...

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?A good concise discussion of the forces behind the realistic movement in literature precedes this very useful bibliography--an essential book in any library.?-Choice

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?This is an index to psychic experiences found in books, magazines, and newspapers....It is a pioneer work.?-Library Journal

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