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Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America |
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John M. Barry |
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When Mother Nature rages, the physical results are never subtle. Because we cannot contain the weather, we can only react by tabulating the damage in dollar amounts, estimating the number of people left homeless, and laying the plans for rebuilding. But as John M. Barry expertly details in Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America, some calamities transform much more than the landscape. While tracing the history of the nation's most destructive natural disaster, Barry explains how ineptitude and greed helped cause the flood, and how the policies created to deal with the disaster changed the culture of the Mississippi Delta. Existing racial rifts expanded, helping to launch Herbert Hoover into the White House and shifting the political alliances of many blacks in the process. An... |
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Executioner |
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Stewart P. Evans |
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James Berry was Britain's hangman from 1884-92. He built his own black museum and kept scrapbooks relating to his activities. His job evidently had its effect on him as, in retirement, Berry became so depressed he tried to commit suicide.
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A Nest Full of Stars |
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James Berry |
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0060527471 |
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From School Library Journal
Grade 3-6--In his foreword, Berry explains that he was raised in Jamaica and always longed to hear the music of the Caribbean Creole language in poetry. These 60 selections, divided into six broad categories, are simple and spoken in the voice of a child. Most of the poems concern the universal events and emotions of childhood, such as the excitement of a good grade in school or the sounds of a snoring father, and will appeal to young writers and readers. However, the most interesting poems are those that depict island life. For example, from "Everyday Music": "All a mix together/village sounds make my music/with fighting dogs yelping/birds in trees twittering/a lonely goat bleating/hidden ground doves cooing/hidden mongoose shrieking." Occasional British words or island lingo may be unfamiliar to youngsters... |
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Leadership Challenge Workbook |
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James M. Kouzes |
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Based on Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner's classic book The Leadership Challenge, this Workbook will be your hands-on guide for improving your ability to put into action the Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership® model and become a leader who Models the Way, Inspires a Shared Vision, Challenges the Process, Enables Others to Act, and Encourages the Heart.
The Workbook's easy-to-use worksheets make efficient planning simple and practical and supports your success in three ways: Reflection: Think about your approach to leadership and become more conscious about how well you engage in each of the Practices. Application: Apply the Practices and commitments to all your projects. Implications: Record what you've learned about yourself, your team, your... |
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Ajeemah and His Son |
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James R. Berry |
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0064405230 |
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From Publishers Weekly
With its very first line--"That wiping out of Atu and Sisi's wedding was always going to be one of the painful happenings"--this poignant narrative takes on the age-old voice of a folktale. On their way to present a dowry of gold to Sisi's parents, Ajeemah and his son Atu, the groom-to-be, are kidnapped, sold to slave traders and taken to Jamaica, where they are sold to different white estate-owners. From the onset of their new lives, both Ajeemah and Atu are determined not only to escape but to wreak revenge upon the slaveholders as well. Despite the similarity of their plans, father and son end up with quite different fates. This tale, though brief, is packed with details of a slave's frustrating and demeaning life; for the most part, Berry's ( A Thief in His Village ) prose incorporates this information... |
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The Beach House |
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James Patterson |
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The Environmental Law and Compliance Handbook |
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James F. Berry |
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0071340947 |
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Book Description
Detailed roadmap through the maze of environmental laws and regulations Written in straightforward, nonlegal language, this guide covers all the compliance issues that environmental professionals must master. Regulatory coverage includes overviews and discussions related to NEPA; The Clean Water Act of 1977; The Endangered Species Act of 1973; Clean Air Act Amendments of 1970, 1977, and 1990; The Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976; The Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act; CERCLA; Superfund; and more. You'll also learn about national environmental policy...state and local regulation...and environmental laws and regulations in Europe, Japan, China and Russia.
