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Control Freaks

by J.E. Thomas ...

Narrated by Merissa Czyz, Maxwell Glick, Brian Nishii, Imani Parks, Ruffin Prentiss, Michael Rishawn, Jeed Saddy, Marc Anthony Samuel, Cortney Wright ...

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6 hours 26 min

One week.One prize.Seven really weird challenges.The kids at Benjamin Banneker College Prep are a little … competitive. Okay.They’re A LOT competitive.The minute Principal Yee announces an epic competition for the golden B-B trophy, seventh-grader Frederick Douglass Zezzmer knows he has to win.But it won’t be easy. The competition doesn’t just include science, technology, engineering and math. It ... Read more

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One week.One prize.Seven really weird challenges.The kids at Benjamin Banneker College Prep are a little … competitive. Okay.They’re A LOT competitive.The minute Principal Yee announces an epic competition for the golden B-B trophy, seventh-grader Frederick Douglass Zezzmer knows he has to win.But it won’t be easy. The competition doesn’t just include science, technology, engineering and math. It
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The AI Incident

by J.E. Thomas ...

The Wild Robot meets Restart when Colorado's unluckiest foster kid battles a rogue AI robot at school.Malcolm Montgomery is the new kid at Shirley Chisholm Charter Middle School. In no time at all, he’s been slapped with the weird kid label. Is it because he's a foster kid who's been in nine homes? Or maybe because he burps when he gets nervous…which is often? Malcolm has a plan to finally get ... Read more

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The Wild Robot meets Restart when Colorado's unluckiest foster kid battles a rogue AI robot at school.Malcolm Montgomery is the new kid at Shirley Chisholm Charter Middle School. In no time at all, he’s been slapped with the weird kid label. Is it because he's a foster kid who's been in nine homes? Or maybe because he burps when he gets nervous…which is often? Malcolm has a plan to finally get
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Making Japan Work

by J.E. Thomas ...

Now in paperback, this perceptive psychological portrait of Clinton and his presidency investigates whether Clinton has demonstrated the necessary qualities of judgment, vision, character and skill, as well as his ambition and extreme self-confidence. Renshon traces the development of Clinton's character from his early family experiences to his adolescence and long political career, including the ... Read more

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Now in paperback, this perceptive psychological portrait of Clinton and his presidency investigates whether Clinton has demonstrated the necessary qualities of judgment, vision, character and skill, as well as his ambition and extreme self-confidence. Renshon traces the development of Clinton's character from his early family experiences to his adolescence and long political career, including the
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Voices from Captivity

Incarceration from Siberia to Guantánamo Bay

by J E Thomas ...

Bringing together a range of first-hand testimonies of captives, this personal and arresting collection provides an overview of what life inside is actually like. Drawing on memoirs of captives - including those imprisoned for stealing money, murder, illegal protest or no reason at all - this book presents the universal experience of being incarcerated and brings to life the humanity of those ... Read more

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Bringing together a range of first-hand testimonies of captives, this personal and arresting collection provides an overview of what life inside is actually like. Drawing on memoirs of captives - including those imprisoned for stealing money, murder, illegal protest or no reason at all - this book presents the universal experience of being incarcerated and brings to life the humanity of those
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The English Prison Officer Since 1850

A Study in Conflict

by J. E. Thomas ...

Series series Routledge Library Editions: Social Administration & Social Policy
When this book was originally published in 1972 very little had been written about prison staff. The author acknowledges that interest should of course be concentrated on the prisoner community but maintains that the prison staff must also be examined if prisons are to be fully understood. This book demonstrates that the central figure in any prison system is the basic grade uniformed officer and ... Read more

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When this book was originally published in 1972 very little had been written about prison staff. The author acknowledges that interest should of course be concentrated on the prisoner community but maintains that the prison staff must also be examined if prisons are to be fully understood. This book demonstrates that the central figure in any prison system is the basic grade uniformed officer and
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Control Freaks

by J.E. Thomas ...

**A People Magazine Must-Read of Summer — NOW IN PAPERBACK!One week. One prize. Seven really weird challenges.**The kids at Benjamin Banneker College Prep are a little… competitive. Okay. They’re a LOT competitive.The minute Principal Yee announces an epic competition for the golden B-B trophy, seventh-grader Frederick Douglass Zezzmer knows he has to win.But it won’t be easy. The competition ... Read more

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**A People Magazine Must-Read of Summer — NOW IN PAPERBACK!One week. One prize. Seven really weird challenges.**The kids at Benjamin Banneker College Prep are a little… competitive. Okay. They’re a LOT competitive.The minute Principal Yee announces an epic competition for the golden B-B trophy, seventh-grader Frederick Douglass Zezzmer knows he has to win.But it won’t be easy. The competition
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The Grandest Larceny

The Foundation of Israel

by J. E. Thomas ...

