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The Theory and Practice of Gamesmanship

or The Art of Winning Games Without Actually Cheating

by Stephen Potter ...

“What is gamesmanship? Most difficult of questions to answer briefly. 'The Art of Winning Games Without Actually Cheating' – that is my personal 'working definition'. What is its object? There have been five hundred books written on the subject of games. Five hundred books on play and the tactics of play. Not one on the art of winning.”Stephen Potter has used his extensive experience as a master ... Read more

$7.99 CAD

“What is gamesmanship? Most difficult of questions to answer briefly. 'The Art of Winning Games Without Actually Cheating' – that is my personal 'working definition'. What is its object? There have been five hundred books written on the subject of games. Five hundred books on play and the tactics of play. Not one on the art of winning.”Stephen Potter has used his extensive experience as a master
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Creating Memories in Community

Edited by Stephen P Hanna, Amy E Potter ...

This book brings together a collection of projects that explore how communities use place-based memory to tell their stories, especially those that have been overlooked or marginalized. Grounded in close collaboration with community partners, the contributions examine efforts such as Black history trails in Georgia and Virginia and survivor-led commemorations in Ireland. These projects highlight ... Read more

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This book brings together a collection of projects that explore how communities use place-based memory to tell their stories, especially those that have been overlooked or marginalized. Grounded in close collaboration with community partners, the contributions examine efforts such as Black history trails in Georgia and Virginia and survivor-led commemorations in Ireland. These projects highlight
... Read more
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Rage

A Step-by-Step Guide to Overcoming Explosive Anger

by Ronald Potter-Efron, PhD ...

Narrated by Stephen Paul Aulridge, Jr. ...

Unabridged

5 hours 15 min

Do you or someone you care about experience episodes of extreme and unpredictable anger? Intense rages that threaten relationships, jobs, property-or worse? The first thing you need to know is that you are not alone. Researchers estimate that some 7 percent of Americans may at some time experience a condition called intermittent explosive disorder (IED), which is characterized by reoccurring ... Read more

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Do you or someone you care about experience episodes of extreme and unpredictable anger? Intense rages that threaten relationships, jobs, property-or worse? The first thing you need to know is that you are not alone. Researchers estimate that some 7 percent of Americans may at some time experience a condition called intermittent explosive disorder (IED), which is characterized by reoccurring
... Read more
Unfare Solutions

Local Earmarked Charges to Fund Public Transport

Edited by Marcus Enoch, Peter Nijkamp, Stephen Potter, Barry Ubbels ...

Series series Transport, Development and Sustainability Series
Transport policy is an increasingly difficult area for all national governments and regional/local authorities. Tackling car use and realising a sustainable transport system appears to be very difficult. Developing public transport is seen as an increasingly important element in improving the transport system, especially in densely populated areas. At the same time however, governments are under ... Read more

$94.81 CAD

Transport policy is an increasingly difficult area for all national governments and regional/local authorities. Tackling car use and realising a sustainable transport system appears to be very difficult. Developing public transport is seen as an increasingly important element in improving the transport system, especially in densely populated areas. At the same time however, governments are under
... Read more
Social Memory and Heritage Tourism Methodologies

Edited by Stephen P. Hanna, Amy E. Potter, E. Arnold Modlin, Perry Carter, David L. Butler ...

Series series Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility
The examination of social memory and heritage tourism has grown considerably over the past few decades as scholars have critically re-examined the relationships between past memories and present actions at international, national, and local scales. Methodological innovation and reflection have accompanied theoretical advances as researchers strive to understand representations, experiences, ... Read more

$97.55 CAD

The examination of social memory and heritage tourism has grown considerably over the past few decades as scholars have critically re-examined the relationships between past memories and present actions at international, national, and local scales. Methodological innovation and reflection have accompanied theoretical advances as researchers strive to understand representations, experiences,
... Read more
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Murder Under Her Skin

A Pentecost and Parker Mystery

by Stephen Spotswood ...

Narrated by Kirsten Potter ...

Series Audiobook 2 - A Pentecost and Parker Mystery
Unabridged

9 hours 40 min

A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice • Rex Stout meets Agatha Christie with a fresh twist in the new Pentecost and Parker Mystery, a delightfully hardboiled high-wire act starring two daring women sleuths dead set on justice as they set out to solve a murder at a traveling circus“A delight.... It’s a pleasure to watch [Pentecost and Parker] sifting through red herrings and peeling secrets ... Read more

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A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice • Rex Stout meets Agatha Christie with a fresh twist in the new Pentecost and Parker Mystery, a delightfully hardboiled high-wire act starring two daring women sleuths dead set on justice as they set out to solve a murder at a traveling circus“A delight.... It’s a pleasure to watch [Pentecost and Parker] sifting through red herrings and peeling secrets
... Read more

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Jericho's Fall

by Stephen L. Carter ...

Narrated by Kirsten Potter ...

