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Hollywood Fire/Rescue and Beach Safety Department

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Hollywood Fire/Rescue and Beach Safety DepartmentCommemorative Book 1924-2008

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The origins and history of the Naval Order of the U.S.

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History and Families 1820-1995 (From the Acknowledgement) The historical society presents this book to the citizens Perry County of yesterday, today and tomorrow as a symbol of Perry Countys spirit that is repeatedly evidenced in the family histories found on its pages."

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Detroit Fire Historical Record 1825-1977

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The history of the Detroit Fire Department. Includes many fascinating photos.

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Shot down near Dresden, the author became a "guest" of the Russians.

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NAVY SEABEE VETERANS of AMERICA is a non-profit organization of veterans that have served in Naval Construction Force commands, who dedicate and pledge to preserve the fundamental ideals on which our Nation was founded believing in Justice, Freedom and Equality for all.

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Two Score and Thirteen Association History, 1949-2002

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Third Marine Division Two Score and Thirteen Association History 1949-2002

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Stories and pictures from ex WWII POWs. (From Introduction) The stories in this book are real, they are compelling, and they give a true picture of POW life from soldiers who walked in those shoes as American prisoners of war in WWII.

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Over the past five years, Amy Childs has become a household name. From the moment she appeared on ITV2's award-winning reality show The Only Way Is Essex, Amy captured audiences with her glamorous style and her vivacious personality, and for popularising 'vajazzaling'. Since then, she has appeared on Celebrity Big Brother and The Jump, and had her own show on Channel 5 called It's All About Amy.

Before TOWIE, though, Amy followed her passion for the beauty and fashion industry by becoming a fully qualified beauty therapist. She now has her own clothing collection and beauty range, and has successfully opened a salon and boutique in Brentwood, Essex. This book will not only tell Amy's incredible story of her rise to fame and what happened behind the tabloid stories, but will also offer a fascinating insight into her flourishing business career.

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Heartbroken after a break up with a guy she thought was 'the one', 47 year old Bambi Smyth embarked on a very special round the world trip - one where she would combine her big love of travel and her even bigger love of food with her desire to find true love. Bambi sets out to find a date in every country and find out how closely each of the men resembles the national dishes of their own country.

It's a journey of self-discovery, where what started out as a fun way to shake off the blues becomes a diverse, sometimes disastrous, sometimes fun and flirty, and sometimes just plain weird adventure that tests Bambi's powers of self protection and takes all of her very engaging wit to persevere...

This is a truly hilarious, charming, heartfelt book, containing very recognizable truths about the perils of dating strangers, as well as some great description of national foods, drawing fascinating parallels between the sensuality of food and sexual relationships.

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The Anthropology of Global Pentecostalism and Evangelicalism

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The phenomenal growth of Pentecostalism and evangelicalism around the world in recent decades has forced us to rethink what it means to be religious and what it means to be global. The success of these religious movements has revealed tensions and resonances between the public and the private, the religious and the cultural, and the local and the global. This volume provides a wide ranging and accessible, as well as ethnographically rich, perspective on what has become a truly global religious trend, one that is challenging conventional analytical categories within the social sciences.

This book informs students and seasoned scholars alike about the character of Pentecostalism and evangelicalism not only as they have spread across the globe, but also as they have become global movements. Adopting a broadly anthropological approach, the chapters synthesize the existing literature on Pentecostalism and evangelicalism even as they offer new analyses and critiques. They show how the study of Pentecostalism and evangelicalism provides a fresh way to approach classic anthropological themes; they contest the frequent characterization of these movements as conservative religious, social, and political forces; and they argue that Pentecostalism and evangelicalism are significant not least because they encourage us to reflect on the intersections of politics, materiality, morality and law. Ultimately, the volume leaves us with a clear sense of the cultural and social power, as well as the theoretical significance, of forms of Christianity that we can no longer afford to ignore.

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Joel Robbins, Simon Coleman, Rosalind I. J.       Hackett

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Media, Religion, and the Crisis of Masculinity

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Many believe that religion plays a positive role in mens identity development, with religion promoting good behavior, and morality. In contrast, we often assume that the media is a negative influence for men, teaching them to be rough and violent, and to ignore their emotions. In Does God Make the Man?, Stewart M. Hoover and Curtis D. Coats draw on extensive interviews and participant observation with both Evangelical and non-Evangelical men, including Catholics as well as Protestants, to argue that neither of these assumptions is correct.