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Shows consultants and in-house environmental managers how to guide their companies... |
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The Leadership Challenge |
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| Author: |
James M. Kouzes |
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0787968331 |
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In the 1980s and again in the '90s, James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner published The Leadership Challenge to address issues they uncovered in research on ordinary people achieving "individual leadership standards of excellence." The keys they identified--model the way, inspire a shared vision, challenge the process, enable others to act, encourage the heart--have now been reexamined in the context of the post-millennium world and updated in a third edition. "What we have discovered, and rediscovered, is that leadership is not the private reserve of a few charismatic men and women," write Kouzes, chairman emeritus of the Tom Peters Company, and Posner, dean of the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University. "People make extraordinary things happen by liberating the leader within everyone." After explaining their... |
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A Thief in the Village |
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James Berry |
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0140343571 |
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From Publishers Weekly
The phrases in these stories, all set in Jamaica, are musical in print, even before they are read aloud. "I know total-total that if I had my own bike, the Wheels-and-Brake Boys wouldn't treat me like that," Becky tells readers in "Becky and the Wheels-and-Brake-Boys," and, with those words, her determination is established. By the end of the tale, she gets her wish and rides alongside the boys who had seemed to her fearless. "Usually I think I live in the poorest back-o'-wall bush place," begins the narrator of "All Other Days Run into Sunday," a boy who knows that the mischief of the other days of the week always tries to creep into Sunday's calm specialness. In the title story, an honest man is maligned in such a way that the villagers may never again be so sure of themselves. Berry's prose is liquid and cool;... |
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Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI): Self |
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James M. Kouzes |
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0787967955 |
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The Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI) is the best-selling and most trusted leadership tool of its generation. Developed by Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner, the third edition of this celebrated instrument package approaches leadership as a measurable, learnable, and teachable set of behaviors. This 360° leadership assessment tool helps individuals and organizations measure their leadership competencies, while guiding them through the process of applying Kouzes and Posner's acclaimed Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership® Model to real-life organizational challenges.
The Leadeship Practices Inventory (LPI), Self Instrument is a 30-item questionnaire that is used by participants to rate themselves on The Five Practices® behaviors. Each participant needs one LPI Self Instrument.
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Jamberry Board Book |
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Bruce Degen |
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0694006513 |
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Hat and boot in hand, a boy and a bear set off on a delicious and raucous romp through Berryland. They frolic in strawberry fields forever, rumble and ramble in blackberry brambles, and topple their canoeberry with blueberries. Silly rhymes and a musical beat practically beg to be read aloud, preferably accompanied by dancing. New readers will giggle as they follow the fruit-frenzied pals on their berry adventures. Jamberry builds quickly in intensity and complexity, starting with "One berry, Two berry, Pick me a blueberry," and working up to "Raspberry, Jazzberry, Razzmatazzberry, Berryband, Merryband, Jamming in Berryland." Children will love discovering the subtle touches in Bruce Degen's illustrations: a frog climbing out of a hat, crackers and butter instead of lily pads, and a sign by the raspberry... |
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European Cities, Planning Systems and Property Markets |
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0419189408 |
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A common theme running through both the market economies of Western Europe and the old command economies of Eastern Europe is the desire to combine local economic development objectives with those of the international investor. It is in this context that the interaction between planning systems and property markets is of paramount importance.
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Cities of the Pacific Rim |
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James Berry |
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0419242805 |
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The cities of the Pacific Rim are in one of the most dynamic spheres of the global economy. They also offer a wide range of different responses to the demands that rapid growth puts on planning and infrastructure. This book considers the interactive relationships between the operation of the planning system and the role and performance of property development and real estate markets in 14 Pacific Rim cities drawn from both Eastern and Western perspectives.
About the Author
James Berry is Senior Lecturer in Property Investment, Development and Planning. Stanley McGreal is Professor of Property Research, School of the Built Environment, University of Ulster.
