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The Rat That Got Away

A Bronx Memoir

by Allen Jones, Mark Naison ...

One man's "gripping" story of growing up in the South Bronx during an era of upheaval—and overcoming addiction to find success ( Library Journal).Allen Jones grew up in a public housing project in the South Bronx at a time—the 1950s—when that neighborhood was a place of optimism and hope for upwardly mobile Black and Latino families. Brought up in a two-parent household, with many neighborhood ... Read more

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One man's "gripping" story of growing up in the South Bronx during an era of upheaval—and overcoming addiction to find success ( Library Journal).Allen Jones grew up in a public housing project in the South Bronx at a time—the 1950s—when that neighborhood was a place of optimism and hope for upwardly mobile Black and Latino families. Brought up in a two-parent household, with many neighborhood
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Lost in the Transit Desert

Race, Transit Access, and Suburban Form

by Diane Jones Allen ...

Series series Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design
Increased redevelopment, the dismantling of public housing, and increasing housing costs are forcing a shift in migration of lower income and transit dependent populations to the suburbs. These suburbs are often missing basic transportation, and strategies to address this are lacking. This absence of public transit creates barriers to viable employment and accessibility to cultural networks, and ... Read more

$65.99 USD

Increased redevelopment, the dismantling of public housing, and increasing housing costs are forcing a shift in migration of lower income and transit dependent populations to the suburbs. These suburbs are often missing basic transportation, and strategies to address this are lacking. This absence of public transit creates barriers to viable employment and accessibility to cultural networks, and
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PARSEC

Paranormal Security

by Allen Jones ...

PARSEC: Paranormal Securityby Allen JonesThe job is to hunt down and neutralize demons, satanic rituals, and similar paranormal phenomena. While Matthew Sage, an agent of PARSEC, faithfully reports a shocking encounter to his superior, he is dressed down, reprimanded, and not believed, much to the agency’s regret.PARSEC: Paranormal Security is an urban fantasy set in 1980s Minneapolis, taking ... Read more

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PARSEC: Paranormal Securityby Allen JonesThe job is to hunt down and neutralize demons, satanic rituals, and similar paranormal phenomena. While Matthew Sage, an agent of PARSEC, faithfully reports a shocking encounter to his superior, he is dressed down, reprimanded, and not believed, much to the agency’s regret.PARSEC: Paranormal Security is an urban fantasy set in 1980s Minneapolis, taking
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Ecclesia and Ethics

Moral Formation and the Church

Edited by Dr Edward Allen Jones III, John Frederick, John Anthony Dunne, Eric Lewellen, Janghoon Park ...

Ecclesia and Ethics considers the subject of Ecclesial Ethics within its theological, theoretical and exegetical contexts. Part one presents the biblical-theological foundations of an ecclesial ethic – examining issues such as creation, and Paul's theology of the Cross. Part two moves on to examine issues of character formation and community. Finally, part three presents a range of exegetical ... Read more

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Ecclesia and Ethics considers the subject of Ecclesial Ethics within its theological, theoretical and exegetical contexts. Part one presents the biblical-theological foundations of an ecclesial ethic – examining issues such as creation, and Paul's theology of the Cross. Part two moves on to examine issues of character formation and community. Finally, part three presents a range of exegetical
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The Rat That Got Away

A Bronx Memoir

by Allen Jones ...

The Rat That Got Away is an inspiring story of one man’s odyssey from the streets of the Bronx to a life as a professional athlete and banker in Europe, but it is also provides a unique vantage point on the history of the Bronx and sheds new light on a neglected period in American urban history.Allen Jones grew up in a public housing project in the South Bronx at a time—the 1950s—when that ... Read more

$28.49 USD

The Rat That Got Away is an inspiring story of one man’s odyssey from the streets of the Bronx to a life as a professional athlete and banker in Europe, but it is also provides a unique vantage point on the history of the Bronx and sheds new light on a neglected period in American urban history.Allen Jones grew up in a public housing project in the South Bronx at a time—the 1950s—when that
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MeatEater's Campfire Stories: Narrow Escapes & More Close Calls

by Steven Rinella, Clay Newcomb, Vince Merritt, Allen Jones, Kimi Werner, Roy Getson, Casey Frank, Cory Holloway, Cameron Kirkconnell0, Bruce Batten1, Vic Barnes2 ...

Narrated by Steven Rinella, the Contributors ...

Series series Campfire Stories
Unabridged

5 hours 4 min

Ten harrowing firsthand tales of survival from the creators of the New York Times bestselling audio collection MeatEater's Campfire Stories: Close Calls.In Campfire Stories: Narrow Escapes & More Close Calls, storytellers take us from Florida to the Northern Rockies to the Arctic Ocean with wild and true stories, a reminder that the natural world is rugged and unpredictable. Including stories from ... Read more

$17.50 USD

Ten harrowing firsthand tales of survival from the creators of the New York Times bestselling audio collection MeatEater's Campfire Stories: Close Calls.In Campfire Stories: Narrow Escapes & More Close Calls, storytellers take us from Florida to the Northern Rockies to the Arctic Ocean with wild and true stories, a reminder that the natural world is rugged and unpredictable. Including stories from
... Read more
Programming .NET Security

Writing Secure Applications Using C# or Visual Basic .NET

by Adam Freeman, Allen Jones ...

