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Sunnyside

by Glen David Gold ...

A quintessentially American epic, Sunnyside stars the one and only Little Tramp, Charlie Chaplin. It’s 1916 and, after an extraordinary mass delusion where Chaplin is spotted in more than eight hundred places simultaneously, his fame is at its peak but his inspiration is at a low. As he struggles to find a film project as worthy as himself, we are introduced to a dazzling cast of characters that ... Read more

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A quintessentially American epic, Sunnyside stars the one and only Little Tramp, Charlie Chaplin. It’s 1916 and, after an extraordinary mass delusion where Chaplin is spotted in more than eight hundred places simultaneously, his fame is at its peak but his inspiration is at a low. As he struggles to find a film project as worthy as himself, we are introduced to a dazzling cast of characters that
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I Will Be Complete

A Memoir

by Glen David Gold ...

**From the bestselling author of Carter Beats the Devil and Sunnyside, a big-hearted memoir told in three parts: about growing up in the wake of the destructive choices of an extremely unconventional mother.“Extraordinary ... An audacious, boundary-shattering work.” —Los Angeles Times**Glen David Gold’s earliest memories are of a childhood in which he had everything he could possibly want. But ... Read more

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**From the bestselling author of Carter Beats the Devil and Sunnyside, a big-hearted memoir told in three parts: about growing up in the wake of the destructive choices of an extremely unconventional mother.“Extraordinary ... An audacious, boundary-shattering work.” —Los Angeles Times**Glen David Gold’s earliest memories are of a childhood in which he had everything he could possibly want. But
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Priya Echo's Adventure

Book One Awakening

by David Gold ...

Hello, my name is Echo.Priya Echo is a super nerdy, shy lab scientist at university when one day an experiment goes wrong and gives her magic powers! After falling into her own dream land, she discovers that she has echo powers!Priya awakens and soon meets three kick ass girls who let her into their group, Nadine, Felicia and Dominique. Her so-called friends, who are really bad at not using peer ... Read more

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Hello, my name is Echo.Priya Echo is a super nerdy, shy lab scientist at university when one day an experiment goes wrong and gives her magic powers! After falling into her own dream land, she discovers that she has echo powers!Priya awakens and soon meets three kick ass girls who let her into their group, Nadine, Felicia and Dominique. Her so-called friends, who are really bad at not using peer
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Priya Echo's Adventure

by David Gold ...

Hello, my name is Echo.Priya Echo is a super nerdy, shy lab scientist at university when one day an experiment goes wrong and gives her magic powers! After falling into her own dream land, she discovers that she has echo powers!Priya awakens and soon meets three kick ass girls who let her into their group, Nadine, Felicia and Dominique. Her so-called friends, who are really bad at not using peer ... Read more

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Hello, my name is Echo.Priya Echo is a super nerdy, shy lab scientist at university when one day an experiment goes wrong and gives her magic powers! After falling into her own dream land, she discovers that she has echo powers!Priya awakens and soon meets three kick ass girls who let her into their group, Nadine, Felicia and Dominique. Her so-called friends, who are really bad at not using peer
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City of Nets

A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940's

by Otto Friedrich ...

"With its tough humor, profound cynicism, and unerring nose for corruption and hypocrisy, City of Nets offers a distinctly Brechtian vision of Hollywood." — The Village VoiceIn 1939, fifty million Americans went to the movies every week, Louis B. Mayer was the highest-paid man in the country, and Hollywood produced 530 feature films a year. One decade and five thousand movies later, the studios ... Read more

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"With its tough humor, profound cynicism, and unerring nose for corruption and hypocrisy, City of Nets offers a distinctly Brechtian vision of Hollywood." — The Village VoiceIn 1939, fifty million Americans went to the movies every week, Louis B. Mayer was the highest-paid man in the country, and Hollywood produced 530 feature films a year. One decade and five thousand movies later, the studios
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Catastrophic Care

How American Health Care Killed My Father--and How We Can Fix It

by David Goldhill ...

A visionary investigation that will change the way we think about health care: how and why it is failing, why expanding coverage will actually make things worse, and how our health care can be transformed into a transparent, affordable, successful system.In 2007, David Goldhill’s father died from infections acquired in a hospital, one of more than two hundred thousand avoidable deaths per year ... Read more

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A visionary investigation that will change the way we think about health care: how and why it is failing, why expanding coverage will actually make things worse, and how our health care can be transformed into a transparent, affordable, successful system.In 2007, David Goldhill’s father died from infections acquired in a hospital, one of more than two hundred thousand avoidable deaths per year
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Democracy and the Courts

The Rise of Judicial Elections in the Antebellum South

by David M. Gold ...