Unabridged

11 hours 30 min

Stephen L. Carter’s brilliant debut, The Emperor of Ocean Park, spent eleven week son the New York Times best-seller list. Now, in Jericho’s Fall, Carter turns his formidable talents to the shadowy world of spies, official secrecy, and financial fraud in a thriller that rivets the reader’s attention until the very last page.In an imposing house in the Colorado Rockies, Jericho Ainsley, former head ... Read more

$24.99 CAD

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Stephen L. Carter’s brilliant debut, The Emperor of Ocean Park, spent eleven week son the New York Times best-seller list. Now, in Jericho’s Fall, Carter turns his formidable talents to the shadowy world of spies, official secrecy, and financial fraud in a thriller that rivets the reader’s attention until the very last page.In an imposing house in the Colorado Rockies, Jericho Ainsley, former head
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Remembering Enslavement

Reassembling the Southern Plantation Museum

by Amy E. Potter, Stephen P. Hanna, Derek H. Alderman, Perry L. Carter, Candace Forbes Bright, David L. Butler ...

Remembering Enslavement explores plantation museums as sites for contesting and reforming public interpretations of slavery in the American South. Emerging out of a three-year National Science Foundation grant (2014–17), the book turns a critical eye toward the growing inclusion of the formerly enslaved within these museums, specifically examining advances but also continuing inequalities in how ... Read more

$46.99 CAD

Remembering Enslavement explores plantation museums as sites for contesting and reforming public interpretations of slavery in the American South. Emerging out of a three-year National Science Foundation grant (2014–17), the book turns a critical eye toward the growing inclusion of the formerly enslaved within these museums, specifically examining advances but also continuing inequalities in how
... Read more
Health and Health Care as Social Problems

by Elizabeth M. Armstrong, Michael Betz, Robert S. Broadhead, Diana Dull, Stephen L. Fielding, Samuel R. Friedman, Josh Gamson, Herb Haines, Karl Hufbauer, Michael P. Johnson, Maren Klawiter, Frances B. McCrea, Carol Klaperman Morrow, Lenahan O'Connell, Stephen J. Pfhol, Deborah Potter, Ernest Quimby, C Amanda Rittenhouse, Joseph W. Schneider, Steven P. Wallace, Candace West ...

Series series Understanding Social Problems: An SSSP Presidential Series
This engaging and accessible reader takes a social problems approach to health and medicine, providing a broad and critical lens on contemporary health problems. Designed for courses on social problems and on medical sociology, the volume embraces two fundamental principles: that health and illness are at least partly socially produced, and that health care is not an unfettered good and often ... Read more

$71.99 CAD

This engaging and accessible reader takes a social problems approach to health and medicine, providing a broad and critical lens on contemporary health problems. Designed for courses on social problems and on medical sociology, the volume embraces two fundamental principles: that health and illness are at least partly socially produced, and that health care is not an unfettered good and often
... Read more
Fresh Water

New Perspectives on Water in Australia

by Emily Potter, Alison Mackinnon, Stephen McKenzie, Jennifer McKay ...

Is water a resource or is it the source? Is it something to be consumed or does it have a life of its own? Recent histories of environmental misunderstanding and exploitation shadow our current regime of water management and use. While governments grapple with how to respond to widespread drought, the situation worsens. There is something amiss in current approaches to water. This timely ... Read more

$25.99 CAD

Is water a resource or is it the source? Is it something to be consumed or does it have a life of its own? Recent histories of environmental misunderstanding and exploitation shadow our current regime of water management and use. While governments grapple with how to respond to widespread drought, the situation worsens. There is something amiss in current approaches to water. This timely
... Read more
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Secrets Typed in Blood

A Pentecost and Parker Mystery

by Stephen Spotswood ...

Narrated by Kirsten Potter ...

Series Audiobook 3 - A Pentecost and Parker Mystery
Unabridged

9 hours 40 min

**A NEW YORK TIMES BEST CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR • In the newest entry into the Nero Award-winning Pentecost & Parker Mystery series, Lillian and Will are hot on the trail of a serial killer whose murders are stranger than fiction.The Pentecost & Parker series "takes gritty 40s noir, shakes it up, gives it a charming twist, and serves it up with unforgettable style" (Deanna Raybourn, author of the ... Read more

$23.99 CAD

Also available as: eBook

**A NEW YORK TIMES BEST CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR • In the newest entry into the Nero Award-winning Pentecost & Parker Mystery series, Lillian and Will are hot on the trail of a serial killer whose murders are stranger than fiction.The Pentecost & Parker series "takes gritty 40s noir, shakes it up, gives it a charming twist, and serves it up with unforgettable style" (Deanna Raybourn, author of the
... Read more

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Fortune Favors the Dead

A Novel

by Stephen Spotswood ...

Narrated by Kirsten Potter ...

Series Audiobook 1 - A Pentecost and Parker Mystery
Unabridged

8 hours 31 min

**A wildly charming and fast-paced mystery written with all the panache of the hardboiled classics, Fortune Favors the Dead introduces Pentecost and Parker, an audacious new detective duo for the ages.“Razor-sharp style, tons of flair, a snappy sense of humor, and all the most satisfying elements of a really good noir novel, plus plenty of original twists of its own.”—Tana French, bestselling ... Read more

$23.99 CAD

**A wildly charming and fast-paced mystery written with all the panache of the hardboiled classics, Fortune Favors the Dead introduces Pentecost and Parker, an audacious new detective duo for the ages.“Razor-sharp style, tons of flair, a snappy sense of humor, and all the most satisfying elements of a really good noir novel, plus plenty of original twists of its own.”—Tana French, bestselling
... Read more

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