With the spread of web-enabled desktop clients and web-server based applications, developers can no longer afford to treat security as an afterthought. It's one topic, in fact, that .NET forces you to address, since Microsoft has placed security-related features at the core of the .NET Framework. Yet, because a developer's carelessness or lack of experience can still allow a program to be used in ... Read more

$28.79 USD

With the spread of web-enabled desktop clients and web-server based applications, developers can no longer afford to treat security as an afterthought. It's one topic, in fact, that .NET forces you to address, since Microsoft has placed security-related features at the core of the .NET Framework. Yet, because a developer's carelessness or lack of experience can still allow a program to be used in
... Read more
Design as Democracy

Techniques for Collective Creativity

Edited by David de la Pena, Diane Jones Allen, Jeffrey Hou, Laura J. Lawson, Marcia J. McNally, Randolph T. Hester, Jr. ...

Winner of the Environmental Design Research Association's 2018 Book AwardHow can we design places that fulfill urgent needs of the community, achieve environmental justice, and inspire long-term stewardship? By bringing community members to the table, we open up the possibility of exchanging ideas meaningfully and transforming places powerfully. Collaboration like this is hands-on democracy in ... Read more

$41.79 USD

Winner of the Environmental Design Research Association's 2018 Book AwardHow can we design places that fulfill urgent needs of the community, achieve environmental justice, and inspire long-term stewardship? By bringing community members to the table, we open up the possibility of exchanging ideas meaningfully and transforming places powerfully. Collaboration like this is hands-on democracy in
... Read more
Audiobook

The Red Laugh (Unabridged)

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by LEONID NIKOLAYEVICH ANDREYEV ...

Narrated by Shannon Essary, Allen Jones, Daniel Skaggs, Willie Vazquez ...

Unabridged

2 hours 37 min

The reader is immersed in the Hellish madness of war through the eyes of a tired soldier losing his grip on reality, scarred physically and mentally by the atrocities he witnesses. Lauded author Leonid Andreyev, who many consider Russia's Edgar Allan Poe, gives us a powerful and intense narrative showing the horrors of war and its impact on the psyche. ... Read more

$4.99 USD

The reader is immersed in the Hellish madness of war through the eyes of a tired soldier losing his grip on reality, scarred physically and mentally by the atrocities he witnesses. Lauded author Leonid Andreyev, who many consider Russia's Edgar Allan Poe, gives us a powerful and intense narrative showing the horrors of war and its impact on the psyche.
... Read more
Audiobook

Beyond the Pale

The Story of Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.

by Ken Grossman ...

Narrated by Jones Allen ...

Unabridged

8 hours 54 min

Its easy to assume that a company who makes a product that most people like say, for example, beer probably doesnt have to do very much in the way of marketing, branding, and product development. But anyone who makes such an assumption has clearly never encountered Ken Grossman, founder of the Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, and his unique approach to making, distributing, and spreading the word ... Read more

$19.99 USD

Also available as: eBook

Its easy to assume that a company who makes a product that most people like say, for example, beer probably doesnt have to do very much in the way of marketing, branding, and product development. But anyone who makes such an assumption has clearly never encountered Ken Grossman, founder of the Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, and his unique approach to making, distributing, and spreading the word
... Read more

Also available as: eBook

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Brewing Up a Business

Adventures in Beer from the Founder of Dogfish Head Craft Brewery

by Sam Calagione ...

Narrated by Kris Koscheski ...

Unabridged

11 hours 27 min

This is the exhilarating success story of a man who really likes beerso much so that he decided to make a business of it. Starting with nothing but a home brewing kit, Sam Calagione turned his entrepreneurial dream into a foamy reality and built the country's fastest growing breweryDogfish Head Craft Brewery. Brewing Up a Business is the enlightening and entertaining story of Dogfish and Calagione ... Read more

$24.99 USD

Also available as: eBook

This is the exhilarating success story of a man who really likes beerso much so that he decided to make a business of it. Starting with nothing but a home brewing kit, Sam Calagione turned his entrepreneurial dream into a foamy reality and built the country's fastest growing breweryDogfish Head Craft Brewery. Brewing Up a Business is the enlightening and entertaining story of Dogfish and Calagione
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Chuvalo

A Fighter's Life: The Story of Boxing's Last Gladiator

by George Chuvalo, Murray Greig ...

The inspirational memoir of the Canadian boxer who fought some of the greatest heavyweights in history, including Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier, but lost everything outside the ring.From a tough Toronto childhood as the only son of immigrant parents, through a twenty-three-year career that earned him induction into the World Boxing Hall of Fame, to the public tragedies that decimated his family ... Read more

$11.99 USD

The inspirational memoir of the Canadian boxer who fought some of the greatest heavyweights in history, including Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier, but lost everything outside the ring.From a tough Toronto childhood as the only son of immigrant parents, through a twenty-three-year career that earned him induction into the World Boxing Hall of Fame, to the public tragedies that decimated his family
... Read more

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