The first comprehensive examination of the development of judicial elections in the American SouthThe practice of choosing state judges by popular election is a unique aspect of American democracy. First appearing in Mississippi in 1832 and then sweeping across the United States, judicial elections had a distinctly Southern origin. Prior scholarship seeking to explain the broad acceptance of the ... Read more

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The first comprehensive examination of the development of judicial elections in the American SouthThe practice of choosing state judges by popular election is a unique aspect of American democracy. First appearing in Mississippi in 1832 and then sweeping across the United States, judicial elections had a distinctly Southern origin. Prior scholarship seeking to explain the broad acceptance of the
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Catastrophic Care

How American Health Care Killed My Father--and How We Can Fix It

by David Goldhill ...

Narrated by Dean Sluyter ...

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13 hours 1 min

A visionary investigation that will change the way we think about health care: how and why it is failing, why expanding coverage will actually make things worse, and how our health care can be transformed into a transparent, affordable, successful system.In 2007, David Goldhill’s father died from infections acquired in a hospital, one of more than two hundred thousand avoidable deaths per year ... Read more

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A visionary investigation that will change the way we think about health care: how and why it is failing, why expanding coverage will actually make things worse, and how our health care can be transformed into a transparent, affordable, successful system.In 2007, David Goldhill’s father died from infections acquired in a hospital, one of more than two hundred thousand avoidable deaths per year
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Chalice War, The: Stone

by David B. Coe ...

Narrated by Jessica Goldapple ...

Series Audiobook 1 - The Chalice War
Unabridged

10 hours 9 min

A lonely woman stalked by dark forces for what she is.A Sidhe sorcerer hunted for what she possesses.Kelsey Strand's encounters with a hunting panther and a mysterious stranger force a dangerous magical talent to the surface and change everything she thought she knew about herself and the world around her.Only the sudden arrival of Marti Rider, a Sidhe sorcerer allows Kel to escape with her life ... Read more

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A lonely woman stalked by dark forces for what she is.A Sidhe sorcerer hunted for what she possesses.Kelsey Strand's encounters with a hunting panther and a mysterious stranger force a dangerous magical talent to the surface and change everything she thought she knew about herself and the world around her.Only the sudden arrival of Marti Rider, a Sidhe sorcerer allows Kel to escape with her life
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Still Fighting the Civil War

The American South and Southern History

by David Goldfield ...

Series series
In the updated edition of his sweeping narrative on southern history, David Goldfield brings this extensive study into the present with a timely assessment of the unresolved issues surrounding the Civil War's sesquicentennial commemoration. Traversing a hundred and fifty years of memory, Goldfield confronts the remnants of the American Civil War that survive in the hearts of many of the South's ... Read more

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In the updated edition of his sweeping narrative on southern history, David Goldfield brings this extensive study into the present with a timely assessment of the unresolved issues surrounding the Civil War's sesquicentennial commemoration. Traversing a hundred and fifty years of memory, Goldfield confronts the remnants of the American Civil War that survive in the hearts of many of the South's
... Read more
An Exemplary Whig

Edward Kent and the Whig Disposition in American Politics and Law

by David M. Gold ...

Historians have paid surprisingly little attention to state-level political leaders and judges. Edward Kent (1802–77) was both. He served three terms as a state legislator, two as mayor of Bangor, two as governor, and two as a judge of the state supreme court. He represented Maine in the negotiations that resolved the long-running northeastern border dispute between the United States and Great ... Read more

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Historians have paid surprisingly little attention to state-level political leaders and judges. Edward Kent (1802–77) was both. He served three terms as a state legislator, two as mayor of Bangor, two as governor, and two as a judge of the state supreme court. He represented Maine in the negotiations that resolved the long-running northeastern border dispute between the United States and Great
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The Oxford Handbook of Skills and Training

Edited by Chris Warhurst, Ken Mayhew, David Finegold, John Buchanan ...

Series series Oxford Handbooks
Skills and workforce development are at the heart of much research on work, employment, and management. But are they so important? To what extent can they make a difference for individuals, organizations, and nations? How are the supply and, more importantly, the utilization of skill, currently evolving? What are the key factors shaping skills trajectories of the future? This Handbook provides an ... Read more

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Skills and workforce development are at the heart of much research on work, employment, and management. But are they so important? To what extent can they make a difference for individuals, organizations, and nations? How are the supply and, more importantly, the utilization of skill, currently evolving? What are the key factors shaping skills trajectories of the future? This Handbook provides an
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