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Naked Lunch: The Restored Text |
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William S. Burroughs |
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"He was," as Salon's Gary Kamyia notes, "20th-century drug culture's Poe, its Artaud, its Baudelaire. He was the prophet of the literature of pure experience, a phenomenologist of dread.... Burroughs had the scary genius to turn the junk wasteland into a parallel universe, one as thoroughly and obsessively rendered as Blake's." Why has this homosexual ex-junkie, whose claim to fame rests entirely on one book--the hallucinogenic ravings of a heroin addict--so seized the collective imagination? Burroughs wrote Naked Lunch in a Tangier, Morocco, hotel room between 1954 and 1957. Allen Ginsberg and his beatnik cronies burst onto the scene, rescued the manuscript from the food-encrusted floor, and introduced some order to the pages. It was published in Paris in 1959 by the notorious Olympia Press... |
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Baby's First Tattoo: A Memory Book for Modern Parents |
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Jim Mullen |
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MILLIONS OF PEOPLE THINK CHILDREN ARE THE CUTEST,CUDDLIEST, MOST WONDERFUL, SAINTLY CREATURESIN THE ENTIRE WORLD.THESE PEOPLE DO NOT HAVE CHILDREN.THEY HAVE NICE THINGS. THEY COLLECT FRAGILE POTTERY. THEY HAVE CANDLELIT DINNERS IN FANCY RESTAURANTS. THEY GO TO MOVIES. THEY HAVE WHITE CARPETS.PEOPLE WITH SMALL CHILDREN HAVEN'T BEEN TO A RESTAURANT WITHOUTPLASTIC SILVERWARE IN YEARS. THE LAST MOVIE THEY SAW IN A THEATER IS NOWON AMERICAN MOVIE CLASSICS. THEIR HOUSE LOOKS LIKE IT WASDECORATED BY PEE-WEE HERMAN.BABY'S FIRST TATTOO IS FOR THEM.For years parents have been buying baby books to document all the precious moments in their new baby's life -- Baby's First Tooth, Baby's First Haircut, Baby's First Step. What have been ignored for too long are those "alternative" precious moments that really should be written down,... |
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Thief in the Village, and Other Stories |
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James Berry |
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Hardcover |
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0613272269 |
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From Publishers Weekly
The phrases in these stories, all set in Jamaica, are musical in print, even before they are read aloud. "I know total-total that if I had my own bike, the Wheels-and-Brake Boys wouldn't treat me like that," Becky tells readers in "Becky and the Wheels-and-Brake-Boys," and, with those words, her determination is established. By the end of the tale, she gets her wish and rides alongside the boys who had seemed to her fearless. "Usually I think I live in the poorest back-o'-wall bush place," begins the narrator of "All Other Days Run into Sunday," a boy who knows that the mischief of the other days of the week always tries to creep into Sunday's calm specialness. In the title story, an honest man is maligned in such a way that the villagers may never again be so sure of themselves. Berry's prose is liquid and cool;... |
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Classic Poems to Read Aloud |
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James Berry |
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0753456885 |
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From School Library Journal
Grade 4-8?Berry has selected 138 poems that represent a wide variety of voices and organized them by subject. Poets range from Shakespeare to Wordsworth and from Anne Sexton to Shel Silverstein. He includes Native American poems as well as selections from Africa, India, and his native Jamaica. Some sections, such as those on animals ("Varied Bodies, Varied Means"), humor ("Lighthearted Happenings"), and love ("Faces of Love"), are typical of the arrangement of poetry collections. Other groupings, such as "Not Havings, Longings, and Endings" and "Folks' Wise Talk and Inspiration," are more unusual. Small line drawings and 16 full-color paintings by various artists are interspersed throughout. A fine volume for read-aloud programs and where librarians are encouraging young people to savor the language of... |
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The Leadership Challenge |
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James M. Kouzes |
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0787956783 |
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In the 1980s and again in the '90s, James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner published The Leadership Challenge to address issues they uncovered in research on ordinary people achieving "individual leadership standards of excellence." The keys they identified--model the way, inspire a shared vision, challenge the process, enable others to act, encourage the heart--have now been reexamined in the context of the post-millennium world and updated in a third edition. "What we have discovered, and rediscovered, is that leadership is not the private reserve of a few charismatic men and women," write Kouzes, chairman emeritus of the Tom Peters Company, and Posner, dean of the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University. "People make extraordinary things happen by liberating the leader within everyone." After explaining their... |
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Carnival of the Animals |
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James Berry |
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076362960X |
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From School Library Journal
Kindergarten-Grade 8-Saint-Saëns's playful musical fantasy is well paired with Kitamura's menagerie of art and poems by 13 distinguished poets. Children can easily listen along since the CD offers a reading of each poem, followed by its corresponding musical passage from Carnival of the Animals. The recording concludes with a complete, uninterrupted performance of the piece by the Apollo Chamber Orchestra. The art and poems mesh seamlessly with the music. The first poem, James Berry's Lion, explains that the lion is a Wild beast outdoing all/eagles flying, whales swimming. But despite his skill at the hunt, the big cat is confronted with the question: Do your good looks, your mane of hair,/conceal your loneliness? A double-paged illustration depicts a large and powerful animal, alone, staring directly... |
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Peter and the Starcatchers (Audiobook) |
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Dave Barry |
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