Dismissing the easy notion that media encourages toxic masculinity and religion is always a positive influence, Hoover and Coats argue that not only are the linkages between religion, media, and masculinity not as strong and substantive as has been assumed, but the ways in which these relations actually play out may contradict received views. Over the course of this fascinating book they examine crises, contradictions, and contestations: crises about the meaning of masculinity and about the lack of direction men experience from their faith communities; contradictions between mens religious lives and media lives, and contestations among mens ideas about what it means to be a man.

The book counters common discussions about a crisis of masculinity, showing that actual men do not see the world the way the crisis talk has portrayed itand interestingly, even Evangelical men often do not see religion as part of the solution.

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Youth Activism in an Era of Education Inequality

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Winner, 2016 Best Authored Book presented by the Society for Research on Adolescence

Diverse case studies on how youth build political power during an era of racial and educational inequality in America

This is what democracy looks like: Youth organizers in Colorado negotiate new school discipline policies to end the school to jail track. Latino and African American students march to district headquarters to protest high school closure. Young immigration rights activists persuade state legislators to pass a bill to make in-state tuition available to undocumented state residents. Students in an ESL class collect survey data revealing the prevalence of racism and xenophobia.

These examples, based on ten years of research by youth development scholar Ben Kirshner, show young people building political power during an era of racial inequality, diminished educational opportunity, and an atrophied public square. The books case studies analyze what these experiences mean for young people and why they are good for democracy. What is youth activism and how does it contribute to youth development? How might collective movements of young people expand educational opportunity and participatory democracy? The interdependent relationship between youths political engagement, their personal development, and democratic renewal is the central focus of this book. Kirshner argues that youth and societal institutions are strengthened when young people, particularly those most disadvantaged by educational inequity, turn their critical gaze to education systems and participate in efforts to improve them.

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The Development of Children of Immigrants

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Winner Best Edited Book Award presented by the Society for Research on Adolescence

Immigration to the United States has reached historic numbers 25 percent of children under the age of 18 have an immigrant parent, and this number is projected to grow to one in three by 2050. These children have become a significant part of our national tapestry, and how they fare is deeply intertwined with the future of our nation. Immigrant children and the children of immigrants face unique developmental challenges. Navigating two distinct cultures at once, immigrant-origin children have no expert guides to lead them through the process. Instead, they find themselves acting as guides for their parents.

How are immigrant children like all other children, and how are they unique? What challenges as well as what opportunities do their circumstances present for their development? What characteristics are they likely to share because they have immigrant parents, and what characteristics are unique to specific groups of origin? How are children of first-generation immigrants different from those of second-generation immigrants? Transitions offers comprehensive coverage of the fields best scholarship on the development of immigrant children, providing an overview of what the field needs to knowor at least systematically begin to askabout the immigrant child and adolescent from a developmental perspective.

This book takes an interdisciplinary perspective to consider how personal, social, and structural factors interact to determine a variety of trajectories of development. The editors have curated contributions from experts across a carefully selected variety of topics covering ecologies, processes, and outcomes of development pertinent to immigrant origin children.

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Carola Suárez-Orozco, Mona M. Abo-Zena, Amy K. Marks

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Sex, Love, and Piety among Turkish Youth

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As Turkey pushes for its place in the global pecking order and embraces neoliberal capitalism, the nation has seen a period of unprecedented shifts in political, religious, and gender and sexual identities for its citizens. In New Desires, New Selves, Gul Ozyegin shows how this social transformation in Turkey is felt most strongly among its young people, eager to surrender to the seduction of sexual modernity, but also longing to remain attached to traditional social relations, identities and histories.

Engaging a wide array of upwardly-mobile young adults at a major Turkish university, Ozyegin links the biographies of individuals with the biography of a nation, revealing their creation of conflicted identities in a country which has existed uneasily between West and East, modern and traditional, and secular and Islamic. For these young people, sexuality, gender expression, and intimate relationships in particular serve as key sites for reproducing and challenging patriarchy and paternalism that was hallmark of earlier generations. As Ozyegin evocatively shows, the quest for sexual freedom and an escape from patriarchal constructions of selfless femininity and protective masculinity promise both personal transformations and profound sexual guilt and anxiety. A poignant and original study, New Desires, New Selves presents a snapshot of cultural change on the eve of rapid globalization in the Muslim world.

