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In the 1960s, a series of catastrophic assassinations forever altered the course of American history. A generation that looked forward to remaking the world into a more equitable, just, and…
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Mark Kirby
One dad was a college kid. One was a cancerous pedophile. One was a blundering dreamer. One was appropriately named, Dick. One was an elder statesman, who died, as elder…
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In the surreal time of a futuristic pandemic, Will Lawson is an everyman in many ways: a high school teacher, coach, husband, father, and grandfather who…
This text explores the rise in inequality in recent years. It includes empirical material on the key dimensions of inequality, including class, gender, ethnicity, age and disability, and considers both…
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Sharon Kane,Mark Kirby
This book explores debates about poverty, wealth and the welfare state from a sociological perspective, explaining the concepts of poverty and welfare, the pattern of their distribution and the causes…
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Mark Evanier
The first and only authorised celebration of the one and only King of Comics and his groundbreaking work–now in flexibind timed for Kirby’s centenary.
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Joe Simon,Jack Kirby
Over 350 pages of original art by comics legends Joe Simon and Jack Kirby.
Mark Alexander
Deals with two pop-culture visionaries who created the Fantastic Four . Calling on his years of research, and interviews conducted with Stan Lee, Mark Evanier, Joe Sinnott, and others, the…
John Morrow, Mark Evanier, Jack Kirby
In cooperation with DC Comics, TwoMorrows compiles a tempestuous trio of never-seen 1970s Kirby projects! These are the final complete, unpublished Jack Kirby stories in existence, presented here for the…
The words “you have one year to live” had an impact on author Kirby Smith and changed the way she lived her life. At the age of twenty-eight, she learned…
Mother Mectilde de Bar,Mectilde of the Blessed Sacrament
The first book by Mother Mectilde to appear in English, these words, steeped in Sacred Scripture and the liturgical tradition of Benedictine monasticism, reveal a woman of profound human insights…
Mark Edward Lender,James Kirby Martin
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In 1961 Stan Lee and Jack Kirby created The Fantastic Four-a powerhouse super hero team revolutionary for their flaws and complexity-that kicked the comic industry into high gear. This XXL…
Mark Waid
Sheila Nataraj Kirby,Scott Naftel,Mark Berends
Teacher supply and demand issues are of critical importance as our society enters the 21st century. Over the next decade, about two million new teachers will be needed largely because…
Sheila Nataraj Kirby,Mark Berends,Scott Naftel
This study sets forth the RAND statistical analyses determining both the areas of significant progress in the New American Schools scale-up of implementation of its whole-school reform designs, and various…
Mark Berends,Susan Bodilly,Sheila Nataraj Kirby
After a decade of studies, this report draws together RAND’s research on New American Schools, highlighting the organization’s significant contribution to comprehensive school reform and noting the challenges that came…
Stephen P. Olejniczak,Brady Kirby
Bridge data and voice with Asterisk! Create and maintain an economical Asterisk phone system from scratch Asterisk is the open-source PBX software that offers you the chance to save real…
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Dan Olmsted,Mark Blaxill
Olmsted and Blaxill present a Silent Spring for our mental health: exposing how mankind has unwittingly poisoned itself for half a millennium, and how autism is just the latest case…
JK Martin,Mark Edward Lender
A fully revised and updated third edition of the most established and innovative historical analysis of the Continental Army and its role in the formation of the new republic. *…
This book of essays by contributors from all over the world celebrates Mark Aronson’s profound contribution to administrative law.
David W. Grissmer,Sheila Nataraj Kirby,Mark Berends,Stephanie Williamson
Undercuts the conventional wisdom about failing schools, deteriorating families, and ineffective public policies.
With an outstanding editorial and contributor team from the world’s experts, Treatment Methods for Early and Advanced Prostate Cancer will focus on the how to treat scenario faced by urologic…
Prostate Cancer: Principles and Practice was written by more than 250 of the world’s leading urologists and uro-oncologists, from the USA, Canada, UK, Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy…
Charlie Cook,Susan Herbst,Scott Keeter,Anna Greenberg
In this groundbreaking collection, contributors place developments in public-opinion polling into a broader historical context, examine how to construct accurate meanings from public-opinion surveys, and analyse the future of public-opinion…
James Kirby Martin, David Preston, Mark Edward Lender, Edward G Lengel, Charles Neimeyer, Jim Piecuch
Understanding the Course of the War for American independence through Geographical Regions Identifying discrete geographical areas in order to better understand a conflict that moves across hundreds of thou-sands of…
Annie Barrows
Miss Layla Beck despises small-town life. After refusing to marry the man her rich father has picked for her, Layla is banished to the remote town of Macedonia, West Virginia…
To mark the sixtieth anniversary of the PRC, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies convened a conference to consider this question: After three decades of internal strife, followed by reform…
