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Christ! You guys look like a couple of feds.' 1977, the Thunderbird Motel. J. J. Wedick and Jack Brennan, two fresh-faced FBI agents, were about to go undercover. Their target: the charismatic, globe-trotting con man Phil Kitzer, who was responsible for swindling (and spending) millions of dollars and who some called the world's greatest.But there was one problem. Wedick and Brennan weren't trained for the job, and didn't fully understand what...

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The ones who keep quiet for the longest are the dead, yet there are echoes of them everywhere. A turn of the head brings a glimpse of a Victorian banker retrieving his top hat from the gutter. A walk across a bridge lets you pass the ghosts of a Catholic saint, a Marxist martyr, and a boy with a tin drum. The dead are there to be heard, they are also listening to you. The Ones Who Keep Quiet showcases David Howards ability to give our world a ...

Kingston wrestles with the enduring legacy of colonial rags and riches, episodes of political strife and turf rivalry. This guide charts a course through the city's offerings, from the division between uptown modernity and downtown's swashbuckling past, to local legends and popular culture.

Enhance system reliability with reference configurations Effectively use Solstice DiskSuite or VERITAS Volume Manager to manage your boot disk Speed system recovery operationsBoot Disk Management examines the life cycle of the Solaris Operating Environment (OE) and its boot disk. Recommendations and methods for selecting hardware and partitioning the Solaris OE boot disk are presented in detail. Additionally, this book provides recommendations...

Christ! You guys look like a couple of feds.' 1977, the Thunderbird Motel. J. J. Wedick and Jack Brennan, two fresh-faced FBI agents, were about to go undercover. Their target: the charismatic, globe-trotting con man Phil Kitzer, who was responsible for swindling (and spending) millions of dollars and who some called the world's greatest.One problem: the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover didn't really do undercover operations or fraud investigations. ...

An inspiring showcase of masterpieces of the Shingle Style. A richly photographed presentation of some of the most important Shingle Style houses built in America, this book gives readers a privileged view into the splendid interiors of these late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century masterpieces of domestic design. Shingle Style traces the path of shingle-clad residential architecture from its Romantic beginnings to the current dizzying va...

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Vier Jahre lang reiste die heldenhafte Crew des Raumschiffs NSEA Protector - bestehend aus Commander Peter Quincy Taggart (Tim Allen), Lt. Tawny Madison (Sigourney Weaver) und Dr. Lazarus (Alan Rickman) - in spannender und häufig lebensgefährlicher Mission durch den Weltraum... bis ihre Serie abgesetzt wurde! Zwanzig Jahre später halten bedrohte Aliens die Galaxy Quest-Wiederholungen für historische Dokumente und beamen die abgehalfterte M...

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Examines the speeches and writings of Frederick Douglass, Booker T Washington, Ida B Wells, W E B Du Bois, Mary McLeod Bethune, Martin Luther King, Jr, and Jesse Jackson to show how black leaders have employed American jeremiad to create a variant that is specifically Afro-American.

Begun by Puritans, the American jeremiad, a rhetoric that expresses indignation and urges social change, has produced passionate essays and speeches throughout the nation's history. This edition shows that the African American jeremiad is a vibrant tradition, serving as a barometer of faith in America's perfectibility and hope for social justice.

Begun by Puritans, the American jeremiad, a rhetoric that expresses indignation and urges social change, has produced passionate and persuasive essays and speeches throughout the nation's history. Showing that black leaders have employed this verbal tradition of protest and social prophecy in a way that is specifically African American, David Howard-Pitney examines the jeremiads of Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells, W.E.B....

A life-changing adventure led Cabeza de Vaca to seek a different kind of conquest, one that would be just and humane, true to Spanish religion and law, but one that safeguarded liberty and justice for the Indians of the New World. His use of the skills learned from his experiences with the Indians of North America did not always help him in understanding and managing the Indians of South America, and too many of the Spanish settlers in the Rio...

Howard wrestles with the enduring legacy of Kingston's colonial rags and riches. The city's political strife and bubbling cauldron of social and cultural excitement mark it as an intriguing, complex city. Howard charts a course through it all to paint a portrait of this rough-and-ready, savvy cityscape. Illustrations. Maps.

This guidebook is a must-have resource for anyone teaching a television production class or running a morning news show at the elementary, middle, or high school level.