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..one of the best coming of age novels I have ever read. It is sensitive, funny, insightful and moving. Both Frank and Brogan will live on in your readers' imagination. And the ending is pitch perfect- Doris Kearns Goodwin (Pulitzer Prize winning historian) Every family has their hidden crackpot... For 17-year-old Brogan, it was Uncle Frank. In the mixed imagination of family lore, Frank was known as a chronic gambler, self-proclaimed phil...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This w...

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Excerpt from Annual Report of the Superintendent of Public Buildings, Also Inspector of Buildings of the City of New Bedford, Mass: For the Year 1911The addition to this schoolhouse consisting of four class rooms and assembly hall, was completed for the sum contracted for and accepted in February. This building now contains twelve class rooms and assembly hall, the four additional rooms being quickly filled in this fast growing section of the ...

Excerpt from Annual Report of the Superintendent of Public Buildings, Also Inspector of Buildings of the City of New Bedford, Mass: For the Year 1911The addition to this schoolhouse consisting of four class rooms and assembly hall, was completed for the sum contracted for and accepted in February. This building now contains twelve class rooms and assembly hall, the four additional rooms being quickly filled in this fast growing section of the ...

Excerpt from History of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of AmericaIn the present volume it is merely attempted to refer to some of the more important epochs in the advance of the movement inaugurated by the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America to indicate the landmarks that have prominently appeared, in fact, this record is but a series of etchings, with here and there a prominent figure Shaded, but not as an effort to reproduce the ...

In addition to being commercialised and romanticised, piracy's history has also been distorted, with many works straying far from the facts recorded in the Age of Sail. In this book, author Joseph Gibbs goes back to many of the original materials about those who went "on the account" (a classic euphemism for piracy) to deliver an engaging, closely interpreted anthology of seven decades of primary sources. The text comprises original monographs...

This account of a village in the Cotswolds and its inhabitants in the late 19th century includes the topography, agriculture and language of the surrounding area and in particular the country pursuits of hunting, shooting and fishing.

Hailing from the Keystone State's rugged western counties, the Eleventh Pennsylvania Reserves was one of the Civil War's most heavily engaged units. Of more than 2, 100 regiments raised by the North, it suffered the eighth highest number of battle deaths, earning it the gruesome sobriquet "Bloody Eleventh." Three Years in the "Bloody Eleventh" tells the story of this often-overlooked element of the Army of the Potomac from before the war up th...

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This volume offers a critique of the nexus between ICT and its impact on society, individuals and educational institutions. One of the most significant dimensions of globalisation has been the rapid development of information and communications technologies (ICTs). Our lives have been changed by ICTs in numerous ways and the implications for education are enormous. The ICTs have transformed the linguistic, cognitive and visual dimensions of hu...

GLASNOST, most commonly translated into English as "openness", was a key concept of Mikhail Gorbachev's administration as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. This adapted tool of Leninist media control became not only a part of perestroika, Gorbachev's plan to rejuvenate Soviet ideology during the 1980s, but also an independent concept that redefined how the USSR's media were employed as an instrument of leadership.In...

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Piracy along American coastlines and in the Caribbean in the late 1600s and early 1700s is often seen today through a colourful set of modern media archetypes. The reality, however, was usually more ugly and frequently lethal. In this book, author Joseph Gibbs goes back to original memoirs, monographs, newspaper articles, and trial records to present a stark picture of piracy in the era of Blackbeard, Bartholomew Roberts, and Ann Bonny and Mar...

Excerpt from History of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America Dedication, Introduction, History of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America, Officers and Conventions, Baltimore, Maryland, Cleveland, Ohio, New York City, New York, Chicago, Illinois, Cincinnati, Ohio, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Buffalo, New York, Indianapolis, Indiana, Detroit, Michigan, Scranton, Pennsylvania, Boston, Massachusetts, St. Paul, Minnesota, Brookly...

The advent of digital technologies has changed the news and publishing industries drastically. While shrinking newsrooms may be a concern for many, journalists and publishing professionals are working to reorient their skills and capabilities to employ technology for the purpose of better understanding and engaging with their audiences. Contemporary Research Methods and Data Analytics in the News Industry highlights the research behind the inn...

A chronicle of murders, mutiny, and mayhem carried out by a real pirate of the Caribbean