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Interpreting Historic House Museums

by Bradley C. Brooks, Nancy E. Villa Bryk, Patrick H. Butler, Jamie Credle, Rex M. Ellis, Catherine Howett, Patricia L. Kahle, Meggett B. Lavin, Barbara Abramoff Levy, Sandra Mackenzie Lloyd, Valerie Coons McAllister, Margaret Piatt, Debra A. Reid ...

Series series American Association for State and Local History
Times are changing at historic house museums and no one is more aware of this than the fourteen contributors to Interpreting Historic House Museums. These respected museum professionals consider the history of house museums and the need to look at familiar issues from new perspectives and using new methods. If your site isn't using a comprehensive interpretive plan, how can you create one? While ... Read more

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Times are changing at historic house museums and no one is more aware of this than the fourteen contributors to Interpreting Historic House Museums. These respected museum professionals consider the history of house museums and the need to look at familiar issues from new perspectives and using new methods. If your site isn't using a comprehensive interpretive plan, how can you create one? While
... Read more
Ascendant: Modern Essays on Polytheism and Theology

by Edward P. Butler, Patrick Dunn, John Michael Greer, Brandon Hensley, Wayne Keysor, Gwendolyn Reece ...

Theology, the discipline that analyzes, examines, and seeks to explain religious ideas, is a vibrant area of inquiry. Scholars and philosophers have produced countless works of theology over the past several thousand years.In the West, however, virtually all theology concerns monotheistic faith systems. Polytheism escapes the notice of most scholars, and those who do address it rarely write books ... Read more

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Theology, the discipline that analyzes, examines, and seeks to explain religious ideas, is a vibrant area of inquiry. Scholars and philosophers have produced countless works of theology over the past several thousand years.In the West, however, virtually all theology concerns monotheistic faith systems. Polytheism escapes the notice of most scholars, and those who do address it rarely write books
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A Terrible Intimacy

Interracial Life in the Slaveholding South

by Melvin Patrick Ely ...

Narrated by Janina Edwards, Ron Butler ...

Unabridged

10 hours 26 min

From a Bancroft Prize-winning historian, a revelatory new account of slavery, uncovering a surprising web of relationships between Black and white people that ranges far beyond the familiar template of “master-slave” dynamicsA white man hosts a wedding party for his Black servant and finds himself charged with a criminal offense; an overseer ends up dead after getting drunk with a slave; two men, ... Read more

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From a Bancroft Prize-winning historian, a revelatory new account of slavery, uncovering a surprising web of relationships between Black and white people that ranges far beyond the familiar template of “master-slave” dynamicsA white man hosts a wedding party for his Black servant and finds himself charged with a criminal offense; an overseer ends up dead after getting drunk with a slave; two men,
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Hidden History of Lincoln Park

by Patrick Butler ...

Series series Hidden History
Before Lincoln Park cemented its trendy reputation, plenty of odd and unruly history managed to settle into its foundation. A Viking ship, mob henchmen and ladies of the evening all took up residence in the same part of town where Dwight L. Moody went from selling soles to saving souls. Thanks to a Confederate ferryboat crewman, many of Lincoln's personal effects belong to the neighborhood named ... Read more

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Before Lincoln Park cemented its trendy reputation, plenty of odd and unruly history managed to settle into its foundation. A Viking ship, mob henchmen and ladies of the evening all took up residence in the same part of town where Dwight L. Moody went from selling soles to saving souls. Thanks to a Confederate ferryboat crewman, many of Lincoln's personal effects belong to the neighborhood named
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Hidden History of Uptown and Edgewater

by Patrick Butler ...

Series series Hidden History
If there's any place in Chicago that's been all things to all men, it has to be the corner of the city that is occupied by Edgewater and Uptown. Babe Ruth and Mahatma Gandhi found a place of refuge at the Edgewater Beach Hotel, but the locale has also been a sanctuary for Appalachian coal miners and Japanese Americans released from internment camps. Al Capone reportedly moved booze through a ... Read more

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If there's any place in Chicago that's been all things to all men, it has to be the corner of the city that is occupied by Edgewater and Uptown. Babe Ruth and Mahatma Gandhi found a place of refuge at the Edgewater Beach Hotel, but the locale has also been a sanctuary for Appalachian coal miners and Japanese Americans released from internment camps. Al Capone reportedly moved booze through a
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Hidden History of Ravenswood and Lake View

by Patrick Butler ...

Series series Hidden History
It's easy to get caught up in the hidden history of Ravenswood and Lake View, like the Harm's Park picnic that lasted fifty-four years or the political gimmickry of the "Cowboy Mayor" of Chicago. Who can resist a double take over folk like the "Father of Ravenswood," who kept Chicago from falling to the Confederacy, or the "North Side's Benedict Arnold," who was sent to the electric chair during ... Read more

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It's easy to get caught up in the hidden history of Ravenswood and Lake View, like the Harm's Park picnic that lasted fifty-four years or the political gimmickry of the "Cowboy Mayor" of Chicago. Who can resist a double take over folk like the "Father of Ravenswood," who kept Chicago from falling to the Confederacy, or the "North Side's Benedict Arnold," who was sent to the electric chair during
... Read more
The Misadventures of Nero Wolfe

Parodies and Pastiches Featuring the Great Detective of West 35th Street

by Josh Pachter, Otto Penzler, Rebecca Stout Bradbury, Robert Goldsborough, Marvin Kaye, Lawrence Block, Loren D. Estleman, John Lescroart, Robert Lopresti, Dave Zeltserman, Thomas Narcejac, Marion Mainwaring, Jon L. Breen, O. X. Rusett, Frank Littler, Patrick Butler, Mack Reynolds, Michael Bracken, William Brittain, Joseph Goodrich ...