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A mans impassioned search for his legendary rock star father becomes a journey of self-discovery in this masterful novel from bestselling author Scott Spencer Billy Rothschilds obsession with legendary 60s folksinger Luke Fairchild could be considered fanatic, if not for the fact that Luke is actually Billys father. Raised by his beautiful, charismatic, formerflower child mother, Billy is a lost soul. Determined to learn somethinganythingabout his origins, he sets out on an illuminating quest to find and confront the father he always knew of but never knew.Evocative and lyrical, The Rich Mans Table is a moving portrait of a man seeking to connect to a lost past, and to build a new future for himself. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Scott Spencer, including rare photos from the authors personal collection.

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An enlightening collection of short stories and other unpublished works that highlight Rebecca Wests deft hand at fiction  Published posthumously, these short stories and excerpts from unfinished works highlight what made West a highly regarded novelist: sensuous descriptions, self-sufficient yet vulnerable heroines wrestling with the meanings of identity and love, and even brushes with magic and mysticism. Wests powerful narrative style draws readers into her worlds, whether via a comic sketch, a romance, or a thriller. Many of these characters will remind Wests fans of their later published incarnations. Sure to be a pleasure for new readers and seasoned fans alike, this insightful collection informs as much as it entertains.

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This first collection, from one of the most celebrated masters of the form, restores faith in the survival of the short story (Los Angeles Times). For the men and women in Andre Dubuss poignant debut collection, life and love are not without their tribulations. The devout endeavor to reconcile the demands of their faith with their most basic human inclinations. A doctor is confronted with his limitations as a man. Husbands and wives seek solace in the beds of others, even as their infidelities expose them to further heartbreak.   Etched in austere prose that is punctuated with powerful emotional moments, the richly drawn characters of Separate Flights command both compassion and admiration.  This ebook features an illustrated biography of Andre Dubus including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the authors estate.  

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Rebecca Wests gripping chronicle of Englands World War II traitors, expanded and updated for the Cold War era  In The Meaning of Treason, Rebecca West tackled not only the history and facts behind the spate of World War II traitors, but the overriding social forces at work to challenge mans connection to his fatherland. As West reveals in this expanded edition, the ideologically driven amateurs of World War II were followed by the much more sinister professional spies for whom the Cold War era proved a lucrative playground and put Western safety at risk. Filled with real-world intrigue and fascinating character studies, Wests gripping narrative connects the wars treasonous acts with the rise of Communist spy rings in England and tackles the ongoing issue of identity in a complex world.

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Mastering Focus for Sharp Images Every Time

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With todays advanced camera technology, achieving focus on a photographic subject seems like it should be a straightforward task. But many photographers know that it can be deceptively difficult, especially when shooting moving subjects or in challenging situations. Now, there is a complete guide available for Nikon shooters that will help them get tack-sharp photos every time.

In The Nikon Autofocus System, photographer Mike Hagen, author of the bestselling The Nikon Creative Lighting System, takes his deep knowledge of Nikon technology and concentrates on its focus features. In this book, which covers all current Nikon DSLR models, Hagen fully explains how Nikon autofocus works, including detailed discussions of all the autofocus modules, drive systems, and camera buttons and menus. He also devotes an entire chapter to explore how focus works with Nikons lenses.

Armed with this general knowledge, Hagen then dives deep and offers camera setups, settings, and best practices for specific field techniques that address the photographic genres that are notoriously challenging for focus: action and sports (indoor and outdoor), wildlife (including birds in flight), and macro photography. He also covers genres such as portrait, landscape, underwater, low-light, and street photography. Hagen not only advises on the best ways to set up the camera and focus systems, he gives helpful tips and tricks throughout the book.

The Nikon Autofocus System also covers: Live view autofocus methods and settings Achieving great focus in video AF tracking AF shooting styles, such as back-button AF and shutter-release AF HDR, panoramas, and other techniques for shooting with a tripod An entire chapter on additional terms and techniques, such as hyperfocal distance, calibrating lenses, focus and flash photography, and more