A unique event-the handing over of an entire country by another that did not own it, to a people who simply laid claim to it by virtue of their myths and traditions-happened in 1917 when the British 'gave' Palestine to the Jews via the Balfour Declaration. The Palestinian Arabs never accepted the theft of their land but have been powerless to resist the weight of support for the Jews given by the ... Read more

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A unique event-the handing over of an entire country by another that did not own it, to a people who simply laid claim to it by virtue of their myths and traditions-happened in 1917 when the British 'gave' Palestine to the Jews via the Balfour Declaration. The Palestinian Arabs never accepted the theft of their land but have been powerless to resist the weight of support for the Jews given by the
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Modern Japan

A Social History Since 1868

by J.E. Thomas ...

J E Thomas examines the historical roots of Japanese social structures and preoccupations and he sets these within the broad chronological framework of Japan's political and military development. The book can thus serve as an introduction to modern Japan in a more general sense - but its focus throughout is on the people themselves. Professor Thomas gives due attention to the Japanese mainstream; ... Read more

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J E Thomas examines the historical roots of Japanese social structures and preoccupations and he sets these within the broad chronological framework of Japan's political and military development. The book can thus serve as an introduction to modern Japan in a more general sense - but its focus throughout is on the people themselves. Professor Thomas gives due attention to the Japanese mainstream;
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Musings on the Meno

by J.E. Thomas ...

Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
The objectives of this book are to provide a new translation of Plato's M eno together with a series of studies on its philcisophical argument in the light of recent secondary literature. My translation is based mainly on the Oxford Classical Text, 1. Burnet's Platonis Opera (Oxford Clarendon Press 1900) Vol. III. In conjunction with this I have made extensive use of R.S. Bluck's Plato's Meno (Cam ... Read more

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The objectives of this book are to provide a new translation of Plato's M eno together with a series of studies on its philcisophical argument in the light of recent secondary literature. My translation is based mainly on the Oxford Classical Text, 1. Burnet's Platonis Opera (Oxford Clarendon Press 1900) Vol. III. In conjunction with this I have made extensive use of R.S. Bluck's Plato's Meno (Cam
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The AI Incident

by J.E. Thomas ...

Narrated by Ruffin Prentiss ...

Unabridged

5 hours 22 min

The Wild Robot meets Restart when Colorado's unluckiest foster kid battles a rogue AI robot at school.Malcolm Montgomery is the new kid at Shirley Chisholm Charter Middle School. In no time at all, he’s been slapped with the weird kid label. Is it because he's a foster kid who's been in nine homes? Or maybe because he burps when he gets nervous … which is often? Malcolm has a plan to finally get a ... Read more

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The Wild Robot meets Restart when Colorado's unluckiest foster kid battles a rogue AI robot at school.Malcolm Montgomery is the new kid at Shirley Chisholm Charter Middle School. In no time at all, he’s been slapped with the weird kid label. Is it because he's a foster kid who's been in nine homes? Or maybe because he burps when he gets nervous … which is often? Malcolm has a plan to finally get a
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The Greatest Romance Novels of All Time - 70 Classics to Read Before You Die

Persuasion, Eugene Onegin, The Wild Irish Girl, Anne of Green Gables, Wuthering Heights, Paul and Virginia

by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Louisa May Alcott, Alexander Pushkin, Jane Austen, Lady Sydney Morgan, Alessandro Manzoni, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Grace Livingston Hill, Fanny Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë, Victor Hugo, George Eliot, John Henry Newman, Robert Williams Buchanan, Ottilie A. Liljencrantz, Leo Tolstoy, Robert Barr, Emily Sarah Holt, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Thomas Dick Sir Lauder, Thomas Hardy, J. E. Collins, Stanley John Weyman, Robert Neilson Stephens, Randall Parrish, R. D. Blackmore, Honoré de Balzac, Robert Hugh Benson, Maurice Hewlett, Walter Scott, Henry James, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Mary Gladys Meredith Webb, Charles Reade, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Alexandre Dumas, Alexandre Dumas fils, Edith Wharton, Stendhal, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, D. H. Lawrence, Nathaniel Hawthorne ...

The Greatest Romance Novels of All Time - is a meticulously curated anthology, which assembles seventy of the most revered romance novels from the annals of classic literature. This edition stands as a testament to the enduring allure of romantic storytelling, encompassing a diverse array of narratives that explore the multifaceted nature of love and human relationships. Each novel, carefully ... Read more

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The Greatest Romance Novels of All Time - is a meticulously curated anthology, which assembles seventy of the most revered romance novels from the annals of classic literature. This edition stands as a testament to the enduring allure of romantic storytelling, encompassing a diverse array of narratives that explore the multifaceted nature of love and human relationships. Each novel, carefully
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Edna Ferber's Hollywood

American Fictions of Gender, Race, and History

by J. E. Smyth ...

Series series Texas Film and Media Studies Series
Edna Ferber's Hollywood reveals one of the most influential artistic relationships of the twentieth century—the four-decade partnership between historical novelist Edna Ferber and the Hollywood studios. Ferber was one of America's most controversial popular historians, a writer whose uniquely feminist, multiracial view of the national past deliberately clashed with traditional narratives of white ... Read more

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Edna Ferber's Hollywood reveals one of the most influential artistic relationships of the twentieth century—the four-decade partnership between historical novelist Edna Ferber and the Hollywood studios. Ferber was one of America's most controversial popular historians, a writer whose uniquely feminist, multiracial view of the national past deliberately clashed with traditional narratives of white
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