Stories that pay tribute to Rex Stout's legendary private detective by Lawrence Block, Loren D. Estleman, John Lescroart, Robert Goldsborough, and more.If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin have been widely flattered almost from the moment Rex Stout first wrote about them in 1934. The Misadventures of Nero Wolfe collects two dozen literary tributes to ... Read more

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Stories that pay tribute to Rex Stout's legendary private detective by Lawrence Block, Loren D. Estleman, John Lescroart, Robert Goldsborough, and more.If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin have been widely flattered almost from the moment Rex Stout first wrote about them in 1934. The Misadventures of Nero Wolfe collects two dozen literary tributes to
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Courtside

40 Years of NBA Photography

by Nathaniel Butler, Adam Silver ...

40 years of stunning basketball photography—both on the court and off—from one of the sport's greatest chroniclers. This handsome coffee table book is the perfect gift for the basketball fan in your life.As one of the NBA’s premier photographers, Nathaniel S. Butler has shot it all. From iconic moments like Ray Allen’s corner three to intimate portraits of Bill Russell and the NBA50 and NBA75 ... Read more

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40 years of stunning basketball photography—both on the court and off—from one of the sport's greatest chroniclers. This handsome coffee table book is the perfect gift for the basketball fan in your life.As one of the NBA’s premier photographers, Nathaniel S. Butler has shot it all. From iconic moments like Ray Allen’s corner three to intimate portraits of Bill Russell and the NBA50 and NBA75
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Cavorting with Strangers

Great Ideas and Their Champions

by F. Patrick Butler ...

Paris in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries was home to some of the most creative people on earth. These men and women, whose names are so famous, are now acclaimed as revolutionaries of the human spirit. But, they were a sleazy lot. Their vaunted reputations notwithstanding, these people were just as sick as the best of us, and we don't have to bend over far to see the underbelly of fame. ... Read more

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Paris in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries was home to some of the most creative people on earth. These men and women, whose names are so famous, are now acclaimed as revolutionaries of the human spirit. But, they were a sleazy lot. Their vaunted reputations notwithstanding, these people were just as sick as the best of us, and we don't have to bend over far to see the underbelly of fame.
... Read more
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Black Shack Alley

by Joseph Zobel ...

Narrated by Ron Butler ...

Unabridged

9 hours 37 min

The semiautobiographical Caribbean novel that explores shifting race relations in early twentieth-century colonial Martinique, with a foreword by Martinican author Patrick ChamoiseauFollowing in the tradition of Richard Wright’s Black Boy, Joseph Zobel’s semiautobiographical 1950 novel Black Shack Alley chronicles the coming-of-age of José, a young boy grappling with issues of power and identity ... Read more

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The semiautobiographical Caribbean novel that explores shifting race relations in early twentieth-century colonial Martinique, with a foreword by Martinican author Patrick ChamoiseauFollowing in the tradition of Richard Wright’s Black Boy, Joseph Zobel’s semiautobiographical 1950 novel Black Shack Alley chronicles the coming-of-age of José, a young boy grappling with issues of power and identity
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Business Strategy

Plan, Execute, Win!

by Patrick J. Stroh ...

Narrated by Michael Butler Murray ...

Unabridged

3 hours 53 min

The scope and core content of this book is on business strategy, its application and lessons learned by the author as a practitioner targeted primarily to the C level group (CEO, CFO, CMO, CIO, CSO, etc.). It begins with a quick history of business strategy and then focuses on what the strategists role is today and what key aspects are important. The chapters are fun, but educational. The ... Read more

$12.99 USD

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The scope and core content of this book is on business strategy, its application and lessons learned by the author as a practitioner targeted primarily to the C level group (CEO, CFO, CMO, CIO, CSO, etc.). It begins with a quick history of business strategy and then focuses on what the strategists role is today and what key aspects are important. The chapters are fun, but educational. The
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Shoreline of Infinity 9

Shoreline of Infinity science fiction magazine

by Vaughan Stanger, Pippa Goldschmidt, Ellis SJ Sangster, Catriona Butler, Leigh Harlen, Michael F Russell, Rob Butler, Patrick Warner, Gregg Chamberlain, Tony Clavelli, Cory Doctorow ...

Series series Shoreline of Infinity science fiction magazine
StoriesThe Last Days of the Lotus Eaters – Leigh HarlenKeeping the Peace – Catriona Butler & Rob ButlerDeath Acceptance – Tony ClavelliApocalypse Beta Test Survey – Gregg ChamberlainSpirejack – Patrick WarnerLowland Clearances – Pippa GoldschmidtThe Last Moonshot – Vaughan StangerThe Sky is Alive – Michael F RussellThe Useless Citizen Act – Ellis S. J. SangsterInterview with Cory DoctorowSF Poetry ... Read more

$2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

StoriesThe Last Days of the Lotus Eaters – Leigh HarlenKeeping the Peace – Catriona Butler & Rob ButlerDeath Acceptance – Tony ClavelliApocalypse Beta Test Survey – Gregg ChamberlainSpirejack – Patrick WarnerLowland Clearances – Pippa GoldschmidtThe Last Moonshot – Vaughan StangerThe Sky is Alive – Michael F RussellThe Useless Citizen Act – Ellis S. J. SangsterInterview with Cory DoctorowSF Poetry
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