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  • Lincoln's Poetry

    The Creative Life of a Leader

    Series series The UIS Center for Lincoln Studies
    Drawn to poetry throughout his life, Abraham Lincoln read verse for comfort and pleasure, used it in his writings and speeches, and looked to it for insights into spiritual matters and politics, and spontaneously recited it in dark moments to lift his spirits.Christopher Sullivan’s engaging exploration focuses on the role of poetry in Lincoln’s life and thought. As Sullivan shows, the poetic prose ... Read more

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  • Taking Juvenile Justice Seriously

    Developmental Insights and System Challenges

    The juvenile justice system navigates a high degree of variation in youthful offenders. While professionals with insights about reform and adolescent development consider the risks, the needs, and the patterns of delinquency of youth, too little attention is paid to the responses and practicalities of a system that is both complex and limited in its resources.In his essential book, Taking Juvenile ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Harry Hopkins

    FDR's Envoy to Churchill and Stalin

    Series series Biographies in American Foreign Policy
    One of the most controversial figures of the New Deal Era, Harry Hopkins elicited few neutral responses from his contemporaries. Millions admired him and believed the New Deal agencies he headed had rescued them from despair, but many of President Roosevelt’s enemies passionately hated him and derisively called him the “world’s greatest spender” or FDR’s “left-wing Rasputin.”Hopkins was a ... Read more

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  • Juvenile Risk and Needs Assessment

    Theory, Research, Policy, and Practice

    Series series Routledge Studies in Juvenile Justice and Delinquency
    This book takes a comprehensive, analytic approach to understanding Juvenile Risk and Needs Assessment (JRNA), covering elements relevant to how the practice affects youths’ cases and the juvenile justice system. The work draws on both analysis of the extensive research on risk and needs assessment in the juvenile justice system as well as data from the authors’ recent work in the area.Authors ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Impact of Welfare Reform

    Balancing Safety Nets and Behavior Modification

    Get a balanced, comprehensive analysis of the effects from 1996 welfare reformThe Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 was aimed at repairing the welfare system of the United States. The Impact of Welfare Reform: Balancing Safety Nets and Behavior Modification comprehensively examines how this bill transformed the system and affected not only clients but also the ... Read more

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    Dramatic Selections from Henry Lawson's Short Stories (UNABRIDGED)

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    Unabridged

    1 hour 31 min

    That Pretty Girl in the ArmyThe Salvation Army is having a hard time of things in the rough Outback town of Bourke. That is, until Sister Hannah arrives... 02. The Hairy ManIt was the day after Australia's Anniversary Day and all the patriots wanted to do was nurse their hangovers out in the scrub of the isolated western spur of the Blue Mountains. But following close on the heels of their hair-of ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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    Trucking Business Startup 2022

    Step by step guide to start, grow and run your own trucking company in 20 days with the most advanced information

    by Ben Sullivan ...
    Narrated by Christopher Gatterdam ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours

    Did you know that during the whole pandemic, there was one industry that couldn’t be wiped out? It was the trucking business.The trucking business has been around for centuries and isn’t going to be wiped out soon. What’s most interesting about it is that the trucking business determines the costs of goods. This means that there is no in or out of season in this business; as long as people are ... Read more

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  • Colin Powell

    A Political Biography

    Series series Biographies in American Foreign Policy
    Few figures in the past quarter-century have played a more significant role in American foreign policy than Colin Powell. He wielded power at the highest levels of the most important foreign policy bureaucracies: the Pentagon, the White House, the joint chiefs, and the state department. As national security advisor in the Ronald Reagan administration, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff under ... Read more

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  • The Political Psychology of Democratic Citizenship

    Series series Series in Political Psychology
    While scholars in political science, social psychology, and mass communications have made notable contributions to understanding democratic citizenship, they concentrate on very different dimensions of citizenship. The current volume challenges this fragmentary pattern of inquiry, and adopts an interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of citizenship that offers new insights and integrates ... Read more

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    When I Was Dead

    A creepy horror story exploring death

    Narrated by Christopher Ragland ...

    Unabridged

    10 min

    Vincent O'Sullivan was born on the 28th November 1868 in New York City. He was initially educated through the New York public school system before finishing his studies in England. As a young man he remained in London and travelled often to Paris.O’Sullivan lived a very comfortable life with income from the family coffee business. He had no real need to work but decided that a literary lifestyle ... Read more

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  • Computational History and Data-Driven Humanities

    Second IFIP WG 12.7 International Workshop, CHDDH 2016, Dublin, Ireland, May 25, 2016, Revised Selected Papers

    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the refereed post-proceedings of the Second IFIP WG 12.7 International Workshop on Computational History and Data-Driven Humanities, held in Dublin, Ireland, in May 2016.The 7 full papers presented together with 2 invited talks and 4 lightning talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 14 submissions. The papers focus on the challenge and opportunities of data-driven ... Read more

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  • On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2016 Conferences

    Confederated International Conferences: CoopIS, C&TC, and ODBASE 2016, Rhodes, Greece, October 24-28, 2016, Proceedings

    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Confederated International Conferences: Cooperative Information Systems, CoopIS 2016, Ontologies, Databases, and Applications of Semantics, ODBASE 2016, and Cloud and Trusted Computing, C&TC, held as part of OTM 2016 in October 2016 in Rhodes, Greece.The 45 full papers presented together with 16 short papers were carefully reviewed and ... Read more

    $89.09 USD